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CANPAI6N OF 1889.
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TMHffllcarfßmtTßrenfWftWSlnnlDg
to show Blgnsof erettemenfc In'view of
tlie iSl!?* r i fliW® 9^*
vention, upon wbiotuwill devolve the
duty of nominatliig’4a!hdldates for Gov
eriior itnfl Judge off'thepupfdme Court.
It seemp ,to, tyMyeyffl jttuw* airfa# 1 1
Williams wili have no trouble' in eeeur
inga renoiflih'otlon.fot'Supreme Judge,
defeated, while
that woriflerfufifll'llteiy 'genius' and'' 11-
lustriouß orator, Major General W.
Geary, iB likely to have a hard road; to
travel. Our Radical brethren are spme
what, sick of such soldiers as he Is. The
prominent men of the party are ashamed
of Rim, and-with ( good reason, . Sis
empty ooieombery, : his over*weening
vanity, his stupid ignorance, -his re*
in the management of public affairs, his
silly and ungrammatical speeches, his
persistent efforts to; thrust himself for-
(Ocnaslonp M ffhep he only she*
oeedetl. in making himself a laughing
stock—alfthese things combined.have
tb bring the‘bombasts fdrioso
who" occupies the Gubernatorial chnif'
of Pennsylvania into well/deserved con
tempt. John Covode, in his blundering
English, described him exactly when’
he* said “ Geary is ‘the Uv-mbuyyefie&t
Governor 'we ever’ had." The vers ri
diculousness of the expressfon" otoly
lends point to it, audits applicability is.
at onco seen and universally.recognized-
The opponents of Geary are numer
ous, and'.the# arejnusteriDgtheir forces
under different ohieftains.. Prominent
among these are Hon. W. W. Ketch,
am, of Luzerne, Gen. Harry White, of
Indiana county, and Gen. ,Hartranft.
Still Geary holds some strong cards,
andlif his friends, play them well he
cannot be easily defeated. He is the
chief of the TJnionLeaguo, a prominent
leader of that military humbug tbe
Grim'd of the Republic, a head
centre of /' the, proscriptive Order, of
American. Mechanics, aud last, but not
leaitfa Grand Sachem and chief medi*
elrie man’ among the Good Templam
Ho lias managed to .elicit fulsopap .and
flattering-notices from many ofMhe
small 'fry Radical newspapers of the
State, Which, pontemptible aud stupid
as they, mostly are, have considerable
local influence. He has besides quite a
number of delegates firmly pledged to
him in different parts of the State. We.
do lidt care about making predictions,
but wc warn the opponents of Geary
that they will have to work .hard and
combine their forces skillfully If they
expect to prevent his renomination.
holds the strongest hand as the
game stands at present.
In the meantime the Democracy are
looking at the struggle which is going
on in the Radical ranks with no little
Interest. The defeat of last fall did not
dismay our forces. A confident feeling
prevails universally that we can and
will .redeem Pennsylvania from Radi
cal 1 misrule next October. We know
the terrible odds against which \Ye
struggled wlieu wo last met the enemy,
the lavish expenditurohof millions of
money which were poured into this
;state from every quarter; and wsknow
that such ample means can not be se
cured to corrupt the ballot box at the
next electip|i. With anything like a
full poll of our vote we shall certainly
achieve a great victory. The more
sagacious Republican journals of the
country are already preparing Uieir
readers for such a result. The New
York iStin says:
“ It would be in with prece
dent if the Pi'iiiouraty, should curry Penn
oylvaniu next Jail,. Iu Ijncoln hud
hourly (1(1,000 majority l'n that Stale, and In
IMiJI, th» year‘iCftorwiml, 'the Democratic
candidate for Auditor (rcmenil, the princi
pal then 'by a
majority bfo.fiOO. The finmtp effect is likely
to bo produced utfto. Dissatisfaction with
President ((rani’s uppolnhhtfnis is.general
dmnng all factions of the Uapubllcuti party :
and thnuo amateur HtutcHtneu who were de
lighted at the retort with which the Presi
dent overwhelmed that tibin veteran of pol
itico, Colonel MvOluro, in Pebruary, will
most proltuldy entertain u different senti
main w.lum they learn in ; U«tobor ihal Mo
Uluiv wus uiurli the wisi-r man of the two.
(ion.Gwuil will, perhaps, also understuml
at dial liuie that while iL may be pleusuul
to Uini pnrnuntdly to have a gentlemutwof
Mr. iioriu’s nmniliecuce and iueupueity oc
oupying.lho Navy Department under l'also
pretences, it is ovuu more ploa6aut to the
liead of a uutiomyl udmiiustruliou to see
the pcuply of a great State like Pennsylvania
evince by, a rousing majority for his purty
that they approve hia conduct. support his
policy, and continue to esteem himself.”
Thy Democratic State Convention,
which meets after the Radicals have
held theirs, will no doubtSejfrcttlie'beet
inch to lead our forces. W$ expect to
see perfect harmony prevail, aiid confi
dently predict that there Will be com
plete satisfaction with tiio result. 1 The
men who nro prominently named as
Democratic candidates for Governbr,
are all gentfemou of high character and
distinguished ability, aud with either bf‘
thbm as our ; Btandard bearer,
wo can only be defeated by tho.ipost
inexcusable apathy .in our own ranks.
With a full poll of. the Democratic vote
wo cun not be beaten. Let ovary Demo
crat; remember that and all will be well.
Joining tho Two Faciflc Knllroafls,
. The two brandies of the Pacific.Rail
rOa'd'were not joined-on Saturday in
.consequeiicoyf a quarrel between theft),
•li’ho two Companies, the Central ami
tho Uiittiu, built parallel jlnes within a
.foWjieet.of each Ollier fo.t a distance of
Homo fifty miles, the object being the
obtaining of the‘government subsidy.
ThequftrroHvas'veTy lWe!y,ttbd'wa.s par
ticipated in by the AyorknUn Who fought
each other with hammers and picks,
and tried blowing each other up with
gunpowder. The squdbfelefor thespoils
• was finally adjusted, the Central nbau
donlng its grade aud taking that-of the
' Uiiipp, UjeUpiqp thus gettlug the gov
ernment bonds for fiflyrtwo miles, and,
tile completed;'
Wio are Sutler oblJgatibnß.t'o.poTi. F.
Jordan, Secretary of ~tbe‘ Common
wealth, for a copy of the general laws of
tlio.State, It hi. a thin yqlupie of iibout
:a hundred pages. . The bulk, of the. acts
6f the, late infamous Legislature', the
private hills for passing 'wljich',/ they
were'well paid, will makeabuiky book
of fift'c ofelghteen hundred pages.
Genital Ely, the new Marshal of
the Eastern District of Pennsylvania,
died 6nddDhly ( night at his
residence UCe was
'going to take'possession of his office on
/the follow!jig day. 1 His, death at that
particular time, was singular; but a still
liiore remarkable circumstance con
nected wlj.li itjs thefaetthatthebrother
of John-A. Hiestand/ of the Examiner ,
■ dreaiped ift tUiß'city of the happening
of
occurrence. ■ ,Ouji> friend. of
:, ?icr, it will bd Fetiollected, was a promi
nent : candida 1 the place which
x General Ely was selected to fill,
'•" Another influential Radical paper
. ..Wlipcls in to/', what 19 .fust' 'becoming a
solid column of aIL the leading journals
•’/ft'lj/the'country moving uponGranfc’s
.p«orkn*ir Read the.,‘testimony /wHißh,'Jif‘
“hckfatothe failure Of hisadminiistration,'
/apoDi'e!”column. The
jsun,,J2er<tfdand
1 ‘ i^T^/.C^lc^o'C'SfH&uHe/and others • have
there
1 r be : a°heavy fire all 'alimg .: the Jibe. , A,
Mb /demanded;*
- whiGnfGr^sWi'M^ l spdas Jty!pes&fy
! 1 for'IUS -WBlfU&uiaei lle'/fdundifci to.fcjetp.
changt!' His
inond.
pH.-'? •■-'E'V.-.v.* 1 .
MB>IMiMMOHiK
, Cnb»*ntttliB Al»bam* Clalmi. '
We
'rorlda of\l n "
■( onsistenoy. by§£*■
erdy Johnson inwgard to Ufa Ala® ll ®
. olalmß
jeoted by tne SenaW) bSw*®*"
4nd advanced ideas of Mr. Samner are
ijaldto be approved and firmly held toby
President Grant and his Cabinet. We
have refnsed even to-conslder the terms
of an agreemanhnnder vvblch onr citi
zens wSiabsSb&n'Wpeoßated for
All actual losses, and the present ad-
W havtf-Com
mitted itself‘totiie idea;jjha«-England!
must' iffl. ;jsffise#9#il)lp -toi allpthel
consequential, damages whicli leeuUpa.
to oiir commerceifrom a recognition of
the'Coiifecleiite'Btßtes as. belligerents. >
Yeti;jai't|ip when; we are
thus l aotdng, fojmlilable .expeditions *iej
leaving onr' ports-with large Bpppjlesi
of I 'arms and 'Ammunition, to ' aid
th^Y ; " which , "'is in, revCK
against the,-regularly
emment of Spain in the Islabd of
Cuba. ■' The departnre of these expedi
tions, from .our chief port is a matter
of auch open notoriety that full accounts
of them, accompanied by sketches of
the personal history of the leaders and
descriptions of the rank and file, appear
in the daily newspapers of New York.
