1441 #l4-7-.-- tUrgitici. INESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1865 'The printing presses shall be free to every it7whei undertakes to examine the pro ceedings_ of the legislature, or any branch of goverTenent; and. no law shall ever be made to rettrithLthe right thereof: The free connnu nicatlianotthought and opinions - is one of the Invaluable rights of men; and every citizen may freely:speak, write and print on any sub ject ;hang responsible for the abuse of that Iffiertp. In prosecutions for the .publication of papers investigating the official conduct of offi cers, dr men in public capacities, or where the matter published Is proper for public informs. tion;- the truth thereof may be given in evi dence...V. . _County Committee Meeting. Thß-_ 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. STRINM.X...c, Secretary. Lancaster, August Ist, 1885. =NAMES OF THE COMMITTEE. Adamstown—Samuel Styer. Bart—J. D. Laverty. Brecknock—H. E. Shimp. Cmrnarvou—Levi H. Bear. Clay—Edwin Elser. Cocaße° F.ngtCyrus Ream. Cocalico West; Jesse Reinhold. Coleraln—S. W. Swisher. Columbia—N. W.—H M. North. " . S. W.—William Patton. COnestoga—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 Duchman. Earl West—Jacob Bear. Eden—William Dungan. Elizabethtown Bor.—H. T. Shultz. Elizabeth—T. Masterson. Ephrata—Jeremiah Mohler. Fulton—William F. Jenkins. Hempfleld Fast—Levi Saner. Hemptleld West—John M. Weller. Lampeter East—H. W. Dora. 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. Swart. " W. Ward—A. J. Steinman " —S. E. Ward--Sam'l Pat [arson S. W.Ward-Dr. H. Carpenter Manheim Bor.—Nathan Worley. Manheim Twp.—li. J. M cGrann. Manor—Geo. G. Brush. Marietta—F. K. Curran. Martic—Wm. N. Gibson. Mount Joy Bor.—Henry Shaffner. Mount Joy Twp.—J. S. Baker. Paradise—Cleo. L. Eckert. Penn—James McMullin. Pequea—John Sener. Providence—John Tweed. Rapho—Jos. Petweiler. Sarlsbury—Wm. Hay. Salisbury—S. Basler Black. Strasburg Bor.—Samuel I'. Bower. Strasburg Twp.—Franklin Clark. Warwick—R. It. Tsliudy. Washington Bor.—Joseph E. Charles. A Valuable Advertising Medium We would call the attention of the owners, sellers and buyers of real estate to the superior advantages of the Daily and lircekly Intclligtnecr as an adver tising medium. It is the only Demo- cratic paper in the county of Lancaster, and we are prepared to prove that near ly all the most valuable property of the description named which was sold last fall in this county was purchased by subscribers to this paper. In this connection, we refer our readers to the valuable properties which are at present advertised for sale in our columns. Capital vs. Labor A good and wise government, says a contemporary, is that which meddles with the natural rights of its people as little as possible. The large body of a nation are the producers ; they number at least a inc-lenths of the entire popula tion, and as these nine-tenths create the wealth of the entire country, it is but just that this wealth should be properly distributed. The laws of a nation should respect the rights of the pro ducers, and not be made to serve solely the purposes of the capitalists or non producers, as is the case whenever the interest question is discussed in legisla tive bodies. Look at the state of things to-day, and see the result of dishonest legislation in Congress. The great war debt, as it now stands, (but which will be nearly double when the whole comes to be summed up), draws the enormous sum of klO - ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIVE MILLIONS per year; but while the poor man has to work to pay this interest, the rich man, who in vests his surplus in the debt, is not re quired to pay a dollar from his income from that source towards the sum total or this huge interest, for Congress says to him, "if you will take a portion of the great war debt, your income from that source shall not to be touched—the taxes on the poor man's earnings shall be large enough to avoid the necessity of your partingwith any portion of the large interest you re ceive from the public bonds ;" and so the rich bondholder escapes the general taxation for National, State, County, School and Municipal purposes. Now, what is the effect of this unfair, un equal and corrupt legislation? It results in this: that the immense public debt, finally amounting to probablygei - FIVE THOUSAND MILLIONS, more than one-third the wealth of the country at this time, falls upon only two-thirds of the property; the other third escapes entirely. In this way labor carries not only its own proportion of taxes, but that of the rich drones, also, as far as the war debt is concerned. This is the injury which capital inflicts upon labor, through dishonest legislation, and it is this infliction under which the masses of the people are now writhing, and which, if not soon checked, will even tually grind them into the very dust. We are opposed to repudiation of the debt in any shape or form. The faith -1:1f the Nation is pledged for its pay ment, and that pledge must be redeem ed under any and all circumstances. But We shall continue to insist upon equality of taxation to meet our National obliga tions. We want every man to con tribute- according to his wealth—the boridholder of the Government as well as the farmer, mechanic, or laboring man. The blessings of government, like the dews of heaven, fall alike upon rich and poor, and so should its bur thens. There should be no antagonism between capital and labor. They should go hand in hand in a joint effort to sus tain the credit of the country, and ben -at alike all classes of our fellow-citi zens. Military Arrest in Trenton,"N. J Col. Early, coming out of a barber shop, in Trenton, was accosted by a sol • dier drunk. The Colonel sent a guard, 'and shut up Mr. Webber's hotel. Web ber had nothing to do with the matter, and the man did not come from his house. Webber got out a process against the Colonel, and the latter had to re :move his guard over the hotel. The Trenton Republican paper says: There is but one opinion expressed— . and that is, that the closing of Mr. Webber's house was an unwarrantable and unjustifiable violation of the -rights of the citizen. It is time :that the military authorities un 'Alerstood that they, as well as others, are subject to the law, and that there -must be very satisfactory reasons indeed '.for interfering with individual rights.— Tersonal insult from a discharged sol ..dier will furnish no excuse for taking .possession of the prOperty of a quiet and claw abiding citizen. WE observe that Messrs. Campbell & of the Fort Wayne (Ind.) Times, have purchased the Sentinel of that city, and have united the two papers as the Times and Sentinel, under the editorial upervisiou of H. S. Knapp, Esq., an Able.writer from Ohio. The new firm possess all the ability and enterprise to - make a first-class jour al, and as to their Democracy "we'll bet our pile" tbat a truerkind is not to be found any where. People Endorse It? Do the people of Pennsylvania com prehend the idea and aim of the. Radi cals who lead the'Republican party, so _called, in theßastern, Westerny. , and to a great extent the *iddle i3tateal'Aie you, fellow-citizens, preintred to kiss the hand that smites you, and `surrender without a struggle your noble pride .of race—yourself respect—the principles upon which our Government was founded, at the dictation of the men who have dragged the Republican party into the mire of Negro Equality? Read what the New York Independent (Rev. Henry "Ward Beecher's paper) lays down as the future before you, if theradical policy succeeds. In one of its late issues is the following plain and emphatic airowal of what is expected to be ac complished for the Negro : " We are pleading earnestly with the State to abolish the distinction of caste by universal suffrage. We see that this will inevitably lead, not to the end the present Governor of Louisiana declares —the surrender of that country to the black man,—but to the equality of black with the white • the occupancy of office without regard to color; the elevation of the negro to the governorship, the sena torship,-the judgeship, by the side of his whiter kindred; the obliteration of all marks of distinction