!*4 I DMP4T4 *Prbl 7,, nu. gliaeiriaeiaby_oftbetlly and County "' ,,1 it ;.11 loucaster• • • ptuauanas of authority given the un deralgtiK' at 3 . 4 . lllleeling of the County Commhtee,.heid Monday, April 15th you are •letitiested to assemble in the several Wards of the city and bor oughs, and in the townships of' the con*, on SATURDAY, the 11th day of MAY, 1887, to elect not less than three nor more Wan live delegates, to represent such dLstriot in a general County Convention, to be held on WEDNESDAY, the 15TH day of MAY, at 11 o'clock, at Fulton Hall, in the city of Lancaster, for the purpose of elect ing six delegates •to represent the Do • mocracy of the county of Lancaster In the State Convention, to be held at HARRISBURG on the SECOND TUESDAY in JUNE NEXT; and for the - - - further purpose, If deemed advisable, of electirm twelve delegates to meal: in Mass Convention at Liarristmrg, on a day to be fixed by' the Chairman of the State Central Committee. The several Districts will each nominate one person to serve as a member of !the County Committee for the ensuing pollticul year, and will also elect u President rand Hecretary of the District organization, who will appoint un Executive Com mittee of one in each sub-division.— These names should be placed upon the credentials of the delegates to the County Convention. The most active and efficient men should be chosen. The County Committee will meet num ent to adjournment, at the usual place, u WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, at 10 A. M. A. ESTFINMAN, Chairlllllll B. J. IvIoGnANN, Secretary. The End of a Corrupt Legislature The Legislature of Pennsylvania has adjourned sine die. For that God be praised! High noon of Thursday, the 1 1 th day of April, found that miserably corrupt and venal body in artieulo mor tis. By set limitation it then expired, and a majority of the members return ed to their homes to render up an ac count to constituencies which they had outraged and betrayed. Many left the State Capitol with pockets well lined with "greenbacks," the price of bribery and the fruit of their shame. Au honest few went forth uuenriched by any base barter of their integrity, and with their honor us men and their fair fume as representatives uutarniphed. We have neither time nor inclination to revert in detail to the many dark transactions of this deceased Legislature. We tried, from time to time, to lay bare the cor ruptions of the living body; but to dis sect the dead and putrid carcas would be more than our nerves and the ol fae tortes of our readers could stand. Compton and bribery in the Legis lature of Pennsylvania has come to be the rule since the triumph of the Radi cal party—honesty and Integrity the exception. For a number of years past the matter has been growing constantly worse. " The ring" has become a recog nized institution, and the question With the majority of the members has been, not Is a proposed measure right, but "will It pay." Venal fanatics and mousing policians have crept into the seats once occupied by honorable men, and the • halls of . the Senate and the !louse has each come to be regarded us a kind of political shamble, In which pro fessed law-makers are openly bought and sold by any man, clique or cor poration that can. afford to oflbr bribes. Almost every bill brought for ward in the Legislature which has just adjourned was made to pay toll, and when ill-gotten gains greW scarce, some member of the ring would introduce an act framed for the very purpose of extorting money from a wealthy corporation or institution which- had been created by former Legislatures. Thus did a majority of the men who composed the recent Legislature of Penusylvabia sit from day to day, devising schemes for till ing their pockets, and utterly disregard ing the interests of the public. Row shall we rank them upon honors leaves Fanatics fierce and blind, a pack of greedy ' thieves, All they stole lu service of the commonweal, is naught to what they were disposed to steal. The Democrats were largely iu the minority in both branches of the recent Legislature, and, to their honor be it said, the " rings " were made up with out them. The Democratic leaders in both Houses constantly opposed the corrupt and pernicious acts of the ma jority, and did the State good service by acting us a check upon the dominant faction. The public morality of the Democratic party has always been of a more elevated standard than that of the party now in power. Witu the advent of Know Nothingism, the fearful corruption in the ranks of the party which stood opposed to the Democracy began, and it has continual ly Increased from year to year. If there has been a lowering of the high tone of the Democratic party of Pennsylvania we have not seen it, and we believe It is as ready now as ever to repudiate with scorn and loathing any public man who dares to contaminate his fingers with a base bribe. We hope and believe it will never lose the high sense of honor which has always characterized it iu the past. The people of all parties are alike in terested in seeing to it that there is a speedy end put to the disgraceful scenes which marked the career of the Legis lature which is now happily defuttct. Let them resolve sternly to effect a complete andpermanent reform. As for the venal wretches who so disgrace the State, if their constituents are not ut terly lacking In public virtue, they " will bring them to account, And crush the vipers yet, Who, singled out by a community, 'fo guard their rights, did still, for ends cor rupt, And "greenbacked paper," sell and tetra} , them. Henry Clay's Birthday. On Friday last, the PALI day of April, was the ninetieth anniversary of Henry Clay's birthday. It was appropriately celebrated' in New York city by the 'ferny Clay Association, a society which has been in existence for a good many years. The time was when --. i t stood opposed to the Dediocratic party; but it Is a significant fact that nearly every member of it is now acting with the political organization which he once contended against. Were the sage of Ashland alive today, he would be found leading the conservative men of the nation against the wretched fanatics in Congress, who are doing all they can to impair the institutions which he fos tered so carefully. The best and purest of his followers everywhere are now acting i n good faith with the Democratic party, beine prompted thereto by the same patriotic zeal which distinguished him whom they once recognized as their chosen and well beloved leader. Connecticut There is a report, says the New Haven Regl9ter, that ou a recount of the votes In the Sixteenth Senatorial District, Seth S. Logan, of Washington, was found to have a majority, and is there fore elected, giving the Democrats a majority of one in the Senate. AMONG the items in the general ap propriation bill passed by the last ses eion of the Pennsylvania Legislature are the following; Prayers for the House Prayers for the Senate Good boys{ We don't know who got the Senate's money, but the Tfonse with an eye to taking care of its own employed a Radical member to ,do the business, and - thus-increased his pay to =!I=ME An Issue in the Coming Presidential CUP Coign. , From the first day of its existence the Republican parky 4 hos beau a *roughly dishonest pOlitield i orginizatiOn. ;.All the platforms wfileh it hailaid dOwn have been susceptible of dOetent and bpposing interpretations. It has refused constantly to define its position on the great questions before the people in honest and outspoken terms. It has been guilty of continued duplicity. All along Its leaders in Pennsylvania have denied that , it favored negro suffrage. When the charge was made they in- variably repudiated it; and it is only since the result of the Connecticut elec tion has shown that It can -no longer rely upon the votes of the white men of the North, that the mask has been completely thrown aside. No disguise Is now worn. The leaders boldly avow their position. They are resolved to force unqualified negro suffrai,e upon All the States; hoping that the negro vote May enable them to override the will of a majority of the white citizens. Thistle term I nation has been openly and unluisitatingly declared since the result of the Connecticut election was an nounced. The New York Tribune clear ly d fines the position of the party. It says: Tht time has come to open the next Prey dentlal campaign. It Is too soon for the • orninations or for personal preferences, but . rganizatlon should be made now. The pro tlem is to reconstruct the South so that Its a adore! votes shall be cast for progress. t i , Wh le the South is being reconstructed into Sta s, we should reconstruct the politics of Stat s. T do this, two lines of policy should be ado ted. What we impose on the South by virtize of success in war, we should accept our selv 8. We are not prepared to discuss lue tions of interference with the suffrage —to such questions are not practical. Con :cm s, we think, has too much confidence in the loyal people of the Northern States to sup ose they will hesitate to remove every law that makes distinctions iu suffrage. We believe the Republican party is warm for this work. Politicians in Pennsylvania, the large minority In Connecticut—a few facing both-ways Individuals in New York, under the uneasy leadership of The Times—may have retarded the:enthusiasm of the In lIFIS of the party ; but we feel that their Influence Is dead, uud that, in view of Oonnecticut, and of the great work now ripening in the South, there is not a sincere Republican who is not willing to remove every restriction of caste, color, or race, and proclaim, in its most absolute sense, Impartial Suffrage and Universal Liberty. The Legislature of Ohio has taken steps to have the word white stricken from the Constitution of that State; he Republican Convention, which me In New York a few days since to elect delegates to a Convention to frame a new State Constitution, unanimously declared in favor of unrestricted negro suffrage; in the New Jersey Legislature a proposition to strike the word white from the Constitution of the State wa s only defeated by a few votes, the great body of tize RePublicana in both branch es voting for it. The issue Is at length made plain. There can be , uo dodging It in future. Here, in Pennsylvania, the Republican leaders may refuse to make it openly, but he must be a very silly fool who will any longer say, as many moderate Republicans have been in the habit of doing, " 1 am -opposed tO negro suffrage, but it Is not an issue new." I t is a direct issue, made such bY the action of the Republican party throughout' the country. The Demo ! cratic party is umifterably . opposed to grading the elective franchise, and It \ 111 never consent to see it done. The New York Tribune and other Re- Publican newspapers have seen fit thus eilrly to open the coming Presidential \? cktupaign upon the Issue of negro suf frage. Let the white vote s of Penn sylvania deliberately ma e up their minds as to the position hey intend to occupy upon it, and then let thorn boldly express their opinions in public and record them at the ballot-box. If they do that we shall have no fear of the result so farm thls State is concerned. Where the Money Goes. The State Appropriation Bill, as orig ally gotten up and passed by the Rouse, appropriated more than oue Million dollars in excess of the estimated receipts. AL the last hour the Senate Cut it considerably, so as to make the expenses a little more than the receipts, $4,995,371. For the ethication of soldiers' drphatis, the amount was reduced from $450,000 to $300,000., The pay of mem hers was reduced to $l,OOO for the ses sion, instead of $1,500, as originally con templated. The Dixmount appropria tion was cut down from $66,082 to $50,- 000; for the HouSe of Refuge, from $47,000 to $27,000; for St. Paul's Orphan Asylum, from 515,000 to $B,OOO. The law granting pensions to the soldiers of 1812 and their widows was repealed. The Penitentiary appropriation was fixed at $20,800, the usual sum. The project of extension of the prison has been abandoned for the present. Following are the prominent items of the bill: Interest on the funded debt... Expenses of Legislature, mileage, stationery, &c Judges of the Supreme Court. For the education of the destitute orphans of soldiers and For support of common schools State Agency at Washington Antietam Rational Cemetery Gettysburg Battle-field Associat ton... Disinterring and removing to the place of burial the bodies of Penna. soldiers For indigent pupils lu the Institution for deaf and dumb For indigent pupils in the institution for the blind Pennsylvania Lunatic Asylum Homes for Friendless Children Enlarging Governor's mansion Salary of the Governor Of the Secretary of the Common wealth Of the Deputy Secretary Of the Auditor General Of tile Attorney General Of the Surveyor General Of Its Adjutant General Of State Treasurer Of the Superintendent of Common Schools Of the State Librarian Of the Superintendent of Public Print ing Of the Private Secretary of the Gov ernor' Of Superintendent of Soldiers' Or phans For Law Judges in Allegheny county, 85,150 each Western Peunsy•Vanta Hospital, (Dix.• mount) Pittsburgh Soldiers' Home Western Penitentiary House of Refuge, Pittsburgh School of Design, Pittsburgh St. Paul's Orphan Asylum, Pittsburgh Pensions and gratuities . Public Printing Since the advent of Radicalism the United States Senate has parted with the dignity which characterized It in the better and purer days of the Re public. It has ceased to command the respect or the confidence of the people. We are sure no right thinking man can fail to be pained by the exhibition al most daily occurring in it. Just now the whole body of the Radical majority are engaged in a desperate struggle to force the appointment of their pets to post offices and profitable positions un der he Commissioner of Internal Rev enue. They seem more intent upon the scramble for petty offices than ever they were, or any greater or graver duties. We have had a display of the most dis creditable character in regard to the ap pointments in this District. The Club foots and Winnebagoes have been at open war for weeks. Simon and Thad• dens are both obstinate, and which will worry the other out remain*to be seen. Meantime the people are looking on at the exhibition with a feeling of deep disgust at the dirty squabble, The masses recognize in it a display of just such dignity as properly attaches to the leaders of the Radical party. John T. U.'llhenny, Esq., editor and proprietor of Gettysburg iWar, died at his residence, on Sunday night last, of disease of the heart. He was a gentle man of considerable ability. 81,m0G, lad '2141,1100 1,00,000 12,000 5,000 5,0011 Senatorial Dignity Death of an Editor. Banner's Negro Suffrage Bill. We publish elsewhere the full to*t of Sumner's bill for forcing negro suffrage assn ,tfachlitate audgerritory it ;the ;13,niorii which only foiled to pi* for *ant , of time; and we ask ' ,every 'Dem 'oerat under whoie eye it may fall, After readirig it, to band it to hig‘Republlcan , neighbor. It will be seen that it starts out with a declaration that the Consti tutional Amendment, lately ratified by the Radical majority of our Legislature, confers the right of suffrage upon every negro In the country. The first section of the bill declares that every negro in every State and Territory shall have the right to vote at every election held, whether for Na tional, State, County or Municipal offi cers; and declares null and void all State or Territorial laws to the con- trary. The second•section imposes a tine of from one hundred to three thousand dollars, and imprisonment of not less than thirty days nor more than one year, upon any one who may, in any way, hinder or obstruct a negro from voting at any election. The third section imposes a fine of from live hundred to four thousand dol lars on any officer of election who may refuse to count, receive or return the vote of any negro, together with the additional penalty of Imprisonment for not less than three mouths, nor more than two years. • The fourth section gives exclusive Ju risdiction of all such cases to the Uni ted States District Courts, which are expected to be under the control of Rad ical Judges, and provides for the ap pointment of an army of spies to pro secute offenders. Section fifth and last gives to any ne growho may feel himself aggrieved, the right to sue for damages In any of the United States District Courts. It will be seen that the Rump Con gress intend to make thorough work of this matter. Not only are severe and unusual punishments to be inflicted upon every one who may in any way interfere with a negro offering to vote ; but the trials are to lie removed from the State Courts to tribunals where convic tion will be sure. Before Radical Judges, and Juries of Radicals selected by radical United States Marshals, no one accused of the high crime of chal- lenging the vote of a negro could ex pect to escape. Let no man deceive himself Into a belief that the fanatics in Congress will hesitate to pass such an infamous bill. They have given the country plenty of. instances of their readiness to perpetrate even