Lancaster 3ntelligencer.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1870
Effects of the Fifteenth Amendment
upon the Republican Party.
With the adoption of the Fifteenth
Amendment, the mission of the Repub
lican party ended. It had its origin in op
position to the system of slavery which
existed in the South, and derived life
and power from a persistent agitation
of the mind of the North upon that
subject. The leaders of the party re•
fused to make any compromise of the
difficulties which arose upon the elec
tion of Abraham Lincoln. Some of
them were actuated by the most selfish
motives, a mere desire for continued
rule, wished' to keep the cause of quar
rel still open, while the more honest
&unties among them looked to the ex
tinction of slavery as the:one great end
to be accomplished, and cared not what
it might cost to carry out their cherished
purpose. During the continuance of
the war the latter class kept their one
idea steadily in view, and thanked Clod
for the first Bull Run, because many be
lieved that only by delay in the success
of our arms could the emancipation of
the blacks be achieved. The mere poli
ticians of the party were, in the mean
time, busily engaged in enriching them
selves by fat contracts, and in divers
other ways, and they were willing to
see the strife, which proved so profitable
to them, indefinitely - prolonged.
When the war was over, and emmici-
Patton was rendered a fixed fact by the
amendment of all the constitutions of
the late slave States, a very considera
ble body of the Republican party were
disposed to stop at that point ; but the
earnest fanatics, who were the only
men of principle :wrong the leaders,
insisted that the great work of the war
could not be regarded as finished until
the negro was given full rights of citi
zenship, and those rights assured to him
by an amendment to the Constitution
of the 'Wilted States. Again the mere
politicians of the party acquiesced cheer
fully, because they fancied they would
be able to maintain their hold upon fat
officeti through the influence of the ne
gro vote. The cry which gave the Re
publiean party its principal hold upon
the people of the North during the last
Presidential campaign was: " Let us
finish up the work of reconstruction!
Let us have peace!" A leading Repub
lican newspaper says, " more than half
a million men voted for Grant, merely
because they wished to see the pending
plan of reeonstruction carried through"
—and every Democrat Who was actively
engaged in that canvass knows that
feeling gave a strength to the Republi
can party which it would nut otherwise
have had.
With the adoption of the Fifteenth
Amendment all the old rubbish of the
slavery agitation is swept away. The
Anti-Slavery Societies, which composed
the advance guard of the Republican
party, have dial conk which
bound the organization together have
been loosened, and there is every proba
bility that the incongruous elements
will speedily become permanently dis
united. The Republican party never
was a unit upon any subject except the
slavery question. IL is divided to-day on
the tariff; on the currency ; on the con
struction and binding force of the Con
stitution ; on the authority of Congress,
and the absorption into that branch of
the Governmen of On warranted powers.
The cord which bound these dissimilar
classes together has been broken by the
adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment
There is besides a large elasq of Re
publicans who are dissatirtied with
the administration. Multitudes have
been disgu+ted the tiepotkm t ;raid,
disappointed by his seleet ion .if :1 Cabi
net, chagrined by hi , failure to exhibit
any high qualities of statesman-hip,
and chilled by his cold disregard of the
(Ties of Cuba. Many who put their
adherence to party on the low level of
personal advantage have failed to secure
any rec,_mition of their claim , for office,
and have 1)0E91 SOUrCli by neglect. There
is nothing in Grant to bind the !tepid,
heart party together; uo devoted per
sonal attachment such a , the old NVllig
party felt for Henry Clay. I ;rant i,cold,
unsympathetic, without eloquence, and
utterly destitute of that wonderful per
sonal magnetism which distinguishe
great political leaders. He caa not lead
the Republican party, and M. does not
even attempt to do so. lie .its in the
AVltite House, a mere dull figure head,
without sufficient influence in his own
party hi secure the confirmation of his
appointees by the Senate.
If we turn from I ;rant, whore shall we
(hid a leader for the Republican party—
a man with power to hind its discordant
elements together and to lead it Mrward
to new conquests? we search for
hint in the ;-!.enate '.' Sumner leads the
Radicals there, but he can not lead the
party. He is adoginatic pedant ; showy,
but shallow, even where he pretends lu
know most; a dreamer, not a practical
worker; full of professions of love (hr
the negro, but destitute of that wide
reaching human sympathy which gives
men power with the masses. lie is not
fitted for a political leader; :111,1 there is
not a Radical iu the Selene Wile is. If
we look to the Ilouse we shall see lien.
Butler taking the lead there, hut surely
no 011 e will say that he possesses the
qualifications which go to the making
up of a great political chieftain. With
out a leader im Congress or elsewhere the
Itepuldhatn party is divided into discord
elements. The embers of future st ri t'e
aresmouldering„ and may be fanned into
it flame any day. \V ith the adoption of
the Fifteenth Amendment the party
lost all unity of purpose, and it is now
a mere bundle of incongruous eleno•nts,
kept together by nothing but "the co
hesive power of public plunder."
How Forney Mako a Living
The NVashington ('hr•onick lives hy
levying black mail. A new inaaic cof
this has just come to light. It. C. For
ney,a cousin of the immaculate.l oh mlut,
been hauled up before the Senate .1 odic
iary Committee and compelled to
less to receiving from 1 tullock,
which was for services rendered in the
Georgia ruse. Young Forney says it
was given as an equivalent for tuivertis
ing. The advertising to which he :d
-iodes appeared principally in the shape
of editorials denouncing the Bingham
ntnendment. 'Phis is a i . pecimen of
the morality of "my two papers, both
daily" and an evidence of the manner
in which they are supported.
Abraham Lincoln's Religion
AVe publish on our outside a earefully
prepared paper from the pen of \V. 11.
Herndon, Abraham Lincoln's law part
ner, in which a full statement is made
of the religious opinions of Mr. Lincoln.
'Cite document was prepared for publi
cation, and it is certainly char cleiettls
and explicit enough in its statements.
None who read it can be at a loos to
know what Mr. Lincoln's opinions
were.
A Sign of,the Times
The Radicals made a desperate env(
to carry the town of Elkton, Md., the
other day. It is the home of the Ex-
Rebel Post Master General. lie went
home to / vote, and his subordinates ral
lied alYthe negroes in the village and
marched them to the polls in a lody.
The result was a complete Democratic
victory, many white men who had In re
tofore voted the Republican ticket
re
fusing to touch it, and voting openly for
the Democratic candidates. Straws
ShoW how the wind blows.
FURM4) SHE:PI - LARD, Esq., has at
!Last been confirmed as District Attorney
~of Philadelphia, and the Radical official
who stepped in has Lego sent to the
shades of private life again, Thi a i s
-doing:justice at last.
Tun investigation into the charges
sigkinat General Howard, continue to
the damage of the saint who has been
running the Freednien's P•ureau,
Lancaster and Harrisburg.
"Why should the fast throughlino stop at
Lancaster? What is Lancaster, what has
she done and what is she doing? to entitle
her to claim such a favor of the Company
to the injury of its interests? That the Penn
sylvarda road touches Lancaster stall is a fa
vor for which the sleepy citizens should be
thankfuL One of the oldest towns in the
State, Lancaster is to-day a quarter of a
century behind the age. She may be con
sidered walled in and finished. She shows
no signs of life and progress • and if her
citizens really wish to move with the world
they must "take up their bed and walk" to
this city or some other live place where the
fast line does stop. As long as they are
shut up in their Chinese city, they can
neither see nor participate in the rapidly
moving panorama of the world."
We copy the above editorial extract
from the Harrisburg Telegraph in order
to show our citizens in how illiberal and
narrow-minded a spirit their just com
plaint against the Pennsylvania Rail
road officials is treated by this news
paper, published in their neighboring
town. Any other journal published in
any other town, would have sympathiz
ed with the sense of injury which our
people feel in being deprived of railroad
facilities that they have heretofore en
joyed and that they think are their just
due. The scornful words of the Tele
graph have their fit origin in Harris
burg, a town which is under the heel of
railway corporations and which sees
every question through their soulless
eyes. Our people do not use the same
spectacles, nor have they yet learned not
to turn upon those who would tread
upon them. In what we have said upon
this question between our city and the
Railroad, we have sought to express the
feelings end the views of our fellow citi
zens, and we believe we have done so.
They are rightfully indignant at their
treatment; and believing their com
plaint to be just, we haveseorned losing
dumb as to it, or to be luke-warm in the
advocacy of their rights, merely because
it is a powerful railroad corporation
which seeks to do them wrong.