The Government of the United States
can hot set up the plea of ignorance in
regard to transactions which are thus
openly carried on. The presen t admin
istration has had as full police of these
things as England could by any possi
bility have had of the building and de
parture of confederate embers from her
porta. .
' libt us look at tho conditions under
which England recognized the Southern
Confederacy as a belligerent,' and con
trast the status of that then de facto
government with the present position
of the Cuban rebels—for rebels i they
certainly are, as much as ever Jeff.
Davis and his followers were.
When the English proclamation,of
neutrality was issued, the Government
of the United ptates had beep expelled 1
from every part of the territory over
which the Confederate, Government
claimed control. In and over the States
which composed the Confederacy there
wasaregularly established government,
cheerfully submitted to by ninety-iiiqe
hundredths of the population. That
government was in full and vigorous
action, wielding all the powers exercised
by any government. So portentous was
the contest that the Supreme Court of
the United States afterwards described
it as “a territorial civil war;” and all
the world knows, not only that it was
the greatest of civil wars, but.tbatin
every respect it had more of the chart
acter of regular . war between two dis
tinct and independentnationsthan any
similar contest has had that is known
in history. • .
How is it with regard to Cuba ? There
has been a revolt'there. A portion of
the inhabitants are engaged In an at
tempt to overthrow the regularjy con
stituted government. It may not be
“ the best government the world ever
saw,'.' but that is Bomewbgt a matter of
opinion, and has nothing to do with the
question as presented for our considera
tion. We characterize tile Caban in
surrection as a revolt. As yefc'it has not
proved itself to be anythipg morp, and
ias not even risen to the dignity ofrev-
plution. The Cuban rebels have no
regularly constituted government, uot
even the form of such a thing ; they do
not hold exolusive possession of any
portion of the territory of the island;
and their prospect of success, unless
through such foreign aid as we are now
unlawfully sending them, seems to be
exceedingly- remote and dim.
Ono of two things the Government of
the United States must do. It must
either sternly supprees these expedi-
tions in aid of the Cuban rebels, or it
inußt abandon the position which the
present administration has, taken on
the Alabama claims. President Grant
can not plead Ignoranco of even (s which
are so open and notorious. He cannot
claimjthat he does uot know of tha-fit*
ting out of hostile expeditions against
the Government of Bpain; nor can his
administration Bhlrk the responsibility
which attaches to Buch action. To allow
these expeditions to depart from our
ports is a violation of neutrality more
flagrant atid inexcusable than any act
of which England was guilty during
the lato rebellion iu this epuntry, and
miglit properly be deemed sufficient
cause to justify Bpain in declaring war
agalhst us, slioilld she feel disposed to do
so.
The-dilemma in which the adminis
tration is thus placed is not a pleasant
one. By the action of the Senate aud
the stand taken under the lead of Sum
ner, we are precluded from the exercise
of tile exceedingly liberal views which
this country topjf bpfore our late civil
strife in regard, to all struggles of the
people against governments which the
musses might deem oppressive or offen
sive. During our efforts to. subdue the
people of the-South, we advauced a dif
ferent doctrine from that which we had
practiced in relation to others, and we
are pow reduced to the alternative of
abandoning ouj claims against England
if 1?q wish to aid the revolutionists in
Cdba. One horn or the other of this
dilemma we must take, and it is for
President Grant and his Cabinet to say
which one they will themselves
upon.
Tlio Inst hall
The last Tail has been put down upon
Great Pacific Railroad, and the two
oceaue are 'thorn united by an iron hand
.Which stretches across the entire conti
nent. This gigauticenterprise has cost
tlie people of the United States a vast
amount of money, -and jhpi;e.'is .good
reason to fear that the cboruption and
rascality which have added so largely
to our public expenditures of late years
have greatly‘lncreased the legitimate
cost of this.-work. Still the ultimate
results will compensate even' for this.
The road just '.finished may to
be impassable for months during the
winter, but it will not' long until
another wfrl be opened in a milder lati
tude, -where the snow of winter will not
interrupt travel and endanger life. That
,a road will be very soon constructed on
the Southern route we have no ddubt.
A few y ears ago the idea of accomplish
ing, what has just been successfully
achieved was regarded as almost chi
merical. Now road across the
contineutcompleted we are preparing to
build two others. Trulytliteie a fast age
and oiirs.k'great couhtry.
Virginia Never Ont of the Union.
Judge Chase haa.jusfcr'endered a most
importan. decision, in reference to the
State of Virginia. The Supreme Court
has reversed tHe dictum of Underwood,
which declared thesentence pronounced
oh a negro murderer to/be void, on ac
cotmtof the ineligibility of the Judge
rendering' it under the fourteenth
amendment to the Constitution. In
deciding the case Chief-Justice Chase
held that Virginia had r always been a
6tatejin the Union. / He said thatj.: . '
' A"State govenment in Virginia]bad been
'recognized all during tbe War by. Congress
—'firatrat Wheeling and then at Alexandria.
Tbe ; 'aetion of .that government in dividing
the State bad been recognized by-tbe Fed
oral Government, and Senators and Repre
sentatives, elected-by that goyernment-bad
been allowed. seats in Congress. It waa
under this government that Shefiey.,had
been appointed, and bewns therefore a,j£gal
judge fts,far as the State, government, was
concerned..' i., ~\r\
another Stef taken-by the Su
pr^QtCbhifc.iialtbe
ingttre woonatruotion measures of .Con
whole duty ' by deClariog'-mull and
Whole'masß Of-Infcongruoni
and unconstitutional patchwork ? ‘
(Grant and lee.
dayjckg 0 !
think behind this
meeting of the twoprofmnehtchieftains
of the late war, than appears upon the
surface; and they areevidentlybecom
ing somewhat fearful that the gallant
Virginian la likely to have more influ
ence with the present occupant of the
WhltwHaoae -than is^ftt
nanrowltkthglridesg.of.lpypjty.pr
propHety. 1 Some .of than arqfcegWwnS!
to' be alarmed lest Grant- should 'be a
seoo'niiCibhnßori bnthei^harids, AM are
giving yqpt. to.their, ;fpe)jn|B, }h SWjff
not loud hnt deep. The,star?! 1 fa
ing ll ltti the-: BadiaU' CathP, ''afd_,“-
wSi' W'fo 16ng ,! bn«l bunrtfc,
for the present |by what the fate
John 0> Calhoun* designated:, as the
“ cohesive power of 1 imblio plunder;
and ',as General Grdnt Is tekimr care
of all .his oouslns-'and. wile’s cousins
to the exclusion of many of the, ‘,‘troply.
loil ” and, In'addition, Is hob-nobbing
with Umgrcat Rebel Cldeffata and tok
lug him into hie private couhsels, It. is
scarcely possible that,the ‘'happy fam r ,
ily it can pull together In thesame traces
much longer, , . , . . .
We consider the conduct of General
Grant, In inviting General Dee to, the.
White' House for Consultation,- settle
rnostßenfilbleactof his ®dm!flistration.
It may bpifci, eyllto the laical,
put It will be-fcllowed with go9d,to,the,
country. . r ~' lJ "
The Buzzards’ Feast.
The political cauldron Is beginning to
boil in this ;Thugs 1 and
Anti-Thugs iare already pulling the
wires with a view to securing the loaves
and fishes. The offices iu the Court
House furnish fat plckings to those who
are fortunate.enough to get hold of'the
public teat, and the outside and inside
■< rings ”of the ” trooly loil " are hard
at work to secure the, coveted prize.
Already some ‘thirty -odd jiay-triots, In
cluding Majors, Captains,l*ieutenants, :
Sergeants, Corporals, Doctors, Land
lords, £q., <Scc., have offered their ser
vices to the dear people for the varions
positions of profit, and os many more,
doubtless, will be In the field before
midsummer. Whether any of the col
ored brethren orp aspirants for a seat m
tho Legislature^-or -a fat berth in the
Court House, wo have not been, inform
e,l but prpstttne they Will make their
Wishes known ln good time. What say
jßrother Boston and Professor Henry?.
We trust their innate modesty will not
deter them from presenting their claims
to their loyal brethren -of the Radical
faith. We think, they would do quite
as muoh credit to the county, in the
capacity of Legislators, as most of thoße
who have been sent to Harrisburg for
the last two or three years; and if they
got hold of a county office, we do not
believe they would engage in bridge
building speculations; or any thing else
of .a questionable character.
The Fifteenth Amendment.
The General Assembly of Ohio have
very properly refused, to ratify the
Negro Suffrage (Fifteenth) Constitu
tional Amendment. It only requires
the non-concurrence of ten States tq de
feat this infamous measure of the Rad.
icals. The Legislatures of the following
States have already voted against its
ratification, viz: Ohio,
Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Oregon.
