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.:4MMONP:AT,.M., I gP 1887
City and Comity
, 4 4 : Alancturter.
In pursuance of authority given the un
-40./Aooo' ft:''meeting. of the County
Committeklield• on Monday, April 15th
you : are; retineSted to assemble in the
sevoril:;Waitis of the city . and "bor
oughs, and ip the townships of the
county, on SATURDAY, the 11th,` day
of LAY, 1887, to elect not less than three nor
more. than. dye 'delegates, to represent such
district in a general County Convention, to
be •held on WEDNESDAY, the 15TH day of
Mai, at 11 o'clock, at Fulton Hall, in the
city pf Lancaster, for the purpose of elect
ing six delegate:3 to represent the De •
mocracy of the county of Lancaster
in the State Convention, to be held
at lIARRIBBURG on • the SECOND
TUESDAY in JUNE NEXT; and for the
further purpose, if deemed advisable, of
electine twelve delegates to meet in Mass
Convention at Harrisburg, 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 political
year, and will also elect a President and
Secretary of the District organization,
who will appoint an 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 pursu
ant to adjournment, at the usual place, of
WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, at 10 A. M.
A. J. STEIN3IAN, Chairman
B. J. MCGRANN. Secretary.
Thoughts for Working Men.
The prosperity, about which the Rad
ical newspapers of the North prated so
loudly during the continuance of the
war, has been discovered to be com
pletely unsubstantial and painfully il
lusionary. It was the flush of a political
fever, the unnatural activity of a dis
eased social system. With each gigantic
struggle that we made we constantly
exhausted the vital powers of the na
tion. The drain upon our material
resources was great and long continued.
To repair the waste of a war, such as
that through which we have passed,
must necessarily take many years,
• even under the wisest and most states
manlike management. Vast multitudes
of skillful and industrious laboring men
perished ; and with their death the na
tion lost forever valuable producers,
while it had left on its hands, as a bur
then, those whom their labor would
have more than supported. It would
be difficult to estimate the enormous
foss which has been thus sustained.
By the war several hundred thousand
laboring men have been laid in untime
ly graves. Yet those whom they left
behind them do not find their condition
bettered by this reduction.
The national debt contracted has all
to be paid by the sweat of the working
men of the nation ; and not only that—
all the waste of the war, whether iu the
North or the South, must eventually be
repaired by their toil. Upon their
shoulders all the public burthens are
laid. If a heavier tax is put upon the
owner of real estate, he immediately
raises the rent upon his tenants. They
cannot escape from the exhorbitant de
mand, for the owners of tenement houses
act in concert. Is a heavy tariff put
upon imported goods, or home manu
factures taxed for the purposes of inter
nal revenue, the tariff or tax is at once
added to the price of the goods, and the
workingmen, being the chief consum
ers, pay it when they go to the retail
stores to make their slender purchases.
Capitalists take precious good care to
shift the burthen from their shoulders.
All taxes of every descripton are wrung
from the toil of the laboring men of
the country.
They are feeling the burthens laid
upon them very sensibly. All over the
country the complaint comes up that
the wages received are not sufficient to
support them and their families. 'The
rents of the houses they live in, and the
prices of everything they eat or wear,
continue to rule at most exhorbitant
figures. They have waited in vain for
the coming of better times. In every
city in the mining districts, everywhere,
where laboring men are to be found in
bodies sufficiently numerous to effect
combinations, strikes are the order of
the day. These mute but eloquent and
touching appeals of the toiling multi
tude are not heeded by capitalists.
In Pittsburg more than five thousand
workingmen have been idle for weelzs.
The manufactures refuse to give them
living wages. The plea of the capitalists
is that they have no market for their
wares. That may bepartially true: But,
if it be, where is the fault? Why are
our market thus contracted? Surely no
intolllnent laboring man need ask.
They ought all to have sense enough to
see for themselves, that it is the dis
tracted and unsettled condition of the
South which deprives us of our piquet
, pal market. While the fanatics iu Con-
greas continue to urge their revolti
_popery and destructive schemes, one
half the public domain, the richest and
most productive half, must lie waste.
The North has always lived by its
manufactures, and has always depend
ed upon the South for a market for them.
During the war, while a very large per
eentage of the laboring population of
our section was in the armies, those
who remained at home found remu
nerative employment. More than, one
half our energies were directed to the
production of material which was worn
out on the backs of our soldiers, eaten
up or otherwise destroyed by them. All
that was purchased by the thousands of
• millions of our national debt was as
completely destroyed as if every cent's
worth of it had been exploded in gun
powder.
The working men of the nation have
all that to pay. Should they not see to
It then that their burthens be made as
light as possible? Should they not in
sist upon it that the people of the South
be allowed to recuperate their exhaust
ed energies, and encouraged to put un
der cultivation their rich but desolated
fields? Every interference by the
fanatics In Congress with the rights
vested in the people of the South by
the Constitution of the United States,
has been a new burthen laid upon the
laboring men of the North. How long
will they continue to tie made the dupes
of those who are jeopardizing, not only
the liberties, but the material inter
ests of the masses of both sections.
Is it not enough that the workingmen
of the nation have the whole of the vast
national debt to pay, both principal and
interest; or must they be still further
burthened, in order that the present cor
rupt and fanatical Congress may be
sustained in its usurpations. Let them
look at the situation of our public af
fairs without prejudice or passion, and
then let them act the part of intelligent
and independant freemen at the ballot
box.
The New License Law.
The law enacted by the Radicals In
our Legislature by which restaurant and
other licenses are dou.bled, Is regarded as
being harsh in,its character. Solt may be,
But there were two purposes to s u beer ve,
The "roosters" and "pinchers" wanted
to throw a sop to the• temperance folks,
and at the same to put a snug pile of
, money,ln the State Treasury to meat
thetrextravegaut appropriations. These
,4igtotheobit proved to be irreslstlbLe
with.the luimeoulate patriots.
Alarmed AlionettelegrirTote; -
The Radicals are terribly exercised
just now about the votes of the South
ern negroes. When they made them
voters, through the
. agencytof, the in
famous military,, which they
have establisheiN thef expected every
ex-rebel in the conntry to array tdiiinAelf
in open hostility to the new order of
affairs. They : never drenthed that such
men as Wade Hampton, Herschel V.
Johnson/Henry A. Wise, and a vast
majority of the prominent Southern
leaders, would be found ready to ao•
cept the' situation, and assume control
of the votes of the negro population.
That was something they did not bar
gain for. They fully calculated that
they would be able, through the Freed
men's Bureau and otheragencies, which
they have been keeping up at the ex
pense of the tax-paying toilers of the
North, to manipulate the votes of four
million Southern new& to suit them
selves. It was a very ificely laid scheme,
and gave promise of' increased power
and a lengthened reign of corrupt and
fanatical misrule.
As things look at present, however,
there is every reason to believe that the
Southern negroes will disappoint the
men who expected to make political
capital out of them. It is scarcely pos
sible that the handful of disreputable
fellows who are the Radical leaders in
the South, such unmitigated humbugs
and convicted scoundrels as Hannicutt
and Hamilton, should be able to over
balance the influence of those in whose
employ the negroes are, and upon whom
they are entirely dependant for sup
port. Not all the employees of the
freedmen's bureau, all the military su
bordinates, and all the Yankee school
marms who are maintained in the
South at the public expense, will be able
to prevent the Southern politicians from
controling the negro vote, if they see
fit to take the matter in hand. They
seem disposed to make the best of the
situation. Everywhere we see the evi
dences of such a disposition developing
itself; and even in the cities, where the
negroes have been most under the con
trol of Northern Radicals, there is a
strong party of them to be found siding
with the white leaders of the South.
