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Lancaster gintelligencer.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1870
Reform In the County Prison
That the management of the Lancas
ter County Prison has been infamously
bad for some years past no one pretends
to deny. A combination familiarly
known as the "Prison Ring" has been
formed, and the institution has been so
run as to make money for those who
have had control of the institution. The
Inspectors have been "setup" from year
to year by Interested politicians, and
they have been openly charged with re
ceiving heavy bribes from the successful
candidate for Keeper. The office of
Keeper is made a most lucrative one by
a skillful system of plunder, and the
profits under the present management
amount to not less than eight thousand
dollars per annum. It is a situation
which is eagerly sought by mercenary
politicians, and the result is that Re
publican newspapers of this city openly
charge that there never has been more
than ono Keeper elected who was prop
erly qualified to discharge the duties of
this important office.
That the inmates of so extensive an
institution as the Lancaster County
Prison should be put into the keeping
of mercenary creatures, who care for
nothing but the money they can make
by shrewd management of the concern,
is one of the grossest outrages that we
can conceive of. Yet, from the concur
rent testimony of all who know any
thing of the conduct of the institution,
such has been and still is the case. The
tax-payers of Lancaster County are
swindled out of thousands of dollars an
nually, all of which goes into the pock
ets of the Prison Ring. If we are to
believe the reports which come to us
from reliable sources Keepers, have ha
bitually obtained the place by giving
bribes to Inspectors, and the very men,
to whom the care and oversight of the
innnates-of our prison are committed for
reformatory purposes have, in so doing
been 'guilty of a crime which would
consign them to one of the cells over
which they preside, if their just deserts
should be meted out to them.
The abuses which have existed in our
County Prison have led to attempts at
reform. A bill introduced by Senator
Billingfelt is now before the Legisla
ture. That act proposes to give the ap
pointment of the Prison Inspectors to
the President Judge of our Court. This
would take the selection of Inspectors
out of the hands of the people, and
would seem at first glance to be calculat
ed to remove the keeping of the prison
from untier the control of political ad
venturers. But-a valid and strong ob
jection to this plan has been raised. It
is said, and with much show of plausi
bility that the politicians would at once
take steps for securing the nomination
of a candidate fo• Judge whom they
could induce-to appoint Inspectors in
their interests. We know the power of
corrupt rings in this county, and are
therefore apprehensive that such a bar
gain might - be made and successfully
carried out.
It is tot by any means an impossibility,
:old the bare possibility of such a thing
is calculated to alarm us. When su rich a
placer or unlawful plunder exists as the
Lancaster County Prison has proved to
he the Ring, could MIMII to expend large
sums of money to secure control of it.
II• they could obtain the appointment of
the Inspectors through the J udge, and
through the 1 nspectors of the Keeper for•
one term, they could make sure of the
continuance of the control of the prison
for ten years. During such a period
fortune, might he made out of the con
cern for .lode a numher of persons, and
the "di veys " would allow of a large
preliminary di-count. Under the eir
cumstames, aml with the existimr state
of affair, in the Republican party of this
county, We Call not Rp r r,,,, , of the bill
of Senator
We understand that Senator \Varlet
intends to amend Senator Billingsfelt's
bill, so as to tuaye the office or Keeper
elective; the - Keeper to have house rent
mid boarding for himself and family
free, but to have no interest in the board
ing of the prisoners. l'he Inspectors:ire
to be elected, as they now are, and are
to buy all the provisions and other nut
terial used in the prison by contract from
the lowest bidders, and to publish an
nually a statement of all the purchases,
with prices &c. mr,Warfersamendment
has some decided merits. In our judge
ment it would do away with many of the
abuses which now exist in the manage
ment of our prison, while it would not
furnish to corrupt politicians a motive
f:‘.lkgetting up a candidate for Judge in
tre interest of the Prison Ring. An-
other reason why we are inclined to fa
vor the amendment of S , enator Warfel
is because it is republican in principle,
leaving the selection of officers to the
people. It' proper sale-guards can be
thrown around popular elections, we
shall never consent to abandon them
for the system of appointments by any
power, either Executive, Legislative, or
Judicial. The two propositions, to
which we have alluded, are before the
Senate, and we hope they will lie care_
fully considered before action is taken.
l'he matter is one of decided importance
to Lancaster County.
Radical Rule In North Car
William \V. Holden, made Governor
of North Carolina by the help of federal
bayonets and a general disfranchisement
of the white populatiomof the State, is
just now engaged in representing his
dominion to be in a demoralized condi
tion. It Seellls that in some counties
the people pay taxes reluctantly, and
there are rumors of existing lawlessness.
'rho Governor professes to find himself
unable to command either the respect
or obedience of the people, and lie has
called upon Grant for soldiery to aid
him in the task he has undertaken.
When the character of this man Hol
den is known, and his conduct consid
ered, it will not be a matter of surprise
that disorder exists in his dominion.
Jle was originally editor of the Raleigh
Siadord, a paper which became vio
lently Radical al the close of the war.
When he was elected Governor he
transferred his paper to a carpet-bagger
from Pennsylvania named Littlefield,
retaining, however, an interest in the
concern. Holden, having a controlling
influence with the black-and-tan legisla
ture,Mul Littlefield appointed State Pri
nter, and went ' snacks" in the spoils,
which werepurposely swelled toinunense
proportions by appliances well known
to George Bergner• of this State. A rail
road Ring was speedily formed and six
teen million dolltu•s in bonds were issued
to various railroad enterprises. This
Ring, of which Holden Was chief, got
eoutrul of the bonds, and only 51,300,000
of the whole amount has been satisfite
torily accounted for The Legislature
Las taken the case in hands, and some
of the membersof the Ring have fled the
State. There have been threats of hn
peachnient made against Holden, and i
is believed by those who are best in
formed that his real object In asking for
troops is to prevent the election of hon
est men to the Legislature, who would
bring him to trial for his rascalities. Of
course the old cry of "murder" is raised,
and of course Grant will profess to be
lieve the lies which are prepared by
Holden and duly inserted in Forney's
Chronicle and other Radical newspapers.
Oh! for one session of an honest Con
gress, that the villainies of reconstruc
tion might be unetu•thed. What an
investigation that would be! Covode's
report would be completely thrown in
the shade.
ME House Committee on Military
Affairs have made a report exonerating
all who were accused of being engaged
in selling cadetships, except those who
have been. expelled or censured. Mr.
Golladay, the only Democrat Involved,
has been declared to be free from blame.
Proposed Celebration of the Adoption
of the Fifteenth Amendment.
We publish.elsewhen3 an account of a
meeting held by the colOred people of
Lancaster, to make arrangements. for,
the celebration of the adoption the
Fifteenth Amendment. We copy frem
the Ezprem. Had any nutification of
the meeting been given us, we should
have had a special reporter on hand,
and would have furnished a fuller and
more graphic account of what was said
and done. The resolutions adopted will
attract the attention of ,our Republican
readers. It will be seen that they are
Invited to take part in the demonstra
tion. With a generosity which is un
bounded, our African fellow-citizens
extend the courtesies of the occasion to
all, " whether in town or country, with
out distinction of color or former con
dition."
We hope we shall not be compelled
to record the fact that the white Radi
cals of Lancaster county failed to act out
the principles they profess. Here, in
the home of Thaddeus Stevens those
who profess to be guided by his teach
ings ought to he willing to follow the
example which he so publicly set. We
shall expect to see all the Radical poli
ticians of the county marshaled in the
procession under Brother Boston.
Editors of the Republican newspapers
of this city ought to be given prominent
positions. ." Jolly" Jack Hiestand
ought to be mounted as assistant mar
shal on an army mule with a bag of
contract beans suspended about its neck;
Kline ought to lead one of the divi
sions, on foot, with the Examiner
dog " Tip " at his heels ; Greist ought
to be put in a position where his flowing
beard and ponderous corporation would
be displayed to the admiration of all tan
colored maids and ebony matrons; Wylie
ought to be placed in temporary com
mand of any colored soldiers who may
not have received their bounty money ;
Pearsol should by all means beselected
as a committee of one to see to it that
there is no straggling from the lines for
drinks as the procession passes Republi
can hotels and saloons; Geist should be
chosen to deliver the benediction at the
close of the ceremonies; and Father
Abraham might be appointed to take up
a collection to defray expenses, provided
two honest American citizens of African
descent were selected to watch the count
of the pennies. We make these sugges
tions in good faith, and with a hope that
they will be favorably received by
Brother Boston and other magnates in
the African wing of the Radical party.
The Slate Treasury----Shall There Be a
Reform?
Shall we have any reform in the
management of the State Treasury?
