a,: - fr=gittr guttingentev. W iNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1865 „o person presses shall be free to every 4 , person who undertakes to examine the pro . ceedings of the legislature, or any branch of government; and no law shall ever be made to restrain the right thereof. The free commu nication of thought and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of men; and every citizen may freely speak, write and print on any sub ject; being responsible for the abuse of that liberty. In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of offi cers, or men in public capacities, or where the matter published is proper for public informa tion, the truth thereof may be given in evi dence.” County Committee Meeting. The Democratic County Committee of Lan cater 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—Samuel Styer. Bart—J. D. Laverty. Brecknock—H. E. Shimp. Cternarvon—Levi H. Bear. Clay—Edwin Riser. Cocalico East—Cyrus Ream. Cocalico West—Jesse Reinhold. Coleraln—S. W. Swisher. W.—H M. North. S. W.—William Patton. Conestoga—A. R. Hess. Conoy—John L. Haldeman. Donegal East—H. Jacobs. Donegal West—Chri-tian Kautz. Drumore—John S. Jordan. Earl—R. H. Brubaker. Earl East—George Duchman. Earl West--Jacob Bear. Eden—William Dungan. Elizabethtown lion—H. T. Shultz. Elizabeth—T. Masterson. Ephrata—Jeremiah Mohler. Fulton—William F. Jenkins. Hempfleld East—Levi Sener. Hempfleld West—John M. Weller. Lampeter East—H. W. Gara. Lampeter West—Samuel Long. Lancaster Twp.—Benjain in Huber. Leacock—Dr. S. R. Sample. Leacock Upper—Henry Barton. Little Britain—Warren Hensel. Lancaster City—N. E. Ward—H. B. Swore. " —N. W. Ward—A. J. stei ninon • " —S. B. Ward—Sani'l Patterson " S. W.Walal-1 ,r. li. Carpenter Manheim Bor.—Na: ha n Worley. Manhelm Twp.—li. J. Al eGrann. Manor—Geo. G. Brush. Marietta—F. K. Curran. Martic—Wm. N. Gibson. Mount Joy Bor.—Henry She liner. :Mount Joy Twp.—J. S. Baker. Paradise—Geo. L. Eckert. Penn—James McMullin. Pequea—John Providence—John Tweuil. Rapho—Jos. I , et weoer. Sad,bury—W In. Hay. Salisbury—S. flax ter Black. Strasburg Bor.—Samuel P. Bower. Strasburg Tarp.—Vrankhn Clark. Warwick—lt. It. Tillainly. Washington Bor.-Joseph E. Charles. Particular Notice From and after to-day, August fith, the price of the It'Ldly Tnlclligcneci• will be $2 per annum, paijuble, sly ietlrj in advance Those persons not receiving the iTreckly after this issue will understand that they are in arrears, and if their ac - counts are not settled by the 15th of September they will then be placed in the hands of a proper officer for collection We cannot afford to publish a paper like the TVeckly ho'clligcnccr on any other than cash terms. A good many persons are indebted to us for one year's sub scription, and for them this notice is particularly intended. Justice to our selves requires that We ~ / w/i/d oilop and adhcre:to the pri yin( ,in all rap of subscriptions in uarancc, Taxing United States Stocks The right of States, Counties, Cities, and Boroughs to tax United States se curities is becoming a question of great importance to the masses upon whom the burthens of Government are begin ning to fall with crushing effect. The State of New limn' shirt! has already led the way by placing a tax of twenty five per cent. upon the income derived from Federal bonds, and it will not be long until the necessities of the people will force the Legislature of every other State in the Union to adopt a similar policy. Unless this is done, it will not be many months or years, if the present state of things continues, until it will be next to impossible for either eorpir tions or individuals to borrow a dollar, except at ruinous rates of interest; and, in addition, the whole burthen of the local governments will devolve upon the middling and working classes who are at least able to pay, while the wealthy and aristocratic bond-holders of the General Government, who are reveling in all the comforts and luxuries of life at the expense of their industrious neighbors, go scot free. There is gross and flagrant injustice in all this. A hard-working mechanic may own a homestead valued at one thousand dol lars, for which he has to pay State, County, City, Borough and School taxes, amounting in the aggregate to a considerable rent, whilst his rich neighbor, with one hundred thousand dollars of Uncle Sam's bonds and no real estate, is not required to pay a soli tary cent! Such inequality and unfair discrimination in favor of the rich and at the expense or the poor man, is mon strous in a Republican government, and was never contemplated by the framers of our Constitution. It should open the eyes of the masses to the forlorn and helpless condition in which they will very soon be placed, if they are not al ready bound hand and foot to this new and dangerous despotism, unless they remedy the evil at the ballot-boxes. Other reasons might be adduced in favor of taxing Government securities, but the above will suffice for the present. We may recur to this all important sub ject again ; but, in the meantime, we caution the tax-payers to consider well whither they are drifting, and apply the proper remedy before it is too late. Vllllam Kennedy, EN We notice by our exchanges from Cumberland county that our freind Kennedy, Esq.,the talented editor of the Valley Sentinel, is a candidate for the office of District Attorney, subject to the decision of the Democratic County Con- vention. As editor of the Chambers • burg Tinier, and afterwards of the Spirit and Tinics,he obtained a high reputation as a political writer. The [alley Spirit, of which he is now editor and proprie tor, is one of the best country newspa pers in the State. Mr. Kennedy has done good service to his party in the la borious, but too often illy-paid, position of editor of political journals. His at tainments as a lawyer are such as to render him perfectly fitted for the office of District Attorney. We hope the gallant Democracy of old Mother Cum berland will have the good sense to nominate him by acclamation. There is no young man in the State who has bet ter earned the right to such a favor. An Empty honor. Our esteemed and talented friend James B. Sauson, Esq., editor of the In diana (Pa.) Democrat, has received the Democratic nomination for Assembly from Indiana county. Of course, al though. Mr. S. appreciates the compli ment, it is certainly an empty honor, for he stands about as much chance of being elected as a " cat in Tophet with out claws." A Good Nomination Cyrus L. Pershing, Esq., has been nominated for the fifth time, by the Democrats of Cambria county, for As sembly. The four years Mr. P. has served in the Legislature, has proved him to be one of the best men in the State. He was unanimously nominated for Speaker last winter, and also re ceived a handsome present from his Derhocratic fellow members. Even his political opponents respect him as an able, upright Christian gentleman. It would be a fine thing were our assembly entirely composed of such men as Mr, Pershing. "The Galled Jade Winces!" Our editorial of Thursday evening, in reference to taxing 11. S. Stocks, has had the desired effect. The Express comes manfully to the rescue and publishes with a commendatory notice a commu nication from a shoddy correspondent over, the signature of " CoNEsToGA," who uses all manner of sillyand abusive epithets against us and the Democratic party generally. The good effect, how ever, is that our neighbor gives its read ers the benefit of our article, consequent ly they get the truth for once, which is seldom, if ever, the case unless they get it through a Democratic paper. It is too late in the day, Mr. Shoddy, for you or your organ to throw dust any longer in the eyes of the people, as to the propriety or justice of taxing nine tenths of the community, embracing the working classes, to support one-tenth in idleness and luxury as in the case in England—to make the masses mere " hewers of wood and drawers of water" to a pampered and venal few, who neither fought for their country in its hour of peril, nor contribute to the sup port of the government now that the war is ended. If our State and local governments are to be maintained and their credit remain unimpaired, all classes of citizens should be compelled to bear their proper share of the burthen, and this can only be done by taxing every man according to his wealth. But we have not time to-day to give our views at length. We shall, however —now that the ball is opened—recur to the subject again at an early day. In the meantime we add the following arti cle, as expressive of our views, from the Binghamton IA. Y.) D , inocrut, a paper which, all through the war, stood by the Government in every legitimate effort it made to suppress the rebellion : The amount of taxation which is now levied upon the people is almost incal culable. A large portion of it being in direct in its nature, it requires sonic knowledge of figures, as well as of the laws, to properly estimate it. First, ere is the State.and county tax, under the war bounties and the support of soldiers' families, had swollen to two per cent. upon all property, real and personal. If a man is worth ii 1 ,10,000 lie is taxed under this law, and so on in proportion. If he has an income of 51,500, he has had to pay on it at least making his direct taxes $24.5. If he is a professional man, he has to pay SlO a year for a license, increasing the figure to 51 . 