:!' , Ottit kl aftiktali - ,11.V11,110 34.1141ing Presses shall be free to,eveiY, Whtednd - ertakaa ezarishie - tha pro ce:Winf the leglalptar•s, or any branch of gov.trand-no • law shall ever be made to reattaintir u gt thereof. - Tbefreecoitunu nlcaticto of t and opinions la one' of the invainable:righ of men ~:and OVery citizen may freeirspegik;wrlteand print`on any sub; lea; being .responsibla for -the Abuse of-that liberty. X prosecutions for the publication of papers'investigating the oniclal conduct-of offi cers, or men in public capacities, or where the mattetpublislted is proper for public Informa tion, the truth. thereof may be given in An . Editorial Ex-Yresident. MThifftfirbtisiest'of the - aged - B's is ex.- President Bucistaxatt . .. He. gathers Matter for comment from many sources. He isan inveterate 'gossip, and as fond of hearing and of retairng small talk as any Old lady who discusses her neighbors as she drinks her tea or knits her stocking. Having got thniugh with his " Book," which is soon to appearfrom the Appleton press, and while waiting for, he criticism it is sure to evoke, the_venerable O. P. F. devotes his leisure hours to newspaper writing. He is fond, of the•exerciseethtorial, and is not a bad hand at the. business, only he cannot hide his style.. It breaks out in spite of his efforts. We think we do not err, therefore, in at tributing to him the article in a late num ber of the Lancaster Intelligencer, promin ently copied and commended in Thursday's New York World. It was, doubtless, for 'warded in proof-sheets, by the antiquated 'J. H. himself. The object is to teach the Democratic party to support ANDREW Joimsox in his Administration of the Gen eral Government.—Phila. Press. It- is in the foregoing terms that the Press of Saturday introduces to its rea ders an extract from an editorial of ours which has been extensively copied by conservative jeurnals. That editorial was written by one of the firm of COOPER, SANDERSON & CO., Of WhiCh we believe Mr. BUCHANAN is not a member. This fact is some drawback o Mr. FORNEY'S pretensions to discern nillbnt in the matter of style. But he will not give himself much trouble about that, for he would far rather be caught in a lie than forego the pleasure of . coining it. This is the first time in our lives that ever we heard Mr. BUCHANAN was "fond of the exercise editorial." No thing had occurred since our assump tion of the editorship of the Intelli gencer from which we could have in ferred that Mr. B. had at any period of his life been fond of writing for the public prints. But whilst doubting the accuracy of thd Press' statement, we must admit that FORNEY'S means of knowledge on that subject are far su perior to our own. He was for a num ber of years (about a quarter of a cen tury ago) editor of the :Lancaster Intel ligeneer, and subsequently of the Penn sylvanian at Philadelphia, both of which were staunch and sound Democratic journals. At that time he did not per mit any man to go before him in warm and frequent expressions of friendship and admiration for the distinguished gentleman whom he now falsely and slanderously styles " an inveterate gos sip." If ever Mr. BUCHANAN displayed any fondness for "the exercise edito rial," which we are still disposed to doubt, even against such good authority as FORNEY'S, we should think it must have been at this time. And this sug gests the inquiry—ls it possible that the brilliant and soundly Democratic edito rials of the _lntelligence?. from 1840 to 1845, and of the Pennsylvanian from 1845 to 1850, which made Fouls:Ey a na tional reputation as a•public journalist, were from the pen of Mr. BUCFIANAN ? We know that FORNEY has been tra ding on borrowed editorial capital to a very great extent since he established the Press. We know that his literary and foreign articles are written by Dr. MAKENZIE. We know that the beauties of the Abolition creed are set before the readers of the Press in the smooth dic tion of Dr. ELDER. We know, in short, that Mr. FORNEY is only an occasional contributor to the columns of his own paper. But until we read the Press of Saturday last, the suspicion had never crossed our mind thatthe enviable repu tation he won as editor of the Intelli gencer and of the Pennsylvanian, but which he has since destroyed, was founded on Mr. BuenaxAN's brains and fondness for " the exercise edito rial!" This suspicion, raised by himself in the extract above given, arouses another, viz: that Mr. FORNEY may not be the author of the numerous political speeches and literary addresses he has been delivering in various parts of the country during the last seven or eight years. Some of his political speeches read like careless productions of W3l. D. KELLEY ;—others, and especially those directed against Mr. 13L - cHANAN, have the ring of the carefully-prepared efforts of Parson BROWNLOW. We are sure KELLEY would give him an occasional lift gratis for tb e good of the Abolition cause, and we are equally sure that BROWNLOW would cheerfully respond to any draft Mr. FORNEY might make on his well•filled magazine of vulgar expletives. As for the literary addresses, we confess that we do not pretend to be able to tell, merely from their style, whether they were furnished by some gentleman who is "fond of the exer cise" of literary composition, or by some one of those learned writers who advertise in the city paperg that they stand prepared at all times to furnish literary addresses or temperance lectures at a very moderate compensation. Dr. MARENZIE and Dr. ELDER know the haunts of this latter class, and through them VORNEY'S literary wants could very readily be supplied. _ THE EXPRESS desires us to note the fact that the Southern secessionists hold the Democracy of the North in great contempt, whilst they like the "man liness and downright frankness" of the Republicans. All right, neighbor. The Democracy being always opposed to dis union, could not expect anything but ill-will from the baffled secessionists of the South. But which phase of the " manliness and down right frankness" of the Republicans.is it that the secesh admire so much ? Is it Banks' propo sition to "let the Union slide?" Is it Greeley's offer to help the South out if she was really bent on going? Is it the sentiment so genera] ly expressed by the Republicans when the South threatened to secede, of " let them go—we shall be better off without them?" There was " downright frankness " enough in all this, unquestionably, and it might well be admired by all frank and confirmed secessionists. - But perhaps it is the mote recent man ifestations of Republican frankness that the secessionists admire—such, for in stance, as their frank avowal that Jeff. Davis ought to be hung on a sour ap ple tree ; that Jake Thompson ought to be boiled in oil; that Gen. Lee ought to be shot to death with poisoned arrows ; and (worst punishment of all) that every rebel widow with an unconfiscated plan tation, should receive absolution only on condition of marrying an abolitionist with a strong nasal twang. Be this as it may, we congratulate the Express on its good fortune to beheld in high', esteem by that portion of the American people to whom we are in debted, according to all Republican au thority, for the starvation of Union prisonersc and the murder of the late President. It prides itself on its posses sion of theirfriendship and admiration, and we cheerfully gratify its vanity and self-love by making a note of the fact, aqqqicling to its request. Ts . ppreme Court of Wisconsin has decided; th4t. the law of Congress re quirit4 ;stainlis .on legal papers, either at - &Et:pp : ginning , or other stages of a bun, b' unconstitutional, f3ntoNCAmEsoN, who is looking out for the next vacancy in the United States Senateom Pennsylvaniacand Who desires also to be the Abolition mi. didate for tlitt,t_es4gpcy4oB6l4-ems to feel that therelWeeeof atuexp, tu tion of his retiremigft from. Cabitsjit of President I:rxdC4N. Hey as cote across an Iliilmis lientlemp*'Whc:P.m.. been complitsaa'exibugh , ,li listen to his story of self-glorification, and that gentleman has repeated it to a corres pondent of the Chicago Republican, who appears to have been verdant enough' to believe , it. Freudthe Bepub !lean it, was, as a_ matter of course, transferred to the Harrisburg Telegraph, a vessel of great Use but of no great honor in the house a--6.x.F.8.01.7.