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A Legal Slip •Iwlxt Cup and Lip.
BY JUDGE CLAIUC,
Anson Thorndyke, like many other
rich men, “died and was buried.”
“What a pity It Bhould end there,”
was the pensive reflection of more than
one “legal mind,” accustomed to re
gard a squabble of some sort over a dead
man’s money as essential to the repose
of his soul, or at least as a mark of de
cent respect tp his memory. But tho
handsome estate of the deceased bache
lor—for such no one doubted him to be
—passed so smoothly to his only known
relative, an only sister’s only daughter,
that there was nothing left for the “le
gal mind” but to console itself by anti
cipating that a proceeding so irregular
“ was not, and it could not oome to
good.”
There was one “ legal mind” that
went a step beyond. It not only reflec
ted, but resolved: reflected that the next
best thing to the possession of wealth,
was the possession of its possessor; re
solved to govern itself accordingly.
The owner of’ this legal mind was
Sydney Hopkins, a union of Quirk,
Gammon and Snap iu one person, Snap
being the person. No sooner had for
tune smiled on the fair orphan, than
Mr. Hopkins began to smile also. —
While. she had only prospects, he
smiled contingently : when the pros
pects became reality, ho smiled uncon
ditionally. Finally he made au uncon
ditional oiler of himself, which she
as unconditionally rejected. Hopkins
plead hard for a dismissal “ without
prejudice,” but the young lady declared
her decision to be “on the merits,” and
“final.”
“It’s a long lane that has no turn,”
said Syduey Hopkins to himself, after
bowiug out of his ofllce, at the end of a
lengthened consultation, a dilapidated
young man with the look of a prodigal
whose “portion of goods” was pretty
well used up.
What the “turn” was which Mr.
Hopklnß had just discovered, or what
“lane” he had discovered it, was as
yet a professional secret. Whether or
not it had anything to do with a certain
“declaration,” with his name attached,
delivered in duo form the next day to
Miss Violet Stanley, the young heiress,
we must at present leave to the imagin
ation of tho reader.
u Declaration /” I think I hear you
say; “why, I thought that business had
been concluded between them.” So
it had, but this was a “ declaration in
cjcclmcnl. ,,
And sorely it puzzled poor Violet.
One John Doe, ofwhom she had never
heard, seemed to make bittercompiaiut
of one ltichard Koe, of whom she knew
quite as little, about some matter utter
ly incomprehensible, to which her at
tention, however, was called by a polite
little note at the bottom from Mr. Jtoo
to herself. It wm «vid«ntly some law
business, for Mr. Doe’s heart-rending
recital was sigued by “Sydney Hop
kins, Esq., Ilia Attorney.”
Had her relations wiLh Mr. Hopkins
been different, she might have applied
to that geutlemau for an explanation.
As it was, she lost no time in calling on
Frank Wilson, a young lawyer, .but a
Very old friend of hers, to whom she
submitted the mysterious document,
with the very natural inquiry, “What
ever can bo the meaulng of itV”
Mr. Wilson was not loug in discover
ing. ‘
“It means, Miss Hlanler,_UiatHi)me
one calling himself PhilipTlTornTlyke”
—a name that had escaped Violet’s
notice—“ claims possession of the whole
of your landed estate, and that you have
been sued for its recovery.”
“ Bu.t how can that be?” nrrc.*d Vio
let, less excited, though iu* less sur
prised than the lawyer.
“Your uncle left no other kindred
than yourself?” he continuod.
“None; at least none so near. My
mother was his only slater, and I am
her only child.”
“ There was no will, I believe.”
“No; my uucla frequently spoke of
that, saying that, as lie designed me to
•ucceed to his entire fortune, the law
would effect his intention quite as well
as a will.”
“I need scarcely ask if your uucle
was ever married ?”
“ Why, you know as well as myself,
Mr. Wilson, he never was.”
Mr. Wilson did know it—at least he
believed so. But Mr. Thorndyke had
been much about the world —quite
round It and In every quarter of it, in
fact—and lmd accumulated most of his
fortune, and spent much of his life iu
foreign countries. Now, it is a legal
maxim, that a fact woi proved might as
well not exist ; and it ouyht to be, if it
■isn't, another legal maxim, that a lie
well proved us as good as the truth. That
honest old Anson Thorndyke had not
lived and died a bachelor under false
pretences, and that he had left neither
wiffr nor child in any part of the world,
was probably strictly true, but was,
from the very nature of things, incapa-
ble of proof. On the other hand, the ex
istence of such wife, and not one, but-a
whole/aw/ty of children, might, with
out the slightest foundation in fact, be
solemnly sworn to by any number of
presumptively honest and credible wit
nesses, whom there would be no legal
excuse for not believing.
Wilson knew all this, ami felt by no
means as necnre in the knowledge, as
his young client did in the want of it.
It-was useless, however, to excite her
fears, and he refrained from doing so,
allowing her to take her leave fully as
sured by his promise to give the matter
every needed attention.
His first step was to call on Mr. Hop
klus, but there was little information to
b« gained in that quarter. Mr. H. was
exceedingly guarded and reticent. It
was a little extraordinary, he thought
lie put it to Mr. Wilson’s own candor if
It wasn’t—to call on a lawyer to expcse
hie client’s case in advance. For the
present, It was sufficiently stated in the
“declaration,” a copy of which Mr. W,
had doubtless seen. The nature of his
client’s title would be disclosed at the
proper time. Suffice it to say, ho be
lieved It perfectly good, an opiuion, he
felt certain, in which Mr. Wilson would
himself concur after hearing, the evi
dence.
Wilson went away disheartened.
Hopkins was not the in an to embark
in such a cause hopelessly. There was,
besides, an airof quiet confidence about
him, evidently not assumed. The char
acter of the attack he contemplated was
left wholly to conjecture. If, as was
most probable, fils client’s claim was
'based on -heirship, the alleged facts
might be. located in any quarter of the
globe, and it was impossible to prepare
in advauco to meet them.
Month after month slipped by, till the
day of trial was at hand. The enemy’s
plans remained as profound a secret as
at first. Philip Thorndyke, aud his
witnesses too, were kept as completely
in the background as the roal or pre
tended facts themselves.
Frank Wilsonentered the court house
on the eventful morning filled with
gloomy forebodings. He felt a deep in-;
terest in his client as well as her case.
I have said they were very old friends. ;
Friendship is not the best word, per
haps, to describe the feeling which had
long existed between them; but what
ever It might best be callod, it had lost
nothing in the course of the numerous
Interviews which circumstances of late
had rendered neoessary.
The fair young client, as she leaned on
the arm of her legal adviser, felt far less
trepidation than he. Her confidence in
his ability to protect her rights was so
implicit, that she felt no solicitude as
to the result. And even the loss of her
cause, she felt, would not leave Jier in
consolable, for it would remove the im
pediment of false delicacy arising from
the disparity of their fortunes, which,
she was certain, had hitherto influenced
Frank in withholding an avowal she
had long been prepared to hoar.
As they passed through the crowd, a
slip of paper was thrust into "Wilson’s
hand, ‘‘Have the plaintiff’s witnesses
separated,” was written on it in pencil.
The propriety of such a course was too
obvious to require suggestion. It had
already occurred to the young lawyer
as about the only piece of strategy to be
decided on in advance.
As soon as the jury had been impan
nelled, Mr. Wilson moved for the sep
aration and exclusion from the court
room of his adversary’s witnesses. The
order was once made and carried into
effect. Mr. Hopkinsexpressing, with an
air of unabated confidence, his ready
acquiescence. It was manifest he felt
too secure of either the integrity or the
training of his witnesses, to entertain
fttiy misgivings on their account.
The time had at last come for the dis-
l)c lan <r«sitcr JrrtdltgenM ;
VOLUME TO
closure whloh Mr. Hopkins had prom
ised Mr. Wllßon In their previous Inter
view. His statement was brier and
simple. The plalntiffproposed to prove,
by two credible eye-witnesses, the mar
riage, twenty-five years before, at the
city of Buenos Ayres, in South Ameri
ca, of Anson Thorndyke and Eugenia
Tlbbats. It would be further satisfac
torily proven, that the presentplalnttfr,
Philip Thorndyke, was the sole ißßuear
that marriage, and consequently the
true owner of the property in dispute.
Mr. Hopkins took his seat beside bis
client, none other, I need hardly add,
than the dilapidated young man with
whom he had held the protracted con
sultation already mentioned, and di
rected the bailiff to bring in his first
witness.
A good looking individual, of middle
age, was conducted to the stand and
duly sworn.
Mr, Hopkins rose to examine him.
After a few unimportant questions and
answers touching name, age, residence,
etc., the main subject was broached.
The witness fully sustained Mr. Hop
kins’ statement as to the marriage pro
posed to be'proved. He had been
present at it; gave the names of others
who were present, among them that of
Jabez Williams 7 told who was the offi
ciating clergyman ; in short, his narra
tive was full,'- complete, and circum
stantial.
Cross-examination only made matters
worse. The witness was either telling
the truth, or was too carefully guarded
at all poiuts to. 1 be in danger of tripping.
He stood asidej-at the close, with an air
of virtuous satisfaction, betokening a
consciousness oA duty faithfully dis
charged. •: *
Jabez Williams came next. He was,
if anything, more conscientious and re
spectable looking than his predecessor,
whotn he corroborated with the moßt
wonderful exactness. In one particular
only did he vary; the marriage, accord
: ing to him, had taken place in London!
DarU ng a look of fury and amazement
at the witness, which the latter seemed
wholly at a loss to comprehend, the
plaintiffs counsel resumed his seat.
“ I think it is hardly necessary to pro
ceed further,” suggested the judge.
“I think so too, your honor,” Mr.
Hopkins replied with an expression
such as Pilate may have worn at the
memorable moment of washing his
hands.
The jury were briefly instructed, and
gave their verdict for the defendant
without leaving their seats. Violet felt
sure the result was mainly due to the
ingenious efforts of her counsel, who
had done nothing but cross-examine a
single witness, and that without produc
ing the slightest impression.
To Wilson the matter was involved
in complete mystery till he heard the
explanation of Bob Gill, whom he found
awaiting him at his ofllce. Bob was a
bright young fellow, who, when poor
and friendless, had been assisted by Mr.
Thorndyke, as well as encouiaged by
many a kind word from his niece. He
felt grateful, of course. Aud how, on
the evening before the trial, he had
chanced to overhear a conversation
betweon Thorndyke and his first wit
ness, in which the circumstances which
rendered it advisable,, in Mr. Hopkins’
opinion, to change the scene of the
marriagefrom London toßuehos Ayres,
were explained and discussed ; and how
the first witness was intrusted with a
iettor of instructions to the second, fully
explaining the change of programme ;
and how Bob “made up” with the
messenger, overcame him with brandy
and water, got'|away his dispatch and
replaced it with another in the words,
“Don’t vary a syllable,” was all ex
plained to Frank Wilson with a
minuteness of detail more interesting
to him, than I fear it would prove to
tke reader.
