Lancaster 2ntellt gentry.
WEDNESDAYJ APRIL 20, 1870
To Oar Subscribers.
To every subscriber to the lerrELLl
- or old—who sends us
$2.25 ire will send a copy of the paper
for one year, and aro a copy of the book
called " The Horse" neatly bound in
cloth, which treats of the diseases of
that animal and contains many valua
ble recipes; retail price $l.OO. If the
book is sent by mail, 10 cts. additional
must be remitted to us to pay the post
age.
The Projected braslon of Canada
Canada is again in a tumult because
of an apprehended Fenian raid. The
Governor General says that he has In
formation from different and reliable
sources to the effect that the Fenians
under General O'Neil have been for
some tAmevery quietly making prepara
tions for the invasion of Canada. The
story we think Is quite likely to be true ;
if the Fenian leaders do seriously con
template tin attack upon our northern
neighborS, it would seem to be their
manifest policy to make their prepura
for it L 1 .9 quietly as possible. This policy
too has been roughly impressed upon
them by the complete failure of their
invasion project of a few years ago,
which they loudly announced and her
alded with a great flourish of trumpets;
but then on the other hand it is difficult
to believe that any movement could
have been inaugurated fur any length
of time among so large a body of men—
and they,lrishmen—without theknowl
edge of it reaching the public and all the
particulars being detailed in full in the
coluninsof ourenterprising newspapers.
If the invasion of Canada is contem
plated by the Fenians, it is probably pro
jected at this time because of the trouble
in which the Canadian government is
now involved with the settlers iu the
country which has recently been con
veyed to it by the defunct Hudson Bay
Company. Our readers know that these
settlers in the valleys of the Asslne
boine, Saskatchewan and Winnipeg,
close to our Northern frontier, west !of
the great Lakes, are now In avowed re
sistance to the Canadian authorities.
They have refused to receive the Gov
ernor sent to them from Ottawa, and
have placed themselves under the com
mand of one of their own number,
named Biel. The trouble originated in
the sale of the country by the Hudson
Bay Company ; the agents and em
ployees of that Company derived 110
heneflt from that sale, receiving none
of the money realized, but on the con
trary losing the employment and the
salary which they had enjoyed under
the Company. They demanded com
pensation in the way of grants of land.
The difficulty has been further contem
plated by national and religious jeal
ousies and bitterness. The old quarrel be
tween the French Catholies and the ling
lish Protestants of Canada, has sprung
up here and added fuel to the iame.
The English Protestant faction being
greatly in the minority, seem to have.
fled the country, and the other party
under Itiel, at present holds over it un
dispnted sway ; but the Canadian gov
ernment is about taking vigorous meas
ures to suppress the rebellion in their
outlying province, mid we are likely to
have, ere long, a Winnipeg war of no
mean dimensions.
The Fenians proliailly think that this
is their opportunity, and that now is
their accepted time for wreaking upon
'anada the vengeance they have vowed
against England. We are quite ready
to believe therefore that a Fenian inva
sion is on the cards in the near future.
'lime will develop the plans of General
O'Neill and show Whether he purposes
going into the Winnepeg country with
Isis forces and taking the direction of the
war out of the hands of Riot ; or whether
lie purposes a distinct assault °fills own
upon a more eastern point in Canada,
trusting to the operations of ltiel in the
west to distract the attention, and di
vide the forces of the Canadian authori
ties.
For ourselves we never could see any
sense in these Fenian invasions of Cana
da. We appreciate the hatred which
our Irish fellow-citizens have of Eng
land, :old we tldnk that there is abund
and cause for it, inasmuch as their
compatriots in Ireland have been and
are being„shaniefully and cruelly ill-
I coaled liy England. The blood of Rob
ert Bonnet calls aloud for vengeance;
and were we an Irishman we doubt
whether we would rest well in the
grave, if we had not done all that lay in
our Boner to avenge his death. But
how is any satisfaction gained by trying
to take Canada from England? England
as all her actions show, is extremely
anxious to get rid of Canada, as an ex
pensive dependency which adds nothing
to her strength but is to her a source of
weakness. a few years Canada by
natural causes will become a part of our
country and England will be glad to get
rid of her. Why then should the
Fenians seek to aid their mortal enemy
in her desire? No! let Fenian attacks
be devoted to the disenthrullment of
Ireland; let them sail to the Green Is
land in a thousand ships, a million
strong, and wresting their fatherland
from its oppressors, avenge in a day the
wrongs of a thousand years.
The Way It Works
Last Spring the Republicans carried
Morristown, New Jersey, by an average
majority orseventy-nine. At the elec
tion which took place the other day
Ii fly-four negroes voted with the Repub
linaus, and the Democrats carried the
town by an average majority °lone hun
dred and seventy. The negroes came to
the polls in the morning in procession,
headed by a pnanincut Republican
politician, who marched arm-in-arm
with a prominent negro. The result
was such a feeling of disgust, such a re
vulsion of sentiment, that many Re
publicans voted the Democratic ticket.
As it was in Morristown, SO it will he
elsewhere.
Tim - National House of Representa
tives, yesterday, by a vote of 66 to G 4,
fixed the duty on pig iron at five dol
lars a ton. It is now nine:dollars, but
the Committee of Ways and Means had
recommended its reduction to seven
dollars ; a proposition to reduce the duty
to three dollars a Lou was defeated, and
the rate of live dollars fixed by the I louse
amid considerable excitement. This
Will not be agreeable !Jews to our furnace
men, who declare that they are losing
money now under a duty of nine dollars.
If they have been telling the whole
truth, we may expect to see them all
blow out should the Senate concur with
the House in reducing the duty.
PII I LADELPI I IA has finally heard the
negro Senator lecture. The refusal of
the Radictil Board of Directors of the
Academy of Music did not prevent the
Union League from paying homage to
the Hever:id Bevels. Horticultural
Hall was procured and he held forth on
the subject of "The Press," not Forney's
Press, but newspapers in general. He
(lid not explain the statement which has
been so widely published to the effect
that he stole the funds of a church in
Kan saS.
Is Rhode Island it has been the law
for years that no loan could vote who
did tint own real estate to the value of
$l3l. Under that provision many poor
Men were disfranchised. Since the
adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment
i)er of white men have resolved to
test the validity of the proscriptive prop
erty how. They want to see whether a
poor white 1111111 in Rhode Island is not
..as good as a negro Is elsewhere.
TM': N. Y. Leader remarks that the
persons, who, at the Army of the Po
tomac re-union dinner, hissed at the
mention of General McClellan's name,
ure believed to he the mune Indtvhinals
who rccently stole the plate from Pea
body's tomb In Massuchnsetts.
11. 4 _ TER WEEKLY INTELLIGEN CER, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1870.
The High Tariff Swindle.
When manufactures were in their in
fancy in this country) certain theorists
conceived the '&4'o:met ** could eobn
be made self-sustaining by be , t*les con
ferred through thengency of a protee
tive tariff. H,entytlayi-in-02 2 '.,0*s
mated that a period of in4l4.years
would suffice to enable our manufactur
ers of iron, woolen and cotton goods,
and other taxed articles, to compete
successfully with foreign producers.—
From that time until the present we
have had tariffs; arid, to-day, our man
ufacturers are before Congress demand
ling higher duties than were ever before
imposed at any former period. Half a
century has not sufficed to substantiate
the claims put forward by the advocates
of a protective tariff in favor of their
policy. The merchant, the farmer, the
mechanic and the laborer, were told
that they would be compensated for the
increased price of goods by higher wages
and better home markets. The plea
I l was a specious one, and it has been con
tinually h;rped upon by all advocates
of a prote tive tariff, until there are
many wile accept it for a truism, sim
ply because they have heard it repeated
so often. That it is false can be easily
shown by a comparison of the number
of the consumers in the country, with
those who are engaged in manufactur
ing.
During O 6 debate on the Tariff, which
has been going on in Congress, statis
tics were produced by the opponents of
the present high rates of duties, that
ought to be sufficient to satisfy the
masses, that they are being robbed for
the benefit of a few interested parties.
The whole number of persons engaged
in active industries in the United States
is distributed as follows: agricultural
ists, 6,435,000; unskilled laborers, do
mestic servants and all distributors,
4,705,000 ; skilled mechanics, such as
blacksmiths, carpenters, masons, &c.,
1,000,000; manufacturer's of c0tt0n,125,-
000 ; manufacturers of woolens, 90,000;
manufacturers of iron, 115,000; manu
facturers of boots and shoes, 180,333 ;
manufacturers of paper,2s,ooo ; fisheries
and other industrial pursuits, 194,007.
Total number of persons engaged in ac
tive Industry, in the United States, 12,-
870,000.
