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WEDNESDAY AUGUST 7, ,}BB7
FOR SUL GE OF SUPREME COURT:
HOB. GEuRVE %HARWOOD, of Phila.
The Week!y Intellhtencer for the Com-
paign.
Last year, about this period, we offered to
send the WEEKLY INTELLIGENCE, during
the political campaign, to any address for
the sum of FIFTY CENTS. The result
was that we had about a thousand new
names on our list within two weeks, many
of whom became permanent subscribers.
We now make a similar offer. THE
WEEKLY INTELLIGENOI will be sent
singly, or to clubs, to any address, from
Wednesday, July 3d, until Wednesday,
October 9th inclusive, for the merely 'nomi
nal sum of FIFTY CENTS.
Tills puts . Nvithip the reach of all one of the
hest and most widely known Democratic
newspapers in the country. Let each of our
readers make an effort to extend our circu
lation. By so doing they will help forward
the good cause. A little effort on the part of
each will accomplish much In the aggregate.
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To you who are just now reading this we
make a personal appeal. See your neigh
bors inid make up a club at once. You can
get five, or ten, or more subscribers in an
hour or so. Can we rely upon you to do
that much fur us? We are sure we can.
Our numerous exchanges will great
y oblige us by making an editorial•note ul
the above.
The Teaching of the Tennessee Election.
The Tennessee election furnishes food
for serious thought. Republican news
papers admit that they carried the State
by keeping white nwn away from the
and by driving up the negroes to
vote tickets marked with the picture of a
broadaxe ; and over the election of some
of the most disreputable men in the
country, (.lius chosen, the whole clan of
R adicals arc rejoicing loudly. They
make witch of the fact that good order
was preserved at the polls ; just as if
any thing else than quiet was to be ex
pected where cavalry was stationed with'
orders to (lash down upon the first in
dividual who might be rightly or
wrongly the cause of any disturbance.
Elections conducted in the presence of :(
military Pirce have always been remark
ably quiet ; but it is it mockery to call
any swill elections free, or to dignify
the government in which rulers are
hus chosen with the sacred utuuc of a
republic.
livery newspaper is in et.-
similes over the unanimity with which
the niiKriiiis voted NVitil their party. \VC
avert suplu , ~d It would be olhcrwi=c.
I'lllll the very lin-L have conceded
that such would lie the ease. NV, knew
the H.:1,1MM, , would be lavish M . promises
to these nii,ititrant creatures, timl.
out
I:nowledge of them, derived from
esidt. lice of years in a slave-Itolilith„
ti-itate, convinced us that they would
nut act. otherwise limn they did in Ten
nessee. It is a fact that throughout the
entire South the newly enfranchised
negroes not only expect 0) be recog_
nized the cutials of the whites, but
that they believe the lands belonging
to their former owners mill be parcelled
out among them by Congress They
expect their to pay, and are as
mercenary, ii not tinito as unprincipled
the majority of radical - office-seekers.
To suppo-e that the negrous would be
controlled by their foriner toasters
under such circumstances was ridicu
lously absurd. . .
. .
Another cause of very loud rejoicing
with the Radicals is the certainty that
they will be able to carry the recon
struct StateA at the next Presiden
Pal election. How anything else could
possibly happen, when the whiles are
mostly disfranchised, and the uegroes
marched up in long lines to vole mark
ed tickets, is indeed difficult to sec. It
is possible that an attempt will he made
to inaugurate as the next President of
the United dates some individual who
will represent the negroes and the New
England Yankees; hut he will not be
the choice of the people. A vast ma
jority of the white men of the United
Stales will stand opposed to the Radi
cal candidate, be he whom he may. Of
this there is not a doubt:
Such a thing as the attempted luau
garation of a President thus chosen is
possible.. It is out of the power of the
white people of the Southern States to
prevent it. 'rho responsibility for our
future rests entirely upon the masses of
the North. They can very speedily
break up the wretched system inaugu
rated by the Radicals. It is for them to
say whether it shall continue. A revo
lution of political sentiment iu Penn
sylvania this fall would lie the turning
point in the scale. Such a revolution
can surely be elli.cted. With a full poll
of the Democratic vote, the redemption
of the good old Keystone State is sure.
Shall there be a full show of our
strength? It is for the leading Men in
the different election districts to say.
Let divot see that local organiV.ation is
perfected at once. If we are defeated
by our own apathy, we will deserve no
Better fate than to have negro suffrage
established in this State by an act of
Congress, which the Yankee - Williams
will r-joiee to declare constitutional and
There is a lesson for the white
men Pcn iisyl van ia in the Tennessee
election whieli they would do well to
heed.
The Kentucliy Election
VesteriLy the white men of Kentucky
held all election and the result is a
sweeping and overwhelming Demo
cratic victory. So it is all over tIM
country. Where only white men vote
correct political principles are sustained._
The Radicals secure victories nowhere
outside of New England except by the
help of negro votes. We contrast
Kentucky and Connecticut with Ten
nessee. Any man not color blind can
see the difference at a glance. We eon
grlitulate the people of Kentucky. 'They
have achieved a true Union victory.
The tiepins of Liberty
This old established organ of the un
wavering Democracy of Fayette COllll.
ty conies to us this week with the hest
bow of the new proprietors, J. F.
Campbell and his associate, Mr. Rock,
of.Greensburg. We welcome friend
Campbell back to the ranks of the press
gang. He has heretofore shown very
decided ability as a newspaper man,
and we are sure that he will be found
to be the right man in the right place
where lie is now located.
Paluaule Causes
S. P. Chase, who six years ago was not
worth ten thousand dollars is now taxed on
au income of seven hundred thousand dol
lars per year.
The above is a travelling item in the
newspapers. If it is true, it is another
instance showing how profitable the
civil war has been to government
officials—showing where a large part of
the money has gone for which burthen.
some taxes are now imposed upon the
- people—showing the heartless rapacity
of our rulers in appropriating the public
treasure—a treasure stained with the
tears of the poor.
THE tickets for the negroes in Ten
nessee were marked by having a broad
axe printed on the back of them. This
was done to enable those who drove the
filthy and degraded hordes to the polls
to tell at a glance whether they were
voting right. The broadaxe meant
Brownlow. Of course it was not diffi
cult to secure any majority which might
lie required under such circumstances.
_
Thug
the Republican, Party in Lancaster
County.
The _lnquirer, George Brubaker's
organ, takes us to task for commenting
!upon the quarreknOw,gning on'' among'
the Radical leaders of this,cnunty; and
very plainly intimates that it would be
as well for us "tosay nothg about:it,"
We do not tlithkao. We h t ave aught
to our say in the matter. Does the chief
of the Thugs suppose we will keep a
still tongue in our head when we see so
much unblushing rascality openly dis
played among the shining lights in the
" God and morality party." If we are
to believe the Thug organ, all who op
pose it in its endeavor to make mer
chandise of the various county offices
are a few " disappointed politicians,
thimble riggers and venal scribblers."
Such are the mildest of the terms the
Inquirer employs to designate the op
ponents of Thuggery. What a scurvy
set of fellows they must be to be sure.
But if we read the :Examiner and the
Expires we learn, on what we have al
ways regarded as good Radical autho•
rity, that Brubaker is the chief of a set
of unprincipled fellows, who have
bound themselves together in a secret
oath bound association for the purpose
of procuring offices for themselves and
their Mends. As Brubaker never asks
for au office himself, and as he is known'
not to be entirely unselfish, some hon
est people have been puzzled to tell how
lie " makes it pay." In the Radical
ranks, among the leaders at least, we
hear it intimated that he does make a
very " good thing" of it. How it could
he done is difficult for an honest Demo
crat to imagine. But then Lhe secrets
of loyal alchemy are not known to us.