“I hope I haven’t been guilty of rob
bing the mail, Mr. Wilson,” said Bob,
at the close of his naratlve.
“If you hnvo I’ll defend yon, was the
answer given with a cordial grasp of the
hand.
Violet Wilson—that’s her name now
—though fully acknowledging thefidel*
ity aud good intentions of Bob Gill,
still holds to the opinion that the suc
cess of her first and only cause is prin
cipally to be attributed to the very able
manner in which it was conducted by
her highly distinguished counsel. — N,
Y. Ledger.
A Boy’s fioilloqnoj.
Yes, there’s another of’em up stairs
now! I know it, ’cause pa told me I
must be quiet, and sit down in the cor
ner with my book, and musn’t play ball
nor ask Willie Smart to come and help
me to put my puzzles together. Then
there’s a cross nurse that’s always scold
ing me forgetting in her way, no matter
where I get. Besides, Miss Gadall was
here to-day, and she took me on her
kuee, patted mo on the back, just like
the cook does.when I'm choking, and
said my nose was another degree out of
joint; but I know better for this is the
third time she told me so, and it is no
more out of joint than it ever was. She’s
a hateful, goggle-eyed old maid—that’s
what she is.
I saw it, too. It's got a little, found,
red head without any hair, •with great,
deep wriukles instead of eyes, and when
it cries it opens its mouth as wide as
though it meant to swallow itself. Pa
helped me up on the side of the bed,
and told me to kiss my dear, pretty lit
tle Bister; and when I wouldn’t, and
called it a horrible, ugly little thing,he
said I was a naughty boy, and the nurse
shook me, and said I ought to be
ashamed.* I didn’t get to kisß my ma
at all; I knew better than to try it, for
ouce when another baby came, I climb
ed up on the bed and, putting my arms
around her neck,hugged and kissed her,
but all the time I had my knee right on
the baby’s head, so I was whipped and
put in my crib without any supper be
cause I didn’t know it was there.
Little Annie thinks it’s so nice to
have a new sister, but she was a baby
before, and don’t knowahything about
it. I can remember long, long ago, ma
used to call me her “sweet little dar
ling,” and pa dangled me on his foot,
and said I was a “line fellow,” and aunt
Julia declared that I was a “perfect lit
tle angelbut then Tom came, and all
my,*pretty toys were given to him ’cause
he was a baby, and I was cuffed and
scolded by everybody ’scept grandma,
and she’sgood to meyet, though there’s
beed two other new ones since.
I wonder where all the babies come
from ? Ma says the Lord sends them.
I wish he wouldn’t send any more to
our house ; we’ve got more’n enough
now. It might be a nice thiDg for them
if.they could stay little always, but they
have to grow big aftera while, and they
ain’t no better off than the rest of folks.
I rather think if I was a baby, I’d ask
the Lord to send me where I’d not
grow any bigger, and then I’d have
nothing to do but lie on my back and
chew my toes, and have folk's say I was
the “ darlingest, cunningest little crea
turo they ever laid eyes on.” *
Sardines,
We saw that the fleet of fishing boats
was returning from the capture of the
sardines. After watching the first few
boats pass into the harbor, we directed
our steps to one of the usinea, ub the
curing houses are called. On arriving
at the gates, we encountered a stream of
boys and men carrying baskets full of
sardines. These were carried into a long
room, and thrown down upon heaps ar
ranged In rows along the floor. Beside
each heap was seated a girl or woman,
armed with a sharp knife, whose occu
pation was to cut off the head of the
sardines, and prepare it for the salting.
The decapitation was performed by a
stroke of the knife from the back of the
head obliquely downward; and in this
manner the head and intestines were re
moved together, and the trouble of clean
ing each fish separately was saved. The
heads and entrails were thrown into pails
and carried away for manure, and the
bodies were passed on in tubs to the'
salting room. Here women were again
employed arranging! the sardines in
layers, in large rectangular tubs, and
spreading salt over each layer. The fish
are allowed to remain in salt from two
to three hours, and then they are taken
out and arranged on wire frames. Each
frame accommodates a dozen fish, and
these frames are lowered into large cal
drons of boiling oil for about thirty sec
onds. They are then carried out, and
hung upon racks in the open air, and
in about two hours are ready to be pack
ed into boxes, and soddered down for
exportation. If the weather is damp or
rainy, the sardines are dried before fires
in an underground room. The tin box
es in which they are packed, and which
are familiar to all of us, are made in the
usiues, and the copper labels are at
tached to them afterwards by thevdif
ferent houses who buy them from the
exporters.
tub eon. o. n. pbnblkion,
Speech at Clifton, Ohio-State ana &&•
tional Uiaes Discussed,—The
Debt Question Uevived.
Manv friends of Mr. Pendleton called at
bis residence, In Clifton, on tbelr way from
the Fair Grounds on Thursday last. They
formed quite a crowd, and insisted on a
speech. Mr: Pendleton begged to be ex
cused. He alluded to the fact that Repub
licans as well as Democrats were bis guests
and they would hardly think it hospitable
if he should inflict a partisan speech upon
them in return for their politeness in call
ing on him. They insisted, however, and
Beating themselves as comfortable as they
could, Mr. Pendleton, who is still support
ed on his crutches, said :
My Friends: As you insist upon it, I
suppose I shall have to submit. If you
shall repent, say but a word, and I will re
lieye you. Since I have been confined here,
I have had leisure and have taken pains to
collect some statistics which I had expected
to use during the canvass. To-day my
physician has ordered me to be more quiet
to take less exercise—and gives me little
hope that I shall be able to leave the city
before the election. As you desire that I
shall give my views on political questions,
I will have to ask your indulgence for
whatever want of form or coherence there
may be, as I put these facts and reflections
together without further preparation. I
ask your impartial attention—l ask you to
hear me without prejudice. I will say
nothing in the way of fact or argument
which Ido not believe to be true. I have
strong convictions. You know I am bound
by strong party ties; but I am happy to
believe that you know also that I love my
country, and that I hold every opinion,
every party tie, subordinate to my desire
to promote its welfare and the happiness of
its people. Many of my acquaintances, of
my relatives, of iny friends, differ widely
from me. They are members of tbe Re
publican party. lam glad to possess their
personal good will and confidence. I am
glad to have such pleasant social relations
with them, that even in this little company
I find some of them. I frankly confess that
I covet their good will. lam sorry we dif
fer in opinion. The difference is honest. —
I cannot question their motives. I have
full confidence in their integrity. I respect
their judgment. I would not say one word
to wound their susceptibility. We have
the same country to love, the Bame liberties
to preserve, the same government t# main
tain, and the same prosperity to provide
for, the some history to answer unto. They
know that I freely concede to them the
same patriotism, the same sincerity, the
same sense of responsibility, which I be
lieve they accord to me.
NATIONAL QUESTIONS NOT YET SETTLED.
I cannot agree with Governor Hayes that
all tho vexed questions of our national
politics are wisely and happily settled—
that “the great question of liberty and
union and reconstruction of tbe Union 1 '
have been safe. I cannot agree that re
trenchment, economy and honesty have
been introduced into the management of
tho Federal expenditures. I cannot agree
that the debt has been decreased, and is do
creasing, as ho states it, I cannot agree that
the burdens of taxation have been reduced,
and their weight upen the people has been
lightened. I cannot agree that sound judg
ment and freedom from bad influence have
been brought to the exercise of the immense
power of the Secretary of tho Treasury. I
caunot agree that business is active; that
enterprise is active; that vigor and energy
and industry are bountifully rewarded;
that employment is abundant; that daily
toil is fairly compensated; that commerce
on the ocean and on the land is prosperous;
and, therefore, I cannot serenely, as does
our worthy Governor, turn my face from
all Federal politics, and look only at State
affairs. It ought to be so. If it were not for
tbeschomes of consolidation ; if State affairs
were left to State management; if Federal
affairs were kept within tbe scope of consti
tutional provision, it would be so.
THE UNION NOT RESTORED.
Hut I cannot pretend to believe what I
know to be false. I cannot say the Union
is restored when Virginia and Mississippi
and Texas aro under military Governors,
and Georgia is without representation in
Congress. I cannot say peace is restored
when justice is administered by a drum
head court martial. I cannot say the Con
stitution is maintained when we know
that the Supreme Court is only waiting an
opportunity to declare the reconstruction
acts unconstitutional. I cannot say the
harmony of our Federal system is main
tained when Federal power Is brought to
bear, with all the force of law and of arms,
to*compel the States to change their consti
tutions and the Constitution of the Federal
government.
THE PEOPLE’S BURDENS.
I cannot say that the people ure not bur-.
denod, when a debt of 92,500,000.000 la piled
upon their shoulders; and this immense
amount is increased six hundred millions
by a resolution of Congress “ to improve
the public credit.” I cannot say their bur
dens are light, when $430,000,000 are annu
ally drawn from the products of active
labor, and nothing from dead capital. I
cannot say that taxation is equal, wheD
bonds are exempted and labor is crushed
beneath its exactions. I cannot say that
economy and honesty mark the disburse
ment of the revenue, when tho Secretary of
the Treasury pays one hundred and twen
ty dollars for a bond which he may redeem
foronehundred dollars, aud when the Com
missioner of Internal Revenue wishes above
all things, that he may send a supervisor to
tho Penitentiary.
THE COUNTRY NOT PROSPEROUS.
I cannot Bay that all is prosperous when
agricultural products are so low, and em
ployment so scarce and wsges so reduced,
and interest on money so high, and good,
honest, honorable men iu every branch of
commercial and mercantile and mechanical
industry are on the very verge of hopeless
bankruptcy. And because I cannot say all
these things, I cannot turn from them with
such entire complacency to consider wheth
er the last Legislature sat a few duys too
long or did right to create the offices which
Governor Hayes recommended, or to allow
cou&ties, and cities, and towns to tax them
selves. If it be true that the session of this
Legislature cost more than the last, it was
because the last Republican Legislature in
creased the per diem of the members/ And
if the Legislature uuwisely created some
offices which the Governor recommended,
it is also true that they refused to pass an
expensive and odious registry, which he
twice urged upon their favorable attention.
BILL OF INDICTMENT.
