Lancaster grttellignicer.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1870
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The Legislative Record
It is impossible to tell what laws have
been passed by the late Legislature, and
our readers will have to wait some
months, until the hugo volume of
pamphlet laws is published, before they
can tell whether some corporation has
not been authorized to run a railroad
through their houses or sink an oil well
in their barn-yards. No record has been
kept of the acts of the Legislative body,
now happily defunct. The votes of the
" roosters " and " pinchers " have been
buried out of sight in a journal which
will never see the light of day, and the
misdeeds of members can not be brought
up in judgment against them. The
failure to agree upon the publication of
a Legislative Record was a perfect God
send to the corrupt members of tho two
Houses. .The ayes and noes can not be
(poled against them, and many who
sold themselves over and again will put
on the front of honesty and prate about
their integrity, without fear of having
their disguise stripped from them by a
reference to the record of their official
acts.
It is to be hoped that we shall never
have another session of the Pennsylva
nia Legislature without a daily record
of its proceedings. It was right to break
up the thieving scheme of plunder, by
which one man has managed to amass
a magnificent fortune ; but a proper ef
fort would have secured the publication
of a record on reasonable terms. The
experience of the late session has shown
that we can not rely upon any newspa
per In Harrisburg, Philadelphia or
Pittsburgh, for an intelligible report of
Legislative proceedings. The papers
at Harrisburg profess to be unable to
afford the publication of a full report,
and we have no doubt they speak the
truth ahead the matter. A full report
of each day's proceedings would occupy
quite a number of columns, and hiring
reporters, and paying for composition
and press work, would involve a large
outlay, for which no adequate compen
sation would 17? = feceived, We think
the daily papers at the State Capital
might have furnished better reports
than they did, but they were not bound
to go beyond What they deemed proper.
It was only a question of enterprise with
them, and a matter to be determined by
business considerations.
The fact that a Legislative Record, pub
lished by the State, is a necessity has
been abundantly demonstrated by the
experience of the session which has just
closed. The people Will demand that
such a record be furnished in future, but
they will not agree that it shall ke so
miserably executed or so costly HS it
been made in former years. It can be
better done than ever before for a great
deal less Money; and to provide there
for will 1)0 one of the first duties of the
next Legislature. A fair proposition to
let out the contract to the lowest and
best bidder will insure the publichtion
of a complete record at reasonable rates.
It must not be made a job for the benefit
of some party favorite, but tie treated us
a matter of business. In that way the
members can secure for a reasonable
price a record to be laid on their desks
each morning with full proceedings of
the previous day, and the people will be
fully apprised of what is going on at
Harrisburg in time to enter their pro
test against iniquitous
The Answer of Connecticut
Connecticut has responded to the lying
proclamation which Grant sent forth
declaring the adopthat of the Fifteenth
Amendment. The answer of the free
white men of that gallant State t•oanes
to us in the gratifying shape of a hand
some majority for.lames E. English, the
Denmeratic candidate t' or Governor; in
the election of the whole Democratic
State ticket; ;Hid in the int,l marked
reduction of the Republican majority
in the State Legikdature. To preserve
control or the Legislature, the
Radicals have gerrymandered Con
necticut in the same manner they have
Pennsylvania. They instituted a rot
ten borough system by which towns of
two hundred inhabit.•ants elected as
many Representatives as a city of fifty
thousand. That is all that prevented
the Democracy from making a clean
sweep. The Republicans blame their
defeat on the sugar snow which fell
during the day of election. It was not
the white flakes that caused the revolu
tion, but the black acts of Congress. It
wits the ballots or indi g nant white men
that fell
"As hnow llokos full upon Ili.' 101 l
To e.& lilt' the free min's 1011,
As llghtnlng dors Ihr will of God."
With the election in Connecticut, be
gins the reaction against the acts of the
Radical party, a reaction which will
not 1.112115 C 1111 Iii there COMPS a i•nmplete
change of policy—a repeal of oppres
sive laws, an end of legislation for the
benefit of monopolists, mid a full recog
nition of the rights of the people of
every ,hale in 0 perfectly restored
Union. All honor to the gallant De
mocracy of Connecticut who lead the
van.
Negroes against a high Tariff.
The Radicals of New England have
been eldelly instrumental in forcing up
on the country, through fraudulent
means, the Fifteenth Amendment.—
Against the wishes of a vast majority of
the American people they have succeed
ed in making voters of the negroes.—
That this movement is unwise in more
than one sense of the word we have held
from the beginning, and a decided ma
jority of the white men of this nation
share with us in that conviction. Flint
the Yankee agitators will regret
what they have done before long we
have no doubt. In the South a suf
ficient number of the negroes will he
controlled by the native whites to kill
ofr the whole ',rook of Northern carpet
baggers, and to insure sweeping Demo
cratic majorities. In the North the
negro vote will not help the Radical
party. - The indications are that more
than enough white Republicans will de
sert It to counterbalance any advantage
it may derive from the negro vote. And
there are indications that the blacks can
not be relied upon to support the pet
measures of those who gave them the bal
lot. The colored citizens of Cincinnati
held a meeting the other n igh t to consider
the nature of their political duty. After
some discussion they determined that it
was not advisable for them, at this time,
to pledge themselves to :MllOll either
the Republican or the Democratic par
ty; but this they did declare: Tim (lag
would never mtr for ri high tariff. It
would be a piece of political justice if
the Yankee cotton lords and monopo
lists should he brought to grief by the
votes of the blacks whom, they have in
troduced to the ballot-box: The negroes
will naturally want cheap goods, and
they cannot be humbugged into voting
for a high tariff by any specious cry
about protection to American industry
and home markets. The whirligig of
flute brings about its revenges.
_ .
SINCE Grant has conic into lice lie
has only vetoed a single bill, and that
was a private one, of little consequence.
Geary vetoed a whole
. dozen in a batch
the other day, and has wound up by
killing "the big steal." Geary Is a can
didate for the Presidency, and Grant
had better scrutinize the bills he signs
a little more closely, or the great and
gory Geary may beat him for tho, nom
ination.
The Legal• Tender Decision to be Re
versed.
Two cases, Deming against the United
States and Latham against the same,
appeals from the Court of Claims, which
involve the legality of the Legal-Tender
Act, Are shortly to be argued before the
Supreme Court, and an attempt will be
made to reverse the decision lately ren-
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dered by Chief Justice Chase. That
ltade
cision declared the le 1-tender act to
be unconstitutional void, as regards
contracts entered in prior to the ap
proval of the bill by t n President. Five
of the eight Judges then upon the bench
held that all such contracts must be paid
in coin or its equivalent. Messrs. Chase,
Clifford, Fields, Grier and Nelson, were
of one mind on the question, and Davis
Miller and Swaym, dissented. Since
that time Justice Grier has resigned,
and Justices Bradley and Strong have
been appointed.
The decision of the Court was en
dorsed by the best financial writers of
the country, and the opposition which
appeared in the press was confined to
the editorial columns of Radical news-
- - - -
papers. They denounced it in general
terms, but we saw nothing in the shape
of solid argument in the many para
graphs of twaddle which were put in
print. The New York Tribune has pro-
tested against any attempt to reverse
the recent decision, and the financial
editor of the Philadelphia Ledger has
plainly pointed out the evils likely to
ensue from such action. Other inde
pendent papers have spoken out strong
ly and unequivocally against any at
teppt to reverse the decision of the
Supreme Court.
The business community in general
does not look with favor upon the move
ment now being made. Tts backers are
certain railroads and other corporations,
which will be compelled to comply with
the original terms of their contracts if
the decision stands. They are vigor
misty striving to escape from the pay-
rnent of interest on bonds in coin or i
equivalent, and without their active
support there is no reason to believe
that the action of the Supreme Court
would ever have been seriously eon-
ested.
