LANCASTER 1MJJLX I NTELJ JGEiNCEU TIEbDAl MAKCH U 1862
"Ham astci -ntr llfgrnrrt.
TUK 4DAY EVENING, MABCH 14, IBM.
Unjnst Freight DiscriminatlM.
The "Farmer and Manufacturer,",
whose letter we print te-day, is an en
tirely reliable and amply responsible
gentleman. He strikes from the shoul
der, but he means what he says. We de
net have any personal knowledge of the
relative estimate in which the present
and ex-president of the Pennsylvania
railroad company are held by its patrons.
In many respects we have found occa
sion te commend what we be
lieve te be the wiser and mere
economical management of Presi
dent Roberts, and the advantages
iiceiuiug te the stockholders -from his
elevation te the presidency. Especially
de we approve his firmness ip the policy
of working toward an abatement of
the free pass system. We could wish,
however, that this wrs due te a proper
defereucefer the fundamental law of the
commonwealth governing everything
within its borders except the Pennsylva
nia railroad company rather than te
purely economical reasons.
Nevertheless, when President Roberts
adepts or continues the policy which has
tee often marked his company, of
squeezing the local shippers, he invites
net only their just indignation-, but the
reprobation of the entire public, and he
works ultimate injury te the interests of
the stockholders. The recent report of
the Pennsylvania railroad company
shows what a vast proportion of the pro
fits of its management accrue from its
local traffic. The interests which bring
it this are these which it should fester
and net crush out. The policy which
ships a barrel of Heur from Chicago, St.
Leuis or Cincinnati, te J'liiladelplna, or
New Yerk, as cheap as it ships the same
freight from Lancaster te the same place,
the policy which has at times compelled
Piltsburghcrste ship their goods te Chi
cago, and thence te the east, in order te
get lower rates of freight, is net a sound
nor equable policy.
Our correspondent is right, tee, in his
demand that this question of unjust
freight discrimination be made and
maintained a political issue. The columns
of the IxTj:LLicn:.vcKK for the past
ten years attest with what fidelity this
journal has advocated this policy. When
the new constitution was adopted by
ever K),K)0 popular majority, Article
xvii of that instrument seemed te
provide adequate legal prohibition
of the complained of freight dis
crimination and" ether corporation
abuses. It has been found, however,
that the Pennsylvania railroad company
ignores the fundamental law of .the
state. The Democratic state convention
of 1670 demanded that all corporations
should conform themselves te the new
constitution, the convention of 18S0 re
iterated this dcmand,and that of 18S1 was,
even mere explicit in its expression. It'
does net seem, however, that any of these
calls have been heard or that the sincer
ity and significance of them have been
fully impressed upon the people of the
state. If the ' farmers and manufac
turers " can be made te realize them
there will be no doubt of the verdict at
the polls. And there is no surer way
for the public te be made acquainted with
this issue than for the Democratic party
te advocate it with courage, witli energy
and supplied with the facilities te spread
before the people of the state from
stump and press the abuses from which
they suffer and the proper legal remedy
for them.
Reform Between the Lines.
The " committee of 72 ''mere or lc.s
alleged Independent and Honest Re
publican politicians, who met yesterday
somewhere in the third stories of three
or four buildings scattered around Cen
tre Square, declared no mere than the
truth when they resolved that :
The unlawful ami extravagant use of
money at our primary elections has been at
the bottom Of all the disgraceful scenes that
for years have attended the nomination of
ceuutv officers, making the offices a sub
l'cct of baiter and trade, keeping deccut
"people from the polls aud pnttiug inferior
men into places of trust and power,
weighted down with political obligations
they had contracted which made an hdnest
administration of their positions unprofit
able if net impossible. Open aud flagrant
frauds by which the pcople have been
robbed of their choice at the primaries,
have again and again been perpetrated by
tampering with tally-skcets, stuffing and
changing ballet-boxes, buying election
officers and attempting te intimidate re
turn judges, and the practice of every
species of open and notorious bribery aud
corruption at the polls.
Fersajing much less than this, the
Intelligences has again and again
been reproached with accusations of
partisan unfairness. In this admission,
by prominent representatives of the or
ganization found a complete vindica
tion of this journal's renewed exposures
of the rottenness of the Republican party
in Lancaster county. This corruption
has flourished and succeeded mainly be
cause the very men who new identify
themselves with this alleged reform
movement have again and again voted
into office the nominees of their party,
these " inferior men," " weighted down
with political obligations they'had con
tracted, which made an honest, adminis
tratien of their positions unprofitable
if net impossible." While the Repub
licans who pretend te be honest continue
te prefer the dishonest administration of
Republicans te an honest administra
tion by Democrats or Independents the
thieves will continue te make the nom
inations, serenely satisfied that they can
get the honest but narrow-minded pari i
sans te ratify them at the general elec
tion. When it is remembered that the " re
form " movement of four years age
elected, by the worst agencies, some of
the worst men whose official position
has been the fruit of the Craw
ford county system, it is natural
that sincere men should view with
suspicion tiie present pretended re
form movement. It is understood
te be engineered by J. W. Jehnsen and
te have the cordial sympathy of Levi
Sensenig. If anybody can see any rea
son te expect from these auspices any
better results than from the direction of
Jehn A. Iliestand or Elias Mc
Mellen wc should be pleased te
see some better evidence of it than in
the formulation of resolutions or the offer'
of rewards for such offenders as are con cen con
spicueuslycommoa in the ranks of these
V reformer." It is true that Republi Republi Republi
caniJeleg&esfromy'thiaceunty have
" disregarded1 "the pronounced will of
thepeeple,and unblushingly received the
rewards of their treachery," but one of
the examples of this rewarded treachery
is said te be a shining light in the move
ment which denounces such as he, and
it has for its object the political reward
of another who has net yet received his.
