Lancaster 3ntelligencer.
WED SDAY, MAY 25, 1870
low the Fiftnth Amendment Is to tie
Enforced.
The leader; of the Radical party saw
as soon as th War ended that they could
not long Makitain their held upon power
in a restored Union where white men
alone were allowed to vote. That was
as clearly fdreseen as any future event
could possibly be. Thaddeus Stevens
predicted the speedy triumph of the
Democratic party; if some great change
was not speedily made. To prevent
party defeat, to devise means for keep
ing themselves in office, to insure a con
tinuance of their hold upon profitable
positions has been the chief con
cern of Congress since the war end
ed, For that purpose the Constitution
of the United States has been tramp
led under foot, State Constitutions
have been disregarded, laws have been
violated, principles of public policy have
been set at naught, and the Union has
been purposely kept divided. The de
crees of a cable of corrupt men have
been carried out at the point of the bay
onetrand military violence has usurped
the place of a Republican foFm of gov
ernment. Driven to desperate devices,
the negro has been given the ballot, but
those who expected to find in him
mere tool of theißadieal party have been
disappointed. in the South the South
ern people, the natives of the soil, the
owners of the land, the men who give
the negroes work and pay them wages
have shown themselves able to control
a very large proportion of the black
voters. The result promises to be a
complete annihilation of the Republican
party in that section, and the discomfit
ure of every carpet-bagger who has gone
there seeking office, and of every mean
white native who had become sufficient
ly degraded to join with negroes in an
attempt to prescribe the best men of his
own race. Nor does that gross fraud,
the Fifteenth Amendment promise to
be productive of inure profitable results
in the North. Wherever an election
has been held since Grant issued his
lying proclamtion the Radicals have
suftbred serious losses and overwhelming
defeats. A crisis seems to have arrived,
and the leaders of the Republican party
are evidently puzzled to tell how to
meet it.
The latest and must desperate cxpedi
eat devised for the maintenance of their
decaying power is a bill for the enforce
ment of the Fifteenth Amendment,
which we publish elsewhere. It anni
hilates the election laws of every
State in the Union, c•reacs new crimes,
magnifies misdemeanors into high of
fences, attaches the severest penalties to
negligence or neglect of duty, takes
away the jurisdiction of Slate Courts
and drags all offenders before the Federal
tribunals, offers rewards for the institu
tion of prosecutions, renders it extreme
ly perilous for any man to accept the
position of an election officer, creates a
swarm of Commissioners whose duty it
is to act as spies and informers, places
the army and navy at the command of
marshals and their deputies, and is in
all respects violative of the principles
upon which the law of this country has
been based, and of the methods by
which legislative enactments have been
heretofore enforced. So infamous is this
enactment that we have seen no Re
publican newspaper which is sufficient
ly foolhardy to commend its many harsh
provisions, awl it is universally expect
ed that the I louse will lop Mr numbers
of the absurdities embodied ill the act
which Passed the Senate by a strict
party vote.
There is not the slightest necessity for
the passage Many such law. Fraudulent
as the pretented ratification of the Fif
teenth Amendment undoubtedly was,
there will be no violent or forcible op
position to it while it vontim,s to )li:tin
t:tin the Milli of a regularly enacted law
of the land. In the South the Demo
cratic party will gain power by judicious
treatment of the negro voters. They can
be offered stronger inducement to vote
with the native white population than
the Carpet-baggers and scalawags can
bring to bear upon them. This will be
done then withoul any sacrifice of prin
ciple. Accepting the c•ufurced enfran
chisement of the blacks as something
they have lel power• to prevent, the
landowners of the south will convince
their employees that the interests of the
two races arc indissolubly united. This
they can do more easily than the man
ufiwturers of the North can persuade
their hands to believe that a high pro- •
tective tariff is calculated ho benefit the
working man. The whitesof the South
will nut need to exercise the slightest
violence in ordwar to control a large pro
portion or the negro vote. I t ran and
will be accomplished by (he more potent
agency or kiiiiine,s eimeinotioo.
They moier,,taiiii the twgro character,
how to play upon his passions, how 1.0
gratify his vanity, how to ildlueuce his
action. Against the former masters or
the negroes, the influence of carpet
baggers mid scalawags will speedily be
found to be utterly ineffeetive.
n the Border States, and in the North
the negroes will vote at first almost sol
idly with the Radical party, but that
will not beget any violence. In Mary
land, Kentucky and Delaware, where
the negro vote really amounts to some
thing, the whites will still maintain
their invincible superiority of numbers.
Thereevery respectable:nut right-think
ing white man is ready to forgive the
negroes for temporarily uniting them
selves with the Radicals. They admit
that it is only perfectly natural that
such should be the ease at the first elec
tion under the Fifteenth Amendment;
and there is no denial of the right of
the negro so to act, and no hatred ()Flinn
for so doing. Such was the feeling
which we SaNe plainly manifested in
Baltimore the other (lay during the cel
ebration of the Fifteenth Amendment.
Ex-rebels spoke kindly of the blacks,
declared that their conduct had been
commendable since they were emanci
pated, and we heard not our harsh word
uttered against them. Whatever of
bitterness was shown vented itself upon
the low-lived white demagogues who
rode a part of the way over the route
and then sneaked out of the procession,
thus owning that they were ashamed of
their position, their c induct and their
company.
In Pennsylvania there will be no vio
lence, unless it should be provoked by
Radical whites, and then it will vent
itself upon their heads, and not upon
the negroes. The people of this State
know that the Fifteenth Amendment
was never honestly and fairly adopted,
and a vast majority of them are opposed
to its provisions, but they will submit
quietly to the wrong until it can be
righted, and rely upon ti lIIC for a re
medy. There is nothing in the present
or the prospective condition of the coun
try which demands the complete sub
version of the election laws of every
State in the Union, and the bill of abom
inations, which we publish elsewhere,
will only serve to deepen the conviction
of every Democrat in the:correctness of
the great principles of his party, and to
add to our ranks thousands of dissatis
fied and disgusted Republicans.
Decoration Day
We are glad to see that the Military
Committee of the Senate has had the
good sense to report against the House
bill, declaring decoration day:to be a new
National Holiday. The ground taken
by the committee is that it would cause
confusion in financial transactions, and
also that the people can be trusted to at
tend to such observance, without the
formality of enacting a legal holyday.
A Georgia Bill at Last
The Reconstruction Committee have
at last agreed to report a bill for the ad
mission of Georgia, exactly similar to
the Virginia, Mississippi and Texas bill.
They also decided to report an additional
section to the bill authorizing those
States to organize and equip three mili
tia regiments.
THE LANCASTER WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1870.
A Revival of Know-Nothinglam
The Republican party holds within
its fold the fanatics who believe in the
proscriptive tenets of KnoW-lithing
ism, and the demagogues who are ready
to pander to the prejudices of these nar
row-minded bigots who gave impetus
to the wild crusade which was waged
against every Catholic and every foreign
born citizen. The spirit which gave rise
to the most infamous political organiza
tion that ever disgraced a free people
still lives. It cropped out in Congress
the other day, when the question of
sending a Minister to the Court of Rome
was under discussion in the House ; it
is seen peering through the resolutions
adopted by Radical Conventions and
other gatherings of that party ; it is not
unfrequently heard from the pulpits of
sectarian preachers, and many of that
class would be only too glad of an op
portunity to display their hatred of the
Catholic Church on the field of political
action.
In Washington city one wing of the
Republican party has boldly unfurled
the banner which was carried In triumph
throughout the length and breadth of
the Northern states, and which was first
borne to the earth and made to trail in
the dust hy the energy and eloquence
of Henry A. Wise, of Virginia. One of
the Republican candidates for the may
oralty of Washington city is running on
a:distinetive Know-Nothing platform.
There, and elsewhere in the country,
the Radicals appeal to the negro for sup
port while boldly denouncing all white
foreign-born citizens in the bitterest and
most vituperative terms. The lying
proclamation of Grant, declaring the
Fifteenth Amendment to be adopted
was no sooner promulgated than certain
outspoken Radicals at once declared that
with the help of the negro vote they
could atffird to cut loose from all affilia
tion with the foreign element. In In
diana and elsewhere the most insulting
language was used in Radical Conven
tions in speaking of white naturalized
citizens. That we shall soon have an
other Know Nothing crusade we have
no doubt. Some Republican newspapers
have had the good sense to warn their
readers against the folly of such a course,
but they will soon yield to the storm of
fanaticism when it bursts forth.
