gamAtotalititlitlpwa. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1867 FOR JUL GE OF SUPREME COURT: Hon. GEoRGE SILOSWOOD, of Phila. COUNTY COMMITEE MEETING . . . . The Democratic County Committee of . Lancaster county will meet at the Demo cratic Club Rooms, in the City of Lancas ter, on SATURDAY, AUGUST Mar, at 11 o'clock, A. M. A full attendance is re quested. A. J. STEINMAN, Chr'm. B. J. MCGRANN, See'y. The following is a list of the members: Adamstown Bor—Richard Regart. Bart—George S. Boone, Brecknock — R. E. Shober. - Carnarvon—Jacob Yolm. Clay—Edwin Elser. Coleratn—Wm. N. Galbraith. Columbia, let Ward—Geo. Young, Jr. Id " —M. M. Strickler. 3d " —Tinny Skien. Cocalico East—Cyrus Ream. CoCalleo West— Jesse Reinhold. Conestoga—U. Strickler. Conoy—F. M. Gramm. Donegal East—Hiram Jacobs. Donegal West—Geo. W. Wornaley. Drumoro- Wm. S. Hastings. Earl—lsaac Holl. Earl East—John C. Martin. Earl West—John D. Fritz. Ephrata—P. Martin Hellion Elizabeth—Jos. H. Keener. Elizabethtown Borough—Emanuel Hoffman. Eden—John Whiteside. Fulton—lsaac W. Towson. Homptield East—Henry Hoffman. Hemptield West-k. F. Hoover. Lampeter East—D, G. Eshleman. tempi:ter West—Samuel Long. City, let Ward—A. J. Steinman. .." Dr. Saml. Welcher's. 8,1 " F. S. Fyfer. 4th " Dr. Henry Carpenter. sth " Wm. 13. striae. sth H. B. Swam • 7th " George Nauman. • sth ‘. C. O. Beal. 9th " Lewis 'Lecher. Lancaster Township—Willlum Carpenter. Leucock—George Diller. Leacock Upper—George Marks. Little Britain—E. M. Zell. Manhelm Borough—Nathan Worley. Maulicim Township—B. J. McGrau . Manor, Millersville—John Funk. Indlautown—C. J. Rhodes. Marietta—F. K. Curran. Martin—Thou. Labezius. Mount Joy Borough—Henry Shaffner Mount Joy Townalilp—J. A. Baker. Faratlise—Heo. L. Eckert. Pen 11-11. H. Bull. Pequea—G. E. Hell uer. Providence—John Tweed. Rapho—Bent. McCutehen. ,Mrahbur I Borough—Hain I. P. Bower. Strakiburg Towunhip—Vranklin Clark Sadsbury—J. W. Barran. Halthbury-11. H. Kern, War Ink—lt. B. T,ihudy. Wahl!' ngton—Wm. Ortman. Judge Sharsuood's Opinion. We have concluded to publish the opinion of ,Judge Sharswood, which the Radicals are assailing so bitterly. We ask every bondholder, businessman and capitalist to read it. No one with in telligence sufficient to conduct any ordinary business pursuit can fail to be con villeCll that the opinion is sound in law and sound in a moral point of view. Those Min assail this dDeument are skriking a blow at the credit of the nation, and indirectly favoring re pudiation. The obligation of the lovernment to pay the interest on its bonds and the bonds themselves in coin rests on a contract precisely similar to the one which Judge Shars wood insisted upon enforcing. If he was wrong in his arguments and con• elusions, then Congress may at ally Lime pass an act declaring that both the interest and the principal of all I `id led States bonds shall be paid in anew issue of legal tender notes, regardless of any depreciation to which they may be sub ject. \\le aslt the bondholders of Lancaster county to examine this opinion for themselves. I (they read it understand ingly and With eyes unblinded by par tisan prejudice, they must all be Induced to vole for its author. They cannot fitil to he convinced that the value of their cherished securities depends upon the inallitetialice. by our courts of the great legal principles therein so clearly and so ably set, fiirtli. Ilean's Beer-Drinking at Erie E. E. Sturtznickel, the publisher or the (Iwvrrrtu , ,Yvi;clator at Erie, is out ill a (turd, in which he handles the Eng lish Republican paper of that city rather roughly, and does not spare that wonderful apostle of temperance, ( ;ov ernor Geary. The Speckdor nits here tofore advocated tlie cause of the Re publican party, hut it cannot endorse the display of puritanical fanaticism now being made by its leaders in this State and elsewhere. The attempt to make a political hobby of the temper ance question is doing that praisewor thy movement great harm. No one believes in tie honesty of the politi cians who are attempting to manipulate the various temperance organizations. The initiation of Cleary into the Order of (food Templars with a loud flourish of trumpets was a piece of the most transparent clap-trap. The editor of flue Spuctator was the President of the (lerman Society in whose company (teary drank his lager, and toasted his (lerman fellow-citizens of Erie. He concludes the article to which we re: furred in the beginning us follows: ilovernor I teary basely betrayed his 11er nisin friends when he gave his assurances that no proscriptive or prohibitory laws would get his sanction. The readiness with which he broke this promise rid signed these laws, and ttspecially his late course when he addressed a convention oftood Templars in rg, saying that lie hadn't drank a drop of spi ri tuons I 'overage since his seventh year, and also that the associations now be ing formed against the secret lodges of tem perance men wore hose and abominable. The Germans found out they were badly "sold" by him. This could not be foreseen and it does not follow at all that it is incon sistent MI the part of the undersigned, be cause 11,, censures the Governor ler the voltrse he now takes. ( teary had a right to drink lager beer with the Germans of Erie, and he had a right to make a parade of joining the I loud Temptars after lie thought he saw a chance to make political capital by so doing. But was it right for him to pledge himself against a prohibitory liquor law to secure the German vote, and then to abandon his pledge on the very first opportunity ; was it manly in hint to stand up before a temperance gathering and assert, that he had not tasted liquor since be was seven years old, when he must have known that there were hundreds or men in the State who stood ready to convict him or telling a lie for political effect? What a contemptible ere:note he must be. Death of a Prominent liarylandei We regret to learn that I lon. James Wilson died suddenly at his residence in Hagerstown, Alaryland, on Wed nesday morning lust. The void that his departure has made hi that com munity will not readily be filled. lie was a gentleman of large means, and occupied a high social position. Time excellent qualities of his head were al lied to all those virtues of the heart that adorn human nature. He was known and esteemed throughout the whole State of Maryland, and his sudden and unexpected death, while yet in the prime of life, will awaken sorrowful emotions everywhere within her bor ders. He was a prominent Democrat, and iu his own modest and quiet way exercised a large influence over public affairs. He had in former years filled various places of public trust with great acceptability to the people, and for the last year or so has been the leading po litical editor of the Hagerstown Mr. Wason was a conspicuous member of the Hagerstown bar, and was en gaged in the practice of his profession up to the time of his death. THE Maryland State Constitutional Convention has adjourned after prepar ing a new Constitution which will be submitted to the people on, September 18th, and will go into operation on Oc tober sth. There is no doubt about its r ',, , titication by a large majority, as it Is i r,, a - ned in accordance with the views of the people. Under the new Conetitu tion a oeneral election will take place iu Nnve`ober. Unparalelled Extravagancs . of the last Legislature. The people of Pennsylvania cannot fail to be startled by the exhibition of unparalelled and reckiesscoitiavagance which is exhibited iii the ( .ldatement of the amount of money it cqiii to run . the corrupt radicai 4 legislatnie of,. last winter. The etformoua' sum' total, of 5265,861.16 is enough to excite the in dignation of every tax-payer in the State. As the people read the details they can make their own comments. Let them note the fact that the em ployees of the two Houses were about equal in number to the members; let them remember that besides the $9,256 paid for franking documents that there are "other bills not ascertained;" let