We will not take issue with the state
ment of our eutemporary as to the lack
of a progressive spirit in Lancaster, be
cause, though it is couched in ill-natur
ed and grossly exaggerated terms, we
believe that it has a foundation in fact;
oureity is notes enterprisingas it shook
be, nor have we the large business in
terests located among us, which our un
rivalled manufacturing , facilities natur
ally invite, and will inevitably secure
as soon as our people are aroused to the
obtaining of additional and competing
railroad connections, such as will be af
forded us by the projected Lancaster
and Delaware River Railroad.
But though we are not what we should
be in activity and enterprise, Harris
burg is not the place to east at us the
first shine; for in sleepiness and dull
ness it stands unrivalled. IL has grown,
to he sure, but not through the energy
of its own citizens; the Legislature has
enlarged its boundaries and added to it
thriving places, which grew and flour
ished outside its limits; railways—not
built by any agency of its people—inter
sect each other within its borders, and
give to it shipping facilities over com
peting roads, which its slow citizens but
sparingly avail themselves of. The
town has a Court House which knows
no style of architecture, ancient or mod
ern; streets, which in their direction
literally know no north or south, no
east or west; market houses which would
disgrace a country village; a street alo ug
the river bank, which nature has done
much to make a noble avenue, but for
which art has dune literally nothing;
the town has not even essayed to keep
the river from washing th e crumbling
bank away, nor has it lieltated to per
mit to lie built across the majestic water,
a hideous wooden bridge, that wholly
destroys all pleasure in gazing upon the
broad and otherwise beautiful view of
the river and its confining hill.
We would like to see Lancaster,which
ii growing now with a steady growth,in
creasing
.yet more rapidly ; but we would
not purchase this increase at the price
which Harrisburg has paid for hers.—
We would not sacrifice our indepen
dence, nor:deliver ourselves bound hand
anal fotlt into the power of mammoth
corporations, even for this great boon;
nor would we Mr it, be enshrouded in
tlic atmosphere of corruption and be
lost in the deep moral darkness which
envelopedlarrisburg,with in whose hor
de• , dweller lt,r even a few wvek,, can
scarcely fail to lose all power of distin
guishing right from wrong. I;rowth
,tich a cost is too dean• a purchase for
u , , and we will none of it.
Martial Law in Georgia
lartial law in its most offensive form
has been proclaimed in Georgia. The
murk, State and Federal, are in full
operation there, no insurrection exists,
no call for troops have been made, and
yet a mere captain of infantry is now
trying a citizen for his life. When the
last Georgia bill was under discussion
the United Slates Senate voted down
every proposition authorizing the sus
pension of the writ of habeas corpus,
and yet now, by mere brute force
and violence, without the faintest
color of law and without the least
pretence of necessity, General Terry, in
command of the troops stationed in
Georgia, approves the ruffian behav
iour of his subordinate, and tells him
in so many words: " You will not per
mit the prisoner to be produred in Ontet,
or admitted to bail, until (It eisitm in thr
premises is rend, red at throe hertd-quar
trea." The writ sued out in behalf of
the kidnapped Georgian, has according
ly been denied. On Wednesday, Mr.
Beck offered a resolution in the lower
llou- , e of Congress, to inquire of I ;eller
al Grant the authority of this procedure,
whereupon Mr. Shank objects, and the
Radical majority, by sustaining that
objection, stifles the call. So it has come
to this, that the days of the Meade
domination, when men were put in a
sweat-box at Fort Pulaski, to torture.
them into giving evidence against other
men, have returned to Georgia, and
Congress abets the wrong. It is rumored
that I thinks the best thing that
eau be done with the State is to make
it a permanent military provinee.—
Just ae the reconstruction sore is healing
this man and his backers in the House
tear open the ulcer, infuse into it new
venom, and irritate all its pestilent hu
mors anew. More than this to enter the
State of Georgia in lime Of profound
peace, and drag a citizen before a mill
lacy commission for his life is a direct
insult and menace to every one in the
United States. It revives the worst lays
d - the "lit tle . bell,"and betokens a lawless
and ungovernable temper in the admin
istration which threatens, K . not check
ed, to do, at perhaps no very distant day,
in Pennsylvania what it now does in,
lb, South.
.1 \egro Notary Public
,overnor I teary has appointed a ne
gr, Notary Public in Philadelphia. The
name of the fortunate darkey ix Ulysses
It. Vidal. Rather a high-sounding title.
Let Geary 110 \V name one of the Tow Hill
negroes for a similar position in the
Borough of Columbia, and compose the
quarrel which has been going on among
the black and white Radicals of that
town for some time past.
Proposed Editorial Convention
We notice that some of our exchanges
are talking about holding a Convention
Democratic Editors of the State, and
liellefoute has been suggested as a suit
able locality, and the 25th of the pres
ent month proposed as a proper time.
Such a gathering would be pleasant,
and calculated to do good, but we think
the day suggested is too eally to allow
such general notice to be gi,,:en as would
insure a large attendance.
THE Boston Traveler makes the fol
lowing curious announcement:
Fifteen colored mon married white wives
in this city, last year, but no white man
took a colored wife. Just so far as amal
gamation prevails,
just so far are colored
girls to be without husbands.
Is this decided to be a part of the new
social programme arising from the Fif
teenth Amendment.
THE LANCASTER WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, WEDNESDAY, MAY . 11, 1870.
Who Shall be Sent to the Legislature
From Lancaster County?
For some years past the great county
of Lancaster has been very poorly rep
resented in the lower branch of the State
Legislature. So far as that matter is
concerned the Crawford County System
has proved to be a lamentable failure.
The Assemblymen nominated by a
popular vote have been men without
the proper capacity, and nearly every
one of them has turned out to be dis
' honest. Summy, Gatchell, Hopkins
and Peters were repudiated by the peo
ple, but they were succeeded by others
fully as weak and not a whit more hon
est. The fellows who were chosen un
der the cry of reform, which was raised
last fall by the Express and Father
Abraham, were all deep in the projected
robbery of the Sinking Fund, except
Reinoehl. That their hands were clean
of other jobs was not believed at Har
risburg, and that is the place to learn
the status of members. Lancaster county
has been the laughing stock of the rest
of the State for some years, and it has
come to be a matter of wonder that this
magnificent district should be repre
sented by the weakest and most corrupt
men in the House.
We do not wonder that the Eraminrr
is loudly calling for a genuine reform.
It is unquestionably greatly needed.
Something must be done to redeem the
reputation of the county, and steps to
that end ought to be taken at once. The
Republicans with their immense major
ity are entirely responsible for the ex
isting state of things. They have
heretofore adhered to their 'party so
closely as to preclude all hope that any
reform can be expected, unless it be in
augurated at the primary elections. We
doubt whether the Exam Mer would
have virtue enough to oppose the elee
tion of any one of the men whom it so
bitterly denounces, if they should suc
ceed in securing a bare plurality of votes
under the Crawford County System of
nominating. It might give utterance
to a few weak words of indignation at
the result, but it would conclude its
article by urging every Republican to
to "the ticket, the whole ticket, and
nothing but the ticket."
It does, however, suggest a plan by
which theßepublicansofthiseounty may
make sure of better nominations. It
publishes a list of prominent members
of the party, and calls upon the people
to make choice of some of them instead
of taking up a butch of nonentities who
may he seeking the position for selfish
purposes. Whether the men named by
the Examiner arc the very bust that
could be selected we are not prepared to
say, but certain it is that the Republi
can voters of this county owe it to them
selves to select entirely different char
acters from those they have been sending
to the lower branch of the State Legis
lature. Lancaster has been disgraced
at IL•lrrisburg lung enough. It is
high time there was a complete change
in this matter, and we hope there may
be enough good sense and honesty in
the Republican ranks to effect a thor
ough reformation. We confess that our
hope is not very strong. We have seen
so much corrupt manoeuvering in the
ranks of our opponents, have witnessed
such remarkable results under the
Crawford County System, have found
attempts at reform result so generally in
the selection and election of corrupt and
incompetent officials in this county that
we are almost ready to despair of be
holding any improvement in the future.
The Frcuninrr calls upon the other Re
publican papers of the county to join in
an eflbrt to "send honest men to the
Legislature fur mice." While the Re
publican voters are about it let them be
SUIT to select 111C11 who are ,omp, fria
as well as honest. Let men be nomi
nated Mr the Assembly wino have both
c.ipacity and integrity of character.
Thus will a standing reproach be re
moved from this great county.