'Pile Democratic party is the only po
litical organization which occupies per
fectly sound and tenable ground upon
this question. It holds all who have
sworn allegiance to the government of
the United States, no matter what may
be their birth-place or religious belief,
to be Americans, as touch so us those
who are born on floc soil. It scouts as
an unworthy prejudice that feeling
which would discriminate against men
.on account of their birth-place or their
religion§ belief. It welcomes to our
shores the emigrant who comes to cast
in his lot with us, wisely regarding that
act as the best evidence of a sincere at
tachment to the country which he has
deliberately chosen as the home of him
self and Ids descendents. It secs in the
muscle and brain of these many new la
borers a unite of inexhaustible wealth,
and the means for developing the vast
resources of the nation. It offers them
an equal chance Mall the varied fields of
labor, and gives the assurance of a com
fortable home to all who are willing to
hew it out of the wilderness of the West.
The policy of the Democratic party upon
this question, as upon others, is broad
and statesmanlike. It is not cramped
by narrow prejudices, or ',Tallied by ,
creeds and the accidents of birth. 'fo
all white ate❑ it offers the rights of citi
zenship, without limitation. lit so do
ing it lays upon the many thousands
who annually ohne to us from Europe
the most binding obligations of patriot
ism and true loyalty. it has ever found
the foreign-born citizen as ready to
defend the national honor, and to do
battle under the flag as those who have
been born beneath its starry folds. All
our wars have idtested this fact.
Away then with that stupid and con
tracted policy which would feller the
growth of the republic and build a
Chinese wall around this magnificent
Western Empire; and away with that
party which cherishes within its folds
the men who are even now endeavor
ing to revive the meanest and the most
vindictive political organization that
ever had all existence.
ticuny Trick of a Radical Of
Charles I iilibons, the fellow who sue
cceded iu superseding Furman Shep
pard as District Attorney of Philadel
phia, for a period of a few months, took
advantage of Iris brief tenure .d ullice,
to gobble up all the fees derived ft•omt
the tax on insurance companies for two
whole years. lle pocketed the snug
sum of .$4,0110 for 1509, and the same
amount for 1870. Ile went into office
late in 1000, and was ejected in the fifth
month of the present year. By the
unanimous decision of a set of Repub
lican Judges, it has been decided that
Mr. Gibbons was not elected District
Attorney, and lie has therefore no right
to a dollar of the fees which he pocket
ed. 'Pte whole sum is really the prop
erly of Mr. Sheppard. Mr. Gibbons
must have had some intimation, or at
least a very shrewd suspicion of what
the eventual decision of the Court. would
:tort so Ile utudc haste 1.” seize 111.1011
the revenues that he could possibly
realize from the office which he wrong
fully held. Ile was only (1, fa,to Dis
trict Attorney, and held the office sub
ject to the final decision of the courts.
If he sets that up as his justification for
taking the fees for 1509, which full due
during the first part of the six months
while he was in °Mee, how can he avoid
recognizing in Mr. Sheppard an equal
right to receive those for 15767 If Mr.
Gibbons wore an honorable man, or
possessed of common honesty, he would
at onue refund to Mr. Sheppard the
money he has wrongfully taken from
hint. If lie does not do so, he must stand
before the world eon victed in the eyes
of all right thinking men of :t crime,
greater in degree and more degrading
character than that — ryf-a,' ny petty thief
whom he may have helped - to send to
the penitentiary. Mr. Gibbons is the
representative of the Union League of
Philadelphia—he was their candidate.
If their representative is such a man
what must his constituents be?
Later developments show that the
amount of money thus sequestered by
Mr. Gibbons amounts to not less than
$20,000. The Philadelphia Post, radical
as it is, has the manliness to come out
and denounce this piece of rascality in
deservedly severe terms. Mr. Gibbons
may keep the money he has pocketed,
but he parts with the respect and con
fidence of all honorable men. He has
voluntarily descended to the lowest
scale in morality, and has put himself
on a level with the most disreputable
swindlers in the country.
The New York Election
'Phe result of the New York election
Is another emphatic condemnation m
the policy which the Radicals have been
pursuing. First, after the adoption of
the Fifteenth Amendment, came the
little State of Connecticut protesting
against that outrage, and now the Em
pire State speaks the same language in
tones that can not fail to be heard in
every nook and corner in the land. The
New York San boldly proclaimed before
hand that the administration of Presi
dent Grant was on trial, and that the
result was to be regarded as an emphatic
approval or condemnation. The people
of the greatest State in the country have
spoken, and the verdict is one of decided
disapproval. The negro vote was cast
solid for the Radical candidates, but it
proved to be a source of weakness rather
than of strength. So it will be elsewhere
in the North.
THE New York Herald thinks that
the result of the election on the lith
inst., shows that the State of New York
may be considered Democratic for an
indefinite time to come.
A Peannt Tariff.
Since the war a number of persons
have engaged largely in raising peanuts
tVirginia, NOrth Carolina, and other
arts of the South. Glowing accounts
of the profitableness of the business have
appeared in different agricultural news
papers, and letter writers have set forth
the chances of accumulating a fortune
thereby in terms of the most seductive
character. But who ever knew any man
or any set of men to be content with
doing well, if in any way they mightper
chance do better. The South has not
asked for much in the way of protection,
but the peanut growers made a success
ful effort in Congress the other day. A
Mr. Platt, a Virginia Republican, de
manded that a tariff of three cents a
pound should be imposed on all import
ed peanuts, and the provision was
promptly adopted by the House. The
peanut growers have been admitted into
the band of monopolists, and every ur
chin in the land, who buys peanuts, is
to be compelled to pay over about one
third of his pennies to support " the
best government the world ever saw."
Should this clause of Schenck's tariff be
adopted, the probabilities are that the
many old women who eke out a scanty
living by selling peanuts at the street
corners, will be compelled to seek a liv
lihood in some other business, to go to
the poor house, or to starve.
We expect however to witness such a
grand outburst against the peanut tariff
as will compel the projectors of the
measure to pause. The boys of a coun
try are its nnist excitable and unruly
population, and it will be dangerous to
provoke them by the imposition of so
heavy a tax upon that which lims here
tofore constituted their chief and cheap
est luxury. Let any one imagine, if he
can the indignation which will pervade
Young America when the measure of
peanuts is reduced to one half its present
dimensions. The hubbub will be terri
ble, and every youngster in the laud will
swear vengeanee upon the party which
so ruthlessly invades the domain of his
rights. If the Radicals in Congress
wish to make free traders of all the boys
in the country let them put a tariff of
three cents a pound on peanuts. The
adoption of that clause would sound the
death knell or protective tariffs. It
would get all the boys in the nation to
thinking upon the subject, and would
insure their adherence to that party
whiCh was ready to do battle with them
and for them against the monopolists.
The Yankee cotton lords and the Penn
sylvania iron masters would hind that
they had paid too dearly for the support
of the peanutlgrowers of Lower Virginia
and Upper North Ciirolioa. The end of
their rule will certainly be near at hand
when all the boys of the country are set
to studying the beauties and benefits of
a protective tariff through the medium
of diminished peanut measures.
Defeat of the Tariff 11111
The Tariff bill, at which Congress has
',yen tinkering for some months has at
ong last been virtually defeated. The
dow dealt came from an unexpected
ivarter, and was ufflookod for, but none
the less successful. The immediate oc
easion was a wiangle between Mr
Dawes, as Chairman of the Appropria
tion Committee, and General Schenck.
l'hairman of the Ways and :‘reans, as
to the order of business in the House.—
Dawes uun•ed to postpone the Tariff bill
until the House had disposed of all
pending appropriation bills, and the
motion was finally carried, after a sharp
struggle, by a vote of yeas Pd to nays 77.
Nearly every Democrat in the House
voted for the postponement. In so (king
they were unquestionably right. The
present tariff has been before the coun
try long enough to be understood, and
the people will be able to vote intelli
gently for or against it at the congres
sional elections next fall. It will be one
Of the principal iS,LIVS at the polls, and
Western members especially will have
their records closely scanned by voters.
The bill which was defeated can not pos
sibly be revived during the present
session of Congress.
Bullock, of Georgia
The Senate Committee which have
been overhauling Gov. Bullock, discov
ered that he drew, during his few
months' residence in Washington, 31.1,-
500. Of this, $4,000 was paid to the
Chronicle, $lOO to the (Ibis, and the
balance for It is personal expenses, and he
refused to account for it. For the $lllO
paid the Otolic, that establishment had
done Illono work than the (Iwo/licit! for
$.1,140. He paid the Chrimick $llOO for
1,000 copies of a pamphlet, and it was
shown Ily practical printers that the or
dinary price for such work in Washing
ton was sl'2o. Many other like eases
appear in the testimony. The people
will watch with some interest the final
disposition to he made of this matter.—
Bullock has been so far completely suc
cessful in the S. Senate, and hopes to
be to the end. The slo,non which he
has expended in wining and dining, and
other personal expenses, and for which
he refused to give any personal account,
show what manner of loan it is which
rules in Georgia, and whose rule Con
gress an far 51'111115 to perpetuate for two
years or more. Arc the people stone
blind and deaf that they refuse to see,
hear and comprehend such rascality as
pervades in Ocorgia, and such perpetu
ated injustice its exists in Washington
over a great Stale and its inhabitants?