greater enormities. A party which sanctioned the overthrow of the courts and the establishment of military tribunals in their stead in loyal Northern States, is capable of doing anything else. They will stop at nothing to perpetuate their rule, and can only be checked in their ruinous course by a general up rising of the people. If the white men of Pennsylvania desire to maintain con trol of their own affairs, they must at once rally in solid phalanx, to compass the overthrow of the usurping faction, which is now attempting to destroy, not only the executive and judicial. branches of the general (4overnmeut, but also, all the SI ate Govern ments, and to establish Instead a despotism under th e control of a Congress from which those who do not agree with Sumner and Stevens are to be persistently ex cluded. No chance to rebuke these fanatics should be permitted to pass unimproved. Let the masses judge of the future by the past. Let the people remember how rapid has been the rev olution of the past few years, and re solve to check it at the ballot box. Shocking Barbarities People who read the highly-colored accounts published some years ago by the New York Tribune and other abo- lition papers, of barbarities inflicted upon slaves by brutal masters or over seers, and thence drew inferences un favorable to Southern as compared with Northern civilization, ought to read with care the article we copy from the Tribune to-day. o It is well, sometimes, when we grow so self-righteous as to thank God that we are better than our neighoN, to have our rottenness laid open and our pride humbled. And just now, when we are talking of the bene• fits we are about to confer upon the South by extending over her the "supe rior civilization" of which we boast so loudly, it may do us good to have set before us such an account as the 15. - bone gives of shocking barbarities that have been cow milted iu the very shadow of the spires of our " loyal churches," and under the walls of our lauded "free school houses." We question whether the most rigid scrutiny into plantation management in the South, from the earliest settlement of the country down to the present time, would reveal bar barities at all equal in hellish atrocity to those detailed by the Tribune. The negroes'upon whom cruel punishment was inflicted, even by the worst masters or overseers, were generally full-grown men of vicious disposition, whom it was difficult to manage; but in the cases re lated by the Tribune, the victims were poor little children. Verily "the Greeks are at our own doors," and in stead of troubling ourselves • about "Freedmen's Aid Societies," we should, as the Tribune suggests, organize Soci eties for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. It is clearly our duty to hit prove our own "civilization" before we spend either our time or our money in extending it to others. J i,OOO "13,000 8,1300 20000 5,000 Another Charge Rebutted—Who Asks the Pardons One of the Radical complaints against President Johnson is the alleged whole sale pardoning of " red-handed rebels." It was freely charged that these pardons were obtained by the influence of lead ing Southern men, rebels themselves, or prominent Democrats. These com • plaints became so vociferous that some over-zealous Radical insisted that Con gress should call for official information. In response it appears, according to a statement in the New York Tribune, that from April 15, 1865, to March 2, 1866, pardons were recommended by the following officials: Radicals. No. Others. No. Gov'nor Brownlow, .lov. Bramlette, Ken- Tennessee 283 tucky 84 Gov. Wells, Louisi- Gov. Fletcher, Me ans, 255 sour! 48 Gov. Murph y , 625 Gov. Bradford, Md.... 96 Gov. Murphy, Ark. 175 Gov. Marvin, Fla 97 .1,108 Total In addition, there were fifty-five par dons granted upon the recommendation of Hon. Austin A. King, of Missouri. Is it not slightly cool for them to abuse the President for doing just what they were most urgent in asking him to do? A Good Definition. Prentice, of the Louisville Journal, pithily and truly says the military re construction scheme is simply a law to perpetuate disunion or to render the so called Llnion a curse when it shall be nominillly restored. That is about the best definition of the odious and infa- moos thing which we have seen A Solid Old Veteran At the recent election in Connecticut, an old veteran named Lawton Babcock, pow 103 years old, was present at the election in the town of old Lyme and cast a democratic vote. He has voted at every election for President from the formation of our Government to the present time ; and alwaYs with the pemocratic party. E!)==;M The Work Done by the Late Legislature—z Look at It! ThiSliebauched anttfulserably corrupt' egialiture,..whlchAMS , J 11,40 0 ,4nd; met Many meritedli; severe criticisms. even from Radical • iiewsPapers. The more influential and , 'tespeetable :Jour, nail, of the party felt impelled, in;splte of ordinary partisan partiallty:to de- nounce the open and wholesale taking of bribes by a majority of the Repub lican members. But, amidst all, " the ring" bad one steady and unwavering apologist and defender. The Harrisburg lelegraph, published by George Berg- ner, a mercenary wretch who has grown rich since the war, by securing exorbi tant prices for publishing the Legiela dy° Record, and doing other printing for " loyal " Legislatures, was ever ready to defend any and every act of the men whose misdeeds have disgraced the State.• Bergner was well paid for , the puffs he gave the majority of rad ical reprobates, by being allowed to plunder the State Treasury to the tune of several thousand dollars more than he should have received for the work he did, and he rendered a quid pro quo. It mattered not what was done by the loyal thieves and corruptionists. They were always sure to find a defence in the Telegraph, done up to order in the most fulsome style of the editor, Wien Forney, a fellow who possesses all the mean qualities of his cousin, John W Forney, without his ability. When the late Legislature adjourned, the Telegraph exhausted all its energies in getting up a labored eulogy on the defunct abomination. The adjectives were "piled on" with a recklessness nearly equal to the lavishness displayed by the subjects of it in passing, without examination, the exorbitant bills of Bergner. Never was there the same amount of hard work done by any Legislature, if the Telegraph is to be believed. Yet, when it comes to sum up the bills of a public character which were passed, it has to content itself with the following statement : The law of evidence, as revised and amen& ed at the present session, will produce a salutary reform in all litigation of a civil character. Parties In civil suits can now appear to testify in their own behalf. The ratification of the Constitutional Amendment was accomplished with little difficulty. The law granting the unobstructed use of all passenger cars to men and women, with out distinction of color, may be regarded, in a general sense, as another triumph of right, worthy of the age in which slaviiry ended its own existence in the United States. Other general legislation may have been adopted, but we cannot now recall its nature. And that is all. A law In regard to evidence of doubtful propriety, and against which we have heard quite a number of the best lawyers in the State protest seriously ; the ratification of an amendment to tilt Constitution of the United States which the radical leaders have repudiated, except so far as they hope to make it a means of forcing negro suffrage upon the people of Penn sylvania Laid other Northern States; and a law making it a penal offence to exclude negroes from any passen ger car, sleeping or other, of any rail road In the State. What an array of legislation! Yet the Telegraph, the hired defender of the defunct Legisla ture, Is forced to declare in emphatic terms ; " Other general legislation may have been adopted, but we cannot note recall its nature." Only three actsof public interest, and they all more or less reprehensible! Was there ever such au abortion? And yet the Radical rascals had the audacity to vote to increase their pay to $l5OO for the session ; five hundred dollars apiece for the passage of each one of the only three measures of public interest which were put through. No wonder a few of them joined with the body of Demo crats in the Senate and reconsidered the increase ofsalary at the last moment, What must be the thoughts of the masses as they reflect upon the charac ter and the acts of the late Legislature? We know what will be the opinion of every honest and patriotic