them examine the accounts of the differ ent investigation committees ; let them not forget that each member drew from the treasury the sum of $1,075, and then let them look at what was done. Fif teen hundred and sixteen private bills were passed, and only seventy-three laws of general interest. It is safe to say that the Radical majority took good care to make money directly out of a majority of the aforesad private bills. That has come to be a recognized part of legislative management since they came into Power. " And this enormous sum, moreithan quarter of a million of dollars, only covers the personal expenditure of the two Houses. It does not include the extravagant appropriations made to George Bergner and other favorites for public printing and other fat jobs, neither does it include hills for station ery in general, bills for brooms that are only used once, bills for gas, and amul titude of other expenditures of which a nice sum of money is made by inside and outside parties who lurk around the two Houses. (The session lasted one hundred and one days, and during all that period the rule was to adjourn over from Friday noon to Monday evening, with the un derstanding that nothing would be done until about Tuesday afternoon. One would think these Radical Solons might have made some slight deduction from their pay in consideration of such fre quent holidays. Au examination of the reports of the Auditor General for former years will show, that under the rule of the Radi cals the personal expenses of the Legis- ature have been doubled within the last live or six years. Under Demo cratic administration, State and Na tional, economy in expenditure was constantly practiqed. Now the efforts of the party is-power seem to be direct ed especially to the plunder of the pub lic treasury. So long as the tax-payers sustain them there can be no hope of a change for the better. Future Legisla tures, and future Congresses, will very naturally infer that the people are sat isfied with their extravagance and that their corruption is not condemned. Until there is a change in the political material composing our Legislative bodies, there can be no hope of any permanent, or even of a temporary re form. It is for the overburthened tax payers to lift the burthen from their own shoulders. Whether they have good sense enough to apply the proper remedy remains to be seem A defeat of the extravagant and corrupt Radical ',arty will bring the needed reform— nothing less sweeping will. The Boys in Blue. The soldiers and sailors who have alien up their residence in Richmond ince the war ended ought to be good 'udges of what is needed in that section of the country. They can hardly be accused of being disloyal. At a meeting recently held by them the Republican Convention, so-called, which was com posed of a wild crowd of several thous and negroes and a few score of mean olliee-seeking whites, was very strongly denounced in an admirable series of resolutions. The tenor of sonic of the speeches was remarkable. Lieutenant Colonel Merrill said: "That he would rather take by the hand a Confederate soldier who fought front hon est intentions in a wrong cause, if he honest ly accepted the situation, than the so-called Virginia loyalist—even if he does have a newspaper—who voted for the ordinance of mid thereby put the former into service against his Will. " Cl.)10111.1 Egbert said he was not in favor of keeping in office those renegade Virgini ans who voted for secession and then wont North as Union shriekers, in preference to men who had perilled their lives in defence of their country." The Richmond Whig, from which the above report of the speeches is taken, is classed as a Republican newspaper, butt cannot agree that the State of Virginia shall be delivered up to the rule of the negroes and of such rascally white wretches as Hunnicutt and his ragged crew of supporters. The Whig veryjustly and truthfully says that if the questions at issue between. the Northern and Southern people had been left to the arbitrament of the officers and soldiers or the two armies, rather than to political adventurers and non combatants, they would long ago have been amicably disposed of. At the very moment when the masses were shouting themselves hoarse with joy over the news of Lee's surrender, the 7 radieal leaders in Lancaster and elsewhere were openly cursing General Grant for the generous terms of capitu lation which he granted. From that hour to the present these political mar plots have been the cause of all the delay in restoring the Union, and re establishing on a lirm basis the shaken business and commercial interests of the country. So far their interference has been productive of nothing but un mixed evil. The people see this, and with the subsidence or popular passion the triumph of the right draws nigh. Compllmentary to the German Element. A leading Radical journal in Minne sota thus alludes to the Germans of St. "'rho t iornion boor-guzzlers of St. Louis n•ilolont ~r Limburger c•hessiu, and restivo ooky Niihau anti the brazen clung of symbak and has- ,Irums in their deserted beer-gardens, tutor the sumo howl of Pu ritan toloratiou!' So long as the Germans of the North west voted the Radical ticker, and swell ed the ranks of the armies, they were " patriots " and excellent good fellows; but sosoon as they dare to protest against the intolerant fanaticism of a set of Puritanical reformers, they are denoun ced as " beer-guzzlers" and " stupid dutch." They are not so stupid as to continue to, support the Radical disunion party. Every day brings intelligence of a complete revolution iu political sentiment among the vast German population of the great Northwest. Even Carl Schurz advises his countrymen in that section to vote for Democratic candidates for all State offices. The Returns of the Kentucky Election. The Returns of the Kentucky Elec tion are very nearly complete. The Louisville papers say that reports have been received from ninety-eight coun ties, showing that Governor-elect Helm, the Democratic candidate, has made a net gain of 5044 votes over Duvall's Democratic majority in 1305. Duvall's majority in the State wag 37,944. There are fifteen counties yet to hear from, and notwithstanding the diminished vote polled, Helm's majority, it is said, will vary but little from 45,000 over both his competitors. MRS. CURTIN, wife of Ex-Governor Curtin is lying dangerously ill at her, home in Bellefonte. Her life is said to be seriously threatened. Repudiation Endorsed by the Republican Party. The Expreas is very much exercised over a Western, political movement,' which it says is baseiVnpon a. proposi tionto pay o 8 tlici'*ational dOt in a new .issue of . greenbacks, equil in . , ..... amount to the obligatic4nf tits' Gov,' _ , . ernment, ,Ltticienonn eproposiiilon as perfectly'infamtais, as nothing less, in short, than repudiation. Repudia tion ! That is an ugly word—a word that is calculated to strike terror to the heart of many a capitalist--a word which has always been rightly regarded as synonymous -with•Nationat*and . State degradation. No honest man, no lion orable party ever yet advocated the re pudiation of any obligation fairly in curred. Yet, ugly a thing as repudiation un questionably is, we have seen the Legis lature of Pennsylvania deliberately en gaged in it, with the approval of the whole Republican party of this State. No one is ignorant of the fact that im mediately after the issue of legal tender notes by the United States, the Repub lican majority in our Legislatufe passed a bill declaring that the interest on our State bonds, which it was expressly stipulated should be paid "in golcl coin," should thereafter be paid in greenbacks. In vain did the entire Democratic mi nority protest against this disgraceful and dishonest, act. The Republican majority forced it th rough both branches of the legislature, and a Republican Governor made haste to sign the bill. We all remember the unworthy argu ments which were used by those who urged this disreputable measure. Our State bonds were largely held in Eng land, and England was supposed not to be very friendly to us, therefore, It was argued, we were not bound to keep faith with her or her people. Besides it was said that our burthens of taxa tion were so great as to excuse this pal pable breach of good faith toward our creditors both at home and abroad.