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WSDNESDAT SVBNING. AUG, 8, 1833.
Don't Surrender.
By the close of tbe present week the
Democratic members of the Legislature
should be able te ascertain finally wheth
er or net the Republicans are determined
te obstruct every effort te secure an hen
est, just and true apportionment. Thus
far they have receded nothing from their
" ultimatum." They have offered noth
ing and have shown no willingness te
accept anything nearer a just apportion
ment than they agreed te give at the
regular session, which we believe is a
division of the state that will give the
Democrats eight sure congressional dis
tricts, with a chance of carrying one or
two mere. We have all along maintain
ed that the Democrats should stay at
Ilanisburg until they have given the
opposition every opportunity te carry
out the constitutional mandate te make
an apportionment. "We are still of that
mind. But when the last resort is ex
hausted and the Republicans finally as
sume the responsibility for the failure,
then let the issue be carried te the peo
ple. There are probably some short sighted
Democrats who think the responsibility
for the extra session rests with their
party, and can only be ended by the
consent of the Heuse te any sort of ap ap ap
porteonmentthe McCracken bill, or
some immaterial modification of it
that the Senate may new see fit te ac
cept. This view is as short sighted as
it will be fatal.
The Democrats could have had an un
fair apportionment without an extra
se3sien. They could have had ten con.
gressnien without it. Te accept these
new will be a confession of weakness,
and will lead them with the rcspensibili
ty of requiring a useless expenditure of
public money.
In offering the Republicans an appor
tionment which gives the Democrats
only eleven districts, the Democratic
members of the Heuse went te the very
limit of liber.ility and concession of their
rights. Mere than this they will net
be justified before the people and their
party m surrendering.
They have- maintained that at least
lliis measure of representation is their
right. They have sat for weeks making
this contention with the Senate. It is
one that they can defend before the
people. They can assail the Senate with
justice and vigor of it fails te give it te
them. It would ba pusillanimous te
abandon their demand for it. When
the decision of the Senate is be
lieved by the majority of the Ileute
te be final, let them adjourn the
is3ue te 1 he people. We trusL te see the
Democrats of the Legislature act united
ly te the end. We sec that a few of
them have already voted for adjourn
ment, under their conviction that a fair
apportionment caunet be had. When
the same conviction is reached by Lhe
majority of the Democratic legislators
let the whole body of them act upon it ;
but let lis net have the mountain labor
with only a mouse te show for it. Lvt
us rather seek before the people the
overthrew of the Republican party, as a
result of its representatives' persistent
refusal te de their duty as commanded
by the constitution ; a result that will
fully justify the ccst of the extra session,
which will then have demonstrated the
faithlessness te their oaths of the Re
publican senators.
Davis en Mack.
Jeffersen Davis' letter te the Philadel
phia Times, in answer te some of Judge
Black's recent disclosures of the inside
operations of the Buchanan cabinet at
the outbreak of the war, consists chiefly
of invectives hurled at the judge for
having aided in provoking hostilities in
which he did net participate ; and it
loses much of the force it might ether
wise have had among these who occupy
the Davis btaudpeint by the unseemly
tone of it. In defense of his own pesi -
tien and in vindication of the con
duct of the Democratic admmis
tratien at the opening of the war,
Judge Black has shown that all his in
fluence in the cabinet was exerted te
maintain the right of the government te
defend its property in tiie Seuth ; and it
has clearly appeared from his testimony,
documentary and otherwise, that he was
even mere resolute and determined upon
this point than Mr. Buchanan himself.
Mr. Davis, who believes in the right of
secession, very naturally thinks this was
discreditable te Judge Black ; and up
braids him for net exercising all his
ability and influence te prevent any re
sistance te the movements of the
secessionists. lie is of the opinion
that by this means the war might
have been averted, and we believe no
body will dispute that if the retiring
states had been allowed te withdraw
from the union and te take with them
even the federal forts and ether proper"
ty within their boundaries there would
have been no war, as there would no
longer have been a union.
The ex-president of the Southern en
federacy and advocate of its lest cause
argues that when the federal forts ceased
te be occupied and used as defenses for
the states which had ceded them or their
sites te the general government, the
grant was diverted from its end, aud
thereby became invalid and void.
This is only another phase of theseces
sien doctrine, which was settled by the
arbitrament of the sword against the
views held by Mr. Davis and in favor of
these of Judge Black ; that decision in
the popular judgment was final, and the
public mind has little toleration for
attempts te reopen the question. There
may Ira .etrft curiosity felt te read what
two svK.h distinguished men as Jeffersen
jKtYix ftfKl Jftdge Black may have te say
airtul each ether personally, or in what
Iduzuw, U.trr may express their views
of a wfcJI -worn and well settled
issue, but vt Vat as Davis' centribu.
tien te the atrtiltttnnny geca it has
no historical yalu;, arj1 it will meet witli
Httle or no ?.ytniiniUy from the great
body of the people, who bav Jeng since
concluded that Julg lihck wm right
in strengthening Mr. JiwiUnntiu'H reply
te the Seuth Carolina cemtultmUmbrn,
and in emphatic illy assertion lh right
of the general government te protect its
property.
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TnE taxpayers tef Lancaster county
have been made te sensibly realize the
benefits of Democratic representation
and Democratic administration at Har
risburg. Fer nearly ten years the crowd
ed and insufficient condition of our
county jail had been a reproach and had
made it impossible for the court and the
jailer te comply with the law in sentenc
ing and keeping prisoners. Grand juries
successively presented the matter, aud
the new buildings erected and improve
ments made from time te time were
ineffective te remedy the matter com
plained of, until the project of a new jail
costing a large amount of money, was
recommended by the grand inquest
of last January. The bill favored by
the court te admit of business of cer
tain grade being sent te the eastern
panitentiary had repeatedly failed at
Harrisburg for reasons probably best
known te some of the local Republican
politicians until it has put into the
hands of the representative from this
city, Mr. Snyder, by whom it wa3 pushed
te passage ; and having been signed
by the governor, it is new the law.