In the rural districts it is not likely
that much headway can be made against
the influence of those who employ the
negroesand have them constantly under
their direction.
We do not wonder the Radical fanatics
are alarmed. It is not at all strange that
corrupt scoundrels like Forney should
express serious doubts as to the issue.
Horace Greeley and the rest have good
cause. for asserting that without the
adoption of negro suffrage in every
Northern State the speedy overthrow of
the Republican party is inevitable.
We are totally opposed to negro suf
frage. We do not believe that the
negroes,either in the North or the South,
are fit to exercise the elective franchise
in an intelligent manner. We dread
the evils which are sure to spring from
the incorporation of such multitudes of
an inferior race in the body of voters.
We believe this government should be
controlled by white men. We have no
fear that they would do any injustice to
the negro. Even the probability that
the negroes of the South will be influ
enced to vote against the Radicals of the
North does not in any degree reconcile
us to this dangerous innovation.
Ten Tariffs In Five Years
The New York Post, a Radical news
paper, says we have had ten tariffs in
five years ; besides the one at which Con
gress was tinkering some months before
its adjournment. Here is the list :
1. The act of March 2, 1861, which nearly
doubled the taxes on foreign goods imposed .
by the tariff act of May 3, 1857.
2. The Het of August 5, 1861, which in•
creased the duties levied by the previous
act.
3. The act of December 24, 1861, providing
for higher duties.
4. The act of July 14, 1862, providing for
still higher duties.
5. The act of March 3, 1863, which im
posed still higher duties.
6. Act of June 30, 1864, which imposed
much higher duties on nearly everything.
7. The act of March 3, 1865, which im
posed yet higher duties on some things.
8. The act of March 14, 1866, which im
posed additidnul duties on various things.
U. The act of May 16, 1866, which imposed
more duties on some articles.
10. Lastly, the act of July 2S, 1866, which
imposed from four to twenty per cent. ad
ditional duty on everything.
Each new act only put new burthens
upon the consumer for the benefit of
the New England manufactures. No
wonder the Post was disgusted, until it
proposes to build a Wall one hundred
feet high and five hundred feet thick
around the United States, Russian-
America included.
The Adjournment of the U. S. Senate.
The United States Senate, the rump
of the Rump Congress, adjourned on
Saturday. During the extra session it
has presented to the country a most
humiliating spectacle. The Senate
Chamber was little else than a sort of
exchange for the sale of offices. No
principle governed their actions or con
firmations. It was a struggle in which
each greedy Senator grabbed whatever
he could get. They were always ready
for a dicker of any kind, if something
could be made by it. , The character of
nominees hadl nothing to do with their
chances of confirmation. Many of the
bravest and est soldiers of the Repub_
lie were summarily slaughtered because
the Radical Senators could make neither
money nor political capital for them
selves by voting for them. Every Radi
cal mem bes had his private axe to grind,
and it was made a rule not to interfere
with any little arrangements which any
one might have set up. Honest men
of every party were disgusted, and all
wondered at the evidences of corrupt
ness exhibited by what was iu better
times the purest and most honorable
legislative body the world ever saw. It
is safe to say that In a majority of In-
stances the best men named by the
President were rejected and the worst
confirmed,
Reading Tam Out of the Party.
The N. Y. Tribune of yesterday says
" Men who hold that none but Whites
should vote may be well enough in their
place ; but there is no room for them in
the republican party. Every one who
stays in it keeps at least ten voters out of
it."
We know a good many Republicans
who have always professed to occupy
that position. How will they like being
thus publicly read out of the party with
which they have heretofore acted?
Will they go at the bidding of the lead
ere of the mongrel concern, or will they
abandon their honest couilctions, and
cower like whipped hbunds under the
lash ? They must decide for themselves,
now that they are plainly told what
they are expected to do. Surely they
can not profess to be in doubt any
longer. Greeley tells them in plain, set
terms that there is no room in the Re
publican party for "men who hold that
none but whites should vote." We ex
pect to see an immediate emigration.
There is room in the Conservative ranks
for all who may come, and they will be
received with open arms.
General Sheridan Appointing Negroes
to Office.
General Sheridan is appointing ne
groes to register the voters in New Or
leans and elsewhere in Louisiana. He
15 said to have voluntarily made the
lowest and most disreputable, radical
political mountebartlie his intimate as
sociates. It is also said that he is very
dissipated,
The Tsifiii teal Estate
• Last year the Radicals abolished the
tax on real estate in Peonsylvanh4and
this legislative , feat was heraldell as a,
magnificent, achievenrut. Railscal
lUfukAtapercidocigratftlfre'd-Ahe fatfters.:
of tl.ie State:thereupon,•?snd assured
'theta' that this was only
..ple of what would'eventually be donee
for them. Under sUeli3Ooonomicill ath:
ministration of the. State Government
as characterized Democratic rule, this
reduction of the revenue might not have
been found detrimental to the financial
interests of the State. ' We could
have got along witholit it. Rut
not so under the present' regime.
The late corrupt Radical • Legisla
ture appropriated more money than
could possibly be furnished by existing
rates of taxation. Even after they had
imposed a heavy tax on coal and other
resources of the State, it was found that
there would be a deficiency. Whatwas
to be done? it would not do to restore
the tax on real estate, just after repeal
ing it with such a grand flourish of
trumpets ; and yet the money must be
had to pay extra salaries to members of
the Legislature, tosupport a smell army
'of dependants about the two Houses, to
furnish stealings for petty officials, to
pay extraordinary prices for a portrait
of his Majesty, John W. Geary, to en •
large the Executive Mansion, to keep
up a useless agency at Washington, to
provide for the maintenance of a stand
ing army to menace the foreigners and
the Catholics of the min ing regions, and
for a multitude of other extraordinary
and improper purposes.
Radical ingenuity has never yet been
at a loss for a device, when an opportu
nity for plundering either the State or
the National Treasury was presented.
They did not restore the tax on real
estate, not in express terms and in man
ner and form ELS once levied and collect-
ed, but they did what amounted to pre
cisely the same thing. They passed a
law requiring the Commissioners of the
several Counties to levy, collect and pay
into the State Treasury an additional
sum of $300,000 ; the precise amount
formerly derived from the tax on real
estate. Of course the farmers know who
pay the county tax, which is to be thus
increased. It is notorious that the rural
districts pay more than a proportionate
share of it. This is another specimen
of the wisdom and the fairness of Radi
cal legislation. How much longer will
the masses of Pennsylvania allow them
selves to be made the dupes of such a
set of corrupt political tricksters.
