JANUARY 24, i860.'
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Bemiocratic County Committee-
County Committee will
c *ty» the rooms., of the
Democratic Association, oil MONDAY,
JANUARY 29th, 1866, at 11 o’clock, A. M.’
As business of especial importance is to be
transacted it is hoped every member will
be in qttendapce. R. R; TSHUDY,
A. J. Steinman, Sec’y., Chairman.
Bemocratle State Convention
The Democratic State Convention for the
nomination of a candidate for Governor of
Pennsylvania, will meet in the hall of the
House of*Representatives, at Harrisburg,
on MONDAY, the fifth (sth) day of MARCH,
1866, at 3 o’clock P. M.
The headquarters of this Committee are in
the Democratic,Club Rooms in Harrisburg,
which are open day and evening. D“iuo
crats visiting this city are invited to enlJ.
order of the Dem. Slate Committee.
WILLIAM A. WALLACi;
Chairman.
Benjamin L. Forster, Sec’v
Harrisburg, Jan. 0, 1866.
Legislating a Principle..
Th’e passage of the bill granting the
right of suffrage to, the negroes of the
District of Columbia is an act of peculiar
.significance. No one can pretend tosay
that there was any public necessity for
it. The, people of the Dietriet of Co
lumbia do not vote,except for municipal
officers. They have no voice in Presi
dential elections, and send no represen
tatives to Congress or to any State Legis
lature. The territory is under the con
trol of Congress. Such being the case,,
there was cibariy no public reason why
the negroes should have been made
voters, after the whites had almost
unanimously expressed their opposition
thereto at the ballot-box. Was there
any strong partisan motive to induce
the Republican majority in the House
to act as they did in this matter? Had
they been adding one or more to their
majority in Congress, or even a member
or two to the Virgin iaor Maryland Legis
lature, we could have seen some mate
rial motive for their action; but no such
inducement existed.
The bill was argued on the moral ba
sis alone. It was repeate/lly and boldly
asserted by those who advocated it, that
right and justice demanded its passage.
No Constitutional impediment seemed
to exist to the passage of such, a bill,
with regard to the District, us there for
tunately is in regard to the States. That
the act is really agross violation of faith,
and a flagrant outrage on the inhabi
tants of the District there is no question;
hut, then there is no plainly written,
clause in the Constitution of the Ignited
States protecting them from the arbitra
ry power of the- radical majority of Cou
gross. Virginia and Maryland, when
they ceded, the territory composing the
District, of Columbia, were content to
surrender such of their citizens as in
habited that territory to the cure of the
National Legislature, little dreaming
that the time would soon come when an
intolerant crew of fanatics would so
causelessly and brutally outrage their
plainly understood rights.
If there was no public necessity for
forcing negro suffrage upon the people
:>f the District of Columbia, and no ma
terial partisan advantage to be gained,
why was it done? To this question
there can be, but one answer. It was in
tended to be as it is, a bold, open and
authoritative enunciation of the settled
political creed and policy of the Repub
lican party. The leaders of thisorgani
zation believe that there should be no
legal or political distinctions between
negroes and white men, and they are
resolved to break down all such as do
exist. The passage of thebillconferring
the right of suffrage in the District of
Columbia is nothing more or less than
a solemn declaration of the settled po
litical policy of the party now in power.
It is, so far as they have power at pres
ent to make it such, a law passed by
Congress to makethenegro everywhere,
the political and social equal, of the
white man.
As such it must be met aud fought.
No man who is not prepared to admit
the negro to the ballot-box, to the jury
box, to office and to entire social and po
litical equality, can consistently vote
the Republican ticket in any coming
election. No one can any longer deny
that the Republican party is fully
committed to negro equality.
The negro worshippers of Lancas
ter county will have to look to their
laurels, gr their friends in Chester will
cast them in the shade. Thaddeus Ste
vens will have to “ stir his stumps.” or
one of his Congressional colleagues will
outstrip him iu the race after Sambo
and Dinah. Chester county was dis
tinguished iu the Revolution for the
number of her tories, and her tones were
distinguished above all others for “ loy
alty” to the King. J. M.Broomall, who
represents|thedescendants of these tories
in the lower House of Congress, not hav
ing King George to worship, is paying
court to King Congo. It has been gen
erally supposed, even by the most radi
cal constituencies, that a member of
Congress went far enough when he pro
posed to confer the right of suffrage on
negroes; but the Congo courtier who
rex>resents the Chester district in Cou
gress has taken astepin advauceof that.
"Witness the following from the pro
ceedings of the House, as published in
our second edition of Monday:
Mr. Broomall, of l’a., offered a resolution
setting forth that as the white man in the
District of Columbia have decided that the
black man shall not vole, the for
the District of Columbia inqu'iro into the
expediency of ordering an electio'n by which
the black man shall decide whether the
white man shall vole.
The question, then, with the living
slander on white men who represents
the Chester district, is not whether ne
groes shall be permitted to vote, but
whether white men shall vote! The
negroes, in his view, have a divine right
to the ballot, and it belongs to them, to
determine whether white men shall
vote or not. If all white men were as
sadly deficient in self-respect as Broom
alj, there would be some reason for
handing the political affairs of the coun
try over to the negroes. But in spite of
the downward tendency manifested by
that portion of the white men of this
country who make up the radical ma
jority of the Republican party, we still
think it worth while to preserve the
ballot in the hands of the white race.—
If there are any members of the Repub
lican party who think with us that we
should not put it in the power of the
negroes to deprive us of our votes, they
would'do well to consider whither they
are drifting when they follow such ne
grodoving leaders as Stevens and
Broomall.
UsaT A press of local and other impor
tant matter has crowded the usual Con
gressional summary out of this'issue of
oUE.jVeekly. Our readers catf console
theapelves with the asßuranoe that, be
sides the passage of the Negro Suffrage
bill, nothing of importance has been
4one.
, ■ 6 burly Senator from Allegheny,
whose strength, unlike that of Samson,
lies entlrelyTh his boots, has' given a
vicious kick at the interests'.of Penn
sylvania, by introducingTesolutions in
structing the Railroad committee ofihe
Senate to pursue a line of policy which
would result in diverting toNew York
and Baltimore a large portion of the
trade that now finds its way to Phila
delphia. Although our political opin
ions are in harmony with those of the
great majority of the citizens of the city
of New York, and in opposition to the
majority in Philadelphia, yet as Penn
sylvanians we can have no sympathy
with any blow which may be aimed at
the prosperity of our own commercial
metropolis. It is not by assisting to
build up one great rival a hundred miles
east of and another a
hundred ipiles south of her, that we
can best promote the interests of Penn
sylvania.
Eighteen or twenty years ago there
seemed to be great danger that Penn
sylvania would soon dwindle from her
rank as the second State in the Union,
to that of the third or fourth. Ohio ap
peared to be overtaking her rapidly,
and even far-distant Illinois was loom
ing up with alarming distinctness. The
construction of the Pennsylvania Rail
road changed all this, by opening an
artery, through which the trade of the
west has ever pince been poured in an
unceasing flodd into Philadelphia. The
increase of population in that city and
in the coal region connected with it,
and along the line of the Pennsylvania
Railroad and its branches, alone has
saved this State from falling behind
Ohio.
The resolutions of Senator Bigham
are designed to encourage “the con
struction of a through line on the route
indicated in the contract between the
Atlantic and Great Western and the
Reading Railroad companies, ’land also
“ the extension of the Connellsville
Railroad eastward in the direction of
Baltimore and Washington.” Both of
these projects are in the main eminent
ly anti-Pennsylvanian, though un
doubtedly calculated to benefit those
sections of the State through which the
roads mentioned would run.
The Connellsville Railroad ought to
be finished, but not so as to carry its
traffic to cities outside of this State. It
should 1 extended eastward through
Somerset, Bedford and Fulton counties
down do Chambersburg, where, con
necting with the Cumberland Valley
Railroad, it would pour the trade of the
south-western quarter of the State
through Harrisburg and Lancaster to
Philadelphia, instead of running it off
to Baltimbre and Washington as con
templated by Mr. Bighnm. The con
struction of the Southern Pennsylvania
Railroad would the object
we have in view, and there is good rea
son to believe that this road will -be
made without unreasonable delay, if
the present Legislature throws no ob
stacle iii its way.