Hereafter the court can send prisoners
te Philadelphia, where, judging from
past experience, they can ba kept at far
less ce3t te the county than in the local
jail, where the chief end of the direction
seems te bs-;te serve one ring or the
ether of the Republican factions.
Tuc ten dollar a week clerks are new
storming the twenty-five dollar a week
summer hotels .
It is very evident that the revised ver
sion of the Scriptures won't go- Copies of
the New Tcstament,published at $1.25, are
profusely offered in local bookstores at 25
cents.
The Legislative Recerd is coming again,
with its wonted irregularity, and new
probably by the time that the npplcbutter
crocks are te be tied up the public may
find out what the Legislature is doing at
the extra session.
Fifteen thousand people are said te
have attended the opening of Jehn L.
Sullivan's saloon in Bosten last night.
Aud jet souie people hava the hardihood
te deny the Hub's claim te beini' the most
cultured city in the Western hemisphere.
Twe mere suicides aie rcneited by the
morning mails. If men could only be
brought te believe that they possessed im
mortal souls, aud that in taking their lives
they tcek what did net belong te thcnii
usurping a divice prerogative, perhaps the
suicidal mania would net become se alarm
ingly frequent.
Tin: many follewors cf King Garnbrinus
who like te leek upon the beer foam when
it is white atop the glas-, wi'l hail with
delight the efforts of the iute-rnil revenue
department te made the adulteration of
beer for the future impossible. Under the
revised forms of brewers' returns recently
adopted by the internal roveauo bureau
every brewer in the United States will
hereafter be required te return, under
oath, tha character of overy ingredient
used in the manufacture or adulteration of
beer, with severe penalties for false re
turn3. If this sweeping regulation docs
net step adulteration, it will at least have
the effect of lettiug beer bibbers into the
seeret of what they are drinking.
The iale of Captain Webb seems te
have been without any exemplary effect.
Netice is new given by ene W. C Rich
ardson, j, Washington doctor, that he has
invented an apparatus by means of which
he will be carried safely ever the great
citaract at Niagara. It consists of a silken
bag of globular ellipticV. form, covcreJ
with an uUsticgum. Tha basj is surround
ed by a network of sti jaz cDrd, the ends
e which are attached te a ring in a heavy
leather belt wlibh is worn areunJ the
waist. Undertakings of this kind grew
apace, aud it will sae b j uocessary ler
Great Britain and the United States te
st.itieu acordea of pjiije en either bank
of the Niagara river te arrest and coafine
the peer feels who for a little cheap no te
riety would madly threw their live$
away.
AccenuiNO te the thejry rapidly boeem
ing mero pepahr in the modern mad
house, an insane man has no rights th;.t
a keeper is bound te r3pect. The dis
trassing case of William A. J. Fiss, who
died a fewdayj age :a tha Montgomery
county asylum from injuries received
mero thau a month a 40 from a brutal
keeper, is tha latest case iu point. At the
coroner's inquest yesterday it wisdevalep
ed that tha unfortunate man had his ljwer
jaw broken in two placas, ea cash side of
the mouth, at the hands of an attendant
named Geffey, who is new a fugutive from
justice, with a reward of $300 placed en
his head. Te leek the stable deer after
the herse is stolen is never geed policy,
and notwithstanding the searching inves
tigation that is new being made, the pub
lie will net be prepared te condemn the
negligence of the beard of trustees of the
institution in allowing a brute like Geffey
te vent his passions ea the peer unfortu
nate creatures who have lest their reason.
Their vary helples3aas3 should render
them objects of pity, rather than targets
for violence
FEATURES OF THE STATE PRESS,
The Easten Express believes that any
attempt te control the wages of.Iaber is an
interference with individual right.
The Yerk Pennsylvania is assured that
the harmony that characterized the labors
et the Democratic convention foreshadew8
the action of the party at large in the
work before it.
The Lancaster Examiner think3 that
levenge ter individual resentment is a
greater metive power in these latter days
for the average Democrat, than lhe desire
for party victory.
Tbose politicians, says the Lancaster
New Era, who assume that tbe Republican
paity arc going te bave a "walk ever" the
Pennsylvania track this fall, evidently de
net appreciate the situation.
The Philadelphia Chronicle Herald
Hampshire, as another example of hew
the anti-caucus mountain, in its pre
longed labor, often gives birth te a very
fmall mouse, , .
MAIL BREVITIES.
A CON MENS ATIOtt Or I.ATE NEWS.
aieeilnga of Varioea Hoeletlea Tneaday The
Seus of Veterans In Session at
Columbus, Ulile.
The grand commandery of the Sens of
Veterans, in session at Columbus, Ohie,
has elected the following officers : Cem
mander in chief,Frank H. Merril, Auburn,
Me. ; lieutenaut commander in chief,
Augustus Saltzman, St. Jeseph, Me. ; vice
lieutenant commander in chief, Charles
C. Moiten, Philadelphia ; chief of staff,
Herace L. Wright, Auburn, Me. The
oemmandery embraces 300 camps with a
membership of 10,000, all admitted within
two years. The session ended en Tues
day. The ' Sovereign Council of the Sens of
Jenadab," in session at Providence, Rhede
Island, yesterday elected the following
officers : Sovereign patriarch. Rebert S.