That is a question which the people are
now putting. They have read the pro
ceedings had before the Investigating
Committee of the Senate, and lame and
impotent as is the concluidon reached
by that body, the masses see very (dear
ly that the grossest abuses do exist.
There is not a taxpayer who is not ready
to condemn the outrageous system by
which the Sinking Fund has been rob
bed of a million and a half of dollars, in
order that Messrs. Mackey, Irwin, Kern
ble, Moore and the rest might be en
abled to realize fortunes by loaning the
public money to banks and private in
dividuals. To do away with such abuses,
is the bounden duty of the Legislature,
and the people will not be satisfied with
out substantial and fundamental re
reform.
The Deni,,rak of the Senate have it
in their power to secure the passage of
Senator Wallace's bill. That bill means
complete reform, and more than enough
Republicans are ready to,yote with the
Democrats to secure its passage. Are
the Democratic members ready to do
their duty' in this important matter?
There are rumors that they are not ! re
ports that a number of them can not be
induced to vote fur Mr. Wallace's bill,
111 fur any other bill which will prevent
tleneral Irwin from speculating with
the public moneys. Are these reports
true? We should be sorry to be forced
to believe that there is a single Demo
crat in 11w Senate capable of thus hin
dering a reform Whieil is so much need
ed. We hope Senator Wallace will
speedily push his bill to a vote, so that
we may be able to see where Senators
stand.
AVe tell the Democrats, in plain terme,
that no one of them can afford to vote
for a continuance of the abuses which
exist in the management of the State
Treasury ; and we tell them that they
can secure the passage of Senator Wal
lace's bill, if they act in concert. We
shall watch the vote, and shall not fail
to publish a list of the yeas and nays,
so that all men may know who arc hon
est in this matter, and who are not.
The Swamping of the Sinking Fund.
The Philadelphia Aljc and some other
newspapers, which are now sedulously
engaged in_ passing extravagant encom
iums upon the great railroad robbery by
which nine millions and a half of dol
lars are filched from the Sinking Fund
to build railroads in the back woods,
must have a very contemptible opinion
of the intelligence of their readers, if
they expect them to credulously swal
low the sickening mass of eulogistic
adjectives which they are vomiting forth
in laudation of this barefaced, gigantic
theft. Who can be induced to believe
that an exchange of nine million dol
lars of bonds of good railroads for nine
million dollars of bonds of worthless
and unbuilt railroads is anything else
but a gift in whole or in part—and most
probably in whole—of nine million dol
lars of money? And who will believe
that an appropriation of this money, or
these valuable securities, for the ben
efit of private railroad corporations
has been made by the Legislature for
best and wise reasons? The Aye,
which in one day made a com
plete somersault in its position on
this question, to-day declares that in
the provision of this bill, the interests
of the State have been properly "guard
ed." This is refreshing, certainly !
Nine millions of dollars are stolen from
the State, and its interests are carefully
" guarded,' while it is being done! The
citizens of the State have reason to pray
that they may never again have their in
terest so carefully 'guarded.' An instance
of this careful guardianship is found in
the fact that the bonds which are given to
the State to secure its loan to certain of
' these wild-eat roads,aresecond mortgage
bonds and the rate of interest which the
! State is allowed to draw upon the second
mortgage bonds is live per cent. while
the rate of interest fixed for the first
mortgage bonds is SEVEN per cent!
The only semblance of defense that can
lie made for those who were engaged in
this transaction is the plea that they
were actuated by a desire to benefit their
respeetive sections; but they had no
right to appropriate moneys which be
longed to the people of the State at
large, and which were sacredly set apart
for the payment of the debt which
presSes equally upon the tax-payers of
every section of the Commonwealth.
TWELVE Radical members of Con
gress from Pennsylvania voted to pre
vent the expulsion of Butler of Ten
nessee, who was proven to be guilty of
sell lug a cadetship. The names of these
moral gentlemen are Cake, Cessna, Co
voile, Dickey, Kelley, Morrell, Myers,
Mercur, Negley, Phelps and Townsend.
At least one of them voted to keep
Butler in, because he feared he might
be turned out. Covode will not regard
himself as safe until the "in westigatiou"
conies to an end.
Tu.: Democrats of Missouri will not
nominate candidates for State officers to
be chosen next November. They think
it best for the interests of the State to
select the best men who may bo nomi
nated by the Conservatives.
THE LANCASTER WEEKLY INTELLIGENCEB, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1870.
i Bill to Destroy Republican Government
, ~ . .
.Thajtadictds in Congress know 'very
jvelithat therawouldbe attreedygnd to
„their rule if aititrarSt intOriereniq with
- 4ilections should cealle. With thiSouth,:-
Jim Slates all„admit44l.4. - 0 the :Union,
and‘k,'Complete recognition of the right
of each State to mantle its domestic af
' fairs once more recognized as the funda
mental law of the land, the days of
Radical misrule would be numbered.—
To bolster up a sinking cause, and to
perpetuate their hold upon offices from
which they derive immense profits by
plunderingthe people, desperadoes who
follow the lead of Ben. Butler are ready
to resort to any expedient. Mr. Farns
worth a leading Republican member of
Congress, exposed the designs of those
who profess to lead his party when, in
the debate on the Georgia Bill, he said :
There is an easier way of maintaining our
ascendency in the nation than by holding
elections. That way is by act of Congress.
That is the way to do it. The gentleman
from Massachusetts ( Mr. Butler) yesterday
raised the cry of " murder" in the House.
Whenever he wants to pass one of those
Reconstruction hills he gets up in the
House, and, NV ith flaming nostrils and raised
arms bawls out " murder, murder," and
by a hue-and-cry of that sort gets his bill
passed. Whenever one of these bills is to
be passed, the Washington Chronicle pub
ishes accounts of some great outrage, and
immediately the Reconstruction Commit
tee is called together and a bill reported to
the house.
That Mr. Farnsworth spoke the truth,
no one who has watched the current of
events can deny. Georgia is still kept
out of the Union by such means, and
now we see Butler making another and
more desperate effort. The Radical
carpet-baggers and scallawags, who now
misrepresent the people of Tennessee in
Congress, know that they will all be
overwhelmingly defeated if a free elec
tion is held next October. To prevent
that, to carry the election by force and
fraud, is the end which Ben. Butler has
in view. For that purpose he has pre
pared a bill, the design of which Is to
destroy the existing government of a
State as fully in the Union as Pennsyl
vania, and to transmit it to a territorial
condition—to subject it to the arbitrary
rule of Congress. To accomplish that
design the Constitution of the State will
have to be wiped out, and the right of
its people to manage their domestic af
fairs completely ignored.
The pretext for this outrage is of the
most flimsy character. A few interest
ed carpet-baggers, scallawags and ne
groes are permitted to testify before the
Reconstruction Committee, and one
column after another of lies is published
in such mercenary newspapers as For
ney's Chronicle. When the bill comes
before the House Butler will bawl "mur
der! murder!" and it will be put upon
its passage. The best men of Tennessee,
even the best and most influential Re
publicans ; such men as Judge Shackel
ford, who was appointed to the Supreme
Bench of the State by Brownlow, have
denounced the infamous scheme which
is now on foot, and pronounced the re
ports of outrages to be a tissue of Iles.
They will not be heard. Butler will
only call convenient witnesses to testify
before the Reconstruction Committee
and there is every probability that his
bill will be reported to the House with
a favorable recommendation.
This movement is not of importance
to the people of Tennessee alone. It
involves a principle which affects us of
Pennsylvania, and the people of every
State in the Union. If Butler and his
crew of Jacobins can overturn the ex
isting government of Tennessee by Con
gressional enactment, they can at any
time treat us in the same way. The
power to do so in one ease implies the
right to do so in another. It is the last
stride toward a centralized despotism.
It blots out every vestige of State
Rights; asserts the absolute supremacy
of a partizan majority in Congress;
overrides the Constitution of the United
States; destroys all the force of State
Constitutions; changes the very form
of our government ; and leaves not a
remnant of the beautiful. tructure reared
by the fathers of the B;public.
Should Butler's bill puss we hope
lovernor Seater will decline to permit
its execution and boldly defy a usurping
Congress. The people must make a
stand against such aggressions some
time, if they would preserve even a
semblance of free government, and the
cause of Tennessee should at once be
come the cause of all lovers of constitu
tional government. The people of
Pennsylvania can not stand quietly by
and peymit any other State in the Union
to bqt thus subjected to despotic rule
without admitting the right of the ty
rants to treat then in the same way.
The cause of Tennessee is the cause
of all the States ; the defense of her
rights the defense of our own.