- Here is the story of SIMON, / Chief of the Winnebagoes : " When Gen. McClellan waS called to the command of the army, military affairs were in a deplorable condition. We were compelled to calt--him to the head of the army at a time when he could dictate his own terms, and did so. He stipulated that he should pass upon all appointments and promotions and the President and myself felt compelled, for the sake of the country, to accede to them. Under his rule, things went from bad to worse, and having no hope in the future, I saw the only way to save the country was to break the agree ment with - Gen. McClellan. I repre sented to him that things could not con tinue in this way, that Gen. McClellan must be removed from the supreme com mand of the army if we wanted to put down the rebellion. The President agreed with me in this view of the case, but said : Cameron, how can it be done? We have passed our words to him that he shall have the control of the appointments, and we cannot break them.' I replied : ' Leave that to me, I will cut the gordian knot if I can, and unravel it. - I will resign, and you can appoint another to my position.'— Mr. Lincoln came to the same conclu sion that I did. He said he would ap point me to the Russian Embassy, from which Mr. Clay was about to return, winch would be a proof of his entire confidence in me. I told him that I did not want to go to Russia, but he said I must go in justice to myself, and that I might resign as soon as I saw fit, after the acceptance of the mission.— We then agreed upon my successor, Stanton, and so brought McClellan back to the original position of matters in the army before our agreement with him. Stanton refused to continue the agreement, and McClellan must take his proper position or resign." The absurdity of such a dodge as this to relieve the President from an agree ment made by him with Gen. McCLEL LAN, will strike every sensible reader at once. If the President was bound in conscience by any agreement to which he was a party, how could any subordinate of his relieve him by " re fusing to continue it?" STANTON could neither make nor annul any such agree ment as is here described, without au thority from the President. A much more probable explanation of the way CAIMERoN got out of the War Department, may be found in an article headed " TILE LINCOLN CABI NET," which we copy from the Frank lin _Repository. The story we have al ready given comes in a roundabout way, but the one from the Repository comes directly from Gen. CAMERON'S friend Col. McCLLtiE. We call him his friend because it is an old proverb that " our best friends are those who tell us of our faults," and we know the Colonel has for many years taken special pains to point out the General's faults. There fore we take him to be his friend, and are disposed to credit him with an inti mate knowledge of all that relates to his public career. Certain are we that no other man in the State would go farther to find out the facts or take greater pleasure in publishing them to the world. A NEutto Rot4nLY HANDLED BY A SOL DELL—About three o'clock yesterday after noon considerable excitement was created in Happy alley, near Eastern avenue, by a difficulty between a soldier and a negro. It seems that the negro made some imperti nent remark as the soldier was passing him, when the latter turned and was about to chastise him. The negro ran, however, when the soldier picked tip a large stone and threw it with such violence as to cut an ugly gash upon the negro's head. The sol dier was arrested, but the affair not having been witnessed by any white person, the charge was dismissed, He was fined, how ever, by Justice Whalen, for throwing the stone. Dr. Dwinelle was summoned to at tend the negro.—Baltintore Um:cite. The antipathy of the white soldiers to the negroes is " cropping out" very strongly. Items like the above present themselves to our eyes whenever we go over our exchanges, and some eases of rough handling of colored persons by soldiers have occurred within tbe range of our own personal observation. The war has intensified the feeling of dis like to the negro which always has pre vailed among a large portion of the pop ulation of the Northern States, and the men who have done the hardest fight ing are the very ones in whom this feeling has become strongest. It should be borne in mind by the brave fellows who have carried the flag of their country successfully through this war, that the poor negro had noth ing to do with bringing it on. It was brought on by the Abolitionists, not so much from love of the SOuthern ne groes as from hatred of the Southern whites; and if the negro now exhibits a degree of impertinence which did not formerly characterize him, that too is chargeable to the Abolitionists, who are putting it into his head that he is better than the white man. Wendell Phillips and other leading Abolitionists have declared that for patience, courage and endurance in this war, the negroes bear the palm. ; and it is the every day work of the great body of the Abolitionists, to instruct the negro that he is in all respects at least the equal of the white man. He is urged to insist upon his right to sit be side the white man in the Railroad car, in the jury box and at the table. Act ing under these instructions, the ignor ant creature gives offence and gets his nose made flatter even than nature de signed it to be. The spirited soldier is always the quickest to resent and pun ish his impertinence. In these frequent and violent mani festations of dislike to the negro on the part of citizen soldiers, the Abolitionists may read the fate of their efforts to ele vate the African to a condition of polit ical and social equality with the whites. A Sensible Decision The New Hampshire Superior Court has decided that an Express Company delivering a parcel marked with the cabalistic "C. 0. D."—collect on deliv ery—may allow a person to whom it is consigned reasonable time to open the package and determine whether he will receive it or not. The rule heretofore has been that no examination could take place—the receiver must take the pack age and pay for it without opportunity to determine whether it contained what he had ordered or not. This decision of the court is both legal and sensible, which latter cannot be said of all legal decisions. MR. D. W. Moon.E, who has for a long time ably conducted that excellent Democratic journal the Clearfield Re publican, has retired from the editorial chair. He is succeeded by Mr. Geo. B. Goodlander, whose opening address "To Whom it May Concern " gives evidence that the Republican will continue to he a live and lively newspaper. • THE New York Times, Republican, says : "The usurpation which is urged by the Boston radicals is infinitely more dangerous to the national liberties than anything we have witnessed hitherto." True as gospel. The Burning of the Palatinate of the Rhine in February 1689, by order of Louis nv, and the Burning °f o am Shenandoah Valley in October 1864, Order of,Llent.-Gen,„Brant. `4s4ni ^of thse f tstakkhate\uun-, edgithout shittrandi in the wa,*"" of cg*.steriaom fordire huiidred*iiid seifen tyMve &ears, wijet Valliw 'or the' 06natiioah 78 , 0 3 112 zi*i'ner .detv e'red to the fla mes. Fir an account of the burning of the PaintiAte we refer to the first volume of VOLTAIRE'S Age of Louie X 1 . 