Waking Up
We are beginning to find out that the
seeming prosperity over which we of
the North rejoiced so loudly during
the war was entirely fictitious. While
we were engaged in the pleasant task
of cutting the throats of our Southern --
brethren, the Ueneral Uovernment be
came a most enormous consumer of ag
ricultural products and manufactured
articles of every description. Shots and
factories sprang up wherever water
power could be found or steam gene.r
ated. The capital invested yielded
enormous returns, and labor of every
kind was eagerly sought for and
liberally paid. It took immense
quantities of woolen and cotton goods,
of articles of wood and utensils of iron,
to supply the wants of gigantic and
wasteful armies. Every branch of busi
ness seemed to be flourishing, and while
everybody was making money, every
body, except a few carping " copper
head" editors and orators, insisted that
all was well. The majority of the peo
ple never stopped to think, while money
was so abundant, that eyery dollar being
spent in the war was as completely lost
and destroyed as if exploded in gun
powder. Until lately it was considered
disloyal to intimate that we were not
the most wonderfully prosperous people
in the world.
As intoxicated individuals frequently
do, we felt immensely rich. We had
money in our pockets, and, we spent
it with lavish profusion. In the flush
of our seeming prosperity, we forgot
that the realms of commerce, manu
factures and of business iu general are all
ruled by certain inflexible laws of sup
ply and demand. While the Govern
ment was paying treble prices for all
the country could produce, producers
naturally felt elated. It is not strange
that the mass of the people did not stop
to reflect that every dollar thus expend
ed was being piled up as-a huge moun
tain of debt, to be paid by' the grimy
toil of the working classes—every cent
of it, both principal and interest. We
were told by Jay Cooke, banker, who
made millions by negotiating theloans,
that a National debt, such as ours,
would prove to be a National blessing
and there were plenty of people silly
enough to believe it.
We are just beginning to wake up
from this fool's dream, and our waking
promises to be a rude one. The General
Government is no longer the principal
consumer ; it does not now stand us in
stead or both foreign and domestic
markets for the products of our soil and
of our manufactories. We are thrown
upon our own ordinary resources. For
eign market we have none. Outside
nations do not need the articles we are
now producing, and will not buy them.
Everywhere manufactories are stopping
and everywhere trade is languishing.—
Strikes are the order of the day among
working men. These are the cry of the
the laboring classes, their signal of
distress, their dumb protest against the
follies and the crimes of that party which
has reduced this once happy and pros
perous count Ty to ils presen condition.
Everywhere the indications of distress
can be seen and heard.
Our troubles are only beginning. The
future will show up our follies in their
true light. We shall yet learn by bit
ter experienCe what a terrible price must
be paid for the -luxury of indulg
ing in sectional hatred. The bur-
Wens we are attempting to bind
upon the backs of the Southern
people will yet be laid on our own
shoulders; and we must bear theln as
best we can. A day of reckoning will
come for the fanatics who have been
the cause of our misfortunes, when the
masses, taught by bitter experience
shall be thoroughly awiened.
Election In New York
An election for delegates to a Conven.
tion to revise the State Constitution of
New York takes place to-day. .Ther(
as in Pennsylvania, the Radicals have
gerrymandered the Senatorial and Rep
resentative districts, so as to secure to
themselves a majority in both houses
of the State Legislature. As the dele
gates to the Constitutional Convention
elected on the same basis, there
is no hope that the Democrats will suc
ceed in electing a majority. Indeed,
they will refuse to go to the polls in
some districts. There will come a time
before long when these outrages will be
done away with.
Tun following picture of the Radical
party Is from the pencil of Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher. The likeness is strik
ing:
The men at Washington and Albany sold
their country; they sold their humanity
and their honor, and the trusts that were
put upon them 13y their constituents. They
were debauchers of the young; they were
the traitors ; they that lifted the sword were
not half so much traitors; they that de
spoiled the old banner and trod it under
footLihey that fired upon the government of
the Uniteddlates were not Bo much traitors
as were those vermin who were crawling
under the foundations and destroying by
Corruption the vital power of the govern
ment,
't~`epi~eee ''frade~~
It is impossible for any country to pass
i ,th • : ':hagreat war without being muelf.;
4 ,
-m....... rished and e austed . Civil waif
rare 1 : . ~:; y : -. 1 - tleatruetiveAhat
any :!..,.. 41;'.13eirigeOifineElivitlificthli!
natiehal dom4in, all the
milk - falls utkon the peopWcomiosini ,
the Otior44::Let sria a war terminate
either in as : division - of territory or a sub
jugation of revolting States or provinces,
and the ruinous effects are alike severe
When we came ou tof the gigantic strug
gle in which we were engaged for years,
wisdom bad but one course to dictate to
Ili. - The first great work set before us
was to repair the terribleravages which
had been . made by the gigantic con
tending armies. We might already
have accomplished much in that direc
tion had we obeyed the dictates of wise
and enlightened statesmanship. We
refused to do so, however, and we are
beginning to suffer for our folly. The
people of the North chose to keep alive
the feeling of sectional hatred, and they
must pay the penalty. The depression
of trade, the great falling off in our
commerce, the continued high price of
food and clothing, the decrease in the
revenue, and all the ills which we are
suffering and to suffer, have come upon
us as the legitimate result of the insane
and fanatical Bourse of Congress. They
have been encouraged to pursue the
course they did by the support given
to them by the people of the North.
How can we expect to prosper while
industry is completely paralyzed
throughout the South, and while one
third of the people of thEfUnited States
are left without hope or spirit?—
Throughout all that rich section, which
has heretofore furnished the great
staples upon which our manufactures
and commerce were built up, the lands
are a waste and multitudes of men and
women are appealing to the charitable
for food to keep them from dying of
actual starvation.
Self interest alone, a mere sordid re
gard for dollars and cents, ought to
move the North- to a repudiation of
the Radical policy, even if they are
incapable of being influenced by any
more exalted motives. Not only is the
South buying nothing, but it is pro
ducing almost nothing. We of the
North have deliberately destroyed
the best market we ever had for our
manufactures, and laid waste the fields
which furnished our most valuable ag
ricultural production. Hiving done
that during the war, we have been en
gaged ever since the end of the, rebel
lion iu preventing any repair of the
ruin wrought. The result is, the labor
ing men of the North are compelled to
pay nearly all the taxes, whileour com
merce and our manufactures are rapid
ly declining. If we refuse to listen to
any other teacher, a bitter experience
will yet make us wiser. The time is
coming when we shall be fully sensi
ble of our extreme folly. Then there
will be au end to the rule of the cor
rupt crew who are willing to sacrifice all
I the material interests of the nation to
heir lust for office.
The First Fruits of Negro Suffrage in
the South.
Negro suffrage in the South, as es
tablished by the Radicals, promises to
bear an immense crop of evil fruit, and
the tree is already blossoming. At the
" black and tan " State Convention held
in Richmond, where negroes and white
revolutionists were sandwiched in to
gether, the most notable speeches were
made by negro orators. They all went
in strong for confiscating the property
of the whites, and parceling it out
among themselves. One or two . of the
whites attempted to oppose this dispo
sition of the negroes, but they were
summarily silenced by the cry of " Cop
perhead." The announcement by one
Freeland, of Petersburg, that if Con
gress did not give the negroes the lands
they would be taken by force, was re
ceived with a storm of applause. Reso
lutions were adopted lauding Congress
and the Republican party of the North.
