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WEPNESDAY; MAY
. 1; 18870
To the Demoorsey_of the
te City and County
• CI Lauener.
In pursuance of authority given the un
dersigned at a meeting of the County
COMmittee, held 'on Monday, April 15th
you are requested to assemble in the
several Wards of the city and bor
oughs, and in the to‘vnships of the
county, on SATURDAY, the llth day
. of MAY, 1867, to elect not less than three nor
more than five delegates, to represent such
distfict in a general County Convention, to
be held on WEDNESDAY, the 15Th day of
MAY, at 11 o'clock, at Fulton Hnll, in the
city of Lancaster, for the purpose of elect
ing six delegates to represent the De.
mocracy of the county of Lancaster
in the State Convention, to be held
itt HARRISBURG on the SECOND
TUESDAY in JUNE NEXT; and for the
further purpose, if deemed advisable, of
electing twelve delegates to meet in Mass
Convention at Harrisburg, ou 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
nut to adjournment, at the usual place, of
WEnsESDAY, MAY 15, at 10 A. M.
.A. J. ST I.INMAN, CIIBIIIIEIII
13..1. 14.1cGRANN,'Sttretary.
• Thad. Stevens on Wilson's Promises.
The following was telegraphed to all
the principal daily papers by the as
sociated press :
WASHINCITON, April The health of
Thaddeus Stevens is much improved and
he expeets t t leave here for Pennsylvania
next week. He to day wrote a letter for
publication, taking for his sithject the fol.:
lowing extract, from a notice of Senator
Henry Wilson's recent speech near -Hamp
ton thauls. lle (Wilson) said there would
be no impediment. to Southern representa
tion in Congress if they elect Union loon,
and closed his remarks by toying that he
"would leave Virginia with lite full con
'fiction that a Republican I;overnor, Legis-
Oature, and two Senators would be elect
ed." Mr. Stevens continents on this as
" NVAmniNtertiN, April 27,
" rt. It:firma: Snell articles /AS this are
calculated to do mulch harm. 'l'lley throw
obstacles in the way of future revonstrue
-1 ion, bring quoted 1111 1 1 relied on as pledge!,
liy the lintaililktin party. I nitwit
trouble arose frtNiiHill 100140 and in
tl.-tinge expressions contained in a bill
which was reported by the Reconstruction
conimitteti of the Thirty-ninth Congress,
though never passed. It wits perverted by
tit: ion and folly into all argument against
the whole party and Congress.,
"'this generally arises from the careless-
He:/14 411 . the 1111011.01'Si ; sona•t isles, doubtless,
Trout the inadvertence of ;he speaker.
Milli should malt . e promises lOr the party.
Ity what authority does any tine say Hatt
Ity the election of legal kleloglites they Will
IKit - 111116110a ? ii)' 101111 auttlority say (hut
Virginia will elect t‘vo loyal Senators,
while in truth there is no Virginia?
V 1 itch is to be done by the people and
tiny Itepresentative, or
K t inattir, or State can he recognized. Who
atitheriitid any orator to say there would
111, Ito 115 ill 1111011101' ?
These things are too tlippantly said. I thMk
they had butter be gravely pondered. Who
tititlitirized to travel the country and
peddle out amnesty?
"1 would s ay to the most guilty, 'expect
punishment and then quietude, but first a
mild confiscation to pay those who have
knee robbed by disloyal num.' T1..5,
ter ,!'1,11c5, :111111111 1 1u 0111 y, perhaps.
'l'll.l n DEL'S ST EN' EN S."
The above letter furnishes another
example of the perfidy of the Republi
can leaders. It informs us that the
pledges of lime Military Reconstruction
Law were made to be broken, and that
compliance with the humiliating pro
visions of the Act will not restore the
Southern States to the Union. "
is to he done " before Senators and ltel
resentatives can be received from the
South. Much has been done in the
overthrow of civil liberty and govern-
!tient, the appointment of vice-regal
satraps, the exultation of the 'legit) and
the degradation of the white, at the
Smith, but it is not yet enough. Not
enough for 7,1(30c-dukes like Sickles,
Sheridan and Scofield, to issue ukases
abrogating laws for the collection of
debts, to depose and appoint Attorneys-
General and Mayors, to dictate who
shall vote and who shall not, to set up
military commissions in contempt of
the Supreme Court, and threaten edi
tors for exercising freedom of the press.
Not enough to enfranchise negroes and
disfranchise whites, and make both
colors the vassals of a creature with the
domestic antecedents of the Lord-Lieu
tenant of the Carolinas. Notwithstand-
ing the express promise of Congress
that, after tfie South hail eaten this
dirt, sottic of its whites shall have the
seine privileges as negroes, Stevens
informs us that more conditions will be
imposed and exacted:
" I would .say to the most guilty, ex•
peel, punishment and then quietude,
but first a mild confiscation." The
most guilty- - where all were equally so!
Expect pdnishment, as if it had not
ykt, (ton) nienced. Slavery is no punish•
ment for whites! There is, if possible,
but one !greater—Extermination. And
as profound quietude is to follow, we
presume that this is the punishment
intended. "But first a mild confis
cation," a gentle flaying alive, then
the capital punishMent ,of treason for
the most guilty, to wit, the whole pc)
illation, and afterwards rest. P,
whom ? Probably the execution(
This al melons sentence is the nat
expression of the black heart of its au
thor. Stung to fury by the recollection
that he secured no position in Congress
until the talent of the South had AVitil
draWli, he seeks physical vengeance
upon those with whom he ;coup not
cope in debate, and tries to prolong the
exclusion from the National Legislature
of those lie personally hates and fears.
Citizens of Lancaster, on Friday next
you will have an opportunity to respond
at the polls to the sentiments of this i
famous letter. Do you wish the Sou
to be first humiliated and betrayed afte
wards? Are you for a Mild eontiseatiot
•xtermittatiott and then quietude? If
not, repudiate the doctrine al the polls.
It is fortunate that your election follows
so closely upon the publication of the
views or this Representative, who does
not represent you. It enables the home
of Thaddeus Stevens promptly to re
move any suspicion that its people sym
pathize with him. Let Democrats and
Conservatives see to it that our goodly
City is vindicated from any trace of fel
lowship with Stevens in his plea for con
fiscation, punishment and quietude at
the South.
Wou!Wilt Die for Spite
The St. Louis Trines says Thad. Ste
vens, thinking that he was dying a few
days ago, and desiring that his depart
ure from this vale of tears should be in
keeping with his acts while in it, made
a last request of the Senate that they
should reject the nomination of the
revenue collector of his district. The
Senate, desiring that he should cease
talking "and go on with his dying,"
positively refused to 'accede to his re
quest, whereupon Thaddeus, to spite
them, recovered immediately from his
illness.
Col. I. K. McClure
Col. A. K. McClure, the well-known
and able editor of the Charubersburg
_Repository, intends making a tour to
the foot of the Rocky Mountains during
the summer. He will write up his trip
for the New York Tribune. We ha:e
no doubt the letters of Col. McClure
will be read with marked interest,
"Official larewell•to Col. Forney."
Forney's "two newspapers, both
daily," inform — the public that the
Clerks under him in the Senate, to
gether with the workmen in his Wash.
Ington printing office, andseveral thou
san.d niggers, who'are lying around
loose about the National Capital, hav
ing learned that he was about to sail for
Europe," waited upon him at his resi
dence on Monday afternoon and even
ing, "for the purpose of bidding him
farewell and wishing him a safe and
speedy return." The affair was done
up artistically, and so arranged as to
consume as much time as possible, and
give it the appearanceof a "big thing."
First came the well-fed attaches from
the Senate, their jaws dripping with
the grease of the treasury platters they
had just finished licking. Their spokes
man was Major McDonald, who ad
dressed Colonel Forney in a set speech,
which evidently was "got up regard
less of expense." The Colonel replied
in his usual bombastic style, and un
bosomed himself of a greatdeal of cheap
patriotic sentiment.