Altogether we incline te wait and judge
of the new movement by its fruits,
which are net yet in the blossom.
Mil. Auxnuii has made two mere
very creditable appointments Judge
Rlatchferd i3 a well equipped judge and
his name has been given general prece-'
dence in public favor ever either that
of Edmunds or Conkling, te whom the
president had previously offered the ap
pointment. The supreme bench gains
by their declinations. The selections of
President Arthur for this high court are
immeasurably better than these of Hayes.
Justices Gray.andBlatchferdare a great
improvement en Harlan and Matthews.
Jehn Russell Yeung is a brilliant and
industrious journalist who has gene
from the bottom te the top of the pro
fession. He has done mere than any
ether man te give Grant a fame that he
did net deserve, and the apparently won
derful tour and royal receptions of Grant
around the world proceeded rather from
the point of Yeung's pen than from the
hearts of the people who were represented
as honoring Grant. Fer this he may
have received his appointment as minis
ter te China, but he is none the 'less fit
for the place, and higher considerations
than the amenities of the profession will
cause his nomination te be" most cordially
approved by the press of the country.
Tun attorney general for the posteffico
department decides that tell gate aud feiry
keepers cauuet lawfully detain the United
Stutps mails even if the mail carriers re
fuse te pay charges.
Tin: Wilsen family is a costly one te the
commissioners of two Maryland counties.
Mrs. Wilsen has received $075 from Caro Care
line . county for damages caused by the
breaking down of abridge, and her seu
has recovered $1,000 for the sarae accident
Hern the commsiencrs of Talbot county.
Bm.timeiii: peliticiaus are making a vig vig vig
oieus effort te have Colonel Akreen, the
postmaster, removed, because, as the
American asserts, "lie positively "declined
te recognize Creswell or any ether politi
cal leader as his ' boss.' " The contest is
far from being decided.
A Git eat fan, which has for some time
been in course of construction for clearing
the railroad tunnel in St. Leuis of smoke
from passing trains, is new iu successful
eperatian. It is said that "the entire
tunnel can be c!carcd of smeke from the
heaviest freight train in three minutes,
and when no trains are iu it the air is as
clear and fresh .is that outside."
Ix revcrsiujr a decision iu a seduction
case a few days age, Judge Paxson, of the
supreme ceurr,saidthat circumstantial evi
dence of an engagement of marriage is te
be found in the proof of such facts as
usually accompany that relation, among
which might be mentioned letters, pre
sents, social attentions of various kinds,
visiting together in company, preparations
for housekeeping and the like,
Tnu majority of the sub-committce en
the committce en ways and mcaus liave
informally agreed upon a bill for the re
duction of internal revenue taxes. The
taxes of tobacco will be reduced from six
teen coats te ten cents a pound ; whisky
from ninety cents te fifty cents a gallon ;
bacr will be reduced te sixty ceuts a bar
rel, and cigars te $i per thousand. The
special tax imposed en dealers will be cut
down forty per cent. 'The bill provides
for the repeal of the lax en bank checks
and deposits, but the tax imposed en bank
circulation is retained. This bill has net
yet been approved by even a majority of
the whole committee.
Ui'OT; examination of sonic of his mem
oranda, Gen. Resccrans finds that ten days
alter the date of the letter of complaint
against him, written by Gen. Garfield te
Secretary Chac, he received a peremptory
order from the war department te move
his army forward at once. He was thun
derstruck at the order aad at once called
a council, in which was Gca. Garfield.
Every one of his generals, including Gar
field, concurred in his, idea that such a
movement was at that time impossible.
He se telegraphed te Stanten, adding that
if the movement was insisted en a new
commander for the Army of the Cumber
land must be appointed. The general also
remembers new that Gen. Garfield was the
ene member of his staff and associate who
at all times endorsed every suggestion,
and, iu fact, his whole plan of operations.
We are strengiy uiclincd te let our cs
teemed but uuamiabfe Republican con
temporaries manage their own affairs aud
conduct their editorial departments in the
style most pleasing te themselves and
their readers, but their xresent public re
lations are se "striking" as te justify
special notice. The Examiner is exercising
all the powerful minds en its present staff
te prove that the JVeie Era's editorials aic
"the whining or a whipped hypocrite
asking the public for sympathy ;" while
the able editor of the 27cw Era courteous
ly calls the. beautiful sentiments of the
Examiner "red-hcaded lies cut out of the
whole cloth.'' Other evidences of editor
ial enterprise are displayed by the Hew
Era- writing letters te itself enclosing
penny subscriptions for Burkhelder' s bell,
while the Examiner indulges iu the same
costly experiment in behalf of subscrip
tions for a card admonishing Burkhelder
net te swear.
Tue defender of Mr. Garfield in the
New Yerk Tribune haviug maintained
that "the sacredness of history is of mere
importance than the professional reputa
tion of any mau who figures in it," the
World calls his attention te the fact that
General Garfielden the fleer of Congress
within a year after the date of his alleged
letter te Chase, insisted upon adding the
name of General Resecraus te that of
General Themas in a
pending resolution
of natienel thanks for the "campaign of
Chattanooga." Net only did-iGeneral
Garfcid insist en this. He pronounced an
emphatic" panegyric upon General
Resecraus. Furthermore, early in the'
campaign of 1890 General Garfield address
ed a warm letter te General Rosecrans,
deiiving that he had ever written this
Chase letter se full of " strong expletives
and emphatic condemuatieus." Further
more, if General Garfield really wrote the
Chase letter he clearly disobeyed the Ar
ticles of War and rendered himself amena
ble te a court martial by writing a letter
te an officer of the family of tbecemraaud-
cr-iu-ehief, assailing the conduct of the
head of the military family te which he
hiruself belonged.