The following States have not and it is
believed will not, under any circum
stances, accede to its adoption as a part
of the Constitution. They are Califor
nia, Indiana, Texas, Mississippi, Vir
ginia and. Georgia.
If these States persist In their refusal
to ratify it, tbiß negro equality Amend
ment is killed, with two votes to spare.
It is to be hoped thnt the people of the
Southern States through their legisla
tors will reject this amendment, and
that they will never give consent to its
ratification. Even the present eviis of
military tyranny under Radical rule
had better be endqred than this mon
strous measure .receive. their forced
approval. The States of the South can
not even by Radical violence much
longer be kept out of the Union. There
is therefore no reason why they should
be in haste to enslave themselves by
giving their sanctlou to this moßt dis - -
gruoeful and pernicious of all Radical
expedients for securing the debasement
of the white freemen of the Republic,
Unusually Wealthy.
The Troy Press tells a rather sugges
tive story of a Radical member of the
New York Legislature, who, bn return
ing from Albany, left the cars tempor
arily, and his pocket book behind him.
on the seat. A brakeman passing
through the car found aud opened it, J
and discovered $lBOO in bills, beside
some papers which gave him a clue to
the owner. While the train was stop
ping, tlie brakeman (who, by thU way,
had never been in the Legislature,)
went in search of and found the owner,
who promptly rewarded him .with as2o
bill. As thb brakeman turned to go
away, however, the legislator stopped
him, took him to one side, and whis
pered in hie ear words to this .effect;
“When you get up to our place to
morrow* you needn’t say anything
about me losing my pocket book. You
see, they wouldn’t know how I came
by that $lBOO exactly ; in fact, I dont’t
tjhink I ever bad bo much money with
mp before; so you had better* say noth*
ngaboutit.”
This New York fellow must have
been a little verdahi. If he hfcd been a
member of the PeDnsyWania Legisla
ture the trifle {>£'slBoo about his jpersop
or in his pocket book would have exr
cited no surprise. A Pennsylvania
carpet-bagger can count hfs pile’ by
thousands instead of hundreds. The
Old Keystone can . beat/The Empire
Stkte'out of sight in the race for plun
der, apd Lancaster .County will not
come off second beat to any comity in
the State.
The Truth Will Out.
The Chicago Tribute assents that “no
preyious legislative body has exhibited
such unblushing disregard the re
quirements of common decency as the
Legislature of Illinois that, is now in
session. Taken as a wholfe,. tbe Legis
lature for 1869 has been reckleaa/beyond
precedent.” Of icourse, the Radicals
haVe a Urge majority in thattoody, and
that accounts for the rascality'and want
of decency which are exhibited to
public gaze; It is theeame everywhere,
in Washington, at Harrisburg, -in Illi
nois and wherever Radicalism‘has the
ascendency.
i,Did such things ooour during, the
ascendency of the Democratic party ?
We never knew an instance of it.
Hpnce,every r'easonahle, intelligent and
unprejudiced man must conclude that
(here is Something radically wrong in
the teachings of the ptOSdbt dominant
parity, short; -BadlCallsm, asexhitF
ited-everywhere, throughout tiio coun
try, is but a synonym for rascality, .vil
lainy, ■'peculation, and all manner Of
, ‘ " ’’j,
, The time's are sadly put of Jpj(rtt,. j
Unless the people take, thei in
hand, 1 and that very shortly, .out Be
pnblic wil! followth'e downward rdad
of'the Republics .of antiquity, auclbe
Jost'ih the maefstrom.of ifs otijn’oemip
tlon., ~ |” 1 " ' " ■
in Tojrn.
oHon. W. W.i Ketohum, has. r been in
townfonaday or two looking, after. the
chances of .securing the . delegated fr«p
this county.. .Heria Bn able man, op it-,
treproachnble private character,.itand
wduld ber>as/'4trong a candidate as, the
Radicate «mM.:»ominate. :, oawvilir.be
Geahry’s Chief competitor, andmay beat
. J>im.
a || The Cuban Serolation.
3 igttiffmcrejainsutectionSiy(mrao+
turning the Spanish Government lit the
island and establishing a Democracy.
The latest advices from Havana Inform
us that the revolutionary party held a
Grand Congress at Slbanicon, on the
13th of April, atmUeh resoluUpqfVg 6
adopted declariiig'tMrt thejy wferoffight
ing for iudependense frpm .Sjfaln.jjd.
annexation jto. the United, plates.—
fTite.AhS&i^fe^imdidfYf^^thbzitjr::
handy but now DonlCarlos:Qespides as
sumes the'entlre' control oftHC elvll ad-.
nalnlst^tlon l ' I :feWii<iaam
, mandjerohip-in- chief to Gen. Q,r(esada, %
. Cuban: :by ;hlrth, -under fojfy'lyeala of
'agej Wljoihas shoVyrnifftheAlflltAly ser-'
>rdeortSi^c6,mark , ed ,
'ershipijln, pupil warfare as that pf .wbich
)he now the<conduct. Theadoption
■ of a regular totm df government by- tbe
of tbelrpitt
ceae, and- tends to j inspire.’ those who
are outside 1 bf tbeir doufaollß with a
strodget belief-ifa‘the of
their r ; iThe which
they thus iDtroduco into their opera
tions cannot: fail to have a favorable, in
fldehbe upon the "ultimate accomplish-'
'dqgigxu!. ,
The friends of .tUe Cuban movement
outside of the aeem to have at
present sprung into sudden activity. 'A
large steamed to be. foe
Arago, is said to, h&ye.sailed on Tuesday
from New laden with a thousand
armed men -W- aid the 1 revolutionary
cause. The publicity With which the
expedition was dispatched .confirms the
Impression wbicthhae been entertained,
that President Grant is nat unwilling to
aid the revolutionists and Is dlsposed,in
their favor, to suspend the operation of
our neutrality laws. ' If this intention
is confessed or its existence becomes
manifest War witlT Spain majr.be
considered as among the probabilities
of the near lt wiil be difficult,
however, to. reconcile our course in this
matter with the 'interpretation of the
law as giyep hy Sumner in
speech on cloims|.aspeech.
which is said to receive the endorsement
of the administration. Most persons
will be entirely unable to perceive how
we can.complain of England for having
allowed the Alabama to escape from her
ports,if weinteud taclaim theprlvilege
of allowing steamers to sail from our'
harbors, laden with armed men who
• purpose participatlug in a war, which ip
being carried on against Spain, a coun
try with which we are at peace.
Tlie l’rcss and the Public Offices.
General unlike Mr. Lincoln,
seems to have very little affectiop for
the editorial fraternity. They are mar
velously properAndividuals before an
election, and very frequently lend their
powerful assistance in elevating very
small men to high and influential posi
tions ; but, when the election is over,
it not unfrequently happens that, in the
distribution of the offices, they are al
most..cnfoely overlooked. That was the
case with our neighbor, Mt.Hiestand,
and many otbeis that might be
The New York Times, an early and
steadfast supporter of General Grant w
expresses its satisfaction ( ironically of
course,) that the Grant administration
is displaying what it calls “ an ostenta
tious neglect of the public press.” It
says that no influential editor,has been
appointed to office, with the exception
of Mr. Dana, of tho New York Sun,
and in that case the appointment was
promptly declined. The Times then
goes on to say that tbe politicians who
control the conduct of the-.country by
filling its offices, have become utterly
dempralized, and look upon govern-,
meet only as an agent for plundering
the country for their own benefit. It
avere, which is unfortunately too true,
u ihat there arc no half a dozen State
fcgislaturcs in the whole Union which
arc not notoriously open to\ the basest
and moU degrading influencesby which
human action can be controlled. And
Congress is rapidly falling into the same
false and fatal course.” The Times con
tends that the only power capable of re
lieving the nation from this corrupt
domination b the people, and the only
agency by which the people can be en
lightened as to the real nature of the
tyranny of the politicians is the news
paper press. It justly remarks that “ if
that press becomes the mere tool of the
politicians, it is of course the ally and
accomplice of the tyranny from which
the people suffer.”
Grant Desires to Make an Atonement.
Grant evidently desires to. make an
atonement for his brutal treatment of
the JewH‘‘when he commanded in
the west. Then ho was., interested
in cotton speculations and other
transactions, from which a pecuniary
profit was to be made. Now, having
set up the biggest gift enterprise the
world ever bow, he does not regard It as
wise to iiave the continued ill will of so
. rioh a' class of oltizens as the Jews of this
doubtry. Accordingly we find him en
gaged in an endeavor to conciliate
them. The Washington correspondent
of the N. Y, Herald, says :
The PresidenPs'ahXiety to recognize the
jews was illustrated u'Tew days ago in the
case of the appointment of the United
States Marshut lor the Eastern District of
Pennsylvania. It appears that as soon as
the-President beard of the death of General
E|y he agreed,to appoint, without consult
ing, any person, a man named James Nunes
tothe position. Nuues had been the pub
lisher of some weekly newspaper in Phila
delphia wbidh defended General Grant
against the charge brought by the Demo
crats during the Presidential campaign of
his proscription of the Jews in the army.