After these patriotic suckers of treas
ury pap had got through with their
expression of — mutual admiration, re
gard, confidence, affection, love, &c.,
&c., and each and every one of his vis
itors had taken Col. Forney by the
hand and bidden him a tearful farewell,
they "retired in good order," and the
first act of the farce ended.
After " music by the orchestra" and
"drinks all round" by the " star " per
former and the "scene shifters," the
second act opened at nine o'clock,
when the employees of the Chronicle
ollice appealed on the stage. Their
spokesman blarneyed Forney awhile,
and Iforuey blarneyed them, and after
a big drink and a dreadfully affecting
farewell, in which whisky and salt
water flowed profusely, the curtain fell
on aet
Then Nape the niggers "to the num
ber of several thousand," somewhere
about the witching hour when Diggers
are apt to go around on hunt of 'coons
or chickens. One of them, as we are.
able to state ou the authority of "two
newspapers, both daily, read an able
address to Col. Forney, who responded
in a speech of over an hour, which, we
have the same authority for saying,
"was received with much enthusiasm
by the immense assemblage."
The third act ended, but the "show"
was not over. "The colored troops
fought bravely," and a second delega
tion of them, which had been held in
reserve, "called and serenaded Col. For
ney, who responded briefly." The hair
of the dog is said to be a cure for his
bite, and possibly, on the same princi
ple, this second delegation of sweet
scented Africans was brought in to dis
infect Col. Forney's apartments after
the visit of the first!
The report of this grand affair in the
" two dailies" would be perfect if it were
illustrated by a cut of a conceited fellow
" blowing his own horn" at a tremen
dous rate.
Will the " two newspapers, both
daily," favor us with an account of the
leave-taking at the "lively" establish
ment in Philadelphia" There the
Colonel might say with more sincerity
than he said of "ourbeloved country" in
his Washington speech.
My heart, an tramel led, stilt returns to thee."
Au Revoir
'Twos noised abroad that Wei' the sea ,
J. W. F. would hie,
And so his numerous sable friends
Called round to say "good bye."
Willi loud harms the night was rent,
While John was there to see :
I wonder how he luge's the scent f"
Says Mrs. Smith, says site.
\Ve clip the above stanza from the
Sunday rcury, and take occasion to
give its editctrial fraternity a word of
warning. \Ve have no doubt the Mrs.
Smith referred to is the tan-colored
termagant who presides over the do
mestic arrangement of Hon. Thaddeus
Stevens. Have the editors of the Sun
da y Mereury forgotten our account of a
visit she once paid to this office': Do
they not remember that she threatened
to cowhide the editor of this paper for
remarks not lullf so offensive? Are
they not aware that the telegraphic de
spatches in the very same issue of their
paper announce that Mr. Stevens is so
far recovered in health that he expects
to leave for Philadelphia iu a day or
two. \Ve advise our friends of the Ater
enry to keep a sharp watch upon the
hotel registers, and to make a trip to the
country for a few days, immediately af
ter the arrival of our Congressman in
the Quaker city. By so doing they may
escape the cowhiding which they richly
merit. The names of ladies should not
be used in improper connections, and
any woman with a particle of self-re
spect, be she white, black or tan-colored,
could not help feeling herself grossly
insulted by being thus publicly coupled
with John W. Forney. The offence
of the Mercury "is rank and smells to
Heaven"
Says Mrs. Smith, says slip
Judge Sharswood a Candidate
Among the many distinguished legal
gentlemen put forward by the two par
ties in this State as candidates for the
exalted position of Judge of the Su
preme Court, we name stands out in
bold relief. It is universally admitted
that Judge Sharswood, of Philadelphia,
is in all respects the best man yet men
tioned by either party. He is known
to every lawyer in Pennsylvania, if not
personally, through the numerous
works which he has edited and anno
tated. All regard him as one of the
ablest jurists of modern times. The
people of Philadelphia paid him the
highest compliment which could be be
stowed upon any man by unanimously
re-electing him Judge in 1861. They
know his peculiar fitness for the bench
by experience, while the whole bar of
the State is quite as fully convinced of
his superior qualifications.
Judge Sharswood does not seek a
nomination. He has not solicited it.
Believing!' that the office should seek
the man and not the man the office, he
declines to make the slightest personal
effort to secure support. But we learn
it from the most undoubted and unques
tionable authority that he will accept
the nomination should it be tendered
to him. He feels that he would not be
at liberty to refuse to permit the use of
his name p should his fellow-citizens of
Pennsylimnia see fit to put him forward
as a candidate for Judge of the Supreme
Court.
The announcement of the willingness
of Judge Sharswood to allow the use of,
his name we regard as settling the
question as to who will be the candidate
of the Democratic party. He will cer:
tainly be nominated on the second, if
not on the first ballot. Many most ex
cellent and able lawyers have been
named in connection with the office,
but so general has been the expression
of preference for Judge Sharswood that
we feel safe in saying that his nomina
tion may now be regarded as a fixed
fact. And there is no man in the State
to whose claims all competing candi
dates would sogracefully and so willing
ly yield the preference.
It is possible and we suppose certain
that the Republicans will put up a can
didate in opposition to Judge Shifts
wood, but we should not be surprised
to find many of the best men among
them supporting him. His pre-emi
nent abilities as a Judge, and hls high
character as a man, will commend him
to the people almost without respect to
party.
• Great GlVE.Enterprlse.
We leant from the Philadelphia Frees
that a Gift Enterprise is on the tads,
which will surpass anything of the kind
ever before dreamed of in the United
States. The' Press says:
; ./t is well known that all efforts to obtain
voluntary subscriptions sufficient to erect
a Soldiers' Home have been without avail.
In furtherance of the object, however, the
Legislature of Pennsylvania have passed
an act dated March 6, 1867, creating a cor
poration with'an efficient board of super
visors, who have the power to distribute
to the holders of certificates a large
number of immensely valuable gifts,
consisting of diamonds, pearls, emeralds,
rubies, &c., purchased from citizens of
the Southern Suites during the rebellion,
and which articles will soon be exhibiled
in this city. By this scheme it is confi
dently anticipated a large fund will be
created towards the erecuon of the Home.
A great feature of the affair consists in
the fact that every purchaser of these cer
tificates becomes a contributor to this Na
tional Home fund, and at the same time
has a direct interest in the distribution of
the rare gems mentioned above. The de
tails of the entire scheme will be conducted
in a perfectly fair and honorable manner.
The Press does not favor its readers
with a list of the " rare gems" to be dis
tributed, but we doubt not that among
them will be found the following articles,
which, it is well known, were "pur
chased from citizens of the Southern
States during the rebellion :"
One hundred dozen silver spoons, with
the " mark of the Beast" on the handle,
purchased at New Orleans by General
Butler.
A pearl Necklace, presented by a
" likely" young freedwoman to an officer
of the Freedman's Bureau, on his taking
an affectionate leave of her.
A magnificent silver Salver, Pitcher
and Wine Castor, purchased by General
Banks out of the profits ,of his Red
River Cotton Stealing Expedition.
A Theological Library, consisting of
several thousand volumes by the best
authors, and supposed to have been the
property of Rev. Dr. Bachman, of South
Carolina, though his receipt is not in .
possession of the 'Puritan divine who
has generously donated the Library for
the purpose above stated.
A Communion Service, over one lion
dred yearmold and of exquisite work
mauship,_Jobtaiued from the colored
janitor of a church iu Savannah, iu the
absence of the pastor.
A full set of Masonic Jewels, procured
from the Lodge of which Wade Hamp
ton was W. M., when Wade was among
the missing.
A Sevres Porcelain Dinner Set, with
the initials F. F. V., obtained at a de
serted mansion in the neighborhood of
the Dutch Gap Canal.