Negroes Demanding Offices
A. negro orator from 'Washington
talked very plainly to the white Radi
cals of Chamhersburg at the celebration
of the Fifteenth Amendment. Ile in
formed them that the colored voters
hell the balance of power ill Franklin
county, tout that Uu•y Wlll.llll dewand 11
share of the Mikes. It is likely that
they will insist upon being represented
both upon the borough and the county
tickets. 'chat is 11 , , 1111 , R , than was to
have been expected. The negroes will
not consent to do the vt;ting without
sharing in the spoils. 'there will be plenty
of aspiring darkeysretoly to force them
selves into positions of 111,110 r and profit,
and the Radical party cannot consistent
ly decline to recognize their claims. If
they believe in the professions they
have made, the Republicans must con
sent to share the spoils of naive with
the negrues of Pennsylvania. Governor
Geary has already appointed one black
man to the responsible position of No
tary Public in the City of Philadelphia,
and there will be many aspirants for
political preferment among the negroes
throughout the state. Let them put
the honesty of the Radical party to the
test.
The San Domingo Job Killed
Reports of an official character have
been conveyed to the Senate l'onnuittee
on Foreign Relations, calculated to dis
sipate all hope of an early annexation
of San Domingo. They are in substance
a protest from the Cabral government,
based upon a petition signed by nearly
twelve thousand of the best men in the
island, against what they (.all " the
false pretences of the Baez followers.”
Cabral represents so large a proportion
of the people, that an attempt to pur
chase the island from Baez would justly
be regarded as an infamous outrage and
a just cause for war. It is to be hoped
that Grant will now pause in his at
tempt to lobby this infamous scheme
through Congress. It is a corrupt job
of the very worst possible description,
and is only kept alive by the persisten
cy of a set of adventurers who expect to
make fortunes, should the treaty be rat
ified. The connection of the President
with these men is :I most disgraceful
piece of conduct, a thing of which any
of his predecessors would have scorned
to lie guilty.
Walling' on Butler
SIOOO ten days past Ben. Miller
has been absent from his seat in Con
gress, and that august body has been
anxiously waiting his return before do
ing anything in the Georgia ease. A
sovereign State stands trembling in sus
pense, while the cross-eyed representa
tive of a Massachusetts district attends
to his private business at home. The
telegraph informs us that "the Beast"
'has got back to Washington, and that
the (leorgia bill will now lie taken up
and considered by the Reconstruction
Committee. Let the people of that
State be thankful.
A curt tt 00 PONDENT of the New York
Tr ibrou: w rites to that paper front Whit
temore's district, and declares that the
eadet-peddling carpet-bagger will cer
tainly be re-elected to Congress by a
large majority. It is the strongest ne
gro district in the South, and the return
of Whittemore will prove the capacity
of the negroes for self-government, and
the entire fitness to exercise the right of
suffrage
Till.: awfully satirical paper, the Na
tion, has a mercilessly sarcastic article
advocating " baby suffrage" as a neces
sity for the protection of infantile rights.
The article bears the marks of having
been written by " Tetterby's baby" and
corrected by sonic " mother's darling,"
who has been turned over to the tender
care of u hired nurse. The baby, it is
boldly asserted, should have the ballot
in order to enforce his or her rights in
hotels, cars, on the street, and in places
of public amusement. The suppression
of babies under the present system and
the tyranny under which they groan,
have embittered their lives, and the
smoldering fires which have, until now,
lain dormant are about to burst forth
and overwhelm their oppressors.
Decoration Day
A resolution has been put through the
lower house of Congress; and will pro
bablY Pass the Senate, fixing the 30th
of May at the day for decorating the
graves of Union Soldiers, and setting it
apart as a public holiday forever. The
customoilginated with the people of the
South, the inhabitants of many places
assembling after the war was over to
strew the graves of the Confederate dead
with flowers. It is still kept up there,
no particular day being observed, but
the various communities selecting such
occeasion as best suits their own conve
niences. In the North the observanese,
which have been copied from rebels,
are conducted under the auspices of an
association known as the Grand Army
of the Republic.
It may seem ungenerous to oppose
such a practice either North or South.
In itself the act of strewing the graves
of dead soldiers with flowers is one
of beauty. It appeals to the imagina
l:Rim of the beholders, and a ceme
tery flail with a throng of people en
gaged in such work is a touching and
attractive spectacle. The effect is, how
ever, to perpetuate a remembrance Of
the civil war through which the nation
has passed, and to keep alive the ani
mosities of section by which it was dis
tinguished. As the people of the South
gather around the graves of their dead,
the events of the war are vividly recall
ed and the hearts of those present are
turned regretfully to the past, instead of
being directed hopefully to the future.
As the people of the North witness the
ceremonies of decoration day the tires of
hate are rekindled, and that sentiment
of eOllllllOll brotherhood which should
be the ,ttongest feeling in the mind of
the American people is weakened. No
such ilumb show of an ostentatious char
acter is needed to prove our respect for
those who died in defence of the Union.
The decoration of their graves can well
be left to 11m h a nds of kindred affec
tion. Tit, pomp ;toil parade which
now accompanies these demonstrations
is not calculated to do any good. The
civil war is over. The South lost all fur
which it contended, and has been eom
pelleil to make the most, abject submis
sion to the General Government. It is
time for all former animosities to be for
ever buried tint of sight. It is unwise
for either side to perpetualmthe memory
of the war over the graves of the fallen.
Let the remembrances of the fratricidal
conflicts fade as the flowers have faded,
which have heretofore been cast upon
the tombs, and let a reign if fraternal
love be inaugurated between the people
of a (41111111 On lineage and :1 common
country, never to be broken.
The Christian Soldier's Speculations
When Fernando \Vood moved for 110
investigation into the conduct of Gen
oral I toward, there was 0 loud outcry
from the Itailieal press of the country.
Mr. NVood was called ugly names, and
the Saint, Who has 50 1011 g presided over
the monetary transact ions of the Freed-
HUM'S nitre:lU, Was lauded as the purest
patriot and the most incorruptible
Christian gentleman alive. 'fhe inves
tigation is not ended, but enough has
already' been elicited to show that lien
eral Howard has been guilty of what
would be called stealing by plain peo
ple, and that On a most extensive scale.
It was ShoWII before the House Com
mittee on Education, by witnesses pro
duced last Monday, that on the orders
of " the Christian Soldier," seven hun
dred thousand dollars of the 100)110
money were turned over to the
Howard University. I low some of this
money was used Mr. Charles. Perkins
showed. lie testified that he had a con
tract under the Bureau for delivering
sand, when the barracks east of the
Capitol were being erected, at the rate
of $6. 15 per hundred bushels, but his con
tract was ,e 1 :10!de by t ;eneral Howard,
who Illado all Other, by which $7.7. - , per
hundred bushels were paid for hauling
sand from the pit of the Patent ltriek
Company On tile University Grounds,
and .•_43.50 per hundred bushels paid to
the Company for the sand. lie also
testified that,after the barracks had been
completed,oVer 1,000 Worth of Sand Was
thllllped there :11111 paid for, but af
terwards sold for building this
University for the elhn•atioll of negroes
the :- 4 aint. or t h e Boreao oao:o_red to
opend a. very large 5,11 u of tho public
money, and ha; taken rare to secure a
very handsome profit on all that has
passed through his fingers. While
engaged in his thefts he has gone about
the country addressing Sabbath Schools,
and making speeches :it missionary
meeting- , . Thoo-,and, of loyal people
have heard lliul, and have been pro
foundly moVcd as he denounced rebels
and prated about his love to the dear
old flag." has played the part of a
patriotic hypocrite to no little profit,
and We are glad to see him unmasked.
The revelations which are being made
Will open the eyes of some people. It is
a pity that similar investigations can
not be made of a thousand Other eases of
fraud which ought to be laid bare.