The sobeme of reconstruction of this ad
ministration, its action toward Virginia, its
administration of foreign affairs, its neglect
of American citizens who have been im
prisoned or murdered in Ireland or Cuba,
its utter shamelessness in soiling high of
fices, its utter want of appreciation of its
grave duties und responsibilities—all these
are tempting subjects of discussion, but I
refrain at this time. I will discuss Federal
politics so far only as they directly affect
the people of our own Stato.
THU FROFOSED FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT.
1 oppose the adoption of the Fifteenth
Constitutional Amendment, because it is a
material radical change in our system of
government; because it destroys the rela
tion of tho States to the federal union which
the Constitution established, and degrades
them; because it takes away from the States
without their coueeut that essentialattribute
of a self-governing cemmunity, the right to
determine who ahall exercise the right of
suffrage. I object to its adoption, because
it was intended to, and it will, introduce
negro suffrage into Ohio against the will of
her people. Two years ago the people of
Ohio, without distinction of party, by an
immense majority, refused to amend
the State Constitution. They did this
after full argument—after full consider
ation of negro suffrage. I see no reason to
believe they have changed their opinion.
Yet now the attempt is to be made to force
them to submit to the system which they so
emphatically and deliberately rejected.
The convention which nominated General
Grant declared, as a part of Itsjcrcod, “The
question of suffrage in all the loyal States
properly belongs to the people of those
States.” And yet in one short year the test
of loyalty and patriotism, by the same par
ty, is to deny to the States the regulation of
the suffrage. I object to its adoption, be
cause by the strongest implication it con
fers upon Congress and reserves to the
States the right to exclude from the ballot
persons of our own white race because of
their nativity or their creed, pr their want
of education, of their poverty, and prohibits
the exclusion only of another race. And
thus, if the interpretation of Senator Mor
ton and Senator Howard be correct, under
this amendment of Congress the States may
exclude an Irishman, or a German, or a
Catholic, or a Protestant, or a poor man
from the enjoyment of the suffrage, but
may not exclude the negro or the Mongo
lian,
CHINESE IMMIGRATION.
I objeot to its adoption, because it Is part
and parcel of a scheme to flood the country
with a forced importation of an immense
number ol Chinese —of Coolies —and thus,
for a second time to bring into our midst
an alien race, and to repeat in a more diffi
cult form the social and govermental ques
tions which have so unhappily divided oar
people. The opening of the Pacific Rail
road, the demand for labor at the South,
the desire for nimbler hands and less vora
cious appetites in the(factories, have turned
the attention of speculators to the teeming
populations of the East. They find these
warm and fertile countries densely crowded
with a patient, degraded, and heathen race.
Their skilled laborers get three or four dol
lars per month, and with this they seem
content. They work from daylight to sun
set and bave but a single holiday in a year.
Their food consists of rioe. salt, a few vege
tables, and sometimes fish. The plan pro
posed is to bring immense numbers of these
people here to supply the demand for labor
Jn the fields, and the factories and the shops.
We in Ohio have not appreciated the im
portance of this movement. I protest
against it now'ln time,' before It is carried
: out—before they come among ns—before
| we are confronted with duties, and obliga
tions, and. Interests growing out of their
LANCASTER PA. WEDNESDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 22 1869
presence. They are an alien, an inferior,
and idolatrous race. They have not our
tastes, or habits, or manners, or develop
ment, or religion. They ore not fit to be
come oitizens, or to enjoy tbe right of
suffrage. Amalgamation would injure both
their race and oars. Isolation will give
rise to great troubles. England, Ireland,
Germany, Norway, France, have an over
flowing population of our own race, similar
to us in blood, in manners, in habits, and ;
in religious faith—an industrious, sturdy,
self-reliant, self-respeoting people. They
are fit to become citizens. They will mix
with us, and oar commingled blood is purer
for the association. Let us invite them with
opon arms to come to ns. Let us people
our country with the best races of men.
CHEAP LABOIU
But the Chinese will give us cheap labor!
Cheap human labor. I despise tbe word.
Italgnifiesacrimeand&shame. It signifies
squalor, degradation, ignorance, vice. Are
not laborers men, our fellow-men? They
have bodies to clothe and stomachs to feed
and minds to educate and spirits to elevate
and old age to provide for. They have
homes which they love and wives whom
they cherish, and children whom they hope
to make worthy citizens—the honest fath
ers and the virtuous mothers of a succeed
ing generation. And can you remember
these duties and see these aspirations; can
you contemplate the patient hopefulness of
cheerful ana contented, because fairly com-
Eeosated, Industry, and talk of cheap labor?
labor is too cheap now. Labor does not
receive itsjuat reward. This country needs
skilled laborers and honest, intelligent, un
flagging, zealotxs, industry: it needs that
such labor shall not be cheap, that it shall
be most bountifully rewarded.
LABOR AND CAPITAL.
The relation of labor and capital is now
badly adjusted. Idle money—money which
has no human wants, or affections, or sym
pathies—earns mere than labor, with all its
sweat, and toil, and suffering. Money com
bines with money, and seeks increase and
immunity under acts of incorporation.—
When laborers combine for their protec
tion, they are ia some of our States de
nounced by the law, and everywhere looked
upon with suspicion. They should not
antagonize. They should co-operute.—
They should be in harmony. I do not
know that tbe full solution of this great
problem has been discovered, but I believe
great progress baa been made in late years
to establish a juster and better relation.
That progress will continue. It must com
mand tbe efforts of an advancing civiliza
tion, and tbe favor of a just God, until at
last the human intellect, and hand and
blood, as they constitute the nobler, shall
also be the better paid member in the great
partnership of labor and capital.
UNEQUAL TAXATION,
I hold In my hand the Cincinnati Cbm
mercial of the 7th of September. It contains
a review of the markets for' & week. The
story is very significant: “.Tradedull —al-
most stagnant. Sales of dry goods, of gro
ceries, of manufactures, almost nothing.
Collections impossible—interest on money
from 8 to 15 per cent, and in some cases to
18 per cent. Wheat from 81,18 to 81.23, and
very dull. Hay, corn, oats, ruling low, and
few sales, except for local demand.” And
in tbe same paper of that and a few preced
ing days I saw the failures and assignments
of bankers, manufacturers; tradesmen and
lumber merchante —and column after col
umn filled with tho advertisements of men
and women and children seeking employ
ment, and of stores which aro empty and for
rent. Tbe condition, the reason, ana the
romedy are well summed up in oue single
sentence in the money article of that day :
“A shrinkage of values generally has not
yot taken place, or at least values have not
been adjusted in their relation to eaoh other
to that plane on which business can move
briskly and prosperously. There is conse
quently some disposition to tinker with the
currenoy, and to seek to adjust matters by
variations in the measure of values.”
Which, translated into common language,
means that debtors are pressed to the yery
verge of ruin by declining prices and stag
nant business, and beg that money may be
allowed to circulate aud perform its duty of
effecting exchanges; ana in the same paper
I see tho extraordinary statement that the
Treasury Department has official informa
tion “that the merchants and other com
mercial men of the West, owing to the
scarcity of currency, are compelled to take
anything offered to them which represents
fractional values of greenbacks, and conse
quently are forced to receive and pass coun
terfeit stamps.”
Now, my friends, is this a truthful state
ment of tbo condition of affairs? I have
taken it, almost word lor word, from the
Commei-cial, that no man might say ,1 had
colored it too highly. I ask you—each one
of you—does this statement accord with
your own observation? Why is it so?
Large crops have rewarded the industry of
• tbe farmer. The beneficence of God has
not failed. The promise of seed time aud
harvest has been fulfilled. We have had
neither war nor pestilence in our midst.
Why should the products of agriculture be
so low and so slow of sale? They cost as
much plowing, and Bowing, aud planting,
and reaping, as many hours of toil, and as
many acres to produce them as last year
or the year before. There are as many
mouths to fill; as many craving appetites
as then. Why is employment so scarce,
and why are the scanty wages of laborers
reduced? Thero are strong arms all around
lying idle, and every clement of growth in
our country is every moment demanding
greater development. Laborers are plenty ;
breadstuffs art in abundance: raw material
is at hand ; stocks of goodß are full; rail
roads and rivers and canals are ready to do
all transportation; all the appliances of
active business which our modern civiliza
tion has created or demands lie ready for
instant use. They need but to be joined
and put in motion—and yet they lie inac
tive, dead and useless, as the parts of an
engine before the machinist has put them
together and the engineer has let on his
steam. Why is this? Enormous taxation
unequally, unjustly distributed ; enormous
expenditure unnecessarily and wastefully
mado—and both taxation and expenditure
are managed in such wise as to give every
advantage to dead, inactive capital, and to
impose their burdens upon active capital
and labor—both are managed so as to ad
vance the interests of the bondholder and
to depress the interests of the business of
the country.
TREASURY MISMANAGEMENT.
I have in my hand an offlciul statement
of the receipts and expenditures of /the
Federal Treasury, published in pursuance
of law, for tbs three months ending on the
last day of June, 18G9. It shows the re
ceipts to have been, from taxation and sale
of public lands, $109,847,618.97, or reducing
the amount collected iu gold from the cus
toms ($44,021,834.77) to currency, at 33J per
cent., tho receipts for three months were
$124,521,229.99, or more than fire hundred
millions for the year at the same rate. It
also shows that in addition to this enor
mous amount from taxation there was re-
alized from loans $44,952,422.22, making a
total, for the three months from all sources,
in currency, of $169,000,000. During the
same time the expenditures are stated for
ordinary expenses at $66,011,024, or, reduc
ing the Interest on the puDlic debt to cur
rency, $75,101,169, and for payment on
account of principal of the debt, $49,255,»
707, a total of $124,349,876. This jugglery
about the debt I hardly comprehend. It
seems wo borrowed $44,000.000 and paid
$49,000,000, leaving an actual payment of
about $5,000,000 ; but, in order to effect this
payment there was an exoess of revenues
over expenditures of $45,000,000, and the
Secretary paid a premium of $1,374,680, or
, more than 25 per cent.
ARM! EXTRAVAGANCE,
Tho army comsiets of 50,000 mon and oosts
$50,000,000 a year. The nary costs $25,000,-
000. Why we need these vast arma
ments? Fer what useful purpose are they
kept up? And If it is necessary to have
so many men, why should we have general
and staff officers sufficient for an army ten
times as great ? It is said (I do not vouch
for its truth) that a brigadier-general sits in
the ante-chamber of the White House and
plays usher to the President. An expen
diture of $15,000,000 for the army and
$8,000,000 for the navy would be ample.
THE BONDHOLDERS.
1 said the taxation was enormous. Have
I not provod it? I said it was unequally
and unjustly distributed. The last official
statement of the value of all property in the
United States was $16,000,000,000. The last
official statement of [the amount of bonds
outstanding is $2,172,000,000. Taking these
figures as nearly correct, the capital Invest
ed in bonds is more than one-eighth o( the
whole. We know that the only tax paid by
the bonds is five per cent, on the inoome.