— This was nothing but a glaring act of repudiation. If it was right, if our leg islature had the power to pass such an act, if the decision of Judge Sharswood against the legality of a similar trans action attempted between private indi viduals was wrong, then Congress has full power to pass a law declaring that the interest and principal of all United States bonds shall be paid. by a new issue of paper. The Republican party of Pennsylva nia have deliberately set . the example of partial repudiation, in th e very shape in which the Express asset is it is now being presented to the cont tideration of the people of the West. It is an inven tion of the Radical brain, t nd was de nounced and opposed most bitterly by Hopkins, Wallace and Clymer in the Senate of Pennsylvania, at id by their political associates in the I. louse. Not a single Democrat voted for it, and, we believe, not a single Republican voted against it. So far as Pennsylvania is concerned, the record of the Democratic party is clear on this question. In the Legislature and in the :ousts, the voice of the Democratic part: has been uni formly recorded again et repudiation, either partial or total, a nd iu favor of the enforcement of eve ry honest con tract, whether made be tween the State and individuals, or b etween private persons. Judge Sbarsw ood early made a record for himself upoil this very sub ject. We publish his opinion, and ask the bondholders, the business men and the capitalists of Lancaster county to read it for themselves. If t hey would triake sure of having a Judge on the bench of the Supreme Court who is ir revocably committed agai: List repudia tion in any shape, they 11 Lust vote for George W. Sharswood. If Mr. Wil liams, of Connecticut, has been a con- sistent Republican since t he war began, he no doubt endorsed the act of the Re publican legislature of this State by which the contract to pa: the interest on the State debt "in co: in" was repu- (hated. If as a Judge he endorsed that act, he would necessarill • be bound to declare legal and bindb ig any act of Congress providing for tl ie payment of the interest and princips I of all United States bonds in a new lee ue of legal ten der notes. The cases we uld be similar, or if any distinction eon. Id be establish ed by legal ingenuity, it might be ra tionally argued that less reason exists for deciding the act of or, s State legisla ture to be binding than a similar act of Congress. Our Legislature was not compelled to act, as it did. There was.nothing in the act of Con gress making gi cu backs a legal tender which bound us to violate a fair con tract with the credi tors of the State. It was a voluntary act of repudiation, de liberately commit) ;ed by the Republi• can party. If Judge Williams sanc tioned it, he san, ;tinned repudiation. Until he explains I its position on that question, no bondh older can safely vote for him. A Vain Attempt to Shield Holt The Radicals are trying to break the damaging effect of Conover's startling revelations by pars ding before the coun try, a note, said to have been addressed to the President by Ho) i. A. J. Rogers, a Democratic Congress! nan. Mr. Rog ers' note reads as follow; s: ":21.11y Dear President: I have been, and still am, of the opinion au .t the perjury in this case was suborned an d gotten up by another person, or by MI ler persons, and that Conover was their 1.431 ; and to save themselves from public t ,ditun they have been instrumental in obtal fling his convic tion, and as I believe him less guilty than others, or at least than on 3 other, I recom mend him for pardon. . A. J. ROOERS." Reprehensilde as th,? r .commendation to a quick pardon of uu y one, guilty of such an offense as that of Conover must be regarded, no oue•Arh( > reads the above note can fail to se e tl iat Mr. Rogers stands in a positiot t er itirely different from Holt and Rid( lie i n requesting the pardon :01 the crh uim d. .Rogers re commends Conover to t he mercy of the President because) ic In !Heves him to be "Ices guilty than o then or at least than one other." Who that "one other" is no candid man wil I hat , e the least din culty in determiu log. It needed not the revelations of I>now er to fasten it upon Holt. The J depress• must be in a very tight place, indeed,• when it at tempts to set off a, gainst the damning revelations of Cono ver the almost equal ly damaging note t if Mr. lingers. Removal ( If Sheridan There is no ion ger any doubt about the removal of She ridan. The order for his discharge has been made out at the Adjutant General': 3 office, and will be promulgated to-day or to-morrow.-- Major General Thom as takes the placti of Sheridan, who, it is said, is to be as- signed to the Department of the Mis souri, while Gen. Hancock takes charge of the Departme] it of the Cumberland. Sheridan has si 'own himself to be so hitter a partisan, and has so repeatedly been guilty of au ,ts which are calculated to impede sub stantial reconstruction that his remove I has come to be an ab solute necessity . No well inform edand right thinking man in the country will fail to approve of the change whit Ai has been made. Tin Radica Is of the Fourth Ward in Harrisburg h ul a general row at the delegate elect don on Saturday night.. , The Chief of Police had to be called in to quell the disturbance. Greenbacks and whiske3r carried the Ward, and Cameron was again triumphant. How characteristic of thqr "God and Moral ity" party Thuggery Triumphant. WS do not remember ewer to have wit nessed a more ridiculous farce than We': which is being phkited by. the radio leaders in lieuwasia 'col*ty. wonderful sound of tituillwets :the ambler and the Exptess rake ajiiint et= tack upon,urie George Brubaker and one-horse-Weelelifispeilhe We fully expected to see the whole Thug faction driven away from the county crib and left to repent and grow lean at their leisure. The proposition to Adopt the Crawford .County System of making nominations has always been popular With itie - iritisseii. They like to vote directly for the men they desire to have nominated. At the County Con vention which was held for the purpose of sending Delegates to the State Con vention, notwithstanding the fact that the motion had only been agitated fora. few days, a resolution substituting the popular or Crawford System for the old close corporation delegate system was adopted by a large majority, in spite of the earnest protests of George Bru baker's friends. The Thug faction was whipped, and it only needed a little boldness and skillful management on the part of the Examiner and the Ex press to make the victory complete and permanent. When Brubaker and his Thugs after ward undertook to rebel in the County Committee against the action of the County Conventioh, they put them selves in a position where their political influence might easily have been com pletely destroyed, if their opponents had acted with promptness and a little ordinary political sagacity. As it was the Express contented itself with get ting off a column of stilted moral heroicta, in which It denounced Brubaker and his whole faction In terms such as it has been in the habit of employing when speaking of "copperheads," and the Examiner was virtuously indignant at the outrage upon the people. We supposed these champions of the rights of the Repub lican masses were in earnest. It never occurred to us that they were only sav age in a Pick wickian sense. Two weeks have barely elapsed, and we find that the Express is perfectly subdued. It whines a little in its most pathetic strain, but there is no fight in it. Either Brubaker has bought it up, or it has had all the conceit and all the moral starch entirely knocked out of it. It surrenders at discretion