and separation be tween men and men. Can we prevent the Catholic and the Irish from holding office in this city? No more can the negro be prevented holding office in Mississippi and South Carolina, in every Southern State ; for, where they are not a majority in the State, they are in cer tain localities, and in these will rise to office and power." These are the sentiments of one of the most influential Republican papers in the North. It represents such men as Charles Sumner, Horace Greeley, Thaddeus Stevens, Salmon P. Chase, and a majority of the leading men of that party in every State north of Mason and Dixon's line. This is the dark pro gramme which is laid down for the peo ple of Pennsylvania, and for which your votes are solicited in October next. In supporting the candidates of the Re publican party, you must vote for Negro Equality, socially and politically, and all the hideous results which will in evitably follow such a policy. The issue must be met. There is no evading it. The fanatics of New England have forced it upon the country, and they hope, under the rod of party discipline, aided by military power, if necessary, to compel you to an endorsement of their disgusting doctrines. If you have a proper regard for your race, or gov ernment, it you are a free American citizen, you will repudiate the leader ship of such heartless fanatics and brazen-faced demagogues, and vote with your white neighbors to perpetuate and strengthen a white mall's Government. A New Abolition Project General Cox, the Abolition candidate for Governor of Ohio, is afraid to avow himself favorable to negro suffrage and equality, but suggests another " plan," which, in his own words, is to "take contiguous territory in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Florida, and there, under the sovereignty of the United States, and with all the facili ties which the wealth and power of the Government can give, organize the Freedmen in a dtpendeney of the Union, analogous to the Western Ter ritories." Now, what is this "plan'?" Stripped of all verbosity, and rendered into plain Anglo-Saxon, it is simply this: After exempting the bonds issued by the Government, in the hands of North ern capitalists, from all taxation, even to pay the interest on the enormous sum of the nation's indebtedness, and casting the whole burthen upon the men and women of small means—the toilers and producers of the country— then with all the facilities which the power and wealth of the Governor can give, proridc a pion - 1(118c for the negroes the Jo lin 4 portion hi the continent, at the rirpcnsc of the white race This scheme of gigantic robbery—for it is nothing else—is to be accomplished, we suppose, by taxing the white inhabi tants of the North to the extent neces sary to secure the object of this Aboli tion leader. He proposes to depopulate this vast territory'of white people, drive them from the homes of their ances tors, and then to populate it with blacks, and thus establish a black " depend ency," to be supported at the expense of the white tax-payers of the Union. Such is the " plan " of the candidate for Governor of the so-called Union party of Ohio! We shall await, with some anxiety, the result of the election in that State, to know whether such a villainous: scheme will be endorsed by a majority of the voters. If the negroes are to be colonized anywhere within the limits of the United State:;, we think New England the most fitting place, as it would not be necessary there to expatriate the white population. Samba and Jonathan would affiliate in Massachusetts and the contiguous States without any trouble. We go in for making the experiment. Hanging Women Many of the newspapers, says the Philadelphia Lcdrici, are discussingthe inequality of the laws which will not hang women as well as men, which they attribute to a mawkish sentimen talism towards the female sex, indulged in particularly in the United States. But in England there is the same re pugnance to hanging women. Con stance Kent was the confessed author of the murder of her own brother. The penalty of her crime was death on the gallows—but public sentiment, or pub lic opinion, or both, seem to have been so powerful against that mode of punish ment, iu such a case, that banish ment in place of the halter was decreed. Now a feeling so universal as this must originate in some sense of propriety, which cannot be considered entirely " mawkish.", It is quite possible that it springs from a doubt of the propriety of hanging either a man or woman as a preventive of crime, because as an ex ample it appears to have but little effect. The tenderness of public sentiment in regard to the life of criminals, arising from an important and radical change of view now in process of growth from greater social advances, would natur rally be exhibited first toward wo men, and it is only one step further to apply the same exemption after wards to men. The moral ideas of society change with its growth and higer development, and this repugnance to destroy the life of a woman judicial ly, may be but the dawning of a new light which repugnates death altogether -as a punishment of crime. As society grows older, it grows less cruel, and is disposed to allow considera tions to influence it from a better understanding of the mental and moral phenomena which accompany crime, that would not have the slight est effect in former periods of social growth, because then but little ntidtir stood. Racking the joints, tearing limbs asunder with violence, impaling and quartering bodies, were once deem ed the proper punishment for crime, and any hint of their barbarity was probably ascribed as now to mawkish ness, whereas it was an indication of an improved tone of public sentiment. We suggest this idea only as a possible ex planation of a very universal feeling against hanging women. Whether the sentiment is founded in enlightened justice, or in sound morals, we leave for time to develop. A correspondent of the New York Advertiser, writing from Sa-vannah,up on the present spirit of the people; says M Themats.who thinks. that a inag zianimptis &hey will ivail 'any thinein this region is a fool.: Strong, positive measures, must . be continued, or we shall have to pass through the scenes of the past four years again. My opinion is that three-fourths of the people here are honestly desirous of accepting quiet ly the changed state of affairs, and abiding faithfully by it. The other fourth part, made up of the men who inaugurated the rebellion, are sullen and dissatisfied, and only, wait- for a - good opportunity to try thelehands at 'a new rebellion. Could you only sit viith me one hour under the oaks in fronrof the Pulaski House, you would not deem this opinion harsh. You would hear the chivalry of the South reveling in curses and abuses , of everything and everybody—whining, because, in losing the negro, they think they have lost their all. They sit here, these gallant scions of chivalry, neither doing nor trying to do anything—cursing the Government, because it permits the negro to work for himself, instead of working to support the miserable and worthless fellows that they are." `lf three-fourths of the people, says the Philadelphia Ledger, are honestly desirous of accepting the measures of the Government and abiding by them, a very wonderful change indeed has been effected in a very short time. It cannot reasonably be expected that a whole community will be of one way of thinking; but a proportion of three fourths in favor of faithfully complying with the Government requirements, is certainly a most extraordinary evidence of concurrence of sentiment upon pub lic policy. if "magnanimity" has done this, then magnanimity is the success ' ful policy, and fully sustains President Johnson's views of the proper mode of dealing with the people of the States in rebellion. As foi the one-fourth ,of dis satisfied, disappointed and sullen spir its, very little danger need be appre hended from them. They are cut off, by their own conduct, from any politi cal influence—for they must yield their prejudices enough to take the oath of allegiance before they can take part in moulding the political affairs of the State, and then can scarcely :become leaders, with the experience that the people have had of the perils and mis fortunes into which they have led the country. The influence possessed, through the wealth and consideration which they had formerly held, is gone —and every step the people take in the direction of the restoration of their po litical rights, and the security which this will bring to their persons and pro perty, will tend to lower still further the pretensions of these self-styled leaders. A sensible people will rely upon those who restore them their rights and privileges, and not upon those who advise conduct which would deprive them of these inestimable securities. The correspondent of the Commercial unconsciously furnishes facts which lead to the opposite of his conclusions, and are a strong vindication of Presi dent Johnson's policy. A Plain Case Stated At the risk of exciting still farther the ire of the Express and its shoddy correspondent, " CoNEsTocii," and to illustrate how unjustly and unequally such taxation, or rather 7?on-taxation as we have been combatting, we copy the following article from the Troy (N. Y.) Press, the point of which is as applica ble in Pennsylvania as it is in any other State: " The government has needed money, and gone to the people as a borrower. These loans have been advertised as " The Patriotic Loan," and those who have invested in them have been lauded as doing their needy country a very es sential service. Without disputing this, the enquiry is a fair one, if, while serv ing their country, those who have loan ed have not served themselves? To il lustrate : A, a Troy real estate owner, to the amount of '..)).2.)),o01), concluded last March to sell out and invest in 7-30's. He found a customer'in B, who had the ready money to pay down. Let us fol low the two from March to March, and get at their profits as near as may be. Real estate in ordinary times should return in gross ten per cent. We will say B gets this (but he won't) this year: Income from rents, te., therefore...s2,ooo 00 The following are his expenditures': State, city and ,•ounty tax, 5 per et.. 51,000 00 Insurance (say' 40 00 Repairs (say) 300 00 1,340 00 Deducting this sum from his income from rents we., leaves i7.4:;60 00 Deduct further, government income tax (3 per cent.) 10 80 Total profits on investno $Oll 20 This is B's account. Let us see how A, who invested in government securi ties comes on'. His investment is free from every species of tax except the in come tax. He receives an interest of $7.30 on the hundred, making his an nual interest on his invest- ment, - - - - $1,460 0 Deduct income tax, - - 43 81 1,41G20 Here, while A has made $1,410.20 on his $20,000 investment in government securities, B, who took A's $20,000 real estate off his hands, has made but $641.20. Suppose the New Hampshire law should be generally adopted, and A called upon to pay his twenty-live per cent. tax on his government securities, he would pay S3•i4 t ; leaving A still an income of $1062 15 ; or, $412 35 more than B receives on his real estate. A, as days go by, has no cares about his investment. He knows his interest is certain. He enjoys all the privileges of good streets, gas light, police, fire de partment; sends his children to the free schools, votes at elections, relies upon the State laws for protection of his per son and to secure justice to himself and his family—for all of which he pays not a cent, because his property consists of government securities. But all the while B pays roundly in the city, coun ty and State taxes and lie pays double because A don't itttv ‘toything. We submit that this sort of " patriot ism" may as well be a little modest.— ['he self-sacrifice for one's country which shifts burdens from its own shoulders to the shoulders of others, may be enti tled to a crown of glory—but people, who stop to think., " don't see it." The Benefit of Kindness—Tne Will of Madame Jumell Burr The country pastor of a small Epis copal Church, near Carmansville, New York, who was very kind to Madame Jumell Burr, recently deceased, and the widow of Aaron Burr, was appointed by her, just before her death, residuary legatee of her estate, worth about $700,- 000 to 5800,000, from which he will prob ably realize a very handsome indepen dence. She also left means enough to erect a new church for the rector, who was kind and devoted to the old lady when she ]lad shut herself out from the world, and have grown so moody and misanthropic as to have few friends. Ex-President Pierce The New York Tribune thus cleverly touches off the sensation paragraphs that periodically go the rounds of the "loyal" press in reference to that distinguished statesman and incorruptible patriot, ex- President Franklin Pierce : The Associated Press telegraphs from Nashville a letter written by President Pierce to Jefferson Davis in 1860, and it is publishedas asensation in yesterday's papers. It is a very old story, was printed two years ago, and has served two or three political campaigns. If the agents of the Associated Press are em barrassed for the want of matter to tele graph, let them send us something fresh and new, the Declaration of Indepen dence for instance. THE State of lowa will lose $600,000 expended to raise troops for the General Government, on account of the igno rance or dishonesty of her Republican State officials. " Brick " Pomeroy wickedly adds—Well farmers of lowa— it's all for the nigger—sweat it out: The - Great Winnebago on the War PatlG It Seems that the patron saint of red herrings and Scotch ale, the United'- States .Senatilr from Pennsylvania—in: expectancy—in the -early part of, the. present week put his house in order"; conned over for the last time the little - speech prepared by ills private secretary ;. and, having notified all the retainers of the clan of Lochiel at Philadelphia to be ready with their horns, took the train on Thursday for the Quaker City. In due time he was landed at the Girard, painted, plumed, clubbed and speared for the war path against Congressman Kelley .and his compeers. About 10 o'clock, thd same night, the clan gath- . ered—the - brass tocsins sounded the at tack—and Simon "waded in" with a big war talk. - Said he : "I suppose I am indebted for this flatter ing demonstration to the feeling relative to the recent appointments." How sly—as though he hadn't plan ned the whole thing himself. If he did not what reason had he to " suppose " that was the reason rather than that his great popularity (!) in general, and ex traordinary public services (!) in partic ular, had drawn it forth? Then he supposes again. Said he: "I suppose I owe the honor mainly to the Congressmen of Philadelphia, who, for some reason or other, sought to render these gentlemen unpopular by calling them my friends. " I am proud to believe that they are my friends, for all the gentlemen holding office under the Government in this city are faith ful officers, honest and true men to the Gov ernment and the Union." Having thus got the range upon Kelly and his friends, and put the balm of flattery to the wounds of the ejected officials, he then rolled in his heaviest shot, in this wise : "I am opposed to the assumption of power by men elected for a very different purpose. Permitting these gentlemen to dictate to the President whom he shall ap point, is giving the whole power of the Ex ecutive to them. It is very proper for them, when asked for their opinions, to give them, but they must not attempt to force them upon the Executive of the country. (Ap plause.) There was a time, and within my memory, too, when the term Member of Congress from Philadelphia was synony mous with greatness. " In those days members were Inc proud to loiter about the departments in Wash ington, hunting up jobs, or meddling with little appointments, with one vote in the hall and two in the lobby. They devoted their time and their great abilities to build ing up the prosperity of the city, and ad ding to the interests of the people ti ey rep resented, and if their example had always been imitated, Philadelphia would not now be the second instead of the first city in the Union. "While I admit the wisdom of the Demo cratic doctrine of rotation in office—proper rotation I