The inoome for that quarter waa527,450,406,
upon which five per cent, would be $1,372,-
520—that is to say, one-eighth of the capital
of the oountry paid $1,300,000, while seven
eighths paid $123,000,000.; Active capital en
gaged in business, requiring labor to make
it profitable, supporting men and women
and children, and giving health to the com
mercial and social system, and liable to re
verses and losses, paid seventeen times as
much, dollar for dollar, as the dead, inac
tive capital of the bondholder, which with
out labor and without loss, brong ht him six
1 per cent, interest in gold.
PROTECTION.
But this is not all. Of the whole amount
of taxes thns collected for three months, the
tariff duties paid $44*021,834 In gold, or $58,-
695,445 incurrency. Senator Sherman, I per
ceive, says this is a just, honest, reasonable
tariff, based on the principle of taxing lux
uries, sot necessaries, and of furnishing
reasonable protection to American indus
try. Let as see, Coral, pearl and tortoise
shells are admitted duty free; cameos, dia
monds, emeralds, garnets, gems and rabies
Say a tax of ten per cent, ad valorem;
racelets. chains of gold or silver, earrings,
studs, gold rings and manufactaredjeweiiy
pay a duty of twenty-five per cent.; cloth
ing, forty per cent, md valorem, and fifty
cents a pound in addition; hats and stock
ings pay thirty-five per cent., and fifty
cents; a pound in addition; linen clothing
pays forty per cent.; gloves, fifty percent,;
sheetings, thirty-five per cent., ana flannels
and blankets thirty-five per cent, and fifty
cents per pound in addition; carpeting
thirty-five per cent., and forty cents a yard
in addition: Bole leather pays thirty-five
per cent.; glassware forty per oent.: hatch
ets, chlßels and brace-bits forty-five per
cent; coal oil about thirty per cent.; Iron
nails about fifty per cent.; oar Iron about
fifty-five per cent; pig iron about sixty-five
per cent.: tea pays sixty per cent.; sugar
thirty to fifty per cent.; and salt one hun
dred and twenty-five per cent. All this
Mr. Sherman calls taxing luxuries and not
taxing necessaries. Jewelry of the most
expensive character pays nothing, or at
most ten per cent.; but hoes and spades
and hatchets and nails, articles used by
workmen, pays thirty to fifty per cent. A
laoo shawl worn only by the very rich,
comes in at twenty-five per cent.; a wor
sted shawl worn by women who live by
washing or sewing—l had almost said who
die by washing or sewing—pays forty per
cent, and fifty per cent, for every pound of
its weight. Diamonds are admitted at
twenty-five per cent, ad valorem, but cof
fee and tea, and sugar must pay forty to
sixty-five per cent. Every article of luxu
ry is taxed lightly. Every article of ne
cessity, every implement of indnstry, every
tool by which the former, the mechanic,
or the day laboror plies his avocation, is
taxed heavily. And as if there were a
special design to oppress our Western ag
ricultural interests, the raw material, such
as we produce, is admitted at a very low
rate, while the manufoctnred article is
largely protected.
Tbe manufactured woolen goods are tax
ed heavily, as I have told you, but tbe wool
of our Western Reserve is subjected to such
sharp competition that the formers there
have been almost driven from the market.
In every county in Ohio the number of
sheep has been largely diminished within
the last year, and-tbe total decrease is not
less than one million and a half. Well has
an intelligent writer said “that our legisla
tors hare blunderingly discriminated in
fayor of tho rich against the poor; the
idle classes against laboring classes, and
articles of luxury against articles of no
cessity.” Not blunderingly, for Governor
Hayes was in Congress when this tariff
was Mr. Sherman boasts
that for ten years be has taken
part in preparing every law on finance
or taxation, and both are going round
the Slate congratulating the people that
they are so justly, so evenly, so wisely,
and so lightly taxed. Ido not wonder that
Mr. Sherman told us at Canton, and told
us truly, that he never knew the difference
between a revenue and a protective tariff.
These gentlemen, when driven on these
points, tell us that the poor, tbe laboring
men, the farmers, do not use Imported
goods, and therefore do not pay these tariff
duties. It is true they do not use imported
goods, and do not f>ay these duties to the
government. That is one of the enormities
of this system. The price of tbe domestic
article ia regulated by the tariff. The home
manufacturer fixes his price that be may
just undersell the foreigner. The consumer
pays the price, and he has the exqai
site satisfaction of knowing that none
of it goes into the Treasury, but
all of it goes into the pocket of the man
ufacturer. The Commissioner of Internal
Revenue, Mr. Wells, in his last report, says
that the duty on lumber paid into the
Treasury in 1808 waa two million two hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars, bat that it
cost the people sixteen millions to collect it.
The duties on salt yielded, in 1867, on* mil
lion of dollars, but the price of every bushel
of salt made in this oountry was raided to
the consumer from twenty-three to forty
eight cents a bushel. The effect on agri
cultural interests produced by this tariff, I
need net illustrate to an intelligent Western
audience. You feel it. The effect or. com
merce Is stated by Commissioner W-.is to
‘be such that if Bhips, available for foreign
trade,-wore furnished us without cost, we
could not employ them. .
THE BONDS.
I said tkeexpenditures were unnecessary
and wasteful, and they were all in the in
terests of dead, inactive capital. The last
report of tbe Secretary shows that ho is
boarding in coin, and 912,111,-
000 lu currenoy. Why ? To what good
purpoee? The customs of a half-year are
thero. The people are paying 0 per cent, in
gold os the interests on the public debt, and
the (Secretary is hoarding this immense
amount. Bach month, with great parade,
bo sells six or nine millions, and with tbe
prodeeds he buys bonds, giving in the
market for them 25 per cent, above par.
They are now redeemable. On their face—
by the law—ln equity, they are payable In
legal-tender notes. The holders gave legal
lender for them when legal-tender notes
were worth not more than half what they
now are, and yet tho Secretary of the Treas
ury insists on paying a premium of 25 per
cent. I will not argue against this ques
tion. I prefer to rely on the authority
of Sherman and Morton and Stevens and
Ewing. They say the bonds are payable In
groenbacks.;Tben they ought to be so|paid ;
aud the people are robbed when a premium
la paid. Ir they are payable in gold, the
Secretary ought to pay them in gold, and
not buj up the paper of the Government at
a discount. It is difficult to speak of this
conduct of the Secretary with the respect
which is due to his high office. It costs tbe
people, as Mr. Ewing has well said, more
than all the frauds of the whiskey ring, and
is scarcely more honest than they. Under
this process of paying premium the market
value of the bonds has gone up from ton to
twelve per cent,, and lo I the Secrotary ex
claims, “What a marvel of financial übility !
My magic touch has, in three month*, raised
so high the credit of the government.” My
friend, pay off a few of your notes in the
same way; then stint your family, cramp
your business, seize upon the earnings of
your children, and insist on giving to your
creditors twenty-five per cent, more than
your note calls for,and your credit will im
prove; always provided the public does not
consider you a fool, or tbe Probate Court
does not consign you to a lunatic asylum.
HOW THE DEBT IS DIMINISHED,
And in the midst of transactions like
these we bear of large payments on ac
count of the public debt, and Governor
Hayes congratulates himself that In four
months the debt has been diminished $43,-
000,000. He says tho debt, on the Ist of
March, was $2,525,000,000, and ou the Ist of
August was $2,481,000,000. Why, gentle
men, every other Secretary thought the
Pacific Railroad bonds were a part of the
public debt. Chase and McCulloch always
included them. Add these to the $2,481,-
000,000, and the total appears to be $2,545,-
000,000, or twenty millions more than in
March. “Figures won’t lie,” may Ije a
very true saying, but they maybe so turn
ed and twisted that they convey to us com
mon people, who are not secretaries, but
only taxpayers, a very false impression.—
II the public debt statement was made on
August 1, it would show, according to Mr.
Chase’s rule of statement, $2,662,000,000; ac
cordlngto Mr. McCulloch’s p1an,52,545,000,-
000; instead of $2,481,000,000 according to
Mr. Bontwell’s plan. But, even according to
his plan,the statement shows an increaseof
more than eleven -millions of dollars of
bonds which bear Interest in coin. And as
if these causes combined were not enough
to palsy trade, and produce that stagnation
whioh we call “hard times,” the Secretary
has continued the contraction of the cur-
rency. On the Ist of September, 1565, the
currency, consisting of bank notes and legal
tender notes, amounted to $961,625,000. On
tbe Ist of September, 1868, it amounted to
$671,455,000, a contraction of $290,000,000 In
teree years. If the reports published in the
newspapers are correct the currency on the
Ist of September, 1860, consisting of the
same two items, amounted to $655,920,000, a
still further reduction of $10,000,000. But
the Secretary boasts that he has reduced the
three per cent, certificates nearly $12,000,-
000, and the compound interest notes more
than $10,000,000. These were used as the
reserves of the banks. If they have been
thus reduced, their places are supplied with
legal tender notes, and these amounts must
be added to Ihe $16,000,000, and thns we
have a contraction this year of $38,000,000.
RESULTS OF CONTRADICTION.
Why, gentlemen, after the close of the
war in 1815, the country banks of Great
Britain contracted their issues seven mil
lion pounds, aDd thet joy produced by the
peace was tarnel into agony by the pros
pect o! universal bankruptcy. Have you
considered wbat contraction brings with
It? It brings universal fall of prices of
goods and labor, while debts, taxes and
moneyed obligations remain fixed. Tbe
man who has money becomes much richer,
because his money will pay for more land,
more wheat, more labor. But the man
who owes money becomes much poorer,
becaase he maet sell more land, more
wheat and perform more labor, to pay his
debt. It breaks down all business, because,
if prices decline the more business a man
does tbe greater his losses. It produces
unsteadiness and panic and gives rise only
to illegitimate gambling transactions. And
yet, in the presence of these troths—in tbe
presence of this immense taxation and of
this orashing public debtr-the administra
tion continues to contract tbe currency;—
This system enhanoes the value of tbe
bonds, it enhances the valne oi the gold in
terest, it enhances the valne of money, but
it requires more wheat from the farmer,
mpre machinery from the manufacturer,
more toil from the laborer, to raise the
money to pay his taxes; and it sweeps
away the profits of years to pay ordinary
indebtedness.
A WAR DEBT AND PEACE CURRENCY,
We are trying to do what no nation ever
did, or ever will do. We are trying to pay
a war debt and war taxes with a peace cur
rency. Great Britain made the attempt for
ten years after the wars of Napoleon, bat
three times In ten* vears the distress be
came so great that she expanded the car
renoy, and at last she funded the debt,
abandoned all idea of ever paying the prin
cipal, and repealed tbemostoDerous taxes.