Of this number only three hundred
and thirty thousand are employed in the
"protected" industries of iron, cotton
and woolen goods, while more than ten
millions of working people depend for
their daily bread upon the cultivation
of the soil. To make the statement in
another manner ; it has been estimated
that the whole population of the United
States is now about forty millions; and
of these forty millions only about two
millions are interested in manufactures.
Thus nineteen-twentieths of the people
are taxed for the benefit of the remain
ing one-twentieth. And of the two
millions engaged in manufactures, the
mass receive only a scanty subsistence
a. 9 the price of their daily toll. A few
favored capitalists reap the enormous
profits which are derived from the bur
thens imposed upon the people.
To the people of this country the great
necessaries of life, next to food, are cot
ton, wool and iron, in some of the shapes
these commodities assume. Only three
hundred and thirty thousand, all told,
are engaged in the " protected" indus
tries which we have named, while more
than ten millions depend for their daily
bread upon the cultivation of the soil.
They work early and late, In sunshine
and ill rain, to wrest from the earth an
uncertain, and in many instances a bare
subsistence. Yet they are taxed on every
yard of woolen or cotton cloth worn by
them, and on e;relr.plilw, hoe or nail
used by them—in sonic instances more
than a hundred per cent, the bulk of
which goes into the pockets of the man
ufacturer, and not into the Treasury of
the United States.
There was it time in this country when
the collector of revenue by means of a
tari ir was regarded as a necessity. Prior
to the war the tariff men told us that the
people would not submit to direct taxa
tion. The war has taught us that the
people will submit patiently to such
taxation in its most odious forms, and
it has also taught thinking men that a
system can be devised by which taxes
call be more justly apportioned than by
a tarifll which always transfers the bulk
of taxation to the shoulders of the labor
ing classes, who are the chief consumers
of taxed goods. Under our internal
revenue system the taxes may be so ad
justed as to bear heavily upon capital
and lightly upon labor and the agricul
tural interests. Such a policy won hi
reverse the present order of things, and
accomplish a sort of poeticaljustice. This
idea may take root and bear fruit, and
long years of wrong and injustice be
thus avenged.
Under the leadership of Schenck, a
tariff bill more iniquitous and oppres
sive than any which has preceded it is
heingsteadily pushed through Congress.
The work is being accomplished by a
powerful combination of manufacturers,
who care for nothing but their own in
terests. The tux on coffee, and sugar,
and tea, may be reduced, but on
salt, iron, cottons, woolens and all
the principal articles which enter
into the general consumption of
the masses it will be kept at exces
sively high figures. The tariff on
sugar is being reduced because the re
finers of that article wish to import raw
Muscorado sugar at cheap rates. The
slight reduction on coffee and tea will
he offered as a sop to the thoughtless,
but it will not be felt as a relief by the
masses; while the burthens imposed by
the high duties retained on all clothing
and other articles of prime necessity
will press upon them heavily. The
present members of Congress may refuse
to grant relief, they may implicitly obey
the mandates of the Ring, but the great
West and the South will speak out very
plainly at the Congressional elections
next fall. High tariffs cannot be main
tained much longer. The decree against
them has gone forth, and the men who
have combined to lobby the pending
bill through Congress, will find that
they have lost by extreme rapacity what
they might have saved by moderation.
In the revulsion which is sure to come,
they will fare worse than they would
have done if they had not been so inor
dinately greedy of gain.
-
What Is Said of I's
The Wayne County Herald gives us
the following very handsome editorial
notice, which we appreciate very h ighly,
as an unsolicited testimonial of its strong
approVal of the manner in which we
have endeavored to inert our responsi
bilities as journalists ; we trust that we
may continue to merit the approval of
the herald and of the other influential
Democratic journals of the State which
have lately spoken so kindly of us.
"Any of our readers who desire to take
all able, first class, sound Democratic daily
paper may find what they are looking for
in the Lancaster Intelligenecr. It is not so
large as the Harrisburg Patriot or Phila
delphia Age, but it is not small enough to
endorse any attempt of the corruptionists
at the capital to despoil the State Treasury.
(DONS[I , E RA 13 LE excitement seems to
exist at present among the working
people in the country. In various sec
tions of the country farm hands seem to
be in a state of unrest and perplexity
concerning their wages. There is no
doubt that their wages must come down
before very . long in view of decline in
farm products. It is not, however, sur
prising that as many of the necessaries
I of life still remain at nearly war prices,
on account of the high tariff imposed by
a Radical Congress, that the laboring
classes should feel disturbed about It.
THE Senate Committee on Foreign
Affairs proposes to appropriate $lOO,OOO
to defray the expense of another expe
dition In search of the North pole, and
to furnish a ship of war for the satne.
Money is so plenty with the Govern
ment, its debt so small,and the people's
taxes so light, that sueh expenses are
nothing.
Private Legislation. .
~..
Over fifteen hundred acts of assembly
Were:Pigised by Inat Legiklature '
ot : all thise, tie o*mill --. . 1
-
forms utaj that; 04 flr i w ..
ge '
law. All the rest wiia a :de
sQf piivatiklel :iialstip . , M.
~...*NOS:,
used, niStioadsYMinWAli m .t.faa - ''
turing companies were44l:o3hed, and
corporations of every conceivable char
acter brought into being. A number of
divorces were granted, the propriety of
which was more than doubtful. The
names of several persons were changed
to appellations better suited to their
tastes. Private roads were laid:out by
solemn legislative enactment, which
could not have been engineered through
a court of quarter rsessietts, and which
ought not to have had an existence.—
Parties who saw a . chance to make
money by taxing the travelling public
In rural districts were authorized to
build and keep " a pike." There is
scarcely any conceivable device for
making money without honest labor
that did not receive a lift from the late
Legislature. Anybody who wanted
special and exclusive privileges could
easily secure them by paying a compar
atively moderate fee to the manipula
tors of the ring. Bills were passed by
the dozen without ever being printed or
even read In either House. A member
wou Id se n d up a piece of manuscript to the
clerks' table, the title of the proposed
act would be read, the question would
be asked, "shall the bill pass," the gen
tleman who offered It would call out
aye, and a law which might seriously
affect the interests of a large class of people
in some section of the Commonwealth
would be straighwny put through. No
body pretended to interfere with the
private legislation of any body else.
There was an agreement all round to
the effect that each member should have
full swing in the business of local leg
islation ; but it happened very frequent
ly that bills were put through under the
head of local business, that had no ref
erence to the section of the member
offering it. Sometimes "snakes" were
detected, but In a majority of cases the
slimy creatures managed to wriggle
their way through without molestation.
Not one in a dozen of the private bills
passed was prepared by any member of
the Legislature. They were manufac
tured in lawyers offices, in the back
rooms of country taverns, in the haunts
of unscrupulous speculators. Crude,
illy digested, sometimes ungrammatical
in language, they were mailed to mem
bers, or handed to them by interested
constituents. The man who could rush
most of such business through was con
sidered the best legislator, and won
most plaudits from brawling fellows
who were interested.
It is in such work that the days of our
Legislature are annually passed. Not
one in ten of those who represented this
great State in the last Legislature were
fit to frame or discuss intelligently any
measure of public importance. The
House was especially weak and a majori-
ty of the Senators very far from being
adapted to the position into which they
had managed to climb by the low arts
of the demagogue. We want a better
set of men in our Legislature, and we
want a complete reform in the mode of
making laws.
This great source of corruption and
fruitful nurse of evil, unrestrained pri
vate legislation, must be cut up at the
root by stringent constitutional restric
tions. The powers of the courts must be
enlarged if necessary, and there must be
an absolute prohibition of legislation
upon subjects which come within the
cognizance of our judicial tribunals. In
that way, and in no other way, can
our Legislature be redeemed from
the corruption which makes it a
stench in the nostrils of the people.
Then will legislation cease to be a mere
money making business, and the "roost
ers" and "pincheisi," the fellows who are
always ready and anxious to lie bought,
will be forced to find some other sphere
for the exercise of their peculiar talents.
Let the people demand the immediate
assembling of a constitutional conven
tion, and let reform II rimgh that agency
be made one of the rallying crys at the
election next full. And where such an
assemblage is authorized to convene, let
none but the very best and purest, the
ablest and most honest men of the dif
ferent counties be allowed a seat in the
body chosen to revise the fundamental
law of the State.
Taking Especial Care of the Negro Voters.
