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Piorellaurouo.
Being In Love.
IFrom the London Review.l
There are a great many mistakes
about Love. Some people think it one
thing, and some another:
"'A temple to Friendship, said Laura en
chanted,
' I'll build lu this garden ; the thought is di
vine.'
Her temple WIZ bola, and she only now wanted
An Image of Friendship to place on the
shrine.
title flew to a sculptor, who set down before her
A Friendship the ml re . t his art could invent;
But so cold, and so dull, Llutt the youthful
adorer
saw plainly this was not the Idol ahe meant."
This is one mistake. But did Moore's
Laura want something In addition to
Friendship, or did she want something
totally different? " L'amltle est l'amour
sans idles." Is that true; so that, if we
add wings to Friendship, we get love for
the product?
In the days when Godwin, declining,
as became a republican, the prefix of
Mister, was a sage much sought, a lady
visitor, of thesnilly, love.in-the-abstract
type, asked him for an oracle upon the
great subject of subjects. " William
Godwin,' said she, suddenly, " what is
your opinion of love"" Godwin was
too absorbed In meditation to answer the
question, and continued solemnly puff
ing his pipe. " Wlilinm Godwin," said
the determined woman once more,
" what is your opinion of love? " And
still Godwin smoked, and kept silence.
Not liking to see a woman snubbed, even
in appearance, Shelly, then a young
fellow, also in attendance on the oracle,
hazarded a jest. " I think," said he,
"love acts upon the heart like a nutmeg
grater; it wears it away." Again the
undaunted woman put her question.
Sniffing at poor Shelly, who was then
nobody, she, with raised voice, said:
" William Godwin, what is your opinion
of love ?" Roused at lust, the oracle
responded: "My opinion agrees with
that of Mr. Shelly,"sutd he, and relapsed
into his thoughts and his pipe. '
This was a case iu which the oracle
snubbed the votarist, because the voter
let was unworthy. Godwin would no
more tell a sultry woman what he
thought about love than the Lady in
" Comus " would expound to Circe "the
sublime notion and high mystery that
must be uttered to unfold the sage and
serious doctrine of virginity." It Is
pretty certain that Godwin himself
knew nothing about it ; or he would
never have (for example) published,
after her death, his wife's old letters to
the heartless father of "our little bar
rier-girl." But, perhaps, the majority
of living men and women think that
love is like a nutmeg.grater •, that most
of us must, in the natural course of
things, get our hearts grated ; but that,
when we Ilnd the process agreeable,
nature has got us in a trap,and the
sooner we are out of it the better. At
the - same time, there la always what
Mr. Bain, with such innocent sur
prise, calls a " heated atmosphere "
around the subject, and there is a
lutuinous haze of superstition about love
ovtirhanging all the literature of im
agination. It is true you now and then
come iicross au essay in which the sub
ject of fulling In love is discussed as if
it came as much within the calculable
province of life as buying a hat, and
you are told to be sure and do it wisely,
because—because of reasons which
might find a place in "Poor Richard's
Almanac." "Last night," said a half
man poet and painter, "I came unex
pectedly upon a fairy's fuueral"—and
he proceeded to describe the ceremony
as only a poet and a painter could.
What wonderfully good advice might
he given in an essay on Seeing Fairies'
funerals! Be sure you never see a
fairy's funeral, unless, &c., &c.
There is no 'thorotighly sincere per
son, with a grain of spiritual sensibili
ty, who does not, in his heart, rebel
when Poor Richard takes upon himself
to preach about love matters. What
the troubadours called amour-pour
filllOUP, love for love's own sake, is what
every human creature with a soul above
buttons goes in for. And we feel asab
tie pang of disapprobation when any
thing "in the round heaven or in the
living air'' is put before love, or turned
into a cause or a justification of it.—
There is a legend of a distinguished
pr,eucher's courtship, which relates how
he'Went down into the kitchen, and,
addressing his maid servant, said, "Bet
ty, do you love the Lord Jesus Christ?"
" Yes, sir," said Betty. "And, Betty,"
resumed the good man, "do you love
" Similar in spirit, is that letter of
Governor Winthrop's wife to her bus
band iu which she tells him she
loves him for two reasons---" First,
because thou lovest God ; and
secondly, because thou Invest me."
'Pile dullest feels that here is a play
upon words; and there is. Far
better was RoWland Hill's court
ship. "ht the first place," he wrote to
the lady, ' I think I can say before God
that I lure your person. Without this,
such a union could never be happy."
The quotation is from memory, but it
is substautially correct, and we feel in
a moment that Bowlathi Hill was
straightforward and true, while the
Puritan lady, pressed upon by the eti
quette of the current talk of her set,
and not able to disentangle herself from
a fallacy, was untrue to nature and to
herself. This was nothing remarkable;
most people are untrue to nature and to
themselves
The most plausible and the most com
mon of the fallacies about love is that
which supposes it is the friendship that
Laura sought, with something added to
it, instead of being, as it is, a thing sui
generic. Coleridge exposed this fallacy
lu a curious piece called " The Improvi
satory," which is included among his
poems:
" Uolcridge.—Love, as distinguished
from friendship ou the one hand, and
from tile passion that too often usurps
its name, on the other—
" Lucius (Eli:a's brother, ,rho had j u st
joined the trio, in a whisper to Coleridge.)
—But is not love the union of both ?
"Colcridgc(asiclelo L CiUS. —He never
loved who thinks so."
And then follows Coleridge's own
account of love, of which it can only be
said, that, if he had written it when
he was younger, it would probably have
been as perfect iu form and expression
as it is inclusive in. what we might call
the categories of love :
"Coleridge.—But, above all, it sup.
poses a soul which, even iu the pride
and summer-tide of life, even in the
lustihood df health and strength, had
felt oftenest and prized highest that
which age cannot take away, and
which, in all our lovings, is the love.
"Eli:a.—There is something here
(pointing to her kcal.° that seems . to
understand you, but it wants the word
that would make it understand itself.
" Katharine.—l, too, seem to feel
what you mean. Interpret the feeling
for us.
" Colcridgc.—l mean that willing
sense of the unsufticingness of the self
for itself which predisposes a generous
nature tosee, in the total being of anoth
er, the supplement and completion of
its own—that quiet, perpetual seeking
which the presence of the beloved object
modulates, uotuuspends, where the heart
momently finds, and, finding, again
seeks on ; lastly, when' life's changeful
orb has passed the full,' a confirmed faith
in, that nobleness of humanity, thus
brought home and pressed, as it were, to
the very bosom of hourly experience."
When you have read this, you feel that
it is correct, and even affecting. But
yet—
What wants that knave
That a king should have?"
something is wanted, and in that some.
thing everything!
ME M=
Ono of those fearful and sudden accidents
that at times happen in all communities
and startle them with their dreadfulness,
took place a few days since at the saw-mill
of E. T. Ross, on Ohio levee, Cairo, 111. and
which resulted in the sudden death of Win.
Butner, a German, by his body being liter
ally sawed in twain. The facts are briefly
as follows: As Mr. Butner and another
man were handling a piece of timber it
slipped from the other inane grasp, and
struck Butner in the breast with such force
as to knock him backward upon two circa
lar saws, one above the other, and which
Were cunning at the rate of 400 revolutions
a minute. His body was instantly cut in
twain, in a slanting direction, reaching
from the left shoulder, from which it sev
ered the arm, down to the navel. The right
foot was Isevered from the leg. The upper
portion of his body fell into a pit in which
the sawdust was generally caught. So sud
den wan the accident that persons in the
vicinity of the saw could hardly realize the
fact that the man who had stood before
them but afew seconds before, with life and
vivacity. was a corpse—his body separated
and bleeding before them. Death was so
sudden that he was not oven heard to utter
a groan.
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VOLUME 69
Tile Sarratt Cage
Innocence of Mrs.Surratt and Her Death
by Judicial Murder.
John Surratt and the Conspiracy at II Is
Some Stranws. Bevelatlons
special Correspondent of the N. Y. World.
BALTIMORE, October 12.
It Ilea just fallen in my way to converse
with certain gentlemen in Baltimore upon
the subject of the Murder of Mrs. Surratt,
and upon matters appertaining thereto.
The gentlemen to whom I allude are Mr.
John T. Ford, formerly proprietor of Ford's
Theatre, in Washington, where Abraham
Lincoln was assassinated ; Mr. James Gif
ford, stage carpenter, formerly at Ford's
and now at Mr. Ford's Holliday Street
Theatre, in Baltimore; and a Mr. Wiel.
These conversations have interested me so
much that I cannot forbear, with the per
mission of the gentlemen, to attempt to
sketch them for The World. You will
please to observe that neither Mr. Ford nor
the other, pretend to recite the whole his
tory of the assassination conspiracy (of
which they have gained their information,
like the rest of the public, from the reports
of the trial and the statements of other wit
nesses) ; but snob filets as cattle under their
own observation, and the opinions they
have formed of this busness, have consid
erable value, and are connected together in
a colloquial way which has not the precis
ion of a narrative.
Mr. Ford recurred to the morning of the
day of the assassination :
"Booth wasAas youl know, one of the
handsomest of men. Ile had Appollo's own
grace about him. When he woe in Wash
ington, boarding at the Kirkwood House,
the young ladies who were stopping there
used to collect at the foot of the etuirwey on
the dining room floor, just to see him come
down stairs. Ile always looked us bright
and pleasant us he was handsome,
and had
a cheery word and facinating emilefor every
one. Ile was a great favorite with all the
young ladies at the hotel. I think he had
neon rather depressed since the fall of Rich
mond, but, early on that afternoon—the
afternoon of April 11th—ho was noticed by
the boys at the theatre sauntering up the
sidewalk from Pennsylvania avenue, look
ing his very best, and marvellously at his
ease. Ho was elegantly dressed, as usual,
and walked with that half-conscious, confi
dent, attractive grace which became so ir
reproachable a presence. He was rather
late tha t day ; he had probably breakfasted
late. He used to walk to the theatre every
morning between ten and eleven o'clock to
see about his letters. As he came up, my
brother Harry turned to one of the others
who stood by, and said :
"'There mines the handsomest Ines in
Washington !'
