WEDNE9D ay » OCT. 13,1869. DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET. FOB GOVEBNOB: non. ASA PACKER, of Carbon county. FOB JUDGE OF BUPBEME OOUBT: Hon. CIBUS I. FEBBEIKB, of Cambria co. democratic county ticket. For State tenate: MICHAEL MALONE, City. WM. H, EAGLE, Marietta. For Assembly: JOSEPH M. WATTS, Columbia. i?&KMF B hS°v2h, SaJabury.! JACOBS-BAKER, Mount Joy Twp. Far Sheriff: CHARLES GROVE, Columbia. For l eQistcr of Il'ilO GEORGE 8. BOONE, Bart. For Prothonotary: A. Q. KILLIAN, New Berlin. For Clerk o/ Quarter Sessions : THEODORE WHITAKER, Fulton. For llerk of Orphans' Court: CHARLES J. RHOADS, Indlnntown. For Treasure r: H. W.BWISHEB, Little Britain. For Ownmiiftoner; EMANUEL BHOBEH, City.’ ior Directors of the Poor: JOHN L. LIGHTt*EFs Leaoock. JOHN M. MILLER, West Lampeter. For Priso* Inspectors: OEORGE PIERCri, Mount Joy twp. JOHN BIGLE, Upper Leacock. For Auditor: WILLIAM McCOMSEY, City. For Coroner: HENBY M. OBITER, City. now to Vote if Not Registered. Every native or naturalized citizen ■who has resided in Pennsylvania one year, or in case of removal and return, six months, and within the election district ten days preceding the day of election, and who has paid a State or CouDty tax within two years, can vote at the coining election. If any such person is not registered, he can make affidavit of the above facts before a Justice of the Peace, or before the elec tion officers on the day of election. Blanks have been furnished to the election officers, and they are bound to give every unregistered man a chance to prove his right to vote.- See that not a vote is lost for want of attention to this matter ! The Election Bctnrns, We will mail an extra to all the sub scribers of the Weekly Intelligen cer on Wednesday morning, and we expect to give them such news as will make their hearts glad. The Calamity Act. When Geary signed the infamous calamity act, he gave convincing proof of his complete subserviency to the cor rupt legislative ring. The first section provides that no person shall recover damagea__agarrrst any Railroad, for in juries done, unless it is proven that the corporation knowingly employed in competent agents or defective ma chinery. That puts the life and limbs of the people at the mercy of soulless corporations. Those who may sue railroad companies hereafter will bo apt to find great difficulty in proving that they knowingly employed incom petent agents and defective machinery. But that is not all, nor the worst. The second section interferes directly and unwarrantably with the constitu tional powers ofjuries. It provides that in estimating damages thejury shall not take into account the physical torture and the menlul anguish of the sufferers; but, It does not stop even there. Itsets a limit to the damages. It puts a price on the life and limbs of the people. — The life of the citizen is only estimated to be worth £5,000, and his limbs but $3,000. Beyond that Geary says nojury shall go. Is that all? Not quite. Employees if killed are not paid for. No matter how gross may be the carelessness of rail roads, expressmen, mail agents, con ductors, nrakesmeu, cattle drovers and bauds employed in any capacity, can be mangled or killed with impunity. Geary caunot claim that he did not know the character of this bill. His attention was called to its iniquitous provisions, aDd fie promised to take the interests of the people into con sideration, but be wilted down before the agents of the soulless monopolies. He signed theactwith afuil knowledge of its character. * Either he was well paid for his signature, or he yielded to the demands of legislative thieves who were. In either case he be trayed the people shamefully. When Geary’s message, announcing that he had signed this infamous bill, was re ceived iu the, House, John Hack mnn, who was then a member, took up bis bat and left the hall iu dis gust. He never again returned to his seat, declaring that every effort made to arrest the current of corrupt legislation, must prove utterly abortive while Geary occupied the Gubernatorial chair. He is now bitterly opposed to his re election. Let the people remember these things when they go to the polls next Tuesday. Tlic Prospect in the State. .From all parts of the State come as surauces that Packer and Pershing will be triumphantly elected. In Allegheny county Geary’s abuse of the pardoning power lias disgusted multitudes of law abiding Republicans, while the Ger mans of Pittsburg, Erie and other cities and towns utterly repudiate him. In Philadelphia the Radicals aredisgusted • with the result of the Registry, and some Republicans predict that Packer will have frSm eight to ten thousand majority in that city. Berks will roll up an old fashioned vote, and the. Tenth Region will speak in tones of thunder. In the Radical counties of Bradford, Susquehanna, Tioga and others along the northern border, Packer will re ceive the support of very many Repub licans. All that is needed to Insure a great and crowning victory is a full poll of the Democratic vote. Let us do our full share to Lancaster county! Let every Democratic vote be polled next Tuesday. Vote Early! Vote Early! Make it a point to do so this time. Take your neighbor with you when you go to thepolls. By voting early you will leßßen the labors of those who may be engaged in looking up ab sentees. In this city, especially, let there be a full poll of the Democratic vote early in the morning. Give One Day to Your Country Make your arrangements so that you j can give the whole of election day to this good cause. Go to the polls early. See that no Democrat is deprived of his vote, and Be=< that no Radical casts an illegal ballot. Stand up for your rights and protect the rights of others. Let the best and most prominent citizens take this election in hand. It is their duty to do so-a duty which should be faithfully discharged. I Poll Every Vote. Do not leave a single Democratic vote unpolled. Get out the last man. Re member that a full poll of our vote will insure the election of Packer and Persia* ing by a sweeping majority. Bo Prepared for Bain. Get out every vote, rain or shine. If it rains make an extra effort, and our majority will be larger in this State than if the day should be fine. Democrats, work until the election to influence votes. Work on the day of the election to get the voters out—and make the victory sure. Every Democratic vote must be polled on Tuesday next. White men, remember, that a vote for the Pardoner is a vote for negro •equality. rp-pru? T a A srr-BVR WT3BKLY lUTELLIOEHOEB, , OQTOBEB 13 1869 Geary as an Orator* The Express undertakes to challenge the correctness of the report of Geary’s speech at New Holland, which appeared in our columns, and it quotes a single sentence relative to his abuse of the pardoning power to prove its allegation. Those who heard the candidate of the Ring will vouch for the truthfulness of what appeared in our columns in regard both to the numbers present at the meeting and the character of the speech. In nothing was Geary misrepresented. That he did own up to pardoning many criminals all who heard him know; that numbers of them were thieves his report made to the Legislatureshows, and that they were Radical thieves is undoubted and undeniable. In nothing was Geary misrepresented. Thereportofhisspeech was truthful, accurate, ancLgiven in his own choice language. We ask candid Republicans to read our report for themselves. None who heard Geary speak in this city two years ago will have any hesitation about be lieving ali we say of his effort at New Holland. How any intelligent Repub- licau can vote for him is more than we can tell. They must feel disgraced by having such a silly fool in the Guberna torial chair. The leaders of the Republican party in Pittsburg refused to permit Geary to make a speech there. The Chairman of the County Committee did not dare to let him shtfw himself in this city. Other counties have begged him not to come within their borders; and he has been forced to peddle his speeches, which a leading Radical journal calls “miracles of boast and nothingness,” to small crowds in country villages. What a spectacle is thus presented to the people of Pennsylvania. How hu miliating it must be for a great party to have such a candidate foisted upon it by a gang of legislative thieves. It is no wonder multitudes of respectable Re publicans openly refuse to vote for Geary. That hie will be ignominiously defeated there ban be no doubt. And the only mourners over the result will be the “roosters and pinchers.” Tlie Mayoralty. The Express talks flippantly about the necessity of refprm in the City Govern ment, and urges the people to vote for William A. Atlee for Mayor on that ground. Can that veracious paper point to a single item of extravagance in the administration of Mayor Sanderson? When, where, or how has he been ex travagant? We dare his political oppo nents to an investigation. On the con- trary, we know, and scores of Republi cans know, that he has been the firm and fast friend of economy in all the departments of government since he has been in office ; and has by his un- tiring vigilauco and care in husbanding the resources of the city, paid off more of the public debt than any one of his predecessors, and nearly as much as ali of them together. The .Sinking I* und (the accumulate* of which is a virtual reduction of the debt] now exceeds, w*e learn, $OO,OOO, and H is Increasing more and more rapidly every year under his careful aud economical administration. He has labored earnestly, aud thus far successfully, to keep down the expenses, so as to obviate the necessity of auy in crease of taxation ; and if he is re-elected, of which we have not a doubt, the tax payers of the city will have in his past course a guarantee of honesty and in tegrity in its financial management in the future. If all our public officers—municipal, State and National—were as honest and incorruptible us Mayor namlerson, it would be a happy state of aflairs all over the country. The people of both polit ical parties know his high character for integrity and capability, and will tri umphantly re-elect him to the station he has so faithfully filled for the last ten years. The “ Gas ” Candidate. “ My son William,” the Radical can didate f<s?