The truth is the Republican leaders
or this county are Hearty all corrupt.
The spoils of office are large and tempt-
lug. Yearly live members of the Legis
lature are elected, and since it has come
to be well understood that it is no crime
not even disreputable for a loyal mem
ber of a loyal Legislature to steal, the
competition for seats in the lower House
has been very great. Every three years
two state senators are elected. These
have still greater opportunities for add
ing riches to the honors attendant
upon their offices, and we are sorry to
say that the recognized honesty of Sen
ator itillingfelt was spoken of as a very
remarkable instance of integrity among
the admittedly corrupt radical majority
in the Pennsylvania Senate of last win
te•r.
Then there are the county offices, nu
merous and paying. Concerning the
officers immediately connected with
the courts we have never heard any
charge brought, and we have no doubt
the present incumbents are men of clear
hands and correct character. But it is
well known that the Radical news
papers of the county have from time to
time charged that there was corruption
In some of the other departments. The
records of our court show that it was
more than suspected that the hands of
the Keepers of the Prison were not al
ways clear. If the li.ra»riiice is to be
believed there was a substantial secret
and unexplained reason for the large
addition made to the county tax rate
by the present Commissioners. When
so much filth is seen on the surface it
is hard tii believe that, the depth of the
political pools are not dilly.
'flie truth is that for years past the
people of Lancaster county have had
very little to do with the selection of
their county officers. A few political
wire-workers have " set up" the County.
Conventions, and have foisted just such
candidates upon the dominant party as
suited themselves. The very large :Re
publican majority removed all fear of
defeat, and from year to year the masses
have been driven to the polls to vote
whatever ticket might y be set up tly the
ruling " ring." :No one dared to show
signs of dissatisfaction, for the dreaded
party lash tieing always ready to be ap
plied. Such having been the rule iu
the party, it was but natural that 'the
Thug faction should strenuously oppose
the introduction of what is known as
the Crawford County System at the
present time.
The chief of that organization and his
interested followers have the whole
ticket made up for this fall, and they
feel confident of being able to carry it
through with ease under the old dele
gate system. No wonder they packed
the County Committee with substitutes
pledged to rebel against the action of
the late County Convention. They
suppose the masses of the Republican
party will go to the polls quietly and
stupidly and vote any ticket set up, as
they have done heretofore. Whether
the Exprcss and the Ermaincr have
influence enough to defeat the ma
chinations of the Thugs remains to be
seen.
There are nearly ten thousand Demo
cratic voters in Lancaster county, every
one of whom is interested in her honor
and welfare. I n view of that fact we
regard the tone of the Implifcr as inso
lent and unbecoming. We have a right
to criticise all the acts of any political
party, and we shall always exercise that
right without fear, favor or affection.
Rottenness ante National Banks
When the hill creating the National
Bank system was otlered in Congress in
it met with decided opposition
limn the Democratic members. They
objected to it because it was calculated
to create a powerful moneyed monopoly,
which might be successfully employed
for improper prilitical purposes; be
cause it forced all the old and trust.
worthy banking institutions out of
existence; because it was proposed to
remove the new institutions entirely
from all supervision of the different
States; because by the terms of the bill
a very large amount of capital was ex
empted from taxation ; and because a
very considerable sum, now ascertained
to be not less than twenty millions of
dollars a year, was made over to these
institutions as a gift, without the
people reeeiving any -compensation
or bench', in return. The terms of the
laws lire such that larger profits are to
he seemed by banking institutions or
ganized under it than were ever honest
ly realized by any State banks. The
masses were led to believe that these
National Banks would be more secure
than the old institutions. The credit
of the United States was supposed to
be pledged for their integrity, and they
started with the tide of popular senti
ment largely in their favor.
A very short period of time has suf
ficed to show the rottenness of the
whole National banking system. With
in the short period of a year or two
nearly fifty National banks have busted.
It is true, the notes were redeemed, the
Government being pledged to that, but
the depositors have suffered severely.
Both the Government and individuals
have been swindled out.of large sums
of money. Within a few days several
failures have been chronicled, and
the accounts given of the suffering
caused are really distressing. Hundreds
who had deposited the savings of years
lost every cent. The masses have placed
cofifidence in these institutions because
it has been erroneously supposed that
the Government had some financial
connection with them. Under the old
system, depositors and others doing
business with banks look closely into
thei 'condition and operation. That
must be done with reference to National
banks in future. Such of them as are
under the control of honest and con
scientious business men . are perfectly
safe, but the system is essentially rotten,
and the sooner it is broken up the:bet.
. ter for the country.
Repudiation.
When the rebellion began the State of
Pennsylvania owed a certain amount of
debt. Her bonds expressly stipulated'
that „the interest on.. them shquld be
paid emi=annually ' sn gON coitt, ,. On
the strength of thatiassurance, and on
the general credit of the State, they
-were' taken our own -people,..end a
considerable portionpf them by the cap
italists in England anti other countries
in Europe. No sooner, however, had
the paper currency, now in existence,
been issued by the United States than
the Republican majority in our State
Legislature determined to cease to pay
the interest on Pennsylvania bonds in .
gold, and to force the creditors of the
State to take instead thereof the already
depreciated greenbacks. In vain did
the Democratic minority protest most
earnestly against such a breach of good
faith ; in vain did they appeal to the
majority, anu urge them to pay some
regard to the honor of the State. They
were deaf to all argument, and by their
act the debt of the State was to a cer
tain extent really and practically re
pudiated.
The Democratic party has always in
sisted upon the complete discharge of
every public obligation. It has never
stained its honorable record by advo
cating the impairing of any contract
made by either the State or the Nation
al Governments; and it never will.—
The judges it has placed upon the bench
have always administered pure law.—
Never have they stooped to pander to
partisan prejudice or to the demands of
so-called expediency. They have in
sisted upon the complete enforcement
of every contract, without regard to
parties.
Let the holders of United States se
curities remember that a Republican
Legislature did actually repudiate an
express contract to pay the interest on
our State bonds in gold coin. Let them
not forget that the very same reasons
might at any time be urged in favor of
paying both the principal and the in
terest of United States bonds in depre
ciated paper. Let them remember that
Judge Sharswood stands pledged by his
published decision to prevent any such
attempted violation of a valid contract:
Let it be kept iu mind that for making
such a decision he is now being assailed
by every Radical newspaper in the
State. Unless they forget these things,
bondholders and capitalists cannot fail
to support George W. Sharswood as a
candidate for judge of the Supreme
Court of Pennsylvania.