" Booth liked my brother, and they were
very familiar in their talk with one another.
So Harry thought he would plague Booth
a bit. It happened that, an hour or two
before, a messenger had come from the
White house to say that the President and
General Grant, with Mrs.'lLincoln and Mrs.
Grant, would be at the theatre in the even
ing. Harry, therefore, announced to Booth:
" ' John, the President is going to he here
to-night, with General Grant. They've got
General Lee here as a prisoner. and he's
coming too. We're going to put him in the
opposite box.'
At the same moment II arry handed
Booth a long letter. Booth broke the seal,
remarking:
"'O, no, they hhvn't got Lee a prisoner;
they certainly wouldn't bring hitn to Wash
ington.'
"'Then he sat down and road his letter; it
was a long one, as I said, and ho seemed
absent-minded while reading it. Atleogth
he folded it up, put it in ',his pocket, and
suddenly begun to inquire with interest
whether the President and General Grant
were really coming;
"'Yes, Harry assured him, 'Mr. Lincoln,
General Grant, and both families, are sure
ly coming.' (Harry couldn't deceive Booth
about General Lee.)
"Booth, then," contlnueil Mr. Ford, "left
the theatre in a kind of hurry, as if he had
trade up his mind about something to be
done. Ile started down the street, and
turned the corner of 1.; street toward the
Kirkwood House, walking quite rapidly.
It is my belief that then, for the first time,
the thonght of assassination entered his
head. An abduction bad, of course, been
long considered. But, in what we may as
sume to be his then state of mind—his dis
appointment by the.rebel reverses, and his
conviction that the rebel cause had become
desperate, if not ruined—this unexpected
opportunity of Lincoln's and Grant's visit
to the theatre was irresistible. I interpret
his movements after he quitted too theatre
to have been, in part, as follows: Having
formed his resolution on the instant, while
poring over the letter, he went to the Kirk
wood House and wrote the letter to
Matthews, which he intended to be pub
lished in the Intelligence? . as an explana
tion and defence of what he was to do. He
subsequently got a horse, and is sho - vn that
he balled Matthews on the sidewalk while
riding, and delivered the letter to him with
instructions to keep it—l think until the
next day at twelve o'clock—and then to re
turn It to him (Booth) in case nothing un
usual should have happened. Booth, it
would appear, got this horse for the pur
pose of hunting up Payne, Harold and
Atzerott that afternoon. The plan must
have been arranged between the four in the
afternoon; for Booth was the head and
front of the whole conspiracy, and I have
already expressed the conviction that Booth
never resolved upon assassination until
after he had arrived at the theatre that day
and learned that the President and General
Grant were to be present at the performance
in the evening.
" Now it was attempted to be shown that
Booth, who called at Mrs. Surratt's house
that sante day, called there and conversed
with Mrs. Surratt ape?. he had quitted the
theatre ; and that therefore he went, fully
charged with his scheme, and talked with
her about it, and must have known of it and
been implicated in it. My conviction, and
the conviction of the rest at the theatre, is
right the other way. Booth came to the thea
tre at a much later hour than that at which
it was his habit to come to get his letters.
The testimony has led me to infer that he
had strolled up to Mrs. Surratt's after break
fast, previous to the time when my brother
Harry first saw him.
"But, whatever the truth In regard to
this particular point might be, it would
make no difference in myconviction of Mrs.
Surratt's Innocence of any knowledge what
ever of the assassination plot, and that she
was unjustly hung. We were prisoners to
gether, and Mr. Gifford and I here were
prisoners in the same building with wit
nesses who testified at the trial. Neither
Mrs. Surratt nor her son John Surratt were
concerned in or had the slightest intimation
of Mr. Lincoln's taking off before the pistol
shot was tired."
" How do you account, on the ground of
John Surratt's innocence, for his staying
away from his mother during her trial for
murder, for which she was to be hang?
That apparently cowardly and untiliul
course of his did a great deal to prejudice
the public mind against him."
"I will account for that presently. First,
let us refer to some incidents in the course
of the conspiracy for abduction, which bad
existed so long before the sudden idea of
murdering the President occurred to its
Heed. Booth met Arnold in Baltimore, in
front of Barnum's Hotel, as tar back as Au
gust, 1861. Arnold, O'Laughlin, and Booth
had been schoolboys together. It wasproven
that some of the conspirators--Herold,
Atzerott and Payne—bad boasted that they
were to take an important prisoner down
South about the fourth of the following
March. Booth did not become acquainted
with John Surratt until January, whenSur.
ratt, too, as it seems, was enlisted in the plot
to capture and deliver Mr. Lincoln alive to
the Southern authorities.
"In the latter part of March, a man
named Howell, a blockade-runner, stop
ped In Washington on his way from Canada
to Richmond. Surratt went for Howell to
Richmond, and, returned to Washington
on the 2nd of April. He left on the suc
ceeding day for Canada with despatches.
That was the last time, until he was
brought back here a prisoner from Egypt,
that Surratt saw Washington. He Went to
Canada and remained several days, keep
ing up a correspondence with his mother in
which he described his visits to Catholic
churches, &c. He was In communication
with Confederate agents in Canada, and
was sent by the Confederate General E. G.
Lee to look after some Confederate prison
ers at Elmira, New York. W11163'121 Elmi
ra, or in Canandaigua, on his way back to
Canada from this errand,;he heard of the as
sassination at Washington. In Canada, as
sured of his own innocence In the matter of
murder, he was not frightened save at St.
Albans, where a man called •Surratt In
his presence—a man with a Canadian
blouse. He started for Montreal. There, on
the 16th or 17th of the month, he registered
himself at one of the hotels as 'John
Harrison.' In Montreal he was first
made aware of the price laid on his head.
That startled him, and he left for the coun
try, where he . was protected by the priest
who testified on the stand. In the mean
time he heard of the arrest of his mother,
and the terrible charge against her. He
was as thoroughly certain of her innocence
as he was of his own, and had not a doubt
that she would be acquitted. Still, his first
impulse was to go to her. But she, who, as
you will remember, was kept in Carroll
Prison ten days or so . before being removed
to the arsenal, succeeded in corresponding
with some of her friends. She wrote to her
eon John ' not to be alarmed about her, not
to have any apprehensions concerning her
own safety, and not to allow himself to
be captured.' "She was so well aware
of the excitement in the country, and
of the prejudice against every body
associated with Booth, that she desir
ed to keep her son out of 'the way. She
had tie, need of him which she did not hold
subordinate to his safety. She was sure
that she would get clear at last from an un ,
just charge therefore she did not anticipate
that she would lack the sad consolation of
bidding him a last farewell. Mother-like,
her only anxiety was for him ; and he, con
vinced that he could do her no good, but
that his own capture and the testimony that
might be adduced to show his connection
with the abduction plot might be the death
of him and tend to injure his mother's chan
ces, staved away.
"My conviction of Mrs. Surratt's inno
cence," Mr. Ford went on to say, " is the
result, not so much of comparison of testi
mony of the witnesses at the trial, as of
personal observation of and conversation
with some of those witnesses, and of what
I have known and beard since the trial of
Mrs. Surrrtt herself. It is the result also
of my belief that Booth had not made up
his mind to the assassination until after he
saw Mrs. Barran, and after he had heard
the announcement that Lincoln and Grant
were to be at the theatre at night, from my
brother Harry early that afternoon. It is
the result, in fine, of reflection upon all the
circumstances I have related to you, of
others which I may note as we proceed, and
of my study of the character of Mrs. Surratt
and that of the witnesses against her."
[Let me here interrupt the course of Mr.
Fora's remarks to admit my inability to
recollect his thoughtful and well-chosen I
language, and to convey to you the pecu
liar impression wrought upon me both by
his words and his manner—an impression
that he had studied this subject with the
interest of a fine-hearted gentleman while
he was a prisoner, and with a good deal of
the interest of a ilosopher since he was
released, and since the excitement which
attended the assassination died away.]
" Divested of the false interpretation of it,
which was trumped up at the trial," said
Mr. Ford, "Mrs. Surratt'e trip to Surratts
ville preceding the assassination, was a
perfectly legitimate, ordinary affair. As I
recall the gist of it now, it was in this wise:
A part of the old Surratt property had been
purchased front the Calverts. When Sur
mitt (Mrs. Surrntt's husband) died, he left a
debt due on the property to the Hon. Chas.
B. Calvert, of Maryland, a well-known
member of Congress about ten years ago.
After this Charles B. Calvert died, his ex
ecutors pressed Mrs. Surratt for payment
of the debt. The week of the assassination
she received two letters from them remind
ing her of her husband's obligation. A debt
was due to her trom n man named Nett, in
the neighborhood of her estate. On Good
Friday she spoke to Weichman in regard
to the claim that was being messed upon
her, and said: ' We must go down and col
lect the money to pay it.' Weichman's
journey with her to Surrattsville, and her
alleged conversation with tile tenant Lloyd,
who kept the tavern there, were fastened
upon by the prosecution as proofs that Mrs,
Surratt went to arrangelwith Lloyd in order
that he should be prepared, with utensils,
to receive Booth, Payne, and Harold the
night of the assassination, when they should
pass through the village. Several expres
sions were avowed to have been used by
her on that occasion indicative of tier guilt.