citizen. [For the Patriot and Union?) Judge of the Supreme CoArt. Permit me, through the columns of the central organ of the Democracy of Penn sylvania, to add another to the number of good names_ already brought forward for the nomination of Judge of the Supreme Court. The name I have to propose is that of Hon. Francis M. Kimmel, of Chambers burg. Judge Kimmel has had the advantage of ten years experience on the Common Pleas bench, together with an active practice at the bar, both before his elevation to the bench and since his retirement from it. He ranks among the ablest lawyers in central Pennsylvania. To a very vigorous intel lect be adds a fine physical constitution, and lie is not yet so for advanced in years as to leave room for the least apprehension that his mental or physical powers would experience any decline during the judicial term for whieh it is proposed to nominate and elect him. Judge Kimmell is a gentleman of fine personal appearance and engaging man ners, and is very popular wherever he is known. His political principles are sound, and he is in all respects worthy to be se lected as the standard-bearer of Democracy in the approaching contest. CENTRAL. With the correspondent of the Patriot and Union we perfectly agree. We have known Judge Kimmell for a numberof years, having practicad under him when he was on the bench, and been associated with him in the trial of causes since his return to the bar. He s one of the ablest lawyers in the State, and should he be nominated and elected would do honor to those who elevated hitri to the high position of a seat on the bench of the Supreme Court. More Democratic Triumphs The tide of success still runs on un interruptedly. At the municipal election held in Hartford, Connecticut, on Monday, the Democracy carried the city by a largely increased vote over that cast at the re cent State election. Albany, New York, held a charter election on Tuesday, and the Demo cratic ticket was successful by over 1,600 majority. The Democratic ma jority last November was about 560. The Democrats carried the charter election at Lockport, New York, the same day, by 270 majority—a Demo cratic gain of nearly 400 since Novem ber last. New Brunswick, New Jersey, held ifs charter election on Tuesday. The Democrats elected their Mayor by 160 majority, and secured four out of six aldermen. New Brunswick gave 41 Re publican majority last November. What a Summary! During the recent session of our State Legislature, 1652 bills were passed, and yet, according to the Harrisburg Tele graph, the central organ of the Radi cals, only two out of the batch were of a general or public character, and one of those was the bill making it a penal offence to exclude negroes from any car of ally railroad in the State. What a summary! What a comment on the wisdom and statesmanship of Radical politicians I A LEADING Radical paper sa But. ler has lately disappointed many ad mirers, almost as keenly, probably, as were those foolish persons who left their spoons within the range of his crooked vision. WitEx the people of all the other States love liberty and uphold their rights as the people of Connecticut have demonstrated that they do, the Governments of this country, State,Fed eral and Municipal, all will be restored to what they were once so happily for the people. panrcum has found in Connecticut another curiosity for his Museum—the biggest becit in the world. ArsEepos Bill for Berens. Negro gum rage on AU the Oates. is The following is the full text of the bill to 'nitbroe negro suffrage throughout the , noun-, Ar4 - ,iiilloduced in the United Bate' a Semite' b3r,StiMner, of Massachusetts, i iin Menden March 41 7 /cereae, The Constitution of the United States • abolishes slavery everywhere with in , the jurisdiction thereof, so that all . Con stitutions, laws or regulations of any State or Territory in aid of slavery, or growing out of the same, are null and void; and, whereas, the same Constitution in another provision recently adopted declares that no State shall. make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privilege or immu nities of citizens of the United Stales ;" and, whereas also, Congress is empowered by appropriate legislation to enforce these sev eral provisions, which cannot be done with out securing the elective franchise to citi zens who have been slaves, or who' are the descendants of slaves or who are deprived of equal rights by re ason of race and color; and, whereas further it is expressly de clared in the Constitution that the United States shall guarantee to every State in the Union a republican form of government, and it is plain that any inequality of rights is inconsistent with a republican form of government and the promisesof the Decla ration of Independence; now, therefore, Be it enacted, Ste., That every citizen of the United States, although he may have been a slave, or , Is the descendant of a slave, or by reason of race or color is de prived of equal rights, ahati, in every State and Territory, have the rt to vote at an election for members of Congress, for Presidential electors, for Representatives and Senators to State or Territorial Legis latures, for all State, county, city, town and other officers of every kind, upon the same terms and conditions, and no others as white citizens are and may be allowed to vote, and every provision of every State and Territorial Constitution, statute and ordinance, which is now, or hereafter may be enacted, and every custom and prin ciple of law heretofore recognized in any State or Territory contrary to the forego ing provisions are hereby declared null and void. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That any person who shall. wilfully hinder or ob struct, or attempt to hinder or obstruct, any citizen once a slave or the descendant of a slave, or not belonging to the so-called white race, from voting at any election where he is entitled to vote according to the provis ions of the foregoing section, shall be pun ished by a fine of notless than one hundred nor more than three thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in the common jail for not less than thirty days nor more than one year. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That any person holding or conducting any elec tion to which the first section of this bill is applicable, who shall wilfully refuse to re ceive, count, return, or otherwise give the proper legal effect to the vote of any citizen once a slave, or the descendant of a slave, or not belonging to the so called whiterace, shall be punished by a fine of not less than live hundred nor more than four thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in the common Jail for not less than three calendar months nor more than two years. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the District Courts of the United States, within their respective districts, shall have exclusive jurisdiction of all otiences com mitted against this act, and the District Attorneys Marshals and Deputy Marshals of the United States, the Commissioners appointed by the Circuit and Territorial Courts of the United States, with powers of arresting, imprisoning, or bailing offenders against the laws of the United States, the of - Hears and agents of the Freedmen's Bu reau, and every other officer who may be specially empowered by the President of the United States, shall be, and they are hereby, specially authorized and required at the expense of the United States, to in stitute proceedings against any person who shall violate the provisions of this act, and cause him to be arrested end imprisoned, or balled, as the case may be for trial be fore such court of the United States or Territorial court as by this act has cogni zance of the offence. SEC, 5. And be it further enacted, That any citizen once a slave, or the descendant of a slave, or not belonging to the mo.called white race, if ho shall be unlawfully do. prived of his vote, may maintain a cult against any person so depriving him, and recover damages in any District Court of the United States for the district in which such person may be found, The Johnson Murder—Further Develop. manta.. The dead body of one of the outlaws who recently killed Jacob Johnson and wound ed Henry Rapp, near Ringtown, has since been found in the woods, about a mile from the house of Mr. Happ. He had been stab bed in the back and shot in the breast. It appears that Johnson entered the house with two revolvers, and tired three shots at the robbers before ho was killed. One of the shots struck the man whose body has been found in the breast, from which wound he is supposed to have died soon after.