Importation of Negro -Voters
The Cleveland Plaindralrr says the
Freedmen's Bureau is busy now send
ing large numbers of future colored citi
zens into the Western States. Care is
taken to put them into the hands of
loyal Radicals, who will see that they
all vote right. This is a game which
could be worked to decided advantage
in Pennsylvania. With the Yankee
Williams on the bench of our Supreme
Court an act 01 Congress making ne
groes voters in Pennsylvania would at
once be declared to be constitutional
and binding. Them the Radicals would
not only be reinforced by 15,000 or 'OO,OOO
adult male negroes already in this State,
but as many more us might be needed
in any emergency would be at once im
ported from the South. Along the bor
ders they would he crowded into the
counties of Lancaster, Chester, Leba
non, Delaware, Somerset and Alle
gheny, and would be pushed north into
Bradford, Tioga and other radical dis
tricts. Let no man suppose the party
now in power would hesitate for a mo
ment about making an attempt thus to
overpower the will of the white voters
of this State. Such action of the radi
cals would be made perfectly legal the
moment the right of the negro to vote
in Pennsylvania was recognized. The
Village Record, a radical paper very
well known in Southern and Central
Pennsylvania, has openly declared that
a resolution pledging the Republican
party to advocate the enfranchise
ment of the negroes in this State,
failed to be reported by the Committee
on Resolutions, br cults, it was there au
thoritatively statrd that Congicss would
soon pus,, a yciwral law making negrocs
voters i.O crow. State. The seventh reso
lution of the Radical platform binds
Judge Williams, should he be elected,
to decide such a law to be constitu
tional.
The white men of Pennsylvania can
see what is in store for them should
Judge Sharswood be defeated. Not
only will all the negroes now in the
State be mate voters by the act of Con
gress, but the Freedmen's Bureau will
be ready to till any order for negro voters
whenever called upon. We think the
white men of the Keystone State will
hesitate a long time before they elevate
to the bench of the Supreme Court a
Connecticut Yankee who stands pledged
to carry out such a programme.
Trying to Muzzle ltrownlow
The New York Tribunc rejoices over
the election of _Brownlow, but has sense
enough to desire that the foul-mouthed
old brute should keep a still tongue in
his head. It says:
Now that Brownlow is Governor again,
let him stop making speeches. Ile means
well enough and acts well. But he talks at
times in a wild, extravagant way which
only does harm.
Brownlow has no notion of acting on
the advice of Greeley. He is going
through the State mingling in the
crowds of drunken negroes who are
celebrating their victory. At Knox
ville he made a characteristic speech,
in which he is reported by the TribunG
as saying:
Wipm the 11,1,d, ware buried he wanted
them buried in coffins with both endsopen,
that when the devil went in they could go
out. No nromise had been made as to the
time he should hold his office, and as the
Constitution did not limit the time he would
be Governor for 10 years. lie was a despot
and might as well use the power ; asa proof
that he could, take the vote of Sevier County,
1,317 to sd, Jefferson county, 1,593 to 152, and
New Market 231 to 2.
It is not strange that even decent
Radicals are ashamed of Brown low, but
that does not prevent them from re
joicing in his success. When the very
first fruits of negro suffrage in the South
are of such a character, what will the
full harvest be ?
Failure of Prohibitory Laws
The prohibitory liquor law in Massa
chusetts is acknowledged to be a com
plete failure. The New .Bedford Mer•-
cury says the manufactories there and
at Fall River never suffered so much as
this year by drunkenness of hands on
the 4th of July, unfitting them for work
the next day. Since the adoption of the
prohibitory law, kegs and jugs of liquor
are distributed by express all over the
State, and, as it is so much cheaper
when procured in that way, the opera
tives and others club together and pro
cure large supplies. Thus intemper
ance is increased among the very class
which the prohibitory liquor law is in
tended to benefit. The experiments
made in New England are sufficient to
prove the folly of the prohibitory move
ment.
Radical Convention at Richmond
Many negroes and a comparatively
small number of hungry office-seeking
whites assembled in Richmond yester
day, to inaugurate the reign of the'Re
publican party in that State. Confu
sion worse confounded reigned the live
long day, and at times the whole thing
threatened to break up in a bloody row.
Botts and Hunnicutt were both• on
hand, and each of them was striving for
ithe mastery. The conduct of the whole
party was disgusting and disgraceful.
The Radicals of rennsylvanla Rebuked.
The manner in which the Radicals
'pre conducting the canvass in this State
le so glaringly improper andunbecoming
that - it has excited'the indignation of
the more decent men in theßepublican
party. Frank Jordan, chairman of the
. Radical State Central Committee, has
issued an address, in whichhe indulges
in such gross language and such unbe
coming and unwarranted abuse of Judge
Sharswood that he is being taken to
task by the more decent journals of
his own pasty. The Pittsburg Chronicle,
the evening Radical journal of that
city, openly rebukes the loyal and
foul-mouthed paymaster Jordan. It
says:
"It is insulting to the intelligence of the
people of Pennsylvania to say that in this
judicial contest the Democratic party has
secession inscribed on its banner. We
warmly support Judge Williams in this
contest, but we will not even by silence
lend our indorsement to so utterly shame
ful and unwarranted a charge as the one
above quoted. It is a sign of bad parry
demoralization when such means are
adopted to achieve success. It is utterly
wrong and utterly unnecessary. Such
things recoil against the men who practice
them, and cloud even an honest cause with
suspicion. Whatever may have been the
views of Judge Sharswood thirty-three
years ago, it is both absurd and criminalto
say that the right of secession will be an
issue in the approaching election. The Re
publican party can go into a canvass upon
its own merits and upon actual issues
without compromising itself by these
shabby devices, and we trust no respectable
journal in the party will lend itself to such
a style of warfare. It is a veritable Mexi
can business."
The New York Tribune is completely
disgusted with the meanness of our
Pennsylvania Radicals, and opens its
batteries upon them in the following
effective broadside:
Pennsylvania in October next is to elect
a Chief-Justice of her Supreme Court, and
a deep interest is properly taken in the re
sult. The Republicans have nominated
Henry W. Williams, and the Democrats
Oeorge iSharswood, and these gentlemen
are both distinguished lawyers, who com
mand the respect of their political oppo
nents, and are supported with more than
usual earnestness by their friends. But
there is danger that the canvass will drift
into a contest unworthy of the true issues
before the people. We cannot indorse the
address of the Republican State Committee,
iii which Judge Sharswood is attacked with
wore zeal than discretion. He is denounced
us the orator of a States Rights celebration,
held in the dark ages of 1814, as if an act of:30
yearsago could have vital meaning now. The
very toasts offered by others at the dinner
in 1534 are quoted to show that Judge Share
wood is not lit for the office of ChielJustice,
and the editorials, of obscure Democratic
papers are copied in capital letters, as proof
of his sympathy with the Rebellion. The
case of Bovie :igt. Trott, in which Judge
Sharswood derided against the Constitu
tional power of Congress to make paper
money, is also advanced as an argument
against his election—a purely legal decision
which, whether right or wrong, sets made
solely upon Judge Sharswooti's under
standing of the law.
We submit that this is not the way in
which Pennsylvania should elect her chief
judicial officers. Such a canvass should be
conducted upon the highest ground possi
ble in party rivalry, and especial care should
be taken not to drag in the dirt the ermine
of justice. The formal decisions of eminent
judges upon points of law not ought to be
bandied about in appeals to popular pas
sion. The purity and honor 01 the .ludici
ary are more than party triumph. 11'
the decisions of a Court are to be the
subject of party strife, and debated in
stump speeches, we may bid fare
well to an independent and fear
less .Judiciary. Hold the Judge ac
countable to a political party for his con
struction of the law, and we inevitably
tempt him to sacrifice his integrity; to be-
COIIW that meanest oftll creatures—a sworn
minister of justice, obedient to the dictates
of politicians. It is precisely this tendency
which we fear the Republican State Com
mittee of Ptinnsvls ania unconsciously
encourage, and we would bid them take
warning by the wretched and degraded
reputation of the Judiciary of this City,
in which the Courts have become the mere
tools of political clubs.