"That all this testimony was fabricated
deliberately, nr otherwise, I do not for a
moment doubt. So far as Weichman's tes
timony was concerned, it was not entitled
to credence. Weichman was a frightened
witness at first, and bullied afterwards. He
was afraid for his own life while In prison
—afraid of his shadow, scared by a threat,
startled by a noise. his weak brain was
hemmed round by horrors. It was not
consciousness of guilt, but terror lest he
might be accused and hung for nothing,
that overwhelmed him. He was a target
for the jests of the others in prison, and
dough to be kneaded in any wily and too
eager lawyer's hands. Ask him, coaxing
ly, if so and so did transpire, and he would
say—believing that by saying it he assisted
to save his neck—that it did transpire. Ask
him, sternly, if such or such a thing did
happen, and he would respond, in the
fancied interest of his neck, that it did
nothing of the kind. Ho was not a cold
blooded perjurer; he was only a coward.
Here are one or two incidents, which re
vealed to me what a feeble-minded, unfor
tunate abettor of a iudicial crime this
Weichman was
" Ile came to me in prison one day with
the white face ho always had, and told me
that when he was before Stanton a few
days after the assassination, Stanton said to
him: The President's blood is just as
much on your hands as on Booth's P Al
though this was a mere figure of speech by
Stanton, Weichman had turned it over in
his own head so often that it seemed to have
almost convinced hit., that the President's
blood was on his hands, or, at least, that a
cord was prepared for him, willy nilly.
Was such a person likely to be a reliable
witness?
On another occasion, after the trial bad
begun, I was taken from prison and put in
the same ambulance with Woichman and
Lloyd. Wok:ha:an bent towards Lloyd and
saiii to him:
" I testified yesterday that you whispered
to Mrs. Surratt that day, when we drove
down there.'
"Lloyd turned and indignantly denied
this assertion, in words that proved to me
that there had been no collusion, or secret
conversation at all between him and Mrs.
Surratt at Surrattville. It was plain that
such a precious piece of testimony had been
drawn from Weichman by mere fright, and
the necessity impressed upon him of saying
something to some point. Imagine, again,
the effect that the tergiversation of a man
like this had in a court which tried the
members and alleged members of the assas
sination conspiracy !
" Payne, while in prison, protested most
earnestly that his going to Mrs. Surratt's
house had not involved her in the crime.
He went there, he said, because he
knew only two or three houses in Wash
ington, and because he knew John Surratt
so well. Once—as Payne declared—when
he and John Surratt were talking, in Sur
ratt's house, about the proposed abduction,
Surratt discovered his mother at the
door and admonished Payne to
' Hush V As Payne related this little occur
rence to his fellow prisoners, it would have
been evidence to anybody that Mrs. Surratt
had been kept in ignorance by her son,
Booth, Payne, and the rest, of what was
contemplated. 'lf I bad two lives,' said
Payne, at another time, to General Hart
rau ft, who was in charge of the prison,
would give them both to save that woman.'
Mr. Ford proceeded to describe Mrs. Sur
ratt and her household :
• "It is not very difficult to conceive one
aspect of a situation like that at Mrs. Sur
ratt's. Here was a widow, with a full-grown
son—a young man of the world, who might
have had to do with his intimate friends in
some affairs, less criminal or less serious
than this, in which he would never have
thought of making his mother a confidant,
and in which he could not have dreamed of
making her a party. Most young men of
our day would hesitate to tell their mothers
of all their wild scrapes, and would cer
tainly take good care not to inform them
of any crimes or desperate measures
which they should contemplate. Booth
intimated nothing to his mother; neither
was it supposed that any of his associates,
except Surratt, disclosed their plans to
theirs. It happened that the conspirators
used to meet at Surratt's house, in Wash
ington, where his mother dwelt. But to de
cide, upon the flimsy circustautial evi
dence at the trial, that Mrs. Surratt was '
cognizant of what was going on because she
was in the house, is a decision becoming the
blind passion of the days of the vendetta,
when all the members of a family were
held amepable alike for the insult nr
misdeed of a single party. Even this is
not an adequate parallel, for in the
days of the vendetta the fernales of the house
were excepted from the feud. Mrs. Surratt
and her daughter were both devoted adher
ents of the Catholic Church. Though they
may have been strong adherents of the rebel
cause, their character and dispositions pre
clude the idea that either of them could
have been parties to a murderous conspira
cy. The abduction scheme, to which her
son is avowed to have been a party, would
doubtless have been exploded by Mrs. Sur
rail's deliberate common sense, if she had
been made acquainted with it. The proposal
to assassinate the President would have re
coiled from her stern indignation, or been
melted in her tears. The idea of a woman
like her acceding to or considering a pro
posal like that for an instant, without fear,
trembling, horror and dissuasion, is pre
posterous. John Surratt and his friends
knew that it was not well to trust her with
a hint of what they may have argued them
selves into believing was the fair stroke in
war of kidnapping Lincoln and taking him
down South. Booth would have been mad,
Indeed, if be had, in Surratt's absence,
gone to Surratt's mother on the very eve
of carrying out his more desperate resolve,
and told her that he was about to shoot
President Lincoln.
" Mrs. Surratt—of whom I bad no more
knowledge than you had previous to her
imprisonment—bore no resemblance to the
ideal mother of Brntns. Her manner was
that of a matron bowed down by unexpect
ed and undeserved disgrace, and who de
pended upon her religion for some support
under the load. Perhaps .you have not
heard that she was ironed during the trial.
She was ironed about both her ankles—
ironed with a ball and chain. She stopped
into the room where the Court sat' with
great difficulty, and one of her attendants
behind was observed to stoop, and support
tier iron burden with his hand.
" Her case deeply Interested me, as it did
others. Her sentence surprised and stun
ned her. She had faith, as she had written
her eon John in Canada, that it was Impos
sible for a Court to find her guilty of what
she was guiltless of. To- hear herself con
demned to be hung from a gallows must
have been to her like listening to some hor
rible strange portent conveyed in an un
known tongue. The sound cf it clanged
against her brain; the vague terror of it
bruised her heart. But it took some time
for her to comprehend that it had the dis
tinct, certain, fatal meaning which it had.
And only a day and a night were left her
to digest its meaning and prepare for her
death. All appeals for mercy to her were
of no avail. I wrote a letter to the Presi
dent urging him to remit her sentence, and
left it at Mr. Blair's house the morning of
the day of the execution. Anna Surratt at
tempted o see Mrs. Patterson—to see the
LANCASTER PA. WEDNESDAY MORNING OCTOBER 28 1868
President, in vain. It was an awful thing
to this girl that her mother was to be the
victim of such a fate;
and it was the more
terrible to her and her mother that the
latter was to have so Short a shrift. It
seemed to both these devout Catholics that
no soul could so suddenly be shrived clear
and fit for the sight of itaMaker.
"Of Mrs. Barrett's Judges—well, you
have read the trial proceedings. But here
is one circumstance of which you may not
have heard. Mrs. Barrett, whose cell was
within hearing of the sound of conversa
tion in the room where the judges met at
the arsenal, stated that one day she heard
the murmur of a dispute, for and against
her, between some persons in that room.
And she got the impression that Judge
Bingham's was the voice that pleaded in
her favor. Judge Bingham, you know,
has been accused of having the blood of
this womatf on his hands. lon will obtain
some idea of the manner of his dealing
with witnesses during the trial from Mr.
Gifford. I content myself with relating
three incidents, the first two illustrating
the temper of the time when the arrests of
conspirators and others were being made,
and the last illustrating how witnesses were
sometimes bullied anti scared into making
inexact statements:
" When Atzerolt, Harold, O,Laughlin,
Payne, and Arnold were taken on the gun-
boat and ironed, the officer or officers in
charge found that they had, besides these,
a sixth man on their hands, though there
were only live indictments. They ques
tioned this sixth man (who was in irons
like the other prisoners), but he could give
them no satisfaction. He had been ruth
lessly seized, dragged upon the gunboat,
and disgracefully treated, and be did not
know what it was fur. That was all. His
name, I believe., was Richter. He was an
' elephant,' which the officials had not the
shadow of an authority to carry. Never
theless, he had to remain a fortnight in irons
on the gunboat and ten days in prison be
fore he was released. Because they had
him, they suspected, probably, that some
reason would ' turn up' for their having
him. The wolves' teeth were sharp then ;
every army officer, and detective, and jailor
was hungry for a prisoner.
"So a man named John D. Reamer was
arrested in Hagerstown, Md., just after the
assassination, for no better reason than that
somebody had heard him exclaim at his
store: 'l've read that reward of $lOO,OOO of
fered by Gail, of Alabama, to any man who
will kill Lincoln.' Reamer was in delicate
health. Before he left Washington his cap
tors suffered him to go twenty-four hours
without food. He had to beg for a bite.
One threw him au ear of corn, as to a hog,
with, 'Damn you! that's good enough.' He
was brought to Washington and thrown
Into prison. While he wasted there his son
fell ill at his home In Hagerstown—his only
eon, who, It was at last announced to him,
was dying. Reamer besought with all his
eloquence to be permitted to go and eit be
side the boy's death-bed. This was refused
him. He was a Democrat, and was not al
lowed the slightest opportunity ofj ustifica
lion, nor the slightest mercy. News of his
son's death arrived and broke his heart.—
Two months of prison life, and that blow,
crushed him. He was released, reached
his home, lingered three weary weeks. He
and his boy sleep together.
" The accusation against Spangler, ut the
theatre," resumed Mr. Ford, "that he was
privy to Booth's design, never deceived nie
for a moment. Spangler admired Mr.