1 7. - - The King, says VOLTAIRE, had dv termined to make a degettoi — lfitiThbleet'agto'fireirent . 'his enemies from subsisting-init. Accord ingly, "in 1689 there came to the army an order from • Lours, signed LouVors, to reduce everything to ashes. The French Generals, who were bound to obey, gave notice, in the heart of winter, to the citizens of all its cities, so flourish ing and so well repaired, to the inhabi-' tants of the villages and to the owners of fifty chateaus, that they must leave their homes, as these were about to be destroyed by fire and sword. Men and women, the aged and the infan4, de parted in haste. One portion wandered in the fields, another fled to neighbor ing countries; whilst the soldier, who always exceeds his orders in rigor, and who never executes them with clem ency, burnt and sacked the country.— They commenced with Manheim and Heidelberg, the residence of the Electors. Their palaces were destroyed like the houses of other citizens. "Europe was horrified. The officers who executed the order were ashamed of being the instruments of such cruel ties. They threw back the blame on the Marquis of Louvors, who had be come more inhuman by that hardness of heart which a long ministry pro duces. He had, indeed, counselled the measure; but Loris was the master and need not have followed his counsel. If the King had witnessed this specta cle, he would himself have extinguished the flames. He signed the destruction of a whole country from the recesses of his palace of Versailles and in the midst of pleasures, because lie saw only in this order his own power and the un fortunate right of war; but had he been nearer the scene, he would have seen only its horrors. The other nations which, until this period, had only blamed his ambition whilst admiring himself, now exclaimed against his cruelty and even blamed his policy, be cause if his enemies should penetrate into his own States, as lie had done into theirs, they would reduce his cities to ashes." VATTEL, iu his Law of Nations, speaks of this atrocious cruelty as it deserves. He says : " I n the last century the French ravaged and burnt the Pala tinate. All Europe resounded with in vectives against such a mode of waging. war. It was in vain that the Court at tempted to palliate their conduct by al leging that this was done only with a view to cover their own frontier. That was an end to which the ravaging of the Palatinate contributed but little, and the whole proceeding exhibited nothing to the eyes of mankind but the revenge and cruelty of a haughty and unfeeling minister." The King's conscience smote him all the remaining days of his life for hav ing consented to this burning, and the name of Lou vois, who had counselled it, although the greatest war minister of modern times, unless CARROT may be excepted, has ever since been held in execration. ST. SIMON relates that some time afterward, Loi'vois having determined to burn the city of Treves, but aware of the King's scruples of conscience, issued the order without previously consulting him, the minister thus taking upon himself the sole responsibility for the deed. When informed of it, Louts liter ally drove Louvois from his presence, exclaiming as he retreated, " Dispatch a courier instantly with a counter order and see that he arrives in time, for know that your head shall answer for it if a single house should be burnt." History, it is said, al ways repeats itself; but it is to be deplored that this should have been done, after nearly two cen turies, in free and enlightened America. Lieut. Gen. GRANT, from his head quarters near Richmond, ordered Gen. SHERIDAN to devastate the rich, beau tiful and extensive Valley of the Shen andoah. He commands him : "Do all the damage you can to the railroad and crops. Carry off stock of all descriptions and negroes, so as to prevent further planting. If the war is to last another year, let the Shenandoah Valley remain a barren waste." It does not appear that either the President or Secretary of War consented to this barbarous order; and we sincerely hope that they did not, for the character of the country. Gen. SII6IDA,N, unlike the French officers who devastated the Palatinate, was not ashamed of being the instru ment of these cruelties. The contrary appears to be the fact, judging from the tone of his Report from Woodstock to Gen. GRANT, of the ith of October, 1864. In this he says : " I commenced moving back from Portßepublic, Mount Crawford, Bridgewater and Harrison burg yesterday morning. The grain and forage in advance of these points had previously been destroyed. In moving back to this point, the whole country from Blue Ridge to the North Mountain has been made untenable for a rebel army. I have destroyed over two thousand barns filled with wheat, hay and farming implements; over seventy mills filled with flour end wheat; have driven in front of the ar my over four herds of stock, and have killed and issued to the troops not less than three thousand sheep. This de struction embrades the Luray Valley and Little Fort Valley, as well as the main valley. Lieut. John R. Meigs, my Engineer officer, was murdered be yond Harrisonburg, near Dayton. For this atrocious act all the houses within an area of five miles were burnt." Over two thousand barns tilled with wheat, hay and farming implements, and over seventy mills filled with flour and wheat destroyed, and the whole valley between the Blue Ridge and the North Mountain, consisting of a num ber of rich and well cultivated counties, "a barren waste !" And this under the plea of military necessity ! Let us imagine, if we can, the desti tution and distress of many thousands of these poor people, suddenly deprived of present subsistence and without hope for the future. Their farming imple ments having been destroyed, they can neither sow nor plant for the next har vest. Their homes have been made des olate, and, _like the inhabitants of the Palatinate, one portion of them still wanders among their own ruined fields, whilst the other has sought an asylum in neighboring States, where many of them must depend on charity. The devastation made by Gen. SHER IDAN -is not war as conducted for a long period between civilized nations. It has tarnished his victories. Although the rebellion has been causeless and unjust, this does not justify a departure from the humane principles introduced into the laws of war and practised between civilized belligerents for nearly two cen tunes, and by none more liberally than ,. our own Government. We have seen that V4trEt, in 'writ ing eighty years'after the destruction of the Palatinate, says ".all Europe re sounded with invectives against such a mode of waging war:'! What will be, the ophlion of the civilized World eigh4, years or even ten years hence, concern ing thtkdestruction of the Shenandoah #4lleyN Nay, what, will be our own ogmion after passion4luill have sub sided and 4son resaiivehe**, Letter from, Centel' A l 44lraczi As the folloiVing fliouggot Intended for pablicatid ,-coAtins t-' :ter which may notflie delittinte 00in terest to the public, we take the liberty of giving it a place in our columns. Its writer Was formerly an officer in the Navy of the United States and is, now connected, pith pf.s gteitti States, and _ r can ransit_ Company w i many of theleadingcapitalists and com mercial men of New 'York are inter- Greybown is situated in that; ait of Central America known as .the " Mos quito . quito Coast," Over which Great Britain for many years attempted to exercise a protectorate. She pretended, to be the guardian of the rights and interests of a breech-cloOted Indian of the Mosquito tribe, upon whom she conferred the title of King, and who was put through the mock ceremonial of a coronation at Blueflelds. Nicaragua