~Mkyor, is promising every thing to the people in his daily and nightly electioneering tours through the City. He is even telling the honest Germans of the Eighth Ward that he will get the Gas for them if he is elected Mayor. What control the Mayor has over the Gas Company is not so clear, and he failed to inform them. He is bowing aud scraping now to everybody; but no. later than twelve months ago he held a different opinion of a large class of our fellow-citizenß. Then he was heard to express himself publicly that the “Democratic party iscomposed of the Dutch and Irish and the ignorant portion of the people.” And this is the opinion this sprig of aristocracy still entertains, notwithstanding his efforts to get their votes for Mayor. After the election he will not notice a poor man on the street. Vote the Entire Ticket. We trust there will be no scratching of the Democratic ticket fur municipal officers on the day of election. This is no time to carry out personal feeling or private griefs. Vote the whole ticket from top to bottom, and. let it be seen that this old Democratic city is true as steel to her time honored principles. Let the watchword of our Democratic friends be—every thing for the cause and nothing for men, and all will be well. Farmers and Drovers Of Pennsylvania—all you who have an interest in supplying the Philadelphia market with live stock—remember that Geary is pledged to the Cattle Bill —a bill incorporating a company with au thority to charge extravagant rates for every beef, sheep or hog sold fur the Philadelphia market.... It is especially your interest to prevent the passage of Buch a law. Elect Packer and Pershing and its defeat is certain. A Radical State Treasurer keeps a monthly balance of over two and a millions of dollars in the treasury. Idle? Ob, no. The money is loaned to banks and private individuals, and whilst the' latter speculate on these funds, the Treasurer receives a return of thousands by way of per centage, which he puts in his own pocket. This is the kind of action the people are asked to endorsed by the re election of John W. Geary and a Radical Legislature. Hon. Cyrus L. Pershing, the Dem ocratic candidate for Judge of the Su preme Court, in his letter of acceptance, said : “ The man who may be called on to act in a judicial capacity where the property, the reputation, or the liberty of his fellow-citizens may be involved, should bring to the discharge of his duiies, a mind uninfluenced by political prejudices of any kind whatever.” Great Land Fraad. Read the account which we publish elsewhere of the manner in which the lands granted to Pennsylvania by Con gress was traded off by the Radical State officials. It is one of the most damaging exposures yet made, and ought, of itself to be sufficient to ensure the defeat of John W. Geary. Mr. Atlee is urged for Mayoron the ground of morality, and as a terror to evil-doers. Will his friends inform the public how many burglars, violators of the license laws, and other offenders were permitted to escape during his Dis trict Attorneyship ? These are ant questions to answer time. Special Legislation Is a disgrace to any Commonwealth. Geary says he cannot prevent it. Try Packer. If he fails, turn him out. Geary, the great pardoner, is now known as “the general jail deliverer.” The failure to punish crime, is the surest way to increase it. Order-loving citizens, will you help to sustain such a system by your votes on Tuesday next. gcary Pledged Against Economy and Beform. Remember., that the “roosters” and “ pincheVs-who packed the Conveu tion which Dominated John W. Geary voted down a resolution pledging the Republican party of‘Pennsylvania in favor cff economy and reform in the State Government. They did not want their tool to be trammeled by any Buch pledgee. Remember, that Geary never made any attempt to control or restrain the corruption which has made Pennsyl vania a and a reproach dur ing bis administration. Remember , that he now openly de clares in his public speeches that he “ can not control the Ring.” Rerr&nber, that the Bing has suc ceedetfin securing the nomination of a working majority of its members in the legislative districts of the Stale, and that they are going back to Harrisburg in force next winter., Remember , that leading Republican newspapers openly charge that Geary was the tool of the Bing and is the can didate of the legislative thieves. Remember, that the Democratic party i 3 solemnly pledged to economy, re trenchment and reform in the State Government. Remember , that honest Asa Packer Vina voluntarily pledged himself to break up the infamouß system of special legis lation, and to do away with the corrup tion and the frauds which have dis graced the State and injured the people under the rule of John'W. Geary. Remember , that Asa Packer's word is a 9 good as his bond, and that he will carry out all his promises to the very letter. Remember , that John T. Hoffman, the Democratic Governor of New York, did much to break up the Bing in the New York Legislature by a firm and judicious exercise of the veto power. Remember , that Asa Packer is pledged to the same course iu Pennsylvania, while Geary dare not' promise to inter fere with the plundering schemes of the thieves who nominated him, and whose tool he has been and will continue to be if re-elected. I Remember , that this is not a mere party contest, but an occasion when all honest men Bhould combine to defeat the infamous schemes of the legislative Ring, which has setup John W. Geary as its candidate. Remember , that the only hope of re form is to be found in the election of that honest and uprtght citizen, Asa Packer. Detention of Hon. Asa Packer. Hon. Asa Packer was detained by the breaking up of the railroads, from ar riying’in Lancaster on Wednesday. The great flood of Monday swept everything before it in the Lehigh Valley, and did an immense amount of damage, interfering with travel and preventing the running of the trains. The follow ing dispatch to Hon. Hiester Clymer was received by B. R. Tshudy, Esq., this morning: Easton, Pa./October 5, 1869—T0 Hon. Hiester Clymer.—l came as far as Allen town to duy, to meet an engagement with you at Lancaster, but find that I cannot get farther before to-morrow, consequently must give up the trip. Asa Packer. A large crowd had collected in front of the Cadwell.House, and many more had gone to the Reading Depot to greet our distinguished candidate for Gov ernor. Of course there was considerable disappointment at bis unavoidable de tention, but the crowd bore it good humoredly. Neither storm nor flood win pie tern racKer irom beiug elected Governor of Pennsylvania. Bontwell to Blame for Gold Gambling. The New York World, in an able editorial, proves that Boutwell is re sponsible for gold gambling and the panic in Wall street, which threatened to bring on a grand financial crash like that of 1857. It says : The Secretary of the Treasury then, was the immediate cause of the derangement of business which has prevailed all this week. We have no disposition to defend him. He has acted with a stupidity and a weakness quite unparalleled even in his own career, aod lor which he and the power which put him where he is should be held to a strict account. And now he comes to Pennsylvania :o stump the State for Geary. Geary Pledged Against Economy and Re- form. Remember that the tools of the legis lative thieves, who made up tbe con vention which nominated John W. Geary, voted down a resolution pledg ing the Republicans to economy and reform in the State Government. The “roosters” and “pinchers,” with Davis, Strang, Josephs & Co., are going back next winter in full torce, and, if their tool should be re-elected Governor there will be such a carnival of fraud