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printing presses shall be free to every
*Alcoa who undertakes to examine the ro
-eeedings . of the legislature, of any branch of
• trernme nestrain tandti=ern errb made
to
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nicaton
of thoueht and opinions is One of the
invalu,able rlgh of men; and every citizen
may freely speak, write and print on any sub
jact ; being responsible for Ithe of that
=arty. In prosecutions for the publicstion of
papers Investigaing the official conduct of offi
cers, or men in public capacities, or where the
matter published is proper for public informa
tion, OIL , e truth thereof may be given in evi
dence." • •
County Committee Meeting
The Democratic County Committee of Lan
caster County will meet for the purpose of or
ganization at the Rooms of tne Young Men's
- Democratic Association, in the City of Lancas
ter, on SATURDAY. AUGUST 19th, at 11
o'clock, A. M. A full attendance of all the
Members is requested.
R. R. TSHUDY, Chairman,
A. J. STEINMAN, Secretary.
Lancaster, August Ist, 1865.
NAMES OF THE COMMITTEE.
Adamstown-Samnel Styer.
Bart-J. D. Laverty.
Brecknock-H. E. Shimp.
Csernarvon-Levi H. Bear.
Clay-Edwin Elser.
Cocanco East-Cyrus Ream.
Cocalico West-Jesse Reinhold.
Coleraln-S. W. Swisher.
Columbia-N. W.-H M. North.
S. W.-William Patton.
Conesta-A. R. Hess.
Conoy-John L. Haldeman.
Donegal East-H. Jacobs.
Donegal West-Christian Kautz.
Drumore-John S. Jordan.
Earl-R. H. Brubaker.
Earl - East-George Hochman.
Earl West-Jacob Bear.
Eden-William Dungan.
Elizabethtown Bor.-H. T. Shultz.
Elizabeth-T. Masterson.
Ephrata-Jeremiah Mohler.
Fulton-William F. Jenkins.
Hemplield East-Levi Sener.
Hempfield West-John M. Weller.
Lampeter East-H. W. Gara.
Lampeter West-Samuel Long.
Lancaster Twp.-Benjamin Huber.
Leacock-Dr. S. R. Sample.
Leacock Upper-Henry Barton.
Little Britain-Warren Hensel.
Lancaster City-N. E. Ward-H. B. Swam
" -N. W. Ward-A. J. Stei
" -S. E. Ward-Sam 1 Patterson.
" -S. W.Ward-I Jr. H. Carpen ter.
Manheim Bor.-Nathan Worley.
Manhelm Twp.-B. J. .MeGrann.
Manor-Geo. G. Brush.
Marietta-F. K. Curran.
Martic-Wm. N. Gibson.
Mount Joy Bor.-Henry Shaffner.
Mount Joy Twp.-J. S. Baker.
Paradise-Geo. L. Eckert.
Penn-James
Pequea-John
Providence—John Tweed.
Rapho—Jos. i)etweller.
Sausbury—Wzn. Hay.
Salisbury—S. Baxter Black.
Strasburg Bor.—Samuel P. Bower.
Strasburg Twp.—Franklin Clark.
Warwick—R. R. Tshudy.
Washington Bor.—Joseph E. Charles
The Leveling Process
Gen. Gregg, commanding at Lynch
burg, Va., very pithily remarks the
Harrisburg Patriot, has come to the
conclusion that " the number of idle
white persons is much too great, and
will account for much of the pilfering
complained of by the newpapers," and
therefore lie orders that " hereafter all
white persons found habitually loafing
about barrooms and obstructing the side
walks will be arrested and put to clean
ing the streets." Gregg seems quite con
fident that the swarms of idle negroes
Would not disgrace their newfound free
dom by pilfering. But, as allegro won't
steal, and yet pilfering goes oi, his
theory must be correct that every idle
white man is a thief. Perhaps no age
of the world has produced a greater
number of Solons and Lycurguses than
the present, among military circles at
least. We certainly have, and have had
during the past few years, the wisdom
of the seven wise men of ancient times
concentrated, boiled down, and many
times multiplied. Fame will find it
necessary to build several additions to
her temple to furnish niches for our im
mense crop of statesmen, reformers,
generals and law givers.
The Arbitrary Squelching of the Rich
mond Election
The following is the pith of General
Terry's order declaring the recent elec.-
arm in Richmond for municipaloilicers
null and void. It is difficult to see any
use' for Governor Pierpoint and a code
of election and other laws if military
and "loyal " partisan opinions are to
be made supreme. What a great free
country we have, to be sure. The bona
fide citizens of Richmond can now "sit
down under their own vineand ligtrees,"
and "none dare molest or make them
afraid." They needn't become toTy
fied, not they ! What cruel, infamous
mockery this military rule is. The
order reads :
WHEREAS, Satisfactory evidence has
been furnished at these head-quarters
that at the election held in the city of
Richmond on the 25th inst. for munici
pal officers, voters were excluded on the
ground of having lost their residence by
reason of absence as soldiers in the
United States army during the rebel
lion, when no such ground was taken
against soldiers absent in the rebel
army ;
AND WHEREAS, With but few excep
tions, all of the officers elected at said
municipal election have been prominent
and conspicuous in inaugurating and sus
taining the rebellion ; And 'wit( rcw>, the
issue was distinctly made and openly
avowed at said election as between those
men who had aided and abetted in the
war against the United States authority,
and those who had with their lives de
fended the flag of our country ;
Hence it is hereby declared that the
United States military authorities of
this city will regard said municipal elec
tion held in this city on the '2sth inst.,
as null and void, excepting only the
election of the Clerk of the Hustings
Court, and each and every person elect
ed to office, excepting said Clerk of
Hustings Court,is prohibited from exer
cising the duties appertaining thereto.
Sour Grapes!
After a protracted contest, President
Johnson has reappointed the present
Postmaster of the City of Philadelphia.
Had Mr. Walborn not proved to ,be a
most energetic public servant, lie could
not have survived so animated a com
petition.
—The above editorial item is clipped
from the Philadelphia Press of today.
Forney's pet candidate, Mr. J. Gilbert
Brown, an attache of the Press, and a
native and former resident of this:city,
is most beautifully distanced in the
race. Walborn was Cameron's candi
date. " Simon says thumbs up !" The
above item reads as if somebody about
the Press office had been eating largely
of sour grapes!
GENERAL THOMAS, commanding
United States troops in Tennessee, hav
ing expressed his willingness, whenever
it became necessary, to lend to the civil
authorities the assistance of military
force in the execution of national and
State laws in Tennessee, Governor
Brownlow has requested him to send
troops into the various counties of the
State to preserve order on the day of the
approaching election. (Preserving or
der, in this case, must be understood to
mean seeing that none but Brownlow
ites are allowed to vote.) The General,
in a letter to the Secretary of State of
Tennessee, says that, as martial law
still prevails there, those uttering trea
sonable language are clearly amenable
to trial by court-martial, to which they
will be subjected if clearly authenticated
charges of the kind are brought to his
attention. At the same time he says
that it is better that the military should
refrain from interfering in minor cases ;
but still the Governor is assured that he
will be sustained in carrying out the
policy of the national and State govern
ments.