and admits that Brubaker and his Thugs are complete masters of the political situation. The tone of the Examiner is about equally as desponding. Brubaker will not only nominate whom he pleases at the coun ty convention, but he will defeat the attempt to substitute the Crawford County System, popular as it always is with the masses ; and his triumph will be the more complete because the Ex press and the Examiner had it in their power to have defeated him most sig nally. All that it needed was a little boldness and a small share of ordinary political sagacity. People may wonder how such a man as George Brubaker could ever manage to rule the Republi can party of Lancaster County. If they knew all they would not. Great is Thuggery, and a great man is George, its prophet. Grant's Acceptance Radical newspapers are very much exercised about General Grant's prompt acceptance of the position vacated by Stanton. In their eager desire to break the force of this blow they are falsely asserting that Grant regarded the re quest of the President in the light of a command from his military superior, which he considered himself bound to obey. That representation is not only devoid of truth, but is exceedingly un complimentary to General Grant. He kney, , very well that he was not bound to accede to the request of Mr. Johnson. The office of Secretary of War is a civil, not a military position. The President requested General Grant to accept a seat in his Cabinet; he did not order him to take charge of the War Department. It is clear that General Grant acted of his own free choice in the matter, and it is evident from the correspondence which passed between him and Stanton that neither of them supposed that he was obeying a military order. The question of salary settles the whole question. General Grant in his new position is entitled to and will receive the salary of Secretary of War, which he would not he allowed to take if only complying with a military order. He was as free to accept or decline the position as any civilian in the country. What he did he did with his eyes wide open. We believe he was actuated by pure motives, and the Radical intima tion that he was coerced by the Presi dent has not the slightest foundation in fact. It is only one of the weak inven tions of unscrupulous politicians, a pal pable attempt to hide their manifest discomfiture. The State Tax Swindle The County Treasurer is the ostensi ble editor of the Thug organ. We have repeatedly asked him to let the tax payers of Lancaster County know whether the State tax for the years 1866 and 1867 has been doubled upon them, as it has been upon other coun ties of the State. This scribbling offi cial seems to find plenty of time to " write up" his party faction in a vari ety of shapes, but as yet he has not been blessed with the inclination to devote a moment to a matter virtually affecting the interests of every property holder in the county. Again we ask him to let the people know the Magni tude of the swindle which is being per petrated upon them. Will he be good enough to let the tax-payers see the figures ? The Negro Convention In Reading The Negro Convention which met in Reading last week was a queer assem blage. It was bold enough in all con• science. It denounced Trumbull, _Fes senden and General Grant as not up to the mark of black republicanism. A demand for immediate political and so cial equality was made, and the belief was expressed that Congress would speedily comply with the desire of such leading journals as the Harrisburg Tel egraph and the Philadelphia Press in that matter. There was a prevalent conviction that Judge Williams would pronounce such a law to be constitu tional and binding. It is said he wrote a letter to the convention on the subject. The document has not been brought to light yet, however. The Age calls on the Press to publish it, which we hope it will do forthwith. Radical Extravagance inßaltlmore The radicals have had control of the government of Baltimore city for sev eral years past, and the natural result is that the city treasury is in a state of complete collapse. There is not a cent of money left to clean the streets, and orders have been given to discontinue that most necessary piece of business. The reason assigned is that there is no money the treasury to pay the laborers. The taxes have been greatly increased 43f late, but so has the rapacity and the capacity for stealing of the:radicals. •So far, on account of the heavy rains Baltimore has not felt the want of brooms and hoes in the streets, but unless the municipal purse is filled an epidemic may result. Radicalism is the same everywhere. President Lincoln on Negro Suffrage. ::Jost now, while the Radicals axe upending some fifty millions of the 4noney wrung from the toiling millions . actlie North to establish negroartruem . - fin ail the Southern Stateti;and ile th Republican journals of Penn nylyania are demanding the passage of Sniniiir's universal negro suffrage bill by Congress, with the assurance that the Yankee Williams will pronounce it constitutional and binding, it may be well to call to President Lincoln's opinions On that question.; Tn 1560 the, firm of Follett, Foster 4 . Co., of Colainbus, Ohio, issued, under the patronage of the Republican State Committee, a volume containing the celebrated discussion between Messrs. Lincoln and Douglas, when those gen tlemen were rival candidates for the position of U. S. Senator from Illinois; I it also contained what are denominated " the two great speeches of Mr. Lincoln in Ohio in 1859." In Mr. Lincoln's speech at Columbus in 1859, he says: Appearing here for the first time in my life I have been somewhat embarrassed for a topic by way of introduction to my speech ; but I have been relieved from my embar rassment by an introduction which the Ohio Statesman newspaper gave me this morning. In this paper I have read an article, in which, among other statements, I find the following: "In debating with Senator Douglass during the memorable contest of last fall, Mr. Lincoln declared in favor of negro suf frage, and attempted to defend that vile conception against the little giant." * * S * S S S * I therefore propose, here at the outset, no , only to say that this is a misrepresentation but to show conclusively that it is to. , Mr. Lincoln then read an extract from his speech at Ottawa in which he said : "I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and blhck races. There is a physical difference between the two which, in my judgment, will forbid their ever living together upon the footing of perfect equality. * * lam not, nor ever have been in favor of matting voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualify ing them to hold office, or intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this, that there is a physical difference be tween the white and black races which, I believe, will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and po litical equality." Curious readers will find all we have quoted in the volume referred to on pages 240-241. The Thug Ticket. It must be very gratifying for the four teen thousand Republican voters:of Lan caster county to know that their county ticket has already been "settled" in the back office of the chief of the Thugs, and that all the coming County Convention can do is to ratify the choice of "the ring." The Examiner is forced to admit that such is the fact. In reply to a letter of inquiry it says ;. In reply to our correspondent, we will give the ticket as "fixed" up and to be put through if the pressure is not too great: Assembly—Andrew Armstrong, East Donegal; David G. Steacy, Bart; Aaron H. Summy, East Ileniptield; Walter G. Evans; City. Recorder—Martin D. Hess, Paradise. Treasurer—Christ. B. Becker, Warwick. Commissioner—John Strohm, jr., Provi dence. There is some pretence that Major E. D. Roath, of Marietta, one of the old members, is to be returned, but this is all a pretence. The Major will find it out, just in time to know he has been sold. Squire Evans, of the city, can go