gin fauraostr futtilijitan, Pentair= EVERY wsnrazaikr aT ^ . • . . . SMITH. -& 00. EL G. SMITIL A. J. STEMMA!! TERMS—Tiro Dollars per annum, payable In all cases in advance. THE LANCASTER DAILY InTitmacanclia 113 N .ll ) ) , l l. B , llai n e u vlrF n ejgang6 Sunday excepted, at OFFIOE—SOarliWEer CORNER or MET= BECAME. Pigelittutout). "flinging 821dieys"—The Last Radical insult to Valor Apropos of the attempt on the part of the Jacobin majority in Congress to organize a company of "singing soldiers," we have reoelvetthe subjoined poem from a corms ponden who states, in an accompanying note, that ho was in thirteen general actions anti seven smaller engagements during the Into war. lie lost his left hand at Gettys burg, and would, ho says, be willing to maorilice his right in the Democratic cause, believing that a victory over Radicalism next fall is as necessary to the safety of the Republic, ac the defeat of the Southern Rebellion was live years ago. The order ifor the document reads like military reottript) to the crippled veterans who hove been discharged from the army to organize no an itinerant hand of minstrels to 'deg in Grant, °llex, and negro muprem. any, to about the most impudent dodge that the Conetitution•brea king anarchiets hove yet attempted. Unhurt° the war-sneaks, shoddy contracture, end bond•holding oligaruhy have boon content to organize the gallant men whom they sent to the war ant substitutes for their own cowardlyeareasees, 11 , 1111111(11U•earryilig and bootbliteking asso• cautions; but now they propose to draft them into the ranks ;if .Inooblnism as it troupe of melodious mountebanks, pledged to warble the praises of the vary men who have been grinding their faces for the. last four yours ; who give the Mikes they have earned in right to with their blood to the meanest sycophants that crawl the earth, arid whose openly avowed design it, is to make the uegroes, set free at the cost of a million of lives and three thousand millions of treasure, the po• Mica' =store of the defenders of tho Union. The " Boy in Blue" Is not a practiced poet, hut ho hue put into rude and forcible rhyme the indignation of a crippled soldier at the Republic at being called upon, after light• log lint battles, to devote what war has left or him to the servlce of the Now Treason that greed, urn blOon, and fanaticism are endeavoring to enthrone on the ruins of the late Rebellion. Tt!ii, LAST INKIL4"10 VALOR. in=lll ME= Alum; poor woundtri eoinrialur, DM you think your work wits dour, When you crawled hmne, tick and rugged, From thin Iluldr your protverm won ? No, you MTh lire held to servieo; And ar clowns of nraport, ring, Viler Iraltorm than you conquered • Lying ballads bid you ring. Totter forward on your crutches, With your empty coutsicoves come, liurrY up your shot-torn bodies Al, the .up of : , hoddy'il drum, Tho.,gh your limbs, to prop the Union, YEN gave fr,cly, that. Was naught; Split your thrusts to Wren the ucouudrela Who were dealing while you fought. To tho blunderer of Vicuna, To the Th ler of New Orleans, And to On-to-lilehmond Orecley, Inhout, era' the lo Pleans litylndlers, Imbeciles, and cowards Claim your voices, votes, and cools, Dress your molts, the word In Mode, Afrl 'Thud SLOVUUN culls the rolls. Will yo have tlif.mc awn for n 1111410 1 .0? Shall lho•y loud you through Lho land lit ko it ouritvun 01 iitonito>n Taught to minor at command? Umlnuit hearth, whom° viotor-daintier At Autlutult, ellook thu Isklum, Will you glorify 0110 negro, Anti givo melody to hug? Make rt ply, yo shall erect cocoon Agalont, nano cannon flung Ily our 1(ufl•Hltell Allli meal( Cu rurH 0141(1 Iu llUily? '('I'II your WilliP-ilVerCli !wanton.' Ily 111 u God of Natio+, No! 'l' hut, the Murk of Wor'm urniul theatre Comm!. twinkle In their show! W bile on roguen who fill wad your ralloun ratty elaneext l'avorn tipeculatlon lam,* your 11111.111, Lab , lice Union'n Hying wall. Drooled In mutely to ba nlared al, and by Nor(11,1 gre d kept dawn, You Juni. Ilve by 1 . 111 . 1 . ) lug lannllen— Llvet led laekeyn or the tau n ! Tell the von 1(1, tuy lithelo eoltmulux, What returns eer tireelt you brlug, To the Mullealm who slave you, Fur who, 0 chlebi you're noted to sing i lOW they ii midge you toon.(re wages, they fatten en otir sweat; And what. mum, you 111100 to WartOo UIl the pl alum:l.i you get', Toll the world, Pototnne N'elerans, Wuun 1g: udging y were given Leave to labor fur tun 1.1/111011, lu %vilase vanguard ) ou had utrlveu NVllat ) our Taal:masters doelded, When their 01,100 the Ilcllngn hare That you meant to 001(1 'or !..eyrnour And the arm) 'n Idol, Blair? How they a.mue.l you and di:feint' ged yen With a malice born of hell. liceaugo helot, vole. nod eongelenre At their been. you would not Hell, And U! don't forget to locution limo our ballad; under geld Sent from ltichinond for MeilileNan, tools were hired to glen!! t MMEMMM=I Soldiers' votes all good and trite That for tie Mae" were given By his wholo•souled boyn to blue! Volt all know how t .ey were cal.colud, And their bearer lodged in Jolt, Lusttlin white 10110's slinuld triumph, And the Now Rebellion !lave we loot our rights, brave brat hers And Ix title, indeed, the end— 'l'u be outcast in the country We entitled to deG•ud? Shall Ole blacks who attack to treason Till the title of battle turned, With Lilo 'kelp at tiortinon shurperii, Rule the I oasit while Ws llre xperneJ? Let CH IhEIHNVZI' 111 NOVerlllier, As true men should answer knaves; AH the martyred dead hi °LIM answer, Could the question pierce their graves, bet us 8110 W the bloated upstart., Who by black votes hope to relv,n, 'that the Union saved by but lets, Wu with ballots will sustain. A BOY IN BLUM} tr rho "Soldier Messengers" of New York are hired at starvation teasel by a company of liadlciti monopolists. woo pay them from VI to $t a week each, and have recently tried to cut down that miserable pittance. t At the Presidential election of HSI, the sol• dlers' ballots for "little Mac" were steamed out of the envelopes by Government spies, and Lincoln ballots substltuicd lu their stead; and 1.7.000 votes, In one hatch, were stolen from Col. North lu Baltimore, the Colonel himself being thrown into a dungeon for having dared to take charge of them. 'Mb; Is history.—N. .1% tilts day itercai y. The Cellars of Salurn The summer tourist in the Tyrolmay ,remember to have seen a stately ruin crowning a height near the village of San Michele in the valley of the Adige. Above it shoots up the precipitous ridge of the Griersberg ; and near it is the picturesque fall of the Titschbnch over a wall of dolomite, interesting to the geologist. The ruin is that of a cas tle, which belonged to the lords of Epan, then passed into the family of the Rot tenburgers, and finally Into that of the counts of Aibrizzi. The name of the castle is Schloss Saturn. Of this ruin a story is told. At San Michele lived in the end of the last century a laborer called Kas per ; a hard working, poor man, with a worthy and handsome wife, Elsa. They had enough to live upon, but nothing to spare. They could eat as much as they liked, if the victuals were homely, and they could dress respectably, but not expensively, and their home was a cot tage, good, weather-tight, but humble. Elsa wde happy ; Kasper was not. And the reason of Kasper's unhappiness was envy. Within sight of hie door was a new white house, with doors and win dows painted green, with a fiower-gar den, and a farm yard. This house had been built and was inhabited by au old fellow-laborer of Kasper's; Stephen by name, who had made his fortune. Ste phen had been careful and frugal as a poor man, anti had made the best use of his money. An uncle had left him alegacy, which had enabled him to rent a few acres of land ; he had farmed this with success, and had saved enough to increase the size of his farm. With this increase came larger profits, and finally Stephen had bought land and built a house for himself. And this house was within sight of the cottage of Kasper. And it was plastered white. Also the windows and doors were green. Stephen deserved his good fortune, for when it came, he used it aright. He was not lifted with pride. He did not retain greedily what he had acquired, but gave liberally where he saw that money was needed; and he never forgot hisold mate, Kasper. Often did the poor comrade re ceive a ham when Stephen killed a pig; sometimes a duck, and occasionally .a goose. At the village feast he never failed to make him a present of a small barrel of wine. Whenever they met, Stephen greeted Kasper with a smile and a friendly word which the other answered by a scowl and a muttered curse. Ste phen was well aware that his ancient comrade regarded him with no favor; but he was too good-hearted to take gmbrage at hie insolence and ingrati tude, and he continued to send presents to the churl and to treat him with cordiality. Kasper accepted the offer ings and ate or drank them, but their taste was spoiled by the acid sauce which he poured over them. "I wonder what Mr. Stephen will send us this feast ?" exclaimed Elsa one day, as she was busy making cakes 'for the approaching village festival. 