— Rapp stabbed the same man, when both Rapp and Johnson were shot down by the robbers. The dead outlaw was recog nized as Patrick Delaney, of Glen Carbon. He is said to have been a man of bad character. He was a tall, slim man, of light complexion. He was buried in a field near the spot where he was found. Some of his relatives, hearing of the affair, went to take the body home for burial, when they were arrested, but upon proving their in nocence of any complicity in the crimes of the outlaws, they were released. There is but little doubt that one of the same gang of robbers was shot by James Kernes, in an assault on his house at Mine Hill Gap, on the 28th of February last. The dead man is said to have been taken to Glen Carbon, and privately buried there. It is said that Delaney is the man who stabbed and killed a young man named Mulcahy, at Mackeys burg, more than a year ago.—Pottsville Standard. The Great EaMern It is doutful if the Great Eastern will be able to obtain the desired complement of three thousand passengers from New York, the fact being that not a great many persons are applying for passage. The threatenings of war in Europe, and the unceztainly of affairs in France and Germany, will not add to the desire of Americans to cross the ocean. On the other hand, the advantages and enjoyment of a voyage in such a ship will be very attractive to hundreds, and with good management here and food ac counts from Paris, it may be possible be fore the close of the month to secure for her the proper complement of passengers. The Princess of Wales at the Point of Death. _ LI.NDON, April 11.--The Princess of Wales, daughter of the King of Denmark, is lying at the point of death in consequence of the effects ciN.. he disease of her knee joint—sometimes said to be a rheumatic af fection—which showed itself so suddenly just before her late accouchment. It is feared that the performance of a sur gical operation on the bone of the knee is absolutely necessary, nut the royal sufferer cannot endure the pain consequent on the remedy, and she is too weak to have chloro form safely administered. The news relative to the exceedingly dan gerous condition of her health is carefully kept from the public. The Prince of Wales, her husband, haunts the theatres of the city as usual. SufYsae in Ohio The bill extending the suffrage in Ohio, recently passed by the Legislature of that State, provides that at the October election the voters shall vote for the approval or re jection of an amendment to the State Constitution. This amendinent declares that "every male citizen of the United States of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been a resident of the State next preceding the election, and ofthe township or ward in which he resides, such time as may be provided by law, except such persons as have borne arms in support of any insurrection or rebellion against the Government of the United States, or have fled from their places of residence to avoid being drafted into the military service there of, or have deserted the military or naval service of said Government in time of war, and have not subsequently been honorably discharged -from the same, shall have the qualifications of an elector and be entitled to vote at all elections." This amendment, if adopted, will establish negro suffrage in Ohio. Commerce of Charleston It appears from a statement in the Charles ton (S. C.) News, that upwards of 30,000 more bales of cotton have been shipped from that port in the first three months of this year than for the same period of the year 1866, an excess in Valuatiort of nearly $2,700,- 000—a very heavy increase, when the re duction in the price of this staple is taken into consideration.'-On the other hand, the import trade shows a falling off, the de crease in the amount of duties received during the quarter amounting to nearly $25,000, as compared with the first quarter of 1866. The Trial of Sneratt. It is becoming very doubtful whether Surratt will be tried at the present term of the court, notwithstanding the fact that his counsel, Messes. Bradley and Merrick, have repeatedly stated their readiness to proceed. It is said Attoirkey General Stan bery is not prepared to proceed to trial yet, and is anxious for a postponement till the next term. It is even rumored that grave doubts are entertained as to whether there is a sufficiency of legal evidence on which to sustain the charges of which he is ac cused. Payment of Commutation Money Due Prisoners of War. The commutation of twenty-five cents per day for rations of enlisted men who have been prisoners of war is now being paid at the office of the Commissary General of Prisoners in Washington, and quite a large number of cases have been disposed of already. A statement was made a short time ago in reference to the 9ommencement of these payments, in 'which it was said that the commutation was due to officers who had been prisoners of war. This te a mis take. None are entitled to it but soldiers, sailors and marines. The Pennsylvania Insane Asylum. During the last twelve months there were 4776 pausal, admitted Into the Pennsyl _vs*l.. a Hospital for ,the Insane , and the - - I‘llllole, of these areinstructlve: ,_:Of these 268 1 were natives of Pennsyl- Iran* 234 of New.Tersey, 132 of Maryland, 121 of New_York, and 106 of Delaware. The other States of the union, although all were represented, werelmall : ln tirepumber of _their citizens. Of Irish .born people there were 014 ; of German, 258; of English, 214. Of sexes, the majority of cases are men. Thus 2245 are women, 1,131 are men. The troubles of business and the care of every day life in trade, a friction of mind from which women aro generally free, are the cause of this excess among the men. Single men seeni more add'Ated to insanity than those who are marred, while the reverse holds true of women. -Of the men inmates 1285 were baohPl'..ax, and 1188 benediets, while 9321w0r..en were unmated in wedlock, 1024 were married. The age at which in sanity is developed is generally between twenty and forty. Of the inmates treated last year, we thus find that there were 751 patients admitted between the ages of twenty-five and thirty 701 between twenty and twenty-five, and 1219 between thirty and forty. There were five cases which veloped before ten years old, and nineteen between ten and fifteen. But the demon stration of insanity rarely becomes fixed luntil the mind begins to mature, when its growth is abnormal, and the sure progress of disease is marked and definite. Of all the features in the insane asylum reports, the cause of insanity IS, however, always the most interesting and the most useful. So, here, there are 337 farmers, the largest number of any profession. The merchants number next t aggregating 240, and of clerks 201, and of laborers 192. Nearly similar the avocations of th e women are of domestics 244, seamstresses 225, farmers' wives 193, farmers' daughters 112, merch ants' wives 142, merchants 126 , and laborers' wives 131. Profesasion is a leading cause of insanity,land to the cares of business the ma jority of cases may be perhaps accredited. The great excess of the disease among far mers and their families is accounted for by the larger proportion of agriculturists than of any other class of working people. To obtain the ratio each profession or avoca tion bears to the general body politic is the only test of the prevalence of insanity among a special class of producing or laboring communities, and this proportion any reader can easily make. 111 health is re ported by Dr. Klrkbride as the cause of the insanity of 839 patients; intemperance, 334 ; loss of property 158 ; grief, 248 ; men tal anxiety, 305; religious excitement, 150; puerperal state, 183 ; disappointed affec tions, 70; and masturbation, 66. These are the great causes, but there are minor agen cies. Demoralization ofHaiti The latest news from Hayti confirms the previously reported flight of Geffrard to Jamaica, after having sent in his resigna tion of the Presidency of that stormy re public. The election of another President was expected to take place immediately after the departure of Geffrard. The history of Hayti since the negro population obtain ed its freedom has been a series of sanguin ary revolutions and civil wars, and the country is probably in a worse condition now than ever before. The negro leaders have never shown themselves capable of agreeing upon or establishing anything like a sound and substantial government. Life and property have always been exceedingly insecure and the constant danger of new revolutions has tended to keep the country in a deplorable condition. IT the African race had any capacity for self-government they have the best possible opportunities of developing these talents in Hayti, where they have had things their own way for more than twenty years past. The trouble appears to be that their own way is a very disorderly and rebellions one. They have gone backwards in morals and education, and have attained profi ciency in none of the arts of civiliza tion except that of war and politic al intrigue. Under their owh itunagement their proper ty and credit I ye alike deteriorated In value, and the i Ation has made itself au object of pity to those who expected better things of the race, and of ridicule to those who understood them better and foresaw the result of the wild experiment of negro self-government. The normal condition of the negro is such that it is only by con stant association with superior races that anything like civilization cull be imparted to the race. Even after such advantages there Is au inevitable tendency to relapse into barbarity when the elevating influence is withdrawn.