A Grover & Baker Sewing Machine,
once the property of a poor Southern
Searustiess ; donated by the wife of a
rich Radical Congressman.
One.hundred Pianos, all styles—rose
wood and mahogany, round cornered
and square, carved legs and plain—col
lected from various parts of the South
-laud sent North at the expense of the
government; generously donated by
wives of the army contractors who
gathered them up. '
Ten thousand yards of Axminster,
Brussels, Tapestry, Turkish, Persian,
Ingrain, Three-ply and. Rag Carpeting,
gashered up all over Dixie and regret
fully contributed by pious and benevo.
lent ladies who could not make them
fit their own rooms.
Several hundred elegant and costly
Mirrors, which once reflected the fair
faces of Southern maids and matrons—
thrown out of use in Connecticut since
the late election, because the sight of
them conjured up mclancholy reflec
tions.
A large lot of bronze and silver Can
delabra, Chandeliers, &c., which once
gave light in Southern homes where
gaunt famine now sits in darkness.
One thousand Ladies' Gold Watches,
with broken chains, torn from the per
sons of their owners, and contributed
by the wives of army- Chaplains who
obtained them in exchange for "confis
cated" tobacco, 6:c.
A large collection of gold and silver
eoin (now very rare), and silver plate,
dug up by officers in whose hands the
shovel was mightier than the sword.
A miscellaneous and magnificent as
.sortment of diamond necklaces, brace
lets, breastpins, ear and finger rings,
SL . c., torn from the persons of Southern
ladies and since displayed in Northern
ball-rooms; but now turned over to this
benevolent object by their " awakened "
owners on account of the prevalence of
religious revivals in New England.
One of the identical Swords fabri
cated out of the Saw of one of the mills
on the Santee, for the use of Marion's
Partisan Rangers in the Revolution,
captured by a a. tachment of the color
ed troops who fought bravely, from a
small white boy supposed to be a de
scendant of one of Mariou's men.
Au earthen domestic utensil, (name
unknown,) of unique design• and ele
gant workmanship, with a handle " all
on one side, like the handle of a jug,"
captured from Jeff. Davis' chamber
maid by Billy Wilson's Zouaves, and
appropriated to the use of the invalid
ed members of the regiment—now the
property of the Union League of Phil
adelphia, who value it highly on ac
count of the ass-ociatious connected
with it, and which, in their estima
tion, throw an odor of sanctity over it.
We doubt not we will be able to add
largely to our list of " rare gems pur
chased from citizens of the Southern
States during the rebellion " as soon as
the catalogue is published. Anything
which we can do to advertise this great
gift enterprise shall be done free of
charge.
A Word to Bondholders
Speaking of tt probable effect
negro staring, I 'on the financial in
terests of the country, Henry Clay
Dean recently said:
I could wish bondholders no worse luck
than to fall into the hands of negroes, who
want cheap food and raiment, who will
vote down tariffs and [fixes. Then what
becomes of the public debt?
There is a pregnant meaning to those
few words which holders of bonds would
do well to ponder carefully. With the
incorporation of the vast mass of igno
rant negroes among the voters of this
country, there will be serious danger Of
repudiation, whenever at a time of
financial depression the burthen of tax
ation shall press heavily upon the poorer
classes. It cannot be expected that the
negroes will be restrained by any fas
tidious sense of honor from voting to
'shift the burthens of the government
from their shottlders. The cry of cheap
clothing and cheap goods in general
will be what they will listen to most
eagerly. Let the bondholders seriously
reflect upon the effect which unrestrict
ed negro suffrage will have upon these
curities.
For Judge Sharswood
A large and enthusiastic Democratic
Convention assembled in Bedford on
Monday night last. Speeches were
made by B. F. Myers, Esq., the talented
editor of the Gazette, by 0. P. Shannon
Esq., and by others. An admirable
series of resolutions were adopted, among
which was one instructing the delegates
to the State Convention to cast their votes
for Hon. George Shorewood, of Phila
delphia, as the candidate for Judge of
the Supreme Court.
Calling Names
Wendell Phillips lectured, the other
night, in Brooklyn. He called Wilson
a trimmer; Greeley a respectable and
sometimes romantic ass ; Seward a
trembling jelly; Johnson a traitor; Fes
senden a Scotch terrier ; and charged
Grant with the New Orleans "massacre"
and the failure of impeachment. What
a fellow to tall names he is, to be sure!
One - Vaaie - of Olin&
No one can glance over the columns
of any. daily paper published in the.
North'without being convinced that a
carnival of crime •is prevailing among
us. The most horrible murders; the
most revolting rapes; seductions with
out number; elopements of faithless
wives innumerable; divorcecases of the
most disgusting . character; open and
shameless adulteries ; the beating, starv
ing, maiming and murdering of child
ren ; parricides ; suicides ; infanticides,
and crimes napieless and numberless,
crowd the columns of our newspapers.
Gamblers, burglars, swindlers, profes
sional thieves, pick-pockets and prosti
tutes make up a considerable proportion
of the population of our cities. There
is a prevalent laxity GI morality, a dis
regard of honor, a departure from de
cency, an abandonment of the virtues
and a prevalence orall the vices, which
is positively alarming. Never was crime
so universal, so bold in its demeanor, so
successful and so little liable to punish
ment, as with us in these degenerate
days.
This condition of affairs is no doubt
partly the direct effect of the war, which
has bequeathed to us an army of crimi
nals. • But there is another cause which
we are sure is most potent and pernici
ous. The example set by Radical mem
bers of Congress, Legislators, and other
officials, has had a most deleterious in
fluence. When it Is well known that
Congressmen, Senators of the United
States, members of State Legislatures,
and others high in the ranks of pre
tended loyalty, take bribes and steal,
is it to be wondered at that some
men should be found ready to commit
murder for money, or that thieves, bur
glars, swindlers and pickpockets should
swarm throughout theca
the gamblers and keepe
prostitution grow rich off the ill-gotten
gains of Congressmen and Legislators,
is it strange t hat others should be drawn
into the vicious circle of their influence?
When scarcely a week passes.without
the exposure of the libidinous rascality
of some war preacher, is it strange tha
adulterers and seducers of female inno
cence should abound? To the dominant
faction In the North, the "God and
morality " party, and to the pernicious
example set by its corrupt leaders, is a
large proportion of the crime in the
country to be directly traced. The
fountains of public morality have been
corrupted by these men, and the terrible
condition of affairs which now prevails
is the legitimate fruit of seed sown by
them.
The Prospect of War In Europe
The aspect of affairs in Europe is de
cidedly threatening. Bismarck shows no
sign of backing down from the position
he has assumed, and both France and
Prussia are said to beactively preparing
for war. Napoleon says he intended to
have respect to the terms of the treaty
which Prussia holds to exclude him
from perfecting the purchase of Lux
emburg. He also declares that he always
kept in view not only the consent of
Holland but the wishes of the inhabi
tants of Luxemburg, who were to be
allowed to decide by universal suffrage
whether they should be sold to France
or joined to the North German Con
federacy. By these conditions France
is still willing to abide, and to examine
the matter in concert with the other
great powers of Europe. The popular
demand in Prussia seems to be for the
retention of Luxemburg as a German
possession, but there are indications
that Bismarck will not be given any
great amount of money with which to
go to war. The French will no doubt
enthusiastically join iu the strife, con
ceiving that the national honor is in•
volved, if Prussia should push matters
too far.. Bismarck refuses to submit the
question to the great powers in the
shape suggested by Napoleon, and the
whole tenor of late advices indicates no
settlement except through a resort to
arms. Prussia will find in the French
a different antagouast from Austria.
Whether this country is to be disas
trously affected by the struggle, if war
should ensue, will depend much upon
the magnitude and the duration of the
contest.
Corruption In our Legislative Bddies.