The Equalization of Bounties
A Washington telegram announces
that the 'Military Committee of the
(louse has agreed to report a bill giving
to every soldier who served in the army
a bounty of $12.33.4 per month, for the
whole time he was in the service, boun
ties already received to be deduct ed.—
This is the saute bill fur equalizing
homilies which was reported and passed
by the House before, but the telegraph
informs us that there is not the slightest
hope of its passing the Senate. It would
take more than 5100,000,000 out of the
Treasury. The Radicals of the House
know very well that it will fail in the
Senate, but they will pays it through the
House again, in order ,that candidates
for re-election this fall may be able to
parade their vote before the soldiers. It
is a piece of political trickery.
Du niNu the recent election in the
State of New York, the only outrages
committed in the City of New York,
were committed by the Radicals them
selves. Some of the negroes chose to
vote the Democratic ticket, ad were
immediately beaten by other Tiegroes
and badly injured. There is no doubt
but that the negroes, who did the beat
ing, were instigated so to do by white
Radical politicians. The public will not
fail to remember this conduct of the
"highly moral party," and such negroes
as choose to vote for Democratic candi
dates will not likely be converted to
Radicalism through the medium of
stones and clubs, however, impressive
such arguments may seem to aspiring
Radicals.
The San Domingo Job
It is the opinion of those Senators
who have studied the matter closely that
the Senate will postpone all action on
the San Domingo treaty until next win
ter, in order to allow the friends of the
administration time to collate additional
information about the condition of the
island—political, financial and other
wise. Senators Schurz and Patterson
have made a canvass of the Senate, and
find that there are thirty-two Senators
opposed to it. This is eight more than
enough to defeat it if the vote is taken
this session.
THE bill presented by Mr. Cox the
other day, providing for a general am
nesty, was defeated by the very close
vote of 80 to 84. That shows that there
is a small majority of Radicals in the
Lower House of Congress who are op
posed to giving the white men of one
half of this country rights equal to those
enjoyed by the negroes. By and by the
negroes will shame these vindictive
white Radicals into decency.
Grant's Cottage at Long Branch
The - other day a Stupid compositor
made us say that .Grant had erected a
magnificent 4 college" at Long Branch,
and a heedless proof-reader failed to no
tice the glaring error. Grant is not the
man to found a college. What money
he spends he spends on himself, and not
for the public good, or for charitable and
beneficial purposes. He has come into
the possession of a magnificent cottage
at Long Branch, and is in a great hurry
to be off to that fashionable resort. It
is doubtful whether be will wait for Con
gress to adjourn, unless that body should
abandon its interminable debates on the
tariff; the currency, the funding act, the
army bill, the many railroad projects,
and the infinitude of other measures
which have been projected to remain
unfinished.
Grant's cottage is a handsome struc
ture, about sixty feet square with piazza
all around. The interior is finished in
black walnut and inlaid woods, the or
naments are of elegant designs, and
manifest a high degree of taste and skill.
The house contains every convenience
and luxury required for a gentleman's
residence. The main hall, which is
wide and roomy, is inlaid with colored
marbles, the parlor is elegantly furnish
ed, and the dining-room is large enough
for a State dinner. The house is very
elegantly furnished, and there is a fine
under-ground ice-house and wine cellar,
and a room for meat and provisions,
which iscool even in thehottest weather.
The lot is upon the grand drive to the
ocean, and comprises four acres and com
mands a superb ocean view.
The names of those who presented the
solemn smoker with this new proof of
the generosity of expectant office-seek
ers have not been made public, but we
infer from the suevessof former ventures
of a similar character that they will be
liberally rewarded in due season. Grant
makes it a rule to render a full return to
those who confer pecuniary benefits
upon him. That is well understood,
and hence the great number and the
magnificent character of the presents
he receives. Ile does little work, and
shirks the cares of office which under
mined the health of some of his prede
cessors. Ile takes it easy—and is al
ways ready to take any gift that may
be offered, from gold-tipped cigars to a
palatial mansion. The only present he
ever rejected was that Cleveland pup,
on which the express charges were not
How a Negro Editor Treats Ills Wife
The Harrisburg Patriot says:
0. L. C. litighes, of the Progress of -
1,1 y, has been put under live hundred dol
lars bail, on complaint of hfa wife, for neg
lecting to provide fur his family. Mrs.
Hughes is said to bean industrious woman
and works laboriously to obtain a liveli
hood. She asserts that her husband has
failed to maintain her for a number of
months, and that there] is no reasonable
hope that he will do so until compelled by
law. One reason assigned by his wife for
the action of Mr. Hughes is that he thinks
her intellectual accomplishments not such
as to lit her for the company or entitle her
to the support of an erudite scholar and a
profound statesman. But for the prompt
interposition of a white friend of the de
fendant, who furnished the required bail,
the Progress Of Liberty would have been
temporarily deprived of its bead.
Here is evidence that at least ono
prominent negro has been utterly de
bauched and demoralized by hnbibing
Radical ideas. The rascal has been in
itiated into the doctrine of affinities by
Greeley, Beecher & Co., and he refuses
to support the woman lie married, be
cause, forsooth, he does not regard her
as sufficiently relined to mate with him
in his elevated position as a leader in
the Republican party of Pennsylvania.
Hughes made a speech from the same
platform with Governor Geary and a
white woman the other day. It is
not strange, therefore, that he should
suddenly have become tilled with an
idea of his self importance. It was ru
mored that Hughes was to run as a can
didate for Assembly upon the Republi
can ticket in Dauphin county; report
said he had the matter all fixed up, but
it is possible this exposure of him may
prevent him from securing the nomina
tion. Why did'nt he quietly get di
vorced last winter? 'That the Radical
majority would have relieved him from
ties which have grown to be so distaste
ful to him we have no doubt. There is
where lie missed it.
League Candidates
'inc Union League of Philadelphia is
just now talking loudly about the ne
cessity of sending honest men to_repre
sent that city in the State Legislaritre.
The "curled darlings" of that aristocrat
ic body denounce Davis, _Bunn and the
rest of the Radical ex-members in un-
I measured terms, and declare that they
intend to put up men of another stamp.
That talk might have sonic weight but
for the fact that the League has failed to
find honest officials among its members
heretofore. Gibbons was the League
candidate for District Attorney of Phil
adelphia, its peculiar pet, the chosen
representative of its respectability and
honesty. Beaten at the polls he man
aged to creep into a dc, facto occupation
of the office for a few months; and dur
ing that brief period he pocketed more
than twenty thousand dollars of fees,
every cent of which belonged of right to
his competitor. Of course he declines to
refund, and will hold on to what he stole.
Until the Union League of Philadelphia
can show a better record the people of
that city would be fools to trust any
candidate it might name for the Legis
lature. The rascality of Davis & Co.
has been measured. They will undoubt
edly steal, but there is good ground for
believing that they are fully as honest
as any men whom the League would
select.
THE Columbia republishes in its
issue of Saturday a well-written commu
nication, which lies just caught our eye,
laudatory of :Messrs. Scott, Franciseus,
Lockard, and other high officials of the
Pennsylvanht Railroad, and claiming
for our county the credit of their origin.
The writer claims to Is , perfectly likill
tereSiCli ill the expression of his opinion
of these gentlemen, and we are quite
willing to believe that he is so. They
are all self-made men who have raised
themselves to high positions and have
therefore demonstrated their possession
of faculties which may be fairly consid
ered to reflect lustre upon the locality
whence they sprung. But it is the very
fact that they have Lancaster as their
Alma Mater, and fully know what it has
done for them and for the Pennsylvania
Railroad, that adds strength to the feel
ing aroused by the manner of our treat
ment by then'. The writer in the Scty
is in error in supposing that our strict
ures upon the conduct of the officers of
the railroad are prompted by envy of
their rise in life ; as our professions are
so distinct, it is a feeling which could
hardly arise within us relative to them,
were we ever so subject to the influence
of the green-eyed monster. Our ani
madversions, we think, had their origin
in no other motive than a desire to have
justice done to the people among whom
we live, and a natured and proper indig
nation at a wrong which has been
done them ; anti, just as we believe our
views to be, we do not propose to cease
to give expression to them until the
wrong of which we complain is righted.
SOUTHERN negroes, by the aid of their
carpet-bag allies, have discovered a way
by which they can make their new right
to sit on juries a very valuable one to
themselves and their race. Through
their "loyal leagues " they combine to
prevent the punishment of any colored
person for crime against the whites.
The fact was developed in open court at
Quincy, Florida, recently. A negro
juror was asked by the State Attorney
if he had taken an oath in any secret or
ganization not to bring in a verdict,
when acting as juror, against any of his
color where a white man was interested,
and he admitted that he had taken upon
himself such an obligation. The chances
of getting justice out of negro jury -boxes
after this revelation, do not seem to be
very good.