State Agricultural Society
Edgar Cowan, Esq., one of our Sena
tors in Congress, will deliver the annual
address before the Pennsylvania State
Agricultural Society, at Williamsport,
on Friday, September 29. We are glad
to hear that large preparation is making
for the next exhibition of this useful so
ciety, and that up to this period of time
its officers have assurance of a greater
display of animals and implements
purely agricultural in their character
than any of them have ever known so
),ono'before the time of the exhibition.
Mow the Money 610-6 . 8. -
When John T. Ford attempted to re
open his Theatre at Washington and go
ou with a business which had received
the approbation and the patronage of
President Lincoln, the War department
Stopped him. After waiting a reasona
able time, Mr. Ford made a formal
demand for the restoration of his prop
erty, which being refused, he employed
counsel and was about to bring suit
against the Secretary of War for dam
ages. This seems to have brought that
distinguished individual to a realizing
sense of the responsibility he had in
curred by his arbitrary and unlawful
proceedings. Remade haste to do jus
tice to Mr. FORD, but he did it in a way
that will hardly meet the approbation
of the people. Instead of turning the
Theatre over to its owner and allowing
him to do as he pleased with it, the
Secretary of War has agreed to pay him
fifteen hundred dollars per month for it
till the first of February next, when, if
Congress refuses to buy it for one hun
dred thousand dollars, it is to be given
up to him.
Thus, at the very moment when the
last dollar of the last loan authorized by
Congress has been received and expend
ed, and when the ablest financiers in
the country are unable to see where the
money is to come from that will be
needed to carry the government through
till winter, the Secretary of War con
tracts to pay a rent amounting to
eighteen per cent. per annum on the
exaggerated value set upon this proper
ty. He also agrees to recommend the
purchase of the property for the use of
the government,.when it is certain, no
matter what may be said to the con
trary and by way of excuse for the pro
posed robbery of the treasury, that it is
not needed for the public service and is
not worth the money asked for it.
The seizure of the Theatre when it
was on the eve of being re-opened by its
owner, was an outrage for which the
Secretary of War can render no suffici
ent excuse. Still less sufficient will be
any excuse he may attenipt to render
for saddling on the empty national
-treasury the large amount he has agreed
to pay for a property with which he had
no business to meddle.
New Jersey
The Republican State Convention of
New Jersey met at Trenton on Thurs
day last, to nominate a candidate for
Governor. The famous cavalry officer,
General Kilpatrick, was brought for
ward by some of his friends, who were
green enough to suppose that the Re
publicans were sincere in their profes
sions of frierfdship and admiration for
our gallant soldiers. They soon found
themselves " victims of misplaced con
fidence," Gen. Kilpatrick being beaten
out of sight by a wiry old shoddy poli
tician named Al areas L. -Ward.
The New York Herrucl, which for the
last four years has been the leading Re
publican journal of the country, speaks
as follows of tile action of this Conven
tion and its probable consequences:
"The Republicans of New Jersey, at
the State Convention recently held at
Trenton, fooled away the only oppor
tunity which they had for success in
the coming canvass. They had an op
portunity to shelve the old political and
party hacks, nominate a live man, and
reward a gallant officer for his valuable
services in the preservation of the
nation. General Kilpatrick, who en
tered the army at the very_ commence
ment of the war, and remained in active
service to its close, was overslaughed,
and an old politician, a standing candi
date for office, nominated for Governor.
In this result they have officially an
nounced their want of appreciation of
the issues of the times, and prove that
they have learned nothing by the severe
lessons of the past four years.
"General Kilpatrick was constantly
under lire from the famous Big Bethel
tight, where he served as a captain,
then a colonel in the army of the Poto
mac, as a cavalry officer performing gal
km t service in the famous raid of Stone
man's in the rear of Lee's army during
Hooker's campaign on the Rappahan
nock. From this field he was trans
ferred to the Wester it department about
the time of the Chattanooga battle, and
from there accompanied General Sher
man in his campaign against Atlanta,
and also in his march through Georgia
and the Carolinas, rendering valuable
service to the country until the surren
der of .Johnston's army. With all this
glorious record, sufficient to rally the
people of any State to his support, his
claims were set aside by the party which
pretends to be the war party of the State,
and a political hack nominated in his
stead. The politicians who brought the
war npon the country remained at home
speculating and making money out of
the necessities of the nation, fattening
on the spoils, while our generals and
gallant soldiers were fighting our bat
tles. The New Jersey republicans, at
the very first opportunity, reward one
of these politicians and throw out the
empty honor of the chairman of their
Convention as a bait or reward to the
soldier. In this act they have shown
that they are wtd led to the intriguing
and shoddy politician.
"The republicans had a golden oppor
tunity, but in clinging to their old
hacks they have thrown that opportun
ity away and placed the State ill the
hands of the democracy."
Sound Legislation
The New Hampshire Legislature, at
its recent session, passed an Act which
provides that all incomes from property
not taxed, shall be assessed 25 per cent.
The object of this law is to compel those
who have invested their money in Gov
ernment securities to bear a portion of
State, County and Municipal taxation.
The measure was strenuously opposed
by the shoddy Abolitionists, but was
finally carried by a union of Democrats
and conservative Republicans. It is a
measure'of simple and even-handed jus
tice which ought to be adopted by every
State in the Union. As matters stand
there is a large class, best able to ailbrd
it, who do not contribute a dollar, so far
as their personal property is concerned,
toward the support of our home govern
ments, and what is still more unfair
they are receiving a large interest from
the General Government, all of which
has to be extracted from the pockets of
the working and industrial classes of the
community. There is something radi
caley wrong in our system of taxation,
and the sooner the burthen is equalized
so as to bear alike upon all—the high
and the low, the rich and the poor—the
better it will be for everybody, bond
holders of the Government included.—
We hope the next Legislature of our
own State will follow the example of
New Hampshire, and compel the shoddy
aristocracy to disgorge a portion of their
means so as to lighten the burthens upon
the masses of our people.
THE PREVIOUS REPORT that the rebel
vessel Shenandoah had left the Austra
lian waters and was moving towards the
North Pacific to operate among our
whalers is confirmed by a San Fran
cisco despatch of the ''oth inst., which
states that the bark Milo had arrived
there with the crews of several whalers
captured by the corsair. We are given
the names of ten vessels she had taken,
the most of which were ;burned, and
the work of destruction was still going
on, it being expected that a fleet of
about sixty whalers would soon be at
her mercy. The Shenandoah's corn_
mender was informed of the termina
tion of the rebellion, but professed not
to believe it.