The Jndicary Committee of Congress
has reported a bill for the protection of
negro voters which embraces some ex
ceedingly stringent provisions, all of
which are to be enforced under the se
verest pains and penalties. The bill
provides that:
Any officer of the United States, or of any
State, Territory or District, and every offi
cer of any city, county, town, township,
borough, ward", parish or hundred, in any
State, Territory or District, who shall, by
any official act whatever, or by the omis
sion, neglect or refusal to perform any offi
cial act or duty whatever, whether under
color or pretext of any provision of any
State constitution, or any law of any State,
Territory, or District whatever, or of any
local, municipal or other law, rule or ordi
nance, deny or abridge the right of any cit
izen of the United States to vote, on account
of race, color or previous condition of ser
vitude, at any federal, State, county, muni
cipal or other election, shall, on conviction
thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misde
meanor, and shall be punished by impris
onment of notices than one year and not ex
ceeding three years, or by a tine not I essthan
five hundred dollars, nor exceeding five
thousand dollars, or both such tine and im
prisonment, at the discretion of the court.
All colored citizens of the United States,
resident in the several States of the United
States, shall be entitled to vote at all elec
tions in the State, county, parish, town,
township, ward or hundred of their resi
dence, subject only to the same conditions
which now are or may hereafter be required
to qualify white citizens to vote therein,
and any ono who attempts to prevent them
shall be liable to fine and imprisonment.—
Provision is made for bringing suit also
against any official who refuses to receive
taxes, or to register or to do any other act
which will prevent colored persons from
exercising the elective franchise. Tho Cir
cuit Courts of the United States have juris
diction of the fines and forfeitures imposed
and causes of action created by this act,
and the Circuit and District Courts of the
United States have jurisdiction of the mis
demeanors.
It will be seen at a glance that the
provisions of this act are much more
than any law in relation to
Strin , s•ent
elections which ever had an existence
in Pennsylvania or any of the States.—
The omission to register a negro voter is
punishable by a tine of not less than five
hundred dollars, and imprisonment of
not less than one year. It will be equal
ly perilous for any election officer to re
fuse to receive the vote of a negro ; and
any white man who may stand in the
way of a negro when he is approaching
the polls would be liable to similar harsh
penalties. This law is to be enforced,
not in the County Courts, before a jury
of the vicinage, but in the Courts of the
United States, where . Federal officials
have entire control, and where the jurors
are selected by a United Stales Marshal
from the ranks of the party in power.—
There hits been no opposition to the
Fifteenth amendment. The negro has
voted without molestation wherever an
election has occurred since the promul
gation of the President's proclamation.
Why then should such a law be pass
ed'.
TILE Legislature of Ohio may be on a
par with that of Pennsylvania in some
respects, but in others it is unquestion
ably more reputable. It has passed but
few local bills and a number of import
ant and judicious general laws Among
them is a law for the selection of elec
tion officers,which renders it impossible
for the board of any district to be entire
ly of one party, if the minority express
a desire by their ballots to be repre
sented. That is a law which ought to
be adopted in this State. Then we
should have less complaint about elu
tion frauds. It would do more to pre
vent them than way_ registration act
with its costly machixiery.
Tire Philadelphia Evening Herald,
lately purchased by D. F. Denly, has
put on a new and handsome dress.
r" 'j
',l ligliterprise in Newspapers.
livt.: Theaiist of the divenireports concern
in the clipaidkis that,whenshe went down
lefthipr fttittikbeilind4.! -- , -..•-
~ ,
1- e clip the i r ve fitnto. t4.l"P*on
, " of' the iv Yal4 Fred. i", The
it
~ ,ny t inan ii.Othat3ourrapap eon
tlteit\huSiiis--dalt.eiled*raselelaf a
very witty paragraph, but we are quite
sure that nobody else will. And were
it ever so brilliant, how execrable is the
taste, how unfeeling must be the heart,
of the man who can be tempted to joke
about so sad and
,mournful an event as
the foundering. of the , Oneida and the
death of her brave crew ! A disposition
to be jocose in the contemplation of such
an event is unutterably contemptible and
its manifestation would disgrace even
the Police Gazette . oi the . pays' Doingt
Our newspapers in general are not yet
prepared to laugh at the dying and joke
at the dead ; but we do not feel quite
sure that the time will not soon arrive
When " enterprising" journals will be
conducted upon the belief that no event
can be too solemn to be made fun of,
and that no occasion can be so private
that it should not be made public.—
The tendency of newspaper editing is
towards the assumption of a lower tone
as a guide in the selection of news; the
editor con no longer ask-himself, " will
the publication of this item be in good
taste?" But his question rather is,
"will it be read with avidity ?" and if
he thinks it will, if it is not too bad, he
will publish it.
Competition Is too great to enable
newspapers to be as genteel and high
toned in the mutter of news as their pre
decessors could be, in the days wizen the
steam engine and the electric telegraph
were not. Then enterprise could be
shown in the collection of legitimate
news; but now Associated Presses flood
the newspapers by means of the tele
graph with the news of the day, giving
them all the same matter, chronicling
events of various degrees of importance,
from the result ofan election to the death
of a ward politician In Mtumptown.
Now, therefore, newspapers must seek
new fields in which to evince sukrlor en
terprise to their neighbors. Their Wash
ington correspondents to forward
special news, must manufacture it. The
local reporter must needs embellish
his items of news, clothing the little
of fact which he has at command,
with an abundant creation of his im
agination, and covering up a grain of
truth with a large measure of fiction ;
thus he produces a "spicy" report. He
opens up, too, new mince of matter,
and fills up columns with what in slow
er times would have been considered
illegitimate for publication. He peers
into private houses and tells us what the
guests wore And how they looked at
private parties; he describes with great
minuthe the incidents of a wedding ; he
tells us who are going to get married and
who to be divorced. Family jars are
`nuts' to a reporter and nothing gives him
greater pleasure than to publish private
and confidential letters, which concern
the public in no possible manner, but
which he knows will nevertheless be
eagerly read. Nothing nowadays seems
to be sacred from the newspaper man,
for the more scandal he publishes, the
better will his paper sell, the greater will
be his reputation for enterprise and en
ergy, and the larger will be his bank ac
count. Hite is not so decent as his old
fogy neighbor, he at least makes more
money, and money in our day, he finds,
can buy reputation and position and
almost everything else except Heaven.
No Amnesty
Some time has elapsed since the adop
tion of the Fifteenth Amendment, and
negroes have been peaceably permitted
to vote wherever they have offered to
do so; but the general amnesty, which
Greeley and the rest assured us was to
accompany the new order of things is
not forthcoming. Perhaps Grant is
waiting for some one to pen him a proc
lamation which shall be couched in
grammatical English. It would be
charitable to suppose that nothing else
causes the delay. But Forney insisis
upon it that the President does not in
tend to be in any hurry about the mat
ter, and it looks much as if that appen
dage to the kitchen cabinet had the car
of the Executive since he and Canner-
on made up their quarrel. If Gen
eral Grant intends to issue an am
nesty proclamation lie ought to do it at
once and he ought to do it gracefully.
Every day that it Is delayed only in
creases the feeling of bitterness and dis
content which naturally arises in the
mind of the Southern people,when they
see every ignorant negro in the country
admitted to the full rights of citizenship,
and the best white men of their section
excluded. In West Virginia and other
States of the South nearly all the prop
erty holders are still disfranchised. The
people who have the greatest stake in
the government, who bear the burthens
thereof, who pay the taxes and possess
nearly all the intelligence, dare not ap
proach the ballot-box which is free to
every ignorant and degraded negro.
Such a policy is utter inconsonant
with the true principles of government.
The ancient Romans were wiser in their
day and generation. They pursued a
conciliatory policy which laid the foun
dations of the Empire:sure and strong,
wherever the Roman eagle advanced.
We hope Forney only speaks for him
self, that he merely gives utterance to
his own malignant feelings and mean
passions. If a proclamation of general
amnesty is delayed much longer it will
lose its graciousness and not be
esteemed as it would be if freely
and ungrudigngly sent forth at once.
Let the President thrust aside those
who would persuade him to keep
the embers of sectional hatred still
smouldering. Let him rise to the dig
nity that becomes the ruler of a great
people, and add value to a wise act by
doing it in a manner becoming his ex
alted position. Let him take the advice
of Horace Greeley and issue a general
amnesty proclamation at once. Greeley
knows that the country will be injured
by delay, and has sense enough to see
that the Republican party will not be
benefitted thereby. He is trying to beat
a little sense into the head of Grant, and
we hope he may succeed.
The Superintendent of Soldiers' Orphan
Col. George W. McFarland, the Su
perintendent of the Soldiers' Orphan
Schools, is catching it from Radical
newspapers all round the State. The
condi' i (tee a ppoi nted by the State Senate
to investigate certain ugly charges
against him presented a report declaring
that the allegations were not proven ;
but when the. Senate came to vote for
his confirmation, after Governor Geary
had reappointed him, he was rejected
by a very decided majority. As the
Governor made no other nomination
Col. McFarland can hold on to the office
until Geary sees lit to supersede him.