This is the initiation of a revolution
which cannot fail, unless speedily
checked, to end in a repetition of the
horrors enacted in San Domingo and
others of the West India Islands. The
infamous dogmas of Thaddeus Stevens
and his followers promise to be a greater
source of evil in the future .than they
have been in the past. No true lover of
his country can read the account of the
doings of the radical State Convention
at Richmond without trembling at the
prospect which is thus opened up. The
applause which was thundered forth at
the proposal to seize upon the lands of
the whites by force, is an indica
tion of what will be the fixed
purpose of such :of the negroes
as are subjected to the control of the
wretched adventurers who are the Radi
cal leaders in the South. The Radicals
can only succeed in establishing a party
in the Southern States, by pandering
to the basest passions of the negroes,
and holding out to them the promise of
possessing the lands of their former
masters. What the ultimate effect of
the successful organization of such a
party must be, the dullest intellect can
easily foresee, It must lead to such an
accumulation of horrors as this country
has not yet witnessed.
A Radical Opinion of the Senate.
The Antt-Slavery Standard, speaking
of the Radical U. S. Senate, says :
The chief aim of its members seems to be
how best to make the most of their position.
It is most notorious that theSonate, repre
senting as is presumed, the creme•de-la
, elue of American public men, is by far
mare corrupt than the House. The latter
is too numerous and Its constituent parts
change too often to pay for purchase—
especially when the bargain is costly.
Ignorance is much more at fault there than
corruption. But , the select Senate is the
home of bargain, barter and sale. No one
living here and looking on can doubt this.
The casual visitor hero, who knows any
thing of lobby management, can see the
truth of this remark.
What a humiliating picture is that
for any American to look upon. How
can this nation expect to prosper while
such a set of scoundrels occupy seats lu
the highest branch of the national legis
lature? How glaring must be their
corruption, when It is openly denounced
by such a paper as the Anti-Slavery
Standard I We beg the honest masses
to look at this thing in the true light.
They can effect a reform, and, if they
- are not utterly blinded to their best in
if terests t they will do so.
•e,
Emerson Etheridge.
Emerson Etheridge has been nomina
ted for Governor by the Conservative
party of Tennessee. He is an able man
and will make a thorough and efficient
canvass of the State,. What the result
may be with the negroes enfranchised
and one half the whites disfranchised
remains to be seen. In spite of the odds
against Mr. Etheridge the contest is not
a hopelega one.
Democratic Economy.
A Republican exchange says
Bedford county does not owe the State of
Pennsylvania a farthing for taxes, and the
entire debt of the county is not above five
thousand dollars.
That is the legitimate result of Dem
ocratic rule. Bedford county has always
been Democratic to the core. All the
county officers are Democrats, and the
result is an honest and economical ad
ministration of the financial afthirs of
the county. If the people desire a aim
liar administration of State and National
Maim they mustrepudiate the thieving
orew now In power, and come back to
DemoorAtio rule.
• - -- A - TemPernce Humbug. •
Harrisburg Telegraph says :
Greene county Republican exulting
'v
declares that in the - moat trying cam
of the war, John W. Geary was one
commandenOwhollevEur ck tect
It is, therefore;" - leut foe
mule temperance the rule • ,the
nor's mansion at Harrisburg
do not know how tine the asikr
tlaiklaig be that Geary carried nettling
to ecreWllls courage up diringhideam
paigns at Snickersville and elsewhere;
but we do remember of reading in a
prominent Republican newspaper an
account of his appearance at Erie during
the political canipaign of last•fill. We
were particularly struck liftsperitgraph •
describing the attitudes and utterances
of this aporitle of temperance before a
large assemblage of Germanif, in a beer
garden of that city. Elevited on a
chair, with a glass of the foaming bev
erage in his sword hand, he exclaimed :
" My friends 1 will give you a sentiment.
(Cries of hear, hear.) The Irishman likes
his whiskey and the German likes his lager.
That is my sentiment. Gesundheit."
And the glasses clicked around, and
they all shouted " Bully for der Geary."
Since the temperance agitation has
begun to create much excitement, the
Governor has forgotten the eloquently
worded sentiment he uttered at Erie,
and has "gone back on" his Irish and
German friends. The • truth is, Geary
113 the smallest kind of' a humbug, and
eagerly seizes upon anything of which
he can make a little clap-trap notoriety.
That is why he is now coming the tem
perance dodge.
Negroes In the Public Schools
The Radicals of Philadelphia, not
satisfied with forcing the masses who
ride in the street cars to be jammed into
the same seat with negroes, are now
making strenuous efforts to break down
all distinctions in the public schools of
that city. The Sunday Mercury says
they are working at the matter dili
gently, but to' some extent secretly.
They have not yet attempted to intro
duce the negroes into all the schools,
but only into a few which they can now
manipulate. By and by, they will
make the rule general. That is only of
apiece with their general conduct.
They agitate and maneuver until they
gain a foothold, and then they never
rest until their designs are fully accom
plished. Negroes being once admitted
to the public schools of Philadelphia, a
general law for the State would soon
follow, if the Radicals should continue
to control the State legislature.
How the Senate Treated Old Thad's
Dying Appeal.
The associated press report, which was
sent to all yesterday's afternoon papers,
contained the following item :
WesurtioTobt, April 19.—Thaddeus Ste
vens, in imploring his friends in the Senate
to reconsider the appointment of Wiley, in
his district, says it will probably be the last
request he has to make. It will be heeded.
Later in the evening a Republican of
this city received a private despatch in
these words:
WASHINGTON, April 19.—The dying re
quest of the old man refused by a vote of
two to one. The Senate laughed al
That shows conclusively that even the
Radicals of the Senate are disgusted
with the mock tragedies of the old rep
robate, who has already thrice enacted
the farce of pretending to die, for the
sake of public effect. Think of the
Radical Senators cackling in their seats
over what Old Thad styled his last and
dying request of them. It must have
been an edifying spectacle.
Chester, County Radical Convention.
The Radicals of Chester County met
in Convention on last Tuesday, and
appointed Capt. J. R. Potts as Senatorial,
and Washington Townsend, J. Smith
Futhey, and Wayne McVeigh, Esqs.,
as Legislative delegates. The Conven
tion unanimously recommended Hon.
Wm. Butler, President Judge of that
district, as a candidate for Judge of the
Supreme Court. Resolutions of a de
cidedly Radical character were adopted,
among others the following:
Resolved, That the sectional;alioniation
and animosities, which have long distracted
the Republic, ending in civil war, had their
origin in the denial of equal, civil and po•
litical rights to all men before the law, and
that speedy and lasting prosperity and
peace can only be secured by guaranteeing
to every citizen, without regard to color or
race, equal civil and political rights—except
such as are disfranchised for participation
in treason.
Petty Pilfering
Almost every newspaper in the State,
without exception as to party has de
nounced the wholesale stealing done by
the Radical majority of the recent Leg
islature. The Harrisbut Patriot and
Union gives an account of the petty
pilfering carried on under the auspices
of that body. It shows a condition of
affairs which is most disgraceful, but
the account is unquestionably true in
all respects. The Patriot says :
We understand that all the nice rugs,
mats, and other portable accessaries in and
around the legislative halls have already
disappeared. This, we are told, is the regular
order of things after every adjournment
of the legislature. At :the next meeting the
halls, committee rooms, &sc., will require to
be completely refurnished, in these re
spects, at a cost of many thousand dollars.