claimed the Mosquito Coast, and was clearly entitled to it. But she was too feeble to assert her just title against the overshadowing power of England, who held on to . her ridicu lous " protectorate " in hopes that favor able circumstances would some day en able her boldly to annex the Mosquito Coast to her dominions. The United States having a deep in terest in preventing the great commer cial route to the Pacific from falling Un der the control of a European power, our Governmentconstantly opposed the pretensions of Great Britain . in that quarter. When Mr. Buchanan was Minister to England, he completely riddled the defence which the British Secretary for Foreign Affairs attempted in behalf of the course pursued by the British Govern m en tin Central America, and when he became President he pres sed the questions in dispute to a final issue. The result of his wise and determin ed policy in relation to foreign affairs that affected so vitally the interests of the United States, was the abandon ment by ,Great Britain of her absurd claim to the Mosquito Coast and other parts of Central America. The Monroe doctrine was vindicated ; and the Mos quito Coast, given up to Nicaragua, its rightful owner, has become au inviting field for North American adventureand enterprise. GREy'rowN, Mlly 27t1i, 15135 MY DEAR CoOP•ER: You nnist certainly think that I have forgotten you, so long a time having elapsed since my departure from the United States, and since my hav ing written to you. But I trust that you will pardon this seeming negligence on my part, and that you will attribute my long silence not to forgetfulness of you, but to the fact of my having had nothing of im portance or interest to relate. I ant drifting along from day to day in the quiet routine of a mixture of office and "out-door" work, and any time during the day is generally rather busily ()omitted. Greytown'is a place that affords but little, if any, diversion or amusement to a stranger or a foreigner. Its prosperity and commer cial well-being are the consequence of the operations of the Transit Company. The foreign residents are principally en gaged in the mercantile business. The place contains about two hundred and fifty houses, the majority of them being made of bomboo and thatched with the broad leaves of the plantain, and occupied by the native population, composed of a most abominable mixture of Indian, Jamaica negro, and Spanish blood. They, as a general thing, are perfectly worthless, and are, physically and mentally, most wretch ed specimens of humanity. What this rich and magnificent country needs is an indus trious emigration, and this it will receive ere long, I think. Many Americans will • flock to this country, and once under a pro per_ Government, and its abundant resour ces thoroughly developed, it would become proportionately one of the wealthiest and one of the most desirable counties in the world. No one can conceive of the marvel lous richness of the soil. The vegetation is most dense and luxuriant, and all the rich tropical staples can be raised without diffi culty. Americans are gradually and quiet ly slipping into the country, and I have no doubt that many years will not elapse be fore this country and its sister States will be pretty well Americanized. It is my opinion that capital would be very profita bly invested in this country. The climate in the-Interior is pleasant and healthy, but along the river bottom, where the vegeta tion is so very dense and the forests retain their primeval growth and luxuriance, some considerable fever prevails; but there is no doubt that if the country was popu lated, and the soil cleared and cultivated, so that the warm rays of the sun could reach it, this country would be as he: as one could well expect. But even in the most unhealthy districts, if one acts with care and prudence, he can maintain his health and strength. The fever prevailing in some sections of the country is owing, of course, to the dense vegetation and rank undergrowth. If this is once cleared away, it would disappear in a very great measure. My position here is quite good, and thus far I have enjoyed very fair health indeed. The social pleasures of Greytown are not very inviting; but, fortunately, in the day time I am pretty well occupied with my duties, and in the night I manage to pass away a few hours until bed time, in con versation with acquaintances, smoking my segar, &c. I generally retire quite early, and keep better hours than I did while in the States. S. H. H. Death of Bishop Potter A despatch from San Francisco an nounces the death of Bishop Alonzo Potter, on the 4th inst., iu that city. Bishop Potter was a native of Duchess county, N. Y. ; graduated at Union Col lege; became a tutor in the college in 1819, and was elected professor of na tural philosophy and mathematics in 1821 He was ordained in the same year, and invited to a rectorship in Bos ton in 1826. In 1831 he was made Vice Presidentof Union College ; was chosen Bishop of Pennsylvania in 1845. Bishop Potter has contributed many works to the literature of the country. Among them the " Principles of Science ap plied to the Domestic and Mechanic Arts," " Political Economy, its Objects, Uses and Principles Considered," "The School and. Schoolmaster," and a num ber of discourses, charges, addresses, etc. He was born in 1800. His death, will be universally regretted. No man was held in higher respect, and none whose authority in educational matters was more respected. REPUBLICAN FRIENDSHIP FOR THE SOLDIER.—The Republican majority of the Connecticut Legislature have tabled a bill which proposed to give a small bounty to soldiers who want into the army two years ago. These Republican demagogues have plenty of honied words for the soldiers, but that is all. The above is in keeping with the conduct of the leaders of that party in all parts of the country. Now that the war is over, and the services of our brave soldiers are no longer needed, they are "mustered out," and, though compli mented for their bravery and fidelity, in words, which cost nothing, they will be left to shift for themselves, while the stay-at-home' patriots will secure to themselves a monopoly of all the honors and offices in the gift of the government. • Now that the soldiers have returned, to mingle again with their fellow citizens, and can read Democratic' newspapers without fear of insulttmd punishment, they will be likely to find out who their true friends are, and how utterly hypo critical and hollow are all the windy' professions, of regard for thein whfch have been made by the Black Republi cans. The Pelee „of Abolition Whistles. er day we made brief mention S".` e fac that it had be9n-stated in the r. • etaf column •of the New Yoik - that instead of • • tad -•, ••ollars, at which it s Zr •• • estimated, the N. deidl ;'ely to foot up betweenf • 4 and fl by the "5e4,140 , m • • •!: are •• ade with all • • e &vein -in.nt creditors. This puts the debt of therated States on a level with that of Great Britain. But it leaves us vastly ./ w4.9e 1 01r tllan tlailtritisb,i• :became tsbeir -delatspay 7 a ddly three-tperederit.'iiitirest s , three-tenths per writ:. We than bave to pay mine thatiidouble the - amount Of interest annually that is paid by Great Britain, which practically makes our 1 debt-double hers. The people of Great Britain' are ground down to the earth by the-taxation required to meet the inter est on their debt' How are we to bear a burden twice as heavy as theirs ? It cannot be borne. Ten years will not elapse before our bondholders will have to submit to a reduction '<A' interest, un der penalty of submission to something worse: This debt, with its never-ending bur den: of taxation, is the penalty we have to pay for Abolitionism. The Abolition ists caused the war. Slavery did not cause it, any more than wheat causes weevil. .Under the old Republican and Federal division of parties, there was no war between the North and the South. Under the Whig and. Democratic divi sion of later years there was no war.