The President wanted to recognize him. for
his services. At the. Cabinet meeting op
Friday last, tho President Btated his deter
mination to appoint Nuues tothe Marshal
ship. A member of the Cabinet wbo was
anxious ‘to have General Gregory appointed
stated tha't 'Numes was not a citizen ' of
Pennsylvania, beings*' resident of Tenn
essee. The President thdrenpon, mnob to
hib regret, 1 -had to' disappoint his friend
Nunes and appoint Gregory.
To have been beaten twioe by grasp
ing agents of the Freedman's Bureau
must 'be, • rather disagreeable to our
friend Hiestand of the Examiner
How wouldhe haveeDjoyed having the
thing varied' by the appointment of
Grant’s particular friend the obscure
James Ntines ?
Another Disappointment.
'TheFreedmen’s Bureau is stifl apower
in the land. The gfdedy
fellows who run it while in full vigor
down South have transferred their field
of operation to the White House. They
fcamp oik the lawn and besiege Ulysses.
He knows ttyere Is only one way to get
rid of these ravenous leeches and so ho
capitulates Without making much ef .a
contest. The last triumph Of the-sefel
lows is the carrying off tbe prize of,the
Marsbalship of Eastern Pennsylvania
by one of the gaDg. Hiestand, Bauman
and kll the three’ hundred and niuety
lliub politicians who rushed to Wash
ingtpu’dre qgalndjpappoinied, and one
E,. Mb ..Gregory, a former attache nf the
Freedman's Bureau, ■ carries off the
pride. sympathize with the. Un
lucky aspirants, and especially with our
friend Hiestand, the,jolly editor of ,the
Examiner. I f the recommendations of
prominent Bepubllchns oT Pennsylva
nia had been regarded* he* would* have
been appointed, n •- I '
One advantage atieaqt will
thaappointmcptby Mr.'Graptofworth
fosa. Radios! -pqHtlctajjiSjt} fill foreign
ifionßUlshipa qiJd.o.feerqdjces at, a q&r
:tafme .fromothe United,States, i These
follows willibe removed fromthlsooun
try Tor.a Seasons and .WllLthetefofceitle
unahle to ciltse the communities ont of
'Which they are appolnteddwithithelr
.rrillalny.' Theremovalo£tbls:largebody
lof 1 Wm'i thieves'hframj among honest
people Will tend leaaen-.
Ing the number of trlalk for Ihreeny ln'
our criminal courts.
Kecent Dlttubuce.
I true to its instincts^
lij&ljlwtares a lie
JnjinfUoriftl account of|gne'<3ut jffb-
Juration Saturday night. ||t apeal ■ of
pet
about the
fro"m Sprmg Garden wfift crani?&o&
the ; JJght-the “Chuck” Boas *’and
"Spongy” Maguire crowd* But It Bays
that.no effort was made to quel! th e xlpt
' “by tho Mayor or his police officers, al-
pafikJta cloaq, iq tjii}. ffifatagtgL-.qt-a. :
bed when the riot took place, and knew j
nothing of its occurrence until next
day; and as, to the’charge-against Mr.
;Huber, lip tq.be contra
dicted by foe local reporter of the 1&>
; press, whd says, add Bays truly, as can
[be.a.ttestediby sepres -of oitizeßßt: that
\ “ Captain tHubeVand one ar> two other
polfcemep were ,on ; foe’- ground, but
, coaid ddnothingagainstthb oyerwhelm
-1 Ing numbers. were, oijt
and threatened, with.'violence if they
attempted to make arrests” Thesame
reporter Is alßp candid’ fefatfdgh tp! state
another' fact, aiiii
Huber!“obtained;foe flames of some
twenty of the ringleaders, and warrants
were issued on Monday morning-'fbr
their arrest.” •“ ' ■ M *
»
Lewars and Hensler were promptly on
the-ground and exerted all their energy
. to foppress the disturbance,’ and had it
not for their is
that the itofcwould haveaaaumed much,
mor4 fearful proportions. I We say tbit
in justjee to these faithftfJ and eiier
getic ‘ but’/we ask. the
question of our neighbor, where
was your model officer, Philip &
Baker, on the occasion?/ Thh xi° ft
occurred in liis Ward, and it'was his
duty a Constable to be foere, instead
of sitting in a barber shop less than half
a square distant, If he is not elected to
help in maintaining the ( peace of Sis
Ward, we should like the
the public what he is elected for U Per
haps, it is only to pick up non-resisting
vagrants at tbLrty r centA ; and
esporfc them to Alderman \^fojy r s office
and from thence to Prison, after buyipg
them a plug of tobacco each; as an in
ducement for them to “call again.”
The case will now 5 uhdjergo a legal in
vestigation,.and we forbear to make any
additional comments at this time; but
the Infamous falsehood and misrepre- 1
sentation of the Express, in its efforts
to*give this matter 4 political bearing
required this mueb at our hands. We
may recur to the subject again.
The Hitters’ Holiday.
Referring td the determination of the
coal miners, numbering thirty thou
sand, to quit work for a Beason, the
Scranton Republican says: : f
“Tbe companies kave.not given any signfr
whatever that they are opposed to the Sp'S
pension movement, and they will probably
realize enormous sums by the rise in the
price of their coal now in market. The sus
pension is a mere matter of JaHQy oa the
part of tho miners, there being ,nq present
difficulty between them and the companies.
It appears to be a sort' of boys’ play with
them.|!Tboy have money puou&lJtoltVe on
for a time, and they want u vacation, hnd
are going to have it. It is fortunate for Coal
consumers that they chose thesummer sea
son to suspend operations, os no great ne
cessity for coal is likely to arise for some
months.!’
That gives one a new idea; the mi
ners have concluded to strike ostensibly
for more "wages, but. really to get a holi.- r
day. They think they have, worked
hard enough during the winter season
and have earned the a
period of relaxation durlpg the siim
mer months; still they areooflsjderate
enough of the interests of theit employ
ers to say to them that they will not
obstinately insist upon their holiday, if
they are paid an extra rate of wages
for its sacrifice. The miners manifest
ly believe that while there iB a time for
work, there Is also a time for play; they
seem also to have discovered how to
make enough money during nine
mouths in the year, to support them
without labor during the remaining
three. Who can say, under these cir
cumstances, that they, are wrong in
qutting for a season the dark caverns
of the earth to disport themselves in
the sunshine?
Their idea that life wasneverintended
to be a period of incessant labor is not a
singular one, for many share it with
them. Men generally, however, take
their relaxation independently of each
other and it Is an entirely fresh idea for
awhole class of people td resolve to take
their holiday altogether. The miners
are not a selfish set of people. Each one
wants his comrades to enjoy life as much
as he does himself. They therefore
vote that they will have a variation from
work, and, not to be harrassed by any
financial embarrassments, they deter
mine to throw their gains into&com
mon purse, out of which they may be
supported during their period. 6f idle
ness, and whose exhaustion will indi
cate the time when they will resume
work. There is a good deal of philoso
phy in this way of taking life, and the
ooal miners are to be congratulated that
they are able . to. indulge In it. Who
would work during the dog days if he
could help it? But alas, to.o maDy of
us cannot help it, and'’hqvb but tbe
treadmill round of labor to look for
ward to during tbe measure of years
that may b 6 vouchsafed to us.
Counting tlie Honest Hen.
The Harrisburg State Owardhas been
coun ting up the honest men in the late
Legislature, and the editor, after careful
consideration, and an exercise of all due
liberality, was only able to discover
eleven honest Senators out of thirty
three, and only eleven honest members
of the House out of one hundred. All
except these twenty-two, out of the one
hundred and thirty-three members of
the late Legislature, the State Guard
assertS could he and were repeatedly
bqught. Here is a nice confession to be
made by the organ of Governor Geary.
Let this damning admission be kept in
min'd by the people. Let it be
repeated and urged home until the
masses .are made perfectly familiar
with the unparalelietl, infamy which
Radicalism has brought upon the good
old Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
There mhst be a change, and,an entire
and complete change if the dignity of
the State is to be maintained and her
fair fame preserved. Pennsylvania 1b
now a by-word throughout the Country,
being mode so by the corruption and
nnblnshing rascality of the base men'
who have been chosen to represent her
in the Legislature. Let thiegjeat cause
qf, dishonor fee , removed. it!;js,Bqm&-
tiling which baa grown iip. udder Radi
cal rule. Before that party came into
pbwer it had no existence. The ins
famous gerrymander bf,fee sitate. under
the present jmjnst"appofelpniheni bill
has much to do with, it, as the Radicals
deem themselves Secure of a majority
each succeeding year, no matter'hbW
outrageous their,ppndiict may be- jibtK'
ing hut a decided: defeat of the: Radical
party at the ballot-box will* effect the
deserved qnd much needed', reform;
That once gaihed we may hope foy'/h
return to the honesty and purity of the
past!! . . ** ; >
• ■ hU- ' J——
‘ TKEpppularlppresalon'thatCongress
has adjounied! Is. a mistake. It has
divided ; Itself,up Info travelingcommit
tees to .visit different partß of the country
uponioneipretext or another;! There are
about halfa; dozfen ot, theeqrtlnerant
squads brgamzedjorrobidhgthe Treas
ury by their pleasureexcuraions daring
the approaohing; summerl The Conn
mlttee on Ways! and Means icontehn-
S a jonrney.Westaa. far aa the
or , A Sub-Committee on. elections
goeato'New.’ Orleansjiand a: sab-Com
mitteeof the:Judidmfy-igoes io' Mobile,
The more decent way would be in ap
propriate a ifew hundred* thnuSind' dtn
larstomantain tbb whole Oongreeslonm
tribeat the'sea'Bhdt-edurmg.tne. Heated
term.
