LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCER, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2. 1882. Lancaster JfnteUigencer. SATDBDAY BVENINQ DEC. 2. 1882, Dersej's Dabious Defease. Ex Senator Dorsey sends to tbe news papers a lengthy declaration of his inno cence of any connection with the Star Route frauds and declares his readiness to pay one thousand dollars for every dollar that he can be shown to have made off the government outside bis sal ary as senator. He avers that at the out set of the administration of Garfield he put it fully into possession of all the facts in his knowledge concerning the Star Route contracts and demanded an inves tigation of his conduct by a commission of Democratic congressmen. This was refused him because, as he says, Attoig ney General MacVeagh informed liim that the government had no evidence of his complicity with tbe frauds. lie says that his brother and brother-in-law in 1878 took a lot of mail contracts in spite of his protest that their action would embarrass him. Afterwards he helped them to getbondsmen and advanced them money. When his term as senator ex pired ho called for payment and they had nothing to pay him with but mail routes, which he took in April 1879, and in June of the same year transferred them to others, since which time he has )eenoutof the mail business. Brady was not liis friend and he never saw him save in his office. Dorsey seems to be of the opinion that Attorney General Brewster, who undertook in the trial ' hold him up as the head and lrout of the conspiracy, needs to take the beam out of his own eye. He denounces him as having " dragged the robes of his ollice into the filth and slime of debauchery so many times," that he deserves to be considered altogether bad; and the ex Senator concludes his plea to the country with the melancholy reileclioii that notwithstanding his white robes of inno cence, " the work of falsehood and de famation will go on to glorify the men in power by ousting those who placed them there." Too true, alas ! too true ! Mr. lorsey may be a very innocent man in these Star Route matters, but we fear that none will ever believe it. The honest fact is that there is not much evidence to speak of against him. It is all of a negative character. The circumstances are such a3 to deny that lie could have been innocent when those about him were guilty. He was easily the "boss" of the men among whom he moved, and if he permitted them to pluuder the government without sharing with him lie must be charged with a folly of which his life and char acter show no signs; wnne ot the un- scrupulousness which would have led him into just such transactions as the Star Route conspiracies he was just brimful and running over. Mr. Dorsey claims the credit of placing in power the men who are now against him, and public opinion gives him that credit ; but themean3 that were success fully used by Dorsey to elect Garfield are well-known to have been of a dis creditable kind. Dorsey, in claiming to have put his friends into power by .such methods, simply claims that lie was a rascal and if so he cannot com plain of the public judgment which credits him with the leadership in the postal fniquities. Attorney General Brewster may possibly have got the wrong pig by the ear when he seized upon Dorsey as the head of the band of robbers, but if so the pig has no reason to complain because of his bad general reputation. The trouble with Dorsey is that he did not have a good character to help him along, lie was a dog known to love sheep and no injustice will be done by charging him with their slaughter. Mr. Dorsey has the same good reason that so many men before him have had, to realize the fact that the way of the transgressor is hard. He put the men into power by fraud who now crush him. The fellows who put Hayes into his seat by fraud have been crushed too. All these rascals sometime come to grief. The mills of the gods in these cases have ground pretty fast and exceedingly fine. There is hardly a grease spot leftof these criminals. Mr. Dorsey would do well ?h t?,n 1 lUf ceSr thankful that he was not hung. Dangerous Amusements. Tho man in St. Louis who shot at his wife's paramour to kill and only wounded him having been subjected to no penalty, it was quite natural and still more just that the Cincinnati coroner should hold guiltless the player who shot only at the apple on his sweet heart's head and killed her. This sad circumstance, which seems to have brought more grief to him than to anyone else, robbing him of his expected bride and of his profession, has served as a text for quite a number of eminent journals to dilate upon the necessity for a law prohibiting reckless and fool hardy entertainments which involve the risk of human life. But as a contemporary remarks the popularity of such entertainments is not dependent upon their toleration by law. It is due to an inexplicable popu lar passion, which is not confined by any means to spectacular representations, to witness the risk of life. " A crowd will assemble to see an iron safe hoisted up to a third or fourth story, not because the sight is an amusing or exhilarating one, but because of a faint expectation, almost amounting to a hope, that the ropes will give way and it will tumble down and kill some one. A greater crowd will gather to see a man go up to paint in dead white the high spire of a church steeple, than could be attracted to see a Paul Veronese deco rating a palace, or a Michael Augelo painting a Last Judgment.' " It is diffi cult to make a moral analysis of this feel ing. It is no answer to say that it is popular admiration for skill in per. formance, for it would .require just as good markmanship to shoot the top knot off a cigar store sign at the same dis tance as to hit an apple on a woman's head, and yet such a show would not draw. And while the players might be regulated by law, popular taste would I not