2.5.5. On everything he consumes in the shape of groceries and dry goods there is a tax of from 50 to DIU per cent. If his dry goods, clothing and grocery for tin• year is .5400, at least one half of it has been paid for taxes. These taxes are swollen in this Way : There , is, for instance, a duty of twenty cents a pound on tea, payable in specie. For the last year that has been fifty cents in paper. The importer pays that, adds to it the original cost of the tea, and then charges profits upon original cost and duty hoth. The merchant to whom he sells also charges profits upon the cost to him, in which the duty is in cluded, so that by the time the article reaches the consumer the duty on tea has amounted in paper to at leastseventy cents 0 pound. This, before the war, would buy a pound of tea. Other ar ticles pay a still higher duty than tea. In the article of clothing, for both Se X CS, I he duties will average more than at hundred per cent. In other words, everything cost double on account of the taxes. burden of these immense taxes all fall ulion the labor of the country.— The capital of the country gets part of its taxes hack in the shape increased of increased rents of property, or enhanced prolits for goods; but the laborer has no such way of relief. Upon his head the whole mass of taxation falls with crush ing elbect. To some extent, indeed, the capital of the country is not taxed. The hundreds of million, (tl' property in Government stocks are exempt from State and local taxation. The rich ()Mei—holders in the service of the t*Hited States pay no in come tax whatever. The poor and middle classes, however, probably pay now one-third or one-quarter of all they earn to the support of the Government. 'How long can they do this? Postmasterat Har risburg and publisher of the 7', Icgraph, was a member of the Cameron soft-soap committee that went down to Washing ton two or three months ago, to offer President Johnson personal assurances of their distinguished consideration," and of their willingness to serve in any lucrative positions he might have to fill. Bergner was reappointed some weeks ago, and he is now showing his gratitude to the President by advising linters not to imitate his example in laying siege to Mr. Johnson in per son. It is gratifying to find him take so much interest in the personal com fort and welfare of the Chief Magis trate. Witness the following from the Tcfriirfti.di of Saturday: PRI:stI , ENT.—It is useless to dis guise the fact that the public mind is tilled with painful itini serious appre hensions concerning the health of the President of the Coiled Mates. The daily reports of his condition—the post ponement of important Cabinet meet ings--11 is inability to give interviews to delegations of citizens—all combine to excite the fears of the people, and to awaken in the hearts of patriotic men strange forebodings as to the future. It is a matter of fact too patent to all ac quainted with the nature of the Chief Magistrate's official duty that it is not its discharge Nviiich thus affects the health and threatens the life of Mr. Johnson. The President is fully equal to the task imposed by his official duties. What affects him most, and what is steadily impairing his health and mak ing inroads on his vitality, is the con stant and audacious annoyance to which lie is subjected by the office-hunters who infest Washington City. These are ab solutely boring the President to death. They harass him with their differences. They exhaust him With their importu nities; and unless something is done at once to stay the attacks of the hungry office seekers who are now lounging about Washington, the nation will again be called to put on the habiliments of mourning for a dead President. Com mon decency, to say nothing of patriot ism, it would seem, should induce all to abstain from thus annoying a man bear ing a load of responsibility such as that devolving on the President of the United states, and we trust the press of the country will out us in calling at tention to this :natter, and denounce those thus guilty. THE INTI:IiNAL REVENUE llEcEtra's for July amounted to about twenty-two million dollars. As the income tax is beginning to be paid, it is estimated that the receipts will be a million dol lars per day for the next two or three months. This is what the people haye to pay for Abolitionism. When the country was ruled by Whigs or by Democrats, the receipts from duties on imports and from sales of the public lands, amounting to fifty or sixty mil lions a year, were sufficient to defray the expenses of the government. But since Stevens, Seward, Chase and their Abolition co-laborers have got hold of the government, several millions a day have to be raked out of the pockets of the people. Lancaster county, which by her heavy Abolition majority con tributed so largely to bring about this state of affairs, will be drained of a large portion of her wealth. Simon Cameron, the great Winnebago Chief, has been dubbed a Doetor. of •LateB[!] by some one horse concern of a College up the Susquehanna river. With as much propriety might the de gree of D. D. been conferred upon him. The compliment or honor would have been about as apropos in the one case as in the other. Simon Cameron an LL. D. Shades of Marshal and Taney, hide your diminished heads ! Verily, verily, the race of intellectual giants in the legal profession must have perished for ever, when such intellectual pigmies Tun away with the-honors, • Sharp on the Loyal League The New York Sun has an article on the Loyal League, which contains so much trenchant sarcasm and sound common sense that we feel constrained to copy it. Although the SUn applies it only to the League in New York it is equally applicable elsewhere, andwill answer for this locality, or any other. The Sun says In a time like the present, when the country is trying to overcome the de structive effect of a great war, it is im portant that every individual, both in his private capacity and in connection with others, should give his influence and his talents, so far as possible, in aid of thegreat work that now devolves upon the people. This obligation rests upon every man in propbrtion to his ability and capacity to do good service. Those who have the means should feel it in cumbent upon them to follow the Scrip tural injunction, and "render a return according to their talents." This being the case, we desire to know what the Loyal League of this city is now doing in the way of aiding the country in this time of need. Is it making good use of the talents that have given it, or is it following the example of the foolish servant, in the parable, who buried his talent and returned it to the master without increase': This is an important question, and should be no longer left in doubt. The Loyal League undoubtedly has been the means of doing much good. During the late war it was very efficient in raising negro troops, conducting elections, managing contracts for the Government,supervising appointments, feasting