A New Trouble for the Radicals
The Radicals will be heartily sick of
the negro before they get done with
him. In 'Washington city a bitter feud
has already sprung up between the gen
uine negroes and the half-breeds. A
number of mulatto children have been
admitted to the public schools on a per
fect equality with the whites, but not a
single picaninny of genuine Congo de
scent has been thus honored. The re
sult is a tirst-class row. The Congos
met in Mass Convention the other eve
ning, and adopted the :ullowing pream
ble and resolution :
WHEREAS, WC believe that to admit
those half and three-quarter blood mulat
toes, quadroons and octoroons to the public
or white schools, when they are to count
with the children of the pure blacks, and
provisions made for them in the colored
school fund, and exclude a child because its
father or mother happened to be black is,
in our opinion, dangerous, and should not
be tolerated, for instead of killing oil the
prejudice that exists on account of color,
we are opening up a new and dangerous
avenue of distinction; therefore,
" Resolved, That the Board of Trustees of
public Schools (Professor Vashon particu
larly) be, and they are hereby requested by
this Board, in behalf of the pure blacks, to
make no distinction on account of ' race or
color,' in the admission of children to the
schools under their jurisdietion."
VMSIIOII is a mulatto, Bevels is a mu
latto, the clerks who have obtained sit
uations under Grant and his cabinet are
all mulattoes. The mulatto often par
takes of the superior mental character
of the higher race, but if left to them
selves, they become enervated and the
families (lie out in the third or fourth
generation. The mulattoes and blacks
have always proven to lie as incongru
ous as oil and water. They never mixed
well in Hayti or San Domingo, and the
fiercest contests have been waged be
tween them. The Congoes seem to be
waking up to their rights under Radi
cal rule. They'are naturally indignant
at the rant about "a man and a brother,"
which seems only to be recognized as
applicable to the black man, when lie
ceases to be a genuine negro.
Grant Lobbying the San Domingo Job.
General Grant, having set his heart
upon putting through the San Domingo
job at every hazard adopted a course of
action utterly without precedent. He
went to the Capitol, and, taking posses
sion of a room, sent for one Radical
Senator after another. Among those
thus called to an audience with him
were Messrs. Anthony, Cameron, Car
penter, Chandler, Conklin, Drake, Har
lan, McDonald, Murton, Nye, Pool,
Sawyer, Stewart, TrumbUll, Warner
and Wilson. That the San Domingo
job is a huge swindle is the opinion of
those who are best informed in regard
to the matter. When the Senate Com
mittee reported against it Grant ought
to have acquiesced at once. His inter
ference would have been resented by
the Senate in its better days. It remains
to be seen whether he will be allowed to
dictate as he sees fit. He has comprom
ised himself seriously by this act, and
has put himself in a most unenviable
THE Senate Committee on Elections
have decided that General Ames is not,
a: citizen of MLsalssippi, and therefore,
not entitled to a seat in the United States
Senate. That is a righteous decision.
In Tennessee
The Robbery Of;he Makin Fund.
Thi Sinking Ftlikßobbery ha¢ been
perfecter` -, The firk-cbißic seetiritieo
which it held, the price of She lotig lice
of public works once belougineto the
Statei hav , 41.411 beei't gobbled up by a
powerful cOMbinallon of bapitallsts. A
few men will imMipulate the nine and
a half million of bonds thus recklessly
disposed, of, and will make immense
fortunes out of the money which had
been set apart as a sacred fund to be ap
plied to the payment' of the State debt.
One of thefundamentalconditionaupon'
which the sale of the public works was
based, was that the money realized
should be applied to the payment of the
existing State debt. No one then
dreamed that a future Legislature would
have the audacity to take these securi
ties out of the Sinking Fund, and to
replace them with worthless second
mortgage bonds of projected railroads
through the barren regions of the
State. To have exchanged them for first
mortgage bonds of such roads would
have been bad enough in all conscience,
but to part with them for second mort
gages is about equal to giving them as a
bonus to the different corporations
named in the bill which we publish
elsewhere. When the heavy payments
provided for fall due, the probabilities
are that the corporutors will permit the
roads to be sold, and the result, in all
likelihood, will be that they will not
bring more than enough to satisfy the
holders of the first mortgages. If they
are really valuable, some cunning device
will be adopted by which bids shall be
kept just low enough to swindle the
State out of its dues. We predict that
the tax-payers will in the end be cheat
ed out of the nine and a half million
dollars which have been so summarily
abstracted from the Sinking Fund.
The haste with which this measure
was put through both branches of the
Legislature, convinces us that its advo
cates feared the criticism of the inde
pendent newspaper press of the State.—
The authors of the swindle knew very
well that it would not have borne close
scrutiny, and justly apprehended that
any considerable discussion would be
the death-knell of their well perfected
project. The thing was securely set up,
but ten days would have been sufficient
to knock the props from under it. The
country press would have killed it, if the
people had been allowed an opportunity
to be heard, even if half the city journals
had been induced to endorse it.
We have seen nothing in thtl argu
ments of members of the Legislature, or
in the columns of such newspapers as
endorse this measure to justify what
has been done. It is, in our opinion, a
gigantic swindle upon the taxpayers of
the State at large. The pretense that it
will open up a section of the State full of
immense resources is nothing more than
a specious pretext. There is no justice
in thus taking what belongs to the peo
ple at large and appropriating it for the
benefit of a few in one section of the
Commonwealth. If the projected roads
are likely to pay, money to build them
could easily be procured in the ordinary
way, and there would be no necessity
for emptying the Sinking Fund of the
State; if they are of such a character
that capitalists would not be willing to
buy their bonds, then the State has
been vilely swindled by the action of
the Legislsture. Let the taxpayers rend
the bill which we publish elsewhere,
and then let them say whether they can
approve what has been done.
Finality of the Legal Tender Decision.
Not a few Republican newspapers
have openly expressed the desire and
the belief that the decision of the Su
preme Court on the legal tenders would
be reversed within a year. The con
viction and desire were based upon the
idea that the two new judges would be
pledged in advance to such a view of
the law. The mere expression of such
a view is an outrage. A man who would
intimate his readiness to be influenced
or controlled in a judicial capacity is a
veritable scoundrel. The rumor that
only three out of live in a court com
posed of judges concurred in the opinion
turns out to be untrue. Mr. J. \V. Wal
lace, the official reporter of the Supreme
Court, corrects the error and shows that
five out 'rd . the eight judges united in
the opinion. lle further shows that the
decision "applies to interest accrued
since the passage of the legal tender acts
on obligations given before them" and
leaves little doubt on unprejudiced
minds that the decision—no matter how
the two new judges may feel—is certain
to remain long the law of the land.
The Bingham Amendment
The Bingham amendment to the
Georgia Bill was framed to prevent the
consummation of a gross outrage. The
bill, as originally reported to the House
extended the term of Bullock as Gover
nor for two years beyond the time for
which he we., elected. In other words
it undertook, not to create Bullock a
Provisional Governor, but to declare him
to be the Governor of a sovereign State
without an election by the people. In
other words it is precisely the same thing
as if Congress should undertake to ex
tend the term of Cleary two years after
his legal lease upon the Governorship of
Pennsylvania has expired. The negro
Revels has read the speech which Bul
lock wrote for him to the assembled
Senate, mid it is said the Radical ma
jority of that body is ready to strike out
the Bingham Amendment. When such
things can be done with impunity what
a farce it is to call this a Republican
Go v,rnmen t.
Roderick B. Butler Keeps Ills Seat
Radical Congressmen have concluded
that Mr. Roderick 13. Butler, of Tennes
see, is good enough company for them.
True it is that he seconded and support
ed in the Tennessee Legislature the
famous resolution of 1862, which propos
ed "10 hurl bark with contempt the base
proposition iof the usurp( r, Abraham
Lincoln, to send Peace ('ommissioners to
the Soul h;" true it is that when the Union
men of East Tennessee burned the rail
road bridges, he introduced a resolution
to equip a force with blood hounds and
hunt them down ; true it is that certain
of these patriotic bridge burners were
caught, imprisoned with Brownlow, and
afterwards hung; true it is that he sold
his cadetship and pocketed the money
—hut all these things were deemed in
sufficient to warrant his expulsion. He
hates Andrew Johnson, who risked his
life for the Union while Butler was
serving Jeff Davis to the best of his abil
ity, and swears he used the money he
got for his cadetship to prevent him
from being elected U. S. Senator. That
wipes out all his crimes, makes him
clean in the sight of a Radical Con
gress—and he retains his seat.
Work for the Young Men's Christian As
soclation
The Philadelphia Press says, quite an
excitement was raised in Trenton the
other day, :by the circulation of a re
port that a committee of the Young
Men's Christian Association had taken
it upon themselves to ferret out any and
every thing in the shape of corruption
which might exist in the New Jersey
Legislature, with the view of exposing
and punishing all who might be guilty.