It has !well currently reported that a
majority of Radical Senators were in
duced to take an active part in this
matter, and the rumor has been exten-
sively circulated to the effect that
Messrs. Strong and Bradley the new
Justices, were only confirmed after hav
ing given positive assurances that they
would unite with the three original
dissenting Judges:to reverse the deeisio
of the Court. This report was not coi
lined to Democratic newspapers, bi
appeared in one shape and another
nearly all the city journals. Been
rumors of a still more marked charae
to have been freely published by Radi
cal journals. The Pittsburg Co»imer
cial of Saturday had the following
among its Washington telegrams:
"it is understood that Judg,e:Bradley,
after his confirmation and before going to
Washington to take his seat in the Su
preme Court, advised the Directors of the
Camden and Amboy Railway, of which he
has long been counsel and a heavy stock
holder, to call a meeting, which lie attend
ed. The Directors voted to postpone pay
ment of the bonds and interest alleeted by
the legal tender decision for one year."
That is no doubt the explanation of a
significant editorial in the New York
Tribune, which concluded as follows :
" This question largely involves the pe
pecuniary liabilities of powerful railroad
and other moneyed corporations. Wo in
sist that no ono 'heavily interested in them,
either as a stockholder or as a long retained
counsel, can, without gross indecency, sit
on the trial it raises. The question has
I lately been much discussed among the
members of the bar. We insist that no one
fresh front the bar con, after having already,
as an advocate, expressed decided opinions
concerning the points now to be tried, sit
as a Judge on their trial."
That is so plain an intimation that
Judge Bradley cannot fail totntderstotn
a
it. Will he persist in sitting in so
important n case after the exposure
which has been made of the motives by
which lie is influenced. }le has hereto
fiire been in good repute, lout there is
reason for believing that he is ready to
use his present position for:the purpose
of freeing the Camden and Anihoy Rail
road and other corporations front the
effects of the legal tender decision.
The cases of Deming and Latham are
two old cases, which had been called
repeatedly before the legal tender de
cision was made, and both had been
passed by the court with the under
standing all round, that so for as any
question upon the constitutionality of
the legal tender act was involved, they
should follow the decision to lie made
in that of Hepburn vs. I irkwol.l, which
had been already submitted, ituel in
which it was certain that no point but
that one was involved. There had been
numerous cases before the court i n which
the legal tender act was more or less
involved, some of them being, like the
cases now brought before the court by
the action of the newly appointed Ins
. i tires, cases which did not seem to in
volve the question directly. The Court
was indisposed to have its time taken
up by arguments upon the legal tender
act, in cases where it was doubtful
whether the question was involved ,
and very judiciously and properly de
termined that all who were interested
should be heard in one plain ease, and
the matter finally decided upon a fair
presentation in a case where the point
was unequivocally presented. The de
decision against the constitutionality of
the legal tender act, so far as it relates
to contracts made prior to its passage,
was the mature result of the careful de
liberation of the Court, made, as we
have said, with the sanction of live out
of eight Judges.
It was a question whether the two old
cases of Deming and Latham were still
on the document for argument, so far as
the legal-tender question was concern
ed. The Chief Justice and three other
Judges—four in all—a majority of the
old Court on the bench, as it existed
when the cases were docketed, held the
negative, but they were overruled, the
new Judges, Bradley and Strong unit
ing with the three Judges who had
originally dissented front the opinion of
the Court. It is by such action that the
legal-tender question is again brought
up for discussion, after it has been sol
emnly adjudicated, turd a decision ren
dered which ought never to be reversed.
Sound policy and the best interests of
the business community demand that it
should be permitted to stand for all time
to Coale, as an impregnable barrier
against, any such action in the future.
Messrs. Strong and Bradley cannot
combine with the three dissenting
Judges to reverse the decision of the
Supreme Court upon this important
question without stamping with the
marks of credibility the ugly rumor that
they made a bargain to secure their con
firmation. Any decision they might
render tinder such circumstances would
not only be contrary to the ordinary
course of such tribunals, but it would be
regarded with grave suspicions. It
would be at best only a decision render
ed by a majority of one out of nine
judges, whereas that already made has
the sanction of five out a bench of eight.
The Judiciary of this country is the
only branch of our Government in
whiclt the people any longer have con
fidence. They have seen so much cor
ruption in every other department that
they feel that neither Executives nor
Legislatures are to be fully trusted in
these degenerate days. If belief in the
integrity of the Supreme Court of the
' United States be destroyed, faith in our
institutions will be completely shaken,
and good and thoughtful men may well
despair of the republic. We hope there
may be no truth in the ugly rumor that
Messrs. Bradley Si Strong stand ready
to reverse the righteous decree of the
Supreme Court on the legal tender
question. _ _
THE bill to repeal the act of the last
Legislature declaring Good Friday a
legal holiday, failed to pass the State
Senate. So next Friday will be ob
served as a holiday by bankers, brokers
and the army of the unemployed.
Farewell to the Legislature.
The Legislature has adjourned, and
that is an event for which the people of
Pennsylvania ought fervently to thank
the Giver of all good. No language of
ours, no labored paragraphs done up in
mere prose, could so accurately express
the public appreciation of the body
which has just ceased to exist, as does
the following ode from the pen of Oliver
Wendell Holmes:
0 wise Assembly! and 0 wiser Senate!
I much rejoice to pen it—
The Hundred Days in which you lived in clover,
Are gone and over!
Gone arc the Legislators, great and small :
Clerks, Roosters, Pinchers, Flusters, Folders
aud all
The crowd of country cousins in the hall !
Gone are the vultures, large and little;
Gone are the venders of cold victual ;
Gonere the ladies, short and tall,
e virtuous and the vicious,
The meritorious and the meretricious,
Who follow their vocations
Where you resort;
In short,
The Apple-women, and the sort
With other appellations I
Gone Is the patriotic "Lobby;"
• Some, who have bagged their game,
Laden with wealth—and shame
And others, leading home their tame
And 111-conditioned hobby,
A little leaner than It came!
Gone, too, the Sharps and Flats who swarm
In secret session, and perform
"Feats of the Ring"
Unequalled elsewhere—not the sort of thing
Where human features catch defacing blows—
But meaner feats than those,
Degrading Legislative Ayr., and .VoeJ!
0 famous Hundred !
In which (while "rural districts" wondered)
Your little Tullys thundered,
Your Hectors blustered, and your Solons blun
dered,
And Buncootb—honest ass! was praised—and
plundered!
To think!—what wind and muscle were ex
pended
(Mere money not to mention)
In quieting dissension !
What righteous bills opposed, and bad defend
ed !
What Acts (and farts) were made, and marred
and mended
Before the Session ended !
They say, 0 Legislature! In despite
Of all adverse appearances, you might
Have been touch weaker;
(How! I have asked—but all In vain;
None could, or would explain !)
But this I freely own—you l o ot a "Speaker"
That Justified the title, and could speak,
In speeches neither few nor weak:
Often his voice loudly rang
At its highest pitch of declamation;
Nu one defended Jobs with such vbeiferalion
As your Speaker, B. B. Strang.
Perhaps, 0 Legislature: since your pay
Is rather small,
(I mean, of course, the regular per divot,
And not the Price of Votes when brokers bu
'em,)
You saw the hundredth day
With pleasure after all.
If sn, I will -nut hint—there's little need—
You and the people were, for once, agreed !
Farewell, 0 Senate! and Assembly, too!
Good-bye! addiav ! a-Die! adieu!
(1 don' t say au rereir
With common sense I wouldn't beat war.
That Legislatures come, it needs must be,
(And go, thank heaven!) but when I see
Your \Vays and Means, I think
Of what upon a time, a person said
Touching an article we eat and drink ;
If you'd enjoy Moot h he) your ginger-bread
Or sip your sweetened coffee with delight
Of augur-maA - ing pray avoid the sight !
And thus with greater cause,
Would we respect the Laws,
Which shoutd be reverenced to be obeyed,)
IT ISN'T BEST TO SEE THEM MADE!