The Atlantic and Great Western Com
pany is a foreign concern altogether.—
Its capital comes from England and its
traffic is intended to go to New York.
Sir Morton I’eto and other English cap
italists with handles to their names, by
which they are lifted above ordinary
mortals, have furnished the money ; the
enterprising business men
of New York city have laid the plan,
and we in Pennsylvania are expected to
furnish all the stupidity necessary to
enable this combination of English cap
italits and New York merchants to drain
our State from one end of itto the other.
The through route which this compa
ny proposes to open is not needed. The
ground is very well occupied by the
Philadelphia and Erie Railroad and its
branches and connections. But these
carry their trade to Philadelphia and
set it down at tide water on the soil of
our own State, and hence they do not
subserve the purposes of those who wish
to make Pennsylvania tributary to New
York. We can lend our support to no
scheme that threatens to cripple the
trade and commerce of our own cities.
The interests of Philadelphia and of
Pennsylvania are inseparably connect
ed. Hand in hand they walk together,
and whoever puts a stumbling block in
the way of the one, puts it also in the
way of the other.
This is the light in which Senator
Bigham’s proposition strikes us at pres
•sent.' If it shall turn out that we have
mistaken the true interests of Pennsyl
vania, we shall not hesitate to say so
hereafter.
James K. Morchcad.
The delegates to the Republican State
Convention from Allegheny county
have been instructed to vote for James K.
Morehead for Governor. In order that
his character and connections maybe
well known to all our opponents, and
that they may be insured against any
mistakes in the selection of a candidate,
we give below a letter from a gentle
man to whom Mr. Morehead is well
known. The sketch ofhim therein con
tained may be regarded as strictly accu
rate and true :
Pittsburu, Jan. 11, 18(j(5.
Mr. Editor: Is not the Republican party
exercising itself unnecessarily about its
next candidate for Governor?
I maintain that their natural and proper
nominee is tlie indefatigable and excellent
General Morehead, of this city. Did not the
General feed and grow rich on the Demo
cratic party during the administration of
Gov. Purler? Is not the very house in which
he lives the profitable product of the Moun
tain Reservo'r? Was not his large amount
ofstock in the Monongahela Navigation
Company obtained from the State at about
live cents on the dollar, and tbesuni of fifty
thousand dollars in the same stock at a
much less rate through the agent of the
Bank of the United States? Is he not large
ly interested in the Washington Street Rail
ways, whose franchises were obtained by
his own vote and official influence in Con
gress, and is not ids brother even more
largely interested in the same enterprise?
Is not a brother a partner of Jay Cookeand
enormously rich on the pickings of the
Treasury? Is notanother brother the main
owner of the Delaware Division of the Penn
sylvania Canal, obtained from the State by
means which the tax-payers will forever re
member? Have dot heavy contracts been
received from the Navy Department in the
name of his son amounting to millions, the
son returning ninety thousand dollars in
come for the last year? Have not most of
his relatives been snugly provided for at
the Government expense? If the Govern
ment isa fat goose to be plucked tand sure
ly nogood Republican can deny it) is not
he who plucks most adroitly and profitably
entitled to the highest consideration?
These things are constantly talked about
on the corners, in the shops, in the offices
and Lite parlors of our people. Even as he
walks the streets these incidents of his life
are related among the passers by.
Would it not be an infinite shame if, with
this record, Gen. Morehead should not be
allowed to complete his career as Governor
of Pennsylvania, and permitted to distrib
ute whatever ofher assets may remain?
1 Tax-Payer.
The Valley Spirit and the Frank
lin llejmsitory, both published at Cham
bersburg, have been enlarged within the
last two weeks. They are now- among
the largest and handsomest newspapers
iu the State, and we may add with great
truth that they are also among the most
ably edited and in all respects best con
ducted.
'Hie Spirit is soundly Democratic and
iU ample editorial columns are always
well tilled with vigorous articles. The
Ueptmi.toTj) is on the other side, and its
talent for making “the worse appear
the bettor reason’.’ excels that of most
journals with which we are acquainted.
Both of these papers sustained heavy
loss when ('hamborsburg was destroyed
by. the rebels. They were burnt out
clean ; hut they speedily re
appeared and have prospered so well
that now, only eighteen months after
their destruction, wo find them taking
rank with the mammoth journals df
the country.
in^Cbnffress. 1
The Republican newspapers are in
ecstacies over the passage of the bill
giving every miserable, greasy, ignorant
negro in the District of Columbia tbe
;right to vote. We . may expect their
columns to be adorned with the most
graphic descriptions of the grandeur of
the scene presented in the magnificent
hall of the Hobse at the moment of the
passageof thebill. Imaginative imagery
willno doubt beexhausted. Poetry will
be called in where plain prose halts;
and all the lyres in the land of New
England will be newly strung to sing
pseans of praise tq tbe white men in
Congress who werje boldenough solemn
ly to vote that neither they nor any of
their race were a whit better than the
horde of negroes whofilled the galleries
of the House of Representatives, apd
sat trembling with delig£tas the sonor
ous aye of each Republican delegate
was recorded against his own race and
in favor of that which many of them
delight to laud as the superior one.
The scene presented on the occasion
was one just suited to the style and the
capacity of modern Yankee poets, and
it will no doubt be sung in strains of
fitting melody. By and by art will, as
is her custom, come to the aidofpoetry,
and painting and sculpture will be tax
-4d to their utmost to perpetuate the glo
ries of the ever memorable occasion.—
It was unquestionably a strong and stir
ring spectacle. The Washington cor
respondent df the New York Herald
sends to that paper the following tele
graphic photograph of tbe appearance
of the House, and the conduct of the
Republican members at the moment
when they had succeeded by legislative
enactment in placing the negro on an
equality with the white mau. Here is
his sketch taken on tbe instant and for
warded by lightning : ,
The galleries were filled by anxious
spectators and listeners of both colors,
the blacks preponderating, however.
The passage of the bill was hailed with
such boisterous and prolonged applause
on the floor that .Speaker Colfax losthis
temper, and said that he would not in
future attempt to suppress the galleries
unless members behaved themselves.
Jubilantradicalsrushed into the lobbies,
the halls and the barber shops, and
grasped the greasy hands of every
thoroughbred freedmau they found in
those localities. Coming down from
the galleries big darkies jostled loftily
against the high born dames of this Dis
trict and trod upon their drapery with
an air of divine right. In‘.the streetcars
they hobnobbed with sucee~sful Con
gressmen and grinned familiarly in the
faces of the heretofore ruling race.
Negro Suffrage ;ind Negroes During
the War.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald, who has been on the
ground from the beginning of the present
session of Congress, and who lias hud
ample opportunities to judge of the
character and the conduct of the radicals,
thus speaks of their position and con
duct on the only questions in which
they have as yet displayed any interest:
The lower house of Congress, having
assumed command of the armies and ar
ranged everything relating to that por
tion of the government satisfactorily to
itself, is now devoting its entire atten
tion to the negroes in this District. Day
afterday has thissubject been discussed;
and inattentively listening to the debate
I have learned one important historical
fact in connection with the war. It is
essential that this fact should be under
stood by the public, especially by all
who intend to writeahistoryofthegreat
struggle. It is, to be sure, somewhat at
variance with the general, and, in fact,
the accepted version, but, nevertheless,
no fewer than half a dozen radical
speakers-in Congress have asserted its
truth, and argued by the hour to prove
their assertion, and it must therefore be
so. It will have to be admitted, or else
declared that these radical Congressmen
are not good authority, which might hurt
their feelings. Thisimportanthistorieal
fact is no less than the startling assertion
that the “ negroes fought all our battles,
won all our victories, conquered the
rebels, saved the nation, and secured a
Eeace which the white soldiers were una
le to do.” In all the speeches which have
been delivered by the extreme men in
Congress not one has taken any other
ground, or given the white soldiers the
least particle of credit for services dur
ing the war. According to their ver
sion, every battle lost was fought by
whites, and every victory won was the
work of the negroes. II a stranger who
knew nothing ofthegreat contest which
we have gone through should drop in
upon Congress and listen to the argu
ments of these extreme men, he could
come to no other conclusion than that
the colored race in this country was su
perior to any other race in the world—
brave, valiant and capable of accom
plishing almost miracles. They hold
that the white race, as soldiers, were al
most worthless, and incapable of accom
plishing anything ; also that they were
unable to cope with the enemy, and the
negro had to step in and fight'our bat
tles, or all would have been lost. This
is the radical version of this contest—a
point which they have labored hour af
ter hour to prove. According to their
statements Vicksburg was captured by
negroes, Gettysburg was won by them,
Richmond succumbed to the sable war
riors, Lee surrendered at their advance,
and Sherman severed the confederacy
with the black warriors.