Lincoln, and was the last person in the
theatre to become his enemy. He used to
stand near the wings and applaud whenever
the President visited the theatre and entered
his box. Remark, in this one instance, the
manipulation of testimony against him i
Rittenspaugh—a witness—was brought be
fore Colonel Lafayette C. Baker, at Baker's
office. Being questioned in regard to what
happened on the stage, Rittenspaugh told
that when Booth jumped trom the box and
ran across the stage, after firing the pistol,
he (Rittenspaugh) said that that was Booth;
and that Spangler turned and said : ' Hush
your mouth! You don't know whether Its
Booth or not.' Here Baker broke in on
Rittenspaugh, saying: 'By God, if you
don't testify to what you said to me before,
I'll put you among the rest,' (meaning the
prisoners.) You said to me that Spangler,
when you said ' Its Booth,' said : Don't say
which way he went.'
"This bullying by Baker was perfectly
calculated to shake Rittenspaugh's nerves
and cause him to think he believed he heard
what he did not believe he heard. You will
appreciate the difference between the im
pressions designed to be conveyed. What
Spangler evidently did say was, Hush
your mouth ! you don't know whether it's
Booth or not,' a natural exclamation of a
man who supposed he beard another
slandered, or who was frightened for fear it
might not be slander. What Spangler evi
dently did not say : ' Don't say which way
he went l' would indicate at once his desire
to shield Booth from the consequences of
an act to which he (Spangler) was a party,
or of which he had some previous intima
tion, or in which he sympathized."
Mr. t lifford corroborates Mr. Ford's views
upon every point referred to in the above
imperfect sketches of Mr. Ford's desultory
remarks. The hasty imprisonment and
honorable release of both Mr. Ford and Mr.
Clifford are:fatniliar to all who road the re
ports of the trial. Mr. Gifford recounts
several auedotes of prison life, of Weichman
and of other witnesses. Weichman ho de
scribes as having been in almost constant
terror. lie was the butt of some of his
companions, and of some of the officers. Ile
was once nude to believe that be was to be
put in Irons, and, again, that he had been
condemned, without a trial, to be hung. It
is Mr. Gifford's impression that Weichman
would have consented to almost anything to
pit himself out of the scrape, and that he
did allow his recollection of affairs to be
muddled for his own behoof and in the 'iu•
terest of injustice.
" Wood, keeper of the prison, ordered us
all, one day, to Judge Holt's office. Judge
Bingham was there, and said to Weicu•
man:
" Why didn't you swear to what vou said
you would, yesterday 7"
"'Tye forgotten it, sir,' said Weichtnan.
"'Damn you!' responded Judge Bing
ham, • I'll make youswear to it, and more;
and I'll make you get me more testimony
against that woman, or I'll hang you
" Weichrnan, scared limp, managed to
say
'".l.f I could get out, I could get more Ms
timony.'
"`Where?' asked Judge Bingham.
" 'Down by the -2anal.'
" 13inghaul cent a detective with Welch
man at once, to hunt the witness or wit
nesses up. He then bullied Maddox into
saying things. Then he ealledlupon me
and said ' You see that!' and went on
more moderately, as he saw I was not
frightened.
Later, while the trial of John Surratt was
in progress, Mr. Gifford met Weichman in
Washington, and talked with him about
the mileage of witnesses. Weichman was
about to go to the Court House to apply for
more mileage.
"'I thought you men were doing this for
patriotism," said Mr. Gifford,
"Patriotism be damned! Pm doing it
for money," said Weichman.
The same afternoon Mr. Gifford and
Weichman met in the same car between
Washington and Baltimore. Conversing
upon the assassination and the trot], Welch
man, whose corscience troubled him, re
marked:
"'l'd give a million of dollars if I had
had nothing to do with it."
Mr. Wiel summarizes a conspiracy for
the conviction of John Surratt, the delib
erate atrocity and ingenuity of which must
have been the fruit of profound, devilish
genius. Mr. Wiel is a Jew, well known in
Baltimore, and respected. To him, as he
relates, came on a Thursday afternoon,
while the Surratt trial was in progress, one
Schlesinger, who asked his advice. Schles
inger had just been visited by a Jew named
Himmel, who, desiring to unlade his soul
of its burden, made known to Schlesinger
the following details, which Schlesinger, in
his turn, proceededed to communicate to
Mr. Niel.
Himmel had been approached, some time
before, by a man named S , a Polish
Jew. S--- proposed to Himmel to go
on to Washington, where, Himmel was as
sured, he could make $2OO or V. 300 and his
expenses, 5-- did not inform Himmel
exactly how this was to be done ; neverthe
less, Himmel accepted the proposition and
accompanied S to Washington.
There they put up at the National Hotel,
where S-- :registered Himmel as
" Seliger." The two then saw one of the
acting counsel for the government in the
Surratt trial. The lawyer asked Himmel
if he had bought rags about military camps
during the war. Himmel answered:
" Yes."
'• All right, " said the lawyer, " Mr,
S will tell you more about it."
5---- told Himmel more about it, to
wit :
Himmel was informed that he would be
called upon as a witness at the pending
trail. He was to testify that he left Wash
ington on the evening of April 14, 1865, the
night of the assassination, with a horse and
wagon, in company with a man named
" Carl ;" that he watered his horse in Bla
densburg, where two men came to him—
one wrapped in a travelling shawl—and
asked him if he was going to Baltimore,
and if he could take them there for com
pensation? that he took them along; that,
in the course of the ride, they gave him
their names, one as " Lyons,' ,
the other
(the man with the shawl) as " Patterson ;"
that, when they were within a few miles
from Baltimore they asked him if there
was not a road going around Baltimore,
which they could take, and avoid the
trouble of Rassing through the .city ; and
that he directed them to go over Locust
Point, and take a row-boat across the basin
to Camton. If he should be asked in court
if he recognized the prisoner (Surratt), he
was to reply : Yes, that is the man who
called himself Patterson."
S—, telling Himmel still more about
it, assured Himmel that the man named
"Carl"—Himmel's companion in the wagon
—waddle prOvided to testify to precisely
thhalumie story:
Two additional witniatses,.bevides , Him
mel and "Carl," were to be ready-the.first
passing as "Col. Sigel," and the other as "a
pedlar." The instructions of thelirst were
to testify (continuing and corroborating/he
story of the, journey on the ,aasassination
night by Himmel and "Cern that belted
been Colonel of a Western regitheint dtiring
the war; that "Lyons" had served tu• the
regiment, and was known to him PeTsonal
ly ; that be ("Col, Sigel") was living then in
Baltimore; that, on the morning otthe 15th
of April, 1r65, (the morning after the night
when Himmel and Carl were to swear
they directed " Patterson," Surratt, and
" Lypag " over Locust Point and across the
basin to Canton,) he crossed, on business,
to Camton, and there saw " Lyons" with a
stranger taking breakfast at a tavern ; that
bespoke to "Lyons," calling him by name;
that Lyons asked him not to call him by
name, as he was there on secret business,
and would like to procure a conveyance to
take him into the country ; that, on iris re
turn to the city, he got a back for them and
despatched it to Camton. He, "Colonel
Sigel," was also to recognize the prisoner
Surratt as the stranger whom he saw at the
tavern with "Lyons."
"The pedlar"—the last of the lour wit
neases—was to clinch the above testimony
of the other three in a peculiarly ingenious
way. The whole object of the plot was, of
course, to prove that Surratt, who was in
Elmira, New York, on the night of the as
eassination, had been in Washington, and
a party to the crime, on that night, and
that he had quitted Washington alter the
deed and been traced all the way to Balti
more and beyond. Hero is the part as
signed to "the pedlar:"
Ile was to swear that he had gone to the
camp of some regiments, quartered near
Washington, with knives, pistols,jewelry.
etc., to sell ; that he was acquainted with a
man named " Lyons," iu a certain regi
ment; that. on the 14th of April he sold
" Lyons," a large dirk-knife, and asked
him, while they were talking together dur
ing the progress of the purchase "if he
would be in town in the evening?" that
Lyons replied, "yes, I'm going to the thea
tre ;" that he t" the pedlar "i said : " Well,
I'll be there too ;" that "Lyons" advised
him not to go to the theatre that evening,
because there would be a difficulty ; that
he, being curious did nevertheless go to the
theatre; that " ' Lyons" came out (this
being before the assination) and met
him at the door ; that " Lyons "
said to him, " Look here, you had
something to-day in your box which
I must have ; " that be asked what that
was? that "Lyons" answered: "That wig
you had in the bottom of your box ; " that
"Lyons" urged upon him, in front of the
theatre, to run home and get it and ho would
pay well for it ; that he did go and bring
the wig, for which he asked "Lyons" four
dollars ; and that " Lyons," taking the wig
and hading him a five dollar note, told him
to "spend the rest for drinks." And if the
Court should ask hint "the pedlar," if he
was In the habit of dealing in wigs, he was
to respond that this was a wig which he had
received from a widow lady—the wig of her
deceased husband—in part payment for a
set of jewelry. And he could explain that
transactions of this sort were very frequent
to travelling pedlars.
Such was the fine scheme, as related by
Himmel to Schlesinger, and by Schlesinger
to Mr. Wiel. Lyons was a myth. But
"the pedlar" was to prove that " Lyons"
was at the theatre on the evening of the as
sassination ; that "Lyons" had bought a
dirk-knife and a wig of him under sus
picious circumstances. The other "wit
nesses" were to swear that this "Lyons,"
who did the " suspicious business," jour
neyed beyond Baltimore that night with
Surratt. They all knew " Lyons," and
it was only by making him a personage in
their story that they could swear that they
had also seen Surratt. In brief, by swear
ing that they all knew and saw and spoke
with "Lyons" that fatal evening, and that
there was a stranger with him, •' wrapped
in a shawl," it would be easy enough to
swear in the court-room that Surratt was
the man in the shawl.
Mr. Wiel at once made known this in
formation to Mr. Ford, and measures were
taken to inform the proper parties of the
discovery. The plot, therefore, came to
grief. immel recoiled from taking any
share in it, as evinced by his confidence to
Schlesinger. But Mr. Wiel is informed that
the men engaged to personate the other wit
nesses were kept in Washington some time,
in the expectation of being called upon the
stand for the government—their expenses
being paid, in the meanwhile, not by them
sel vos. J. B. S.