be restrained nor altered by police I councilman and $100 for common council re2ulation. Human nature is a very! mas. What tbc membeis of common queer thing ; and as long as public taste is gratified and satisfied with scenes of slaughter and of danger, some means will be found to cater to this taste and to enrich those who engage in the risky business. A Ureat Monopoly. Mr. Garrett's letter about the proposed espionage of the "Western Union tele graph company over business entrusted to its transmission is printed in full in this issue of the Intelligencer. It is a very important document bearing upon the relations of the great corpora tions with each other and to the public, whose creatures they are and whose masters they too often attempt to be. The delivery bv thi3 telegraph company to Republican politicians in 1S77 of private telegrams, supposed to compromise the Democrats who sent them, stamped it as a concern willing to betray the confidence which should be the basis of all tele graphic patronage when it was to the personal or political interest of its man agers to exhibit such faithlessness! Mr. Garrett's letter shows that in its busi ness rivalry with competitors it is equal ly voracious and unscrupulous. The manner in which this monopoly swal lows up, buys off or crushes out rival lines has long made it obnoxious to the public. But the worst of it is that when it has accomplished J he.5e ends, often at great exjtense, it tnukeu the public t.weat for it by a niggardness and lack of ac commodations which would drive away from it all patronage if it had not a mo nopoly of franchises. In this city, where the telegraph business has largely increased of late, the facilities afforded customers are wholly inadequate, as set forth in our local columns. The account there given reflects the views of our community generally, and the Western Union company cannot too soon give re lief. Yexus is about to make anothcrlian sit, that is to pass between the earth and sun. The flippant paragraphers of the ribald press are inclined to make bad jokes about the impending event. The scientists have called for prayers for clear weather that there may be uuob scured observation of the great as tronomical incident ; and the preachers seem to be rather gratified at the sight of obdurate science in the unwonted at titude of crooked knees. For all this trilling the public should not lose sight of the very great importance of the scientific observations of next Wed tics day. As a matter of curiosity, to be in vestigated by the naked eye behind a pair of open; glasses or with the familiar smoked glass from 9 a. m. to J:20 p. in., it has not oc curred since A. D. 1874 and will not re cur until A. D. 200G. But the scientific value of the transit lies in the fact it can be made to measure the exact distance from the earth to the sun, which is itself the astronomical unit of measure ment in the vast distances of space. From the transit of 17G0 for over a bun dred years this distance was fixed at from 02,000,000 to 95,000,000, and with a million dollars spent in observation in 1871 the variation was reduced to from 92,000,000 to JW.SOO.OOO miles. The un certainty will in all probability be further lessened this year and our gov ernment has eight parties in the field, scattered from New Mexico to the Cape of Good Hope taking observation. The sun will hardly refuse to shine at all the proposed points of view. Tiik Xew York Wirlil professes to know what is to be in the president's message. According to its information the document will be a column shorter than that of last year ; hope for better relations in South America is ex pressed ; the Blaine peace conference is disapproved ; the arrest of Americans in Ireland is recited and referred to Con gress ; the treasury operations are re viewed and a reduction of the internal revenue taxation recommended; the tariff commission is endorsed ; praise is taken for the reorganization of many national banks and a reduction of postal expenses ; river and harbor bills are disapproved ; naval reorganization asked IVm 41ti MAOinf TnHlittt YtrtlissBT n i-im..I Route cases are to be pushed, also civil service reform. It is a shrewd advertiser who knows that Thanksgiving is past and Xmas is coming. Tiie exports of flour and wheat at tho four principal Atlantic ports arc rapidly increasing. Good eropr. are telling on our commercial relations. Bisnor O'Reili.y, of Springfield, Mass., who has just returned from a visit to Ire land, told his pooplo on Sunday night that he had noticed in that country as much improvement among tho " common peo ple " in tho last four years as in the pre vious twenty-fivo. The high courts of Michigan havo do. dared that while " few wrongs can bo greater than the public detraction which has only abuse, or profit from abuse, for its object, few duties can be plainer than to challenge public attention to official disregard of tho principles which protect public and personal liberty." This is a clear distinction between what is libellous and what is proper for publication about public sfficials. Tun fashionable wifo of a South Loudon curate has given great offenso to her neighbors by reason of the varying hr.es of her hair, her penciled eyebrows, her artificial complexion and her general dressy stylo. A deputation of ladies placed tho matter before tho vicar, who thereupon wrote to tho curate, calling on him to resign. The curate happans to ba a thoroughly practical man, who had gained considerable worldly wisdom by service in tho army before he took orders. Ho wrote to the bishop, who " sat down '' upon the vic&r. The city of Erie proposes to salary tho offices of mayor and councilmen. Tlio compensations respectively fixed in tho report of a committee that has been adopted by tho select council are $1,000 per annum for the mayor, $200 for soleci council will have to say to the proposi tion making tbc':r pay only half that of t