distinguished officers, etc. ; 'and its valuable services are now ur gently needed in the work of rehabili tating the tionth, particularly thenegro element, with which the League has had much experience. Now, this patriotic organ izathill is apparently im pressed with the Ic•lief that it has done enough in contributing so largely to the salvation of the Union. It seems to he imbued with tilt same spirit that char acterized Cincinnati's, after having saved Dome—it niode,Lly desires to re turntoprivatelifcanll escapetheplaudits of a grateful people. Hut the services of the Loyal League cannot even now be spared. There are somewhere in the neighboorhood of four million freedmen in the South w hn need to lie "elevated." The League did it, full share in show ing how this might be thine before free dom had been secured to the negroes, and now that this-part or the work has been accomplished, and an extensive hell of enterprise opened up for negro elevation, it is high time for the League to take hold. It has an abundance of money, as is shown by the stuns ex pended for fireworks and buncombe in the election contests ; and has plenty of energy, as shown by the way in which contracts and appointments have been attended to. Therefore, it has every re quisite for usefulness in the field that we have marked out. As a starting point, we suggest that the League shall commence with the education of the ne groes. It may be well to state that this useful system of culture has heretofore been very muelt neglected on the part of the late slaves, and their intellects are consequently somewhat blunted. But the Loyal League has plenty of money, great perseverance, and un questioned attachment for the race who have been se cruelly oppressed, and these qualities would doubtless produce a strong etket upon the people who are DOW experiencing the blessings of free dom. After having educated them, it would next be proper to make them vote, and With that aeeemplished, the negroes would be cOVllltetent to form Loyal Leagues of their own, and work out their own salvia ton. Vie hope the League Will move in this matter with out delay. If a single individual is warned not to hide his lamp under a bushel," the transcendent brilliancy of a Loyal League should not he obscured by inaction in this hour of its country's great need. We hope soon to chronicle the fact that the Loyal League of this city has undertaken the business of educating and elevating the Southern negrocs. North Carolina Raleigh P[ : // , ,,, a journal edited by Yankee squatters interested in keeping a large army in the South, has been striving to create the impression among the Northern people, that there is still such a spirit of rebellion at the South as makes it altogether unsafe to withdraw our troops. Currency is given to its false and slanderous statements by the radical Abolition ists, who tile opposed to any restoration of the Union that does nut bring with it negro equality. Gov. Andrew, as the 11 - orta remarks, struck the key-note of their policy in his letter to the Boston negro suffrage meeting, in which lie expressed the opinion that all immediate attempts at reconstruction are premature and will necessarily fail. The cue of the radicals is to constantly represent the rebel feelingasso predom inant among the southern people that they cannot safely be trusted. They see that, with the stand President John son has taken, reconstruction will take place without negro suffrage if the pres ent experiment is permitted to succeed ; and that, in case, the radicals have not " a ghost a chance" in the future politics of the country. It will be seen that one of the base coins from their slander mint is nailed to the counter by the following tele graphic correspondence between gentle men in New York and Governor Hol den : ll.Trr„ NEw Y.RN, .1 - Lily 26. (;or. ,Vorll4 1/EAn AVe , 011 4 1Nal a copy of a press telegram. pultli , lied this morning in all the principal paper, North. It will go far to stop Iln•tiile of emigration about to go to that State North Carolina ought by all means to he officially corrected at once, if not true. lit t rue, IN l• twill haVe to cease our efforts to SOlalle emigration, but we believe there is some mistake about it, unless people have greatly changed since we left home. "The - Raleigh says the native element, including the aristocracy, is grow ing 1110 re (101 . ):1111 every day, uml more open ly threaten to hang rpion !i li•11 and negrnes as soon as the tro.,ps are Wit hdraWll. The PrOgICAN Snyti tho imps 11111,.t IH , returned, and every vonsidorationor s juste•eand safety requires their I.resen., in North Carolina :is well as in the mhi, 1,1,1•11i.ms States. - Please answt, Vt•l'V respectfully, !SEMI` P. BATTLE, J. M. IIEcK. I=l To licrap P. Baltic and J. 31". Heck, St. ...Vicholas Jlotd, Nov York ENTLEM :In reply to your dispatch, have to state that the great body of the people of this stale are loyal and submis sive to national authority; that I do not ap prehend that Union men will be hanged or punished; that, if all the troops should be withdrawn, and we should not have an of tioient local police guard, there might, and probably would, be disturbances in some localities, but, upon the whole, there is no ground for apprehending that emigrants will involve themselves in civil strife by coming to North Carolina. Let them come with confidence in the future. Our people generally will be glad to see them. Very respectfully, W. W. HOLDEN. HON. WILLIAM A. GRAHAM, who is looked upon as the political leader of North Carolina, and who is to be a del egate to the coming State Convention, is reported as saying that he will not under any circumstances consent to the return of North Carolinainto the Union if the negro suffrage question is made a condition. There being a set of Yankee squatters in North Carolina who are en deavoring to create prejudice in the Northern mind against the native popu lation of that State, it may reasonably be doubted whether Mr. Graham has made the declaration attributed to him. At any rate, it is to be hoped that the Republicans of Lancaster county, who voted for Mr. Graham for the Vice Pres idency in 1852, will not hang them selves in a fit of rage and disgust before the report is fully confirmed. A REPUBLICAN subscriber to that sound Democratic journal, the Ashland (Schuylkill county) Constitutional Ad vocate, having " stopped his paper" in a huff; the editor called for somebody to take his PlaCe on the list. thirty-eight names names (which are given in its issue of the 4th inst.) immediately came in t fill the vacancy. A Christian Letter. The General Convention of the Epis copal Church will be held in Philadel phia, in October. Each State will be represented by four 'clerical and four lay delegates. The Bishops compose the upper House, and sit with closed doors. The Convention of 1859 was held in Richmond, and was distinguished for its great harmony and gpiritual life. The venerable Bishop Hopkins, of Vermont, the Senior and Presiding Bishop, has addressed a letter to each of the Southern Bishops, under date of July 12, 1865, cordially inviting their at tendance. The letter is so full of Chris tian charity and kindness, and so differ ent from what we have been accustomed to see from the mass of so-called minis ters of the gospel in the North, that we feel as if au era of love, gentleness and happiness was about to set in. We make room for the following extracts : Right Reverend and Dear Brother: The long and mournful period of national dis sension has now passed away, through the overruling Providence of Almighty God our Heavenly Father, whose counsels are all governed by unerring wisdom and unfail ing love. The Union of the States is rapid ly advancing to a perfect restoration, and it would be a sad. reproach to our Christian principles if the lack of Union in the Church should indicate our disregard of the great law, which enjoins religious concord with our brethren. I consider it a duty, there flire, especially incumbent on me, as the Senior Bishop, to testify my affectionate at tachment to those amongst my colleagues, from whom I have been separated during those years of suffering and calamity; and to assure you personally