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That which brought the water there was the sight of a turkey which his rich friend held suspended by the legs in his left hand. "I suppose you will have friends visiting you on the Feastoday," said Stephen. Keeper grunted an assent, with his eyes on the bird. "And you must shake off a little of your gloom in festal time," continued the farmer. "Tausend ! Can a poor man be other than gloomy when he has to slave for hls food?" "Yes, indeed he may. What bright faces we shall see at Feast tomorrow?" "Fools, laughing one day, crying the next." "Nay, Kasper, you are hard on them. It is wlso to rejoice in times of mirth." "I cannot rejoice with the anguish of toil fretting my heart." Elsa sighed. She know too well that It was envy, not honorable toll, which had overshadowed the soul of her hus band and robbed it of its light. "Why," said Steven, good humor edly, "look at your pleasant Elea. Is not her face generally bright, like a May morning? If she has her tears, she smiles through them, like sun in rain." "She's it womaii," growled Kasper; "and all women are fools." " I am sorry to hear you say that. However, I know you do not mean what you say. Now, friend, I have a present for you—a turkey. Aud you are welcome to go to the Three Crowns, at Salurn, and drink a bottle of the host's best wine at my expense. I have told him to put down what you drink Only account; and moreover, take a couple of pitchers with you, and he will fill them with Bavarian beer, for you to take home to your company." "Oh I thank you, thank you, good Mr. Stephen!" exclaimed Elsa, clasp ing her hands. Nasser grunted his thanks. " Nay," said the farmer, turning away ; " you're welcome ; not another word, please. Your are heartily wel come." Kasper waited till his neighbor was beyond ear shot, and then he spoke. " Curse him !" "Keeper!" cried his wife, in horror. " Does he want to crush me, to hum ble me, with his presents? What does he give me ducks and geese, and this turkey for, eh?" " Because he is good and kind," answered his wife. " No ; because he can then go to his rich friends, and say Poor Kasper, I keep him, and give him crusts now and then, to keep him from starving, poor follow !" Kasper spoke with an Intensity of bitterness and hatred which appalled his wife, accustomed as she was to ex hibitions of his bad feeling. His whole face was hideous with the expression of malignity which darkened it; his eyes glittered with a hateful fire; and his teeth ground wrathfully. " Husband, this is very sinful," said his wife: "Stephen is full of kindness, and you return his consideration with ingratitude. God has made him rich. Why should you murmur against God?" "No;" fiercely broke in Kasper. "His riches have come to him quite another way ?" " His fortune came to him through his own hard work." " His fortune came to him in a very different way." " What do you mean ?" she asked, sharply. • He found a pot of gold among the ruins of Castle Salurn ;." " Rubbish !" said Elsa. " Yes, among the rubbish" Kasper continued, misunderstandingher; don't you know that the Lord of Epan hid his treasures there, before he gave'up the castle? Stephen has found them— or some of them, with the help of evil spirits." " I do not believe it," answered Elsa. " Stephen is too good and religious to have dealings with foul spirits that haunt ruined castles. No; say what you will. I don't believe it." " I wish I had found the treasure." " I am very glad you have not. if you had only heard the beautiul ser• mon of the priest last Sunday week, on covetousness, you —" "I am not going to listen to oue from you," snarled Kasper; "so I shall go off and try the best wine at the Three Crowns." "You accept the bounty of the man whom you hate?" "Yes ; because it costs him money to give me these things." Then he left the house. The road to Salurn winds round the base of the knoll on which stands tlie castle. Kas- per looked up at the gray towers and groaned. "Would that I knew where the treasure was hid," he muttered. When he reached the tavern, he order ed the wine to be given to him at a little table, apart from the other drinkers.— "Be sociable, man," said the host. But Kasper could not endure company. He drank and moped in a corner by him self. The peasants who were in the room cast side.glances at him, and won- dered at his ill-looks. They felt no de sire for his company. As the fumes of the wine rose to his brain, and the warmth of the generous drink reached his heart, his hatred became more in tense, and his envy more vehement. Suddenly he brought his fist down on the table with violence, so that the bot tle reeled and the glass shivered. " Would to heaven I were rich," he exclaimed; "then I'd show this cant ing hypocrite how I valued his pres ents." " What is the mutter with you ?" asked the host. " Stephen," answered the fellow, hoarsely. Then Kasper rose, having finished the wine. "Stay, Marl," said the host; "there is some beer for you." " I have no pitchers with me." " I will lend you a couple ; you can return them to-morrow." " Pill them and give them to me." The'host supplied Kasper with the beer, according to Stephen's order, and then the discontented man left the tav ern. It was afternoon. A few heavy thunder-clouds hung about the moun tains, but the sky above the Etsch Thal was clear, and the valley was bathed in sunlight. Kasper trudged along with his pitchers of beer till he reached the foot of the castle hill. Then he set down his pitchers, and looked up atthe ruins. " Why should not I be rich as Ste phen ?" he asked. "He found treas ures there; why not I? Ha! what fun for me, if I were to light on his hoard, and steal that! Nothing comes without an attempt. I will climb up and search the ruins." He could not well leave the pitchers in the road, 130 he took them with him. He had to scramble among rock, and fallen fragments of wall, over which brambles trailed. The numberless red strawber ries were unnoticed by him, as he toiled over the broken pound they carpeted.. His rude foot crushed them. He caught the tufts of pinks and scabious to assist him in his scramble, and he cast the bruised and uprooted flowers behind him, when they had rendered him their assistance. At last he stood in the castle, and set down his pitchers. At the same mo ment a grey shadow stole over the lich ened walls, and a chill fell on the air.— Kasper searched the masses of shivered masonry, lifted stones, pried into re cesses overgrown by fern, tore up beds of velvet moss that covered slabs of rock ; but all in vain. "If Stephen found a treasure, I may find oho too," he repeated to himself, as he labcPred in effectually to discover something valua• ble. A. whole hour was thus expended. Then he rose from his stooping attitude. His eyes were glittering with the greed or gold his lips quivering with eager ness, his cheeks flushed, his brow drip ping. The sky overhead was dark with whirling vapors. The wind moaned among the old walls. " Spirits, good or had; whoever you'are, who' aunt this rain, help'me to boo:mall& Ilke'Ste phen 1 1, roared the excited 10911,_ de spairing of any dispovery . without supernatural aid. He waited. The wall echoed his shout.' Then there came a blinding lighting flash, a rattle of thun der, a crash of falling masonry, and Kasper was flung upon his face. When the mountain Bantle had ceas ed to repeat the discharges of the oleo trio fluid, *Kasper looked up. The light ning had struck a tower, and thrown , 1 down a portion, and fissured the very foundations, The peasant rose to his feet, and stepping over the prostrate fragments, saw before him a vault which the fall of masonry had disclosed with steps leading down to it. Cau tiously descending, Kasper peered Into the gloom. He saw before him the an cient cellar of the castle. Barrel , after barrel appeared, faintly illuminated by the light from the stair, stretching away into the darkness beyond. Huge cob webs hung from t,he roof of the vault, and walvered in the air that rushed into the place.. Kasper stood at the en trance, with his black shadow lying before him, and listened, but evidently , hoard nothing. Stealthily he entered looking around him at each step, ner vously apprehensive, and yet impelled onward by covetousness and curiosi ty. As his eyes became accustomed to the darkness, ho saw further; but far as he could see, there were only barrels of wine; in long range. Approaching one of these, the nearest, he turned the tap, and put his lips to the descending golden stream. Never had he tasted better wine." "I must fetch my pitch ers," he gasped. And rushing from the vault, ho ascended the steps, scrambled over the stones, and reaching his pitch ere, emptied the beer on the ground. "Surely, 1 - am dreaming," he said. But no; through a gap in the castle wall, the gap through which he had entered, he saw the valley. The clouds had broken, but blue belts of shade lay along the meadows. The ravines of the mountains were indigo; but the river shimmered like molten glass; and white against a blue flax-field gleamed the new house of Farmer Stephen. Kasper frowned, shook his fist towards it, then picking up his pitchers, descended once more into the cellar of the castle. Now he passed from one barrel to another, tasting first one wine, then another and each seemed better flavored and richer than the last tasted. With difficulty he selected which, wine to take home with him in his pitchers. He filled them, one with red wine, the other with yellow wine, and then turned towards the doorway. He started. In the midst was a table, at which sat three men, in course black woolen tunics, with leather belts round their waists, leather caps on their heads, and on their legs grey worsted hose. The table at which were the men, was black, on it the three cyphered with chalk, and spoke no single word, so intent were they in their calculations. They wore all old, for they had flowing white beards. Their faces were pale and bloodless. Kasper stood staring and trembling, and fearful of making a noise; but the men did not notice him. Kasper slunk behind a barrel, and waited half an hour. Then he protruded his head hoping to see that they had gone. But they sat still, busily reck oning on the black table, with their heads bowed over it, their brows knit, and their lips moving. After waiting a little longer, Kasper ga thered courage to step towards them. Your pardon, gentlemen," he said, bowing ; um a poor laborer of San ,Michele, and I was on my way from Salurn, where I have been drinking a bottle of Tokay ; and on my return, I ventured into this ruin, and finding the cellar open, I have taken the liberty of descending the stairs. I have filled these pitchers with wine, and hope I have not committed an offence. The three pale faces turned towards him as he spoke, and one, the oldest apparently, answered him. " You have spoken the truth. Go, take the wine with you. Come here once a week and fetch the same amount of wine, but never venture here twice in one day." Then the second placed on the table ten rows of twenty dollars. " This money is for you," he said ; " return here every Sunday evening, and you will find the same amount. Take them home and place them where neither Bun nor moon can look on them, and leave them there for a year and a day." Then the third put two dollars on a corner of the table, and said, " These are for you. Take and use them. Week by week you shall have two dollars for weekly use. But remember, of the money you receive of us, none must be devoted to an evil purpose." In an instant the three men, with table and stools had faded away. But on the ground lay the ten rows