mean—l believe that dishonest men, men unfitted for their places, should be removed. " We are too much in the habit of allow small men, in this great State of ours, regulate our affairs. Instead of squab -1.,1,,x a bout little offices, men's minds should h., turned to the great resources of the Com monwealth. "Let the gentlemen turn their attention tee the developing our coal, our iron, our timber and our ()11, so that every man among us mav enjoy his part of these great blessings, With which God has endowed our glorious Commonwealth and then - their constituents and their fellow-citizens every where will have reason to thank them. In this way they can best discharge the great duties they have undertaken to perform. - We are not prepared to take excep tion to the pertinence of truthfulness of the above strictures—on the contrary we believe there is too much truth in them—but they show a clear case of " Satan reproving sin." Who that has heard of Simon's Indian transactions; of his railroad administration ; of Lebo, Manear and Wagonseller; of Thos. J. Boyer; of Alexander Cummings and his straw hats, red herrings and Scotch ale, can for a amoment have patience to listen to a diatribe from Simon Cameron upon public virtue, or offi cial duty and honesty. Just from the convention of Dauphin county, where, through fraud anti pur chases, the legislative nominations were made from among his creatures with a view to his own election by the Legislature as United States Senator to the coining session, it ill became him to talk to Kelley and others about "squab bling for little offices," about "develop ing ourcoal, iron, timber and oil," about "greatness," about "pride," about "jobs"—in fact, about anything. 11e should have held his peace. His vul nerability is notconfined to a single heel, but the whole carcass and character of the individual is open to successful as sault. - What a mockery for Simon Cam eron to talk of honesty, duty, &c., to Judge Kelley, or any other man ! Look at the following extract from the report of the Van Wyck Investigating Com mittee of 1862, appointed by Congress, and then say if the Great Winnebago should couch a lance with anybody pos sessing a scintilla of honesty. Says the report : " In the judgment of the Committee, the employment of Mr. Cummings by the Sec retary of War, to purchase army supplies, charter vessels, (tc., In the exclusion of the competent otlieers in the publicranployment or New Fork, was 11.11just0able and injurious to the public interests and a il ang ec o it s pre cedent. The public interests demand more rigor, system and promptness , and no condition of public affairs has justified this ',oust , : and IRREM - LA It performance of public ditties. Such a system of public policy must lead inevitably toper,sonatjaroritism at thcpub/ic expense,theconm - P ric es Op PUBLIC MORALS, :Ind RUINOUS PIWULW ACV in the expendi ture of the public Tit EAS CITE, 0111411iZing an ARMY of Sapper., and miners, WflosE covEnT ASSAULTS ON Tun NATioN (con1(1 scarcely be less '(reek re than Mc OPEN AS SAULTS OF rrs TnArroamss ENEMIES. - After such an unequivocal and unan swerable condemnation, should Simon twit Kelley—should the kettle call the pot black Let our readers judge.— Patriot and Union. The Last Military Necessit3." .LIDQS. DISTRICT OF PENN'A, DHILADELVIIIA, Aug. 7, 1565. GENERAL ORDERS, O. I.—lncompliance with instructions from the commanding general, Middle Military Departn tent, dated Baltimore, Aug. 5, 156.5, the undersigned hereby assumes command of the District of Pennsylvania, embracing the State of Penn sylvania. The staff officers of the Department of Pennsylvania will remain on duty in their respective positions in the District of Penn sylvania until otherwise ordered. A. A. HUMPHREYS, - fajor-General Commanding. Jour S. SCHULTZ, Assistant Adjutant- General. Is Pennsylvania in revolution ? Then why Meade and his staff—over a dozen of officers of all grades—at the rate of $50,000 a year? Why Hutnphreys, with his state; say as much more? Why two deputy marshals, most:an and lots of clerks ; as much more ? In all $150,- 000 a year i to nianage Pennsylvania— quite as quiet and far more patient than New Hampshire and Connecticut, which threaten to tax the holders of government bonds. Pennsylvania don't threaten that, but in her riches pays in addition a battalion of high officers, enough to officer sixty regiments, when she has not 2,000 soldiers in her borders. We trust the day is not fardistantwhen she will not have any ; especially so long as her " niggers" keep quiet, as they must do with all these big generals lying around loose—" loose " enough, God knows !—Rarrisbursi Patriot. General Meagher General Meagher is in St. Paul, Minn. o n his way to Montano, of which terri tory he has been appointed Secretary.— He made a speech in St. Paul, last week, and among thepolitical absurdities with which it abounds, we find the annexed declaration of the duties of the citizen : " I contend that the chief magistrate should have the unqualified support of every citizen of the republic, and that this support should be independent of and supperior to every political consid eration. It is a tame and beggarly pa triotism, indeed, which professes to support the executive as iong as the ex ecutive is right." We presume the Queen's counsel in certain State trials in Ireland, in 1848, used similar language ; and from this source, the General must have drawn his inspiration. To our mind, itis not only "a tame and beggarly patriotism" which supports the President when he is wrong, but a very pitiful, cringing and obsequious patriotism. The theory of General Meagher is the very essence ofabsolutism—the king can do no wrc ng —and under it, Hampden, and Sydney and Washington and Jefferson, would deserve the execration, instead of the praise of mankind. It is the privilege of freemen to canvass the acts of their rulers, and their duty to condemn un just and tyrannical administrations, as freely as they applaud evidences of un selfish patriotism and reverence for the constitutional guarantees of the citizen. —Pittsburg Post. Unequal Taxation. There is no question now before,the American people that concerns them so directly, as that of debt and taxation.— .Tlin National debt.is not far from four thoirsind millions, and Ole annual ex penses of the Government; as it is being new - conducted, is about five hundred and ten millions of dollars. This esti mate is based upon the following calcu lation: - Interest tm Debt, $240,000,000 'Standing Army, 120,000,000 Government Expenses, 150,000,000 Total, yearly, $510,000,000 The important question to consider is, how is this.vast sum to be raised? The revenue from imported goods is about $80,000,000 annually. From stamps, and every source reached by the Inter nal Revenue Laws, about '5250,000,000, making a total of $330,000,000, leaving a balance against the Government of $180,000,000 annually. It may be said that we have $100,000,000 of currency on which no interest is paid. Deduct 860,000,000 on that account, and we will have still a balance of $120,000,000 annually against the Government, and we shall continue to run in debt that amount unless something is done to stop the expense. The great amount of taxation neces sary to meet the demands of this enor mous debt, shouldbeequally distributed among all classes; especially should those most able to pay their share be made to do so. The unequal manner in which the burthen has thus far been forced upon the people, has become an evil which should be exposed and dis cussed until provision is made for its remedy. It is well known that an im mense amount of property escapes tax ation entirely. This has been the case for many years, but the taxes were so small before the war, that no very gen eral complaint was made with reference to it. -Now the aspect of the question has changed. The taxes have become enormous, and with this increase comes also additional exemptions. The United States securities, absorbing a large amount of the capital of the country, and affording a large increase to the holder by way of interest, are declared to be free from tax, and the agents of the General Government decide that the States have no right to pass laws to compel them to bear a single dollar of the public expense. The consequence is, that the men of small property, the farmers, mechanics and laboriwr ° men, bear an unequal share of the burthen of taxation. The man whose property consists mainly of a house and lot, is taxed upon all he is worth, because he is generally assessed at a high figure, while his neighbor worth ten times as much, whose proper ty is mainly invested in United States securities, gets off with a tax upon but a small portion of it. The day laborer with small means often pays as heavy a tax as a man worth thousands of dol lars; anti a men owning real estate of the value of $2,000 or $5,000, often pays a larger tax than his neighbor who has $20,000, invested in ways that cannot be reached by the assessor.