of the cordial wel come which awaits you at our approaching General Convention. In this assurance, however, I pray yon to believe that I do not stand alone. I have corresponded on the subject with all the Bishops, and think myself authorized to state that they sympathize with rice gener ally in the desire to see the fullest represen tation of the Churches from the South, and to greet their brethren in the Episcopate with the kindliest feeling. The past cannot be recalled; and though it may not soon be forgotten, yet it is the part of Christian wisdom to bury it forever, rather than to suffer it to interfere with the present and the future interests of unit• find peace. I trust, therefore, that I shall enjoy the precious gratitication of seeing you and your Deputies in your proper place at the regular Triennial meeting; and I pray that the Divine Redeemer, who is the Prince of Peace, may prosper our Conven tion with the .I.lly spirit of consolation and fraternal love, and consecrate our work with llis effectual blessing. The late Bishop Potter, shortly before his death, also addressed a fraternal let ter to the Southern Bishops. He wrote as follows : " I have corresponded on the subject with the Bishops, and think myself authorized to -date that they sympathize with tie gen ly in the desire to see the fullest repre sen!:,tion of the churches front the South, and to greet their brethren in the Episcopate with the kindliest ilvling." If this appeal should be responded to by the Southern Bishops in the spirit in which it is made, the result, in a religi ous point of view, will be of the greatest importance. An Interesting' Squabble For several weeks prior to Tuesday last, the Philadelphia appointments gave rise to an excited and angry con troversy among the "loyal " citizens of that negro-ridden metropolis, which was participated in by all the cliques and factions of which the Abolition party is composed. For some cause or other the Loyal League and its blowers, Judge Kelly and his congressional col leagues, aided and abetted by the editor of the Prcas, were violently opposed to the re-appointment of Collector Thomas and Postmaster Walborn, and desired those lucrative and influential positions . for two of their own pets. But, it ap pears, that President Johnson did not view things in the same light that Kel ly, Forney and Co. did, and has re-com missioned the above-mentioned gentle men, much to the chagrin and disap pointment of their enemies, who are now venting their spleen against the President with curses, not loud lint deep, for his obstinacy in defeating their plans. This result in Philadelphia is con clusive, we think, on one point at least, and that is the determination of Andrew Johnston, to make his own appoint ments—to lie the President himself, and whether right or wrong, to be master of his situation. We give him credit for Iris pluck at least, if we cannot approve of all his acts, and we suppose, by this time, that Forney and the four Philadel phia Congressmen, together with the Union Leaguers of that city, have dis covered the same trait in his character. "Straws show which way the wind blows," and the fight in the city of Broth(' clij Love is but a premonition of the coming storm in the Abolition camps all over the country. We shall see, ere long, what we shall see. In the meantime the Democracy can quietly look on and bide nieir time. Sic tr«n, ,, it glOrt:(1 17: undi. New York Money and Stock Market. Mo:NEN - is reported much easier to day, and is freely offered at ti( , , per cent on call. The hanks have now on deposit at the sub-Treasury twenty-two millions at 5 per cent. which they can call at any time without notice.— Tribunc. THE stock-jobbers for a decline in stocks, who have been endeavoring to get the community to believe that a seven per cent. money market was, in any sense, a tight money market, have now ceased to propagate the absurd notion. The demand for the money to move the crops, usual at this season of the year, was taken advantage of by the bears, together with the large amount locked up in the treasury depositories, in order to engineer a temporary excitement in regard to tightness of the money mar ket. The efforts of the bears to make money tight and depress prices have signally failed. The money market to day was easy at seven per cent., and the demand limited. Government will pay about $11,000,000 currency on August 15 for interest due on seven-thirty notes, and the national bank currency is increasing at the rate of at least $3,000,000 per week. The state ment of the public debt,• published n the World of yesterday, shows that the financial necessities have been so great that the legal-tender paper money issues have been increased over $27,000,000 since June 1. In other words, Government, instead of contracting the paper-money issues, as the people were led to expect, they have been increased since March over $27,000,000 direct by Government, and about $50,000,000 by the national banks. Furthermore, it is well understood that Congress will be asked to add two to three hundred million dollars of new capital to the na tional banking system. Whilst govern ment and the national banks are thus adding to our paper-money issues specu lation and high prices, with sudden and violent fluctuations, will follow naturally. The stock market has been advancing steadily since the panic and decline in March, and the average of prices of leading railway shares is over twenty per cent. higher. This advance has taken place in the face of powerful influence brought to bear upon the market by individuals and the Govern ment. The bull operators have every thing in their favor at present.— World. Numbers, Not Intelligence The following is an extract from the late speech of H. Winter Davis, deliver ed at a Republican meeting in Chicago : " We need the votes of colored peo ple ; it is numbers, not intelligence, that count at the ballot-box—it is the right intention, and not philosophic judgment, that casts the vote." So goes the party of " grand moral ide . as"—numbers, not intelligence is to be their rule of action. In ignorant, passive, plastic numbers the Abolition leaders see power and plunder for them selves in the future ; but in intelligence they see only discomfiture and defeat. Hence the watchword of the Republican party— the " party of grand moral ideas in ;toe interest of God and humanity" —is now " Numbers, not Intelli -171 gence . —The cavalry under General Merritt have arrived at Austin, Texas, from Shrev(>•• port. The Temper of the South. Some of our Republican newspapers have correspondents in the South who are laboring very hard to make the Northern people believe that the late slave-owners contemplate the re-en slavement of the "freedmen" assoon as thearmed forces of the United States are withdrawn from the Southern soil. It is safe to assume that the editors of all newspapers publishing and endorsing this sort of correspondence haves paying interest in army contracts of one kind or another, and that the correspondents themselves pretty generally hold sinecure clerkships under military offi cials who have very strong objections to returning to their former occupations. All trustworthy accounts represent the Southern planters as settling down to the new order of things with as much cheerfulness as could be expected. The wonder is that they should behave so well after fighting solong:and losing so much. If they had seen fit to convert their struggle into a guerilla warfare, they might have put us to great trouble and expense for many years to come; but like brave and enlightened men, they gave up the contest altogether as soon as they found they were no longer able to conduct it on a scale that would re flect credit on eight millions of people who aspired to independence. But in spite of their ready submission, we find correspondents writing and editors pub lishing such mean-spirited attacks upon them as the following, which we ex tract from a letter from North Carolina to one of our leading Northern Repub lican journals: The great mistake of the day, in my opinion, is the haste to grant pardon to those so late in arms against us, and who have not yet cooled enough after the strife to (-ease