It is a singular Ilia, that, since the Radicals
came into power, the public buildings and
offices are annually refitted and refurnished,
at a heavy cost to the State, and yet there
has never been a sale—public or private—so
far as the audited reports show, of surplus
furnishings. Hundreds of desks, tables,
chairs, &a., and thousands of yards of cost
ly carpets, oilcloths, matting, drugget, to
say nothing of thousands of small portable
articles of many kinds, have disappeared
and "made no sign."
The amount of brooms and soap annually
required about the Capitol and public offices
is almost beyond belief. Singular to say,
however, the larger the bills for those
things the more defilement results. We are
told that thousands of brooms and tons of
soap—so-called—are charged to and paid
for by the State annually, whoa, If properly
billed, brooms would road beer, and soap
would spell whi , ky, brandy and gin. A
friend tells us that, a year or two ago, he
frequently saw messengers from the Hill
carrying suspicious-looking packages from
a neighboring grocery. Being intimate
with the grocer, he put the question to him
—how could lie get liquor bflla audited and
passed? "Oh," replied the grocer, with It
" that is easy enough. I charge It as
brooms and soap.° We presume this way
of doing it is still going on, particularly as
the amount of glassware consumed Is also
immense.
It is evident that somebody (perhaps sev
eral somebodies) gets the property that dis
appears without paying for it, and without
any right to it. This is all wrong. In plain
terms, it is theft, and should be stopped.
In other States and at the Federal Capitol
surplus and half•worn furniture and fur
nishings are sold at auction to the highest
bidder. This plan should be adopted here,
and the sooner it is adopted the better for
the taxpayers.
Tavern Licences In Indiana County.
The Court of Quarter Sessions of In
diana county at the recent April See
elon, granted five licences to hotel
keepers in the town of Indiana, but re
fused to licence a single tavern any
where else in the county. The Cambria
County Freeman says everybody is mad
about it—the temperance men that any
licences were granted in the town, the
liquor men that they were refused In
the county.
THE Booth diary, says an exchange,
will be published Just as soon as Holt
can find a man who is willing to swear
that It has not been mutilated since
taken from the body of Booth and placed
in his hands. He is searching Massa_
ohusetts now, and it is said has found a
man who is ready to take the desired
oath.
PRENTICE Of the Louisville Journal
says, Senator Sherman would evidently
like to be a conservative. He occasion
ally plants himself with apparent firm
ness upon conservative ground, but,
sooner or later, he yields to radical pres
sure. He would be a strong and
man if he had anything but a
bullrush or g towstring for i bsokbone.
ifoutlifal Murderer.
A correspondent in Fairview township,
furmahes the York county Democrat with
the fiallowing:
wiptest dreadful and inhninan act was
batted by a boy in this township. near
• • silitation,i , on4he XortheXtt t entralz-
Railroad, arr, Mey the 15th inat. The
lime Of thiVjyo " monster is PAederliat
finfatoftWhile-his Mother and elder
brother were abitent ftom home; ha 'at
tempted to take the life his two little sis
-ters audit and in the4iidle shooting
them with a reiolver, which ' happened to
be in the house at the time. Two rrels of
the pistol were loaded with powder and
balls, and another with powder only. In
firing the first shot he inflicted a flesh
wound of the scapula of one of the girls—
the second shot took effect iu the neck of
the other girl—the third load containing
powder only, he discharged in the face of the
infant. The injuries are fortunately not of
a very serious character, and good hopes of
the recovery of the children are entertained.
The boy has always been a very bad and
desperate character. He is about thirteen
years of age and fatherless, his father hav
ing died in the army. Much excitement
prevails in the neighlborhood,in consequence
of this heinous attempt at wholesale mur
der. The boy had not been arrested at our
latest adviees.
Mine Explosion in Schuylkill County.
ASHLAND, Schuylkill Co., Pa., April 15,
1867.—About 9 o'clock on Friday evening,
an explosion of fire damp took place while
twelve men were yet in the mine, eleven of
whom have been taken out dead. One man
was reticued alive, but in a state of convul
sive excitement, caused by the inhalation
of sulphur, and raving to such an extent
that it required the efforts of five men to
hold him. He was placed under the medi
cal treatment of Dr. Swain, of this place,
who today considers him out of danger
and in a fair way to a speedy recovery. As
to how the accident happened nothing is
yet known; all those who could possibly
give any information regarding the cause
or origin being killed, excepting (Kinnie)
the one mentioned above whose medical
attendant will not allow him to be ques
tioned on the subject. Those killed were
buried yesterday.
Most of their tamilies are left in destitute
circumstances. One woman lost a husband
and a brother. The whole town wears a
degree of sadness before unknown. This is
the second accident of the kind which has
happened in this mine; the first occurring
last summer, by which twenty or thirty
men wore badly injured, and two or three
killed. John Kinnie this afternoon is
said to have regained his senses and will
soon be able to give some account of the
cause of Friday's accident. Had the explo
sion occurred in the day, no doubt sixty or
seventy men would have been killed.
The Recent Elections In Florida
A correspondent of the New York Herald
writes from Pensacola on the 3d inst. as
follows :
The municipal elections under Ithe pew
regime of "free suffrage" were held in this
city two days ago, and the Mayor elect is
the first officer In the State who has been
elected under the rules and regulations of
the Military bill. The issue between the
two candidates seemed to be negro or no
negro. One of the aspirants was in the Fed
eral army and occupied a position of Major
in a negro regiment at the navy yard
here. The successful competitor (W. E.
Anderson) was a Captain in the
Rebel service. For the latter every
white man in the place, save two or three,
and a great many colored men, voted. The
former received a very large negro vote,
but was beaten one hundred and thirteen
votes. The colored population was ex
tremely indignant at the defeat of their
candidate, and threats were boldly made
of their intention to burn the place. Such
earnestness was exhibited by them in their
menaces that the retiring Mayor sent down
to General Seymour, at Barrancas,
for
troops to quell any outbreak. The Gen
oral promptly sent up a uetachment of
mounted men. under the command of
Major Brinkle, and their presence quickly
quieted down t a ,o threatening darkies.
Carious Letter from a Burglar
From the N. Y. Tribune.l
Recently a bundle, containing a complete
set of burglar's tools, consisting of 44 safe,
door, and store keys, 12 pick-locks, 23 drills,
3 punches, 10 files, I bullet mould, 1 screw
driver, 4 cold chisels, 6 steel hooks, used for
opening safes, 1 tine saw, 1 brace and bit,
6 pieces of wax fir taking impressions of
keys, I screw wrench, I steel Jimmy, and 1
package of powder, was lett at the Sixth
Precinct Station-House for Capt. Jourdan,
together with the following letter:
NEW YORK, April 17, 1867.
To CA. T. JOURDAN, ESQ.: Having been
a burglar for the past 15 years, and always
successful with the exception of once, and
that being when I fell into your hands, and
your being untiring in prosecuting me, I
was convicted and sentenced to the State
Prison. After serving my time out I
thought you would have forgotten me, and
there would be nobody to interfere with
me. I started again at my old calling, and
the first burglary that I intended to commit
was frustrated again by you. I tried again
and again, and was always met by your
self or your shadow haunting me wherever
I went or done. Now lam disgusted with
you and thieving in general, therefore I
send you through the bearer all my tools,
being a selection that many a modern
crackeman would be proud to possess. You
will find tools there that will open a money
drawer, a chest, a trunk ; tools that will
open or burst an iron door; tools that will
raise a scuttle or go through a brick wall;
and again, tools that will burst any safe in
the country. You will Lind there a good
many keys that will open any common
lock, and again, keys for the most difficult
locks. I make you a present of all, and
think you the only man worthy to receive
them, because, asideof all, I can only praise
your integrity and admire your ingenuity
in ferreting out a case. I never saw or
heard of your equal, I can assure you. For
my part, I will try and earn an honest
living, and keep out of your way,
, Most respectfully yours,
AN OLD OFFENDER.
