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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.