Severe Earthquake In California
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 21.—A heavy shock
of earthquake occurred at ten minutes of S
o'clock this morning, east and west. Sev
eral buildings were thrown down, and a
considerable number badly damaged on
Pine, Battery and Sawsom streets. Near
California theground sank, throwing build
ings out of line.
At the present writing, 9 A. id., no esti
mate of the damage can be made, though
it is considered comparatively small.—
Several severe shocks have followed at in;
tercels, creating general alarm among the
people. The shock was felt with great
severity at San Jose, where a number of
buildings were considerably injured
[SECOND DESPATCH.]
A survey of the city shows that the prin
ciple damage by the earthquake was con
fined to the:lower portion of the city below
Montgomery street, and among old build
ings on made ground. Numerous houses
in that portion of the city have been aban
doned, and have been pulled down.
The custom house, a brick building on
pile ground, which was badly shattered ny
the earthquake in October, 1805, is consid
ered unsafe, and the officials have removed
to the Revenue buildings. Business in the
lower part of the city is suspended, and the
streets thronged with people. Great excite
ment prevails. The parapet walls and
chimneys of a number of buildings were
thrown down, resulting in loss of life. The
damage will not exceed $1,000,000.
This evening the streets aro crowded with
excited multitudes discussing the particu
lars of the disastrous earthquake. Twelve
shocks were felt during the day. The gen
eral direction was northerly and southerly,
though some descriptions give it as rotary
motion. The greatest damage extends in a
belt several hundred feet wide, running
about northwest and southeast, comment.
ing near the custom house and ending at
Folsm street wharf, injuring and demol
ishing some twelve buildings in its course.
At the corner of Market and First streets
the ground opened several inches wide and
forty or fifty feet long. At other places the
ground opened, and water was forced above
the surface. The City Hall may be consid
ered an entire wreck. The Courts are all
adjourned, and prisoners have been taken
from the station house to the county jail.
All the patients in the United States Marine
Hospital have been removed, and, the
building was declared unsafe.
The chimney of the United States Mint
is so badly damaged that the establishment
is closed for repairs. The type foundry
suffered greatly,, and the Lincoln School
House badly damaged, and the statue in
front of the building quite ruined. The
Post odice delivery is temporarily suspend
ed. The San Francisco Gas Works suffer
ed severely, the tall chimney being thrown,
fell through the roof.
At Oakland the shock was severe, throw
ing down chimneys and greatly damaging
numerous buildings. The ground opened
at several places, and a strong sulphurous
smell was noticed immediately after the
shock.
The Court House at San Leandro was
demolished, and one life lost. From vari
ous portions of the country In the vicinity
of San Francisco Bay, the shocks are re
ported severe, and considerable damage
sustained. In many places the earth opened
and water gushed forth.
The roof of the Mission Woollen Mills is
considerably damaged. The large chimney
of the sugar refinery, on Eighth street, is
badly cracked. The gable end on the girl's
side of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum just
fell in, crushing through the ceilings.
Only four lives have been reported lost,
although numbers were injured by the fall
ing debris. The water in the Bay was per
fectly smooth at the time of the shock, and
no tidal disturbance took place. The shock
was felt aboard the shipping in the harbor,
as if the vessel had struck upon a rock:.
The shocks were felt at Sacramento and
Stockton. The Mare Island Navy Yard
experienced two heavy shocks, several
buildings were thrown down, and several
considerably shaken, but no serious injury
occurred. In Redwood City the large brick
Court House is a little better than a wreck,
and all the county officers have moved out.
At Marysville a slight shock was felt,
and at Grass Valley the shock was severe.
At Sonom . the shocks were light, but they
continued nearly all day. All business ex
cept that of a retail kind is suspended.
The Chamber of Commerce held a meet
ing to-day, and resolved to telegraph to the
Chambers of Commerce in New York,
Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, London,
Paris and Hamburg, an account of the
disaster.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. °l, 7P. M.—Another
ahock has just been felt.
EARLY in the war, John Merchant, of
Pittsfield, Mass., enlisted and was killed at
Ball's Bluff. When he left home he took
with him a bible given him in Scotland
twenty-two years before.— Strangely
enough, there was a soldier in the rebel
ranks who thought enough of the, bible to
take it and carry it as his own after Mer
chant fell. In front of Richmond, three
years after, this soldier fell and the good
book was again appropriated by a rebel
soldier, who recently, upon his death bed,
directed his brother, James H. Whitlpy, of
South Carolina td forward it, to Mrs. Mer
chant, whose address happened to be writ
ten upon the fly leaf. She duly received it,
and prizes it dearly as a relic of her dead
husband, and a carious instance of this
chances and chaniies of liie.
Address of ths, Democratic • Nationel
Committee to the Voters of the 'Culled
• Matra.
NEW YORK, Oct. 20, 1868.
FELLOW - CI:TIZEICI3—.4 is a privilege and
duty to address you on the eve of the great
battle which we are to fight, and which IS
to decide whether, the government of this
republic is to remain four years more in tbe
hands 'tit the Radleil party or whether' by
an,energetio, united and last effort you wilt
wrest the power from its grasp and give to
ns, 'under a Democratic Conservative ad.
ministration, a government based upon
principles of justice, economy and consti
tutional liberty.
The Issues of the present campaign are
plain and self-evident. They appeal to the
intelligence and patriotism of every voter
in the most unmistakable terms: They
have been ably discussed by distinguished
orators and leaders of our party since the
nomination of our candidates.
. .
What the Democratic party intends to do,
if placed in power by your suffrages, Is to
restore peace and union to our country ; to
heal the wounds and sufferings caused by
the rebellion; to give to the people of the
South the rights to which they are entitled
under the Constitution, and by which alone
we can bring back prosperity and quiet to
that distracted section ; to reduce materially
our military and naval establishments, kept
up now on an immense scale and at an
enormous cost; to introduce into every de
partment of government the strictest
economy and to develop by an equitable
system of imports and taxation the growing
resources of our country, and thus to place
the federal finances on a solid and stable
footing and to pave the way to a gradual
and safe return to specie payments. We
are charged by the Radical party, the party
of violence and usurpation, which for the
last four years, to prolong its own ex
istence, has set at nought the Constitution
and the fundamental principles of our gov
ernment, that we intend revolution and
defiance of established laws. The accusa
tion Is unfounded and absurd; it cannot
be entertained for a moment by any Intel
ligent voter who has even the most super
ficial knowledge of the history of his coun
try. The Democratic party can proudly
point to every page of Its record. It has
never violated a single obligation of the
fundamental compact by which these
United States entered into the family of na
tions. Its watchword, in peace as in war,
has been and will always be the Union, the
constitution and the laws. And no man,
nor any set of men, however high they
might be placed by the suffrages of their
fellow citizens, can ever expect to receive
the support of this great conservative party
in any revolutionary attempt against es
tablished laws. The ballot box and the
supreme will of the American people are
the only means of redress to which we
look.
Fellow Democrats, you aro fighting for a
good and righteous cause. You have for
your leader n tried statesman; a .patriot
who stood by the Union in its darkest hour;
a man equally beloved for the purity of his
private character as honored for his public
virtues.
Opposed to you are the men who have
subverted the structure oftheir own system
of representative self-government, vindi
cated to the world by more than half a cen
tury of prosperity and greatness; the men
who have increased our enormous debt by
profligacy and corruption unparalleled;
the men who in two successive Congresses
have demonstrated4heir incompetency to
diminish our burdens by economy or ap
pertion them with equity; the men who
have so distributed our burdens as that
they press with excessive weight upon the
labor and industry of the country, making
rich men richer by making poor men
poorer.
Opposed to you are the men who have de
nied for three years of peace, and will con
tinueto deny until your votes arrest them,
self-government to the people of ten States;
the men who have taken away the power
of our Chief Magistrate to insure a faithful
execution of the laws or to command - the
army and the navy of the United States;
the men who did their worst to expel the
President from the White House for obey
ing faithfully the behests of your supreme
law; the men who, being conscious of their
crimes, dreaded to have the Supreme Court
declare their quality, and therefore abridged
Its jurisdiction and silenced its voice; the
men who have usurped and are grasping
and wielding powers not possessed to-day
by any monarch among civilized nations.
Against these men and all their despotic
purposes, which General Grant would be
as powerless to binder as he whom they
elected four years ago has been; against
these men, their crimes in the past, their
nefarious designs in the future, you are
soon to make one final and determined
onslaught.
Four years ago we failed to expel them
from power,though we predicted then, as we
now predict, their incompetency to give to
the people peace; declaring then, as we now
declare, the revolutionary purposes of their
most active leaders, who rule the party as
they would rule the country—with a des
potic sway. But these four years have jus
tified our warning. .Our worst predictions
then are their enactments now. What we
feared they have done. The revoluthin has
made steady progress. Once more we call
every patriot to join our ranks.
If the people will now rise in their maj
esty and might they can save their institu
tions and rebuild them. If they are supine
and regardless of their sacred interests, so
much in the last four years has been accom
plished and so much in the next four years
may easily be accomplished, no obstacle
then remaining, that the revolution will
become a fixed fact, the structure of our
government will have been completely re
modelled. It may be a government, still it
will no longer be your representative self
government.
- For this final struggle, then, fellow-
Democrats of the United States, let us in
vigorate every muscle and nerve every
heart. The time is short. The foe is stub
born and desperate. Our victory would be
the death blow to the Republican party. It
could have been held together by no other
nomination. It cannot survive your suc
cessful assault. One victory is enough.
Your triumph in November will finally re
establish the Union and the Constitution
for another generation of men. It will re
store peace and good order to the South,
prosperity to the North and a wise and fru
gal rule to both. The great prize is worthy
your most strenuous endeavor.