It seems the report was not well found
ed. We would suggest to the Young
Men's Christian Association of this
State, that they could find plenty of
evidences of corruption at Harrisburg;
and we do not know any work in which
they could engage that would be pro
ductive of more good than an exposure
of all thoSe who are deep in the rascal
ity which disgraces our State. By all
means let a committee of Christian
Young Men be sent to Harrisburg to
spot the roosters and pinchers. The ex
posures made by the newspaper press
seem to be of no avail. Let the Young
Men's Christian Association take the
reprobates in hand.
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The Yeas and Nays.
IV following is a list of the yeas and'
nays on the passagnlf ate' railnnui
Whereby nine and a halfffallion dollars
of first class securities rye takep:froni,
the Sinking Fund, and second mpitgaga:
Wade of the projected railroads substi
tilted in their stead :
On the question, shall the bill pass? the
yeas and nays were required by Mr. Bil
lingfelt and Mr. Brooke, and were as fol
lows, viz:
Yeas—Messrs. Allen, Beck, Connell,
Dungan, Findlay, Henszev, Kerr, Under
arm; Lowry, Wlntire, Miller, Mamma,
Nagle, Olmsted, Osterhout, Furman, Ran
dall, Robison, Wallace and Watt—at.
Nays—Messrs. Billingfelt, Brooke, Brod
head, Buckalew, Davis, Graham, Howard,
Ratan, Turner, Warfel, White and Stin
son, Speaker-12.
So the question was determined in the
a ffi rmative.
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On the final passage of the bill, the yeas
and nays were required by Mr. Josephs and
Mr. Hong, and were as follows, viz:
Yeas—Messrs. Adaire, Allbright, Ames,
- Armstrong Beans, Bowman, Buffington,
Bunn, Carlin, Church, Cloud, Comly,Craig,
Creitz, Dailey, Darlington Deininger, Dill
(Adams), Dill (Union), Forseyth, Godshalk,
Hall, Hill, Hong, Harsh, Johnson (Craw
ford), Josephs, Leidig Leslie, Long,
M'Ateer, M'Creary, M'Kinstry, M'Mahon,
Marshall, Maxwell, Millar (Allegheny),
Milliken, Mooney, Niles, Parsons, Porter
(Cambria), Porter (York), Roberts, Robi
son, Rohrer, Schnatterly, Sedgewiek, Skin
ner, Smith, Snyder, Steele (Schuylkill,)
Stephens, Stokes, Taylor, Tyler, Vankirk,
Walton and Strang, Speaker-59.
Nays—Messrs. Boileau, Brobst, Brown,
Chamberlain, Corny, Dimrnick, Elliott,
Engelman, Esehbach, Fulton, Harvey,
Herr, Humphreys, Johnston (Philadel
phia), Keene, Keifer, Kerr, Kreps, Leon
ard, Longenecker, M'Cracken, M'Junkin,
Miller (Philadelphia), Montgomery, Rein
-00111, Schwartz, Scott, Sharloek, Stone,
Webb, Wheeler, White. Wiley and Wool
ever-34.
So the gnestion was determinotl in the
affirmative.
A Speech Expected from Revels
On Monday a report had gained cur
rency to the effect that Revels was to
speak on the Georgia Bill. The galle
ries of the Senate were crowded with
negroes. There was the dandified bar
ber, smiling and grimacing beside his
safron-colored sweetheart, who was ar
rayed in all the gorgeousness of bright
colors and brass jewelry ; there was
the stalwart porter, and the sooty sweep
janunal in until no room was left for the
Radical white-trash which eagerly
sought admission. To the disappoint
ment of the motley crowd, the sable
orator failed to come to time. He had
not been given time enough to learn to
read Bullock's blood and thunder speech
properly. He has been put under the
management of Sumner's private elocu
tionary trainer, and will be heard from
as soon as he is pronounced fit for the
duty devolved upo'l him.
Georgia Still "out in the Cold."
After due delib6ration, and on a very
full vote, the lower House of Congress
passed a bill for the admission of Geor
gia to the Union, which is acceptable
to the people of that State. It is only
opposed by a few scallawags, carpet-bag
gers and ambitious negroes, under the
lead of the perjured ex-rebel ritlllock.
That desperate rascal fears the effect of
reconstruction, and would fain keep the
State under military rule, if he can not
succeed in securing the framing of such
restrictions as will keep the people in
vassalage to himself and a few Other
unprincipled characters. He has pre
pared a blood and thunder speech, which
is to be delivered by the negro Revels.
That Reverend thief is to make a loud
howl about the injustice that will be
done to the blacks of Georgia if the con
trol of Congress should be withdrawn
and the State admitted to the Union,
with the whole people left free to exer
cise their rights as citizens under a re
publican form of government.
"I Told You So, Old W oman !"
When Revels took his seat in the U.
S. Senate, Simon Cameron remarked
that when Jefferson Davis was about to
retire, he told the Mississippi Senator
that if he went out his seat would be oc
cupied by a negro ; but with the cus
tomary reticence of the Winnebago
Chief, he did not announce his prophecy
until offer the event ."F his, however,
may be customary among the Indians of
the Northwest.
But in case there had been no rebel
lion, there is no evidence !except the
Senator's clairvoyance) that Davis
would now be in the Senate, and in the
seat occupied by Bevels; and in a letter
to the New York Tribune, Grace Green
wood says that the latter does not occupy
the seat from which Jeff. Davis retired.
For all practical purposes, Cameron was
safe in making his assertion, because
those for whom it was made will require
it as an example of "terrible retribu
tion."
Application of a Fable
There is a fable in which a mo/c, (not
a mulatto, for both words have the
same origin,) is represented as bragging
of his noble descent from the coursers
of Arabia, when his pretensions are
placed upon their proper basis by one
of his audience, who informs the proud
mule that his father was nothing but a
poor
We were reminded of this fable a few
days ago in reading Forney's Press,
where the speech of a inn/otto is quoted
approvingly to the effect that the best
blood of Virginia flowed in his veins.
The mutual status of the four races of
this country European, American,
African and Asiatic— will be deter
mined by time and experience, and not
by publishing such rubbish.
"The Friends" and Gen. Sheridan
Quite a large delegation of Friends,
who represent societies in several States,
have arrived at Washington to remon
strate with the President and General
Sherman against General Sheridan be
ing allowed to remain a day hanger in
command of the Indian country. They
complain very earnestly against his con
duct in the attack on the Piegans, and
ask that the opposite policy may I.e pur
sued against the Indian tribes. They
have drawn up a plan for the transfer
of the Indians to reservations, with the
purpose of ameliorating their condition
by the introduction of the proper ele
ments of civilization. lint in their con
test against Sheridan they appear to be
determined to accomplish something.
Suffrage Amendment:
There is no truth in the statement
that the proclamation declaring the
Fifteenth Amendment ratified has been
signed; a draft merely has been pre
pared, but it will not be signed nor pro
mulgated till Georgia and Texas are ad
mitted, which will not be for some time.
This is considerable of a disappointment
to the Republicans in Connecticut,
where the registration of voters closed
on the 12th. The colored voters, how
ever, have been provisionally registered,
and if the proclamation is issued before
the first of April, an effort will be made
to allow them to vote in that State.
Just the Dtftrenee
Roger B. Taney was U. S. Chief Jus
tice for 25 years. He entered upon the
duties of the office a poor man, and
died leaving his family of daughters
literally without a penny. Two of
them are clerks, and thus earn a liveli
hood. Mr. Stanton left a wife and son
in full health, a life insurance of $75,000,
to say nothing of $lOO,OOO raised by pri
vate subscription. Radical newspapers,
with all then clamor for economy, sup
port a gift a $6,000 for the Stanton
family. Had it been Taney's poor
daughters instead of Stantons well-off
family, they would have "died first,"
and such is the difference between Radi
cal preaching and practice.
THE notorious reprobate, Dan. Sickles,
has been confirmed as Minister to Spain.
His appointment and confirmation
came too late. He ought to have been
sent out during the reign of the profli
gate Queen Isabella. Seriously it is a
disgrace for this country to be represent
ed by such a man at any Court, or in
any capacity.
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South Bethlehem has a new paper,
the iltre4r.
muir luounki as sixacliilxandlastalt
4,
foß:Cowaiii Trrer.
seklitter's nuitient is iribe tittetk
orFSenlinary , ABegheml§4 City.
A-Turner's Society is akotit being or -
ganized in the City of Reading.
A large number of farmers in Schuyl
kill County will emigrate-to the South
nest Spring.
John Foniance, of Allentown, who
went down with the Oneida, was agrad- .
nate of the Polytechnic College of Phil
adelphia. , •
Fayette Lodge, No. 239, Knights of
Pythias, was instituted at Connelsville,
on the 2d inst.