That the Governor ought to do so we
have no doubt from the evidence pro
duced by our Radical cotemporaries.—
The Chester County Republican alleges
that McFarland has purchased and now
holds a large interest in the Chester
Springs School property, contrary to
law, and charges that he is also pecuni
arily interested in the control of the
school. Under such circumstances it is
the duty of Governor Geary to super
sede him at once. The schools must be
seriously affected by being left in his
hands, and the next Legislature will be
apt to deal harshly with these costly
institutions if a suspicion that they
are run for the benefit of a set of greedy
officials Is allowed to gain currency.
They ought to be put far above suspicion.
That can not be while Col. McFarland
remains at the head of them.
THE 'Harrisburg Topic states that a
mistake occurred In the proof of an
editorial, by which it was made to say
that " only four" general laws bad been
passed by the late Legislature. It meant
to say " only a few." How many there
were weatudl not know watt] the pamph
let laws are published.
.
aftirged Record for the Roosters.
'; - ' 5 : , .:131e editor of Father Abraham comes
i r d...12.
I 40' :„' .. Yeecue of theritcreant_l„ be
memrs,
'..., . ly from this Mi - istiarf , Helms'
1 ii gileiti*ord to say for Herilind Wiley,
eio2crittempts to whitewaslilheir ugly
Acoiii cm ! , `the big steal," *1 insiutud
iiig "..tititthe statement of.their s;ateias
published 'was not correct. He inti
mates that they have been harshly
dealt with, and!apologizes for the sup
port of the Sinking Fund swindle in a
manner that leads us to suppose he in
tendsto support them for renomination,
, .
Here is what hO hits to say: ' .. '
The members of the House from this
county have also made for - themselves a
very good record. On various other ques
tions they were for the best Interests of the
State, and against the public robbers and
plunderers who seemed to have almost un
limited sway at the State Capitol.
In regard to the great swindle, known as
the Jersey Shore, Pine Creek and Buffalo
Railroad bill, several of our Representa
tives—all in fact, except Mr. Reinoehl, we
believe, have been accused of duplicity and
service in the interest of the parties having
charge of the bill. We are assured, how
ever, that the statement recently published
in a paper of this city, purporting tobe their
record on said bill, is lase in several im
portant respects, except as to the vote of
Capt. Godshalk, who acted with the friends
of the bill throughout, by which course ho
made a grave mistake. Not having seen
the official Journal of the House, we are
unable to say which is true. We shall en
deavor to find out hereafter, and lay the
truth before our readers just as It is, without
tn regr e di m Co o. o . r t r n art ie, ill e li t ty ;i tOlr ie i o t r 7 in h i fl o t n it b4 7 l } Z.
t ' i p l7ll notlitnme‘a• ry be r ti s a p t the i r ,v l i zc i l t rd ou on i t i l t r w hi
be ; but even if this should be so, judging
the gentlemen by their conduct throughout
the session, upon various other questions
of great importance, we cannot, and do not
believe that any one of them has been influ
enced by other than proper motives. But
let us wait and see what the official record
does say. That, and that only will toll the
truth as it is.
We were at Harrisburg a day or two
before the adjournment of the Legisla
ture, and were informed by a Republi
can member, one who had examined
the Journal of the House just after the
passage of the bill, that it had been af
terwards altered so as not to show cor
rectly the vote of Messrs. Herr and
Wiley on the great railroad robbery. If
the Journal shall now be found to dis
agree with the vote published in the
Inquirer, it will be because a forgery has
been committed. Messrs. Herr and Wiley
had better not attempt to set themselves
right before the people of Lancaster
county, by producing a fraudulent and
forged record. There is no lack of evi
dence to prove the entire correctness of
the statement of the votes which was
published in the Inquirer, and it will
be forthcoming, if an attempt is made
to play the game which is hinted at in
the Father Abraham. The senior edi
tor of that paper would no doubt be
willing to lend his countenance to such
a scheme of villainy, but he may as well
understand first as last, that no forged
record call be palmed off upon this com
munity. Let Messrs. Herr and Wiley
go before the voters of the Republican
party with their real record, as it ap
peared in the Inquirer. It is the only
true ono, made by themselves fur them
selves, and they can never succeed in
altering a line or a letter. Any attempt
to contradict it by the production of a
forged and altered journal, will only
siuk those roosters deeper in infamy.
They can not explain away the record,
and can offer no good excuse for the
votes they cast in favor of the dispersion
of the Sinking Fund. Time belief pre
vails that members in localities beyond
the sections directly interested in the
bill were paid to vote for it. Messrs.
Herr and Wiley were in the corrupt
ring as certainly as Godschalk was; and
they should hold their peace and suffer
the condemnation which awaits them
in silence.
Who Are Responsible for the Corruptio
of the Legislature?
Since the adjournment of the Legisla
ture the Republican newspaper press of
the State has denounced it without stint.
No term has been too harsh to be em
ployed. The whole vocabulary has
been ransacked for terms of opprobrium.
This wholesale denunciation of a body
in which the majority was largely Re
hiLs a show of honesty, but the
virus indignation of our Radical co
temporaries seems to be somewhat out
of place. It certainly does sound strangely
to hear them abusing so vilely the men
whom they pronounced to be all that
was virtuous and wise during the can
vass of last fall. The Philadelphia Day,
a paper published by a Republican, but
not professedly a partisan organ, takes
the proper view of the matter. It says:
It was just such a Legislature as the
press of the State elected. It was the crea
ture of the Republican press. The winkle
tors of that press know what they were
about. They knew that many of the can
didates were not good men, nor honest, nor
able. They knew that the nominations
were made through corrupt bargaining in
some cases, and barefaced lying in others.
They did not, generally, urge the people to
put forward their best men. The Republi
can press deliberately furnished an unre
liable majority; and its conductors are
estopped from complaint of the acts of that
majority. In attacking it after adjourn
ment they publish their own shame, and
emphasize their infidelity to the common
interest. To defend a corrupt agent while
you are using him, and curse hint for a
knave when you can use him no longer,
may be human nature, but it is notdooont.
There is an abundance of bitter truth
in that paragraph. The Radical news
paper press of this State failed to ex
pose corrupt men when they were re
nominated for the Legislature. They
choose to risk the best interests of the
State rather than endanger the success
of their party. Let the words of the
Day be laid to heart by the Radical press
and by the people.
Hey. Horace Cooke
The Rev. Horace Cooke, who created
so much scandal by his escapade with a
Miss Johnson, of New York city, has
been allowed to withdraw from the
ministry and from membership in the
Methodist Church. When the case
was up before the Conference, certain
old-fashioned brethren Insisted that the
scamp should be summarily expelled
but a majority seemed to think that the
body had not the power to expel withopt
trial. We think the advocates of expul
sion were in the right. The fellow con
fessed his unfitness formembership, and
no trial was needed. He ought to have
been ejected with scorn and loathing,
and not tenderly dropped from the rolls.
There has been entirely too much sym
pathy exhibited for clergymen who have
offended in this peculiar way. No mercy
ought to be shown to them. The follow
ing is the resolution which was finally
adopted ;
It being understood by this Oinference
that Horace Cooke, having resigned his
parchments, thereby confessing his crimi
nal unfitness to remain in the Church or
the ministry, therefore '
Resolved, That his request to withdraw
be granted.
Slightly severe, but not half enoug
ArrtnimNu negro meetings is the
chief occupation of Radical office-hold
ers in Philadelphia at the present time.
Not a night passes without an assem
blage of blacks in some part of the city,
and these gatherings are invariably
managed by Republican officials. They
are making a desperate effort to show
their devotion to the African, and the
manner in which they fraternize with
the newly made citizens shows very
plainly that they they are possessed of
olfactory nerves equal to the demands
of the occasion.
CONGRESS last week turned two more
Democratic Representatives out of their
seats, upon the most flimsy pretexts, to
make room for Radicals, whom the peo
ple elected to stay at home. The major
ity in Congress can easily extend this
practice, so as to make the House of Re
presentatives unanimous, and, if they
keep on violating all law andprecedent,
they may attempt to: expel every Dem
ocratic Congressman some of these days.
VICE-PRESIDENT COLFAX has added
a Republican voter to the census—one
who being now only a few days old will
be qualified to vote about the time Col
fax has a chance of running for the
Presidency.
The Truth about High Tariff.
,The Easton Argus is unquestionably
coca of the ablest papers in. .P.sennsylva
'taw: Its editor hits . a. Way-tiLputti t ug.
many things thaFis ugexcelletif by apy
wilt* in'` Ihe Coptry.,. Though ptib. -
lisititig a paper lathe Midst of;the lir
tiest inatninnUfitetorifiatif tlmEitate,
is opposed toThe iniquitlous and unjust
tariff system which the radicals have de
vised for robbing the masses. In speak
ing of the way in which their thefts
are accomplished, he says :
It is not because of the policy of protec
tion.ls not vulnerable to the extremity of
weakness that it has sUrvived and prosper
ed with so little united and determined op
position from the people on whom it preys.