Tilt:Medical Association of the Unity,'
States has not yet passed under the Fif
teenth Amendment. Though sitting in
the city of \Vashington, under the very
shadow of the National Capitol, with
the colored 1 ioildess of Liberty looking
down upon them' from the dome there
of, while Sumner thundered against
caste below, the ass mulch M. D.'s deli!-
cutely voted, by a large majority, to
exclude the delegates from the Distlirt
of Columliiit lticatii, they " consulted
will' negro doctors." 1 fere is it case for
the consideration of the Radical majori
ty in I ',ingress. \Ve expect to see a law
introduced to meet the vase. \Vhat is
Congress w,.rth lilt ,•an ii.,E.l.N.vi•nt the
negro from being thus insulted in its
very presence
AT many points thridighout the slm ,
the Radicals are having trouble about
the nomination idcandidates. In Sny
der cOLIII ty one .1 the newspapers of the
party charges that the grossest frauds
have been perpetrated inside the party
by a corrupt ring. Tilt` mate allegation;
are made in I,anctister countyand other
strongholds. If such rascality is prac
ticed at the primary elections by a par
ty, how can it be expected that its mem
bers will act honestly when it comes to
a regular c o ntest at the polls. Trained
in the practice of frauds the Radicals
of this State are always ready to adopt
any desperate scheme which may he
necessary to illStlre
t: Washington eoreespotidentof the
Philadelphia ',rage,• announces that
General Grant intends to take a pleas
ure trip through Pennsylvania in a week
or ten days with Simon Cameron. If
he goes trouting this time he be in
season, lad it is to he hoped he will not
take Sunday for his piscatorial
ment as he did last summer. lie can
not attend long to business ;Ind must Le
kept in humor by constant trips, which
he takes at the expense of politicians
who get their pay out of the distribu
tion of offices. It is about the handiest
arrangement possible. The public suf
fers, but our junketing President enjoys
himself hugely.
Tiff: Harrisburg Patriot says Charles
Kleckner is a candidate for nomination
to the Legislature in his district, and
advises us to watch his movements. We
have noticed that some of the Radical
journals of that city are calling for the
nomination of honest men to the Leg
islature, mid we should not be surprised
to see Kleckner among them. We have
noticed that attempts to displace thiev
ing officials in that party, generally re
sults in the selection of greater rogues
than those who are thrust out. On that
principle Kleckner ought to win.
Jr looks as if the Senate {{ would agree
to the House resolution fixing the 4th of
July as the day for the adjournment of
Congress. The Radical niernbers want
to get home to see about the peruling
elections. Some of them will be defeat,
ed in their efforts to secure a renomina
tion, and others at the polls.
The Corrupting Influence of Great Cor
porations.
The corrupting influence of great cor
porations is felt in every departMent of
our goi , ernment. In Congress railroad
rings have shown their power. They
have seized upon an immense amount of
the public lands, despoiling the domain
of the people, and appropriating mil
lions of the acres which ought to have
been reserved as a sacred heritage for
the actual settlers whose mission it is to
develop the territory of the nation, and
to make the wilderness blossom as the
rose. Members of Congress have shared
largely in the profits derived from this
spoliation of the poorman's heritage,and
encouraged by the success of former
schemes of plunder have devised a vast
number of new projects of like charac
ter. Schemes are now being actively
pushed at Washington, which would
take the last acre of the public 'lands
from the people and give them in to the
hands of grasping and soulless corpora
tions. The effect of this infamous sys
tem will be to greatly enhance the price
of lauds in the West. There will not only
soon be no lands which the poor man can
occupy under the beneficent provisions
of a homestead laiv, but the Railroad
monopolists will holdevery acre of tilla
ble soil along their routes at such prices
as will impede emigration and render it
impossible for adventurous pioneers to
secure cheap homes. The whole system
is contrary to public policy, and it
could not secure half a dozen supporters
in Congress if the members were not
bought up like sheep in the shambles.
The men who vote away the public do
main to railroad corporations take good
care to pocket large amounts of bonds.
Thus have those who were poor a few
years since grown to be immensely
wealthy. There are magnificent palaces
standing along the avenues of Wash
ington,
.decorated inside with all the
costly appliances of princely luxury, the
owners of which were not worth a dol
lar when they took their seats in the
United Status Senate a very few years
ago. They have found legislation to lie
vastly profitable business.
Ln our State Legislature it is well
known that the Pennsylvania Railroad
can secure any legislation which it may
desire. It dictated the terms of the bill
which was passed for the dispersion of
the Sinking Fund, and that gigantic
swindle was only an instance of the
power which it exercises. It used to
elect members, but it now finds it much
cheaper to buy them after they get to
Harrisburg. Its lobby agents know all
the " ins and outs" of corrupt legisla
tion, and they can be seen in the halls
and on the floor of the OA° Houses any
day ‘luring the session. No bill that
they desire to pass can be defeated, and
no measure to which they are opposed
call be carried.
Robert It. Brown, Esq., editor of the
Clarion ft moorat, represented iIiSCUMI
ty in our Stale Legislature lbr rev years
past. Ho is emphatically an honest
man, and never cast a vote or a inch he
need be ashamed. He was the Demo
cratic candidate fur Speaker at the or
ganization of th 3 House last winter,
and is a gentleman possessing both
marked intelligence and unimpeacha
ble integrity. He had ample opportuni
ties for learning the means by which
corrupt legislation is forced through at
Harrisburg, and lie thus speaks of the
operations of the Pennsylvania Rail
road:
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
for several years, had agents at Harrisburg,
who made contracts with members for their
votes, for the session—generally employing
a majority of the members of both Houses
for about $3OO each. This ring of roosters,
thus formed, Wei 1/01111(1 to vote for all
bilk the agents who hired them directed
and against all Measures he desired defeat
ed. This arrangement was formerly kept
rather secret. lint during last session it
became so public that when the charge was
undo on the floor of the House, no one at
tempted to deny it. Even the agents who
bribed the members instead of keeping out
of politic view as much as possible—as Was
their previous custom—boldly walked
about the floor of the Ilouse, and personally
directed their hirelings how to vote. They
were continually seen at the desk of the
clerks and reporters, handling official pa
perseind directing the kind of reports
which should be sent Mr publication in the
daily papers. AL the end of the session it
has become as customary for certain mem
bers to call on their ring masters for their
pay, :Is it is to go to the Treasurer's ollive
to receive their salary. The night previous
to the last adjournment the railroad ring
Was paid in a certain room in a leading
hotel. Only urio man was admitted at a
time, but they were taken in and sent out
as regularly as customers at a barber shop.
in outsider, observing the performance as
lie passed along the hall occasionally,
alarmed the roosters who were standing
around waiting their turn, by calling out
"next!" cacti Lillie a !number ran to out of
the room.
'These agents nr horo, have become so
proficient in the business, that they take
contracts for putting through bills for a sum
agreed upon, which have no connection
With railroads ; :Ind then compel their ring
to put them through—alleging that this is
a part of the contract made for the session.
Last year wo heard a ring leader attempt
ing make a credulous country-member
believe that the cattle bill was included in
a s3ooarrangoinent. Thus the fellows make
large speculations for thein,elves on rail-
road capital.
The above named ring is not given as the
only, or even the chief of sinners in this
respect. There are many other rings formed
by the 1110[11 hers themselves, and even
every bill of any importance is "pinched"
in committee, and at every stage of its pro
eeodings through both Houses.
The above exposure, coming as it does
front an authoritative source, ought to
be sufficient to open the eyes of the peo
ple of this State. We do n o t believe
that the stockholders of the Pennsylva
nia Railroad are aware of the conduct
of these lobby agents at Ilarrisburg, nor
that the Directors of the road have any
guilty knowledge of such transactions.
It is the curl: of a few bold and unscru
pulous men, who profit largely by the
corrupt agencies \Odell they employ.
Tin: mild Spring weather has brought
out. Radical candidates for office rather
earlier than usual. Like black snakes
they stein to have crawled out immedi
ately after the first thunder storm of the
season. They are already appealing to
the dear people throtig,ll the eoluiniis of
the newspapers, and, in the langu.ige of
'ten. Butler, we are enableilto announce
the appearance of sure iernl'e I I ap
ple blossoms."
.M , )121t1 , W li. LAINVII.I" is a candidate for
re-election to the State Senate. There
is considerable opposition to him in the
Republivan party, but he intends to run
whether he receives the nomination or
not. Lowry has an ininiense 111110111 a
of energy, is not very scrupulous about
the means he employs, knows all the
ins and out of political intrigue, and
Will be hard to beat. There are several
other candidates for the position in the
Radical party, and we look for a very
lively light in the district.
A Mink: EY is born in Pittsburgh. The
event being the first of the kind in that city,
the ,iditor of one of the local newspapers
has visinal the infant, and is disposed to
recognize it as a man and a brother.
The least the extreme Radicals can do
is to introduce 1111 amendment qualify
ing all 'flunkies born in this country to
exercise the elective franchise. Let us
have "equal and exact justice to all."
THE Radicals of Washington arc
lighting like Kilkenny cats over the
municipal spoils. The convention split,
and two out-and-out Radical candidates
for Mayor are in the field. A third man,
a Conservative Republican, seems to
stand a good chance of slipping in be
tween.