From Mexico
Our Vera Cruz (Mexico) correspondence
is dated April 5. The siege still continued,
General Cuevas being in command. Two
hundred and fifty of the foreign legion were
in the garrison and kept a wholesome neck
on the Mexican imperialists, who but for
their presence would probably pronounce
for the liberals. Hunger was pressing the
people, and meat and vegetables had given
out. General Baronda, the second in com
mand of the besieging forces, had been
aboard the American gunboat Tacony, and
had Informed the commander that Puebla
had been taken by Diaz on the 2d inst., and
Maximilian was suing for terms of surren
der at Queretaro. By way of Havana the
news to the same date is to the effect that
Maximilian had returned to Mexico city,
leaving Mega besieging the forces of Esco
bedo In Ban Luis Potosi. Liberal advicos
say that Juarez had given orders that Max
imilian, when taken, should be treated with
all the consideration due to " unsuccessful
valor," A Now York steamer, with arms
and ammunition for the liberals, had ar
rived at Tampico, and would be fitted out
as a man•of-war.—.N. Y. Herald.
Floods and Distress in LOUIIIII3IIIa.
Along the Mississippi and Its tributaries
disaster follows disasters with such rapidity
that there is danger of the entire country
being overflowed. Scores of breaks have
occurred in the levees along the Mississippi,
Toche, Washita, Black and Atchafalaya
rivers. Some have fortunately been stop
ped; others have been narrowed, with a
fidr prospect of berg closed; but the ma
jority are widening. whir the fall of water,
which rushes through like a mill race,
Hooding the country and driving from
house and lands destitute thousands. The
overflow Is more serious than last winter
when two million acres wore submerged.
The water is increasing instead of decreas
ing. The crops are utterly destroyed. Tho
time is rapidly approaching when it will be
too late to replant this year. Misery and
ruin are staring these unfortunate people In
the face, and if the government does not
speedily take action in the matter it will be
too late, for the people will be ruined by
the destruction of their lands and rendered
homeless by the destruction of their homes.
'I lie Additional Bounty to Sailors.
Considerable Inquiry having been made
as to whether any act was passed by the
first cession of the Fortieth Congress grant
ing the additional bounty to sailors and
marines the same as to soldiers, we would
state for those interested, that a resolution
having In view this objectpasned the House
of Representatives but failed in the Senate,
the Naval Affairseommitteu paving repor
ted adversely on the matter, they consider
ing that allowanc • of prize money fully mot
this extra gratuity to the soldiers. The
subject may come up before the Senate ut
its next session, but judging from the sen
timent of that body on this question at its
last session, it is fair to presume that the
measure will not pass.
A Ceremony in Rome
A letter from Rome says that great pre
parations are being made for the celebration
of the anniversary of the martyrdom of St.
Peter and for canonization. The fetes are
to commence on the 20th of June by a grand
ceremony in the Cathedral of St. Peter.
The following day the Holy Father will
officiate at San Paolo, outside the walls. A
daily service is to be celebrated at the Pon
tificia' chapel of St. John's Lateran during
the Octave. On the 7th July the Blessed
Josafat will be canonized ; and on the 14th
two hundred and live Japanese martyrs are
to be beatified, whose tuirticles have been
acknowledged by the last decree of the
Pope,
Government Real Pilate Bushmen
The rumor is yet current that negotia
tions are pedding between the government
of this country and that of Great Britain
for the purchase of all the western portion
of British America, including Vanoeuver's
Island. The only difficulty that appears to
stop the final consummation of the bargain
seems to be that Mr. Seward itlllllo upon
turning in the Alabama. claim s as part pay
ment of the purchase, to which Lord Stan
ley, the English Secretary of the Colonies,
demurs.
News Items.
Archbishop Spaltlieg is recovering.
Prof. Agassiz retieiveds3,ookfoi: deliver
ing six lectures in Nevtlark:
The people of. &Mkt:kali Cal., are lux
tiiating,vdM luscionil4Pe'ePplea.
The population of Irlorida is 140,424, of
ii.bich 77,747 white : MAW 677 colored.
virchhishoP .§palding, of Baltimore, is
reported . to be past recovery.%
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The registration ofxottiralt(lSouth Caro
lina will begin as soon as enough persons
qualified to act as Registers dre found.
A small store at the corner of Lombard
street, London, rents for £22,000 sterling per
annum.
Charleston, S., C., is happy over the
erection of a grain elevator, the that in the
South.
Madame Ristori's American tour is nearly
finished. Throughout the South and West
sbe has been splendidly successful.
A compitny has been formed in Baltimore
to build a new hotel, and a contract has been
entered into with an experienced builder.
Mt. St. Elias, in Russian America, the
highest peak in North America, is necessary
to US as a perch for the American eagle.
The Virginia Legislature has passed au
act levying a tax of 30 cents on the $lOO to
pay the interest on the State debt.
It is not true, as reported, that the State
Department is organizing an exploring ex
pedition to Russia America.
The Buffal*nats are destroying the stock
along the Tennessee river. One planter
near Commerce lost fifty head last week.
General Schofield has decided that Con
federate conscripts are not necessarily de
prived of the right to vote.
At an election for mayor in Huntsville,
Ala., recently, the colored vote assisted to
defeat the agent of the freedmen's bureau.
Dr. B. B. Colt, the pioneer physician of
San Francisco, dropped dead in the streets
of that city last Friday.
A negress named Ella Garvin has been
arrested in Memphis for poisoning three
negroes.
The assessed valuation of property on
Broadway, New York, from Houston street
to Union Square is 81.5,000,000.
Hon. Myer St rouse, M. C., has had placed
in his hands, tor return to the owner, a
stolen ring belonging to Jett: Davis.
Lowell, Mass., has forty-nine factories,
the capital stock of which is $13,650,000.
9,013 females and 4,914 males are employed.
A loaded express car on the New York
and Erie railroad was totally destroyed by
fire last Friday. The loss is estimated at
$30,000.
Rev. P. R. O'Brien, of St. Peter's Catholic
Church, at Wilmington, Del., died sudden
ly last week, from inflammation of the
There appears to be no truth in the rumor
that Gov. Geary's tailor is making him a
new uniform in which to have his five
hundred dollar portrait painted.
A Conservative negroes' meeting was
held yesterday in Raleigh, N. C. Speeches
were made by Gov. Worth, ex-rebel Gen.
Battle, and a colored man.
The War Department has issued a circu
lar of instructions to army officers, in view
of the possible prevalence of cholera during
the coming summer.
Two vessels, one of them a steamer, are
reported to have left New York a few days
since, with arms and recruits for the Mexi
can Liberalists.
A large colored meeting was held in Mo
bile on Wednesday night, and Radical reso
lutions were adopted. The negroes went
armed to the meeting.