This must be exceedingly gratifying
to the hundreds of thousands of volun
teers from the North. They must be
specially complimented by this constant
reiteration on the floor of Congress of
the assertion that the black and not the
white soldiers did all our gallant fight
ing. It must also turnish a consolation
to the numerous bereaved families to
know that their husbands and fathers
who fell on the battle-field were of no
account, and were worthless soldiers.
Such is the fact, if radical members of
Congress are to be believed. Really,
have they not carried this matter a little
too far ? In the wild attempt to laud
and glorify the negro they have sneered
at the white soldiers as though they
were mere cattle. One or two of the
principal speakers have even gone so
iar as to ridicule the whole white race,
and speak of it as though it were be
neath contempt. Talk about prejudice
against our colored population—if this
does not increase that prejudice it will
be because human nature has complete
ly changed and the most common feel
ings in the human breast have been
obliterated.. It may enable those who
engage in it to carry their point now,
but it will only increase the extent, the
severity and the vengeance of the reac
tion when it comes, and it will materi
ally hasten the day.
The negro suffrage bill for the
District of "Columbia, that passed the
House of Representatives on Thursday,
puts all the negroes in the District on a
footing of perfect equality with the
whites, so far as voting is concerned. —
Only seven -Republicans voted against
it; six dodged the vote. All the Fenn
-Bylvanidßepublicans voted in the affirm
ative except Mr. Culver. He is recorded
as not voting. AU the Pennsylvania
Democrats (eight) of course are
recorded in the negative. The
conservative Republicans who had
declared that they would never vote for
an unlimited negro suffrage in the Dis
trict of Columbia, were compelled to go
with the crowd, and on the final vote
their names are found in the affirma
tive. When asked why they didn’t
vote against it, they answer that they
were bound to go with the party, and as
this unqualified negro suffrage bill for
the District of Columbia was a party
measure , they could not help voting
for it, notwithstanding the damage it
’will do them in their respective dis
tricts.
As will be seen by the report in
another column the negro suffragites
have settled a Candidate to fill the
vacancy occasional by the death of Day
Wood. The Democracy will put no
candidate in the field, and the contest
will therefore be merely to nominate
one.
The Navy Department has ordered the
fitting out of the ex-rebel steamer Florida
for a twelve months’ cruise. The ram Stone
wall is being overhauled for experiments, .
for life/on tfegroSuffrage.
During the political campaign of last
fall the leaders of the Republican party'
in this State took especial pains to deny
.that the organization was in any „way
committed to the odious doctrine of ne
gro suffrage. John W. Forney wrote
from Washington to his. paper, The
Press, not only denying that the-party
favored it; but, Insisting In the strongest
possible terms, that on such a platform
it must inevitably be defeated and de
stroyed. Now that the party is irrevo
cably committed to the doctrines by. the
solemn act of Congress, the Republican
press throughout the State is ready to
endorse it fully. Forney is among the
first to speak, and he speaks outplainly.
Here is his letter to the Press of Satur
day over his well known*signature “ Oc
casional.” Let any one who doubts
about what is the fixed policy of the
Republican party, read it:
Washington, Jan. 20, 1866.
The passage by the House of Repre
sentatives yesterday, of Judge Kelley’s
bit 3!, striking qut the word “white”
from all laws and parts of lawßprescrib
ing the qualifications of electors in the
District of Columbia, devolves a solemn
duty upon every loyal citizen. The vote
was nearly solid—alltheNational Union
members but fourteen in the affirmative
—all the so-called Democrats that were
present,in the negative. The issue is
made up; for whether the Senate se
cofikda the bill or not (and there is no
doubt that it will prevail there at an
early day, and by a large majority), the
case will be carried to the people,and will
be discussed at every fireside in the Re
public. And it is one well calculated
to awaken extraordinary interest. It
belongs to the class of measures com
pelled by the rebellion, assailed by the
traitors and their friends, and, in every
instance, taken up and carried through
by the earnest support of the masses.—
Made a party question, it should
be met with equal unanimity by
the Union party everywhere. The
powerful vote of the House being but a
reflection and re-echo of the popular
will, will doubtless produce a response
not less decided. The obedient Repre
sentatives must be sustained by the
obeyed constituencies. I do not know
a better time to meet this issue than the
present. It was blind folly to suppose
that we could stave it off. He was a
madman who supposed that' the great
Union party would not be called at last
to meet the question of conferring the
civil rights upon four millions olslaves
rescued by tbe rebellion from their
former masters ; and there was no spot
upon which the national authority could
be so constitutionally exercised for the
trial of the experiment as the Dis
trict of Columbia. The objection to
universal colored suffrage, on the part
of those who were so anxious to see it
exercised by the returned rebels, would
have been equally vehement against
qualified suffrage. Now they charge
that all the negroes are to vote; but
then they would have been agonized
(had the test been intelligence),because
it would have operated against large
classes of foreign-born whites. Let us
then prepare ourselves for the exciting
controversy at hand. The subject need
not practically arise at thenext election
in Pennsylvania ; but no boldand patri
otic man will refuse to show his hand,
convinced, as he is, that in every North
ern. State to which the terms of the bill
that yesterday passed the House may be
applied, will eventually be agitated by
the discussion-of the principles therein
contained. Having met exigencies far
more trying during the war, we must
notBhrink from this.* A people that
were so permeated with attachment to
country as to stand ready to sacrifice
their own lives, and to give up
millions of money, so that that country
Height be saved—whose men, when not
in the field, sustained suspension of the
writ of habeas corpus , and all the strong
measures of the Government, and whose
women cheerfully surrendered their
time and their pleasures to endure un
equalled labors in those charities which
immortalized their sex and our Repub
lic at the same time—such a people will
not be dismayed when they are called
upon to say whether it was right to
enunciate and practioalize the pledges of
the Declaration of Independence.—
When the institution of slavery
lay a mass of ruins at their feet, and
when they are asked to organize
Christian liberty for the victims of
that infernal institution, they must not
hesitate. Are you ready for the issue,
my countrymen? 1 do not fear your
answer. The contest will be most
acrimonious, and probably some of us
may fall victims to our honest devotion
to the truth. Rut the duty is our’s to
discharge, and we dare not postpone it
,to posterity. What a field for tbe
young men of America! Plow, in this
coming controversy, all the fundamen
tal principles of our Government, all
the immortal maxims taught prac
ticed by the early teachers for genuine
Democracy, will arise, to inspire, to
guide, and to strengthen them! The
very magnitude of the stake will give a
rapture to the strife, and the end will be
a Government in which all classes will be
crtiitlcd to the same privileges, and will
rise by their virtue and intelligence, or
fait by their ignorance and vice-.
Occasional.
\
iegro Suffrage In the district.
A Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun writes as follows in rela
tion to the negro suffrage bill for the
District of Columbia, just passed by the
House of Representatives :
Much speculation prevailsin regard to the
ultimate late of the free negro sulfrage bill
of the House. That it will pass the Senate
is a foregone conclusion, It will pass the
Senate as it comes from the House by a de
cided majority. I notice that some shrewd
politicians hold out the idea that President
Johnson will veto it. They assume this as a
’matter of policy, because they are un
willing to sutler the impression to be
made on the public mind that the
President is really to co-operate with
the radical majority of Congress—perhaps
also a temporary power, which at the next
elections may be overthrown. Many others
believe that the President will sign the bill
upon the consideration that the District is
not a State, but is placed under the exclu
sive jurisdiction of Congress, which bodv
lias a right to legislate for the District in
every particular. There is no doubt that
Congress can legislate upon the subject of
the municipal government of the District,
and they will probably follow up this mea
sure by a law providing that the councils
of the cities and the Levy Court shall be
composed in due proportion of negroes.
Lawyers here differ in opinion as to the
legal efiect of the bill which has passed
Congress upon rights of the black and col
ored voters tositonjuriesandtoholdoffices.
One of the most eminent Senators holds
that when the law shall take effect the
freedmen voters must be admitted 'to serve
on juries, and are also eligible to any cor
porution office. In the event of a close
election between two candidates for the
mayor'ality, the negro vote will bold the
balance, and as to the councils, compro
mises may be made by which one-third of
the members may be blacks or nxulattoes.
But a Congress which has pressed this mat
ter of negro equality so far will not hesitate
to press it further.
Another correspondent of the same
paper writes as follows :
Prominent radical Senators, much to my
surprise, say that the House negro suffrage
bill will pass the Senate like a flash. An
inside Republican says that the only amend
ments they will make to it will be provis
ions in the way of penalties for keeping
negroes from the polls, and things of that
sort. The latter is a coldly ironical view,
with probably too much of the spirit of
truth in it. I believe the President will
veto the House bill, if it comes to him, and
I have no idea that the requisite two thirds
vote could be got in the Senate, if, indeed,
in the House, to make it a law under con-,
stitutional provisions.
The radicals seem intent on making ne
gro suffrage general, North and South. If
the £ are defeated in respect to 'this District
then their bitterness will be augmented
against the South and reconstruction. They
feel confident about carrying the elections,
by the howl they can set up to effect
that if the Southern members are iidmit
ted, they, with the democrats, will
repudiation of the national debt. Colonel
Forney announces that the “issue is made
up for the country by the passage of the
negro suffrage bill by the Senate. Mr.
Wade made it a national issue.”
Three venerable ladies still survive
who were in the choir of young ladies
that, dressed in white, greeted Wash
ington as he entered Trenton in 1789,
on his way to assume the Presidency,
and who strewed his -pathway with
flowers. One yet lives in Trenton;
another is the mother of Hon. •
Chestnut, formerly Senator from South
Carolina, and the third, Mrs. Sarah
Hand, resides in Cape May county,
N.j. - '
the Doc trine orkegro Equality Solemnly
Endorsed by Congress.
the Bill Giving the Negroes
: the Bight to Tote in the District of Co
•litmbla by the House—Large Republi-
can Majority In Its FavorU-No Restric
tion on Negro SnDfrage—Who Toted fbr
,ity and Who Against it.
.The Republican majority in Congress
Thursday passed,;in the House, the bill
allowing the negroes to vote in the Dis
trict of Columbia. Before the final pas
sage of the bill the House struck out the
clause restricting the right to vote to
those who could read ahd who held
property, conferring the right indis
criminately upon the negroes in the
District. The bill, as passed, reads as
follows:
Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of Amer
ica, in Congress assembled, That from all
laws and partsof laws prescribing the qual
ifications of electors for any office in the
District of Columbia, the word “white” be
and the same is hereby stricken out, and
that from and after the passage of this act
no person shall be disqualified from voting
at any election held in the said District on
account of color.
“Sec. 2. And,be it further, enacted. That
all acts of Congress, and all laws of the
'’State of Maryland in force in said District,
and all ordinances of the cities of Washing
ton and Georgetown, inconsistent with the
provisions of this act, are hereby repealed
and annulled.”
The bill was passed—yeas 116, nays 54, as
follows:
Yeas.— Alley. Allison. Ames, Ashley, of
Ohio, Baker, Baldwin,Banks, Barker, Bax
ter, Beaman, Bidwell, Bingham, Blame,
Blow, BoutweU, Brandegee, Rroomall,
Bromwell, Buckland, Bundy, Clarke, of
Ohio, Clarke, of Kansas, Cobb, C’onkling,
Cook, Cullum, Darling, Davis, Dawes, De
frees, Delano, Deming, Dixon, Donnelly,
Driggs, Eckley, Eggleston, Eliot, Farns
worth, Perry, Garfield, Grinnell, Griswold,
Halo, Harding, Hart, Hayes, Higby,
Holmes, Hooper, Hubbard,of*Ct., Hubbell,
of lowa, Huboard, of New York, Hulbuyd,
Humphrey, Jas. Ingersoll, Jencks, Jydtan,
Kasson, Kelley, Kelso, Ketchum, Jftiflin,
Lawrence, of Pa., Lawrence, of Ohio, Loan,
Longyear, Lynch, Marston, Marvin, Me-
Clurg, Mercur, Miller, Moorhead, Morrill,
Morris, Moulton, Myers, O’Neill, Orth,
Paine, Patterson, Perham, Pike, Plants,
Pomeroy, Price, Raymond, Rice, of Mass.,
Rice, of Maine, Rollins, Sawyer, Schench,
Scofield, Shellaberger, Sloan, Spaulding,
Starr, Stevens, Thayer, Francis Thomas,
Trowbridge, Upscm, Van Aerman, Van
horn, Ward, Warner, Washburne, of 111.,
Washburne, of Mass., Welker, Wentworth,
Williams, Wilson, of lowa, Wilson, of Pa.,
Windom, Woodbridge.
Nays.— Ancona,Anderson, Ashley of Nv.,
Benjamin, Bergen, Boyer, Brooks, Chanler,
Dawsoii, Dennison, Eldridge, Farquahar,
Finck, Glossbrenner, Goodyear, Grider,
Harding of Ky., Henderson, Hill, Logan,
Hubbard, W. V., Hubbard, N. Y., Hum
phrey, J. M., Johnson, Jones, Kerr, Kuy
kandall, Latham, Le Blond, Marshall, Mc-
Cullough, McKee, Niblack, Nicholson,
Noell, Phelps, Radio.d, Randall, of Pa.,
Randall pfKy., Ritter, Rogers, Ross, Shank
lin, Sitgreaves, Smith, Stillwell, Sirouse,
Taber, Taylor, Thornton, Trimble, Van
Horn, of Mo., Yoorhees, Winfield.
When the result of the vote was announ
ced, applause followed from the floor ani
the galleries.
llow Pennsylvania Congressmen Voted.
It will be seen from the list of Penn
sylvania Congressmen which we give
below, that every Demotyat from Penn
sylvania voted squarely against negro
suffrage, while every Republican, except
one who dodged the question, voted for
it. Let the people examine the list, and
in the coming Congressional elections
let them mark those who voted to pros
titute the ballot-box for the purpose of
securing the supremacy of a party
which shows itself ready to degrade the
white man to the level of the negro:
AGAINST NEGRO SUFFRAGE.
The Roll of Honor—All DemoerfttN.
Ist Dist. Samuel J. Randall;
6th Dist. B. Markham Boyer;
Stk Dist. Sydenham E. Ancona;
10th Dist. Myer St rouse ;
11th Dist. Philip Johnson ;
12th Dist. Charles Dennison ;
loth Dist. Adam J. Glossbrknnek ;
21st Dist. J. L. Dawson.
FOR NKORO SUFI-RAGE.
The Black List—All Shoddies.