— Yet slavery existed all this time. If slavery caused the war, how did it come to pass that peace reigned during all ad ministrations, without respect to party, till an Abolition President was elected ? War came with the success of the Abo lition party, and the debt incurred in carrying on the war is what the people have to pay for the Abolition whistle. Though we have ",paid too dear for the whistle" already, it is not certain that we are done paying for it. Our Abolition administration's surrender of the Monroe doctrine threatens to involve us in war with France. We could scarcely get through that conflict with out adding five hundred or a thousand million dollars more to our debt, which would be just so much, more for .the Abolition whistle. TRAVELERS getting on and off the various Railroad trains at Harrisburg, are advised to be on the watch for pick pockets. Pocket-picking has been a thing of almost daily occurrence there for the last four or five years. The Patriot and Union says two more trav elers were victimized at the depot on Saturday night. But a few days previ ously, two scoundrels were detected in an attempt to drug or stupefy a soldier in the Pennsylvania Railroad depot. They had a. final hearing before the Mayor, and in default of $2,000 bail were committed for trial at the August ses sions to answer a charge of '' adminis tering stupefying mixtures with crimi nal intent." On the persons of these fellows were found two bottles, one con taining morphine and the other chloro form, with sponges attached. On Saturday morning a soldier with nine hundred dollars in his possession started out on a spree. At night he came to a halt at the police station, with about enough money left to pay his expenses home. Harrisburg is overrun with men and women of every grade of infamy. In vice and villainy it cannot be exceeded by any city of the same size in the world. - This is not because its perma nent population differs from that of other towns in Pennsylvania, but be cause the events of the last four years have drawn thither, from all quarters, the very dregs and scum of society. Still They Come The returning regiments follow each other in rapid succession. Since our last report the Seventy-sixth Penn sylvania volunteers, Colonel Power, ar rived from North Carolina, about five thousand strong. The returningheroes look well, notwithstanding the priva tions and hardships to which they were subjected duringa three years' Southern campaign. Four companies of the regiment, which have not yet reached here, are reported to have been wrecked and drowned on their way home. We give the current rumor without vouch ing for its accuracy. The Ninth cavalry regiment, arrived yesterday afternoon. This regiment, originally composed of men principally from Dauphin, Lebanon, Lancaster, Cumberland,Perry,SchuylkillAnd other neighboring counties, left this city in November 1801, over eleven hundred strong, under command of Colonel E. C. Williams, who subsequently resign ed, and was succeeded by Maj. Thomas J. Jordan, (now brevet brigadier Gen.). The men of the old Ninth took a promi nent part in most of the stirring scenes which characterized the South western campaign, and greatly distin guished themselves by their hravdry, gallantry and deeds of noble daring.— Few regiments in the Union army have seen harder service, or won more laurels. The Ninth accompanied General Sher man in his triumphant march through "the heart of the Southern Confedera cy," and were active participants in the grand movement which led to the over throw of the rebellion and the restora tion of peace. Both officers and men did honor to themselves and credit to the old Keystone State.--Harrisburg Union. Model Speech At a meeting in Metropolitan Hall, New York, last week, in the absence of the lady speaker who was to have de claimed in favor of negro and female suffrage, au Englishman came forward and thins delivered himself. "When hi come to h'America, hi found the black man trodden down ; not because lie was hidle or hignorant or h dolent—bu t because he 'ad a colored skin (applause) ; hi found in h'America a holigarchy hof caste, and the negro, who 'as a right to all the privileges of this great republic, was 'unted down as a slave. And heven after he saved us from 'awing our breasts 'arrowed by bullets—'e can't get 'is rights—while the hignorant and demoralized 'alf civilized people of the hemerald Nile liar allowed to vote against the Union —for there is not one out of ten on 'em that are loyal (applause.") This was decidedly cool, in the face of the doings at Nassau, and the aid and comfort, given the Confederacy by at least three-fourths of the whole English people. WE LEARN from the Patriot and Union that the " Young Men's Chris tian Association" of Harrisburg" have procured five elegant walnut chess tables, the squares of which are inlaid with marble," as part of the furniture of their room. If to these means of grace they were to add several fast trot ting horses, a pistol gallery, a dozen game cocks, and a good pack of " blood hounds of Zion" to hunt copperheads, we think they might counttheir callipg and election sure. Perhaps an occa sional game of " Old Sledge" might af ford rest, recreation and refreshment after a vigorous charge on " Old Scratch." WE have received the first number of the''Lewisburg Journal, published at Lewisburg, Pa., by Mr. Jacob Eicholtz, formerly Foreman of the Express office of this city. The Journal is soundly Democratic in politics, presents a neat appearance, and will be conducted with ability, judging from the number before us. We wish our young friend all kinds of prosperity. TRAINg'ARE NOW RUNNING over the Raid Eagle Valley Railroad, from Tyrone 'on the Pennsylvania Railroad to Sunbury on the Northern Central, Taxation. The following article on the unequal b eneof-Kaxation from thAt — alideun d hi -uned, journal; the New' Hamp- T,'i • ' • ,`Mg foie:, to • •inkiov,.. - ia, • , heartil sat tcomz • •• •• A , •at • tiv , •• •ru - fou 4d er k . ‘. `ALj 11.:, I ~Av , of theqa s will , ••foun in this paper, we are very naturally led to think'-of- the subject of taxation. And nest to its enormous amount, comes to mind - the fact of - its gross in- - •quality. Everybody is aware that all burthens and blessings fall very 4111.441.1alktiqadmit. , is this so in the.midlOr of taxes, in,this State: ' There 'l4 ee wtalf . 'imperatively denfiEdidscarefulati .est-legislationl `a. radical and , . thorough: reformls-ruquired. in onr . laws I,ind i prac tice.in regard to the assessment of. taxes. Efforts have been 'made.' to effect the subject has Been frequently brought before the Legislatilre• but petty per sonal and partisan : matters. havelso in-. tensely . engrossed.the,.attentlon.of the majoritS , of lide that.no great subject like this; of vital interest - to the•masS of the people, could be attended to. •Last year the subject W,as referred to ARAM,' mittee with instructions to report, at the late June session, but if any report was made it received no attention. • - • It is well known to all that an mense amount of property escapes tax ation entirely ; probably more than one third of the property of the State. This I has been made more apparent since the exemption of U. S. securities from State taxation. It is found that immense sums of money have been invested in those securities the existence of which the assessors had uo knowledge of— money which had never been taxed.