of twenty dollars, and the two dollars apart. Kasper picked them all up, put the two hundred dollars In his breeches pocket; and the two for weekly use in that of his waistcoat, took his pitcher and hastened joyfully home. Under Kasper's house was a double collar. The inner portion as useless had been roughly walled off from that which was made serviceable. The wall which filled the doorway communicat ing between the cellars was unmortared, and, indeed, consisted simply of bricks built up to fill the opening, without anything but their own weight to keep them in position. Kasper remembered this dark cell, and concluding that it was just the place for the money which was to see neither sun nor moon for a year and a day pulled. out one of the top most bricks, and thrusting his hand through the opening, dropped the chinking money behind the wall. Next Sunday he sought the ruined castle again, and without difficulty found his way to the ancient cellars. There he saw ten rouleaux of dollars in a row, and two dollars by themselves apart, as had been promised him. He refilled his pitchers, gathered up the money, and returning to his house, se creted the two hundred dollars where the other two hundred had been hidden. For some months all went well with Kasper. He recovered his spirits, and his gloom disappeared. In a twelve month he would be in possession of a large fortune, and would be able to rival his neighbor, Stephen, in wealth. When he opened his store he would have over ten thousand dollars. His wife knew nothing of the secret hoard. Kasper had told her nothing of his discovery at Castle Saturn, knowing well that the pious Elsa would shrink in horror from money which came through the bounty of spirits. After six months Kasper began to fre quent the public house, drink and oc casionally gamble. His wife in vain im plored him to avoid bad acquaintances in the village tavern ; he became inti mate with the worst characters in San Michele and Salurn, and neglected his work. From a taciturn gloomy man he was transformed into a boisterous revel ler. It was hard to say which was most odious, morose Kasper or debauched Kuper. His wife Elsa had suffered much from his ill humors when his heart was a prey to envy ; she suffered more when he returned to her brutal ized with drink. Stephen had rejoiced at first to see Kasper's brow clear, and a light suffuse itself over his face ; but he deplored bit terly the degradation :into which he lapsed. He no longer sent him money, fearing lest it should be spent in drink or in play ; but he still provided him with food for his table on all festive oc casions. Once he spoke to Kasper in words of mild reproof, but was repulsed with such violence and abuse, that he made no second attempt to restrain his old comrade itt his downward career. One Sunday evening after a week of gambling, Kasper went to his store.— He had been unfortunate at cards and owed money. He pulled down a por tion of the brick wall and took a pock etful of dollars from the glittering heap. Then he rebuilt the wall and Hastened to the ruin with his pitcher. In the vault were the rouleaux as before. He thrust them into his pocket, filled the vessel, and, instead of going home, went with it to the Three Crowns at Salurn. He set the pitcher on a side table and joined a company of gamblers. At first he lost, then he won. Then, flushed with success, he drew a handful of sil ver from hie pocket and cast it on the table. See exclaimed one of the play ers turning : " the moon is rising.' A line of silver swept in at the little lat ticed casement and smote across the table where sat the gamblers. " Hal loa " shouted a man opposite Kasper; "what is that you are staking, com rade?" And he .pointed to the heap Kasper had thrown on the board. It consisted of fragments of crockery. Kasper started up with a cry and emp tied his pockets. They contained por LAN9ASMOA, WED;sI24I4)ATV3O,4IIOO AUGUST '26'186. celain chip but rib silver. Hp was . silent with dismay.. • , , "You have been drinking befote you came here," said one laughing. "I touched nothihg," answered Kal3. per. "I saw you bring a pitcher of wine into the house." I , But r have not tasted it. Fetch it, and drink yourselves. The pitcher was brought on the table and passed round. All exclaimed that the wino was unequalled. It was soon drunk. " Kasper,, you must let us have more: It is rare liquor." "Come with me. I have please," answered Kasper; "bring yourjugs and glasses; I will give you a treat such as _yon never had before." • lie left the house followed by the men, inflamed with drink. Holed them over rooks and through brambles and briars, stumbling, swearing, hiccough ing, laughing, singing, to the ruined castle. "Here is my cellar," said Kasper, pointing to the entrance of the vault. Down the stops after him rushed the intoxicated men, and were soon riot. ously engaged In tasting the different wines in the cellar. Suddenly silence fell on the drunken orew, Between them•and the entrance was a blank table, at which sat three aged men with ca daverous faces and flowing white beards, busily engaged in cyphering at the table with chalk, their heads bent, their brows knit, their lips moving, their hands rapidly forming cyphers on the board before them. "He has come twice iu the day for wino," said the first. " Ho has brought the sliver from the darkness before the year and day had expired," said the second. "He has spent our money in evil ways," said the third. Then all sharply drew a white line below their sums and exclaimed togeth er :—" The measure of guilt is full. The sum is complete. The account Is closed." And the roof tell In and hurled the revellers Brigham Young An Inter% low With the Mormon Prophet Correspondence of the Cincinnati Commercial. SALT LAKE CITY, July, 1108. Calling on a prominent tradesman In this place, (himself a leading Mormon and Utah pioneer,) our party of four in quired as to the feasibility of obtaining a brief interview with Brigham Young. We were told that the modern Solomon (in domestic multiplicities if not in wis dom) granted few audiences to parties seeking his presence from motives of curiosity, besides which he was fresh from the grave of one of the most trusted ministers—Heber Kimball. It so hap pened that one of our number had a proposition to lay before the Arch-chief of the Mormons, which had the color, if not the substance of business ; and so after a private parley between the gen. tleman we applied to and Brigham, we were informed that the latter would see us at 10 A. M. If he could spare the time ; if not, then at some later hour. Passing through the iron gate of the Bee-hive House, we found our interces sor waiting to introduce us to the mod ern Seer of Zion. We were conducted into Brigham's °Moe, alarge apartment handsomely furnished, and found our selves shaking hands with a strongly built man of sixty-eight, who seems ten years younger. His manner was gravely cordial, and he motioned us to chairs with the routine air of one Whose station demands that he take a daily " public bath " of visitors of all de grees. We were but fairly seated when two other callers were announced—a resident of Illinois, and his daughter, a slender young girl of twenty or there about. She rushed at Brigham with a palpitating stride, seized his hand con vulsively, and exclaimed with hasty effusion : " Ah, President Young, I am dee-light-0d to make your acquain tance." He entered Into a general con versation with the father of the young lady, whose name suggested the inven tion of the telegraph. Upon that topic the discourse ran for a few moments ; then glined to Robert Fulton, his re buffs, reverses and final triumph. The young lady's father thought the pro gress of the nineteenth century was something almost startling ; Brigham agreed witb him ; and the young lady, in a bolt-upright, prunes and prism pose, looked as if she were debating whether or not it would be the thing to say, "President Young, I am dee-light• ed to drop your acquaintance." In one corner sat Brigham's Private Secretary, an intellectual and reticent looking man, past the middle age, the only person, it is said, who knows de finitely where the Prophet is to be found at all minutes of the day and night. He tent steadily over hie work, but seemed not inattentive to the conversation. One of the Twelve Apostles (George Q. Can non, editor of the Deseret Islcws,) occu pied a chair near the Secretary. There was another Mormon magnate seated in the room, a jolly-looking old man, sporting a prodigious watch chain of silver, also red, faced in addition to be ing abdominally pretuberant. He is the historian of the Mormons. One need not remain long in Utah to discern that the leading Mormons are large, heavy men, almost without exception. A majestic physique impresses and helps control them ; and there may be other reasons for tho necessity of stature and heft among Brigham and his faithful ministers which are of a character to inspire very quick and accurate guess ing on the part of average people, and of prudes particularly. Now for a glance at Brigham himself as he sits gravely upright in his chair, with his large broad feet making a decent right angle on the soft carpet. He is clad in a suit of greenish easel mere—coat, vest and pantaloons all of the same piece, all made roomy and comfortable, with no pretensions what ever to stylish build. The vest is cut so as to reveal a broad expense of white linnen shirt and turn-down collar. The only jewelry visible is a heavy but taste ful watch chain, leading from a vest button-hole to the left vest pocket. A crisply clean parti colored silk pocket handkerchief is tied around his neck and fastened in a comely knot as if freshly adjusted there by the last new bride. The occasion of this addition to his ordinary costume is a trifling disor der of the throat, incurred in preaching the funeral discourse of Heber Kimball and following his remains to the grave. If you chance to get near enough you will occasionally notice that he wheezes a little after speaking. His hair is still thick and retains much of its original golden color. It is neatly combed back, and its tendency to turn in under the ends encouraged a little. The blonde face is a good-looking one in whole and in detail, but far from easy to construe. The forehead is broad, moderately high, and well marked in the perceptive re gion over the brows; the eyes are