GRANTisstill persistently lobbying the
San Domingo job, and the fellows who
expect to make huge fortunes, if the
treaty should happen to be ratified, are
said to be very hopeful that the Presis
dent will succeed in controlling the
Senate.
REPRESENTATIVE MUNGEN, of Ohio,
has had cancelled tll3 appointment
made by hinnt of a cadet at West Point,
he having understood that a person had
been paid for procuring the appoint
ment. Another selection has been
made.
In Allegheny county, N. Y., ¢ man,
who died recently left his wife one cent,
his brother a few dollars, and $.54100 for
the erection of a monument to himself.
Woman Suffrage In England
The advocates of Female Suffrage in
this country are quite jubilant over the
recent vote In the English House of
Commons. They profess to see in this
an indication of the early triumph of
the project which they have been push
ing so energetically and with so much
loud clamor. But, when looked into, we
find that the English bill is something
very different from that which the
strong-minded women of the United
States are demanding. The backbone
of the argument adduced by our would
be-reformers is the wrong endured
by married women. That is the
theme upon which they grow most elo
quent, the burthen of the story which
with such unceasing iteration they
pour into the ear of a dull and unheed
ing public. The husbands of this vast
army of ill-used women turn a deaf ear
to all the querulous complaints and
the plaintive pleadings of the eloquent
sisterhood, and even the wives them
selves refuse to listen to the sad tale of
the wrongs which they endure. With
surprising amiability, with a serenity
that is provoking beyond measure, they
pursue the even tenor of the way, bear
ing the domeStic yoke with a patience
that is truly wonderful.
Fur this class the English bill pro
vides no measure of relief. It is only
designed to include maidens and wid
ows. It proposes to allow such inde
pendent females to vote when they pos
sess the necessary property qualification
in their own right; but all matrons are
to be left in their present predicament.
Theft',/,' covert is left precisely where
she has been placed by the common
law, without auy legal existence inde
pendently of her husband. There is
very little likelihood that the pro
posed bill will become law, there
being ninny a slip between the sec
ond reading in one House and the
final passage through both, of a bill
which is socially revolutionary though
practically nugatory. The movement
in favor of female suffrage in this coun
try will derive very little strength from
what has been done in England, and
the day which stall witness universal
Female Suffrage in the United States
appears to us to be as remote as ever. It
can never have a dawning until 0 ma
jority of the best women of the country
demand the ballot, and that they are
not likely to do in a hurry.
How Not To Do It
Congress has been over five months in
session, and ilrei Ilk passed or amended
the Tariff; has not passed or amended
the Revenue Laws ; has not done any
thing for the commerce, shipping or
labor of the country ; has not passed or
amended any Fawn for the settlement of
the Indians; has not passed the Fund
ing bill; has not amended the currency
acts; Las not hone anything for the
resumption of specie payments; has not
settled difficulties with Canada respect
iu or with San Domingo
and St. Thomas, respecting pending
treaties. It has, however, ousted halt'
a dozen Democratic members of Con
gress duly elected by the people; has
kept up foreign and domestic taxes to
the utmost; has re-admitted the States
of Texas and Mississippi in order to get
more votes for bad jobs, but has again
kept out Georgia, with two Senators,
who were Georgians, but who could not
be bought, bribed or coaxed to do a mean
or had action. If it takes five and a
quarter months to do and omit all these
things, what may we expect by the time
the session has expanded to July or
Angust
As a general result of the action of
Congress, it may be stated, that of 2,819
bills and 171 joint resolutions introduc
ed in both Houses up to this time, about
158 bills and 100 joint resolutions have
gone through both Houses. A very
small result for so many days and so
many words.
Worshipping a Negro
The Boston 'Radicals quite worship
the Reverend thief Revels, the negro
who has been pitchforkcil into the C.
S. Senate from Mississippi on the points
of Federal bayonets. Nit many of his
white mile:trues, even of the Radical
stripe would expect to receive such hon
ors as have been bestowed upon him.--
The Boston Journot of Thursday eve-
ning says:
"Senator Revels has 1,0011 ell eageiLl Ii
forenoon in a drive in the suburbs mill in
calling upon various prominent persons
who had invited his presence. Ile left the
custom-house in a four-horse lianiuche at
about ten o'clock in company with Collec
tor Russell and Major Chadwick. As the
party came down the stops the officers and
employees about the custom-house, and
others, to the number of about two hundred
assembled there, gave the Senator a round
an-beers. The party drove to the State
I louse, where they were joined by (lover
nor Clatlin, and proceeded as above stated.
A visit wits paid to the United States Court
house, whore Mr. Revels was received by
District Attorney Hillard, and by him was
presented to Judge Clifford and Judge
Lowell and (Uncork of the court. To-night
he goes to Worcester, and to-morrow eve
ning to New Bedford. Ile hits accepted all
invitation to he present at Selwyn's Thea
tre on Saturday evening nt the entertain
ment for the benefit of Edward W. Kinsley,
Post 113, G. A. It. Ile will occupy one of
the boxes, which has been reserved for him
:014 i his party."
What are "Good Times ?"
The New York Tribunc very reasona
bly doubts whether the revival of busi
ness in Wall street, that is, Gold Room
and Stock Exchange, is an acceptable
sign of "good times," in the ordinary
sense of the term. Good times, the edi
tor seems to think, will never come until
'ongress passes some sort or a Funding
Bill. But it is not merely the passage
of the Funding Bill that is wanted, but
the adoption of an opposite policy from
that so strenuously adhered to by the
Tribune . of "protecting" a few individu
al interests so is to constitute them ab
sorbing monopolies, maintained at the
expense or the masses by the taxation
which excludes competition. The
reduetimi of both tarilrand internal tax
a( ott would do more to set the wheels
or substantial industry, production and
traffic in motion than anything else, es
pecially if a settled - and less costly finan
cial system lie at the same time brought
into use.
The Female Medical Students
tinarrel which has been so bitter
ly waged in regard to the attendance of
11,in:de medical students upon the clini
cal lectures at the Pennsylvania llospi
tab has been finally settled by the atiop
tion of the following resolution :
RoBolurd, That the managera, after con
ferring with their medical and surgical
staff', shall, if practicable, arrange Mr ap
propriate, thorough clinical instruction in
the Pennsylvania Hospital to the students
or the Woman's Medical College Of this
city.
That some women are well-fitted for
the study and practice of medicine can
not be denied, and they should be af
forded the fullest opportunities for
acquiring an accurate and complete
knowledge of the profession in all its
details. The objections of the male
students could all be removed by provid
ing separate clinics, and that is the
course which we understand is to be
pursued hereafter.
GEORGE r r ALERED TOWNSEND IS no
longer an admirer of Morton. He says
he is rapidly descending, in the Senate,
to the level ofa mere time-server and par
ty demagogue, supporting every preten
sion of h is masters, however evil,holding
no country to exist outside of his organ
ization and guided by no consistent pol
icy or principles. He is at the head of
the San Domingo set; his attitude on
finance and reconstruction has been
crooked and pitiable from the first. He
guesses at public sentiment and wears
the harness of the Executive like an old
and patient wheel-horse. He has large
executive talents, but is without large,
enduring convictions, and can claim no
higher laurel than the politician's. His
purpose seems to be the preservation of
the Republican party for personal ends,
and his apparent equipoise is all the
more "parked when he has a little ene
my Rtcfuslir
fitate Items.
Fn , aton is to have a horse railway.
Philadelphia has twenty-three public
markets.
Reading has thirteen Building Asso
ciations.
Ebensburg has commenced the build
13g of her new jail.
Stroudsburg is about to have a street
railway.
Greensburg, Westmoreland emit' ty, is
going to build a Town Hall.
Patrick McCan caught a trout near
Tyrone, the other day, that was Itl
inches long.
The mounment to the memory of
deceased soldiers of Juniata county, will
be put up about the middle of June.
A wild animal, supposed to be a wolf,
is roaming around in Manchester and
Conewago townships, York county.
The Methodist church membership
of this State numbers one hundred and
twenty-eight thousand, with a ministry
of seven hundred and thirty.
Mr. Archibald Thompson, who re
cently died in York county, aged 92,
was the father of fifteen children and 92
grand-children.
The Postmaster General has ordered
that the name of Irishtown postoffice,
Mercer county, be changed to Railroakl
Station.
The Waynesburg., ktireene county,l
.Ikssenger, says: "The growing wheat
crops in this county, present a very
promising appearance at this time."
The annual session of the Grand
Lodge of Good Templars of this State,
will be held at Gettysburg, from the
13th to the ltith of June next.