their brethren of the select branch re mains to be beeu. At this instance it looks like a singular discrimination, since the duties of the respective offices of se lect and common councilraau do cot vary materially. A Fim.AiiEi.PUiA medical journal re ceived a communication from a Louisiana physician, asking if thero is any virtue in tea made from fat female cockroaches, brandy and sugar, and au enterprising Record reporter actually discovers that cockroaches were not entirely unknown in the medical practice in that city, and " cockroach tea " may be used with uood effect in certain cases, although, owing to public prejudice against the insect it is not a popular medicine. The use of the cockroach as a diuretic in certain diseases is almost universal in Russia, and is very general now m European medical practice as a euro for Bright' a disease. This dis covery cei tainly tjrrors. robs death of sumo Tun death of Dr. Tait, archbishop of Canterbury, will place in Mr. Gladstone's hands a very important piece of ecclesias tical patronage. The primate of all Eng land takes precedence over all other Eug lish subjects, has au official leutal of $73,000 a year, and in his gift are about 130 livings. Tivr-' :irr a vs i many empty formalities connected vith the fiiliug of a vacant aichbishopric. The fo: tuuato man it theoretically elected by the; dean and chapter, Out that body ciuiot in the prem ises act without royal license, and as it is instructed by the crown whom it must elect, its functions resemble those of our presidential electoial college. As a matter of fact it is tho prima minister with whom tho appointment rest?, though ho, of course, is careful to respect to a certain extent the wishes of the sovereign. Local pi ids must feel a stir of gratifi cation in contemplating tho list of strong attractions tho play people havo provided for us during a euccession of nights be ginning with this evening. Fulton opera house will sparklo within the- period of five consecutive nights with tho following stars of the first niaguitudo : Modjsska, "Haze! Kirkc," Emma Abbott, tho a lorcnces anu Aiciicn cc I'arsioc. a or a provincial town, whero "ono uij'lit stands'" are the almost invariablo custom, tho above is a pretty good array, and it may bo doubted whether any city of tho same population cau surpass it in the variety and sterling quality of the per formances that aro to succeed each other here without intermission during the period named. Let our psoplo show their appreciation of the rich feast prepared for them by patronizing each entertainment above enumerated as they deserve. And that will mean the crowding of the opera hoiuo at all of them FILE3UN3J... Gov. Quant, Colorado's law executive is only SO years old. Gat.tjsita A. Gnow is telliTig bin. party frionds that ho is out ol polities. Gov. Ikeland, of Texas, just elected was an ostler at $8 per mouth, once in his life. JbMMA A1I1IOTT, UOW 1U liaitilUulA, was "seized aud hugged until she fainted " by a lunatic who met her in a hotel on Wed nesday. Ex-Govekxoi: Colquitt, of Georgia, now senator, is a staunch Methodist ; his wifo is a Baptist, as steadfast, in her faith as hor husband is in his. UoitsEY in his statement refers to a confidential letter sent by him to Garfield, December 29, 1880. Thero is every rcasen to bolicvo this was a communication de clining a cabinet office. Thomas M. Wat.t.f.u, tho "little giant" as ho is called iu Connecticut, of which state ho was elected governor on tho 7th of November, was a poor ragged newsboy in New York thirty years ago. Hox. J. T. Updeouaff, tho Republican cougroEsmau-clcct in the Seventeenth Ohio district, died at Mount Pleasant, near Steubenville, O., on Thursday, aged GO years, of stone in tho bladder. Joseph Cook is again in Boston after spending two years on his tour around tho world. Ho has spoken 232 times, always in tbe English language and without an interpreter, except in Japan, where h's audienco did not understand English. Saba Bekxiiardt's delicacy of consti tution, a French manager declares, is much exaggerated. Sho is a woman of wiro, and cau endure twice as much fatigue as a woman of apparently twice her strength. One great secret of her power of endurance is the facility with which she can go to sleep. GOVEUXOK ELECT CLEVELAND, of New York, following tho example of Mr. Pat tisou, has declined tho proffered escort of the Burgess' corps, of Buffalo, on tho oc casion of his inauguration. His letter says : "I am exceedingly desirous that thera should be as little ceremony as pos sible." Mn. and Mit3. Raymond, Annie Louiso Carey, are living at tho Berkeley, on Fifth and Ninth street, New York. " Her hus band is declared a lino fellow, and Mrs. Raymond never looked better. She finds her chief outsido amusement iu going to tho opera. Sho has a box for tho season, and goes nearly every night. Pastor Dalkymple, of tho Methodist church at Somers, Conn., is endangering his incomoby opposition to social "kiss ing. His salary is raised "in part by en tertainments in wnicn Kiss games are a feature ; but ho has taken a firm stand against such diversion, thus cutting off an important source of revenue. Sm Garnet Wolsely is to have tho address to him from the corporation of iionuon. encased in an Egyptian jewel box. The casket is of 18-carat gold and tho various devices aro enamelled in proper heraldic colors. Tho actual casket is 5 J inches by 4J, but tho onyx marble staud covers a space of 10 inches by G inches. " AnntONDACi: " Mujskat has so far re turned to his work as a preacher as to lec ture in San Antonio, Texas, on "Tho Hero and tho Hereafter." His lecture toon mo opposite ground Jrom that held by most of tho Evangelical churnhps nn hell and everlasting punishment. Mr. Murray has a saw mill, a stock farm and a female privato secretary near San An t)nio. Jtsxx Dickinson puts a quietus upon the stories that havo lately been set afloat concerning her alleged