putatita inttiligatar.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1867.
FOR JUL GE OF SUPREME COURT:
Ron. GEORGE SRABSWOOD, of mall
COUNTY COMMITTEE 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 31ST, at 11
o'clock, A. M. A full attendance is re
quested. A. J. STEINMAN, Chem.
B. J. MCGRANN, Sec'y.
Tim following le a list of the members:
Adamstown Dor—Richard Regart.
Dart—Ocorge S. Boone.
Drecknock—R. E. Shobor.
clay
—lacob
clay—Edwin Elser.
Coleralu—Wm. N. Galbraith.
Columbia, let Ward—Geo. Young, Jr.
2d —M. - M. Strickler.
ad " —Tinny Skieu.
Cocallco East—Cyrus Ream.
CocaDeo West—Jesse Reinhold,
Conestoga—U , Strickler.
Conoy—F. M. Gramm.
Donegal ERA—Hiram Jacobs.
Donegal West—Geo. W. Wormley.
Drumore- Wm. S. Hastings.
Earl—lsaac Hoil.
Earl East—John C. Martin.
Earl West—John D. Fritz.
Ephrata—P. Martin HoDIM%
Elizabeth—Jom. S. Keener.
Elizabethtown 13orough—Emanuel Hoffman
Eden—John Whiteside. •
Fulton—lsaac W. Towson.
I lempliehl East—Henry Hoffman.
Ilempfleld West—E. F. Hoover.
.Lumputer East,-11. G. Eshleman.
Lampeter West—Samuel Long.
City, lot Ward—A..l. Steinman.
2d " Dr. Saml. Welchem+,
" F. S. Pyfer,
4th " Dr. Henry Carpenter.
sth " Wm. B. Strlne.
Oth li. B. Swam
7th . " George Nauman.
oth " C. G. Beal.
" Hilt" Lewis ''/.ether,
lanenster Township—William Carpenter.
Leucock—George Diller.
Leacoelc Upper—George Marks.
Little lirltaln—E. M.
litannetin Borough—N Milan Worley.
Alannelm Township—B..l. liieGrau .
Manor, Millersville—John Funk.
I Ldluntowu—li.J. Rhodes.
Marietta—F. K. Conan.
Hurtle—Theo. Labezluit.
Borough—Henry Shaffner.
Moun t Joy Township—J. Baker.
Paradise:—Cleo. L. Eckert.
Penn-11. lt. Hull.
Peonea—l 1, E. Selmer.
Providence—John Tweed. •
I(apho—Bent. McCutehell.
ranbur Borough—Sam!. P. Bower.
Ml.rithinn g Townnhip—Fi n 1(11 n Clark.
Shdldni ry —J. W. llama.
Shlhibin y-11. S. Is:ernh.
Witrwlelc--12. T.,hudy.
Withidnaton—W m. Ortman.
The Present Political Contest to be Won
or Lost by the Leaders In the Rural
Districts.
What are our chances of success in
the present political contest',' That Is
the littestion which Democrats are con
stantly asking us, constantly asking
eueli other. \Ve havegood opportunities
for Miming an (minion, and we have
made up one. We are con fident that
Judge Sharswood can be elected. We
believe he would be chosen on a' full
poll of the entire vote ()I' the State. We
IL noW a very considerable change has
taken place in the public mind since
last, fall. Passions which were much
excited have I bus been allayed, and the
masses have been reflecting seriously
upon the condition ef the country.
the return or 1t season of compara
tive political calm reason has resumed
her 'sway, and men are prepared to vole
:Is ll:eh . judgments dictate, and not as
party lelolers command. The action of
Congress; the assumpt ion of all authori
ty by that belly; the bold attempt to
ittinihilate the Constitutional preroga
tives of the Executive; the open and
undisguised assault upon the Supreme
Court.; the denial to the States of their
hitherto unquestioned right to' manage
their local affairs in their own way,
subject only to the requirements of the
Constitution or the rutted States; the
establishment or an irresponsible mili
tary despettsin hl the South, to be con
tinued until the organization of a set of
negro rtpublies is completed—these
things have set the people to thinking,
Ilia are the masses ready to act? \Ve
believe they are. There are sharp In
centives to exertion which they feel
very sensibly. Wherever they turn they
are met by tile grasping hand of taxa
tion. or every dime they lay down to
pay for a purchase, the tiovernment
demands Its tithe. The people are pa
triotic, they are self-saerlllclng, they
have given most convincing proof of
that; but they demand that the money
which is wrung front their toll shall be
properly and economically expended.
This they know Is not being done by the'
Party now in power. The tax paying,
tolling millions or this country, have
been wonderfully patient. They have
borne with little murmuring burthens
such as have been heaped upon no
other people. But they are neither
blind nor stupid. They are scrutinizing
the operations of the Cioverument.
They see some fifty millions of money
being squandered upon the attempt to
establish a set of negro republics in the
South, and many millions more as use
lessly wasted. They are not, ready to
pay such a mice for the purpose of keep
ing, a set of corrupt radical fanatics 1m
power.
A majority of the people of Pennsyl
vania are convinced that the principles
of the Democratic party are correct, and
that its candidate is able, honest and
trustworthy. Will a majority of them
vote for Judge Sharswood ? We can
not positively assert that they will. It
will all depend upon the activity and
the energy of tile Democratic leaders in
the rural districts. In the cities and the
larger towns, their will be a full vote,
and in all of them we will make gains.
The battle will be won or lust by the
township leaders iu the country die-
trick. Upon them the responsibility
l'or success or defeat rests. If they do
7. theft whole duty we can not be beaten,
if they organize each election and
school district properly, there is no pos
sibility of a failure. Only by proper
organization of that kind can our suc
cess be rendered perfectly sure.
We wish it to be perfectly well un-
,derstood by the. Democrats of Pennsyl
vania, and especially by the local leaders
in the rural districts, hat we cannot
hope to win through the apathy of our
opponents. They have their :Union
Leagues still in operation, and they
have been /ruined fo rote. The time
was when we could count largely upon
a large falling off in the vote of our
opponents at such an election as that of
this fall. We calinot safely do so any
longer. There will be something of
that. l t will come from dissatisfaction
with the condition of public ailhirs,
however, and not from Indifference.,
Most of those who stay away from
the polls at the coming election will be
Democrats next year if we carry the
,State this fall. They see with alarm
the strides which are being made to
ward converting our beautiful system
of Federal Covernment Into a consoli
dated despotism; they are not prepared
to admit that Congress has the right to
make the negro a voter in Pennsylva
nia; they do not desire to see a man
pledged to administer the decrees of his
party upon the bench of our Supreme
Court; they are tired of having
millions of money wrung from them
to be spent iu electioneering among the
degraded uegroes of the South. Some
Republicans will vote for Judge Share
wood—not a few will hesitate before
they will vote for his opponent; but
as a general rule the Republicans will
vote, and vote the Radical ticket
throughout. There is a sufficient change
and a HU Incient disaffection to insure us
the victory In the pending contest if we
polkour full vote. Of that there is not
.the shadow of a doubt. Shall it bedone?
DEPExhs UPON TUE POLITICAL
LEADEVS Ili THE RURAL DISTRIOp..
Will they see to it that not a man is ah
'sent from the polls who can be induced
to vote the Democratic ticket? If they
do, all will be well. To accomplish this
they must organize, and that without
delay.
Chester County Republicanism.