Graham, of Washington, D. C. ; vice
patriarch, Charles F. Walker, Providence;
sovereign secretary, W. II. Yeung, Wash
ingten, D. C. ; sovereign treasurer, Jehn
Chase, Piovidence ; sovereign marshal,
James H. Britten, Annapolis. Md. ;
sovereign watchman, G. W. Ingersoll,
Providence.
The grand ledge of the Junier American
Protestant association met in annual con
vention yesterday at Scranton. The order
is secret, and reports were excluded. Fifty
ue legates were present, and the following
officers were elected : Ji. W. G. M., V.
W. Pembridge, of Ilyda Park ; R. W. V.
G. M.,Wm. Glenn, of Philadelphia; R.
W. G. S. Samuel Lister, of Philadelphia ;
It. W. G T., Jeseph Oliver, of Hyde
Park ; R. W. G. chaplain, William Weis
ley, of Catasauqua ; R. W. G. con., Jehn
J. Armstrong, of Hyde Park ; R. W. G.
A. con., Eli Moen, of Nanticekc; R. W.G.
T.. Samuel McClintock, of Philadelphia ;
R. W. G. G., Themas N. Evans, of Provi
dence, Pa.
The national educational assembly will
meet at Ocean Greve, te-morrow. Gov
erner Pattison will preside, and General
Eaten, U. S. commissioner of education,
will deliver the opening address. Other
speakers will be Dr. Wickershac, Senater
Blair, of New Hampshire, and Judge
Teurgee. The assembly will close en Sun
day night.
The fourth annual convention of the
photographers' national association of
America opened yesterday in Milwaukee,
and will continue four days. About 1,000
delegates are present and there is a large
display of photographic work.
Concerning Snips.
Rear Admiral Nichols, acting secretary
of the navy, yesterday erdered licar Ad
miral Cooper, commanding the North
Atlantic squadron, and Commedore Luci,
commanding the training squadron, te
have all the vessels uuder their command
which may be available at the time, at
Newburg, N. Y., en the 18th of October
next, in erder te participate in the exer
cises incident te the centennial celebratien
at that place.
The Alaskan, an iron side wheel steamer,
built for the Oregon steamship company,
for use in Puget sauud, was launched yes
terday from Reach's yard at Chester. She
is 2G0 feet long, 30 feet in beam, and 14 in
depth of held.
The-treasury department rules that
"Canadian tugs cannot tow American
vebsels from Canadian waters into Ameri
can waters beyond the first American pert
in which they make entry."
The United States steamer Pinta, new in
Hampton Reads, has been ordered te New
Yerk for repairs te nor machinery.
l'elltlcal Matters.
The latest returns from Kentucky indi
cate that the Senate will contain 30 Deme.
erats te 3 Republicans, and the Heuse 80
Democrats te 20 Republicans. The
majority of J. Procter Knett for governor
is estimated at4e,000.
Returns of the election held in Utah
territory, en Monday, show that the Mer
mens have been successful in every dis
trict, except, possibly Summit county,
which is in doubt. A majority of the
Gentilcs refrained from voting.
The Legislature of Georgia yesterday
passed a general loc il option bill for the
state.
Jehn Treat, Democrat, was yesterday
reelected mayor of Portsmouth, N. H., by
200 majority. The Republicans secured a
majority et the aldermen and council
men.
Flre una Jllne Cave-in.
A ike iu Brockton, Massachusetts, en
Monday night, destroyed a block of wooden
building, including several stores. .Less,
$33,000. The paper mill of Bruner, Smith
K (Je., or Unicage, at Tnroe llivers,
Michigan, was burned yesterday. Less,
S30.000.
There was a serious cave in yesterday
morning, at the Delaware and Hudsen
Company's Pine Ridge mine, near Wilkes
barre. As the disaster had been expected
there was no less of life. Tbe surface was
net affected.
Fraud and Forgery.
The record of the court martial in the
case of Lieutenant Colonel Ilges has been
received by Judge Advecate General
Swain, who will review it aud report te
the secretary of war.
C. W. Van Strem, assistaut postmaster
at St. Vincent, Minn , has been arrested
for rifling registered letters. He confessed
his guilt.
McPhelan, charged with uttering
forged net03, was yesterday handed ever
te U. S. detectives in Montreal for trial in
Bosten.
In tne Government Department.
The patent office yesterday issued 448
patents and designs te citizens of the
United States and 24 te foreigners.
Free mail delivery will begin at Chatta
nooga en September 1st.
Bids were opencd at the treasury depart
ment yesterday Tuesday, for the building
of a life saving station at Brlgantine
Beach, New Jersey. Augustus Cox, et"
Barnegat, was the lowest bidder at $3,600.
Live stecli Horned.
A fire last evening destroyed the stable
and ice house of the Knickerbocker ice
company, at Willow street wharf Philadel
phia involving a less of $25,000 only par
tially cevJied by insurance. Thirty six
horses and mules, valued at $7,000, were
burned te death, along with a stock of feed
harness, &c. The Reading railroad freight
depot in the vicinity, was also considerably
damaged, but the merchandise was get
out safely.
Tired of Lire,
Majer Wm. M. Bcobe, a clerk in the
signal service, who had charge of the first
Greely relief expedition, committed suicide
in Washington by taking laudanum en
Monday night. Edward L. Frederick, 15
years of age, living with a farmer near
Carlisle, Pa-, committed suicide en Mon
day night by sheeting himself in the head.
He cause is assigned for the deed.
FERSONAI,.
Hayes, R. B., is doing temperance work
in Ohie.
"Sluggeu" Sullivan opened his bar
room in Bosten last night, and 15,000 ad
mirers visited the place.