— It has been suggested that the most apparent cemedy for this is, to compel every one to make to the asses sors a return of his property under oath, and to provide proper penalties for false returns. This would do much towards remedying this great wrong. The im mense capital swallowed up in the na tional debt, is withdrawn from the tax paying ability of the country, and of course the burden thusshirked is added to the sums demanded of the holders of other classes of property. The farmer, the mechanic, the manufacturer, and the merchant, must divide amongthem the share of taxes justly falling upon their rich neighbor, who, having his money in ready cash, has put it into bonds drawing high interest in gold, while he goes free. One pays no taxes whatever, while the other is not only obliged to pay what legitimately belongs' to him, but the rich man's share in ad dition. Is it true that a man who has loaned to the government, paper money worth not over fifty cents on a dollar, and received a promise of a return of a dollar in gold for every dollar in paper, and seven and three-tenths per cent. interest, also in gold, has made such a sacrifice as to entitle him to forever after receive the protection of government without paying for it? Is it just to those who happen to own property that could not be so readily converted into bonds, that they should have their burdens thus in creased for the benefit of the govern ment creditor? The men who aided the government by fighting its battles, and imperilling their lives on the field, do not receive any such consideration—no such pension. They come home, and are obliged to join with the rest of us in the ranks of the great army of tax-payers that is toiling to raise the 7-30's for the idle bond holders who contribute noth ingt, to the public tre- y. There is no reason is ' the owner of a Government bond sho 10 not pay the same tax that is imp . d upon any oth er property of the same character. A writer ill Hunt's Merchants' Magazine says "these stocks can be found in every city, town and village in the country; hence the evil and the wrong is uni versally felt. This immense and unjust exemption will do more to make the national debt odious, and endanger its utter repudiation, than anything else whatever."—_f !bony _I rg us. The Reason for Negro Suffrage The N. Y. Lidcpendcitt, Beecher's paper, gives the reason why the elective franchise should be extended to the negro. It is for the purpose of offsetting the Irish or Catholic vote. This idea is to form a plank in the religious cru sade the fanatics are seeking to inaugu rate. Speaking of the Irish and the negro, this Republican organ says : These two classes are the supplement of each other. Each is rich in the qualities lacking in the other. To one the franchise is granted from his birth, or after a temporary residence. The other must raise from poverty to be worth 52,30 before he can vote in New York. In States west and south of New York lie can not vote at all. Now, if it is desirable to meet the positive Catholic element in politics or religion by one equally positive in other direction, we have but to clothe the black with the same political power we have already given the white. True, the black is un cultivated and ignorant ; but so is the Irish. In all our political debates on this question, we remember of no argu ment against the black voter that is not equally adverse to an Irish one. And the black voter has these advantages ; his instincts are on the side of freedom and protestantism, he is more suscepti ble of cultivation, and he is not the tool of priests or laymen. The gift of fran chise to the black i 11.511 res the perpetuity of free education and religion in our land, Give the black man a vote, and every Southern State will be loyal, every Northern State true to freedom. Re fuse him the franchise, and the rebellion will not be ended with the generation which gave it birth. The negro is put in the field by the agitators, to offset the Catholics, among whom the Nashville (iazettc mentions the following generals who have led the National armies during the war : Major Generals W. T. Sherman, Philip H. Sheridan, Geo. G. Meade, W. S. Rosecrans, Quincy A. Gilmore, E. 0. C. Ord, John C. Foster, Geo. Stone man, Jas. Shields, Daniel E. Sickles, David S. Stanley, John Newton, Alfred Pleasanton, Geo. Richardson, Joseph Carr, J. Hunt, Thos. Francis Meager. Confiscated A _New Orleans correspondent says the property of John Slidell, comprising eight hundred and forty-two lots and squares of ground, with stores, dwelling houses and a banking-house, were sold for $100,410, Before the war it was esti mated at SSOO,OOO. Confiscation at this rato is not likely to add much to the U. S. treasury by way of reimbursement of the expenses of the war. Legitimate and Volunteer Labor Adjutant General Thomas is more successful in breaking up useless Gov ernment establishments than he is in destroying the Mexican monarchy. He has broken up the military prison and hospital at Elmira, but has not made, by his speech in favor of enforcing the Monroe doctrine, a single volunteer to go and drive Maximilian out of Mexico. This ought to suggest that soldiers can better perform legitimate duties than discuss politics. New Partnership. The (so-called) Freedmen's Bureau of Mississippi has ordered that certificates of marriage for the blacks shall state that the marriages are in compliance with the Ordinance of God and the Authority of the United States Demoeratlc L T oaniy bean . " [From the Reading Gazette.) In pursuance of a call from the Chair man .of-the Democratic County Com mittee, and' in conformity to the ancient 'usage of the Democratic organization of this county; the annual meeting of the Democracy of Ber.ks was held on Tues.; day, AugustBth, 1865, atone o'clock P; M., in the Court House at Reading. At the appointed hour CoL J. D. Davis, as Chairman- of the' Democratic County Committee, called the meeting to order ; and, on motion of J. Hagenman, Esq., Daniel Zerbey, Esq., of Centre town ship, was chosen President. By the further election of several Secretaries, and one Vice President from each dis trict, the organization was completed. On motion of Col: J. D. Davis, a Com- - mittee on Resolutions, consisting of one from each township, borough and ward was appointed. During the absence of the Committee, Hon. Mester Clymer, J. Lawrence Getz, S. E. Ancona and J. K. McKenty, were successively called upon to address the meeting. They briefly responded, and gave way, to afford the younger Demo crats who were present, an opportunity to be heard. The meeting was then further addressed, at some length, by Richmond L. Jones, Augustus S. Sass aman and Israel C. Becker, Esqrs. (Iq. Sassaman spoke in German.) The Committee, through Col. Davis, their Chairman, reported the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted: Resolved, That the Democracy of Berks county, in County Meeting assembled, hereby reaffirm their life long devotion to the Constitution of our Country as inter preted by the Statesmen who made it, and to the Union of the States, as formed by them. Resolved, That we congratulate the peo ple of the whole country on the restoration of peace, and their consequent relief from the horrors of a civil war, brought about by the demagogues of both sections—the origi nal Secessionists of the South and the origi nal Abolitionists of the North—both classes avowed disunionists. Resolved, That the restoration of the Union must now be accomplished by the exercise of a wise Statesmanship, untram meled by partizan bitterness or sectional hatred. Resolved, That the time will soon come, when the passions of the war having cooled and nothing remaining but its terrible bur dens and its dark and bloody memories, the people will universally recognize the infamous conduct of the Black Republican Majority in the Congress of the winter of 1800 and 1801, in refusing their support to any scheme of conciliation—even to sub mit the Crittenden Compromise to a vote of the people. Andrew Johnson said, on De cember 18, 1800: " This Congress here to day has it in its power to save this Union, even after South Carolina has gone out."