Never in the history of any country
were legislative_h dies so corrupt and
venal as they are in tin' ed States
to-day. Since the advent of the Radi
cals to power all sense of public honesty
seems to have been lost. In the lower
House of Congress, in the Senate, in
each branch of the different Northern
State legislatures, everywhere in short,
bribery and corruption have come to be
the order of the day. So common has
it grown to be that it is regarded as a
matter of course. People have ceased to
wonder at it ; and by the re-election of
men known to be dishonest and mer
cenary have seemed to sanction it.
Radical newspapers - admit that mem
bers of Congress belonging to their
party are perfectly venal ; they charge
their own men in the United States
Senate with being corrupt and merce
nary; and acknowledge that the State
Legislatures which have been under
their control have disgraced the several
States in which they have been assem
bled. How completely rotten must a
party be when it is compelled to make
such au exhibition of its corruption.
It cannot be long before the people
will have their eyes opened. They can_
not and will not sustain such a debauch
ed political organization. The masses
are honest, and they will yet brand offl.
cial dishonesty with the stigma of dis
grace which should attach to it.
In this State and elsewhere the Dein
ocratic members of Congress and of the
State Legislature have, as a general
rule, been men of pure character. We
must see to it that none but such are
nominated for office. Let the Demo
crats of Pennsylvania, i,u the coming
elections, put forward their very best
and most reputable men foroffice. This
should be done in every county in the
State, whether we are in the majority
or the minority. Let us present the
same contrast to our opponents in the
future which we did in the past. We
cannot afford to send any man to the
Legislature who is not honest above
suspicion. We must see to it that uo
one is put in public position who
might be induced to commit an act
which would cast a stain upon the
party. We must prove to the
people of Pennsylvania that there
is no truth in the allegation which is
sometimes made, that all parties are
equally corrupt. It has not been true
in the past. The Democratic party has
always required that its candidates for
office should come before the people
with clean hands. The times demand
that there shall be nu lowering of its
high standard of public morality. Let
it be seen to then, that all nominees for
public position In the coming election
he men of the purest character. Such a
Course will place our opponents in an
odious light, and will add greatly to our
strength throughout the State.
General McCausland
The rebel General McCausland, who
burned Chambersburg by order of Gen
eral Early, is now residing at his home
in Mason county, West Virginia. A
Virginia exchange says, he has been
favored by General Grant with a letter
which exempts him from any danger of
imprisonment or trial for the Chambers
burg affair, and he has every assurance
of protection from the authorities of the
State of West Virginia.
""rhe
We have already given a brief synopsis
of the appropriations made by the Legisla
ture for the year commencing June Ist, 1867,
but the following more extended summary,
which we find in the Patriot and Union, will
be • scanned with interest by. every tax
payer. It is compiled from the report as
agreed upon by the Joint Committee of
Conference:
GOVHFI-NOEL.
S. W. Geary salary
Additional, prior to June, 1867
Private Secretary Dunglison
Extra clerk, 5125 per month
Messenger
Telegrams postsge, stationery
Re-arranging Executive thambei
Extension of Mansion
Executive Department.— .
SECRETARY OF STATE,
Frank Jordan salary ..... ......
Additional, prior to Jane, 1887
Dept. Sec. from 1886
Cuief Clerk, $1,600, add $2OO
Mil. Clerk, 81,200, add 8200 Coin. Clerk, 81,200, add $2OO
3 Trans. Clerks, $1,200, add I=o
2 Clerks, 81,260, add $2OO
Messenger
Blank
Postage book s telegrams, freight
Stationery
Fire and lights
Cleaning offices
Miscellaneous
State Department.
AUDITOR GENERAL.
John F. Hartranit, salary S 2,000
Additional 300
Chief Clerk, 81,700, add 8100 1,800
3 Clerks, at 81,500 4,500
4 Clerks, at 81,400 5 600
2 " " 81,300 0 800
Messenger X BOO
-
Watchman, 8800, and same for '66 1,600
Postage and telegrams 750
Stationery 500
Fuel 150
Miscellaneous 200
Auditor lieu. Dept.
SURVEYOR GENERAL.
J. M. Campbell, salary
Additional
Chief c,:erk
Eight clerks, each $1,400
Five temp. clerks, each 81,200, add MO.
Messenger
Postage
Stationery
Cleaning office and miscellaneous
Fuel
Refloorlug office
Surveyor of State line
Surveyor General's Dept
ATTORNEY GENERAL
B. H. Brewster
Clerk
Contingent expenses
Painting, papering, refuniishing.
Index to private laws
Attorney General's Dept
STATE TREASURER.
W. H. Kemble
C,tief clerk, SI,BOU, add $2OO
Three clerks, each 81,400
One clerk
To clerks, for sinking fund
Messenger
Watehman—s6oo—same for Sf ll
Postage and telegrams. .
Stationery, &c ............... ............
Express charges
Fuel and ........... .............
Miscellaneous
Treasury Dept
ADJUTANT GENERAL.
A. 1.. Russell
ASslstalit., J. C. Harvey... A....
Chief Clerk
Two Clerks
Supt. State arsenal
Ntessenger
Postage, telegrams, express
Blank". books
Stationery
Light, cleaning office, ,te
Miscellaneous
For disbursements as ex-officio Pay
master General
Adjutant General's Department,
TRANSPORTATION DEPAT.TMENT,
H. H. Gregg, June Ist to Dec. Ist 81,000
Chief Clerk, to Dec. Ist 700
Messenger, do lal
Stationery, postage, fuel, &c 150
For disinterring and transportation of
deceased soldiers 5,01. X.)
Transportation Department 57,000
[On Dec. Ist, 1807, the duties of the de
partment, are to devolve upon the Adjutant
General.]
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
J. P. W lekersltain „salary
Deputy C. R. Coburn
One Clerk
Two Clerks, each 81,405 2,800
Messenger 900
Engraving andprinting warrants 270
Repairing and furnishing 2,900
stationery and blank books 300
Postage, telegrams, expressage 1,000
Cleaning and miscellaneous Sue
Distributing forms, reports, Sc 600
Publishing reports, &c..,.. 2 000
Traveling expenses ~ - p• 5110
For support of Common Schools 365,800
School Department
[ln this fund are included $ll,OOO for State
Normal Schools; $l,lOO to Lincoln Colored
Institute; so,poo to 3d District Normal
school ; and to committee of inspection
of Normal schools.]
SOLDIERS' ORPIIANS
Superintendent s salary
Unice clerk
Inspector and examiner
Female assistant inspector
Postage and telegrams
Stationery and blank books
Printing
Advertising
Transferring pupils
Funeral expenses
Traveling expenses
For the support of the Schools
soldiers' Orphan Department
STATE LIBRARY.
Librarian, Wien Forney 51,000
Assistant, George H. Morgan (lust year) 820
For purchasing books 1,10)
For exchange of law books 1,000
Freight, postage, cleaning, dic 500
Binding
For finishing Library
State Library
JUDGES
Judges of Supreme Court ($5,500)
Judges of District Court and or Com
mon Pleas of Philadelphia ($5,000) 35,000
Fame tor Allegheny ($5,000) 35,000
Judge Pearson (12th district) for in
creased labor in Corn. civil cases In
Dauphin, for two years 7,600
Judges of Common Pleas, each $3,500...... 115,0110
clay Associate Judges, $5 per ay 50,000
Judiciary
Superintendent,
Office rent
Printing, folding, stitching,
State Printing
PENSIONS AND GRATUITIES,
For pensions andgratuities.* 37,000
Soldiers' Home, Philadelphia 5000
Pittsburg Soldiers' San. Home 15,000
Deaf and Dumb Institute 35,002
Blind Institute 33,000
Western Pennsylvania Hospital 50,080
Do do do...salaries. 15,000
State Lunatic Asylum, Harrisburg 26,0110
Training School for Feeble-minded
Children, Media, Del.—last year 1?2,333
Eastern Penitentiary—salaries ' 13,800
Do do do 4,000
Western Penitentiary do 20,800
Do do Library
House of Refuge, Philadelphia
Do Pittsburg
Northern Home for Friendless Chirm.