Veto of the Appropriation Bill
In refusing to sign the Appropriation
Bill as it was presented to him Governor
Geary did what was exactly right. The
principal ground of objection assigned
by him was the failure to secure any
accountability of officers disbursing
money to public charities. That is an
abuse to which the attention of the
Legislature has been frequently called,
but a majority of that body were indis-
oised to put any cheeks upon those who
re entrusted with the expenditure of
iearly a million dollars a year. Money
I late years has been freely voted
at every session to all sorts of
charities, and 110 proper account of its
expenditure has heretofore been ren
dered. It has gone into the hands of
the managers of different institutions,
and they have used it as they saw fit.
They may have pocketed one half the
amount drawn from the public treasury
and the people have known nothing of
To say the least the system pursued
offered a premium for dishonesty, and
made peculation the easiest and safest
thing conceivable. Rumors prevailed
in Harrisburg to the effect that those
who asked appropriations for charities
were compelled to pay tribute to the
Ring, and it was more than suspected
that a percentage of the money drawn
from the Treasury for such purposes
went into the pockets of the "roosters."
\Vhat is needed is a stringent law com
pelling all managers of public charities
to render a full account, item by item,
every dollar expended by them, said
account to be vouchell for upon oath. 'file
amendment made to the Appropriation
Bill requiring all such officials to . .report
quarterly to the A uditor-1 ;cneral is not
sufficiently explicit in its provisions.
It is too late now to hope for anything
better, but we hope another winter will
not be allowed to pass without the pas
sage of a law which will insure honesty
in the management of all charities
which are supported or aided by the
State.
Veto of the Big Steal
liovernor Ovary has vetoed the bill
which was so summarily pushed
through the Legislature for the purpose
of extracting, nine and a half million
dollars from the Sinking Fund and dis-
posing it among certain railroad torpor;
ations. The veto message is an able doc
ument. The reasons given by the Gover
nor for his actions are strong and clearly
stated. The documen t embraces a review
both of the constitutionality and the pol
icy of the bill, and holds that the law is
against it even if it could be shown to be
for the benefit of the taxpayers of the
State at large. Reports which reached
us from what seemed to be reliable Re
publican sources led us to expect that
the Governor would sign the bill. He
has disappointed the conspirators, and
has shown himself to be made of sterner
stuff than they gave him credit for. We
thank him for this message, which we
confess we did not believe he had virtue
enough to issue. He has maintained
inviolate the clause of the Constitution
relating to the Sinking Fund, and pro
tected the rights of the taxpayers of the
State.
Negro Sufrage•••llow It Works
A gentleman of this city htei received
a letter from his brother in Evansville,
Indiana, where they have lately had a
municipal election, telling him how the
voting of our colored fellow-citizens af
fected the German Republicans; they
could not stand it and deserted in a body
to the white man's party, electing Dearly
the whole Democratic ticket in a largely
Republican town. Like results will be
apt to follow everywhere when the ne
gro conies to vote, and our Radical
friends will find that the measure which
they intended should perpetuate their
power has caused its overthrow. We
append an extract from the letter refer
red to:
EvANsvimm, Ind., April 7, IS7O.
DEAR FRANK Last Monday
we had a City Election here, and for the
first time the negroes voted. We thought
we would be beat all to pieces, as there was
a large negro vote. The Republicans
thought all s e as right until the votes were
counted; after counting the vote they found
all the Democrats elected but 2 or 3;
Democrats out of nine Councilmen were
elected. As soon as the Republican Ger
mans saw the niggers voting, they turned
around mid voted the Democratic ticket.
Ltguon dealers in various parts of the
country appear to be running a new style
of gauntlet. This is composed of curious
suits for damages. One of these is in
stituted in Ohio. A man drank five
glasses of intoxicating liquor in a cer
tain dram shop, and while under the
influence of the exhilarating fluid fell
and broke both his legs. The wife sues
the vender for the damage accruing from
the loss of her husband's services and
the expense and time employed in tak
ing care of him. He was disabled six
months, and his wife asks only $l,OOO
as a recompense for the accident, pain,
outlay and labor. The indications are
that the liquor dealer will have to settle
the matter in greenbacks.
THE American Anti-Slavery Society
held its last meeting at New York, on
Saturday. Wendell Phillips, the Presi
dent of the Association, made a charac
teristic speech,' and by a vote in which
there was only one dissenting vote the
body dissolved. We hope the bitter
animosities engendered by it may die
out with it.
The Watt•Dlamond Case.
We lay before our readers to-day r the
full text of the majOrity and minority
reports in the Watt-Dhimond contested
election case. The first thing that will
strike the intelligent reader, is the re
markable looseness of the language and
the unsatisfactory character of the state.
ments in the majority report. It reads
like the feeble plea of a poor lawyer who
knows that he has no case. It is braz-
enly impudent in tone, but exceedingly
weak in its presentation of the facts in-
volved in the contest. We do not won-
der that Senator Lowry signed it under
prote4t.
What a contrast Is presented by the
minority report. That is clear and
strong throughout. In It all the mater
ial facts are summed up in so lucid a
manner, that the reader sees at a glance
the merits of the controversy. There is
no feeble twaddle in it, no obscure ver-
binge, but a lucid and unanswerable ex
position of the wrong done by the ma-
ority of the Committee.
When Wm. W. Watt made his ar
rangements for obtaining a fraudulent
certificate of election, he did so with the
hope that he would be able to secure a
strongly partisian Commitee to de
cide upon the case. He knew how
important it would be considered for
his party to retain a working majority
in the State Senate until after the
passage of the next Apportionment
Bill, and he argued that he would have
no difficulty in retaining his seat .if he
could once get in. That he reasoned
rightly, while arranging for the execu
tion of forgeries and the alteration of re
turns by which lie was enabled to obtain
a fraudulent certificate of election, the
result of the investigation shows. So
outrageous and transparent were the
frauds perpetrated by the tools of Watt,
that Judge Allison, Republican as he is,
was forced to denounce them in the
strongest terms from the bench, and con
strained to express the most serious re
gret that lie was not authorized by law
to deal with Mr. Watt and his minions
in a summary manner.
Both the minority and the majority
report agree that the majority returned
for Mr. \Vatt was made up by fraudulent
and forged returns handed in to . the
Board of Return Judges. This outrage
was effected by altering the returns of
the Third precinct and the Fourth pre
cinct of the Twenty-sixth ward after
the polls closed, so as to take from Mr.
Diamond two hundred votes, which had
been cast and counted for him, and to
add the same number to the vote of Mr.
Watt. Had the count, correctly made
by the election officers in these pre
cincts, been handed in to the Board of
Return Judges without the forgeries
perpetrated, ).I . r. Diamond would have
had a clear majority of 2d4, and would
have received the certificate of election
to which lie was unquestionably entitled.
When Mr. Watt appeared before the
Senate of Pennsylvania claiming a seat,
11=1
upon the admitted alteration of election
returns, he presented a case so complete
ly tainted with fraud of the grossest
character that an impartial Committee
would have decided that lie ought not
to be allowed to retain his scat, no matter
what might be the showing made by a
canvas of the votes cast. The State is
disgraced by the presence of a man in
her Legislative halls who obtained his
seat by the use of such means.
But, gross as were the frauds and per
juries perpetrated to gain the certificate
of election l'or Watt, they were equalled,
and in some respects surpassed, by
frauds attempted and perjuries perpe
trated in the very presence of the Com
mittee. To bolster up his case, Mr.
Watt produced a set of fellows from the
slums of New York and Baltimore:who
boldly swore that they were hired to go
to Philadelphia to vote the Democratic
ticket at the last election. They did not
swear that they voted for Mr. Diamond,
only that they voted the Democratic
ticket repeatedly. A search for these
scoundrels in their homes (they were
made incompetent witnesses by their
own udmissioui showed that the OVi
deuce which they gave was false from
beginning bead. It was plainly proven
by Mr. Diamond that these repeaters
had been manufactl red to swear Watt's
case through. They were shown to have
given false names before the Commit
tee, to have lied about their occupations,
about their places of residence, about the
men whom they declared had hired
them, and about the men whom they
named as having gone to Philadel
phia in company with therm They
were branded before the Commit
tee as hired perjurers—hired by Watt
and his friends to perfect the fraud
which had commenced with the altera
tion and forgery of election returns.