2d. Charles O'KeiU; Philadelphia;
sd. Leonard Meyers; Philadelphia;
4th. William D. Kelly : Philadelphia;
sth. M. Itussell Thayer; Philadelphia;
Tib. John M. Brcomall; Chester, Dela-
ware;
oth. Thaddeus Stevens; Lancaster;
15th. Ulysses Mercur; Bradford, Wyoming,
Sullivan, Montour, Columbia;
14th. George F. Miller; Northumberland,
Dauphin, Union, Snyder, Juniata;
17th. Abram .1, Barker; Cambria, Blair,
Huntingdon, Mifflin ;
ISth. Stephen F. Wilson; Center, Lycoming,
Clinton. Potter, Tioga;
19th. Glcnni IK. Scofield; Erie, Warren,
McKean, Forest, Elk, Jefferson, Clear
field, Cameron;
22d. .fames K. Moorhead; Allegheny.
25d. Thomas Williams; Allegheny, Butler,
Armstrong.
24th. George T". Isnvrcnce; Greene, Law
rence, Beaver, Washington ;
The “ Republican” member from the 20th
District—Crawford, Mercer, Venango and
Clarion—Charles V. Culver, is not recorded
as voting.
Will our Democratic cotemporaries
examine this list, and hold the (mis)
Representatives of their various districts
to a strict account before their constitu
ents ?
The Vote on the Suffrage Bill
The following analysis of the vote
against the suffrage bill will be read
with interest:
Northern Democrats.—S. K. An
cona, Pa.; T. B. Bergen, New York;
B. M. Boyer, Pennsylvania; James
Brooks, New York; J. W. Chauler,
New York ; J. L. Dawson, Pennsyl
vania; Charles Denison, Pennsylvania;
Chas. A. Eldridge, Wisconsin; W. E
Finck,Ohio; A. J. Glossbrenner, Penn
sylvania; Chas. Goodyear, New York ;
J. M. Humphrey, New York ; E. N.
Hubbell, New York ; Philip Johnson,
Pennsylvania; Morgan Jones, New
York ; M. C. Kerr, Indiana; George R.
Latham, West Virginia; F. 0. Le Blond,
Ohio; S. 8. Marshall, Illinois ; W. E.
Niblack, Indiana; Wm. Radford, New
York; S. J. Randall, Pennsylvania;
A. J. Rogers, New Jersey ; L. W. Ross,
Illinois; Chas. Sitgreaves, New Jersey;
Myer Strouse, Pennsylvania; Stephen
Tabor, New York; Nelson Taylor, New
York ; Mithonis Thornton, Illinois ;
D. W. Voorhees, Indiana ; C. H. Win
field, New York —81.
Border-State Democrats.—John
A. Nicholson,Delaware; L. S. Trimble,
Burwell C. Ritter, Henry Grider, Aaron
Harding, George S. Shanklin,
Hiram McCullough, Maryland; John
Hogan, Missouri—s.
Northern Republicans.—A. J.
Keykendall, Illinois; Ralph Hill, John
H. Farquhar, Thomas W. Stillwell, In
diana ; J. D. Henderson, Oregon ; Delos
K. Ashley, Nevada.
Border State Unionists.—Green
Clay Smith, Wm. H. Randall, Samuel
McKee, Kentucky ; Charles E. Phelps,
Maryland ; Thomas E. Noell, John ¥.
Benjamin, Geore W. Anderson, Robert
T. Vanhorn, Missouri.
Besides these there were a number of
both parties who either did not vote or
were absent at the time, viz;
Northern Republicans.—D. C.
Mcßuer, California;*Ebenezer Dumont,
Indiana; William A. Newell, New
Jersey; G. W. Hotchkiss, New York;
C. Y- Culver, Pennsylvania; W. d!
Mclndoe, Wisconsin; J. R. Hubbell*
Ohio—7. ’
Border State Republicans.—Lo
vell H. Rosseau, Kentucky ; John L.
Thomas, Maryland ; Chester H. Hub
bard, West Virginia—3.
Democrats.—B. G. Harris, Mary
land; E. V. R. Wright, New Jersey—2.
A correspondent of the New York
World gives a harrowing description of
the sufferings poor Sumner endured
when he went to Paris for medical treat
ment after being caned by Col. Brooks
in 1856. The correspondent says ac
cording to the letters published at the
time in the Abolition papers, “his spine
was taken out, scraped, oiled and put
back again ; he went 'through a chaly
beate course, including the application
of hot irons to his back; he was baked,
boiled, stewed, fried and fricasseed, and
plasters applied which drew everything
out of him but his malignity, his mile
age and his salary as a Senator/’
It is clear from the heroic treatment
the Paris physicians subjected him to,
that he must have been suffering from
the terrible disease which we have
heard old women in some parts of the
country designate as “spine in the
back.”
'gml ftttetttgww*.
Court Proceedings.
Tuesday Afternoon. —Commonwealth vs.
Georgd'W. .Compton; Indictment—Assault
and Battery. Ttie defendant plead guilty
and wna sentenced to pay a tine of $2O mid
costs. “ ■
The case of the Com’th vs. Daniel Mttlhr
was resumed. It 'appeared from the tes
timony that the defendant, a school teacher
in the town of Mount Joy, oh the 13th of
last October administered a very severe
whipping to Tabitha Boyce, a little girl ten
years of age. The rule of Miller was to
make the girls, who were caught talking
during hours of study, stand up with the
hat of one of the boys on their head, and to
put a bonnet on the heads of the boys. The
mother of Tabitha Boyce, it seems, had told
her that she heed not submit to this method
of punishment, and she refused to do
For such disobedience Bhe was
whipped by the teacher until she yielded
obedience and wore:the hat, The evidence
showed that the whipping was very severe,
no less than twenty-seven marks being left
on the child’s arms, back and shoulders,
There was some evidence which indicated
that a second and outside party was urgiDg
Mr. Boyce to prosecuie. It was also in ev
idence thpt the school was very large, and
that it had been very • disorderly under for
mer teachers. The charge of-the Court to
the jury was of such a character as to im
press all who heard it with the importance
of the decision to be rendered. The recip
rocal duties of teacher&and parents, and the
responsibiliti&fcjpf each, together with the
important duty of courts and juries so to
act as to give all the aid in their power to
render our system of common schools an
efficient agency in the great cause of edu
cation was ably discussed. The case was
given to the jury under very clear aud full
instructions.
Com’th vs. Charles Thomas. Indiclmim
—Larceny.
The defendant in this case was a little
negro eleven years old and as black as need
be, but apparently sharp uud intelligent,
lie was charged with stealing one chicken,
the’properly of Magdalena Hays, ot Mari
etta. Plead guilty, and sent to the House
of Itefuge.
Com’th vs. John D. Reed. Indictment-
Larceny
Tlie defendant plead guilty to having
taken the basket of one Ellen Langan, of
this city, a sort of itinerant podler. The
crime was committed in the railroad depot
of this eky. W.ieti caught Reed was going
up an allot’ hiding the contents of the basket
in different places as he went along. He
begged for permission to address the Court,
and stated that he had been four years in
the service of the United States during the
war, that he hud two sons killed at the bat
tle of Gettysburg, that he had been wounded
in the leg himself, that he had been for 8
months a prisoner at Salisbury, N. C., and
nearly starved to death. He also averred
that he was laboring under mania potu
when the basket was taken, and that he was
utterly unconscious of what he was doing.
The officer who arrested him certified
be was under the intluence of liquor at the
time of his arrest.
Sentenced to six weeks imprisonment in
county prison.
Com’tli vs. David K. Potts. Indictment
—Lnrcenv
The prisoner was charged on three in
dictments with stealing various articles
from what is kmnvn us the Horse .Shoe Road
School House, and from the Old Road School
House.
Sentenced to pay a tine ofsl and costs of
prosecution for each offence,and to undergo
an imprisonment of nine months.
Com'th vs. Charles Smith. Indictment—
Larceny. Jt appeared in evidence that the
prisoner stole a horse blanket from Henry
Brown, in the village of Rohrerstown, on
the 11th of last November. There being no
defence the jury returned a verdict of guilty
without leaving the box. Sentenced to an
imprisonment of six months in county
prison.
Com'th vs. Henry I). Jones. Indictment
—Larceny.