The Republicans of Chester county
are squirely committed in favor of
negro suffrage and negro equality. The
strongest kind of resolutions to that ef
fect were adopted at the County Meet
ing held there. The party leaders
throughout the State are pledged to
support Congresl in their design to force
negro suffrage and negro equality upon
Pennsylvania, and it is distinctly un
derstood that Judge Williams will, if
elected, decide such an act to be consti
tutional and binding in this State. The
Issue is fairly made. The ugly reality
is presented to the voters of this State
In its most hideous shape. They are
not to have even the privilege of deter
mining toe great question for them
selves. The right of Pennsylvania to
decide who shall be electors is to be de
nied, and the Rump Congress is to dic
tate to us in regard to a matter of the
most vital importance. The Constitu
tion of the United States and the Con•
stitution of Pennsylvania are both to be
Ignored, thtit some twenty thousand
negro votes may be added to the Radi
cal party. Nothing can prevent it ex
cept the defeat of the Republican party
at the coining election. Are the white
men of this State prepared thus tamely
to surrender their rights? If they are
not, thet:e must be a full poll of the
white vote in favor of George W. Share
wood.
The Test
We clip the following from the editor
ial columns of the Lancaster Examiner:
Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, said
in a speech :it Saratoga Springs that Gene
ral Grant was in favor of negro sutirage—
north and south. Montgomery Blair said
in his speech at Alum Springs, Vu., that
Grant was opposed to negro suffrage.
We have no doubt that Senator Wilson
I: new what he was saying, but it would not
hurt )lea. ; rant's status with the loyal peo
ple of the country if they knew front him
WiliCh side of this question he was on.
Are you " in favor of ncgro suffrogi;—,
north awl south That is the test,
reader. It is to be applied to General
Grunt, and to every man who professes
to belong to.the Republican party. All
the past services of Grant avail nothing
unless lie can, stand that test. Let every
voter apply it to himself. It Is an easy
test. Every man can tell precisely
where lie stands. If he is "in favor qf
la gra .Nu
. tfratjr—norih and soul 11," he
ought to vote for I [miry \V. Williams.
r lie is opposed to it, either north or
south, he should boldly and openly vote
for Ocorge W. Sharswood. There is no
longer any middle grOund for timid
timeservers to occupy.
A Serious Social Problem
The Itoel;lngliam Registri, a leading
paper in the "Old Tenth Legion" of
Virginia, publishes a register of births.
lis last issue cause to us with quite a
Itst tf announcements. 'Zhe first ran
thus:
At Edinburg, Vs., :sirs. Col. F, L. Moore, a
son.
And so it went all the way down the
list--every time a boy. There is some
thing ominous in that. These Virginia
women seem to "bring forth male chil
dren only" since the war. Here is a
thing that needs looking to. From the
"Tenth Legion" came Stonewall.lack
soll's " fait cavalry." Northern news
paper reporters informed us that the
women of that section were terrible
rebels during the war. What will these
boys be when they grow. up under the
justly hated rule of negroes and such
political pests as Hunnicutt? It is a
very Herions Hoelid problem, fraught
with unknown dangers. We Invite
Mr. Sumner, who is newly married, to
take It Into consideration. Perhaps it
might he properly referred to the lie
conch action Committee, The fact that
front the prevalence of abortions and
other causes the number of births in
New England lots been greatly dimin
ished, adds interest to the nuttier. By
all means let it be looked Into.
THE cuckolded satrap, Dan Sickles,
has had the Captain of a South Caro
lina steamboat tined $:2:0 for not allow
ing a negro wench to occupy a State
room In the lady's cabin. If Sickles
0110504 to 111,11014 ill) open adultress to his
embrace after killing her paramour, that
Is his own business ; If he should con
clude to share his couch with a negro,
we do not know that the world wokild
object; but It Is an unmittigated out
rage for him- to attempt to pack the state
rooms of steamboats on the Southern
rivers with negroes, so long as white
men and women are expected to travel
in them. It is true there is a law or
Congress declaring that no distinction
shall be made, but it would have re
mained a dead letter but for the active
interference of Sickles and his subordi
nates. Sheridan issued a Similar order
in reNrence to all Louisiana and Texas
railroads and steamboats just previous
to his retirement. 1-low 111 11011 of that
kind of thing are the people expected
to stand':
A Specimen of the Radical hero.
When the toploftical and bedizened
Military (;overnor Geary' W 115 returning
from Bedford Springs, some three weeks
ago, he slopped at a hotel in Hunting
don for supper. When he came to pay
his bill the clerk charged him seventy
live as he did every one else.
His Excellency objected to paying, in
sisting that it was "a (p.metcr too much."
High words passed between the parties,
the hero of Suickersville informing the
clerk with an air who he was, and
threatening to complain to the landlord
and to have him discharged. The land
lord, Major Morrison, heard a statement
of the case from his clerk as soon as he
returned, null sustained him in his ac
tion. We did not make a note of this
act of petty meanness, when it was first
reported, because we thought there
tnight he some mistake. The Hunt
ingdon .Nonitor substantiates the state
ment it lint made. Here was official
dignity Tor you—a brigadier general
governor quarrelling with it hotel clerk
about "a yurtricr," and threatening
vengeance hec•tutse he was charged the
regular price for t meld of victuals.
(leaky is a fair specimen of the Radical
hero!
IVoribles4 Route Agents
Our subscribers In the southern end
of this county are constantly complain•
ing that they do not receive the intern
llcite, rby regular course of mall. We
have ;nude diligent inquiry in regard
to the matter, and we are informed by
the postmaster of this eity that the
fault is with the route ts, who have
charge of thennail cars in which the
distribution of matter intended for that
section is made. They nre, We are in
formed', so negligent in the discharge
of their duties that not a week
passes in which great. irregularities do
not occur with both letters and news
papers. 'This thing must beenreeted
at once. Unless it is, the unending
officials may e,xpect such a combined
demand to be made for their removal
as will dispose of them instanter, We
have borne with this evil as long as we
are inclined to. We send marked copies
of this paper to the Postmasters at Har
risburg and Philadelphia, and invite
their immediate attention to the matter.
Exit Slekels
The cuckolded satrap, Dan. Sickels,
has been removed. There is an end of
his io:diug it over the people of the
South. General Canby who takes his
place is said to be a gentlemen. Presi
dent Johnson deserves thd thanks of all
.4egeht people for making this change.
Pennsylvania Republicans Preparing the
Negroes to Vote.
The Radical leaders of this State are
busy electioneering among the negroes
in anticipation of the passage of a law
by Congress making them voters. They
expect such a general act to be forced
through and carried over the anticipated
veto of the President at the next ses
sion. Taking time by the fore lock, a
circular is being widely distributed
throughout Pennsylvania under the
frank of radical members of Congress. It
is sent to negroes alone, A copy of it,
franked by W. H. Koonti, Republican
representative of the sixteenth district,
has fallen into the hands of the editors
of the Valley Spirit published at Cham
bersburg. It is headed, "The position
of the Democratic and Republican
parties," and purports to be " a dialogue
between a white Republican and a
colored citizens. The following are a
few of the questions and answers con
tained in the circular, the "colored
citizen" asking the questions and the
" whitOßepubilcan" answering them as
follows :
Colored Citizen—W illi which party should
the colored man vote?
White Republican—The tinion Republi
can party.
Col. Cit.—Why should the colored man
vote with that party?
White Rep.—Because that party has made
him free and given him the right to vote.
CM. Cit.—Who abolished slavery in the
District of Columbia?
White Rep.—A Republican Congress and
Abraham Lincoln, a Republican President.
Col. Cit.—Who freed the slaves in the
South ?
White Rep.—Abruhatn Lincoln, the Re
publican President, by proclamation.
Col. Cit. Who passed the Freedman's
Bureau Bill ?