The system is radically unjust The debt
contracted on oar expanded currency
should be paid in theeame currency. The
dollar which is paid should be of the same
value as the dollar which was loaned. No
device of the publio creditor, no scheme of
tbe Treasury Department, should be per
mitted which wIU make the dollar which is
paid worth twice as mach, and therefore be
twice as dlfflcultjfor the tax-payers to earn
as the dollar which was loaned. Thisjcry
for a speedy “ return to specie payments”
before the debt—which was luourred on an
immense Inflated currenoy—has been sub
stantially reduced, is a plan to Increase tbe
wealth of tbe bondholder forty per cent, at
tbe expense of the tax payer; is a device
to cheat labor and to enrich hoarded capi
tal ; it is a soheme to despoil indnstry of
its rewards, and to heap treasure upon Idle
ness; It is another instance of the foot that
In this ooti-mlliennlal world “ to him that
bath shall more be given, and from him
that hath not shall be taken away even that
which he seemeth to have.”
DANGEROUS POWERS.*
The administration, for the first time iu
the history of the Republio, has the power
to make times, hard or make times good ;
in other words, it has the power to make
money plenty or make money scarce. Who
are responsible for the present bard, and I
may say deplorable, times? Why, of course,
the administration, which controls the gov
ernment in favor of the bondholder; or, in
other words, the bondholders control the
government in favor of themselves. Who
are responsible for the acts of the adminis
tration ? Gentlemen, It is you, the people.
Whi.e the administration has the power to
make money plenty or scarce, you have the
power to make the administration do Its
duty—a hint from you in October will bo
sufficient. I regard tbe sudden contraction
which has been brought about—a contrac
tion which has ruinedthousands of our best
men—one of the most heartless and crael
acts ever perpetrated upon a people by their
rulers.
THE NATIONAL BANKS.
I have so often expressed my opinion as
to the propriety of dispensing with the na
tional banks, of substituting the legal ten
der notes for their circulation, and thus
saving twenty-two millions of dollars a
year in fgold,;?and as to the best mode of
paying the public debt, that I will not
weary you here by their recapitulation.
WHEN SPECIE PAYMENTS SHOULD BE RE
The whole policy of the administration
should be reversed. Pay the debt, pay it
honestly, according to the contract, pay it
in money as valuable as that which was
received for it; pay it in legal-tender notes;
abolish tbe national bank system ; pay off
the bonds in which they are founded ; aave
the interest; use every appliance of econo
my management In advancing this
policy. Then, when the debt is paid, when
taxes are reduced, when seventy-five mil
lions suffice for the government, when all
property is subjected to a just rule of taxa
tion, if it be advisable to contract tbe cur
rency and resume specie payments, it can
be effected without disaster, and the inevi
table suffering can be borne.
A Radical Woman's Opinion or Jadffe
Williams- What Mrs. Awlsshelm Says
or tbe Republican Candidate ror .Su
preme Judge.
Mrs. Swisshelm says:
It appears to be an acknowledged fact
that tbe Pittsburg bar is to-day as little
burdened with brains as at any period
since it was a bar—and no better evidence
of its appreciation of respectable mediocrity
could be offered than its selection of Judge
Williams to the Supreme Bench. In Ml and
M 2 when he was a student in the office of
Judge Lowrie, I had some business in set
tling my father's estate. He who was
since Judge Lowrie was my attorney.
Going to the office one day, I found him
explaining to Mr. Williams aud another
student a point of law, and he asked me
to sit down. I sat down and had the bene
fit of an explanation ; heard the questions 1
propounded by Mr. Williams and the
otter, and going over and simplifying the
case by the teacher, I sat in blank amaze
ment, wondering if that little man ever,
ever, ever, would get enough law into bis
head to make any kind of a living by let
ting it out in small quantities to suit cus
tomers; but he is sober, industrious, pa
tient and plodding, and after his dullness o l
comprehension, did learn a good deal of
law, and I think that in any cose that
was well established by precedent, and
which had been carefully and lucidly
explained uud simplified, he could un
derstand it and would decide to the best of
his knowledge and belief. When he comes
to a new field of investigation, tbe Saints
brvre ootnpoßßloo on tbo poor, fat. short,
puffy man. What a time he would have
wading, floundering—and what a muddle
he would be llkoly to make out of It! A
man of active brains would not be likely to
run quite as mnch to that substance most
valuable in whales and If the Republican
party of Peensylvania have no better mater
ial out of which to manufacture a Suprera e
Judge than Hon, W. W. or H, W., or W.
something Williams of Pittsburg, they had
better vote/or the Democratic candidate, who
soever he may be, on the ground that they
cannot be worsted .
Negro Jury Acqnlttlng A sctro liir-
Rev. Pleasant Bowler, a notorious black
preacher, as bad as be is black, recently
made a deadly attack upon the Radical
Sheriff of the county, Kline, and his depu
ties, while they were proceeding to jail with
him under arrest, for inciting riot in Co
lumbus and leading an assauit upon a civil
officer in the dlschargeof his duty. Bowler
shot Cline and emptied his revolver at the
deputies,, but was dnally wounded and se
cured. Thursday, Aug. 27, as we read,
“ A negro jury was empannelled, and ten
of Ibe twelve were in their shirt-sleeves,
and half of that number with their black
skins showing through their rags.
The State made out a plain case by the
testimony of three or four white men of
high character, sustained by black wit
nesses, that the prisoner when found by the
Shoriff with the warrant in his hand, had
in his easy reach and possession a gun, a
pistol, and a sword; that he quietly in
formed the Sheriff, after looking at the
warrant, that be ‘would die before being
arrested,’ bat at last pretended to submit,
aud, after walking quietly a short distance
to disarm suspicion, unexpectedly drew a
concealed weapon, shot the Sheriff in the
arm and breast, and was only stayed in his
deadly work by being disabled himself.
Not one of the jnrors could read or write,
and upon the reassembling of the court after
breakfast, came in and told the judge ‘ we
is all ob de ’pinion dat be didn’t do it.’ A
judgment of‘not guilty as charged in the
indictment!” was recorded. One of the ne
groes afterward boasted that ‘ they might
have known wbat be was gul’in to cide
afore dey put him dar.’ And another was
found to have taken up two collections
among his color for the benefit of Bowler
sinco his confinement in jail, while still a
third honest looking one explained his as
sent to the verdict os follows: He admit
ted he thought Bowler guilty of the offence
charged ‘but den,’ said ho, ‘ I never been to
de court house afore In no sich business,and
de lead man dat had de paper said he had
been and he know'd all about It, and dat
de way was for us all toxome to him, lease
he hea de papers, and him and anuner one
keep on dat way till we all corned to him.’”
Here is a fresh sample of reconstruction.
A Wonderful Discovery and Rich Haul
of Treasure.
On Friday last, two youths were engaged
in searching for muscels In the falls of the
Shenandoah, just below Berry’s Ferry,
Clarke county, Virginia. One of the boys
feeling a hard and sleek substance, brought
it to the surface, when be found it to be, as
he supposed, a tin box, some six inches
long,four inches broad and two inohes deep.
Its weight excited their curiosity, and ob
serving a clasp to it, they made for the
shore, and upon opening the box found
within one elegant gold watch and twenty
six rings, nineteen of them solid gold, and
seven diamond. They took their treasure
and submitted it to competent judges, who
; put the value of the diamond rings at $125
to $l5O a piece, and the gold rings, which
are very heavy, at $lO each. The watch is
valued at $2OO, and all were in a perfectly
dry state of preservation. The boys mado
a;sccond search about the shoals, and this
time succeeded in finding a heavy silver
tablespoon. The box containing the val
uables upon examination proved to be a
beautiful chased and engraved silver one,
and its value cannot be less than $5O. Our
friend, Mr.M.Harris, examined the boxand
one or more of the gold rings, and informs
us there is no mistake about their purity
and value. He did not see the diamond
rings, but was assurred by Mr. Sberer, Mr.
T. 8, Smith, and other citizens of Millwood,
who kad examined them, that they were of
great brilllanoy and value.
The supposition is that the box was lost
by some of Blenker’a Dutch during the war.
It was found only a few hundred yards be
low where some eighty-three of Rlenker’s
division were drowned, while attempting
to cross the Shenandoah at Berry’s Ferry,
on rafts, during the high waters of 1862.
The box, rings, watch, Ac., were doubtless
stolen property, as the thieving propensities
ofßlenker’s men were manifested wherever
the command was ordered. If this sup
position in regard to this matter Is incorrect,
wbat hypothesis can be offered in regard to
the matter 7
Singular Affair.
The York True Democrat says: Some
time last a horse belonging to Jesse Line
bach, of Newberry township, in that coun
ty, while drinking at an adjoining run,
swallowed a live eel. In its passage the
head of the eel entered the windpipe of the
animal head downwards, while its tail
stack into its throat. The horse was taken
seriously ill almost immediately after*
wards, the feed and water Instead of pass
ing into the stomach, coming out ugain at
the nose. In this plight he was finally
killed by Mr. Linebaoh, and the eel, pntrid
and dead, on post mortem examination,
was found lodged in its windpipe and throat
as above stated. This singular case has
only come recently under oar notice, and
we do not know that it was ever printed
before by any of onreontemptoraries. The
oironmstance of a horse drinking down an
eel is itself most remarkable, as that animal
nsualiytakes in water with its teeth dosed,
but the facts are nevertheless true as given.
Jenny Lind, though but forty-eight years
of age, looks over sixty. Herhnsband looks
twenty years younger than herself.
State items.
Highway robberies are numerous in the
vicinity of Reading.
The wheat crop in Chester oounty is re
ported os favorable.
Dysentery prevails to as alarming extent
in Lebanon county.
Oxford, Chester county, has just opened
a new market-house.
Pittsburg Is raising quite a large sum for
Hie Avondale Bufferers.
Williamsport supports three daily news
papors.
Philadelphia is to have a brilliant lecture
season.
The Avondale relief fund already reaches
nearly 9100,000.
Estonia making great preparations for
the Northampton County Fair.
The Humboldt centenary was generally
celebrated throughout the State.
An insane emigrant recently created con
slderable excitement in Pittsburg.
Catasanqua has a new military oompany
by the name of the Sheridan Guards.
Nine fat cattle reoently dropped dead on
the road from Sug&rtown, Chester county,
to the drove yard in Philadelphia.
The Republican party in Pennsylvania
proposes to tax the property of working
men and exempt the bondholders.
Bishop Stevens, of this diocese,was lately
married at Wilkesbarre to Miss Anna
Conyngham.