cursing the victors, the " damned Yankees. - No one who has had the chance to fret the sentiment of the South, :is Ice have, has failed to observe that the strong est motive that tempts these people to take the oath and establish a provisioind govern ment is the desire to have the State out of our control, and to get "us removed front their sight. They say they are not con quered, only overpowered. They hate the North still, as ever, and ore only sorry that their cause (lid not succeed. This is from an anonymous scribbler who has probably been but a few months in the South, and who may never have set his foot outside of the corporate lim its of the seaport town from which he dates his letter. It is worth nothing when compared with such testimony as we print below : From the Louiscill, Jountrzl. INTERESTINCi LETTER FROM AN ALA BAMA PLANTER—It affords us great pleas ure to publish the following excellent letter front an influential citizen of Alabama, who resides near Selma in that State. Mr. Laps ley is a loyal man, and will probably he a candidate for Congress in the Selma Dis trict. lie administers a sound and timely rebuke to certain newspaper writers, whose influence we have felt to be injurious to the cause of peace and harmony between the North and South. Mr. Lapsley is now on a visit to Kentucky, being a native of this State: LExiN4cruN, Ky., July 17, 186. - , Ihr 'film, of ihr Lotamille jourratt tine of the first things which attracts the attention of a citizen of the South in coining Northward, and looking into the public jeurnals, is the numerous comments devo ted to thdpeople and of of his section.— There is, I fear, a concerted and strenuous effort on the part of certain presses of the North mid West to create an insurmoun table obstacle to the re-admission or the Southern States into the Union on equal and honorable terms. Very many harsh and unfriendly, and I tlfink very unjust, things are said about the people of the South. Their supposed feelings, sentiments, and actions are freely descanted upon by writers who have had no personal intercourse with them ; or, at best, who have onlyassed along the highways, and spent a little time about the towns and villages.— From this one-sided view, and purely ex parte, frequently prejudiced, and certainly very imperfect testimony, the people of the North and West are called upon to pass judgment on the people of the South in what relates to their highest and dearest interests, they having, in the mean time, no opportunity to speak for themselves. It is a universal rule of courts of justice, of which the humblest criminal has the benefit —a rule sanctioned by the wisdom of ages and enforced by solemn oath—that the wit nesses shall "speak the truth, the whole truth, and •nothing but the truth;" and it is a profound apothegm or a celebrated author that "lie who IiCIVS one sale ooly hears nothing." liappy would it be for the South aml for the whole country if the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth in relation to the people of the South were spoken and regarded; for thereby, I verily believe, peace, tranquillity, and prosperity would be secured and permanently estab lished throughout the length and breadth of this great country. The great cause of trouble and dissension, and finally of bloody and destructive war, had its origin in the slavery of the Africans at the South ; a condition, whether right or wrong, for which the former inhabitants of the North, as well as those of the South, are answerable. Surely there is something in this indisputable fact which should tend to moderate the views and feelings of the peo ple of the North on the subject. The great bone of contention has ;it last been removed. Slavery in the South has been utterly over thrown, and could be revived only by a miracle like that which called dead Laza rus from the grave. This is the conviction of the whole people of the South, so far as I have any knowledge, and I have had ex tensive opportunities for knowing, having long resided in the midst of the largest slave population of Alabama, and being con versant with the views of many who were large slave-owners. And not 4 Only is the fact of irreversible abolition admitted, but it has come to be acquiesced in gener ally with a degree of tranquility, and even cheerfulness in many eases, that could hardly hare been expected of those who conscientiously and undoubtingly believed as the generality of slaveholders did—that slavery was a good, benign and divinely authorized institution; that although it was imperfect and liable to abuse, and was fre quently abused like all other human insti tutions, includingthe most saered, yet that, upon the whole, it was beneficial to the country where it existed, and to the world -at large, which profited by its productions —anti to the Africans subjected to it, who, it was contended, were, under its influences, in a better and happier condition on the whole than any similar number of tine same race on the face of the globe. however untenable these views may be regarded elsewhere, they were honestly en tertained by the great mass of intelligent people throughout the South. Yet, I repeat those people, though at first !somewhat shocked and startled by the sudden proela nuation ( - 1,, 111,V sincerely and honest What theyregard ns an irres,orsibh , and perpealai de , ree, With the determinitiation to make the best of things as they are, and with the hope that the first and almost universal fears and forebodings of evil and disaster will prove to be ground less. The impression is sought to be made by the Southern correspondents of certain jour nals of the North and West, that the plan ters entertain a sullen feeling of revenge to ward their late bondmen, and are only re strained from treating them cruelly by the presence of the Federal garrisons. There is great injustice in charges or intimations of this kind. The planters acknowledge that, as :1 g,enerid thing, their slaves were trite and faithful, surprisingly so, throughout the war—a fact that was frequently re marked upon—and they do not blame the negroes in the least for what has occurred, and they so tell them. Self-inter est, too, the great controller of human action, teaches the late mas ters and all who wish to avail them selves of the labor of the negroes, now that everything like force is known to be utterly out of the question, that kindness and good treatment, and the motive of gain, must be held out as inducements to those they wish to retain or employ. It is now seen and felt to be of the utmost importance to till concerned, to the black no less than to the white population of the South that the kind • est feelings should be maintained and kept up between the two classes, and whoever by word or deed does aught to disturb this re lation, be the motive what it may, is the enemy of both, especially of the black, who is, and must necessarily continue to be, the weaker party. As a general rule the late masters of the negroesare, and, if permitted, will continue to be, the best friends of those who were recently their slaves, and many of the negroes feel and admit this. The attach ment which existed between them— and, in many cases, there was a real and strong at tachment—still exists, and will continue to exist to the advantage of both, if not broken up by outside interference. If I have trespassed too far, as I fear, at tribute it to my sense of the importance of matters referred to, and want of time for condensation. Very respectfully, yours, J. W. LAPSLEY THAT excellent journal, the Philadel phia Sunday _Mercury, appeared yester day morning in an entire new dress. It is a sterling Democratic sheet, and worthy the hearty support of the Democ racy of the " City of Brotherly Love." The Coil of Military Justice. Some days since, we took occasion to comment upon the delicious luxuries the country now enjoys in the shape of Military Commissions. We took for example the Doubleday. Court-Martial in Philadelphia, although that body of gentlemen is neither better nor worse than the other commissions that appear to be in session all over :the country.