keen in their glance, though light in hue, and not naturally keen; the nose le a good, strong, straight sort of nose, and has been a handsome aquiline with sensual nostrils. The mouth can hardly retain much of its original form and expres sion. Authority has remolded and compressed it until it is more like a seam than a mouth. When he speaks the words seemed to be calmly weighed by the brain, clipped by the teeth, and finally squeezed through the left half of the almost locked-up lips. The jaw is the one undisguisedly animarportion of the face. It is heavy, purplish in its fullness of blood, and inclines to take. on the double chin. The throat is thick, the chest deep, the shoulders broad, the arms rather short, the legs yoeman-like in stoutness, and the whole figure that of a well proportioned large man nearly six feet in height, who had passed his prime, and commenced to descend a little. The predominant ex pression of his face, a broad sort of shrewdness. A profound knowledge of nature, combined with quick, solid in tuitions, and a rare executive capacity —a capacity of intelligently dispatch ing important work with rapidity and no bustle have placed Brigham Young where he is, and made his little empire in the desert one of the wonders of the world. For a man of sixty-eight he is well preserved. Hardly a gray hair is perceptible in his head. But when be walks across the floor there is a sug gestion of old age, with its coming flabbiness and want of supple sinews. His step lacks elasticity and his com plexion the freshness of vigor and ripe robtuititude. The Prophet is going down hill. He is no longer young, nor middle-aged. Though he has taken two new wives within the last six months, he has not increased the num ber of his ofltpring for three years and better• Heber Kimball, who died - atthe age of sixty-eight, leaves aplatoondt in fants etvechelon, all the way from three months old ' *mord, but Brighant's Yciuig4t:Cis ..an urchin 'already in pantaiOns, wise . :enotigh :'to know Its own niOtheri..: which, for. -a:: Mormon baby, argues ..no email endowment of precocious reason ing powers. - Three( years *gel Brigham married." Amelia," the vivaelotio, will ful,pale and rather homely , daughter of a seat Lake carpenter. From thealtar she has exerted a strangeinfinatioe over heraugust lord and though she hag borne him no child, she is still his 114- vorite, is most frequently seen with him in public, and is the object of attentions from him which few of his harem have ever known. Two new wives have succeeded her—one of them a widow— but neither of them have supplanted her as the Prophet's dearest. SEYMOUR AND BLAIR ANOTHER DIaTINGUISMED COMIVEHT General A. Finlanders Plntt, Deseris the 8111d106111. Awl Join' the Democracy HIS NPLT,CD AND HIS DEAI4O.N9. WEST LIBERTY. OHIO, Aug. 14, 1808. A large number or Democratic neighbors of General A. Saunders Platt repaired to his residence last evening, and after some eery sweet music from the West Liberty Brass Band called upon that gentleman for a speech. General Platt said : MY FELLOW DEMOODATM AND NEICIII• none :—I need not toll you how deeply I appreciate this complimentary demonstra tion. I feel it the more from the fast that it gives me an opportunity to say a few things I wish to may publicly. No one knows better than I the strength of party association. Next to patriotism to ones country comes loyalty to one's party, and the ties binding the last can not be severed without attaebing a certain amount of blame to the individual who secedes. One is anxious, therefore, to give his reasons for such severance, and Justify himself, if pos sible, for tho course he takes. lu a few words then, let me say that I am disloyal to the Republican organization because I Beek to be patriotic to my G ovorn • ment. [Applause.] Understand me, I at tach no blame whtteyer,to my late politi cal associates. I believe the great mass to be honest, earnest and patriotic, and that patriotism they have assorted by their blood upon all the battle-fields, and their lives in all the hospitals, of the late war. But it does not foliqw, on that account, that as a patty, heated by partizan zeal, they are not as dangerous to the Republic , as the men themselves they went out to fight. I believe it was the design of the fathers in the formation of our Government to secure our National independence through the General Government at Washington, and the rights of the citizens through the Slate organizations. I need not take your time and waste my breath in illustrating, or, rather, demonstrating this fact. No one tact is clearer to the student of constitu- Reuel law than this. It may have been a dream of the fathers, and quite impractica ble in execution, but it was the design, and until it is found impossible, I propose to assist in giving It life and strength. [Ap• plaused Long before the late war broke upon us, the power of the General Government had fallen into disuse. The States arrogated to themselves all the power that had before been delegated to the grand Central Gov ernment. I need refer to only a few in stances to demonstrate my meaning. Cltl zone of Massachusetts were seized and Imprisoned in South Carolina for merely exercising the rights guaianteed by the Constitutton of the United States. Massa chusetts, in return, enacted laws that equal ly set at defiance the rights of South Caro lina under our Constitution. The right to regulate exchange and furnish a National currency was usurped by the States, and our land was flooded with irredeemable trash called paper money, that enriched a few "Shylocks" at the expense of the many. Each State had its code of laws in outage nism to her sister States, and to this day you cannot travel through New Jersey without paying tribute to that State in di rect violation of the compact under which the fathers proposed we should live in peace and good feeling. [A voice "D—n New Jersey!"] That State was not alone to blame. We have our own sins to answer for in that direction. Why, my fellow citizens, the General Government had fallen so low, that when the Mexican war came our President, instead of resorting to the draft, had to call for volunteers, and humbly solicit the Governors of States to furnish him aid in the support of our National flag on the field of battle. This sort of practice and their evil teach ings continued until they culminated in secession. South Carolina avowed her right, and appealed to the wager of battle in its support, to withdraw from the Union In the same way that she had entered the Union. My fellow citizens, and especially my Democratic friends, when a man is asked to become a Siamese twin he has an un doubted right to refuse. But having con• seined to be ono of a Siamese twins he can not sever the ligature without consulting the health and inclination of his brother twin. [Laughter and cheers.] South Caro lina had the unquestioned right to refuse to enterghe Union, but having become one of many, her right is merged in the rights of all, and an attempt to exercise such privi lege of her own motive is simply rebellion, or, if you will, revolution. Unfortunately for the country, unfortu nately for humanity, the Democratic party was committed this grave error. Then it was I left the Democratic party—l left my motherless children and my individual wit nesses, and went to the field when South Carolina and her erring sisters bad thrown down the glove and stood armed to the teeth to battle for the wrong. [Long and loud applause.] I did then what I should do again—and in my last hour, yea, in my dying moments, I believe, I feel that I shah find consolation in the remembrance that in the deadly hour of my country's peril I stood in the smoke of battle, where deadly missiles carried desolation to the house holds, and fought for our flag and our Gov ernment. [Renewed and long continued applause.] We were victorious, and flushed with vic tory we now awing over to the other ex tremes. This is human nature, and heated by partisan zeal and led by faction we hast en to do on the other extreme as great an evil as that proposed by the secessionists. The Republican party is wiping out State rights and centralizing unconstitutionally all power at Washington. This is as fatal to the liberty of the citizens as was that other fatal to our independence. I left the Dem ocratic party and took up arms against an archy and disorder. I now leave the Re publican party and take up arms against despotism. [Applause.] RECONSTRUCTION When the late war came to end, which it did with the dispersion of the Confederate armies and a surrender of their officers, there was a pressing demand for high states manship on the part of the political organi zation then holding control of the Govern ment, and this statesmanship meant for bearance, 'forgiveness and brotherly kind ness. Had we conquered another people— had we overrun a foreign province, we might have followed the course of war and dictated punishment to the conquered. But these were our own citizens—their country was a part of our country—they were of ourselves, and, come weal, come woe, it is our destiny to win them if we wish to retain the Republic as it is and as our fathers destined it to be. Then our best policy, I may say our only policy, was one of kindness. We should have sought to heal the wounds, and quiet the irritation that came of long partisan strife and deadly war. We might have failed but it was our duty to try. And there is that which responds to the kindness of a brave nature, that you can always build upon. We bad conquered, we could afford to forgive. We should then have been as generous as we had been courageous, and treating the brave men of the South like men, we should have given them all their rights as citizens and said, come, let us be brothers. That the South was prepared for submis sion to any reasonable terms at the close of the war lam prepared to believe. If any one doubts this, let him read the report made by General Grant toAndrew Johnson on returning from the tour of inspection at the South, ordered by the acting President. I am sorry that I have not this report to read now in support of my position. Either Gen. Grant was exceedingly stupid or very dis honest, if that report is untrue. His fol lowers will scarcely admit either supposi tion. Instead of the statemanship of love, we had, in all its Wrath the partisanship of bate. We sought to degrade the men we had fought, and destroy the very foundation of our Government in our eagerness to, pun ish. State lines were wiped out, and mili tary districts formed and put under the control of men ignorant of law, and who , squared their actions by the regulations of 1 the barrack-room and the drill. Of the same material courts were formed, organ ized to convict, and property, liberty, and life itself, made subject to the arbitrary will of a little, mean, military despot. States have, in fact, ceased to exist. Why, gen tlemen, it was but the other day that a com mission appointed by Congress went into Kentucky to investigate the, characters of Congressmen elected from that State, and report upon the sortgof voters that made their constituents. They had the same right to send a committee to the Fourth Con -1 gressional District of Ohio and dictate to Representative, andwho should be your and the process by which yon may become hie constituents. I raise my voice not only in behalf of the Sontk. but for all the States, and all the people. , • - Pttitcaf Vitt* thia naurpaticin against' • potie centralisation or power:. [Applauie.l I would - have '-'uttiVarsal amnesty, and universal suffrage. 