and corruption as was never seen before in our State Capitol. Is the precise sum at which John W. Geary estimates the limbs of the pas senger who may be made a victim of railroad accident, the result of the care lessness of a company’s employee. No jury in Pennsylvania can fix the recov ery any higher. A careless switch tender or other employee may precipi tate a train down a precipice and man gle and mutilate hundreds of passen gers, Geary has assessed the maximum of damages at three thoueand dollars in all cases,and thecompany havenothing more to do than send their agent to the scene, and pay off according to John W. Geary’s estimate. How cheap are the limbs of his fellow citizens in the esti mation of the warrior. The Public Debt. Secretary M’Cullough in his official statement of the public debt on the Ist of September, 1860, placed it at $2,366,- 000,000 which included the Pacific Rail road debt. Secretary Boutwell, in bis official report says the debt, September 1, 1869, was $2,626,653,870,31, and this did not include nearly sixty million of Railroad debt. For the life of us ve can’t see when the reduction comes in. The total debt on the Ist of October is $2,634,609,856,09 which don’t look as if there was any diminution over Septem ber. One of Geary’s methods of rewarding his political allies is a previous “par don.” An indictment is found against one of his favorites —a trial takes place —a verdict of guilty is rendered, and before the judge can sentence the crim inal an unconditional pardon is shaken under his nose and the culpritgoes free. How long is justice to be administered in this manner? The Fifteenth Amendment is the leading issue in this canvass, and it means negro suffrage, and forced negro suffrage at that. All in favor of the contemplated outrage will vote the Re publican ticket, ail opposed to it will vote thle Democratic ticket. Democrats put the question squarely at your Re publican neighbors, and make them swallow the negro or take the water. The Huntingdon Journal,\ Radical, continues to assail Hon. John Scott be cause he said Asa Packer, was an hon orable upright man, and Cyius L. Pershing was an able lawyer and a virtuous citizen. John Scott has there fore forfeited the confidence of aportion of the Radical wing. Why put a worn out hack of all the political parties into office again. All parties have tried Geary ; all parties are sick of him. The Radical papers continue to Ig nore Geary’s course on the Temperance question, because they fear the German vote. Let every white man go to the polls on Tuesday, and vote for Packer and Pershing, the white man’s candi dates. _ '! 'a MUltar^Cteaidtte, The Express WUliana A. AUee’s election to the Mayoral tyoathe ground of his mlUtary fought, bled and—Hoed in defence of his country! This will be he ws to the citi zens of Lancaster, and tfceyyvili natur ally enquire what corps of the army he was attached to, what battles he fought, how many rebels he killed, how many prisoners he took, and all that? We have an indistinct recollection that Mr. Atlee Bervedacampaign either at Safe Harbor, or at Chambersburg after the rebels hadjetreated to Vir ginia; but beyond that we are mot ad vised of the great military prowess of this new hedged candidate for military fame and civic honors. Perhaps the Express can enlighten us on that sub ject ; and, whilst their hand is in, they may as well infordi the public whether Mr. Atlee obeyed the draft In person, or procured a substitute to stand between the bullets of the enemy and his dear self? When a candidate for office is urged upon the people lor his military services, it is very necessary for the people to be informed of what those services were. Onb issue to be decided at the city tiun is, whether the man who denounced their country’s defenders during the war as •‘ulcerson tbe body politic.’’ or one who like CapU Atlee raised a company and marched to the defence of the city and country, is most worthy of public honors. It is a matter of no account to Mr. Atlee, but the honor and tbe patriotism ol our are deeply involved in tbe answer which shall be given to this question—next week — Express. We doubt whether tbe valiant Atlee was behind the chair of Geist when he wrote the above. It does not surprise us to learn that it is a matter of no ac count to Mr*.Atlee whether he or Mr. Sanderson is elected Mayor. The joke of Captain William Augustus At Lee’s nomination becomes plainer every day. We don’t believe that Mr. Sanderson ever called the soldiers “ ulcers on the body politic,” but we do believe that Captain Atlee, as he delights to be call ed, was Dever under fire. Can any ad mirer of the gallant soldier tell us where he fought? Was he ever wounded? We are well aware that Mr.-A 1 kee is a little vain of his military record, but we have often been at a loss to know on what he rested his vanity. Perhaps his substitute (black as a coal, price $1000), fought and bled and died, but we can hardly believe theyouog hero rests his fame on the achievement of this son of • Africa. We will pay a reward of $5OO for k any evidence that Mr. At Lee (except by substitute) ever saw a live rebel, ex cept perhaps as a prisoner. The Loyally of Eon. C. L. Pershing, William D. Kelley, of Philadelphia, better known in that city as “Loafer Bill” made a speech at City Hall, Pitts burg, recently, in which he thus alluded to Hon. Cyrus L. Pershing: He was iD the Legislature of Pennsyl vania, ami I have examined his record there, and I cannot find that be gave a pa triotic vote during the war. But I find that if all his votes had been telegraphed each evening to the head ofthe Union army, and to Jeff Davis and his cabinet, that Jeff Davis would have hailed him as a friend and cried ‘ Well done,” and your Grants and other commanders of your armies would have grated their teeth and said, “ tbe Northern traitor.” [Applause.] Now Kelley either lied about exam ining the record, or he lied in his City Hall speech. Let usexamine tbe record. In a speech made in the house in 1562 in favor of investigating the frauds per petrated on the soldiers, Mr. Pershing said: I am in favor of voting every man and every dollar necessary for tbe suppression of the rebellion, and when we give the Gov* rroment tbo moo ami tho monoy nooo8“arv for the overthrow of the rebelllion, the Gov ernment, whether National or State, should answer to tbe people for the manner in which it uses the funds and the men in trusted to its charge.” Again, in the Legislature, in 1864, he said : “Mr. Speaker, we have a cause—the cause of the and the Union— for which we are fighting to-day, which ought to be as sacred in our eyes as ever in the eyes ofthe crusaders was tbe rescue of the Holy Sepulchre from the Infidels. Let us be careful now, in this great emergency, to do no act which future history will con demn.” In ISGS, Mr. Pershing, in the course of a speech made in the House, said : I, for oue, will never consent to any sep aration of tbe States of the Union. Provi dence could inflict no greater calamity upon us than to permit the rebellion to succeed and permanently destroy the Union.” “ StooplDg to Conquer.” William Augustus Atlee alias “my son William,” is now bowiugand scrap, ing to every poor man and every Dem ocrat he meets, begging their votes. It has lately come to him to be thus con descending and polite. It is but a short time since that he would not lower his dignity to even look at a poor Democrat, much less take him by the hand or speak to him. Oa the contrary, during the war he was one of those extremely loyal, stay-at home patriots who tried to proscribe every Democrat not only soci ally, but endeavored to injure him in his business, and deprive him of the means of earning a support for himself aud family. The hard-working, hard-fisted Dem ocrats of Lancaster have not forgotten the proscriptive doctrines advocated by the Atlees, and now, having a chance at this sprig, they will attend to him. The llero of Look-Out Mountain, When the Radicals are asked for the record of Geary’s military achievements they talk of Look Out Mountain. Geary is paraded as the hero of that fight. It is regarded as his crowning glory. If all his military reputation is as baseless as that, he must be very poor in deeds. Mr. Dana, the Assistant Secretary of War, was present when the celebrated “battle above the clouds” was fought, and he has declared the reports of it which appeared in the newspapers to be ridiculous fabrications. It was like maDy of Geary’s exploits, the mere fa ble of a sensational newspaper corres pondent. The bubble has been effectu ally pricked, but Geary is still parading himself as the buckram hero of a fabled battle among fictitious clouds He is a vain braggart and an empty humbug. Begging Democratic Yoies. Wm. Aug. Atlee, Esq., was Chair man of the Executive Committee of the Union League, which proscribed all Democrats socially and in business dur ing the war. Mr. Atlee and his ers pledged themselves not to buy of a Democrat, not to employ a Democratic workman, not