Our ranks are unbroken, our courage is
unabated. Once more to the breach, and
this time victory.
For the Democratic National Committee,
AUGUST BELMONT, Chairman.
Address or the New York Demoerntle
State Committee.
NEW YORK, Oct. 20, 1868
To THE DEMOCRACY OF THE STATE OF
NEW YORK—The results of the October
elections demonstrate the fact that large ac
cessions to the Democratic party have been
made since the last Congressional election,
in 18t18.
In Indiana we have reduced the Republi
can majority from 14,516 to a doubtful
claim of 800 majority. We have done this
ou the largest aggregate vote ever given in
that State and in what Schuyler Colfax
confesses to be "the severest political con
test ever fought in Indiana." Even by the
showing of the Republicans . a further
change of one vote in 450—0 f one-eighth of
one per cent—would have completed a po
litical revolution. We have also gained
one member of Congress, and perhaps two.
In Pennsylvania we have reduced the
Republican majority In 1866 about one
half. A further change of one vote in 140
would have given us a complete victory In
that great commonwealth. We have done
this in spite of vast patronage and means
of corruption; systematic frauds, skillfully
organized by the best masters in that tut;
and in spite of the unjust exclusion of the
votes of citizens of Irish and German birth
by a party which claims the suffrage for
the negro, as a natural and sacred right,
and practically gives him a supremacy over
the white man In a large portion of the re
public. We have also gained several mem
bers for Congress.
In Ohio, in the Congressional election just
held we have reduced the Republican ma
jority more than one-halt—from 40,000 to
15,000—from the Congressional election of
1866, and have gained three members of
Congress.
Never has the indomitable spirit and
heroic energy of the Democratic party been
more nobly manifested.
You have driven in the Republicans to
their baggage wagons. You have almost
routed them.
Fellow Democrats, is this a moment for
doubt as to what you ought to do? Is it a
moment in which even to be oounting the
chances of the struggle to which we are ad
vancing? We know that we will deserve
victory. We will resolve to attain it.
Oar cause is the noblest for which men
ever strove. We aim to restore the repub
lic as our fathers created it. We would pa
cificate the South. It is caluminous to say
that we would restore any form of Inman
slavery. We respected the local treatment
of a local evil, and we awaited the gradual
processes of civilizing and christianizing
influences, and of moral and material agen
cies, and would have averted a civil con
flict, in which have perished more young
men of our own race than all those of the
same age and sex who were held in slavery.
But we never sanctioned the servitude of
any human being, and we know that per
sonal slavery once destroyed can never nor
ever ought to be revived. We and our fath
ers and grandfathers have stood 'for the
Union of these States against provincial
factions '
North and South. We sacrificed
political power in nearly all the States,
counties and towns in our great Middle
States, in the vain effort to avert civil
strife, and when thaafalled we have
shed more Democratic blood in the
war, which. we sought to avert and
which our political adversaries manalrati r
than they gave, to the same:cause. And to
day there gather in Out ratiks more—many
more—of the scarred survivors of the com
mon soldiers of that war than all the Re
publicans can boast. Those gallant 'voter
andare forpantfleation, and we are for paci
fication. Waria no longer necessary. • The
zulaitieitlee al vier haVe no longer any ex
case. Wa want peace. We want restored
harmony.. We would, give back self-gov
ernment to 'all parts of, oar country, and
believe that il can be safely done. We want
oar, CosilY PrPlamants reduced, now that
they, are no longer neoessarv...We wantthe
indniiities of the North to be revived in ar
der that our business may be improved and
oar taxes lightened. We want labor re
lieVeddrom the unnecessary burdens which
weighdt down. We want trade to be liber-
Allied, and all our industries to be once
more enfranchised. We want the pros
perity'fot our whole people which is the
natural fruit of the institutions of our
fathers.
Fellow-citizens, it is a false calumny that
we desire to overthrow the pernicious eve
teats of our adversaries—their government
by force or by fraud In the Southern States,
their siaprimacy of the negro over the white
citizen—by any but the peaceful remedy of
the ballot box. We resist by lawful and
peaceful measures the practical revolution
which the Republicans are gradually ac•
complishing: We and our candidates are
pledged to restore and not to destroy the
republic.
Fellow Democrats of New York, we call
on you to make a grand and final rally..
Your standard-bearer in the national
conte,t, who would gladly have laid down
the honor of a victory already achieved,
advances with your deg to the forefront
of the battle. We appeal to the 400,000
Democrats of New York—one and all—to
gather around him. Our example will ani
mate to new vigor our comrades in other
States. Two and a half millions of Demo
crats, under our chosen leaders, with our
organization unbroken, with our masses
compact, with our old and honored flag
floating proudly over us, will juin in our
final and, we trust, victorious struggle for
constitutional government and civil liberty.
SAMUEL J. TILDEN,
Chairman of the State Committee.
CASMIDT, Secretary.
Address from the Democrat to State ten
Dal Committee.
The Right Hind of Talk
The Democratic State Central Committee
of Ohio have isssued the following:
7b the Democracy of Ohio :
ROOM. OF THE DEMOCRATIC STATE 1
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE,
COLUMBUS, October 19th, 1568. J
Without pretending to deny that the re
sults of the recent elections are injurious to
the best Interests of the country, in the de
feat of local tickets and many patriotic
Democrats, a careful survey or the field
shows us that there Is nothing in those
results to justify despondency or excuse
any relaxation of the efforts of the Democ
racy in behalf of the cause of justice and
constitutional liberty, for which they so
nobly struggled in Ohio.
Although beaten by a small majority in a
poll of over live hundred thousand votes,
the result shows that the Democracy have
gained between ten and fifteen thousand
votes on the State ticket, while the enemy
have been unable to maintain their strength
of four years ago, and have, In addition,
lost no less than lour Congressmen; and
their successful candidates have such mea
ger majorities us to justify the most stren
uous efforts to carry their districts at the
November election.
In the Presidential year of 1804, the De
mocracy polled 18,000 more votes at the No•
vember election than they did at the October
election, and wore then beaten over 50,000.
A similar gain this year will give Ohio to
Seymour and Blair—those last tribunes of
the people and of freedom. The means and
energies of the enemy, and their facilities
for the perpetuation of fraud, corruption
and colonization were exhausted in their
desperate efforts to carry the October elec
tion, and will not confront us in November.
These lawless impediments removed, the
three great States of Ohio, Indiana and
Pennsylvania, which cast more than 1,500,-
000 votes, will be redeemed, and the flag of
the American Democracy still maintain
its supremacy as the standard of liberty,
honesty, and justice throughout the world.
No cause is lost that involves such gigan
tic Interests, and is sustained by such a
myriad of pure, patriotic and indomitable
men. The scale of many a battle has been
turned at the moment the enemy was most
exultant. History is full of examples show
ing that the liberties of nations, and civili
zation itself, have been preserved by a gal
lant and energetic struggle, made at a dark
er time than the present is for our country.
The cause needs but the unwavering cour
age, the indomitable will, the tireless ener
gy, and the sleepless vigilance—such as the
Democracy displayed in the recent, and in
many a previous contest—to secure its final
triumph.
These qualities you are now called on to
exert by every consideration of patriotism,
honor, interest and hope—the peace of our
country and the liberty of our posterity.
We implore the gallant workers and
voters of the Democratic party to keep right
on with the work which has gained so much
tinder such adverse circumstances, and dis
daining the counsels of timidity or the in •
difference of despair, continue the struggle
till the last hour of the 3d of November, in
the discharge of a solemn duty, the reward
of which will bo the redemption of our
country from despotism and anarchy.
Maintain - and perfect your organisations.
Countenance no shrinking.
, Get out every voter.
Repel every assault.
Expose and defeat every fraud.
Rally celery man to the polls on election
day.
And never despair while a ray of hope
remains to illuminate, or a plank to stand
on.
Fought in this spirit the two weeks yet
remaining, will serve not only to retrieve a
temporary defeat, but to achieve a perma
nent and triumphant success.
, [Signed.] E. F, BtsurrAm,
W. W. WEBB, Seely. Chairman.
The Mountain of Debt
Those of our readers who deal in money,
and who are in the daily habit of inspect
ing piles of greenbacks, may be interested
with the following illustrations which wo
find in the Frankfort Yeoman :
"The highest mountain in the world is a
peak of the Himalaya Mountains, in India,
which reaches the altitude of 28,178 feet or a
little less than five and a half miles.
The public debt of the United States, ac
cording to the official statement of the Sec
retary of the Treasury, amounted, on the
first of the present month, to the sum of
32,523,534,450. Now, let us, for illustration,
suppose this debt to be one dollar bills, and
piled up before us. Do you imagine it
would reach 'mountain high? Let us see :
Allow one hundred notes to the inch, and
we have its height
To be 25,235,3,14 inches!
Of 2,102,9.45 feet !!
Of 700,981 yards!!!
Or 3331 miles!!!!
or. if the notes wero of the denomination of
$lOO each, instead of $l, we Lave a pyramid
of money reaching about four miles high.
whilst the highest mountain peak in North
America (Mount St. Elias, in Russian
America) is but 17,000 feet, or less than
miles.
Still further: let us suppose the debt to
be in silver instead of notes, and estimat
ing $lO to the pound, we have a weight of
debt amounting to just 157,120,903 pounds ! !
or 9,857 car loads at (10,000 pounds to the
car), which would make a train of cars 511
miles in Length, allowing but 30 feet to each
car!!!
'But let as illustrate a little further: and
suppose it was necessary to take the silver
dollars from the mint, employing porters
for that purpose requiring each man to carry
40 pounds. In that case it would take about
4,000,000 men, who, standing three feet
apart, would make a line 3,000 miles long;
and marching at the rate of three miles an
hour, it would take about forty days for this
debt burdened army to pass a given point!