The Land• Grubbers
The land-grubbers in Congress have
been doing their best during the present
session to gobble up the greater part of
the public domain. One scheme after
another for transferring the heritage of
the people to a set of railroad corporators
has been put for Ward ; in these swindles
Radical members of Congress have had
a large and direct interest. By arrange
ments with the parties interested in se
curing land grants the members contract
to receive 11 valuable consideration for
their votes. One of the most outrageous
schemes of this kind which has been
before Congress is the Northern Pacific
Railroad. The opponents of the bill
freely denounced it on the floor of Con
gress as the greatest swindle of the age,
and averred that the land grants already
made to this company were without
precedent in the history of legislation.
Ten votes were given in favor of it the
other day by members from Pennsylva
nia, but we are glad to say that not a
single Democrat was to be found among
them. Our Congressman, 0. J. Dickey,
was one of the ten who went for the
swindle. A few such votes would be
sufficient to insure the nomination of
some one else at the coming preliminary
elections.
Grant Wants Another Palace
A 'Washington telegram says:
"The President complains that the White
House is very undesirable as a residence,
and regrets having his I street mansion.
Ho is in favor of the construction of a now
mansion as a presidential residence some
where in the northern suburbs of the city."
Expectants of office have given Grant
palaces in different cities, a farm in New
Jersey, a magnificent cottage at the sea
side; and yet he is not satisfied. He
wants a new palace built somewhere in
the Northern suburbs of Washington.
Considering the fact that he spends only
about one-half his time in the White
House, one might think lie could stand
it. He should at least wait until the
taxes are somewhat reduced before de
manding the expenditure of a few odd
millions of dollars in the erection of the
projected palace. With wheat at its
present price the farmers of Lancaster
county can not very well afford to pay
their share of the expense, and such a
tax would prove to be a severe tax upon
their loyalty. Let Mr. Dickey take
ground against this movement, if he de
sires a renomination.
Woman Suffrage In Vermont
We have already noted the terrible
defeat which the advocates of Female
Suffrage lately sustained in Vermont.
Itad the women voted the result would
have been the same. This was tested
by a careful canvass in the Royalter dis
trict by a special cans MSS as follows:
Number of women in the district
In favor of sutli age
Opposed to suffrage
Having Ho choice...
Not found at hound
We have no doubt that a canvass of
the whole country would show a like
opposition on the part of the women of
the United States to the measure. The
sooner the agitation of the question is
stopped the better.
THAT was a very intelligent hog that
exhibited his powers in one of the side
shows of Van Amburgh's Menagerie.
"Who was the first President of the
United States?" asked his master; and
the hog picked out the card bearing the
name of Washington. "Who is the
present President?" he was next asked,
and in the same way the answer given
"Grunt." The third query was "Who
should be the next President ?" and the
hog with great promptness selected a
card adorned with his own picture.
Truly that was a sagacious hog, fur who
will gainsay his opinion that he is the
only fit successor of Grant?
THE Democratic newspapers in the
State of Indiana are publishing the
names of Republicans, who have come
out against their'party on aceouut of the
adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment.
Sonic of the men whose names are pub
lished, are among the most prominent
and influential citizens of that State.—
The number of hitherto Republicans,
who openly declare their purpose to
vote against the Republican party, al
ready reaches upwards of three thous
and.
An Irish razor sharpener in Tyrone
swallowed a live toad for a half a dollar.
A buttonwood tree in Juniata county
measures thirty feet in eircumferenec.
A grand parade of the American Me
chanic's is to collie off in Ilarrisburg on
the Sth of July.
The Third Annual Commencement
of the Muldenberg College will lie held
on June 23d.
There is to be a grand celebration on
the Fourth of July at Meadville under
the auspices of the Odd Fellows.
In Berks county the collection of tax
es in the various townships is awarded
to the lowest bidder.
An exchange says that there are eigh
teen daily newspapers published in
Philadelphia.
Capt Frank Magee, of the 'Wrights
ville Slur is announced as a candidate
for the nomination of Assemblyman, in
York county.
Charles Sweezy, of Newport, was rob
bed of over $2,000 while sleeping in his
canal boat at Northumberland a few
evenings since.
The first - interment that took place in
the Pottstown Cemetery was in 1534.
Now there are eight hundred and six
teen persons buried there.
The people of Coatesville have placed
a town clock in the steeple of the Bab
list Church in that place at a cost, for
clock and bell, of about $9OO.
Jacob Seifert of Lower Saucon, Le
high county, left home on Monday last
on horseback, and was found afterwards
hanging to a sapling by the ballet strap.
The difficulty at Dickinson College
has been settled by the recall of the or
der for suspension, and the Junior and
Sophomore Classes have returned to
their duties.
The deaths in Philadelphia last Nvevk
numbered 355, hying 34 more than dur
ing, the previous week. Searlet Myer
caused 41 deaths, typhoid 15, and re
lapsing.
A swarm of bees last summer domi
ciled in the cornice of Dr. Itamer's resi
dence at Freeland, Montgomery county.
They lived through the winter, and are
now hard at work.
The great well tin the Dalzell Farm,
located on Oil Creek, is yielding a larger
amount of oil than any other well in the
roiled States. A test was made for the
twenty-four hours eliding at 8 o'clock,
A. M., on the 17th inst., and by actual
count, the well pumped three hundred
and forty-nine barrels.
A laboring force of twenty-four hun
dred men and four hundred horses is
now engaged in the work of construct
ing the Pittsburg and Connellsville rail
mad, between Connellsville and Cum
berland. The progress making is re
garded by the officers of the road as in
the highest degree satisfactory, and
there is reasonable ground for the ex
pectation that the close of the year 1870
will Witness its completion.
Quite an extensive business has been
doing in horses in Hanover, York
county, recently, and some high prices
have been obtained. As high as $2.50
and 30u have been paid for a single
animal, and the supply of good horses,
is not equal to the demand. Fine hor
ses always sell well in Hanover, and it
is noted for its superior stock. Some of
the finest horses in the State are at pres
ent owned in and near that town.
The Hicksites'(Quaker) yearly meet
ing held in Philadelphia adjourned on
the 13th. Three thousand. members
were in attendance. Among the last
business transacted was the holding of
the anniversary of the First day School,
the report read on the occasion showing
that there are in Philadelphia, under
the care of the society, 23 schools, 3 Bi
ble classes, 2 sewing schools for ,poor
children, and 211 officers and teachers.
They are attended by 1,483 children and
340 adults. The libraries contains 2,507
volumes.
The Fulton (Fulton county) Demo
crat says that, on the 14th inst., a son of
Mr. Alexander Mayne, residing at the
toll gate west of McConnellsburg, went
down to the Ridge to get birch. After
arriving at the tree he attempted to climb
up, but was unable to do so, and in get
ting down stepped on a stone and feel
ing something hurting his foot looked
down just as a large sized copperhead
drew its fangs out of his ankle. The boy
hastened home and Dr. Trout was sent
for immediately. The boy is recover
ing.
SKETCHES OF TRAVEL NORTHWARD'
No. VL—Fort Ticonderoga and Lage
Champlain-
The stage ride from the landing at the
foot of Lake George to the ruins of Fort
Ticonderoga, Is through a romantic and
picturesque country. ' For a portion of the
way the road winds along a small and tur
bulent stream„) connecting Lake George
with Lake Champlain. This little stream
makes a descent of two hundred and thirty
feet in two cascades called The Falls of
Ticonderoga, the beauty of which has been
greatly narrowed by the manufactories
erected upon the banks of the stream.
Fort Ticonderoga is upon the west bank
of Lake Champlain, at the mouth of the
small stream leading from Lake George.
It was built by the French in 1755. Two
years later it was attacked by the English
under Abercrombie, but the attack was un
successful and the English wore repulsed
with great loss. The following year it was
evacuated by the French and immediately
taken possession of by the English, who
held it until 1775, when it was captured by
"The Green Mountain Boys" under the
command of Colonel Ethan Allen, without
the loss of a single man. The Americans
surprised the unsuspecting garrison, and
it is reported, that Allen made his way to
the officers' barracks and arousing the com
mander, demanded the immediate surren
der of the Fort "in the name of the great
Jehovah and the Continental Congress !"
General Burgoayne subsequently forti
fied the summit of Mount Defiance, on the
opposite side of the outlet of Lake George,
and by that means forced the Americans to
evacuate Ticonderoga. After the close of
the Revolutionary war the fort was allow
ed to fall into decay, and it is now a heap
of crumbling ruins. A portion of the wall
of the building used as the officers' bar
racks is still standing, and the large ovens,
which according to some accounts were
used as powder magazines, aro still to be
seen, though they aro rapidly falling to
pieces. Bare the tourist may spend hours
recalling the memories of the glorious past.