The schooner Raehel Post was capsiz
ed by a squall oft Camden, Me., on Wed
nesday inght. Her captain was drown
ed; the only other man on board got
ashore.
According to a Pottsville despatch, the
striking miners in Schuylkill county are
about to take measures to persuade the
Lehigh and Wyoming millers to join
them.
John Mower, of Bedford, Bedford
county, has been appointed by the (70V
ernor and commissioned by the State
Department, a Notary Public for a term
of three years.
The survey fur a branch road front
Sagersville, tin the Wilmington and
Reading Railroad, to \Vest Chester, was
made some weeks ago. The ground his
been staked out and preempted.
The body of a man answering to the
description of Samuel Siekman, who
left 'Washington county, last Septem
ber, and never was heard of afterwards,
has been found in the Ohio river at
Stubenville.
While unloading a safe from his wag
on in front of a store in Scranton, on the
3d, inst., Mr. Samuel Alderman, met
with a serious accident, by which he
smashed three of his toes, and it is said
11111putitimm will become necessary.
The German republicansof Pittsburgh
are kicking in the traces. They tell
the Radical leaders that they have inade
a great mistake in casting them aside
fin• the negro. They insinuate that they
will not vote with the colored brother.
A nun named Rogers, front Cumber
land, was rotbed of ?tau near Sand
Patclaunnel, Somerset county recently.
Ile had come there to look for a site on
which to erect a boarding house. Ile
clincluded not to stay,
At NeW Orleans, Lieutenant-(;over
nor Dunn, and other members of the
Police board, were committed to prison
for live days and lined each $9.5, by
Judge Cooleyof the Sixth District Court,
for contempt.
A dog went mad in Upland, Chester
county, recently. Before it was known
he had run through the town and bitten
every dog in his route. He was subse
quently killed, as well as twenty-six
other dogs which were bitten by him.
The Age says: One Major Calhoun,
of this city, takes occasion at all meet
ings of negroes and radicals to state that
he once belonged to the Democratic
party. We suppose it is upon the same
principle which makes a cyprian boast
she had a virtuous mother.
The sulibury*.Demoorat says: Pota
toes are a drug in the market, and hard
to sell at 35 cents per bushel, here. Sev
eral ark loads from York State landed
here this week, and the owners were
somewhat disappointed at the strange
market and low prices."
Many persons in the State have re
ceived a circular letter, stating that lift)
acres of land have been assigned to him
or her, as heir of a deceased soldh(r, and
requesting that S:3O he forwarded to de
fray the , expenses of sale and transmis
sion or the proceeds. The thing is a
cheat.
llartzell & Sons oC Addison, Somer
set county, have on exhibition at their
store, a Panther over six feet in length
with talons and fangs all complete ; and
.preserving in death, the appearance of
wildness, slyn CS, and stealthy ferocity.
that were its distinguishing character
istics in life.
I farry Taylor son of Caleb Taylor, of
West Chester, about ten years of age,
was 0 few days ago, killed by being run
over by the steam lire engine in that
Borough. He had taken hold of the
rope against the order of his father and
those having charge 'of the machine.
This is a fearful warning to disobedient
A male infant about four months old,
was found by a policeman recently in
the yard of a house on Filbert street,
near Twenty-second street, Philadel
phia. The chubby little fellow was
neatly and warmly wrapped up, and
pinned to his shawl was a note, "Take
good care of this until called for." The
child was sent to St. Vincent's Home.
The street passenger cars in Philadel
phia employed by seventeen different
Cann panics, numiwring six hundred
and eighty-eight cars, with one hun
dred and seventy-nine miles of track,
carried last year 55,000,000 passengers
Nine persons were killed and twelve:in
jured by accidents. The receipts from
passengers amounted to three and a half
millions of dollars,
A little 1,02, of Mr. I furry Rossman, a
citizen of Chambersburg, Franklin Co.,
was recently found dead in its crib. His
mother had left him sleeping, he having
fallen into a sleep in good health, It is
thought that the child turned himself
in some way with his face downward
and became fastened in that position be
tween the cover and the crib, and thus
smothered.
EMS=
Boston Lay issued an edict against
smoking on the horse cars.
The )loulgomery i Ala.) Moi/ has a
lady for its chief local reporter.
(if the ninety-two counties in Indiana
eighty are reached by railroads.
Mrs. Mel , :alanol-Richardson contem
plates gaining her future livelihood 1,..}-
lect.uritn.r.
Edwin Forre , t 11:14 horn on the stage
fifty ) - yon-, and hi , . laurekare still grcun.
A long autograph letter from George
agricultural mattyrs was
recently in London for $17.5.
Two improved needle-guns are on trial
in Germany, which each lire front fif
teen to twenty shuts a minute.
Nearly one-half the town of Fincastle,
Virginia, \\*:l,4 d,stroyed by lire on Fri
day night. The court house was saved.
The fort loth tielni-an nual Conference
of the Mormon Church, at Salt Lake
City, ended on Sunday. It is estimated
that fort• thousand "Saints" attended.
I loops for the communion table, ma d e
so as to make the dress set gracefully on
the kneeling figure, is the latest devel
opment of fashion.
The London Sprefator thinks hang
ing is the mast cruel of deaths for a light
intim with strong vitality, or a man with
a hull neck.
The New Orleans detectives, it is said,
recently authorized pickpockets to ply
their calling at a Fair upon receiving
a fee of ..i42.5 from each of the ligh t-lingered
operators.
A Maine Yankee has invented a $5
sewing machine, which is about as large
as a four-bladed jack-knife, and is self
feeding and knits a perfect elastic seam.
It looks like an apple-pairer or nutmeg
grinder.
James Platt, President of the Lake
Ontario National Bank, died at Oswe
go, N. Y., on Sunday, aged 83. He was
son of Judge Platt, after whom Platts
burg is named, and was formerly State
Senator, and the first Mayor of Oswego.
The Fenian demonstration in San
Francisco, on Sunday, was very largely
attended. John Savage was the orator.
Resolutions were adopted denouncing
the conduct of the British Government
towards political prisoners, and con
demning the recent Parliamentary
enactments for governing Ireland.
On Sunday night, the columns sup
porting the gallery of a colored church
in Washington gave away, causing the
gallery to settle about a foot. A panic
ensued, the congregation rushing to the
doors, and some jumping from the win
dows. Several persons were injured,
none however, fatally.
The State of Maryland has begun suit
in the Superior Court at Baltimore,
against the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road, to recover the value in gold over
currency in dividends paid the State on
preferred stock owned by it, amounting
to nearly 52,000,000. The claim is based
on the recent legal tender decision of
the Supreme Court of the United States.
SKETCHES OF TRAVEL NORTHWARD
No. IN--The Catskill Moontrairts
We left West Point by the day boat
Daniel Drew, upon a light, clear morning
in August, and landed at the village of
Catskill about two o'clock in the afternoon.
Hero we took the stage fur the Mountain
House, situated upon the mountains some
twelve miles distant. The ascent is long
and tiresome, usually occupying from live
to seven hours. The road is very steep and
rugged, and for the greater portion of the
way winds through a dense forest- At the
foot of the mountain, upon which stands
the Mountain House, is the spot universal
ly conceded to be the scene of Washington
Irving's myth of Rip Von Winkle. Near
by is a small tavern called the Rip Van
Winkle House, and the proprietor is ever
ready to narrate the wonderful adventures
of poor Rip. Pointing to an old-fashioned
chair standing near the door of the tavern,
ho will solemnly assure you that it is the
identical ono in which Rip sat just before
taking his celebrated twenty-year's nap.
The ascent from the Rip Van Winkle litmus
is very steep and difficult. It is much
pleasanter to walk than to ride, its the stage
goes very slowly and stops every few mo
moats to allow the horses to rest. Thorn is
a wonderful deception in the approach to
the Mountain I louse. At one point of the
road the house seems no tinnier otT than a
hundred rods, and apparently hangs upon
the verge of a stupendous crag directly over
your head, when in reality it is :Oxon three
miles distant.
It Was almost S o'clock when we reached
the Mountain house. This house, which
can be distinctly sect, from the river, is
built upon a rock projecting (ruin the
mountain like a circular platform and Is a
large and elegant establ isl inlet) t, possessing
all the In:curies and conveniences of a first
class summer hotel. It commands a hunt
scope of extraordinary Inetffity for miles
and miles away. Here the visitor can pass
hours gazing upon the niagnilieent pano
rama spread before him. A foot path,
which is at times very narrow and ditlioult,
lentils to the summit of North Nlinuntain, a
short distanee back of the Mountain House.