Tiie defendant was charged with stealing
two gold rings, one of the value of $7, the
other of the value of $6, and a cornelian
ring of the value of $3, the property of Mary
C. Ripple, of this city. Mary C. Ripple
proved that the rings were taken from a
drawer in her father's house, to wbiclKthe
defendant had access, and the man to whom
he sold one of the rings was produced on
the stand. It appeared from the cross-ex
amination of Mary Ripple that she and
Jones had been engaged to be married ;
that they were on such terms of
intimacy ay is usual among per
sons holding that interesting rela-
:ion to each other; that he boarded at
lier father’s house where she also lived;
that Jones had gone so far as to ask the con
sent of the parents, or at least of the mother
to the marriage; that he had bought his be
trothed a silk gown for the value of $25,
which said silk gown it was understood was
to be her bridal robe; that he bad also
bougiit her a cloak of the value of $8 ; that
he had nursed her in a spell of sickness;
that he went away to work last fall; that
he faithfully promised to return to gladden
her heart during the Christmas holidays!
that he failed so to do; that she, Mary
Ripple, had learned, first by rumor, and
then from undoubted sources, that he, the
said Jones, being false in heart and in action,
had another girl. This was more than the
injured and outraged love could bear, and
so she had the false and fickle Jones arrest
ed, thrust into jail, indicted and tried for the
crime of larceny.
Com'th vs. Carl Foclit. Assault. This
defendant was indicted for committing an
assault upon .Sophia Spelling, of this city,
some time last November. The prosecutrix
testified that Foeht <yum j into her house iu
a threatening manner, and that front the
effects of the fright produced upon her on
this occasion a child, about six months old,
which was suckling at her breast, took the
fits and died the next day. Verdict, not
guilty, and costs to be divided equally be-
tween the prosecutrix and defendant.
Com’th vs. Elizabeth Doihmell. Assault
and battery. Sophia Spelling, the proseeu
tKx in the last case, charges this defendant
with having struck her in the face several
times with her fist. Jurv out.
Court adjourned until 2$ P. M.
Wednesday Mommy.— The jury in the
ease of David Miller, charged with assault
and battery on Sarah S. Hover, returned a
sealed verdict of not guilty, but put one
thircl of the costs of prosecution on the pros
ecutrix, Sarah S. Boyer, and two-thirds on
the defendant, David Miller.
The jury in the case of Henry D. Jones,
charged with larceny, returned a verdict of
not guilty,
Com’th vs. David Brubaker. Disturbing
Religious meeting. The offence, laid in the
indictment, occurred at the Church of the
L-nited Brethren in Christ in Providence
township. Several witnesses were exam
ined by the Commonwealth, who testified
that on tiie occasion referred to, a-large
crowd of persons assembled outside of the
church, who, by their noise and disorderly
conduct, seriously disturbed the persons
who had met there-for worship. The de
fendant was singled out of the crowd as
being one of the most boisterous. No wit
nesses were heard for the defence. The
jury returned a verdict of guilty, but recom
mended the prisoner to the inercy of the
Court. Sentenced to pay a fine of $5 and
costs of prosecution, and to undergo an
imprisonment of 30 days.
One ot the special counsel, employed to
prosecute the charge against John F. Herr,
Esq., of Strasburg, for fraud, stated that
the claims ‘against Mr. Herr had been
satisfied, and therefore, asked that a verdict
of not guilty be taken which was granted*
The defendant, John F. Herr, agreed to pay
back the money obtained, with interest
from time of payment and all costs of pros
ecution.
Jacob Witlinger plead guilty to thecharge
of fornication and bastardy on oath of Sarah
C. Adams. The usual sentence in such ca
ses was imposed.
Com’th vs. Geo. W. Reitinger, Larceny.
The defendant was tried for having fre
quently stolen rails,, laths, <fcc.,from George
W. Sultzbach, of Marietta, and found guilty
Sentenced to six months, imprisonment in
the Lancaster County Prison.
Wednesday Afternoon.— I The jury in the
case of Elizabeth Dommel found a verdict
of guilty. Sentenced to pay costs of prose
cution.
Com th vs. John White. Indictment, lar
ceny. In this case it appeared that Eliza
beth Hill, colored, lost a the
cars from Colombia to Lancaster, with
some $17.50 in paper money in it, on the 17th
of February 1864. % SJietfecaß6cL John While,
a black man, of takingly He denied it, bnt
the money was afterwards found in his shew?,
jfber© hdhad been observed.secreting it by
on© of the witnesses. Verdict "guilty, with
recommendation to the mercy of the Court.
Sentenced to.pay a fine of slj and six weeks
imprisonment in the'County Prison.
Com’th vs. George W. Barton. Indict
ment, assault and battery. John Erb, the
prosecutor, testified that on the 26th of No
vember hist, he was out walking with his
son-in-luw and dog; that Barton threw
a stick, stone or bone and hit his dog right
on the shoulder. Barton followed up and
made an assault on him; took a gun from
his son-in-law and struck him, the defen
dant, with it twice, knocking him down.—
Other witnesses corroborated the testimony
of Mr, Erb.
Thursday Morning. —Charles Smith, Wil
liam Bedford and William Minnicb, con
victed of stealing a horse and buggy from
Lemon, Murphy A Co., of this city, on the
Ist of October last, were called up for sen
tence. The sentence of the Court was that
for the stealing of the mare each of the
prisoners was to pay a fine of s3otl, costs of
prosecution, and to undergo an imprison
ment of five years in the Eastern Peniten
tiary at Philadelphia; and for the stealing
of the buggy and harness, each of them to
pay a fineofone dollar,eostsof prosecution,
and to undergo an imprisonment of one
year and three months in the Eastern Pen
itentiary.
John Russel, one of the parties to the lar
ceny, who was made a witness on the part
of the Commonwealth at the trinl, wits re
manded to prison to be used as a witness at
the coming trial of EugeneKurtz, the party
who was not tried on account of illness.
MURDER TRIAL
Com'th vs. William 11. Bookman. In
dictment, Murder.
The prisoner in this case stands indicted
for the murder of John llogentobler, at
Mountville, this county, on the 21st day of
August last.
S. 11. Reynolds and J, 11. Livingston
Esqs., appeared for the prosecution, am
O. J. Dickey and David Paul Brown, Esqs.
for the defence.
The regular panel was exhausted by the
timoeleven Jurors were sworn, and a special
venire for 24 new jurors was ordered ro
turnableat 12 oVloek.
The Jury as sworn was composed as lb]
Levi G. Kemper, .Samuel Frv, Peter S.
Reist, Jeremiah Bauman, Jacob*ll. Riddig,
John Slrohm, Jr., Ephraim S. Hoover,
George Beam, Andrew Armstrong, Jonas
B. Martin, Samuel M. Mvers, and Christian
Lefever.
The Court adjourned to 2i o'clock.
Thursday Afternoon.— Com’th vs. Win.