And the task of counting the debt in silver
dollars, would be one of almost endless du
ration, Let us see: A man commencing
Aug. 1, 1808, and working ten hours each
day, and counti❑g $6O each minute, would
accomplish the job A. D., 4308.
But there are other illustrations, of the
magnitude of this great "national bles
sing," which cannot fail to arrest the att , s3-
[ion of farmers, to whom the following is
addressed :
At per bushel, the public debt repre
sents 1,261,707,945 bushels of wheat, or 35,-
858,017 tons. To transport this amount in
two-horse wagons, allowing ono ton each,
would require 39,853,017 wagons and 75,706%-
334 horses ! Give each team 30 feet space,
and you have a cavalcade which would en
circle the globe !
But we tire of these illustrations, as we
do of everything pertaining to Radical rule,
which, in a brief period, has covered the
land with ruin, and crowned their work
with immortal infamy by a monument of
debt which, like the pyramids, is more con
spicuous from the desolation that surrounds
it !"
Gov. Vance and Ger.- 'Kilpatrick
Gov. Z. B. Vance, of North Carolina, in
a letter dated Charlotte, October 13th, no
tices the fact that General Kilpatrick has
decorated him with his disapprobation be
fore the people of Pennsylvania. He in
forms them, substantially, that he tamed
the Governor by capturing him and riding
him iwo hundred miles on a bareback
mule.—This the GovernOr denies, and says:
"I surrendered to Gen. Schofield at
Greensboro, N. C., May 2, 1865, who told
me to go to my home and remain there,
saying if he got any orders to arrest me, he
would send.tbere for me. Accordingly I was
grrestei . l 4:10,0,10,13th of May, at home, by a
I
r
detsch -
,tatlirree hundred cavalry, under
4faio.; `: i IL 4 Harfisburg, of whom I
ilr ,t iligtilit Xindness and mule
-. I c it;berVi Salisbury, where
' elidk' ifirs.' taw no mule on the
1/Ip, , th . - litelittwArßisaw an ass at the
Generally headquarters. This impression
has been since coal:Weed." , ,
NUMBER 43
PT FT!
Edwin Booth Is. playing to thronged
houses in Boston.
The potato rot is complained of in vari•
ous sections of New England.
There have arrived at Now York thus
far thlsTactr, 179,165 immigrants.
James Martin, of Abbeville, S. C., was
&Seagahutted last Monday by an unknown
pergola. '
Dickens opened his "farewell" readin2s
In England with the Pickwith Trial and
Dr. Marigold.
The doctors of Macon ((la.) elate that the
city has not been more healthy for fifteen
years.
An American wine firm has 1,500,000 gal
lons of pure-grape wine in their vaults in
San Francisco.
Jeriny Lind, it is said, longs to return to
this country, where ehe has so many friends.
Delaware county, Ohio, has au old lady
of 105, who can walk six miles a day.
A railway tunnel through the Alps,
tween France and Piedmont is meditated.
Missouri boasts of live hundred t ti ausand
acres of upper lauds.
Many of the Southern planters aro with
holding their cotton from the market.
There are about one hundred and ninety
students at the Agricultural College at
Ashland.
The Oregon Legislature bas passed a re
solution withdrawing the raufiertion of the
Fourteenth Amendment by that State.
The Rockingham (Va.) Rowider announ
ces the Death of Rev. Daniel Thomas, ot't he
Dunker church.
It Is leas then six years since the first six
miles of railway were opened in Minnesota.
It now has 474 miles In actual use.
The London Standard announces that
President Johnson intends visiting Eng
land at the expiration of his term of other.
Mr. Ten Hroeck has just made alarge im
portation of racing stock for his Nentucky
farm.
The debt of Viri:lola Is about $.10,000,000,
of which \Vest Virginia will pity about one
third.
The Lord Lieutenant nl l refund gvt,l one
hundred thousand dollars— the highest sal
ary in Great Britain.
gegal gatireo.
,COITATE JOIIN LAVE or
E
Conoy twp., deed —Letters ot Ad in Mist
Lion on said estate having been granted to the
undersigned, all person Indebted thereto are
requested to meet,' immediate payment, and
those having claims or nernatniti against the
Same, will present them for settlement to the
undersigned, residing in said township.
JOHN C. 11HY.4.N,
oct2l4ltoptl2 Atimlnistramr.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE—ESTATE OFJNO:
Leash, luteof 13reckunck Townsitip, Lan
caster county, deceased. The undersigned au
ditor appointed to pass - Ur/On the exceptions
filed to theaccountof Wm. Volt N eida, In
lstrator pendente Me of sald deceased, slid to
diet/thrice the balance remaining In his htwde
to and among those legally entitled thereto,
Will attend for that purpose on Tuesday, I hea l
day of November, 111tiX, at lb o'clock, A. M., in
one of the Jury rooms of the Court flimsy, in
the city of Lancaster, when and where all par
tiee interested in mid estate may attend
Oct 7,4t,w-101 14. P. EBY,
Auditor.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE—ESTATE OF DA-
V 11) HACKMAN, lute of Warwiek Twp..
deceased. The undersigned appointed audi•
tor by the Orphans' Courtof Lancaster county,
to arbitrate the balance remaining la tile
hands of Christian Risser, executor of the
will of said deceased, to and among those
legally entitled thereto, will attend for the
purpose of his appointment ON THUItyIJAY,
the sth DAY OF NOVEMBER, A. U., TWIN , at
10 o'clock A. M., In one of the Jury Rooms
of the Court House, In the City of Lanctibter,
When and where partial Interested are re
quested to attend. JOHN B. ERB,
oct 7 itw 40i Auditor.
INOTICE IN BANKRUPTC Y.
In the INstriet Court, of the United Btates
ern District, of Pennsylvania.
John Leaman. of Paradise Township, Lan
caster county, Pennsylvania, In said District,
Bankrupt, having petitioned for his discharge,
a meeting of the creditors will be held on
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, IstiS, at 2 o'clock,
P. M., before Register A. Slay molter, nt No. 0,
South Queen street, In the city of Lancaster,
that the examination of the Bankrupt may be
finished.
The Register will certify whether the Bank
rupt has.coulormed to his duty,
A hearing will also be had on WEDNEH
DAY, NOVEMBER 18. thus at lu o'clock., A. M.,
before the Court of Philadelphia, when par
ties Interested may allow cause against the
discharge.
Witness the Hon. John Cad walader,
Judge of the cold District Court,
and the seal thereof, at Philadel
phia, the 19th day of Otober. A. is.,
1865. U. It. FO X, Cleric.
Attest—A. SLAYMAK ER, Register.
oct 21
pry 'Scotto, dm
'FALL AND WINTER
DRY GOODS
EiR9THEP.S have now open a
Stock of Fall and Winter fioods—all of which
have been purchased for Cash and will be sold
at the Lowest Prices.
FLANNELS
Bleached and Unbleached Canton Flannels,
Wool Shaker Fiannala, Pollard Vale Flannels,
Red, Yell6w and Blue Mired Plain and Twilled
Fiannala, Fancy Shirting Flannels and Sack
ing Flannels.
ROCK DeiLE BLA.NKETS, I A ll qualities
ORLY eV. BROWN BLANKETSif
DRESS (00D5
FOR LADIES' AND CIIILDRKN
In all the New Materials and Styles
LUPIN'S CELEBRATED MOURNINO
1,;(11)1JS,
In Bombazines, Tamiese, Parrilz, Empress
Popllus, Topllas Alpacas, lloilalrs,
BLACK 'LIEIIBKT LONG dcSqUARESHA WLS
All Q,ualltles.
CLOAKS AND CLOAKI NUS
SHAWLS
BROCIIE LONU AND SQUARE
Open and Filled Centres.
PLAIN AND FANCY hQUARK NIIAWLM.
We Invite an examination or Lim above, to
gather with a General Stock of Dry Goode
Carpets, Wall Paper, Queentavare,
C LOTHS, CASHMERES A: V}:STlNtifi
READY MADE ELOTIIINO;!
HAGER dr BROTHERS have now open Gls
largest stock of the above Goods ever offered
In Lancaster.
Chinchilla Beaver, Esqulrnaux Beaver, Moe
cow Beaver JVER COATINGS, all ahadca.
FINE FRENCH COATINGS,
BEAVER DOESKIN COATINGS,
SILK MIXED COA FINGA,
Black Brown and Dahlia
CA. SIMERES—aII new Styles.
130Y'd great variety,
Ifome•makr, Etuttln ells' Kentucky Jeans, Vel
vet Cords, Sc.
Of our own Manufacture and: warranted In
SLy le and Price.
FINE DRESS SUITS,'
BUSINFdcS SUITS,
1301'13
0 V E RCO ATS
From the flood Esquinaaux Deaver to good
ordinary grade. 10C1. 7.11 w 43
1868 T11& GREATEST BARGAINS 1868
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CHEAP, CHEAPER, CHEAPEST,
C;IIEAP JOHN'S VARIETY STORE;
NO. 3 EAST KING STREET.
THE MOST EXTENSIVE ASSORTMENT IN
THE CITY,
and at unprecedentedly Low Prices, of Goods
of all kinds. SEM
PHOTOG RAPHIALBU MS
TABLE & POCKET CUTLERY,
TOYS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION
PERFUMERY, SO.IPS
and an endless variety of Notions. Re also
Eol on hand alarge and finely selected stook of
DRY GOODS!
GLOVES. HOSIERY.
{AND TRIMMINGS OF ALL KINDS,
ALSO, 1100 Th AND SHOEH
for Mon Women and Children. Also,
TINWARE.
LOOKING CLASSES,
GLASS AND QUEENSWA RE.