'I bi3lleve th e vbito races are able'to , take , care' of themseives,, and If they are 'net, noift4 disability can save them. Witt this o..ge only, and'it Is one of the resulta of the war, we could not prevent, nor were we disposed to pre. vent. I would replece thosoll3tates precise es they were before the war. It le the duty of the . Democracy, should It have pewee, to wipe out these so-culled Acts of ReoOnstructlon, and dig down and bring to light once more the old landmarks , of the &them [Loud applause.] Ties can be done quickly and peaceably. Thank God, wo yet have the ballot box and the ballot, and Mho American people can only awaken to reason and do thole duty, thogrent work —the ren t work—of reconstruction will be accomplished. MBE! I return to you, my old Democratic friends, to find , still existing the old Demo cratic principles that once made us power full and the same clear line of demarkation that ran through the land, dividing the two political parties, yet exists. I find still re oognized the old doctrine that the only use of a Government is to keep - the peace, and the better sort is that which leaves the lar gest freedom of action to the citizen. It does not, therefore, seek to 'interfere with tholawe of trade, the 'religion of the Church, or the custom's of society. Tho Republican party, which is the successor of the old Whig organization, that in turn came from the Federal party of the Revolution, re gards the Government as the guardian, or rather, the parent of the people, Hence the class legislation that has so die turbed us during the last eight years. We aro not only made to pay heavily for the support of an extravagant Government, but we aro forced to sustain claims of trade that it is asserted are too feeble to stand alone. Lot me give you one example: When this war broke out the Republican party, then left in power by the secession of Southern members of Congress, passed a tariff law that amounted to prohibition. Thus protected, the manufacturers of Now England ran their mills at full time, and realized vast profits. Now, at a time when of all others we needed cheap articles, we were forced to pay high prices, and while sustaining huge armies in the field on one side, we were forced to sustain n huge monopoly on the other. And it is difficult to toll with accuracy whleli was the more expensive of the two, This system of class tegislatiou bus con tinued until it has absorbed all the moneyed capital of the country, and until it is com bined into one great body and forms the soul of the Republican party. Each money ed interest, thus legislated for, plays into the hand of the other moneyed interest, until all combined makes ono powerful or ganization. You can not, for instance, at• tack the manufacturer without bringing upon yourself the bondholder and the banker, nor assail the bondholder without experiencing a defense from the manufac turer. Indeed, I believe now they may be estimated as one body, for as the manufac turer realized his profits he invested his bonds, that escaping taxation formed a tempting investment, while the banking system, the most oppressive of all the im• positions, is based upon the public securi ties. I=! Inseparable instruction The operators form one class of bondholders, from which they gather the gold interest, and on which they issue their own indebtedness and draw interest on that. Thus, with tea per cent. as the interest exacted on both, they draw from their actual capital the neat sum of twenty per cent., and in return they get their actual capltel back, and In five years double the amount, Now, when we re member that this capital was purchased of the Government In depreciated paper, so that its actual cost would not bo more than fifty cents on the dollar in gold,_ we see what a precious system we have built up to our own rah]. the legislation defeated by Mr Johnson, but which received the sanction of the party in Congress called "Sherman's Funding Bill," passed us, bound neck and heels, into the power of the banker, for it made the face of the bonds purchased, as I told you, gold. Now, to bring this matter home; you go to the nearest National Bank for the ac commodation of a loan, and they were cre• ated for your accommodation, and you aro charged, will say one per cent, a month, and you take home your accommodation, and you And the so-called money to be your own notes, issued by the Government that taxes you to pay this banker for his kind ness to use yourcredlt. Small wonder that while wo get poorer these men get rich and own islands and build palaces. [A voice— " We've been cooked enough that way."] It is the duty of the Democratic party to call In the circulation of the National Banks and put an end to their extortion. PAYMENT OF BONDS We have lost more through this monstrous system of banking, through bounties paid manufacturers, through a depreciated pa per, than we have from gold-bearing bonds, about which so much excitement prevails. Now, I am in favor of meeting our obli gations honestly and fairly. Repudiation in any form, direct or indirect, is abhorrent to me. I believe it is to the great mass of honest, hard-working sons of the Demoo• racy. But let us not be alarmed by hard names nor prompted tram. the right path by loud cries. And first of all let us clear away some of the rubbish that has accumu lated about it. Whenever you approach this subject, the bondholder or his depend ent assumes high moral ground, and asks us to hold sacrild the obligation made to re• pay those who, in our hour of peril, gave their moans to sustain the Government. Now, this obligation is just as sacred as that entered into with the people to make good the promises that in shape of paper money was issued to them. It is just as sacred as that made the soldier who volun teered, to pay him regularly in gold. It is that and no more. Every promise made by a Government should be held sacred, And fulfilled to the letter of the law. [Ap plause. j But your talk about this money being paid in the hour of our Government's peril is not true. When the war raged at its height, when the result was doubtful, capital, that is ever timid and cautious, held back. Very few investments were made when it was uncertain whether Wash ington would be the capital of a nation or a capital of the Confederacy. Then it was the Government rested on the faith of the people, and issued that other indebtedness called greenback. But when Richmond fell and the war was at an end, these securities were seized upon aeon investment. It was a pure business transaction, and had about as much patriotism in It as any other busi ness transaction, when the capitalist seeks to get the highest rate of interest for his money. This is no reason why we should not live up to our obligations; but it clears the question of much feeling that is apt to mis lead the judgement. This sensitiveness in regard to the sound character of National obligations is very fine indeed ; but it comes a little late. I remember a law that pro mised to pay us soldiers during the war in gold. For awhile we had the precious metal. Then the paymaster brought greenbacks and gold, and gave us our choice, and then he brought only greenbacks. I never heard any indignation expressed over this viola tion of a sacred contract. [Applause.] But let it go. We are bound to pay these people, and they claim in gold. very well, we will pay them in gold. That is, we will give them In gold preceisely what they paid in gold. No more, no less. Their proposi tion is for us to pay in gold for what they purchased in greenbacks. This is not the contract, nor is it just. We do not intend to have one currency for the people and an other for the bondholder. If any Congress so far forgot its duty and transgres-ed its powers, such Congress can not bind its suc cessors, and we would repeal the law rather than enslave the people. There is no tyran ny so cruel and oppressive as that of money, and we will never submit to be hewers of wood and drawers of water to Shylock, let them have bonds ever so strong. [Loud applause.] Fortunately we can fulfill our obligations without violence to any provis ion in them. 171M7171 There is a solution of this bond quest ion now pending that will be, when it comes, both startling and unpleasant. I refer to our ability to pay. If this reckless extrav• agance on the part of our Government con tinues, the question promises to be not whether we will pay, but whether we can pay. We may not repudiate bat we may become bankrupt, and if any one will add to the National indebtedness the State, town and township indebtedness, each one as sacred as the other, and then estimate the value of property oy the world's currency of gold and silver, to which we must come sooner or later, he will appreciate my propo sition. With an inflated currency giving us high prices for our products—we know how hard it now is to raise our taxes. What will it be when on a specie basis—our currency is reduced and prices lowered. Bear in mind that the tax remains the same. Our, navy, the moat expensive luxury a Government can indulge in, is kept up on a war footing. Our army reserved to keep the peace in the South and on the frontier Is five times greater than it need