Dining at the hotel near by we embarked
on the Lake Champlain steamer Adiron
dack, which in size, elegance and beauty i s
unsurpassed even by the far-rained Hud
son river steamers.
Upon the Vermont side of the lake and
directly opposite Ticonderoga is Mount In
dependence, where the remains of military
works still exist. The first place of pecu
liar interest is Crown Point, on the New
York side of the lake. Here are the re
mains of the old fort erected by the French
:in 1731, and captured by the English in
1759. Instead of repairing the old fort the
English commenced to erect a new one on
a grand scale, but after immense sums of
money had been expended, the work was
abandonet . Land the fort was never com
pleted. I to portion of the ruins is all
underground communication with the lake.
The barracks were all built of stone and
some of them are still standing.
Port henry is a mile and a half north of
Crown Point at the mouth of Ifalwagga
Bay. \Vest Port is on the east side of the
lake some fourteen nicks distant, and still
farther north is Fort Cassin where Com
modore Maelfonough fitted out his fleet in
1814.
The most remarkable natural curiosity
upon the lake is Split Rock, an immense
mass of solid rock, about half an acre in
extent which has been detached front the
main cliff and separated from it about
twelve feet. It is only when the lake is
high that the water slows through this nar
row gorge, at other times it is almost dry.
The Four Brothers' Islands aro about
seven miles south-west of Burlington, and
four miles beyond Juniper Island. A little
further north Rock Dundee rises from the
water to the height of thirty feet, and near
by, at the mouth of Shelliurn Bay, is Pot
tier's Point where most of the lake steam
ers have been built.
The largest town upon the lake is Bur
lington, Vermont, which rises gradually
to an elevation of several hundred feet and
presents an imposing appearance. Bur
lington has a population of about nine
thousand, in the centre of several import
ant nu 'roads, has It large lake trade and is
the seat of the University of Vermont. For
the protection of shipping there is a fine
break-water erected here. On the opposite
shore some ten miles north is Port Kent,
and in the immediate neighborhood is
Trembleu Point, the commencement of the
Clinton range of Mountains.
We next pass Port Jackson, near which
a severe naval battle was fought in MG be
tween the Americans and English. The
battle, w hi ch was undecided, began about
noon and lasted until night. The Ameri
cans had fought with their ships in a crip
pled condition, and rather than risk an
other engagement they made a bold dash
through the lines of the enemy and escaped.
Next morning the English gave chase, and
the Americans finding that there was no
chance of escape ran their vessels upon the
shore near Crown Puint and set them on
Our voyage ended at the village of Platts
burgh. This is one of the chief military
posts of the country, and the P. S. tfovern
molt has here erected very extensive bar
racks. It is a thriving place, containing
about four thousand inhabitants and is
memorable as the scene of ono of the se
verest and most brilliant naval battles on
record. The battle took place between the
American Meet under Commodore Mac
donough and the English fleet commanded
by Commodore Downie, on Sunday, Sept.
11th, 1814. The contest, which commenced
early in the day, lasted for two hours and
a half, and the loss on both sides was very
heavy. Commodore Downie was killed in
the early part of the action, and Commo
dore Macdonough, although twice wound
ed, remained upon the deck of his flag-ship,
the Saratoga, and fought bravely until the
British struck their colors and surrender
ed. So fiercely did the contest rage
that at its close there was not a single mast
in either fleet lit for use. The battle on land
was fought at the same time and with the
same result—the total defeat of the British.
Lake Champlaiil is ono hundred and
twenty miles long and raises in width from
one fourth of a Mile to thirteen miles. In
the vicinity of Platthurgh the scenery is
very tine, the Adirondack Mountains being
visible in the west and the Green Moun
tains in the east. We subsequently tra
versed the entire lake from Plattsburgh to
Whitehall. Between Ticonderoga and
Whitehall the channel is extremely narrow
and very winding.
We left the steamboat at Platt,hurgh about
six ielock in the 111.111illg, tool: the Platt,-
aigh A Montreal Railroad and at tell
,)'cloek, in the evening, re:irked St. Law
rence Ilall, the principal hotel in the city
of Montreal. A. 1,.
New. and other Item..
Five hundred eow-bells are
lured in Boston per day.
St. Paul's Cathedral, in London, i 9
Said to be in danger from excavation of
underground railroads.
The Boston says "no panes
were spared to make the
hailstorm successful."
A Cohoes, N. V., paper mill has lately
turned out a sheet of paper -In inches
wide, by 2.5 miles long weighing 10,n50
pounds.
Seventy cases of (11/11aIllellIS bones
were lately shipped from San Francisco
to the Flowery Land.
Ohio has 304 lodges of Odd Fellows,
with a general fund of $715,554, and a
widows' and orphan' of $. , 400,015.
It is a little singular that every Cuban
general officer of note is just now in
New York. Doubtless there is less
danger and privation in that city than
on the Island.
A number of young men have been
apprehended for frequenting the Lon
don theatres in female clothing, one of
whom is said to have been mistaken for
the Duchess of Manchester.
The anthracite coal trade practically,
is still in statu quo. The Lehigh and
Wyoming coal regions are producing
largely and keeping the current market
demand fully supplied without any ma
terial change in prices, to the greatly
increased tonnage of their respective
carrying companies over last year, and
to the profit of both miners and opera
tors. In the Schuylkill region the sus
pension of nearly all labor connected
with the coal trade continues.
The number of deaths in Philadelphia
during last week, was three hundred an
seventy-three, or forty-eight more than
the previous week, and one hundred
and forty, or sixty per cent., more than
during the corresponding week of last
year., Ten of this large number of deaths
are reported to:have resulted from re
lapsing fever, and it is probable that all
the deaths from rthis malady were not
correctly reported. The Day says:
"These figures are alarming, and should
prompt our authorities to do everything
possible, by cleansing the streets and
alleys, and by every available means,
to improve the_ sanitary condition of the
city."
A gentleman formerly ofLancister, now
residing in Southern Kansas,writes a long
letter to a friend in this city descriptive of
that country. We publish for the benefit
of our readers some interesting extracts
from it:
BAXTER SPRINGS, KANSAS,
Stray 13th 1870.
DEAR —: Your long looked for letter
I found on my return home, recently, from
a short visit to the State of Texas. The visit
was a very pleasant one. I was absent some
three weeks and four days ; I went with a
party of three, one of whom furnished the
wagon and the other two furnished each a
horse. We were nine days going down
through Indian Territory—a distance of
300 miles—we were provided with a regular
outfit and lived quite comfortably while
en route. The second night after leaving
Baxter Springs, we encountered a storm,
but no serious injury was sustained—the
greater part of the time wo had pleasant
weather.
The portion of Texas visited by us is the
most beautiful country I ever saw ; it re
minds me very much of Lancaster county.
Land there is very cheap. you can buy it
from fifty cents to ten dollars per acre.—
Two miles front Sherman is:, some of the
richest land I ever saw ; it will grow 1,000
pounds of cotton to the acre. A new rail
road is being surveyed through this section,
of the country, and land consequently must
rapidly increase in value. Deer and wild
turkey were seen in pretty large numbers
on our way through the Indian country ;
our party shot no less than twelve deer
while on the trip, and also secured some
two dozen wild turkies.
On our arrival home at Baxter Springs,
from our Southern tour, we found we were
just ono day too late to witness the first
train of cars run into Baxter. Every body
is in good spirits, and our people expect for
Baxter a bright future as it has many advan
tages favorable to its rapid growth. Build
ings are going up in every part of the town;
carpenters aro in good demand, and obtain
from $3 to $5 per day for their labor, and
even at these wages they are scarce. Bricks
are in demand but will be plenty very soon,
as they have started two brick kilos. !tricks
sell fur $lO per thousand.
Town lots in Baxter aro selling from $3OO
to $2,000, and a number of lots have changed
hands recently. Every train brings stran
gers who come to see and invest, and many
of them engage hero in business. Our
winters aro not as cold as they aro with you
in Lancaster county, and the country seems
to be very healthy. On the completion of
the Railroad to Baxter the event was duly
celebrated in a novel as well as an amusing
manner. The first thing on the programme
was an Indian war-dance which came off
in our public square. The said square is
located in the centre of the town and is
about four times as large as Centro Square
in Lancaster. In the evening, about
o'clock, the Indians arrived in town, on
horseback and in wagons, to the number
of 000, and proceeded to the square where
a large tire was kindled. Around the tire
a large circle was formed inside of which
they danced. The Indians on their arrival
divested themselves of the greater part of
their clothing and were painted by ono of
their number in the most grotesque
and hideous manner. 'rho faces of the
Indians were painted red, while their bodies
and limbs were painted black. After being
painted, and everything being in readi
ness, they entered the ring single tile their
musician leading the way. 'Tito music
was made by beating a drum made out of
a nail keg covered with a deerskin; upon
this the musician poundetrivith a stick, ac
companying his pounding With a sung in
which the rest joined. The women parti
cipated in the dancing to this odd music;
the dancing consisted in jumping around
the lire in single tile fr sumo fifteen min
utes, when all the dancers would change
front and jump back again. I wish some
of my Lancaster friends could have wit
nessed this Indian dancing, no pen can fitly
describe its highly ludicrous character.—
This dancing was kept up until long after
midnight, when the red men and women
adjourned.