to have any intercourse with Democrats. He denounced the very men to whom he now cringes for votes, and refused to recognize them or to apeak to them. Will any Democrat now lower his dignity, and forfeit his self-respect by voting for such a candi date, or aid his election in any way ? We rather guess not. The ex-chairman of the Executive Committee of the proscriptive Union League is only wasting his breath and making himself ridiculous by his appeals for Democratic votes. He will be fully convinced of that next Tuesday night. Cheering news comes to us from every section ,of Pennsylvania. The people have had enough of Geary, and intend to elect an honest and efficient Governor in his place. Hundreds of Republicans who never voted the Dem ocratic ticket, have announced their determination to vote against the pre sent occupant of the Gubernatorial chair, because he has been faithless in the performance of every duty imposed upon him. Geary’B doom is sealed, aud “ Govode” cannot save him. Now let every Democrat do his duty, and swell the majority of Packer to thousands. Ohio All Bight. The Cincinnati Inquirer of the 4th inst., beeins an article on the political outlook in that State, as follows: “Oar advices from all parts of the State amount to positive assurances of the election of Mr. Pendleton by a majoriy larger than the average against us in the last six years.” : ; War Passions • 16 war . jjfo irrasaefl can no exited by' the empty app®^ of political montebanks, whose whole stock in trade is cheap and wordy loy alty. The people of the North and the South are being rapidly knit together again by the ties of kindred blood and the strong bonds of common interests and a common destiny. We thank Heaven, sectional animosities are rap idly being-buried ; out of sight, while ail good citizens pray that they may never be resurrected. Great national _and local ißsnes, which belong Jo the pres-1 ent, are engaging the attention of all reflecting men, and the claprtrap of paid political orators fells upon dull ears, and fails to reach the popular heart. The effort to carry Geary through by fierce appeals to worn out passions must result in a disastrous failure, and from his defeat we shall date a new era In the politics of Pennsylvania; an era of honesty in the administration of the legislativeand executive departments of our State Government. Let all who sincerely desire such a result labor dilii gently to swell the majority which hon est Asa Packer is sure to receivd. Let the dead past bury its dead, and let us act in the living present as becomes in ;elligent freemen. Atlee and the Biot. Tbe Express attempts to makea point for its candidate for Mayor, by allusion to the riot which occurred last year during the day of the Radical County Convention. That is a most unfortu nate line of argument for our cotempo rary to adopt. Wm. Aug. Atlee, Esq., was Prosecuting Attorney and tried the alleged offenders against whom the Express rails so bitterly. If they were guilty, as that paper insists, how did they escape. It was surely not through favoritism of a jury three-fourths Re publican that they were declared not guilty. If there was any evidence to prove the charges made against those who were arranged, they must have es caped either through the connivance or the incompetency of the gentleman who is now running a hopeless race as candidate for Mayor. ** The truth is that certain Radical row dies were responsible for the whole dis turbance, and it was a conviction of that fact that led to the acquittal of the Democrats who were arrested. Mr. Atlee and certain other Republicans did all that lay in their power to secure the conviction of Democrats, whose only offence was defending themselves and their friends from outrage. Theas sertions of the Express in regard to the disturbance of last fall were proven to be false by the sworn verdict of a Re publican jury, and its revival of the in flated stories it then told must necessar ily damage its candidate for Mayor, in stead of benefiting him. The “Reform” Party. The Express is advocating Mr. Atlee’s election on the ground of reform. What kind of reform does it want? Is it the same kind of reform that was intro duced by Mayor Albright and the Know Nothing Couucils in 1554-5? Many of our readers will recollect how the cor poration, during that one short year, was run in debt some $40,000 over and above the annual receipts, for the pur pose of rewarding the hangers on and lickspittles of the foul party. If this is the kind of reform eougbt to be intro duced into the City Government, by the election of the Radical candidate for Mayor, we opine the tax payers will put in a demurrer, and prefer leaving the management of the City finances in present hands. The people of Lan caster are not yet inclined to believe that their interests would be promoted by a change of rulers. The deceptive cry of “reform” is a humbug aud de lusion, put forth to gull and deceive the unwary and unsuspecting. But it will fail of its mark. Radical Rowdyism In Philadelphia. Theßadicatsof Philadelphia, despair ing of carrying the city by fair means, seeing that the reprobates who make up the local ticket are doomed to defeat, in spite of all the frauds they can perpe trate under the registry law, have re solved to arms, and have taken to shoot ing down their opponents in the streets. All the evidence goes to show that the attack upon the Keystone Club was a deliberately planned piece of villainy. The members of that body were first openly insulted, then assailed with fists and clubs, and, when they attempted to resist, volleys were fired into their ranks from the building which the Radical ruffians occupied. And yet Radical newspapers have the audacity to at tempt to make political capital out of such an outrage. Truly they are re duced to a desperate strait, even in Philadelphia, where they expected they would gain an easy victory by frauds under the registry law. The Democracy have been too sharp and too diligent for them, and hence their new aod murder ous method of political warfare. That it will be as ineffective as their more secret and less noisy attempts to carry the city their can be no doubt. “A change in the City Treasury has in oDe year saved thousands of dollars to the u i-pa} < rs.” So ea\ - ii.c jLxpsscss of last evening. That veracious sheet might have truth fully added, that the change iu the ad ministration during the last year cost the tax-payers at least twice as many thousands of dollars as the change in the Treasury made, through the incom petency and recklessness of some of the Republican officials. In the case alluded to by the Fxpress every dollar has been recovered by the City. In the latter case the thousands have been lost to the Treasury, aud can never be recovered, and if these officials are continued in power a year or two longer they will bankrupt the Treasury as they did iu Know Nothing times. The only earnest effort that the Radical government officials who are now stumping Pennsylvania seem to be making, is an effort to secure the re nomination of Grant. That is the bur then of their song, from the time they begin until they end. They sing very small on Geary. The selfish rascals are notoDly neglecting their duties to blow wherever they get a chance, but they are using all their powers of oratory to in sure the continuance in office of the man who appointed them, with the hope that they will be able to hold on to the profitable positions for eightlongyears. They are the only earnest Radical speakers on the stump in this State. The tax-payers of this State are anx ious to know Who has the use of the million of State funds which are to be paid out in redemption of loans in Oc tober, and also who now hold and are to retain the million and a half which is not to be paid out in redemption of any loan. This practice has grown up under the Geary Administration, and is a profitable one to the Treasury “ Ring.” A man can afford to pay lib erally for the office of State Treasurer, end yet make a fortune in a few years. Defeat Governor Geary, .and this nest of foul and unclean birds is broken up. A Rebuke to Boutwell The New York Herald administers a deserved rebuke to Boutwell. It says : Boutwell has gone to Philadelphia to stump the Stateof Pennsylvania for Geary, Would It not be more discreet and appro priate of the Secretary to remain in Wash ington and attend to the stamps in the present financial embarrassment? We think so. We think, too, that after permit ting the late . scandalous gold gambling orgies in Wall street be is not the man to remind the people of Pennsylvania of their duties to the country. JB©“Mr. Atlee is now courting poor men’s votes, and is especially complai sant to our German and Irish fellow citizens. After the election he will not recognize them —not even permit them to come between the wind and his nobility. Tornej Berates the lies of His Own Jtohi\ YV. Forney; toot occasion the oilier day to ' take jbapk and jefute the : slanders of Packer, with which