MINTESPii
New is the time to get bargains, as the entire
stock has been laid In atgreatly reduced Minnie
GOODS SOLD WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
_ -
.114- Remember the cheapest and beat place
to buy In all Lancaster la at
CHEAP JOHN'S
No. 3 EAST Keno ex., LASTOASTFER CITY.
decd. tf4448
BL'CHBERRIP.N2 BLACILBERRIEN I
Wilron'a Early, Kittatinny and Lawton
Blackberry Plante can be funnelled In large
quantities and at reaaonable rate. addreba
of apply to CYRUS N. HERR,
Strasburg, Pa.
ASPBERRIES, CURRAN rm. &C.
Clark, Philadel ph la, Improvatt Black C•p,
Purple Cane and Ohio Evernearlug Raspberry
P'ants; Cherry, Versailles, White Orape and
Red Dutch Currant Plants; also, one and two
year old Asparagus Plants for sale by
CYRUB N. HERR,
tatrasborg, Pa.
TeREES, GIRAVE VINES, c&O., &C.—
offer arlharsortrnent or Apple, Peach,
ar, ehgrry and Quince Trees. also, Shade
and Ohnliebtal Trees; Grape Vines in .va
autY, one, ttWO,IIUd tbreemeara old.
CYRUS N. RRR,
out Itl9 21da3t19 Strasburg, Pa,
RATE OF ADVERTISING.
Ittrarassa ADvarmsaytarria, $l2 a yaar per
quart/ of ten Linea Otl per year for each ad-
Unions/. square, • • . •
. . .
REAL ESTATE ADVERTISING, 10 cent;ii line for
Lb e drat, and 5 oenlo for each subseqn•lll , IL.
seTtlon. 1
O ICSERAL Anvcivrismn 7 cents a - line for the
ticsr, and 4 cents for sub sub,ocipont User-
SPECIAL NOT/CIS 'charted In Local Colu.mnj
15 cents per line. --
Belmar. Ncrricts prooeding marriages and
deaths, 10 cents per line for first insertion ,
and 5 cents for every subsequent in
LetIAL AIrD &LURE ribrittltlFe,',
Executors' 2.60
Administrators' nottosig,---- 240
Assignees' notices,..--.....—............ 2.60
Auditors' notices,— ..... . .
Other "Notices ," ten lines, or less, d
three times ..... ...... 1.60
ghiladtlptda Advatistmento.
/1111 E EATA BUS lIED .FllOl,
j .1. J. RIOLIARSON CO
126 MA MOLT STRX67, PiiILAD'A.,
Is the largest Manufacturing Coufeetioners and
Wbulesalo Dealersla Fruits, Nuts, eta,
tsar 25 In the Uhlted IStAtes.. • lyw 12
MEMMaiNi
FOR SUPPLYING DWELLINGS, STORM
PAcTORIM, CHURCHSX AND PUBLIC
BUILDINGS WITH GAS!
The simplicity and ease by' which this Ma--
atilt° le managed, as also its economy and
great merit, r . coommeuds It to the public favor.
Call and see lnlichine In operstion att hostore.
DAVID JONDiI.
Manufacturer and Bole Agent,
nugl2-3ma3l Tin Furnish I ng Htore,
No. =I Green street, Pli Cadet tibia.
RA- Send for Illustrated Circular.
p PU L A;11. P RICEt9
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.4UPRRR trA L IT)
ANI) WOOL POPLIN
OF L ITIII.: CHOICEST COLORINGS
RICKEY, SHARI' :& Co,,
CH EST-NI LIT ST R PET,
IMMI
PHILADELPHIA. 13 , %v 2d
HOOP SHIRTS
AN
CORSETS. CORSETS
M.V. T. JIOPELVd.
N. lIN ARCII HTRME7I% l'fiff.A'DELP/II A
Manufacturer of the
. .
CLEIIKATF.D "CHAN] HON " 11001'
For Ladlea, I•lleaca and Child:nu.
The largest rtssortment and hest ohallly end
sit les In the American Market. Every letty
sWould try tnern, no they recommend thesaredr,
by wearing longer, retaining their shots , much
Letter, hot ug lighter and Moro eirmdo than all
others—ten-ranted in eis et) respect, end sold al
very low priers. Ask for liopltithi'..CheMplon .
Skirt.
superior li and-made W halo-Clone Cornets In
Fifteen flltter.mi tirades, Including tile lin
portal " and Thompson Litugdou'a (ilove•
Filling'' Corsets, ranging In mien front NI (Ix.
to Li 50; together wit Joueph Book elia Cele
brated French Woven Corsets, superior 101111411
and flaunty, Ten different tirades from SIMI to
50. They are the finest Rllll be st goods Cur
tile prices over Imported. The Trade supplied
with Hoop Skirts and Corms at the Lowest
limes,
ThOSO visiting the City mlll.llll not fail to eall
and oxitininn our liond4 and Priors, rut We defy
ell v.. 114.111141, en 1.2 lino
LAMI E FANCY E . 11! R N
JOHN FAHEIHA'S
OLD ESTA BUSHED FUR MANUFACTORY
. 7 1 , A RCR ET., A BOVA'SPI'ENTR,
PHILADELPHIA.
Have now In Store of own Importation
and Manufacture, ono 0:1111! urgent and lama
beantl fal select.ons of
VANCY FURS,
for Lr1..1114:' and Chlldren'N Wear. In Um City
A.lxo, a tine amiortmanf. of Gents' Fur Glove,
and Collarm.
I tun enabled to dispose of my goods at very
reasonable prices, and I would thbrelllre solicit
a call from my Ulundi., of Lancaster county
and vicinity.
Remember the Name, Number and Filrect
JOHN FAREIRA,
No, 710 Arch ht., eh. nth south side, Philatra.
I have no Partner, nor connection with
any other iltore In Philadelphia. [sp SO Misr
rlusuraart lgompanin..
N ATIONA I
Lill; INSURANCE COMPANY
:UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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BRANCH OFFICE
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To which all general eorrexpon.lonco should
1.0 addresHed.
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CLARENCE H. CLARK, President.
JAY COOKE Chairman Finance and Exam
Live Coalmine..
HENRY D. COOKE, Vice President.
EMERSON W. PEET, Secretary and Actuary
T 111: AD VANTAGES
Offered lay tlalti Company are
ITN A NATIONALCOMPA.NY,CHARTER
El) BY NI I'D: I A ACT ON' CONO BESS, Mit
IT HAS A PAID-UP CAPITAL OF 111,0u0,000,
IT OFFERS LOW RATES OF PREMIUMS.
IT FURNISHES LARGER ;INSURANCE
THAN ANY OTHER COMPANIES FUR THE
SAME MoNEY,
IT IS DEFINITE AND CERTAIN IN ITS
TERMS.
IT IS A HOME COMPANY IN EVERY LO
CALITY.
ITS POLICIES ARE EXEMPT FROM AT
TACHMENT.
THERE ARE NO UNNECESSARY RE
STRICTIONS IN THE POLICIIEI4.
EVERY POLICY. IS NON-FORFEITABLE
POLICIES MAY BE TAKEN THAT WILL
PAY I NSUREDTHEIR FULL AMOUNT AND
RETURN ALL THE PREMIUMS, SO THAT
THE INSURANCE COSTS ONLY THE IN
TER- ST ON THE. ANNUAL PAYMENTS.
POLICIES MAY BE TAKEN WHICH PAY
TO THE INSURED, AFTER A CERTAIN
NUMBER OF YEARS, DURING LIFE, AN
ANNUAL INCOME OF ONE-TENTH Tin;
AMOUNT NAMED IN TILE POLICY.
NO EXTRA RATE IS CHARGED FOR
RISKS UPON THE LIVES OF FEMALES.
IT INSURES NOT TO PAY DIVIDENDS
BUT AT SO hOW A COST THAT DIVIDENDS
WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE.
E. W. CLARE & CO., Plilladelithla
Cieneral Agents for Pennsylvania and South
ern New Jersey.
B. A. BOCKIUB, M. D., ;Lancaster, Pa.,
tipeelal Agent for Lancamter county.
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COLUMBIA ISSU%A.N Cr. 0011 PANT
CAPITAL AND AS...WTS, 11532,210 49
This Company continues to insure Build
ings, Merchand and other property, against
loss and damage byise,
fire, on the mutual plan,
either for a cash premium or premium note.
SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT.
Whole amount in5ured,...118,314,295.51
Lees am't expired In 212,3:38.00 8.091,959.51
CAPITAL AND INCOME.
Anti of premium notes,
Jam Ist, 1865 1426,090.68
Less premium notes ex
pired in 1863
Ain't of premium notes
received late&
Balance of premiums.
Jan. Ist, 1865
Ca..h receipts, lefts com
missions in 1865.
18,(113.56 410,017.21
EOM!
Lames and expensee paid
In IStio 37,987.1t8
Balance of Capital and I
&meta, Jan. I, 1856,
t&70,1 8, P
A. 8' GREEN, Pradd ent,
GE01302 Y 0177113, Jr., Secretary.
hinaLLEL tt SHUMAN. Treasurer.
DIRECTORS:
Rohett. Crane, William Patton,
R. T. Ryon,
John Fendrlon, John W. titeacy.
Geo. Young, Jr.
11. G. Mirada, Nicholas McDonald,
Sam'l F. EoerleLn, Michael B. Shuman,
Amos 8. Omen, 8. C. Slaymaker,
Edmund Sparing.
TREO. W. HERR, Agent,
Borth Duke etreot, opposite the Court Home
mar Ly 1471 LANOARTRR PV7,1,”
LI.01 ) A RION rn..—ALGENTS IVAN ntro
Male or:Female, that can earn fr. LD
to $lOO a month at their own homes, ant at!
expenses pals!. For full partici:flan addresli,
with two stamps, E. E. LOCKWOO,
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