The Pennsylvania Agricultural Col
lege expended $36,451.65 last year. Of
dhis sum $6,2M was for interest on debt.
Mr. Win. E. Dodge, of Tioga county,
owns some forty thousand acres of the
best pine lands in the State.
A charter for a new Lodge of Masons
in Harrisburg, was granted at the re
cent session of the Grand Lodge.
There are 240 Lodges of the Knights
'of Pythias, in this State, Philadelphia
claiming 80 of the whole number.
The amount of butter made in Som
erset county, last year, says the Demo
crat, will reach 20,000 kegs valued at
$290,000.
The Brotherhood of St. Joseph, of
St. Paul's Cathedral, Pittsburgh, have
received an elegant banner costing about
5500.
Three persons were poisoned in AVil-
liamsburg the other day, by drinking
from a bottle In a doctor's office. The
bottle contained aconite instead of
brandy. Their lives were saved.
Governor Geary recently reappointed
Samuel Painter, of West Chester, notary
publie,andafterwardswithdrew the eom
mission from the Recorder's office by
telegraph.
A dog belonging to Mrs Poly Burg, in
Lower ,Windsor township, York county
recently exhibited syptoms of hydro
phobia, and was dispatched before any
damage was done by him.
Mrs. John Arron, of Lawrence coun
ty, was stricken down with apoplexy
while standing at the grave of her
retlier-in-law and died iicashort time
James Coates has been appointed by
the Governor and commissioned by the
State Department, sealer of weights and
leasures for Greene county
The pure black Fifteenth Amend
ments in Allegheny use rouge. An ex
change describes the effect thusly : Her
face looked like a dark cloud fringed
with the rays of the setting sun.
A bull that attempted to butt a loco
motive off the Lebanon Valley Railroad
track, the other day, was shortly after
wards found scattered about all over the
track.
It is said that a number of handsome
buildings will be erected in Harrisburg
this season.
The Lock Haven Dramatic Associa
tion has been giving entertainments for
the benefit of the poor.
Past Grand Sire Nicholson, lectured
to a full house at Lock Haven on the
7th inst., on the subject of Odd Fellow
ship.
The statistics of mortality for the City
of Philadelphia show that the average
of deaths last year was about one in
every fifty-two.
A movement is on foot to build a rail
road between Meadville and Titusville,
by the way of Mill Run, Gay's Mills,
Townville and Tyronville.
The Allegheny Valley Railroad Com
pany are now running Silver Palace
sleeping cars on their express trains be
tween Pittsburgh and Curry.
Hollidaysburg is to have John B.
Gough on the 29th instant. Bellefonte
indulges itself with Anna Dickinson on
the 29th.
A thumb was found in a steel trap in
a hen's roost, on the premises of a citi
zen of Pottsville. The query is, who
lost a black thumb?
Philadelphia recently turned out three
hundred and thirty-seven doctors of
medicine from her four colleges, includ
ing fourteen women.
A number of farmers in Richmond
twp., Crawford county, have organized
a company for the purpose of starting a
co-operative store.
Louisa Muhlbach Is writing a novel,
the hero of which will be Victor Hugo.
The Sheriff of Bedford county treats
editors and lawyers to a good dinner
once a year.
There is not much doubt of Shippens
burg raising enough of money to secure
the location of a State Normal School
at that point.
Ridgway has an inventor in the per
son of Dr. Henry Krunune, who has
invented a life pr - eserver.
The first coin made in the Philadelphia
Mint was a copper cent, in 1790. The
first silver dollar was made in 1a94, and
the first gold eagle in IWS.
The Young Men's CMisOati Assoria
lion of Huntingdon had a supper the
other night, which realized the snug
sum of $ll4.
In the Pittsburgh police court a female
was accused by a male withjohreatening
to "stove his head in, knock his brains
out, and burn his house down."
Thousands of robins visited Greens
burg, Westmoreland county, recently
while the ground was covered with
snow. It is supposed many , of them
must have perished.
The track of the Reading and Wil
mington Railroad, is laid from Coates
ville to the Beaver Pam, above Mack
eldutPs in Honeybrook township, Ches
ter county.
The Quarterly Convention of the Order
of Good Templars of Montgomerycounty
will be held in Pottstown on the sth and
Gth of May next. S. B. Chase, Wand
'Worthy Chief Templar of the State is to
be present.
Col. H. It. Hawman, of Reading, has
contracted to grade about 25 miles of the
New Jersey Gretit Western Railroad,
which is to run from Allentown to New
York. The distance between the above
points will be shortened about 15 miles,
by the route laid out from this road.
The coal tonnage of the Lehigh Val
ley Railroad for the week ending on the
12th inst. was 41,072 tons, against 48,-
379 tons in the corresponding week last
year, mid for the year 718,6116 tons,
against 543,479 tons to the same time in
1869—showing an increase of 187,911
tons.
The proposition of Peter dierdie to
organize a new county out of parts of
Bradford, Tioga, and Lycoming, is
strongly opposed in Tioga as well as
Bradford. Some of the most substan
tial citizens of Canton, the proposed
county seat of the the new county, -dis
countenance the scheme.
The friends of the new county move
ment are actively at work at Bethle
hem. The principal objection ur
ged against it, is the expense it
will entail upon the tax payers in
erecting county buildings. It is conced
ed that Bethlehem is the proper place
for the county-seat.
A brown mare was stolen from Ibest able
of John Henne, 2. miles South of Straus
town, in Berks county, on the night of
the 1:lth inst. The thief also took a
Spanish i.addle with wooden stirrups.
A reward of $3O is offered for the recov
ery of the animal, and a large reward
will be given for the conviction of the
thief.
Miles liuterbaugh, of Grant twp., -In
diana county, was recently seriously in
jured by the rebound of a falling tree,
while engaged in felling timber.
A few nights ago a child of ueurge
Stein, of Oliver township, Mifflin coun
ty, was put to bed apparently it) good
health, and next morning was found
dead.
The lashes of Bohner and Bode nberg
were buried in a field outside the Hunt
ingdon borough limits—the authorities
refusing them interment within the
corporate boundaries.
The Montgomery county poor house
is so full of paupers that the steward has
no more room to stow away the poor,
sick and decrepit that are daily:seeking
accommodations there.
The construction of the Pittsburg and
Con nellsvil le Railroad is raising the
price of lands along the route wonder
fully. Coal lands in the "Yough Re
gion" are bringing from $3OO to $6OO.
A Mr. Siffny, of Blairsville, Indlima
county, recently went up to the roof of
a house to repair a chimney. He re
marked to the bystanders that he should
probably fall and break his neck. And
he did.
There is a company being organized
to bore for oil on the farm of Wm. Mc-
Cool, on the Little Scrubgrass creek, in
Scrubgrass township, Venango county,
just over the Butler county line, and the
supposition is that oil will be obtained
in paying quantities.
Of the 187 students In Lafayette Col
lege, 95 are church members and 38 are
preparing for the ministry. The Brain
erd Missionary Society, composed of
students, has been in existence thirty
years. Thirteen of its members have
become missionaries. About fifty of the
students are engaged in Sunday School
work. Recitations on Biblical subjects
occur weekly In all the classes.
Tits
Mr. Motley dotal L. !file much in
,
London society. tl,q
? Stewart.l o police $2,700
JasCxeaf - V watch. its:
AWBeU..er c $4OO for a recent
lecture im - g05t9„...7.,z.....
• The brey: , Ycirk &hi thils the Presi
dent " Utter Silence Grant."
Alexander H. Stephens continues to
improve in health. -
Victor Hugo pays taxes on $37,500
worth of property at Guernsey.
The next Republican platform should
commence thus : Article 1, No presents.
One of the New Orleans street rail
ways...pays out silver in change.
The King of Batttria is now known
by his friends as " Crazy Louis."
" Shoo Fly" is extending to Germany
were a Teutonic version is said to be
very popular.
Mr. Seward looks ten years younger
after his Alaska, Mexican and \Vest
Indian travels.
Ex-Assistant Secretary of the Navy,
Faxon, is cruising about in Egypt and
on the Nile.
At Plymoth, Pa., on Friday evening,
Everett Vanlook was shot dead by Jos.
Gallagher, in a drunken quarrel.
A Cincinnati fudge has decided that
a blow from a husband inflicted upon a
wife is sufficient ground for a divorce.
The Vienna Academy of Political and
Social Science has offered a prize of
2,000 florins for the best work on Amer
ican finances.
G. F. T. recorded himself at a Troy
hotel, taking up three lines of the regis
ter, thus: "George Francis Train,
America: 3.515 t successive lecture in a
course of 1,000."