— The two great feats of the Doubleday Court-Martial since the beginning of the year have been the trial of a Mr. Coz zens, who was released by the habeas corpus of Judge Thompson—a trial that lasted from February 1 to June 19, a period amounting to about 140 days— and the further trial of a man named Neal, an Arsenal Inspector, which be gan May 2S, and is not yet ended. As Neal will certainly be released by the same Judge Thompson on a similar ha beas corpus, it makes little difference in the interest of "military justice" wheth er the trial ever ends or not. The only question that can possibly arise in any P2unsylvania trial is one of econo my. That State is not under mili tary law. The Rebels have never been nearer Philadelphia than Gettysburg, whence, for reasons that we need not explain, they returned to Virginia. The Civil Courts are there. The Govern ment, nevertheless, deems it proper to set aside this machinery, and keep a Military Commission. Let us look at this Commission closely, and see how much it costs. The names of its mem bers are as follows: Abner Doubleday, Major General, President ; C. C. Cres son, Lieut.• Colonel, 73d Pennsylvania Volunteers; G. B. Murray, Lieut.-Col., 19Stli Pennsylvania Volunteers; P. B. Stinson, - Lieut.-Colonel, 109th New York Volunteers; F. S. Reese, Lieut.- Colonel, 12sth New York Volunteers; Garrick Mallery, Jr., Lietq.-Colonel, Veteran Reserve Corps; J. B. Piatt, Major, A. D. C.; Jno. A. Foster, Col., 173 th New York Volunteers, Judge Advocate. In addition to this, ('ol. Olcott is an officer in charge of War Department detective business, and J. J. McElhone, an officer of the House of Representa tives, is reporter at $lO per day. This, however, is only a portion of the Court. The Government allows to these officers twenty servants, whose wages it pays, anti whose persons it clothes, as Well as thirty-four horses, each horse receiving 14 tilts hay and 12 Ihs oats per day, and pm) it's of straw per month. As if the officers, servants, phonographer and horses, did not get enough money, the Governmentgenerously allows $1 25 per day to each officer additional, with an extra $1 23 to Ihe Judge Advocate. In addition to this further allowance, the officers are given quarters and " fuel." A MajorAieneral has six rooms and a Major Ithrr, so that this Court eats, sleeps, smokes and otherwise lives in forty rooms—sl2 50 a month being al lowed for the rent of each room. Our readers must not suppose that the horses of the Court get their oats, hay and straw, and the General nothing to eat. No, indeed ! In a military point of view, a Major General receives nineteen rations per day, a Colonel eight, a Lieut. Colonel seven,and a Major six. Whether a Major General on court duty eats three times as much as a Major we do not know, hut the Government pays thirty cents a day for each ration, in good, law ful money. This makes one branch of expenses. These " courts " pay each witness per diem while in attendance—that is to say, from the day he is summoned to the day he is dismissed—as well as the actual cost of transportation. It pays officers, usher,, detectives and a train of small subordinates, as well as the rent of the rooms where the meetings are held. The reader may think that, this being good pay, the Government must get a vast deal of work out of the nine officers, twenty servants, one pho nographer, thirty-four horses and train of subordinates called a " court "—that they work so hard from morning to eight that the officers and horses can only keep life in them by duly eating their rations, hay, oats and straw. This is a mistake. No beings in the world have easier tunes than the non and horses composdig this "court." "The hours of meeting," says our Philadel phia correspondent, "are very irregu lar. The general hours are from 11 in the morning to 2 in the afternoon.— Many days, however, they arc in wssion hat a fra, min s—but rarely if ever after 2 o'clock." So that, taking it at the best, our "court" sits but three hours a day. And thus it is all the country over. For easy work and good pay, commend us to the courts of mili tary justice. In order that our readers may see in figures how much the the t;overnment pays these officers, servants, phono grapher and horses, to "try" 0 man, we will take this case of Cossoll6—who was " tried so patiently—sentenced so af fectuallv by the Department of War, and released so summarily by a Penn sylvania judge. The following table will show each officer's pay and allow ances : Mai. Gen 0,1. 1,1.-001. A. li. C. Month's pay ..... ~./221.1 00 500 01 /. 1 ./s0 t/0 sso 00 Number of ser- YaMS 4 Pay of ,er% ant s, SD) IA) SD) 10 511) II) $11) 01) Cli)lhing for ser :MIS 0 011 6 00 6 50 Ii 00 No. 10 . rations per (lay 19 0 7 6 c. 51 ,d - 1•at6,6,... ;:o 36 ::11 311 No. of la ,r,e,-; 7 4 3 4 POlllidS hay iia . lii horse eacn day : I 11 11 Pounds oats for 11,,r50 each (I,ty 12 l' 10 1' full nil 151111" per 1111111, 100 1.14 100 1111) A d d i t tonal al ll %ance each day ~ ';.l 20 it 25 .51 2.5 51 20 Ito,,ins a ]11wv(1 a, , illarti , r, 6 3 1 4 01 11) In amtl/11s for rillarf erS per 1111,11111 .071 lfli $6200 5112.00 .• 50) Fiji per 1110111 It, (to. 1 m ~ : pra 1, no. cold, .0 4 4 3 ( .::, Feel per moll h, May 1 10 Sept. 1 1 1 no. cords 1 The " trial'' of l'ozzens began about Feb 1, 18G5, and ended J une 1 li, 150.5, Mall about 141) days. The realer may figure it up to suit himself; but if he will take our rough figuring he will find it some thing as follows : The People of the Idnited :states In account with turf Doubleday Court-Martial for trial of W. If. N. Coggens, citizen of Pennsylvania, on the charge of not having put gill duck canvas in tents furnished by contract, Sc., the time occupied being 140 days, To tine IMajiuf-hieneral ,1102i3.20 To two Colonels 5 , 1420 'ft, live Lieutenant-I 'iiiiinel, 1,50,470 l'o one .Ififir,.. , o . 11.1 1177.33 To 20 servants 1,4:02.90 To clothing tie servants 11143.20 To 10,640 rations, for men) 3,1112.00 To 40 rooms at :312.. - 41 per infinth 11d1:13.140 To fuel ;about/ 15400 l'fi Phonographer ,+p) per day ) 1,400.00 To additional pay to officers 1,730Ji5 To Misi , ellaneott4 including witness fees, horse feed, teiers detectives, p.iiii !nen, il,, •ing .., a low est i niate .. 1 .11, i d , ..iii' 7,111,0.00 Thus the people may see the bill that the United states finds itself called up on to pay to "try" a man before a Mil itary Commission, in a State where the Commission's sentence when opposed to a habeas corpus is not worth the paper on which it is written. It costs "mili tary justice," officers, servants, phono graphers, horses and all, just 522,075 i•stf to try Cozzens, when fur ;•,•• - m, all told, Cozzens procured his release by a sim ple habeas corpus. In the ease of Neal the court is running up a similar bill; for his trial has been going on since May 28, with no prospect of an end, and the certainty of Thompson with a habe as corpus to conic to his prison doorand set him free the moment the court takes him into custody. We submit that when we are paying 7.ttO per cent. for money, and issuing cer • titivates of indebtedness to cover deficits that military justice in Pennsylvania is a most expensive and unnecessary lux ury. The Doubleday Court is a type of its class. We only cite it as the best il lustration of the folly of the whole business.—Neu , York Tribune. Pursuit of Knowledge The Atlanta, Macon, Milledgeville, and other journals, in the interior of the South, we observe, are republishing ab stracts of the Congressional (Washing ton) legislation, for the past four years —in order to inform their readers what laws they are bound to obey. The sus pension of postal facilities for the long period of four years, kept mankind off there about as much in the dark as to what was being "enacted" and "re solved" at Washington, as to what was going ou in Pekin, or Polynesia, or Pat agonia. We pity our Southern brethren of the press, (if it is not treason to call them "brethren,") if they have to " catch up" all the verbose Washington legislation for their and other people's benefit, since the rebellion. They can never do it, in four—we had almost said fourteen—years. MMIIWEM State Ne:ws. BERKS COUNTY Barn Burned—Arrest of the Incendi ary.