through with the machine, if he can curry two wards of the city and put them into the Thug "pot" for the rest of the slate. But Armstrong, Steacy and Summy must go through. For Recorder, Hess is a "pocket" candidate, who, if he has Paradise to vote with the ring, cannot be got rid of, and if the Convention is strong Thug, he must be put through even with out Paradise; but should the Convention be close, and he not have the control of the Paradise vote, he will be traded off for some other candidate who will come to terms. Becker, for Treasurer, has a fierce and de termined friend in "King George," who in sists on it that it is Becker's turn, and that he must be stood by faithfully. But Roberts, of West Hemplield is stubborn, and has good friends who are determined that he shall not not "stand back" for Becker. West Hemp field has seven votes in convention and the Thug machinecannot run smoothly without those seven; and if Roberts is not put through they will rebel and ask the opposi tion to nominate him. It is a pretty fight as it stands, and if Roberts' friends stand firm he may compel the dropping of Becker or the nomination of Roberts over his head. But "Oily Gammon" and old "Smooth Him Down" have this case in hand and all may yet be harmonized before the conven tion. That there is little chance for break ing through the programme thus laid down is evidenced by the following concluding remarks of the editor of the Examiner : The carrying out of this slate depends on the Republican voters. If they will attend the delegate elections and elect independent men, this "slate" cannot be nominated. 'There are some men on it that will be a positive weakness to the ticket. But if the Republican masses will not be forewarned and apply the remedy, the responsibility rests with them. We have done our duty and shall wash our hands of all responsi bility of any evil consequences which may result to the State ticket. How easy a thing it seems to be for a few selfish politicians to lead the masses of the Republican party by the nose! How We Are Taxed The New York Tribune, unquestion able loyal authority, says: This country is staggering under an nprmous load of Public debt. The Fed eral Government owes two billions and a half; the States owe large amounts; while counties, cities and townships, have each their several burdens. We are paying in the aggregate not less than three hundred millions per annum as interest on these various debts, while we are considerably reducing the principal, especially, of the local obligations incurred providing boun ties for the volunteers in our late struggle. Altogether, the taxes paid by the people of the 'United States, though considerably re duced from the maximum they attained in 1865-6, must probably exceed live hundred millions per annum. Almost everything is taxed, from the baby's posset to the old man's coffin—many things twice and thrice over. The radical politicians can not help knowing what is the real condition of this country, yet tirey continue the most reckless system of public expenditure. The electioneering campaign among the negroes of the South is costing more in money alone than was ever expended by any Democratic administration, and that is only a trifle when compared with the loss caused by the suspension of industry and the destruction of the material resources of that section. Yet the people of the North allow them selves to be made the dupes and tools of a party which having impoverished the Nation and burthened us all with al most insupportable taxation, is still ad ding to the debt and .ncreasing the rate of taxation. Never did the world wit ness such stupid folly on so extended a scale. The Canvass In ODto, The Gubernatorial canvass Is pro gressing with great spirit in Ohio. Judge Thurman is the Democratic can didate, and Gen. Hayes the Radical candidate. Seven other State officers are to be elected. At amass meeting at Waverly, on Monday, the sth, Judge Thurman made an able and telling speech. Judge Hempstead, who has never voted a Democratic ticket, but has invariably voted with the Radicals, presided, and gave in his adhesion to the Democratic party and professed his faith in the Democratic doctrine. The Democrats of Ohio are fighting upon a fair platform, and will make a good re port of their work in October. Electioneering Among the Negroes A correspondent of the New York Herald, writing to that paper from Ten nessee, puts the following query : Is it to be wondered at that the negroes voted for the radical candidates, who during the past six months have eaten and slept with them and most thoroughly abased themselves to their level? We should rather think not.% But what a miserable crew the newly elect ed radical officials of that State must be. It is possible that some of them may be meaner even than Brownlow, Who knows? YqI3IILILVAGANCE.' What a Radical Legislature Costa the People of Pennsylvania. A Small' ofEm loyeer—lnvestfipw tton Uses, dte. Let the Tex•Pagrers Reed. EI.A.BRISBUB.G, Aug. 15,—The accounts, of the last session of the LegiSlaturehave ben audited. A careful examination of the books in the Auditor General's office shows the following to have been the expenses: Senators' pay, mileage and station -835,477 00 Representatives' pay, mileage and stationery 107,508 45 The legal allowance to each person was $l,OOO for salary, $25 for stationery, and 15 cents per mile, circular, for traveling. The thirty-three Senators and_one hundred members, therefore, received an average of $1,075 each for 101 days (from January 1 to April 11), or about $10.64 per diem. Rev. E. L. Bailey received $3OO from the Senate, and Rev. Jacob Kennedy $BOO from the House for opening the daily sessions with prayer, being at the rate of 3 p•sr diem. The thirty-three Senators had twenty nine regular officers, seven pages, twenty five women and four reporters who drew pay. The officers drew $28,893.80, or an average of $996 each ; the pages drew $l,- 270.50, or $lBl each; the women $921, or over $36 each, and the reporters $BOO, or V.,00 each. The contingent bill of the Clerk of the Senate was but $633.44, as against the con tingent bill of the Clerk of the House, which was $4,000. The one hundred members of the House bad sixty-five regular officers, thirteen pages—women, and four reporters, who drew pay. The officers drew $57,530.78, or an average of $BB5 each. The pages $2,359.50, or $lBl each. The women $1,240, and four reporters $2OO each. The members and officers availed them selves of the privilege of franking docu ments (postage paid by the State) to the extent of $9,256, with other bills not ascer tained. The en tire work of the session was the passage of 1,516 private laws, 73 public laws and fourteen resolutions. The House appointed a number of inves tigating committees, the expenses of which were as follows: William S. Gregory, Chairman of Committee to report upon Exempt Property in Philadelphia 81,893 00 Advertising Meetings of Committee... 307 74 Geo. W. Mooney, Clerk to Committee. 