It is because its enormities are not so pal
pable to the general eye as some other ex
tbrtlons of the State—because it plunders
by stealth—nibbles, like a mouse, at the
contents of the poor man's cupboard—takes
toll of everything that enters his mouth or
goes upon his back—ravages his coal heap
—brushes the nap from his hat and licks
the blacking from his boots—slices an inch
or two from the tall of his Sunday coat and
a yard or two from his wife's best calico
with noiseless scissors—in short, because it
curtails all his necessaries and comforts by
multiplying their cost, yet takes from each
so little at a time that he does not feel the
felonious lingers when they are about their
business. The so called "policypf protec
tion" Is safe only so long as it is not under
stood. Teach men what-it means and it
will die a shameful death after which there
will come no resurrection,
If, as a substitute for the tariff laws un
der which the capitalists of Now England
have grown fabulously rich, the beneficent
Congress which they control had frankly
voted to them, in the shape of a direct ap
propriation from the treasury, the millions
which they have realized at the expense of
the people through the agency of protection,
the Radical party could not have withstood
the storm of Cho popular wrath which
would have followed this legislation for a
single day. It would have been hurled
from power Just as soon as the multitude
could have given their indignation potent
expression at the polls. Yet the robbery
of the masses would have been not a whit
more ruthless in the one case than in the
other. It would only have been done in
the daylight instead of the dark.
Items of Interest
The debt of the United States amounts
to $65 per head of population.
Twenty Newport cottages were rent
ed last week.
The now Mayor of Dayton, Ohio
weighs over four hundred pounds.
The Bible question is settled for some
time to come iu Cincinnati and St. Louis.
The Boston clergymen are soon to
have an overland trip to San Francisco.
Hudson E. Bridge is the new presi
dent of the Missouri Pacific Railroad.
The shad, in their journey northward,
have reached the New England rivers.
The completion of the Michigan Cen
tral Railroad is being pushed with vigor.
The whole negro vote in Dubuque,
lowa, went Democratic.
A manufactuiing company of Colum
bus, Ga., turns out 1,000 stoves per year.
Agricultural reports from all parts of
Tennessee are encouraging.
Robert Toombs is to deliver an address
at a floral fair next month at Augusta,
Georgia.
There is more wild game in Texas at
this time than has been known for ten
'cars.
The Burlington, Cedar Rapids and
Minnesota Railroad is being rapidly
urged forward In Its three divisions.
The free letter delivery system goes
into operation In New Orleans on the
Ist of May.
A Virginian editor, sojourning in Flor
ida, has sent a friend in Richmond a
brace of alligators.
The graves of the Confederate dead in
New Orleans, were decorated with flow
ers on the 6th.
Hudson, Wisconsin, officially offers
$25,000 for the location of a Normal
School- there.
A survivor of Wyoming massacre ii
788 has just died in New York State
aged 97.
A Boat Club has been organized at St.
Paul, Minn., and has a goodly number
of members already.
Two hundred and fifty persons joined
the Methodist church in Findlay, Ohio,
during a recent revival.
The English National Lifeboat Insti
tution is doing great work ; 871 lives and
33 vessels were saved du ritig the last year.
The New England school authorities
are all agreed that flogging is essential
to the proper rearing of pupils.
The U. S. Senate yesterday confirm
ed John Titus as Chief Justice, and
Charles A. Tweed as Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court of Arizona.
It is a well established geological to
that the Straits of Dover, betwee
France and England, were at a forms
epoch bridged over by dry land.
The abstract of the condition of the
Philadelphia National Banks on March
tlth, shows resources and liabilities ag
gregating $80,:230,536.
The Fenian Congress, In session at
Chicago, has changed the constitution
of the Brotherhood, substituting for the
President and Senate an Executive
Committee of Nine.
The majority of O'Neill ( DUIII offal.)
for Mayor of the consolidated Jersey
City, is 3830. The Board of Aldermen
consists of 21 Democrats, and 11 Repub
licans.
The late Judge B. H. Warren, of Au
gusto, Ga., left an estate valued at $.22.'
000. Among the legacies was one
$5,000 to the Presbyterian Church, w
Augusta.
Minute diamonds, in a piece of plati
num from Oregon, have just been dis
covered by the chemist Wohler, the
eminent professor at the great German
university of Gottingen.
The Mechanics' and Agricultural
Fair Association, of Louisiana is to hold
its fourth grand State fair at New Or
leans, commencing April '2,3d and end
ing May Ist.
The Illinois Central Railroad rom
pany, by a unanimous vote of the di
rectors, have directed the payment of
interest in gold, in conformity with the
legal-tender decision.
Since the recent rains and the plea
sant weather which followed them, the
crop reports from the southern part of
Illinois have been much more favorable
than before.
The borings made through the im
mense salt mine discovered two years
ago near Berlin, have disclosed a single
layer of:pure rock salt over twenty-three
feet in thickness.
A speculator from Indianapolis re
cently took a wagon load of stomach
bitters through the State of Arkansas,
and returned with an empty wagon and
1,000 sheep as the results.
The worst sold man in the county is
said to liveln Rochester N. Y. For seven
teen years he has been regularly wind
ing his clock every night before retiring,
and, to his utter astonishinent, he dis
covered, last week, that it was an rigid
day clock.
A volcano has within recent years
raised itself front the bottom of the sea
in the neighborhood of the Philipine
Islands. It was first noticed by the
agitation of the water and emission of
clouds of steam in 1856. In 1560 the
crater had attained a height of seven
hundred feet above the sea level.
The ninth anniversary of the arrival
of Pennsylvania troops in Washington,
on April 18th, 1801, was celebrated by
the survivors at a banquet in Pottsville,
last evening. Col. Forney and others
spoke, and letters were read from Sena
tor Cameron, and Representatives Cake
and Slocum.
At a late printers' festival the follow
ing toast wasgiven. "The printer—
master of all trades ; he beats the farm
er with the Hoe, the carpenter with his
rules, and the mason with tall columns ;
he surpasses the lawyer and the doctor
in attending to his cases, and beats the
parson in the management of the devil."
President Grant and Secretary Robe
son visited Georgetown, D. C., yester
day to examine an invention for the
ultiiization of petroleum for fuel. The
President discussed the questions of our
future fuel supply, and said he believed
the suttees of such an invention would
put us far on our way towards compet
ing with the cheaper labor of Europe in
the production of Iron!and other like in
dustries.
There is a sour lake in Texas, about
sixty miles from the Gulf of Mexico, in
the south-eastern corner of the State.
It covers about five acres, and the water
Is quite sour, with a most unpleasant
fetid odor; yet invalids resort to the
lake, in considerable numbers, to,bathe
in it. There are six acid springs on the
shores, from some of which water is
taken for consumption in Galveston
and other Texan cities.
It was recently reported that Judges
Strong and Bradley would not sit in the
rehearing of the Legal Tender question,
because they were stock holders in rail
road companies,owning bonds issued be
fore the passage of the Legal Tender
act, andwhich, under the recent decision
of the Supreme Court, are payable,
principal and interest, in gold. Judge
Bradley has stated that he transferred
all his interest in such stocks immedi
ately after his confirmation, and Judge
Strong has said that he would dispose
of his railroad shares before the case
would be re=heard.'
suite ISpers, _,
A foot of snow fell fit "A, Mon
dayTU night, April 4. ,--A .‘
Exle opynty "is t i e 'iitt4 Indiana
nqptttaqiitid it e he ,
.rephusiness.
,A oaf- - r ntly iiilleir In Centre
cotintySirei gilld ifisl.l,o96.o94lfids.
Alt"Nria. ding, au* O . Nm Associa
tions Rid lif4vprospefliAtir ti on.
The Postoffice at Shawmut, tlk coun
ty, is discontinued.
The Post-office at Cedaiiille, Chester
county, is to be called North Coventry.
Enoch Gatchell has been appointed
Street Commissioner of Coatesville.
R. A. F. Ankeny, has been elected
Treasurer of tho Somerset Branch Rail
road. . . _
Two hundr6d tracts of land are adver
tised for sale In Someniet county fin
taxes.
Ono hundred and sixty-nine tracts of
land in Westmoreland county aro ad
vertised for sale as unseated lands.
The Pennsylvania Reserve Associa
tion will meet at Lock Haven on the
7th of May.
A little brother and sister in Lewis
town have laid by nearly $2OO by saving
their pennies and small change.
The Masonic fraternity are discussing
the feasibility of erecting a hotel in
Monongahela city, Washington county.