The view front this point is one of the finest
that can lie imagined. So vast is the height
upon which you stand that the M 0111g:till
llouso appears Upon a plain. Below you
is a magnificent valley, through :which,
like a silver thread, winds the beautiful
and znalestic baleen, while still farther
away the mountains or New England rise
like clouds. Upon a i'fear day the church
spires of Albany may he distinctly seen
from this point With a gooil
South Jlount:Lin isa s.•iith,
and should be visited. Frc.iii its summit
the mountain Rorke at We..t. is visi
ble.
A stage loaves the hotel twice a day fur
the Cauterskill Falls, about two wiles
away :Unid the wiluicst and most roniantie
Seellvry. Titti ruck passes over two preci
pices, the first poi feet and the stood!!! 90
feet in height. 'file deep gorge into which
the venter falls, and the will ravine through
which it flows, :Ire very grand and intiois
ing. At the upper fall the rock projects
some Se fret, and the Visitor van link
hind the sheet of falling water with perfect
safety and gaze far down into the !Jeep i a
vine. On the brink of tint precipice is a
small hotel, Vatted tint, Laurel I tolls,
Midst greens and shades I he Cauteral: ill leapt
From elllll4 where the wo4ol-llow,r el lags ;
All summer lie tivilskitis Illsverdant steps,
WWI the sweet Ilithl spray o f 11l miountala
Anil he shakes thewiiiiils 01011101111111111
WllOll t wlth tie rah., if
Those lAlls are spoken of at oonsiderable
length by J. Fenimore Coopor in his novel
entitled The Pioneers.
Close by tho road leading Co the falls are
the LWill lakes, upon which many pleasant
hour's may be passed in boating and fish-
I taints' Falls art much visited, especial
ly by the numerous artists who visit the
Catskills every year. It is said that no
where within the salon narrow range, do
they find so rich and so great a field fur
study, " Every step is over !wide piles id
well marked rocks, and among the miist
grotesque forest fragmends, while each suc
cessive bend in the brook discloses a new
and different cascade.•' Near Ilainrs Falls
is " Fawn's Leap," a beautiful cascade.
Wu barn I,w spoken uL tho prinrilml
sights - about the l'atskille, but the tour
ist will lied much to interest a n d charm
him that has not brill spoken of by us.—
no( climate hero is quit' ted, and early in
the morning and late in the VVellillg:
overcoat will not 110 :It etl 11111,111f6rUll/11`.
Fires are kept burning in the !curlers and
halls of the hotel the greater portion of the
summer. Ily leaving an order at the of
fice the evening before, the visitor at the
Mountain House will be aroused in the
morning, to see sun rise. This sight when
once seen will never be forgotten. l'pon
emerging from the hotel the tourist Rustle
everything enveloped in darkness, and the
"Monde slumbering at his feet." Present
ly a line of sunlight gilds the far distant
horizon ; by degrees the stimulus ',clew are
lighted up, and in rs few moments the
whole grand landstapo is spread before
hint.
We left the Mountain lionise:A II o'clock
in the morning, took the boat at the land
ing at 2 o'clock, and late in the afternoon
reached the Delaware Mouse, in Albany,
where tee passed the night, expecting the
next day to behold thus Iteautiee or Lake
(iarge.-
The fwittion tlot h wear out more nt.lturt-1 I too
t ho man."
Taking it for "all in all," there is proba
bly no greatur tyranny uu lids earth, than
that of fashion, and most especially the
"follies of fashion." We say the follies of
fashion, because all fashions are not follies.
Fashion has been instrumental in intro
hn•ing many emu forts,many min ven
many beautiful embellishments and many
things useful. There is a healthy, rational,
and progressivo manifestatien of fashion,
and there is :lino a morbid, tawdry and ri
d iell ions i resLation of it, and in this
latter is where its chief tyranny imsists.
The morbid manifestation consists in mak
ing 111011 and women adopt the most ridieu
lons and extravagant isistunies, outfits,
furnitures and livings, without regard tin
beauty, or utility, or voliVellielli•O, and is
ever MI the "look-out" for something 110 W,
110 11111 a, now iiiiieoll,l or
so that it is i''',.7,llionabir. It cx crises ids
greatest tyrany over thoseoo that are pier, or
in moderate eireunistances, for the rich
are inn a measure independent, and van
aff o rd In be unfashionable. The thief
effect of fashion scems tin he that or
rmitimi lig people dissatislie,l with what
they hare, and thin fostering of is desire for
something they have sot, solely to satisfy
the demands or fashion, and whether they
can afford it or not. Smile people would
be as 11111,711 terrified at the idea of tieing
eiiiisider,7,l unfashionable, as they would at
the idea of being regarded as kleptomaniacs,
defaulters, or eonininn slanderers. We
have heard it surmised by the unsophisti
cated that a collusion or eombination exists
among the manufacturers nail the iIIVOII
- of fashions, all for the benefit of trade
--their trades respeetivoly—and that the
rapid of new thinv, is to alienate
the minds of people from old things.—
Whether this is so or not, we have no
means of knowing, but we de know that,
somehow, it takes but a short time for a
fashion to get old—indeed, long before the
mail has outworn the apparel, the fashion
has WOlll it out for him. Just see the
pranks it is playing on ladies' heads, with
reference to the bonnet and its representa
tions, by times, covering the different re
gions of the cranium. Not very long ago
it was worn over the region of the "domes
tic propensities," then over the "selfish
sentiments," and then over the " moral
sentiments," and now it covers the
reasoning and "perceptive faculties."—
Unless a return to old fashions again, be
comes allowable, there is no place for a
change in the situation of a lady's bonnet,
unless it lie worn over the nose and mouth,
or one of the ears. It is pretty much the
same in regard to their whole wardrobe,
and not their's only, but also the wardrobe
of men, of mere fashion. Witness for in
stance the'extrente length and width of coats
and pantaloons a very few years ago, and
the exceeding shortness of the one and the
narrowness of the other, at the present
time, But - all these follies, or as many of
the freaks of fashion mare follies, sink into
utter insignificance, when compared with
the fashionable, social, wedding, funeral,
and educational follies. In tine largo cities
and towns of our country a poor man ab
solutely cannot afford to die fashionably,
for to die fashionably involves also a fash
ionable funeral. A greater calamity cannot
fall upon a household, if it is poor, or in
only moderato circumstances, than the
death of ono of its members. Not that the
departure of the member is of so much eon
sequence,but that, the funeral which follows,
involves a calamitous:outlay,and a world of
anxiety—outlays that often cannot he afford-
ed, and which are as often never paid for.
Fashionable weddings, especially wooden
weddings,tin weddings,eilver weddings and
golden weddings, are frequently most mag
nificent farces. Although they aro follies
of the first water, especially where carried
to excess, they aro nu doubt sometimes of
use, for they may bring together on asocial
or charitable plane, for a single day, parties,
who perhaps have been indifferent, or who
may have been leading a "cat and dog life "
through a long series of years, and that one
day, and its associations, nifty work as a
moral lover for future good. Fore, undis
guised, social intercourse, is a beautiful, in
structive, and moral and relining relation,
but more fashionable intercourse is cold,
stiff, selfish and hypocritical. A conglo
meration: of interests, temperaments ;ad
moral principles aro brought together 011
social plane, that have no affiliations, save•
those that aro merely conventional. Per
haps, whoa they separate, even the host
himself becomes the butt of ridicule or
caustic irony; but then his viands, his
wines and whiskies were capital, served in
fashionable vessels anti in a fashionable
manner, and the told ensemble W:1,1 very
fashionable. The greatest folly that the
unfashionable eau possibly indulge in, is to
envy the fashionable follies of the rich.
Fashion is a hard taskmaster and therefore
those under its unrelenting dominion,
sinful,' lie pitied and not coildentned.
MEMEME
I=l
Grand Holly of the tattoo 1.01111:111• of
ttttt obia. ist linker's+ 11011. Ilse
Night before the Atoesohneubt
Portole.
The l'resident, in vatting the nteeting to
orticr, regretted the übsetity of Itrother4
Shad, teoloretl,l ovltite,t
times, teoloredd Wi (white,)
ttiii:ted,) and J. It. Ile attitoorit•t•tl
" dat Ilrodder Yoeutit littti do right to do
!too, from do prc , violtv
do rorpo.oof deliberin . Itiv oration oo J.•
Fifteen l'oummmlun•nly. Ili' Ai'' too!.