It remains to be seen whether the
Radical newspapers of this State have
sense and decency sufficient to desist
from their shameful and unworthy
course. Having cotulucted every po
litical campaign in a similarly disrepu
table manner for several years past, it
will be difficult for them to make a
change. We would not seriously object
to see them persist in the course they .
have chosen. They are only constantly
adding to the supporters of .fudge Shars
wood.
llow Tennessee Was Carried
It is announced that Brownlow's ma
jority in Tennessee will be nearly fifty
thousand. That is enough for all prac
tical purposes, but it might just as easily
have been made a round hundred thous
and. When the few whites who were
not disfranchised were prevented from
approaching the polls until all the ne
groes had been led up to vote tickets
marked by having a "broad-a.r( "
printed on them, a majority of fifty
thousand in Tennessee is nothing
to brag on. Any one who will read the
following account of the way the elec
tion was conducted at Chattanooga can
see how easy it would have been to
make Brownlow's majority a clear hun
dred thousand. All that was needed
was to disfranchise a few more white
conservatives, and to import a few more
radical negroes from the surrounding
States. The New York Hccald pub
lishes an account of this last exhi
bition of freedom in the conduct
of elections which is decidedly refresh
ing. What a proud privilege it must be
for a white man to walk up to the polls
to deposit Ins ballot at the tail of a crowd
of negroes.
The Hcrcad correspondence from
Chattanooga is as follows :
ciimANooi:A, Ten], August 2, 15137,
All the necessary preparations were made
by the city authorities yesterday to preserve
the peace. The polls opened at eight o'clock,
and the colored League, organized en masAT,
formed in column at the polling place, and
occupied it, to the exclusion of the whites,
till noon, when ash votes had been cast,
and nearly all the negroes had voted.
Certificates were furnished by the League
to many negroes from Georgia, who voted
the radical ticket. The negro vote was cast
solid for the radicals. The Ikletropolitau
lice distributed radical tickets to ncgrne,.
'the straight radical tickets were stamped
with a hi oadaxe, meaning that the axo is
laid at the root of the tree. This was done
to prevent counterfeiting, and for the bene
fit of such negroes as could not read.
tinily two or three white men voted until
the negroes had deposited their ballots.
Many white voters of both parties were dis
gusted and staid away front the polls. The
'Whites who were not radicals held no con
versation with the negroes, but let them
have their own way.
The whole mum ber of votes cast in the
city is 025. Brownlow received sill. Ethe
ridge 05. Stokes 522, Fleming (independent)
211. The whole radical ticket is elected by
an overwhelming majority. Brownlow's
majority in the county is estimated at 1,225.
Stokes Is re-elected to Congress in the
Third district.
Etheridge and Maynard spoke at Kings
ton on Wednesday. Colonel Byrd, a con
servative, had the flag of his old regiment,
the First Tennessee infantry, on the stand
while Etheridge was speaking. After the
speaking was done, the radicals captured
the flag for their stand. The Conservatives
formed to charge and retake the flag, but
were prevented by Etheridge. No other dis
turbance took place. All was quiet at last
accounts, but the flag has not yet been re
turned.
Despotism in Texas
Satrap Sheridan has removed J. M.
Throckmorton, the legally elected Gov
ernor of Texas and has appointed in his
stead E. M. Pease. The telegram of the
associated press announces that Pease
was appointed at the suggestion of that
miserable political mendicant, and dis
reputable criminal A. J. Hamilton.
The people of Texas will henceforth be
completely at the mercy of one of the
most despicable scoundrels who remains
unhung or outside of the penitentiary.
Such is American freedom under the
rule of a usurping Rump Congress.
The sooner President Johnson removes
Sheridan and puts a decent man in his
place the better for the country.
The Surratt Trial
The Surratt trial still progresses. It
is supposed the case will be given to the
jury by Wednesday evening or Thurs•
day morning. It is scarcely possible
that there can be a conviction.
Sheridan Nominated ror President.
The two hundred whites and three
thousand negroes who composed the
Republican Convention which assem
bled at Richmond on Thursday had a
happy time of it. All that would be
needed to cure even an uninterested
Lancaiter county Radical of his admira
tion for the party of progress and great
moral ideas would be an attendance on
such a gathering. If after witnessing
all the scenes there transpiring any
one should still insist upon clinging to
the Radical party we should at once con
clude he had expectations of office, either
from the Thug or the Anti-Thug faction.
Such a travesty upon all that is decent
and orderly in political life was never
seen. During the whole session of the
Convention, bitter quarrel's were kept
u-) between the contending factions of
white office seekers, the figs siding now
with the Groom Botts, and then with the
parson Hunnicutt. Seeming harmony
came out of the political chaos in the
end, however, and Phil. Sheridan was
nominated for President. As negroes
and New England Yankees will com
pose the bulk of the Radical party in
the coming contest, it is only proper
that the darkies should be allowed to
name the candidate. The following
resolutions were unanimously adopted
with cheers.
WHEREAS, The loyal American citizens
will soon be required to select a representa-
ice man as their candidate for the othee
now held by the chance President of the
United States, and us the late war has placed
the Republican party, as well as the nation
under oblinations to many distinguished
generals for the service they have rendered
in their desperate struggle for liberty and
greatness, and as the names of Generals
;Taut, Sheridan, Thomas, Butler, Sickles,
Logan, and Schofield, and the lions. Schuy
ler Colfax, Thaddeus Stevens, and Henry
Wilson are prominently held up as am.•ngst
the most deserving in connection wiTh the
said office; theretbre.
Resolved, That we endot'se the action of
Gen. Sheridan in his eiThrts to execute the
laws of the country, considering the em
barrassment thro‘. n around him by the
President.
Resolved, That the Republican party took
forward to such acts of protection as Gem
Sheridan and the other generals are extend
ing to them with the great hope in the future
of the prosperity of the country, and that
we, as a party, new give notice that when
the proper time arrives to nominate candi
dates for President and Vice President, we
will give all such acts of protection to the
loyal people of the South their due consid
eration.
Sheridan Removes the New Orleans
Board of Aldermen and Appoints Ne•
Sheridan must consider it his especial
mission to prove to the people what an
egregious blunder Congress made in
endowing a set of military satraps with
absolute power in the South. His last
outrage is the removal of the New Or
leans Board of Aldermen and the ap
pointment of negroes in their place.
He assigns as a reason for this act, that
the board had reduced the city credit
and were impeding the law of Congress,
dated March 2d and the acts supple
mentary thereto.
The telegraphic despatch to the asso
elated press says :
Gen. Sheridan's order leaves one member
in each board of the original Cofincils, one
in the upper and tour in the lower chamber
were elected on the Republican ticket. Of
the new appointments, two in the upper
and three in the lower board are Of mixed
blood. One member of the lower board is
a pure negro, and one is doubtful.
Any longer delay in removing Sheri
dan can only result iu disaster to the
country. Let the President act on the
matter at once. lie will be sustained
by every decent and right thinking
man in the country.