giBUL CORKnPO»K^GE.
timore by.Vilw,
S&araßyxura. Tbshsmxb. l w
gjj 3rd, j
JfpriE Bffottnom,to Richmcndby
■wttAtto prwfl**wn of the***!,
aginable. There more beantifal sheet
of water,pn the continent than the Chesa
peake Bay. All along Its shores wide
mouthed and navigable rivers make np
into the adjacent country for many miles,
fftgni3hiiig£t}ie fcratro&ihpapesttrans^or'
tation tor allmtokWatke tfrodotte. Ttaaur
.face ia completely dotted over, with the
.iee aj fleet of
We?ei>tag ejbfig.'ka Bea'gnUs,'
wt^,sails,Mowing and wing, whiles favor--
able drive their sharp keels "through
the jwater t ; at’ thereto of fifteen: miles .an
honr.v Yonder smoothers beating against
wind and~tidd,bnt nuking good progress
alltheWhllfi. In- the fiiid-channel staunch
little steam tagstqWjhe square rigged ships
which.encounter t£e ruder waters of the
ocean, tiearihg in their holds the products
of all dimes. Siaoetbewar the commerce
of Baltimore has largely increased, and her
merchants have shown a commendable
public spirit and,a penetrating sagacity in
subscribing most liberally to establish lines
of steamships 'with foreign ports. In this
respect Baltimore is far ahead of Philadel
phia. :
The Chesapeake Bay was familiar tp ns
in boyhood, and though years have elapsed
sailed over its beantlfol surface,
the old- headlands, and prominent points
aro’stiH recognisable, and -as they break
npdn onr Bight they cali up' the dreams’ of
eartter days/znemories of many delights,
the .once familiar forms of school-mates and
college friends, and the fair faces of light
hearted maidenß, who are cow sedate ma
trons. Years are rolled away and we are
a boy again, with the world before os,
bat without the slightest indication of the
destiny which’ time, and chahco, and chang
ing iociinationshave brought us.
There is a feeling of . fresh and pure de
. light in breasting the waves oi bay or
ocean, a sense of pride in tbe strength of
I the comparatlyely tiny bark which bears
us safely - 'on, compelling the elements to
yield obedience to the human will. The
weather was beautiful when we left Balti
more on tbe 17th ult. A soft; and balmy
wind from the Sooth fanned oar cheeks,
, and the shores were tinted with the fresh
; coloring of advancing The- fields
ware darkly green, while the forests were
'touched with a pencil dipped in lighter
hues. Tbe contrast was beautiful, and we
almost forgot how the woods in Pennsyl
vania still stood ibare and brown.
Weftfoud thesteamboats of the Powhatan
Company, “which Tply between Baltimore
arid Richmond, tu be yery comfortable, and
‘thanks to the gentlemanly agent, Capt. 8-'
P. Grasly, and .the courteons officers of the
Petersburg, our trip was made more than
usually .pleasant. Our thanks are due to
Capf. W, C. Geoghegan, and Purser F. M.
Stariton dbr many kindnesses. They point
ed otit fo 'us all objec ts of interest along the
route, and furnished us with fine glasses,
which us to get near views of ob
jects scarcely discernableto the naked eye*
Wei passed by mhny points Jof great inter
, est between Baltimore and Richmond.—
Entering Hampton Roads, after leaving
. the Chesapeake Bay, we steamed close un
der the frowning guns of Fortress Monroe,
and the sight of its carefully arranged de
fences called np many an exciting event of
the late war. Passing by Newport News
we were shown a well defined smooth spot
on the surface of the watery which marks
the place where tbe Cumberland went down
with her colors flying and her guns thun
dering at the Merrimao. The buried wreck
checks the rippling waves and leaves a well
marked circle of unagitated water to tell of
the last resting place of those, who were so
suddenly hurried out of life in the fierce
storni of one of the most exciting sea
fights the world ever witnessed. Close
by'lies the Congress, 'the comrade of the
Cumberland, while our glass enables us to
catch a -glimpse of the place where reposes
the huge hulk of their destroyer, the Mer
rimac. The wrought iron plating has been
taken from the hull of tbe latter, shipped
to Pennsylvania, converted into bar iron,
and returned to Richmond to be wrought
into agricultural implements, and other
objects of utility. Thus has the Scriptural
prophecy, which declares that the sword
shall bo beaten into plough shares, been
more than fulfilled. Here too we see where
the rebel privateer, the Florida, was sout
tled by orders from Washington, after it
was determined that we were bound to re
turn her to the Brazilian ’ port from which
we had unlawfully taken her. The story
that she was accidentally sunk is utterly
untrue, as has since been admitted.
The mouth of the James river stretches
out very wide, and bo continues for a con
siderable distance after we enter it. The
water no longer presents the beautiful blue
which is so marked a feature of the Chesa
peake, but is dyed tq a tawny yellow by
the deep rich clay of the soil through which
it passes. -Along this river lie many of tbe
magnificent old Virginia homesteads,
where the F. F. Vs. lived in almost prince
ly stylo before tho war. We see their splen
did mansions set upon tbe bold bluffs, be
neath which this grand river sweeps in
stately pride. They are very attractive in
appearance, being surrounded by spaoious
grounds, shaded by the original forest trees,
and made attractive by a profusion of the
finest shrubbery arranged with artistic
taste. Some cf these were of vast ex
tent, and ; ns high as thirty thousand
bushels of wheat Haye been harvested
by a single proprietor in one season, be
sides the corn and tobacco which they also
’cultivated. In many instances these rich
lands are still in the hands of those who in
herited them, but here and there they have
passed from them since the war. The peo
ple of this petition df Virginia suffered chief
ly frhm tho loss of their slaves, and many
of {bjexn aro still wealthy. The James' river
bottoms are the finest wheat lands in the
oountry, producing most luxuriantly &
grain of superior quality, whlah makes a
flour peculiarly valuable because it keeps
; sweet in tbe most tropical climate.
AU along the James river is historic soil.
Here, we soe the ruins of tbe old church on
Jameq Island, where the first settlers wor
shipped, and the door stands invitingly
open and portions of tholvy-orowned walls
continue to resist the destroying influen
ces of time. Yonder are the traces of forti
fications erected in.colonial and revolution
ary times, while on every commanding
point are the deep marks of earth works
behind which contending armies sought
shelter in tho recent terrible contest. The,
vulture wheels its lazy flights over the
swamps of the Chiokahominy ; crows caw,
and a crowd of negroes lounge ’la
zily about ihe i fishing shanties at Har
rison’s landing f . Malvern Hill, is seen
resting in quiet repose as our steam
er contends with. ;the' strong tide and in
creasing current ; the stores are open on
Sunday at City Point, and a jaunty little
Jewess dispenses lager beer to those who
like it; Butler’s Dutoh Gap Canal has been
fitted up and a wagon road made across it
by, the owner of the plantation, on which
so much useless labor was expended; only
the soars of the war are ta be seen ozt
the soli, bat these are visible everywhere.
These Will soori be effaced ; and may we
not hope that ere tbe grass covers the up
turned soil and hides the deformities caused
by the late bloody strife, the animosities
that still exist may be- s completely wiped
out and as era of true and lasting peace and
good fellowship be inaugurated. Any one
whph&T the leisure to do so might while
away days and,weeks In visiting the vari
ous points of histbrib interest by which we
swept without stopping., ’
■ Sunday, the- 18th, was a-most delicious
jlay. A : breeze'filled with the odor of flow
e'fa swept frotn-the South, and we sat out in
the opes, air enjoying it until an "hour after
dark,whpn a'fierce thunder storm drove us
Into the saloon.. But, amid the strife of the
elements, our bark held her way gallantly,
landing us at'Richmond in good time. A
beautiful morning, equal in luxury to our
finest early June day, followed, and we
enjoyed it intensely as we sauntered about
the streets of jßicbmond, visiting all points
of interest upjler the escort of Captain J. S.
Morrow, k th’(s\.Assistant Superintendent of
theßichmottdand Danville Railroad.
a ikfiaoHKoH]).
tlmß. TKe privato. t xesidenoes are very
taatefal/many of them’ being set back from
the ifreeta. with large yards in front, foil of
the finest shrubbery; Arranged with artistic
taste. 0 A prombient ieature is the magnolia
tfrfee. 'tfhfcH 'gfo#a' : <b l the height 'Off fifty
presents an ohjbbt of i : tste r attrac-
Northern feyeda it stapdadpcked
in. oensa foliage, with elegantly, shkppd
leaves which have the appearance of wax
without the semblaiifc a|fefc|j£tenty • When
in bloom theee trees pmzwtto "whole at
mmhareidtthfrblty
o©jr. Ija'one juat eifajpcfl'trom a more
f&gifl imtlfljrfi ufige to all the
la peou
liarlydeUgljiftiL v waa not a
ttqge'&Cgiedn; upon th»4bre«iFfc Southern
Pennsylvania we reveled amidCflowers, and
basked in a delicious. atmosphere, to
breathe which was a perfect luxury.