The citizens of Tioga county are perplex
ed as lo which borough they will locate
their public buildings in. :
Phcenixville has grown so large that she
has come to the conclusion that she muat
have an addition to her market house.
Thomas Dutton, the eldest mad in Dela
ware county, died recently. He had attained
the remarkable age of 100 years 7 months
and 11 days.
A bear recently escaped from a traveling
show ia Montgomery county, and is roam
ing around free to the danger of small
children.
Miller the negro who outraged a little
girl at Perrysville a short time ago, was
sentenced last week to fifteen years iu tho
penitentiary.
Horse thieves and counterfeit money
“shovers” are prowling aronnd Lehigh
county at present. Several horses have
been stolen, among them one belonging to
Mr. Berger of Cataaaqua.
It is reported that a parly of capitalists
have purchased a property atShimersville,
in the Lehigh Valley, for 920,000, with the
intention of erecting a large furnace there
on.
The township offlcers| In Pennsylvania,
heretofore elected in March, are to be chos
en this year and hereafter, in October,
making only one election per year, except
at Presidential time.
The Johnstown Tribkme says: “Acarpet
bag containing the remains of an infant
was discovered near the Whisky Springs
Hotel on Sunday evening last. Theooroner
was summoned, but nothing was learned
in regard to who placed it there.”
The cost of assessing the internal revenue
in Pennsylvania for the year 1868, cost
9630,261.27, all of which was pocketed by
assessors, thair assistants and clerks. This
is nearly one dollar for each voter in the
Commonwealth. Is it not a rather expen
sive establishment ?
Joseph A. Malin, of East Wbiteland,
Cheater county, reports a turkey hen of his
which has laid ninety-eight eggs. She Is
still laying. As the hen is young, and this
is her first attempt at the business, there is
no telling what sne-wili do when she gets
her hand in.
Tbe West Pennsylvania Synod of the
Lutheran Church will meet in Gettysburg
on Wednesday evening September 22. The
synod at one time embraced the territory
of Pennsylvania west of the Susquehanna
river, andhenco Its distinctive name. Three
other synods (Central, Allegheny and Pitts
burg) have since been organized and the
West Pennsylvania now extends only over
four counties—Adams, York, Cumberland
and Franklin.
The recent terrible coal mine accident at
Avondale calls to mind a former great ac
cident in Pennsylvania mines, which oc
curred In Carbondale in 1850, A large
mine caved in, destroying over a hundred
lives, and ruining tho mine. When the
cave occurred the pressure of air from
the falling mass was so great that it
blow a boy and n mule an eighth of a mile
out of the narrow entrance to the mine. A
fow of those entombed worked their way out
through all the dangers of fire damp end
foul, but tho most of them perished by
starvation, or fell a prey to the. rata,
wbjgh coal mines grow to an enormous
size. One man was seven days digging his
way to the surface.
On the 14th inst., a large hound dog, suf
fering from the rabies, passed through Ban
croft’s Lower Bank, In Delaware county.
While crossing the bridge he met a boy
aged about seven yeats, a son of John Den
ver. The dog caught the boy by one wrist,
quickly threw him, and then lacerated both
hands and arms. Dy this time the alarm of
“mad dog” began to spread, and as became
near a man and his boy, the former threw
tbe latter into some blackberry bushes,
then plunged in himself, the dog passing
thorn without any attempt to bite. Pursuit
was given and at night the party reaohed
Rose Valley, where the dog was lost in the
darkness. The boy, youthful as he is, seems
to at least partially comprehend his situa
tion, for he asked, in the event of his being
attacked by hydrophobia, that his parents
do not permit him to be smothered to death.
Ibe Connecticut Valley Tobacco Crop.
Owing to the high prices paid last winter
for the tobacco crop of ISCB the farmers of
the Connecticut valley were induced in the
spring to plant the largest crop ever set in
this section. The cold and backward sum
mer caused some fears that there would be
but a small showing at harvest. But the
fine weather of the last two weeks has
brought the crop forward rapidly and the
testimony of several skilled observers, who
examined the fields throughout the whole
valley while tobacco was being cut, is that
the crop just harvested ,1s the largest aud
fairest ever raised in the valley. It
is too early to determine how woll it
will cure, but the weather has been
fine for that purpose so far, and It is
reported that the cured leaf is coming
iu rich. This makes the owners of large
quantities of old tobacco feel blue, as there
is no demand for it except as the homo
trade takes it. Owing to the high prices
paid by the packers last winter the manu
facturers seemed disposed to ease them of
their burden only as they want it for im
mediate use, ana then only sparingly. Bat
as the new crop In the valley is at a low
estimate 11,500,000 pounds, It looks as
though the packers would have to make
Borne concessions in prices. All things
considered the farmers have been very for
tunate in disposing of their crops at high
prices for the past two years, and wo hope
they may have as good iuck this season.—
Springfield Republican, Sept. 16.
The Prospect,
It was ouly yesterday that wo happened
to meet with a gentleman of strict integrity
and of more than ordinary intelligence,
whose business has taken him te at least
one-half the counties in the middle and
western parts of the State, since the opening
of the present contest. SpeakiDg of the
probable result, bis words were. “I have
not in all my travels either met with or
heard of a solitary Democrat who manifest
ed the least hesitancy about voting for
Packer. On the other hand, I visited no
place that I did not hear of defection In the
Radical ranks, and conversed with many
men who have heretofore voted against the
Democracy,and wa/informed of very many
others in almost every neighborhood, who
openly declared that they had voted for the
last time with the party who would attempt
to violate the Constitution of the State by
altering it without their consent, in order
to give the negro a vote. Depend upon It,
the election of Packer is certain. — Harris
burg Patriot .
BesJgrnntlon of Governor Wells.
Richmond, Sept. B.—General Canby will
Issue the election proclamation to-morrow.
Governor Wells, it is stated on good au
thority, sent his resignation to General
Canby a week ago, on the reception of the
Attorney General’s test-oath opinion.
The proclamation of General Canby will
bring the legislature together on the fifth of
October. Governor Walker will be install
ed as provisional governor within the next
two weeks, at which time Governor Wells’
resignation, now in the hands of Canby,
will be accepted. The legislature itself
will decide whether it shall eleot perma
nent or temporary officers.
1869- H. Z. RHOADS <fc BRO. 1869
Wo ask the attention of purchasers to our un
usually large stock of goods carefully selected
and manufactured to our own order for the
FOR THE NEW YEAR!
wnlch wo are selling at very Low Prices.
FINE GOLD AND ;BILVER(] WATCHES,
BT THE BEST
AMERICAN AND FOREIGN MAKERS.
DIAMOND, CORAL, AMETHYST, GARNETT,
AND ALL KINDS OT
PLAIN AND ENAMELED GOLD JEWELRYi
BAIR E W EL R T
MADE to *
ORDER WITH FINE GOLD;MOUNTINGB.
Special attention paid to furnishing
WEDDING P RIE OEN TB,
STERLING AND COIN SILVER.
"We have a Watchmaker from the Swiss Fac
tory to do repairing, and warrant all work, •
H. Z. RHOADS A BRO.,
{Next Door Beloto Cooper's Hotel,)
WEST KING STREET, LANCASTER, PA,
| snov2s lfw47
NUMBER 38
stxl tfitate.
* T PRIVATE HUE FOR THIRTT
A DAYS.—TO CAPITALISTS AND BTOBE
KKEPEBS.—Tbo Nov and Large Hotel, or
BatingHoosegOndStore property, located at
the Ohrlsteen ttoad, on the Philadelphia and
Baltimore Central Railroad, Cheater county.
Pa., can be bought at a rate that will pay big
Interest on the investment. It is doing a fine
business now, and when the railroad oonnects
south in a few weeks, It will materially en
hance the value of the property. Apply to the
owner on the premises. [sep SO tfw 39
Fob balk—a varx of so acrks,
situated in Londonderry township, Ches
ter county, Pa. The improvements are a
Three-story Log Weatberboarded HOUSE and
a large Barn, with all the necessary outbuild
ings. There is a flue Orchard of Fruit Trees
on the premises. Address, __
M. B, ESHLEM AN,
aug2s*Smw 34* Cochranvlllo, Cheater 00,
PaiT ATE SALR-TIR UNDERSIGN U)
offers at private sale the following tract of
land containing
4 ACRES AND 53 PERCHES,
situated lu Conestoga township, near Sbobar’a
Paper Mill (Slackwater), on the road reading
from Slackwatar to Conestoga Centre, adjoin
ing lands of Tobias Stehman, Jaoob G. Peters,
and the Conestoga Creek, on which aro erected
a Two-Story Brick HOUSE, Bummer House,
Stables, aud all necessary outbuildings. There
Is a well of never-falllngwater near the dwell
ing with pump therein. Hydrant also near the
house. The fences are all new, and the bouse
has reoently been repaired and repainted
throughout. Persons wishing to view the
premia os will call nndorslgned residing
at No. 7 Mary street, Lancaster, Pa., or on
Jacob Smith, residing on tbe premises.
sepl-6tw3s* JACOB KAUFFMAN.
yitCABLE r ARM* AT rRIVATC SALE
I will sell at Private Sale the farm on which
I reside, situate on the Conococbeagne creek,
7}£ miles northwest of Hagerstown, containing
207 ACRES OF GOOD SLATE LAND,
147 ACRES of which are cleared and In a good
state of cultivation. About 7# Acres are Prime
Bottom Land The 00 Acres in Timber are
of flnegrowth. The buildings are a Two-Story
LOG WEATHER-BOARDED HOUSE, Stone
and Frame Bank Barn, Wagon Shed. Corn
Cribs, Smoke Houee, and other out-balidlogs.
There Is a fine OUCHARD of choice fruit
trees on the farm, and a well of water near the
door; also, Sprlngß of running water on tho
farm. Tho farm Is under good fwuoing.
Persons purchase a farm uro In
vited to call and'eee this one. it will be sold
cheap and on oasy payments,
sep 15 tfw 87 DANIEL LAMBERT.
fiaC CUfSTEU COUHTTFABM OF
1 a ACRE?,
Well watered, fences good, 17 ACRES HEAVY
TIMBER, Good Qrohard. with fine variety of
frnlt, Two-Story Briok DWELLING, ten
rooms, water In kitchen. Stationary Boilers
In wash house, Spring Houte, Large* Barn,
Wagon Shed, Grain House, and Btocx House.
All In good order and repair.
The above farm Is situated S miles southeast
of Cochranvllle and 3 miles north of Penn Sta
tton.on tho Baltimore and Philadelphia Cen
tral Railroad, 8 miles south of PenlDgtoavllle.