his paper, has been filled. He said to those who heard him apeak at Do^ningtown: “I cannot dp otherwise than apeak kindly of Asa Packer. I know him well. He is an honest man and a gentleman, and lam glad to say this mnch in view of the fact that the Democratic public speakers are con stantly assailing the personal integrity of our candidate, General John W. Geary.” Th assailing the 1 integrity of feeary, Democratic speakers and are only repeating the grave charges which leading Republican newspapers boldly proclaimed to the world. We have heard no Democrat say as harsh thingsof the Radical, candidate for Go vernor as were published in the delphia livening Telegraph , the Phila delphia City Item , the Pittsburg patchy and other weU known Republi can journals. They called him in the plainest terms, “a loafer,” tl aliar,” and 11 a humbug.” They declared him to be u lacking in integrity,” “ wanting in capacity,” **the candidate of the Leg islative Ring,” and predicted his defeat. ’ Nothing harsher or more damaging could or need be’aaid of him. What a contrast does honest Asa Packer present. Even his bitterest po litical enemies are compelled to praise him. From Senator Scott down to John W. Forney.no Republican who regards truth has dared to breathe one word of aught but praise in regard to him. He is a pure and upright man, the inveter ate foe of political corruption, and he will break up the Legislative Ring and stop the plunder of the State Treasury. Knowing that multitudes of honest Re publicans will vote for him, and his election is conceded. Govode and Geary Scared. It is evident that Govode and Geary are terribly frightened. They see how the tide is setting, and by their actions admit that honest Asa Packer will be triumphantly elected. Covode contin ues to urge Grant to come to the rescue, but those who know what is best for the President, refuse to let him venture away from Washington iu Covode’s keepibg. The correspondent of tbeX. Y. Herald says: The Republican State Central Committee of Pennsylvania is making a vigorous ef fort to get the Presidents visit Pennsylva nia this week. Whether the President is averse to going, or whether the pressure of public business will not permithisabsence is not known, but thos far the committee has been unsuccessful, though it is under stood more than one appeal has been made since John Covode was here, a week ago. All the members of the Cabinet, as well as the bureau officers of ihe departments, who can deliver speeches, have been invited to come over and help Geary. Secretary Boutwell left for Philadelphia 10-duy, where, it is said, be will speak for Geary and at the same time embrace the oppor tunity to make an elaborate defence of the financial policy of the administration. It is understood that he will explain his in terference with the recent gold panic in Wall street, and defend himself from the criticisms that have appeared against him in the public press. A. M. Clapp, tne Con gressional printer, also left for the cam paign in Pennsylvania to-day, and other Republicans in the government service will follow. Let them come! Let the whole gang bellow themselves hoarse! Their paid orators can not influence the honest voters of Pennsylvania. The masses are disgusted with Geary, and thor oughly convinced that he has been the tool and is now the candidate of the legislative thieves ; and they intend to elect a pure and honest man in his stead. At Its Old Trade. The Express is still harping away at the so-called riot of the 29tli September last, and falsely accusing the Mayor of not sufficiently exerting himself to sup press the disturbance; but never a word to this day has that sheet said in con demnation of the Radical ruffians who were guilty of mobbing the Mayor’s of fice, the Democratic Club Room, and Scheurenbrand’s Saloon, two years be fore. That was all right and proper in the saintly eyes of the ghostly editor of that paper, because its pet bullies reigned supreme for a few r hours in our streets ; but it was all wrong when the boot was on the other leg. In justice to the Mayor v e must say that, from the evidence given in Court, on the trial, it was made manifest that, he did everything in his power to pre preserve the peace of the city on the day first above alluded to, and had he been sustained by the Sheriff of the county and other officers of the law, not in the employ of the city, there would have been but little disturbance. Mr. Atlee was then District Attorney; why did he not.come to the Mayor’s assistance? and why did not Constable Baker (who is always loud mouthed when the dan ger is past,) show his hand upon the occasion, and leDd his aid to quell the riot? These are pertinent questions, and we hope the Ixpresa will, for once, be candid enough to answer them. Atlee on tae Water; Works. When Wm. Aug. Atlee, Esq., was nominated for Mayor he made aspeech, from which we extract as follows: • • By the simple process of appointing a new Superintendent of Water Works, we found that all the projects for expending vast sums of money to increase the supply were totally unnecessary, and even in the present dry season there was plenty of water for all purposes, and without a dollar of ad ditional cost. * s s And the Mayor’-, office, in Mr. Atlee's opinion, had not been managed with an eye chielly to tile public good.” Mr. Atlee, the Radical candidate for Mayor must be a very modsst man, judging from the above extract which we make from his speech accepting the nomination. He did not seek the nomi nation —not he —so he says iu another part of his speech ; but it is a notorious fact that he has been electioneering for it for several months, publicly and pri vately. He speaks very knowingly about the management of the Water Works, and about the project for expending vast Bums of money to increase the supply of water. In this he unconsciously tram ples on the toesof someofhls prominent Republican friendß in tlieCity Councils, who were the principal advocates of the project. But, he says that there has been a plentiful supply of water the present season, without adollarqf addi tional cost. Perhaps he had better wait until he sees the coal billsof the present year, and also the extraordinary ex penses made by the “new” Superin tendent since he has been in office, and very much of it owing to the incompe tencv and negligence of the incumbent- During the last year, as we learn from the records, the ordinary expenses of the Water Department amounted to about $lO,OOO, or double what it ever was before under any former Superin tendent. Mr. AUee also charges that the Mayor’s office has not been managed with an eye to the public good. Will he state in what particular it has been mismanaged.? The present Mayor, we ha-ye no doubt, will willingly submit to the most thorough and rigid investiga tion into all bis official transactions ; and if anything wrong can be found, let it be pointed out to the public. 'Connecticut Town Elections, Splendid Democratic Gains. The town elections in Connecticut last Monday were much interfered with by the storm, but in almost every in stance where a contest was fairly made the result wasa decided gain for theDe* mocracy. Take Fairfield for a sample. Three years ago the Radical majority was 187. East spring it was about 30 Democratic. On Monday last the Dem ocratic majority was 122, and that, too, after the Legislature of last winter pass ed a law which cut off a number of Democratic votes. The coroner’s jury to investigate the re cent boiler explosion on the lair grounds at Indianapolis has rendered a verdict that it was caused by the carelessness and mis management of the engineer, who is dead. Cjros it. Penkluci Soeord. Bidleai lies B*n«4. We clip from a lata number of For ney's JPriss, the two following items: «»Pershing voted against the national credit daring hla terms in the Assembly. Business men, and all who desire to see our fire-twenties hold at 120, or go higher, had better vote against him.” “It is not abusive of Cyras L. Pershing, the Democratic candidate for Supreme J adge, to recall thdremembrance that when Pennsylvrnia soldiers were in the held fighting for the restoration of ihe Union, he, iln the Assembly at Harrisburg, vo ed steadily against them and their interests.'