The citizens of Baxter duly celebrated
the advent of the cars into the town by a
first class ball—a " grand ball " for such it
was called by the managers who issued the
tickets. And, indeed, it was such for some
very accomplished and handsome ladies
were present. A large delegation from
Kansas city was present, also a number of
persons living north of here along the lino
of the newly constructed railroad—in
all some fifteen cars lull of excur
sionists and the cars were tilled to
their utmost capacity. Among those
who were at the ball were a number
of former Pennsylvanians, now residing in
Kansas. The day following was a splendid
one, and about 10 o'clock A. M. a grand
procession was had through the town. I
was astonished to witness the number of
persons in the procession. There were in
it some 500 Indians, about 1,000 persons
from the tipper country, and a large num
ber from the more immediate vicinity of
Baxter. The procession formed on Mili
tary street and marched out to Van Epp's
Grove, a short distance from town, on the
banks of Spring River, a most beautiful
spot, where the citizens had a dinner pre
pared fur the invited guests, among whom
was the Governor of the State of Kansas,
with many other prominent men, both of
Kansas and Missouri. We were pleasantly
entertained with speeches, ctc., until a Into
hour, when the crowd returned to town
and left for their homes much pleased with
the clay's enjoyment.
The country around. Baxter has many
advantages; it is fertile, and possesses tine
water power; stone coal is found in great
abundance, wood is plentiful, and lead is
found in inexhaustible quantities. Desira
ble business lots in Baxter now bring
- _
$l5OO, and aro rapidly increasing in value.
The growing crops of wheat, oats and corn
look well. Butter is selling for fifty cents
a pound ; corn $1.50 per bus.; potatoes,
twenty-live cents, per bus., and apples
command $ 5 . Rents aro enormously high
from $llOl to $2041 por month are paid for
store rooms twenty by sixty feet. Farms
near the town limits command from $2O to
$lOO per acre. Gambling houses are too
numerous in Baxter, but they aro gradual
ly becoming Los numerous les the town
grows older. There is a tine field hero for
industrious, energetic young men from the
East, and great opportunities are furnished
to all such who may seek homes in our
midst. Yours, &c.
OUR BUNDLE OF NOTHINGS
I =ll2llO
Thu splecn with liudden Vlll.r eta h
bruin."
"Josh Billings"—whoever that distin
guished intangible may ho—says, that
":some people think themselves pious,
when in reality they aro only bilious."
Billings may be a myth, nevertheless,
there is a strong smacking of truth in his
mythology. According to this dictum, the
dreadfully sedate aspect:of many people who
pass for pious, may only be the effect of a
derangement of the stomach. Indeed their
piety may not rest upon half as true a basis
as that of Good Dame Tompkins, whom
the boys considered the most pie-ous lady
of the village, because she periodically pre
sented them with such magnificent pies.
That, see think, might be denominated
practical piety, whilst that of the Billings
mythology, must be regarded as pseudo
piety at best.
Looking at the subject soberly, is it net
possible that much of the outward sem
blance of piety which the face of society
wears, is only skin-deep, if it is not the
elicit of physical causes alone? There
are many people who are absolutely too
pious to lough, indeed they feel ter
rified, ecru When they happen to
, detect themselves smiling., and this
austerity passes current for piety. It is
sometimes a.stounding, and Oven amusing,
to see some. mendicants awkwardly assume
an external aspect of piety, whilst up from
their gutterals arc flowing whining,
whimpering streams, t.f (also
let.ls. True piety is the handmaid ofchnr
ity, and they practically make one, just an
truly an oxygen and hydrogen make the
fluid called water. Separated from each
other, they resolve themselves into some
other element which is neither piety nor
charity. Although true piety isnot doleful
and austere, neither is it boisterous or in
decorous in its external manifestation,
but on the contrary it is calm, placid, and
approachable. It is pseudo-piety that is so
severe, so crisp, and so repelling, driving
off innoeent little children, like the negative
pole of a magnet. This kind of piety re
quires a re-establishment of the functions
of digestion, before it can be a true reflector
of the piety of a healthy action. There is sin
much pseudo-piety in the world, that, we
confess, when we hear of cases of excessive
pietie nianifestation,we always fear there is
something sinister behind it, or at the bot
tom of it. Pseudo-piety contents itself
with the mere outward observances of re
ligion and morality, without regard to the
purification of the heart, the intents, and
the purposes of life. It regards religion as
merely a speculative sentiment, that be
longs to the insides of churches, and may
be carried through an entire Sunday, but
that it is put aside on Monday morning,
along with the Sunday clothing. If an
ox should fall into a ditch on the Sabbath
day, it would:be sacrilegious to pull it out;
or, if front motives:of self-interest it lends
a helping hand, it would do so with many
sighs and groans. It entirely forgets, that,
" inasmuch as ye have done it to the least
of these, ye have done it unto me." Aye,
" there's the rub"—true piety finds some
thing to do, whilst pseudo-piety Is content
to feel. " 011,low happy, how extatic
feel," exclaimed the pseudo-pietist, while
his house may be burning, and his chil
dren be perishing, if they are not vaga
bondizing on the streets from his neglect.
He won't smile himself—he won't let any
body else smile about him—at least not un
til after sunrise on Monday morning.—
; Genuine piety may be practically carried
into the counting-room, the factory, the
machine shop, or the street, during the
whole week, without detriment to either it
or any of those Occupations. We know
that pseudo-piety is carried there, bat It is
only as an advertisement—as a convenient
means of accomplishing selfish ends.
There are few people in business—especi
ally if they have been long and extensively
in business—who have not suffered more
or less from pseudo-plethea"`These people
may be sincere—at least they may think
they aro sincere, but they have need to
renovate their stomachs, and examine their
motives, before they can lay any claim to
true piety. The "pious frauds" of the
world, must be traced, as a general thing,
to pseudo-piety, and not to real, or true
piety, although many of them may be per
petrated through sheer ignorance, or false
and erroneous instruction. There is a
dreadful responsibility resting some whore
in regard to what is real and what is only
pseudo •piety. BELLE VIEW.
NEW YORK ELECTION
80,000 Democratic Nnjorlty In New
Democratic Gains Everywhere-The Col
ored Vote Strongly Radical-The Dem
ocratic Majority in New York City
Sixty-five Thousand-The Vote
In the State Light-
Nnw Yong, May 17.—The election for
Judges of the Court of Appeals and for coun
ty officers under the new charter took place
to-day. There was very little excitement.
The colored vote was small, but strongly
Republican. There worn but two tickets
in the field—the regular Republican and
Democratic. Tammany swept the field.
The vote in this city was heavy on the part
of the Democrats, but the Republicans fell
off very much compared with the vote for
Secretary of State in 18139. It is estimated
that Democratic majority in this city is
G.l The entire Tammany ticket. Is elect
edby majorities nearly the same as those
on the State ticket. The Aldermen were
on the general ticket and every voter had
the privilege of voting for each man on the
ticket. heretofore the Aldermen were
elected by the voters of the wards respect
ively, and the Assistant Aldermen were
voted for by assembly districts. The vot
ing in many districts was very evenly bal
anced. The colored men voted, in nearly
every instance, the straight Republican
ticket. In the Ninth ant Sixteenth dis
triets the colored vote told most. In all
other district I the 'fiat litany nominees
were successful. The following Demo
eratie Judges for the Court of Uonimou
Pleas were elected: Itobt S. Hall, 11. W.
Robinson, Jos. F. Daly, Richard 1.. I.ara-
Chas. 11. Vanbrunt. Tammany also
elects Judges Marvin, Geo. Shea, \Yin. 11.
Tracy and Philip J. Irachimsen.
The returns from the State indicate
very light vote polled in most of the coun
ties. Columbia county—l ludson City,
Democratic majority, 11.si, a gain of 76 over
the Presidential vote; men! tort, 41 ; K en
derhook, 190. Estimated majorities from
all the towns hoard front indicate Church's
majority at 700, Democratic gain of about
200. Albany county elects the entire Demo
cratic ticket; Albany City,Democratio ma
jority of 1,400.
Schenectady eon nty, Schenectady, Demo
eratic majority 1159, carrying every ward
Vote light; Oneida con my, Rome, Demo
cratio majority '2.37, gain 7; Riehmont
county, Patterson, Republican majority 36
Duchess county, Poughkeepsie, Republi
can majority 136 ; Saratoga county, Sara
toga, Republican majority :k).