White Rep. A Republican Congress by
more than a two-thirds vote over the veto
of Andrew Johnson, the leader of Democra
tin or Conservative party.
Got. Cit. Who gave us the Civil Rights
Bill?
White Rep. The sumo Republican Con
gress.
Col. Cit. Whet party gave us the right to
vote?
White Rep. The Republican party.
Col. Cit. To what party do the leading
colored men belong.
White Rep. Without exception they be
long to the Republican party.
Col. Cit. What are the most prominent
principles advocated by the Republican
party?
11 bite Rep.—Equal rights before the law
and at the ballot bo x y for all men without
regard to race or color ; that is, that every
man shall have the same rights and liber
ties as sny other man.
The leaders of the Republican party
are convinced that without the aid of
the negro vote Pennsylvania will be
speedily lost to them. They expect the
addition of from Ilfteen to twenty thou
sand negroes to their disorganized ranks
will enable them to control the State,
at least-until after the next Presidential
election. The election of Judge Wil
liams this fall would embolden them to
enfranchise tin negroes at once by a
general act or Congress. They would
claim, with reason, too, that the propo
sition had been endorsel by the people
of this State, and they would be sure
that our Supreme Court, as then consti•
tuted, would declare such a law to be
constitutional and binding. Whether
Judge Williams is elected or not, we
are convinced that the outrage will be
attempted. It may be that a decisive
Democratic victory this fall would deter
these revolutionary fanatics from their
threatened purpose.
Pennsylvania stands as a barr ler In the
way of negro equality. She can only
maintain her independence by electing
George W. Sharswood to the Supreme
Court. With him upon the bench, the
rights of the white rare will be pro
tected. Should lie be defeated, every
negro in the State will be marched to
the polls at tie coining presidential
election to vote in accordance with the
instructions they are now receiving
from Washington under the seal anti
frank of Repuldican members of Con
gress. Surely there can be no doubt as
to how the white men of this State will
vote at the coming election. Judge
Sharswood's majority ought to be fifty
thousand.
{Vita Is Needed to Complete Itoalca
Reconstruction.
General Pope seems to understand the
Radical method of dealing with the
South perfectly. In his letter to Gen,
Grant, he demonstrates conclusively
that there can neither be peace nor a
reconstruction MI the plan proposed by
Congress, until tile white population of
the Southern States is either dead or
banished from the country. We do not
believe his signal failure as a General,
and the rankling sting of intense mor
tification which he must still feel has
warped his judgment. We believe lie
Is correct in Miele of the situation,
and regard his letter to ( ;rant as being
as full of trutlras his despatches from
the battle-field were full of lies.
It Is only necessary to read his letter
to be fully convinced that any perma
nent and desirable reconstruction under
the acts of Congress is an impossibility,
so long as the white population of the
South continue to inhabit that section
of our country. •
One of two things must be done. Ei
ther a wiser and more moderate plan
must be adopted, or the whites must be
got out of the way, and the whole land
delivered up to the negroes. Pope bold
ly declares himself to be in favor of the
latter method. He is a thorough Radi
cal, and is prepared to go to the full
length of the programme. True, he
wishes first to try the banishment of
the leaders. But he is surely not so
great a fool as not to know that other
leaders would instantly spring. up to
take the place of those banished. If his
plan is adopted, the deportation must
be continued until the Southern States
are cleared (al their whole population.
How this scheme is to be carried out,
the hero of the ,A;cond Bull Run does
not deign to inform us. Perhaps Con
gress iu its wisdom may conclude to
get rid of. these obstructions in a sum
mary manner. A cheaper and surer
method than banishment would be to
hang or shoot them. Pope demonstrates
that Radical dominion in the South can
only lie assured when that land is left In
the undisturbed possession of the ne
gross, the military and the Radical
office-holders. It will be seen therefore
that there must be another supplement
to the reconstruction acts. Let Thad.
Stevens go to work on It at once.
Moderate slaughter and mild con
fiscation, if persistently carried on for
sonic years to come, might eventuate in
a permanent establishment of the ne
gro republics _which have been set up
in the South. Nothing less radical
ever can or will. •
Who Are the First Repudiators?
Chase and a Radical Congress were
the first to proclaim repudiation as the
law of the United States in finance.
They declared that contracts to pay a
debt in gold could be discharged by a
lender of shinplasters, worth, say, ?arty
o.lla on the dollar in specie. Judge
endeavored to prevent the
application of such an unconstitutional
law to pr i vide contracts. He held that
clause of !he C onstitution of the United
,icli declares that Congress
hall V•=4 no law impairing contracts
to be biiidirif4, For so doing, he is de•
11()111/1;e0 I,y a :tot of silly scribblers who
profess i» he frightened at the sugges 7
tion that Congress ;nay some day order
the whole debt, or the Interest on it, to
be paid in paper currurioy. Would not
it be a good thing 14, have a man with
Sharswodd's views on the bench of our
Supreme Court in ease such a thing
should be attempted'? What say the
bondholders of Lancaster county.
Corruption of the Republican Party in
Lancaster County.
With the destruction of the old Whig
party and the establishrhent of the in
famous Know-nothing organization, the
reign of political corruption in this State
and elsewhere began. From that time
to the present the opponents of the
Democratic party, under whatever name
they have rallied, have been led by a
set of selfish and unprincipled politi
cal adventurers, whose highest aim has
always been to make merchandize of
official position. The venality of our
State Legislature, when under their
control, has made the name of Penn
sylvania a by-word and a reproach-
Congress has of late been almost equally
as purchasable, and even from their own
journals we hear the charge made that
a majority of the Radical Senators are
infinenced in their actions and their
votes by mercenary considerations.
From the lowest ward politician in the
Radical ranks to the United States Sen
ator in his seat, a large majority of the
Republican politicians of Pennsylvania
are confessedly corrupt men. When
we make so bold a charge as that we do
it, not on our own authority, but on the
authority of the Republican journals of
the State.
Everywhere the same humiliating
and disgraceful confession has been
made. There is not a well-informed
man in the State who has any doubt of
its truth. Over the whole party, cover
ing all its acts and polluting its every
part, the mildew of corruption has
spread. The elections, where they have
control, have ceased to be a generous
rivalry between deserving men, and
have degenerated into a squabble be
tween unworthy candidates for the
mere spoils of office. The disgraceful
condition of affairs in Lancaster county
is only a fair specimen of the moral
condition of the party elsewhere. The
Examiner, the old and well-recognized
organ of the Republican party in this
district, tells the story of that party's
shame in a single short paragraph. It
says:
Brubaker has made an assessment on the
slate candidates, amounting to some twelve
hundred dollars. This he has distributed
among his tools in the various districts,
giving ouch from twenty live to a hundred
dollars, according to the trouble they will
have to carry the delegates in the district.
This money Is at work in most of the dis
tricts, to carry them for such delegates as
will be at the disposal of the Thug mana
gers when they meet in Convention, Ilow
long shall these things continuo—oh! how
long? we are asked daily by the honest,
earliest men of the party.
What a humiliating confession that
is! How deeply must the Republican
party of this county be sunk lu shame
less corruption, when it Is openly ad
mitted that all the offices In the gift of
the people are thus bought up by the
adherents of a single trading politician
of very ordinary abilities. The candi
dates for the Legislature and for the
various important counts offices have
been already designated, and an amount
deemed amply sufficient to put " the
slate candidates" through has been as
sessed upon them. The Republican
voters of Lancaster county must hold
themselves very cheap indeed, when
twelve hundred dollars Is deemed suffi
cient to buy up a majority of them.
What a commentary that is upon the
diguity of republican institutions and
the purity of the ballot-box in this
country!