* If there was the slightest foundation for these charges, the time when, and the page of the Journal or Record where the votes of Mr. Pershing are recorded, would be given. It u not ignoranceon the part of the Press editors that induces these charges, but they are the emana tion of sheer and reckless malice. If the record of Mr. Perahing is 14 disloyal,” as the Press alleges, why not publish the record, and not indulge in mere general charges Buch as the above. We have only timeandroomforaveryhrief reference to Mr. PerebiDg’B record whilst in the Legislature, and it does not, in the slightest degree, sustain the charges made by the Press. In a speech made in the House in 1862 in favor of investigating thq frauds per petrated on the soldiers, Mr. Pershing said, “I am in favor of voting every man and every dollar necessary for the suppression of the rebellion, and when we give the government the men and the money necessary for the overthrow of the rebellion the Government, whether national or state, i hould an swer to the people for the manner in which it uses the funds and the men committed to its charge.” In 1863, Mr. Perahing made an able speech in favor of maintaining the credit of the State, and against repudi ating a solemn contract entered into with its creditors, for the payment of the interest on the State debt. “Is it necessary,” asked Mr. P,, “in order to sustain the General Government that we shall tarnish the fair fame of the State, and write ‘Punic faith* on every wall of the capitol?” Mr. Pershing argued that the passage of the bill un der consideration would injure the credit of the wholecountry abroad, and place a powerful weapon in the hands of the Confederate agents in Europe. In 1864 the same measure was brought before the Legislature, and Mr. Per shing again made a lengthy speech up on it. We have room but for a single brief extract: “Mr. Speaker, we have a cause— the cause of the Constitution and the Union—for which we are fighting to day, which ought to be as sacred iu our eyes as ever iu the eyes of the Crusa ders was the rescue of the Holy Sepul chre from the Infidels. Let us be careful now, in this great emergency, to do no act which future history will condemn.” | In 1865, Mr. Pershing, in the course I of a speech made in the House, said : ! “ i, for one, will never consent to any I separation of the States of this Union. 1 Providence could inflict no greater ca lamity upon us than to permit the re j hellion to succeed and permanently destroy the Union.” At the first session in which Mr. Pershingserved as a member, he offered a resolutioh which wasadopted, having for its object the better provision for the families of those who were in military service, and calling upon the Commis sioners of the several counties of the State for such information as could aid in that subject. In addition to this Mr. Perahing, on all occasions, voted for the payment of military claims and for the various laws authorizing the payment of bounties to the soldiers. He was also the friend in Committee, aud on the floor of the House of the schools for the education of the orphans of the soldiers. In 1860 the appropriation for these schools was at first defeated, the vote being 42 for and 40 against the appropriation. Mr. Pershing voted with the friends of the bill. It is proper to state that a recon sideration was carried and the bill after wards passed. Iu IS6O a draft was ordered for an al leged deficiency in the number of men required to be furnished .by the State. The number demanded to supply the deficiency was much larger than the original quota of the State. At the sug gestion oi Governor Curtain, a commit tee of the House was sent to Washing ton, in conjunction with Adjutant Ge neral Russel, to have this actof injustice to the State corrected. The Republi can Speaker of the House appointed Mr. PershiDgon this committee. Theeflbrt was successful, and the quota for the deficiency reduced. This was the only way in which Mr. Pershing “opposed the draft.” The amendment allowing the soldiers to vote in their camps was sustained by Mr. Pershing, 1863 and 1864. Mr. Pershing took occasion when the opportunity presented itself, to pass a high eulogium on the 54th, 55tn, and. 76th Regiments, which were largely composed of men from Cambria county. This was done 'in connection with the passage of bills which directly affected these eegimeDts. We have referred to this matter at this length, for the sole purpose of under cei ving any who might be misled by the misrepresentations of the Press and the papers which follow its lead. The stinging rebuke administered by the Alleghenian seems to have produced no effect on the conductors of that paper. It may serve their purpose just now to falsify, but it.is some consolation to know that a lie can’t live forever. — Johnstown Democrat. Bayonets to Control Negro Ballots, Not content with giving all the ne groes of Mississippi the right to vote, and depriving many white men of the privilege, the Radicals are going to keep the polls opeu several days to enable them to convey the blacks from one poll to another. And now, seeing that they are still likely to be beaten, they have determined to carry the coming election by the force of bayonets. The fol lowing telegram has been sent to Gen eral Grant: Vicksburg, Oct. 7. —General Ames, In an official interview with a citizen of this State, on Monday last, used this language : “ I iutend to carry the election in Novem ber against the Dent ticket if I have to inarch my soldiers from precinct to pre cinct to elfect it.” Will such action fall under his legitimate official power? The people wish a fair expression of the public will in the choice ol Governor. The con summation of the Military Governor's avowed purpose will render the election a cheat and a national degradation. (Signed), A. C. Fisk, Chairman National Union Republican As sociation State Committee. Will the people of Pennsylvania con tinue to sustain a party which is guilty of such gross outrages. Let them answer on next Tuesday by defeating John W. Geary. From Kashville. Nashville, Oct. 7.— The fight for the Senatorsbip is more exciting than ever. Johnson has his headquarters at the Max well House, the two fiuest rooms in the es tablishment, Lbe bridal characters, being appropriated to his use. He electioneers with as much vim as ne ever did in his palmiest days. After legislative hours members begin to drop in, and in the eve ning it is not uncommon to see scores of Senators and Representatives seated around a long table, while the ex President, with animation and earnestness, lays down the law and defends his policy. Etheridge holds forth at the City Hotel. He exhibits remarkable conversational powers, but Johnson is certainly the most witty and politic of the two. Each has hosts of zealous friends, who are working as if the fate of the Republic depended on the result. Viewing the whole matter from an impartial standpoint, it may be stated ibat Andy is still in the lead, and is likely to retain his advantage. The organization of both Houses was completed yesterday. The Governor did not send in his mes sage, and is not likely to do so before Fri day, as it is not yet completed. It is known that he will recommend the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment, which recom mendation will not be carried out. Secretary Fletcher publishes a letter to day in reference to the State finances. He takes a most hopeful view and saysthat after consultation with nearly every member of the Legislature he failed to find one vrho was in favor of repudiation. A Duel on the Topis—Hosby, the Baldpr, Challenges Colonel Boyd, or the Penn sylvania Cavalry. A duel 1b in prospect over in Warrenton, Va., between Colonel John Mosby, the fa mous rebel guerilla, and Colonel William Boyd, of the Twenty-first Pennsylvania cavalry. Tht latter is Sheriff of Fauquier county, Va., by appointment of General Canby; bat is bitterly opposed by Mosby, who has used every effort to obtain hiß removal. Mosby, It is said, caused very grave charges to be preferred against Boyd, and an investigation was ordered by General Canby. Colonel Lee made an examination, which resulted in favor of Boyd. Last Saturday Mosby and Boyd met. Boyd approached Mosby in a threat ening manner. Mosby said, “Sir, I am anarmed and a smaller man tban yon, but I am willing to meet you where life can be perilled equally against life.” It is alleged that Boyd, instead of desisting when he heard Mosby was unarmed, attacked the Confederate chieftain in an unjustifiable manner. The result has been that Mosby has challenged Boyd and the latter is said to be in trouble about a secend. The people of Alexandria are much excited over the affair, The Fruits of Kadical Teaching, Horrible Oatnf« on an Aged Vfbtte Woman by a Negro Fiend* Ijvthiof of tne Wretch. The Baltimore Sun of yesterday con tained an account of a moat horrible outrage upon an aged white woman by a brutal negro, and the hanging of the wretch. A correspondent sends us the the following particulars: Shrewsbury, Pa., Oat 2,1809. Messrs. Editors: On Wednesday last, 29th alt. Miss Reip, a most estimable lady, 65 years old, from the city of Baltimore, visiting her friends some eight milessouth east of this place was attacked by a barley yoaDg negro, Jim Quinn, who, alter knock ing her down, dragged her some distance into an adjoining woods* She by this lime somewhat recovered from the with the feebleness of age wrought to a frenzy, resisted until overpowered by the superior strength of her assailant. In the struggle her clothing was nearly all torn from her person, which the hellish liend twisted into ropes, «nH binding her hands and feet to different trees, perpetrated his diabolical purposes; thus he left her, almost lifeless