retirement to pri vate life with a broken heart, financially ruined and embittered by disappointment, by a complete denial of the report. On the contrary Miss Dickinson savs she lm at tho present timo a number of lecturo engagements and will very soon renew her dramatic career. Anna has planty of spunk and the harshness of tho critic:; or sympathy of friends is insufficient to down hsr. CRIMINAL CALENDAR TUK UAKKEU PHASES OF DAILY LlfK Dee.I or Violence la Varied irorme Tlio Banco Swindler Trying to Escape the Meshes of the Lair. A writ of error has been brought by Major John W. Mahan for the release of James Fitzgerald, alias " The Kid," from the Massachusetts state prison, where he is now serving a five years' sentence for obtaining at a game known as "banco" checks to the valuo of $30,000 from Hon. Charles t rancis Adams. If the writ of error is sustained Fitzgerald must bo re leased, and Major Mahan contends that he cannot b8 tried again, as he has been once in jeopardy. If tlio writ is not sustained, then a motion for a new trial is to be mado on the ground that justice has not ueeu done. Htabbii: m a lfar-room. James Brown, a Iruckraan.aged twenty two, was fatally ttabbed in a German beer saloon on Eighth avenue, New York. lie entered with some companions. They had been to a ball given at tho Grand opera house. Suddenly a quarrel arose and tho proprietor ejected Walton, one of Brown's companions, and an unknown man, who had a knife in his hand. Young Brown had fallen and it was discovered that he was dead, having been stabbed through the heart. Walton and two others were arrested, but deny all knowl edge of tho crimo. 3Ioso3 Lockiiart'ti Execution. Moses Lockhart, colored, aged twenty three was hanged at Edgofield, S. C, for tho murder of Moses Blalock last April. Blalock enticed Lnckhart'r. sweetheart from him, and the latter fchot him on sight. The gallows was formed oft-Udit posts r.:ul a cros.-be::i:i, a figure-four trig gor and a trap door. When the trap spruug the condemned dropped four feet. The hanging was private, but was wit nessed by hundreds from windows and tree tops. Lockhart was resigned to his fate. An Unfuttuuato Attempt a: Saiclile. A man named Fox, employed at tho Scovillo car wheel works, Buffalo, N. Y., attempted to commit suicide by plunging his head into a largo pail of molten metal. His fellow workmen saw him kneel to commit tho act, and rescued him as quickly as possible, but not until both of his oyes were burned out and his scalp cooked to tho skull, while his hands and face were terribly burned. Maryland's Wliljvio;; jjoit Law. In the criminal court at Baltimore, Thomas Foote, colored, found guilty of "brutally assaulting and beating his wife," was sentenced to receive thirteen lashes, to bo administered by tho sheriff, within tho walls of tho jail. This sentence is undor an act of tho Legislature of 1832. Notice was given of an appeal to test the constitutionality of the act. Ural::cd Willi an Axe. James Stanley, a negro, was anestcd at San Antonio, Tex., on tho charge of mur dering Robert Snickland, 18 years old. It is supposed that Stanley during the night, whila they wcro camping out, arose and split Snickland's head open with an axe. A Fatal right Among -Mluorfl. At tho gold mines near Ophir, Ga., Bass Gago had his throat cut and was kilicd during a fight between a party of drunken men. Augustus Fowler was fatally stabbed aud a woman named Iilrs. Dawson was dangerously wounded. Killed by a Drunken Father. Eli McConnell. a drunken carpenter, while riding in a baggy with his wife aud child near Waterford, Tox., beat his wife on tho head with a pistol and crushed his daughter's skull by a blow of tho butt of the weapon. His wifo jumped from the buggy and saved her life. Connell es caped. Win :.. Sua U'ii Hotel Uimied. Friday morning W. L. Scott's famous hotel at Massassauga Point, on Lako Eric, which cost $40,000, was burned. Nothing was saved, tho occupants, the Graham family, barely escaping with their lives. uuKAucuj ji; Ta k vvm.iv seiivici:. Ilw tlio Harrihliurg Kins iUanliiulaiod Cuumy OIHcerc. llarrlshnr Dbpiitch to Philadelphia Timed. An important factor in accomplishing tho aims of tho machine system in the state is tho studied effort to compromise county officials in every part of tho state. Prothouotaries. registers, recorders and treasurers, whether Republicans or Dcino crats.arc tempted by tho hangers-on of tho bosses in this city to defraud tho sluto iu making returns of their fees. Thoy aro told that everybody does it ; that tho ex cess fees required to bo divided with tho state am never fully returned and seldom returned at all, aud scores of county officers havo been thus tempted to cnlargo their incomes by adopting tho now very general custom of withholding tho excess fees duo tho state. I am credibly informed of many instances iu whioh county officers of both parties Iiavc yielded to tho machine tempters, and tho day that they did so, mado them tho slaves of tho bosses. If Republicans, whenever delegates or any political results aro wanted in tho counties, they aro ordered to perform service for tho machine atifi if t.hnv hfisitato thnvarnrnmiiifloil flinf. thoy can bo exposed and disgraced at tho wm oi mo ujsscs. n jjomocrats, tiioy aro ordered to state tho policy of tho De mocracy so as to best servo tho machine, or to give quiet support to boss candi dates or bo neutral in important battles. If they daro to take an active part for their own party, thoy aro quietly notified cnat tuey aro on tuc urmic ot a volcano ; that their disgraco is within the power of tho machine, and they aro silenced. This is one of tho invisiblo bnt most important elements of power that tho machine pos sesses. Its loaders suggest and aid tho thoft of revenues duo tho state, to mako officials their abject dependents, and the list, having been growing for many years, is now a very largo ono in both parties in tho state. If