And it was upon such testimony, upon
the evidence of such proven perjurers,
that the Collimate decided to throw out
a sufficient number of Democratic pre
cincts to enable them to count Mr. Watt
in. In view of the evidence in this case
we can see little difference in moral tur
pitude between the fellows who forged
the returns by which Watt gained a
fraudulent certificate of election, and
the partisans who confirmed his claim
to the seat, which rightfully belonged
to Mr. Diamond.
Since the passage of the Registry
Law, the grounds upon which the
Courts of this State rested their ques
tionable right to throw out the poll of a
whole district has been entirely taken
away. Where the people chose election
officers, who allowed frauds to be perpe
trated, and illegal voting to be done with
their knowledge and consent, our courts
have held that the entire poll might be
east away when the ballot box could
not be purged of illegal votes; but when
a Republican Board of Aldermen ap
points all the election officers, as is now
the case in Philadelphia, by nothing
but the most outrageous stretch of
power, assumed in a desperate cause for
the basest partisan purposes, could any
Committee in a contested election ease
be induced to act as this one has
done. It was only when Watt's case
was completely broken down at all other
points that this last expedient was re
sorted to. It bears the marks of villainy
on its face, and we shall from time to
time publish testimony from the record
which can not fail to convince every
honest man who reads it that Alexander
J. Diamond was fairly and honestly
elected, and that \\ - m. W. Watt owes his
seat to the predetermined action of men
who were influenced by partisan consid
erations.
Morrow B. Lowry dissented from the
decision of the Committee, and at
first refused to sign the majority re
port. He endeavored to Induce his
Republican solleagues to declare the
seat vacant, and to refer the contestback
to the people. This they refused to do,
well knowing that Mr. Diamond would
be re-elected by a decided majority. To
keep the Democrat out and the Radical
in was the aim and end of the contest.
To refer the matter buck to the legal vo
ters of the district would have defeated
the scheme—so Mr. Lowry's proposition
was promptly overruled. When he found
himself powerless to avert the Intended
outrage he appended his signature to
the majority report. This he did be
cause he expects to be a candidate for
re-election, and feared the effect of per
sisting in the honest and manly stand
he had taken. That subserviency on
the part of so bold a man as Lowry
shows how powerful Is the influence of
the party lash, and Is only another evi
dence of the gross partisan character of
this decision, by which the legal voters
of the First Senatorial District are vir
tually • disfranchised, and a man who
was never legally elected given a seat in
the upper branch of our State Legisla
ture.
THE fact seems too well established
that in the various localities where the
negroes voted last week, the Radicals
lost in white votes more than they gain
ed in black ones.
National School -Keening
- The Freedmen's Bureau is to be trans
waited into a Bureau of Educhtiori. The
greasy fellows whose duty_it has been
to dispense bacon, flour, mobootes, shod
dy clothes and other articles of diet and
dress to the "wards of the nation," are
to give place to a set of canting Yankees
whose ostensible duty it will be to min
ister to the mental wants of the African.
The Generals and Captains and Colonels
are to be superseded by New England
preachers, with visages like the Rever
end Stiggins and voices with the ortho
dox nasal twang; the army of clerks and
private soldiers is to give way to an army
of Massachusetts school marms, of an
uncertain age, lean of person, sharp vis
aged,hot-tempered and soured in dispo
sition by disppointments such as "press
the life from out young hearts." The
nation is going into the National School,
Keeping business on the biggest and
most costly scale. The negro is not to
be let alone, he is not to be permitted
to stand or fall as white men are com
pelled to do. Whatever may become of
the whites the blacks are to be most
tenderly cared for. The newly made
citizens are to be carried in the lap of
the nation and fed on spoon victuals for
an indefinite period of time; and the
laboring white men, those who till the
soil, ply the mechanic arts and foot up
the heavy tax bills, are to pay for it all
by tithes wrung from the sweat of their
brows. Their wives are to wear shabby
garments, their children are to be pinch
ed in stomach and to go in patched
clothes, that a vast electioneering
scheme under the guise of an Education
al Bureau may be run throughout the
country for the benefit of a set of greedy
and corrupt'lladical office-holders.
General Grant recommends the edu
cation of the negroes iu the stilted and
ungrammatical message which be same
fit to append to the Emancipation Proc
lamation; and Congress will not be
slow to seize upon any means which
will divert millions of money from the
National Treasury and turn it into the
pockets of a set of political jackals,whose
chief business it will be, under the guise
of teachers, to manipulate the negro
vote. The scheme is one which will
awaken all the puling and mawkish
sentimentality of Yankee reformers. We
shall hear it commended front the pul
pit and the platform, and Radical jour
nals will grow eloquent over the idea of
elevating the negro race to a level such
as becomes the dignity of American cit
izenship. All the clap-trap of cheap
and wordy patriotism, a thing which a
great English thinker justly declared to
be "the last refuge of scoundrels," will
be brought into play.
The Radicals have already poured out
untold millions of money and sacrificed
a million of lives for thei ridea of freedom.
They have overthrown sovereign States,
kept the L'ulon divided, and violated
Constitutions to make the negroa voter;
and they now propose to rob the bur
thened white inasses,and to oppress still
further the toiling taxpayers,to educate
the ignorant and degraded creatures
whom they have admitted to the ballot
box. We are in favor of educating all
classes of people, but when the Radicals
undertake to put their hands into the
pockets of the white working men of
:he North, and to take therefrom mil
ions of money to educate the negroes of
the South we do most emphatically ()b
-eet.
By the Act of June 2.4t1i, 1868, Co
gross declared that the educational di
vision of the Freedmen's Bureau shout(
be withdrawn from any State as soul
as " it should make suitable provision fo
the education of the children of freed
men in such State." By the new con
stitution of the different States of the
South, ample provision for the educa-
tion of the blacks has been made; in
some cases the negroes being put on
a perfect equality with the whites in the
mblic schools. The attempt now being
made to keep the educational depart
ment of the Freedmen's Bureau in opera
tion is an infamous device,having in view
the manipulation of negro votes by a
set of agents who are to be paid out of
the hard earnings of the white men of
the North. It is of a piece with much
other legislation of the party now
in power. If the people would remedy
such evils they must lay the axe to the
root of the tree. So long as Congress is
packed with Radicals, so long will such
things continue. The time to right the
wrongs which exists will be at the Con
gressional election which takes place
next Sall. Let the white voters of Penn
sylvania see that they do their part.
COL. MCFARLAND having been re
jected as Superintendent of Soldiers'
Orphan Schools, will now have time to
prepare that history of the 3d Brigade,
3d Division, of the Ist Army Corps for
which he received a contribution of one
dollar a piece from the soldiers of the
brigade. They are anxiously waiting to
get sonic return for their money and
have been indulgent to the Colonel thus
long, only because they knew he had a
profitable thing on hand with the sol
diers' orphans which paid him much
better than printing a history for which
he had already received the money.
A PROMINENT Radical of Indiana said
at a meeting in Indianapolis the other
day that the Republican party had
"stall-fed the Dutch long enough, and
now that it had nigger enough it could
do without the German vote." To show
that the party believed in the declara
tion of this anti-Teutonic leader a ticket
was straightway nominated without a
German on it, notwithstanding . sev
eral were urged for positions. It will
not be long until we shall see another
Know-nothing crusade against foreign
ers, if the negroes stick to the Radicals.
THE Navy Department has just re
ceived despatches from Commander
Truxtom of the Jamestown, stating
that the Feejee Islanders are anxious to
establish an independent government,
under the protection of the United
States, but the movement is opposed by
the British authorities.
Is there to be any end to these projects
of annexation? Are all the savages of
all the world to be made American citi
zens? Whey not let the Feejeeans he as
well as the San Domingo negroes? Beetle
islands would furnish refuges for decay
ed Radical politicians, and give them a
chance to steal, and is not that a con
summation devoutly to be wished,
The San Domingo Job
The San Domingo Job is not dead yet.
In the House Ben. Butler will shortly
introduce a resolution authorizing the
annexation of the island after the man
ner in which Texas was acquired by us.