The Extra State Tax
The County Treasurer refuses to an
swer fairly the question we put to him.
lie could not be Ignorant that upon dif
ferent counties of this State, and we
suppose upon all, a demand hits been
made by the Radical officials at Harris
burg for an extra tax, not authorized by
any law, nearly equal to the whole
amount paid in the years 150: and 1507.
Reports from six counties In regard to
this matter, form the following start
ling exhibit:
Tax, NC. Exl rn, 18(15.7.
Allegheny $7,0 9 11 0 *.15,0511 12
Ilurks .. 5,721 25 10,500 Os
....
lottyutle .) MI 10,31'2 MI
Intllima ),.17:1 .SI .1,111:1 , Ifl
Wvstmorolitild :1,.',311 30 Iii,DOS .I({
1'‘,1•1: ~ ii IS 2.S 10,932 7S
$313,1;•19 s 7 $lO2, IJI 90
:16,6111 s 7
T.,tal tax and oxtra for 15(17—513 9 , 101 7
Itvgular tax paid In 15Gif 30,0.111
Increa:iv for Itiii7 aver 1566!...5102,151 Ui
Now, what we want the County
Treasurer to give us is the amount so
demanded from Lancaster county. Ile
can furnish the figures we ask for as
easily as those he gives. Will he be
good enough to do so?
The tax-payers will notice that he
carefully avoids saying a word about
the important matter to which we
called hls attention. Ile does not say
the demand for an extra tax ha riot
been made. We are at liberty, there•
fore, to infer that Lancaster county is
in the same category with Allegheny
and the rest of the State. She is ex
pected to pay an amount of cxtra and
illegal tax for 1806 and 1807 equal to or
greater than that raised on real estate,
previous to the repeal in 1800.
More of the State Tax Swindle
Northampton county, which paid
53,962.87 in taxes to the State for 186(3,
and the same amount for 1567, has been
called upon for the sum of 57,796.39 ex
tra, for each of those years, by the Radi
cal State officials. For each of those
years, therefore, the people of that
county are required to pay $1,833.72
more than the original and ordinary
assessments! In 15(36 the people of
Northampton county paid $5,962,87, but
for ISO 7 they are required to pay $21,-
536,95—m0re than three and a half limes
more than the former 411101.111 t Besides
this, the same original assessment that
was paid iu 1866 is demanded for 1867,
showing that the real estate tax has not
been remitted, but is demanded in ad
dition to the extra amounts.
Any one who reads the lame reply of
the County Treasurer to our inquiry
will see that his statement might be
perfectly correct and yet a demand be
made upon Lancaster County for an
amount of extra tax equal to the'total
of the sums paid in lala and 1867. Will
the editorial official be good enough to
let the tax-payers of title county know
whether they have been treated as
those of Northampton and other coun
ties have? What is our share of this
extra tax swindle? That is what we
want to know. •
Very Close,
The contest between the Thugs and
the friends of the Crawford County Sys
tern has been very close. It is reported
this morning that the delegates elected
on Saturday are just about equally di
vided between the contending factions,
and it is thought there will be room for
weighty arguments. We expect to see
a rich time g,t, the Convention on Wed
nesday. The Intelligenef:r will contain
a full report of the proceedings,
The Staats•Zeltung
This excellent German newspaper,
which is ably edited by J. George Rip-
per, is to be much enlarged and other
wise improved in a couple of weeks.
The proposed addition to its columns
will make it one of the largest papers
of its class in the State. It always
gives a full smnmary of the local news
of Lancaster county, and had a large
arid constantly increasing circulation
among om iGerman population. It is
an advertising medium worthy the pa
tionage of our enterprising businesp
ipen.
What It Costs.
Fifty million dollars are being paid
yearly to keep up the vast force of
officials in the South whose business it
is to manipulate the negro vote for
radical candidates. That much it costs
in money alone to establish negro re
publics in the South, and to make
effective the combined rule of the New
England puritan and the ignorant
African over the whole country. All
this comes out of the pockets of the
working men—nearly all of it out of the
poorly filled pockets of the white labor
ers of the North. Will they encourage
a continuance of such an outrage by
voting the Radical ticket this fall? We
shall watch the result in Pennsylvania
with some curiosity.
The German Radicals Leaving the Re
publican Party.
At-a German meeting held in Chicago,
the other night, Herman Raster, editor
of the Illinois Staats &flung, made a
speech. Referring to the fanaticism of
the Radical party, he said: "As he had
advised his German friends to leave the
Democratic party in 1854, as eagerly
would he now advise his German fellow
Republicans of 1868 to part company
with a party that has recklessly adulte
rated its national programme by New
England sectionalism." The Germans
are rapidly cutting loose from Radical
ism.
The Democracy of Allegheny County.
At the Democratic County Convention
of Allegheny county the following ticket
was nominated :
Senator—James P. Burr.
Assembly—James H. Hopkins, Francis
Sellers, Samuel M'Kee,William M. Murray,
Uzzluh Stewart.
Prothonotary—John A. Elder,
County Treasurer —A. J. Baker.
County Commissioner—Alfred Anshutz.
Coroner—Michael Lipp.
Director of the Poor—Henderson Wight
man.
Jury Commissioner—William Griffin,
Mr. Burr, the candidate for the Senate
is the well-known and talented editor of
the Pittsburg Poet ; Mr. Hopkins is au
able lawyer, son of Hon. Wm. Hopkins
so long and so favorably known. The
ticket throuchout is an excellent one,
and deserves to be elected.
The Ticket In Huntingdon County.
The Democracy of Huntingdon county
lave nominated the following ticket :
Senate—R. Bruce Petrikin, (subject to
he decision of the iienntarial Conference.)
Assembly—John S. Miller, (subject to the
lucislon of the Representative Conference.)
County Con - linksloner—Solomon Chileote.
Treasurer—D. A. Thompson.
Director of the Poor—Peter Kooken.
Jury Commissioner—N. K. Covert.
Auditor—NY. C. Swann.
Major Petrikln is a leading lawyer in
Huntingdon, an educated gentleman,
and highly popular at home and
throughout the district. Ho would make
a very strong candidate, and we hope
he may be settled by the Conference.
Mr. Miller, who is presented for the
Assembly, ran last fall and was only
beaten some fifty or sixty votes In a
district which gave a radical majority
of some hundreds. He ought to have a
chance to try it over. We believe he
would certainly be elected.
THE Democratic Senatorial Confer
ence of the Twenty-first District, com
posed of Blair, Centre, Huntingdon,
Juniata and Perry counties, nominated
C. J. T. Mclntire of Perry and S. 'l'.
Shugart of Centre as candidates for the
State Senate. They are both strong
men, and will make popular candidates.
The Representative Conference of the
district comprising Huntingdon, Juni
ata and ➢litllin nominated J. S. Miller
of Huntingdon and Robert P. McWil
liams of Juniata. They ought to be
elected.
The Butler Democrat
" Uncle Jake" Zeigler, so well and so
favorably known to the Democracy of
this State, has had the misfortune to
lose a fortune in oil and other specula
tions. What sharpers fleeced him wo
know not. He does not despair, how
ever. With unabated energy he re
turns to an honorable and laborious oc•
cupation, and having purchased the
13utler Dr mocrat, a paper which he
formerly published, he has settled down
to the cares and toils of an Editor's life,
with a cheerful energy that Is plainly
made manifest in his first Issue. Under
his charge the Butler Democrat will be
emphatically a lire newspaper. We
sympathize with him In his misfortunes,
and gladly welcome him back among
the press gang, wishing him all possi
ble success in the future.