Ur"( YOellttl lt,•l . llded 1.1311,
odtd sail, ho had !wen n 401 4 , 1 ,1 I“ gicr
svay this evening , ' to 11,1dier A. J. 31
1.1.11,1mtl tht.rel.,ro, say but a si-rd :
"I am: . vui,l Itnilhor Yallllll, "a ~ 11111.!
Mall ill politic :<,
si•111.11 to Oho groatost ~r all ]i‘
men. lam proud Ed 1•0
wlion I think td . hi., I 1 - ,•,.1
or Illannorlta,svi,
ruin on ti , wintry hanks of the
Imola as they fell. Ile is a greater 111.111
than Thaddeus Stevt•tis et,•r ; I.tit I
tinier any further remarks 40a 1114 WOOllOl,
fL/I anti 111111111 . 1.1111 virtues, 1111111 sielllt o I . lllllle
day, and for the present, gii tiny 1..
Ilrother I:ttullnittn, who is :1 great talker.
a eantlidate for Legislative honors, .tl.l
wants to lie your
Brother i:auirman t.vtts 11,1 to 1111• form,
by Brother Jim Itottly and 5151, r I I atilt tit
Bosley, anti vpukv us 1 . 4011010 " I a .1111 144
IR) your Nlo,es! Not like your Tcone-,...•
:%losos, Andy Johnson, but
I want In lead you through the tuilderin•-•• •
and I will put the blush to the eln,k
twerp limn who kill not nie,t you
I want to make a Squire of one of you '
[Voice -" hear aut.•'l Vi.o, feller riticrn
Sall' 11:44 111.0111•111111illg that 111:W111110
long enough, and your time b. c.inung. I
want to go to the Legislature for yin, in
terests. 1 9411111 la sl.l. 1110 11,1)' you wlll 0.111
me your Moses. A V0i4.0 110 41414
like the pieter wo seed 11l Muses clo,, 11 111
Georgy- a big fat baby in the lattlrilBlo-s.",
I promiso you the 11 polo support of tle•
County Committee. I 11111 it.. 4 I 'II:Orilla..
Yes, Brothers, look at me, your new . M.,
ses ! 1 kin't listen hi the I )cnicierats."
([rudder Jim Looney, (colored Demo
erat,) here arose and said: '• r. Cheer
man ob do Onion Leek : Now, I has been
listenin' to all die talk about '1 . 11,1,1. Still 011.,
and Nlarster Brulutker ; but giber sinceole
ono 11:1,1 gone home, and do odder NI
county, dar has been arthquakes in l'ali
fornia, and the philosfers says dal de cichil
!lava lag 4,11'0 under Lancaster, 111141 dl. 11040
plo is afeard de town Witt fall in, and 41:11
iley cotell till[ in the Conestogy %yid 0111 1,,,
oyes; and clal a engineer says 41st ho seed
ole Thad Stevens, 011 Ile railroad, (the Pres
ident announced the arrival of Brother
.John Peart,l settin' on de top (Ili de smoke
stack wid .1411111 Brown's body, and dal
ho had some manifestations on
morpheno spear (noise). \ll'. (11 ,
Ulan, I 1111Slet want dal 1111111 to 1.4111t01101 0
Will diS luminous body Burin Illy '111.4 , ..•
ions on do stale oli de c•ountry. 110 eari'l
git away heall 4.11 hard hearin. Vole, l•f Ine
links il is niggar a fool, 1 ax him aquestion
Am cause In ")/1.4,1/1,1•1." 4111 effect, er Hl:'. I
de prertirver 111, 1•1111,4 , 7 \ 114WOr dat [ll-01,11,
111111. 1 V, 8., the 'Chug, editor cil the spy, to
who'll the remark was direetol, said he 11 1-4
not prepared this evening to enter into a
controversy with the g,otaleinali.i Bruchh•r
Lociney—Den I apprehends you in intircly
mistaken In your prognostilieations. Now
de l'ublivan genien rotoi, eooettboo,
heal, II 1114 Lonny troWn ; (the speaker
intended to say ro,lrnLon,l,l I but 101 1110
tell yeti, don't you ile ssliite elan;
and :1141111 iineertain, and cle 41,1.11 lull!
make him turn his bitek on you m hen 11. 1
do tide vonies 1111, jis like do Yank...yd.,-
seers down South; Bey WI, 11 114,
11011 410 full 11100,1 re1,1.4.1s on ch. poor 14 V-4 -
gar, 111141 dry alll'lll givan to 41,1 nolin I.
you nig,gars. Boy is, let deal
111111:0 0101 111, ILI 111at,ri4,114 PIIIIIiI•all.
1/0,11 , 111011 Bat write a1...111 de 1 'arpet
'sperks somebody to say silt al. ell
dens, Boy dos. Dey's Carpet Bags L , l l l.
Some Carpet (tags IV allful hard Cases, ll''
is. NOW fin 1001( at J. II.; he looks mole
,Spy-ing den de hippipoloninniscs in
Itar
per, 'ceptin his ears is bigger; lint 41.10
heads looks ra41.14.r more in tellegenter, and
cloy both looks down in It: 11,111111 ; 11101 1
'spees dry thinks similar about do YLttl. ob
de country. Bey say do hippipcipininne.es
is A friean. Ef Bey is, 1 'sp. , Bey gib detil
a vote. Now jiS 104,11 at J, ,gin,
biography man, a Millie clar as of he 15 asll . l
a lioarin,— jis 4,111 11,1 llf 1141 5W1111,,,,t1 a
WllOlll 110 X 011 I 11411 4ala., :111,1 110,11
col all Iris troubles at. on rO, and 1101101111 lint
write history hems - tutoro. I fir's a smeekoy
feller, Bat. \Yonder lie wasn't Pearl enough
to gil somebody to as him to go to de 1,...,-
islaturo; but den 1 'spec he and Pearl
Lp, Idtogader soma day, and brat I lately
Artily 111141 l'eto /14.1:1111,' 1,01 . 41111.0. 110
flies a high kilo, but de Lord gib hint a
Jovhtut to help him."
The, little broadd-tread lumberman 0111 red
an adclre,, lint it was not:ism...vs. Sono.
pronotineed it 114 111•11.Vy 114 " Mark Twain's
shotted frog," and others thought it the
Sll.llOl oration that he delivered in 414141 Fel
lows (tall at the breaking 0111 111 1.114 , 1i4.114 I
lion, omitting the Revolver part. "Quid"
says he }leant the 531110 pie., spoken a.
illersville about. ten !,, , ars ago,
Mrs. YOOlllll, year[, Bachman, Possum
TOlll, :\I i 44 l'atisas and nanny Ihisloy,
With the balance of the Committee on
I'aralle retiring for 4.011,1111.111.,011, the meet
ing adjuunle 1. .I.IIN liltg,\‘'S.
I'. S.. It is not trite, that the spirit of
" NVolsh Nlountitiii I " hovered oyer the
Committee during their deliberations. I
have the positive denial from two of the
committee that they 511.15. 110 ghost, but that
the Committee rompleted their busbies,
and retired in pearl. I only mention this
part to stop the foolish stories of the town
boys.
Will give you im iivemint of the celubra.
tioll 1.44 soon as I can gather all the litchi,
snit translate the speeches Into the new
dialect now in vogue among the Radicals
of this borough. Their speech is a queer
mixture of broken English, had hutch,
and worse Congo J. IS
WAsurNorox, May 9.—The monthly re
port of the statistical division of the Depart
ment of Agriculture has been issued:
It sas in relation to the condition of
winter - rain that the April returns relatic
to the appearance of winter wheat and rye
and other cereals aro very complete, and
represent every section of country in which
the crops are grown. They pieta ronsmail
and slow growth, thinned in places by win
ter killing, weak and unthrifty in spots,
from loss of vitality by long exposure un
der ice, or to freezing winds; but with these
exceptions, vigorous, of good color and
ready to start under ie influence of a gen
ial spring into a luxuriant and healthful
growth. These blemishes aro neither
general nor very marked in the lo
calities where they appear, with ex
ceptions, of severe freezing. While the
appearance of wheat is by no means a,
promising as it was lust year, the differ
ence is ono move to backwardness of
growth, mused by late planting, Iblloweil
by an early winter, which allowed of little
more than to injuries from freezing. The
mild weather, and light snows of the win
ter wheat region were accompanied with
few sudden changes in the earlier winter
months, while the colder and rougher
weather of the later winter was attended
with heavier snows, which furnished valu
able protection at a critical season. The
regular returns were prepared about April
1. The tenor of later information gives as
surance of a general and rapid ameliora
tion, which may yet result, the season
favoring in a fine crop of )yiuter wheat. '