—N. Y. Sun. The Railroads of Pennsylvania. The annual report of the Auditor General 01' Pennsylvania for the year 1866 gives interesting statistics of the railroads and canals of Pennsylvania. Our State now has more miles of railroad in operation ban any other State in the Union. There are within her borders, 70 steam railroads, 213 horse railroads, and 14 canals. Of the horse railroads, 19 are in Philadelphia, 4 in Pittsburg and Allegheny, 1 in Harrisburg, 1 in Williamsport and 1 in Wilkesbarre. There are 4,353 miles of steam railway in the State, the cost of the construction and equipment of which was $467,684,408,27. To operate these roads, there are required 1,716 locomotives, 488 baggage and mail cars, 870 passenger errs, 19,803 freight cars, 27,059 coal cars. The' roads have on them 1,837 bridges and 1,3925 stations and depots. The capital stock of the railroads is 193,139,081,36, and the debts of the various railroads amount to $109,921,302,53. During 1866 the tonnage of these roads was the enormous amount of 190,025,998 tons and they carried 17,734,2113 passengers. Their receipts were $70,990,749 44, whilst the expenses of all descriptions amounted to $41,032,146,03. On these steam roads in 1866 there were 324 persons killed and 451 injured by accidents. The 26 horse railroads in the State have 1891 miles of roadway, costing $5,284,896,96 for construc tion and equipment. They are operated by 4,314 horses and 770 cars, and during 18(36 carried 37,464, 991 passengers. The receipts of the horse railroads were $3,410,544 85, and their expenses $2,418,624 18. During 1866 there were 9 persons killed and 23 injured on these roads. There are 8048 miles of ca nals in the state, and during 1866 their re ceipts were $3,608,527,92, and expenses $l, 544,801,97. A Maniac Shoots at the Pastor In a It is rarely that the quiet that prevades a religious congregation when worshipping their God is disturbed by the hand of vio lence, or the ravings of a maniac, yet such happened to be the case in the Walnut street Baptist Church yesterday, of which G. C. Lormer is pastor. The Rev. C. C. Smith was preaching the sermon by request in the forenoon and the congregation were wrapped iu silence, when suddenly the re port of a pistol was heard, and a bullet struck the wall close to where the preacher was standing. A young man named J. W. Ballow, the same who attempted to kn.! Captain Sam. Peyton, some months ago, did the firing. He was near the door at the time he fired the shot. Tom Sherley struck his weapon up when he fired and wrenched the pistol (which was a four-shooter) from him. He (Barlow) then pulled a six-shooter, Colt's, and fired at the preacher again, but missed the mark widely. The excitement in the church was in tense. The ladies fainted in all quarters, and the gentlemen sprang to their feet to see what caused the difficulty. Finally some persons got Barlow out of the church and turned hin over to Officer O'Connor at the church doo , who put him in jail. An examination will be held this morn ing, and Barlow will undoubtedly be found to be insane, yet it is really dangerous for him to be left at large, and unless his par. etas or the State take care of him he will be killed.—Lou. Courier, Monday. Fearful Accident—Three Children Burn ed to Death.. On Friday last one of the most frightful accidents that we have ever been called upon to record, occurred near the Wash ington Iron Works, in the lower end of Centre county. From the many reports that are afloat, we gather the following Some time during the day the barn of Mr. Knipe, residing in the neighborhood of the works, was noticed to be on fire, and before any one reached the scene of disaster, the flames had made such headway that it was impossible to save anything. The day being exceedingly windy, the flre was communi cated to the house, and it was with con siderable effort that it was saved. During the excitement of the flre, but little was thought of the children, all of whom were large enough to run around and play, and it was not for some time that the anxiety of the parents induced them to make search for the little ones, xlien, judge of their hor ror, the charred remains of all three were found amid the smUing timbers of the barn. They had doubtless gone in there to play and having tin/itches about them, unwittingly set fire / to the building from which they were unable to escape, and into which no one seemed to know that they had gone. The affair has cast a deep gloom over the neighborhood, and the sympathy of all is extended to the bereaved parents. We hope it will never be our sad duty tochron icle another accident as fearful as this, and we would be glad indeed were the reports in this case greatly exaggerated or entirely untrue, but we fear they are not.— Watch, man. Verdict Against a Railroad Company. Nathan Horner, an old gentleman of St. Clair county, Illinois, has obtained a ver dict for $7,000 against the Illinois Central raiload for having been expelled from the cars under very aggravating circumstances by a brutal conductor. Mr. Horner, who is 75 years old and nearly blind, could not find his ticketwhen the conductor called for it. Getting out of patience, the conductor charged him with being drunk and attempt ing to cheat, and stopping the train. he for cibly ejected him from the cars. It was a dark night, andthe old gentleman was put off at a dangerous pont, where he fell down an embankment and broke his collar bone, and received other injuries. The txmductoi Was at once disahargedl37 the cerl.3l:o.Y. • They propose, at the Saratoga Springs, to lay ' pipes to New York city so that the water ti/ay be brought fiesh. MOWS , The majority foithe State Convention In Maryland is about 10,0004 Two more crevassegrihave .oecurrod in , - The Upper. Mississippi 111 , open to Lake Pepin, add the Western streams are rising. The light.honse at Pather Point, on the St. Lawrence iiiter, witelpreed on Friday. The gambihsg houses liWaihington were cleared out by the police last Saturday night. Hon. Henry J. Raymond of New York, has been nominated as Minister to Austria. A steamship is advertised to sail from Ban Francisco to Sitka, in Russian America, on the Ist of June. Governor Brownlow has issued a procla mation annulling the registration of voters in eight counties of Tennessee. Gen. Sickles has issued an order suspend• ing executions in civil sults for twelve months in South Carolina. Two lottery dealers were yesterday sen tenced to a tine of $7,000 each by. the Supe rior Court at Boston. The Duchess Sophia of Bavaria, daugh ter of the King of Saxony, died on the 10th ult., of diptherla. Wm. McGloin, one of the Adams Express robbers, who escaped from Danbury (Conn.) Jail, was rearrested on Wednesday. The "unification" of Italy has given Vie tor Emanuel possession of no less than fifty palaces and royal villas. In the new Senate of Connecticut there Is but one lawyer. So of the Rhode Island Senate elect. Tile income returns throughout tho coun try, as far as sent in, are said to average but one-half the returns of last year. The Commission appointed to examine into the fitness of League Island as a naval depot have reported in favorof the location. The registration irk four wards of the city of Washington shows that the colored voters have a majority therein of 146. Twelve miners were killed by an explo sion of tire-damp at the Ashland Colliery, in Schuylkill county, on Friday night. The Treasury disbursements on account of the War, Navy and Interior