It is thought a majority of both Houses
of Congress will favor the proposition.
The importunity of Grant will have
much influencewith members who want
to secure appointments for their favor
ites. The House higkealled upon the
President for a staternent`of the amount
of money which has been expend
ed already In the negotiation. of the
treaty, &c. The President declines to
comply, assigning as a reason that• lie
considers it improper to do so, while
the treaty Is under consideration in the
Senate.
At Lawrence, Kansas, recently, Mr.
Henderson (colored) was nominated for
member of the School Board. He was
called upon for a speech, and said he
did not know what to say. He thought
the soul of Old John Brown would now
stop marching on, as a colored man had
been nominated for office. He concluded
by saying that he would be willing that
white children • should have the same
privileges to attend the free schools as the
colored children.
THE negro Senator Revels attended
Henry Ward Beecher's church last
Sunday, and was the lion of the day,
the pastor seeming to feel highly hon
ored, and making some pointed allusions
to the distinguished stranger.
The Honest Country Press
The Country Press of Pennsylvania has
spoken put boldly and freely against the
proposed tlispersirin of the Sinking
Fund. Our Demboratic exchanges from
the rural districta'come;to us full of 'de
nunciations of scheme by whiCh
nine and a half millions of first class
securities are to be exchanged for the
bonds of railroads which have no exist
ence except on paper. Here and there
we find one which is influenced by local
causes endorsing the act, but these do
not amount to more than half a dozen
out of some seventy Democratic papers
received by us as exchanges.
So strong is the opposition to the
measur4,-and so foreign from Democratic
policy is ‘freousidered to be, that some
of the papers, \ published in the districts
through which the new roads are to be
built, denounce the manner in which
the aid of the State was secured for the
development of their sections. Among
these we may mention the Erie Observer,
the Cameron County Emporium, the
Bellefonte Watchman and the Genius
of Liberty, published in Fayette
County. Most of the papers
fished in the counties which were
interested in the Border Damage Bill,
persistently remained silent in regard to
the matter. The reason for such action
upon their part is well understood. The
" Railroad Ring" promised to put the
Border Damage Bill through in consid
eration of receiving the votes of the
Border members, but when they had
accomplished their cherished purpose,
they found no difficulty in flying from
the bargain they had made. The Bor
der men were badly cheated. They
ought to have insisted upon having
their bill put through first. If they had
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influence of the Pennsylvania Railroad
with them, and it is said the managers
of that corporation can command a
majority of the Legislature for any act
they may favor, no matter what its
merits or demerits may lie. Now that
the papers along the Border are free to
speak out upon this important matter,
we may expect them to do so. The York
Press did not allow:the Border Damage
Bill to influence its opinion, but spoke
out against the dispersion of the Sink
ing Fund, from the time it was first at-
tempted.
This almost universal agreement of
sentiment among Democratic newspa
pers of the State shows how honest the
Press of the party is, and exhibits a com
mendable spirit of independence. We
notice that in numerous instances the
Democratic members who voted for the
measure are taken to task and sharply
lectured for the course they pursued.—
We are sorry that any Democrat should
have voted for the dispersion of the
Sinking Fund. Numbers aid so be
cause they were enabled to secure the
immediate development of the resources
of their sections, and fur such there is
some excuse, but there were others who
are not free from the suspicion of com
plete corruption. All such ought to lie
summarily disposed of. Not one of them
should be allowed to return to the Legis
lature next winter. The Democratic
party can not afford to be represented at
Harrisburg by men to whom even a
suspicion of the prevailing corruption
attaches. Let every Democratic district
be represented hereafter by men of un
questioned and unquestionable integri.
ty. Let the honest Country Press of the
State kill off every suspected aspirant.
llow Diamond was Ciphered Out
Accompanying the majority report in
the Watt-Diamond case, the Philadel
phia Buitain published the figures made
up by Messrs. Brooke, Graham, Kerr
and Warfel :
Majority for Watt, according to his cor
certificate 176
(tains for Watt by actual count:
Ninth division, Fourth Ward 3-1
Ninth division, Third Ward 15
Fourth division, Fourth Ward 10
Deducting that number from the four
hundred votes out of which Diamond
was swindled by forged and altered re
turns, it left him a clear majority of 135.
To overcome that, and to justify them
in reporting that Watt was "elected by
a large majmity," the Committee threw
out three entire divisions, in which the
vote stood as follows :
Watt. /11 , os
First division, sth Ward
Sixth division, 4th Ward 49 240
Seventh division, 3d Ward.., SI; 300
The evidence, upon ''Lich the Co
mittee relied for a justitivation of this
outrage, was that given by the perjured
wretches from New York and Baltimore,
who were proven to have given false
names, to have lied before the Committee
about their occupations, their places
residence, the men by whom they as
serted they had been hired to go to Phil
adelphia, and the men whom they
stated to have accompanied them. When
honest men look at this decision in its
proper light, they cannot help being
shocked at the evidence which it afThrds
of the gross abuse which have grown
up in regard to the decision of contested
election cases. It has come to pass that'
the majority will not permit one of their
friends to be turned out, if his retention
is deemed necessary to the success of
partisan purposes. Had Mr. Diamond
been given his seat to which he was
entitled, the Democrats would in all
probability have had control of the State
Senate next winter, and the infamous
gerrymander by which perpetual con
trol of the Legislature is given to the
Republican party would have been done
away with. That was the secret of the
outrageous conduct of the Committee.
The Philadelphia Ledger Sees at Last.
The Philadelphia Ledger has at length
given us an utterance upon the subject
of the projected steal of nine 'Millions
from the Sinking Fund. While this
Pine Creek and Buffalo Railroad Bill
was on its passage through the Senate
and House, and while, after its passage,
it was being assailed and disapproved by
nearly the entire press of the State out
side orPhiladelphia and Harrisburg, the
Ledger dill not condescend to make the
most passing allusion to the bill; but
now, after the Governor has vetoed the
scheme, and its voice can do the project
neither harm nor good, the Ledger
makes the following comments upon it,
by which we are both astonished and
gratified to find that it considers that
the project was everything that Was
naughty, and that Senator Iluckalew
was right in announcing it as the " big
steal." Better late than never. The Led
ger can at least congratulate itself upon
being ahead of its city cotemporaries,
not one of whom have even yet found
out the true character of the bill. Here
is what it says:
"The Governor has added to his list of
just vetoes a message of marked ability,
returning, without his approval, the bill
which attempted to take from the Sinking
Fund of the State 1,9,500,000 of valuable
bonds, to distribute them to a combination
of speculative railroad companies in the
Western part of the State—com panics which
have neither property nor credit, and that
' have scarcely any existence except upon pa
per. The reasons given by the Governor for
the veto of this bill are conclusive both as
to the law and the sound policy of tho case.
The whole scheme was a gigantic combina
tion of "log-rolling legislation," which is
forbidden by the Constitution ; of spoliation
of the Sinking Fund, which is a violation
of the same instrument, and of plunder for
the benefit of corporations, which have no
claim upon the public funds of the State.—
It was well described by Senator Buckalew
when he stigmatized it in the Senate as
"the big' steal ;" and the Governor is en
titled to the thanks of the whole Common
wealth for interposing his constitutional
authority to'defeat it.
Governor Alcorn, of Mississippi, has
sent a message to the Legislature of that
State, recommending the establishment
of separate schools for white and colored,
and the erection of a Normal School for
the education of colored teachers. That
looks like making ample provision for
the education of the blacks, but we ex
pect to here a loud outcry from the Radi
cals because whites and negroes are to
be kept separate. We should not be
surprised to see It' gravely argued that
such a distinction is sufficient to justify
another reconstruction of the State.