be. A huge alma-house is kept running at the South for the benefit of idolent negroes and hungry officials. At - a timO when our necessities call for the strictest economy, when the Government ought to be on a peace footing, as it was in 1801, there is no limit to the ex penditures; and we find ourselves the heaviest taxed people in the world. I can very -well understand all this. Senator Sherman, the leading financier of the Be publican parts, Pmmised us to support the Government and . pay the interest on the National debt by a tax on whisky and to bacco. He really believed: thin, and his party, so believing, has felt itself at liberty to make the moat profuse expenditures. Oar Representative in Congrese,my worthy friend Judge Lawrence, introduced a bill to make a ship canal from the Ohio to Lake Erie, touching at the Lewistown Reservoir, in this county . Of course, believing that we were relieved from the burdens or tax tion thrcnigh whhiltY add tobieco, the Judge felt he Could not do better with a few mil lions . than to expend. it in Logan County about the Lewistown Beauvoir. [Laugh r.] te The tax on whisky and tobacco has proved a failure. Instead of collecting a great deal of money for the good , of the Government, we have oolleoted vast sums for the benefit of a corrupt few; that new, organized as a " take a band in the control of our Government. On the other hand, the tax collector is ever at your door. If he does not come in ono shape, he is there in another, and you oast scarcely compute your Income t urn ,before the State olltolabs make their appearance, and In their absence the stamp is in continual use. COIIRtrPTION. I don't mean to assert that the Ropubli• can party is a corrupt party. I believe it to be as Oro and honest as any political organization ; but Ido mart that its pro fuse expenditure, unequal taxation and monstrous system of bounties have demor• alized the people and carried corruption in to, ovary department of our Govvromont. One of its leaders, and you sea I quote only It publican authority, [laughter and op- Osumi] bad the frankness to say in a late publication! "Through the unsettled condition of a country suffering from civil wars wo have developed more rascality than any organi zation over called Into existence.. We have filled the otilloos with thieves and their pockets withstealings. We havo organized rings than In turn create offico-holders and control the Governmonf. Alen go in poor and come out millionaires. For one dollar paid to the Government from hard-Darned taxes hundreds stick to the dirty fingers of official scoundrels. Wo have whisky rings, Indian Bureau rings, manufacturers' ring, National bank rings, railroad rings, land jobbing rings and internal Improvement rings. From the lowest officials up to Senators and Cabinet officers, the taint of corruption runs, until the people, dazed and confused, confound the right and listen with indifference to the throats of exposure." If this continues, and becomes chronle.vro may bid farewell to a republican form of Government.. Our fathers based their beau tiful structure on the virtue and intelligence of the altizen. It has no other foundation, and falling in that, it will soon bo a mass of ugly ruins. And money corruptly used and factions blindly led aro sapping that founda • lion. This moneyed power moots us at ovary turn, and on every side. It can offer fortunes to the greedy, nud high offico to the ambitious. Already we soo a soldier omi nent in the field, and strong in the coun cils of the nation, giving his name and influoneo to this powor that in turn it may elevate him to the Chief Magistracy, and gratify his feverish ambition. We are being sadly tried. All the stormy passions engendered by a terrible war; all the blind prejudice built up by partisan strife; all the pride of section and the admiration for the great ato being appealed to by unscru pulous leaders who have long since sunk their love of country In their loyalty to party and the selfish gratification of their avarice or thett ambition. [Applause.] If we arise caimly above thoso influences; If, as patriotic man, we shut our eyes to tempt ations, and look only to the•good of all, we shall have won for our party great praise, and for our country renewed suougth and a longer lifo, [Loud cheering.] CONCLUSION Again I thank you forithis compliment. lam glad to bo with you once more. I return, after n separation of nine years, to the associates of my youth, and t breathe freer in the pure atmosphere of the old Democracy. Let Ile be slow to forget all that is good in the past, and quick to learn all that is true in the future. As a party of progress—a party of intelligence—the party of the people—the representative of labor— lam with you. My voice may bo weak, but please God I propose that my words shall be strong. And for your kind wel come I return my heart• felt thanks. [G rent applause.] The llnmors of Grout'. Intended Benin' nation, • The well-Informed Washington corres pondent of the N. Y. Herald telegraphs to that paper the following important informa tion in reference to the rumors that have been circulating with reference to General Grunt's withdrawal from the canvas: A. good deal of uneasiness has been ob served among the chief engineers of the Radical party within the past three or four days. This uneasiness is manifested in sudden burets of indignation at what they denounce as the gross mismanagement of affairs in the party by certain individuals who are never named, but only mysteri ously hinted at. They have been heard to remark that if the Republican ticket en counters defeat in the coming Presidential contest certain leading men in both houses of Congress will have a heavy score to set tle with thep arty. The principal cause of their anxiety at the present time has transpired within the last taw days. Vague rumors have been pass ing around that Grant is not only lukewarm in the cause, but that he is actually on the stool of repentance for having been so blind as to entangle himself with the fortunes of a sinking party, the failure of which sweeps him from the high position he has hitherto held in the hearts of the whole people, and consigns him to some mouldly corner in the cavern of obscurity. Statements of Grant's apathy in regard to the great political issue and of his having discussed the effect his withdrawal from the republican nomination would have upon the fortunes of the party or of his having expressed a desire to withdraw have found their way to the public; but they have in variably erased a storm of indignant denial, and brought forth a multitude of irate para graphs in the radical Journals deprecating the growing mendacity exhibited by the public press. In this manner such state ments have been whitewashed over and the courage of the uninitiated faithful has been sustained. But where there is so much smoke there must be some fire. The truth which forms the groundwork of these rumors has been gradually leaking out, it is said, and will soon come upon the country with such a volume of confirmatory evidence that it will defy every effort to suppress it. Ido not vouch for the truth of these statements, but there aro those now in this city who pre tend to know that two or three confidential consultations have been held at Galena, 111., in which Grant and several of the promi nent leaders of the Republican party par ticipated. What mysterious influence op erated to send these learned doctors of Radicalism Into Illinois after the General, is not known; but it is supposed that the before-mentioned reports about Grant's withdrawal had much to do with it.. The result of these pow-wows, however, is that all the stories in regard to said withdrawal of General Grant from the Presidential contest are denied by authority. Grant will not withdraw. He finds that he cannot do it. He may wish to fly the course, but he cannot. But an understanding was arrived at during these interviews on another im portant point, which may prove interesting to the country—Grant will run, but if lie is elected Colfax will be Pre'sident. It cannot be definitely ascertained what reasons General Grant has for wishing that the Chicago Convention had met on the other side of the river Styx before they dragged him into the arena as a scapegoat to hear upon his shoulders the sins of the radical party. Perhaps ho distrusts his ability to guide the ship of State through the whirlpools and breakers of party strife; perhaps he views the future with prophetic vision, and can descry no visible signs of a republican victory. Whatever may be his reasons they are to him sufficient to nullify all his ambitious longings for Executive authority. Hence his willingness to let the Presidential mantle fall upon the ever ready shoulders of the smiling Mr. Colfax, by an early resignation of his office. Then, having raked the chestnuts out of the fire, like poor puss, he will be permitted to nurse his burns in peace and tranquility. The Blackmailing Circulars The Postmaster at Mayville, in Wiscon sin, Captain J. A. Barney, served. nearly three years ip the Union army, lost an arm in the service, and was brevetted Captain by Governor Fairchild. Receiving one of the black-mailing circulars from the Radi cal National Committee a few clays since, he sent the following reply: MAYVILLE, WIB., July 20, 1838. Union (?) Republican Omgrersional Committee, Washington, C. GENT, : I am in receipt of your very modest application of the 13th inst., and coming as it does during the " heated term," consider it quite refreshing. Although• not "in sympathy with the purposes of the Republican party," I " can readily understand " that money is neces sary to conduct your campaign, but as I could hardly be expected to vote for one man and contribute funds for the success of his opponent, I am under the necessity of declining to comply with your urgent demand, and assure you that, should I be permittted to vote next November, my ballot, together with a majority of my former companions In arum, will be cast for Seymour and Blair. No, gentlemen— " We shall ne'er do the thing that you az. We're willing to pay a fair price for the tea, But never the three-peony tax," Hoping that you may be as successful elsewhere as here, I am, very respectfully, yours, J. A. BA.B.NEY, P. M. The Butler &waves The outrage committed by the Butler Zounves. who had charge of tne remains of Thaddeus Stevens at Washington is being investigated. It was clearly proven that the only provocation was the throwing of a stone by some Unknown person, where upon the negro zouaves fired down the street without regard to condequences, kill ing one man (a negro) and wounding others. This is a specimen of the fitness Of negroes to have arms pat intheir hands. The . sales of wheat and itsrodnets in this country are estimated at 3,000;000,000 a year. NUMBER 34 gag auttiligena. Court Proceedings. Tuesday Morning.