Reflecting Republicans are beginning
to think seriously in regard to the final
results of the system of military despot
ism which has been established Over
the South. The prospect is by no
means a pleasant one to them, even
when seen through the mists and pre•
judices of party. They cannot entirely
shut their eyes to the dangers which
are to be apprehended, and they: can
see no way of escaping from the mis
fortunes which must necessarily attend
the pernicious system which has been
inaugurated by Congress. Looking
above the horizon of the military recon
struction law, and seriously pondering
upon the future, the Springfield Rrpub
/icoo indulges in such reflections as the
following :
The prospect that at the first election
under the reconstruction acts the Southern
States will be carried by the Republicans
is in itself gratifying. But the way in
which this is to happen gives thoughtful
men some anxieties for the future. The
foresight that the negro vote is to control
everything is not having a favorable in
fluence upon the Whit() men of the South,
and we cannot forget that the whites con
stitutetwo-thirds of the population two
thirds of the population of the States that
are to be surrendered to the cont.l of a mass
of ignorant blacks, and that these white
inen must inevitably become the domi
nant class very soon, whatever hap
pens this year. A majority of the
whites will not attempt to register, or are
excluded if they attempt, and of those
registering it is thought that a majority will
vote against reconstruction on the Con
gressional plan. The blacks, and a small
fraction of time whites, will do the voting
and reconstructing, and have possession of
the State machinery tinder the new govern
ment. It will be " good enough" for the
obstructionists, indeed, but !lOW is it coin
ing out? We know what the Ilnunienas
and other leaders of the negroes have
threatened, and what hopes and purposes
they have raised among their credulous
followers. Shall we see Brownlow despo
tism and anarchy extended over the entire
South for the next ten years, and order pre
served only by keeping the eight millions
of whites quiet tinder the rule of four mil
lions of negroes by stress of Federal bay
onets?
ECE:M
WII AT do those who are objecting to
the State-Rights record of Judge Shars
wood say to the following resolution
Adopted by the Convention which nom
inated Abraham Lincoln:
Resolved, That the maintemtnee inviolate
, ot the Tights °f 10. Staten, and especially
oie• iqiht ef telt;. r !lad con, re,l
,/..; e
, ter9r , lingh , ils
EN , 'Ll'sl v ttt.Y,
to that lial.lllCe of power on which flip
prr
je:tiott,nulendUrance of oar polilowl
depeNcis !"
If the record of Judge Sharswood is
wrong, is not that of the Radical part•
equally so?
A special Washington telegram to the
Philadelphia Ledger says:
There is no doubt of the tact that the
President to-day formally requested Sec
retary Stanton to resign his position. The
President's friends assort that he has taken
this course iu order to secure unity of po
litical views in the Cabinet.
We hone that is true. One very great
mistake which President Johnson made
was in not turning Stanton out of the
Cabinet long ago.
We yesterday published an account of
tile lynching ot a negro near Leipsic, Del.,
m a suspicion of incendiarism. The man
i s now said to have been innocent. The
Wilmington Commercial says:
It is now generally believed that a colored
girl, who lived with Mr. Collins, is the
person who set his barn on fire, and she has
been lodged in jail, charged with the offense.
There seems to have been no good ground
for suspecting the boy, who was hung, of
setting fire to the barn, and it is said that
the gang of murderers made a mistake.
The parties who did the lynching are still
at large; yet it is seriously stated that the
servants at Mr. Collins's house recognized
them on the night of the murder, and would
have testified to their identity on the Coro
ner's inquest had they not been intimidated
by threats, some of which were openly made
as they were about to give their evidence.
It is further alleged, that the guilty parties
are too respectably connected to be prose.
cuted ; that they are Republicans in poli
tics.—.Y. Y. Tribune.
The Democracy of Perry county have
instructed - .their conferees to vote for
Charles T. Mclntire, Esq., for State Sen
ator. That is a most excellent nomina
tion. Mr. Mclntire is a gentleman of
very high ability, honest, and in all re
spects worthy. He has our best wjshes
for his success,
Seeing the Danger
Stanton Requested to Resign
An Innocent Man Lynched
A Good Nomination
Old Hentuck.
Another Solid and Sweeping Victory for
the Democracy
Lotrisvrtr.r, August s.—The election
to-day passed off quietly. From meagre
returns.it is estimated that Helm, the
Democratic.: candidate for Governor, is
elected by at least 30 t 000 majority over
both the other candidates.
Loursvuax, August. s—Midnight.
The State election in Louisville and
throughout the State, as far as heard
from, passed off quietly. The result has
been another Democratic triumph by a
majority variously estimated at from 45
to 60,000. Louisville City and the
County of Jefferson elected their entire
legislative ticket—twelve members. It
is believed that the Democrats in the
State have.elected seven-eighths of the
Legislature. In this city the Radicals
and Third party made a poor run, Helm,
the Democratic candidate for Governor,
beating both his opponents by about
3,300 majority.
Outrageous Attempt to Swindle the Tax•
Payers of the State.
Under the above heading the follow
ing most remarkable article appears in
the Reading Gazette of Saturday last.
The facts seem to be well-ascertained
and are very clearly stated. Has a
similar demand been made upon the
CommisSioners of Lancaster County?
If so, what action haie they taken in
regard to the matter? The Gazette
says:
. .
The Commissioners of our county were
startled a few days ago by the receipt of a
communication from the Auditor General
of the State, calling for the payment of
nearly $ll,OOO in addition to the amount of
tax that had been regularly assessed and
paid in ISt;6 and 1557. Their surprise was
all the greater when they also received a
letter from the Commissioners of the "loyal"
county of Lebanon, making inquiry about
this extraordinary demand. It seems that
a similar claim for additional taxes was
made upon Lebanon, and the Commis
sioners of that county desired to know
whether our Commissioners intended to
pay it We have this statement from Geo.
W. Bruckman, Esq. the County Commis
sioners' Clerk, and ' front Isaac R. Fisher,
Esq., Counts Treasurer. As these officers
are aware of no law of the State that au
thorizes the levy of extra taxes upon the
several counties, it is evident that this de
mand is nothing less than a bare-faced at
tempt to make up a deficiency in the reve
nues of the Commonwealth by a swindle
upon the tax-payers.
In 1866, a law was passed relieving real
,state from taxation for State purposes, and
the Radical party made a great boast about
it during the last election canvass. They
claim the credit of taking a heavy burden
from the shoulders of the tax-payers of the
State ; and last winter an effort was even
made to abolish the tax or, personal prop
erty, by apportioning certain amounts to
the several counties, which they might raise
in whatever way they saw fit. This measure
did not become a law, however; the State
Treasurer himself having serious doubts as
to its practicability.
The law and the practice have been, and
now are, Mr the Board of Revenue Com
missioners to assess a certain amount of
tax upon each of the counties, which assess
ment is based upon the return made by the
Commissioners of the several counties,
giving - 'the valuation of the personal proper
ty assessed. On the bah of June, 1866, a
circular was sent to the Commissioners of
Berks county, stating what amount would
be required of this county for that year, to
wit: 55,723 6:l. This was paid punctually,
and the receipt is in the hands of the Treas
urer. Tile assessment for 1867 was received
in the same way, and also paid by the
'treasurer.
lint on the Ott of July last, the commu
nication above ferred to, was received
front the Audit General, claimino - thitt
Berks county Nv. owing the State $5,434.54
for tile lust year. and the same amount for
t his yJar ; making an aggregate of 10,869.08.
It would appear, therefore, that while the
`shoddy loyalists" have been deluding
the people with the idea that they are re
ducing the taxes, they are really engaged
i li a secret attempt to cover up the deficiency'
that their mismanagement of the State
finance , has caused, by an illegal assess
ment upon the tax-pavers.
We are pleased to learn that our Commis
sinners are not disposed to comply with this
unheard of demand for additional taxes
after the county has faithfully and fully
settled her indebtedness to the State. This
claim may be alt right, according to Geary;
but it is an infamous extortion, and a big
swindle, according to our apprehension of
the case. How long will the people of
Pennsylvania submit to such gross decep
tion and downright robbery?