Depart ments for the week werefr4,458,417. The Treasury Department has sent offi cers to Middle Tennessee to close the dis tilleries for violation of the Revenue law. A pilot boat was swamped in San Fran cisco bay last Thursday, and seven mezi were drowned. Vera Cruz web closely besieged by the Li beralists at last accounts, and was being bombarded by the besiegers. One hundred and fifty steamers are lying idle and decaying in the Red river, north of New Orleans. The New Yorkers hope to retain the Great Eastern as a permanent passenger•ship between their port and Liverpool. A young lady of New York has sued a young man for kissing her while she was asleep in the cars. Gov. Jenkins, of Georgia, advises the peo ple of his State to do nothing under the Re construction act until the Supreme Court has given a decision. A Canadian despatch says that a force of U. S. troops arrived at Rouse's Point on Friday, it is supposed to guard against Fenian raids. The Cleveland (Ohio) Herald notices a sale of wheat on the 10th inst., at $3.50 per bushel, the highest point ever reached in that market. The Earl of Shaftsbury proposes to abolish the church of England If the Church of England does not forthwith abolish Ritualism. It was reported in Washington that Max imilian had been captured by the Liberal. lets at Queretaro. There is no official news of this. A mail party of thirteen soldiers and a scout have been killed by the Indians, near Fort Reno, while on their way to fort Laramie. A stable in St. Louis was burned on Sat urday night, and forty-four cows perished In the flames. Advieos from Luke Superior to the let instant, report the weather as moderating, but the lake wan full of Ice, and snow covered the ground. $.30,000 worth of jewelry was stolen by burglars in New Orleans on Thursday morning. The burglars wore taken and the Jewelry recovered. The Wisconsin Legislature has adjourned ailtB die. Among the bills passed was ono to amend the State Constitution by extending the franchise to women. The authorities of Vernon county, Mo., have offered $3,000 for the arrest of the two murderers of General Bailey, and half the' amount for the death of each of them. New York has contributed $170,000 to the rellefof the South, and Boston $44,000. The intensely loyal City of Philadelphia has not contributed one-half as much as Boston. A physician of Goshen, Ohio, named Hanker, sixty years old, committed suicide last week because his children opposed his marrying again. Further returns of the election in Mary land show that the majority in the State for a Convention will be over 30(0. The vote is very light. Texas letters say that the Indians are assembling in large bodies on the frontier, and numerous outrages are committed daily. A fatal disease has broken out among the sheep in some parts of Illinois. A post mortem examination reveals the presence of parasites in the stomach. The famous Stewai t divorce case in Chicargo has been ended by the issuing of a decree in favor of the application of Mrs. Stewart. The pardon of Z. B. Vance, late Governor of North Carolina was recommended by forty Senators and .. 11 , rmbers of Congress, including Thaddeus tevens. The Oxford and Cambridge University bout race in England took place on Satur day, and was won by the Oxford rowers, according to a special cable despatch in yesterday's New York Herald, Mass meetings of freedmen were held on Saturday at Augusta, Ga., and Nashville, Tenn.. At Nashville the meeting was strongly radical, but there was a conser vative element in Augusta gathering. Arrangements have been made to hold a great Catholic fair in Union Square, New York, beginning on the Ist of May. The building will be on the site of the old sani tary fair. The Savannah News is informed that Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe is delighted with the climate of Florida, and has pur chased a place on St. John's river, where she intends to reside. Two young girls, aged fifteen and sixteen, attempted to commit suicide near Weehaw ken on Wednesday morning, because the father of one of them insisted on their being separated. A Buffalo dispatch states that an engineer in the Fenian interest has been taking plans of the frontier below suspension bridge. The Canadians fear another Fenian movement. The Kansas branch of the Union Pacific Railroad from St. Louis will be completed to Saline, a town fifty miles beyond Fort Riley and four hundred and sixty-eight miles west of St. Louis, on Saturday next. The ratifications of the Russian treaty are to be exchanged at Washington before the 30th of June or the treaty fails. The money for the purchase is to be paid within ten months after the exchange of ratifica tions. It is stated that at one haul of the Seine on Albemarle Sound, on Thursday last, 45,000 herrings and 18,000 shad were land ed. The fisheries of North Carolina are doing better than could have been antici pated. The Virginia Legislature is incorporating a number of manufacturing companies, but it cannot get over its prejudices in favor of the "usury laws," which forbid a higher rate of interest than six per cent. on bor rowed money. Sophie Boisolere has been sentenced to death for the murder by poisoning, of a family at Montreal. Her counsel opposed the passing of sentence upon the plea that she was enciente, and a jury of matrons was appointed to investigate the matter. The lower House of the New Jersey Legislature refused to strike the word " white" from the State constitution by a vote of thirty-five to twenty, thereby cut ting off negroes in the State from the right of franchise. Wendell Phillips has written a letter to a Muscatine, lowa, paper, in which be likens President Johnson to a Tennessee mule, and opposes Grant us a candidate for the Presidency because he has no political ideas of his own. After a promise to our Government by the Captain General of Cuba, that enlist ments in Havana for Maximilian should be stopped, two hundred more enlistments have been made, and the Government has taken the matter up. The London Times, In another power ul article, on March 29th, urges the English government to pay the Alabama claims, and says that the cause of difficulty between Great Britain and the United States should long since have been removed. On Saturday the President sent to the Senate the nominations of Peter Lyle, for Collector of Customs at Philadelphia ; Samuel C. 'King, for Surveyor, and David R. Porter, for Naval Officer. All these nominations were rejected. Scott .l 11; Miller's drug store, in St. Louis, was burned on Friday night. The loss is about $BO,OOO. A dry goods store and billiard saloon in Leavenworth, Karmas, were burned the same night, involving a loss of .$a),000. Mr. Howard, of the British Legation, Is engaged to the young, very beat tiful and cultured Miss Cecelia Biggs, daughter of Geo. W. Riggs, Esq., the accomplished gentle Man, and well-known banker at Washington. Mr. Howard ta the son of SW Henry Howard, Minister at Dresden, and new Philip Henry Howard M. P. . and Mss WaseeW of the late iof Corbie Castle. Both Mr. Reward are Iternan Catholics, and the marriage, we believe, will take plac e i n Ittne, . . _ Ten boy's`, aged from eight to sixteen, were sentenced - to . . thirty, days' imPrison ment on Tuesday at Jamaica, Long Island, for having stoned an.organ grinder ,while peacefully following tla vocation. Yes terday the organ grinder died In Brooklyn of his injuries About B,ooo_ plAnamen are employed by the Central Pacific Railroad Company of California, at $BO (gold) per month, without hoard. Johnny, besides proving a good washerwoman, cook and chambermaid - , has proven a very effective man with the shovel and the drill. Subpamus woreyesterday Issued by the Supreme Court against the defendants under the Georgia bill. As sixty days are allowed for return, by a rule of the Court, further proceedings in the matter will be postponed until December next. On Friday night some burglars entered the residence of A. D. Kneaster, Esq., at Martinsburg, Va., and carried out a small iron safe containing 1133,000 worth of United States Bonds. They broke open the safe on the pavement in front of the house and made off with their booty, leaving no clue behind them. The Supreme Court of the United States yesterday refused to entertain the Missis sippi petition for an injunction against the execution of the reconstruction Act, on the ground that the bill was directed against the President, and the Court had no juris diction of a bill to enjoin the President In the performance of his official duties. The Court granted leave to file the Georgia hill, the same objection