gannoter inttlitfienta.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1887
arculate the Intelligencer.
The long winter evenings are coming
on, when in their quiet and comfortable
homes the farmers and laboring men of
Ladcaster county will have plenty of
leisure for reading. What they espe
cially need is a newspaper which will
give them news from all parts of the
world, a review of the political events
of the day, choice literary matter, a
complete summary of local affairs, and
full reports of tLe markets. Such a
paper is the WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER.
It is admitted to be second to no weekly
paper published in Pennsylvania. After
the Ist of January we propose to en
large it greatly. It is very cheap at $2
a year as it is, and yet we are now
offering it, with the proposed enlarge
ment, from the present time to January
1et,1869, for the old price. Many are
being added to aux, list, but there are
hundreds of Democrats in the county
who do not get it. Wherever an active
man in any locality has made a little
exertion he has invariably found his
neighbors ready to subscribe.
We hope all our readers will make an
effort to add to our list between this and
the beginning of the New Year. Let
none treat this request as most people
do sermons, regard it as being meant for
sonic one else. We mean you reader,
you who are just now reading these
lines. You have a neighbor who ought
to subscribe. He needs the paper him
self—lf he has a family they need it.—
See him. Speak to him about the mat
ter the very first time you meet him.—
Ask him to subscribe, urge hiin to sub
sci•ibe, do not let him rest until he does
subscribe for the INT 1.3.1.1(1 CER. He
will be thankful to you for what you
have done, his family will all thank
you, and you will have the conscious
ness of knowing that you have done
your neighbor a kindness, done us a
kindness, and done something toward
aiding materially In the great political
contest now going on.
The coming Presidential campaign
will be the most Important and exciting
the country ever witnessed, and the
chief agency 00 which we must rely for
success is the press. Then let every
reader or the I NTELl,olomuut resolve to
do his best between this and the begin
ning of the New Year to increase our
circulation. Lk) to work at once, mu/
go to work triNi rt will.
Remember money can be mailed in
large or small sums at our risk.
TIIE molest.ltadleal ticket Is (Intuit I'm.
President 11.11(1 Forney for Vice frost•
dent. So a Itadleal newspaper says.
Tut: State Superintendent of Cow
-11100 Schools Is 1)001 a had politician
and a bad grammarian. IL Is hard to tell
whleh IM worst, Ids polities or his gram
mar. Both are horrible.
TII la SIN: Radical members of the
new Legislature held a caucus at Pitts
burg, on the I4th, and arranged matters
generally about the prospeotive spoils.
They must, be a hungry set.
'l'm: Republicans of Grant's ONVII
and in \Vashingtou City refuse to in
dorse him for the Presidency. They
are afraid to trust him. Do not believe
Lint to be sound.
Tic: New York I.lclold says " Old
Thad" is to be invited by the Conserva
tive Republicans to take a back seat in
Congress. If he is able to get into the
Louse, he will show them who will take
a back seat.
'rm. State Superintendent of Coin
mon Schools It Pennsylvania cilium ,
write two consecutive paragraphs o
grammatical English. See extraets Ilou
the Erprem.4 or yesterday for proof 0
our assertion.
WA IT until the Presidential election
and then—so say the Radicals, will
meaning twists of the neck. 'Phis i.
like the beaten school boy threatenini
his adversary with a big brother, wilt
is coming home from a whaling voyage
'nth: Stalc Uttar(' is a new daily paper
to be published at Harrisburg, begin
niug on December 2d, the• prospectus
fur which has been issued by J. It.
Dunglison, \Vein Forney and L. Knoll'.
man. It is to be Republican in polities.
he State Superintendent of Com
mon Schools were to submit to an ex
amination, as the teachers are compelled
to do, lie would not be considered lit to
teach a class in English (trainmar. See
extracts front his communication iii
yesterday's Express, if you doubt it.
13 tiT ',ER'S butler bay ng secreted some
tea-spoons from his master's cupboard,
at Lowell, (with various luitials,) the
General reproved hlin sternly, saying,
" When I took you for my butler, I did
not think you would take me for your
New Orleans!" The darkey fainted.
(h N. i\tc(2l.m.LAN was expected to
start for home last week, and extensive
preparations were being made to give
him a magnificent reception In New
York. The latest all vices announce a
change of programme, however, and he
will spend the winter in France, return
ing in the Spring.
NANY Of our entemporaries are ask •
iug, "what will Cougress do." The
best thing the Radical members could
do would be to go hang themselves.
Judas did so when be had betrayed his
master. They have betrayed their
masters, the people. Let them imitate
Judas Iscariot.
THE cost of the Military establish
ment in Virginia during the last ten
mouths has been over $5,000,000. This
is exclusive of the cost of registration
and other minor affairs. HOW long do
the taxpayers desire to pay the expense
of voting negroes iu Len States at that
rate?
TUE recent elections in Arkansas,
Florida and Mississippi have resulted in
negro victories. The whites almost uni
versally declined to vote, and the black
Republicans had it all their own way.
They now propose to pass a law dis
franiddsing all the whites who did not
vote. An elegant state of affairs, truly.
THE FAMOUS Missouri Test Oath case
has at length been decided. It will be
remembered that Francis P. Blair, Jr.,
was denied the right to vote because he
refused to take the test oath. He ap•
pealed to the Supreme Court, and that
tribunal declared the State Test Oath
uncouNtitutional, thus sustaining Blair.
GOVERNOR GEARY pardoned William
Carson, of Philadelphia, who has just
been sentenced to six months imprison-
Ment, and $250 flue for robbing a man
in a gambling game at cards. The great
est criminal need only approach the
Government in the right way to be sure
of escaping the penalty of the law.:
TILEBE has been considerable gossip
in Washington for a few days past of
an unpleasant character in relation to
John W. Forney. It was rumored that
he was some fifty thousand dollars be
hind hand in his accounts as Clerk of
the Senate, and that lie had transferred
ttu his real estate to his wife. Investi
gation, It is said, ,does not fully sub-
Atantiate the .suspiclons. His accounts
Atte behind hand, but it is said he will
be able to pay up.
A Republican exchange says it does
not expect much from Congress this
winter; that the time will be taken up
in skirmishing for the next Presidential
contest. We have no doubt it is quite
right. No good thing can be expected
from such a gathering of fanatics and
.corrupt political adventurers.
LAWRENCE COUNTY, Ohio, gets the
magnificent banner offered•by the Dem
ocratic State Central Committee for the
largest gain. The gain was 1,321 votes.
There were three townships in Ohio in
which not a single Radical vote was
cast, the three casting an aggregate vote
of over 900. Healthy spots to dwell
those.
THE New York State Constitutional
Convention Las re-assembled, but, as
the late election in that State renders
it certain that negro suffrage and other
proposed Radical innovations cannot
be carried, the probability is the body
will dissolve and be laid away as so
much more dead and useless political
rubbish.
THE Times thinks " that unless the
Republicans abandon some of their
hobbies, that they will be overwhelm
ed in the Presidential election.—
Shouldn't wonder. As Hudibrus bath
it:
t• So guilty sinners In a State,
Call by their crimes prognosticate,
And In I hull' eonsclence feel pain,
Some days befure a slower ut rain
THE New York Wm*/ says it is con
stantly receiving letters from men lu all
parts of the North who were subjected
to unjust and illegal imprisonment un
der the Lincoln dynasty. The letters
endorse with earnestness the proposi
tion to held a Convention of such per
sons In New York city, on the 22d of
February next.
