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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.
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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
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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.