—The regular term of Quarter Sessions' Court having adjourned over from Monday, commenced yesterday morning; Judges Hayes and Lthhart pre siding. A very large number of persons were present, pod .if 'the . presence of wit nesses are any in dication, tho present ses sion will be a busy ono. Com'th vs. Gottys Miller, indicted for larceny. The defendant plead guilty and was sentenced by the Court to undergo an imprisonment of 8 months, end pay costs or prosecution Com'th vs. John Paulus charged with felonious assault end battery. The deren• dant was found guilty and sentenced to be imprisoned for the term of six months in the county prison. Tuesday Afternoon.—Court mot nt half past two o'clock. Com'th vs. John Curtis. Thu derentiont plead guilty to larceny, on two Indict ments; tho first indictment wits for stealing a gold watch and chain of the value or Po from Jacob Busser, jr.; the second indict mont was preferred against the defendant by Wm. Wsliaoo Boner for stealing from him a silver watch valued at 620, and a gold linger ring worth tr 2, It appeared from the statement of the prisoner, an intelligent young man of about twenty-one years or ago, that ho was in the habit of frequently , drinking to excess, and that he wax 0 - gaged at Mr. Humors', who keeps n hot midway between Manheim and Lit's, In harvesting ; that he could not account bow the stolen articles came in his possession, as ho woe very drunk about the time they were stolen, and did not know what be was doing when he took them. He also stated that whenever hu discovered the purloined property in his possession, be offered im• diately to restore Its value to Its owners.— After hearing the statement of defendant, and the circumstances of the ease from his counsel Mr. Til. Reed, tho Court sentenced the prisoner to undergo an imprisonment of ono year (six mouths on earth Indict ment) in the county prison. Com'th vs. James Sheridan. 'the defend ant plead guilty to stealing, on the Ath Inst., three shirts of the value of $1 00, and as overcoat of the value or $lO from Jiaeipli H. Ferguson. The Court Sentenced iletentlaut to six months imprisonment In the county prison. Conetb vs. JiIII)011 Wall 1111t1 1.1I1111;1111 Smith. Larceny of certain artlelea In Co lumbia. The prosecution showed by the testimony of Mr. Cornelius Tyson that de fendants took from him at Mr. Wilson's tin shop, lu tho borough of Columbia, a cane having his (Tyson's) name engraved there on ; the value of said cane was $5. The de fendants also took as was testified by Mr. Hubly, clerk In the tinshop, a .whlte-wash brush worth about $1.50. The- defendants came to the tinshop for the ostdostble pur pose of selling wire, and when they left It carried off the above articles with them. Defendants appeared to begotnewhat intox lusted when at the shop. ITrinh Finley, hotel keeper in Columbia, testilled that du fondants offered to sell the stolen articles at . . a very low figure at his place, they wanted 02 cents for the brush, and, nfter Hume hesi tation and bartering, stated they would dim pose of the cane for two drinks of whiskey; the taller man, Smith, said his name was Cornelius Tyson, corresponding to the name on the cane. Mr. Finley immediate ly suspected, and promptly arrested them. Thai ury, utter a short absence for consulta tion, returned a verdict or guilty. The de fendants were each sentenced to an impris onment of six months iu the county prison. Atleo for Commonwealth; Yundt and Broslus for defence. . . Com'th vs. James Johnson, the defend ant plead guilty to the charge of stealing a horse from Mr. Emanuel Herr, residing not far from Landisvillo, this county. Thu stolen animal was taunt' in the possession of the prisoner near Highspire, Dauphin county ; the sentence of the Court wits that Johnson undergo an Iniprisonment of throe years. Com'th vs. Thomas F. Hamilton, Indict ed for felonious assault with attempt to kill. The prosecutor, Mr. Jacob S. Landis, testi fled that as ho was returning home from Hershey's sale, in Menheint twp., at the close of the day, the I.lth of March last, he saw a man about 80 yards ahead of him, and when Mr. L. bad come within a few feet of the man. whom he recognized as the prisoner at the bar, he said to Mr. Landis, You are Thomas Bautegaidner, I have you now," and Immediately discharged a revolver at him. The bull took effect In witness' left arm, entering below the elbow and passing completely through the arm. Mr. L. immediately rode oil at full speed, and, after reaching a safe distance, he looked back and saw the prisoner walking away from the place where the shooting occurred in a stooping posture RS if to avoid being seen. X. Witness was sure that it was Hamil ton; at the time he fixed the pistol at me he was about 10 feet from me; Hamilton woe dressed in dark clothes, wore a black slouched hat and had a woolen scarf around hie neck. - - John Brady, David Greybill, Jacob Burk hart and Samuel Stouffer testified to having seen Hamilton In the vicinity of the place when the attack was made on the same day that it wee made. Mr. Flory, police °Meer, testified that when he arrested Hamilton he found in his possession a revolver loaded with live bells and one of said balls being taken out dud weighed was found to weigh exactly as much as the ball extracted from Mr. Lan dis' arm. Hamilton was arrested on May the sth last. Henry Metzger testified that ho passed a man resembling Hamilton not tar from where the attack was made on Mr. Landis a short time after the assault was commit ted. The examination of witnesses on be half of the prosecution here closed. Wednesday morning.—Court met at nine o'clock; Judges Hayes and Libhart present. The trial of the case of Com'th vs. 'rhos. F. Hamilton was resumed. Tue first witness called for defence was Mr. Jas. E. Guunion. Mr. G. in substance testified that on toe 14th of March, the day the alleged assault on Mr. Landis was committed, the prisoner. Thos. F. Hamilton, had worked with him all the day at Andrew Ferrier's, this city, in putting up a Grape Arbor and in plant ing oat certain dowers. The prisoner and witness did not quit work until about hall pasta o'clock P. M. and that they then took supper. Recollected the day well, because Hamilton left the following Tuesday the 17th, for Harrisburg. Caroline Gunnion, wife of above witness, swore that the prisoner was at Mr. Ferrier's, this city, all day on the 14th of March last. Mr. Andrew Ferrier testified that defen dant worked all day in his Ferrier) lot, ou the day the assault was committed. Several other witnesses testified that Hamilton was working at Mr. Farriers about the 14th of March. The examination of witnesses for defence here closed. This case it will be observed is ono of more than ordinary interest; the evidence being of a very conflicting character. The question of identity was alsnlnvolved in the trial of the case, which is one of the most difficult for a jury to determine that can arise in the trial of criminal cases. Atlee for prosecu tion ; Pyfer and Hunter for defense. Wednesday Afternoon.--Court met at half-past two o'clock. Com'th vs. Henry Wilson, the defendant plead guilty to stealing from Benjamin F Goodman a Diary worth 50 cts., and con taining $.5 or $6 in money; this property was stolen on the 17th of last May. The prisoner was sentenced to undergo an im prisonment of six months in the county prison. Com'th vs. Thos. F. Hamilton, this was the same defendant who was tried for com miffing the felonious assault on Mr. Jacob L. Landis. He was charged, in this instance, with the larceny of a watch worth $l5 the property of Mr. William A. Beechler. The stolen watch was afterwards found in pos session of the defendant at the Mayor's Of fice, this city. The watch was identified by Mr. B. by a mark upon it as the oue that was stolen from him. All the witnesses examined were summoned by the Com monwealth; the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty without leaving the Coon room.— Atlee for prosecution; Pyfer and Hunter for defense. Com'th vs. Thos. F. Hamilton, the same defendant as above, indicted for stealing a lot of coal amounting in quantity to one ton, worth $.5, from the lime kiln of Mr. John Shuck, situated on the Safe Harbor turnpike about one mile from Rockville.— After hearing the evidence in this case, the jury rendered a verdict of guilty. Com'th vs. the same defendant ' --Thomas F. Hamilton—charged with stealing on the Hit of January, 1866, a sleigh worth $7, from Charles Metfett, of this city. It was shown by the evidence that the defendant bought the sleigh from Mr. Metfett for $7, with the understanding that, if the sleigh was not paid for by the following Saturday it was to be returned by the defendant to Mr. Metfett. The defendant failing to pay for the sleigh on Saturday Mr:Metfett went after It, and brought it to his shop locking it inside of his shop. On the following (Sunday) morning Hamilton came to Met tatt's shop and unlocking the door took the sleigh away with him. Mr. Metrett then had Hamilton indicted for larceny. The Court held that, under the circumstances, no larceny was committed, and directed the Jury to return a verdict of not guilty. Com'th vs. the same defendant—Thomas F. Hamilton—indicted for committing a burglary at Pleasure Road School House, in Manbeim township. Mr. Samuel Kurtz, residing near the school house where the burglary was com mitted, testified that some one had noen In the habit of lodging at night in it, and that the party who did so effected their entrance through a window which Mr. K. several times fastened, but which was always again so opened as to admit the intruder. He then acquainted Mr. Haverattck. a School Director of the District, with the fact that some one during the latter part of April had been having their night lodging at the school house, and evidently tor no good purpose. Ur. Haverstick, affirmed,—Witness tor OT/ Or •DTCYTIeIOD BIICIVI2III