TIIE Hattiellk lidnilL that the cost of
voting the negroes In the South will not
he less than :477,,00n,000 for the present
year. Lel the workingmen of the North
think of that. Every dollar of it Is
wrung from their toll. $7.5,000,0n0 a
year to keep ten States impoverished and
subject to negro rule. ILOW do you like
it fellow working men.
Sc:\ tE of the Northwestern Eepubli.
cans are advocating the election of an
other Secretary of the Senate to take
the place of Forney. They may easily
lind a acre honest and decent nun] for
the position, but they will not readily
find a fellow with two newspapers, both
daily, ready at all times to do the dir
tiest kind of work for thew. We l o udly
think they can i:pare Forney.
TIIE Indepr ndrnl says : " Out of every
three. Republicans whom one meets,
two are chiefly anx lous for the success
of negro suffrage, mild the third lor the
success of (kn. Grail t„" the edi
tor proceeds to state t h at " this third
Republican will most likely be found
to have either retrained liana voting at
all ut the late elections or to have voted
with the Dirmocrati,."
Ni: Yon!: will elect a :\layor on De
cember The Democrats have two
candidates, the preerfe Mayor liollman,
of the Tammany wing, and Fernando
Wood, of the Mozart. 'The Republican
candidate is William A. Darling. As
each branch of the Democracy polled
over -111,000 votes at the late ele,tion,
and the whole lteliti bikini vote was but
there is not the slightest chance
for Mr. Darling.
Simi.: the recent election in Maryland
the Radical Congressional Committee
are said to be progressing very slowly
in their inquiry as to whether that State
has a Republican form of ( tovernment.
They spent, one whole day recently in
vestigating the case of a negro woman
who only recovered one cent damage iu
a suit for assault and battery. The re
porters have not been able to asey,rlain
what they intend to about it.
IT appears that the Southern Conven
tions are to he rllll upon credit_ Loyal
papers advise the darkey representa
tives to look to Congress for the pay
ment of their expeuses. By all means.
Why not? What right has the coun
try to expect that Soutnern lcyalty
should not reimburse itself for weal
and tear front the coffers of the nation ?
That is the way in which ;Northern
loyalty gets paid.
A Radical exchange says: "General
tirant has not raised his little finger to
keep the Republican party from a dis•
graceful defeat." We opine that the
raising of the (ieneral's whole hand
would not have affected the result, in
any particular•. The people are not par
ticularly interested at this time In what
he thinks or does, and he has too much
horse sense to trouble himself about It.
The public mind is bent on the over
throw of the Radical rule-or-ruin fac
tion, and a thousand (Inuits would not
divert them from their purpose.
lIIM=2
THE New Hampshire Democratic
State Convention assembled at Concord
on the 14th. John (1. Sinclair, of Beth
lehem, was nominated for Governor;
and resolutions favoring equal taxation
and the repeal of all the stringent pro-
Ilibitory laws were adopted. The gal•
lant Denmc•acy of the I iranite State are
well disciplined, highly elated by the
victories of the party in other portions
of the Union, and will make a bold and
spiritei contest. We believe they will
rescue the State froin Radicalism.
TiE threat of Mrs. Lincoln to tell all
she knows about the frauds, cheatings,
swiudlings, &c., carried on by the lead
ers of the Mongrel party, has produced
a terrible fluttering among that gentry.
They, in retaliation, threaten to tell all
they know about Mrs. Lincoln. They
boldly hint at something worse than
" indiscretions" on the part of the "rosy
Empress." They will make out the
morals of the White House as tad as
its politics during the reign of the " late
lamented."
Pr is said that scone of the Raiflea
meinhers M . Congress propose to nomi
nate General Grant at a Congressional
caucus, and to dispense with a national
convention, which they think would
be a scene of hitter quarreling and the
source of discontent and disaffection.
They cannot, heal the wounds In their
party in any such way. The Democracy
care little who the Radicals nominate,
or how it is done. They are confident
of success in the great contest of next
year. The great political reaction has
only fairly begun.
IT Is said the ungrammatical State Su
perin tendeut of Common Schools aspires
to fill Old Thad Stevens' seat in Con
gress; and it is generally believed that
the old man has sworn not to die until
the silly fellow promises not to bring
his memory into disrepute by squabbling
for the succession. Let the Professor
agree to be satisfied with a seat in the
legislature, stealings included, that the
grim old chief may depart this life in
peace. Neither grammar nor honesty
are of much account in a Radical Legis
lature, nor in Congress either, for that
matter.
BIRTHDAY PRESENTATION.—Last Satur
day, being the return of Rev. W. V. Got
weld's birthday, the Reverend gentleman
was the recipient of u number of valuable
presents froth the lady mena hers of S t.John's
Lutheran (Thumb. They comprise, among
other thinge,A sll t hat, line beaver cloth
overceal,.. hair album, large fruit cake,
pocketknife, cte...--.4,1cpre.44.
" Float &banal" ;That is suggestive o
love. We believe tice Revetonal Gen
tieman is not worried.
Prof. Wlekersham—Uls Truthfulness,
Ms Sword, Ills Urammar.
We wondered why the Express, when
it championed our friend, the political
preacher, so zealously, bad not a single
word to say in regard to Prof. Wicker
sham, to whom, in the generosity of our
heart, we gave some excellent advice,
which he would have done well quietly
to have heeded. He is a sillier dunce
than we took him to be. He informed
the editor of the Express that he would
attend to us in person, and he has at
tempted to do so. 'Far better would he
have fared if ue had left the blackguard
of the Express to manage his case.—
" Would that mine enemy would write
a book " said Job. Had such things then
been invented Job would have been
sufficiently avenged on most of his ene
mies if he could have induced them to
publish a few paragraphs iu a news
paper. Not one literary pretender in
ten can pass through that ordeal, par
ticularly if he be in bad humor, with
out making a foolish spectacle of him
self. That the weak, vain, shallow
smatterer, Wickersham, has done most
effectually.
We assert that after a rambling
harangue of an hour or so. in which
appeared nothing but the most common
place political clap trap, Prof. Wicker
sham did cap the climax of his folly by
pronouncing in favor of negro suffrage,
in terms sufficiently plain to be under
stood by any man or woman of sense
who was present, and we know that he
was so understood by the audience.—
Yet he denies it. We are sorry he llhs
so little regard for the truth.
He does not attempt to deny that he
makes political speeehes, and he Insists
that he will continue to do so. In so
declaring he admits the, truth of what
we charged, and shows that lie is unfit
to fill the responsible office to which he
has, unfortunately for the interests of
the Common School system, been
elevated. l li sets a limit for himself,
however, and says:
"I shall stop at this point—until My
sword's my own."
That sword flourish Is dramatic, but
slightly incomprehensible. A Itetubll•
can friend suggests that the Professor
meant the sword he wore when lie went
to war, "training so bravely in the
militia." Ills campaign was very short,
all his wondrous deeds of valor, of which
lie habitually biaists, being performed
lu a thirty days' campaign against some
imaginary copperheads up in the coal
regions of this State. Ile was a Colonel,
a real live " Militia Kurnel," having
been appointed by political favor over
a body of men raised by a real soldier.
He wore his trappings with ostentatious
vanity long after his brief term of ser
vice expired, and we believe did not lay
aside the blue vest with brass buttons
and the military hat with long gold
cord until some months after Lee's stir.
render. I - 1k sword was always kept
hanging on his lied-post, except when
brought forth to exhibit to admiring
friends, especially " school-marms."