Under the escort of-Captain Mnrrow.wa
visited the State Capitol, the beautiful
grounds of which are now given up to the
negroes. Here we found 11 the wards of the
nation” in all onncelvableLalti-^
tudes of indolence. The steps on the sunny,
TOP
wart
to fill their bellies lpj the manning,, wpro
content to bask in the happiness pfpQmpfetß
irikyiwM until hunger should compel them
to tmiit another niealOf victuals. 'Ourotr
servetion in lUchmlmid and other towns
whiti we saw convinced \jis that the negroee
who have collectedrint,.them as
class, decidedly worthless. The universal
testimony of the whites is that they will not
work, and that they are terribly demoral
ized. Any ofie who bow them as we did on
a fine spring day will be convinced that
they are to the full'as wprthl ess" as, they
were represented to behy thore»wit3xwhom
we conversed. They are.aoij&jdf (*<994}”
fortably clad as they were whileinstaveryi
and cheap as living is in the South they da
not fare half aa well. Still they seem to
enjoy tho vagabond life which they" lead»
and ,
“Tho load laugh which speaks tho vacant
mlntt”
is constantly heat'd. . ‘ ‘
A negro janitor showed'us through tho
State Capitol, ozi top Qf. Which we found a
Yankee, down in Maine,” gaz
ing with the raptu?Q of practical calculation
upon the falls of tho James river. < He had
no eye apparently for tho beautiftil pano
rama of natural scenery -which was spread
out before the eye as a' rich feast, but per
sisted in cyphering up' tho weight of
the vast water’power
used to turn the wheels’of 9 Cow fineiftour-
ingmills. We looked through his spectacles
for a moment and saw* in tho near future,
vast manufacturing establishments lining
both sides of the river for urtlos, with an
immensity of intricate machinery, ‘ not
driven by steam under dark clouds of chok
ing ooal smoke, but with of bright
spindles turned by the shining water,which
now dashes over giant boulders.'Qf granite
in sueb a manner as to call cbutiouallyand
loudly for therCatraintswhlCh oari so Oailly
be applied to render it productive'of im
mense wealth. That Richmond IS destined
to becorae-a great manufacturing city no
one cau doubt. Artlsapscanliveberemuch
more cheaply- than "they can in New Eng
land, and that single circumstance alone
will be sufficient to mhke business pay here
when it would fentafli a loss in! ti more rigor
ous climate. Bu,t there are other advantages
connected with tho matter of climate and
location which our Yankee from Maine
saw, and which sagacious capitalists must
very speedily recognize. He <who holds
possession of lotß on either side of th'd James
river below the falls will bo able to sell them
at high prices before long. We were assured
that they could be bought wheh wo were
theTe at rates that were far froni; exorbi
tant. '/
In the Capitol grounds are some fine
pieces of statuary, and among others a life
size one of Henry Clay, from whicha-finger
wasJshot*away in a rencontre between, two
high strung Virginia bloods sinoe the war.
That finger has been carefully replaced, but
one of the hands Is mutilated.
Business In Richmond has not been brisk
this spring, but, as that oomplaint is gen
eral throughout the country, perhaps the
city was only sharing In the general stag
nation of trade.'The burnt district has|most
ly been rebuilt in very handsome and sub
stantial "Btyle, and When trade does revive,
it will find ample accommodations.
We talked politics with people of all
classes, using our privilege asa newspaper
man to ask as many questions as we chose.
We found the people communicative, and
encountered quite a diversity of opinions.
A brief note of some of the characters we
met in Richmond may enable our readers
to get a correct idea of the existing state of
feeling.
On the broad Btops of the Exchange
Hotel, whioh we can commend as an ad
mirably kept establishment, we encoun
tered’ an elderly gentleman named Dr.
Jones, who owns a fine estate on Gloucester
Point, for which ho was offered fifty thou
sand dollars in gold, before the waT, but
which be announces himself ready to sell
for half that sum in greenbacks now. He
was opposed to secession from the stArt,
saw that it must be a failure, prodlcted
that it would so be, and maintained that
opinion stoutly throughout the struggle.
His wife was a secessionist, his daughters
sang tho songs which thrilled the hearts of
all the young men of tho South and • sent
them Into the field fall of martial ardor, his
son, on attaining the age of seventeen, in
sisted on going forth to do battle in tho
cause which his father detested, and hud a
fine blooded horse shot under him. Still
the old man, with all the obstinacy of opin
ion whioh distinguishes the old Virginia
gentleman, stood firmly by bis convictions
and maintained his ground openly on all
occasions. He even quarreled violently
with his brother-in-law, in his own house.
The Yankees came down upon hiin, and
stole his horses, droyooffhis cattle, killed
his hogs, eat up the last fowl on the planta
tion, ransacked bis house, and carried off
whatever they could lay their bands 00,
even down to bis daughter’s side saddle.
They would havo carried off his wife's car
riage If they could have made way ‘with it,
but had to leave it; The* Dr. sold It, after
wards for $1,200 Confederate money, audin
vested the money in Confederate-bonds,
according to bis wife’s direction; but she
had not confidence enough in his loyalty
to the existing government to be satisfied
that be should hold them, and so she took
them to a more loyal neighbor and depo
sited thpm with him. There they remain
ed, without her drawing any interest until
they finally wont up with the Confederacy.
Early In the war the Dr. was offered seven
ty-five thousand dollars for a portion of bis
negroes. He told the leading man among
them of the offer add asktyd him what he
should do. The darkey advised him to sell
them, but a prompt refusal was the result.
He had never sold a negro to a
never would, though he felt convinced;that
the war would result in the abolition of
slavery. ' '
A fellow who'professed jo be a U. S.
Surgepn was in.tho act or walking off with
his case of medical instruments one day,
when he accosted him with,
“Say, are yoa ol doctor T”
“ Yes.”
“ Then yoa are the meanest specimen of
the kind I ever saw. DOg won’t eat dbg,
they say, but you are an exception.”
The fellow, stricken with shame, turned
to onr acquaintance and said:
“ I make yon a present of these.”
“Thank yon,” was the reply, and then
the colloquy ended.
Still in spite of all this Dr. Jones was un
moved and immovable, Riding along.t&b
road.on an old blind hprse, one day, the
only-one the Yankees.had left him, and
without a saddle, he encountered a cousin
who had been Lieutenant Governor of Vir
ginia, a violent secessionist, with'whom he
had many wordy encounters. Said the ex-
Lieutenant Governor:
“Why, Doctor what sort ofaiorse is
that you. are riding* and where yon
going?” ; .... A
The reply come qulokly, anctwi'iha sting
to it, for the fortunes of the Coctfedbracy
were then fast waning: -- 01
“This is a secession horse, air. He is as
blind as a bat, and don’t know Aflfar? th 6
De’il be is going.” ,j ,
It might be supposed that Dr. Jones wns
ready for reconstruction - when the war
ended. Not he. He swears he vra£ op££-
se4 to going out of the Union, opposed to
the war all through; - but that,di©,',is still
more bitterly opposed to coming ; tack op
theterms proposed. He would .stay put
and be ruled by military force, <or suffer
anarchy to come, before yielding to any
such terms as the Radicals offer. We feel
that we have not done Justice to him in onr
reporfof the conversation; He was a rare
specimen of the old time Virginian, and #'?
were more highly entertained than!.
readers,can possibly lie withon* meogr®:
sketch r whlchwill, htrdrever, serye to give
them' an • Idea of what '%e sappoee to be
ratter u rate specimen hf Virginia .charac
ter,' ' i-. -■
A negro: named made a
speech toa large crowd, oqanposed prind
pMiyof negroes, in the Oapitoifgtotmds, on
Monday; April 19; while in'Rloh
knew thSoccurrftnce
Swe £hould <^lfiifii , ’ ;lia‘ve been on hand
to take notes. This‘fellow {Cook is a preach
or, and reputed to4)f»jK;^»pdtable kind of
negro. He boldly announced himself as a
candidate for Congress in opposition to a
white carpet-bagger named Porter, who is
Radical were
surprised to ;flnd >serer&l ao
qpabiUuees, who had fought' oil the Con
federate aike'thronghout tha war, ready to
rote for the negro in order to defeat the
; more obnoxious white adventurer. They
gave good and sound reasons for their ao
tlon, saying. the negrowould represent his
race while the carpet-bagger could repre
sent no part of people of;Klchmond.—
They also avowed * their wiHmg&els to
give the Radlealsin Congress a dose
of* kind of medicine't£Vy bad '
1 down the •throats*-of'the
'people p r fthb tVVfound nfdiveriity.'
ot opinion among* those who hod fought W
therebeliion. A, majority of those wo‘met
were, prepared tetundertakejtbe recon&qruc- •
tioD; of. tfia Stato; even on the ohnoxioua -
system! presented- ’by Congress; ITbey
seemed to be confident that they would
speedily 1 be obtain control o)T the
local government, and ‘to bring Somn sorf
ofj|order out of ,tho prevailing political
told us that they con|c|»aQ£
stop to nonaider > the propriety ofi aiding iPj
the enforcement ot negro suffrage upon
Pennsylvania and other Northern- States* >
that having It fastened upon themselves
.they must do the best they could to-con
trol (he blaokß, and that the earliest' and
easiest way to do that was to get bacfc.to a
regularly constituted State .Government.
To-our suggestion that Congress might im
pose further and stUL more obnoxious con
ditions, they replied that thoy doomed it
best to take the chances. The action which
was afterwards taken at the Conservative
State Convention was oleorly foreshadowed
in the opinion of a majority of those with
whom wo conversed. Here and there wo
found an ox-rebel standing on Dr. Jones’
platform, and ready to endure whatever
might come rather than take a single step
on the congresslpual road to reconstruc
tion, but these were comparatively few.
The majority were ready to vote for
Walker,'carpetbagger though ho be, to de
feat the still more obnoxious carpet-bagger
Wells, who la running on the same ticket
with n tipgro candidate for Lieutenant Gov
ernorJ It was evident to us that tbero was
a general expectation that Wells could be
thus beaten. Here and there wo found a
man who scouted the idea of attempting
to control the negro Vine und denounced
the attempt'as degrading, bat the majority
of native Vifginians seemed ready to make
the most they could out of such base politi
cal material, and there seemed to bo a feel
ing of general confidence in their ability to
control aenfilcient portion of tho negro vote
to defeat Wells and elect a decent Legisla
turo. We hope they may succeed.
Wells represents the extreme wing of the
Radical faction, which is prepared to go to
suoh extremes that even many carpet
baggers revolt at its coarse. Walker Is tho
candidate of the more reputable Republi
cans who bolted the Wells tloket at tho
State Convention which was held at Peters
burg. The platform laid down by tho
Wells’ party favors the most rigid whole
sale disfranchisement, but, since a union of
all the conservative elements of the State
has been made against him, Wells has come
out in a letter advocating a more liberal
policy. That will not help him now.
Walker will recelvo a liberal support; and
he ought to be successful at the election
which has been ordered to take place on
the first Tuesday of July.
We did not meet a native Virginian in
our travels through the State who was a
Radical. There are a few such, and an oc
casional ex-rebel is found dabbling in the
filthy politics of the radical faction, but all
each are properly regarded with greater
aversion than the most impecunious and
unprincipled carpet-bag adventurers who
make a bdsinbss of seeking office through
the votes of the negrdes. The white people
of Virginia are nearly a unit in opposition
to the extreme measures of the, desperate
gang which, is ready to ruin the State in
order that they may enjoy the spoils of of
fice. ' We found not a single man except
our ,TJWlbn friend Dr. Jones, who did not
say that he was ready fully to accept tho
situation when the war closed. Tho rebels
felt that they were completely beaten, and
all they asked then, or baye demanded
since, was that the terms of surrender ac
corded by Grant to Lee and his armies,
ahotfld be honestly and honorably observed.
They were ready to perform their part of
the contract fairly and fully. They com
plain, and justly too, that tho plighted faith
of the government has been violated. The
anomalous condition of otfairs. has con
stantly interfered with tbo progress of a
people whoso fortunes were wrecked in the
gigantic struggle through which they pass
ed. Tho materiaUlnterosts of the great
State of Virginia, and of tho ontiro South
have been sacrificed to gratify fanaticism
and lustof power, and the North has suf
fered greatly In consequence. The losses
entailed upoh the poople of tho North by
the insane action of Congress cannot bo es
timated at less than hundreds of millions of
dollars; and all that hfta-como out of the
pockets of our own 5 producing classes. It
is high timo that the working
the North sbonld consider their (Own
relations to the people' of tho South* As
soon as they reflect seriously they will
seo how thoy have sacrificed their owa in
terests in foolishly sustaining the Rudibal
party.
On different occasions wo talked to the
negroes of Virginia. Wo ibabd most of
them stupidly ignorant, and thomoroigno
rant they* woro the more Radical they were
sure to bo. They havo been banded tbgelhor
by tho Union League ; but wo found num
bers of the more intelligent of them con
vinced that* their interests and the interests
of the resident white population, the land
holders upon whom they dopended for
labor and support, were Identical. There
is an existing germ of dislike to carpet-bag
adventurers la the minds of the more In
telligent negroes, which will speedily bring
’ forth fruit. It Is safe to predict that it will
: not be long until the bulk of the negroes
will be controlled in their political action
by the native white population of Virginia.
The -city of Richmond is horribly mis
governed by tho f ßa(3lcals. As an Instance
of it we found a large concert room, in
which the Can Can was danced in ail Its
vulgarity, and the coarsest kind ol a low
“free and easy” carried on next door to the
Exchange Hotel; end right on one of the
principal streets. A bar supplied a riotous
and drunken audience with fiery liquors,
and the. wild shouts of a mixed Assemblage
of low white** and noisy negroes made the
beautiful night, hideous. The, proprietors
of thd Exchange Hotel and other citizens
residing In tho vicinity had complained to
the authorities, but no remedy seemed to be
had. The laws of Virginia Were inopera
tive, and the military satraps who lorded It
oyer the people would not allow them
tttlves to be disturbed by sdeh complaints.
We retired to rest about midnight and the
horrible nuisance was still in fall blast.
We wore assured that this was a fair sam
ple of the way in which Richmond is gov
erned, and we have no donbt of the cor
rectness of the statement.
Onr day in Richmond was spent very
pleasantly, and we think not nnpro^tably.
H. o. b.
A School Boy Shoots Himself.
Horth Andover, Massachusetts, wa?re«
cently the scene of a sad tragedy. , Frank
Cheney, about fifteen and a hall years old,
the youngest of fonr children of Mr. A. P,
Cheney, the keeper of a variety store near
the macrnhe shop, .onnmitted ktiicide by
shooting himself; He had recently com
menced'attending the High School, bat did
not like the schooVand left it on Friday
last 'Since that time he had told one of hfs
chums that his mind wastinade upland
that he should not attend that school QgnJgj
His parents did not sympathize with him
in hut reluctance, to go to school, and hid
father informed him that he must return
again and ask forgiveness of the teacberfbr
leaving. About sVclocgfonecf his sister?,
whoalso attends the' school, told him it was
time to get ready," and be went to his room
for that purpose, as she supposed. ;As he
remained longer'than anticipated,ihisi,sis
ter went to ms ■ room and found the dpor
fastened. She called the father, whp huxat
open the door, and,found his son lying dead
on the floor. He had tufedttlro pistols .to
The trallet die, a ataajl pistol, bad en
tehirl his right temple.whDei ballet fr6m
«Tevol«r, whlohhe had discharged with
h|g(left-hand, had .penetrated- US heart.
Tjitberwound wpnld have caused instant
.death.!,The nolseof puaiiw.carrioge.lyyi
probably prevented the, dlacbanjoa frpm
betngheard by the family.' Thaboj'.was
an open-hearted, llvteTy'iid, ‘dmojlngihe
esteSnTof all who knelt' him/but bp whs
yen';Udh-sflrlldd, and thebommond-W)
hiunlllate himself i»y• Op<attglalng L 'WeUa
teacher go-fought npomnta fecllnga that,
wlthont 1 eftathf Uavrash
act upon -hIS! frlenaa,- hersalrhd .thS reedy
.weapons wWchjwere
terminated
felt sympathy of the'whole coihmtmlty I .' ‘ 1
mam mimwmmmim-
j aft 'hi: ■tnZiW
!nw MHWrKm —4l>» Ciwlry.