N Yount, May 17.—The voteim,thi.
State has been unusually light, and Me re
turns received indicate that the Democrat.
have swept the State by perhaps 75,01/0 ma
jority.
The following ara the nominations upon
both sides:
1011 COURT oF APP EA
DentoCrat. Repithil c , /
.111.111 r,
Sanford E. Church - . dlenry H. Sodden
.18sucinte
F. Allen, , Charles Mascn.
Rufus W. Peckham, Charles Andrews
Charles A. Harmlin, Charles .1. Polger
Martin:6 rover. .Robert ti. hale.
New YORK, I\lay 17—Midnight.—From
present indications the Democrats have
swept this city by 70,000 majority. Thir
teen of the twenty-two wards thus far re
ported, give Church (Democrat), for Chief
Justice of the Court of Appeals, 55,943, and
Seldom, (Republican,) 11,n15. The Eighth
ward in which the colored registration was
the heaviest, gives the largest majority of
any, viz: 7,430 in a total of 9,512 votes.
All the Tammany candidates for minor
offices aro doubtless elected. The indica
tions are that Brooklyn has also given 15,-
000 Democratic majority. Nelson's major
ity was 0,855, a Democratic gain of 8,000,
and has elected a Democratic city ticket by
8,000 to 10,000. 100 cities and towns and
districts scattered through the State give
total majorities of 9,305 for Church and
3,204 for Selden, indicating that the State
outside of this city has gone heavily for the
Democrats. Among the cities giving ma
jorities for Church aro the following:
Elmira, 441, a Democratic gain of 2.17.
Morrisania, 575, Damocratie gain 547.
Newburg, 71, Democratic gain 132.
Cohoes, 275; Hudson, 257, Dmunrratic
gain 85.
Canandaigua, 152, Democratic gain 200.
Oswego, lilt, Democratic gain 400.
Rome, 272, Lockport, 248, Democratic
gain 301.
Utica, 100, Barr,', 377 ; Rochester,
Poughkeepsie gives 130 majority for Sei
del:.
The returns front the country are still
discouraging to the Republicans.
In this city and Brooklyn the Tammany
candidates are probably elected down to
the very lowest offices.
2 A. M., May total vote of this
city is: Church, 82,101, Seidel], 22,186.
Brooklyn gives about 11,800 Democratic
majority 011 the State ticket, and elects a
Democratic city ticket by O,uoo to 7,000 ma
jority. . .
I3ulFulo gives Church, 1,191 majority
Democratic gain of 1,!1.12., and Troy, 1,7111
Democratic gain, 1,449.
'rho indications are that the Donmeratir
majority in the State will exceed 75,000, am
perhaps reach 100,000 majority.
Albany gives 1,300 Democratic majority
ALBANY, May 21,—The rgax of to-day
figures up a majority of over 80,000 votes
for the Democratic ticket on Tuesday last.
The reaction against Radicalism is sweep
ing and complete. Every despatch front
the rural districts is better and better. The
farmers •of Cayuga, Jefferson, Cortland,
Wayne, Schuyler, Erie, Gennesee, Orleans,
Monroe and in fact everywhere, gave tiov
ernor Church their solid strength. lu ono
rural district intfayug,a county whore fifty,
three farmers voted, only four of them vot
ed the Republican ticket.
The New York World says; As the
returns of the election are received front the
more remote counties, the Democratic
majority steadily increases. Districts that
have heretofore polled heavy Radical ma
jorities have come over to the Democratic
side. For example, Jefferson county, which
has for seventeen years boon one of the
strongholds of the opposition, has this time
given a Democratic majority of nearly 100.
If the process of conversion continues with
the saute rapidity with which it has com
menced, we may next year expect the rafts
men of St. Lawrence county—who have
heretofore been the firmest supporters of
the Radical ticket, and the most persistent
subscribers to Radical newspapers, Radical
strawberry plants, and Radically reliable
histories off rebellion—voting the straight
Democratic ticket, and turning a deaf car to
the most impassioned Radical appeals to
men and brethren.
General Hancock Inmn!led
On the 13th of April last, Major-Goneral
IV. S. Hancock addressed the following
telegraphic despatch to leneral NV. T. Sher
man, dated St. Louis:
"If my rank will not entitle me to a Di
vision, and the changes in departinent, aro
such as to mako it practicable, I would pre
fer this (St. Louis) station. I leave at once
for St. Paul.•'
The next day the following telegram was
sent in reply:
ILEA Mi UNITED ST/cr Es AUM Y,
WASH I N(11,,N, April 14, 1570 j
IV. N. Hancock, Commanding De
partment of I tkot a, 01. Paul, .1f inne.rola.
Your despatch frosts St. Louis has been
received, and 1 Nllll answer you by mail.—
In the contemplated changes, your post
will not be altered.
[Signed] W. T. SnsumAN, General.
IIF:Anl(ICY UNITED STATK4 ARMY,
WASH INOTON, April 14, 1070.
Gracrui IV. S. Hancock, Commanding De
partment of Dakota, St. Paul, Minne.vota.
GEssast. : I have laid your despatch of
the 13th, from St. Louis, before the Presi
dent, who authorizes the to say that your
wishes and claims for the succession to the
command of the Military Division of the
Pacitic, made vacant by General Thomas'
death, were fairly considered, and also your
preference for the Department of the Mis
souri in case of a change In its commander
were also made known to him, but he has
ordered otherwise. The President author
izes me to say to you that it belongs to his
office to select the Commanding Generals
of Divisions and Departments, and that the
relations you chose to assume towards him,
oflicially;and privately, absolve him from
regarding your personal preferences.
The order announcing these changes will
be made public in a very few day, and they
will not touch the Departmentof Dakotaor
the Military Division of the Missouri.
I am, with respect, yours truly,
(Signed) W. T. SHERMAN,
General.
HEADQUARTERSI DEPARTMUNT OF
DAKOTA, ST, PAUL, MINN.,
April 27, 1870.,
ToGeneral W. T. .Sherman, anninanding
the Army of the United Stales, Washing-
tun, D. C.
GENERAL : Your letter has been received,
detailing the reasons the President gives
why my claims to a more important com
mand should not be regarded. I intended,
by my despatch, to ask for a Division, if
the existing Divisions were all continued,
otherwise for the Department of the Mis
souri, if changes made it practicable, notes
a favor but as a claim ho a command to
I
which thought my rank entitled me.
As the President leads me to believe that,
because I have not his personal sympathy,
my preference for command will not be
regarded, notwithstanding my rank. 1
shall not again open the subject, but will
add in conclusion, that I think it Is an un
fortunate precedent to establish, that mili
tary rank in time of peace, especially in
the assignment of General officers to com
mands of divisions and departments, shall
nothave the consideration hitherto conce
ded to it.
lam very respectfully your ob'lliservant,
[Si gn ed] WINFIELD S. iiiNCOCK.
Major-General United States Army.
An Attack on Catholicism
The following animated debate took place
In the lower House of Congress on Thurs
day on an amendment to the Diplomatic
Appropriation bill, providing that a Minis
ter resident should be sent to Rome.
.. • . .
Mr. Dawos said ho was opposed to the
amendment, because none of the purposes
for which Ministers were sent abroad,
seemed to require it. The chief ground on
which his colleaguo (Mr. flanks), urged his
amendment, was that Rome was a spiritual
power, but the only method of preserving
peace and harmony with such a power WILY
to abstain from all political connection with
it.
Mr. Brooks, of New York, remarked that
the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr.
Dawes) had developed the real sources of
his opposition to the amendment in stating
that his resistance arose from the fact that
Rome was a spiritual power. This was the
whole secret and source of the opposition.
He was glad to have so frank an avowal
from him made.
The gentleman from Massachusetts did
not hesitate at all to make appropriations
for Turkey, which was almost altogether a
spiritual power, and quite as spiritual as
that of Rome, governed as much if not
more by religious authority; and he show -
ed by his assertion and his action that
ho preferred the Moslem in point of tact to
the Christian ; that in his mind Turkey
was preferable to Rome. That WILY the
whole source and foundation of the oppo
sition which had sprung upon the other
side of the House to the authority of Rome,
because it was a spiritual power, ISM
Homo was a temporal power as Well as it
spiritual power, and there was noire busi.
ness done with the city of Home through
the artists of this country than there were
with Costa Rica ur several other places to
which ministers were allowed by this hill,
and perhaps more than there Was with
Greer°.
He thought the gentleman flom :1\
eillthet.L4, Who represented the Puritanical
element in the House, from which element
this opposition sprung, ought to throw by,
he himself 11th, his religious education,
and look to higher motiVi, and intpuh,
titan those which ho had suited h. the
House.