That is no doubt the identical sword re
ferred to in print. The" Kurnel" winds
up his silly communication with the
following very original and exceedingly
dignified paragraph :
One meets, in other towns than I,ancas
ter, little curs that snappishly hark in front,
or sneakingly Hie behind. My custom has
always been either to pass by tinnotieed all
such insignificant creatures. ~r, if they be
came too troublesome, to kick them out of
the way. My intention is to continue the
practice.
It must be gratifying to the Professor
to know that there are no such crea
tures in Lancaster. That is what he
says. lie meets them "In other towns
Mon Lancaster "—none here. We have
a suspicion lie meant to include us, but
he seems not to have had sufficient skill
in framing a sentence to do so.
That is not the only specimen of bad
English there is in his communication.
Here is a HVlltence which we want all
the school teachers in the State to try
to parse. H one of them succeeds in
doing so, according to any known rules
of English (;runnuu•, we will send him
or her a copy of the INTELLitiENCER,
or any other weekly newspaper in the
United States, free of charge for one
year. The sentence is this:
I never have, :Ina I never will prostitute
my official position as Superintendent of
Schools to ii partisan or sectarian purpose,
Go to now, you ignorant blackguard !
Mend your manners and your grammar!
Both are sadly in need of it. You are a
more egregious ass, even, than we took
you to be. What a sad commentary on
the Common Schools of Pennsylvania is
furnished by this vulgar and ungram
matical communication of the vain
glorious ignoramus who stands at the
head of ti o it is enough to
make any intelligent citizen hang his
head in shame.
Sued for libel
We were waited upon by Constable
Baker on Monday, and politely in
formed that the Trustees of Itev. Mr.
tiotwald's Church had commenced a
prosecution against us for libel, founded
upon the article which appeared lu our
paper on Friday.
We presume the Christian gentlemen
referred to are anxious to have the
matter fully investigated. We assure
them we shall throw no obstacles in the
way of such a laudable undertaking.
On the contrary they will find us ready
at the proper time to render them every
assistance in our power.
Their Names
A friend from the country asked us
for the names of the gentlemen who
figure as prosecutors of the libel suit
against us for words spoken in reference
to Rev. \V. V. Coiwald. They are,
Daniel S. Bare, John J. Cochran, 'Mar
cus C. Selmer, B. B. Martin and Henry
Baumgardner. They style themselves
"Committee of the Council of St. John's
Lutheran Church."
THE Express of Saturday evening has
a characteristiceditorial. The felon who
does the scribbling for it isas abusiveas
lfe knows how to be. Being but an ig
norant, uneducated ass, without wit, his
attempts at severity always degenerate
into the most stupid and common-place
personalities. Iu his repeated attacks
upon us he has never been able to utter
a word calculated to provoke more than
a smile of contempt. We have greatly
the advantage of him. If we chose to
sink ourselves to his dirty level, we
could rake up his past career and hold
him up to public scorn in attitudes
which would .make him writhe in an
agony of shame, if he be sensible to
such an emotion. We have purposely
refrained from engaging in any such
warfare, because we have always been
able to put our columns to much better
use. We may eventually feel con
strained in undertaking what we feel
fully justified in doing. Should we
conclude to lay aside dignity just for
once, we will, we think, give him a
scoring which he will rememberduriug
the term of his natural life. We really
pity the scurvy fellow, and his abuse
is so stupid and pointless that we can
afford to laugh at it yet awhile.
THE N. Y. World announces that
Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, Iras
been invited by several leading men of
both political parties to deliver an ad
dress on the actual condition of affairs
in the South. That is a move in the
right direction. Let leading Southern
men of moderation and judgement be
heard in this crisis. The people of the
North vain eagerly listen to their views.
They are prepared to reason On the
great, issues of the day, and will read
and carefully weigh the words of such
men as Mr. Stephens:
Improprieties at the Teachers' Institute.
Pennsylvania is justly proud of her.
Common School System. The means
of securing a fair English education are
thereby placed within thereachof every
child in the State. Year by year these
nurseries of the intellect of the common
wealth have continued to improve, as
teachers have become better fitted for
the important work committed to their
hands. The terms during which the
schools are kept open have been length
ened, the school houses have been im
proved, apparatus has been provided,
a general interest in the course of edu
cation has been awakened in the minds
of parents, and teachers have learned to
respect and honor their vocation.
Among other agencies which ought to
be made efficient in promoting the
course of common school education are
those periodical assemblages of teachers
known as District and County Insti
tutes. To encourage teachers to attend
them, provision is generally made for
allowing the time thus spent to be de
ducted from the term for which they are
engaged to teach. When these Insti
tutes are properly conducted there is no
doubt that the pupils gain instead of
losing by this arrangement. It Is pos
sible for a teacher to more than make
up for the loss of a few days by increased
efficiency.
The Lancaster County Teachers' In
stitute has become an affair of consider
able
magnitude. Most of the districts
allow the teachers a holiday for the
occasion, and for a week the . large hall
of the Court House is crowded daily and
nightly with an interested and appre
ciative audience. We hope and believe
that some good is annually done by
these gatherings. We are sure that by
proper management they could be made
a most efficient agency for promoting
the cause of education. The teachers
who are employed hi the rural districts
are generally very young, the salaries
given not being sufficient to induce
thew to make teaching a Ilfe-time loud
-0 ess. They need to be taught, and a
week properly spent at a Teachers' in-
stilute ought to give them valuable
Ideas lu relation to a proper perform
!MOO of the important duties devolving
upon thein.
We fear the proper course is not pur
' sued at the Teachers' Institute in this
county. It is not made a week of prac
tical training for the keachers iu attend•
ance. Too touch of the time is taken
up in things more showy and pleasant
than useful. There are lectures, some
of them pleasant and entertaining, some
of them able and profound, but few of
them of the kind best suited to such an
occasion. It is a much easier matter to
string together a set of glittering gener
alities, such as are calculated to elicit
the plaudits of a crowd of young people,
than it is to instruct a class of teachers
In regard to the duties which appertuifi
to their dully calling. Yet udozen words
of sound practical advice, advice which
will be acted upon in the school-room,
are worth volumes of plausible plati
tudes and pleasant poetical readings.
We have been led into making these
remarks by listening to two lectures de
livered before the Teachers' Institute
now iu session in this city. On Wed
uesday evening Prof. Wickersham,
State Superintendent of Common
Schools, delivered a lecture. From him
we would naturally have expected au
address containing at least some prac
tical suggestions to those under his care.
To him the teachers of our common
schools look up, as to the head of the
system. He ought to be familiar with
it, cognizant of ifs workings, conscious
of its detects, and ready to suggest
means of improvement. He ought to,
talk to the teachers of their duties, to
show them what is expected of them,
to encourage them in a faithful, consci
entious and painstaking discharge of
the arduous work in which they are
engaged. If he be lit for his position
he should be able to do that. We are
sorry to say there was nothing of the
kind in his lecture. It was a sort of
hybrid political harangue, with just
enough relation to education to remind
one occasionally that the speaker felt
that his stump speech was not quite the
thing under the circumstances. Mr.
Wickersham is too much of a politician
for the place he occupies. We had oc
casion to notice an exceedingly dis
tempered harangue which he deliver
ed at a political meeting in this
city just before the State election. That
we deemed out of place. If he attends
properly to his ditties as Superintend
ent of Common Schools he will not find
time to run round the country deliver
ing bitter partisan speeches. Ile has no
business to do so at any time. No State
Superintendent ever did so before him.
Still more out of olace is it for him to
make stump speeches at a Teachers'
Institute. He may believe in universal
negro suffrage, but he is not pald by the
taxpayers of Pennsylvania for going
about us au itineraut lecturer on that
subject. The people of this Slate have
a right to demand that Professor Wick
ersham shall either give his attention
to the duties of his office or re
sign it Into the hands of some
one who will do so. They do not want
a political mountebank at the head of
the Common School system of the State.