THE Negro Lodge which held a con
vention at Reading last week demanded
the passage of a law by Congress con
ferring upon them equal rights in Penn
sylvania, endorsed Judge Williams, and
pledged themselves to use all their in
fluence in his favor. They appreciate
the importance of having a man on the
Supreme Bench who will strike down
the doctrine of State rights, and subject
the whites of this State to the domina
tion of the fanatics who have determin
ed to annul the power of the Executive
and Judicial branches of the general
government, and to rule the whole
nation, regardless of the Constitution
or any other restraint as their own un
bridled will may dictate. The action
of these negroes at Reading was most
significant.
TILE published opinion of Judge
Sharswood shows that he is irreconcila
bly opposed to the repudiation of any
contract. The Republican party of this
State deliberately repudiated a portion
of the State debt when they passed a
law making the interest on our bonds
payable in paper currency, eater it bad
been expressly stipulated that it should
be paid " /Joh? coin." That act of re
pudiation was supported by every Re
publican member of the Legislature and
opposed by every Democrat. Let the
bondholders of Lancaster county judge
between the two parties.
Jumin SitAnswoon is opposed to the
repudiation of any contract. The Re
publicans of Allegheny county repudi
ated a portion of the railroad bonds
Issued by them for the benefit of Pitts
burg, and but fora Democratic Supreme
Court, would have repudiated theth
entirely. The Pittsburg I'oBt, which
was the only paper in the city that did
not favor repudiation, is the organ of
the Democratic party. It declares thdt
the voice of Judge Williams was never
raised to defend the rights of trusting
creditors when repudiation was attemp
Let that be remembered ! Let the
bondholders of Lancaster county make
a note of it?
attention of the reader is par
ticularly directed to a remarkable article
from the editorial columns of the New
York Herald, which we publish else
where. It is entitled " Rapid and
startling progress of our great revolu
tion." No one can read it without be
ing Impressed by its earnestness and its
truthfulness.
BEN. DARWIN, by courtesy dubbed
"Honorable," for years a leading lowa
Radical politician, the author of most
of the State platforms of his party, a
Stater Senator, codifyer of her laws, and
lastly appointed to a United States Dis
trict Judgeship in Washington Terri
tory, has created a sensation by seducing
the wife of his Intimate friend, a United
States Revenue ()Meer ut Port Town
send, Washington Territory. Another
indication pf the purity of the "God
and morality party,'
THE REMOVAL OF OEN. SHEEIDAN.
Correspondence Between the President
and General Grant.
President Johnson to General Grant,
ExEctrrrvz MANSION,
WASHINGTON, D. 0., August 17, 1807.
DEAR Sin—Before you issue instructions
to carry into effect the enclosed order I
would be pleased to hear any suggestions
you may .deem necessary respecting the
assignments to which the order refers.
Truly yours,
ANDREW JOHNSON.
Gen. 11. S. GRANT, Sec. of War ad interim.
Tho Order of Removal.
EXlctrrivB MANSION
WASHINGTON. D. c„ August 17, 1807.
Major General George H. Thomas /is
hereby assigned to the command of the Fifth
Military District, created by the act of
Congress passed on the second day of March,
1867.
Major General P. H. Sheridan is hereby
assigned to the command of the Department
of the Missouri.
Major General Winfield S. Hancock is
hereby assigned to the command of the
Department of the Cumberland.
The Secretary of War ad interim will give
the necessary instructions to carry this
order into effect.
ANDREW JOR:NSON.
General Grant to President Johnson
HEADQUARTERS, ARMIES OF THE U. S., I,
WASHINGTON, D. C.., Aug. 17, 18137,
His Excellency, Andrew Johnson, President
of the United States:
Stn—l am in receipt of your order of this
date, directing the assignment of General
G. H. Thomas to the command of the Fifth
Military District, General Sheridan to the
Department of the Missouri and General
Hancock to the Department of the Cum
berland ; also, your note of this date Condos.
lug these instructions) saying, " Before you
issue instructions to carry into effect the
enclosed order, I would be pleased to hear
any suggestions you may deem necessary,
respecting the assignments to which the
order refers."
I am pleased to avail myself of this invite•
lion to urge, earnestly urge—urge in the
name of apatriotic people who have sacrifi
ced hundreds of thousands of loyal lives and
thousands of millions of treasure to preserve
the integrity and union of this country that
the order be net insisted on. It is unmistaka
bly the expressed wish of the country that
Gen. Sheridan should not be removed front
his present command. :Phis is a republic
where the will of the people is the law of the
land. I beg that their voice may be heard.
lien. Sheridan has performed his civil du
ties faithfully and intelligently. His remov
al will only be regarded its an effort to defeat
the laws of Congress. It will be interpre
ted by the unreconstructed element in the
South—those who did all they could to
break up this Govenimeut by, arms and
now wish to be the only element Consulted
as to the method of restoring order—as a
triumph. It will embolden them to renew
ed opposition to the will of the loyal masses,
Relieving that they have the Executive with
them.
The services of General Thomas in bat
tling for the Union entitle him to HOMO con
sideration. lie has repeatedly entered his
protest against being assigned to either of
the five Military districts, and especially to
being assigned to relieve Gem Sheridan.
Gen. Hancock ought not to be removed
from where he is. His department is a com
plicated One, which will toko a now com
mander some time to become acquainted
with.
There are military reasons, peounittry
reasons,
and, above all, patriotic reasons,
why this order should not be insisted on.
I beg to refer to a letter, marked private,
which I wrote to the President when first
consulted oil the subject of the change in the
War Department. It bears upon the sub
ject of this removal, and I had hoped would
have prevented it.
I have the honor to be, with groat respect,
your obedient servant, •
GRANT, General U. S. Army,
and Secretary of War ad interim.
President Joh:• on to General Grant,
Ex , c•rivE MANSION, 1
WASIIIN(.. ON, 1). C., Aug. Et.
Gt.:skit...l.—l have received your com
munication of the 17th inst., and thank you
for the promptness with which you have
submitted your views respecting the as•
signments directed In my order of that date.
When I stated, In my, unofficial note of the
17th, that I would bu pleased to hear any l i
suggestions you might deeni necessary
upon the subject, It was not my Intention
to ask from you a formal report, but rather
to Invite it verbal elatoment of any reasons
affecting the public interests which, In your
opinion would render the order Inexpe
dient. Inasmuch, however, as you have
embodied your suggestions in a written
communication, It is proper that I should
make some reply.
You earnestly urge that the order be not
insisted on, remarking that "It is unmis
takably the ox tressed wlmh of the vountry.
that General Sheridan should not be re•
moved from his present command." While
I am cognizant of the efforts that have been
made to retain General Sheridan In com
mand of the Fifth Military District, I aint
not aware that the question has over been
submitted to the people themselves for de
termination. It certainly would be unjust
to the army to assume that, In the opinion
of the nation, ho alone he capable of com
manding the States of Louisiana and Texas,
and that, were he for any cause removed,
no other general in the military service of
the United slates would be competent to
till his place. General Thomas, whom I
have designated as his successor, is well
known to the country. Having won high
and honori . 4e distinction in the field, he
has since, lit the execution of the responsi
ble dullek-oT a department commander,
exhibited great ability, sound discretion
and sterling patriotism. Ile hits not failed,
titular the most trying circumstances, to
enforce the laws, to preserve peace
and order, tit encourage the restoration of
civil authority and to promote, as far as
possible, a spirit of reconciliation. Ills
administration of the Department of the
Cumberland will certainly compare most
favorably with that of General Sheridan in
Cho Fifth Military District. There - uilhirs
appear to be in a disturbed condition,
and
a bitter spirit of antagonism seetns to have
resulted from General Sheridan's manage
ment. He has rendered himself exceeding
ly obnoxious by the manner in which ho
has exercised even the powers conferred by
Congress, and still more so by a resort to'
authority not granted by law nor necessary
to its faithful and efficient execution. Ills
rule lies, in fact,been ono of absolute tyranny
without reference to the principles of our
government or the nature of our freo insti•
lotions. 'The state of affairs which has re
sulted front the course he has pursued tins
seriously interfered with a harmonious,
satisfactory and speedy execution of the
acts of Congress, and Is alone sufficient to
justify a change. Nis removal, therefore,
cannot "be regarded as an effort to defeat
the laws of Congress;" for the object is to
facilitate their exec ution, through 1111
officer who has never failed to obey the
statutes of the land, and to exact, within his
jurisdiction,
n like obedience front others.