General Maitindaleliebulted
The Society of the tiralk - a - Army of the
Potomac held its second reunion in
Philadelphia on Saturday: — Among the
many warriors who metin the Academy
or Music, and sat round the festive board
at the Continental Hotel,Vere men who
held diametrically opposite political
views. They had gathered as a band of
brothers, bound by the tie of dangers,:
shared in common, and sacrifices made
with cheerfulness for a common coun
try. They met not as partisans, but as
soldiers, not to hear politics discussed,
but to recall the memories of brave deeds
done when they stood shoulder to shoul
der in front of the foe. They had been
alike patriotic and unselfish in their
devotion to the Union. At such a time,
under such circumstances, no man of
gentlemanly feeling, or good taste would
have intruded his political opinions upon
those who did not agree with him.—
When the Federal office holder, General
I Martindale prostituted his position as
orator of the day to so base a purpose he
outraged the feelings of a large number
of his comrades. We are glad to see
that some Republcan newspapers have
had the good sense to condemn such
conduct. The Philadelphia Evening
Telegraph says:
Gen. Martindale's oration was far better
fitted for a Republican campaign speech
than for an assemblage of men composed of
different parties, the body of his speech
consisted of a rehash of the Drod Scott de
cision, a discussion of the slavery question,
and a laudation of the new constitutional
amendments. We do not question the
vigor of his argument, but surely he might
have chosen a more fitting time for dis
seminating his trite views on the results of
the political warfare of the last ten years,
and after being chosen as a soldier to ad
dress a body of soldiers, ho might have
found a inure appropriate topic Wallah°
civil conflict connected with and arising
from the terrine contest of mighty armies.
In the war for the Union, Democrats as
well as Republicans, entered the ranks of
the army, and tilled with credit some of
the highest military positions. It is true
that many of the former gradually discard.
ed all their Democratic. anilations, but this
rule was not universal. Secretary Cox, One
of Grant's Cabinet officers, has evidently
not forgotten the fact which Martindale
apparently ignored, and in his remarks on
Saturday lie paid a compliment to General
McClellan, which displayed the true spirit
that should prevail throughout in these
annual reunions. Considering his political
position there was special significance in
his remark " I may venture to say that
which every good soldier will respond to,
I love that man McClellan, and honor him
as he deserves to be honored." And here
after we trust that the managers and ora
tors of the reunions will not forget that
the Army of the Potomac, as an army,
was composed of soldiers, and not of poli
ticians.
A resolution offered by Glen. Col
which contained in ita virtual and point
ed censure of Gen. Martindale, came very
near passing, after he had finished his
partisan harangue. The Age, and one
or two other Philadelphia papers, claim
that a majority did actually vote in its
favor, and that it was only decided to be
defeated by a miscount. The -Demo
cratic soldiers who were present did not
remain silent during the delivery of the
obnoxious speech, but greeted its im
proper utterances with hisses. We hope
there will be no more such exhibitions
of partisanship at future meetings.—
Sheridan has been succeeded by Nteade
in the Presidency of the Association,
and we may expect to see things done
decently and in order hereafter, for (len.
ileade has always shown himself to be
a gentleman.
The Effect of a Reversal of the Lega
Tender Decision
The attempt which is now being
made to secure a reversal of the
recent decision of the Supreme Court
upon the Legal Tender act will
prove disastrous if it should lie success
ful. It will be regarded as the result of
a deliberate packing of the bench for a
purpose. It will degrade the character
of the Court and will destroy confidence
in the justice of its decisions. It will
seriously damage the credit of the nation
abroad, and will affect the price of our
securities in the markets of the world.
The London ,Yaturday Review tells us
ho iv a reversal of the decision of the
Court under such circumstances will he
looked upon in Europe. Referring, to a
suggestion by a New York n6wspaper,
that the Supreme Court would be so
constituted as speedily to enunciate a
different doctrine from that laid down
by Chief Justice Chase, the Reririe says :
"In other civilized countries the judg
ment of the highest tribunals aro regarded
as final, but no dealer in American securi
ties is safe against the appointment of
judges who may be raised to the bench for
the express purpose of reversing an un
popular decision. The issue of Mr. Bout
well's loan will be impeded by doubt of
the integrity of the United Stoics, which
will, with or without reasm, be batted I/11
similar grounds."
Thus is the bare rumor that the Court
is about to retrace its steps made the
cover fur a stab at American credit, and
an aspersion upon the integrity of our
highest judicial tribunal. Whether
rightfully or wrongfully, the inference
which will be drawn front a decision in
favor of the constitutionality of the legal
tenders,by a majority created by the ad
dition of Justices Bradley and Strong to
the former court,lwill undoubtedly be
that those gentlemen were appointed by
the President and confirmed by the
Senate for that specific purpose. We do
hope the country may be saved front
such a misfortune.
_ I s S9l
The State Senate Next Tear
The terms of the followiny, Senators
expired with the adjournment of the
Legislature, viz:—Messrs, Davis, of
Berks ; Randall, of Schuylkill; Robin
son and Mclntire, of the double district
composed of Blair, Centre, Huntingdon,
Mittlin, Juniata and Perry ; Nagle, of
Philadelphia; Brown, of Lehigh and
Northampton; Beck, of Lyeoming,
CnionMid Snyder ; Lowry, of Erie and
Crawford ; Linderman, of Bucks; Stin
son, of Chester and Brooke of Delaware,
the district being double, and Howard,
of Allegheny. Of the retiring Senators
Messrs. Davis, Randall, Mclntire, Na
gle, Linderman, Beck and Brown, are
Democrats; the rest Republicans. The
Lycoming district, which is represented
by Mr. Beck, can be carried again by
hlni, and there is little doubt that he
will lie renominated and reelected. The
Democracy can elect both the Senators
in the double district composed of I lon
tingdon and the adjoining counties, if
thZ.y nominate good men and work as
they should do. That would give us a
gain of one member, and would cause
the next Senate to stand sixteen Demo
crats to seventeen Republicans. Had
Mr. Diamond not been deliberately
cheated out of his seat, the Senate would
almost certainly have been Democratie
next winter, and the result would have
been a fair and equitable apportionment
bill, instead of the infamous gerryman
der which now gives to the Republicans
the power they have so shamefully
abused to the cost of the taxpayers. It
was regarded as absolutely necessary to
keep Mr. Diamond out of his seat, and
that accounts for the outrageous deci
sion made by a majority of the commit
tee.
Publication of Income Returns
Commissioner Delano has ordered the
Assessors not to permit the publication
of income returns hereafter, That Is as
it should be. From the first the INTEL
LICIENCER has taken a stand against it
as improper, and refused to publish the
lists. The publication serves no good
purpose. It only gratifies a morbid cu
riosity, and many men have heretofore
made a return of a handsome Income
when they had none, for the sake of se
curing credit by misrepresentation. Bus
iness men generally have been opposed
to the custom, and a large majority of
the people will no doubt endorse the ac
tion of Commissioner Delano.
The Indianapolis Sentinel of Wednes
day says:
A Fifteenth Amendment applied to a
candidate yesterday fora lot of tickets, pre
pared for but not used at the late primary
election,and being asked what he wanted
them for, replied: "Why, you see, massa,
we cullud folks hab got de right to vote,
and it does make me feel so good, an' as I.' se
gwine into de contry to chap wood, I wants
to take dem tickets along, and don I'll lay
dem down on de log I'se chapping, an'
when I gets tired I'll take one ob de tickets
an' Tote it in a hollow tree I knows ob
down dar." lie got the tickets,
State Itesna.- --
Bedford county purposeeerecting
nine new school houses thi.SVar•
The Hollldayiburg , Serbinary has
been sold oy the 44 he r ff.
The tOreste around Pittsburgh are full
of wildpigeons.
The sugar,making season is ufxm the
Somerset farmers.
A new paper has been started at Pitts
burgh called the Christian Radical.
The indebtedness of the city of Erie is
said to be $638,000.
The First Presbyterian Church of
Pottsville received from all sources dur
ing the year $5,062, and expendedss,o67.
During the past year over four hun
dred dwelling houses were erected in
Shamokin, and more are still wanted.
The Butler Herald says horse thieves
are investing that county. Two horses
have been stolen within a week past.
A casting weighing twelve thousand
pounds was recently made In a York
foundry.
Stock to the amount of s24o,ooohas been
subscribed towards building the Lewis
burg and Spruce Creek Railroad.