We are sure that all thinking men,
without respect to party, will agree with
us in this view of the matter. If a ma
jority of the people of Pennsylvania
agreed with Prof. Wickersham in re
gard to universal negro suffrage, they
would not desire him to convert the Com
mon School system into an engine for
the propogation of his peculiar political
theories; but when it is well known
that a vast majority of them are bitterly
and unalterably opposed to any emit
degradation of the elective franchise,
the stump speeches which he gets off at
Teachers' Institutes and elsewhere are
a direct insult to them, and an outrage
on all propriety and decency. Let him
either earn has salary by attending to
the proper duties of his office, or resign
it into the hands of some honestAquali
fied person wlto Will 110 so. From all
we have seen of Mr. Wickersham it is
our conviction that he is a mere shal
low smatterer at the best, and by his
course he has shown himself to be en
tirely unfit to occupy the position which
he seems determined to disgrace.
But there was another lecturer to
whom we feel compelled to pay our
respects. He Was a sleek, smooth, oily
tongued fellow, well-dressed, well-kept
and blessed with quite a diarrhcea of
words. He was au Adonis of a little
man, but, unlike his prototype, evi
dently not insensible to the charms of
female beauty. He was a preacher,
much,we fear,after the"God-and-rnoral•
ity" style of that class. He had honey
ed phrases for the "school-warms,"
as he styled them, very pleasant words
of flattery, softly mingled with pious
ejaculations and curses of popery and
other abominations. As he proceeded
with his harangue we somehow thought
of Gettysburg, not of its battle-field, but
of certain other transactions which once
roused quite a storm among the godly
and ungodly people of that little town.
We remembered something about a
prosecutionfor fornication and bastardy,
in which the defendant was a political
preacher, and how a loyal legislature
granted a change of venue—and we
wondered whether the dear, little duck
of a man could really have been guilty.
Strange fancies will keep running in
people's heads sometimes, and we are
often at a loss to trace the springs of
good or naughty thoughts back to their
source. How did it happen that we
should have been thinking of Gettys
burg, and not of Its battle field, during
the course of the whole lecture of a
handsome and wordy preacher? We
cannot explain, and must leave our
readers to conjecture.
The lecture of Rev. Mr. Gotwald, a
synopsis of which will be found else
where among the proceedings of the
Teachers' Insti tute,was a sort of modern
moral climax, in which he ascended by
regular steps from the question, what is
God ? to the query, what is man ? In an
swering this last interrogatory he went
to the extremest advanced Radical view
of the negro. He gloried in the fact
that in Massachusetts, the model repub
lic, negroes sat side by side with white
men in the legislative halls. This was
received with mingled applause and
hisses. He exultingly proclaimed the
hope that the next Mayor of Washing
ton City might be a negro, and thought
any such sable official would be dis
graced by being compelled to occupy
the same carriage, on some State occa•
sion, with " the accidental President."
[Another storrnof applause and hisses.]
He advised the teachers to cultivate
such political views in the minds of the
rising generation.
Now . we submit it to all candid people
of all parties, whether such harangues
are just the right kind of thing at a
Teachers' Institute. Are they in any
way connected with the cause of our
Common School system? Are they
calculated to aid teachers in a conscien
tious discharge of their work? Does not
every one know that politics cannot be
Introduced into our public schools with
out immediately impairing their effici
ency, and ultimately destroying the
system. If teachers' institutes are to
be converted into a sort of a bear garden
for the display of the talents of political
preachers and other political spouters,
the sooner there is an end of them the
better. We hope the County Superin
tendent will not allow any such thing
to occur again. It is his duty to see to
it that these gatherings are made sea•
sons of Improvement to the teachers of
the county ; and not occasions for silly
fanatics to air their peculiar political
notions. Wha; we have written Is
forced from us by au honest concern for
the general good. As a public Journalist
we could not witness such a prostitution
of an importune occasion without enter
ing our protest against it.
To I: EtpreBB says, speaking of us :
"so long as the respectable members of
he old ilrin remained, solos restraint was
kept upon his vulgar instincts, hut with
their withdrawal all pretense of editorial
decency disappeared."
We will Inform the Express that from
the 11rst day of the establishment of the
Duily in/ea/veneer until the present,
we have had entire control of its edi
torial columns. Except in one Instance,
unless we were absent, nothing has
appeared in its editorial columns with
out our personal supervision and sanc
tion; and comparatively very little
which did not come directly from our
pen. We shrink from no responsibility,
and wecould not possibly command the
commendations of the L'xpress without
being recreant to the cause of political
truth and honesty. The fact that it
assails us so bitterly shows that our at
tacks upon the corrupt and revolution
ary party which it sustains tell with
trenchant force.
One honest Repobllean
We find the following notice going
the rounds of our Radical exchanges
and gladly give it a place in our columns.
It is refreshing to know that there was
one honest man among the Radical
politicians. It is a pity he is dead :
John A. Andrew, whose recent desth Is so
widely mourned, unlike an army of public
and private men, realized no personal pro
fits [ruin thu misfortunes of his country
during the civil W.I. lie left Mitre poorer
than he entered it, and wits obliged to de.
cline a re-election its ,vta•uor of Massa
chusetts in order to support his family by
Iris practice as a lawyer. lie has it lite
policy of slo,ooo, and beyond this leaves
but little to his family except a reputation
that is beyond all price—to them and to his
countrymen. Last ye.tr his friends pro•
posed to send hint of Congress, and con•
tri huted a purse of money that would place
hint 'Move the nevessity of legal praetice;
lint he ref used to sacrifice his independence,
stud declined the oiler.
FAcTs have come to light showing that
the exorbitant whisky tax WasOsed
through the connivance of a "ring" who
bad bought up almost all the whisky in
the country at a low figure, and who had
paid the nominal tax then levied thereon,
awl who, when the preset - 1C tax was itn
u,sed, Sold their stock at immense profits.
We were told only lately that when the
tax on whisky i‘ as at the old rate, the
Ilovernment could and did collect more
revenue from the manufacturers of the
article than is now gathered.— fi l
arrisburg
Telegraph,.
The !acts alluded to by the Tdcgraph,
are not new. It was more than sus
pected at the time that the Radicals in
Congress were paid large sums of money
for their votes on that question: The
jobbery In Washington In these last
days is like that practiced so openly by
Radical legislators at Harrisburg.
No Chance for firma as a Radical Can
The New York herald, which has
been the most devoted advocate of the
claims of General Grunt as a Presiden
tial candidate, has a very strong edi
torial on the " negro Conventions in
the Southern States,, and their effect
on the North,'' in which it emphati
cally declares:
If General Grant accepts the Radical
nomination upon such a platform as the
Radicals now tread he will be beaten, despite
his national popularity and his masterly re
ticence. General Scott was defeated where
there were similar but minor principles in
volved, and Presidi tit Pierce, with till his
imbecility, then stepped into power.
The Hcru/r/ sees what is in the future.