PERSONAL.
Jeirx Rcssell Youxe, will seen marry
Miss Julia E. Celeinau,. a niece of ex-Gov-:rner
Jewell, of Connecticut.
Ex-Governer Tii.den's name heads the
list of subscribers te the Garfield memorial
hospital fund.
A movement is en feet in Ncwpeit,
Rhede Island, te precuie the appointment
of Gi:e. T. Downing, colored, as minister
te Liberia.
The Atlanta Constitution announces edi
torially. " upon the very best authority,"
that Hen. A. II. Stei'Iiex will retire
from politics at the end of his present
term in Congress.
Ex-GovernerENGMSii's seventieth birth
day was celebrated at New Haven, Centi.,
last night by a reception, at which General
Hancock Senater Eaten, William B.
Dinsmerc and five ethers were present.
Senater David Davis had a surprise
paity en his sixty-seventh b'uthday, last
Friday. It was gotten up by the Ladies of
his hotel, au'd was a very pleasant affair.
I Among the callers was A. II. Stephens.
A lepeit having scaited en the New
Yerk stock exchange that Jay Gould was
in tight pajtcrs, he took some representa
tive men te .his cilice, showed them that
he owned stocks worth $e4,000,000 and
offered te send for two carriage leads of
bends. They were satisfied.
Miss Pauuxe Mauull, the gifted con
tralto of the Abbett opera company, died
recently in Bosten. Miss Matircl sang in
Lancaster en the occasion of the Abbett
company's appearance heie thisso.iseu aud
her performance of the part of the gypsy
queen in the "Bohemian Girl" was greatly
admired. Competent judges pronounced
her the rising contralto of this country.
She had been married within the past year.
Oscaii Wilde, speaking te a Chicago
repeitcr said : " Sarah Bernhardt told me
that there were two things iu America
worth seeiug one was Clara Merris' act
ing aud the ether was some dreadful
method of killing pigs iu Chicago. She
advised me te go aud see both. 1 went te
see Miss Merris immediately upeu my
arrival in New Yerk city, but the ether
T have deferred quite indefinitely."
Lancaster county has been reasonably
brisk in stepping up te the captain's effice
for the extra $500 decreed by the supreme
court's opinion iu the legislative salary
matter. Repiesentativcs Laxdiu and
Peei'les alone of the county delegation
have thus far failed te present their war
rants and icceivc their additional compen
sation. Are they waiting until after the
primaries ?
KiiKitiur
Tim Grievances
IMSCUIIUIN ATIO?. ,.
of Farmers ami
Matuttac-
tiirers.
Mnssns Editeks : The recent advance
by the Pennsylvania railroad company of
23 ceuts per ten freight ou bituminous
coal is likely te call fertluan indignation
meeting en the part of the Eastern rolling
mills. The author of this unjust advance
is the president of that company who has
succeeded the late Cel. Scott, and who is
held in as much contempt by nearly every
shipper en the read, as Cel. Scott was re
spected for his bread views and festering
care of the local interests.
This successor thinks that by squeezing
the nvumfactiircrs and ether shippers
en the line el his read, that he will pro
mote the interests of its stockholders, but
his mind is se attenuated that he cannot
see that it will be the reverse.
New. if the Democratic party will only
take the stand of protecting the citizens
of Pennsylvania railroad monopolies, it
will carry everything before it at the
next election. The writer will be ene of
a bundled interested in having just freight
Kites te subscriba $3,030 each te the party
fund, $300,000, as a means of self-pretec
tien if the party will go dead against
these bleed-sucking monopolies, and let a
change be brought about that will cnable
the farmers and manufacturers. of Penn
sylvania te compete with the farmers and
manufacturers of the West ! It may yet
come te pass that a barrel of flour can be
sent from Lancaster te Philadelphia and
New Yerk at as low a rate of freight as
from Chicago, St. Leuis and Cincinnati.
In fact, the local producer is taxed te
cover the stealings of railroad officials. It
must ba stepped, and new is the time for
the Democrats party te begin.
Farmeii axd Maxufactciiek.
1E LONG'S FATE.
K;igli)eer Melville Tlilnktj IeI.n ami Ills
l'arly Have 1'crlidieu.
Tim Times publishes a letter, dated
Irkutsk, January 11, received by Mrs.
Melville, who resides a short distance
outside of Philadelphia, from her husband,
Lieutenant Gee. W. Melville, of the
Jeannettc. Melville speaks -of DeLeug
aud the ethers with him as "having
perished," and indicates that when he
(Melville) set out upon the search in which
he is new engaged, it was without hope of
finding his comrades alive, but simply te
perform the melancholy duty of discover
ing their dead bodies. Exactly five months
have passed since DoLeug and twelve
men, the thirteenth having just died, were
in great distress for want of feed, and no
tidings of them have been received in that
time.
Facaped Frem Jail
Alfred and. James Batten, serving sen
tences of 18 years each in the Virginia
penitentiary, at Richmond, for the murder
of their father in .Norfolk county several
years age, made their escape en Sunday
night by cutting through the cell which
they jointly eccupicd,and scaling the outer
wall by a repe made of their bed blanket.
Murdered by a Mel.
The mysterious dis'appcarance of Walter
Saunders, a popular young citizen of At
chison, Kan., is accounted for by a story
that he was seized 'and thrown into the
river, at Kansas City and drowned by a
mob of a dozen men who charged him
with having feloniously assaulted, while
drunk, a 13-voar-eld cirl named Flann.