A little girl died suddenly in Pitts
burgh, from over-exertion in Jumping
the rope.
Pittsburgh, at present employs 217
teachers, and affords school accommo
tions for about 11,000 pupils.
Mr. Caleb Wakefield, a Huntingdon
county farmer, lost his pocketbook the
other day, which contained $3OO.
The anthracite coat trade opened in
1812. The first shipments were made
from Plymouth, Luzerne county.
The XVth amendment will add just one
to the vote of Clarion borough, and not
more than a half dozen to the vote of
the county.
A number of fine canal boats were
built at Wilk esbarre during the past win
ter, and will be launched at the opening
of navigation.
During the month of March, 521,476,-
247 gallons of water were pumped by all
the works belonging to the city of Phil
adelphia.
Petroleum Cimtre is infested with
"roughs." A vigilance committee has
been appointed to drive them out of the
Riehard R. Cummins has been up
)ointed an Assistant Assessor of Inter
nl for Delaware county,
Two thousand four hundred and
deven persons were arrested by the
ladiee in Philadelphia, during the
tionth of March.
Rev. Albert Ihmies, the eminent
Presbyterian divine, is failing rapidly,
and will liardly be able to live through
the current year.
The Commissioners Of Delaware
county have decided to levy a tax of
three and u half mills to the dollar, fur
county purposes for the present year.
Mr. Michael Keath died at the Blair
county alms-house 00 the 10th inst., at
the advanced age of one hundred and
four years.
111 N. Elizabeth Snyder, of Allegheny
township, Armstrong county, one hun
dred and six years of age, died very sud
denly while dressing.
A family passed through Uniontown
recently, moving East, that had six
horses, three wagons, live cows and (*y
en dogs.
The whole number of schools in the
State of Pennsylvania o.ixelusive of
Philadelphia) in the year 1860 was 11,-
Rev. William Hunter, I). D., who for
fifteen years past has occupied the ci
of Biblical Instruetion in Allegheny Col
lege, at Meadville, lugs resigned.
Dirling, an Oil City team
ster, recently sold his employer's horses
and wagon and ran away with the pro
ceeds, but was caught at Pittsburgh.
A contract has been awarded for the
erection of the new Odd Fellows and
Masonic building at Waynesburg, to
cost $ll,OOO.
One day last week a wild-eat was
traced for a distance of several miles on
Herring-Bone Ridge, Juniata county,
but its pursuers failed to capture It.
An Erie bachelor editor has received
an advertisement from an Indiana law
yer with the request that he insert it in
his paper and take pay in divorces.
The Harrisburg Patriot wishes the
numerical strength of tile dogs in that
city curtailed; a couple of thousand can
be spared.
A train of one hundred and sixty-sev
en empty coal cars recently passed To
wanda on the Pennsylvania and New
York Railroad.
A Mrs. Lynch has been placed In dur
ance vile in Norristown. She was ar
rested for the offence of telling the citi
zens of Pottstown their fiirtunes.
Rev. I'. Coombe, Secretary of the
Pennsylvania State Temperance Union,
is to canvass Westmoreland county
against the License System.
Last week a young man walked from
Baltimore to 1 ork, sa distance of forty
eight miles, between sunrise:and ?sunset,
on a wager of $2O.
For the week ending March 20th, 770
squares of roofing slates were shipped
from Slatington. Also for the same
week, 101 cases school slates, 17 cases
black boards, and 0 cases mantles.
A man in Allento - wit recently made
a bet that lie could drink four quarts
of bonded warehouse whiskey at one
sitting. lie WOll the bet easily. His
corpse looked quite natural.
Mr. E. W. Smiley, formerly of the
Forest Republican has imrchased the
Venango Citizen front J. W.-1-1. Reis
inger, and has assumed editorial charge
of that paper.
At a recent meeting of the Board of
Trustees of the I7niversity of Pennsyl
vania, Dr. I). Hayes Agnew was elected
professer of clinical and demonstrative
surgery.
The people of Pittston have determin
ed to appeal to the law, in order to force
a removal of the railroad track of the
Lehigh Valley road which passes
through their borough.
in Chester county the levy for the
present year, is six mills on the dollar,
Mr county purposes. Last year it was
five, and the year before six, while In
Delaware county it is only three and a
half mills.
A young man named Dennis 'Burr,
was recently killed by a boiler explo
slum at a slope of the Pennsylvania Iron
Company, near Maus' mill, u short dis
tance front Danville. His body was
thrown a distance of seventy yards.
There is an old lady living in Fayette
county, ninety years of age, who has
over two hundrea and forty descendants,
all the male members being staunch
Democrats. lier mune is " tiranny "
Swaney.
The Clearfield Republican states that
a pine tree Was cut this winter on the
land of Mr. E. A. Irvin, on Whitener
Run, that settled 0,457 feet, and pro
duets! twenty 10-feet logs, one 14-feet
and one 12-feet long.
it. John's German Berm:rued Church,
\Vest Philadelphia, recently voted to
transfer their congregation and proper
ty to the Presbyterians. It is said that le
gal and ecclesiastical measures have
been taken to prevent it.
Bedford county is prolific in highly
perfumed animals called "skunks."
tire man in St. Clair township drew on
the treasury of that county for premi
ums on the scalps of one hundred and
sixteen:of these sweet scented creatures.
The Board of Directors of the Reading
Driving Park Association have elected
Mr. Levi A. Bertolette Vice President
of the corporation, to represent its inlet
eats in the National Association, which
meets at Buffalo, New York, in Feb
ruary, 1871.
MN. Shugart is a woman who poison
ed her husband, and, on trial, was sen
tenced to death in Butler county, this
State. After the trial began she became
insane, and is in an asylum. Should she
recover her senses the execution must
take place. Death or insanity for life
is her doom.
A fellow entered the mill of John
Murray, in North Strabane township,
Washington county, and stole fifty
pounds of flour one night recently, but
as he was coming out he was met by
Mr. Murray and dropped the bag and
ran. There has been no claim made
for the bag.
A correspondent of the Allentown
Daily Chronicle says that on the let inst,
a colt was foaled on the farm of Jonas
llittner, in Lyon Valley, Lehigh coun
ty, which had feet like a steer. This
"strange freak of nature" was subse
quently killed, as the owner did not
consider it advantageous to agriculture
to raise such stock.
The tow boat 011 Valley, while pass
ing down the Allegheny river struck
a pier of the Emlenton bridge, and in
jured her engine badly. The negro
fireman and the cook, a white boy were
both drowned. The boat floated down
to the Clarion Islands, where she was
run ashore.
Two burglars entered the residence of
Christian Thudium, at "Oak Grove,"
Perry county, on the morning of the
29th ult., about two o'clock. They suc
ceeded in getting two silver watches and
one navy revolver, when they were
disturbed in their investigations by the
servant girl, who alarmed the family.
They made their escape In a horse and
buggy, In the direction of Carlisle,
=HIM
Here and There
Maine is rapidly forming a 'militia
corps.
lowa has 410,000 children admissible
to her schools.
A portraitof Cromwell was lately sold
in London for $5,000.
Brattleboro, ''t., expended $O,OOO last
year for school purposes.
Cincinnati Is a headquarters for hum
bugging advertisers.
The women of lowa expect to vote by
the presidential election.
Three inehe of applejack is called a
straight drink in North Carolina.
Many of the cotton mills in Connecti
cut are stopped on account of high water
in the streams.
St. Louis claims to have more vaga
bonds than any other city. In the rnited
States.
A Prussian naval school-ship, the Ni
obe,with Prussian midshipmen aboard
will visit Annapolis In a short time.
The lee in the harbor at Montreal has
begun to move, and the streets above
the river aro flooded.
At Schenectady, N. Y., yesterday, t wo
new three-story building fell down,
killing one man and injuring three
others.
It is understood that Representative
Butler, of Massachusetts, will endeavor
to have the Tariff bill laid on the wide
Ezsm
In Canada the volunteers have been
called out all along the Eastern frontier,
and are now under arms, in anticipa
tion of another Fenian raid.
