Lancaster intelligencer. (Lancaster [Pa.]) 1847-1922, October 13, 1869, Image 2

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.