Nlr: - Atinghato. I regret very inueli that
the gentleman from New York has ,1,11 lid
ill replying to the objertions made to the
proposed amendment, to impute to th,
side of the I louse any ilispositbin to perse
cute 'balloon avemint of the peculiar reieg
ions notions entertained by the See of the
Papal States. syllabus rei.taitly altera
oil by the Pope is a deolaration of principles
which I venture to say the gentleman Iron,
New York thuleinot endorse :Ma h.nur
LLILItItIg ILLS IRS/pi, It is all LILLeIIII4 1.0 tlt
(L1'0(111111 of tS/LISISISII . C. it is till tuttrm p l 111
fetter the freedom of sliver lt. It is
tin at
tempt to letter the freedom of the press,
Talk to me at this time of day :Moot hi
b e i ng the patron of seienee laid the !milli,
of art.. Why, sir, there is this day more of
that genius which makes Illarhk•
itself were the divine beauty of lire, more or
that power to-day in lit Mg A inerica than
ever was dreamed ..f I.t
dead.
l'uder the omnipotent pets . , of that it«,
or, every tyrant, whether in ittelieon'
of it, holds to-day the reins of 'tower it nth
a tremulous amd unsteady trawl, lint! ilic
day is nut far tiNtant when the spry 'Miele
of that pew, shall ttiru to dust :net ashes
before the iseisiliningtbrealli orig, solids
cued public opiinoli of the t•i, ilizrJ o il.l,
which declares for free ges er litilents,
churches, free schools, free 1....
111011.
Mr. Dawes, in reply to NIP. I ',rook., at t(I
he supposed it was tiece ,, ary Ln thal
denial, to Misrepresent the opposite..
the :1111011.111ient.. lie i I Irweso hail cer
tainly lint his opposition on no sale groniol
as tin, peculiar religions tenets hold hy the
power to Which this pr..•
poSed to ho sent. lie then rect•rrt•cl by M
Itrooks haring . belonged Ii the hi
malting Order.
Mr. Voorhis, tool: hi r. Dawes to task to
:nuking the charge of It: it..w.11.,thing.,..
against Mr, Brooks, Nvell 1111ioving that
that gentleman had nits! the charge
three times in his presence. The gentleman
from Massachusetts hod said that he hail
not laid aside his religion, Lot it ht , had
brought to the Ileum] any of the wisdom
tvhicla the Saviour pre:wind on earth, :tn . ,'
el' the charity or Christian forhearaitee, it
hail not been strikingly exemplified. Tle•
religion which he hail not laid toad,', lie
presumed tvas that svilich he had inherited
from his ancestors, who burned the witches
in Massaelnisetts. Ile presumed that the
reflected glitro or the burning convents,
! which the Know-nothings 5et...11 lire in
Slate, in 185-1 and 18:d:, 'fins was an
uul
burstuttheuhf ii now-nothing spirit., which
broke up convents and burned Catholic
churches, and would have burned I 'athithisi
themselves at the stake, as it burned flit.
I witches or New England, had it dared to do
I so. 'rile declarations of the gentleman From
(Mr. Jinn:Ll:am) had not surprised him,
for he had every rea.son to believe that that
gentleman hail no friendship liar 1 'to Indic.
or for the l'atholic. religion. Ile I I
Air.. no
reason to believe that, the charity tit * his
heart ever extended to one of them in suf•
hoeing or in sorrow. 'There was nothing in.
his record, public or private., that would
lead one to suppose that I 'atholtes were
oL-
Jec•ts or his cluirity or his kindness, and
consequently he was not surprised 0o hear
his lien . ° and bitter declamation against
Itarllo. [ EXcitetliont.] 'l'llere NriLs no rea,ion.
in Liu] past history - of Homo Nvlly this coun
try should not hold diplomatic relations
with her. It wits sit full of glory that
children of the schools spol.it ul 11.,
and the ancient bald-headed professitrs
spoke of it, riot the Hai:ails through the
earth spoke of it. 'rho colitary of ricer..
and Clesar certainly commended itself st.
far as history seas voneerned. It ivas it.
present title, its religious aspect that sits
arraigned and ...Heti, and the Amp clean
government should be advertised all os er
the earth, as sundering diplomatic rHa-
Lions with a goverlilliMit lasause of its le
ligiotis faith. Gentlemen on the other sett
:night flatter theniselves,notv that they Imp
the negro to take the place of the foreigner.
In his own State it was already heralded ]
"Let the Imtch go, let the Irish ; tie
have got the negro iu their Net er
had they lOred the foreigner, parth•iilai
the foreigner of the Catholic faith.
Bingham replied indignantly to Mr.
Voorhees, and demanded to It Wow by what
assumed or conferred authority that gen -
tletnan undertook to say that he
had never felt fur litanati ( ( Lain:tics any of
that charity which was the glivittest of all
the graces. Did that gentleman propose
constitute hilliself his father conres.siir? Ind
he preSlllrie to asstinie to himself the nine
Lions of Peter, and to clutell in his hands
the keys that wore to open ..r shut the
gates of deliverance. Ile Wits lea as,. e
that the poor were ever turned from los
door empty.
3.1 r. Dawes, referring to Mr. Brooks, saitl
Ito knew that he denial having ever been in
in Know -Nothing Lodge, but that did not
alter the fact of his having been an at Ive
cute of the Know-Nothing doetrines.
Mr. Itrooks. It Is not ,10. It is not lone
[Excitement.]
Mr. Dawes not noticing the interrilption,
said that Brooks Mel imilurtaken Li,
derive all the benefit from the I:laity-Noth
ing orwtnizattion, idle keeping his head
out of the water. An to the gentleman henna
( Vorhees,) aid his tall: I:htnit
tile burning of Alassachusetts /II ell' and
WitelleS, hit would 11,1 lie provolied into a
I eply. was an old store all worn tll.
Mr. Voorhees hi reply to r. Bingham,
remarked that he 01r. Binghalm) had
charged the Democratic side of the House
with trying to gain votes by their position
on this subject, and that in deliberative
bodies, when blows are struek they lire to
be returned.
As to tho remarks of the gentleman fn.ie
ISfassuchusetts, I Mr. Hawcs,) that the burn
ing of Massachusetts convents was a,, old
story, and that it did not lei prove
time. When gentlemen representing 1•,1.1.
munitics which had signalized their Intl
ry in that way, came hero to put that big
otry into practical union, he thought it 1.1,
to remind them of their previous history.
As to the syllabus, he said: " what c“ro
for the syllabus, that the Pope of Home
has promulgated for his followers. It is
his right to do so, and it is their right to be
lieve, and it is not my right to sit in judg•
meat on them.
Mr. Brooks, of New York, referring, to
the charges of Know-nothingism, sail alai
he had statist over and over again m the
!louse that he never had been in a 11" w -
nothing lodge—never had holongial to the
Know-nothing party, never had advocated,
its principles, never had believed in them,
and had been journeying in foreign lands
during a large part of 11w time cut Unit un
happy agitatn.l.
Mr. Hoar declared the statement as to
the burning of witches in Mill,eleillli•eaA
utterly false. NO woman had ever been
burned at the stake within the limits of that
State.
Mr. Voorhees (excitedly). 'Phut in fmt
true.
Mr. Boar went on to say, that two hun
dred and forty years ago, when the whole
civilized world believed in witches, on the
authority attic, (Ad Testainent, the Court,
Of Massaglinsetls had even condemned and
executed sonic) nineteen or twenty persons
of both sexes ; hut it was also true, that
first among civilized people the people id.
. _ .
Massachusetts had first seen the error. It
was here the love of liberty a n d here intel
ligence (sneering laughter on Übe Demo
cratic side) that nrst exposed the error and
and wickedness of punishing human be
ings. For that the ministers of the (luspel,
the jurors and the counsel had formed al
most a repentant procession, and had asked
pardon of God and of their neighbors for it.
[More laughter on the Democratic sitlel.
The distinguished Chief Justice Sewell had
stood up in his place in church and ac
knowledged the error, while his ,ontem
porary, Sir Matthew halo, never saw the
folly and wickedness of his proceeding in
the Court of England. As to the burning
of the convents in Massachusetts, that was
the act of a mob. But what had Massa
chusetts done? She had arrested, tried,
sentenced and punished the criminals, anti
the crime was no more to be imputed to
her than any crime ever coMmitted within
the limits of any eiVilized community. In
conclusion, ho said it did not become the
political friends of the men who had burn
ed alive our soldiers at Fort Pillow, or of
those men who had burned the Orphan
Asylums at Now Yurk and had hung nu
groes to lamp posts to talk of cruelties in
past ages.:
Before Mr. Hoar could finish his sentence
Mr. Voorhees and several Democratie
members were vociferating " Order I" and
Mr. Voorhees exclaimed, at the top of his
voice, and in a highly excited manner :
"Every word he says is false, and he
knows it."
Mr. Stevens demanded that the offensive
words be taken down and reported to the
House.
At this time many members were on