Price SI2U per acre. For further information,
or to view the premises, please call oa the
owner, Oourtlana Mlcbener, residing thereon
or
HERR & RIFE.
Real Estate, Collection A Insurance Agents,
sep 8-6tw id Lancaster city, Fa.
Air kxcbllent business prop.
ERTT AT PUBLIC HALE.-WIU be sold
at puhUcsale, on THURSDAY, OCTOBER Hth,
1889, on the premises, situate lu Drumoro twp.,
Lancaster county, Pa., on tho roiul loading
from the Unicorn Hotel to Chestnut Level,
about [half way between Ibo two points, o
Farm, or tract of land, containing
TWENTY-SEVEN ACRES,
more or less, in a high state of cultivation.
The Improvements oonslst of a two-story
Frame DWELLING HOUSE, a Bloue Spring
and Smoke House near the dwelliug, a good
Bank Barn and HogHoaso; alsoa good Water
Power Saw Mill, Machine Shop, Foundry and
Smith Shop, situate on t he Conowlngo Creek,
and which Is dolngaflrst-ratebusiness. There
Is a good Orchard of choice Fruit Trees on said
premises lu good bearlug condition. This prop
erty Is well worth the attention of any person
wishing a good business property, being situ
ated in a highly improved agricultural neigh
borhood, where a great quantity of machinery
Is need, and an extensive and proMtable ropalr
business is done.
Sale to oommence at 3 o'clock on said day,
, when attendance will be given and terms
made known by JOHN S, JORDAN,
sep 16 wta-87
PUBLIC SALE,-OK THURSDAY, OCTO
BER 7tli, 1869, will be sold at public sale,
by the undersigned Executors of Christian
Eohternacht, deceased, at the late residence of
said deceased, In the village of Roamstown,
East Cocalloo township, Lancaster county, tho
following Real Estate, via:
No. 1, A Lot of Ground
' CONTAINING ONE ACRE,
on which the Improvements consist of a two
story Stone DWELLING HOUSE, with Kitch
en attached; Spring House, with a Spring of
Water underneath; Swisser Barn, Hog,BUbfe,
and other necessary out-bulldlngs; anOrchard
of choice Fruit Trees, such as Apples, Poors!
Peaches, Plums, Cherries, and Grapes.
No. 2, containing
9 ACRES AND W PERCHES,
sllnale In East Cocallco township, one-fourth
mile east from Reamstown. adjoining prop
erties of Jacob Leld, Isaac Fry, and others,
The land Is well Jftnoed and In a high stale of
cultivation.
Sale to oommence at 1 o’olock, P. M., when
oondlllon s of sale will be made known by
ELIAS WEIT2EL,
HENRT GRIMES,
cep 8-34-Btw Executors of laid deceased.
PUBLIC RALE-OIT FRIDAY, SEPTEM
BER 24TH, 1889, will be sold at publlo sale,
at the publlo house of Christian Miller, on the
Harrlsnurg Pike, the following described Real
Estate to wit:
A Tract [of First-Quality Limestone Land,
C6NTAINING 501* ACRES,
situated lu East Hompflekl Township, Lan
caster County, Pa., on the road leading from
the Harrisburg Pike to Petersburg, one-half
mile from the rlke and one mile from Peters
burg, adjoining lands of Daniel Krolder, Hen
ry Hottenstlne, John Swarr, and the Pennsyl
vania Railroad on the Bouth.
The land Is in good condition and has been
recently well limed.
It will be sold entire, or In parts, as may best
salt purchasers.
If desired. 84,000 of the purchase money can
remain In the property from 1 to 5 years.
Persons desirous of vlewlDg the property be
fore the day of sale will please call on Henry
Hoffman near the same.
Bale to commence at 1 o’clock. P. M., of said
day, when attendance will be given and terms
made known by HENRY HUFFMAN,
ADAM BEAR.
David Bbbbneb, Aucl sB-3tw3fl.
ORPHANS* COURT »ALF.._OJf SATUR
DAY, SEPTEMBER2S,IK6U, AT7 O'CLOCK
P. M., at tho Exchange Hotel, In Mount Joy
Borongh, the undersigned. one of the Admin
istrators of Jacob Myers, dec'd., will sell said
decedent’s real estate, all situated in said Bor
ough, by Order of the Orphan’s Court of Lan
caster county. The property consists of two
adjoining lota or parcels of ground with TWO
DWELLING HOUSES, and other Improve
ments Thereon, both fronting on the north
side of Main street and extending In depth
northwardly to Apple-tree alley. The build
ings are in good condition, In a pleasant loca
tion, and near the Railroad Station In the
butlneas_part of the town.
No. 1, Fronts 47% feet, extends back 80 feet
of tb&t front, and extends ICO feet further back
of the width of 42% feet, the off-set being on
the west line, A stable Is on the rear of this
lot. It will be sold subjet to such rlgbtof way
aloDgthe east line as may have become rested
In the adjoining owner.
No. 2, Fronts 15% feet, extends back 80 feet
of that front, and extends 05 feet further back
of the width of 20 feet, the off-set being on the
east line.
Both lots will be sold separately or togeth*
er. Terms mado known by
H. BHAFFNER, Adm’r.
Mount Jot, Eep, 1, iB6O. 4tw,
ASSIGNEE'S SALE OF VALUABLE
REAL ESTATE.—On TUESDAY, SEP
TEMBER 28,1869, will be offered at public sale,
on the premises, (No. 1) situate In Salisbury
township, Lancaster county, about three
quarters of a mile from the Gap Station, on
the Pennsylvania Railroad, the following
named Real Estate, to wit:
No. 1. A Tract of Land containing about
NINEIY-THREE ACRES,
adjoining property ol Henry and Isaac Living
ston, Isaac Stauffer, B. J.Leohler, Mrs. Brin ton
and Nathaniel Ellmaker, on which Is erected
a two-story Stone DWELLING HOUSE. Ten
ant House, a large Grist, Merchant and Saw
Min, Houa* for Farmer, Barn,* Wagon Shed,
Corn Crib, Hog Pen, Ac The Mill is one of the
best In the county, and Is run by a water
power, which has never been known to fail.
The buildings and fences are in good repair.
Tho land Is limestone and of the first quality.
There Is a good Orchard on tho premises and a
never-falling Spring of Water,
No. 2. A Tractor Land containing about
THREE ACRES,
situate In Sadsbury township. Lancaster Co.,
on the road leading from IheGap to the Nickel
Mines, adjololng property of Henry Eokert/
and of the heirs of G. L. Eckert, deoeased, and
covered with Chestnut Timber.
N. B.—No. 1 will be sold as one tract, or the
Mm and water-power will be sold separately,
if desired.
Persons wlebjng to view the premises before
the day of Sale, will call on B. F. Houston, re
siding on No. 1.
Sale to commence at 1 o’clock, P. M., of said
day. when conditions will be made known by
AMOS 8. HENDERSON,
aug 25-34-fitw Assignee of B. F. Houston.
VALUABL.. KABM AT AMIttSEE'S
BALE.—On THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14th,
1809, the undersigned, Assignee of Joseph
Smedley and Wife, will sell at public sale, an
the premises, In Fnlton and Little Britain
townships, Laneaater county, on the road 1
leading from Pleasant Grove to Oxford, three 1
relies from the former and eight miles from
the latter plaoe, and within six miles of the !
Philadelphia and Baltimore Central Railroad,
the following described property, to wit: A
tract of land containing
135 ACRBS,
more or less, of splendid land, lnablgh state
of cultivation, and bounded by lands of Josepb
Ballance, John Gibson, william Gibson
and others. The improvements tbereon
erected consist of a Two Story BUIOK
DWELLING HOUSE, with Kitchen and
Wash House attached; Two-Story Brick
Tenement House, large double-decker
Bam, nearly new, 45 by 50 feet; a brick Black
smith Shop, Corn House, and all other out
buildings, all of which are covered with slate.
The land Is divided into convenient fields,
with running water In each of them, and all
under good fences. There are on the premises
four wells of excellent water with pnmps
therein, convenient to the buildings. Also, a
fine young Orchard of Choice Fruit Trees, such
as Apples, Pears, Peaches, Cherries, Ac., all In
bearing condition. Twenty-five acres of the
above tract are in Heavy Timber, such as
Chestnut, Oak and Hickory.
'Theabove property Is beautifully located in
a thriving neighborhood,and is convenient to
churches, schools, mills, stores, shops, Ac. The
land has all been reoently limed and produoea
well. Any person wishing to view the proper
ty before the day of sale can do so by caning on
Joseph Bmedley, residing thereon, or by ad
dressing or calling on the undersigned, resid
ing at Fulton House P. 0., Lancaster county.
Bale to oommenoe at 1 o’clock P. 11., of said
day, when attendance will be given and terms
made known by
HARVEY SWIFT,
Assignee of Joseph Smedlejr and wire,
sepi tawSs
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death*, 10 conu per line for flrtt iuiertionl
and 5 oenU for every aabieqnent in»ertios(l
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sral ate.
PUITATE HAXE OF A llOTtfl. F«OP
EKTY,—The undersigned, offers ut'prlvato
sale the real and personal estate, tbipproporiy
of the late Robertßmltb, deoeaaed.atuinted in
Fort Deposit, Cedi oouuty, Mil., and kuown as
the “Fahmxb's and Commercial Hotel."—
This Hotel has been long and favorably kuown
to the traveling community, and is receiving
a large share or public patronage. Tho house
Is large and commodious with good Stabling.
Ice House, and all theappurleuanoeaattached
tola flrst-clasa Hotel, „ ,
Persons wishing to purchase will pleaso call
on the undersigned, who la now occupying Uio
property and will show the some,
sep 2 UW3SI MAKYUBUrrH.
Poet Dxrosrr, Sept, a, 18<Ji
SPLEHDIB FAKH 15 MISSOURI rOB
Bole, In Boone connly, Mo., one mile from
aturjson, a village on the North Missouri R.
R., ISO miles from Bt, Louis, Tho farm cou
lains 079% acres, and Is all under fonco In good
repair, except about l«0 acres. About'JSOacres
tu Umber land, and the balance In prairie.
220 acres in Corn.
J3O •* Cloverand Timothy
25 " Good Clover.
f 0 ** Oats.
The balance Is well set In grass, except the
180 not fonoed. Is laid off In convenient Helds.
Water la each one, tolerably good houses,
about one hundred Apple trees just In their
prime, will sell with or without crops. Price
without crops $3O per aore. One third cosh.