— If Washington and Jefferson and Adams, notwithstanding their abhorrence of the foreign slave trade, did not feel dishonored in permitting its continuance for 20 years. in order to create the Union, the Sumners and Wades arid Wilsons might well have yielded something of their fanaticism toprc serve it. The future will hold them respon sible. Resolved, That we approve and endorse the Constitutional principle announced by the Executive of the United States, that to the people of the respective States alone be longs the right to regulate the qualifications of voters; and we believe that any attempt to interfere with or control that right, either by Military force or Congressional trickery, will be a palpable usurpation of power, which will in good time be corrected. Resolved, That as the war is now ended, we demand of the President, in the name of the people whose servant he is, an im mediate restoration of thesacred writ of per sonal liberty, a cessation of Military Com missions and Courts Martial for the trial of civilians in Stales where the Civil Courts are open, and M general a return to a gov ernment of Law by the constant recognition of that cardinal principle of our free govern ment, that the military is subordinate to the civil authority. Resoircd, That while we fully recognize the right of each State for itself to say who shall vote, yet for ourselves we believe, with Stephen A. Douglas, that this is a goy eminent of white men, made by white men, for white men and their posterity forever. Rote Iced, That 'we utterly repudiate the miserable doctrine of the Black Republi cans, that a National debt is a National blessing; on the contrary, we hold it to be a National curse, imposed upon us and our children's children forgenerations to come; a mortgage upon every man's land and la bor, a tax upon everything we eat and drink and wear, an instrument in the hands of capital, powerful for wrong; a very scourge upon the bone and sinew of the land, which they must endure through sweat and toil. To make it pos sible to maintain the National faith with the Nation's creditors, there must be the most thorough retrenchment and reform in all expenditures, State and National ; reduction of the Army and Navy to the lowest possible standard ; a more economi cal moth, for the collection of revenue de vised, by which the enormous sums paid to the horde of collectors and assessors for in adequate services may be saved. The most rigorous economy in all departments of the Government, can alone afford some slight relief from the crushing weight of this National curse. Resofrot, That the soldiers \vim served their country in this bloody struggle from the best of motives, well deserve the gener ous welcome they are receiving front their friends and countrymen, whose duty it will ever be to cherish and relieve the sor row-stricken widows and orphans of those who have fallen. Resolved, That we again heartily endorse and approve the course of our Representa tive, Hon. S. E. Ancona, in the last Con gress. Ever ready to respond in an extra ordinary degree to the private derfiands of his constituents upon his time and trouble, he was always to be found in his place in the House, whenever necessary to support by voice and vote the time•honored princi ples of Democracy. Resolved, That - the course of our distin guished fellow-citizen,Hon. Mester Clymer, in the State Senate, the acknowledged leader of our party irrt hat body, meets with the unqualified approval of his constituents. While we express our thanks to the Demo cracy of the State for the flattering vote given to Mr. Clymer in the last Guberna torial Convention, (lacking only two votes of a nomination) we hereby present him as the choice of Old Berko for Governor in 1866, confident that in the indispensable requisi ties of integrity and ability, his superior will not be named. We hereby, in the name of the Democracy of the county, request the approaching Delegate Convention to select delegates to the State Convention pledged to his support. "Poor White Trash." Our people are apt to indulge in flings at the poor whites of the South ; yet, if we had been born under the same cir cumstances, we should have been pre cisely like them ; or if we now should locate among them, weshould in the end probably, approximate their condition. Circumstances give character to men. Those who are known as "poor white trash," generally live on .fide-water; and the whole secret of their physical and mental imbecility is found in the nature of the climate and the extraordi nary facility with which they can pro cure subsistence. There is no need of much labor, because the soil yields generously, and for every day in the year there is a good dinner in the con venient water which may always be had for the taking. Men so situated won't work unless they feel like it; and if we, who pride ourselves upon our industry, realized how much of it is due to neces sity rather than choice, we should be less forward to appropriate a.s a virtue, what, after all, is but a restraint. We should find too, even in Eastern Virginia, and, of course, to a greater extent far ther South, that the degree of labor to which we are accustomed here, will be impracticable there. Then, as to mental culture, it is a fact thatthe phys ical and mental qualities of a people generally correspond. It is true that these poor whites may lack ambition ; but it is equally true that they lack fa cilities ; for the population is so scat tered that it is not easy to concentrate means and scholart enough to sustain a school system like our own. Hence the people are what circumstances make them ; and what we would very likely become under similar conditions. Then be charitable.—Manchester (N. H.) Union. Change in Sentiment Parson Brownlow, delivered a lecture on slavery, in New Orleans, about eight years ago, from which the following is an extract: "The southern portion of the Metho distchurch was doing more for the tem poral and eternal welfare of the negro, than all the shriekers out of hell • the pious Abolitionist would:enter thechurch on Sunday with a face as long as the moral law, descant upon and bewail the miseries and wrongs heaped upon the downtrodden son of Africa, and on the following day, in his picayune grocery or candy store would, if he could, swindle a Louisiana negro out of the pewter ornament on the head of his cane, and do it in the name of the Lord. ' When I, get to heaven,' continued the reverend gentleman, where I expect to go after my death, If I find a regular built Abolitionist there, I shall conclude he practiced a fraud upon the door keep er, for in my opinion, a Kansas agitator and freedom shrieker has no more busi ness in our Father's kingdom than Commodore Paulding - had in Nicaragua when he captured the fillibuaters.'" 'Mate Affairs., - MIFFLIN COUNTY Robbery.-Mrs. John Price was aroused on Tuesday morning, about 1 o'clock, by hearing a noise in her room. Open ingrher ey.t . she discovered a tall man, dressed in uni form and his face blacked ; ransacking the .drawers of her bureau. Asking him :What he wanted he said, "r - your money or your life!" He then administered chloroform to her, first telling her that if she made a noise he would kill her children. An examina tion in the morning discovered that he had taken $ll5 in money, her husband's wearing apparel, and all her sheets, pil low cases &c., but those on the beds,— Dirs.