Gettysburg Battlefield Monument As.
sociation
St. Paul's Orphan Asylum, Pittsburg.... 8,000
Antietam National Cemetery 3,000
Marine Hospital at Erie 10,000
Polytechnic College ......... ...... ............ ....... 5,000
Pensions and gratuities
[ , The act of March 30, 1566, entitled " An
act to provide for the payment of gratuities
and annuities to the soldiers of the war of
1812, and to their widows," is repealed by
the 12th section of the Appropriation bill.]
[tsso extra for each pupil for 1867—pupils
not to exceed 60,]
MISCELLANEOUS.
Interest on funded debt
For insanity commission
Packine laws end journals
For water for Capitol
For ga.s—lla,t year)
Supt. Public Buildings
Three assistant watchmen, S9UO each..
Repairs to grounds, wages, die
Winding and repairing clock
George Bergner, for " 'Legislative Re
cord," Sib per page—about
Bergner, 7 extra nos., $25
Bergner, Index ...... ............ ......... .....
Harrisburg Fire Companies .
Transcribing for Committee Ways
and Means 80
Transcribing for Corn. Finance._ ......
Clerk Board of Claims 1,40 U
Messenger SW
Military State Agency at Washington 12,000
St. Paul's Me. Church, for tents 1,2(X)
Running ineredian Line of Dauphin
county
Repairs to dwelling of Keeper of
Powder Magazine, Philadelphia
For portrait of Geary
Cornplanter
Corn. Sinking Fund, each 8300
Tin roof for Capitol
Jacob Kennedy, for prayers
Rev. E. L. Bally, for prayers
John C. Sturdeyant, clerk Corruption
Committee
Eight Legislative Reportersaextra;B2oo
each
Interest and Miscellaneous
THE LEGISLATURE.
Pay and mileage of members, clerks
and officers, stationery, dee
[Under this appropriation it is provided
that each member shall receive $3OO extra,
making the salary $l,OOO. The Chief and
Assistant Clerks of both branches, and
twelve or fifteen transcribing clerks, (whose
salaries range from $l,OOO to $1,700,) are to
get'2so and $l5O extra, and ten days' extra
pay. The Chief Clerk of the Senate and
House are to have $2OO each for indexing
the journals, and for miscellaneous ex
penses during the recess, $2OO each ; which
makes the salaries of those clerks over
$2,500 a year. Pesters and folders are to
receive the same pay as assistant doorkeep
ers. Jno. A, Smut], for services as assistant
clerk, $1,000; the same additional compen
sation allowed to the other clerks, and $2OO
for taking care of archives. [This is a
supernumerary office.] - For the pages
(about twenty) $1,50 per day for each and
$3O extra. Firemen and cleaners to have
the same compensation assistant doorkeep
ers—about sBoo—and extras, All other
officers except the chief, assistant and trans
cribing clerks, are to get $4OO extra, and the
women who clean the balls $2O extra, Each
of the eight reporters are to have $350 extra.
For packing, distributing any payment of
express charges on Record, the clerk of the
Senate is to have $3OO and the clerk of the
House $500; and for doing. the same with
other mail matter, the Senate clerk to have
$BOO and the House clerk $350. Jacob Styer,
as Senate Librarian, same as transcribing
clerk with extras; extra service, $75 ; keep
ing Senate archives, $200; fitting up liber-
ary 1150, and other "serviosa," $250. Wil
liam L. Cooper, for services rendered the
House, same pay and extras of a transcri
bing clerk, mac.]
=CAPITULATION.
Executive Department. $ 26,500
Btote" ...... .... .. :........... 21,975
'AML Gen's 20,900
Bury. Gtm's " DOM
Atty Gen's •• 8,1(1)
Treasury " ...... ....... ........... 13,150
Adjutant Gen's " 27,010
Transportation " .. ..—.... ..... . ...... 7,000
Common - Sottool " ... .. . .... . ..... .... • 530,615
Sold. Orphans " . 357,950
State Library 20,220
Judiciary 200,100
Public Printing 3.5,890
Pensions and Gratuities 333,515
Interest on Funded Debt. ..... ......... ...... 1,806,134
Miscellaneous. ......... r r 60,030
Legislature...—. ........ ...... ..... ....... ........ .... 265,000
• .S 5,000
00
2,000
TOO
1000
15,900
Total Appropriations .
Reverend " Fugitives from Labor."
The New York correspondent of one
of our exchanges gives the following
account of a disease which has broken
out among the clergy of that city :
I regret to say that nearly two-thirds of
the clergy of New York are just now suffer
ing from severe attacks of sore throat, or
bronchial affections, for which the doctors
say there is no remedy save in a voyage
across the Atlantic, and a sojourn of a week
or two at the Paris exposition. Vestry
men are run down with applications for
the necessary two months' leave, while
finance committees are daily put to their
wilt to raise the wind in order to defray
Rev. Mr. So So's traveling expenses hither
and thither. The sermons, of late, have
been very dreary, owing to this state of
things, and I suppose there is no remedy for
it, but that they should all go, leaving us
" miserable sinners" to look after ourselves,
here at home, during the hot weather, as
best we may. The Cunard steamer that
sailed to-day had no fewer thausix of these
sore-throated gentlemen on board, while by
the packets to sail next Saturday, I am in
formed that double that number will go.
We do not read that Paul, or Peter, or An
drew, or James, or John, or any of the rest
of the apostles, were ever troubled with
bronchial affections in the spring of the
year. They did a good deal of travelling,
to be sure, but it wasn't to see the world's
fairs, and the expenses were totally defray
ed by themselves.
500
1,800
11,2b0
- ,000
900
400
500
150
150
500
200
An Attempt to Force Negroes Into tue
Free Schools of Philadelphia.
Toe Philadelphia Evening Gazette gives
the following account of an attempt to force
negroes into one of the Free Schools of that
city
Yesterday, so good authority Informs us,
just as the clock struck nine, and the pupils
of an uptown school, with shining faces,
took their seats at their desks, and were
preparing for the studies of the day, the door
of the division room nearest the entrance
stair way was thrown open by a lean, dyspep
tic man, and clouds, eight or ten in number,
came into the room to take the brightness
out of those shining faces. The pickanlnnies
grinned from ear to ear, revealing their
ivories like a full moon the tombstones of
a country hillside churchyard, and some of
them not yet quite in the door, danced
"Juba" on the lauding—all from the glad
ness they felt at the prospect of learning the
" Aby-sees wid de wits coil un." The lean
man, with sepulchral gravity, desired the
teacher to assign the itlnocents in his train
desirable places in the room, as an experi
--b—as to whether negro pies, could
7n as rapidly, and prove them
ti other ways better than the
itch, and other white children.
the—ah—re—ah—sponsibility—ah.
quadrupedante—(but we forgot the
sounding Latin couplet) would well have
expressed the uproar that succeeded this
announcement. Sonic of the bolder of the
pupils rushed for the door with amazing
swiftness, and if the lean man and the
clouds had: notdispersed themselves, ebony
would have been dowd—stairs or on the
floor. The teacher was confused—bewil
dered. As a last resort directors, or other
directors, if ou information be correct,
were sent tor, an a pow-wow indulged in
over the blackne- ~ The Democrats opposed
the innovation to a man, and many—much
obliged to you, gentlemen—of the Republi
cans. At last the clouds scurried out again,
but not until indignant mothers with their
shawls wrapped around their beads, or got
up in the highest style of toilet art, and
sturdy fathers begrimed with toil, stained
with ink or flecked with cotton, had assem
bled around the school, like a besieging
army. Thus the matter rests at present.