By the recent earthquake at Mytilenc, out
of a population of 80,000, as many as three
or four thousand were killed, and starvation
stares thousands of the survivors in the face.
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The stakes won by Tommy Chandler in
his fight with Dooney Harris at San Fran
cisco, on Saturday last, amounting to $lO,OOO
were paid to him.
The mayor of New York has just received
a check from the U. S. treasury for $500,000
to pay for the lower end of the City Hall
Park as a site for the new postoflice.
Over 200,0e0 North Carolina shad have
been shipped to the northern markets via
the Albemarle and Chesapeake canal during
the present fishing season.
The Catholics of Lawrence, Mass., are
about to erect a house for orphans, at an
expense of $30,000. It is to be under the
charge of the Sisters of Charity.
It is intimated in New Orleans that Gen.
Sheridan intends trying some of the promi
nent instigators of the July massacre, before
a military commission.
Troops are moving out upon the plains in
numbers that indicate a decisive campaign.
Twenty thousand troops are to go to the
country north of Platte river and east of the
mountains.
The women of Wisconsin are not to vote
until another Legislature has also passed
the amendment, and it has been submitted
to and been ratified by the people—con
tingencies not likely to occur.
The last Radical Michigan Legislature
passed a law compelling the admission of
negro children into the common schools of
that State, but the Radical directors of De
troit refuse to obey the law.
Gen. Hancock has had a conference with
fifteen Cheyenne chiefs at Fort Lamed, but
accomplished nothing. There are indica
tions of a hostile confederation of the Chey
ennes and Sioux.
A. coal schooner went ashore near Ply
mouth, Mass., on Wednesday, and in trying
to save the crew a lifeboat upset, and four
men were drowned. The crew were res
cued.
A man named Ingraham, who is believed
to have been an accomplice or the brothers
Pixley in the murder of General Bailey, iu
Vernon, county, Mo., has been hung by the
citizens of that county.
Two negroes were arrested the other night
in Chicago for body-snatching. They had
five bodies concealed in coffee sacks in their
wagon—three men and two females. The
bodies had been taken from one of the
cemeteries.
At the late municipal election the Demo
cracy of Chicago reduced the Radical ma
jority 1,691 on the vote of 1866, and 1,929 on
the vote of 1865. Besides this they gained
four aldermen. The total poll of votes was
19,880. In 1865 the total poll was 16,537.
Advices from the West Coast of Africa
states that war has broken out between two
opposing tribes of savages, in which sever
al of the New Calabar tribes wore made
prisoners by their enemies and roasted and
eaten by them.
It is stated that although more than three
months have elapsed since the explosion of
the Oaks Colliery in England little progress
has as yet been made In extinguishing the
body of fire raging at the bottom. All the
shafts have been sealed up.
A duel occurred at Kansas City, Mo.,
lately between A. H. Hallowell, editor of
The Journal of Commerce of that city, and
H. B. Branch, postmaster. Four shots
were exchanged, but neither party was
injured.
It is complimentary to Yankee ingenuity
that a commissioner has boon sent from
Switzerland to examine the railroad which
enables us to make the ascent of Mount
Washington, with a view of scaling the Alps
on the same plan.
During 1860 over 5,000,000 pounds of books
were exported from Groat Britain, a large
proportion of which came to the United
States, The value of these books was
$8,010,885 In gold, an average of sixty cents
a pound.
The citizens of the village of North East,
Cecil county, Md., under a law of the
Legislature, have voted on the propriety or
allowing the bale of liquors In that place.
The vote stood twelve for and seventy-one
against; so that no sales of the kind can be
made there.
Mrs. Tyler, widow of the lateex-President
Tyler, Is now on a visit to the Virginia
Peninsula, with the view of seeking the
improvement of Ler plantations and estates
on the James river. She will visit the
Davis family and the village of Hampton,
for the purpose of renewing old acquaint
ances and friendships.
A party of ladies and gentlemen aro on
an excursion to the Rocky Mountains
under auspicesofthe managers of the Union
Pacific Railroad. They arrived in Chicago
on Thurnday,by special train from AI bit ny—
quickest time on record: came into Chicago
from Detroit, via Michigan Central road, at
fifty milealm hour.
A Western paper states that there is to be
during the summer months, agreat buffalo
hunt by nine members of the National
Senate and seventeen Of the House, who are
to go out as the guests of the delegate front
Daeoteh. Probably they will find this a
more prolitabledivermion than "fighting the
tiger' at Washington.
A physician of Goshen, thirty miles from
Cincinnati, named Hanker, sixty years old,
committed suicide on Thursday because
his children opposed his marrying again.
He bequeathed his watch and carriage to
the widow he bad intended to lead to the
altar, and requested that he be buried in
his proposed bridal garb.
A letter dated Florence, April 3d, says:
The great wave of American travel rises
higher and higher until Italy Is nearly sub
merged. The newspapers tell us to-day
that yesterday the train for Venice was not
got off until much after the usual time, such
was the throng at the station of American
and English travelers, with their mountains
of luggage.
The Springfield (Masa.) Republican says
of the case of Wirz, the Andersonville cap
tain, that "it is not known, and perhaps
may never be, whether the crime was
proved upon him or not. Ills was one of
those military trials that constitute the
darkest page in our recentpolitical history,
which we would be glad to blot out forever
from human remembrance."
President Johnson has accepted an invi
tation from the citizens of Raleigh to be
present at that place about the middle of
May, at the laying of the corner stone of a
monument in memory of the Bresident'a
father. He will be aquOinpanied by Mr.
Seward and ope or two others of the Cabinet.
They will go via lilobmond, and may ex
tend their trip farther South.
11 9'. PIR.Wat 4a Th allV may l .
Yotmg..A, it tbminine
id determined to have his and her luxuries,
else we should:notaee among -the importa
tions (to oe rid for in gold) duringthe past
week, such. tems as these:. Cigars, $13,137;
champ:lib, $311,100 . ; Jewelry, $74,440; toys,
$2,074 ; fanoy goods, $107,484 ;. perfumery,
f 26.36; furs, 2,820 ; and so on.
At the Waterford, New York, Arsenal,
the Galling gun, which is fired off by the
turning of a crank, and is said to keep
forty-six hundred balls in the air all the
while, is now on exhibition. The gun is to
be used against the Indians on the frontier.
There were a good many of these contri
vances in General McClellan's army, but
in no force. It was contended, however,
they had not a fair trial.
The ape of Good Hope papers announce
that the. Queen of Madagascar, hy royal
proclamation, has forbidden the civilians to
wear hats with brims. The privilege its
restricted to government officers. The poor
civilians are thus reduced to the necessity
of wearing scull caps, or of using their old
hats with the rims torn off; the latter course
being adopted by so many persons that the
streets are strewed with discarded hat brims.
Chief Justice Handy, of Mississippi, has
published two articles in relation to the
powers of the Supreme Court in the matter
of the Southern injunction cases now before
it. Referring to the Military Satrapy bill
he says. "To assort that such u violation
of the rights of a State is beyond the super
vision of the Supreme Court appears to be
scarcely less monstrous than ttie act itself."
The United States Senate adjourned on
Saturday night. Previous to ad j ournment,
resolutions looking to mediation between
the Mexican belligerents and intercession
for Maximillian wero offered by Messsr.