' gan.
EUIN IN COSTA RICA.
TUK DESTBCVHUX OF FOCK XOWMS.
An Appaliinc Calamity Keperted FremtbfH"r 4?r!lteJK5521 Uw 'nl
Central Ajeerlma Bwmblle by
Which
xnousaaeaor. laves were imk.
The Cesta Rican consul in New Yerk en
being asked for particulars in regard te
the reported earthquake in Cesta Rica, by
which, as reported in yesterday's tele
graphic advices the towns of Alajuela, San
Ramen, Grecia and Heredia, were des
troyed and several thousand lives were
lest, said that he had received no despatch
from the government of Cesta Rica, nor
was it probable that he would receive any
unless from private sources. He said that
it would net surprise him te learn that the
report was true, as the region mcutiened
in the dispatches was a nest of volcanoes.
Cesta Rica is the most southern of the
f:ve small Spanish republics which pass
collectively under the title ei central
America. With an area of 21,493 square
miles, it has au estimated population of
200,000, made up of people of Spanish,
Indian and mixed descent. Although
mountainous, with many volcanoes, the
country geuerally has a temperate climate
never subject te extremes, and having no
ether changes than these of the dry and
wet seasons.
Cesta R;ca, in common with the whole
Central American district, is subject te
earthquakes, and the houses are geuerally
built in the besfway te avert dauger from
such phenomena ; they cover a large area,
aud aie but one story in height. Some
times a volcano bursts out aud the earth
quake accompanies it with almost unheard-of
violence, as iu the great eruption
of Cesiguina, in Nicaragua, in 1835, when
ashes were thrown all ever Central Amer
ica, and the shocks were felt ever an area
haviug a radius of 1300 miles. Hitherto,
however, there ha'e been no seriously de
structive earthquakes recorded iu the
Cesta Ricaa section.
San Salvader,- the smallest of the five
petty Central American republics, has
been most frequently visited by these con
vulsiens of nature iu the past. On April
10, 1834, the capital, San Salvader, which
is situated at the base of a volcano, was
completely destroyed by an earthquake.
The city at the time contained 30,000 in
habitants, but as the catastrophe happened
by daylight only 100 lives were lesr,
although the whele population was made
homeless. On March 4, 1873, it was vis
ited by a fresh disaster, which resulted in
a less of S00 lives and the destruction of
$12,000,000 worth of property. In De
cember, 1879, the republic was again vis
ited by a sorbs of earthquake shocks, but
they weie net as destructive te life and
property as theso previously repotted.
The whele Central Americau district is
of a volcanic formation. In fact, there is
no ether place en the surface of the glebe
in which se many volcanoes, both live and
extinct, are crowded together within' se
small a space as they are iu Central Amer
ica that is, iu the region between the
Isthmus of Tehuautepec aud the Isthmus
of Panama. The most recent volcanic
eruption of note occurred ou June 29, 1880,
when the Volcano del Fuoge, in Guate
mala, which lies te the north of San Sal Sal
vaeor, sent feith a Vast mass of het ashes,
which caused considerable destruction of
property and the le-:s of numerous Jives.
Ou September 3, 1874, Guatemala was also
visited by an earthquake which ruined
suveial towns and inflicted cousiderable
less of life.
Guatemala has also been the scene of
the most desti active earthquake recorded
iu Central America, The town of L
Antigua, near the Volcano del Fucco, was
en that occasion T ruined by ene of the
most tcrrible earthquakes of which we
have euy record iu modern times. The
effects of the tremendous convulsions of
July 29, 1773, were felt as far as Mexico.
It left La Antigua a mass of ruins.
The town of Alaiuela, where thousands
Let' lives are reported te. have been lest by
me recent caruiquaire, was one ei me
most important and prospareus places in
Cesta Rica, aud had a population of about
8,000 souls. It steed in the mouutaiueus
region in the centre of the republic, twenty-nine
miles west by south of Cartage,
with which it was connected by a railroad
luilt by Henry Meiggs Keith, a nephew of
Henry Mciggs, the Peruvian magnate, aud
opened for trallic ou January 1, 1873.
THE SOUTHWESTERN
FLOODS.
Ne Almlumeiu
et the Siinurius
mill IJcs-
mutton.
The reports from the flooded regions of
the Lewer Mississippi Valley contiuue te
be very unfavorable. A slight subsidence
in the water is reported at Memphis and
two or three ether points, but there is no
abatement of the suflcriug and destitution
throughout the overflowed districts. The
situation at Greenville, Mississippi, is de
scribed as "appalling." At Baten Rouge,
Louisiana, the water is higher than ever
before known. The Hard Times, Point
Pleasant, Buckncr aud Woodlawn levees
gave way yesterday. The river at Vicks
burg rose eight inches en Sunday. Trem
Bolivar, Mississippi, te Memphis, "nearly
300 'milcr. of water covers the hiirU and
low plantations alike, a deep, swift, roar rear
ing current." Several additional lives are
reported lest by the breaking of Louisiana
levees.
UKIMi: AND MISFOltTUNE
Seme ei llie Unhappy i'liases or Everyday
Lite.
" Rev H. G. Reeve, formerly of Tiega
county, in this state, has committed sui
cide in the penitentiary of Auburn, New
Yerk, where he was serving a term for
bigamy.
Mrs. Sarah E. Howe, president of the
swindling concern iu Bosten, known as
the " Ladies' Deposit," has been sen
tenced te three years imprisonment in.the
house of correction. She has already been
eighteen months in jail.