—Mr. Frederick Buckwalter, for merly of`this city, who resides at Silver Hill, near Bowmansville, in Lancaster county, near the Berks county line, has had his barn destroyed by fire. Some two years since Mr. B.'s barn was destroyed by the same agency, when a Mrs. Cole was arrested as being the incendiary and tried, but was ac quitted. Ou Monday night last the barn was again fired and burned to the ground. As the flames were bursting forth from the building, a man was seen run ning across the fields, who was pursued and captured. He proved to be a man frcm the neighborhood of that place by the name of Henry Witmer. He con fesses to having- set the barn on fire the first time and also this time. - It appears he has a spite against this man for buying the land, and in this manner wishes to annoy him. He was committed, and sent to - the Lancaster County Prison.—Reading Times. A /most a Riot.-On Thursday evening, a party of men and boys assembled near the old depot, and commenced abusing each other, which led to blows. Clubs, stone, he., were being used in a very free manner, when officer Roland rush ed in and arrested several of the partici pauts.--1 b. -mother Robbery.—Another highway robbery occurred in this city, on Thurs day night, in North tith street. A coun tryman waylaid, knocked down, and robbed of seventy dollars. Or the robbers escaped.—lb. Outrage.—lt is szpposed that our citi zens have the right of enjoying them selves in their own way in a peaceable manner, but front the facts that are be fore us it would st , ein that they have not. On Thursday night, one of the most respectable families in this city were enjoying themselves in a quiet way, when they were interrupted by a party of blackguards in a most uncere monious manner. They stopped in front of the dwelling and made the night hid eous with the most infernal noises, and when they were requested to stop as sailed the proprietor or the house with the most iqiproldous epithets.— /10 //roam,. (I.—Tobias A. Wagner, a kid eight years old, son of Tobias H. \Vag uer, of Hamburg, Captain of a boat on the Schuylkill Canal, was drowned last Saturday night, between lo and 11 o'- clock, near Unionville, about 12 miles below Beading,. The child was with his father on the boat, and fell overboard in his sleep. His body was round after a search of several hours, and taken to Hamburg for burial. Attempfrd s.srt:ssiarthion.—One night last week a Mr. Dorwart, residing near Grimsville, Burks county, while in the act of retiring to bed, was tired at thro' the window by some unknown person, the ball passing within a few inches or hint and lodging in the wall. The cause of his dastardly attempt at murder is not explained. AN old gentleman named Williamson, who was a passenger on the midnight Express train for Harrisburg, last Fri day night, was robbed of $llO at the Out er Depot. He had stepped otr the train a few moments, while it stopped to change locomotives. ON Friday of last week the house of Isaac Levan, in Maxatawny, Burks Co., was entered in broad day light and rob bed of The loss falls hard upon Mr. L., as he is a poor man. Ox Sunday afternoon, 2:41 July, a young lad, son of Mr. IZeuben S. Heck man, of Windsor township, lierks coun ty, fell front a box and broke Ills arm.— broken limb was set by Dr. Tryon, and the little sufferer is doing well. ON Sunday evening, July 2:id, a son of Dr. It. B. Rhoads, of Amityville, Berks county, fell front a pale fence in front of the house, badly fracturing his right arm, involving the elbow joint, which will probably occasion hint a still arm for life.—Journia. 13Etwolli) UouNTY.—We Leg to an nounce to our readers that Mr. (leorge H. Mengel, late of Chantbersitr•g, and formerly connected with the l'offiy ,Spirit, has purchased from us the one half interest in the good-will, presses, types, &c., appertaining to this office, and has become a partner with us in the publication of the (Irtzfq/e. The new arrangement dates from August 1. The paper will remain, as formerly, under our editorship. We can commend Mr. Mengel as one of the Lest practical printers in the state, as a gentleman in the true sense of the word, as a Demo crat in whom there is no guile. 'o soon as Mr. Mengel can be with us, which will be about a month hence, the will appear in an entire new dress and in tin enlarged form. It is our pur pose to purchase a Power Press, and, in short, to make our office the most com plete printing establishment in this por tion of Pennsylvania.—Brdjoid fia zelfc. Bedford, Prt., I.—Jacoh ( 'rouse, late deputy provost marshal of Bedford county, was shot dead in the street to day, by John I'. Reed, a lately.returneil Canadian refugee. His brother, men gel Heed, who has been in the rebel army, was also engaged in the affray. They have been arrested and lodged in jail. Great excitement prevails in con sequence of the affair. The above is a telegram to the Asso ciate Press. It is due to truth to say that John P. Heed, Jr., was not a Calla dian refugee. He went to Toronto to study law, and for no other impose. When he went there he wasa free inan. Neither the Government nor any pri vate individual had made any ilainis upon him from which he found it neces sary to flee ; and when drafted Ion!' (titer he bevwfic TOPOIIIO, he put in a substitute and received an honorable discharge from Capt. Eyster. His brother Mengel was captured at Mc- Connellsburg, by the rebels, and recap tured by the ['llion troops near ( iettys burg, a few days after. Neither of them were arrested, but placed themselves in the hands of the Sherill: This is the truth, the whole truth and nothing hut the truth.-6',/.7,ve, The discove . ry of bittuninous coal and oil near - New Berlin has created quite a sensation in that village. An oil com pany is boring with every indication of success. The town of Bloomsburg is becoming notorious for riotous demonstrations and assaults upon citizens. A few days ago the house of Mr. A. 1). Emmit, in Hemlock township was entered by bur glars and robbed of in money and various articles of value. There arestrong - surface indications of oil in some parts of the county. On the farm of Mr. Wm. S. Snyder, in Leville township, there is a spring from which flows water and oil, the smell of which is sufficient to satisfy the mostskeptieal that petroleum exists in that locality. MEM =3 An oil well has been struck near M'Veytown which yields two hundred barrels a (lay. A forty barrel well has olso been struck in another section of the county. A burglar disguised as a negro entered the house of Mrs. Price, in Lewistown, tied chloroform over her mouth, stole all the money: , in the house, amounting to about Sloe, and various articles of value, and then de camped leaving the woman in a dying condition. LCZEHNE COUNTY The boatmen along the 'Wyoming canal are on a "strike." This, in con nection with the strike of the miners, has caused a cessation of operations in nearly all the collieries.—Wilkesbai re is suffering from the prevalence of row dyism. Country people are afraid to visit the town, and do their tradingelse where.—A powder mill near Wapwal lopen recently exploded, injuring two men so badly that but slight hopes are entertained of their recovery. MONTGOMERY COUNTY In this county they continue thegood old custom of preaching "Harvest Ser mons," after the crops are gathered in and the work of harvesting completed. During the present month sermons of this kind will be preached everywhere throughout the county. The store of Mr. James Tray, at Conshohocken, was recently robbed of $2OO in money and $1,500 in bonds and mortgages.