Governor Pattison's cabinet shall bo what is confidently expected, ho will find congenial work for his now attorney gen eral in exposing the studied frauds with tho machine leaders of this city. A fal3o return of the fees of tho county offices which aro required to divide with the state, is tho rulo and honest returns tho exception, and an honest, exhaustive in vestigation of thia system of machine fraud, would recover tens of thousands of dollars due tho treasury, and expose many of the 2"eat henchmen of tho bosses in diiterent parts of the commonwealth. Is is ono of Pattison's most inviting fields, and he will bo forgetful of bin own record' if ho fails to cultivate it. THE COUSKUJ! TK.1021SV. Frayne xunnrateS by Ilutu liie Coroner and ibo Head tiirl'n Puroutc The unfortunate killing of Miss Von Behren, by Frank Frayne. at tho Coliseum. in Cincinnati, was still tha one absorbing topic on tho streets, and inoro especially about the theatres Friday. In tho morn ing Mr. Frayne, who was out on $3,000 uan, uauio m.u tuu pu-ico court-room ac companied by iho several members of his own company and other theatrical people. He locked haggaid and worn, as though he had not slept since tho fearful accident by which with his own hand bo ushered his intended wife so suddenly into eternity. He was calm, however. As he was particularly desirous of being permit ted himself to convey tho remains of the deceased to her eastern homo for burial the court set his examination for to-day! It eeems to bo fully settled in ti, public mind that tho killing was undoubt edly a lamentable accident and that the I examination is looked forward to as being merely formal. Ac 0 o'clock Coroner Rendings began hLi inquest on tho body of the unfortunate victim. A number of actresses were examined, all of whom tes tified to the sobriety of Frayne and the uniform goad feeling between him and 3Iiss Von Behren, and tho coroner return ed the following verdict : "I find upon examination that the dead body of Annio Yon Behren, which was found in tho Coliseum theatre, that she came to her death by shock of hemorrhage the result of a gun shot wound, fired from a gun at tho hands of Frank I Frayne, and I further add that the shot was fired v. ilk out criminal intent." An examination of the wound iu her head shows a great hole, l.irge ea-jngh to admit a little linger, through which tho brain matter could hi seen. I; appears tho ballet, alter entering the forehead, plowed along tho top of tlio skull for about four inches, then caniiai' out it was found iu tho coil of hair in whioh'tke hat is placed for the atiplu shot Hor parents iu Brooklyn were co:unifricated wun amiost inirneuiateiy alter the acci dent, and return messages weie received in which bjth mother and father declared tho friendliest feeling for Mr. Frayne, ex onerating him from all blame and urging as a special favor that ho accompany the remains to their homo aud bo present at tho last sad rites that shall close forever tho career of his intended wife. UOllSEV'S DEFENSK. lie BreaKa a Long Silence. Ex-Senator Dorsey puts forth a card in which he asserts that long ago ho placed tho charges against him boforo Gon. Gar field, and asked tho president to appoint a commission of Democrats to investigate the whole subject. This proposition was assented to, and Postmaster Geuor.il James v.:- ordered to appoint tho court of inquiry, woich duty that official approved aud promiFcd to fulfill. Subsequently, however, Mr. MacVeagh and Mr. J'.iaes declined to proceed iu the niUte. tho former speaking as if he icpr seated the government and with full anthnritj. Ho stated his main reason to be thai. i;o diu not know of anything criminating Dorsey. The accused then prepared a statement, which was icad to President Garfield in tho presence of Vieo President Arthur and others, and tho first named denounced the proposed prosecution ol 1 Jersey, lhe accused says that James and 3IacVeagh both piomised to consider, the statement confidentia', and yoi immediately after wards they had it plinted, and placed in the bauds of detectives, for uso against tho ex-senator, thus violating a pledge made to him and Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, his counsel In regard to Peek, John W. l)jrcy and Miner, tho accused says he never entered into conspiracy with them and Brady, or any of them, to defraud tho government ; that ho advised them not to take poatal contracts, anu taat they all actert iipou their own judgments in the nutter. Dor sey believe:! thev have never made a cent out of any increases for Star Route srrvieo and ho knows they lost all they wero worth in thn work. Peck and Darscy aro .relatives, aud when they camo to him lor help ho did what he couid, as a brother and brothcr-in Iaw hhould do ; but no crimo was committed and no wrong done, except to himself. Ho ctavo certified checks to tho extent, of thirty thousand dollars to help them out of their difficul ties, but this availed nothing, br cause Peck, Miner and John W. Dorsey had tho enmity of all tho old coutractois, who looked ujjon them :m interlopers and undercutteis. Mr. Dorsey dechu cs that "Mr. Miner, iu an emergency, having the powers of at torney (!!' John M. Peck, who was King sick in New Mexico, and Ji.hn W. Oorscy, who was attending to his mail business iu Dakota or Montana, transferred to Henry M. Yaile, by sub-contract, every dollar's worth of interest that cither Peek or John Dorsoy had in any m.'