It cannot "be interpreted by the unrecon
structed element in the South—those who
did all they could to break up this govern
ment by arms and now wish to be the only
element consulted as to the unedited of
restoring order—as a triumph;" for, as
intelligent men, they must know that the
mere change of military commanders
cannot alter the law, and that Gen. Thomas
will be as much bound by its requirements
as General Sheridan. It cannot " embolden
them to renewed opposition to the will of
the loyal masses, believing that they have
the I. ; :xecutlve with them;" for they are
perfectly familiar with the antecedents of
the PI 0 , -cident, and kinow that he has not
eit,t matted the f , ,ithful execution of any act
of Congress.
No one, as you are aware, has a higher
appreciation than myself of the services of
General Thomas, and no one would be less
inclined to assign him to 0 command not
entirely to his wishes. Knowing him us I
do, I cannot think that lie will le for
a moment to obey any order having in
view a complete and speedy restoration of
the Union, in the preservation of which ho
has rendered such important and valuable
services.
General Hancock, known to tho whole
country as a gallant, able and patriotic mol
dier, will, I have no doubt, sustain his high
reputation In any position to which he may
be assigned. If', as you observe, tho de
partment which.he will leave Is a complica
ted one, I feel confident that, under the
guidancelind instructions of Gen. Sherman,
General Sheridan will soon become familiar
with its necessities, and will avail himself
of the opportunity afforded by the Indian
troubles for the display of the energy, en.
terprise and daring which gave-him so
enviable a repntation during our civil
struggle,
In assuming that it is the expressed wish
of the people that Gen. Sheridan should not
be removed from his present command, you
remark that this is a republic where the
will of the people is the law of the land, and
beg that their voice may be heard. This is
indeed a republic—based, however, upon a
written Constitution. That Constitution is
the combined and expressed will of the
people, and their voice is law when re
flected in the mariner which that in
strument prescribes. While one of its
provisions makes the President Corn •
mander-in-Chief of the army and navy,
another requires that ho shall take care
that the laws be faithfully executed.
Believing that a change in the command of
the Fifth Military District is absolutely , ne
cessary for a faithful execution of the laws,
I have issued the order which is the subject
of this correspondence. and in thus exercis
ing a power that inlires in - the Executive
under the Constitution, as Commander-in-
Chief of the military and naval forces, I am
discharging a duty required of me by the
will of the nation, as formally declared in
thesupreme law of the land. By his oath the
Executive is solemnly bound, "to the best of
his ability, to reserve, protect and defend
the constitutio - 1," and although in times of
great excitemnt it may be lost to public
!
view, it is his duty, without regard to con
sequences to himself, to hold sacred and to
enforce any and all of its provisions. Any
other course would lead to the destruction of
the republic; for, the Constitution once abol
ished; there'would be' no Congress for the
exercise of legislatiVie powers, no Executiye
to see that the Mvs are faithfully executed,
.
no Judiciary to afford to the citizen protec
tion of life,.llmb and property. Usurpation
would inevitably follow, and a despotism
fixed upon the people, in violation of their
combined and expressed will. In conclu
sion, I fail to perceive any military, pecu
niary or patriotic reasons why this order
should not be carried into effect.. You will
remember that, in the first instance, I did
not consider General Sheridan the most.
suitable officer for the command of the
Fifth Military District. Time has strength
ened my convictions upon this point, and
has led me to the conclusion that patriotic
considerations demand that he should be
superseded by an officer who, while he will
faithfully execute the law, will at the same
time give more general satisfaction to the
whole people, white and black, north and
south. 1 am, General, very respectfully
yours, ANDREW JOHNSON'.
Jo Gen. U. S. Grant, Secretary of War ad
interim.
Rapid aLd Startle Progress of our
Revolution
Ou we march ! Tho negro cloud still
hangs upon our political horizon and
threatens the nation. The radicals descend
from great legislation to the petty passions
of party politics, and aro bent upon absorb
ing in the one controlling idea the whole
forces of the government. Fortunately,
the executive power comes to the rescue
and stands between Congress and the
national suicide they would commit. This
is clearly shown by the masterly answer of
President Johnson to General Grant, in the
correspondence of these officials relative to
the removal of General Sheridan, which we
publish to-day. Generall Grant evidently
felt the force of the demand which the
radical party was nicking upon hint to
place himself right with them, and seized
the opportunity thus unwillingly given
hint by Mr. Johnson. The latter, how•
ever, was not unequal to the task
of parrying the thrust, and in his
answer to General Grant gives us the
best State paper and the must exact ex
planation of his position that have been
issued front the Executive Mansion during
his administration. The General, true to
the instincts of the soldier, merges too much
of military feeling into his remonstrance.
He apparently forgets what we have for
some time past been advocating—that the
removal of Sheridan changes no law, alters
no result. To imagine that any one man
is absolutely necessary to the preservation
of our institutions or the government of
any section, is to forget the fundamental
elements of republicanism;' merge prin
ciples into men; give rule to the latter;
ignore any innate force in laws themselves,
and march the people at a double-quick to
military despotism. In this view alone we
applaud the removal of Sheridan ; for the
political cry raised by the party in power
shows how closely they are treading upon
the dangerous ground we have designated.
A brave soldier, indeed, is Sheridan, and
the President pays a just tribute to his
worth ; but it must be a principle of our
republicanism that no man is absolutely
essential to us. This lesson we must teach
at once. Ignoring it, we touch the border
of a dictatorship and its inevitable sequence.
Andrew Johnson attempted at first to
seize the three branches of Government
and embody their forces in himself. Ile
Polled. Congress has lately tried to do
the same. They, too, have failed. All
this shows the strength of our Govern
ment end the terrible strain to which
it may be sni defied without breaking. It
Is useless he Congress to hope that by any
enactment they can usurp all power. Their
efforts to break the executive branch by
splitting it into fragments is in every sense
illegal, and to be deplored by every man
who seeks the general good instead of politi
cal victory. 'rho desire, moreover, to force
to the surface a vast negro element—un
trained, uneducated, unfitted to control
themselves, much less legislate for• those
who have just set them free—is the maddest
phase of a revolution which is urged on
with a partizan violence which forgets, in its
present success, that it must finally bring a
reaction which will be terrible to both white
and black. The former will dry up his
sympathies far• a rime which is forced so ra
pidly upwards that sympathy now turns to
disgust. The latter, taught that it is his
color• that gives hint merit, will sink to the
level from which, in common with ignor
ance of any color, lie must slowly march
upwards. Ilure he too will be lilted with
disgust; disgust Mr the white who inflated
him; disgust that he bus tasted at /I spring
he must leave and al'tera•a•d.s reach by long
vearm of toil ; disgust that, alter all that has
been told him, brain Is the measure of the
mum. Thu radical party, In forcing this
black element into such Ir•ominence, appear
only to elevate it the higher that the reaction
may drop IL the lower.