Lewis Perkins of Concord, Delaware
co., recently trapped seven opossums,
young and old, in his chicken yard.
Some cowardly villain in Somerset
county recently poisoned four fine hogs
belonging to Mr. Henry Hecket.
George Everard, of Northumberland,
had an eye knocked out, not long since,
by being struck with an iron spike.
Peter Douty, a soldier of the Mexican
war, sergeant in,Co. 8., let Penna. Vols.,
died at Janesville ou April 4th.
Jessie Strickland, of Perry twp., Fay
ette co., with the assistance of his dog,
caught 32 coons (luring last fall and win
ter.
Henry Koontz, of Bedford township,
Bedford county, caught nearly five hun
dred wild pigeons in a net a few days
ago.
A survey is now being made with a
view of extending the Shenango and
Allegheny Railroad to Harrisville, dur
ing the coming summer.
The Reading Eagle chronicles the ar
rival of the first Martin of the Adler
family colony at precisely twenty mln
utespastelght on the morning of the 9th.
Joseph Towner has been appointed
postmaster at Hornhrook, Jefferson
county, vice David Hornton, Jr., re
sigma.
The whole number of accessions to all
the churches in Greenville, Mercer
county, since December 1, is not far (ruin
four hundred.
Mr. David Dick, the second white
child born in Meadville, died In his na
tive city on the 12th inst. In the 74th
year of his age.
A large buck deer, attempting to cross
the railroad near Cameron, was struck
by a locomotive, and injured so much
that it was captured.
A few days ago Richard McPherson,
near Parkesburg, was attacked by a
party of negroes and badly beaten. It
is said the injured man has since died.
Some tire hose, sent from Philadel
phia to Pittsburgh, way tried on the 11th
inst. A steam engine was used, and the
hose bursted at a pressureof 210 pounds.
Andrew Alexanding aged 79 years, a
resident of Ayr township, Fulton coun
t•, was fatally injured by a limb of a
tree falling upon him while felling tim
ber.
Foxes, it is said, are unusually plenty
this season. Messrs. 'Walker, Sutton,
and Myers, residing in York county,
killed during the past whiter, twenty
live red foxes.
The Pennsylvania House of Repre
sentatives. has passed a bill exempting
sewing machines in families from levy
and sale on execution or distress for
rent.
On the 9th inst., a farm situate in Mo
nongahela county, West Virginia, con
taining 129 acres of land, was sold, at
the Keystone House, in Reading,to_lu
gustus Leopold, for $625.
Within the past four years over 200
persons have united themselves with the
Fourth Baptist church Philadelphia.
Twenty-five new members were added
during the last month.
The new Court House at Franklin, had
a narrow escape recently. About ten
o'clock at night it was discovered to be
on tire, but the names were extinguished
before much damage was done.
The Mercer Mining and Manufactur
ing Company have one hundred men
employed at their coal mines at Par
doe s, and are taking out about one hun
dred toils of coal per day.:
The mountains adjacent to the Penn
sylvania railroad along the Juniata
river have been on lire. The scene at
night is described as having been pie
turesqueand grand in the extreme.
The Erie city iron works have put
three thousand dollars' worth of new
machinery in their shops within the
past month. In one week the company
manufactured and shipped nine engines.
The Chester county Prison, at this
time, contains thirty-two prisoners,
twenty-one of whom are under sentence
and, ten are awaiting trial, mostly for
trivial offences.
At Timmonsville, S. (2., is the grave
of Mrs. Florence Bodwin, of Philadel
phia. She was a member of the federal
regiment, and as she was dressed as a
soldier her sex was not discovered till
after her death.
EM===ME
tell into the Pennsylvania Hospital, on
the IGt.h., with a hand terribly lacerated
by being bitten, in Chester, Delaware
county, by a dog supposed to have hy
drophobia.
A family passed through Erie lately
that numbered twenty-four persons.—
The man and wife had been married
eleven years and had twenty-two chil
dren. They were on their way west to
buy a territory to settle on.
Mr. Maxwell, a young man living
near Linesville, Crawford county, while
shooting pigeons, overloaded his gun so
that in discharging the piece it burst,
badly mangling his hand and fore-arm.
His arm was subsequently amputated
below the elbow.
The coal tonnage of the Lehigh Val
ley Railroad for the week ending on the
9th inst., was 73,165 tons, against 62,669
tons in corresponding week last year,
and for the year 977,769 tons, against
769,779 tons to same time in 1869—show
ing an increase of 207,900 tons.
On the 9th inst., a son of Mr. Thomas
Mclntyre, residing in Reading, fell Into
a tub of scalding water, and was so
badly injured that he died on the night
following. The child who was about 3
years old, was playing around the tub,
while his mother was engaged in wash
ing, and losing his balance, fell into the
water.
Wm. Gracf, a German, was met at
West Philadelphia Depot, on Thursday
night, on his arrival from New York,
by a stranger, Who offered his services to
show time( a hotel. On their arrival at
what was culled the hotel, the Getman
was robbed of his trunk, which contain
ed all his money and clothing.
There is a laudable efThrt hieing made
to extend the Chartiers Railroad from
Washington, Washington county, to
Wheeling West Vu., by way of Brush
Run, Bunk" Creek, Bethany and
Wellsburgh. A series of meetings have
been held along the line, and the people
are In earnest.
Bloomsburg,Columbiacounty, having
been incorporated, a practical test of
Senator Buckalew's cumulative voting
system will be tested in the election of
its city officers. By cumulative voting
a minority may secure a share of the of
ficers to tie elected. The election in
Bloomsburg will tell if there is any ad
vantage in this system of voting.
The Lewisburg Chroniek says that a
little boy baby corpse was discoverod
floating down the West Branch a few
days ago, abouta mileabove Lewisburg.
It was takenl on shore, an Inquest held,
and then it IV IL4 laid away " under the
daisies." What inhuman wretch placed
it in the turpid waters is not known to
the humane public ; but a mother who
could commit such an atrocity must
possess a cloven foot and smell strongly
of brimstone.
The Bellefonte National learns that
on the Bth inst. a man named John Mc-
Dougall, a lumberman In the employ of
John Ardell, while rafting on Forge
run, between Moshannon and Phillips
burg, slipped from a log and went
through the chute. He was seen to rise
once or twice, and made desperate efforts
to reach the shore, but the current each
time baffled his efforts, and at last he
went under. His body was recovered a
mile or more below the scene of his
death.
The little girl of Samuel C. Conrad,
postmaster at Jenkintown , Montgomery
Co., who fell from her chair, some time
since, and ran a slate-pencil into her
ear, appears to have perfectly recovered
from the injury, with the exception of
a discharge from the ear, which for a
time brought small pieces of the pencil
with it. It was two days before the.
pencil could be extracted when the
i
child was put under the influence. of
ether, and the pencil was taken out by
Dr. Levis, of Philadelphia; assisted by
two physicians of the neighborhood.
SKETCHES OF TRAVEL NORTHHAILD.
No. I—The HodooHlHvor.
A recent wzogr tuis remaiirocrika, "if
theiitter on route *Well;
. isotikrogt! utp
SUperiM . lgt : ' its si ij rn wild! ..:utr4.o all
martinet* cinarmtgit is the Edidao At
7 o:cht W4r loam* New
Yor nrkble . l4irithoats,
which from o size and E.4 - kiffc and the
convenience, ilegance and - luxury of all
their apartments, have been most appro
priately styled "floating palaces."
After passing along the wharves of the
city, we come in sight of the beautiful
country villas that skirt the. banks of the
Hudson. The Palisades eland along the
west-bank of the river for n distance of
twenty miles. They are perpendicular
rocks, about five hundred feet high, and
lend much beauty to the landscape. Fort
Leo, a relic of the Revolution, is situated
upon the brow of the Puliw , tag. Directly
opposite is Fort Washington. Wo pass
Yonkers, a favorite summer resort of the
"Merchant Princes" of Now York; the
Catholic School of Mount St. Vincent, un
der the care of tile 'Sisters of Charity, a
most beautiful and charuiing place; and
Dobb's Ferry, where some stirring scones
of the Revolution took place, and whore
the remains of the military works still
oxist.
Upon our right is IRunny,si le, once the
home of Washington Irving. The little
cottage is barely visible through the denso
growth of trees and shubbery. Irving's
grave is near by.
Tarrytown is the next place that attracts
our attention. It is a prosperous little town
upon the cast bank of the river. Close nt
hand is the spot where Major Andre was
captured. Sing-Sing, the scat of the State
prison of New York is a short distance
above. NVo now enter the most beautiful,
romantic and interesting portion of the
Hudson. Verplanck's Point upon the east
is whore Ilendriek Iludson's ship,tho Hat/
Moon, first came to anchor after leaving
the mouth of the river; opposite is the ever
memorable Stony Point. .1 light house is
now placed amidst the ruins of the old fort.