— Men who have never reported "money at interest" or "on hand" to be taxed, are found to have invested large sums in these securities, without having dimin ished their " visible property." This only confirms the otherwise notorious fact that but a small amount of "money at interest" has heretofore been taxed. This is the fault both of the law and the assessors, and the consequence is that the men of small property, the farmers, mechanics and laboring men, bear an unequal share of the burthen of taxation. The man whose property consists mainly of a farm or a, house and lot, is taxed upon all he has ; while his neighbor, worth five times as much, whose property is mainly in " money at interest," notes, bonds, U. S. securities, &c., gets off with a tax upon but a small portion of it. This is a great and growing evil and wrong ; and now, when taxation bears so heav ily upon the mass of people, it impera tively demands correction. It is folly to assert that it cannot be corrected— that legislation cannot reach it. But it seems to be the policy of the ruling party to impose the main burthen of taxation upon labor and to favor capital ; and under our present system, that ob ject is effected. The day laborer, with no property to be taxed, often pays as heavy a tax as a man worth thousands of dollars ; arid a man having real estate of the value of $2,000, or $5,000, often pays a larger tax than his neighbor who has $20,000 invested in ways not known to the assessors. Let any one look over the tax-list of his town and he will be satified of the truth of this assertion. The result of this is that the rate of tax ation is greatly increased- The most apparent remedy for this is to compel Ceeen One to make to the as sessors a return of his property under oath, and to provide proper penalties for false returns. This would do much to wards remedying this great wrong. In connection with this subject the bill taxing incomes from U. S. securi ties is of interest, and its justice too ap parent to require further illustration. Foote and Davis. That garrulous old rebel Henry S. Foote, who first rebelled against the government of the United States and then against that of the Confederacy, still manages to "keep himself before the people." A correspondent of the World having laid his refractory con duct iu the Confederate Congress to the account of his personal hatred of Davis, he writes that paper a very long letter, of which the following is a sport ex tract: To put forever at rest this silly charge, that my opposition to Mr. Davis's adminis tration owed itself in the smallest degree to feelings of mere personal dislike, it will be sufficient to state the fact, which hundreds ind thousands can attest, that ever since he deplorable demise of President Lincoln, I have constantly declared, both orally and in print, that, after the acquaintanceship with Mr. Davis of a more or less familiar character of more than thirty years, I held him altogether incapable of gi ring his sanction, either directly or indirectly, to a cold-blooded and diabolical scheme of mur der. I now say, as I have often heretofore said that he is, with all his faults, a far better man than most of those with whom he chose to encompass himself in Richmond; and I have too much respect for the good sense and manly feeling of President Johnson to .suppose that he has ever thought for a moment of causing hint to be executed on the scaffold upon any evidence of criminali ty which has been yet brought to my view. THE NEW YORK TRIIICNI.: does not treat the labored attempt of the War Department to convince the public that no promises were extorted from Mrs. Surratt's spiritual advisers before they were furnished withpaBscs to the prison, with that profound respect which the Republican press in general yields to everything that bears the impress of Mr. Stanton. The Tribune says: An official statement, signed by General James A. Hardie, has been sent to the As sociated Press of the country, through its agent, in reply to the narration of our Washington correspondent of the obstacles thrown in the way of the Rev. Mr. Walter when seeking to make a professional visit to Mrs. Surratt before her execution. The controversy has become a personal one us to the comparative good temper and urban ity of the Secretary of War and of Father Walter—a point on which the people of Washington, where the private characters of both are best known, Gan better form a correct judgment than those residing at a distance. As Gent. Hardie bases his state- anent upon the dispatch to this paper it is proper to say that our correspondent had the authority of Father Walter for all he has said upon the subject. Davis and Cla3 We are able to state, by authority, that the families of Jefferson Davis and of C. C. Clay retained eminent and well-known loyal advisers as early as the middle of May last to appear whenever the government shall think proper. to order the trials of those state prisoners. The senior counsel is a gentleman of whose pre-eminence at the bar there will be no question when it is thought proper to announce his name. Any reports, therefore, which appear from time to time in different newspapers as to efforts made on behalf of the prisoners by persons representing themselves as their counsel, or engaged in their legal service, may be safely regarded as unauthorized by the parties chiefly concerned.— Tribune. We published more than a month ago the facts to which the Tribune alludes. We are informed, however, that the correspondence between JeflersonDavis and his senior counsel Chas. O'Conor, Esq., has come to asudden termination. Mr. O'Conor addressed an open letter to Mr. Davis, which was forwarded through the War Office. Mr. Davis re plied to Mr. O'Conor in the same man ner. Secretary Stanton read the letter, and finally sent it back to Mr. Davis, with a refusal to forward it to his coun sel. Mr. Davis very properly replied that if he could not communicate with his counsel freely he would not com municate at all. The Tribune is entirely correct in snubbing the self-selected pettifoggers who are trying to foist themselves into public notice as of coun sel for Mr. Davis.-- World. A CORRESPONDENT Of the Examiner wants to know who will keep the ac counts of the " freedmen," they being unable to write. Let eight or ten of them club together and hire an Aboli- tion clerk. This would furnish conge nial employment to a large number of young Abolitionists who are neither use ful nor ornamental where they reside at present. THE LONDON HERALD says the rela tions between the British government and that of the United States are not of the most amiable character. It states that President Johnson is pressing the claim for compensation for damages to our shipping and commerce by.the Ala bama and other Confederate cruisers.— It pronounces these claims unreasonable and arrogant, and charges Mr. Seward with insolence, . • The Lincoln Cabinet. Of the original libilioltv,,,eablAiet but two remained at tlietithe Of Ms death, and the third incumbentof his selection ad txtro of the, cabinet port . , auteron .witsAhe :first to ;re fro* thog_War .I;kpaitlitant, and wo sueititdetP,by Mr. Stanton, who sti .i'•ruliffas. Mr. Smith 'followed by r • •+ .l *.bet;;PierioZ-Deloallment to 1 , A a ke of Kultdd'Stitteb Judge, and was succeeded by Mr. Usher, who in time gave way to Mr. Harlan, the present incumbent. Mr. Chase resigned the Secretaryship of the Treasury, and Mr. Fessenden succeeded him, who in turn was succeeded by•Mi• McCulloch. Mr. Blair vacated the Post Office De ''prfiiaieliriiiitt - Detnison took his place and still remains. Mr. Bates re sighed. and . •Mr.. Speed succeeded him anti stilladministers the Law Depart- Meta of the - government: All these charigep were made by • Mr. Lincoln during ohis first terfn, excepting the selection of Mr. Harlan to the Interior and .Mr. McCulloch to the Treasury; , and President Johnson has retained the' Lincoln cabinet intact, even to install ing Mr. Harlan who had been