Any eanoidate whom the Radicals way
put up be defeated. The people of
this country are not prepared to turn
the greatest uation in the world over to
the wild rule of a set of barbarian ne.,
groes, just freed from slavery. •
The St, Louis Democrat or Tuesday says
that the exchanves from Western NI issouri
aril Kansas have lately briuight many 11,
C. , [lllls of disasters from prairie fires, Lsini
sequetit on the re , ent drought. It finds the
i,ll”wing flirt iu the Law
l•enre (Kansas) Tr, - bane of the .sth instant:
The tlauu•s would Hip roads, str,•:uns,
and even plowed fields, the swuir as if no
obstruction existed. One tanner had care
fully burned all the grass in the vicinity of
his farm some weeks since, and lie states
the tire ran over it as rapid:} and with as
much fury as though it had not been burn
ed. The majority of farmers had plowed
and burned around previtedy, to protect
than from tire, but the dames would leap
far over and catch in stacks orgrain hun
dreds of feet beyond. It Is estinhiled that
the loss in that vicinity is mtt. less (lam
twelve or Bitten thousand dollars. It is
stated that the tire kept on its course, and
on Wednesday and Thursday, burned out
the entire crops of the country between
Vashington and Hoek creeks, doing an lin.
rnense amount of damage. In one vicinity
six farmers lost everything.
Views of ,enntor Dixon
Senator Dixon, of Connect icutt, is a mod
erate and sensible Republican. Ile has just
arrived in 'Washington, and is reported to
express himself as Pillows:
The Senator is in excellent health and
jubilant over the result of the recent elec
tions. Ile considers the (Ilan;, in the
public mind to be deep-seated and perma
nent, and not merely a transient one, likttly
to be altered a year hence, when the people
come to elect a new President. The Senator
expresses the opinion that not even General
Grant could carry the country with him on
a radical platform now, and that, in fact,
radicalism had been prostrated, never to
raise its head again. One effect of the elec
tions, he chinks, will be the practical aban
donment of impeachment, either formally,
by an adverse report sustained by the
House, or sob silentio, by letting the thing
die out of its own accord from want of no
tice or agitation. Should Congress attempt
to suspend the Prygi - denl pending trial the
Senator considers , it a question of very
grave doubt whethbr it would not be the
President's plain duty to resist what could
not be regarded otherwise than as a usur
pation of power by Congress.
The Alnbninn Convention Faroe
The proceedings of the mongrel Conven
tion, now sitting in the capital of Alabama,
furnish abundant food for serious reflection.
A statement of its composite elements and
a summary of the proceedings cannot fail
to be interesting and instructive.
It was formally opened on thepth instant
by a longwinded prayer from a high color
ed chaplain, who invited blessings on what
he called " Unioners," and curses on "re
bels."
Of 100 delegates elected 84 were present,
sixteen of the number being negroes. There
was but a single Conservative in the lot.—
Most of the whites are Northern adven
turers without reputation, character or in
terest in the State. Tne native whites are
unknown, ignorant, inexperienced in legis
lating and utterly unfit for the work in
which they are engaged. A brief notice
of some of the more noticeable will serve
as a sample for the lot.
Ben. Alexander, of Hale, a negro of the
ordinary type of field hand.
J. L. Alexander, of Elmore, a native Ala
bamian, who served for a time as a private
in Company "K," First Alabama infantry,
C. S. A., a commonplace character and not
over highly spoken of by his comrades.
A. J. Applegate, of Madison, a North
Alabamian, chiefly known for a squabble
with Figures, a tenth-fate demagogue of
Huntsville, who In some way put him (Ap•
pleoatei to the rout with two negroes.
Arthur Bingham; of Talladega, is a small
man with a chin beard, who seems pos
sessed of some sprightliness, which ho nor
mally diffuses on the Freedmen's Bureau,
whereof he is an official.
D. 11. Bingham, of Lauderdale, would
answer to Spencer's "old, old man, with
beard as white as snow," but for the fact
that this beard is dyed of a preternatural
black, with the white only appearing in a
thin line next to the face that it adorns.
Like five and twenty of his colleagues, the
captain has a constitution in his pocket, and
the chief points in this document are the
disfranchisement of "all rebels" and the
enforced settlement, In the present currency,
of all trust estates lost In Alabama during
the war by fiduciary investment, under
State nets, in confederate securities.
W. 11. Black is a Northern wan of small
size anti little note.
W. T. Blackford is likewise a Northern
man, a Bureau official, and the wearer of
ono of the two really clean shirts visible in
the con vim lion.
Mark I). Brainard, of Now York, is R very,
very young m u tt with a florid cheek and a
coming moustache. 110 Is a post-office
clerk, has something to do with the Bureau,
and Is said, when elected, in accordance with
the programme for Monroe, not to have
known ex wily where "his county" lay.
Alfred E. Buck, of Maine, is not other
wise noticeable than for the singularity of
his sobriquet In Mobile, which he " repre
sents,"
Charles W. Buckley, of Massachusetts, is
clergyman who ministers to the spi
needs of the Bureau, nod is an ciii wad
superintendent also of that organization.
Ills brother.
W. M. Buckley, likewise of MIIBSILCIIII
- of course, "represents" the wealthy
county of Lowndes, and is thought to bear
a facial resemblance to the late lamented
John Brown of Peripatetic soul.
J. li. Burdick, Of lowa, speaks the senti
ments of NVilcox, which sentiments in this
rendition are fiercely radical.
Pierce Burton, of Nlammachusettm ro
moved from tho Bureau for wilting a leiter
to the Horiengtleld Republican, advocating
a repeal of the cotton tax, but 104 the nogroem
favor that view the broach has been:healed,
and Mr. It. is the dele••ate front Marengo.
M. Cabot is a Northern man, who was
in the reconstruction ercinventi.in of
which he is now, In '67, seeking to recon
struct In turn.
John Carrowity I , la light mulatto e. it II u
"back hair" of magnificent prorortems. At
its supremo altitude this ornatiteii. ester is
fully live inch( - straight out from the oapo
of the 110ek, I ming a rigl.; angle ve.y
comely to the .•e. Mr. (larroway is as
sistant editor o; he 'Mobilo .Vation ,/is/, and
it is a Waller 01 professional coup e.l to thus
record his distinguishing
I). E. Coon,of lowil,and urigudier
in the United Suites army, 1 , a small 111101
of a rather Jewish loots,
Thomas Diggs is a negro whose head is
grizzled and whose bin, is brown. Ile
„ represents" Barbour, and makes it beau
tiful cross mark when signing his 1111111 e.
Charles 11. Di.:tan, of Illinois, is an ex
general officer States Army. No
particular antecedents.
tieorge Ely, nl Massachusetts, is a snug
little man, wits neat whiskers and "nice,"
smooth hair. Ile lives here and represents
Russell county. Mr. E. is brother of that
Congressman Ely who came to grief at the
first Manassas,
Peyton Finley Is a city negro who once
held the door open for mein hers In that
very chamber where he now sits us a dele•
Samuel S. Gardner, of igassaeLisetts, is
.13ureau
W. Graves is a Virginian who was
first a carpenter and then taught himself
medicine, which he now practices.
Early Greathouse is a Baptist preacher,
but a preacher after such fashion as would
make the well-kidded and neat necktied
ecclesiastics of Gotham gasp anti stare.
Ilk appearance and political" views,'' and,
doubtless, theological tenets, also, ure coin
prised in tine word, and tine word is rough,
.James K. Green is a negro who takes the
mune of the master whose carriage he once
drove. The name of this statesman does
not appear On the signed list, from a
modesty which withheld his sole signature,
an Y, mark,
Bride Oregon is a light mulatto from
Mobile, whose thin lips, keen cut jaws, and
furtive eyes seem to body forth a Malay
type of man. It was this Ovide who, as the
phrase goes, " busted Biisteed," withdraw
ing the favor of Erhiopla, on one occasion,
from that sagacious and ad inirablo Judge.