and weltering in blood, (With a view no donbt of returning to his victim again at night), returned to his work iu an adjoin ing cornfield. After some four hours Miss R. succeeded in releasing nerself and made her way to the honse of Mr. Kirkwood, where more dead than alive she related what had occur red. Mr. K. immediately proceeded to the house of Mr. Robinson, to whom the negro was indentured, and for whom he was at the time at work, they, in company went to the corn field, and finding the negro still at work, arrested him, he denied his guilt, bnt upon examination his under garments were found saturated with the blood of bis vio tim, he was confined in a corn-crib uoti 1 Mr. K, could procure medical aid for the | lady, and an officer into whose custody to place him, but upon his return found the yillian had escaped. After a fruitless search of several days, he was overtaken and arrested near this place to-day, and upon being confronted by gersons who knew him, confessed his guilt. He w'as placed in the custody of Officer Roser, of Baltimore county, Mi, who pro ceeded to take him to the jail of that coun ty ; upon the arrival of theXrain at White Hall Station, the cars were entered by a number of persons who overpowered the officer, took the negro and hung the guilty wretch near the place where he perpetrated his hellish crime. The lady, so cruelly outraged, lies in a most critical condition, and little hope is entertained for her recovery. 8. A Mall Agent With Genius. U*>w One or Creawell'N Sable Appoint* meniH UnkcN iiitine Happy and Tarns an Honest Fennj. Giles Smith (colored) is one of the mail agents on the Mississippi and Ten nessee .Railroad. He is mail agent by grace of Winfield Jerusalem Smith, and the position is doubtless a reward for services in behalf of that distinguished statesman. Giles is not an educated man and brother. But he possesses that before which education pales—ge« uius. Giles- genius tabes a not eccentric chute. Its Alpha and Omega is not the acquisition of currency ornamented with Mr. Chase’s frontispiece. The mails do not fare well with this sclou of the royal African house of Smith. That portion of his education involving the deciphering of manuscript was sadly neglected. So he “averages" his letters and manages, if not to give satisfaction to give quantity. It is useless to com plain of a gentleman of Mr Smith’sge nius, aud the citizens along the hue smile all the same if the Hernando package is seut to Oakland, and the missive anticipated by Nicodemus Smith finds its way into the hands of Ambrosia Johnson. But our champion mail agent does some other things uotexactly palatable to the parties concerned, nor regular. Giles is provided with a prescribed space in the car, and the mail dots not fill it. Being a man of genius, the idea at once suggested itself that the extra space could be turned to account. So he com menced carrying passengers. The rail way officials remonstrated. But what was remonstrance to a man of genius? Whenever Giles chooses to carry pas sengers he appoints them “special depu ties," and Cbloe’s and Dinah’s and Phillis’ and Sambo’s and Cuffee’s big hands turn over the mysterious mail documents to the despair of the rail roaders. That the space may be kept filled, Giles has added another feature to the mail agency. Thia is the carrying of freight. If the Express Company «an “ tote” it for “ so aud so” much, Giles who pays no privilege taxes, can go lower. And in this car can be found jugs, buckets and kegs belonging to his colored brethren and sisters along the line, transported just as quickly and much cheaper than by the Southern Express. We might further illustrate Giles’ genius, but what’s the use? No more is necessary. Genius will protrude, like the end of one’a nose or one’s poor relations. And when the practical re sult of this genius comes under our ob servatioD, we cannot forego the desire to blazon it to the world’s admiration. We have too few geniuses to allow the light of one to flicker and die under a I bushel. Nfws Item*. The National Irish Emigration Conven tion met in St. Louis yesterday. Many States were represented by delegates. General Robinson, nominated for Secre tary of State by the New York Republican State Committee, on the declination of Cur tis, has also declined the nomination. The British war vessel Albatross has ar rived at Halifax with yellow fever on board. She had two deaths from the fever at Ber* muda. The Indiana continuo to depredate in Montana, and are said to have stolen nearly every bead of stock. They have recently killed Beveral persons near Silver City. The Minnesota State Temperance Con vention met on Wednesday at St. Paul, and Dominated a State’ticket, headed by Rev. D. Cobb for Governor. Two boats, containing the captain, first mate and thirteen other persons, from the lost steamer Trade Wind, have been picked up In the Gulf. The second mate’s boat is stilt missing. Later accounts of tho flood in Maine re present the town of Eastport as nearly de molished. In Calais, the destruction of buildings and damage to vesselß are great. The Peuobscot river is swollen to its highest and millions of logs have been swept down its current. Sackville. New Brunswick, was visited by a terrible storm and tide on Monday night. A large amount of property was destroyed, and thousands of cattle were drowned. The loss at Sackville is estima ted at $1,000,000. The storm extended to other parts of the province. The Mississippi Radical Convention met at Juckson yesterday. General Alcorn was nominated for Governor, It. Powers for Lieutenant Governor, and James Lynch (colored) for Secretary cf State. The re mainder of the ticket will be nominated to day. J. D. Gill & Co.’s hardware store in Meadville, Pa., was robbed on September 25tb, of $510,000 in Chenango and Alle gheny Railroad bonds, and $17,000 in Bear Creek Railroad and Mercer Mining Stock. Tbe stock and bonds are worthless to the robbers. At St. Louis, Mr. Berry, publisher of the Lsfayette (Mo.' Freeman, has sued ex Governor Fletcher aod Bacon Montgomery for $50,000 damages for personal violence in the destruction of his printing office in 18G0, when Montgomery commanded tbe militia at Lafayette, The New York Republican Convontion met yesterday, and nominated a Btate ticket, beaded by George William Cards for Secretary of State. Resolutions wore adopted favoring coin payment of the pub lic debt; theequalizingoi thetaxea; protec tion to citizens, native aud foreign born; tbe adoption of tho Suffrage amendment, and expressing sympathy for Cuba and favoring her annexation. In the Virginia Senate, yesterday, a pro test of the Republican members against any acts of the Legislature at this session; the members not having taken the test oatb, was presented and tabled, and a resolution was adopted to inform tbe Commanding General of the organization. In the House, a similar protest was presented, a resolu tion to administer tbe “iron-clad” oath was referred, and Stephen S. Turner, Conserv ative, was elected speaker. From Europe—Per Cablp. Madrid, Oct. 4. —Tho Insurrectionary movement is maintained at different points. Communications between Madrid and the Provinces is difficult, as the telegraph lines have been interrupted m their working very injuriously by Republican bands. The Republican volunteer forces collected in tbe cities of Madrid, Barcolma and others, wjjh the view of rescuing the prisoners taken by the military during the late engagements at the barricades, have cut the telegraph wires and stopped the mailtrulns carrying the government despatches. Very consld erable alarm still exists at Bejar, where the populace remains excited aud in a very unruly condition. ’ i Republican deputies wbo have been elected to the Cortes, have organized coun ter revolutionary or Democratic reactiona ry bands in Heresca and\it artazelli. Their forces have been defeated at tbe last named place by the local authorities and troops. London, Oct. 4.