Whilepork, whiskey and butter cost
more to-day than in August, 1862 ' beef
and bread are at about the same figure,
and coffee is very much lower.
The Senate of Massachusetts, by a vote
of 19 to IU, has refused to pass to a third
reading a bill opening the public libra
ries on Sunday.
Commissioner Delano decides that
farmers are required to make a return
of the produce sold within the year, but
not of the produce raised, until the same
is sold.
At Decatuer, Tenn., on Thursday.
night, Judge Clutrieton, of Alabama,
was fired at by several men and killed,
as he was getting off the ears from
Louisville.
Collector Bailey, of the 32d New York
District, ha disappeared. There are
many rumors connected with his disap
pearance, one being that he is a defaulter
to the Government.
The deaths in Philadelphia last week
numbered 365, being 17 more than the
previous week. There were 51 deaths
from consumption and 37 from scarlet
fever.
In the region around and beyond
Moosehead Lake, in Maine, there are
now about three feet of snow, but the
lumbermen are doing well. The quan
tity of lumber cut will be immense.
Some of the lager beer dealers in
Madison, Wis., refused to supply beer
to members of the Legislature who vo
ted in favor of removing the State Capi
tal to Milwaukee.
A man, while fishing on Indian Head
Pond, Massachusetts, a few days ago,
using a six-inch perch for bait, got a bite
from a half-pound pickerel, but before
he could draw in his line, the hook, bait,
pickerel and all were swallowed by an
other big fellow weighing four pounds,
and the whole safely landed. This is
not a fish story.
It is stated that the Naval Committee
of the House of. Representatives has
agreed to report a bill giving $lOO,OOO as
prize, money to the captain and crew of
the Wyoming,who were engaged against
the pirates infesting the Chinese seas,
and who broke up their organization
and put an end to their depredations.
At St. John, New Brunswick, on
Friday morning, a portion of the bot
tom of the harbor sunk with a rumb
ling noise, and where there was a beach
at low tide, is now a depth of twenty
feet of water. The phenomenon occur
red at the commencement of the storm.
Several wharves were destroyed.
The funeral of Captain Williams of
the Oneida took place at Yokohama, on
Feb. Bth. It was attended by a large
crowd, including our Minister, the
French, English, Prussian, Ministers,
the admiral of the English Navy, and
various military, naval and consular
officers.
Ten men were seriously injured in
Kern's Shaft, near Plymouth, Pa., on
Thursday night. They were in a ear
which started down a shaft, a distance
of 300 feet, without the counter-balane
ing weight. and almost reached the but
twn before the brakes were applied.
An Indiana farmer thought he saw a
ghost in a cemetery the other
He procured his gun, thinking lie would
try the effect of cold lead on the appa
rition, fired, and brought down his own
poor old white horse.
Arabian coffee from the estates of Ali
Pasha bas recently been received in New
York by way of the Suez Canal, and by
the North German steamer Silesia.—
This consignment was the first ship
ment of coffee through the Suez Canal.
A nice little game has been stopped at
the New York Custom House. Some of
the men have been accustomed to wear
"stomach canteens" fitting about the
body under the coat, into which they
would syphon out liquor from casks un
loading, carry it away, empty it safely
and return.
An old veteran Peter Eyler, living
with his second wife, in \Voodsboro'
district, Frederick county, Md., is 94
years old ; is the father of 21 children,
19 of whom are living and 2 dead ; has
117 grandchildren, 191 are living and 13
dead ; 12S great grandchildren, 162 are
living and 26 dead ; a grand total of 236.
At the Ben Franklin Colliery, near.
Shamokin, a few days ago, as Jerry
Bloom was going to the stable for the
purpose of feeding his horses, he was
tired upon by some unknown person in
ambush, the ball taking effect in his
side. The injury, however, is not very
serious. Mr. Bloom thinks he knows
the would-be-assassin.
The Court at Leon, France, delivered
Ducheniin, the father, to the scaffold,
his daughter to twelve years imprison
ment, and his two sons to transporta
tion. The fattier had four children by
the daughter in question, whom he him
self delivered in presence of the family.
He killed each infant when born. On
one occasion, the mother asserted she
heard the skull of her child " crack
like a nut." Her mother assisted at
this crime, and at the burial of the
bodies. But a short time ago, the father
and son inuolered the old woman also.
Eight groups of spots have become
visible upon the face of the sun, Erup
tive diseases have been uncommonly
prevalent in all parts of the tinned
States latterly—in some of the Western
States are now doing much mischief.
The sun, perhaps, feels for the beings
WI.IOIII it warms and vivifies, and has
broken out in a rash from very sympa
thy. It has become spotted in genuine
earliest, its smallest spot being 1,458,000
oimi square miles in extent.
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A new public school house in the sth
Ward , Allentown, eost $109,000.
,The Normal School building . , about to
he erected in Lock I haven, will be 120
by 300 feet in sicu.
'There is probability of the State Fair
being held at Scranton, the next two
ears. That town is working hard for
its loe4m there—having already raised
by sub, , cription 53,000 to the fund fur
the I,l.lrime.
The Pottsville Standard says that
that there are still no tidings of Mrs.
Whalen, the old lady who has been
missing since the 24th of February, al
though every ellbrt has been made to
flint her. I ler aged husband died on the
lah inst. lie was sick at the time of
her disappearance, and was kept in ig
norance of her fate. Most likely she pre
ceded him to the land of spirits.
The Forest 1? (Tab, lea n states that Mr.
E. E. Clapp, of President, has been of
fered $200,000 for two hundred acres of
land in the vicinity of Triumph, upon
which a seventy-barrel oil well was
struck the other week.
The Danville LiteWye:neer reports that
a loge number of the citizens of that
place and neighborhood have determin
ed to remove to the West, in the hopes
of bettering themselves. Some half
dozen, it says, left for Cheyenne, Cali
fornia, last week.
The largest four-legged sheep in the
country is claimed by the New Castle
Gazette and Democrat to be in Wash
ington township, Lawrence county.
It is a genuine Cotswold, imported from
England and owned by Mr. A. L.
I
Dicks. t weighs 375 pounds. The
same paper also boasts of two steers
owned by Mr. Jacob Snyder, of Liberty
township, Mercer county, six years old,
weighing 7,100 pounds.
The annual meeting of the Grand
Commandery of Knights Templar of
Pennsylvania will be held at Williams
port, on June 14th. The committee of
that city has already arranged for sev
eral hundred tents belonging to the
State, which are to be pitched in the
enclosed grounds of the "Herdic Park
Aesoplation" fel- the accommodation of
visiting commmanderies.
The RobbeeT:of the staltieli Fund
•
An Act to facilit4e and 7 the construe
•tion of air additional rail artainnection
betrert the waters of Suailuehanna
' , and.the great lakes of Canada and the
math-westernlStates, by extending the
aid..and Credit of. certain l co Sons to
the jensey Shore,Plne Creek and Buffalo
railway company.
WHEREAS, It is a matter of much public
importance to the State at large that a rail
way should be completed at an early date,
to form an additional connection between
the anthracite and bituminous coal fields of
Pennsylvania and the great chain of lakes
and States west, and thereby develop a
valuable portion of the Commonwealth HOW
Without such a highway,' and' add greatly
to the taxable values for State and ail
other purposes;
AND WHEREAS, It is believed that these
desirable objects may be accomplished by
the provisions of the annexed bill, and in
order to grant sufficient authority for ef
fective aid as aforesaid to secure tho same,
therefore,
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania, in General As
sembly met, and it is hereby encoded by the
authority of the same, That the Jersey Shore,
Pine Creek. and Buffalo railway company
be and they aro hereby, authorized to exe
cute a first mortgage to the amount of six
millions of dollars in lieu and substitution
of the loan said company have heretofore
been authorized to make, which shall cov
er all their line of railway to be constructed
from Jersey Shore to connect with the
Buffalo and Washington railway, as set
forth in their charter with its extensions,
rights of way, equipment, engine houses,
machine shops, tools and property of every
kind whatsoever appurtenant to and requi
site for the maintenance, management and
operation of said road, together with the
corporate rights ail franchises acquired,
and to be acquired, to secure the payment
of bonds as hereinafter provided; each
bond bearing interest at rive per ceutum
per annum, payable semi-annually front
and after the first day of April,Anno
e thousand eight hundred and seven
ty; which bonds shall be payable to the
Commonwealth of Pennnsylvania, to be de
posited in the sinking fund of the Com
monwealth, with the interest thereon for
application only to the payment of the
public debt; these bonds to be received by
the Commothrealth in lieu and substitu don
of the existing debt of that-amount of live
per centum bonds that is contracted to be
paid by the Pennsylvania railroad compatny
and nail liens and claims arising in connec
tion therewith, and the said six millions of
dollars of bonds shall lie received in full
satisfaction of the said bonds of the Penn
sylvania railroad company and of all loins
and claims arising thereunder or therefor.