Twe men, named Shields aud Murphy,
were drowned by the capsizing of a beat
while crossing the Ohie river, near Pitts
burg. Through the breaking of a heisting repe
at the Palmer Hill Ireu mines, near Ausa
ble Falls, New Yerk, a car leaded with ere
fell 1,300 feet, killing ene man and seri
ously injuring another.
A large timber shed of the British
American land company, at Shcrbroekc,
Quebec, was burned en Sunday night with
1,000,000 cedar and spruce shingles. Less,
$20,000.
The weaving room of the Janesville cot
ton factory, at Zancsville, Wisceusin, was
burned yesterday. Less, $30,000. Five
hundred employees are thrown out of
work by its destruction.
Rev. Father Francis X. Beyle, pastor
of St. Matthew's Reman Catholic church,
in Washington, died yesterday while he
was under the influence of ether, and un
dergoing a surgical operation. Father
Beylo was a brilliant lecturer and pulpit
orator.
Miss Sallie M. Moere, residing a few
miles from Charlette, S. C, was followed
en Sunday ou her way te church by Ben.
Withers, colored, aged 15 years, who struck
her en the head with a stick, felling her te
the ground, and then cut her threat and
left her for dead. The assailant was cap
tured and ledged in jail, and the woman is
yet alive. The motive for the assault is
unknown. .
On Saturday night, at Danville, Va.,
David E. Graham, a printer, crazed by
liquor, persisted in going up stairs, te a
room in the Arlington hotel, when Wyatt
White, a colored servant, was sent up
after him, and Graham shot White in the
.breast and hand and jumped out of a rear
window twenty-five feet from the ground,
by which he was stunned and much bruised.
He was then arrested.
COjSTLINGANDEDMUjSDS
f&Klli.
UtTTKltS
OF
DECLINATION.
T .
.- -auw wvbv ucw lur x .new yi ibv
: Ssupnms Be Mb. "
The "following-tatters in reference te the
vacant associate justiceship of the United L
states suprome court are made public :
Xew Yeek, March 3. lSJi )
Xe. a Xassau street.
Mk. Pbesident : Absence prevented
prompt acknowledgment of your two es
teemed letters, which were feuud heie
awaiting my return from Utica. The high
and unexpected honor you proffer by
selecting me as associate justice of the
supreme court of the United States is
greatly valued. It will ever be a matter
of pride and satisfaction that you and the
Senate deemed me 'fit for se grave and ex
alted a tiust. But, for reasons which you
would net fail te appreciate,. I am con
strained te decline. Although. urgent de
mands en my time just new prevent'my ac
cepting your ceidial invitation te pass a
few days with you iu "V ashiugteu let me
held this as a pleasure deferred but net
lest. I have the honor te be
Sincerely your obedient servant,
Roscec Coxklixe.
is Excellency, the 1'reitilcnt.
Senate Chamber, )
Washington, March 0, lSii
Mr. PitESiDBNT : I have received through
the secretary of state your very flattering
offer of the appointment of associate, jus
tice of the supreme com t. I thank you
sincerely for this highly valued proof of
your geed opinion, but I feel for reasons
that I have expressed te Mr. Frelinghuy
sen that 1 euht net te accept it.
I shall cherish this mark of your kind
ness and geed opiuieu though I did net
need this proof of it as one of the most
pleasant of my life. I am sir,
Very faithfully yours,
Geerge F. Edmund.
The President.
1IU Massachusetts Avkkcis, March, 11, 1S3J.
Mr. President : I am deeply touched
at the manifest consideration yen have
shown me in connection with the associate
justiceship, but further reflection has net
enabled m'e te'ebange the views I express
ed te Mr. Frelinghuyscn. With the sin
cere hope that you have experienced no
embarrassment from the delay your kind
ness has caused,
I am faithfully yours,
Geerge F. Edmunds.
LOCAL INTELLlfcENC
Ci.
TUK NEW FlItK DEPARTMENT AUAIN.
The Special Committee of Ueuiii'.IIh Kxocule
n Contract for the Lease of the Americau
llense and Apparatus and Receive an Ad
vantacewus Oiler Frem the Sun ViewJnjj
the Electric Apparatus nud. Providing
Quarters Fer the Uermy.
Yesterday afternoon the special com
mittee en the reorganization of the lire de
partment drove ever the city for the pur
pose of inspecting the line of wire lately
completed for the operation of the electric
fire alarm. They found the wires all up, as
contracted for, and pronounced the work
very satisfactory. The boxes will be put up
within a week. The new striker for the
Empire bell was tested and found te wer'c
satisfactorily. Contractor Hatz was
authorized te make tha necessary connec
tion, and place a gong at the room of
Chief Engineer liowell iu rear of the
marble works.
The committee took occasion also te
visit the several engine houses with a view view
te provide for the erectien of stables for
the horses which will be needed by the new
depaitmcnt. It was agreed te publicly
invite proposals for the erection of the
necessary buildings at the Empire and
Washington houses.
At 8:30 last evening there was a joint
meeting of the special committee aud the
fiuance committee of the Americau tire
cempauy iu City Solicitor Stcinmetz's
office. The committee of Iho American
were authorized by the almost uuanimeus
action of that company at the stated meet
ing held earlier in the evening, te lease the
engine house and apparatus te the city for
the term of eighteen months at the rate of
$330 per anuuur. Solicitor Steinmclz pre
pared the necessary agreement, aud
it was duly signed by the members of the
committee and placed in the hands of the
American committee for signature te-day.