Mrs. Francis Hodgsen Burnett has
been seriously ill of nervous prostration at
her summer cottage at Lynn, Massachu
setts. Rev. Jehn G. FniTCHEY. who h
entered upon the 82d year of his age, has
been en a visit te Washington, where he
preached en two successive Sundays.
Rev. J. M. Sutherland, who was for
merly "Beb Hart," the negre minstrel, is
holding revival meetings nt Old Orchard?
Maine.
Ex-Treasurer Francis E. 8pinner is
rusticating at Guildhall, Vt. Fish bite at
hU autograph where all ether wrigglers
rail.
Rev. Dr. R. J. Nevin, rector of St.
Paul's Episcopal church in Reme. Italy, is
spending the summer in Lenex,Massachu
setts.
Wm. M. Evauts is te deliver the annual
address at the joint exhibition of the Ver
nient state agricultural society and
Champlain valley association at Heward
Park, Burlington, in Septcmber.
Den Cameuen is deriving great benefit
from his treatment by an English surgeon.
But he writes that he is compelled te
totally abstain from the use of cham
pagne. Charles O'Connor in a barber shop at
Nantucket: the barber, adjusting the
tewels: "It's a fine day, sir; I hepe you
are well, sir; hew would ypu like te be
shaved, sir?" "In silence, sir!" And
the barber talks no mere.
Very Rev. M. A. Wai.su, administrator
of the archdiecese of Philadelphia, received
yesterday from Mount St. Mary's college,
Emmettsburg, Md., thodegrceof doctor of
laws, awarded te him at the recent com.
mencementef that institution.
Ex-Congressman" Alexander H. Mitch
ell, the railway magnate of Wisconsin,
has been visiting Mentana. He has gene
te Salt Lake. When the citizens offered
te send him ever the mountains by private
conveyance he said, " I am an old stager
aud I travel as ether folks de."
NO SUKllKNDKU.
Te the Democratic Lcg:Ia!era, Greeting t
Inielliqewcer, July 17.
We entertain no such idea as that any
of the Democratic representatives will
feel it their duty te remain at Harrisburg
until 'they get an apportionment, and
finally accede te any scheme of Republican
bulldozing rather than have the purpose of
the extra session defeated. There is no
logic in this position. Thus far the re
sponsibility of the extra session and its
failure rests entirely with tha Republicans.
There let it remain. If the Democrats
should steep te accept their gerrymander
and be satisfied te take what the Republi
cans offered them at the regular session, it
can ba forcibly said they could have had
that before. The Democrats must stand up
for and go down with an honest, just and
true apportionment, because this is net
only right, but it will put the opposition
in chancery.
Take Only What la Klglit.
Intelligencer, Juiv 19.
Let the Demecrats be sure that they
demand only what is fair and they need
have no fear that the blame for a
failure te agrce will attach te them.
The Democratic party demands fair
apportionments. Its sentiment will
submit te no ether. And we warn our
friends in the Legislature that if they
seek te avoid the Chary bdis of Republican
criticism by making the apportionments
which the party demands they will strike
en the Scylia of Democratic indignation
at their cowardice and treachery te their
trust. Let them demand what is right
and unflinchingly maintain their demand.
Submit te Ne UnJnstJlpyurtlenment.
Intelligence!;, July SI.
It is net the duty of the Heuso te
censent te gre3s injustice te secure an
agreement with the Senate. Its duty
clearly is te insisc upon apportionments
se readily shown te be fair te its oppon eppon oppen
ents, that the sentiments of the people of
the state will be satisfied of the justice
of its position. If they take this stand
the Democrats may safely sit iu their seats
until the Republicans yiekl te them. Aud
we hope that the Democratic Heuse in de
termining te sit indefinitely until appor
tionments arc made has also determined
that it will net be forced te aree te mani
festly unjust apportionment bills.
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An Administration Telegraph.
New Yerk World.
A government telegraph in the United
States, as the government c-ists te-day,
would be a misnomer. If a syetem of
telegraph lines sheuldAbe constructed at
the public exponse,runniug te every
postelfice in the country, and a corps of
40,000 operators, superintendeuts,linemen,
etc., should be appeinted, we should net
have a government telegraph.
We should have an administration tele
graph. Under the Republican party thore'is no
misunderstanding what that would mean.
There would be a rush te Washington cf
senators, congressmen, leaders in. state
organizations, politicians of every degree,
te press appointments for operators and
for every positieu en the lines. The statea
would fight ever the proper apportionment
of the army of empleyes.
It would be something mero than t n
administration tolegraph it would be a
partisan administration telegraph. Stal
warts and half breeds would clamor for an
equal division of the spoils.
A Geerge M. Robasen, a Jay Hubbell or
a Johnny O'Brien would be the General
Jiekert et the administration telegraph.
What honest Republican would like te
see the patronage and control of an ad
ministration telcgraph in the bauds of
Chester A. Arthur. Bill Chandler, Jehn C.
New, Brewster. Dudley, Bliss, Gerham,
Tem Brady, and the ether influential Re
publican leaders at the national capital ?
What chance would the Democracy have
of succesj in the next presidential election
under an administration telegraph with its
50,000 Republican employees ?
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UaliOtaM Aristocrat.
Dakota's aristocrat, the Count de Meres,
is a thoroughly practical man ef-businejs.