—Telegrams from Dres den report that the small town of Fraun stein, the seat of an extensive linen menu facture and dye works, lying about twenty miles from ihe Capital, was totally de stroyed by fire on Saturday night. Municipal Flection in Baabvtlle* The municipal election on Saturday, tbe 25th inst,, resulted in tbe success of the en tire conservative ticket, K, J. Morris, con servative, for mayor, received 2,238 major ity in a total vote of 4,251, All the wards were carried by tbe conservatives, The colored voters, for the first time, voted in numbers for the conservative ticket, Agricultural College Scrip. A Stupendous land Swindle What has Become or 780,000 Acres of Some persons wilT'remember that In 1862, in the midst dT war, Congresß passed an act granting land to the States to the amount of thirty thousand acres for each Senator and Representative, for the purpose of endowing and founding Agricultural Colleges \Thls gave to Pennsylvania the enormous amount of 780,000 acres of land. The pretended of this extravagant donation was to diffuse knowledge of agriculture among the people, but the real object was to enable Zaoh CbaDdler and other radical speculators inland, loyalty and patriotism to appropriate to their own use a large portion of the public domain. The plan was to throw ou the market a vast portion of the land and buy it up at nominal sums, and the endowment of acriculturai colleges was the scheme by which these speculators accomplish ed theiroblect. Theluvestigatlon which General Morgan has recently made into the manner in which the grant to Ohio has been squandered, has naturally drawn attention to the same subject iu Pennsylvania; and here, too, it will bo seen, there has been a most shameful waste of the property of the people. This grant was accepted by the legis lature of Pennsylvania in ISG3, and a Board of Commissioners established to dispose of tbe lands In such a way as might most effectually accomplish the purposes of the donation. The board consisted of the Covernor, Auditor Ge n-1 eral and Surveyor General. Surveyor | General Barr disposed of 23.650 acres. On the 15th of August, 1860, 236,320 acres were sold at a fractiou over 58$ cents per acre, leaving 520,000 acres to be disposed of. On the 10th of April, ISO 7, this balance was sold at prices rauging from 55 to 65 cents per acre, realizing the sum of $288,050 SO, which added to $151,126 00, the amount pre viously obtaiued, makes a graud total of $430,186 80 realized to the people of Penusylvania from the 780,000 acres. Now the people know the paltry sum which has been received from this truly magnificent graut, but tbirf Board of Commissioners have carefully conceal ed all knowledge as to who were tho fortunate purchasers of this extensive territory. There is no report of this Board. It Is not known whether they were, themselves, the purchasers or not. The only information which has been vouchsafed the public is the meagre statement contained iu the Keporl of the Surveyor General which we have given above. There seems to be on all bands a strong disposition to eouceal from the people as much as possible, and there is, doubtless, an equally strong motive to keep the details ot this enormous speculatiou hidden from tho public Bcrutiuy. To show the curious way In which this report of the Sur veyor General Is made up, we take the following extract: “ The largestaraountawardeil on any single bid was 300,000 acres at 55 cents per acre ; but the party having failed to comply with the terms of the contract, it was on the 28th day of June, 1567, declared forfeited by the Board of Com missioners and the scrip again awarded ts auother person upon the same terms as the first bidder.” “ A party” and “another person” aro the obscure phrases under which this servant of the public seeks to hide the uames of those who have been specu latiug iu these lands. Tho Surveyor General is not troubled for want of space. He lluds room enough In his report for many uucopsidered trifles. Why does be use the roundabout phraseology to describe what he should have presented to the people with accuracy aud distinct ness. But where was this Board ? Why have the people not been favored by them with the full details of this trans action? Kearns of paper arc annually wasted in describing details of adminis tration which are of uot the slightest, importance, but the Board, consisting of the Governor, Auditor General aud Surveyor General, have not conde scended to present to the public au ac count of their stewardship, after tho transaction has been closed for moro than two years. Yef they sold to specu lators a domain of 780,000 aores at sums varying from 53 to o*s cents au acre. . He who administers on a poor estate consisting of fifty acres of land, must produce distinctly all the Items of the account. But these administrators on a vast estate of the people consisting of richest prairie, skirted by noble streams and suscepti ble of the highest cultivation, have re fused to make a report, while one of them seeks to cover up all traces of their transactions uoder tho convenient phrases of “a party” and “anotherper son.” Could not thlß board have com municated to the people of Pennsylva nia the name and residence of the “party” who was so fortunate as to obtaiu from Geary, Hartranft and Campbell 300,000 acres of land o at fifty five cents per acre? Is tbe cause of tbe studied concealment of the names of parties to be found In tbe fact thut the purchaser and seller of this laud were often tbe same persons? Properly managed, millions of dollars could hvae been realized from this mag nificent grant. New York, Connecti cut, lowa and some other States Judici ously located their land for the beueflt of their agricultural colleges, and much of it is this day worth ten dollars an acre, aDd is yearlv Increasing iu value. Pennsylvania has obtained through the stupid and corrupt management of her legislature the sum of $4311,000, a part of which has gone for “ experimental farmey” and the balance invested in bonds yields an interest which fails to keep up the miserable institution known as the Agricultural College of Pennsyl vania but compels it to make auuual application to the legislature for appro priations. New York accepted this grant from Congress at about the same time that It was accepted by Pennsyl vania. Under Governor Seymour four hundred and thirty thousand acres of land was located, and are held in trust for the great Cornell University, with its lour hundred students, and a corps of able and learned profeasots. 3H1,!J20 acres of the New York laDd remain to be located. The lauds thus far located are valued at $3,240,000, and within*ten years they will beworih tweuty millions. They have been selected iu the lumber regions of Wisconsin. This is what New Yorkhasbeen doing, while Geary, Hartranft and Campbell were hawking about the the lands of Pennsylvania and selling them to the ring of which Zuch Chandler was the chief, at the nominal price of fifty-five cents an acre, at the time when government lands were pro ducing $1.25 per acre. Contrast tho management in these two states and blush for poor Pennsylvania ! Compare the wisdom and skill with which Gov. Seymour and his successor, Gov. Hoff man, have disposed of tbe great dona tion of the Federal government, with the shamefully inefficient and corrupt conduct of Gov, Geary. Let him be summoned on Tuesday next to render up his final account of a most feeble stewardship. Fatal Disease amo.no the Chickens.— DariDg the past week or two a fataldmoase baa been manifesting Itself among tbo chickens in various parts of this county, destroying in some instances the oiitiro stock. One of tbo most euecessrui poulter ers in Ibis city Informs as that almost all bis stock are either dead or sick ; aud wo learn from another gentleman that In rid ing between this city und Petersburg bo counted no less than twenty-one chickens either dead or dying on the road, wkilo in a single yard be saw seven in tde same con dition. We hear thut the disease has shown itself in and around Willow-Street aud other sections of the county. Our citizens should refuse to purebaso cleaned poultry on the market unless they know the char acter of tbe persons offering them it for sale. It is also stated that large numbers of hogs are dying in some sections of tho county, anti also about WrlghLsviilo, in York conuly. The disease is said to bo neither cholera nor traebina. Those inter ested should take the earliestand most effi cient measures to prevent the spreud of the disease. Acknowledgments.—The Managers o! the Home for Frit mile™ Children gratefully acknowledge the following donations : For the picnic—Mrs. Gruel, basket of cakes; Friend, cakes, apples and pies; Friend, cakes and cheese; Friend, cheese and crackers; Mr. Geo. Gable,7doz, of rusk; Friend, $1.00; Friend, $1.00; Friend, 65c, Eden Union Sunday School, 2 baskets of provisions ; G, D. Sprecber, basket of toma toes ; Mr. Swartz, basket of tomatoes; Mr. Samuel Miller, bucket of blackborries and basket of tomatoes; Friend, basket oftoma toes; Friend, basket of tomatoes; Friend, basket of cabbage; Mr. John Martin, two large baskets or tomatoes; Mr. H. Locher, bag of potatoes; Mr. King, i bus. potatoes; Mr. Burak, basketof com; Mr. Weaver,bas ket of bread; Mr. Adam Fronk; 3 bus. of to matoes ; Dr. Musser, 10 bus. of potatoes, and I bus. of apples; Pequea Fishing Par ty, lot of provisions; Friend, basket of to matoes ; A. Locher, 2 bus. potatoes and 1 bus. of peaches ; Mrs. Hogentoblor, basket tomatoes; John Landis, E. Lampeter *3.00; Fair held at Mrs Meirgar’e, assisted by the Misses Amweg, fS 05; Fair by Misses Michael, Wiley and Krouse $lO 60. Fair h.ld by Misses King and LaDdis, $5.00: Contents of Charity Box. $2.40. A Novel Affair.— Henry B Graybill, of West Earl twp.. has invented a novel and useful article, called an alarm bell bed. It is connected In some way with the flour packer, and Is so arranged that when a bar ret Is fall the bed npseta and the miller la rolled on (he floor.
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