The committee received au offer fiem
the Sun 'company, wherein they propose
te build a stable the full width of their
eugine house, thirty feet, put' iu the stalls
for the horses aud bunks for the men, all
at' the company's expense, and then lease
the house and apparatus complete te the
city authorities for tha sum of $400 per
annum. Or they will sell their engine for
fifteen hundred dollars at such time as :t
may be convenient for the city te pay for
the same. This efi.br of the Suu will he
considered at the next meeting of the
special committee en Thursday evening.
The Shifllsr company will meet specially
upon Thursday evening, and if terms can
not be made with the latter company the
preposition of the Sun will probably ba
accepted.
The three hese carts ordered for the
new department aud new being con
structed by Cox, the carriage builder, are
well under way, and are expected te be
finished by the 20th insr. The latest im
proved harness will also be provided.
Fourteen head of horses will be required
te run the apparatus of the new depart
ment, and though none have yet been se
cured the committee have in view the pur
chase of scveraUiead of fine animals.
Sh-
Freight WcHK Near 'tllddlctevrn.
About 11 o'clock last night a freight
train drawn by.engine 952 parted a short
distance east of the branch' intersection,
near Mlddletewn, ou the Pennsylvania
railroad. The front part of the train
stepped, and the cars behind tan into it.
Twe cars were smashed and a few were
thrown from the track. One of the cars
was leaded with horses and cows, nud
three or four of the latter were killed by
being trampled iu the terror of the ani
mals, who were thrown together- by the
concussion. It required until six o'clock
this morning te clear the track.
Police Ceses.
Before Alderman Samson yesterday,
Albert Barr was heard en a charge of
drunken and disorderly conduct and sen
tenced te fiva days imprisonment.
Jehn Brinkman, a boy, was arrested en
complaint of Jehn Wendlcr, who charges
him with the larceny of a pair of shoes
that Wendler had purchased at Heimcnz's
auction. The shoes were found en Brink
man's feet, but the boy claims that he
found them. He gave bail for a hearing
en Thursday next.
Died en Dis Ulrthday.
Martin N. Ebcrsele died this morning
at the residence of his brother-in-law,
Samuel Burkhelder, in the village of
Springville, Mt. Jey township. This was
his birthday and he was 43 years of age
te-day. He fermerly resided in this city,
aud was for six years a salesman in the
drygoeds store of David Bair. The fu
neral will take place en Wednesday morn
ing and interment will be made at the
United Brethren church.
Charged Wltb Embezzlement.
Fred Williams, second-hand furniture
dealer, has-been held in hail by Alderman
A. F. Dennelly, of the Seventh ward, te.
answer at .court the charge of embezzle
ment preferred by Sarah Eshleman. The
woman alleges that the defendant sold a
let of furniture for her, appropriating a
portion of the proceeds te his own use.
THE PE0HIBITI0XISTS.
v '" u
ADJOUKXMENX Of TUE MEETING.
Recolatietis AdepWU CummUtem te Qr&aa
i ' lam Jar UMiffttgu Purposes.
The temperance denventien reassembled
at 2 u'clcek yestwday afternoon. .
After devotional exercises, James Black,
esq., chairman, reported the following
series of resolutions which were read seri
atim and adopted :
Resolved, That the system of licensing
the manufacture of intoxicating liquors
and their sale for drinking purposes at
public places in Pennsylvania during the
200 years of its existence, has proved a
failure te protect its citizens iu the full
and free enjoyment of the fruits of their
labor, property and common rights by
creating a body of men with special and
exclusive trade privileges, whose business
and interest it is te make aud sell such
drinks, thereby creating aad festering
drinking habits the chief cause of drunk
enness; public disturbance, crim?, pauper
ism and dependency ; requiring mere than
half of our taxation for reform aud maiu
taiuaucc of its victims, besi.'e making
large demands for private charity.
This system makes worthless oitizens,
destroy homes ami sepcratcs families les
sens industry aud thrift is a chief cause
of bankruptcy aud losses iu trade by bad
debus, eenupts the ballet aud legislation,
retards and nullifies education aud pcr
veits moral training and influences, de
feats justice, multiplies ganiing houses and
brothels, obstructs aud subverts Hbe ob
jects for which governments are insti
tuted! Second. This "liceiine system neither
e (infers nor confirms any natural right,
but is solely a privilege grautcdfer
special reasons, and for a specific
time. Its abrogation would destroy
no right, nor iu proper sensa contreveue
personal libeity, nor he. unjust te any one
new enjoying its special benefits. Tiie"
public welfare is a supreme law.
Third. During the history of the torn tern torn
perance reform, in Pennsylvania, the
efforts of the pcople te remove this system
and ebtaiu relief from its evils, have bceu
defeated and laws passed and approved by
popular vete been repealed through the
machinations of the liquor traders without
the sanction of a second vote ; notably
was this done iu the overt In ew of the laws
of 184G, 18je aud 1872-1. beside a great
number of enactments for localities.
Therefore, we share iu the geneial desire
of the people of. Pennsylvania shown by
100,000 petitioners te tue last Legislature
for the submission of an amendracut of
the state constitution, prohibiting the
manufacture aud sale of intoxicating
liquors for di ink purposes, but providing
also for its manufacture and sale for all
ether uses. This amendment, if approved
by the majority of the voters, as the con
stitution new provides will become a part
of it aud be permaucur, until experience
under it shall demand revision.
Fourth. The .submission of bUch amend
ment is net, aud is desired net, te become
a party question, but is te be presented
and adopted, or rejected by the voters of
the tate as the constitution new provides.
The people under our theory of govern
ment are the supreme arbiteis, and the
makers of the constitution. Candidates
for election te the Legislature, whether
Republican or Democratic nominees who
will net pledge consent te veta for such
submission, distrust the pcople and should
be regarded as disqualified for such, office.