Securing a large tract of laud in the val'ey
of the Little Missouri, in a region bounded
by limitless stock ranges and buffile and
deer walks.he sat te work erecting houses,
stables, barns aud corals for his cattle,
gathered iu a settlement of farmei'3,provid farmei'3,previd
ed their families with a church and school
house, and took te himself 10,000 head of
cattle, many flecks of shcep and blooded
horses. He dealt liberally with his peer
neighbors, furnishing them with sheep
and cattle te keep ea shares, and looked
te the organization of a refrigerator car
company, that he might command the,
means of getting his meat te market. He
is said te have spent 6500.000. and ceed
judges think he will succeed iu his und9i-
takmg.
a Wild Man Cuisht.
Fer several weeks uast tha citizens of
Masen, Ohie, and vicinity have been in a
state of excitement ever the discevcrv of
a wild man in the weeds near that Dlace
by some women and childien out black
berrying. They described him as beini?
entirely nude, with long hair and beard,
and of a cepper color A party was at once
organized ler his capture. Tuesday night
he was caught iu the weeds and this mera
ing the marshal brought him te Masen
handcuffed. He is a German, apparently
unable te speak. When he was told that
he would be confined te jail if he did net
tell his name he fell te the fleer en his face
and raved and kicked se that there was a
great stampo-Je of the spectators down
stairs, some of whom came near bsirg
trampled te death in the great haste ei
the crowd te get away.
Jfell Inte Goe;l Hand.
Pottsteivn Ledger.
Jehn H. Neiman, of Pottstown, who
accompanied the excursion te Lititz, en
Saturday last, went with a number of
ether persons te Linca3ter,and took Sinner
at the Grape hotel. After paying his bill
Mr. Neiman forget te put his pocketbook,
containing about $14, into his pocket again
and left it lay en the clerk's desk. When
he get back te Lititz a telephene message
was awaitinghim from the elerk, stating
that his money was all right and that it
would be sent immediately te Pottstown.
THE COUNTY AUDITORS.
BXA.BM.NAT10K Or 'SUUIKE FSASKB.
Ills KefeMl te Answer Committed Fer
Contempt Tbe 'Squire icetates te
- Amwer a material Question.
The county auditors met in the orphans'
court room this morning for the purpose
of examining Jehn P. Franke, justice of
the peace, of Columbia, relative te certain
costs in cases heard byjiim, and which the
auditors held te have been illegally
charged and paid out of the county trea
sury. 'Squire Franke was promptly en hand
aud a few minutes later his counsel, H.
M. North, J. Hay Brown and W. A. Atlee
esqs.. arrived. The auditors Messrs.
Greider, Clarksen and Lightner were all
present, with their counsel, E. K. Martin.
Mr. Greider called 'Squire Franke te the
stand and asked him whether he swore or
affirmed. He said he would swear, and
while the oath was being administered,
Mr. Brown objected te the form in which
it was drawn up. The clerk then
wrote down the oath wherein the witness
was bound " true answers te make " te
such questions as may be asked him. Ob
jection was again interposed that the oath
should read "that the evidence
you give be the truth, &e."
This was net accepted, E. K. Mar
tin, esq., counsel for the audi
ters, insisting en swearing the witness in
the form prescribed. It was finally agreed,
however, te administer the oath as writ
ten by Mr. North, "that the evidence yen
shail give shall be the truth, &3.,"aud tbe
witness was sworn.
He testified that he was a justice of the
peace of the borough of Columbia. He
was shown several bills presented by him
te the county commissioners and paid by
thaxn; identified the bills as his own ; tbey
Tftre dated from the 1st of December,1881
te Nev. 1st, 1892; he drew from the county
treasury the amount of these bills; made
up his bills from his docket; my doeket is
in town, but net in this room. The
docket was asked for by the auditors and
brought in by witness.
Witness was shown several bills, for
costs that had been tried in court, the
bills being taxed by the clerk. Witness'
counsel objected that these bills had been
adjudicated and could net come up for
revision. Bill Ne. COO, November sessions,
1881, Cem th vs. Matthias Manharr, et
al., assault aud battery, was shown wit
ness. He was asked why be had charged
in this case for three recegnizances at 50
cents each and a return te court at 50
cents. His counsel retired te consult and
en returning advised the witness net te
answer.
Auditor Greider informed witness that
the investigation new going en was an
audit of the accounts of tha county com
missioners, and asked him en what
grounds he refused te answer the question,
but Mr. Atlee interposed that he had no
right te ask it, and the witness did net
answer.
E. K. Martin, esq., the auditor's counsel,
prepared a commitment uuder the act of
assembly, which gives the auditors power
te compel attendance and answer questions
and the witness was placed in the hands of
the sheriff, as fellows :
Lancaster County ss.
Commonwealth of PEsrssTtVANrA :
Tc Jehn II. High, sheriff of Lancaster Count u,
and te the keeper ej the jail, greeting.
WnEREAS, Jehn P. Franke was duly
summoned te appear as a witness and
bring with him his docket, by the under
signed auditors of Lancaster county, sit
ting at Lancaster, en the Sth day of
August A. D. 1883, in the due discharge
of their duties as auditors, and in accord
ance with the powers conferred upon them
by the act; of Assembly passed
April Sth A. D. 1834, and whereas
upon se appearing he, the said Jehn P.
Frank, after being duly sworn did refuse
te answer questions propounded te him by
the county auditeis, which questions were
necessary te ascertain the justice and
legality aud correctness of the accounts of
the commissioners of Laneaster county
which accounts are new befere said audi
tors for investigation, and in which in
vestigation the evidence is material and
necessary, there are threfore te com
mand you the said sheriff forth
with te take, convey and deliver the
body of the said Jehn P. Franke into the
custody of the keeper of the said jail, who
is hereby commanded te receive and retain
in his custody iu the said jail the said Jehn
P. Franke until he shall make answers te
such questions or otherwise be legally
discharged.