Ono hundred thousand dollars of said bonds
of the Jersey Shore,Pine Creek and Buffalo
railway company shad bepayable each and
every year, beginning with the first day of
April, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-five, mid so continue annually
thereafter until the first day of April, one
thousand eight hundred and ninety. On
the first day of April, ono thousana eight
hundred and ninety-one, one million of
dollars. On the first day of April, one
thousand eight hundred and ninety-two,
one million of dollars. On the first day of
April, one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-three, one million of dollars. Anti
all the remaining balance of the entire debt,
with the interest due thereon, shall be fully
paid and liquidated on the first day of April,
Arno Domini, one thousand eight hundred
anti ninety-four.
Upon the delivery of the ls'n'is and
mortgages, as hereinbefore provided, the
commissioners of the sinking fund of this
Commonwealth are hereby authorized,
empowered and directed to deliver to the
Jersey Shore, Pine Creek and Buffalo rail
way company, the obligations of the Penn
sylvania railroad company now in the
sinking fund, or ha any way belonging to
the Commonwealth, to the amount of six
millions of dollars of five per centum
bonds, and to cancel and fully satisfy all
mortgages or claims of every nature and
kind whatsoever, existing therefor by leg
islative enactment, contract, or otherwise,
in favor of the Commonwealth against staid
Pennsylvania railroad company; and
thereupon theentire proceeds that maybe re
alized I rout the said bonds and claims against
the Pennsylvania railroad company shall
Jersey
Shoreapplied from time to time by the
Slmre Pine Creek and Buffalo railway com
pany, only to the immediate construction
and equipment of the said line of railway
between the points specified in the set incor
porating the said company, and the said
main line of railway shall he constructed
and opened for public use within three
years from the passage of this act: Provid
ed, however, t ha t no delivery or exchange
of bonds staidl be made.under the
pruvi
sions or authority of this act bythe
cutuwis
ioners of the sinking fund, until :a ion
tract for the construction and equipment of
the Jersey Shore, Pine Creek and Buffalo
railway with responsible parties, duly exe
cuted, shall be delivered to said commis
sioners, and an absolute guarantee for the
fulfillment thereof, within the time anti
conditions of this act, by the Catawissa and
Philadelphia and Reading railroad et anpa
ides, or the Catawissa and Lehigh Valley
railroad companies, or the Catawissa and
Lehigh and Susquehanna railroad
cuunpn
,ties, or by the Philadelphia and Erie,
Northern, Central and Pennsylvania rail
road companies, and also a guarantee, in
like manner, of the payment by said Jersey
Shore, l'ine Creek and Buffalo railway
company of three hundred thousand dollars
interest per annum, as it fIeVIMUS LO the
State on the bonds of the Jersey Shere,Pine
Creek and Buffalo railway contpany during
the construction of said line of railway anti
until it is opened for trallii• as required by
this act.
And said companies, or su c h of them as
may join in said guarantee, for the purpose
of providing additional security to the
State as aforesaid, are hereby fully author
ized and empowered to execute such agree
ments and obligations under their corporate
seals, as shay be needful to perfect their
said guaruntee as required by this act, and
as further security to the Commonwealth ;
for the execution of guarantees, as herein
before provided ; the same shall lie deemed
and taken to be it lien upon the railways,
their property and franchises that may
enter into the same, and so continue unttl
the conditions thereof :are fully complied
with.
=llll
lions of live per venttun bonds now in the
sickingfunds, given by the Allegheny Val
ley.
railroad fsonpany to the isimmonwealth
of Pennsylvania, tokrether with all the guar
antees connected therewith, lie and they
are hereby appropriated for aiding in the
development of certain districts of this
Commonwealth as hereinafter provided:
First. To the Pitbiburg, Virginia and
Charleston railway company one million
six hundred thousand dollars.
Second. To the Clearfield and Buffalo
railway ccallpally One million folir hun
dred thousand dollars.
Third. To the Erie and Allegheny rail
way company tier hundred thousand dol
lars.
•
sylvania shall receive their bends, re
spectively, bearing the saute interest and
maturing at the same time as the bonds
the Comtnonwealth now holds, in pro
rata proportion from each company; all
of which shall be secured by a second mort
gage upon those lines respectively, their
property, franchises and equipment; the
said companies limiting their first mort
gage to an amount not exceeding sixteen
thousand dollars per mile, bearing interest
at seven per centum per annum, the pro
ceeds thereof, and also the proceeds of all
bonds received from the Commonwealth
under this act, to be used only for aiding
in the construction and equipment of their
roads, all of which bonds and mortgages
they are hereby fully authorized and em
powered to perfect in the usual forte. Upon
this being done, and the five per centum
bonds of said companies delivered to them,
the said commissioners of the sinking fund
are hereby authorized, empowered and di
rected to deliver to the companies
named, in this section of this act,
their respective portions of the bonds
of the Allegheny Valley railroad com
pany now in the sinking fund, or in any
way belonging to the Commonwealth,
to the amount of three million live
hundred thousand dollars of live per con
tum bonds, and to cancel and fully satisfy
all mortgages and claims of every nature
and kind whatsoever existing therefor,
in favor of the Commonwealth against
said Allegheny Valley railroad company
and the guarantors thereof; the consent of
said guarantors to said transfer first being
tiled with the commissioners of the sinking
fund, and to relinquish and transfer all
and every claim of the Collllllollwealth
against Ow AI og hen y Valley railroad
company and the guarantors thereof to the
parties receiving the bonds aforesaid. And
the said lines of railway shall be construct
ed and open for public use within three
Pears front the passage of this set, as fol
lows:
The Pittsburg., Virginia and Charleston
railway,
between such point in South Pitts
burg, Allegheny county, and Greensboro',
in Greene county, Pennsylvania, by such
route as the. Pittsburgh, Virginia and
Charleston railway company may finally.
adopt.
The Clearfield and Buffalo railway, be
tween such point on the line of the Alle
gheny Valley railroad extension in Clear
field county, or other point in said county,
and a point of connection with the Buffalo
and Washington railway in the county of
Ai' Kean, by such route as may after care
ful survey - be finally adopted by the Clear
field and Buffalo railway company.
The Erie and Allegheny railway, be
tween such point on the Atlantic and (.4 rcat
Western railway in the counties of Erie or
Crawford and the city of Eric, by such
route as the Erie and Allegheny railway ,
company may finally adopt: Provided,
however, That no delivery or exchange of
bmnds shall bo mado under the provisions
or authority of this section of this act
by the commissioners of the' sinking
fund, until a contract for the construc
tion and equipment of said lines of
railway, respectively, with responsible
parties, duly executed, shall be delivered
to the said commissioners, and an absolute
guarantee for the fulfilment thereof, with
in the time and conditions of this act by a
and also
a
or s sibl e g r u e v, n •a t y ee co i m n wi l li e n y r or,
,o a r n co n tripan
nof the
payment by the said railway company, or
companies respectively, of all interest as it
accrues to the State on said bonds, belong
ing to the Commonwealth, of said compan
ies respectively, during the construction of
their lines of railway, and until they are
open for traffic as required by this act. And
said company, or companies, as may Join
in said guarantee, for the purpose of provid
ing security for the said lines, are hereby
fully authorized and empowered to exe
cute such agreements and obligations
under their respective seals, as may
be needful to perfect their guar
antee for the fulfilment of their crn -
tract 118 required by the provisions of
this act, and as a further security to the
Commonwealth. For the execution of the
guarantees as hereinbefore provided, the
E4l/1110 shall be deemed and taken to be
lien on the railway or railways, their prop
ty and franchises, that may enter into the
same, and so continue until the conditions
thereof are fully complied with, and the
guarantees provided for in this hill shall
be taken as an entire, and no delivery of
bonds made until all of the said guarantees
are executed in due form for delivery to
the Commonwealth.
Increase of the Public Debt
A few days since we demonstrated the
fact that the public debt, instead of having
been diminished, itselitittned by Secretary
Bontwell, has actually been increased since
the first of March, I&i9. Wo showed that
the Pacific Railroad bonds, always ost i ma
ted as a portion of the debt by Ex-Secretary
M'Cullough, amounting' to f 563,094,8111 20,
principal and interest, are not ineluded in
the statement of Mr. Boutwell, and Butt
the latter counted as assets in the Treasury
the redeemed government bonds and euf - -
refry, which are mere evident-es of debt
and cannot be counted as so much cash.