810 85 Total 58,080 49 Edward U. Lee, Whairmanjand E. W. Davis, William M. Worrell, James Sobers and William Donohugh,Com mittee to inquire into the Lottery Business in Philadelphia 000 00 Joseph E. Matthews, Clerk to Com mittee 289 98 Total 8940 1.18 Samuel Josephs, Chairman of Com mittee to ascertain whether the At lantic and Cireat Western Railway had made discriminations in freight charges $ 445 CO Joseph T. Chase, member of commit tee 115 00 George W. McKee, member of com mittee 145 00 Alexander Adaire, member of com mittee 1 415 00 A. uckley, member of committee__ 145 00 George H. Bennis, Clerk to commit- tee William J. Ovens, Sergeant-at-Arms. Total $3,377.10 William B. Waddell, Chairman of Committee to investigate certain charges in reference to an Allegheny County liquor law 375 10 Three witnesses 104 30 Total 13.470 30 IL A. Colville, Chairman of Commit tee to ascertain whether the Penn sylvania Railroad made discrimina tions in freight charges 00 N. B. Pennypacker, member of Com- ee 0. S. Woodward, member of Commit- tee 225 00 A. D. Markley, member of Committee 'Z/.5 00 George A. Quigley, member of Com- - mitlee _ 225 60 Luke V. Sutphin, 4 lerk to Committee 303 40 William J. Ovens, gaunt-at-Arms.... 272 50 Total Wm. B. Hood Chairman of Commit tee to inquire into the running of locomotives over the paved streets in Philadelphia George DeHaven. member of Commit tee Wm. D.lloaohugh, member of Com mittee' Geo. W. Übebeu , member of Commit tee Geo. A. Quigley, member or Commit tee Jno. W. Boileau, Clerk of Committee Wm. J. Ovens, 6ergeaut-at-Arms George 0. Diese, Chairman of Com mittee to, Investigate fast freight transportation system, and ft. S. Quay, (303. DeHaven, Win. 13. Wad- dell, members, and L. Westbrook_ J. L. Anderson, clerk to committee_ Two witnesses J. L. Anderson, clerk ffiN=M3 Total Jno. C. Sturdivant, clerk of commit- tee to ascertain whether any corrup tion attended the election of United Greeley on Grant. Greeley does not believe that General Grant supports the policy of Congress, neither does he credit the report which some Republican papers have been so industriously circulating, that he only took the place of Stanton because he was commanded to do so. Horace sums up his reasons for believing as he does in the following numerical order : I. When has dun. Grant ever departed from what is called " his habitual reticence" to sustain Congress, or in any way criticise the President? 11. When the President began his attack upon the policy of Congress, did he not send Gen. Grant down South to make a report which could be used to neutralize the effect of the exhaustive and able repert of Gen. Schurz ? Was not the report or Gen. Grant effectively used against the policy of Con gress? - 111. Did not President Johnson state in a letter recently printed in these columns, and written by a trustworthy gentleman, that he had never doubted that Gen. Grant was a supporter of his policy? IV. In the very crisis of the Presidential struggle with Congress, did not Grant ac company the President on his electioneer ing trip? Some of his apologists have said, whisperingly, he did it by official com mand. Has anybody ever seen the order? If the order compelled him to make the trip, did it also compel him to visit the White House and stand at the side of the President while he cried over the Philadel phia Convention? V. And now when Mr. Stanton, rightly construing a law of Congress to mean that his olllce is not in the hands of the Presi dent, distinctly stales that he will make an issue with the President and fall back upon Congress, do we not see Gem Grant step in, "accept" the office, and by this "accept ance," so completely disarm Mr. Stanton that he retires? Does not every reason able person know that had Gen. Grant declined the appointment—which being a civil office, he had a right to decline—the President would not have succeeded in re moving the War Secretary? Is it not well understood that Gen. Grant is keeping warm this place until some Conservative may be found to take it? lie concltides:— Therefore we challenge the statement of The Times that Gen. Grant supports Con gress, and demand the evidence. A Radical Tavern Keepirs Views. A Radical tavern keeper from West Earl is after the radicals who represent ed this County in the last legislature with a sharp stick. In a letter to the Examiner he " goes for them " in the following effective style: WEST EARL, August 12 MESSRS. EDITORS: Some ono comes to the defence of our members of the late House from this county, and wishes history net right. If " Vindex " makes any point in favor of the three old members of the Haus on the liginor bill, and who want to be re turned, I cannot see It. We do not know that it is anything in their favor, or against them, that Mr. Billingsfelt voted for the law. There is one thing it does show,—that Mr. Billingsfelt was attending to his duties as a Senator. Besides, ha is not on trial now, and when he comes before the people, will have to take all the consequences of his record. But here are three men who want to be returned, who allowed an important law like the Liquor law to pass, without raising their voices against it. To us who are interested in St, they claim they know nothing about it—that, it slipped through! —are very sorry, and take a liberal drink to get up a red nose, to prove they are " all right." Among the sons of Temperance they can point to the law for proof of their temperance principles. That is blowing hot and cold to some purpose, or riding two horses with admirable skill. The "slip ping through" dodge won't do for us. Ii it had bedn a railroad bill, or some scheme to plunder the people or the State, and there had been "something in it," It would not have slipped through so easily. A TAVERN KEEPER. The Democracy of Cumberland County. The Carlisle Volunteer says the county convention held in that town on Mon day last was the fargest assembled for years, and in all respects one of the most remarkable. Many old veterans who had in a great measure retired from politics were present, and the feeling o determination was most marked. Th following excellent ticket was put 1. nomination, which will be elected by large majority; Assembly—Theodore Corm:pan. Sheriff—Joseph C. Thompson. Treasurer—Christian Mellinger, Commissioner—Allen Floyd, Director of Poor—David Wolf. Auditor—E. Mountz. _ _ Jury Conuitisaiouer—Jno. B. Drawbaug The Coming State Elections. , Under the above head. we find a re markable article in the New York Her aid from which we; make the following .. . extracts:— • . . • The great national issue which will over shadow all others in our coining fau elec tions in the Northern Ststeswill be the issue of negresupteinacy hereafter in our nation -al affairs, through aßOntherri negro political balance of power, contemplated and broadly forehhadowed in the Congressional pro gramme of Southern reconstruction. The republican party, from Abraham Lincoln's election to the Presidency down to this scheme of a transfer of political power in the South from the white to the black race, has been sustained by the almost unbroken voice of the Northern States in all its meas ures; first, far the suppression of the rebel lion, and next, for the reorganization of the rebel States on the basis of universal liber ty.. But in this bold and dangerous scheme of putting the Southern political balance of power over our national affairs in the hands of the blacks, just released from the dark ness and demoralization of negro slavery, it strikes us that only in another form the republicans are making the same fatal mis take which was made by the late national democracy when they attempted to perpet uate the reign of the Southern slaveholding oligarchy, with their laws, decrees and dogmas for the perpetuation and extension of slavery itself. This is but the swinging of the pendulum from one extreme to the other—it is steering from Scylla to Charybdis. What peace or harmony can we hope for in exchanging the insolent rule of the late three hundred thousand Southern slaveholders for the rule of five hundred thousand Southern negroes who but yesterday were slaves and the de scendants of ignorant slaves for hundreds of years? The experiment involves an outrage upon the enlightened public opin ion of the Northern States which will surely meet with a decisive rebuke. We cannot doubt that this desperate ex periment of negro supremacy will be em phatically condemned by the 'Voice of New York Moor coming November election. A change of eight or ton thousand votes in the six hundred and add thousands of this great Commonwealth is but a bagatelle; but it will suffice to revolutionize the State. Upon this broad and distinct question of negro suspremacv, however, wo may look for a change of thirty, forty or fifty thousand, as compared with the figures of our last Nov ember election. In Ohio, with Vallandiglia in and his obnoxious copperhead notions again in the foreground, there is but a gloomy prospect for the opposition elements. They cannot be combined on Vallandigham or under Vallandigham. But in Pennsyl vania