Albert (;ritiln, of Ohio, is the editor of the
Mobile negro organ, and, as stated, had the
honor of primarily presiding over the
" Convention." But for a trifle more youth
and a trifle less unctuousness, A. O. might
well be taken fur :qr. Chadband, and, like
that good man, hides by a certain outward
greasiness much inward venom. He is a
bitter Radical, and has. perhaps, a majority
in convention to back him.
Jordan Hatcher, of Dallas, is a grizzled
negro of lightish hue, who, after a not un
usual fashion, takes his former master's
name,
James I I, Howard, of Crenshaw, the only
Conservative in the Convention, in a line
soldierly looking young man, and native
Alabatn i 11.
It. 11. Johnson, of Illinois, misrepresents
Coffee county.
Wash. Johnson has the very blackest skin
and the very worst signature of any patriot
of the whole eighty-three. 11ls hue Is, with
out jest, a Jet block, and his autograph, the
sum total of hie writing abilities ; might
stand equally well for Smith, or Vail ',limit,
or Scheinerhern.
A. \V. Jones is a ghost. That is to say he
is the gentleman who was barbarously
murdered by a "rebel outrage" which
originated here in Montgomery, and kill
ed him 011 successively in every truly loyal
sheet in the country. Mr. J. writes a very
unspectre like hand and misrepresents Con
ecuh.
C. Jones is a yellow icegro, who, on being
called up to the Secretary's desk to register
his name, expectorated with a refreshing
abandon that provoked a general smile and
then made his mark.
John ( Keifer, of Pennsylvania, is ehair
man of the Radieal Executive State Com
mittee, and is known to the nialignants ns
the " nead devil " of the Loyal League, Ile
is al, fite9e lit Forney'.,, liii, been conneet
ed ttiilt the Philadelphia Press, and by
virtue of strict patriotism, has put money
in hiapurse. Ile %Vasa candidate for Presi
dent of the Convention, but withdrew.
Thomas Lee, of Perry, is a negro who
finds that it assists hint very inueh in sign
ing his name to lean his head quite on one
side, and not be in a hurry about it. He is
vey black.
J. J. .Martin is a military appointee pro
bate judge.
Charles A. Miller, of Maine, wears the
secwid of the two clean shirts in the Con
ventien. Ito WaN 11' six years clerk of the
11011,e (0 . Representatives, and is an
cx Federal army 'dicer, a major.
A. c. Nbirgaii is from the North, very ex
treme in his politics, but personally presen
table.
It. W. Norris, of Maine, is a truly loyal
man. lie was a United States Commissary,
has bought a large plantadon, and is a large
!nail, with a bvge heard 1111(1 H high f ,, re
head, and a wide nostt it—two of theni—that
scent treason in every gale. Major Norris
cannot abide rebel preachers, but the savor
or R Union cleric is sweet unto his soul.
Therefore he vigorously insisted to-day that
none but a "saf e ' (.11., plain should be elec
ted, and on this rock the convention split
into adjournment.
R. M. Reynolds, of lowa, has been six
mouths in Alabama, and very naturally
"knows all about, it." He is an ardent
H. C. Russell, of Barbour, is said to have
been at the close of the war under sentence
01 death for mutiny. He is now a truly
loyal man, and purposes to have the name
of Bullock county changed to Lincoln.
T. J. Russell, of Chambers, is a nimble
preacher who took advantage of a military
order forbidding the running of n Conserva
tive ticket in his county to secure an elec
tion. The Rev. gentleman was in the
secession convention of 'lll, but now favors
a strict adherence to that precious and
searching testimmtv. the test oath.
B. F. Sat ffold is a Virgi a ian. Was a major
Confederate States army, and is now mili
tary mayor of Selma and a truly loyal man.
J. Silshy, of Massachusetts, is a Bureau
reverend.
William Skinner is the best speaker so
far heard in Convention. He is rapid and
furious, which Mei hearty applause, one
shrill cry of extfluttion bursting forth at a
peculiarly severe assault on the white pop
ulation of the State.
Joseph H. Speed, of Virginia; is a cousin
of Attorney General Speed, was a Captain,
C. S. A., and afterwards C. S. Salt agent
of Alabama.
M. D. Stanwood defies effort to locate him,
It is thought, however, that he is from Mas
sachusetts, where he has a brother He has
been a, cattle drover in California and is
credited with several negro disturbances
more or less serious In this State.
J. P. Stow is a Northern man, resident
here for some years.
Alfred Strother is a negro ofintense black
ness and would have gone to sleep at one
time in convention, but for a timely wit
ticism which woke a laugh in the hall.
Of the eighty-four delegates present six
teen were blacks of all colors, from the jet
black of the genuine Congo breed down to
the yellow variety. Fifty-four were North
ern men, bummers who had robbed and
ravished in Sherman's arms'; camp fol
lowers, who bad hung like jackals upon
the outskirts of the camps; Negro Bureau
officials, whose mission is to plunder the
negro and the Government alike. Nine
were born on Southern soil and the rest
had scarcely "a local habitation or a name."
But two of the negroes could write, and
they with great difficulty, while the rest
could neither read nor write.
What good can be expected from such a
Convention? is It a fitting body to frame
a Constitution for a sovereign State? The
native whites who were present in this
mougrel:concern, are, with one or two ex
ceptions, perfectly unknown men with no
ability. Are the people of the North pre
pared to commit the destinies of one-half
this great country to the guidance of such
men Do they forget that all the social,
political and material interests of our sec
tion, as well as of the South, Nvill be affected
by this action?
The proceedings of this body of many
varying hues show how utterly untlt the
members are tar the work sot before them.
The Convention was temporarily organ
ized by the appointment of Griffin, of Illi
nois, editor of one of the pauper newspapers
of Alabama, as temporary chairman.
When this was done, a motion was made
and curried that the members register their
names. Of the African delegates, one-half
could not write their names, but made their
marks. This being over, the selection o
secretary took place, Barbour, lute agent
of the Freedmen's Bureau, was one candi
date, and Patrick another. The vote was
taken by count, and when the first African
was called, Me Insisted upon answering
here. The clerk repeated his mane only to
get a louder response, n}:ttE. Here was a
hitch, for here wits not a candidate. At
length the President explained to the Afri
cans that they were not at a plantation
muster, answering at roll-call, but were
voting either for Barbour or Patrick, and
the convention started again. An African
was then made assistant secretary. Smite
while members then attempted to get a
while doorkeeper. This led to a vote by
count, and the African was successful.—
came a proposition that the members
take the iron-chid oath provided by Con
gress, which all Federal officers in the
Sorth and lawyers in the Federal courts
are required to subscribe. This made
trouble, for many Radical delegates were,
during the war, Radical rebels. Thu diffi
culty, however, Was overcome byithe furtu
nate suggestion that, as Cleneral Pope had
approved the selection of and culled the
delegates, the oath was dispensed. quite a
cute dodge.
When the Committees were framed the
!legroom were given prominent places. 'rho
correspondentoithe New York Herald stlys ;
The negro element has been awarded Its
fair share of representation on each COM
tnittee, and care seems to have been taken
to place the niost Ignorant and uneducated
dark les in the Convention on the most Im
portant committees, Thus, on the I:mu
tilate, on Taxation and Finance is u pure
blooded negro named Strot her, who has
been transferred direct from a plantation to
his desk in the Convention, and who has
thus tar only distinguished himself by the
assiduity with which he has sat in his seat,
his elbows on the desk, and his dusky visage
buried in his bands, showing his white
teeth us he grinned at every concession to
his race, and stamping noisily with his big
feet at every fulmination of " torch and tur
pentine" Bingham. Peyton Finley, of
lontgoinery, formerly a slave of Judge
Finley, whose m u te he has taken, the offi
ciating marshal at all the negro processions
in this city, and who can barely read and
write, is a member of the Committee on
Education and the School Fund. Diggs,
who makes his mark, is on the Committee
on Amendments to the Constitution, and B.