For this we have been taken to task by vet
tain Republican Journals (among them the
Lancaster Express), which Insists that our
figures are incorrect, and our conclusions
illogical. It isnot necessary here to restate
the figures nor to repeat the reasoning or
our former article, though we do not abate
one jot of what was set forth therein, -
ing every statement it contained to 10-
true to the last letter. A simpler mode er
argument will prove the truth of the alle
gation that the publie delft has inereased
since March, IWIO , anti to save time and
space wo shall here employ it. 'rile debt
bearing interest in coin on the first of March,
1570, as per Secretary Bontwol I's sbtteuuvt 1,
amounted to $2,107,9;9,1350; on :\larch
ISO), it was $•_',107,&54,050; showing an in
crease of t 55,600. On the first of March, 1070,
the Pacific Railroad Bonds amounted t..
$6,1,094,5i11.'20; on March I, ISO, the govern
ment was responsible for but Ki 2,037,00 iii
those bonds; which shows an increase of
this portion of the public debt of$11,157,01;1.-
tfri the Ist of March, 11470, the debt hear
ing no interest anti the debt matured and
not presented for payment, aggregated the
sum of ;3444,940,252 54; on the first of March
tits sum of the salmi was $128,000.1;f4 II;
exhibiting an increase of 316,939,605 40
This shows a gross increase 0f52.5,1N1,060
From 004 sum must be deducted the
amount 4)l' the reduction of the debt bearing
eurrency interest since March I, ISO!), which
is $11,45. - ,,n00, After this subtractimi
find that the :trivial increase of the publlr
debt during the last year is $16,698,0601;0.
We have discarded the acertied interest in
Mr. notitWell's statement. Ins
ter Eypre.V., assures us tint Mr.
lough did the same in his statements) and
have dealt only with the principal ul the debt
ill all cases. The payment !ft the interest
cannot diminish the principal, and there
fore such payments are 1111 t. to lie takell burn
consideration in this conneetion.
Now, let us compare some of the items in
Secretary Boutivell's last two Int , llthly
staternents. First wu find that the liSSetA
in the Treasury on the first of March, 1070
extended the assets in the Treasury lino Feb. ,
I, IS7O, to the amount of $5,960,3fti 72. of
this increase there Was but the sum of SSOII,-
009 20 in icold. Tht, remainder consisted,
in part, of $1,5119,478 27 In curreney. Nov.,
whence mune this large aniount if govern
ment promises to pay? Front what some.
(lid this immense volume of currency Bow
into the Treasury in the course of a sing],
month! About ono-half of it consists of
redeemed demand and legal tender not.,
and fractional currency, which Seeret:try
M'Cullough deducts from the amount of
the outstanding non-interest bearing
debt, and then counts it as cash, t//. -
Ow a double credit for the amounts. This
is easy of demonstration. in the statetneld
for 1 ebruary, the Secretary gives the
amount of that portion of the debt consist
ing of demand and legal tender notes mid
fractional currency at $396,773,771 12 ; in
the statement for March he fixes the Sallie
at only $396,000,017 53, thus taking ertslit
for a reduction of $713,753 59. Therefore,
when he claims that this amount of cur
rency must afterward be again deducted
from the gross amount of the debt, as Ito-
SCES in the Treasury, he asks a double credit.
This Is a fair specimen of the itiggh•ry
by which Secretary Boutivol I attempts
to deceive the public. But his trick,
though artful, will not Impose on any
save the most credulous of his own party.
So long as the principal of the debt eontin
nes to increase, the common sense of Ow
American people will regard AI r. Boutwell's
monthly boasts as the more advertisement
of a quack whose nostrums require too
much pulling to be sale and wholesome
medicine. Il is addition of the interest oh
the principal of the debt, so that he may
claim a reduction of t h e principal by the
payment oft he interest; the duplicated on•il
its
which he sets down in his statements;
the claim that the redeemed government
promises to pay mast be regarded as so
much cash, and his omission to mull( the
Pacific Railroad Bonds as a part of the pub
lie debt, make such a cline against his lair
ness and truth that his statements will uo
longer be taken as reliable exhibits of tho
condition of the Treasury or of the real
amount and charaeter of trw publi,•deht.
trrixlm rg Patriot.
II *1
El=
phe—No Piece of Man WOK 1111 l
More than •r.•.. Pound% Found.
J umtieu Miller, of Englewood, yesterday
afternoon commenced his inquest over Elm
remains of the men \O h m were killed in tho
nitro-glycerine explosion nt Tall. I'. Shut
nor's factory, near Ridgefield, on Thursday
The factory stood a little distal ice lunrk
from the river. A road ran by its side to a
temporary wharf erected a new yards be
low, where lay a vessel, which was to carry
the shipment away. The glycerine to In.
Shipped was carried first by the men to a
wagon, in which IL was transported to the
vessel. Five bands were at the time of the
oN•orratwo at work in the factory, Seim.-
tiall thou rmon rind his con Leonard, Rich
ard Rentz, lien ry Richter, and Merman
Myer, and a son of Mentz, who Lure the
same christian name with his father, was
there for the purpose of collecting nioncy
duo hint by the proprietor of t h e establish
ment. According to the testimony of Leon
ard, it seems that his father, Sebastiaii, was
carrying a bag of the material to the wa
lion, when he let It fall, and the explosion
followed. Sebastian Rourman, Ilea ry
Richter, Herman Myers, the foreman of
the men, and young Richard Mentz were
killed outright, and Richard's father was
seriously injured. The remains of the
men were scattered in every direction, and
they were so mutilated that no piece of
them weighing over ten pounds was Nun).
They were gathered Into basket -4, antriallie.
lie in the factory awaiting burial. • 'Mid .
only man who escaped unharmed wan
Leonard Kourtnon. Ile lay in the wagon.
he testi lied, 111111 tie if by a miracle he es
caped unharmed. The testimony of this
witness had not been concluded, when the
inquest was adjourned until Tuesday
morning next, at 10 o'clock.
Crowds of spectators from all the neigh
boring country gathered at the fatal spot
yosterday to view the ruins. The debris
had nut yet been cleared away, and it Is not
known whether any of the glycerine yet
remains In tact burled under It.
. .
The factory, originally occupied by the
New York Beet Sugar Company, was the
property of William Lawton. At the time
of the accident there were stored In it 7,155)
pounds of nitro-glycerine, with material
tOr the manufacture of about ten t u ns more.
The value of property destroyed exceed,.
5,000,
The oecupation of the place by Tall. I'.
Shaffner, was not agreeable to the residents
in the neighborhood, and they appealed to
the Legislature some time ago to pass an
apt prohibiting the proprietor from 1,111-
ducting this business. The Legislature
complied, and an act was passed a lbw days
age, ordering the removal of the manuftw
tory.
Whittemore and his Constituency.
A correspondent of the New York S.
mays:
\l'hi tlenterr, white he WILY in Florence,
WILY riot araii spare rig of ihe feelings of the
first families of South arolina. lie lec
tured their negroes whenever and almost
in every place where he could advan
tageously do so. There is no doubt of the
fact that lie WILY, and is, a
Wall. lie told the negroes that they
must all lie married under I:faro law.
Negroes who heard this, tad who had lived
together as Milli and will, for many years,
came from all [(arts of Florence to * lie mar
ried by Whittemore, who charged them fit:
a couple for performing the marriage cere
mony, and thereby he amassed a consider
able amount of 1110110 y. Old negro 'lien
and women who could hardly walk value
to Florence in rill kinds of improvised
and dilapidated vehicles in order to be
married by Whittemore, whom they re
garded as a dear friend of theirs. So affec
tionately did the negroes regard the rever
end carpet-bagger, that they subscribed as
liberally an they could to give him a public
entertainment. A banquet was spread for
him under their auspices;
and it is said by
the Secesh ;element iu Florence that tie
negroes carried their enthusiasm so far to
get up a grand entertainment for Whitte
more that they did not hesitate to
the chickens, ogs and other fixings which
they could lay their hands on at night in
order to give the banquet the fullest abund
ance in the matter of the viands which
they provided.
Whittemore is making speeches. lie is
telling the negroes that he worked very
hard for their interests While he was to
Congress; that indmi he carried his enthu
siasms for their interests so for that he
Made many enemies even among the Re
publicans ; and that therefore a charge was
successfully trumped up against him to
get him out of Congress. The negroes don't
know anything about the true facts of the
cadetship peddling case, and consequently
the most of them still trust Whittemore as
a great and good man, and as their friend.
It is for this reason that it seems clear at
the present time that Whittemore will be
re-elected.
The Pinegrove and Lebanon Railroad
is already doing n good business—the
cars being crowded on almost every
trip.
A barn belonging to Philip Maus,
near M an sdale,M o ntou r county, took fire
recently from the sparks emitted from a
passing locomotive, and was burned to
the ground with all its contents.