appointed by Mr. Lincoln. and confirmed but had not entered upon the duties at the time of President Johnson's accession. During Mr. Lincoln's life there were few reasons given to the public in, any authentic shape for the various changes -made by the President in his constitutional advisers. There were newspaper paragraphs in abundance explaining the withdrawal of cabinet officers to their credit or discredit ; but none ventured into an authorized ex position of the causes which led to the frequent disruption of the cabinet. Since the death of the President, how 'ever, we find the secrets of the inner workings of the administration leaking ,! out in variousshapes. Some are credit able and some discreditable. Some true ; some shaded with truth, and some without even the shadow of truth. It seems to be deemed safe to invade the recesses of the political scenes in the White House, since no process can en force the testimony of the departed. We see the secret of Mr. Blair's withdrawal leak out in his at tack upon Secretaries Seward and Stan ton in his Hagerstown speech of last week. He seems to have simply sought an occasion to make a bitter assault up on two Cabinet officers who have sur vived him in official position, and the world learns that be left because he and they could not stay together, and they were mightier with the President and country than he. Were Mr. Lincoln alive, the literature of the nation would have been without Mr. Blair's Hagers town speech, and Maximillian might have enjoyed his precarious throne without the trumpet blast of evil from the ex-Postmaster General The truth is he retired because the National Con vention, the Republicans of Congress, the Union men generally and Seward, Stanton and Chase in particular wanted him out, and finally Mr. Lincoln noti- I fled him that" that time has now come," and he retired. Mr. Chase withdrew from the cabinet with the cordial consent of the Presi dent. He had great confidence in Mr. Chase's financial ability, and that con‘ fidence was unshaken when he gladly made the change. Mr. Lincoln had his share of the infirmities which variegate mankind, and during the year prece ding the Baltimore Convention of 1864, his chief ambition, after his conceded singleness of purpose in desiring the safety of the Republic, was to be re elected to the Presidency. The writer hereof has frequently heard him discuss the succession with his characteristic frankness and with an earnestness un usual in Mr. Lincoln touching his own interests. He was deeply grieved at Secretary Chase for months before his withdrawal from the Treasury Depart ment, and the breach widened until a new cabinet officer became a necessity. They differed as to the policy of the gov ernment, although not materially as to the end in view ; and Mr. Chase persist ed in pressing his claims for the Presi dency even after his own State had de clared, through its legislature, for Mr. Lincoln. This weakness he did not ex cuse in a cabinet officer, and it did not take a serious financial pressure from some Gotham financiers to set Mr. Chase aside. Like Blair, Cameron and Smith he resigned under compulsion—a chance the proverbial kindness of Mr. Lincoln would give to any erring brother. Mr. Lincoln having been so triumphantly vindicated by his re-election, and the fitness of his ambition being confessed by even Mr. Chase himself, he did an eminently proper and generous act by giving Mr. Chase the Chief Justiceship. If he had had any other worthy com petitor for the nomination, he would have clone likewise with all of them. Mr. Fessenden retired from the Treas ury because of his re-election to the Senate, and Mr. M'Culloch was selected solely on financial grounds—the finan ces of the nation then needing more care than its politics. Mr. Smith retired be cause of growing dissatisfaction with him and his disposition of patronage in Congress and in the West, and his suc cessor, Mr. Usher, was wrecked on the same rock. Secretary Harlan was final ly installed because both Congress and contractors would respect and fear him. Mr. Bates, like Mr. Fessenden, retired from choice. He is old, has outlived his Presidential ambition. and seeks private life full of years and unspotted honors, because be loves it. General Cameron withdrew from the War Department because like Blair, Chase, Smith and Usher, he was politely re quested to do so. He was appointed, with Bates, Chase and Seward, because he had aspired to the Chicago nomina tion and was a competitor of Mr. Lin coln for that honor. So little did Mr. Lincoln know of public men who were prominent merely as politicans rather than as statesmen, that he did notkuow, two months after his first election, that Mr. Cameron had been a Senator in Congress from 1846 to 1848, when Mr. Lincoln was a Representa tive. He knew but little of public men, save those who won his heart or judgment by the eminence of their at tainments in the national councils. He was seldom out of Illinois, and was without national fame until his mem orable contest with Douglas in 18,58. He appointed Mr. Cameron, therefore, be cause Pennsylvania had presented him for the Presidency, assuming that so great a State would award its highest honors to its most worthy citizen. The statement of the Chicago Republican, that Mr. Cameron voluntarily withdrew from the Cabinet because lie would not consent to remain longer with Gen. Mc- Clellan at the head of the army, is purely gratuitous, and we hazard little in the as sertion that he never made thp statement or authorized its publication. That Gen. M'Clellan and Mr. Cameron dif fered at times about appointments we do not doubt; but his portfolio was not surrendered for that reason. He with drew simply because resistance to his administration had culminated in so imperious a demand upon the President from Congress, the monied men of the cities, and the country generally, that it had to be obeyed. The leading New York financiers demanded his removal or shattered government credit as the penalty for denying it, and a Republi can Congress became decided in its hos tility to his continuance in office,—so much so that even after his retire ment it formally censured him by reso lution for mal-administration ; and he was ignorant of his own resignation until Secretary Chase called upon him with a letter from Mr. Lincoln, in which he was informed that he was no longer Secretary of War, but Minister to Russia. Of his successor he had no knowledge until the nomination of Mr. Stanton was sent to the Senate, together with his own as foreign Minister; and his letter of resignation, afterwards published, to which the letter of Presi dent Lincoln seemed to be a reply, was written some days after Mr. Lincoln's letter had been delivered, and Mr. Cam eron had retired from the Cabinet. The arrangement of the correspondence was an after-thought, and one of Lincoln's many balms to the wounds he was so often compelled reluctantly to inflict. —Mr. Smith is dead and cannot par ticipate in the manufactureof history to preserve his fame. Chase is Chief Jus tice, and deems himself vindicated.— Bates, needs none and feels so ; but Usher Will probably soon join Cameron and Blair in explaining how the coun try happened to suffer the misfortune of losing a good cabinet officer. , —Franklin Repository. Ex-Gov. HARRIS, of Tennessee, has reached Mexico, and has written a let ter to the Memphis Bulletin , in which be says .he is eligible to the office of Governor of the State, and "you will, therefore, Mr. Editor, announce me as a candidate for re-election to that office at the election to be held in August, 1866. For the expense of said card I enclose you twenty dollars good Con federate money. • IgNifirs Tannumw MouNAIDO-::11olls.u9s BLows AWAY, BARNS, &C., 'UNROOFED, ORCHARDS AND FENCES DESTROYED—GritEAT DE STRUCT/OH 'PROPERTY—INTEHESTING brernExTs, Exc.