We have not been advised what the next
move will be.
53700
2,000
,200
1,300
4(X)
000
1,01 X)
400
300
100
000
1,710
1,400
2 400
1,000
91.0
Disease Among Hogs and Sheep In the
West.
Letters received by Isaac Newton, Com
missioner of Agriculture, within the past
few days, state that disease prevails to a
considerable extent among the hogs and
sheep in Minnesota, lowa and other portions
of the Western States, and that, owing to
the scarcity of grain for fodder, the horned
cattle are (lying in greater numbers than
usual. The principal diseases reported are
the hog cholera, for which a successful
remedy is in use, and a new distemper,
known as the "sheep dropsy." The latter
disease causes the sheep to swell, which
soon results in death, and when tapped as
much as a quart of water runs from the ani
mal. No remedy ha_syet been discovered for
this last disease.
$1,500
1,200
1,500
1,000
300
M r. Newton, the commissioner of agricul
ture, is daily sending to the South seeds and
cereals, in accordance with the provisions of
the recent law transferring $50,000 from the
funds of the freedmen's bureau to aid in
relieving the general destitution of garden
and farm seeds in the South, to give to that
region new and improved varieties, and
thus help to:avert a famine in the immediate
future. Individual requests for small par
cels, it is stated, are also regarded, and the
distribution is thus made as general and
equal as possible. The quantity of seeds at
the disposal of the commissioner, however,
will fall far short of the demand upon him
and of the great expectatiotions of the people,
who little realize the extent and destitution
of the country to be supplied.
A Wonderful Gun
Norman Wiard has made a proposal to
the War Department to construct an 8-inch
rifle which shall stand all the following
tests, or be considered a failure: He will
fire sixty pounds of powder and a four hun
dred pound shot. Then twenty rounds
with thirty pounds of powder and a two
hundred poundshot. Then he will explode
a shell at the bottom of the bore; then a
shell in succession at successive distances
toward the muzzle. Then he will simulta
neously explode the bore filled with shells;
and, finally, will fire thirty pounds of
powder behind a shell so fixed in the bore
as not to be forced out by firing off the
charge. The cost of the gun, mounted, to
be $3,000.
A circular bas been issued by the surgeon
general of the United States army, calling
the attention of the medical staff to the ap
prehended approach of the cholera, order
ing increased watchfulness and cure, and
enjoining cleanliness, temperance and every
hygienic precaution. In several cities we
hear of measures being taken to meet this
dangerous foe, and now they are preparing
for it in the army.: Accounts from Rio
Janeiro state that the cholera has broken
out in a virulent from in the southern pro
vince of Rio Grande. Betweeen the 9th and
14th of March, one hundred and forty-three
deaths occurred in the little capital of Rio
Grande de Sul.
z..1,b00,1 -11
17,1
1,300
bOO
~0 0
I,_oo
2,700
1,,000
12.,
Our New Acquisition
Notwithstanding the fretful tone of some of
the English journals in commenting on Our
late treaty with Russia,and the suggestion of
one of those papers that the " transaction is
one full of direct hostility," our Government
has within the assurance that the British
government is not at all annoyed in con
sequence of the treaty, but, on the contrary,
is entire satisfied with the transaction, and
assured that our Government made the
treaty with Russia in no unfriendly spirit
towards England. In fact, it is gathered
from high authority that the English
government can be easily reconciled to a
parting with the Canticles and other British
possessions in North America whenever
those provinces shall themselves make
manifest their desire to separate from the
mother country, whether for the purpose
of annexation with the United States or for
setting up an independent government for
themselves.
An inquest was yesterday held bv Coro
ner Schirmer, at the Nineteenth 1- s recinct
Station House, on the body of a male in
fant that was found on a pile of stones at
the corner of Forty fourth street and Second
avenue. The body was so decomposed that
the cause of death could not be ascertained.
An inquest was held by the same Coroner,
at the Seventeenth Precinct Station House,
on the body of an unknown female infant,
found by Officer Smith in an ash-barrel in
Seventh street. There were no marks of
violence on the body, and death was proba
bly occasioned by exposure and neglect.
An inquest was also held by the same Coro
ner, at the Twentieth Precinct Station
House, on the body of au unknown male
infant, found on Tuesday night lying on the
walk in Thirty-sixth street, near Tenth
avenue. Dr. Leo found that the infant had
been strangled, the imprint of fingers being
plainly visible upon the neck of the child.
A woman named Eliza McKee was arrested
on suspicion of having placed the child
where found, but the evidence elicited was
not sufficient to warrant her detention, and
she was accordingly discharged by the Coro
ner.—New York Tribune.
BEM
A Melancholy Case
The Fishkill Standard states that the old
est daughter of U. B. Beebee, editor of the
Banner of Liberty, formerly of Midditown,
Orange county, but now published in New
York, committed suicide on Saturday, by
shooting herself with a pistol. She had been
engaged to be married to a young man, but
her father placed her in a lunatio asylum to
break up the match. The officers of the
asylum, finding that she was not insane, let
her go home. She was to take charge of a
school on Monday, but lettruipg of the
marriage of the gentleirtatt to whom she
bad been engaged, deliberately shot herself.
83,689,849
I=!
. N ews Items..
Two hundred and forty-one patents will
be issued for the week ending May 17.
The Treasury Department is still In re
ceipt :of conscience money, $3,500. having
been received from Cincinnati on Saturday.
Gov 4 Patton, of Alabama, was so ill on
Thursday last as to be linable to attend to
business or even to leave his privato room.
General Ord has detailed army officers to
take the place of State officers removed by
him in Arkansas.
Numerous suits are being brought against
General McDowell, by parties in California,
for imprisonment during the war.
A banking house at Brunswick, Me., was
robbed of $2OOO on Saturday night. The
robbers have not been arrested.
Minnesota is jilting up with emigrants,
and the St. Paul Pioneer saye that soon the
tide will run up to a thousand a day.
Fifteen stores, including nearly the whole
business portion of Brenham, Texas, were
burned on the 24th.
Navigation on Lake Erie is fully open.
There were six arrivals of propellers at Buf
falo on Saturday, and four departures.
Gen. Ewell is farming most successfully
near Spring Hill, Tenn. He has a thousand
head or stock, and the best wheat and grass
in the neighborhood.
A prize tight occurred at Fort Leo Satur
day morning, between Jos. Denin and Chas.
McCusick. The fight lasted an hour. The
former was winner.
Abel Bennett, Republican, was elected
Mayor of Binghamton, N. Y., yesterday,
by 139 majority—a loss of 124 since the pre
vious election.
Attorney General Stanbery has prepared
an opinion as to who are entitled to vote
under the Reconstruction act, which will be
read to the Cabinet to-day.
The Postmaster General has finally de
cided to appoint special agents to take charge
of post-oces left vacant by the failure of
the Senate to confirm nominations.
At Wilmington, Del., Pusey Smith, pro
prietor of the Indian Queen Hotel, was
stabbed to death by Joseph Pratt in a bed
room at the latter's house.
Six thousand dogs have been killed in
Chicago since the dog war commenced, and
the daily slaughter will add largely to that
number.
McCall, the thieving Treasurer of Santa
Clara county, Cal., has been arrested in Ne
vada, and $lB,OOO of the c.ainty funds re
covered.
It was decided In the Supreme Court of
the United States that the City of Philadel
phia, being a manufacturer of gas, must
pay tax on that article the saute us private
parties.
The Supreme Court has decided in the
Massachusetts liquor cases that payment
internal revenue taxes is no protection t(
dealers in articles the sale of which is pro
bibbed by State law
Paper pipes and cisterns have been used
in London with perfectsuccess for several
months. They are prepared in some man
ner, so that they are perfect non-conductors
of heat, and the water in them never freezes.