.il contract;;, leaving Peck and Dorsey without thw slightest right in any of tho mail contracts which stood in their names, and also cutting Mr. Dorsey wholly out of the money I had advanced to Peck, Miner and Dorsoy. Mr. Yailc furnished a 1 irge sum of money to put this mail sci vieo in operation, aud took entire control of it in person. After this neither Peck nor John Doisoy had any control whatever over any ono of the routes standing in their lcspeef ive names. All this transpired during my absence in the West and I had no knowledge of it for months after tho occurrence, nor nntil my return to Washington iu December, lblS, when I first ascertained thai the se curity for my advances bod been wiped out, and that tho note I had given Mr. Miner to aid him had not been paid, while tho security for it was mado worthless by reason of tho sub contracts 10 vane, i mauo every euors in my power to secure a repayment from Vailo and Miner of the abovo sums, but without success, for tho rcr.sou that tkeso gentlemen claimed, and I belicvo truth fully, that the largo outlays required to maintain tho mail service thsy were run ning not only absorbed all tho pay they received from tho government, but every dollar they could raise from their privato means. Matters drifted along iu this way until after the expiration of my term iu Congress, when I again saw Messrs. Vailo I for and Miner and insisted that my accnunt money advanced must be settled, llav- Y ing no money to pay they proposed to turn over to nso certain mail routes which, during tho three years they had to run, would ropay mo and provide for tho payment of $10,000 to John M. Peck for his expenditures, and $10,000 to J. W. Dorsey for his interest. I had no alternative but to accept this proposal. I paid Peck and J. W. Dorsey $10,000 each, which hardly covered tho sums ad vanced by them. I took charge of these routes April 0. 1370, and continued in charge of them about one month. During this period wherever I thought it was propar and tho public wants demanded it, I tried to get the routes increased by all propar and lawful means, as every prudent contractor did under similar circumstance?, and I did iu that way get some in creases on four or livo small routes. In June, 1879, 1 turned this whole mail busi. ness over to other hands, and from that day to this I havo never had any thing mcro to do with it than tho presi dent of the United States has had. From that timo I havo never written or received a letter cr communication of any kind from General Brady or any otln;r official of tho postofneo department. To show my appreciation of the value of theso con tracts I gave one-half interest in them to the persou who took charge of them, for his services. Up to this moment I have never received one single penny or profit from any of thess contracts or from r.nv other contract with tho government of tho United States. As to tho conspiracy charge, it is sufficient to say my acquaint ance with General Brady was limited to official relations, ar.-.l I never saw him rtuy wfcero until tho commencement of this cas?, except in his office." Mr. Dorsoy concludes : "I will pay oaa thousand do!Iai3 for every dollar the pros ecution can show I ever made out of tho treasury of tho United States, excepting my salary as a r,r nalor." Mns Cr,.vn. "-"TAXirovn. nee Hamilton. flagerstown, has concluded her studies in Pari Hid a few days iiuco arrived m New York. S'jc nicnoscs to SDond tho winter in Annapolis at Iho gubernatorial mansion with" the governor and his family, It will be remembered that sho was mar ried clandestinely in August, 1831, at Pen iuariooacK otannope, irom wiiom sue was at once soparated and a divorce is now to be bad. with bis consent, on the ground of undue persuasion and extreme youth. She is 17. EEF0EM IS NECESSARY in on; Tli:gkapu:c fajii.hii:s. Some Cdiieg oT Complaint Wuicti iho Public Have In tho .Walter or LojaI Tele zrapblc Accommodation. In a city tho size of Lancaster, and hav ing the many impoitant interests requir ing the frequent use of tho telemaph that havo made this plac-j a centre of industry and information, it is at least surprising to contemplate the utterly inadequate means provided by tho Western Union company, which virtually controls telegraphic com munication over the country, for the hundreds of people who have daily occa sion to Uo it wires. Is had been hoped that with tho advent of tho American Rapid company, the Western Union po pld would bestir themselves to utl'ord better accommodations for their patrons, but in this public expectation has'becu disappointed. In many respects thair youuger livals havo eclipsed thcni,uotably in tho matter of location, but tho new line being in a senso local, aud extending to only the large cities throughout tho state and country, the " Rapid " have not been able to fully cope with thuir veteran an tagonists in tho raco for popular patron age. Tho Western Union does an enormous business. Indeed wo havo lately heard tho local manager. Mr. Zecher. speak in gratified terms of its steady growth during tho past few yoarr, and of the increased revenues thn company gathers from this place ; and yet tho accommodations pro vided for tho transactions of this il-urish-iug telegraphic business arc iais.-r.iljL-. To begin with, the central office .f the com piny is not at the right pl;:ce. Is is situ ated iu a cigar store, wh'ie i'.:.re ar.iat ail timer, men loungiur :sboi-.i, tmok:ug cigars aud coiiveiMn o:: v-tiious snbjcc s, and while it is not qu: jiL.ticd tiuttl.o p'aeo is altogether ur.u'ije'Jonuble iu its Wiiv, : i; Suit :,.!t.;r:;l M.i.t'. l.i !. s i u'.I i.el :i hi esitanCj about.! t;:it"ii iu :i o-.i'jI.'