—A little girl named Barbara Bower, of Nor ristown, fell into a bucket of hot water and was scalded to death. IN PHILADELPHIA, Chicago, Cincin nati, Cleveland, Washington and Rich mond, there are no other banks than those under the National Bank act. In New York city there are yet 15 in oper ation under the State law ; in Boston, 1; in Baltimore, 7; in Pittsburg L 1 ; in Albany, 1; in St. Louis, 4 ; in .Louis vine, 10; in Detroit, 2 ; in Mi twankee, 3. MNff= The ConsOtritoks Incidents of the Trip to the TorttignS , - -What they say as to their Sentence— Ac k nong eagments ()Mudd, Arnold and O'LatighUn—Spangler Protests his In nocence. The Washington Star has some in teresting particulars of the trip of the - United States steamer Florida, Lieut. Commander Budd, which conveyed Dr. Mudd, Spangler, O'Laughlin and Ar nold to the Dry Tortugas. They were in charge of Gen. Dodd, and to Surgeon Potter was assigned the medical care. Accompanying the prisoners were Cap tain Dutton, of the Veteran Reserve Corps, with a guard of 2S men. Colonel Turner, Assistant Judge Advocate Gen eral, was also a passenger, and went out to examine into the mode of keeping and treating prisoners at tle Dry Tor tugas. The Star's account, after stating that the prisoners, when they left Wash ington, and until after their arrival at Fortress Monroe, were entirely ignorant of their destination, proceeds as follows : l'he prisoners were allowed to be to gether at times during the trip, and they frequently engaged in agame of d raughts (ke., dining the day, but at night they were placed in separate state-rooms, closely guarded. The weather during the whole trip was pleasant, and but one on board (mudd) was sea-sick, and he on the first day at sea only. They were considerably depressed in spirits soon after starting, anti when informed of their destination by Olen. Dodd, after leaving Port Royal on the 21st, they be came gloomy, but on reaching the Tortugas, and finding it an island of about thirteen acres, enjoying a fine sea Breese and comparatively healthy, they expressed themselves as agreeably sur prised, anti became more buoyant in spirits. On landing and seeing com fortable quarters inside the fort, and a clump of cocoanut trees and other vege tation growing, and noticing the other prisoners confined there in good spirits, they soon became quite cheerful. There tire about 35U prisoners con lined at the Dry 'Tortugas at this time, who are well treated, and scent ingly enjoy life as well as they could in conflement anywhere. At present there are but nine persons on the sick list, a fact which speaks well for the treatnient of the .prisoners. The Huth New York Volunteers, Col. Hamilton, has been on duty here for the past sixteen months. Florida reached the Tortugas (about no miles from Key \Vest) at noon on the July, and Uen. Dodd, with his charge, inunediately landed. Sam. Arnold' was immediately assigned to a desk as clerk in the engineer de partment, he being familiar with such work. Spangler at once noticed work men shingling some of the buildings, and expressing a wish to tide a hand in his own business, was permitted to resume the hatchet and saw. Dr. S. A. Mudd arrived just in the nick of time, the surgeon of the post, who has been there for six years past, stating that he wished an assistant. Dr. Mudd was no tified that he would in future be ex pected to follow the practice of medieinu among tile prisoners. O'Laughlin had not, when the Florida left on the morn ing of the 2ilth haul his work allotted to him, but would no doubt be assigned sonic suitable occupation. On the trip 1)r. Mudd acknowledged to Captain Budd, (leneral Dodd and others, that he knew Booth when ho came to his house, with Harold, on the morning after Die assassination, but that he was afraid to tell of his having been there, fearing the life of himself and family would he endangered thereby. lie knew that Booth would never be taken alive. Ile also acknowledged that lie had been acquainted with Booth for some time, and that he was with Booth at the National Hotel on the evening referred to by Weichman ; that he met Booth in the street, and Booth said he wanted him (.Mudd) to intro duce hins to John Surratt; that they started up 7th street, on their way to Mrs. Surratt's house, and on their way they met John Surma. and 'Weiviiman, and returned to Booth's room at the National, where lie and John Surratt had some vonversation of a private character. Ile said that the military commission in his case had done their duty, and, as faras they were concerned, the sentence in his ease was just; but some of the witnesses had sworn falsely and malii•iously. O'Laughlin acknowledged that the court had done its duty, and said that he was in the plot to capture the Presi dent, but that after the ineffectual at tempt in March, when the party hoped, to have captured the coach containing the President, he thought that the en tire project was given up, and it was, as far as lie was emicerned. Ile denies positively that lie had any part or knowledge in tile plot to assassinate the President, lien. t (rant or any one else. Sam. Arnold made about the same statement as he did before the trial— that he was in the plot to capture, but not to assassinate; that that had failed, and he considered himself out of it, and never knew anything about the assas sina( bethought, was gotten up by Ihmlh only a few hours before executing it. lie thought the court could not have done otherwise than it did. lie expressed his sorrow that he had been led into the plot to capture by Email and others, and expressed him self thankful that the punishment was 7111 I.vorse. Spangler talked considerably during the trip, but, like the others, was de spondent it times, in the uncertainty about their place of destination. While on the voyage he expressed some im patienee at his own stupidity in not, Lacing recollected, while on trial, a cir cumstance in connection with Booth's escape front the stage, that would have told materially to his (Spangler's) :td vantage. Some of the testimony went to show that Spangler had slammed the (leer to after Booth's exit, in a way to hinder immediate pursuit. Spangler ways itquite escaped his recollection that some tint). previous to the Assassination a patent spring had been put on the dour for the purpose of closing it when left carelessly open. Ile says, however, that he supposed the court had done right, and if they gave hint plenty of work and plenty to eat, he was satisfied; although he was not guilty, and knew nothing of Booth's inten tions. lie says that he did say to Booth "I will do all I can for you ;" but that it was in reference to selling his f Booth's) horse and buggy, and that it was three days before the assasination. Ile says that seine of the witnesses lied in their testimony, especially about his slapping any one in the mouth and telling hint to keep Ids mouth shut. The oil - leers in charge of the prison ers carried out their instructions fully, and before leaving they received the thanks of each of the prisoners for the kind treatment to them. Indiana County The Democracy of Indiana county met last Monday in convention and nomina ted a county ticket. For the Legislature the following gentlemen were selected, subject, of course, to the decision of the district conferees: Captain Henry B. Piper, of Westmoreland county', James Ruffedge, of Westmoreland county, and James B. Sansom, of Indiana county. We have the pleasure of the acquaint ance of the latter, the present editor of the Indiana /kJ/toe/we, and formerly connected with the press in Fulton county, and vouch for his intelligence and integrity. We feel assured that, if the Democracy of Westmoreland colln ty does its full duty, the ticket will be elected. We dislike to put down at this early day the predictions of our friends in Westmoreland, but feel certaian that it will surprise some negro suffrage gen tlemen next October.—Pitebury Post. A Big Raul A man named Guy, an employee in the Paper Mill of Stonebraker & Cook, near this place, whilst assorting some old paper, came across $15,000 in Notes, of the Hagerstown Bank, done up in a package. This package, strange to say, had mysteriously disappeared from the Bank and now fortunately turned up as above described. Mr. Guy promptly re turned the money to the institution, and received a reward of $l5O for his honesty.—iiager•slourn Mail. W. W. WhirrLlisAv, a Clerk in the Land Office, has been detected in steal ing $lOO,OOO from the Treasury. He has been arrested and is injail in Wash ington. Several years ago when some bonds were stolen from the Interior Depart ment, by a Clerk, not only the adminis tration of Mr. Buchanan, but the whole Democratic party was held responsible therefor. How would the Republican party feel now if they were held for the crime of Whittlesay ? But the Demo cratic party isnot so illiberal.--Lebanon Advertiser.
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