Balance on time to salt,
jy. 7—3 tn w 27,
PC BLIO SALE. —ON THURSBAT, OCTO
BER 21,1809, the undersigned Executors of
John A. Boyd, doc'd, will soil at public sale, ou
the premises, in Drumoro towns nip, Lanosster
county, Pa., on the rood loading from Chestuut
Lovol to MoCall's Ferry. 3 mll«u from tho form
er and 4 miles from the latter place, and about
one mllo from Liberty Square, the following
described property, to Wit:
No. 1, containing
135 ACRES AND 0 PERCHES,
more at less, of good quality farm laud, adjoin
lands of James Echiln, John Wentz, Hugh
Penny, Joseph Selple and others. The lm
irovements oonslstof a l&rgenudoommodlouM
wo-stoiy Stone DWELLING HOUSE, with
Kitchen attached, Large Btono Barn, Wagon
Shed, Corn Crib, Carriage House, Biuoko
Houso, Hog House, and all other necessary
out-balldlugs. Tho buildings aro all roofed
with slate, and are In good condition, having
been lately repaired, aud partly new. i hero lu
running water at the house aud barn, uud a
line orchard of choice fruit trees. Tho laud Is
conveniently divided Into tßldg, and cuillo
havo acoess to ruuutug water from no irly hll
of tliom. This property has been heavily llnud
wllbln a few years, and Is in a good state of
cultlvaUon. Tubre are about 8 acres of Heavy
Timber, and about 8 acres of thinly set Sprouts
on the above tract. This property Is situated
In a fine, healthy neighborhood,convenient to
Churches, Schools, Mill*, Stores aud Post Of
lloe.
No, 2, containing
8 ACRES AND 21 PERCHES,
more or leas, sltuato near No. 1, adjoining
lands of Joseph Binltb, Joseph Penrose and
others. This tract Is well set with Chestnut
Timber, nearly lit to cut, and will be sold sepa
rate or with the above, as purchasers may do
slre.
Persons wishing to vlow the premises before
the day of sale, will please call on William
Morrison, roaldlng on No. 1, or on either of the
undersigned. If desired by the purchaser oue
h&lf of tbo purchase mouoy may remain so*
cared In No. l property for a number of years.
A good title and possession will be glvou on
the Ist day of April, lb7o.
Bale to commence at 2 o’clock, P.M., wben
attendance will be given and terms made
known by NATHANIEL MAYEB,
ALBAN CUTLER,
Executors.
sep 15-stw*37|
VALPABU FARHf abbuill paop.
EttTY AT ASSIGNEE'S RALE.-On WED
NESDAY. SEPTEMBER '£id, 186 U, the under
signed will soil At public Kale, At the Hotel of
j»mos P. Knight, In the Tillage of Christiana,
Lancaster oounty, Fa, Uio following described
Heal Estate, vis: A valuable Farm containing
87 AtRES AND 158 PERCHES,
more or lees, bounded by lands of A. Btowart.
M. Fox, William P. Brlnton. and others,
wUereon Is erected a two anu a half story
STONE MANSION HOUSE, containing eight
large and comfortable rooms, with on excel*
lent cellar and vault uuderneath, a poroli
around two sides of the house; also, a well of
excellent waterwlth.pump therein In tho kitch
en : a largo yard woll set with fruit, and orna
mental trees In front of the houso. Tho land,
about 6 acres of whlcn Is Tlinbor aud Cboatuut
Sprouts, Is good'and productive. There aro
also on the premises two Apple OrohardH, one
beginning to boar, and a variety of other fruit,
such os Cherries, Psars, Plums, Psaohes,
Grapes, Strawberries, Ac. Tho property lsstt
uated aoout one-fourth of a mile from tho vil
lage of Cnrlstlana, and 1H miles from Philadel
phia. on the Pennsylvania Central Railroad,
which passca tho front of the house. Also, a
large DOUBLE-DECKERSTONE BARN, with
Stabling for flvo head of horses aud ten head
of oattle, Btore Houso, Wsgon Shed, Hog
llouse. Smoko Houso, Ico House, Ben Houso,
and all othor nocoesary outbuldlags. A stone
MERCHANT AND GRIST MILL, three and a
half stories high, nearly all tho|mochlnsry of
which Is new and In complete order, contain
ing three ran of Burrs, two Overshot Wator
wuools, driven by tboLOcloraro Creek, a nover
foiling stream, and one of the best powers Ip
this section of country, with about 14 feet head
and fall, short bead race, large atone and log
dam. all In good order. The mill has a largo
grist and retail trade, and la a good stand lor
grain at all times. Also, THREE STONE TEN •
EMENT HOUSES, two stories high, near tho
mill. This Is one of the best business proper
ties to be found, being within five minutes
walk of the Post Ofllco and tho Station at Chris
tiana.
Hale to commence at 1 olclock, P. M. t on said
day. when attendance will be given and tcrnui
mode known by
WILLIAM'A. MORTON.
Assignee <sf Obarlesa Mharplasa and Wire,
ang 18 taw-US
pCBUCEBALI
VALUABLE REAL ESTATE!
COUNTY;
FRANKLIN;
On WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY. thoOrn
and 7th of OCTOBER, by vlrtueof the last Will
and Testament of Adam Hoke, late of Mont*
gomery township, dec’d, we will exposo to
Publlo Sale on the promises, on the Oth and 7th
days of October. 18«9, at 10 o'clook, A. M„ tho
following doscribod Real Estato:
Purpart Ist being a tract of land known as tho
HUMPHREY FARM,
located on the Corner Road In said township
of Montgomery, aboat two mlloa from Mercers
burg. This tractcontalns
210 ACRES AND HI PERCHES,
part llmestono and part slate, In a high state
of cultivation, with about 80 Aoreaof timber
land. The improvements consist of a good
Htono DWELLING HOUSE, tttono and Frumo
Bank Barn, and all other necessaryoat-bulld
lngs, with a Well of nevor-falllng Water, and
running water naar the Improvements during
the greater part of the yoar, with a young Or*
chard of choice Apples.
Purpart 2d being a tract of lnnd known aa tho
MOORE FARM,
located near tho Turnpike In Peters township,
about two miles from Meroersburg. This tract
contains
149 ACRES AND 03 PERCHES'
of slate land In a high slate of cultivation. Tho
Improvements consist of a LOG DWELLING,
a Stone and Fiamo Bank Barn, a thriving Or*
chard of choice Fruit, with a never-fuTUng
htroam of Water passing through tho Kamo.
Purpart 3d bclnga tractof land known cut tho
REED FARM,
located on the Warm Bprlng Rood, about one
mile from Mercoraburg, In Peters township.
This tract oonfalns
177 ACRES AND 88 PERCHES,
part limestone and part slalo, In a high state
of cultivation, with sufflclentTlmber lor osoof
tho farm. The Improvements consist of u
BRICK MANSION HOUSE, Brick Tenant
Houio, Stone and Frame Bank Barn, with all
other necessary out-bulldings. Thoro la also
an Orobard of choice Fruit, a Well of nevor
falllng Water, and a constant stream of run
ning water passing through tho farm.
ParparMlb bolnga traot of land known aa tho
CRAIG FARM,
located on the Loudon Road, about two mllea
from Mcrceriburg, In Peters township. This
tract contains
93 ACRES AND 43 PERCHES
of limestone land, of good quality and Tory
productive, with afcout 10 acres of choice Tim
ber. The improvements consist of a BRICK
DWELLING, a Bank Bam, and a Well of nevor
falling Water, with an Apple Orchard.
Purpart stb being a piece of ground adapted
lor out lots, located about mile from Her*
corsburg. Immediately In the rear oi thoSeml
nary buildings, containing
18 ACRES AND 130 PERCHES.
Purpart Oth being a lot of ground on the
Warm (Spring Road, about X mile from Mot*
corsburg, containing ___
8 ACRES AND 86 PERCHES.
On this tract there la a very valuable Water
Power. . „
Purcart 7th being ft tractof
MOUNTAIN LAND,
situate in Warren township, adjoining the
"Old Toms" property on top ofthe mountain
along the Turnplko leadlnglfrom Mercersburg
to McConnollsburg, containing
206 ACRES AND 30 PERCHES
and allowance.
Purpart Bth being a tractof Mountain Land
situate In Montgomery townsblp, In. wbat is
callrd the “Comer," containing
45 ACRES AND 110 PERCHES
and allowance.
Purpart Oth being a tract of Mountain Lnnd
situate In Montgomery township, containing
28 ACR& AND 145 PERCHES
and allowance, adjoining Jonathan Koyser
and others. , ,
Purpart 10th being a tract of Mountain Land
In Montgomery township, ooatalofng
IB acres and hi PERCHES, „
and allowance. The abovo Mountain tracts
ARE ALL WELL TIMBERED.
Terms made known on day of sale.
HANNAH HOKE, Executrix,
CHARLES F. MoCAULEY,
ANDREW R. BCHNKBLY,
sep 16-3tw-87 1 Executors,
ASESCT IB BKIBOB OODBXT,
VIRGINIA
The Nelson oonnty FarmlDg, Grape. Mechan
ical and Mercantile (Incorporated) Company
have opened an office on their farm. 7 miles
northeast of Nelson Court House, 'where Lho
President or Clerks of the Company may be
found at all times. They eollclt correspondence
with persons desirous topurchase or rent lands
In Nelson or adjacent counties. Address the
Preslden t at Nelaon Court House, and corres
pondents will be promptly attended to, be is a
practical man with large experience, la a law
yer of 80 years practice, still practicing, and
was a land trader before the war. He Is
well acquainted with all lh. land, in Nelaon
and adjoining oountry, oud will Investigate
the title to all lands we may sell. Nelson
county will oompare favorably for original
fertility of soil with any county In Virginia, Is
perhaps tho most rolling of any oonnty eaitof
the Blue Ridge. The valleys and tat lands not
surpassed by any In the State for terming and
planting purposes, and the south, south-west
and southeastern slopes ol her mountains and
hills, it Is thought, Is unsurpassed In any part
of the world for the quantity and exoelleaoe of
the forest Grape.
And the abundance of pure spring water
that abounds m every section of the oonnty,
together with the immense water power that
Is capable of driving any amount or machine
ry that may be desired for the most extensive
manufacturing companies, and last though
not least, we have perhaps the moat salubri
ous climate in tho world. We have at least
100.000 acres of land in lota and tracts from one
acre to 1000 acres, ranging from 12 to 60 per
, acre. We have one tract of 10,000 acres of
Mountain land for sale. Persons desiring to
purchase, are respeotfully solicited to open
oorre.pond.ncn „ HPATHI(aI .
President.
REFERENCES.
Judges Wm. J. Robertson, Wataon, Rtve«,
Sb.nl, Shackleford, Fult* the Faculty of the
University of Virginia, the bar of Nelson omn.
MIZpATaIOK|
jeMywS3 president.