-_'.THE NEW Timik : TfinitrNE; - 'whi6hifi
laboring with more earnestness than ef
fect to induce our rulers at Washington
to study and practice economy, is "clOwn
upon " the Doubleday Court Martial,
which is still hatching on several bird
boiled nest-eggs in the city of Philadel
hia. The Tribune pronounces this
"Court" a more ornamental than useful
relic of the war ; and hints that it is
good for nothing but to furnish an oc
casional item for a forlorn local repor
ter's pen. It goes on to say—
" We should like to know just how
much it costs the Government to keep
up this expensive luxury of a Court-
Martial in the peaceful, law-governed
city of Philadelphia. What do we pay
for salaries, for commutation of quarters,
or witness fees, for transportation, for
the hundred other little bills that Gov
ernmeht officials know so well how to
charge? The Republic has better work
for men so brave as General Doubleday
than to sit and hear lawyers talking
and weavers swearing about the shrink
ing qualities of duck canvas, or the
amount of money pilfered by some
needy subordinate in arsenal. What
are Judge Grier and Judge Cadwallader,
and Marshal Milward, and District At
Gilpin for, with Grand Jury, and
deputies, and a train of civil subordi
nates, all paid by the nation, if not this
very work ? Is the machinery of
United States justice so untrustworthy
in Philadelphia that it cannot pun
ish petty frauds? Are Judge Cad
wallader and a jury incompetent to
decide the shrinking qualities of duck
canvas and the character of William
Neal? If this is the case, let Cadwalla
der be removed and Doubleday put in
his place. But, as it is otherwise, let
the gallant Major-General be sent to
Texas along with Sheridan, and his
colleagues allowed to join their regimen
ts or be mustered out of service, that
they may go on a farm and earrfa living
by some serviceable labor. Just now,
we submit, when the Secretary of the
Treasury is so short of money that he
issues certificates of indebtedness to pay
claims upon the Government, thesooner
we abolish these expensive luxuries the
better."
SOUTH AMERICA, apparently jealous
of the throat-cutting fame the Northern
half of the - Western Hemisphere has
acquired, is indulging in the luxury of
a general row. With the exception of
the insignificant English, French and
Dutch colonies of ( uiana, and of the
Republic of Chili, the whole South
American continent, from Cape Horn
to the Isthmus of Panama, is now in
a blaze of war. The florid sums up
the muss as follows :
In the east, the Argentine Republic
and Uruguay are marching in alliance
with Brazil by land and by sea upon
Paraguay. In the west, Ecuador, Bo
livia, and Peru are in a ferment of rev
olution. The Peruvian revolution
which was reported by the last adviccs
to be subsiding, has, on the contrary,
flamed up more fiercely than ever. The
lawful government is abandoning all
the provinces and concentrating its
forces for the defense of the capital.
In Bolivia, on the gzsth of May, justas
President Malgarejo was preparing to
march at the head of his troops to the
south, for the purpose of protecting that
frontier of the republic from the chances
of the Paraguayan war, a revolution
broke out in four different cities at once
—La Paz, Potosi, Sucre and Santa Cruz.
President Malgarejo at once turned
Lack to recover La Paz, which he had
but a short time before qui.ted ; but it
seemed to be generally feared that That
capital would be sacked by the insur
gents before lie could reach it.
In Ecuador, a revolution wa., set on
foot at the end of May by some young
gentlemen of l;uayaquil, who seized a
steamer, the - Washington by name, and
running alon gs ide a man-of-war, the
Uuyas, in the night, leaped on board of
the latter, killed her commander, and
made off to Mancora, where they re-
cruited adherents, and opened commu
nications with General Urdina. Garcia
Moreno, the President of the republic,
hurried down to the coast from Quinto
on hearing of all these things, and de
clared martial la W.
ho passes life in the fair lands beyond
the tropics. nevoluti,m follows revo
lution. One chief after another clutches
at power, seizes it, and is struck down
in his turn by his successor. The funds
of the state are raised by force and dis
sipated by folly. Property is no more
secure than life, and all sense of na
tional honor and dignity and duty stead
ily wears out of the people's minds un
der the perpetual irritation of their pas
sions and their fears.
THEIZE Is A FIGHT BREWING among
the Abolitionists on the old issue of
"protection." That branch of the party
which is represented by the New York
Pwt has begun to agitate for a reduc
tion of the duties on imported goods.
This is opposed by the Tribune, which
defines its position in the following de
cided language :
We have now once more a Tariff in
cidentally Protective. We mean to keep
it so. It will yield fully one hundred
millions per annum of revenue after our
country shall have recovered from the
convulsions and devastations of civil
war; while i twill enable many branches
of manufacture to prosper and expand
which would inevitably go to the wall,
under the pressure of foreign competi
tion and heavy direct taxation, if the
Tariff were " reconstructed " on a Free
Trade basis. We give fair notice, then,
that our exposed interests and those af
filiated or in sympathy with them will
not surrender this protection without a
struggle, and do not mean to he juggled
out of it. For the next Congress, we
deem it perfectly safe ; and the friends
of a diversitietl and sel f-cuntered nation
al industry will know who is who when
members are chosen to its successor."
THE SUPREME COURT of Wisconsin
has decided that the law of Congress re
quiring stamps on legal process, in the
beginning or other stage of a suit, is un
constitutional, and therefore void, and
that the stamps on legal papers are not
necessary. The ground of the decision
is that the imposition of a tax upon any
proceedings in a State Court is an in
vasion of the right of a State to regulate
proceedings in its own Court; that if
Congress can tax these proceedings at
all, it can lay a tax that will practically
amount to prohibition, and thus legis
late the State Courts out of existence.
GENERAL SHERIDAN on the 17th inst.,
issued from his headquarters in New
Orleans his official order on assuming
his new position of commander of the
Military Division of the Gulf, one of the
five grand military divisions into which
the entire country is partitioned off—
General Sheridan's command is subdi
vided into three military departments,
and embraces the States of Forida, Mis
sissippi, Louisiana and Texas General
Canby is commander of one of these de
partments, known as the Departmentof
Louisiana and Texas, and consisting of
those tivo States. On the same day he
issued his order assuming command
thereof.
TILE BEDFORD GAZETTE says the
rush to the Springs is unprecedented.
There are now about 700 strangers at
that place and the hotels and boarding
houses in town.
Hon. Isaac Slenker, Auditor General
of the State, is stopping at the Wash
ington Hotel. Hon. Reverdy Johnson,
R. Bruce Petrikin, Esq., and Hon.
Thad. Stevens are at the Springs. Hon.
J. T. Briscoe and Mr. Baran, of Mary
land, are at the Bedford Hotel,
- Loan.-
The six hundred million dollar loan
authorized by the act of March 3, 1865,
has al I been taken. During the progress
of its absorption by the capitalists of the
country, much • gratification has been
expressed by the Republican press at
our ability to run in debt so fast. It is
regarded by them as something to' be
proud of, that our loan agents are able
to borrow all the money that our spend
thrift authorities at Washington can
find a way to get rid of.
The World justly remarks that "if
the completion of these loans closed the
long chapter of borrowing, the country
might nevertheless congratulate itself
that a ruinous business was at an end,
and that, without further increase of
debt, the government would hereafter
pay as it goes. But we have noauthor
ity to expect anything of the kind. We
are compelled to expect the reverse.
Simple people may have imagined, as
they read in the public prints. Jay
Cooke's daily bulletins of his unparal
leled success, that the treasury was be
ing put in a condition of perfect ease.
But so far is this from being the case,
that it is rapidly approaching the verge
of insolvency. With this final consum
mation of the agency of Jay Cooke, the
whole of the six hundred millions loan
authorized by the act of March 3, 1865,
has been taken ; and, until Congress
meets, the treasury has no further re
source than the revenue from taxation,
although the daily accruing liabilities
are in excess of the receipts from this
source.
Secretary McCulloch, then, is at the
end of his tether. He cannot come into
the market to borrow another dollar,
until after Congress meets and author
izes a new loan ; and it is currently
estimated that, by the middle of Decem
ber, there will be three hundred mil
lions of unpaid requisitions; or in other
words, that the excess of the liabilities
of the treasury over its resources will
reach this amount.
It is a mortifying illustration of the
unwisdom that presides over the most
weighty affairs, under the regime ofthe
Republican party, that the provision
which was made for meeting the public
engagements under the expectation of
continued war. prove insufficient, not
withstanding the sudden return of peace.
The act authorizing the loan for the
year was approved on the 2d of March ;
peace came in April ; the last install
ment of the loan is exhausted before
August ; and the treasury is reduced to
the disgraceful necessity of getting on
by such makeshifts as it may, till De
cember, when it will be the first busi
ness of Congress to authorize a new
loan of three or four hundred millions.
This condition of things proves such a
wa n t of foresight, prudence, and capacity
on the part of our Republican rulers, as
demonstrates the necessity of putthig
the government in Democratic hands at
the earliest period the elections will per
mit. Instead of congratulating the
country on the success of the late loans,
we are filled with indignation at the dis
graceful management by which the
treasury is brought to the verge of bank
ruptcy; notwithstanding the war ended
the next month after Congress ad
journed."
THE NEW YORK TRiBUNE'S -Wash
ington telegraphic correspondent gives
the following under date of Friday
night:
" John Cochrane of your city spoke
from the portico of Willard's this eve
ning, in response to a serenade, making
quite a lengthy harangue, in which he
violently opposed negro suffrage. Du
ring the delivery of his speech he was
was frequently interrupted by hisses,
cries of Copperhead, and rather boister
ous intimations that such sentiments
were not tolerable, even in Washington.
He filially concluded, and retired amid
a sea of hisses, softened by a few ap
plauding voices."
(Jen. Cochrane is one one of the " War
Democrats" who have been patted on
the back with so much show of affection
by the Abolitionists. But now that the
war is ended, they shout " copperhead "
at him and drown him in "a sea of
hisses."
THE AuotimoicisTs, though much
inclined to pitch into President John
son for his rejection of Sumner's doctrine
of State suicide, still hesitate to make a
direct attack upon him. They are,
however, endeavoring to undermine his
administration by denouncing the
agents he has selected to carry out his
policy of restoration, as secessionists and
rebel office holders.
It is alleged that Governor Holden,
of North Carolina, was an original se
cessionist and active fomentor of the
rebellion, speaking and voting for the
ordinance of secession, and afterward
holding the office of state printer under
the rebel government.
Governor Perry, of South Carolina, is
also accused of having been an office
holder under the rebel government.
Besides being judge of a state court, he
was a " commissioner of the Confeder
ate States to regulate impressments."
The radicals have smelled out, and ex
tricated from the secession rubbish, a
Charleston Mercury, of December last,
in which there is advertised a schedule
of prices for impressed articles, signed
by commissioners " under the act of
Congress of the Confederate States ;"
Mr. Perry's name appearing as chair
man.
Governor Parsons, of Alabama, has
also been dressed up by the radicals in
a cast-off shirt besmeared with secession
pitch, which they set ablaze to make
night hideous and illuminate the polit
ical sky. Against him a " committee
of Union citizens"—instigated, perhaps,
by Judge Chase, who has lately been
down in that region--allege that
he is " a man of notoriously dis
loyal proclivities and rebellious an
tecedents, whose record has been
stained with opposition to the United
States government from the inaugura
tion of the rebellion." They charge that
he has been the rebel judge of a confed
erate district court, a member of the
rebel legislature, and has title(' taken
the oath of allegiance to the confederate
government. -
No LIGHT has as yet been thrown
upon the state of the national finances,
although the principal journals as well
as the leading merchants and financiers
of our great commercial cities have call
ed loudly upon .the Secretary of the
Treasury to make the statement which
it was his duty under the law of Con
gress to have made on the first of July:
But from intimations in the so-called
government organs it would appear that
the receipts from the sale of seven-thirty
notes, from customs, and from internal
revenue, since the Ist of January, ex
ceed sl,loo,ooo,ooo—say eleven hundred
millions of dollars in seven months;
and that notwithstanding the receipt of
this amazing amount of money, there is
such an excess of indebtedness that the
immediate claims upon the government
are liquidated by the payment of one
fourth in cash and three-fourths in one
year certificates. Assuming these rep
resentations to be correct, the present
high price of gold, which keeps all kinds
of business in a state of uncertainty and
feverish exciteme_nt, can be readily ac
counted for.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Dunkirk
Journal says that the celebrated Indian
warrior Bloody Hand, of the Seneca
nation of Indians, died on the Catta
raugus Reservation on the 10th inst.,
nearly one hundred years old. He is
represented to have been terrible with
the tomahawk and pealpilag knife.
toil( -Cofiiiti.
We learn from the York Press that
Jacob Greenfield, Esq., a prominent
'Democrat; who filled the office of County
Commissioner from 1861 to 1864 died in
Fairview township on Monday evening.
Four or. five days previously he had
been injured by a vicious colt,butseem
ed to be improving till Sunday morn
ing, when he sustained a paralytic
stroke in the right side, which resulted
in his death, as above stated.
The same paper states that a Mrs.
Hetrick, wife of Mr. Henry Hetrick,
residing In or near the borough of York,
was so seriously injured by being horn
ed by a cow, that she died on Sunday.
It appears that the cow gave birth to a
calf in the field, near the barn, and in
making an effort to get the animal into
the stable to tie her, she became en
raged to such a degree that she fell upon
Mrs. Hetrick, and inflicted a terrible
wound in the unfortunate woman's leg
with her horns, besides otherwise in
juring her, which caused her death.
Mr. Hetrick and a small boy narrowly
escaped with their lives.
A violent thunder storm passed over
York, in a southeasterly direction, on
Tuesday afternoon. The thunder and
lightning were unusually severe, and
the streets were deluged with water. A
portion of the tin roof on P. A. & S.
Small's warehouse, on the corner of
George and North streets, was blown
off and carried to the opposite side of
the street by the storm. Trees, fences,
&c., were levelled to the ground in its
course. The roof on the barn of the
late Daniel Smyser, in Hellam town
ship, and that of the new barn of David
Witmer, in the 'same township, were
also bloWn off by the storm.
The corner-stone of the First Re
formed Church, (Mr. Miller's,) now in
course of erection in York, will be laid
on Sunday afternoon, August 6th. The
Revs. Drs. Nevin and Zacharias, and
other ministers from abroad, will be
present and take part in the services.
Berks County
We learn from the Reading Times
that Frederick Lauer, Esq., the well
known brewer, arrived in New York
on Wednesday from Europe, and was
expected to reach Reading on Wednes
day night.
The Times also announces the death
of A. Jordan Swartz, Esq., formerly of
Hagerstown, Md., but for the last twelve
or fifteen years a. citizen of Reading.
His demise took place on Wednesday
morning, in Washington, D. C. Mr.
S. was at one time a prominent young
lawyer and Mayor of Reading. At the
time of his death he was Second Audi
tor in the Treasury Department at
Washington.
Robberies and outrages of various
kinds are of daily occurrence in Read
ing and its vicinity. Farmers are way
laid when coming to or going from
market, citizens of the town have their
pockets picked and their houses broken
into, and police officers are boldly as
saulted on the streets. A hurricane of
crime seems to be sweeping over the
country, and our beautiful sister city on
the other side of the Schuylkill is ex
periencing its effects.
Tile Fruits of Negro Equality
The Panama correspondent of the
New York Herald furnishes the follow
ing account of the results of negro suf
frage in that part of Central America:
You may suppose that much I have
heretofore written in regard to affairs
in this State is because I have taken a
prejudicial view of matters and things,
and have not taken pains to inform my
self properly as to their true condition.
I will now give you an outline of aeon
versation I had a few evenings since
with a native of Panama—a gentleman
of education and refinement—one who
knows and thoroughly understands his
country, and who would upon no ac
count say anything against it. I want
ed some information on the sub
ject, and frankly told him so,
and what use I intended to
make of it. The first question
I put was : " What is the population of
the city of Panama and suburbs (arm-
Gal)?" Answer—" About twelve thou
sand, including foreigners." Second—
" What proportion of the twelve thou
sand are pure white?" Answer—" Less
than two thousand." Third—" Of the
children born among this population,
what proportion are legitimate P Au
swer—" About three-tenths, and these
nearly altogether among the whites, for
there are but few marriages among the
blacks." He went on to say that on one
occasion he took a census of an adjoin
ing department of this State, and
among eleven hundred persons he found
seven married couples only.
What I have here given you is a very
fair picture of the state of society here
about, and you will find it about on a
par—no worse--than other parts of the
world wherein the negro has, by mis
taken sympathy, been brought above
his proper level. From knowledge of
what the Southern States were prior to
the rebellion, 1 feel perfectly safe in as
serting that--notwithstanding Mrs.
Stowe, Fanny Kemble Butler and
others—there were more legitimate
children horn among the slaves than
there are among what is termed "freed
men." Morality among them here is a
thing almost unknown, and some of the
cases of incest you hear of are of
the most revolting and disgusting char
acter. I will say one thing, however, in
favor of the class who are nativesof this
soil—that everything they are as far ad
vanced above the Jamaica negro as it is
possible to be. The latter has very
likely acquired seine little education ;
this at once makes him saucy,arrogant,
desirous of aping all the manners and
customs of the white men. The Jamai
ca mulatto is far worse, and can excel
the world for impudence, and in nine
cases out of ten is utterly worthless.—
They are shunned by the natives, and
the lowest term one can use here to
wards a black or mulatto is to say that
he is a " Jamaica nigger." This cuts
like a two-edged sword, and is more
telling in its effect than if you were to
use the vilest words known in the Eng
lish language. I had intended to drop
the black subject, but thought that a
little information from the best source
about " Mosquerra's progress in
" would not be amiss, and might
throw seine light upon what may be
expected in the United States should
the same course be pursued with the
" freedmen " there as has been in this
country, and among the West India Is
lands—namely, universal suffrage.
These are important facts and perti
nent to the real issue, which the people
of this country are called upon to de
cide. If forcing the negro race into
equality with the white in Central
America without preparation or train
ing has produced the results described,
what right have we to hope that like
causes will not produce like efTects in
the United States?
lion. J. S. Black
We had the pleasure, last week, of
meeting, at Bedford Springs, the dis
tinguished gentleman whose name
stands at the head of these lines. As
Chief Justice of the State and Attorney
General of the United States, Judge
Black became widely and most favora
bly known, and to-day he isregarded,at
borne and abroad, as one of the ablest
jurists in the United States. It is a posi
tive pleasure to hear him talk upon legal
and political topics. So clear and co
gent is his reasoning, so apt are his il
lustrations, so comprehensive and com
plete his grasp of the whole subject un
der discussion, that his argument goes
straight as an arrow to the mark, and
the listener is ofttimes convinced
against his will. How sad that so few
men of this stamp are now to be found
in public office. But, certainly, when
men like Holt and Stanton govern the
country, "the post of honor is the pri
vate station."—Bedford Gazette.
INTENSE INTEREST is excited through
out Indiana pending the decision of the
Supreme Court of that State on the va
lidity of the act legalizing the issuing of
County bonds for bounties. At least ten
millions are involved. It is mostly in
the hands of speculators. Judges Cowan,
Biddle and Bicknell, Circuit Judges,
have granted injunctions against the
bonds.
Texas and Neilie:—
The larger number of our national
troops intended to be stationed along
the Rio Grande had arrived at their des
tinations on the 12thinst., and formed
a line of posts extending from the mou th
of the stream to some distance above
Brownsville. The cavalry columns, un
der Generals Merritt and Custer, which
left Shreveport and Alexandria, La., in
the beginning of this month, were ex
pected to reach the Texas frontier early
in August. The town of Brownsville,
which during the rebellion was the
great entrepot for cotton from the in
terior of Texas, and where an immense
business iu the staple was transacted, is
now deserted by its rebel merchants,
who accumulated monster fortunes in
a few months, and its businessactivity,
except such as the presence of an army
gives it, has for the present departed.
The battery of six guns which the re
bels, on evacuating Brownsville, sold to
the Mexican imperialists for seventeen
thousand dollars, was returned to the
United States commander at that place
on the 10th inst., by order of Maxi
milian. It is said that in the interior of
Texas the paroled rebel soldiers are
committing the grossest outrages in
every direction, and keeping the peace
ably disposed inhabitants constantly in
a condition of terror. It is estimated
that there remained in the State at the
time it was occupied by the national
troops about one hundred and seventy
five thousand bales of cotton, and the
prospects for a good crop this year are
said to be very fair.
From the Mexican side of the Rio
Grande we have some items of consider
able interest. It is stated that the rebel
General Kirby Smith and his party,
which we suppose includes General
Magruder arm three or four ex-Gover
nors of Louisiana and Texas who fled
from the latter State with him, have
been made prisoners and paroled by the
Governor of Saltillo, and that a consid
erable army train which they had with
them was captured. It is also reported
that the rebel General Shelby, who
likewise escaped from Texas to Mexico,
has sold the cannon and small arms
which lie took with him to the Repub
licans. Cortina still hangs around Mata
moros, giving the imperialists immense
trouble. Twelve hundred French troops
direct from France were landed at Tam
pico in the beginnig of this month, and
there was a rumor, which did not, how
ever, gain much credence, that soon
after there arrived twelve thousand
more. The only hope of the Republi
cans for ultimate success against the in
vaders is said to be in the assistance of
the United States.
The correspondent of a Washington
paper, in a letter from the mouth of the
Rio Grande, dated on the 11th inst.,
gives the wild rumor that Gen. Brown,
the commander of our troops at Browns
ville, Texas, had an interview on the
10th inst., with President Juarez, prom
ised him military assistance, and order
ed the Fourth I iidiana regiment across
the river i n ace , ~ .dance with this promise,
and that General Steele had, on learn
ing of the proceedings, left immediately
for Brownsville to countermand the
order. Of course this is merely an idle
sensation story.
Meiico—Santa Anna upon the Empire.
Old Santa Anna, if the report is not a
fabrication, says the Philadelphia
Lecher, is out against Maximilian and
an empire in Mexico, and wants the
people to rally in favor of democracy.—
Santa Anna is in his element when he
is stirring up political revolution, but
his history will not inspire much con
fidence in his new-born zeal for democ
racy. He set out in his political and
military career by expelling the Spanish
royalists from Vera Cruz, and was de
posed by Iturbide, who made himself
Emperor. Santa Anna, at the head of
the republican party, succeeded against
the Imperialists. He raised an insur
rection against Pedraza.
A few years later he raised another
against Bustamente, in favor of Pe
draza. Scarcely in the Presidency, lie
made himself Dictator. From that time
until he was expelled the country he
was the fomentor of revolution when
out of power, and the asserter of abso
lute power when in, his last official po
sition being President for life, with
power to appoint his successor. In his
younger days he was the ablest of Mex
ican generals and the wiliest of Mexi
can politicians, and if he were thirty
years younger, might successfully clear
out the French-Austrian empire, and
establish his own instead. The burthen
of Santa Anna's complaint against
Maximilian is that he has introduced a
new elementof discord, has impoverish
ed the treasury, contemned the national
dignity, &c., and lie calls upon all par
ties favorable to liberty to unite for its
restoration, against the vassal of a
foreign potentate. He declares that lie
himself is not the enemy of Democracy,
but only of its excesses, and reminds
the Mexicans that he was the founder
of the Republic. Santa Anna probably
sees mischief brewing against the Em
pire, and he wants to be in at the death.
But the Mexican Liberals will have no
thing to do with such a disorganizer,
who, only two years ago, publicly ap
proved of Maximilian's intentions in
Mexico. The accounts from Mexico
confirm the Liberal view of the condi
tion of affairs in Mexico. Maximilian,
instead of advancing an army to the
Rio Grande to repel anticipated assaults
from the United States, has not enough
force to maintain peaceand order in the
country under the immediate charge of
his bayonets.
ON TUESDAY LAST, about one thou
sand Indians, belonging to several dif
ferent tribes of the great Western
Plains, attacked the garrison of two
hundred and fifty troops at Platte
Bridge station, on the overland tele
graph route, and the fightingcontinued
for two days before the savages could be
driven off. A number of the Indians
were killed and wounded. The national
forces had two killed and thirty-four
wounded. The body of one of the kill
ed, Lieut. Collins, of the Eleventh Ohio
cavalry, was, when recovered, found to
be horribly mutilated. The Indians de
stroyed the telegraph for a considerable
distance, and avow their determination
to effect its complete destruction.
THE SHENANDOAH SUFFERERS.-
Mr. J. P. Harman, the agent of the La
dies' Relief Association of Hagerstown,
who is now in this city, has received a
letter from the Treasurer of the Associ
ation, from which we make the follow
ing extract:
" I should have had you here yesterday
and to-day, helping me load up the wagons
for Virginia. We loaded and sent off three
wagons with flour and bacon, agricultural
implements, hats, shoes, &e. The last team
left at noon to-day. I sent sixteen barrels
of flour. Several ladies were with the party.
They represent matters in a truly deplora
ble condition, and the suffering of the people
very great. No aid has reached them in
the shape of breadstuffs and clothing, except
what we have dispatched; and oh! how
thankful do they appear ! 1 only wish that
some of the good people of Lancaster county
could have seen and talked with these repre
sentatives of a suffering and impoverished
people. I know, had they been here, they
would have given freely from their well
filled store-houses."
THE LATEST ACCOUNTS from Wash
ington state that " nothing as yet is de
termined as to the trial of Jeff. Davis."
Better do with him as the tipsy soldier
proposed to do with a captured rattle
snake—" swear him and let him go."
" Thelfienandoab.
The Depredations Among the Whalers—.
Heavy Blow to New Bedford.
Under the caption, A Terrible Blow
to New Bedford," The Evening; Stan
dardof that city publishes the followi 11g
facts relative to the recent depredations
of the Shenandoah. After enumerat
ing the vessels reported to have been
destroyed the article says:
The above is probably but a small
portion of the number destroyed, and
if no others have been destroyed, their
loss is but small compared with the dis
persal of the entire Northern fleet and
the loss of the season's catch, which is
incalculable not only to our merchants
but to the entire community. This is a
more severe blow than New Bedfoid
has experienced since the British inva
sion and destruction of the shipping
and business part of the town in 1788.
It took many years for the place to re
cover from the effect of that wanton
raid, and now, our city being on the
decline,
i this second act of British van
dalism s doubly severe.
We may reasonably expect, however,
that the present season will see the last
of such piratical disasters to the whal
ing business, and our merchants, by
exhibiting a renewed spirit of enterprise,
may do much to retrieve the past. Let
the full number of vessels be immedi
ately fitted for the fishery, and we may
confidently trust that before they arrive
on the cruising-ground the pirate will
be among the things that were. In con
sequence of the news whale-oil is going
up, and this should be an additional in
centive to embark in the business.
Some months ago a communication
was addressed by Messrs. Williams &
Haven, of New London, in behalf of
the Pacific whaling interests, to the
Navy Department, setting forth the
danger of the fleet being attacked by
the Shenandoah, and answer was re
ceived that several naval vessels were
then in the Pacific Ocean, and others
were on their way to join the squadron,
and no danger need be apprehended.
Many war risks hate been canceled by
the owners of vessels on this assurance
of safety. Still there is no available
force now at hand to cope with the
pirate. The present wholesale destruc
tion of vessels will doubtless incite the
Government to do as much as to lock
the barn, now that the horse has been
stolen, and we have confidence that the
Pacific will in a few months swarm
with our cruisers, and the pirates will
either be driven from the seas or run up
at the yard arm.
Ship Hector sailed hence in May,
ISOI, and was last reported last Janu
ary, with 400 bbls. sperm oil on board.
She was 3SO tuns burden, was owned by
Wni. J. Retch and others of this city,
and was valued, with outfits, when she
left this port, at z. , 431,000. There is an
insurance upon her, with war risk, of
ti 17,000 at the Union Mutual office, and
$8,125 at the Ocean office.
Ship Abigail sailed hence in July,
1562, and was last reported at Kanagwa
in April, with 20 bbls. sperm oil on
board. She was 310 tuns burden, was
owned by Loum Snow and others of
this city, and was valued, with outfits,
when she left this port, at $30,000.
There is no insurance upon her, all the
war risks upon her having been can
celed.
Ship Euphrates sailed hence iu Au
gust, 18(32, and sailed from Honolulu for
the Arctic April 11), having transhipped
all her oil. She was 305 tuns burden,
was owned by Edward W. Howland
and others of this city, and was valued,
with outfits, when she left this port, at
$32,000. She was insured, with war
risk, only $9,750, in the Commercial
Mutual office, some war policies upon
her having been canceled.
Ship William Thompson, sailed hence
in June, 1864, and left Honolulu April
11, 1865, for the Arctic, having on board
30 barrels sperm oil. She was the larg
est whale ship belonging to this port,
49.5 tons, owned by Messrs. Swift& Perry,
and was valued, with outfits, at $50,000.
She is insured, with war risk, 322,500 at
the Union Mutual office, 31.5,500 at the
Commercial office, and $16,500 at the
Ocean office.
Ship Sophia Thornton sailed hence
December 5, 1504, and left Honolulu in
May for the Arctic, having taken no
oil on the passage out. She was com
parative new vessel of 424 tuns, owned
by John R. Thornton and others of this
port, and was valued with out-fits, at
548,000. She is insured for 515,000 in the
Commercial .office, 53,050 in the Ocean
office, and $O,OOO in the Union Mutual
office, an additional policy of $12,000 in
the latter office having terminated on
her arrival at the Sandwich Islands.
Bark Jireh Swift sailed hence in Sep
tember, 186'4, andleft Honolulu April 11,
for the Arctic, having tran-shipped all
her oil at San Francisco. She was a
fine vessel of 454 tuns, had been but two
or three voyages, and was valued, with
outfits, when she left this port, at 540,-
000. There was no insurance upon her,
the policies having expired.
The total value of the vessels belong
ing to this port was $237,000, and the
total insurance amounts to but $116,425.
War policies had been canceled and
ceased by limitation amounting to about
$BO,OOO. The Mutual Marine and Pa
cific offices had no war risks on any of
the captured vessels.
There is much excitement among our
merchants and at the insurance offices,
and no more war risks will be taken on
vessels cruising in the Pacific and Arctic
Oceans until further advices are re
ceived.
We hope the English Government,
which has for more than four years
been a most damaging foe to the pros
perity of this nation, will at some future
day be obliged to make good our losses
by these pseudo-Confederate, but really
British freebooters, with compound in
terest.
LATER.—A dispatch received by
Messrs. Swift & Allen, from Capt. Wil
liams of the bark Jireh Swift, dated
San Francisco, 20, states that his vessel
was burned by the pirate off Cape Thad
deus on June 22. She had taken 400
barrels of whale oil thus early in the
season.
Dreadful Scene in an Insane Asylum—
Attempted Escape of a Maniac.
The Northampton (Mass.) Gazette of
July 25th says: A fearful tragedy oc
curred at the hospital last Friday. At
about ten o'clock the night previous an
Irishman, large, stout and desperately
crazy, crawled ['Hough the ventilator
in his room in one of the rear two-story
buildings, and reached the roof, where
he established himself, and bade de
fiance to all the world. He was soon
discovered, and every effort that the in.
genuity of the superintendent and his
associates could invent was made to
induce him to come down, but with
out avail. A hole was cut in the roof,
but with pieces of slate which he tore
from the roof the madman beat back all
who attempted to approach him. The
roof is quite steep, but the crazy man
would run all over it, even along the
eaves, without fear and with perfect im
punity. No sane person could possibly
accomplish what lie did. He declared
he would never come down alive, and
would kill any one who should come
upon the roof. It was therefore an im
possibility to get him safely, and it
would be certain death for any one to
go upon the roof and grapple with him.
He was perfect "master of the situa
tion." A watch was kept upon him (lur
ing the night and the next forenoon.
" It was thought that Father Sullivan,
the Catholic priest who had previously
visited him and seemed to have consid
erable influence over him, might induce
him to come down, and he was sent for
at Holyoke, but being sick he could not
attend, and sent one of his assistants,
but before he arrived the madman at
about 11 o'clock was seized with a fit, to
which he was subject, while sitting be
side a chimney, and curling up, rolled
off, striking on the solid hardpan below,
breaking one arm and injuring himself
internally, so that he lived only about
an hour. In his disabled condition even
he fought desperately, and it was with
difficulty that he was secured. The
ventilator through which he escaped is
oval-shaped, about eight by twelve
inches, and extended from near the top
of the wall horizontally about ten inches
and then up to the roof. This hole he
enlarged by knocking out the brick.
He entered the ventilator by turning
his bed up against the wall.
A CORRESPONDENT of the New York
Herald, writing from Selma, Alabama,
stat es tb at an immense amount of swind
ling in cotton is carried on in that State,
of which the military authorities are
perfectly cognizant, and from which
they derive considerable sums of money.
He also states that legitimate buyers
find all manner of obstacles opposed to
their getting cotton to the seaboard, and
that even then the cotton is not allowed
to be shipped until a fee t of five or, ten
dollars is paid to the military officer.
A Crimirin Harrisbiut. - 4 -
"knights of the
nimble finger" continue to operate
with skill and success in various locali
ties. This morning a gentleman from
Sullivan bounty was robbed of thirty
five dollars at the depot, and a lady was
relieved of her purse, containing a few
government rags, whilepassingthrough
the market house.
Extensive Robbery.—This morning a
small box containing thirteen hundred
dollars in money, bank checks to about
the same amount, and several deeds and
other papers, was stolen from the house
of Mrs. Griffith, residing somewhere in
South street. The box was subsequent
ly found in an out-house in the vicinity,
with the checks and deeds safe, but
minus the money. Suspicion attaches
to two or three persons in connection
with this affair, one of whom was ar
rested and committed to prison.
Burglars .About.—The other day two
fashionably appareled and genteel look
ing strangers arrived in this city and
located at the Lochiel House. The same
afternoon they called at the shop of a
locksmith in Second street, ordered the
manufacture of some keys of peculiar
construction, and wanted others in their
possession altered. The conduct of the
strangers, in connection with the kind
of implements they carried, excited a
suspicion in the mind of the locksmith
that they belonged to the burglarious
profession. Acting upon the suspicion
he at once sent for a police force, with
out the knowledge of his visitors, and
tried to detain them until his summons
could be responded to. They hipened,
however, to notice the police approach
ing in the direction of the shop, mani
fested great alarm, and started to run,
proceeding up Second and South streets
and across the capitol grounds, with
several policemen iu close pursuit. Af
ter a brief but spirited chase, in which
the strangers proved too swift-footed for
the police, - the latter abandoned the
pursuit as hopeless. Search was made
throughout the city during the night,
but the fellows could not be found.
Their sudden flight from the officers of
the law ittnrds strong presumptive
deuce that they are what the locksmith
suspected them to be, professional bur
glars.
Mayor's Court.—An unusually large
number of guests were present at Mayor
Rotunfort's levee this morning. The
first to answer at roll call were fourteen
drunks and disorderlies, two of them
females. All were discharged with the
exception of Elizabeth Marion, an
ireorrigible toper, who was sent over
for thirty days.—During the progress
of a street row in Walnut street, three
men named Solomon Emanuel, Edward
Gebinrath and John Pipes, committed
an aggravated assault on Franklin King,
of Lancaster county, for which amuse
ment they went to prison in default of
one thousand dollars bail, to answer at
court.—Last night a raid was made
by the police on a tavern in Highspire
kept by Andrew T. Green, a place of
nightly resort for " roughs " from
this city, and which has long
been complained of as a nuis
ance by the citizens of Highspire.—
The descent of the officers was sudden
and unexpected, and surprised Green's
guests in the midst of their drunken and
obscene revels. They captured the pro
prietor of the house, six fancy young
cyprians from Liberty alley in this city,
and five soldiers who accompanied them.
The arrests were made by direction of
District Attorney Herr, and the parties
brought here for a hearing before
the Mayor. The charges against
Green are of a serious nature—
keeping an ill-governed and disorderly
tippling and bawdy house, selling on
Sunday and to minors and drunken
men. On the first charge two thousand
dollars bail was demanded, on the se
cond and third charges one thousand
dollars in each case, in default of which
he was committed for trial. The females
were sent to prison as common prosti
tutes, and the five soldiers committed
to answer at court for riotous and dis
orderly conduct.—Patriot and Union of
,Sraturday.
Richmond Election
The election for Mayor, in Richmond,
Va., on Tuesday, resulted in the success
of N. A. Sturdivant, Esq., by four hun
dred majority. On the morning of the
election the opposition candidate, Mr.
Taylor, issued a card, placing himself
frankly and squarely on the Union plat
form, and declaring that he was and ever
had been a Union man, disapproving of
secession, and having no sympathy with
the rebellion.
The Mayor elect in acard on the morn
ing of the election says : " I assure
each and every voter that when the
proper time comes I can and will satisfy
the authorities, State and Federal, civil
and military, that no treason was done
by a vote given for me."
The interest of the community was
chiefly concentrated upon the contest
for the Mayoralty and 6heriffalty.
In reference to the election the Rich
mond Buitctin says:
The election of yesterday simply
means that tile people of Virginia, so
far at least as Richmond can be taken
as a representative of that people, turn
not with the spirit of the craven and the
renegade from opinions which their kith
and kin have died for.
Virginia to-day may hold her head as
high as ever, and if in herhistory aught
of humiliation attaches to her name, it
is but that humiliation which might
arise from the fear of the loss of those
dearer privileges which form a people's
power and glory.
With no interference from the military
authorities—on the contrary, with the
manifestation of an indifference as to
final result, which befitted the mission
of the officers of the United States
among us—the voters of this city have
given expression to their feelings and
opinions in a manner which does no
discredit to the better annals of the State,
and which is calculated to dash the
hopes of the wild dreamers of radical
ism for their future schemes of inter
ference in our State policy.
Let them note this, and, as they note
it, let them remember the teachings of
yesterday's election, while we stand
aside and mark the issue.
A Confidence Man on Ills Travels.
An alleged confidence man of consid
erable accomplishments, fine manners
and the dash of a first-class "sport,"
known as Benjamin W. Allen, alias the
"Hon. John W. Harris, formerly of
Texas," has recently mysteriously dis
appeared from St. Paul, Minnesota,
much to the annoyance of a number of
individuals in that section of country
who claim to have against him little
accounts of a few thousand dollars each.
The Hon. Mr. Harris had made St. Paul
his headquarters for some time, stop
ping at a first-class hotel, spending his
money like a prince, ingratiating him
self in the upper circles of the
apostolic city, and making of him
self quite a marked character
by perambulating the streets in a violet •
colored velvet coat. It is charged against
Harris that, among other little human
weakness manifested by him within the
last eighteen months, he has by forgery
and other means swindled different
Western capitalists out of about eighty
thousand dollars; taken to himself two
different wives, with each of whom he
only lived a few months; flirted with
various other women, and stolen ten
thousand dollars belonging to an Ohio
bank. After his flight a tin box, pur
porting to contain sixty-one thousand
dollars' worth of Government bonds,
deposited by him in a St. Paul bank for
safe keeping, was broken open and
found to be filled with old newspapers.
Tar•, question of negro equality may
be considered as settled in Boston. A
few evenings since two negroes applied
for admission to a place of amusement
in that city, but the agentrefused to sell
them tickets. The next day the negroes
sued the agent and won their case on
the strength of a law passed by the Mas
sachusetts Legislature last winter that
no person was to be excluded from any
place of amusement on account of color.
The court, however, remitted the penal
ty prescribed by the law upon the plea
of the defendant that he was ignorant
of the existence of the statute referred
to, but supposed that he had a perfect
right to admit or exclude whom he
pleased from a hall of amusement which
be hired and paid for.
To Stone Masons.
The Wilkesbarre Union says Messrs.
Hagerty & Henderson, of that place,
want fifty stone masons to work at.
tbeir bridge neat. Wilkeebarre.