—The most terrific tornado which has ever visited this county passed over a portion of lt, some 5 miles southeast of this city, on Wednesday evening, about 6 o'clock. The destruction of property caused by it hasteen immense. We visited,the scene of the tornado the next morning. It ••ctended from a short distance east of the village of Conestoga Centre to Lampeter Square, a distance of about six miles, and in width was about three hundred yards. It only lasted about two or three minutes, but in that brief space the loss of property entailed is immense. Below will be found a hurried description of the effects of the tornado: The tornado commenced near the farm of Amos M'Allister, on which Mr. Jesse Swinehart resides, but the destruction here was not so serious. The trees in the woods of Mr. John Sener were uprooted, but his house, barnand out houses all escaped. The barn of Mr. Michael Harnish, in Low er Willow Street, was much shattered and moved from its foundation. The wagon shed and smoke house were completely de molished. Two cows, which were tied in the shed, escaped almost miraculously. The orchard was demolished. Mr. EL lives at what was formerly known as they' Willow Street .111112' The roof on the back part of thehouse oc cupied by Mr. Henry Miner was torn off, and a number of fty.it trees uprooted. A cow near this place was raised on her frozit feet, and then rolled over and over. The loss of Mr. Rudolph Hart* is very heavy. The houseis a two-storied stone one. The roof and both gable ends were blown off—the gable of the south end fell in on the ceiling of the second story, but the family all escaped without injury. The roof was entirely blown away from a large barn and the wagon shed destroyed. On of an orchard containing over one hundred choice fruit trees but one is loft standing. Some covdrlets and bags on the attic were blown away a distance of three miles. Part of Mr. Levi Huber's barn was blown .away, and three stacks of wheat carried' away entirely. His fences were much in jured. The one and a half storied frame house occupied by ;Mr. Benjamin Harman was entirely destroyed, nothing being left but a portion of the foundation walls. Mr. H., wile and three children were in the house at the tinw. The youngest ehild, an infant of seven months, was carried by the storm some 70 yards into a field, and when found had scarcely a particle of clothing on it.— It escaped without serious injury, being only slightly bruised about the head. The other children escaped un hurt. Mr. and Mrs. Harman were not RO fortunate. Mrs. Harman was seriously hurt. Her face is scarred, and one of her limbs so much injured that she is scarcely able to move. Mr. ll.'s injuries are slight. The furniture was dashed to pieces. Mr. 11. was in moderate circumstances, and this loss makes him a poor man. The roof of Mr. Christian Zercher's house was torn off and several out-buildings de- stroyed. The house and furniture of Mr. John Harman were (entirely destroyed. Mr. C. Zercher was in conversation with Mr. Jf. at the time, and when the storm came up, attempted to hold the buck door shut, but in the attempt was buried in the wreck and was badly injured in the bark and breast. He was missed for a time ; and his cries for relief were the only means of knowing where he was. Mr. Harman, who is an aged gentleman, being over 80 years old, also received some severe injuries. The house was a frame building. The house, kitchen and stable of Mrs. Charles, a widow lady, were badly dam aged. Mr. Samuel Harman's carpenter shop and the kitchen attached to his house were entirely destroyed. The stable was also de stroyed, and the house badly injured. Mr. Christian Rhoads' stable and out house were destroyed. Mr. C. K. Howry's house was 'much in jured, and the stable and out-buildings de stroyed. Mr. H., who was on the barn floor at the time, was carried about twelve feet and thrown against a piece of timber, receiving sonic considerable injury in his shoulder and face. A horse which was in the stable was buried in the ruins, but was not hurt in the least. The top of Mr. John Mehaffy's barn was carried away, and every tree in his orchard uprooted. The next place visited was the farm of Mr. John B. Mylin, near the village or Willow Street. The back part of his large barn was completely turned topsy-turvy, and the top carried away. The roof of his dwelling was considerably shattered and a great many windows blown in. The carriage house and hog-sty were torn away from their foundations, and part of the former carried out of sight. There was a general uprooting of the fruit trees in the orchard and elsewhere about the premises. The fences were blown down. A great many bushels of oats are carried away. Mr. Mylin's loss will considerably exceed $2,000. The adjoining farm of Mr. John Haruish presents a sad picture of desolation. A large frame barn is destroyed, andseveral out-buildings met with the same fate. An orchard containing about seventy choice fruit trees is entirely demolished. He also loses some valuable timber. Loss about $3,000. Mr. IL was in his wagon-shed at the time the storm came up. He fortunately made his escape into the open air, and re ceived no injury. The tenant house belonging to Mr. Chris tian Hoover was much shattered, and a greater portion of the barn torn away. The wagon shed was unroofed. About fifteen acres of fine timber belong ing to Mr. Benjamin Herr were almost en tirely destroyed. The top of Mr. Aldus Herr's barn,near the village of Lampeter Square, was ` car ried away, and the out-houses badly dam aged. The trees in the orchard wero all uprooted. The barn and carriage house of Mr. M. H. Kreider, at Lampeter Square, were partial ly unroofed, and a number of valuable fruit trees destroyed. A large chimney on top of dwelling was blown over. There was a general uprooting of fruit and other trees in the vil, af ... j Lampeter Square. Mr. Daniel Zittle's orcha.rd was uprooted. The wash house of Mr.Cy,Fonts,..Zdttle was unroofed and carried abaftt_B4l:4‘xards. The building was moved some six or eight inches. The fences and fruit trees of Dr. Musser were blown down A horse and carriage were standing in front of Mr. Henry Miller's tavern when the tornado came up. The carriage was carried up a considerable distance in the air, turned over, and in falling to the ground was broken to pieces. The horse remained standing until a tree was blown down near him, when he became frightened and ran The tornado when it reached the village of Lampeter Square appears to have changed its course, and taken a northerly direc tion, passing entirely over the place. Its - force was spent here. It was, without doubt, the most destructive storm which has ever visited Lancaster county. Time and space fail us to give an adequate de- scription ANOTHER STORM About 9/ o'clock the same evening an other tornado, but less destructive in its character, passed over a portion of the county about a mile from where the first stopped in its wild career. The barn of Mr. Philip Meek was much shattered ; that of Mr. John Rohrer un roofed, and the roof of Mr. George Lefevre's house torn iMif. At severalaces on the route we were compelled to take to the fields, the road s being completely blockaded with falle n trees, &e., All the streams are swollen, and the roads along the banks covered with water. ROBBERY IN CLAY Tow Neat P.—A few nights ago the wash-house of Mr. Jonas Lebo, in Clay township, was robbed of clothing, which was in the wash-tubs, to the the amount of $6O. Mr. L. offers $2O for the recovery or information of the where shouts of the clothing. A lot of ,clothing and other articles we re also stolen from the residences of John Elser, Esq., Emanuel Ekeerge.and other citir zens of the towueltip,
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers