SnteUiflettcCT. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1869, CAMPAIGN «P 1809. Cllnb llnK'
    sesol the Republican party, wus in reality only the Jesuit of the secret mai/ieuvreing of a well trained baud o( political hueU.-UTs. Tlie small jobbers, the petty wire pullers, the sharp trick* Rteis, the purchasable luhbymeii, the pardon biohei*, uml the venders ol legislation were all banded together to secure Geary's renominatiou. They aie the IcJJows \\ ho know Imw to Lully nr buy up delegates, ami how to snake resolutions of instruction through conn (y committees or packed county con ventions. The ‘'King" in Philadelphia played a prominent pari in this eiiuie. The Governor stood lemly to lend his aid to (‘very euliagemiH nnasuie which the Radical rogues from Philadelphia luvur ed. AV Im.? n the time for electing dele gales to the Slate Con veil mm i'n.m that city came, (lie result was that the “Ring” at cured the choice ol a united delegation in favor of the man to whom they owed so much, uml to whom they were hound by pledges conceived in in iijuity ami bom of base bargaining and corrupt intrigue. The “Ring” had : got full puy in advance, but they 1 also hold (leary’s promise for the future, and they expect much from him if lie ! should he re-elected. 1 Jn Lancaster county', as every Kopub- . licati knows, independent and mipledg- I ed delegates to the State Convention j were only elect ml after a Hharp|contest,iu i which the Thugs and the must corrupt men of the party were all for Geary. As it wars here so it was elsewhere in the Slide, ddie diih-rence wus that here the .selection of delegates was delayed until a kilo day, when the best men of the party had awakened to the dangers which insure its defeat at the coming (Jubomalorial election. Geary has man aged to secure a renominatiou through one of the most rascally games that wits ever played in political life. Thousands of honest and conscientious Republi cans will not vote for him, and he will he overwhelmingly defeated so surely as a full Democratic vote L polled io October. A Likeness of deary TLie last is=ueof l'nfh» f-AOrahuni con tains a vcry cornet ami 1 ito like.* like ness of .John \V. Cleary. It is not by any means a handsome picture, Iml so much tlie more lines it, therefore, re semble the original. It is not a prepos sessing picture, hut, so much the more, therefor-, j.>. it a fair presentment of the features of the man. it looks like it might ha the photi graph of a cross be tween a mongrel Mexican ami the of a Malay pirate. As the editors of luih< r Ahruhuni wercknowu to he bitterly opposed to the renomina tlou ol Gc;try there is good ground for believing I hut liny are circulating this hideous pioiin o with t he deliberate do sign ol defeat ng hint, (*r i!u- r-M-oii ihui a n-j r. si-nuilion ban io hr i'hlt to <•.>11.-I*iiiu* 1 1 1 11*I; am! vil !alniMi.,;.s i in- |..r’ uiv oi <<» ;ii> in J'af/irr Ahruham G, l - corn el can hot he d-nl-d. The hailleal l*rr»N tic (*r:u\) The Ibiili'cil 111 •uyjin j 'i • i'.-i i 1" llic Slate iU'C hu' fVi 'Mi hr i eh lii ll • i,! •' u: 111 tin 11' '■ iijijiuri of i li-.ii y. Tlwy c 'ldly cinlon-c tlie noiuiiialioii in lerma which show how nuirli they are i.luigi'iiii'd al the rcHiill. Tlii! tniili i.i Ihc Kailieal news paper incn ol I'eniisy I van ia do not rrli?li the task n:' pulling into unde.-erviMl notoriety Midi an empty hraded cox comb and wividied humbug a-> John W. (Jeaty. They wanted u u‘"n nomi nated lor (iovernor, and not the stupid noneii ity wiio wkh footed upon the ■party three yeais ago by the shiewd manipulations of Simon Cameron. We do iioL wonder at tin: tone of the Uadi on! press. Aii Iri.-h lb-publican CUmveiltion ia to mcel in ('hi l 'uMiiin, aud delegates are being sent :r«/ ni dilff rent purls of the country. Hi. William Eldjer, of For ney's, Prc**, a native of Somerset county, this Stale, and Colonel Fitz gerald,of the Cif/j J/f.iii, a canny Scotch* man, go from Rhiladi iphia as represen tali vt-sof tile Iri.-h race in lYnnsy) van iu. In that city ,'aseße where throughout the country, the Irish have no sympathy with the Radicals. The coming con vention will be a conglomeration of played mu Ib-puldiemi politicians, a majority of whom, like the Philadelphia delegates, will be bogus Irishmen, pad dies stuffed and set lip to deceive. The most useless job in which the Radicals ever engaged i 3 the attempt they are now making togull the Irish into voting their ticket. A Spiritless Convention. All the accounts which we have seen couviuce us that the late Radical Stute ' Convention was au utterly spiritless affair. Very few of the prominent Re publicans of the Stale seemed to take any interest in it after it was ascertained that the legislative “roosteis” and “piuebers” hud every thing set up to insure the renomination of their pa tron naiDt Geary. The best men of the party stood aloof and allowed tberogues to have things theirown way, und they will stand aloof at the election, and let the thieves bo beaten. Gearj’s Nomination Not Unanimous. Geary’s renomlnatlon was not unani mous. When the customary resolution declaring him to be the unanimous, choice of the Convention was offered, that sterling old Republican, George M. Lauman, of Reading, forced its with drawal by declaring that he, for one, would certainly vote no, if the resolu tion should bo pressed. Thus for the first time in the history of Pennsylvania, was a Gubernatorial candidate refused tho customary compliment of having his nomination declared to be unani mous. The opposition to Geary which exists in the Republican party is deep seated. It Is based upon a thorough conviction of his unfitness for the posi tion he has disgraced. The best men of the Republican party despise him. They openly denounce him as dishon est, untruthful, undignified, conceitedi ignorant, stupid, and unworthy of con fidence and support. They know by what mean trickery and base subser viency to the rogues of the late Legis lature he managed to secure the selec tion of a majority of the delegates to the State Convention. Owing to a want of unanimity among. themselves and of concerted and timely action the honest and thoughtful men of the party were unable to prevent Geary’s renomina tion. They entered their earnest pro tests in the caucus which was held the evening before tho assembling of the Convention, but their words of warning were unheeded by the “roosters” and “ pinchers ” who had Geary in charge. There are thousands of conscientious Republicans in Pennsylvania who feel just as Mr. Lauman did, and who will . vote against Geary at the polls. Ail the i Democrats have to do to secure the elec* I tion of their ticket in OcLober is to bring out a full vute. That done our majority will be more than ten thousand. 8 2 CO 0 00 l7 00 Disgusted with Grant, The Radical politicians of this Elate do not like Grant. He has given them the cold shoulder. The men whom they recommended for oilice have been coldly passed by, aud Freedmeu’s Bu reau agents, relatives of Ulysses, and those who gave him houses, money, whiskey aud cigars have carried oil’ what oillces they wanted, and have dictated who should fill others. The appointment of Burie to a place in the Cabinet was legarded us a direct blow at I’emuylvania politicians,uutil it was ascertained that he had bought his place by contributing more money than any other man In the Slate, to buy the fine house in Philadelphia, which our worthy President never lived in, but rents out from year to year I for a handsome sum ol money. Thu j appointment of u comparatively ob -1 Hcure New Jersey politician to tlie place vacated by P.orle, Ims caused more curs ing among the leaders of the Radical party in this State. Pennsylvania is thus left without n single representa tive in Grant's Cabinet, while Massa chusetts has two. Wo do not wonder uur Radical friends are completely dis* truordiiinry qualifications for the office there might be less dissatislaelkm, but Grant lias passed by all the Radical politicians of Pennsylvania to confer tho position of Secretary of the Navy upon a comparatively obscure New .Jersey lawyer, who is us ignorant of national affairs as any land lubber in the country. Boric named his succes sor, and the President recognized his right to do so. Money given to Grant was not wasted. Rorieaud others have found it to ho “ like bread cast upon tho waters.” An Editor Defending Himself. Our amiable friend, the editor of the Frpr<**, has deigned to make his ap- j pearance before the public as a corres- ; ponueut of a rival newspaper. The J'.x- ( aminir conlaiusa long letter from him, ■ in which he undertakes to defend him- i self againstcerlaiu gravecharges which another correspondent of the Examiner saw lit to make against him. The ac eusalions made were really serious, aud they demanded some sort of an answer. 1 How to reply to them was of course a matter to be decided by the party assailed. Our opinion is that the editor of the Exprcs* would have shown more ] good sense and less sensitiveness if he | had published what ho had to say in Ilia , own paper. This seeking out a rival journal as a means of communicating : with the public is a confession, that the ; Examin< r reaches a large class of Re publicans who never see the Exprew, It settles the status of the two news -1 papers, aud makes the Examimr as the real organ of the Radical party in Lan caster county. Hereafter, we presume, the Expro** will no more attempt to aspire to that dignity. J t lias voluntarily : confessed to its secondary and subordi i mite position. OppoM'ti lo Kconomj and Ucrorin, The convocation ol legiilalive * roost, ora” and •* pinchers,” which styled liHolf a Republican Slate Convention, und nominated Geuiy and Williams, had not one word to say in favor of re form In our Slide Government, or a single pledge ol economy to give,— Every thing of the kind wan studiously avoided, and a resolution of that kind was voted down by I lie commilieu that prepuied the platform. When the rmo lotions L'umu up for adoption by llie Convention, an attempt to remedy tills glaring defect was made. Forney’s /Vos says; Tin. resolution in regard to mi eudmno mem ol tin- AdiuinisUution of Governor Geary In mg Indore llie convention. Mr, M. N. tinny, iff heaver, moved to amend by milling llio lollovvnig: "Ami the Republicans of Pennsylvania, respond ing m live demands ol public opinion, pledge liiemsel vhs to *.iie retrenchment of expenses in die management of public atfairs, and in ho far as in them lion, the reiorm of every anise licit can give occasion for cum plaint?" ; Mr. Wi.ddell, of Chester. Mr. Chairman, I would liao to see the relevancy id the amendment to the resolution. Mr. ii.irtel of Armstrong, appealed to the mover ol tin.* amendment to withraw it. The f|neslion being put the amendment was defeated. We do not wonder at it. The “.pinch ers” aud “roosters” hud no noliou of pledging themselves against the em ployment of a small army of extra pasters ami folders, aud other rascalities which they carried on so successfully uuder Geary. They go into the coming light perfectly uncommitted, and with implied resolve to steal everything they can lay their hands upon. And they know Geary will help them, should he be elected. Judge Fisher, of Washington city,has ordered the Marshal of the District of Columbia to fill up all vacancies in the list of Grand and Petit Jurors with negroes. This is part of the Radical programme, by which the doctrine of negro equality is to be fully enforced at the capital of the nation. Negroes are employed on all the government works, and white men are given the choice of working with them or leaving. The object is not so much to afford work to the negroes as to break down all bar riers of distinction between the races throughout the country. The Radicals regard that a 9 necessary to the full de velopment of their theories, and they will not voluntarily cease their efforts until the end they aim at is accom plished. THE LANCASTER WEEKLY INTELLIGENT PER, WEDNESDAY, JIT3NE 30, 1869. Grant has made another of his unac countable appointments. Boric hafl gone, but a still more obscuro individ ual has taken his place. All that is known of the now appointee Is that ho lives in Camden, and is a member of tho Union League of Philadelphia. The League gave Grant a fine house In Philadelphia, and he is trying to pay off the indebtedness. The Union League of Philadelphia runs the Naval Department of the Government, and is to continue to do so. “Private debts to be paid first, and the public interest to be considered afterward,” seems to be the motto of Grant. He has acted upon it systematically. We presume it will shortly be discovered that the new Secretary of the Navy was, next to the retiring officer, the largest pecu niary benefactor in Philadelphia. Who is Boric? was the question when Grants’ Cabinet was formed. Who is Robeson ? is the question now. Graut’sconductisopen to theseveiest criticism. It is every day made more clearly manifest that he is utterly unfit to bo President. The whole country is Interested in his Cabinet appointments. Not only had the Republicans a right to expect that their ablest public men would be called to take part, in the councils of the President, but tho entire people looked to see that done. The government of the United States can not be successfully conducted by a set of wealthy nobodies vho have neyer had experience in public affairs. Grant’s conduct is not only an outrage upon the party which elected him, hut-something which very properly calls for universal condemnation, l’or tho first time in the history of this government a Pres ident has prostituted his high position to the most disgraceful nepotism and favoritism. Grunt utterly iguores the old Democratic rule of Andrew Juek sou, which made the tests for office holding “ honesty and capability,” and uses his patroutige to pay ofi' his debts and to enrich an army of poor relations, Such a spectacle is humiliating in the ■ extreme, and causes every patriotic cit izen of the United States to b!u-.h for , his country. The convention which nominated of emigre**. He is the first President John W. Geary attempted to dodge the of the United States who ever dared to Fifteenth Amendment. A series of be guilty of such conduct. His distri resolutions v/eru reported from the com- butiou of the most important offices to rnlitee without auy mention of that incompetent benefactors, relatives and mutter, it was hoped they would he personal favorites, would be sufficiently quietly adopted as presented ; but Wrn. outrageous and disgraceful if he con* H. Jvooutz, Esq., formerly Congressman fined his transactions strictly within from the lfith district, would not permit the limits of the law ; but, wheu he this. He had voted in Congress for nc-. knowingly violates the most positive gro equality, and he had no notion of statutory enactments to curry out his hiring thus impliedly put under the bun pernicious purposes, he exhibits him* of censure for his action. He moved the self before the country in an attitude u-lop:ion of llie following resolution as which calls for the condemnation of a substitute for what had been reported all good citizen:', without respect to us the second of the series : parly. ovary sentencecontained in his inaugural il Mi'cs-t, <>mt e ■," <'ittl/y tin hereby ratify ant! itj’/n'vt o Ihe life t: in fail uten l tu the t'un-sht tl hue. "f t/>>' l nit'e.l .V"0 -a in (//"..so/ /.-/ ( iih- ;;rt -tule have U in their power to elect a Legislature which will repeal the resolution of ratification. The issue between parlies* is made up, and the matter goes to the masses for decision. The watchword of the Dem ocratic party is iu-;ri-:Ai.. Let all who are opposed to negro equality vote in ac cordance with their honest convictions, aud the arbitrary action of the last cor rupt legislature will be reconsidered Scsro Jurors. Who ib Robeson? Geary and Negro Equality /iV.Wrrd, That \vh wholly npprnvo'oi' the principles and policy of iln. udumiLtialii'ii of lYt-Sldciii ljrrut, and we hearlily eiulm>e ami repealed. Leary takes hi-stand squarely ou thu >»egro Equality plat form ami he must ami will be defeated. Who Wrote Genrj’s Last Speech When Geary was lir3t nominated for Governor Lc attempted to return thanks for the honor conferred upon him. He started to deliver a set speech, but after getting off two or throe M-nfene-'H stuck fast, and had to pull out a roll ol’ manu script and began reading what some one had written for him. Who wrote the speech lie doiiveied on being renomi nated. That is a question Republicans are asking themselves, and which some of them have put to us. That it was not his own production any one who ever heard him attempt to speak must see at a glance. There are hundreds of Radi cals in this city who listened to him with bowed head* on one occasion. During the campaign of ISG7, when the people of Pennsylvania decided that they did not want the Puritanical Yan kee Williams to iuterpret laws for them, Geary voluntarily took the stump early in the campaign lie insisted upon making a speech in this city. The saga cious leaders of the party were opposed to hie appearing here, but, as Professor Wickerehum was a member of bis Cabinet, they could not very well peremptorily decline to give the Governor an opportunity to speak.— He came —aud those who listened to him will never forget the occasion, j Such a murdering of the King’s Eng | lish, such a jutnbJe of dislocated ideas ; and sentences, such an exhibition of combined vanity and ignorance wns never presented to a Lancaster nudl ! cnee. All sensible Republicans hung j their heads in shaim* or stole out of the | Court Hoinie, while the iL-mocrutH who I were present laughed al the discomfit 1 lire and disgust of llndr opponents, We have never heind any public man make so miserable a speech. That 'Geary Is utterly incapable of wilting out the speech he made on his renumi* uutloii, nine out of every ten Uepubli cans in Pennsylvania know full well. Wo think we recognize the author, j There ujjj£ certain “ear marks, 11 on the ' production which enable us to tell who ! wrote it. Certain it i- that it was not 1 John W. Geary. " Rig fraud” is a ! term which more than one Republican newspaper has applied to Geary. He deserves the title. He is in everything else, as in speech making, a miserable | swindle, a poor, pitiablesmall creature, ; with as little of the real man about him as there is about the straw stuffed of* flgies which we see set up in corn fields to frighten crows. It appears that the great Boston Peace Jubilee turned out a bad specula tion. The receipts are reported to be only $248,000, while the expenditures were $300,000. When it is remembered that the thing was in the hands of Rad ical politicians, with Butler at their head, the deficit ia not to be wondered at. With all the euoruioue taxes levied upon the people the expenses of the Government of the United States last year greatly exceeded its income. Like causes produce like results; and when thieves have full swing the balance will be found on the wrong side of the sheet. Gearj’s Platform The platform adopted by the conven tion which reuomiuutedUeary we pub lish elsewhere. It is more remarkable for what it fails to say than for any thing contained iu it. It is a weak piece of patchwork that will utterly fail to satisfy the people of Pennsyl vania. We shall have more to say of it hereafter. W. P. Forny, who was married to Annie Surratt a few days since, has been dismissed from the government service. This is done by special order of the War Department, and displays an unparalleled spirit of petty malice on the part of the government. Grant a law Breaker. When General Grant was Inaugurated he declared that ho would “ faithfully executo all laws, whether they met with his approval or not;” and this sentiment was much lauded by Radical newspapers. When, within ten hours after giving utterance to that expres lon, he appointed the chief of his pe-j ounlary benefactors Secretary of the j Treasury, iu violation of the laws of the j land, theaot wasattrlbuted to ignorance ■ of an existing statute. He now violates j another law of the United States in or der to accommodate that miserable i creature Daniel E. Sickles. This time Ihe can not plead ignorance. The queß j tion was raised aud was referred to the 1 ! Attorney General for an opinion.— : Ulysses did not wait to hear what Mr. i Hoar might have to say on the subject, but peremptorily decided, on his own authority, that Sickles could go as Mln | ister to Spain, without resigning his . position as an officer iu tbeU. S. Army. ; The law of Congress is most explicit. 1 It says: “ Any otlher in tho Army or Navy of Ihe United Stales, who shall acceptor hold any appointment in the Diplomatic or Consular service of the government shall be cunsitl erod as having resigned his said office, anti the place held by him in the military or naval service shall be deemed and taken to be va cant and shall be tilled iu the same manuer as if tbosaid officer nad resigned the same.*’ There can be no doubt about the meaning of that statute. It is as plain as plain English can be. Even so stupid a man as Grant couliHjfct fail to comprehend it. When he decides that Sickles can go out as Minister to Spain without losing his position as aw officer in the army, he renders an edict in : plain and palpable violation of the laws , which he swore to support, and which ; lie declared he would execute whether they met with his approval or not. The case of Sickles is not the only | one which comes under the restrictions ! of this act of Congress to which we have alluded. General Butterfield, formerly of (Rant’s staff, is holding his position iu tho army and that of As • sistaut U. K. Treasurer at the same time. When Grant d-sires to reward those who gave him money, or to con fer benefits on relatives aud personal favorites, bo i« prepared to trample upon law,-and pays no attention to acts Lay Delegation In tilt* AI. E. Church. [ The Methodist Episcopal ('lunch lias ] up to this time existed as a sort of ee- I c!e:-■iastie.d despotism. The Bishops : have had . uj.reme control of tho up- i poiuting power, and the preachers have been summarily sent to such circuits or atationn as their superiors deemed them best filled to fill. Tho Presiding Elders have been selected by the Bishops, and these have constituted an udvisiory . council in each of the conferences. Of course tho Bishops listened to them, aud iu most cases were guided by their representations as to the Illness or uu* Illness of preachers to (ill different ap pointments, but still the arbitrary power of tho Bi&hops remained supreme and unquestioned. Tills gave to tho itin erant system of the Methodist Church its peculiar power. No better method could have been devised j fur keeping iu full vigor the peculiar ! system. Wliiio the presiding Elders | always made impartial representations , of the characters of the preachers un- | dor them, and of the requirements of 1 the station.: and circuits within their dis tricts, the needs of the church were met as they could not be under any less ar bitrary’ method of appointment. But for some lime past, l litre have been signs of dissatisfaction and nmrmurings of discontent in the church. Home preach ers and some of the lay members have favored a Its:, despotic method of rule, 'aud the agitation iu favor of lay dele gations bus continued until l»he General . Conference was induced to submit the question to a vote. The right of women to the elective franchise was recognized, and it wa« ordered that eieetionsshould be held within the present year in all congregations. The voting bus been going on for some time, and up to the .prescut lime .‘'.l,bis ballots Lave been .cast fur Lay Delegation ami U,U7o ! against it. The most marked feature iu the contest is the apathy of the church 'members on the subject. Not one iu live of those entitled to vote have cared to exercise the privilege. Perhaps a considerable portion of the female members may have refrained 1 from voting, because they had to admit that they were twenty-one years old in ' order to lie entitle'! to cast u ballot. We ! wonder whether that would not pre •veiit many young ladies from voting for political officers. The record of the : time when they voted “ ou age” could not be wiped out, but would stand as a mark of advancing years, which could ! neither bo erased or denied. The family ! Bible may be hidden, but t-.<* poll book ( of the election officers is latd away | among the records of the Clerk of tiuar : ter Sessions. This, it strikes us, would 1 b- 1 one great difficulty iu tho way of cn j stirlng a full poll of the female vote, and | thoudvociiloHof Woman Hud'nige would I do well to take It into uceounl. linin' nml Hester Yiwglin Hester Vaughn lias arrived in Kng ' laud In a penniless and utterly destitute 1 condition. Geary violated Hit* law of 1 the land hy banishing her from the ! country. It Is said he did tills to shield | the man who seduced und abandoned her. He had no more right to banish this poor, defenceless girl, than he has to banish any other citizen of Pennsyl vania. So secretly was the crime com mitted that uo one knew that she had ! bepn ivleaM'd from prison until she had ; been tossing for days upon the ocean. J Geary had exacted of her a promise j that she would keep the fact of her par* ' don aud departure secret. This was I unlawfully made the second condition \of her release. Hester Vaughn is now ;in England, so completely destitute i that she has been compelled to write to 1 the kind ladies of New York who took an interest in her case for money to ’ enable her to reach her father’s house, i But for the unlawful conduct of the wretched creature who fills the Guber : natorial Chair of Pennsylvania, this would never have huppened. There j was quite a huudso.me sum of money ready for Hester Vaughn, money which "had been raised at the meeting in Cooper Institute last winter. When Geary came into oflice lie vol untarily made a promise that lie would reform abuses of the pardoning power. In this, as iu other things, he has shown au utter disregard of his word. No oc cupant of the Gubernatorial chair ever ho abused the pardoning power as Geary has done. It was only necessary to sliow that the party accused was an active Radical to secure a previous par don for rowdies aud reprobates. His ; bauishment of Hester Vaughn, in order that the name of her seducer might be concealed, is an outrage of the grossest character. This, and his many other gross abuses of the pardoning power, will be remembered against him, when honest and conscientious Republicans come to cast their votes in October. The Supreme Court of Georgia has decided that the new constitutlonof the State forever prohibits the intermarri ageof whites and blacks. Of course the Radicals will raise a great howl over this, and renew their attempts to thrust Georgia out of the Union. A National Temperance Party. A National Temperance Convention has been called to meet in Chicago, on Wednesday, September Ist. The call, •which has been circulated among the Temperance Societies of the different States, and extensively signed, says: “ The moral, social, and political evils of intemperance, and tho non-enforcement of tho liquor laws, are so fearlul and promi- I nent, and the causes thereof are intrenched ; ond protected by governmental authority . and party interest, that the suppression of ' these evils calls upon tho frienus of temper ■ ance: and tho duties conu6ded with home, ' religion, and public peace, demand that old political ties and associations shall be sun dered, and a distinct political party, with prohibition of the traffic in intoxicatiug drinkß as the most prominent feature, should bo organized. ‘‘The distinctive political issues that have 1 for years past interested the American peo ' pie are now’ comparatively unimportant or fully settled, and in this aspect the time is • auspicious for a decided and practical ef fort to overcome the dread power of the liquor trade. 1 “ The undersigned do therefore earnestly : invite all friends of temperauee and the en forcement of law, and favorable to distinct , political action for tho promotion of the .same, to meet in general moss convention ‘ in the city of Chicago, on Wednesday, the l-t day of September, ISGP, at II o'clock, a. in., for the purpose of organizing lor dis tinct political action for temperauc n . “All Churches, Sunday Schools, ana Temperance Societies, of all names, are re quested to send delegates, and all! persons favorable to this movement are invited to meet at the lime and place above staled. One of the many new and novel thing | alofig Ibis great railroad line is a Canvass [ town. These cities as they are generally I termed, have been at intervals vacated, and 1 rebuilt, at points where the road had its 1 temporary terminus, and were, and still I are, composed of a population made up of ! gamblers, pickpockets, thieves, adventur ers, employees, and some honest bold busi- j ness men, who were Willing to risk life and ! property,among such a promiscuous crowd ! ior the sake of the dollars which were to be made by legitimate trade. Promontory Point is the last ouo of the canvass towns along the U. P. R. R. and is still the pres ent terminal depot of that line, contain ing a poit office, ticket office, baggage of fice, freight office, telegraph office and other tents lor the use of employees, Ac. This is on one side cf the track, Now let us look on the other side, and here we will find the characteristics of the place more fullv il lustrated. There uro its tents, and begin i uing from the left we will icad some of the : sigus and judge what the place is made of, Neutrality. ; besides canvass, “Suuny Side," “ Wholo- We are just now engaged iu illuslrat- sale Liquors,” “Road Milker's Ranch," ing thfe ease with which neutrality laws “a Red Keg," “San Francisco Store," are violated when popular sympathy “ Fyfer A Cuvalii Brewery," “S. J. Lees," favors. Oue expedition after another j “ Crackers,'’ “Lager Leer," “Fashion has left our ports to aid the Cubuu in-,^ ;io P House, “ I'ig.trs aud Tobacco,’ surgents, and somehow government I ’* hating House, ' “ Switch Oil," “ Avenue officials never get an inkling cif truua- “Lvk-ry ami Saloon,' “Cuii actions which every newspaper reporter nor * hcatauraui, Lunch, “ H.ikery, is fully aware of. Two regularly or- " Criifurnm Wore " -• Lodging" Nov.- ganized regiments sailed last Saturday - n K an ° uae K ' m 1 ranch,™ Ila.r from New York with small arms for 1 ’>»"*>“• **'• A , nJ ‘ h “» . . . ’ the city situate upon a barren plain, with 0.000 meu, fourteeu ld-poumler brass ; (11 , 9111 , 11 L. nml frowntnK moumuill3 ou elUler field pieces, aud some artillery of, larger I s i ( i L . ; „ u i blade of grass to he aeon, no size. • The had been regularly eti- t tree ior miles, nouccommudation for travel* listed, and were together for days iu , era. This is the placo where the U. P. R. bodies which could not have escaped S K- down its loud of passenger^ tho detection of officers of ordinary lltl d lets them shift ior themselves, all be vigilancc. Wo are fast putting It out of f cause us they say the C. P. " will not come our power to complain about the action : 1,1 Au bl ' rausu llu ' r - r - llrrlv < M ~7-, , i i • ,i i in mm - 1 1,11 one iicnedtde, while the C. P. starts on of hnglaml during the rebellion. 11ns; , .... , ~ ~ , , , , , . : another oi their own make, nml hero we Cuban nsurreetion could never have ~, . r ~ . . .... , . ~ , , , must ail from -1 in tho morning till 1 in the umounted to anything if the Insurgents | afternoon. Down on such treatment by had not received lelnforeetuents and ■ monopolies of innocent heavy-taxed travel* material aid from us. We may yet bo 1 crs , Al this point the last spike or litis un drawn lulo complications of the most 1 finished road, uniilng the Atlantic with the serious character before this Cuban bit.-I- Facffio, was driven. The tirsi of the last noss is finally disposed of. Our true , tie has long since been whittled into inlin. course Is to act the part of houtst and ! uosinml particles. The second of tho ffist conscientious neutrals—something we ties lias shured a similar Into, 'llin third are certainly not doing. * lirsl lk; h:is also disappeared, and tho fourth , „ t i iirsl tie is doomed to he the victim of the That an attempt is about to be made to combine the temperauce arganiza tions of the country into a political as sociation we have no doubt. The pro hibitionists are very active just now. They have succeeded in securing the passage of a most stringent act for Massachusetts, which goes into effect on the Ist of July. The formation of a National Temperance Party naturally looks to Congressional action on the subject. A National Prohibitory Liquor Law will be demanded, and we look forward to au exciting eon test. One In 131!. Harm- ualioiiol propensity, fnr I see Unit there Thu Reading Timrs makes light of in just about enough left to-day to uiako it the refusal of duo. M. Luumim to vote 11 lk '> " IIJ 11 "' IH u 0 doulj t sou*, too, loso Its for making the nomination of deary J iheinhy, after which a new ono will be put unanimous. It asks “what one man | hown, ami everybody, all over the world, in one hundred and thirty-three | "' lUl °r yeurato eome, still sen, re a piece of amounts to.” Let us see. Last year j ll " ! uU ' nutill first tie. thero were If.:;,lilt) votes cast at the 1 At IP. M. California lime—none of your State election in Pennsylvania due ill I common time, wo started from Promontory every 13d of that vote amounts to with- I I’ 0 ', 11 '” . !lmi "' , -‘ ro " 1 ,a,1 ° "™ f " r, " ble , mm t* i- , by having a young gent onmn ao °" n™ « its head, over of Hummel for damages is founded up- ‘ hlt Hotiom U,„ei :l real desert of sail, which on certain strictures contained in the i “ 9 t f l . l "‘' s ItH u,) nlm 1!0 ,lke . , . , . .1 ir 1 ground has the appearance Irmu a distance in reference to the defalca- iia tboU( ,„ it were coven „, with a lbia hly , r tion of the late in-u.-mry of Lebanon or (.now, and is tho very picture of blank county. Mr. Ereslin takes a proper sterility. No living thfug can exist here, view of the matter, anil insists upon the a construction train is a great novelty, full exercise of his rights as a public being liu-ndly a village of shanties on censor. He concludes his notice as fob wheels, which has been moved from point lows : to point, from west towards the east, as fast Ii an exposure of such arts on the j art of as the track was put down. H has all tho public olliciais, and the connivance or do- appurfr-nuneecs of boarding houses lodging reliction of duty on the put of o:lters, is hous „ lor tool houses tm.l oflices, and libelous,, and makis us liable to cot* and ... .... . ’ lines, we shall coniinuo the exposition!’ u " (, d ( lnneso listings show how such wrong* upon the people and their in- oln-n they had moved it. Wo now wind lenM, unlit every cent we po-.ses>ls applied mound the mountain slope lo the lake, to pouti uv tin- wounded characters of un- , , .... fait lif ul public servants and i heir adherents, a “' h,., e a ve. y gnoo view of its sur and then abanoon ttio publication of Lice lor many miles towards tho .Snilli. a newspaper and take to Li e king slopes then lose it ns we take our westward course, on ike turnpike lor it livelihood. A desert or alkali swamp extending many That is the right spirit for nil editor, miles, is now traversed by the K, K. and and we do not think Mr. Ilresliji, orand this oi all desolate places I havo ever seen other members of the profession is like- L the most desolate. No good water for ly to be reduced to the necessity of m<»ro than IUU miles, a regular Sahara luck breaking stones for a living on account ,n « die .-and. M a ter lor the use ol the loco of such proper and manly Imlepeu- ‘ m ” Uve to CTrrioJ '» diffmm point. #lon B dencc. The popular current is now set- ,lrl 7 r - in C!,rs ' “ ml k "l’ t 1,1 .. , , . . large tubs (ortheirsupply. After a ride of tiDB btrongly against.hbel suits and „ wn ( ~une In full view of ,he juries arenot disposed to convict editors llumljnMl M , n0) „ B liko wlmml for the publication of any matterwhich M , nli „„ la „ ut „ K , llnhl 1118 Wl . Btl . rll Lori 7 is jiropcr for public information. and poini ing the way towards the Occident; t i ~ while io the cunt, soulb. and north, urnuns Jt hCcniH tl.nl Kudienl ( onurtK-itm-n , , , , , , , ol "du'f uml Bumllor inounlidiiK rlrmn in aud other pol l l ujiantj uf that ?-cli o mne positions under the govern- iind rhlnoso laborers, who by their mi'iit. 'l’llis linn happened so ffiri[lit’nLly peeullai iiloh ol 1 ecmtumo, iangiingo and that It has been found necessary to give mamiora, form a novel fouturo In thlu liotlco of the fact that the signers of such Wi'aUim land. Thi-y appear tobouslm papera will liu hold bourn! by tin'll- roc- nh', I'llanl, ItuluNirimm pnoplu, mid hayo otmnemlalions according to data. No ovlllullly the stamp of the ettrso of Cain lettora of royal! will bo permitted, and u l ;0 " ! bc,, “' r,>r U ’7 ' lo H “\' n 10 thua Congressmen will find their oppor- "I'' 1 ’ 11 lbm "i bl ™ “ ‘'“ r " bl '- v,,ml ‘ o ; ,d “ m] . , . , , ~, liibnr, iuul with this* urocont- nt uml Impny tuultlea for conferring pretended ol.liga- Thu slll , „ uw ln lho dMIHU Wl , s(i " tions greatly übridged. This exhibition of the dishonesty of Radical politicians is only another evidence of the complete demoralization which exists anion'' General Grant has backed down in the matter of Turner, his newly-up poiuted black postmaster, at .Macon, Ga. A deputation waited upon him and told him that they were Republi cans ; that if he meant to punish the Georgians tor the crimes committed in the State, by placing Turner in the Macon Postofllce, lie had wrongly judged, inasmuch as in that district there had been no murders committed ; that Turner could not get the requisite bonds, and that to keep him in the place would drive business out of it. Where upon the President said that he had considered the matter, and thecommia aion of Turner would be revoked. How ever obstinate a mau Grant may be in the eyes of Madame Grant, he has cer tainly retreated from his nominations to an extent never before known in the anDals of our country. Hon*. Reverdy Johnson only ex pended $lOO a month of the public money while Minister to England. General Dix, as Minister to France, made away with ?320 a month. Ilev erdy Johnson is Conservative and Dix intensely Radical. The difference in the ratio of their expenditures is about in proportion to the economy of the two parties. A democratic administration would cost the cduntry vastly less than that of Grant is doing. A writer in Columbia, 8. C\, says the negro postmaster there has a corps of conceited, inexperienced and ignor ant negro clerks who cause inexplica ble confusion in the affairs of the office. Delays of the moot unfortunate charac ter are of daily occurrence, by the hun dreds at that, But that’s a good way to punish “the accursed rebels.” Hpeclnl Correspondence of tho Intelligencer.l WESTWARD NO. 7. After a tedious, jolting, hot ride, in tho overland stago coach Hot Springs, X was tumbled out safely Taylor’s Mills again at 8i P. M., and at 1 A. M., next day took cars for Promontory Point, the ter minus of tho U, P. R. R., Id the happy ex pectation of being forwarded without delay toward tho land of gold and plenty. But vuiu faro all human calculations, when made without the reckonings of the Contral P. R. R. mouopoly. For instead of finding a train in waiting, and hearing tho cry of “all aboard for Son Francisco” resounding over the distant plaius, I was rudely shak en into conclousness and gruffly accosted by one of the gentlemanly brakesmen, with the refreshing intelligence that we wore at “Promontory Point,” and that the cars would leave for the West, at 1 P. M. ' This was at -1 in tho morning. I felt like j one just dropped from the clouds, and I placed upon a desert. Fortunately I was ! not tho only one. I made the best of it and 1 give you a description of A CANVASS TOWN. "NlubL folilw her Mible curtain ilnwu, Ami piiiH It vr;th übLiu” anti your humble correspondent Hoses his note book for the day. After t\ few boms of restless Humber, wo awake again to consciousness with the first dawn, and again commence our study of naluro’s beauty and variety. Thank fortune, wp have during thn night passed over the Alkali Desert, and the bright beuu tiful morning ilnds us in a land rich in verdure with grazing plains as fur as we can see up to the base of tiio surrounding mountains. What a pleasing change ! Little streams ilow through this rich pasture held of the Buifulo; birds are singing sweetly in the low undergrowth, nnd all nature seems rejoicing at the return of morn. By close reckoning I figure out the following result as to lime on the C. P. R. R.< to bo 175 miles in 15 hours. I shall have more to say about this road wnen I mnko my resume of my sea voyage over the plains, as I stated before, and in the mean while respectfully ask n suspension of judgment in the matter, and furthermore that lettc-rs from “free pass” correspondents be read with only a /civ grams of uliownuco I will simply repeat my assertion, that the road is not finished, which I will prove beyond fear of contradiction at the proper time. “Elko,” on the Humboldt river, -»i)0 miles East of Sacramento, is the first live town, al though composed mostly of cabins and tents, we met since we left Omaha. It is the prin cipal freight nnd stage station for the White Pine Regions, and is full of life and bustle. A large number of stores and saloons line both sides of the track for some distance.— Freight teams in large numbers are stand ing near, coaches with loads of passengers are continually arriving and departing, a large hotel is doing a rushing business in short, Elko has every appearance of thrift and enterprise, not excluding the “ shine your boots” at the hotel doors. This is quite a refreshing change after having traveled 12G7 miles without having seen its Hke. Reports of new gold discoveries in Idaho having lately reached this place, naturally created a great excitement, and it is supposed that over one thousand per- sons have left within tho past few weoks for that point, which Is aboutseventy miles north of this placo. The gold is said to bo worth J 19.60 per ouhee—o suro evidence of Its richness It Is said. Tho Palisades, a fow miles from this place, are also n curiosity, being a series of bold, croggy rocksjultlng out from tho barren sides of a rnngo of mountains. Corbin, 15 miles west of Elko, is one of the principal stations of tho Com pany. Machine shops havo been creeled, and quite a number of buildings (of tho migratory kind,) occupied ns shops, Ac., are promlscously scattered around. This appears to bo a Company town aud will sub sist onlyon the favors of tho Company. I can see no other resources. Hero the cars wero attacked by Indians for tho first time on our eventful trip. The circumstances of the case are theso (aud our friends at homo will bo relieved when I tell them in ad vance, that tkore “ was nobody hurt”) : Quite a number of the “ Shoshone” tribe advanced as our train approached,—all having arms. The cavalry force, (consisting of a /eic horses only,) remaining at a little distance from the point of contemplated attack, doubtless to be reudy for any omer geucy, and aid iu carrying oil the spoils. As soon asJour train stopped, a large body of squaws advanced, some eucumbercd with their papooses, others with nothing but their bare arms, and commenced begging for something to cat, which was freely ; given to them, when they departed tlie j happiest creatures on earth, munching | with a gusto that would shame a porker, 1 And thus ended otir first engagement with the Indiaus. Argenta, .'Uk! miles east from Sacramento, is another principal station and sturliug point for stages to Austin, Virginia City, and other gold mining points in Nevada, but will hardly ever arrive at any higher degreo of importance as a town, owing to ; want of land fit for ugi ivullurnl purports in the immediate vicinity. At Goleonda, 340 miles east of Sacramento, we come 1 upon what is called tho Sinking Humboldt; j follow its tortuous course for some miles ■ and see it spread into various smaller streums, furming a low marsh over the plain and finally disappearing from view. Winnomueea, 324 miles east of Sacramento and 204 miles from Silver City, Idaho, and at present tho only freight station on the line for that point, is a small village, sit- : uated down iu the desolate valley below the station. Here! oil, wonder of wouders! a brewery is located, where a concoction oi sugar water aud hops is put up and sold . at I-’> cents (iu coin) per Ambm-dal nectar, me thinks I ta.-le iheo .- till ! 232 miles ea*t we pa-s the prctiy little llum- I boldt Lake. Quite refreshing alter so 1 much desert. Here I once more Ipso my consciousness in a troubled sleep until 3 A. M., .June 13th, when waking from a In**! ellortof that sort, 1 find mysplf in a new 1 world, fbi the right a green ridge, covered ' with fine pine limber, on lh<* left tin; rapid ■ flowing Truchee river, at the base of an ■ other pli.o ridge. Now follow saw-mill upon saw-mill, .shanty alter shanty, and now ami Ihen a little lumber village, , We are in the Sierra NVv.ula region, and feel happy alter having jms.v.-d ovtr ju-it MUO miles of ulternalo prairie, donerL waste and mountains. And now f..r the first time wo learn to realize the gieatuc-ss, tin* mag nitude (jf this undertaking, as we wind up the steep sides of the mountain. It is a won der of engineering skill, with no equal in the world. Willi wis“ forethought too, the contractors have finished this, tho danger j ou.s part of the line, in the most perfect | manner, so that we pass safely over the , short curves, the ruad now miming math, then solilh, thou west again, through deep cats, along precipitous granite ridges, through eight tunnels, ami under those im . menso snow sheds, which are one of the greatest novelties of the great under taking, until wo finally reach tin. l sum mit, und look down upon tho black dreary Lake Danner, in tho deep valley beneath, without a thought of Jour, Snow covers the ground around us in thick frcr.en layers, whilo down tho steep sides a forest ofgreeu California Pino flourishes in luxur ious growth, The summit is 7012 feet above sea level, is i:kJ2 feet lower than Sherman, the summit of the Smoky liill range, and }’et the latter had not a particle of snow upou it when we crushed it. Those “Snow Sheds,” while they arc doubtless indispen sablo to the road, are most assuredly a great annoyance to (he traveler and lover of na tural scenery, inasmuch as they close from view lor ml miles nil the grandeur and beauty of (lie wild “Sierra Nevadan." Fur that reason they cause a feeling of regret for their necessity. From the summit we com i moacol tho descent of the mountains, the I greatest descending grade being 11G feet to j the mile; the scenery, of which we get an j occasional glance through the sheds, bjing [ of the wildest and most romantic kind all the way. 'lf the ascent of the Sierra Nevadan, i.s grand, the descent is certainly more inde scribably so. Thu variety ofbeautiful and varied scenery, together with the difficult and tortuous winding of the road down the* sleep mountain sides, is truly super latively grand, and well calculated to in spire every soul susceptible of refining impressions with feelings of inexpressible delight. As we near the water level again the woodlands are interspersed with oak, gutn and maple, the Pine still predom inating however, and forming the most at tractive fouture of the scenery with lueir tall,clean aud ne at appearance. Weget sight of u dumber of gold mines, and sec the Hume* which supply the water for the difi'erent washings, winding along the sides of the mountain and bearing the sup ply of pure fresh water for that purpose. We uro in the Land of Gold. Duloh Flat, one of the old mining villugi h situated in a deep tint among the im.nn tains, si'otnst’i be the centre of the mining intuiest in this district. It contains quite a large population, bus a church, cemetery, Ac. For miles around thL place, the moun tains present tbo appearance ot having boei; completely turned upside down by the searchers after the precious metal. It is n novel sight, All creation is upheaved by covetous m.m, |o get at the riches of the onrth. The mining towns increase in num ber as we advance. Hood roads traverse the ravines and valleys, There are lino gardeus 100, which are Irrigated from tliu surplus water from the reservoirs distrlb ut«d oyor the country, which also supply the mines. The Dourer we approach to Sacramento tho more thickly settled hu comes tho country, until wo dually reach tin* valley by that name, where agri culture nourishes as In our own country, and It assumes tin* appeiirnneo of thoso •Slalea Inhabited over one hundred year.-, and not like a country lmrely a quarter oi u century old. 'tho c-real harvods bnvn been m<<-11%' gathered fruits of all kinds abound in plenty,—and wo fancy our selves, (altcreighl days,) transplanted from tbo frigid north to tho rich tropics. No bout leaving to day, I shall look ul Sacramento and leave for San Francisco to-morrow, from which place 1 will endeavor to give you another mixture , merely stating, in conclusion, that I have made tho entire dis tance between Lancaster and tiiis place, in just 17d hours, in which is included about four hours of delay. Tn.\vi:u:i:. WKSrWAKI) NO. H, San Francisc.*, Juno 17, Nib. i Tbo country around Sacrumonto is rather varied. Among it is to ho round as good furmlng bind as exists under the snn. There is, too, a great deal of that which will probably never bo fit for anything ex -1 cepl tbo habitation of snakes, frogs, uud ! mosquitoes. There arc hundreds of acres i of what is here termed lule brush or grass, ■ generally found in swampy localities. This ; tule Is tit lor nothing, not even for straw, I havingacoar.se, heavy blade, and growing | to tho height of from four to eight feet, in : general appearance somewhat resembling the bull-rush, or tlag, of our country. Ln ’ fortunately for Sacramento, tho place is 1 built Open just such marshy bottom land, 1 and is, in consequence, liable to bo over : ilowed. Vegetation grows mostluxurinntlv, and here for the fust lime, T learned to realize the force of that passngo wherein it ! reads about u man sitting under his own j vine uud fig tree; for here are vines from I four to eight inches in diameter, nnd lig trees fifty feet high, spreading their [ branches over a surface of at least us many feet. I found an old townsman, Frank Russell, with his interesting family, living literally in that condition. Sacramento cannot help becoming a great city. Her natural location is such ns to make Hint ■ inevitable. As we steam over the flats from here to San Francisco, on the partly finished Pa cific Railroad of California, wo strike tho extensive tule swamps spoken of before, and soon enter upon the rich farming lands of tho valley, whero wild oats grows in luxuriance, and is cat, dried, and used instead of hay. Beaching the Contra Costa range of bills —through a small ridge of which wo pass by means of a tunnel—wo outer the valley again at Valnjo, situate upon the nhoro of tho Bay of San Francisco, nearly opposito Mare Island, whoro tho V. S. Navy Yard Is looated. Tho Railroad communication botweon tho two points not being complete, wo arc transferred to a fust steamer, which carries us around Maro Island, and down tho Bay. Of tho Bay of Sun Francisco thoro can bo but one opinion —und that is, thnt it Is not surpassed In beauty by uuy, except perhaps tho Bay of • Naples. Tho variety of scenery along its ! Bhores, tho beautiful villages nestling In j tho nooks and coves along its borders, tho | whito rocks which Jut out at Intervals from the water, the red bluffs upon which myri- j nds of sea birds have their resting places— all combine to make it a scene of wondei - ful beauty. As wo near tho mighty me tropolis of tho Paciilc, wo.hayo a tineviow of the Golden Guto und tho Narrows of Sun Francisco. I could almost fancy that I stood at tho Battery at New York, looking out towards Lafayette and Hamilton, when I looked upon tho striking resemblance between the two harbor?. The opening, or narrows which forms tho outlet from the Bay, however, is somewhat wider than Lbut of the Narrows oi Now York, and, | again, there Is no Staten Island hero, to ; add the beauties o! civilization and art to tho wonders of nature, as iR the ease there. The port, however, is as good, if not larger , and better than the former, and when wo , retleet that scarce twenty years have elapsed siuee mis port was first opened to tho com merce of the world, we cannot but bo amazed when we look at the surroundings. Here is a large commercial city, counting nearly -00,000 souls, where, in IS4U, there were but a few huts. Here, where twenty years ago all was a barreu, dreary waste, is now one of the groat marls of tho world, with all the resourses of ‘wealth, art, and civilization* combined, under the inllucuce of nil tho different nationalities *of the world. Here, a monument to Hit* I indomitable genius and per.-evorouco of 1 man, stands the great city of .Sun Fran cisco. What stranger, in walking the streets of this immense bee-hive uf Ameri cans, French, Italians .Southards, Mexi cans, Imlians, Chinese—black, white, yel low and brown; all rue* s and colors; speaking every language under tin* sun : would for a moment suppose that he was ill the midst, oi a people who but a short lime ago ex peri*.-deed such a s*- \ ei *• suahuiyf .No iii,,' would think that he was in a land of such very unsteady habit* as this was shown to be during the hue earthquakes. The citizens here seem to bo accustomed to eai thquakes, and, in lad, seem to be quite Indifferent to the tremblings of old mother I'iarib, and look upon U us though it had im uu simply a ease of acute terrestrial ague. Fearlul that the shake* might cornu on again before.l .get through with my letter, 1 will hasten to give you a resume of a " I.and Voyage over the Plains, nr a Trip from New Y*-rU to S.m Francisco.'' dim hundred und sixty-two hours were' con uimufl in actual running time between : , New York and Sacramento. Now add to this six hours from New York* to Lancaster, live'.lmurs from Sacramento to tills place, and wo have eleven hours more, which will make the schedule tune between both ex lre me poiuls, j ust one hundred und sev enty three Lours, the distance being three thousand two hundred and eighty-eight miles : it would average nineteen iulloh the i hour during the whole (Yip. Between Now I York and Omaha the time will average ! about l\vcnt3 T -!ivo miles to tho hour. Be ' tween Omaha und t’heyomie übout twenty, ! and from that point westward not more that about ten miles to tho hour are accom -1 plished. Now, tho public wishing to know ] why this is so, I will tell them, not in a spirit of condemnation, of what has been ' done,—not for the suko of tlmling fault where no good grounds exist for fault-find ing,—but unbiased and untrammelled by free passes, or favors of uuy kind to me iu kiu.d paid, I will unsparingly give my views on the subject of railroad monopolies ! in general, und the V, P. A C. P. K. R. ; swindles in particular. ! In the tirsl place then, let us remember i that tiiis particular line of road differs from j uil other enterprizis of tho kind, because [ it was built, not by the capital of those who uro now managing and reaping the on< r moiis profits which it yields, but by tho capita] <>f business men of all kinds, wo men, trustees, guardians of estates, bank ers, AAc. The cost of building soldutn exceeded, except in perhaps the Black Hills, some of tho carious, and over the Sierra Nuvadas, the amount of Government subsidy, and in nearly all cases being far below that gift. For instance, over the ! plains from Cheyenne, the coni j pally actually’' expended thousands of dol lars less than they received from the gov ' eminent. This also is tho case with a great ! part of the road between Premonitory ; Point and the fool; of tho Sierras, as can , easily bo seen by anyone who will lake ! the trouble to look at the workmanship ■ along tho line. They have sold land enough ; fas 1 am informed.) along the entiru line to tally indemnify them for the difference of i outlay above Government subsidy, even along those sections where the ex pundit uro exceeded that amount. So then it can safe ly be said that those who have tlx* two lines in hand, and those who arc now un justly tax big tho traveling public, have not .-pout anr cent, in the onns.trueti->n of the ; roads, but simply managed the work for tiie sake of having the benelits to l-.* de rived from having full control of it when finished ’ Dal I suv jinishcd? Vfhv, tho road is in the same lix in which tho South ern States were after the rebellion. It want- reconstructing very badly. For the IT.l T . I’, part of the line, I mu-t say, they have better accommodations for travelers along their part of tho road over the Plums j than the (J. P.; but then that purl of tho ; road built by the C'. P., which crosses tho J Sierras is, in my humble opinion, much I better than Unit part of tho U. P. oxtend j ing over tho Black Hills, which was their most difficult part, as tho former was oi ! the C. P. I wish to do Justice nil around, aud ina.s -; much us I am the first Press correspondent who had passed over tho road without a frre. ticket, I think I should at least bo orod iled wliii sincerity ; and I must say, that Hit} L\ P. (’., was most unpurdonably indlf ■ fi’renl in the construction of tliHr purl, , between (ireen River and Echo Canon. 1 Hare Is when* the nwo for distance, uud Government subsidy commenced between the two rival companies, and the rivalry Is 1 visible in every tie, In owry rail between the furrncr place and tbo foot of the Sierras, Alter the (J, P, had finished the most dif ficult part of their road through the Sierrus, i and the l*. P,, hud got several hundreds of miles beyond tbo Blade llill, (the most difficult part) then they both commenced the chase tor accomplishing distance, with out regard to quality, and tho consequence is that at this da}', wo have thu worst buili bridges, and tie* most irnlifioreul laid rail road, that the world lias evor had an ex ample of. Do not believo those who are dined and wined into the belief that they . are riding over a safe road, when they tell you that “there is no danger!” i assert that tho safe passage*; of trains, on some parts of this road, are more a miracle thun a nuturuiiy to be expected consummation. In short, I assert that un oscapo over some of tho trussed bridges on this route are Providential. As to tho road bed itself, I will say, that where the track has been laid upon tho natural soil of tho pruiries, it is , generally good and solid, but whero it bus been placed upon filled up ground, it is generally out of level, either caused by tbo sinking of tho earth or the washing of tho Hoods. In some places tho rails in a I distance oT 50 feet will present a rise and fall nf from 8 to 20 inches from their level. The unevenness is so easily fult, by those on board, that they naturally look for the , cause, and find this to be the case. The [ cars sway to and fro like a vessel at sea, . ami the creaking of tho timbers is not dissimilar to that of a ship laboring through , u high rolling sea. You ask would I travel over such a dangerous road again? Isay yes, ns long as tho engineers are as careful as they have thus far been, I think I would | still rather ri.sk another trip than go by sea. ! I would simply “ trust to luck, and stare fate in the face.” and still tell the truth j about railroad monopolies. But taking all ! these defects into consideration, itdoos seem ' unjustifiabiein thiscompany toebnrge oven 1 | higher rates than the best finished roads in tho land, and what is still moro unjust, and , at the same time insulting to the National ! Government, is tho fuel thut they demand , 1 payment in gold over the Central Pacific i part of the route, 71 cents por mile in piper : to Promontory, and 71 in gold from that point to San Francisco. I supposo these things will all be righted by a pious, vjr ; tuous, incorruptible Cougre3B next fall, and j then, after the conscientious Railroad Com- I panies ba vefinished their roads, and settled their little quarrels, which have so far been ENiMiliiMi aarrled on at tbo oxponso of tho traveling oommuully, everything will go smoothly on, and it will bo a bliss to excursloniza over tbo Plains to California. Through tho kindness of Mr. G. Urootz logor I was shown through his oxtonslvo wino collars nt tho cornor of Battery and Pinofttreotn, this city, Tho main vault is 137 feot long by CO feet wide, and has a stor ing capacity of -10,000 gallons, consisting in a number of largo pipes or butts, 32 of which ccntaiu nt this tlmo 600 gnllons cf pure California Wino each. Nino nion are constantly employed in bottling and pack ing for shipmout to all parts of tho United States. Among tho different choice brands which I saw and tried, 1 will namo such as Port, Angolica, Sherry, Muscat, While Wines, Hock, Red Wino, Ac. This house has an agency in New York which la con stantly receiving largo shipments from bore. Tho vintage of 1 SBi* piomlses extra ordinary results, nnd this State will soul | rival all tho wino countries of tho old world ! both in quantity and quality. | Monday being collection and cashing day' j it was quite a novel sight to see men hurrying along tho streets, sweating under the weight of huge bags of silver tho fruits of I tbuir collection, or being the amount to be I paid to another. Silver being a ding is one | per com below par. Poor unfortunate Fuli • fornia ! Silver at a discount! Ain’t it I dreadful ?! Wish I were a Fuliforniati. ' I'd try and collect all the “drug” be lb i a 1 the next Karthquuko comes around ; I'd put it in a big ship and send it off' to Phi!- . adelphia, then Fd follow overland at the j mercy of tho two rival R. R. Munnpdi.e, t and take i; ami build bouses in Lancaster for the u«c of the poor ti'la A. T. Stewart. At 1 P. M., June Kith 1 take boat !bi Stockton. Who that has read of Fuhtoniiu has not heard of Stockton? A tine ride up the Bay, in full view of all the beautiful scenery, along its edges, and away up into the Sacramento River, passing the towns of Valago, New York, Pittsburg Lauding, Antioch and other places. We liimlly* strike the crooked little San Jo.whin iprotiouneed “San Wall Kee,”; after a nice ride of b> hour.- - , we'liml, alter Aurora tints tho low lands with her moi nitig blushed, that \vc are in a land of perenund spring, a valley of unsurpassed beauty, and a place when people evid-ntly eni >v life. Slnekton, like Sacramento, has sutlbre 1 somewhat, Ir >u: ovet Mowed during any coining *• ;nhi as it lias been during past seasons. Without this draw hark it \v, uM ht* the prettiest lil-j tie para 1, con earth, being \ cry beautiful * ly shadi *1 tliiniiglai’t wit lx llowcis, fruit uinl-hi I '* I n-es, and pi educing every thing which the i art 1 1 can Icing forth lor the comfort * I'nuih. Vegetables of enormous size stand in nearly every garden (even* house ‘•tail Is in :h“ midst oi a garden; while almond and tig (roes commingle their shade with ihe apple, the pear, the cherry, th” apricot, the lilac, tin* pink, the* cactus, some of which grow to the height of s to lo feet, and all that is bciiutilul In b**r“ huge, and render lie* pine** an Hdon, The temperature seldom gets above .w, here, lim bs ve tie* people ever suffered from frost dur ng the winter season, and best oVull, * urlh quakes are not fashionable, and urn rather looked upon by the po ip|e us being super lluoua. Stockton contains tho State I nsaiio Asylum tbr both sex«-s. Through the kind ness of Mr. Wright, one of the superin tendents, we were s]low ii tin on gh the whole mule part of the Institution, and must sav ■ that as far as order, discipline and elennli nosH go, It surpasses anything cf the kind We have ever visited. This in-litution contains at present about I,uuii patients, some of whom are in the convalescent department, and will soon be discharged; hut l am informed by Mr. Wright that it is at all times well filled by new acquisitions as fust ns tin* cured ones leave. It Is divided into ten wards, tin* worst case- being placed in the Hcroud and tenth wards, int ho large timing room i f the lir->t ward is a line litlleslage where the patients are allowed to give exhibit intis. Tin* scenery nnd drop curtain weie nil painted by insane artists, on<> of which is now in the upper wards, where In* is permitted to follow tin* befit of Ids inclinations In hiw beaut iful art. A neat little study and atelier has been timing* d for him, and he takes great pains to show tin* visitor his work, and spiaks German, French, Italian and Knglisli. Another German gentleman, who is confined her**, told me that he could not tell why they had placed him here, and Horiously, it --eenis, c> iiitem plates a suit for §100,01)1, damages when lie mini guts rail. Jacob, a line looking specimen of humanity hailing from J lo]iida\slm rg, l’a., seems to imagine himself ealh-d it* unravel some in tricate portions of Divine r**v* laiinn, an-.', appears quite happy and contented. 'tlicrr* are many sad cases of a similar kind, some worse to.i, but among the most singular characters figures 'Sir Francis' as he styles himself. Sir Francis Is a light Asiatic and a native ol tin* Fast Indies. Ho imagines himselfa person ufrunk, and is certainly n man of refinement and genius. Some of Ids paintings are very handsome, and one would not suppo' e that I liny worn pro* lu cod by an insane man. lie receives his visitors with all the ease, grnoo nnd dignity M [ln* most aecoiiipli-lu-d gentleman, and one cannot but wi-li him a speedy recovery from his un fort miale malady. 'l'll** valley around Stockton is thickly covered with Vineyards, a few of which 1 visited, and was both delighted nnd in structed by the lilsp* cli*»n of lliese prolific gardens. There will Is* an abundance nl grapes this season. 1 think I could In oiimii attached to Stockton. It is really a very pretty city, and mu-t greatly ’improve, when once e niucted with “Francisco” by die K. K., which pisses through here, anil will b-.* linisind in thrcoursT* ol a lev mouths. Thu more 1 see of Gnlilbniiu the more 1 like it. It is a wonderful eounlrv and almost inexhaustible in wealth, Juill of which lu*. not been developed. It is the K 1 Dorado. Returning to San Francisco, 1 leave litis morning at lo on the steamer I'acillc tor Portland, Oregon, from whieli place you will lu-ar from Thavki.kh. Terrible Alluir In Washington—A Vonng 1.m1.y Outraged by a Negro. Yesterday morning, one of thus** terrifil.- outrages which, in oilier pints ul the coun try, when* the peoplu have loss respect fm tho law, Is usually avenged by lynching, look place near thu northern boundary ol this city. It appears that three ol the daughters ot Rev, I). R, Nichols, Inrimil} well known as thu superintendent ol lie* contraband camp at Twelfth and street*, and moru recently a clerk In thu siulistic.il buruau of the Treasury Department, have sinco tho establishment of Howard Fals er slty (colored) huen pursuing their studios ihuru, with other white* ptifiils, ami residing at KumJall (ireen liamicUs, 'they usu ally look Boundary street for theh road leuviug it at about Fourth street, aud passing up thn lunu If* Mr. Moon/*, house, to a bypath directly to thu Uni versity building Yesterday they left home about S o'clock, and took tbo usual road, chatting cheerfully until they reached tin* luno beforu uiuntionod, ttmC-U ot'ihu old Culbolie Burial UiouudJ when u stalwart and very black negro, who laid boon luy- Ing in ambush among thu bushes, sprang out beforu them, aud seizing thu uldosl on*\ a well grown young ludy ol about seventeen years, ibrew her clown. Her sisters, aged about thirteen and fifteen years, went to hur assistance, and with sticks and stones' beat him to make him desist from Ids hell ish purpose, and added tholr screums K? those of thu victim, to biing someone to the rescue, but they did not succeed in driving him uil until hu had committed a crime for which it is to be hoped lie will bo yet made to sutler. Tno young ladies, who are well grown and look muon older than they are, rnudo thoir wuy back to their latlier’sroM demo,and ho Immediately gave information to Lieut. Johnson, who, with some of lus men, went in Bcurch of the miscreant, but bavu thus fur been unable to arrest him, ullhnugb they have n clue which may yet lead to his arrest and conviction.— t'itar, June 2J. A Vermont Murderer Executed, Windsor, Yb, Juno 25 —At tivo minutes past oue o'clock to-day Hiram Miller was executed for tho murder of Mr. and Mrs. Growing, ut Aseutney, in tills county, on. the morning of July 2d, ISG7. Miller hail worked for (.lowing, a respectable farmer,, and knew thut considerable money was kept iu the house. Tho objoct of tho mur derer was robber}*, aud both victims' heads, were cloven wflh an axe. M filer was tried, found guilty, uud sentenced by thu Gover nor to be hanged to-day. During his cor-r -t'momenj in jail lio has been very calm. Last night a special guard was placed uvor him, aud remainod until the hourof execu tion. lie died without making u confes sion. He was apparently in ustupor when led to tho scatfold, supported by two depu ties. Inn mumbling way ho stated that ho imd never hurt auy of thoso who were gaz ing at him, and that ho was innocent; that was God’s truth ; ho would trust in Jesus; aDd he mumbled on until tiro drop fell. His pulse ceased to beat in claven minutes. .Sentenced to be Shot. Tho Salt Lake Telegraph says that Thos. Branniug, Charles Howard and Jack La velle, who were tried last week in Salt Lako City, before tbo District Court for the third judicial district, Chief Justico Wilson pre siding, for the murder of Calvin T. Russell, killed by them at Wasatch, were found guilty and sentenced to defrlh. Having their choice of the mode of execution,, they preferred to be shot, and will be ex ecuted on the 20th of July.