Mr. Johnson now holds in his hands the
forces that can resolve this problem of re
construction. If lie will only rise to the
demands of the occasion he may restore
himself to the confidence of the North. Ills
letter to General Grant is full of executive
power and a determination that It shall not
be wrested from him. Thu whole common
souse or (lie country sustains his effort to
keep his poise despite the desire of Con
gress to overturn him. Let them impeach
rim. lie may challenge it and win. Lel
him overturn the clashing elements in his
own Cabinet ; the country will applaud.
Let him drive back the black crowd that
threatens both North and South; he will
receive all aid. President Lincoln issued
all emancipation proclamation lbr the
blacks; let A nill'UNV Johnson issue, by
universal amnesty, an emancipation for the
white portion atilt, population °Nu, United
Sus tes.—Sca , York: llcrald,
The Crisis and the Remedy.
Under the above heading, the N. Y.
Hcrald has a strong article, front which
we make the following extracts
Over thirty millions of people to be ruled
by Puritanism and the negro! This Is the
result of four years of tot rible war ; the sae
rifle° of two hundred thousand lives; the
sinking of national morality; the wrecking
of commerce ; the ruin of our agricultural
interests; the imposing upon our country
a debt of three thousand in illions ol dollars.
The mad revolutionary element that blind
ly urges the nation to ruin still continues
Its race. To halt is death to them; and yet
they must be halted. 'Prue to their ideas,
and true to revolutionary rules, they begin
now to approach the second phase in the
overthrow of all government. I leretotbre
they have followed a single Idea to its wild
est extreme; they now reduce themselves
to upholding men Instead of principles.
They now strike the name of Sheridan as
the loudest note upon their political harp,
and would make the country believe that
the transfer of that officer to other duties Is
an assault upon them.
The moment has come ; the retolutionary
wave which freed the negro is now dashing
him against the common sense of the coun
try, to the ruin of its liniment Interests and
its future greatness. We are now threat
ened with a negro Representative front each
Congressional district in the South, and the
code which is to govern the United States
may receive laws based upon ignorance in
stead of education. The wave must he
stopped; it has broken front the control of
those who first gave it impulse. The na
tional revulsion of feeling demands that it
be halted, anti demands, too, that Mr. John
son halt it. bet him strike the blow ; lot
hint now give the country universal am
nesty. The negro will then take his proper
place, and in the light of freedom, which is
his right, he may emerge front mental
darkness. With universal amnesty the
reconstruction problem will be finished at
a stroke; intelligence will replace ignor
ance, and Puritanism anti the negro may
take position second to the common sense
of the country.
Melancholy Suicide at Glen*“ I•'nlls
The Republican records :t sad case of
suicide of an accomplished young lady of
Sobtli Glen's Falls. It says that Elvira
Doty, aged about 3s years, the daughter of
Mr. Wm. Doty, who lives in South glen's
Falls, has received the attentions of a young
Mall living at Mot eau Station, employed in
the office of the Saratoga and Whitehall
Railroad. 'their intimacy has continued,
apparently without interruption, for nearly
six years, and until the world at large had
regarded them as affianced lovers. On
Saturday evening the young lady attended
the theatrical exhibition at Union Hall.
Scarzely had the performance commenced,
when the Moreau Station gentleman was
observed to enter the hall, accompanied by
a young lady. Elvira; seeing her truant
lover, soon rose and left the hull, and, re
fusing the company of her brother, started
alone for home. Shecrossed the river bridge,
and wending her way down a street winch
lends directly to the river, she plunged into
the water and was drowned. Early Sunday
morning a neighbor discovered a Jockey
hat lying upon a platform used for sorting
logs, and at 8 o'clock the lifeless body of the
unfortunate young lady was recovered.
Two Men Kill Each Other
A difficulty occurred in Lebanon, Ky., on
the 18th, between George Hughes and John
Graham, in which both parties were almost
instantly killed. The former fought with
11 inch Colt pistol, and the latter with a large
8 Inch blade Bowie knife. Neither lived
more than three minutes. Graham was
shot at the top of his breast bone where the
windpipe enters the chest, the ball ranging
down, and lodging near the spine. II ughes
received five stabs in the back or left side,
just under the shoulder blade, three ol which
went clear through the body, and one out
on the head and moon theshoulder, making
seven in all.
The difficulty commenced in a public room
at the Lebanon Hotel over the price of a
drink of whisky. Hughes struck G. with a
rock ; G. drew a knife, and H. ran out of
the room; G. following H., drew his pistol
as he ran, and fired three shots. He then
ran across the street, around two buildings,
and then out to the street again, where he
fell by accident, on the pavement; and as
Graham was in the act of jumping on him
he fired the fatal shot. Graham jumped a
straddle of him, and stabbed him live times
in the back. Neither spoke afterwards.
Hughes was First Lieutenant in the Union
cavalry. Graham belonged to Morgan's
Confedc4.ate cavalry. Politics had nothing
to do with tne difficulty. Both men were of
the highest respectability.
The offer of the United States to purchase
Stamina, on the Island of Hayti, for &ON,-
OW, has been accepted.
New Items: •itk
The two handsomest kiugs in Europe are
hose of Bavaria and Portugal.
...The city of St. 'Paul bad a population in
1840, of 400; its present population is 17,000.
Admiral Palmer and the North Atlantic
squadron,'were nt Aspinwall, August Eth.
Mrs. Butterfield, a well-known American
lady, famous for her beauty, died recently
in l'aris, •
There are Hying In Paris 35,000 Germans,
as many Belgians, and nearly as many
Swiss.
Nine thousand persons in Paris live by
supplying the objects required at or after
funerals.
Admiral Togethoff sailed from Now Or
leans to Vera Cruz to try to recover the re
mains of Maxlminn.
The wife of Jesso Carter, of Mobile, Ala.,
was recently killed by her son, whom is took
her for a robbor.
Ico formed on Mount Washington, N.
H., last Tuesday night to the thickness of n
quarter of an inch.
Ex-Gov. Horatio Seymour Is to deliver
the oration at the Orleans, N. Y., Agricul
tural Fair ou the nth of September
Some irreverent thief entered the house
of n ministor in Dayton, Ohio, ono (lay last
week and stole all the missionary money.
Bello Boyd, now Mrs. I lardlntre, Is In
Baltimore. She has left her husband, and
will settle In SLLouls.
Twenty-thousand mignn. haNa. goon
West over tho Pennsylvania Railroad since
dm Ist of January.
" 110 leaves Ilvo wives and soventecn
children to 1000 rn his loss," are the conel ud
log words of a Utah obituary notice,
'rlioy luny frogs in California which weigh
twenty-five pounds apiece. California is
always great on big things.
The Fourth Nutionnl Convention ofSpiril
nalists will meet in Cleveland, Ohio, on the
3d of September.
A butcher in Now York has been senh•n
cod to thirty days' imprisonment and to
pay a fine or SSO for oniony to an ox.
A Judge has decided that hop beer
is not intoxicating. But beer drinkers are
nearly intoxicated with delight at the de
cision.
A divorce la hinted at between the Prin
cess Alice of Hesse, Victoria's daughter,
and her husband, who is said to ill-treat
her.
An order was lately received In San
Francisco from Japan tor $lO,OOO worth or
leather, to he used for military accontre•
mons,
Hot•. ()ergo 11. Dolint., of the liooost. of
Newitir, ocicnow ledges the receipt of
ltbi99o collected for the bonotit of the Pope iu
that diocese.