Given under our hands and seals at Lan
caster, in the county of Lancaster, this Sth
day of August, 1883.
B. M. Greider Seal.
Jehn L. Lightner Seal.
Jes. Clarksen Seal.
Auditors et Lancaster county.
A writ of habeas corpus was at once
taken out, and shortly after 11 o'clock
was heard before Judge Livingston.
Mr. Atlee, en behalf of Mr. Frank.
objected te the commitment en the
ground that it did net show that Mr.
Frank had committed any offence.
It merely stated that he bad re
fused te answer questions which the audi
tors deemed material te their investiga
tion of the county commissierers' accounts.
The questions which he has refused te an
swer are net laid befere the court. The
auditors have usurped the powers of the
court and entirely exceeded the powers
given them by the statute.
Sir. Martin, for the auditors, thought
the commitment was sufficiently definite.
The auditors in pursuance of their duties
had asked the witness material questions
which he had refuscd te answer. The law
gave them authority te commit him. He
did net deem it necessary te enumerate in
the commitment the questions he had re
fused te answer.
Judge Livingston said that this is a
matter in which the liberty of a citizen is
concerned, and it is necessary that the
offence charged against him should be
stated with careful particularity. The
court has nothing before it except the
commitment; and from this it cannot learn
what particular aoceunts have been under
examination by the auditors,nor what ques
tion was asked by them which the witness
refused te answer ; nor whether the ques
tion may or may net have been pertinent,
or if it was ene that the witness had a
right te refuse te answer. A wit
ness before the auditors mav ba
imprisoned for refusal te appear, or re
fusal te be sworn ; but where he is charged
with refusal te answer a question, it must
be sbewn that the question asked was a
preper and material one. It may be that
tbe witness had a legal right te refu30 te
answer the question. The question should
be reduced te writing and then the court
could determine whether or net the wit
ness was justified in refusing te answer it.
The prisoner is discharged.
Immediately after the discharge of
'Squire Franke a capias was issued for the
arrest of Auditors Greider, Clarksen acd
Lightner, for damages for falsely im
prisoning him.
Becaptnred.
Geerge Gerlitzski, a young boy with a
bad reputation, was arrested some time age
en the charge of stealing money from his
father. He was locked up in the station
heuse and, with Jehn Brimmer, made his
escape by breaking the locks. This morn
ing young Gerlitzski was recaptured in a
stable ou Locust street by Officers Harman
and Merringcr and was again locked up.
Sent te Jail.
James Rogers was drunk and disorderly
en Middle street and was arrested by
Officer Merringer. He was committed te
prison for 10 days.
-basjcmall.
A Twelve Inning Game trenildes Defeated.
The closest and most ezeiting game of
the season was played by the Ironsides
yesterday with Sam Field's Reading nine,
in the presence of an audience of GOO per
sons. Although it required twelve innings
te decide the game the scere was kept leir.
The home club had the game in their
bands a number of times and should
have wen it. The visi'ing team bad the
greater number of errors by far, yet it
seemed that these of the Ironsides were
made when geed playing was mostly
needed. The Reading team, although it
contains several geed men, is net as strong
aa the Ironsides, nor many clubs defeated
by the latter this season. The captain and
manager of the nine in Sam Field, form
erly a member of the Active inter-state
club, and he plays behind the bat. Pyle,
who has been pitehing for the Wilmington
Quicksteps, was discharged for drunken
ness ou Wednesday. He went at once te
Reading and was secured by Field, making
his first appearance yesterday. His work
here did net show him te be a
great pitcher. The positions of the home
team were changed around again yester
day, Sweitzer and Zccher appearing as the
battery in the early part of the game with
Hen erd at short and Sixsmith en third.
The game was called at 3 o'clock by
Umpire Myers and Zachcr lest the toss.
He was first te the bat and with Hofferd
went out en strikes, while a short ball put
Sweitzer out at first. Of the visitors
Temly went out at first, Lawrence made
a big hit te left and stele te second en
Zeoher's passed ball, Field bringing him
home en geed batting. Helland went out
en a fly te Kelly, and Oswald brought
Field home, Meenan going out by Hof
ford's step te first. In the second King
reached first en a fumble of his ball by
short step, but took tee much ground and
went out. The first run of the game was
made by Schiller after a fine bit of his
own, which was followed by another of
Peffer, who went out trying te score en
Fester's hit. Kelly went out en strikes.
This inning added two mere runs te the
score cf the visitors. Cramp made a geed
hit ever the shortstop's head and took
second en passed balls, Pyle's big hit
brought Cramp in and the pitcher scored
en Zeeher's passed ball. Heckenrede and
Temly went out en a fly and foul te
Zecher, and Fields en strikes.
In the third inning the home team were
retired without scoring. Helland, of the
visitors, reached first en failure of Hofferd
te get his ball. Oswald followed with a
two base hit, which was well fielded, and
Helland was put out 'at third. Oswald
scored en Zeeher's passed ball, and Cramp
went out en strikes, aud Meenan, after a
geed hit, came in ou that of Heckenrede,
together with overthrows, but the latter
was put out at home plate.
In the next inning King get his base en
balls, and after a big hit by Schiller,
Kelly brought both in by a tremendous
centre field ball. Sweitzer was retired en
strikes, Fester en a foul and Pefler at home
plate. The Reading men upon going te
the bat found Hofferd and Sixsmith as the
battery. Lawrence and Fields went out
en strikes and Helland en a difficult fly te
Kelly.