Sumner, Henderson and Johnson, and or
dered to lie on the table. Mr. Cole, of Cali
fon. ia, offered a resolution of mediation
between France and Prussia, which was
also tabled. There was less than a quorum
when the Senate adjourned.
The Savannah Republican reports that the
condition of things in Camden and Byrau
counties, Georgia, Is truly alarming. In
one county two negroes sentenced to death
for murder and three others to the peniten
tiary for other offences were rescued from
the jail in which they were confined by a
mob of negroes anti made their escape. In
another county men were found hanging to
the trees within a short distance of the public
roads, mid had been hanging there for
several days.
English visitors - to America in these days
tell wild stories of the prices they were
obliged to pay for many things, especially
clothing and cab-hire. A handsome mull
of clothes in London costs from fifteen to
twenty-five dollars. A man may dress
well enough, hats and boots included, for
4::llss—say eighteen dollars. An English
man adds the duties, but he cannot figu
up the costs in America. So a lady buy,
an elegant silk dress In London for from
five to fifteen dolars, and she cannot account
for the prices she hears her American triends
talk about.
The following incident is related In a
Paris letter: "An American who Is now
here, and who claims to be the rimst adroit
man in the world in the handling of the
musket and bayonet, went the other day to
seek an engagement at the Paris Circuses,
offering to fight in the arena (with wooden
bayonets) against five of the best musket
men in the French army, all at once, one
against five. The director of the circus
said, ' No, I can't do that ; but if you will
dress up as a French soldier and whip live
• soldiers dressed up as Americans, I'll give
you an engagement!" The Yankee retired
in disgust, and at last accounts was still
swearing."
A lady in the southern part of Illinois,
having a few hundred dollars, concluded to
try her fortune speculating in wheat. She
wrote accordingly to a prominent commis
sion house in Chicago, engaging them to
act as her agents and ordering them to in
vest the entire sum in that treacherous
staple. In a short time, contrary to all ex
pectation, it went up to a surprising figure,
and the fair speculator sold out at a great
advance. Shortly after she again tele
graphed her agents to purchase a large
amount, but they replied in the same man
ner that the market was very much de
pressed and they would not advise her to
buy. For answer she repeated her order,
and by the late advance in prices has been
enabled to have $40,000 placed to her
eredit!
The iron tankage at Oil City is estimatol
at a quarter of a million barrels capacity.
The citizens of Altoona, on Tuesday last.
voted against becoming an incorporated
city.
The large furnace at Gibraltar, about live
miles southeast of Reading, owned by
Simon Seyfert, Esq., was totally destroyed
by fire on Saturday afternoon. The origin
of the lire is not known.
John Hickey has been convicted In the
Crawford county court of manslaughter in
the second degree, in causing the death of
his wife at Titusville some months ago,
while both were tinder the influence of
liquor.
The wife of William Orms, of the Fourth
Ward, Johnstown, attempted to commit
suicide last Monday by cutting her throat
with a shoemaker knife. A fit of insanity,
caused by continued 111 health, was the
cause of the attempt.
Air. John Young, of Allegheny township,
Blair county, died on the sth inst., from a
dose of arsenic, administered through malice
by some person unknown. The wife and
daughter of deceased have been arrested,
charged with a knowledge of the crime.
The Hanover Citizen says that a strange
and fatal disease has made its appearance
among the cattle of a farmer named Rude
sill, residing in I leidelburg township, a few
miles from the borough of Hanover. Two
valuable cows attacked by the disease died
last week after suffering but a short time.
Chambersburg is likely to get anew mar•
ket house and public hall. Under an act
passed by the late Legislature, a stock com
pany is about being organized, with a cap
ital of forty thousand dollars, for the erec
tion of a building. The borough authori
ties are auth rized to sell the present mar•
ket house and hall, and invest the proceeds
in stock of the new company.
A Philadelphia paper say : Delaware
shad appear to be pretty well played i out.
But few have been taken so far this sea.son,
and the price asked for them isonortnously
high. '1 he coal tar that escapes from the
gas works, and the coal oil or substance or
It that mingles with the Schuylkill, and
finally with the waters of the Delaware,
have a deleterious effect upon shad and
perch in particular, and other fish In general.
The desire for the formation or Croatlon
of now counties in Pennsylvania amounts
to a positive mania, and there Ix really no.
positive necessity for any more counties.
They would only nerve to increase taxation
and provide offices fora few hungry poli
ticians. In addition to the clamor for new
counties from the western part or the State,
it is stated that a portion of the citizens or
Montgomery county want a division or
their territory, and the county of Madison
erected.
Michael S. Lynch, a man postiessed of
some property, entered the restaurant of
John Sweeney, in Tidiouto, Saturday night,
6th inst., and called for oysters, stating that
ho bad no money with him. Mr. Sweeney
refused the oysters, when Lynch said he
would mark him. Lynch was then ejected
front the restaurant when he draw a re
tolver and, it is alleged, discharged one
barrel at Sweeney, the lain striking him In
the side and inflicting a serious if not Will
injury. lynch was arrested, and com
mitted to jail for trial in default of ttrteen
Thu Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
bought, and possesses, the Columbus and
Indiana Central Railroad—giving the Com
pany a continuous line from Philadelphia
to Indianapolis. The bargaining for the
Pacific Railroad of Missouri has already
been commenced. That concluded, it will
remain to acquire the line from Indiunapo-
Its, through Terre Haute end Alton to St.
Louis, and then the Company will control
a lino extending from Philadelphia to the
western terminus of the Pastern Division
of the Union Pacific Railroad, wherever
that may be.
A very elegulur incident occurred at
Bethlehem a tow days ago. A daughter
of Sheriff Dissoway, aged about tan years,
left her home one morning, in her apparent
usual health, to go to school. During school
hours she complained of pain In her eyes,
and asked permission to go home. The re
quest was granted, and she left the room,
but before she reached her home, which is
only about 1,00 yards from the school, she
became totally blind. In this condition she
was found by sonic person passing by and
taken home. Up to this time all efforts to
restore her sight have proven fruitless. She
is so blind that she cannot even distinguish
a burning gas-light.
A farmer named Abraham Yingst, of
Derry township, Dauphin county, 'WM on
his way to market at Harrisburg, early on
Wednesday morning, and as he was passing
over the railroad at Rutherford's crossing,
his wagon was struck by the locomotive of
the express passenger train.
yi ng st was immediately killed, and his
son, who was with him, was severely in
jured. One horse was killed and the other
so badly torn and bruised that It had to be
shot. The Reading turnpike crosses at this
place, and many people pass over the road
to market at an early hour. The night was
not dark, and the occurrence of this sad.
affair is most unaeoouutable.
The Pittsburg Poet says: We received
intelligence last evening of a fearful double
tragedy at Mount Morris, year Waynes
burg, Greene county. An old man named,
Martin Cane, aged about sixty years, on
Sunday niglit, his wife having retired to.
bed and fallen asleep, procured an axe, and
stealthily entered the room, approached the
bedside, and dealt her a blow on the head,
from the effects of wffioh the doctors say
she cannot possibly recover. A short time
after the oommission of the bloodydeed,
the lifeless body of the old man was found
suspended from the limb of a tree near the
house, behaving hanged himself. No cause
is assigned for the terrible tragedy, but it
is presumed that the murderer and auloldli
waa laboring udder a At et lvssulty,