Alexander. who on the lirst day of the Con
vention had to be told how to give his vote,
Is on the committee on County and Muni
cipal Organizations.
'[lto most highly educated negro In the
body is Caraway, the Mobile editor. As
specimen of his accomplishment the Y .
Herald publishes the following verbatim et
literatim copy of a resolution offered by
hint:
Resolved, That thu morguant•ttt•itrnis bo
nistrtivted to itppr4.priitle it portion of thu
lialur.} . mid 1,0 by hu La ys.
As Cm e. ay is generally regarded as the
nest tear, d, smart, well dressed and liter,
ary Mirky in the Convention, end us, more
over, he has gained some reputation as a
poet and an editor, and is alluded to by
Radical orators ns a colored man of genius
and culture, his orthography may prove
of genet al interest.
Of course the acts of this mongrel con
vention are radical in the extreme. To
expect moderation front such a body would
be as idle as to look for wise or statesman
like action. The first movement was more
completely to disfranchise the whites. The
Congressional plan is regarded as entirely
too lenient. The poll-tax is to be repealed,
and all tax to he levied on property. This
will entirely exempt the negroes from tax
ation of any kind. The convention is not
disposed to watt until after the adoption of
the Constitution they frame for a division
of the spoils; but the Stale Cmyernment Is
to be overturned at once, and a temporary
concern set up under the Joint direction of
the members and General Pope.
We ask the people of Pennsylvania to
look at the scene which is here presented,
They are dire6tly and deeply Interested In
every movement being made In the South
ern States. Every Injudicious step taken
In any one of them must have an effect
upon the material Interests and the pros
perity of the entire North.
The End of Another Political Preacher
The country has been literally cursed fur
several years past by a set of intensely loy
al scamps who have got up as preachers,
and donned the livery of Heaven to servo
the Devil in. here is an account from the
N. Y. Tribune of the end of another of these
fellows:
The sel(-styled "Rev. Wm. H. 4 6 reer),"
who has just been convicted in Litchfield,
Conn„ of the murder of his wife, by poison,
has run a race of crime during the last two
years which few men, in a long lite, equal.
Ile first became conspicuous in the western
lot or New Y.. k, in the fall of as the
Rev. Geo. W. Long. Ile presented tinged
credentials, purporting to ne from Method
ist Conferences in the South and West, and
obtained the ministry Mille church at Cen
terville, Allegheny county. Ile proved so
acceptable to all the brethren that, after a
two weeks' acquaiotance, he married in
one of the neighboring towns, and took his
wife home With hits. lle then commenced
borrowing money "to meet his increased
expenses," and before long had run up a
debt Of $7OO. Thinking that he had reach
ed the end of his rope, he borrowed means
to pay his traveling expenses to Dunkirk,
Ohio, where he pretended that he had real
estate to sell. His return was anxiously
expected by his bereaved flock, but time
passed, and instead of the long-expected
Long, arrived a letter saying that he had
gone to New York to conclude the sale of
his Texan property. He told his wife to
be contented and gout], and to pray for him.
Exit Lev. Mr. Long—enter at Utica the
Rev. Win. li, Green, a preacher, political
speaker, and temperance orator. Temper•
mice lectures around the country were the
most expedient Mr raising the wind, but
this wasn't as profitable as the clerical fraud,
for the man he employed to personate the
habitual sot had a moment of sobriety, and
refused to continue the partnership unless
he was patd. On the 20th of last D,cember
"GrearVbruarrie.d a Mrs. Searles in Guil
ford, Chebango county, New York, and in
March moveil to West Cornwall, Connecti
cut, where he made his debut as a refugee
from 'Texas, and delivered loyal speeches,
being engaged us a stump orator by the
Republican Convention for Litchfield
county. On May tith Mrs. Gre-n died,
having been taken with convulsions.
The physician thought her death unusual,
but did riot then attribute it to its true
cause. Ou the ftiurth day after her death
Mrs. Green was buried, and in a month the
" Reverend" left for Utica, where only five
weeks after the death of his wife ho married
an Irish chambermaid employed at a hotel.
But he was hurrying matters too fast. His
conduct excited suspicion. 'The body MIAs
wife was disinterred, the stomach and liver
examined, and the "Reverend's" race was
run. Strychnine was found, and "Green"
was arrested and imprisoned amid popular
execrations. In the Litchfield jail he made
two attempts to destroy himself. He dash
ed his head against a wall and choked him
self with a handkerchief. Meanwhile he
averred his Innocence. Last week he was
tried at Litchfield before Judges Loomis and
Granger, distinguished counsel appearing
upon each side. The evidence was over
whelming. He was convicted, and, we
may presume, will shortly be sentenced to
Bullet' the extreme penalty of the law.
formal Tranerer and Delivery efltessalan
America to the United Ntatee.
NEW ARCHANGEL, OCt. 8,
Via VlcromA, V. 1., Nov. 10,
And Swirrommaz, W. T., Nov. 11,1867.
The formal transfer and delivery of Rus
sian America to the United States Govern
ment took place to-day, by Capt. Pest rechoff,
Acting Commissioner on behalf of the
Russian Government, and Major General
Rousseau on behali of tho United States.
At three o'clock P. M. a battallion of
United States troops, under command of
Major Charles 0. Wood, of the Ninth In
fantry, was drawn up in line in front of the
Governor's residence, where the transfer
took place. By half-past three a large con
course of people had assembled, comprising
Americans, Russians of all classes, Creoles
and Indians, all eager witnesses of the cer
emonies.
Precisely at the last named hour the Rus
slim forts and fleet tired salutes In honor of
the lowering of the Russian flag ; but the
flag would not come down. In lowering it
tore its entire width close by the halliards,
and floated from the cross trees, some forty
feet from the ground. Three Russian sailors
then attempted to ascend the inch and a
half guy ropes supporting the big staff,
but each failed to reach his national em
blem. A fourth ascended in a boatswain's
chair, seized the flag, and threw it in a di
rection directly beneath him ; but the mo
tion of the wind carried it on; and caused
a sensation in every heart.
Five minutes after the lowering of the
Russian ling the Stars and Stripes went
gracefully up, floating handsomely 1111li
free, Gen. George Lovell Rousseau having
the honor of flinging the flag to the brevzo,
the United States steamers Ossipee and
Resaca at the same time honoring the event
by tiring salutes.
AM the Russian flail; teas lowered Captain
Pestreeholl stepped forward and addressed
fitment' Rousseau as follows :
I.; ItAL—As Commissioner of his Im
perial Majesty the Emperor or Russia I
now transfer and deliver the territory of
Russian America, coded by his Majesty to
the United let tern."
Gutieral Itotimmettu, 1:: rumponso, am Ow
tiloricat: flag ameemliml, said:
" ('u I'Al N—As Commissioner on
or the United States government, I receive
and accept the same accordingly."
'rho Commissioners spoke in a tone or
common conversation, and were only heard
by tiovernor tieneral Jor. c.
Davis, Captain Kuskol anti a fnw others
who formed the group. Several ladies wit
nessed l he ceremonies, n inong them Princess
Makesatoir, Mrs. tioneral Davis anti Mrs.
Major Wood. ('(co Princess wept audibly
an the Russian (lag went down.