That se far as our-votes and influence may
extend the members of this convention
declare it te be their purpose te use such
vete and influence only for such candi
dates for the coming Legislature, who,
from life and record, shall give pledge of
their purpose te support the submission et
such amendment te the people.
Fifth. That we request the county con
ventions of the political parties, iu Lan
caster county, which may' assemble for
the nomination of candidates for the
Senate and Heuse of Representatives, te
be elected in November, 1832; te instruct
such candidates te favor such submission.
Sixth. That we urge our fellow citi-
zons'ef Lancaster county, without distinc
tien' of paity, te regard this question of
constitutional amendment prohibiting
the liquor traffic for bevorage purposes as
one of first importance for the common
welfare ; and te determine and make
known te ethers the dctermiuatien net te
vete for any candidate who will net pub
Heal ly declare his purpose, if elected, te
vete for the submission of such amend
ment of the constitution. Let it be a vote
for a vote.
Seventh. That a county committee, con cen con
sisting'ef ene member from cachwaidef
the city of Lancaster, and from each ward
and borough and the several townships
of the county, te be appointed by the
president and convention, te- whom shall
be committed the duty of laying the re
solves and request before the party con
ventions which may assemble fur making
nominations, and before candidates for
the coming Legislature, and secure if
possible their consent therete'' te organize
and choeso their own officers and sub
committees and fill vacancies te organize
the friends of constitutional amendment
in each district, te employ and commission
speakers and agents te ask; .and re
ceive money for the purposes herein
named te prepare and circulate petitions,
te call county aud district meetings for the
better information of the people en this
question with power te de such ether
things as in their judgment may be advis
able for the promotion of the objects of
the appointment.
Iicsehed, That the county committee
shall have power te appoint financial
agents te ask that contributions- te a
guarantee fund shall ba'selicitcd, payable
in five equal annual instalments.
As the resolutions were presentcd Mr.
Black explained te the conventieu the
scope and purpose et each, .and the neces
sity of their adoption. After their adop
tion he proposed te go te work at once and
raise fuuds te pay expenses for a vigorous
prosecution of the work laid out. He
bhewed that the deserved amendment te
the constitution could net be effected in
less than five years' perhaps it would take
lengcr,as two successive Legislatures must
approve it before it can come up for final
adoption or rejection by the peo
ple. He said that he had no
doubt the people were en the sida of
temperance, but the liquor interest was a
powerful and wealthy one, aud would use
vast sums of money te prevent the adop
tion of any constitutional amendment that
would interfere with the sale of liquors.
Te meec them and keep before the people's
eyes the sufferings and crimes and cost of
the accursed traffic will requite several ac
tive campaigns en the part of temperance
people, and these cannot be carried en
without funds, no suggested that a
united effort should be made te secure an
nual subscriptions for a five years' cam
paign. The work should be cemmcnccd.at
once, and right here. Fer one, he would
pledge himself for an annual payment of
$20 per year for five years, for a fund te
be used in this ceunty.and asked the mem
bers of the convention te join him, and
pledge themselves for such sums as they
felt able te pay.
Quite a number of the gentlemen and
iadies present put down their names for
sums ranging from $1 te $20 per annum
for five years, and in a short time an ag
gregate of $840 had been subscribed and a
geed part of it paid in.
After a hymn or two had been sung by
the convention, led by Rev. J. B. Seule,
President Brown announced the following
named members telj, county committee,
which when' .filled, will consist of ene
member from each' election district.
County Committee
Bait Gee. Knox.
Conestoga J. B. Yentzcr.
Colerain J. E. Baker.
Drumore Gee. Smith.
? Fulton Montillien Brown.
I East Heraplield D. B. Sanders.
, West HemBfield A. B. Brnckart.
Lancaster City :
2d Ward Silas E. Miller.
4Hu &,- P. S. Geedman.
5th ""' Rev. Sylvanus Stall.
6th " James Black.
Sth " Chrn. Bloemenstoek.
East Lampeter Lamborne.
Upper Lcaceck Dr. Jeseph Gibbens.
Little Britain WaKing. -
Martic Jes. Clark.
Manheim C. A. Kline.
Maner C. J Rhodes.
Paradi.se Christian Rohrer.
Strasburg ber. Jacob Bachman.
Sadsbnrj Sanf 1 Townsend.
Mr. Black urged upon the members
the committee and all ether friends
of
of
temperance ire;m, te organize at ene in
their lespectivirdistricts ; talk up the pro pre pro
pe.soo3iitutio"ualamendment ; let the
people knew whoTyeu are doing for the
cause ; keeping in view all the time that
the main thing desired is that the people
be pcrmittttd te determinethe question for
themselves, by their own votes, whether
there sha'l or shall net be an amendment
made te the constitution of the state for
the prohibition ut the manufacture and
sale of into. uting liquors for drink.
The convention then adjourned.
Meeting eX tUe.Uoaatr.CeaMBlttM.
The county committee 'met alter the ad ad
jeurnment otthecenvention and organized
by electing James Black', chairman, P. S.
Geedman secretary, and Jacob Bachman,
treasurer.
Lancaster city was designated as the
headquarters of the committee.
The following executive committee was
elected: James -Black, P. S. 'Geedman,
Rev. Sylvanus Stall and Silas Weller,
city ; Jacob Bachman," Strasburg ; A. B.
Brnckart, Salunga.
The executive committee was invested
with all tin- power of the whole commit
tee, their records te be presented te the
general body for confirmation.
The executive cemmitte was instructed
te engage speakers.
The secretary was authorized te receive
all monies, receipts for' the same, and trans
fer tetlic. treasurer.
Adjourned.
L;VL TOBACCO ArFAIKS.