ADVNIZTIBIUMITII, 812 • year pir quern of ten lines; 46 per year-for audit*. dittonal square. I. iftruan Milroy leasinKaltnertbr the antnt, and 6 cents far each subeequent In. aertion. • • . GILTitHAL ADVEII7IIENG comes lin e for Tho lam, sod 4 coots for each onblequent loser. Lion, SPICCIAL liarzcsa inserted in Local Colll=l 15 cents per Una. , • Breaux Nam= pro:iodine marriages and deaths, 10 cents per line for first insertit and 5 cents for every stibielluent inierti° ° ' LEGAL AND OTTCRIt c4 . OTXOI:3—•, Executors' ....... Administrators' 2.50 Anienees' notices gtn Auditors' notice 2oo s No ' (tram—;" ten . , l ees, AA)three titled that very early on the morning of the sth of May last, he was told by Mr.l{urts, that some one was in tho school house. Witnese Immediately sent his son to this city for officer Flory, to come and arrest the intruder. That °dicer reached the school house about 5 o'clock In the morning, and finding the defendant hi It arrested him. It was also testified by Mr. Nurtn that there wore evidences In tho school house of the defendant's having made 11110 of coal be longing to the district or of his having at tempted to do so, cud that the hick on thu teacher's desk had been taken oil' and cur ried away. Ofllcer Flory testified that on nearehlng the prisoner at the Mayor's Office, after bringing him to this city, no look was found in his possession, but that ho found a revel. yor in defundunt's pocket containing (Ivo loads and capped. No witnesses were examined for tho de fence, and the jury returned a verdict of guilty, after a short absence front the Court Itomn. District Attorney Atleo for the prosecution • Messrs. Pyle'', Handortion and Limiter dufbnce. Coin'th vs John COoney,lndloted for lar ceny. Samuel Oramor t prosecutor in this cast., swore Wet, 011 the Mulitst., as he ' with several others woro on their way ilolllo from Lancaster to Marticville, ho was rob bed of his pocket book containing a >V and nel Wit end arty cents In change. That he laid down on the bottom of the wagon end foil asleep, end that the money was taken while he slept es during that de, he was left at ono point on the read home In the wagon alone with Cooney. Mr. Triplet), storekeeper 'at Martioyllle, swore that a few days alter the lareetiV, Ito received from Cooney it certain $1 bill in payment of some goods bought at his store. Samuel MeCertle swore that the $1 bill given Mr. Tripple was the sumo bill that he had given Mr. Cramer, the prosecutor, the sumo day that Mr. U.'s pocket wen picked by the prisoner. The rano was produced by the District Attorney and identified by wicuesa its the one given by !dm to Mr. Cramer Just previous to alto lat• ter's pocket being pinked. The Jury render ed a verdict guilty, and the Court sentenced Cooney to undergo an Imprison ment of six months in the County Prison. Atloo for prosecution; It, il. Yundt and W. A. Wilson for defence. Thunulay Morning.—Court met at ulna utigem Hayes end Libinut present. Cori tit vs. Samuel °burly and Philip Hinder, Doll stud for Larceny. The defen dants in this rise wore boys aged revue tively the former S, and the latter 11 years. They wero charged with emu mittmg certain termites at i 1 r• Omit:led %ohm's, Long's, end ut other places, lu this city. Tho tie fence produced several witnesses, who tos• ti It'd that mind was impaired. After hearing the evidence t h e Court In structed the Jury to render a verdict of not guilty and the boys were discharged front custody. The jury In the Ctl9o of Coneth vs. Thos. 1 0 . Ifamilton tried for committing n feloni ous assault on Javoli Landis In Manholm two., the 14th of last March, returned a verdict of 'rho Jury were out con sidering their verdict, In thin case, for over twenty-four hours. Thu counsel for &fens', moved that the Roulettes for tho present be suspended, In this case, and In all the other eases In which Hamilton had been found guilty in order thut, if considered neaus• sary, it motion might ho mud° for a now trial in tho several CAROM. Cum'th wt. Ucorgo Mooru et at:, ludietua for Mut. A vorthet of nut guilty woo tukou n thth ens°, Comqh vs. Leonard Yost, of Marietta; the defendant plead guilty to four Indict ments for larceny. There being extenua ting circumstances in Yost's favor, ho was only sentenced to two Nveoks imprisonment. Com'th vs. Conrad Souber, indicted for the larceny of certain beef hides from J. R. Bauer d•. Co., of this city. Case continued over to November Term, on account Of the absence of a material witne,s. Cotn'th ys. John Rettican.—Surety of the Poaoo ease. Several WIIIO4fIOB aft behalf of the Conitnonwealth were examined in Lids mow. Tho prosecutor Wan Peter Wood, it nogro, residing In the Seventh Ward. ThiS defuntlant was bound in the NUM Of etoo to keep thu peace for three months. Tito bill of indictment preferred by the above negro, Peter Wood, against Mr. not dear., for assault and battery, wait ignored by the (]rand Jury and the negro, Wood, ordered to pay the costs or the suit. Cotn'th vs. Jacob Strump, charged with committing an assault and buttery on Theo. Sheffer, on the Ist itint,, in this city. Atloc. and F. 11. Yundt for prosocution ; Mester for dormice. Thursday Afternoon.—Court toot at the usual hour halt-past two o'clock. The Jury in the case of the Com'th vs. Jacob Strump, indicted for assault and bat tery, returned a verdict of not guilty, and apportioned the costs of the suit equally between the prosecutor and the defendant. Com'th vs. Elijah Pugh, indicted for cheating. This case was ono of impor tance; the defendant, Elijah I'ugh, former ly of Satibsury township, but now residing in Philadelphia, being charged with cheat ing, or obtaining under false pretences, over fifteen thousand dollars from "The Inland Insurance and Deposit Company," a Banking Institution of this city. The counsel for prosecution were District At tprney Atlee, Col. Win. B. Fordney and Gen. J. L. Reynolds; the counsel for do fence were Col. 0. J. Dickey and S. H. Reynolds, Esq. Considerable time was spent in obtaining a Jury, a number of callengesbeingmudo;thefollowiogiurors were flually:irnpanneled to decide the facts of the case : John Wielder, Jacoby. Miller, Elias Au ment, William Ciampi; Henry Gorrecht, Levi Hoffman, John S. Hostetter, John T. Wiggins, Henry C. Wentz, lease Hull, George Shoff' and Henry Conrad. The first witness called for the prosecu tion was Mr. John W. Jackson, Treasurer of " The Inland Insurance and Deposit Company." Witness testified that on Au gust 30th, 1807, ho received from the "Union National Bank of Philadelphia," three chocks on the First National Hank of Lan caster, drawn by the defendant, Elijah Pugh, one of them being for $4850, ono for $5780, one fur $5800; witness also had a 'heck for $lOOO from the same Bonk in Philadelphia en tne same Bank in this city, held over from August the 20th; the total amount of said checks was $17,400. The four checks referred to wore indorsed by the Cashier of the "Union National Bunk," and were sent to witness for collec tion. The chock for $lOOO was held over by witness because ho received a telegraph despatch from the son of defendant asking as a favor to defendant that said check be held over until next day; witness there fore held over the check and did not pre sent it immediately to the First National Bank of Lancaster for payment. The said telegraph despatch was produced by prosecution and offered in evidence. The defendant subsequently gave witness $3OO in bunk notes and two checks on the "Third National Bank of Philadelphia." The first check was for $9OOO, and wits dated " Phil adelphia, August 30th, 1807 • ' the second check was dated the same day and place and was for $7990; both checks were signed by E. Pugh and were drawn on the "Third National Bank of Philadelphia, in favor of J. W. Jackson, Esq., Treasurer." The checks were produced in Court and offered in evidence. Witness then gave the first checks mentioned to defendant, and sent the two checks last received to the Union National Bank of Philadelphia for collection and they were returned protest ed. The protests were produced and offer ed in evidence; they were dated "Phila delphia, August :list, 181;7," and certified that HUM checks had been presented to the Union Nntional i ßank.of Philadelphia and answer made that there were not sufficient funds for them. X Mr. Pugh wrote the two checks In this city, at the counter of the Inland Insurance and Deposit Company. Witness well know where the First :stational Bunk was situ ated In this city, but did not present the four checks first mentioned to it for pay ment. The cross-examination was contin ued by the counsel for defence, asking the witness, Mr. Jackson, "when defendant first commenced having checks drawn on the First National Bauk at the office of the Inland Insurance and Deposit Company?" The-counsel for prosecution objected to this question, as eliciting evidence not part of the res fiesta or subject matter for which defendant was being tried. Tho Court withheld its decision with regard to the legality of the question asked until this (Friday) morning. COLERAINE DEMOCRATIC CLl:7l3.—Tho gallant Democracy of Coleraine met on Thursday evening last (the 12th iust.,) and perfected their organization by the election of the following officers: President—Wm. N. Galbraith, Esq. Recording Secretary Simeon W.S wisher. Corresponding Secretary—Dr. J. P. An drews. Treasurer—John Montgomery. Fifty-live men added their names to the Cons minion and By-Laws. John D. Harrar, Esq., of Christiana, was present ansfdelivered a very forcible ad dress. . , Tble Club, we undorataud, meets every Thursday evonlug. CLERICAL CEIANGE.-ROV.I S. K. Boyer, pastor of the Lutheran congregation at Hinkletowu, Lancaster county, has resign ed that charge, and accepted a unanimous call to the pastorship of the Lutheran Church at Lyons, Berke county. He Intends to remove to Kutztown about the Ist of October next.—Bcading Gazelle. NEW PATENT.—JohnIre, of Martin township, has received letters patent dated August lel, 1868, for improvement In axles. This Improvement consists to the manner of Inserting autifrlction rollers so as to lessen the draught fully one-third, or in other' words, one or two horses can draw as heavya load as three, with about the same ease. Obtained through the agency of J. Stauffer, of thin city. =or further Z:ocat News see third page.
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