they have a very fair prospect of an ticipating in October the inevitable Novem ber reaction in Now York. The substantial yeomanry of Pennsylvania, will not be apt to follow "Old Thad Stevens" in Ititi7, in behalf of Southern negro supremacy. This is the question now awaiting the popular judgment: Shall the ten excluded Southern rebel States be reorganized and restored to Congress, each and all under a predominant negro vote from the disfran chisement and disgust of white men, or shall Congress itself be called upon by the people of the North to pause, reconsider I and reconstruct its terms of reconstruction so as to give the Southern whites a chance, i at least where they constitute a heavy ma -1 jority of the people, as, for instance, In Virginia, North Carolina or Georgia? Upon this question we expect a political reaction in the North this fall which will enforce some attention and respect from Congress. It is to the people that we look for a rescue; for while the laws stand as they are President Johnson can do very little to stay their operation, however great the number of removals and changes he may make. We look to the people for a reaction against this perilous scheme for fastening upon the country a controlling negro political balance of power. The Negro Equal Righta Convention at Reading We are compelled to resort to the Now York papers for an account of the doings of the negro convention at Reading. Forney's Press, the especial organ of that class in this State, has not a word to say iu reference to the doings of.‘hls wing of the Republican party. We take the following from the New York Herald: The Negro Equal Rights Convention held two more essions to-day and adjourned. Resolutions were passed condemning the course of Senators Fossenden, Trumbull and other republicans in steadily refusing to face the question of manhood suffrage, and recommending voters of the South to support such men as Sumner, Stevens, Wade and Stanton for the Chief Magistracy; cautioning the freedmen of the South and elsewhere not to be deceived by mushroom politicians, but to remember those who had been their tried and true friends in the darkest hours of the nation's history. I Mr. Forster, of Philadelphia, pronounced General Grant as occupying an equivocal position, and Wendell Phillips as imprac tical. The republican party might as well nominate a woman as nominate Wendell Phillips, who had flatly refused to run for office under a government which sanctioned the war power, though he had been true to the interests of the negro race and had suf fered mach in the cause. $1,404 25 35U 10 21 00 250 00 408 20 70 :-.3 Resolitions were also passed denying the jurisdiction of the National League at Washington; establishing a joint stock company at Washington for the publication of a rallcal newspaper for the newly en franchised negroes and encouraging money remittances for the education of colored young men for politics and the rostrum. Wm. Nesbit, of Altoona, was re-elected President, and other officers were selected for the msuing year. Cork County Nominations The Democracy of York county have put in nomination an excellent ticket, and tkey promise to roll up an unpre cedented majority for Sharswood this fall. The following is the ticket: AsTrnbly—C,ol. Levi Maish, Prof. S. G. Boyd Commissioner—Wm. Win tertnoyer. Treasurer—Jno. Gladfelter. Jur3 Commissioner—Thomas Platt. Dirdtor of the Poor—David Small. Audtor—J . B. Pfaltzgrott . Dav,d, J. Williams, esq., was re-elected Chairman of the Democratic County Com mittee Clinton County Democracy Tho Democracy of Clinton county haveput the following ticket in nomi nattm : Assmbly—Hon. G. 0. Boise. Prdhonotary—William H. Brown. Refister and Recorder--Samuel B. Snook. Tresurer—Platt Hitchcock. Conmissioner—John Bushel. July Commissioner—Nathan L. Atwood. Aalitor—David Mapes. Caoner—Dr. John I. Kelly. Deise served as a member in the last Gegislature and won distinction for abilty and honesty. He will be re elecd by an increased majority. The Convention was large and enthusiastic lie Democracy of Centre County. Tie Democracy of Centrecounty have put.n nomination the following strong tieiCt Sthator—S. T. Shugart, aubJect to the duchlon of tho Senatorial Conference. Atkimbly—P. Gray Meek. Thakurer—A. C. Geary. Cola) , Commiaaloner-•lVur. Keller. Jiry Commissioner—John Shannon. Ahlltor—S. Effinger. Blom County Democratic Nomioationos. Tie Detnocratlo Convention ofnlalr coun ty, thlch met in Hollidaysburg on the 7th Mat, placed in nomination the following &senility, Tames). 'tea ; Sheriff, James H. Cramer; Prothonotary, William W. Janson ; County Commissioner, John 11. Robrts ; Director of the Poor, George Sm. h ; Jury Commissioner, James hunk; Aulitor, John C. West; Coroner, Eillas Dr. Livingstone 'ho very latest intelligence from Africa, repived in England, is said to encourage . 1 t belief that the intrepid traveler, Dr. I 'ingstone, is still alive. To this belief 8 ieof the best informed English sevens hive always inclined, though the testimony a a inst this supposition has been cumula t. e, is not of the most trustworthy char tm:. In point of fact, there has been little or thing definite and consistent about the Utveler's fate, except the story of Dr. Tay ilgstone's runaway guard and burden barors? who were evidently thoroughly frightened by their experience with the foctor—if they went through what they iescribed—and, at all events, were men not a be trusted or believed,, if there were lufficient inducements to deceive. A Father Murders his Son CINCINNATI, Aug. 17.—1 n Bowling Green )hio, the day before yesterday, an old cid , en, named slram A. Donaldson, stabbed is son Thomas, aged 21, to the heart, kill- ng him instantly. The wife of the mur .erer left him last week on account of cruel treatment, but returned with her son on the day of the tragedy to take away her personal property. While thus engaged the fatal affair occurred. The murderer was unmoved by his awful deed, and only said when arrested that he "Wished it bad been any other of his boys, as he always liked Thomas tho best." CAUTION ! In our changeable climate, coughs, colds, and diseases of the throat, lungs and chest will always prevail. Cruel consumption will claim its victims. Those diseases, if attended to in time, can be ar rested and cured. The remedy is Wistar's Bahasa of Wild Cherry.—Communicated. John C. geonan Ito given bonddto ap pear when called upon, to answer the charge of keeping a gambling house, .:New James Gorden Bennett, Jr., has sold the yacht Henrietta for $60,000. It is reported that the yacht Vesta has been sold to the Government for $32,000. The receipts of internal revenue for the week were $3,264,910. The cholera has entirely disappeared from gort Harker. Greenhood (tr. Neubauer, coal merchants of San Francisco, have failed for $280,000. The Indian Commissioners have left At chison, Kansas, for the Upper Missouri. Judge Advocate Holt has returned to Washington from a trip North. • There were fourteen deaths from yellow fever in New Orleans last week. A Chicago colored theatrical company has commenced its travels in the West. They play at Milwaukee next week. As far as known, 135,685 voters havoboen registered in Alabama, the negroes having a majority of 17,5811. Lawyer Bradley has been held In $2OOO ball to answer the charge of challenging Judge Fisher to tight a duel. The gold in the United States Treasury yesterday amounted to $88,777,000, besides 20,10.5,000 in gold certificates. Full returns of the registration in Louisi ana show 127,639 voters, of whom 44,732 are whites, and 82,007 negroes. Eckert's brick manufactorywin Reading, was burned, on Tuesday night. The loss is over $lO,OOO. It is intimated that Gen. Pope is about to issue an order requiring jurors in his dis trict to take the test oath. Three men were killed by an accident on the Augusta and Savannah Railroad, near Mcßean's Station, on Wednesday night. There were one hundred and eighty-seven deaths front yellow fever in Galveston last week. The Japanese (late American) war