11. Bookman. Indictment for murder.
On the re-assembling of the court the
prisoner was arraigned,'the indictment be
ing read and the case opened by J. B. Liv
ingston, Esq., who quoted the law relating
to murder, und stated the facts to the Jury
as they were elicited from the following
TESTIMONY l-’OIt TIIE COMMONWEALTH,
Miss Margaret Ann Sohollenborger, sworn:
I live in East Ilempfield township, with
Joseph Hinkle; lived there in July last;
that is two miles from Mountville; Mr. llo
gentobler and my sister came to where I
lived and asked mo to take a ride with
them; I got ready and went; we drove to
Mountville; as wo drove down through
Mountville we drove against Mr. Book
man’s buggy ; the buggy was standing be
fore Mr. BloU's house; Mr. Book
man told us to hold on and not
to drive off that way; we drove on;
when we came back Mr. Bookman was in
the road before our horse, and he told us to
stop; Mr. llogentobler hit his horse a cut,
and wouldn’t stop, and then cut around ;
whether be Hit Mr. Bookman I donotknow;
then Mr. Bookman came along side of our
buggy and shot; I thought him to be on the
step ot the buggy but I am not certain, the
flash of the pistol was that high 1 thought;
I was sitting on the side of the buggv next
to Mr. Bookman; the Hash of the pistol was
just before me; Mr. llogentobler tell over
into my arms when he was shot; the horse
ran on and wits stopped at a short distance
from the place where the shot was fired;
when the horse was stopped they took llo
gentobler out of the buggy and took him to
Dr. Reed’s office in Mountville ; J went into
the office afterwards; I saw Bookman the
prisoner there; I asked him what he meant
by shooting a man ; he replied lie did not
mean anything; at the time Mr. Hogentob
ler’s buggy struck that of the prisoner, ho
was leaning over my sister’s lap talking to
me and did not see the buggy until it was
struck: the buggy of the prisoner was stand
ing partly across the road; we drove a litt!6
piece beyond the bridge at this end of
Mountville, but notquiteto Klugh's tavern,
when we turned back ; Mountville, the place
where the shooting took plaee is in East
Hempfield township, this (Lancaster) coun
ty; I have seen the prisoner twice in prison,
but had no conversation in regard to the
shooting; the shooting occurred about H or
h o’clock in the evening; the dash of the
pistol passed across just below my face.
X By Mr. Brown. Do not know how
long we were going to Mountville; It
is only two miles; wedroveprettvrapidly ;
the buggy was standing across theroud; we
might have passed without striking it by
turning aside; we drove straight along the
pike; Mr. llogentobler did not see the bug
gy; I did not see it; the buggy was broken;
I heard the ernsh when we struck ; there
were twoother persons with Mr. Bookman ;
they did not say anything; wodid notdrive
far until we turned back; Mr. llogentobler
wanted to turn back ; 1 do not know why ; L
begged him not to go hark; told hint ho
might get into a fight, that he did not know
the Mountville fellows; he drove rapidly
when he turned ; Mr. Bookman was before
the horse and he told llogentobler to stop;
Mr. Kitch and Mr. Devlin were with Book
man ; llogentobler did not strike ul Devlm
that I know of; Devlin was on the opposite
side from me; llogentobler cut around
with his whip; I do not know that llogen
tobler struck Bookman; 1 did not hear auy
conversation between llogentobler and tlx;
parties; he struck once at the horse, hut 1
do not know how many limes he struck
round; I heard Bookman say nothing more
except the call to stop: this was about the
time llogentobler was flitting around with
his whip ; whon I visited Bookman in prison
I bad no conversation in regard to theshoot
ing; I did not speak to him except at the
Doctor's, at tiie Squire'sjoffice and in the
prison; what I said to him at the Squire's
1 do not remember. *
X By Mr. D J ckey. Hogentobler was
drunk at the time he drove against the bug
gy; we were not in the middle of the road at
the time; wo struck iton the side; llogen
tobler did not and slash at his horse uh
we went down; he did not striko coming
back until Bookman told him to stop.
Mary Shollenberger sworn: 1 got into the
buggy at Lemuel Garber’s,about } of a mile
from Mountville; we drove down to Mr.
Hinkle's for my sister; from there we drove
to Mountvillo, and my sister was with us;
jus we drove down through Mountville we
drove against Mr. Bookman’s Imggv and
broke it; tli«M-<* was a slight stop rnadewhcn
the buggy was broke, and 1 reached out
and shook hands witli BoOkmun; I said,
“well, Billy, is this you ; 1 do not remember
what he replied; we then drove on a little
piece below the bridge and turned ; as ho
came back Mr. Bookman ran before our
horse, and tried to stop it; then Mr. Hogen
tobler gave his horse a cut, and cut toward
Bookman, whether to hit him or not I can
not say; then Bookman shot; after the shot
the horse run a little distance, and some
one caught him; alter that they took Ho
gentobler out of the buggy, and took him
to Dr. Reed’s office; I had no conversation
with Bookman at Pr. Reed’s office.
X By Mr. Brown.—Mr. Hinkle’s house
is about two miles from Mountville; Ho
.gentobler was not sober when I and mv
sister got in to ride with him ; we were
driving rapidly through Mountville, but I
did not see the buggy, which was standing
at the side of the road, until wo struck ; wo
stopped but a little time, it was not a minute;
we only drove a short distance until we
turned back; my sister begged Hogentobler
not to turn back, for fear he might get into
a fight; saw no one but Bookman aawe
went back ; Hogentobler cut round with
his whip at Bookman ; when we struck the
buggy Hogentobler said be did not mean to
strike it; be was drunk all the time we
were with him.
X By Mr. Dickey.—l saw the flash of the
pistol; did not see Bookman at the mo
ment the shot was fired; saw no one but
Bookman we met him; after we
struck the buggy Bookman said to Hogen
tobler, drive off that way;” he
did not reply, but struck his horse and
drove.
In reply to one of the jnrors, the witness
described the position of herself, sister and
Hogentobler in the buggy. The girls, it-ap
peared, were sitting one on each side, and
Hogentobler between them, and in front of
them as it were.
Dr. G. W. Berntheisel, sworn; I was sit
ting on Mr. Bletz’s front porch on the 22d
of Fast July, between 8 anti 9 o’clock, talk
ing to a lady; my attention was called to a
buggy, which stopped in front of the house,
containing three gentlemen, whom I recog
nized to be Bookman, the prisoner, Devlin,
and Kitcb ; Kitch alighted from the buggy
and entered the house of his grandfather,
Mr. Blotz, for the purpose of changing his
coat;,the others remained in the buggy; while
Kitcn was in the house, my attention was
attracted by a loud voice and another buggy
driving rapidly; I turned away for a mo
ment, and was about to recommence con
versation, when my attention was again
attracted by a lopd crash as the buggies
came together ? saw Bookman and Devlin
jump from the buggy and heard one of the
JjjdJes p*U Bdokman byname;, lmmed£a&~
ly after they orbve onand l hear J the voice
and daughter of the ladies oa they went;
I asked what was broken, Bookman replied
wheehvas smashed; I then askbd th#
names of the parties, Bookman replied* "it
is llogentobler. from the Hill, and I will
blow his brains out when I catch himim
mediately after I beard by the gr&tingofthe
wheel that the buggy of Hogentobler was
turning round, and coming back at a yery
rapid gate; as the buggy came opposite to
the other, Devlin ran out and ordered Hf>--
gentobler to stop, immediately after I heard
frequent cracking of the whip and the horse
increased his speed; I turned round to quiet,
the ladies with whom I had been talking
on the porch, as they were excited; when
I turned toward the road again I saw Book
man alongside of Hogentobler’s horse, run
ning at a rapid gate to keep up with it; im
mediately thereafter I saw the flash and
heard the report of the pistol, the horse still
galloping on ; from the circumstance of the
horse running on and hearing no outcry
from the ladies I concluded that no damage
was done; as the horse stopped I heard
screams from the ladies in the buggy; be
fore the horse was stopped I saw Bookman
and Devlin coming back, Bookman lmd a
hat; heard him say," Well, we have his hat
!> n .vhow;’* I theu went up street to Doctor
Reed's office; the Doctoi was probing tho
wound at the time; it was about seventy
five feet from whero Devlin’s buggy stood to
where the shot was fired.
X. 1 cannot say how much room Mr.
Bookman’s buggy took up in the pike ;
there was plenty of room to pass; from the
tune of the cracking of the whip until the
pistol-shot a minute did not elapse; thoy
were almost simultaneous : I do not know
whether they would have struck the buggy
ot Devlin if they had driven down the mid
dle of the it could not have taken up
much oi tho road ; when 1 asked what was
broke Bookman said it was tho wheel, and
milled it was llogentobler of tiie hill, and
he would'blow his brains out when he
caught him.
Miss Annie M. Kitch, sworn: I was sit
ting on the porch in conversation With l)r.