At Boston, yesterday, William S. Lu
cas, in jail awaiting trial for theft, com
mitted suicide by hanging himself to
the grating of his cell.
•
An accident oeeurred at St. Johnsvill,,
on the New York Central Railtond,yes-
terday, by which one man was killed
and two other badly Injured.
()do Russell, tho British Nlinister at
Rome, hits again oll'ered the lope au
asylum in Malta In case the Frenelt
troops should In withdrawn.
Jefferson Davis has written to Wa,lt
ington denying that when he ‘rithdrew
from the Senate, Mr. Cameron told hint
that a negro would succeed hlm.
It is predicted that Florida will be
come one of the largest. sugar-producing
localities 111 this continent. The cli
mate and soil Sre adlllirtlhiy ad:iplcth It
its culture, and the crop Is sum.
At Baltimore, Acrid Lewis, who kill
ed his little son while drunk, on the st h
of March, was yesterday convicted
manslaughter, and sentenced to six
months Imprisonment.
Trenton, N. J., held Ito charter elec
tion yesterday. About 2.:11 colored men
voted, all for the Republican ticket.---
The result was not known last night,
but it was believed the Detimerats re
tained control of the city.
Brigham Young is in constant dread
of assamination, and trembles all night
in fear. it would discourage any assas
sin before he found Brigham, having to
walk over so many wives. \V ith a hody•
guard of eighty women in a sleeping
room, a man ought to be entirely safe.
They could scratch the assassin's cycs
out In two seconds, if he wasn't good
looking.
Dr. Shultz, one of plot's recent rap-
ices, who has escaped,~ peaks in tto•
highest ternis of the Ited Itivcr
t 4 a grain producing region. Ile say,
he never saw in t'aitada wheat that ap-
prowled that grown in the WI lillepeg
country. The climate he says, is good,
and, if that country were in the hand,
of men Nvho knew how to use it, it w ould
become one of the grunt wealth.
One Henry Allen, described in the
pa ere iLv "an American gentleman oC
color," has been punished in London
for swindling over :ton different people , .
He was, when arrested, under engage`
ment of marriage to a white girl, the
daughter of a person who had been Im
cuniarily victimized by him. Ile in the
man fur Radical money. What !wide
punishment it would he to inflict upon
. -
the "unrepentant rebels" of Mie a the
Southern States to send Mr. Allen to
represent them in the United States
Senate.
The financial editor of the Philadelphia
Ledyrr, in speaking of the iill,llll , tax,
says :
Senator Sherman on Thursday uumrg„i.
to work through the Senate the smothered
House resolution of about the :Loth °Urine -
ary last for the continuance of the 5 pia
cent. rate of income tax for the ellricer
year, and intended to legalize the rulings
of Commissioner Delano. It :dills I, 'Wain •
adildllatiVedy the question that the MX on
dividends, interest, and salaries ON cr tk loon
shall be enforced, and it is specithral ly
to apply to all otlivial salaries, rte., men
tioned in the Income Tax law. The inoouu
tax, proper, goes over until the general tax
bill comes up. In other surds, Mr. Sher
man's resolution has no bearing it. th
personal income tax i which, for the present,
he seems to concede, expired by its owe
Limitation with the year ISO. 'rue tax re.
being assessed is for last year, and the io -
tention of Mr. Sherman is to alllindiZe
continue the collection of tax imposed ion
banks, companies, rind on the salaries or
Government officials. Thenblect or leaving
out the income tax is evidently eu the
principle of " divide and corm nor," With
that obnoxious fen/life in It tile Wiede
would probably fail. Commissioner Delano
holds that the tax is still in hirer, but many
banks and other large corporations of the
country are refusing to pay any further
income tax On their dividends,
that those to whom they aro duo are not
chargeable with the income tax after the
vear 13e11, and our Pennsylvania hail rend
Ira'. Obtained the written upiniun 4.t emi
nent counsel, sanctioning this roles:tr. As
it now exists it is Mr. Delano's law, and
not a law of Congress, and the fact that Ire
does not make any , SOIZUreS iv prOOn Ind be
has small faith in his OWII interpretation of
the act of 1862. Outside of Congress and
the army of tax-gatherers, opposition to ir
is united. After trying to foist a repirgreu it
Funding bill one ripening wide thin door of
the Treasury to the " ring" of commission
plunderers, Senator Sherman again mums
forward, and In a report from the Finance
Committee advocating the continuance of
this odious inquisitorial tax ; and this, tiro,
in the face of Lin almost umninuus dellland
from the people for its discontinuance.
Originally the Finance Committee were
willing to accede to a reduction from 5 to
per cent., but subsequently a majority has
been willing to virtually continue De ,
present law. Senators and Representatii es
are sent to Washington to carry out the
wishes of the people, and those wishes arc
clearly for a complete Lind entire discarding
of the income tax. Individuals, companir
public meetings, and almost the e❑ntire
press of the country are united and out
spoken against this tax in all forms ; and
warn members how they tel with the
expectations and demands of their 1,116 L I
founts. Members of Gongrers cannot ph od
ignorance as to what the people desire io
respect to this law, for its vondemnation in
now well nigh universal, and whatever the
Senate may do to perpetuate it, the NllO.l ,
country looks to the house of Representa
tives as a body nearer to the ballot-le tun!
more in sympathy with the 111:1,11,,
place their seal of disapprobation upon it.
hose stand the Philadelphia members :mil
the Pennsylvania delegatian in Congress
on this tax 7 It Is hoped that they will sooll
show their hands, and if they do not do s.
voluntarily that their constituents will
promptly interrogate them. The resolu
tions adopted by the Chicago merchants,
bankers, and business 111011 generally, con
cerning the income tax, reflects the vie,
of the people generally. They assert that
the payment of the public debt at the rate
of $50,000,000 per annum, in addition to the
large expenses of the Government, Is all
that can be reasonably asked of tax-payers
now. They, therefore, pall upon I ongress
to take immediate steps for a reduction of
at least $50,fi00,000 in the rates of National
taxation, and to this end an abatement of
those taxes which are most oppressive :lied
obnoxious in proportion to the amount of
revenue which they yield.
Sodden Death et the Gaming Table---.l
Singular Cane.
About seven o'clock, on Saturday eve
ning, a man named John Wesley Cook,
who rosined at No. 262 Madison street, en
tered a drinking saloon on Eleventh street,
near Vino, and took a drink, whet. he loft.
Ho returned about ten o'clock, and engaged
in a game of cards with a man named Ed
ward Steelman. 'rho playing continued
for half an hour or so, when the two men
got into a quarrel about the changing of
some cards. After some words had passed,
Steelman made an assault on Cook, when
the latter fell, and It was stated by some
person who was present that ho was kicked
by Steelman. There is no proof of this,
however; hut, when the bar-tender
went to assist Cook, it watt (ennui that
ho was dead. The body was re
moved to his residence, and Steelman
loft the place with the intention of C4)111-
milting suicide, as 110 himself said.--
lie slapped, however, on the way tic his
home, at the residence of his son-in-law,
who advised him to surrender Maisel!' to
the authorities. Ile took the advice and
delivered himself to Lieutenant Klllackey,
and made a statement of the occurreme.
Yesterday morning, at o'clock, Steelman
was taken before Alderman Becker, at the
Central station, and ho wes committed to
await the result of . the Coroner's inquest.
Dr. Shaploigh having made a post-mortem
examination, testified that there were no
marks of violence about the body, except a
slight scratch on the face, and that the de
ceased had evidently come to his death
from the bursting of an enormous aneu
rism of the aorta. A verdict was rendered
accordingly, and the prisoner discharged.
Cook was a paperhanger by trade, and
possessed some means. He wag a soldier
during the war and a member of the Col
umbia Hose.lle was about 53 years of
ago, and left a wife, but no children.—
Philadelphia Day.
Exports of Fish SpoWn
In tho returns of exports of domestic
products during the last month is the fol
lowing: Fish spawn, to Scotland, $1,288, to
France, $1,410. This Is a new article of ex
port, and It is said will become quite n fea
ture.