The fifth inning added four runs te the
home team's scere. Zecher went out en a
fly te 3d, and Ilofferd's short ball was
muffed by the "same man. Sweitzer fel
lowed with a two base hit, aud he and
Hofferd were brought in by King. The
second baseman failed te get Schiller's
ball in time, and made an overthrew te
first, allowing King te scere, Schiller
coining iu en Field's passed ball. The
Reading team was again blanked.
Peffer opened the sixth inning with a
two base hit, and Sixsmith brought him
in en another, Fester and Zecher going
out en fouls, and Hofferd at first. Pyle
took his base en balls, and Temly made a
geed hit; the ball was pieked up by Zccher
but thrown tee hard te Fester, who
dropped it. After a big hit by Lawrence,
he and the ethers scored en errors, the
next three being easily put out.
The seventh inning was a blank for
both, and a feature of it was a fine step
by Fester, of Hockenrede's bat, making a
deuble play by throwing Meenan out at
third.
In the eighth, the only run scored was
by Fester, of the Ironsides. His ball
was fumbled at third, and he came
home en passed tal's and bad throwing.
The score new steed 9 te 9 and it was
anybody's game. A geed hit or an error
was almost sure te win or loose the game.
Beth nines worked like beavers, and some
brilliant plays wcre made, the home club
excelling. But few men get further than
first base until the twelfth inuiiig, when
the winning run was made. Of the home
team Zecher and Fester went out en
strikes and Peffer at first. Field took
his base en balls and Helland followed
with a fly which was muffed by King, who
fielded it however, iu time te put Field
out at second. Ojwa'.d followed with a
6afe ball right between third base and left
field, which neither was able te get, aud
Helland scored the run se long sought
for.
The score fellows
inessiDES. t it In r e a e
Zeclmr.c.ss 7 0 0 7 2 1
HoUerd, 8 8, p G 10 0 10 t
Sweitzer, p, aa (r 1 l 1 4 i
Klnjr, rf. c ;: 1 nil
Sch'ilcr.lb e 3 1 10 e e
Kelly, 1 i a ei 4 0 0
Peffer, cr. 12 oel
Fester,2b 6 12 3 2 1
Sixsmith, c. iib C 0 2 9 3 1
Total 35 9 10 3I 21 9
READING.
Totnley, 83 i 11 14 2
Lawrence, 2b 13 2 3 2
Field, c C 1 1 13 3 4
Helland, 3b 0 10 iib
Oswald, 11 ' 13 2 10
Meenan, lb : 1 2 13 e l
Cramp, r. 1 5 11 0 0 0
Heclcenread, c 1 5 It 2 12
I'ylc, p 5 2 2 1 10 e
Total 51 10 14
Only one man out In 12th Inning
3G 24 1C
IirNIHOS.
12345 C 78
Ironsides e 10 2 4 10 1
Heading 2 2 2 0 0 3 0 0
9 10 11 12
0 0 0 09
0 0 0 1-10
umpire uee. Myers.
It is very doubtful whether the policy
of changing the men around in the home
club is a geed one. Up te yesterday they
had been playing fine balls for the simple
reason that they were kept in the same
positions for a number of games, and had
beceme accustomed te playing there. It
is net said that the changing lest the gamr,
but Unaffected it te a certain extent, al
though at the time the visitors wen it was
all a matter of luck and the home nine
were the unfortunate ones.
Baseball Notes.
Several communications criticising the
Ironsides have been received, but they
will net be published because tbe writers
de net sign their names.
The game with the Easten te morrow
will be called at 3 o'clock. The visiting
team is very strong and our club will have
te present a geed nine and play well te
win.
Tha Koysteno club, of Philadelphia, a
line amateur organization, will play here
en Saturday.
The Chambersburg club defeated the
Hunters of Pittsburg, yesterday, by 10 te
C The Harrisburg professionals play in
Chambersburg te-day.
The Harrisburg club has secured Leary
late of the Louisville elub.
The Hartvilles will pay their second
visit te this city en next Tuesday, when
they will again play the Ironsides.
Seme ball clubs certainly have their off
days. Last week the Delaware, of New
Yerk, defeated the Newark nine. The
next day they visited Easten and were
shut out by the score of 14 te 0. Yester
day the Newarks defeated the Eastens by
the score of 18 te C.
"Dery" Reiter, who is well-known
here, having graduated at Franklin &
Marshall college last year, is pitching in
the Chambersburg nine and is very hard
te hit.
Moere, of the Actives, has been black
listed for disobeying orders.
Games at Other Places.
Other games yesterday were : at Philadel
phia : New Yerk 4, Philadelphia 1; at same
city : Athletic 12, Baltimore 5 ; at same
city : August Flower 5, Somers 4 ; Provi Previ
dence: Bosten 6, Providence 4; Detreit:
Detroit C, Chicago 0 ; Cleveland : Buffalo
1, Cleveland 5 ; Cincinnati : St. Leuis 3,
Cincinnati G ; Columbus : Eclipse 5, Co Ce
Iambus 8 ; New Yerk : Allegheny 1,
Metropolitan 1G; Harrisburg: Quickstep
i, narnseurg e ; rousviue : Trenten (,
Anthraeite
1 ; Reading : Brooklyn 1,1,
Active 4
COLUMBIA SEffd.
Frent Oar Kegair correspondent.
Twe freight ears of the P. R. R. ran off
the track this morning at 6 o'clock, at tbe
coal hill siding in tbe west yards, while
descending the siding which leads from
the Keely stove works. Shortly after 7 a.
m. te day another wreck occurred at the
same place, and was caused by another
"draft "of cars going down theJbTeely
siding, j The foremost one struck tire
middle of the freight train attached te
shifting engine Ne. 870, and knocked two
ears off the track. Several cars of the
draft were also thrown from the rails by
the collision. The wreck was cleared
away by workmen in a few hours.