Bernhciser when the buggv containing
Bookman, Devlin and Kitch drove up; .<iw
Michael Kitch get out and go in the house ;
heard another buggy coming, but paid no
attention to it till the collision tdok place;
do not know anything that was said there;
saw the buggy drive off; Dr. Bornheizer
then asked what was broke; Bookman an
swered, “the wheel is smashed;'' Bern
hei/.er thenaskedhim whoit was; Bookman
said, “ it i. s Ifogentohlcr from the 'Wll , and
I will blow his brains out i/ / catch him;"
then I heard theothcr buggy turn undcomo
hack ; when it was even with the other
buggv 1 saw Devlin step out, but do not
know what he said ; heard the lashing of
the whip and then saw the llash and heard
tiie report of the pistol; saw them then with
tiie hat, hut was 100 much frightened to
know what was said ; did not see the man
after he was shut.
George Reltew, sworn. I’istol produced;
la four-barreled Sharp's pistol;) in the
morning after the shooting I went down
with Bookman to his father's house; got
thopistol from the prisonuror his brother; the
prisoner told mo that was the pistol lie shot
llogentobler with; there were twofull car
tridges and the cap of one that had been
discharged in the pistol, whieli tile prisoner
told me was the one he had shot I logon
tobler with ; I had staid with Bookman all
night at tho squire’s offiec.
X- Bookman was at the squire’s office
on Saturday evening, when 1 got there,
and the squire gave me ivwarrani for him;
when Bookman gave me the pistol ho made
no statement about the pistol going oil'ac
cidentally; as wo were going away from
his father's house, 1 askedriiitu if this affair
did not trouble him ; ho said it did ; that is
all the conversation I had with him.
Dr. Joseph Reed, syuirn: Hogentobler
was brought into mf office; I found him
insensible at tho time he was brought in;
my office is in Mountville; I made an ex
amination; found a wound in tho right
temple bone peuetrating the brain ; probed
the wound ; its direction wus inward and
upward; it was a gun shot wound ; llogen
tobler remained at my office until ho died;
when I probed the wound did not find the
ball; location of the wound, a little in front
and below the top of the right ear, shown ;
lie lived 2S or 2i> hours, until 12 o’clock
and 41 minutes past on Monday
morning; the shooting occurred on Satur
day evening between s and !» o'clock; my
office is about 200 yards west of Blel/.'s
house; Hogentobler died from the effect of
the wound; after death Dr. Compton made
a post mortem examination, at which I as
sisted; the upper portion of the skull was
removed, the bruin taken out, and the bul
let found in the left lobe of the brain; tho
direction had been inwrtrd and upward, and
the ball struck the left parietal bone and re
bounded or gravitated to the place vvheVe it
was found, near the coronal suture; it was
taken out and thu Coroner took churgoof it;
ball shown ; that is the ball.
Dr. Win. Compton, affirmed: In com
pany with Dr. Reed and Dr. Kohror I made
a postmortem examination in Dr. Reed’s
office. We found the bullet in the left lobe
of tho brain; ball shown; that is tho hull to
tho best of my knowledge; the ball entered
the right parietal bone near tho ear,, passing
inward and upward, arxl was tho cause of
the death ol'Hogentobler.
Joseph C. Snyder, sworn : Bull produced ;
am a Deputy Coroner of the county ; this is
the ball the Doctors ga\o me; I have hud il
in my possession ever since.
J. il. Eraiiey, sworn: I stopped tho
horse of Hogentobler's some 120 vards from
Blitz’s house; the horse camo down at a
trot; the women were screaming; did not
know them at the time; they were thosamo
girls who testified here; when I stopped the
horse 1 helped u> lake Hogentobler from
the buggy; others carried him into tho office.
Mrs. Fanny Hogentobler, sworn: Heard
the buggy puss down the roud ; after it
came back went to the door ami saw the
flash of the pistol and heard the shot.
Court adjourned until Friday morning at
l J o'clock.
Friday Morning. —lsaac A. llogentobler,
sworn : Witness stated that he was the
father of.lohn Hogentobler, who wiia killed;
he wus a little past 16 years oldjwhen he en
listed, and was lit years, 10 months and If)
days old; he had only been nt homo from
the army three weeks "when he was killed ;
he was overthreoyeursin thearmy ; he first
enlisted in th • infantry, und alter serving
his time out in that service, enlisted in the
cavalry; he was regularly discharged with
his regiment after the yvur was over. '
Dr. Bernthoiz.-l, recalled. A draft of the
road leading through Mountville, and tho
location of the transaction which was ad
mitted to be correct, was shown to tho wit
ness ; the witness testified, the post to which
the buggy was hitched was five feet
from the fence; the buggv which was
struck was not much further out on tho
road than the post; for some reason the
most of the travel is on the side of tho road
next to where the buggy was standing ; the
right hand hind wheel of the buggy was
struck and the wheel was badly urokeu ;
the wheel was struck on the outside.
THE DEFENCE
O. J. Dickey, Esq., opened the case on
the j)art of the Common wealth. *
TESTIMONY roll THE DEFENCE.
Cyrus A. Ksholman, sworn : Hogentobler
fame to in v father s house on the ufternoon
of the day when he was killed ; ho asked
for Miss fShollunherger; ho got out of his
buggy; was drunk at the time ; ho told mo
to unhitch his horse; when I had just goL
the holding buck strap out of the keeper,
he cut his horse, and started off utagallop;
1 had told liim where Miss Shollenberger
lived or was.
John B. Devlin, sworn: I live in the vil
lage of Mount Pleasant; Bookman, Kitch
and I had been engaged in hauling goods
from the railroad to my father's store on
the day of tin* killing ; we agreed to take u
ride-; 1 wa* to furnish Lhe horse, and Kitch
and Bookman lhe buggy; about eight o’clock
in the evening we started down the pike
and drove to Bletz’s residence, when Kitcli
stepped in the house to change his coat;
while he -vyas gone a man came driving
along very recklessly, Bookman and I be
ing seated in the buggy; our buggv being
weak, and we fearing he might run" into us,
called on him to turn out; a moment after
wards the collision took place; Book
man fell out against the side of
the buggy and I fell against him;
lie fell toward Hogentobler’s buggy; I
jumped out at the other side to take care of
the horse; Mr. Kitch came out and asked
what was wrong ; we told him, and proceed
ed to unhitch, as our buggy was too much
broke to go on ; while wo were unhitching,
Hogentobler came driving back at a rapid
rate; I stepped out and raising'my bund
called on him to halt; ho did not stop ot my
signal but cut me ucross the back with his
whip; shortly alter this I heard the-report
of the pistol, and saw Bookman in a posi
tion which I thought to be rising from the
ground after a fall; then came to pick
him up and asked him whether he wns hurt;
besuid.no; then proceeded to unhitch my
horse to take him home; when wo stopped,
at Bletz’s our buggy stood up und down the
pike; it was not on tho beaten track; our
buggy was struck, as I suppose, on the out
side of the wheelj nearly all the spokes bo
ingbroken out ot the wheel; if Hogentobler
had kept on tho beaten track ho could not
have struck us; I donot know that we asked
him to stop after he had broken our buggy;
did not hear tho girls or any of them laugh
ing; do not know whether any of the girls
shook hands with Bookman when they /
stopped. /
XBy Mr. Reynolds ; I was sitting,on the /
left hand side of the buggy; Bookman fell /
over against Hogentobler’s buggy; did not J.
fall on the ground as I seen ; we did not
agree to stop the buggy when they came
back; do not know where Bookman was
when I made an attempt to stop the buggy;
went to assist Bookman to rise after no
shot; he was about six yards from me;
asked him if he WHsahot; the hitching post
was some two.or three feet from tho beaten
or traveled track of the road; we had driven
our horse between the hitching post and tho
fence; the main travel was on thosido next
to our buggy; there wero fresh broken
stone on the right-hand side of the road as
you* come to Lancaster. , *
M By Ml. Livingston: Didnotfiear any
conversation between Bookman and Fir
Berntheisel; when the shot was firedl wan
Standing in the pike opposite to our buggy
the buggy was as near the other oneruaf
“, ot k ? ow exactly bow fer it wm
from me to where the shooting oceuted;.