- room whero there aio t-lriiu-j nieii suiuiiiiig or himn a;ouu-i. anu wnei: tho fumes of tobacco aio certain to offend their nostrils or settle iu their i io thing. Ladies have occasion to usj tho telegraph at tirces and they havo lights which even so great a monopoly as tho Western Union telegraph company should consider itself bound to respect. Moreover, the location of the oilicc in such a public place as a cigar store necessarilj' is destroys tho pos sibility of sccreey which business men, newspaper correspondents and others sometimes find desirable when they "uso the wiro, and this is a serious causo of complaint that tho telegraph company should not permit to exist. The place, too, or that portion of it occupied by tho telcirraph. is poorly lighted, and frequent ly it is necessary to go ov?r to tho cigar counter to see to write a message, while tho unfortunate operators havo no light at all in tho little compartment boxed oil for them, aud in sending a message they havo t. almost feel tho let Ins written en the p.ipjr, or strain their eyes in tlio elibrt to deciphsi the words in tha s:-mi-darkucss of the place. At such a rato tho company will soon bo called upon to peu.Mon its employees on account of sight destroyed or impaired in the line of their duty. "This is a point the company should consider. Ttey may find themselves to havo been saving at tho spigot only to lose at tha bunghol-j. Auclherabuso thai, cr.ci out for cor rcction is the unreasonable hours for keeping thu oiiieo open. The present ar rangement would be discreditable to a town in ILo backwoods, let alouc a city tho &i::j and pretensions ol Lancaster, and within such easy uiatanca of Philadelphia, tlio second city in tho Union. The Lan caster oittca is kept open from 8 o'clock in t ic morning until 0 in tho evening. (Ou Sunday tho office is open an hour in the morning aud an hour iu tho evening, and closed during the leuiaiudcr of tho day.) If anyone has a telegraphic message to send alter ft p. m., no matter how urgent or important may bo its character, ho cither has to hold it until the following morning at 8, or ruu all over town in quest of a telegraph operator. If ho is fortunate enough to fiud one the latter biug, as a general rule, from tho handeoma young manager down through his corps of ablo and good-looking assistants, of an obliging disposition, is usually willing to go to his office and send tho message for a consideration. That is, he requires a fee, aud usually a good round one, for his personal services ; holding, aud uo doubt justly, that ho is entitled to extra compensation for extra work, being employed and paid by tho company for a stated number of hours daily. Tho company, these telegrauhers say, will not pay them for overwork, and ko they exact what thay consider a fair compensation from tho customers. Is it fair for a great, rich, powerful corporation liko tho Weatcru Union telegraph company thus to iicpase upon tho exigencies of tho pub lie '.' If it is not expedient to provide Lan- wicr wun a nignt operator, should not the company at all cventa feel itself ablo aud willing to pay ono of its day operators for extra servico after office hours, when a patron has been at tho trouble of hunting him up after.iEearch of porhaps an hour or two? It is conoedod that the Western Union business has been largely augmcu ted within tho past few year.", and it ia nit to bo denied that much of this increase is due to the Xcw York and Philadelphia morning newspapers, the busiucbs of tele graphing impoitant items of news to tho pi oss-of those cities having grovn largely within the r.imc period. The correspond cut of au out-of-town moiniug paper gathers most of the news he de MW3 to transmit after dark. Some- iiucs he is able to send off his dispatches before 9 o'clock at night, and if so well aud good ; he is not required to feu the operator. But frequently it happens tho ubiquif ous n-jws gatherer runs across koico fiao fat item of news as lato as ten or tlsveu o'clock, or even mid night. Then begins tho search for a telegraph operator. He is not to ha found at his oflice, of course that has beeu closed for two or throe hours and iu tho ordinary courso or events will not be opaucd agaiu till 8 o'olockin tho morning. But tho correspondent being a persistent and persevering parson, usually succeeds in nuumg tho Icuigus of the electric key, oven if ho Las to rouse him from his slumbers and drag him out of bed. Tho tired telegrapher then accompanies the enthusiastic reporter and scuds hi dis patch which may run from a hundred to a thousand wurds or more, and occu py from ten minutes to au hcur and a half iu transmission. It is perfectly natural that tho operator should look for pay for his labor just as tho ra. wrter looks for his. But ii ia nn f..:,. I tnat theieportcr. or tho journal which ha represents, should be called on to pav an extra amount to compensate an employee of tho telegraph company, simply because the lattcr's services have been called into requisition after nine o'clock at uiht That is a matter fur the telegraph com pany to attend to. Tho sonde r nave t.!,n cost of the telogiaphing at tha company's ' fixed rate ; thoie the obligation should ' ei:u. iuc cumpitny snou.d pay it. r,or vaats for overwork thasaoaa as any other employer does when ho requires' his labor outside of usual hours. The matters that require reform, there fore, arc First, tho location of the central telegraph office in a more suitable place, whero business could bo transacted free from the idle bnt observant curiosity o'f outsiders who have just as much light to know r.hat a man puts iu his l(..Mr.r nf). as a-, hat he writes In a te'eraphic mcfsigc; and srcmdly, the tefeeAn.i. office should not bo closod at tho early o'clock at night (if indeed hour of nine it should be closed at ail, ) and the annoying necessity of feeing tho operators should be done away with altogether. We feel sure that the abovo views aro those of many citizens, outside tho particular clus whoso sentiments ou tho subject, wo hae every means of knowi-isr- Manager Zecher will be performing a publio service if lu calls the attention of his company to thziu and urges early consideration of and prompt action upon them. KIV ZJIILI.AXU XCYV4. Cumlenetl From Tu-il.j ' Clarion-' Tho Methodist church, of this place, was presented with an organ last week, bv St. Paul'.-, M. E. ehuieli, of L mcist.