It 1b tualou to conceal a fact which baa
paten} to all. la. that the
administration baa disappointed not only
the country generally, but ita Immediate
partyiftleofte. .lEven the Jackals and tbo .
very buzzards and scavengers of the party '
camp not only soent the rising gale of pop
ular dissatisfaction, but are preparing to
veer round gftd take advantage of the,un
expected change of senumept. The very
men who, a short tlm# since, claimed to be
friends of the President, par excellent e, are
now lagging their tongues against him iu
the streets and public bar- rooms,' And pro
nouncing him a political failure and his
nomination a party blander. Take as evi
dence the Chicago Tribune which, after
v&lbly striving-.tor weeks to justify nomi
nations forced upon the President by ita'
■ dWffftnrtedhrto friends and supporters, now
luffs np into the very wind’s eye of its for
-mer teachings, unt|t feveryrag of canvas in
■ that unstable craft flutters and flaps lu the
"breeze, and threatens to fly in shreds from
tbo bolt-iopes. • * ■ * Outside
,the public entrance crowd the horde of
office-seekers who have .pot_assumed the
'personal supervision. of General Grant. At
1 a private door enter Washburne, J. Russell
Jones, the Dents, the Caseys,, snd other
hangers-on, who proceed, before the pnblio
door is opened, to attack the various dfsbee
Indiscriminately or aocordlugto individual
,taste. Washburne staggers off undor the
'weight of the piece de resistance. The Donts
and the Caseys squabble over the pates and
the pasties. Jones and a few Galenaltes
plunge thereupon into the Charlotte Sussc,
and leave but a mere crust for the next
corners. Then the main entrance is thrown
open and the publio are invited to gaze upon
the rulu which the wreckers have made, or
feed, If they cad, upon the fragments, lint
what will the publio'tblnk of these cortuo
rauts, after they bad been gorged with the
good things which they secured to them
selves by excluding from the Clrolo of the
President’s personal frlonds andsunporhTH
every man who they supposed would Inter
fere with this ring arrangement, when they
are now found among the first to dououucc
General Graut for doing what they forced
him to do? The public must necessarily
look upon’.tbem as the most unmitigutvd
scallawags ever spawned upon the surface
6f party politics. Yot, it is a fact that the
very men who have plunged General Grant
into thta quagmire, out or which ho can only
be rescued by the most dexterous impinge
ment and by the forbearance of his party
and the country generally, are now de
nouncing him. Washburne forced General
Grant to degrade tho great office of Secretary
of State, by making it the means of paying
a compliment to a trfend. Not only ho, but
while procuring tho President to cheat the
eountiy by a protended appointment,
Washburne cheated the President and llv
reul appointee by using what was inlcudnt
as a mere personal compliment uh a sub
stantial means of advancing his own and
political prospects. • * * r
Loading papers and boliticions In every
part of the country declaim against tho curse
tlxed upon the President by the Chicago
Tribune and Mr, Waabburno, which In two
short months bus borne such bitter fruits.
No administration was ever before so 1m
perilled by n set of unprincipled political
harpies os tbut of Genorul Grant. The
wisest men of tbo party look upon the po
litical situation with toe most painful and
anxious solicitude, and predict tbnt four
years of its present management will most
shipwreck of it, If not of
the country itself. —Chicago Republican
)Radical).
The I)nnn Slander——l.otior from Mr.
Slmonton.
OITXOB Ol* TUB N. Y. Associated Press, 1
New Yobk, May 6, ISO-*. J
To"the Editor Philadelphia Post:
Sin:—You are entirely mistaken in stat
ing that the Associated' Press sent out a
telegram ** announcing that Mr. [John
Russell] Young bad beou found gniity o 1
fraud and corruption in Albauy, and per
sonal dishonesty.” That story I saw In
print, for the first time, in your own
columns. Nor did the Associated Press, or
send a word of it anywhere.
tta did tblegraph on the 27tn nit., a fow
words‘Of The &un expose of Mr. Young
nluch less than I now think the facts wur*
ranted and demanded of us as purveyors
of current news.
On the other hand, wo did not suppress
the faot that Mr. Young bad brought suit
against The Sun; on the contrary, wo an
nounced Dana’s arrest the Instunt wo
were informed of It.
Nor ia it true that tbo undorsiguod be
came Mr. Young’s enemy because or com
plaints by tho latter of Mr, Simdnton’ii ad
ministration.- The entire Tribune estal>-
lishment knows that our relations wore of
the most cordial nature, until Mr. Young
undertook; by unfair and Jesuitical
schemes, to punish my discovery aud sup
pression, of the means by which tbo Pout
obtained our hews surreptitiously.
In that he signally failed; and tbo con
tempt excited by bis entire courso loaves
no room in my breast for enmity or liuto.
Respectfnliy,
J. W. Stmmonton.
Letter from Hr. McCHntock,
Philadelphia, May G, IbiW,
2b the Editor of The Sun ;
Sir : I have waited ono weok togive Mr.
John Russell Young, of the Now York 2W
bunc, -and Mr. J. D, Stockton, of tho Phila
delphia Morning Post, an opportunity lo
retract' tho slanderous charges preferred
agalDst me in their statements published In
the New York Evening l*oBt and the Phila
delphia Morning Post . in connection with
J. R. Young’s libel Butts.
As they have failed to make the amende
honorable, and thinking that my silonco
may cause the public to adjudge mo guilty
of said slanderous charges, I now statu that
their assertions are Ailse, and I will prove
thorn so to ho at tho proper tlmo.
Respectfully yours.
Chas. McOlintook.
Tbo llartoril County Homicide—Acqnlt-
tal of miss Calrnea,
A correspondent of the Baltimore San
gives the following account of tbo trial of
Miss Culrnes, who shot her. soducer at Bui-
Air some weeks since: ~
Tho trial of Mis 3 Martha J. Calrnos for
the murder of Nioholas McComus,; which N
now In progress hero, Is the all-absorbing
theme of conversation in Harford connty,
Maryland. Tbo Court House 1h thronged,
not only with tho peoplo of this town, uml
those residing in tho vicinity whoro tho deed
was committed, but bv persons from tbo
most remote parts of the county, drawn to
gether by the general interest which seems
toattuebto the affair. In consequence oi
tho dilapidated condition of tho county JaJl,
tho county authorities did not regard it na
u fit place in which to confino a fomnlo pris
oner, and Miss Calrnos baa accordingly boon
placed upon her parolo, and has her quar
ters at Glen’s Hotel, where accommodations
have been provided for her by her friends.
Sho is under no surveillance whatever, eats
at the public table, and moves lu mid out
of her room at pleasure, and has boen in
the bablt of promenading and shopping
on the streets until this woek. She is
escortod to and from the Court House by
Sheriff Young, loaning upon bis arm as any
other lady, and left by him ut tho hotel
with a polite bow. Upon Miss Calrnos en
tering the oourtroom the dense orowd di
vides, and with the utmost reapout mukos
a passage way for her to tbo inside of (ho
bar. At the hotel she is constantly in the
receipt of expressions of kindness from
sympathizing frlendsand well-wisher. She
wears a plain but neat light purple dross,
lilao kid gloves, white bonnet and ribbons,
and seems neither to conrt nor avoid obser
vation. The large majority of the cotmnu
nlty uphold bor and count confidently upon
her acquittal, contending tbatshe was fully
Justified in her aotlon. when the trial for
mally oommenoed Attorney General Jones
opened tho case on the part of the prose
cution, the three Jadgea being all on tbs
tench. The learned Attorney Gonerat
made a calm aod dispassionate ar
gument, picturing the dangers to no,
clety if tbo wanton slaying of a human
being in defiance of law was to go
unrebukod. Henry W. Archer, esq., on
the part of the defense, mado a most imps* •
slonod and eloquent address, appealing to
the feelings of tho Jury in such a raannor
as to draw tearsnptonly fromsomeoftbem
and the prisoner, but from many of tho
spectators, and even to sensibly atfect.tho
bench and the bar. From the indications
so far brought out it is assumed thkt tho
prosecution will endeavor to prove that the
killing was deliberate and premeditated.
The defense vf ill claim that the accused wuh
Insane at the time of the commission of tbo
aot and for Borne time previous, on aoconnt
of McComas's treatment toward her.
To-night Miss Calrqes held qnitealevoo
at her hotel, visitors of both sexes con
stantly coming and going, and almost all
proffering encouragement. She was In lino
spirits. Abodt 10 o’clock she was seren
aded, as was also the Jary sitting In her
case; who are quartered at Mrs. Ashton’s.
Gn the conclusion of the trial -the Jury
retired, and after an abaenoe of five min
utes returned with a verdlot of not guilty
A Kemarhable and Melancholy Mistake.
The Bnsssian papers record a distressing
accident which near Dor
pat. WolV«ejbadiappear«d Jn unusual num
bers. A hunter determined to kUI some.of
them, hoping to frighten away the band. A
horsedieadnrlngtbeday. He purchased tbo
body and placed it on the edge of the woods
to draw the wolves. The night was. dark.
Armed with several rifles, be took his
stand under a covert soon after nightfall.
Sq bad not long been at his post, when ho
w something black moving actively on
thd horse’s carcass. Snre ft was a wolf, be
mined and fired. Instantly he heard a de
spairing shriek, evidently from a human
being, which gave him the greatest uneasi
ness. He went up and found a poor wo
man, mortally wounded and strnggl|pg in
death’s agony. She told him she was tbo
mother of three children dying in;hnnger;
bhe had observed the carcass daring the
day; bat was ashamed to be seen taking a
portl6n‘ont, BO she bad waited till nightfall
to Cut a piece of it for her starving children.
She bad e kitchen knife, and lying by her
was a stew-pan, which she had brought to
receive the meat. Her story was-investi
gated : .found true in every particular. The
mvesUratlda led, moreover, to the dlsoov
ery of the existence of great distress among
the peasants *of the neighborhood. Tho
neighboring authorities at onbe took meas
ures for tbe snpport of the three orphans.
One of them was given to tbe hunter, the
Involuntary oanse oftbelr mother’s death.
He undertook to bringit up and launch it
weUJn lifß. The,village undertook the car©
of another* • The authorities > ordered the
bead of the Village to take charge-, of the
third, ‘‘beams© he shouldhave asoQitalfibd
the distressof the victim and hSr iainlly,
and have prevented her, by big charity,
from being driven to tbe crari' extremity
whicn’.bausw her dealh.’ I —T. World.
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