The following words are attributed to
Marshal Niel, Minister of War: " Let me
know the day when the Emperor Napoleon
wishes to have rive hundred thousand men
on the Eastern frontier, and they shall be
there."
Hon. 0. H. Browning, Secretary of the
Interior, is still in a dangerous condition.
On Friday ho was said to be improving, but
he has since taken a relapse, which has
caused great physical prostration. lie is
suffering with the bilious eholic.
The story of the Selma, Ala., Bank rob
bery turns out a ruse to cover an extensive
swindle. The Bank was cleaned out by
cotton speculations. The Government loses
$70,000 deposited by the Collector of Taxes.
Arrests have been made.
George Peabody has made another-dona
tion. On Thursday last, while in this city,
be placed in the hands of Messrs. Corcoran
S Riggs, $15,000 for the establishment of a
circulating library in the neighboring city
of Georgetown.
A Mississippi paper states that Col. Scott,
one of the prisoners sent to the Dry Tortu
gas, passed Holly Springs in that State re
cently. He reports the treatment the
prisoners undergo to be of a very barbarous
nature. They are flogged fur the least in
discretion, and otherwisecruol ly dealt with.
The repairs on the theatre in which the
late President Lincoln was assassinated,
and which was purchased by the Govern
ment to be used as a medical museum, have
been completed, and the Surgeon General's
office, with the museum, have been de
posited there.
There is an ancient Indian engaged iu
catching mpskrats, the skins of which he
sells in Windsor, Canada. His name is
Mon-o-mo-no ; he is about ninety years old,
and says he was with Tecumseh during his
battles, and was at Fort Mackinaw when it
was taken by the British.
A desperate affray occurred recently be
tween the freedmen employed on the farm
of Col. Adam Heath, near Smithfield, N.
C., in which firearms were used extensively,
resulting in the death of two of the com
batants. Several of the surviving party
have been arrested, and lodged in Smith
field jail.
The Weeling intelligencer gives the fol
lowing interesting piece of information:
" We are told that no less than seventeen
weddings took place in this city last Thurs
day. Thirty marriage licenses had been
issued from the Recorder's office since the
first of the present month up to yesterday,
seven of them during the present week."
The corner stone of a magnificent Jewish
Temple was laid in:Louisville, Wednesday,
with imposing ceremonies, attended by an
enormous crowd of spectators. The corner
stone had beside the Jewish date, " Anno
Domino, 1867," an acknowledgement of the
Christian Era. Rabbi Wise, of Cincinnati,
was the orator of the occasion.
It is stated that the case of Surratt, is not
under the control of the Administration.
When Surratt arrived here in a vessel he
was transferred from the custody of the
Federal officers to the charge of the Marshal
of the District of Columbia, and is now held
by that officer solely under the control of
the Supreme Court of the district. When
the trial shall take place is exclusively
within the direction of that Court.
It was lately rumored in Paris that Eu
genie bad been made ill, by the publication
of a pamphlet, assuming to state facts of her
early history which the Imperial lady would
have everybody else forget, if she cannot
help remembering them herself. Of course
the book will be suppressed in Europe, but
why does not some enterprising publisher
procure "advance sheets and get out a
cheap American edition?
tinder a law of the State an experimental
railway track on the elevated principle, is
to be constructed for half a mile in Green
wich street, New York. Should it prove
successful in the estimation of commission
ers the company are authorized to extend
the track to Harlem. The power is station
ary engines under ground. The first half
mile is to be built iu one year, and the line
to Harlem—if at all—in five years.
A St. Louis letter says: " Merchants still
declare this to be the dullest season tier
many a year. The wholesale houses have
none of them done their usual amount of
trade. The Southern trade bubble has well
nigh played out ; in fact, all failures of the
season are mainly attributable to Southern
trade. The Montana trade and North Mis
souri traffic has been unusually brisk, but
the last boat for the mountains leaves next
week, so this will soon be over.
A large meeting of whites and negroes
has been held in Columbia, S. C., at which
Governor Orr and others spoke. Governor
Orr advised the freedmen to stand upon the
National Union platform. Ile was follow
ed by Rev. Henry M. Turner, a colored
clergyman of Washington, in a conserva
tive speech. Resolutions were adopted de
claring for free schools for both races, and
a revision of the civil and criminal laws of
the State.
It is stated that the case of Surratt is not
under the control of the Administration.
When Surratt arrived here in vessel he was
transferred from the custody of the Federal
officers to the charge of the Marshal of the
District Columbia, and is now held by that
officer solely under the control of the Su
premo Court of the district. When the trial
shall take place is exclusively within the
discretion of that Court.
A wedding at St. Paul's Church, in
Chicago, was singularly frustrated on
Thursday evening. The bride, with her
friends, went to the church at the appointed
hour, and waited a long while, but no bride
groom arrived. She was finally borne to
her home in a nearly insane condition. The
bridegroom, named Thompson, left his place
of business in good time to prepare for the
wadding, since which he has not been heard
of.
Mrs. Nancy Rotch died at New Bedford,
Mass., on Thursday last, in the ninety-first
year of her age. She was the widow of
Francis Rotch, Esq., one of the owners of
the ship Dartmouth, cele Mateo as the vessel
which brought into Boston harbor the tea—
the " poisonous herb" which so excited the
wrath of good people of the then colony, and
which the "Fifty Mohawks," known as the
" Boston Tea Party," in the year 1773, threw
into the salt water.
A letter dated Paris, April 12th, says:
Yesterday, the Emperor reviewed the troops
now in Paris, and distributed decorations
and military medals to officers, under-offi
cers and soldiers. lie looks pale and care
worn; they continue to say he Is not well.
The Prince Imperial is really still very
feeble, though improving; he has gone
through a painful surgical operation, and it
is reported that his leg still requires splints.
The Empress is seriously unhappy over the
prolonged ailment of the Prince Imperial.
On Thursday evening last, at the Church
of the Ascension, in New York, Mr. Am
brose C. Kingsland, Tr., son of ex-:Mayor
Kingsland, was married to Miss Catharine,
daughter of Wm. H. Aspinwall, Esq. This
was one of the mo i st brilliant weddings of
Ibe season, Tbe raceptian took place Friday
evening, at the residence ofthe bride's father,
eorner of University place and Tenth street.
The doors were canopied to the curb stone,
while rich carpets protected the feet of the
'fair ones as they descended frqen tip car
riage,
• Stine Heron. . •
Ligiitfi I ;Aida Weefeid Union tele
graph office at Kittanning during the late
storm and destroyed the magnet.
:The once famous Coquette Well, on the
!gbert Farm, Oil Creels, continues to yield
two hundred barrels per day.
The Commissioners of Luzerne county
have entered into a contract for theerection
of a Penitentiary in that county, for the sum
of $189,575.
A temperance convention will be held in
Altoona, under the auspices of the Pennsyl
yenta State Temperance Union, on Thurs
day, May 2d.
The post•office at Lockhaven, in Clinton
county, was robbed on Friday night. All
the letters were torn open and scattered
around the office.
Firewood sells for $45 per cord in Virginia
City, Nevada. Chinamen who pick up
faggots sell them in bundles at $2 each. One
bundle will make about three fillings for an
ordinary box stove.
The soil of Camp Curtin, at Harrisburg,
memorable as the field of warlike prepara
tions during the rebellion, is now being
turned up by the plow and the peaceful
farmer.
The Westmoreland County Soldiers' Mon
umental Association have a fund amount
ing to $1,282 05, on which $ll4 07 Interest
has accrued. In addition to this cute, It is
said the borough of Greensburg had sub
scribed $l,OOO.
J. MoD, Sharpe, Esq., ofttliamberaburg,
had his pocket-book, containing ono hun
dred and ihirty dollars, stolen from him last
Thursday, by a client who was visiting his
office. Mr. Sharpe has turned prosecutor in
stead of counsel for defense in this case.