Second Street Improvements.
Mr J. F. Stanffer new has workmen
engaged in removing the wedt end of the
Vaughen property en Second street, lately
purehased by him, and will seen begin the
erection of two fine two ster.v brick cot
tages en the ground vacated by the re
moval of part of the old heuse, and en the
ground lying west of the part of the heuse
being removed. The improvement will be
a most marked one for Seuth Second street.
Peaaenal.
Mr. C. A. Jeffries, of Lancaster, is
the
guest of his son, Mr. Charles Jeffries,
en
Second street.
Mr. Samuel Eberlia is home from
Myerstown, it being his iutcntien te ac
company Ce. C te the encampment.
Mr. Themas Connelly left for a trip te
Chicago yesterday. Mr. Benj. Lichty, of
the Philadelphia offices, will fill his place
here as day operator iu the dispatcher' h
office iu the east yards of the Pennsylvania
railroad company during his absence.
Messrs. W. H. Ingham, Jehn Macquire
and S. D. Hall, of Philadelphia, were in
town yesterday, inspectiughe placa and
its business capacity. They were outer
tained while here by Mr. II. F. Bruner,
and made a minute inspection of his cepl
yard.
Borough Jottings.
Oiien ledgo of Odd Fellows will meet
te night.
Chiquesnlunga tribe, Ne. 30, I. O. of R.
M., held a meeting last night.
At last night's meeting of General
Welsh pest, G. A. II., the Gettysburg en
campment formed the principal tepis for
discussion.
A potato, having the exact form and
oelor of a hippopotami!, is exhibited te the
curious at Bennett's giuccry stere, ou Lo
cust street.
The woodwork of the waste sewer of the
Pennsylvania canal at this place is receiv
ing a thorough overhauling, most of it
I having been' found te be rotten and uu-
capable of much further service.
Mr. A. M. Reese, late the traveling
agent for Kink's bakery of this place, has
accepted the agencies for Hctfield &
Ducker's Bosten cracker bakery, and of
L. Pickert & Ce.'s canning establishment
of New Yerk.
A new baseball field has been secured by
the ball players. It is located cast of the
old grounds. A four innings match was
played between the Our Beys anda picked
nine last evening. The score steed 4 te 3
in favor of the Our Beys.
A maple troe ia ft out of Mr. Geerge
Waltman's residence, en Walnut street,
has a fully developed raspberry bush
growing out of a hele iu the trunk, about
six feet above the ground. The bush
probably sprang from a seed which had
been carried te the hole by a bird.
A long complimentary article is given
the Keely store, of this place, by the Phil
adelphia Commercial 2'imes, of August !l.
The officers and directors of tbe company
are referred te in very flattering terms. It
was a deserving notice for the Keely.
Wambele's circus is delighting the
peeple of Wrightsvilie and vicinity, to te
nay. A score of wagons, an elephant, a
camel and a small drove of horses consti
tute the show, which crossed the bridge
ever the river here this morning, having
exhibited in Marietta 3 eterday.
The mud scow will next begin tha -work
of derpauinsr the R. & C. railroad coal
basiu here, having finished the operations
at the river bridge. After completing
work in Columbia the scow ui!l go te
Wrightsville, where it will deepan the
channel at the inlet of the ti-Ja w.tter
canal, and also that at the steamboat
wharf.
itallcllng Ur lilies.
Oxford P.-iB.
The supervisors of Fulton township,
Messrs. Ljvi K Brown, Timethy Haines,
and Henry Biown, arc new full of busi
ness. 1 he late Heeds washed awy a large
proportion of the thirty four bridges of
the township and they are busily eugaged
in replacing ihcm. The township is di
vided into three districts, which gives Levi
K. Brown Eix of tha destroyed bridges te
rebuild, tbrea of which he has finished ; H.
Brown ha3 five in his dirriut and ha fin
ished three of them, aud Timethy Haines
had three te rebuild and tluee te repair
and is getting ea with his work. These
supervisors ara energetic business men
and bave taken held of the work made by
floods with that cemmendable energy that
has during the past ycirs tuade tha pub
lic reads te Fulton township sccencd te
none in the county, although it contains
many streams and steep hills. Someoftbe
bridges are large and all ate being rebuilt
in a substantial manner. The cost te the
township will be very considerable
Open Streetcars.
The Millersville street car company have
placed open cars ou their line which will
run during the summer in dry weather.
These cars have light covering and canvas
curtains en the sides which can be lowered
in case of tee much sun. Tha seats run
across tbe body and have soft cushions. A
trip te Millorsville in ene of theae cars is
much mero pleasant than in theso thafare
closed, as persons are afforded an excellent
view;of the country, which is very pretty
just new, and they are much cooler. As
the ride is very cheap many peeple take It
for pleasure instead of driving out.
Bis F!b.
Our neighbors of the Neva Era this
morning received from their clerk, Harry
M. D. Erisman. who in new TneIr, .,
vacation at Erie, Pa., a barrel of lake
treuc ana wnite nsn, caught by him in
Lake Erie. The flsb, which came packed
in ice. are beauties, one of the trout
weighing six pounds and the ethers
averaging fire pounds each. The white
flsh weighed from three te four pounds
each. The fish were distributed among
the New Era empleyes.
Slight accident.
- This morning a number of teams were
standing in the rear of the mayor's office
when a horse frightened and began run
ning around. One wagon waa upset and
a boy who was in it fell out, ba? was net
injured. Auether wagon had a wheel
broken, bat considering the great neise
andexeitement caused by the accident,
ittle damage was done.
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