The story of Stony Point is 100 well known
to need repetition. Thu fort fell into the
hands of the Itritish,June Ist, 1779 and was
recaptured by the Americans under the
command of General Anthony Wayne---
familiarly known as "Mail Anthony"—on
! the night of July 15th, 1779. Dunderburg
Mountain is on the loft; on the right the
village of Peekskill ascends from the
shore, and Wore us is the grand base of
Anthony's Nose and other mountains. Tho
foot of Dunderburg Mountain is pallor:t
able for the search made for the treasure of
Captain Kidd, and the remains of the ap
paratus used are still to be seen.
"By wooded bluff we steal, by Irnv leg laws
By palace, village, cut Li sweet surprise,
At every term the vision breaks upon,
Till to our wondering and uplifted eyes
The Highland rocks in solemn grandeur rise.
At this point the rivor, which is quite
narrow, is darkened by the high moun
tains upon either side, the music of our
Landis echoed and re-echoed In tones softer
and sweeter, awl the scone presented Is one
of indeseribidile magnificence and gran
deur.
Anthony's Nose is I,lff.S feet high, Sugar
Imaf Mountain is two miles above and
rises to an elevation of SOO feet. Nearly and
reaching far out into the river is the Sandy
Bluff, upon which Fort Independence °nee
stood. Further on in Beverage Island,
Bear Mountain, Forts Clinton anti Mont
gomery, about which much might be writ
ten had wo the time and space. Approach
ing West Point the Buttermilk Falls are
seen descending over inclined ledges, a
distanco of 100 feet. They form a pleasing
passage in the river landscape, although in
themselves they are not remarkably pic
turesque. Cocoon's Hotel, of which wo
have a litre view from the river, is near the
falls. The Robinson, or Beverly Ilouse,
occupied by Arnold at the time of his med
itated treason, and where he received the
news of Andre's capture, is opposito at
the foot of Sugar Loaf Mountain.
The unrivalled charms of its scenery, it s
rich Revolutionary memories,and Its posi
.tion as the military school of our country,
all combine to make West Point one of the
most attra•tive spots on the II udson. Con-
stitution Island is nearby. The crumbling
remains of the fort are still to lie seen. Just
above West Point is Cro . nost, 1,4214 feet
high and one of the grandest mountains In
the whole Highland group. It is the Menne
of Drake's poem of The Culprit Fit y.
"Where Hudson's em Vett o'er silvery sands
Wind through the hills afar,
.And Cro'nest, !Ike a monarch stands,
crowned with a single star!"
Above Cro'nest is /ilteizii/i/, the roliiint
home of the late N. I'. Willis, while hull
11111 upon our right rising to the height of
1,581) feet overshadows Iradrer/i/r, for many
years the residence of the poet, lleorge
Morris.
Nowburg has about 12,000 inhabitants and
is one of the most delightful
,Covens upon
the river. It possesses many Revolutionary
memories and the house in which Wash
ington made his headquarters is now the
chief boast of the town. I here the American
army has finally disbanded at the close of
the war. Further On we pass Breakneck
Hill 1,107 feet high,upon the extremity of
which so many tourists have imagined the
profile of a human:face,and Bea.con 11111 the
last of the Ifighland range upon the eastern
shore, 1,68.5 feet high. Butler Hill closes
the range on the west. This ends the mag
nificent scenery of the Highlands!
Fishk ill, opposite Newburg, is the scene
of many of the incidents narrated in
Cooper's *Vv. Two miles north-east of
Fishk ill is the celebrated Verplanck 1 louse
in which Baron Steubon once made his
head quarters, and where the •S'oc let y of
the Cincinnati was organized in 1783. Pough
keepsie, Roudout, Kingston, and Hudson,
are all thriving towns. We have already
written more than we intended to. The
legends of the Hudson, are alone sufficient
ly numerous to fill niftily columns of the
INTELLrokrtcstt. We have spoken of the
most beautiful portion of the river and
must be content to ppm the rest in silence.
In our next wo shall speak at length of
West Point, its scenery, etc.
About 5 o'clock in the evening we reach
Albany, having spent the entire day amid
some of the most charming river scenery
in the world. At the close of a day thus
spent the tourist may well quote the words
of the poet:
"Tell me—where 'or thy silver bark be steering
By brhrht Italian or soft Persian land,
Or o'er those Island-studded seas careering,
Whose pearl-charged waves dissolved In cora
strands;
Tell, If thou visltest, thou heavenly rover,
A lovelier scene than this the wide world
WASIIINOTON, April 13.—Judge Kelley
introduced in the 110000 to-day an Impor
tant bill to promote the establishment aft
metrical system of international coinage,
by enacting that the gold hereafter coined
by the United States shall contain for each
dollar .'of denominational value one and
one-half grammes of pure gold, and shall
weigh for each dollar one and two
thirds grammes, the proportion of alloy to
the entire weight being thus kept as
one to ton. The bill also provides that
such reins shall have stamped upon them,
in addition to other devices, their weight in
grammes, and the Inscription nine-tents
tine. Mr. Kelley called attention to the Ihet
that the bill proposed a reduction from the
existing value of our standard gold coins of
less than one-third of one per rent, and
consequently requiring no recofnage.—
lie also stated that the gold coinage of a
large number of countries, representing a
population of 200,000,000, was already very
nearly metricsd, specifying the countries
and the degree of deviation in each case
from the metric standard, lie also read
extracts from several late pamphlets pub
lished by distinguished writers in Germany
and France, warmly commending the
system which he advocated. The bill now
reported was in accordance with resolutions
and memorials from leading meientific
bodies in the United States, and which had
been referred to his Committee. At the
conclusion of Ills remarks ho moved to
recommit the bill to the Committee on
Coinage, which was accordingly done, and
it will be reported hack at an early day.
A Wife and her Alleged Paramour Shol
In Res/Ulna..
Rk:ADINCI, April I7.—About noon yester
day, John Lutz shot his wile and a German
named Joseph Spayd, at the house of the
former, In Neversink street, where Spayd
was employed at the limo in making some
repairs. The woman's Injuries are not
serious, but Spayd is dangerously, though
probably not fatally wounded, the ball
taking effect behind the left ear and lodg
ing under the right eye. Lutz surrender
ed himself, and was committed. Ho alleges
undue familiarity with his wife on the part
of Spayd as the motive for the act. Lutz
is said to have been in liquor at the thno of
the occurrence.
What "Port Wine" Is Made of.
Some parties in Stonington, Conn., have
recently been prosecuted for selling adul
terated wines and liquors. Samples of their
"stuff" were submitted to Professor Sint
man, of Yale College, the State chemist, and
the following is the result of his analysis of
what was sold for port wine : The liquor
was turbid, heavily laden with sugar or
molasses and some coloring matter; con
taining 21 per cent. of alcohol; over 10 per
cent. of swat or molasses ; about 100 grains
of sulphuric acid to the gallon, part of it
free, as ell of vitriol, and part combined In
alum; oxide of load; or litharge, In poison
ous quantities, of about 45 gralne to. the
gallon. The alcohol had an acid Mate, and
ihe'coloring matter an offensive odor; The
liquor was stronger of lead than moat
waters poisoned by it.
Protest of tho Hon. John R. Reading oi
the Flfth . Dhitrlert Against the Adoption
of the Report Giving ills Neat In the
'Hons. of Repreitentativos to Caleb N.
Taylor. ' • . '
In the United States House of Represen
tatives on last Wednesday, Mr. Cessna
called up the election case of Taylor against
Reading, the majority case being that Read
ing, the altting member, was not entitlod to
the seat, and Taylor, contestant, was—the
minority report taking tho opposito ground.
In the courso of the debate, Dr. Reading
made tho following able protastagainst the
adoption• of the majority report:
Mr.' SPEAK an: Prompted by no motives
of a personal character and with no design
to occupy the time of tho House by an ar
gument upon the law and facts arising in
the case now undor consideration, and with
all deference to the decision of the honora
ble and learned gentlemen who have re
ported adversely to my right to a seat In
this House, yet, sir, honestly believing that
Caleb N. Taylor has no more - right to a seat
heroes the Representative of the Fifth Con
gressional tiletrlot of Pennsylvania than
ou or I, sir, have to tho possession of his
road acres and stately mansion, so homin
id for situation, in the old Democratic
county of Bucks, and rooognizing ours to
bo a government of the people and for the
people, I deem it my duty to rise in my
place, and in the name of the pooplo, of
constitutional law and civil liberty, to caller
my solemn protest against the wiliption of
the report submitted by the honorable
gentlemen representing the majority. That
report, ill my humble opinion, (111111 I here
diselaini all design of repenting upon any
member of the committeo) proposes to
abandon the settled principles of law, jus
tice and arithmetic, to take away Irian the
topple Lilo right to "choose" their own
Representatives, and by the novel muck a .