-Price is very low, from the effects of the chloroform, which must have been plentifully used. The thief gained entrance through the cellar.-Lewistown Gazette. Stolen Horse Recovered.—On Thurs day last Mr. R C. Gallagher recovered his bay horse, which was stolen out of a pasture field adjoining this borough, on the night of the Bth of June last. He got the horse at the residence of Val entine Laudenslager, in Snyder county, where he had been left.on the morning of the 10th of June by an individual for a few days on pasture, when he would again call for him. Failing to return, Mr. Laudenslager kept the horse until last week, when he advertised him in one of the Snyder county papers, which led to his recovery by Mr. Gallagher. The saddle and bridle which were on the horse when he was left with Mr. Laudenslager were also recovered. The saddle belonged to Mr. Jacob Sulouff of this borough, and was stolen out of the barn at his farm in the narrows, now in the occupancy of Jos. Dunklebarger; so that he must have carried the saddle on his back from the barn down to town —a distance of about four miles before he stole the horse. The fancy riding bridle belonged to Henry Moist, of Fer managh township.—Juniata Register. Mysterious Disappearance.—W. \V. Gingrich, postmaster of Mexico, Juniata county, left his home on Thursday last and went to Harrisburg, where he call ed upon a friend and borrowed fifteen dollars from him, and afterwards de parted for Baltimore, since which time he has not been heard of. No reason can be assigned for his delay, as he is a gentleman of good habits, and hereto fore has always been quite anxious to return home when absent on business or otherwise. He is a man of family, having a wife and six children, who are distressed on account of his not return ing, and worse on account of receiving no tidings of him. His friends have placed the affair in the hands of detec tives in the cities of Harrisburg, Balti more, Philadelphia and Washington, but as yet no intelligence has been re ceived of his whereabouts. Barn Burned.—We are informed by Henry Titzell, Esq., that the large bank barn, belonging to John C. Burns of Lack township, with all its contents consisting of all his grain, most of his hay and oats, his wagon, cart., horse gears, &e., was entirely consumed by fire on Saturday night, the 29th ult.— Wm. W. Swailes also had his grain crop in the barn which was consumed. The fire is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary. —Register. Great Fire at Womelsdorf.—Yester day morning our citizens were startled by the intelligence that the Borough of Womelsdorf in this county, some 15 miles from Reading was in flames. The Mayor immediately ordered the Rain bow Steamer and Hose Carriage, the Junior Steamer and Hose Carriage, the Liberty Hand (Suction) Engine and Hose,Carriage and the Friendship Hand Engine and Ringgold Hose Carriage to get ready and start as soon as possible for the scene of conflagration. Messrs. James Millhollaud, Jr., and W. H.,.4,....;trickland, Esq., immediately placed suitable cars for the apparatuses of the different companies on the road, and ordered the passenger engine Dove to get ready. At two o'clock the train left for Wolmensdorf, with plenty of strong arms and stout hearts to help our country friends. Our senior editor went with them, who reported the following facts concerning the fire, viz: When he arrived in Womelsdorf he found that the fire was out, and that it had destroyed the barn attached to Mr. Levi Obei ly's tavern, and one belonging to the premises of Michael Seltzer is in sured for $2,,000 and Mr. Oberly for 51,900, both in the Sinking Spring Mutual.— When the tram. w•ith the firemen ar rived at Womelsdorf, the council of the town, headed by their President, E. Penn Smith, Esq., escorted the firemen Into the town, headed by the Womels dorf Brass Baud, and treated them very handsomely. We are very happy that the exaggerated reports first brought to the city in regard to this fire, have proved groundless, and congratulate our Womelsdorf friends on their lucky escape. The fire is supposed to be the work of an incendiary --R( (Mow Times. Arrested.—Yesterday a man named Solomon Schwartz, a citizen of New York, was arrested on suspicion of at tempting to steal a horse, belonging to Mr. John Yohn, a livery man of this city. It appears he had hired the team to go in one direction, but took a con trary one, which led to this arrest. Our livery men have been sufleung lately from the depredations of horse thieves, and are consequently a little suspicious. —Times. Agricultural Exhibition.—The Berks County Agricultural Fair will be held on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, October 3d, 4th, and sth. A liberal schedule of Premiums has been agreed upon, and will be published in a few days. The following Premiums for Trotting and Pacing Horses are included in the list : Best Trotting Horse, Mare or Gelding, In harness or otherwise, open to all competitors 5250 on Second Premium, for same 150 011 Best Pacer, open to all competitors 1(10 00 Second Premium, for same 50 Of) Best Trotter, from Berks county 0n1y.... 150 00 Second Premium, for same 50 00 Best P B acer, from erks county 100 nO S rood Premium, tor same 115 15) Best Double Team, open to all com- petitors 50 CO Beast Double Team, from Bruits county. Si 00 An entrance fee of 10 per cent, on the above premiums, to be paid by compe titors.—Rcadinq liazear. Robbery in Upper Bern.—One of our subscribers in Upper Bern township, writes us that Mr. Daniel Roth, of that township, was robbed of about $lO5 last week, under the following circum stances: On the Ist of August a friend of his called on him to borrow a small sum of money, which Mr. Roth readily gave to him, and in the borrower's presence unlocked his money drawer and counted out the required amount. He then locked the drawer again, put the key at its usual place, and went to his work in the blacksmith 51101) some distance from the house, and his friend went off also. Mr. Roth never looked after his money from that time until the 6th of August, when he wanted to pay out some money. To his surprise he found the drawer locked, the key at its place, but the money was gonb! lip to this time nothing definite has been ascertained as to the guilty party, al though suspicion strongly points to the accommodated friend.—Reading Jour nal. Highway Robbery.—Yesterday two men, citizens of Philadelphia, whose names we were unable to learn, were driving a horse and buggy in Oley town ship, when one of them got out and walked in one direction, to see a person on business, whilst the latter drove on, and they were to meet each other at another point. The man in the buggy when alone was met by six men, who robbed him of his money, amounting to about slso.—Reading Reeord. York County Isaac Nunemacher ' of Codorus town ship, committed suicide lately by shoot ing himself with a pistol. A barn, owned by Henry Kottkamp, and occupied by a Mr. Kleffman, in Manchester township, was recently de stroyed by fire, with all its contents. Loss, $l,OOO, with no insurance. Two boys were burned so severely that the recovery of one of them is doubtful. Mrs. Bean, of York, met with an ac cident on the railroad, which caused her death. Suicide of a Defaulter, A. P. Stone, a Collector of Internal Revenueat Cleveland, Ohio, committed suicide a few days ago. The Ohio Statesman says : "He died a defaulter to a very large amount. Our readers are aware that he was the Collector of In ternal Revenue for this Congressional District. We have very high authority for stating that his defalcation will foot up as high as $140,000; and some put it still higher. His securities, it is official will escape responsibility on his ocial bond—as we understand, they notified the Government some time ago, that they would no longer continue to be re sponsible thereon." Mr. Stone was formerly Treasurer of the State of Ohio, elected by the Repub lican party, What "H. G." Has to Do with the "frt. - bane"—He Wants to "Fish Some" and "Farm a Little," bat the Stock holders Will not Let Him. Washington Correspondence Cincinnati Ga. zette.) Every year somebody thinks it worth while to start the statement that Horace Greeley is going to leave the