Mrs. Baboc, of Petroleum Center, was
severely burned on Wednesday night, 17th,
by the use of crude oil for fuel. The can
exploded, saturating her clothes with the
burning fluid, and burning her so fright•
fully that her life is despaired of.
The Alvord House, at Meredith, near
'Titusville, was destroyed by tire at two
o'clock ou Sunday morning. Two guests,
Walter 13ragley and Charles Oyer, were
seriously burned before they effected their
escape. Loss, $6,000; insurance in .Etna,
$1,2.0.
Richard Edwards and Thomas Lewis,
of Pottsville, who were burned by the ex
plosion at West West, un Tuesday of last
week . , are recovering. The body of Wut•
kins, the missing man, has not been found,
and probably will not be until the water
is all pumped from the mine. It is pos
sible that he was entirely consumed by
the tire.
A daughter of Joshua Siess, (tanner) in
Fairfield, York county, ageti about three
years was drowned in one of the vats in the
tan yard, on Saturday'afternoon last. At
tention was attracted to a bonnet floating 00
the water, and on searching the body ot the
child was found in the vat. It is supposed
she was playing In the yard and fell in the
vat, no person being present.
The borough of Hollidaysburg seems to
be prospering in the way of improvements.
The Leader says: The surveys for the
water works has been commenced. The
new seminary building Is also going for
ward, and our Catholic friends have com
menced a large building near St. Mary's
Academy, which Is to be used as a boys'
school. Scores of new buildings are going
up and old ones aro being rejuvenated.
The store and dwelling of D. Murphy, at
Kane, Erie county, was totally destroyed
by tire on Sunday morning lust, at 3
o'clock. Mr. Murphy had barely time to
get his wife and children outof the building
before the flames took full possession. All
the goods in his store and his furniture
were consumed with the buildings. Ilk
loss was 89,000. lie was insured in the
I artford,,lor $5,000.
A mad dog was shot on Friday of last
week, ill Locust Valley, Schuylkill coun
ty, by Mr. Jeremiah Messersehmidt. He
bad done a great dual of damage before
being killed, Starting from Mahanoy
City, he run a course through Mahunoy
and Rush townships, Tamaqua and Tus
carora, biting a large number of dogs,
hogs and eat tie, and doing more damage
than all the dogs in the county are worth.
On Thursday of last week, Valentine
Itudrian, aged twenty-seven years, was
standing on a lump of coal or rock, at the
mouth of the slope at Potts' Mines, at Lo
cust dale, near Ashland, Schuylkill county
when the lump slipped and fell Into the
slope, and Rodrian was precipitated to the
bottom, a distance of several hundred feet,
and instantly killed, Ile leaves a wife and
one child. lie was a returned soldier. Two
men bad been killed previously by falling
down this slope.
On Thursday a man named Samuel
Borst, a pilot on the Susquehanna river,
had his leg crushed whilst attempting to
snub a raft at Highspire. It appears taut
the rope with which he was snubbing the
raft got entangled in his leg, and almost
severed his foot. , 'Dr. Rutherford, of this
city, and Dr. George Mlith, of Middletown,
were called on and amputated Mr. Horst's
foot. At last accounts the sufferer was not
expected to live. Mr. Horst lived in York
county, at the headiof Coridwago Fulls, and
has a wife and several children.
The wife 01 Mr. Joseph Harman, residing
on the York pike, in Mouutpleasant town
ship, York county, was found drowned in a
rain vessel, on Monday night. Mrs. H. had
been for 8011113 time laboring under great
depression of spirits-80 much so us to cause
apprehension on the part of her friends.
During Monday night she was missed from
her bed, after she had retired, and upon
searching for her she was found lying head
foremost in a rain vessel near the house,
into which she had either fallen or thrown
herself. Life was extinct.
A few nights ago, a party 8f men went to
the premises of ohn Uhlenborgh, Hur
mcny township, Forest county, and two of
them entered the house. While one threw
Mr. Uhlenborgh (who is some seventy
years of age) on the bed, and bandaged his
eyes, the other nude the old lady got a lamp,
and started to hunt for treasure. Mrs.
Uhlenborgh slipped out, and got the assist
ance of some neighbors, but on reaching
the house again, they found that the rogues
had departed with over $3,000.
Among the witnesses in the Crawford
County Court, on Friday, wore a largo num
ber of patriarchs, among them Alexander
Power, aged 61; Kennedy Davis ' 62; John
W. Howe, 66; John McFarland, 66; .1.
Camplield, 70; David Dick, 71; John Dick,
73; Samuel Beatty, 76 ; Joseph Dickson, 77 ;
John Lupher, 78; John D. Gibson, 78; Jno.
11. Mattocks, 79; Richard Dennis, SO ; Jas.
Davis, 81. The average of their ages is over
72 years, and most of these gentlemen of
the olden time are very hearty and vigor
ous, and from appearances are good for it
score of years longer. Messrs. Howe and
Dick are ex-Congressmen.
Two persons were killed by lightning in
Fayette county on Monday. Noah Arm
strong, of Perry township, aged forty-six
years, was instantly killed while chopping
wood in front of his residence. His cousin,
Henry Armstrong, residing at Cookstown,
was struck about the same time and
instantly killed. The Uniontown Standard
says : The storm did not extend to this
place, but there was a sudden change at the
time from warm to rather cold weather.—
Yesterday_the tops of the mountains were
covered with snow, contrasting rather
strongly and unpleasantly with the bloom
of the peach, plum and cherry, and the •
green of wheat fields and the valley
around us.
Official Vote of Connecticut
The following is the official vote cast
at the recent Connecticut election, as
compared with the vote of the previous
year:
Hawley (R.) English (I).)
46,683 47,7U9
...... 43,974 43,433
Increased vote
How the People are Bobbed
The Cameron Legislature, which has just
adjourned, gave evidence of the boldest
system of robbery that has ever been per
petrated upon any body of people. The
modus operandi of pocket-plckihg, high
way robbery, burglary, garroting, COWlN
eating postage Fe amps, .tc., is in every re
spect commendable when compared with.
the manner in which Republican legisla
tors filched the hard earnings of our tax
payers from the Treasury. lu one in
stance, George De Haven, Jr., Repre
sentative from Philadelphia, brought Lis
son here—a mere child—had him sworn
in as an officer, and sent him off to school
the next day. The boy was never on duty
a single day—in truth, he did not return
until the day previous to the adjournment,
when he came to draw $9OO of the people's
money ! Senator George Connell, reputed
Le be worth $'220,000, also brought lais sou
here (as he has for four or fivesessions past),
to be a recipient of some of the stealings.
Young Connell was aworu in, and the last
that was seen or him in this vicinity was
at the Goldsboro' prize tight, on the day
Geary was inaugurated, until April 9th,
when lie too came in for his gobble! Sen
ator Graham brought his son here, and had
him sworn in as a cleric, but, to his credit
he it said, lie remained at his post and ren
dered the State some service. We do not
advert to these facts withal view of awaken
ing a spirit of resistance to such infamous
transactions—because the people still love
patience passionately—but simply to show
the inconsistency of Deacon Bergner's de
fence and laudation of Cameron's honest
Legislature..—Harrisburg Patriot cis
Legislative Corruption
The Journal of Commerce, dwelling, on
the corruptions of the New York radical
Legislature, notes the suggestive fact that
" whatever may be the truth respecting
these charges, the Legislature, is so dead
to a sense of honor that no etjort is made
to vindicate itself and Wand the accusers."
The inference is obvious—hut what an in
ference it is! By way of bolstering some of
the members, however, a list of what pur
ports to be the honest members 01 the
Legislature is published , but Mr. Thnrlow
Weed, in the New York Commercial, with
more force than courtesy, declares the wri
ter of the letter is either a knave or a f 00l
What a precious set Malay of thes9 legisla
tors must be?