Mr..Tennlngs, the London Times, and
hia beitufful bride, (lhe well-known Minn
Nladellne I lenrinues,) sidled froni New
York on NVedia•mthly tor Englund.
The Tu.,:trontLtilm hay° II I rawl uoul
rally; tiny tiro ❑tnytly larniors.
The trilm , lIONV 11111'1110N anly nhoul 10111
iIU Ild red.
'f l ier() 'no l:tlioisI widows in tho Shito
New York, 93,150 won, titan Iliono
are widmvurs. is owing in port to 11 1 ,,
late war.
A Judgo of the Supreme Court or Mmiup
hum decided that m. n uu •ringo hot wren a
negro and it while person sue lllognl and
void.
The Portland physielans tivenunt fur the
remarkable healthiness of that oily this
your by attributing It to the purifying In
111101110 of the groat tire.
In the little town of \\inn., Maine, one
hundred thousand Ititioi urn annually
tanned into sole leather at one tannery
said to be the largest in the world.
Mexico is a bad place lor women. The
wife of Mendez to 1114111111; the wife of Nte . lin
is mall; the wife of Nlirarnon is stricken
beyond hope of recovery, anti the Princess
Saint-Salm is in Jail.
George Peabody has lately given ;s2,nott
each to the Peabody and Holton high
schools, ttt Danvers, :Nltiss., the Income or
which is to he used for giving inetinis and
prizes to tho
'limo cholera is reported In Is) raging ma
lignantly at Shawneetown, Illinois, on the
Ohio river. 'Twenty deaths had alremly
occurred. The divatso had also bildwil ,mitt
amon g the Seminole I tallints in K 1111,4101.
The numher
In New Orleans in three (lays was I hilly
seven. Sonia of tioneral Shorlditn's ~tint
olllcurs lire down with It. It prevails
very virulent type at l'orpos and lie
ravages urn fearlul at (htivesion.
The difficulty In lieneral Sickles' depart
moot between thu military and the Federal
courts continues. 'l•h. order front Wash
ington enforcing thu process of the courts
Ilan boon nuspended, however, until I ;utter •
al Sickles Ilan uxplitin Ills posh ion.
Itichardmon, of Paulding comi
ty, Ohio, in onu hundred and rouryent's
Ile In thu survivor of live wires, and Is
now living with the sixth. 11.. Is Ill.l a ther
oftwenty•llve children by hi orlils‘vi.ves
lwuuty•ono aro living.
AWo tttt Shot Demi by Her 11111 l alaior'u
In (Milford, 111„ ithotil 11 o'clovic 2(01 Ilie
Mght the Inlll, niter iho of 0 :11r,
Kelly Mid retired to rent, the who got 1111
without explanation 2(l Iho reitson,
%vent M the door and opened It. 1 tilmedlitle
1y 1,10 (I shots wore tired by noinu person on
the outside, 'loth titlclng elteel 111 (110 breast,
and 0110 or (111,111, It Nv)lm I lunight, through
the heart, She !ill, nod tiled Immediately.
The husband Own Iminedintely mi)r)ltig
the (loot, 112( 111011 11 . 1114 met by the murder
er, end it pistol 102(0 snapped 01111111,
without effect. Thu litiktiuttni then nprting
l'or his own gun 111111 11E011 twieu 01, the oil-
Ilan, with 001101 elliwt Is not known. The
murderer Ihen 11141 01111 at 11101 necomits lllel
not been itrrested.
l'eler Zmver hod for 01)1110 (11110 I,l'oll
pitying him addresses to Julia Keller, the
daughter of the family,but had been refused.
This happened bill spring. Zower then went
to Limiting, 10 W.I. A few days ago he return
ed. Ile was agsin refused, tel wits ordered
by the father :mil mother not to visit the
house. 110 hail made threats or personal
violence to the le i ly, 11.11111111 d been bound
over to kl•Oli the peace. lie saw the
however, ad, presenting a pistol to her,
requested her first to kill him and then
hersulf—nether of which she wanted to dn.
It is supposed that he intended to kill the
family in revenge.
How a N ttttt II Lnw•Nnit Grew
Mr. A. V. Stout told a good law story--
that ls, good for the lawyers—on the Long
Branch boat lust Tuesday. Mr. Nehemiah
Perry, ex-Member of Congress, of Newark,
went past Mr. Stout and his group. "Who
Is that ?" cried one. "That," says Mr,. Stout,
"is Mr. Perry, who sued A. V. Stout A Co.,
for thirty-suven dollars, some tweuty• livc
years ago. We defended lime suit—took it
up, until we paid the lawyers twelve hun
dred dollars expenses. Mr. Perry," eon-
Willed Mr. Stout, "called on Inc ono day
and asked what expense we were at 111111
told hint. Ile said that that was about his
amount too. 'suppose,' says Mr. Perry, 'we
pay between us the outstanding ex penses.'
'Agreed,' said Mr. Stout; and the lawyers'
books and the court books were written up,
and the parties pald—expenses six hundred
dollars each, making eighteen hundred dol
lars expense to the man that claimed the
thirty-seven dollars, and as much for the
man that refused to pay. Tho thing was
closed, the original amount in dispute not
being even mentioned."
Was not that a funny ease? Ilut how
good for the lawyers !—J.V. Y. Evenivy
(ht.:ate.
Th...lopan Steamer Stonewall
Tie•:,trainer Stonewall met with a mishap
several clays since. She was taken front
Norfolk to the Compass buoy, in Hampton
Roads, to "swing for her compasses."
\Vhi le there it was discovered that she was
leaking badly at the stern port. She was
quickly got back to Norfolk, where she Is
now placed on the ways, and a new Clem
post will be placed in her. This will delay
her departure for Japan some fifteen or
twenty days. The heavy armor and the
weight of her engines, mil, etc., was a heavy
strain upon her,when the water was pumped
from under her bilge, while there is always
a heavy drain on the stern pump front the
cable and rudder chains. The report that
she laid gone to sea Is untrue, and the rumor
that she Is unseaworthy IS also without
foundation. The accident to her might
have occured to any other vessel in the
world.— Mud/. ExpreBB.
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The Defenme or Uen. Howard
A correspondent defends Hen. Howard
against the statement made In the I . :X(1112MS.
We need not repeat that this paper will not
knowingly do any man injustice. But
though our correspondent quotes the law
authorizing the appropriation of bounty
land to educational purposes, he overlooks
the fact that the first purchase of property
for the Howard University was made In the
latter part of IStki, while the law authorizing
aid to "educational institutions actually
incorporated tor loyal refugees and freed
men" was not passed until the 2d of March,
1867, when it wits stuck on us a proviso to
an appropriation of sixteen thousand dollars
for telegraphing and postage. Let us have
the full history of thi transaction and an
explanation of the igitation raised by cer
tain Baptist gentlemen lust full, which was
quieted down by a handsome donation.—
Vaiy/i. Express.
The Rinderpest on Long lolond
The Hempstead (L. I.) Sentinel says :
" The rinderpest is making its ravages
among the stock of Mr. Charles Jones, resi
ding near Huntington. Seine of his horses
were taken with It on Sunday oflast week ;
since that time he has lost live horses and a
mule. The disease is not supposed to ho
contagious, but travels in the air. The
animals when first taken lose the use of their
limbs and die in a few hours."
Dn. 11. ANDERS, a German chemist and
a member of the Medical Faculty of New
York city, after fifteen years' research and
experiment, has discovered a tnethed of
dissolving lodine in pure water. This pre
paration (Dr. H. Anders' lodine Water) has
cured many cases of scrofula, ulcers, can
cers, ac., that had resisted the action of all
other remedies.—arnintunicaled.