Tribune; that the stockholders are about to turn him out, or something of the sort. I believe it was Senator Anthony's paper in Providence, R. 1., that first revived the old story this time; but it has been repeated, and modified, and enlivened with so many varieties of the lie cir cumstantial, that at last people began to believe it. Somewhat puzzled, and desirous to know, for my personal sat isfaction, whether there could possibly be any truth in the story which, if true, was of concern to journalism of the nation, I wrote over to the veteran, in quiring about it. His reply was so characteristic that I am tempted to be tray his confidence by printing it, at the risk of acquiring the unenviable reputation of a betrayer of private cor respondence: __ NEW YORK, August 4. "FRIEND REID: Thank you for yours of the 3d. Your inquiries are laughable. The facts are these : " We elect an editor of the Tribune an nually, by a stock vote (one hundred shares,one vote each.) Once, many years ago, two votes were cast against me for editor—none before nor since. " I have never heard that any stock holder desired my withdrawal from the Tribune. " I mean to reduce my work on it at the earliest moment, and have so stated to all who have a right to know. lam overwhelmed with labor. I grow old, and want, rest and comfort. My idea is to get somebody else to take the labor ing oar, receive the kicks and cuffs, and let me farm a little, travel a little, fish some, and write when in the spirit. Such is my dream. I hope to realize at „ least a part of it during the year 1866; but I may not till some time later. You know how circumstances control very thing. "At present I am writing about an average of two columns per day for the Tribune—too much ; I mean to write less whenever I can. " That's all I know about the matter. Perhaps they know more at the Herald office. " Vol. 11. I grieve to say, does not get on so fast as it should. I have too much other work, a very sick wife, and am not very well myself and the weather is good for corn and turnips, but bad for history. I hope for improvement in many, if not most respects. Yours, 4 ' HORACE GREELEY. ESE If to the above it be added that Mr. Sinclair, now the publisher and princi pal stockholder of the Tribune, is an in timate friend of Mr. Greeley's, and by marriage his cousin, and that Mr. Greeley's salary has recently been in creased one-balf, in spite of his protest against it, I fancy there are few who are likely to continue apprehensive that he is to be lost from journalism very soon. New York Money Market The money market is more active, owing to the shifting of loans, but the supply is ample at seven per cent. for call loans, and on prime collaterals at six per cent. First-class business notes are discounted at seven to eight per cent., and other good names at eight to ten per cent. The gold market is weak and de pressed under the influence of sales of cash gold in excess of the demand, and salitto be made on account of govern ment. A Washington correspondent stated in The World of this morning that the sales of gold by government are rendered necessary by its need of lawful money. As theamount received by gov ernment from the sale of gold will be dis bursed immediately, the result will be to increase the amount of lawful money in circulation, while at the same time the price of gold will be forced down. The official exhibit of the public debt on July 31 stated the amount of gold coin in the national depositories at over $35,- 000,000, and the receipts from customs average $10,000,000 per month, making the total stock in the treasury vaults on August 31 over $45,000,000, providing no sales were made. In September, the in terest due in gold will be $4,300,000. The Secretary therefor will have a surplus of $41,000,000 beyond the wants of the de partment in gold coin on and before September 1. The next payment for interest this year is $17,000,000 in gold coin, due in November, and the receipts from customs in the months of Septem ber and October are estimated at not less than $20,000,000. If the Govern ment, therefore, sells all its surplus of gold, overs4l,ooo,ooo, the movement will tend to make the money market easier by the disbursement of about $17,000,000 in lawful money, realized from the sales of gold. In this view of the matter it is assumed that the secretary will not press down the price of gold so rapidly or to an extent which shall unsettle mercantile confidence, or bring down the greenback prices of Governmen t bonds. A decline in the price of gold is an advance in the gold or European price of Unite States bonds. 1f the gold price of Government bonds is made higher than the European price by forcing down the premium on gold here, then Europe will return our bonds to be sold in New York in order to rea lize the profit thereon.— World. Astounding Bank Defalcation in New York City. [From Yesterday's N. Y. Herald,J A case of unusual interest was partially developed before Justice Ledwith at the Jefferson• Market Police Courtyesterday afternoon, it being no less than the al leged embezzlement of the enormous sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars from the Phenix Bank, 45 Wall street, by Henry B. Jenkins, long the paying teller of the Phenix Bank. These facts recently becoming known to John Parker, Esq., cashier of the bank, that gentleman accordingly pro ceeded to take the necessary steps to secure Jenkins before he should have an opportunity to flee the country or otherwise make his escape. With that end in view Mr. Parker procured the services of officer McCarty, of the Twenty-ninth precinct, and at half-past two o'clock yesterday the alleged de faulting teller was taken into custody and conducted to the station house in Twenty-ninth street, near Fourth avenue, where he remained till the opening of the court. Later in the day Mr. Parker, cashier of the Phenix Bank, appeared before the magistrate and made an affidavit against Jenkins, of which the following is a copy. John Parker, of 45 Wall street, being duly sworn, deposes and says :—That at the City of New York, in the County of New York, Henry B. Jenkins, now here,did, asdeponent verily believes and charges, during the two years last past, feloniously take and steal and carry away divers sums of money, to wit: two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, the property of the Phenix National Bank, of the City of New York. De ponent charges the embezzlement and felonious taking aforesaid from the fact that said Jenkins admitted to deponent that he took and embezzled the same.— Wherefore deponent prays that said Jenkins may be dealt with according to law, and that he be held temporarily in order to give deponent an opportunity to make a proper complaint in the premises. On this deposition Mr. Jenkins was detained to await an examination which, it was expected, would take place at half-past three o'clock yesterday after noon, but, owing to the complaint not being perfected, the case was postponed, but to what time did not appear. Ac cording to the affidavit of Mr. Parker, it appears that the prisoner confessed to being a defaulter; but to what amount, or what use was made of the money ab stracted from the bank, has not yet been developed. Mr. John McKeon, who appears as counsel for the bank, stated that there were four or five other men mixed up in the alleged defalcation, but in what man ner he did not state. Late yesterday afternoon Mr. McKeon was actively engaged in drawing elabo: rate affidavits, which doubtless will shed more light on the matter which is yet so:much involved in mystery. Mr. Jenkins has been engaged in the Phoenix Bank for nearly twenty years, and for two years past officiated as pay ing teller. Up to this time he was re garded by his superior officers as an honest, upright and perfectly. trust worthy gentleman. Re is forty-nine years of age, but his place of residence or nativity did not transpire. There were numerous stories afloat late yes terday afternoon and evening in rela tion to the defalcation, but as they were based on hearsay, we prefer not to give them currency, but await further de velopments before the magisjrate.
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