The Commissioners had laid their taxes
according to the assessments sent front
Harrisburg. They were collected in the
usual manner, and paid over to the State
by our Treasurer, if this additional "shod
dy tax" is to he paid now, a new assess
ment must he made for the county, and all
the expenses of collection must be added
to it. At this rste, the officials at Harris
burg could come upon us every two or three
veers,with a trumped-up claim of a rren r
ages.—We hope our citizens, without dis
tinction of party, will give this matter due
consideration, for, as tax-pavers, it concerns
them all. Tho County Treasurer - has the
documents, notices, receipts, Ac., in his
hands, to convince every sensible man that
this whole affair is a contemptible attempt
to " raise the wind by a tinancial trick
that deserves no better name than swind
ling-.—Reading rktzettc.
norefiestimony in Regard to tile Ten
nessee Election.
The Nashville Union and Dispatch says of
the result: "There is no doubt that the
Radical franchise machinery has achieved
a complete success. The struggle against it,
though the result is what we see it, has not
been without hope, Mr the justness of the
cause inspired courage and even hope
against the desperate odds and the despica
ble measures which the leaders in power
have resorted to. It is not now either timely
or useful to say more in regard to it, than
though it leaves the people of Tennessee in
a condition truly deplorable, they should
possess their souls in patience, and re
solve to endure with fortitude, and to
continue to labor like men, high
minded men; to retrieve their condition.
We apprehend that the colored element
throughout the State complied with the
league-oaths, and has thoroughly allied
itself to the Radical faction. Indeed this is
certainly true. We will not pause to en
large upon this course now, but merely,
reiterate what we have warned the colored
people of during the canvass, that they have
not acted justly to those to whom they owe
their subsistence, and have not wisely
chosen for themselves. They have put this
people in a temper of mind toward them,
which, both in its immediate tin future
consequences, individually as well ascollec
tively, will work them injury, and give
general trouble."
The Union says : " Any black minor who
could be used lor Brownlow, and any color
ed stranger had no difficulty in obtaining a
certificate and a ticket. 'fo prevent frauds
the certificates were stamped ; but as soon
as-one Was used and marked, others were
issued. In several instances negroes were
detected in attempting to vote upon stamp
ed certificates. The whole thing was a
fraud. A great many persons who had
legal certificates, both black and white,
refused to vote, and we think that
we are warranted in saying that one-half
tie: votes cii,t were not author z ed be the
I,orlv who Vorms,ied the
so•called election in Nashville yesterday,
cart regard it as anything but a miserable
travest upon 'popular sovereignty.' A few
characterless whites used the unlettered
blacks as the instruments of a preconcerted
plan to overthrow public liberty, and the
result is before the country."
The /tally .intcri,•an Union, published at
clam. nooga, Tenn., gives the following
account of the manner in which the late
election w, as conducted in that place tinder
the orders ~f Brownlow:
No opposition was made on the day o
the elaction by the Conservative party to
the. manifestly fraudulent manner inwhich
it NV:IS carried on. It is a notorious fact that
the negroes were imported from Georgia,
furnished with certificates, voted, and sent
home again.
It is well known that the polls were open
ed nearly an hour before the time appoint
ed by law. It was patent to all that the
Metropolitan Police, and their Adjutant,
Henry Deutch, the K night of the Broad axe,
and 'Squire Blackford, were taking from
the negroes all tickets not stamped with the
sign of John Anderson, and compelled them
to vote the broadaxe ticket.
The white men made no opposition, how
ever. Previous demonstrations bad con
vinced them that the column of negroes
standing before the polls, whom the police
were enfranchising by every means in their
power, were like a powder magazine, and
needing only the slightest provocation to
blaze forth in riot and bloodshed. Being
peaceful citizens and having the good of the
city at heart, knowing the inevitable result
of any interference with the well-laid plans
of the Metropolitan Police, they preferred a
peaceable defeat at the ballot box, to incur.
ring any danger of a disturbance.
Nevertheless, the election was illegal and
fraudulent, as can be proven by the poll
books. The same frauds were doubtless
committed elsewhere, and were passed over
for similar reasons. We are powerless to
resist, but we can, at least, publish abroad
to the world how the boasted triumph of
Brownlow was secured.
Forrest Extension in France.
The effect of the laws against cutting and
in favor of planting Imes in France has been
such that, of late years, instead of a steady
decrease in the extent of woodland in the
empire, there has been a constant gain. In
1850 the wooded surface of France was 8,-
783,343 hectares, or less than 22,500,000 acres,
the whole number ofacres of land in France
being at least 125,000,00. In 1865 the num
ber of hectares in wood had increased to
over 9,000,000, or nearly a million acres
more than fifteen years before.
Favorable Reports of the Crops
The following is a condensation of the
crop returns for July received at the De
partment of Agriculture:
Never has the Department been able to
report so favorable a prospect for uniform
ly:goad crops since the establlahment of the
statistical division, while exaggerated state
ments have beendmade in influential papers,
especially of the so-called failure of the
wheat crop of last year, and the importation
of wheat in the face of the fact that 312,000,-
000 worth of breadatuffs were exported in
the first four months of 1867, immese num
bers of emigrants were fed, a much larger
amount of wheat used for seed than usual,
with a suplusstill remaining over sufficient
to break numerous speculators and banks.
It is gratifying to know that we shall have
a surplus to more than make good the de
ficiency, not the failure, for there never was
a failure of the wheat crop in this country.
Of the last three crops of wheat, three or
four States—West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio
and Indiana—made but half a crop. No
other States were in thateategory,and lowa,
Missouri and Kansas made a good crop.—
Instead of a deduction of 50 per cent. on
ninety millions of bushels of wheat, which
would at least have threatened a famine,
scarcely more than a third of that deduc•
Lion should be made. For three years past
the product has been about five bushels to
each inhabitant. The crop of 1&58, if the
census returns are correct, was but five and
a half bushels to each person. The promise
for the present year is about six bushels.
WEIRAT.—The statistical returns for July
show as improvement in the condition of
winter wheat over last year in every State
but Texas, Nebraska and Minnesota, the
diminution in the latter case being but four
per cent. The highest improvement is in
Ohio, 160 per cent; West Virginia, 78;
Georgia, 96; Tennessee, 72. ' Indiana, 54;
Kentucky, 53; Michigan, 35; Vermont, 25;
New Jersey, 25 ; New York, 17. Spring
wheat was a far less variable product than
last year, consequently less variation in the
tigures used in the present comparison. All
the States, however, except Vermont, New
York and Pennsylvania, show an increase
on last year.
CORN.—'rne average in corn is unusually
large, every State showing a material in
crease, except Maine, New Hampshire,
New York and South Carolina. In the
Southern States the increase ranges up
wards to 102 per cent, as in Arkansas. The
condition, as reported, is a little deficient
in the Northern and Western States on ac
count of the lateness of the spring. With
the continuance of the present whether there
is ample opportunity to make up the entire
deficiency in which case the yield will be
unprecedented.
RYE.—A glance at the tables will show
the tine condition of this grain, and the
remarkable uniformity of the improvement.
BARLEY.—The condition of this grain
promises au increase of from ten to twenty
per cent. in Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
Connecticut, New Jersey, West Virginia,
Kentucky and Indiana, and forty-four per
cent. in Ohio. Most of the other States show
sonic increase.