„ proved' and throwing litildli the so mil
; woo l ' of the proper officers Of the eleethoi
districts; to appoint or admit to 3 meal ill
tills I louse ono iii ',oilfield Witty with 1110
Majority, but not the choke by ballot or
the legal voters of the distriet, as has b ore
eloarly shown by my honorable friend
representing die minority' of the etuiliiiilloo
lit the following.
IIIiI'APITVI.SO lON.
Colonized Vote wrongly 03.3341 to 311.LIng
member
Pauper vot,
Member
Soldier vote wrongly deducted !non sit LIN,
member
Legal votes 111 the Fourth 111 elsion, TWVII i N .
it (ili ward, wrongly,idedueted from sill IM.;
member
Vole 111 Ilens3l,•in wrongly given 111 coo
tehlalll
Add the careened general return by 1111 ,
tall) lists
Illegal 11,111 1 Muni voles which 55451111 154% 4'
been eliargctl to emilemlaill
vote wrougly charged L. mitt lug
hulnet tho a11t.g..,1 legal nsajnrity rtptirt
od by IL majority of thominintl.loolitecept-
Ing their Illtures nn,l 44 , nclunlotvi without
tiny examination). rnrrrt•t
he sitting moralwr by 11 Vie/11
Legal majority at
lint that I am to pit,. upon the "roll or
honor" made memorable by tute niones or
Brooks, Voorhees unit Morgan, Moitet,
Foster and Greene is 10 1110 110 chagrin. 1 L
was h ihhiy 111.01ared in various 11111 . 1. s of my
district, previous to the election or mem
ber of Congress, "That nu matter if Rend
ing was elected he would never take his
seat, or it he did be would not retain it
and I have not supposed that I would be
an exception to the uniform rule governing
this 'louse in disposing of contested seats.
Indeed, my Republican friends here tell
me I have lawn much favored in being al
lowed to retain my seat for morn than hail
the term of the present Congress. I f so, I
am profoundly grateful for the thvor, pre
ferring to think, however, that I gun a
member of this house by virtue ofthe right
vested in nu) by the "sovereig n people."
My brief iissociation with t honorable
body has Mien most pleasant, and for the
uniMrin kindness and courtesy manifesmil
to nue, without distinetion of party, Mae
remembrance of which shall go with me
until I lie down to that sleep that knows
no waking.) I beg, sir, to otter my sincere
tick no w lodgments.
And now, sir, while the Denweratio
party Witness With regret the apparent de
termination of the majority to treat elee
lions as if they Intl trot been held, they It-el
assured that a party which by virtue of its
strength perpetrates a wrong overleaps
itself, and such action will prisluee inevi
table disintegration.
Such a fate scents to await the party re l.
resented, by a majority on this tioer. Tin",
who sow the wind will surely reap the
whirlwind. No party, however strong, chip
afford to waste Its strength by defying the
popular will. The popular will was clear
ly and legally expressed in tietober,
when it declared that Caleb N. Taylor
should no longer represent the Fifth l'ori
gressiontil District of Pennsylvania. The
eholeo fell upon myself.if by your
action to-day you unseat me and give
my plaeo to the etintestant, you over_
tine the people's expressed wish, and
force upon that betrayed people as
their Representative the very Ilion lhey
repudiated at the polls. Is this right?
Is it Just.? You should be Just be,
fore you are generous; just to the people
who Sent too here, and not generous to rho
gentlenien whom they rel s used In send-
Surh
a course would strengthen the llM
jOritV On this floor, add to their character
in the district, and show by the tseilitry
that they can rise above the traininels of
party, tutu phielng themselves Upon ;lie
rock of impartial Justice, do what they
know to be right.
In conclusion, Mr. Speaker, while I re
affirm toy right to a seat in this liens° as
the legally elected representative, I Hive,
fully submit to the thwision of the major
ity, predieting that an appeal to the people
in vinditiation of their o wn rights will re
turn me to the Forty•stssind Cmigremm by a
majority beyond the possibility of a tsintest.
linpnralleled Onirnire on n Linly Vlrnala
Asleep.
'rho 01111111 unity were shocked yesterday
morning by the report of an outrage upon
the person of Mrs. Fir. Bailey, which seemed
ineredihle until confirmed by the testimony
of her husband. Dr. Bailey end his w
occupy rooms on the setqlint 1100 r 01 . a
building on Pine street. On TUO•ida%. 4•Ve
fling, Mrs. Bailey, who had been 111 illirtinz
the day, retired to lied at eiite ii'elock, and
soon tell leileop, and while in this m 1.111.1011,
501110 unknown pertioll entered tile foollt
and cut taller hair. :qrs. Bailey wore hid
hair ill tresses, falling upon her shouldom
It was long, dark and luxuriant, and she
Was in the habit of throwing it Intek upon
the pillow. In tills position the hair wa,
cut very near to the head, and so des ternlini:
I y that she was not awakened. 'rho door or
the °thee wag (as nsurd in the absence of the
Doctor) unlocked, and whoever perpetrated
the outrage wits doubtless huniliar with,
this circumstance. Dr. Bailey rein r ilei
home about ii o'clocke end at once mail.
the discovery. Ills wife, who had been
undisturbed, could' give no avcrinnt of the
transaction, and thus far the Investigations
have failed to throw ally light upon it. Dr.
Bailey offers a reward of $l5O for the detec
tion and oonvletion of the person wile cont.
flatted the outrage.
Tennessee Negroes Give a White Mon
Nis Hundred Lashes.
'rho Mooresburg correspondence , of the
Knoxville Presd and Jerald has the fol
lowing:
A most degrading and diabolical act was
committed in this vicinity by six mgrs.,
on last Sunday evening. It appears that
a negro named (teorgo Kyle charged a
young man in the emplovittent it (Vilet
James Simpson with bewitching hint.
Kyle insisted that his hat would nut re
main on his head, but was continually
being knocked off by an invisible hand.
On Sunday evening, Kyle burned his but
In presence of other negroes, and by his
frenzied appeals induced live of them to
accompany him to the house of the 'young
man. They , seized him, carried hint to
the woods, and tied him to a tree with his
feet above ground. Each negro then gave
the unfortmate victim of their rage me
Inshes, in all 000 stripes. The blood ran
In streams front his body. They their
knocked out his front teeth and turned
him loose. The family of then young man
la respectable and industrious, tur d have
done more work for Colonel James SIMI,-
son, in clearing land, than I ever saw per
formed, in the same time :mil by the canto
number of hands. The outrage is about to
be Investigated.
The Negro Frengy
The nigger fever still rages. All sorts of
fevers rage at different times, but the great
er part run out in a few months or two or
three years. None was over before known
so tenacious AN the nigger fever. The lieu
fever, the shorthorn fever, the California
fever, with other fevers too numerous In
mention, have burned out a certain amount
of human vitality and displayed human
weakness in various ways, but the}' are
mere sparkles in these respects to the great
blaze of this nigger fever that sot the mon
try on fire more than a dozen years ago, and
has apparently abated none of its violence.
yet. Dow long ago it seems shire we heard
the pitiful appeals as to whether or not this
nigger was not "a man and a brother,"
and what a wonderfully different attitude
Ito assumes now ! COMpuro the time when
the fanatic Garrison was barely saved iron,
hanging at the hands of a Boston !nob be
muse of his nigger notions, with the time
when the House of Representatives of the
United States votes the use of its hall for a
rhetorical breakdown to celebrate Sambo's
accession to citizenship--for only by a coin
parison of these periods can any one right
ly judge of the extravaganeeof the delirium
induced by this nigger fever. The fever
must burn out soon; fur surely it is at its
height, with a nigger in the Senate and oye
terman Downing installed its one of the po
litical magnates of the Capitol. In Grant's
inaugural we had a happy piece of political
philosophy to the effect that the best way to
Insure the repeal of an obnoxious law was
to rigidly enforce it. This applies general
ly as well as in law, and there Is mid more
certain way to tllsgunt the country and
awaken a reaction against the nigger than
the glorifying course assumed by his fa
natic admirers.—.N. Y. Herald.
Ohio Leglxlature
COLUMIII,4, April 19—A bill to prohibit
the reading of the Bible iu the sehoola, Lv
on the calendar of the House tar lhu firht
Tuesday in January next.
PECILSKILL, N. Y., April 19.—A yomig
man named James Gerity,.wes killed ut
Slag Sing, yesterday, while endeavurlirg to
cross the truck In front of a`train.
Cmhed to Death
FTSUICILL, N. Y., April vagrant.
—wane not known—was crushed to. death
between a ferry boat and the dock, at this
place, last night.