The transrer wan conducted In a purely
tllplontatto and busittess•llko wanner,
neither 'manillas nor speech waking
tul
lowing. 'Chu entlro transaction was eon
chided In it few hours, diet tsstpee, with tho
Commissioner on hoard, steaming Into the
harbor at eleven o'clock this threttoott, anti
in four o'clock In tint afternoon it dozott
Automat) Ilags float ovor thu !lowly born
American oily of Sit kit.
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Additional Particular, or the Terrible
Himont. rig nt Porto Miro 111 l I Tortola.
IlAv,v.N.t, Nov. 15.-I,,itor inlvicen from
Porto Mei, urn received. The line tempest
wen more nnvaru thus 1110 two terrible wiles
which visited the 111 fated island previous
to 11450. All the towns have been terribly
desolated. One thousand houses have been
laid In ruins, and throe thousand have liven
severely damaged.
In some Instunces the houses along the
entire streets have been demolished, and
the roadway entirely hidden by the runts.
Vu 110 WM whatever hits been received 10 .
wading the effects of the storm In the veil
teal Portion of tlin rotund, where, on Ow
S,ivunnnv, 111111101%/IIS hurls lire pastured;
but elsewhere the cattle have been
and Ulu hells swept entirely bare.
The loss Is incalculable.
'rho merchants ur the Island have do
nut:tiled that Muir corn, provisions, Ac.,
14111111 be entered duty free.
Litter lidvicem Isrom l'orto Itleo slate that,
during the late terrible gale, the 1111 E ishind
of Tortola, of the Virgin Orem., entirely
disappeared, being completely submerged,
it is said, l'or right hours. Every living
thing, 111011 or animal, upon it perished.
Mount Vcoircium in Volcanic AOlOll and
IL Grand Eruption Inuniiteni.
imns, Nov. 11, Isffi.
I\ fount Vesuvius, on the east. 01,1 e thy•
Bay of Naples, in 111 VI/11'11111C !WHIM and
sending lbrth it pillar of lire, whieli has IL
magnificent eih,t,to seen 11'11111 till, city.
New craters liave been formed, inel the
usual point or httittidu 40..19 north
and longitude 1-I.21; east—is alio engaged.
During the pact night red but stones were
ejected in large quantities Trent the burning
mountain.
Tilt, surrounding earth Is in tremulous
metion hlr a considerable Llishineu; Lilo lava
is pouring forth and running down the sides
of the mountain In volume and with rapid
flow, and the general uplienving from the
volrimii gives warning of a grand, unusual
ly grand eruption, from which we may look
for very serious consequences, as in Milner
years Ilf the more remarlialau phenomena
from Vesuvius.
'l'liti first eruption tif the were soden.,
kind front Ntount Vesuvius occurred in the
year 79, %%lien the elder Pliny perished,
mitt the then vent rltiev et Iferouhenouni,
Pompeii and :Stabil; %viii ~ Ver w 111.1 itql by
tile burning torrent, and buried in lava and
11,1}1011 thruwn from the ender.
Forty-nine eruptions nl Vienivitis oc
curred diviisirous period to Il e •
year 1850, of Mlich the most celebrated iii
history Look piece in the yours .172, 177 U,
179-1, find Is:in.
YAtrrinta• 111 VVli()lesztle
A most extraordinary matrimonial ar
rangement hits lately ' e cu consummated
in this city, one which is worthy of an ex
tended notice, not only as lacing in distinc •
that trout Illy ordinary, slow nut It making
process, but 1.1.4 carrying with it Bowe very
valuable suggestions. The bareannotince
ment of " Married, cm the instant, ny tho
Rev. Mr. —, ut the residence of the father of
the three brides, Mr. Fl'alik Ulbrich to Miss
liarbara Schur; /tier), Mr. Augustus Ulbrich
to Miss Mary ; also, Mr. Henry NV.
Ulbrich to Miss Elizabeth :Schur," would
lull nearly tree whole story, the oily really
necessary ;chid tonal information being that
the three tin legrooms are brothers, that the
happy brides are sisters, and that, Itt both
Instances, it finished up tile family. It was
literally the marriage of thoentire
Chicago 'I wir.v.
Failure of Wcr , Ots lo \Volk lOU 511Itot
lo 21 floury*
Ci.EvimA Nu, Nov, M.—Weston, uu his
hundred mile feat, reached Erie, Pm, at
twelve o'clock, noon, and leaves et hull
plot fur Ashtabula, the r u e
hundred mile terminus. 110 Iran made II fly
eight ❑tiles In thirteen hours and tier min
utes, and not the Mast fatigued. Thu PX-
CitVlllollt Is groat arid i minium] ng.
Clo:siNkAuT, Ohlo, Nov. M.—Weston, the
pedestrian, arrived here at 5.12 this 1.11,11-
111 g. HIM feet were so badly swollen that
he Is unable to proceed further irr might,
and ho ham thus failed to make the hundred
miles in 24 hours.
Desperate 14. m)
On Monday a United States detective,
with a manacled deserter in charge, passed
west over the Pennsylvania railroad.—
When the train Khan passing Packsaddle
station, three miles beyond the Blairsville
intersection, the detective went into t h e
water closet a few 11101111 , 111 S, leaving his
prisoner on the seat. While the detec
tive was absent, the prisoner suc
ceeded in raising the window, and
jumped out, the train going at a
speed id thirty in item an hour. A pas
senger in the car !CM hint in the act of
jumping out, but could not prevent hint.
the train wits immediately checked and
bucked to the place, where the man was
discovered in an insensible condition, hav
ing fallen on his head, causing a severe
fracture of the aku.l. Ile wits tit hen to Pitts
burg and placed in the Soldiers' Howe.
There is no hope of his recovery. 'Filename
of the injured titan wits not ascertained.
A Negro CM" His niltier'n Throat
On Saturday night last a young negro
attempted to murder has father near Jenk
intown, Montgomery county. While the
old man was sleepitig on a chair, the son
deliberately drew a razor across his throat,
inflicting a wonial which it is supposed will
prove fatal. 'flat wounded man made a
struggle to secure the razor, but fainted from
loss of blood. The mother and wife gave
the alarm, and the assassin fled, but was
captured after runniog a quarter (au mile.
The father is fifty two years o!d, and his
injuries are of such a nature that he cannot
recover.—Patriot and Union.
Utimuccessful Attempt to Rob the Schuyl
kill County 'ircitmory.
On last Saturday night the Schuylkill
County Court house was burglariously en
tered by some evil disposed person or per
sons, who, it is supposed, were sadly in
need of "justice" or " stanips"-01051 pro
bable the latter. They entered the Treasu
rer's office arid set to work at the vault
which gave way to their work ; this done
they commenced operations on the urge
iron safe within the vault and were sue
cr,sful in working through the outer door,
Litt coming in contact with the inner safe,
which is made of solid iron, and very hard,
they found thentseivi s toiled and abandon
ed the job, without securing the rich prize
which was "so near, and yet so far."—
Nothing else was disturbed, so far as wo
were able to ascertain.
The Case of Jefferson Davis
It would appear that the idea of post
poning the trial of Mr. Davis until the May
term of the Supreme Court has been aban
doned, and he is to be arraigned on the
'2.sth of this month. His presence in Rich
mond is, therefore, looked for on the 23d.
That Davis will be arraigned and will pliad
to the indictment for treason is quite proba
ble, but that he will be iried on the charge
either at the approaching term or in Muy
nobody believes. However, the law officers
of the government will have thesatisfuction
of bringing him all the way from Canada
in his somewhat feeble health, and by so
doing will, of course, have conscientiously
performed their duty. Is it not almost time
that this farce should end?—N. Y. Herald.