OxTs.—The condition of oats points to a
full average in the West, particularly in
Wisconsin and Minnesota, also in Massa
chusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New
Jersey and the South; slightly less than
last year in Maine, Vermont, New York
and Kentucky,
PASTURES AND HAY.—These crops are
almost universally large, front an average
up to tiftet 11, twenty and even thirty per
cent.
POTATOES.—The report of acreage of
potatoes indicates a larger area planted in
every State except Maine and New York.
The condition is also above an average, with
a few exceptions, among which are New
York, Ohio and Indiana.
FRUlTS.—Peaches are so exceptional in
their successful seasons and localities that
estimates for States can scarcely be made
with accuracy. New Jersey, as indicated
by very general returns, shows 03 percent.
improvement over last year; Maryland, 25 ;
Delaware, 150; Virginia, 35 ; Michigan, 127.
In other States estimates aro given upon
whatever data was received, generally
snowing a considerable increase over last
year. Apples are promising in portions of
New England, the Allegheny region and
the West. Grapes are more uniform in the
average of States, and generally appearing
unusually well. It has been a more suc
cessful year for strawberries than usual, as
a study of the tables will show.
SOROEICM.—The sorghum crop is gener
ally returned as in a comparatively poor
condition, with lower figures than any other
crop. Ohio and Indiana indicate it defi
ciency in average of fourteen per cent., and
in condition of ten per cent. All the prin
cipal sorghum growing States show a simi
lar state of facts.
COTTON.—There is an increase of average
in North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and
Arkansas; Texas, 10 1-10 ; Jlisstssi, 94-10:
Louisiana, 8 1.10. The average is about the
same as lust year. There is a slight differ
ence, as reported, in favor of the present
crop. The department estimates, made last
t)ctober, of 1,835000 bales proved to lie
singularly accurate for approximate calcu
lations of so early date, though they
were severely criticised by Northern and
Southern speculators, some of whom
publicly acknowledged their error after
the crop was sold. It is too early to pre
dict the successful avoidance of all the
numerous enemies of cotton. Had the last
crop been a good one it would have yielded
2,500,000 bales. A very good one would
have realized Such results arc
possible this year. .
examination of this item of
the tables will show that losses of sheep,
unthrifty condition and a wet spring have
had an influence both upon numbers and
weight of fleece, am will lead to the conclu
sion that our wool clip of the present year
is not materially larger than that of last
year.
The Ravisher of an Aged NVoinan Cap
tared by Her Sons, Killed and Re
beaded.
About two months ago a negro man stole
a watch from a gentleman in Union City,
for which he was arrested and lodged iii
jail in that Mace. Last Friday he broke
jail and succeeded in evading the officers of
the law, who searched the surrounding
country for several miles. It was subse
quently ascertained that he had concealed
himself on Friday night in a piece of woods,
near the farm-house of Mrs. Chorum, a
widow lady residing about three miles from
Union City. On Saturday he entered the
house while her sons were absent, and de
manded all the money she had on the place.
Mrs. Chorum stoutly refused, whereupon
the villain sprang upon her, choked her to
the floor, and committed an outrage on her
person too horrible to mention. Hearing
some one approach, he fled just as he was
commencing a search for thecoveted booty,
and had thrown out the contents of a bttreau
which was in the room. A few hours after
ward Mrs. Chorum's two sons returned,
and hearing of the outrage, made diligent
search for the perpetrator. After tracing
him through some of his haunts in the
county, they learned that he had gone to
Hickman, whither they at once followed,
and arrested him last Monday. Their first
impulse on seeing the monster who had so
fiendishly outraged their mother was to
kill him on the spot, but after a brief con
sultation it was determined that the scene
of his crime should also be the scene of his
punishment. He was accordingly taken
back to Obion county, and in a field near
Mrs. Chorum's house was placed against
the door and shot. So enraged were the
young men at the remembrance of his
hideous deed that their vengeance follow
ed him even after death. Assuring them
selves that the shots had proved fatal, they
procured an ax and completely severed his
head from his body.—NaArille foamier.
The following extract is taken from :in
interesting letter written by a lady in Lib
erty, Bedford county, Virginia, to a friend
in this city :—" General Lee, accompanied
by his daughter, Miss Mildred, stopped
here for a night on his way to the White
Sutphen While here the Goneral's old offi
cers proposed giving him an entertainment
in the shape of a dinner or supper, but he
declined all public demonstrations. As he
rode through the village on his departure
the citizens assembled, and while he was
passing along the streets every man raised
his hat and stood with bowed bead. The
General also raised his hat, and this silent
tribute of the people to their favorite General
was indeed beautiful. A gentleman riding
with the General at the time says • that he
felt like weeping, it being such a solemn
tribute of respect—so silent and sad—not a
voice was raised—`twat' the heartfelt love
of a conquered people for a beloved hero.' "
A IC.E(I7Id ra.,) Gazette, July 31.
The Booth Family.
During Mr. Bradley's speech in the Sur
ratt case, at Washington, on Friday, in re
ferring to the diary of Booth, he said:
They suppressed that diary which excul
pates Mrs. Surratt ; that diary which shows
who and what the man was ; a fanatic and
a madman. His grandfather, Richd. Booth,
was the most thorough red republican who
ever settled in America, and his grandson
inherited the traits of that grandfather.—
It is well known he aided slaves to escape
from Maryland, which his son, th,, elder
Junius Booth, paid for. The grandfather
named his son, the great actor, Junius Bru
tus, and taught both son and grandson to
idolize the memory of the great Brutus that
killed Caesar in the Roman capital. J.
Wilkes Booth was an accomplished scholar,
and moved in the best society, but he had
running through him this vein of insanity,
and above it all flows that indescribable
affection of a son for a mother. Wonder
ful was the power he exercised over men,
wonderful his power on the stage,
making
his $20,000 a year.
Another Removal by Gen. Sheridan
NEW OaLEAlvs, Aug. o.—The following
order has been received:
HEADQUARTERS, FIFTH MILITARY Dia-
Tnicv.—Special Order, No. 109 —Joseph
Hernandez, Treasurer of the city of New
Orleans, is hereby removed from that office,
for reasons similar to those mentioned in
the orders readjusting the Boards of Alder
men and .9.73}3iStata. Aldermen of the city ;
and Stoddart Howell is appointed Treas
urer in his .Bystead command of Major
P.
General H. Sherian,
GEO. L. EfARTSTIFF, 8.. A. G.
'MOWN MUM
It is said that 80,000 dozen bottles of Con
gress Water were sold last year.
Alice Cary has written a new novel, cal
led " The Bishop's Son."
Dr. Senator Duke Gwln is in Louisville,
and intends to stay there.
Gen. Braxton Bragg Is president of the
New Orleans water works.
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The taxable property of Illinois, as per
assessment returns 0f1846,l $441,000,000.
A mocking bird was sold in Nashville,
Tenn., lately for $2OO.
General Sickles has issued an order direct
ing registration to begin in South Carolina
At last accounts Santa Anna was still
alive at Campeaeby.
It is stated that in Alabama twenty thous.
and acres ofsweot potatoes have been plant
ed.
Dr. Carroll, the Roman Catholic candi
date, has been elected Lord Mayor of Dublin
for 1866.
The board of health in St. Louis contem
plate the erection offreo public baths in that
city.
There is a vase in the Paris Exposition
valued at $2.,500,000. It is made from a
single torquoise.
Five dollars for a Mormon and one wife
was the price of ball tickets in Salt Lake
City on the 4th.
The late fair for the benefit of the Girls'
Catholic Protectory, in New York, yielded
upwards of $lOO,OOO.