A Dull Week Seme Sales Reported.
There has been no stir in the local mar
ket since our last. Dealers and manufac
turers continue te live from hand te mouth
and no important sales of old leaf are re
ported. A number of sales of Tiew leaf
have been made, most of them at prices
considerably lower than these prevailing
heretofore. This is net because prices
have declined, but because the quality of
what remains in first hands is said te be
inferior. The cold, blustering March
weather of the past week has prevented
active out&ide work among farmers in the
preparation of their lauds for next sum
mer's crop.
Follewiug are tome recently reported
tiritisit!tiei)S
Capt Wilcox has bought the following
lets in Carnarvon : Ephraim Hertzler.
4 acres at 28, 10, 4 and 3 ;Gee. Weiler, 3
acres at 11 through ; Isaac Hart, 2 acres
at 28, S), .') ; Jacob Giube 3 acres at 25, 9,
3 ; G. W. Simpsen, 1 acres at 27, 9, 3.
G. C. Mentzer. of New Helland, has de
livered te Frey & Weidler one acre at 18,
3, 3.
S. E. Goucheneucr, or Providence, te
Arndt, at 24, 7, 3.
E. A. McCardley, of Little Britain, te
Teller, at 22, 13, 7, 3.
E. A. McCardlly, of Little Britain, te
Dohaven, at 28, 14,- 8, 3.
Madisen CIcndenin, of Chester county,
te Heffman, at 11 nreuud.
Jehn Smith, of Pleasant Greve," te Jehn
F. Brimmer, at 23, 12, '6. 3.
II. Curley, of Churchtown, te J. F.
Brimmer, at 15, C, 3.
H. Witmer, of Silver Spring, te J. F.
Brimmer, at 161, 5, 3.'
Jacob L. Henry, of Yerk county, te
David Mayers, 20, 12, 5, 3.
P. B. Shank, of Drumore township, te
De Haven, 15, 5, 3.
Elam H. Hess, of Chester county, te
David G. Hirst, en private terras.
Jacob Kramer, of Cheater county, te P.
Lebzelter, 10, G, 3.
W. Winters, or Strasburg, teLederman,
21, 11, 6, 3".
Jeseph Beiler, of Leacock, te C. O.
Herr,20, 8, 3.
C. Brubak.T, of Elizabeth, te Teller, 20,
0, 3 and 12, 5, 3.
S. Geckley, of Elizabeth, te Teller, 21,
0, 3.
P. Barte. of East Hempfleld, 22 acres te
Hcrshey & Shindle, 10, 8, 6, 3.
J. W. Audersen, of Yerk county, 3J
acres te 3tirk, 10 around.
James Fulton, of Yerk county, te Stirk,
8 around.
Isaac II. Robinson; merchant of Martic,
te Altshue, 22, 10, 8,3.
Ti H. Stauffer, of Leacock, te Dau
Mayer, 28. 14, 8, 3.
Cyrus Hewitt, of Caernarvon, te Wilcox,
29 9 3.
" Wl Finingcr, of Salisbury, te J. S.
Smith, 19 preund.
Abram Nag'c, of Strasburg, te Leder
man, 16. 7, 5, 3.
C. S. Herr, of Strasbnrg, te Lsderman,
18, 8, 7, 3.
Jehn Eitmiller, of Strasburg, to'Leder te'Leder
raan, 18, 7.
Jacob E. Deulinger, Drumore township,
te Ashue acres at 31, 10, 7, 3.
Ames Sniffer, Ephrata township, te
lleuck & Land is 3 acres at 24 J. 10, 6, 3,
Jehn B. Martin, Bird-in-hand, te Merris
& Seigle 21, 8, 3. -s-
Benjamin Greff, East Lampeter town
ship, te Fat man at 24, 8, 3.
E. Binkley East Lampeter township, te
Fatman at 15, 5, 3.
Jehn Shnener, East Lampeter town
ship, te David Leaderman 18 around.
Mark Rogers East Lampeter te David
Leaderman at 22, 12, 3.
H. S. Brubaker, Clay township, 2 acres
te Teller Bres, at 25. 10, 3.
C. B. Brubaker, Clay township, te Tel
ler Bres. 3 acres at 22, C, 3.
Jehn Ceny, Clav township, 1J acres te
Munroe Fry at 25, 12, 3.
KEV. MK. LAUD'S UNKNOWN EKEMJ.
UU Congregation ladlgnant at the Attack
ed Tbelr Paster.
The publication of bogus letters an
nouncing theresignatien of Rev. Samuel
Laird, pastor of St. Mark's Evangelical
Lutheran church, Philadelphia; and the
quick exposure of the fraud, droWte the
edifice an unusually large congregation
Sunday morning. Nene of the parish
ioners, as far as can be learned, knew of
the issuing of the circular until they read
the report in the newspapers. Still mere
surprise was occasioned when tfce fraudu
lent circulars were found littering the
pewsand between the leaves of the hymn
books. The sexton was closely questioned,
but oeuld net tell who had with lavish
hand circulated the slanderous effusions.
The author of the forgeries is keeping his
identity secret, and has carefully covered
his tracks. The newspapers were first ap
prised of the affair by receiving the cir
cular through the mails. The vestry have
unanimously vindicated Mr. Laird in a
personal controversy betwen him and a
few of his members.
A Bis iUt.
With the change of secretaries the busi
ness office of the Lancaster County Mu
tual Fire Insurance company has been re
moved from Williamstown te Paradise,
where it is located en the second fleer of
Secretary Jehn Witmer's warehouse. Inte
this Eddie Franke, en Saturday, success
fully put a 4,000 pound Merris & Ireland
safe.
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