not applying to this petition. =ETC= Potor Dasher was killed In a mine near Huintnolstown on Tuesday last. The barn of John Brought, one mile from Lewistown, was burned last week. A young man named Snyder, a school teacher, while engaged In rafting, was last week accidently knocked off a raft In Shamokin dam, and drowned. A man named Exatine, a resident of Pat terson, and uu employee of the Pennsyl vania Railroad, fell from a hand-car on Friday, was run over by it, and so badly injured that he died on Saturday morning. On Saturday night last, au aged lady, wife of Abraham Keefer, fell from the bal cony of a hotel In the village of St. Thomas, Franklin county, and was killed. The family had Just taken possession of the hotel. — RZlii7Jesso Lazear, ox-member of Con gress, left Waynesburg, Greene county, last week, with the view of taking up his future residence near Baltimore, Md. Mr. Lazear was a very popular citizen. Ex-Gov. David R. Porter was nominated by the President as Naval Officer at Phila delphia, but was linmeniately rejected by the Rump Senate. The Governor is too good a man in every respect to meet the ap probation of the Disunionists. On Thursday night lust, the Postotßee of York was robbed. The thieves obtained about ono hundred dollars In money, and stumps amounting to one thousand dollars. No clue has been discovered as to who were the guilty parties. Burglars seem to be doing a thriving business along the line of the Pennsylva nia Railroad in Mifflin and Juniata emit'. ties. In Thomsontown the post office and several houses and stores have been robbed. In Perrysville Enchlemoyer's store was robbed of goods to the amount of $3OO, one night last week. On Wednesday evening of last week, John Putnam, a colored barber, residing in Canonsburg, in a lit of Jealousy, attempted to kill his wife by shooting her, the bail taking effect in the buck part of her head. Putnam made his escape, and has not since been heard of. The injury received by the woman, is not considered serious. On Monday night last the body of a man, apparently about sixty, years of age was found on the Pennsylvania Railroad, be tween Patterson and Lewistown. Both legs were severed from his body, and his entrails crushed out. Nothing was found ou his person to Identify him, and it is not known who lie was or how lie came to be on the truck. C. Welker, egad about fourteen years, the engineer In Neugley (IL O'Nell'spluniug mill, In Liverpool, Perry county, bad him loft arm caught In the circular saw on Nat urduy morning lust, ❑ncl Mt:muted to such an extent above the elbow am to rumba amputation necessary near the shoulder Joint. The right hand was caught in the saw at the same time and injured severely. On Friday afternoon hurt 'throe prisoners broke out of the Lebanon prison by re• moving stones enough from the wall sur rounding the yard to permit their egress. They were observed immediately after they stepped out of their confinement, and an exciting pursuit was commenced, and In u few minutes they were all back In their quarters, sadder, if not wiser, mene. A lad 10 years of age, the BOR . of Jacob Foreman, was drowned in the Conoco cheague, near Upton, Franklin county, rut Tuesday. Tho family had Just moiled to. the place, and what is most singular Is that the wife of Mr. Foreman had told a friend, just as they were starting for their cow place of abode, that she had an impression, that some of the children would bedrowned, In the creek, which was close to the house. On Sunday last a most destructive tire took place In the village of Storinstown, Centre county. Two-thirds of the town, In cluding the entire business portion of it was destroyed. The conflagration was so rapid that a number of families were un able to save any portion of their clothes and furniture, and were left without food, furniture or clothing, besides what they had on their backs. The Beilefont Watchman says the loss exceeds one hundred thousand. dollars. On Monday night last a bold attempt was made to rob the West Chester Post Office. An entrance was effected by prying open the back door, which Is screened from observa tion by the largo shed or buildingof theold depot. This effected the burglars attacked the iron safe of the Post Office by drilling and attempting to blow it open ; but in this they failed, and succeeded In getting but a few postage stamps. In an adjoining room they found the old railroad sale, which they succeeded in blowing open, but found it a profitless job, A letter to the Harrisburg ! elegraph says: " We have had quite tin excitement here to day. The Postoffice was robbed last night, and everybody came running here this morning to see the ruins. They made their entrance in at the back door and took the safe out into the yard and then blew It open, and took everything that was in it, which amounted to about 81,2.50—about $1,075 in stamps, and the rest in cash. We have had no trace of the burglars yet. Any informa tion regarding the thieves will be thank• fully received." A few nights since a Mr. Rlffer, residing in German township, Fayette county, was awakened by a rapping at his door, but feared to go out immediately. In a few minutes, however, ho discovered that his house had been set on fire outside. Thu building, with its contents, was entirely consumed. Mr. Riddle asserts that he distinctly heard some one call on another to shoot him as he passed out, and that he heard a cup explode just after that. It is supposed the party was the same which. made a former attempt to rob him. Some weeks since an old man named Bryant, residing in Munster township, Cambria county, was robbed under most aggravated circumstances, torture having been applied to him to make him confess the whereabouts of his money. No clue has been discovered or trace found to iden tify the robbers. Last week, however, nearly the entire amount of the money was sent to a bunk In the (fount} , to be placed to the credit of Mr. Bryant. The supposition is that one of the robbers. divulged the se cret of his crime in the Confessional and was refused absolution until be had made restitution. On Saturday evening last a most brutal murder was committed at Laury's station, in Lehigh county, on the line of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. The victim was an Irish man named Michael O'Day, and the par ties charged with the horrible crime are John Dorry, Thos. O'Hare and John Clark The scene of the murder is a small board ing shanty, near the station, into which the accused parties forced their:way, andilinding O'Day, with whom it appears they had had a difficulty the previous day, stabbed and beat him so shockingly that he died in about half an hour after. Dorry was arrested next morning brGen. David Laury, Just as he was in the act of getting on the pas senger train at Catasauqua station. Clark and O'Hare are still at large. On Thursday evening last,Just after dusk, Mr. John Smith, tax collector of Somerset township this county, was attacked by three men while he was passing by a piece of woods a short distance from his residence, on his way home. He was first knocked down by one of the villains, and, regaining his feet, returned the compliment by level ing his assailant, upon which the other two came to the rescue of their companion, and immediately rendered Mr. Sinith insensible, in which condition he remained for some time. When consciousness returned be found that he had been considerably bruised, and had been robbed of II ve hundred dollars, which he had collected during the three days. The robbers escaped and have not been caught. On last Friday 'evening an accident of a most distressing nature occurred at Greens burg, resulting in the death of a lad named Harry McCullough, aged about thirteen years, a son of a, highly respectable citizen of that place. The particulars of the sad calamity, tie near as we could learn, are as follows; On the evenipg above-named a party ofsome forty young lads were collected on one of the corners on Main street, amusing themselves by 3umping. Among_ the num ber was a young man named L. W. Holmes, who as is common in athletic sports of this character, used a• couple of bricks which, when in theaot of leaping, he let fly from his hands, one of them striking young Mc- Cullough on the temple, knocking him down. He arose and walked home, with the assistance of friends, was plaoed ha bed and promptly attended 'by phystoiaes, but all efforts to save his life were Of no avail, and he expired in about three hours. The Physicians say that death was produced by the rupture of a blood Tess&
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