W. J. Bullock, a one-armed Confederate
soldier, is teaching a colored school in
Brookhaven, Mississippi.
A bill his passed the Connecticut Legis
lature to punish factory owners who employ
minors under 15, by a line of $5O.
A duel with pocket knives took place in
Mississippi not long since. Both parties
were fatally injured.
Daniel Drew is reported to have made
$OOO,OOO in Erie speculation last week.
John Morrissey cleared $200,000.
There have been registered in Louisiana
41,101 white and 78,2:30 colored persons—
majority for the latter :17,074.
Fiso. thousand and ninety dogs have
been killed in New York this season, for
which the city has paid $2,59.',.
John 11. Reagan, formerly l'onfederata
l'ost inaster-t :orient], spoke to 2,500 freed
men in Palestine. Texas, .inl
Registration closed on Saturday in Sa
vannah, allowing a majority of 793 colored
voters.
Rear Admiral Palmer, commanding Me
South Atlantic Squadron, arrived at Vera
Cruz op July 20th.
It is reported that should Juarez decline
4're-election as President of 111 ex ico, he will
be appointed Minister to the United States.
General Rousseau has lett Now Orleans
or Washington, on business connected with
.he Russian transfer.
The money order system not only pays
the expenhe attending it, but affords a hand
some revenue to the department. The ex
tension of faeilit les is contemplated.
Forty-three per cent, of all the deaths in
Ness' York are said to be infants under a
year old. This:an-Hero:ls I I erod's slough -
ter.
Nine ear loads of Norwegian immigrants
arrived at Tnronto, Canada, on Thursday
last, and started for the Western States :111
hour after.
Truman Howe, city coginuer of St.
Louis, has sued the Democrat of that city
for defamation of character, laying his
damages at $20,000.
Win. Walker, of Kankakee, Illinois, has
given tkito,ollo to a college at Evanston, in
that State, to found a professorship with
his name to it.
Trouble has arisen in North Carolina, in
consequence of an order issued by General
Sickles, conflicting with a decision render
ed by Chief: Justice Chase, :in the I. S.
Court at Raleigh.
Gold fish are now quits plentiful in the
Potomac, originating, it is said, from the
spawn of gold fish which escaped a few
years ago from the reservoir in the Capitol
grounds, in Washington, through the sew
ers, into the Potomac.
Never were there so many dry goods and
other clerks out nt• lquployment in is:l%w
York as at present. When by idnince nu
advertisement appears for one, the doors or
the advertiser are besieged early in the
morning by anxious applicants.
Nev submarine cables connecting Eng
land with the continent of Europe an, con.
stoutly being laid. Permanent anti direct
vommunication has
. just been established
between London and Bremen and London
and Hamburg. through the instrumentality
of Reuter, the European at•ws agent.
A marriage between the Princess Louisa of
Sweden and the Crown Prince of Denmark,
is arranged on the part of the two royal fam
ilies, but the final decision is to tie lull to
the Prince and Princess themselves. The
latter is an unusual instance of the exer
cise of the reserved rights.
During the excitement of the occasion of
a tire in New York, a woman threw a small
child from an upper story window, without
any regard to what the consequence might
be. A police officer saw the movement, and
running forward caught the child in his
arms, thus saving it from instant death.
Mr. George Papendic, it well known bro
ker of Boston, died recently under curious
circumstances. He was drawing the cork
from a bottle, at his summer residence at
Blue Hill, Milton, when the bottle burst, a
portion of it cutting deeply into the palm
of one of his hands. I nfiatmnation set in,
and all attempts to allay it wore unavail.
ing.
Last week the mortality of St. Louis was
not high, being only one hundred and
twenty.eight, but the proportion of dead
children under live years old is appalling.
Of the total who died wady fire were under
that age. That is, of all the deaths, more
than eighty four per cent, or more than
four- fifths were children under that age.
This is a Ste ri I i rig fact.
Advices from Lima and Valparaiso repre
sent that the Peruvians and Chileans an
ticipate an early return of the Spanish fleet,
and are making vigorous preparations to
repel any fresh attacks that nuts' be made.
The people of the Isthmus generally
acquiesce in the rule of Acosta, Mosquera's
successor, and it is believed that his author
ty will stun be recognized by all the States
comprising the Columbian Confederation.
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Mr. C. ( itterstetter, of Meadville, walked
out of his windowon Wednesday night last,
and fell to the ground, crushing his shoulder
and breaking several of his ribs.
The State Base Ball Convention of Ponn
sylvania will meet in Harrisburg on the
second Thursday in October, being the 10th
day of the month. It is expected that all
clubs in the State will he represented.
Asa Keeler, postmaster in a village of
Wyoming county, recently deceased, was
appointed by President Monroe. lie was
the oldest acting postmaster in the United
States.
A rattlesnake measuring four feet :out a
half ill length was killed near the site of the
Morey House, Pithule, Wednesday after
noon. These venomous reptiles are said to
lie numerous in that vicinity during the
present summer.
The Allentown Rolling Mill has stopped
operations, throwing three hundred men
out of employment. The low price of rolled
iron as compared with pig iron and labor,
and the importation of steel rails from Ding
land for use on our railroads, are given as
causes for the stoppage.
The city of Erie is at length to have
The plan of the Commission -
onf is to build a tower at the foot of Chestnut
street to leet high, with a tank (ill feel in
diameter and '2u feet high, with capacity of
400,000 gallons. The work will be com
menced immediately.
Mr. G. W. Bancroft an old resident of
Athens township, Crawford county, was
badly torn and bruised by an angry bull,
on Thursday, the 25th ult. A dangerous
wound laid open the left thigh, while many
scars and bruises appear upon the body.
The wonder is that he escaped death.
Though badly injured, he will probably
recover.
An honest saloon keeper in Erie, named
Henry Jordan, found upon his counter the
other day a wallet containing sixty seven
dollars, which had been forgotten by some
guest. Jordan hearing of a man who had
lost his pocket book, hunted him up, and
upon the latter describing it, handed it over
to him, refusing to take any reward.
In the case of Maria Young, charged with
the poisoning ()flier father, John Young, in
Hollidaysburg, some months ago, it has
been found atter a careful analysis of the
stomach and-its contents by Prof. Rodgers,
of Philadelphia, that there were no traces of
either vegetable or mineral poison therein.
The district Attorney, by leave of Court,
entered a nolle pros., and the prisoner was
discharged from custody.
A young married man in Oil City, recently
attempted to commit suicide. He mat ried
a young lady at that place, and was living
quite happily, when suddenly another wo
man having claims upon the young man,
by virtue of having been married to him
so me years previously, made her appear
ance. This unforeseen event so wrought
upon the mind of the poor fellow that ho
took a dose of arsenic, which, however,
proved too large to have any other effect
than to thoroughly cleanse his stomach.
The Pennsylvania Canal Company have
recently made a survey of the canal and
river from Harrisburg to Huntingdon, with
the view of adapting the Juniata to slack
water navigation. The Lewistown Gazette
thinks there is nothing in the way to pre
vent this from being carried out. Such a
change would soon create steam navigation,
at least for light draught boats. At a com
paratively small expense, a channel from
fifty to one hundred feet wide and from two
to three feet in depth could be made by re
moving a few rocks and stones.
"HEALING on its Wings." say all who
have made use of Dr. Wistar's Balsam of
Wild Merry, and by such use been cured of
coughs, colds, bronchitis, sore throat, in
fluenza or consumption. The prudent will.
always keep this standard remedy by them.