vessel Stonewall Is now being repaired at Norfolk. She will sail for Japan in a few days. General Pope has removed all the civil officers in Macon county, Ala. He has also removed the Solicitor of Muskagee county' Ga. A man named McMenaway, convicted of murdering a telegraph operator nt Gosport, Ind., last spring, has been sentenced to im prisonment for life. A despatch from .Washingtoti to n NOW York paper announces that the Mexicans have refused to give up Maximilian's body. It is buried at Queretaro. It is intimated that further changes may take place In the Cabinet. There is a strong pressure on the President for a change in the heads of the State and Treasury Do iartmen ts. The yellow fever Is prevailing seriously ut New Iberia, La., and the place is being abandoned by its inhabitants. The pesti lence is also raging in Galveston and Corpus Christi, Texas. There is reason to fear a yellow fever HOll - on the Gulf coast. It has broken out at Now-Iberia, Louisiana, New-Orleans, Pen sacola, and rages in Galveston, Texas. September is the month to bo dreaded. The refugees brought from Mexico to Now Orleans by the Austrian frigate Eliza beth will go to New York In a merchant vessel, as Admiral Tegetholf may needAhe " Elizabeth." A man named Thomas Hanlon was drowned at Charles Island, In Long Island Sound, on Saturday, while endeavoring to rescue his little son, who was bathing and got beyond his depth. Thu child was saved. lion. John Wentworth, of Chicago, was thrown frost his bligl4V on Wabash Avenue, Tuesday evening, with great violence, and dislocated his hip. Ile will probably be confined to his bed for three months. The Princess Alice, of I lesse ' queen VlC torla's second daughter, is said to live very unhappily with her husband, who, accord ing to common rumor, treats her with shameful brutality, A divorce is said to bo on the lapis. They aro to have a monastery at Du buque. The building will be of stone and very elegant. The Dubuque h erald says that the design, if carried out, will give Dubuque a monastery something like the grand old structures of Italy. Prof. Langworthy, while performing with the lions, connected with Forepaugh's circus, at Honey Falls, near Rochester, N. Y., on August 11th, was attacked by a lion and badly injured, and his back and limbs lacerated. He will probably recover. Governor Brownlow's militia, it is under stood, are to be promptly mustered 0111 except a few companies, which are to re main in West Tennessee. This action has been brought about by General Thomas, who is now on a tour through his district, accompanied by his staff. A part of the rice crop has already been lost in some sections of the South in conse quence of wet weather and low tempera ture; but such us remains is reported to be in a favorable condition, and the harvest will probably begin about the end of the present month. A. man in New York State tried the sys Lem of artificially hatching hen's eggs, .1,600 of which ho experimented with. After an almost sleepless season his product was sixteen chickens. The thing can be done, ho thinks, but ho is doubtful that It will pay. Buffalo bakers are now obliged to stamp every loaf of bread with their initials. The law against light weight and poor material is rigidly enforced. Bread which does not come up to the standard is confiscated for the benefit of the poor, besides a line of twenty-five cents per loaf. There is good news for tea-drinkers. A dispatch from India announces that the tea trinkets in China have opened ut prices one third lower than at the opening of last year. The tea merchants of London, who have been holding buck their supplies in the hope of raising prices, have, it said, received ad vices to realize. Colonel Long's infant daughter was riding in its baby carriage along the brink of a precipice SO lea high at Cincinnati Furnace, Ohio, on Th urspay, when the nurse loft it for a moment. A gust of "wind came along and forced the vehicle, with its baby occu pant, over the fearful height, whon,strango to say, it was found unhurt and the child uninjured. Ex-queen Mary, of Hanover, was a year ago still a line-looking matron, with jet black hair. Her grief at the sudden au thronement of her husband and the blasted hopes of her son, Ernest, have exerted such an effect upon her appearance that she looks now like a woman of sixty, and her hair has turned enterely white. 'The Vienna press club has adopted a resolution to the effect that no work shall henceforth be doncrat the printing offices on Sunday, so that the printers, editors and reporters may enjoy themselves at the Prater and elsewhere. Consequently no more papers are published on Monday, to the great disgust of the public. A Saratoga letter says: Gen. Dick Taylor and Gen. Magruder cut litho a swell here. They are at all the balls and races. Ma gruder has side-Whiskers, a sandy com plexion, and an immense blood-red neck tie. Gen. Taylor has a sandy beard find moustache, and wears a velvet coat and white punts. They aro both large, portly gentlemen. A telegram of twenty words, including the address and signature, can bo sent from any part of Switzerland to any destination within the limits of the country, for ono franc (twenty cents). The telegraph is a Government institution, us it should be all over the world, and the tariff is fixed by the Federal authorities. Next year the ruling price is to Inc ten cents. Nish ,h ilopk ins, of Vermont, end Bishop odenheoner, of New Jersey, sailed lor IA v erpool Wednesday In the steamship Chi cago. They go to attend the great Pan Anglican Council to be held at Lambeth next month. Many of the Episcopal clergy went down to the vessel to bid them fare well. Bishop Hopkins expects to return in November. Bishop Odenheimer will proba bly extend his trip to Italy. Among the interesting sights at Saratoga arethe public Interviews of John C. Heenan and Hon. John Morrissey. They meet. upon Bioadway, shako bands, take a seat upon the lawn, light their Havanas and hold a most friendly chat overt heir cigars of peace, for au hour at a time. The Benicia Boy Is looking nobly—the very model of a perfect ly built man. Morrissey looks like an old man beside him. Heenan is said to be worth $lOO,OOO, and just now is a defendant in a suit in Now York in which a patron of his gaming house seeks to recover about $1,500 loot therein. The distance from Philadelphia M San Francisco, by way of Chicago, is three thousand three hundred miles. It a train should run ut the rate of twenty miles per hour, including stoppages—which is, per haps, the average rate ou railroads in this country—it would require a little less than seven days to accomplish the distance. As for grades, the traveler will ascondfrom the level of tide-water at Philadelphia or inn Francisco, ton height of eight thousand two hundred and forty-two feet, or over tt gtile and a half', at Evan's Pass, An Awful Meatier Accident One of the most horribi reaper accidents that has over come to our knowledge oc curred in a wheat field three miles south of the vill ago of Cascade, in this county, on Thursday, August 1. It seems that a child but three years of age strayed from the home of its parents into a wheat field, which was near by, and fell asleep among the wheat. Before long the father of the child came along with a reaper, driving at a brisk rate. He was startled by a sharp cry, which was almost instantly hushed. Looting down to the sickle he saw what was once his infant child rolling before the knives, already deed. Ile instantly stop ped the team and got down to the knives. The little creature was frightfully mangled. The sickle bad out and mangled it from its head to its feet. Its face was not recogniza ble, so terrible had been the work of the knives—its nose and cheek and eyes had all been lacerated. The skull had been out through—and probably this almost instant ly killed the child, as the head was evident l.y the first part struck. The child screamed but once, and then was instantly still,— Dubuquo Times.
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