:!' , Ottit kl aftiktali
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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
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`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
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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,