-V city, that church having deemed it advst bio to purchaso ;; new one. soven snares of Lancaster & Xew Hol laud turupike strck bc-Iouii tate of Roland Diller. dec ing to tho es- oeosrd, sold at Tiii-s ; !... public sale at 3'JO per share highest figure this took has sold for. !,-- raany years. Twenty-live shares of E B S: W. R. R. sold as SI 00 per Miaro. Five car loads of pi;o were hauled away from the station at this plaea ves torday. and distributed nlongtho proponed lino. There will be forty-ttvo car load come to this statiou alone. Tho ti-legr.i;ili line was completed on Wednesday cvcnii-g as far as Hoober's mill. " H. C. Brubakor has sold to Aaron II. Bair, 10 acres and a few perches of a . seated land, sonio distance south of tow.!, adjoining land of Mr. Bair. Tha jut -i paid was $200 per acre. Tho $;" perch lot of ground on rh i south aido of the tu-u piko, adjoining tire b:iiik property. b. longing to the estate of Roland Diller. esq., deceased, sold at pixblie sale fur 2,2o0. An active mov -::i- t .', h, made to organiKtaliri : i.-iinuc.i company in the Earl.:. iV- J..I.-UIIS who havo taken the m.i ajiive ji.iit i ; th.i movement an; Michael V,'. No!:, ('; lisU.vi Musser. A Y S. ah-,-, q . i., Eu-t; E. II. ISnctr holder, i:mj., 1. 11 M.i : m. Unity Fi;ak houser, in West, Eui, and I jr. . Wineer.'. Solomon Hih an 1 .fount Ii.hi, V. Ch'crholror, iu East K.irl. It. is i... tended to make it a homo company th.it is to confine it to tha three E iris. Tlit-sa three townships havo as large a pop:i!,i tion and move valuable building .nd c,i. tents than about half :. duy.jn i-ountie.s in this state have, and tha piop?rl- that ii destructible is wori.i nuny millions of dollars. Ml'rrriafi of i-o;iic imui:;s4h:. Jw Lheettoit u Yet of An Iiii-,:i,i;d Siiiht latcDdoat. Tho board or directors of the pj,irm,-t at tha county almshouse this morning. Thero was a full utUmdaiicr, but the board did not get d wn to t'io important work of electing a supciintou-ltnt in piaee r ;ii.; lato George Spurrier, ou account of '.n.-. large amount of routine business accumu lated. Tnis compi i.scd the examination ol bills incurred m the running expemos, of tho institution, of which there, were ;t largo number on lined, but which hsehuM no special features. Tho entire foree.t.u was occupied iu looking thesa ovor ml signing them. Aldcruraii A. K. bpum.-r. son of the doceased superintendent, acti.i as clerk. This afternoon at two o'elneU. there was;; sale of livestock belong :n:r to iho county faim. Four head of hut and eiht or ten of cattki woif. disposed of. It ;.? M0t known wl. a a supjiinfeudent will bo choson so the. ..s puantsfortho vaca-.t placo will be kept on the ragged edge. One of tho direct -.ir, being asked when tho beard would r:- .rf" again replied probably not for two w..r:T:;i while another member expiessi-i ' ,jd" opinion that the meeting would be ' -bolorothat. Whether they tUe: u-..,-, date had not been learned ar. the titm- going to preis. t.ouirTOK uuraano; m.k,.s VcrUlcStj in ju canw. UKKOItK JfJlirtE l'ATTKUSiO:;, In the c.v;o of Martha Eefcert, ?;k- -.-! lunatic, vs. Miltou R. Eshloinaii, t:tv.-r-ser, the jury letircd ytsieiday attcriw.,n. This morning thoy returned a veidiui m lavor of iho defendant, liy this u..i womau is found u be sane. UEFOKE JUDCK MVIXCSTON. Jacob Pontz and Adam Pen; ,vc county of Lancaster. This wan -,'n ;'.". to ascertain the amount of dan.-sT. Adam and Jacoo I'outz, by cha opeiwW of Broad street, this city, from Eat Kin, : Lost Chestnut street. The plaintilt called a number of wituesr.es to p,.,ve "u, amount of damages, after which the de fense called othoia t. idiow that tie carnages arc net aj grcr.h as alleged by t'io paintifK The jury retired shortly after Uo clock this morning, and so.in ren dered a vei diet in favor ot the plaintiffs or $1)0. Aiintiirr Turitpibfi. ruanhclm Sentinel Several of the antsmristmr nit;7.in. ik: t T--... . .....w... r.i w:r puce, ijiuiz ana alon tno route r,... conceived tho idea of constructing :w iiirn piko bit ween this borough and Liti' 'iho road in its present condition i;; vvVv muddy in wet weather, being almost im passable. It rims through a thickly-pm ulatcd and prosperous agricultural difcunr. and would be a great benefii i both u5es ami a paying investment t. the Mo-i., holders. Mr. .ohnsou Miller, of Liiu? and Mr. John S. Connelly, near thia nhice will open subscription books withhi t, :, days- and canvass for siibsciiptious to i.,. stock, whioh wo doubt not will bu ta i ly subscribed for and the eoiistr.iction ,? ju road commenced at au early day. O. V. A. K. Opening or the mjW ,. The large room ou '.ae third floor or tV Inquirer building .raving been admirably utted up with new furnitureaad piraphe,-. nalia will be occupied for tho first time ,,v Concstoaa council No. 8. The members of the National council and other brum. neut members of tho order will be pre :-t including visitors from Tli5l-..l!r.i.:, n... r;K,,.... i...i- , .., nai '","u,s, iv-amu, anu this county. soveral towns -f Heat Oat. Riue, John .McrTooon Tfr... i aim (.eoi-cH Ynn-.. r . . - T. J. Weaver drunk and disorder! v wer c. ,."'" from 5 to 20 Wa-ZiSJ "" xu. morning Uonstablo Fordney an,-f.t- ei Crai and JOnil l.'nr.nnia 'Pi.,... wine to jan fr jiTU ,aysouoll ,y Afder uarr for heir.,- .irnnt- ,i ,i:";,...., wor. 'inut begging. y aori Malicious JUiaehlef. Campbell, who wbilo f'.rck kicked a panel out of the door of the gentle- men's waiting room at tha .?: T? station on Thursday night, had : hearing bofoio Alderman McCor.omv this morning and in dclauit ot bv.I was committed to jail for trial for walicna.s mischief. TViiliont License. asai rested this mnmino- Louis ocerlo i for violating tho net, of Assnmbly Ly peddling nierchandwo and ma,inrw. r.,. sale in this city without haviug a license" lie was held for a hearing boforo Alderl man Samson at 4 o'clock this afternoon. Ilorups Shlp;iC;C Fiss & poerr, :j.3 Grant street shipped to day to new York, IS head of Lancaster, county, draught and driving horses. l'olico Vases. Wm. Jones, for drunken and disorderly conduct, was committed to the counts jailbyAMermauarcConomy. . y i
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