Eancister Sintelligencer.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1870
Trouble Among the Radicals of Lancas•
ler County.
We do not know a more inharmoni
ous crew than the Radicals of Lancaster
county. Their newspapers fill whole
columns with abuse of each other. If
we should believe one-half the charges
thus made, in black on white, we would
be forced to conclude that a majority of
the Radical editors in this county ought
to be picking oakum in the Eastern
Penitentiary, or learning the artof shoe
making in the County Jail. But these
foul-mouthed fellows de not confine
their talent for vituperation to round
abuse of each other. They are the rep
resentatives of distinct and warring fac
tions of equally selfish political adven
turers. One party charges the other
with all manlier of wickedness, and
no primary election can be held
without a geueral expectation that frauds
of the grossest character will be perpe
trated. After these annual contests arc
over the allegation is uniformly made
that sonic candidates have been counted
out and others counted in. So complete
is the corruption and so universal the
venality which prevails that no system
can be devised to cure it. It is confess
edly as bad, If not: worse, under the
Crawford County System than it was
under the old delegate plan of making
Dominations. The war over the spoils
of this great and rich county becomes
fiercer and more disgraceful every year.
Men utterly unfit to discharge the du
ties devolving upon them are repented
elected, and corruption of the grossest
'character stalks abroad In open day
light. The County Commissioners have
been charged with the most nefarious
transactions; the Prison is known to
have been run so as to make fortunes
for a favored few, and the office of loun
ty Treasurer has been made the means
for securing immense illegal gains.
Heretofore the warring factions have
managed to compose their quarrels, and
the belligerent editors who have been
busy for weeks in reviling each other
and in spattering the adherents of op
posing cliques with filth, have found it
to their Interest to unite just prior to
each succeeding election. The battle
clubs are laid aside for a brief period,
and pens dipped in gall are put away,
while the dear people are urged to vote
the ticket, the whole ticket, and nothieg
but the ticket. The truth is the leaders
of the Republican party, the men who
control the organization are utterly des
titute of principle. They 'MOW no
higher object than gain, and are only
held together by the cohesive power of
public plunder. They do not agree on
any great principle, and are even divid
ed upon the tura question. So mark
ed is this lark of principle, and so com
pletely has every thing else been swal
lowed up in the constantly recurring
squabble over the spoils, that the Exam
iner deems it necessary that a County
Conveutiou should be at once called to
put forth a declaration of cardinal prin
ciples of political belief. It calls atten
tion to the divisions of sentiment
which are creeping into the ranks
of the organization, and strikes a blow
at what it considers the greatest of mod
ern heresies, the I I,,etrine of free trade.
This has called forth a blast of defiance
front the Ed' 111,,H. That paper hoots at
the idea of aOm itty Convention. Itches
not believe tliat the Radicals of Lancas
ter county are capable of defining their
own political faith, and insist that they
must wait for a National Convention to
lay down the creed of the party. It
plainly gives the it'dwittiitcr to under
stand that it would not he bound by the
action of any such I 'unvtnliou 111.11 t h e
subject of a
Out of these contitintim dissensions
some good titit;,i yet onne. II (hose who
have voted the It:elle:it lithe( without
question from year tmyear, simply be
cause it wail (Ili. Radical
Si, a \Vaki•lllal ilia( they may he induced
to examine the important questions
now:agitating the country, we may con
fidently to stiegrent chatigeseyell
iu Lancaster county. The dirty guar
rt•ls which are being so hotly waged be
tween the contending factions must
eventually disgust itOarge number of in
telligent, and independent voters. They
will get tired or being marched to the
polls from year to year, like "Mind),
drivel cattle," and will learn to think
and aid for themselves. When that day
conies:lJancaster county will no longer
boast of its Mtge Radical majority.
Grant's Insult to Hancock
The death of Major General George
11. Thomas left a vacancy in the list of
Major Generals, Thomas being the third
on the list, I lancock fourth, and Seim
richt fifth. According to army usage,
which is not departed from except in
extraordinary- Cues and for good reit
s,tos, (ten. Hancock was entitled tAI 511C
veeti to the by the death
of ( ten. Thomas. A ncr waiting a rea
sonable time, tt itlmut hearing, from
headquarters, Gen. Ilancock addressed
polite note to ( ;cu. Sherman, inquir
ing why the customory order had not
been issued appointing him to the place
made vacant by the death of General
Thomas. llis note was shown by Gen
eral SherllMll to General Ibt . ant, and the
President dictated an insulting reply
couched in the following exceedingly
uncourteous language:
" lam requested by the President In in
form you that there is 1101 h trig in you• per
sonal relations to ;GCII. Giant, or in your
official relations to his administrat ion, that
Mull! justify your promo, 1011, 11011', 111, LEM.
YOU TO OX rIOT IT ❑OllOO Fr un."
If General Grant had merely desired
to inform General Hancock that he de
clined to promote him to the position
which he was entitled to fill, good man
ners, common decency, and the cour
tesy that is customary between gentle
men would have restrained him from
the offer of a gratuitous insult. The
President took pains, however, to insult
Ilaneork, and the country will so un
derstand his gross and ungentlemanly
language. In this Grant exhibited that
littleness and meanness of soul for which
lie is distinguished. The only offences
Hancock ever conunitted were his act
ing with moderation and Witidolll in
Louisiana, and his appearing as a prom
inent candidate for the Presidency be-.
fore the Donmeratic National Conven
tion.
From this act of the President it is
made manifest Ihal no military ofthw
need expect the promotion which is his
due, unless he holds certain "official
relations" to the administration —which
means that he must toady to (Anita ;UPI
endorse all the :tuts of the Radical tarty.
Distinguished services,wounds received,
merits displayed, gallantry exhibited,
patriotism proven on a hundred battle
fields, all amount to nothing unless the
soldier is ready to become a servile adu
lator of the man who has disgraced the
highest position in the nation by selling
out the hest offices at his command and
making merchandise of the public pa
tronage. The people have 11 right to
expect that th President of the United
States will be a gentleman, if he is
nothing more; but Grant's treatment
of Hancock proves that the man who
was kicked out of the army for drunk
enness and disgraceful conduct has cur
ried his brutal instincts into the White
House.
There are forty thousand soldiers ill
Pennsylvania who will resent the insult
thus corsely and gratuitously . put upon
aeneral Hancock. They know what a
brave and chivalrous hero he proved to
be in the bloodiest battles of the war.
They followed where he led, and idol
ized him as they (lid noother chieftain.
He was the man they saw leading gal
lantly when they went into battle, even
where Grant commanded. Their devo
tion to him who shared their danger in
person is of that ardent nature which
soldiers always feel for the leader whom
they follow into the thickest of the fight.
These men will judge between Grant
and the nobler soldier whom he insult
d so gratuitously and so grossly.
Shirking Negro Equality
The Express, a paper which used to
boast of being the organ of Thaddeus
Stevens, cannot stomach Sumner's bill
for enforcing the Fifteenth Amendment.
It has been a persistent advocate of ne
gro equality for years, and has support
ed every measure devised for that pur
pose up to the present time. It approv
ed the Civil Rights Bill, and pronounced
it to be right and just ; but now, when
it is proposed to enforce that act, it sud
denly becomes alarmed. It protests
against Sumner's bill as unwise and un
timely, and declares that the negroes do
not demand it. There it is entirely mis
taken. The blacks do insist upon the
right to equal privileges. They demand
admission to schools, to churches, to
railroad cars, to steamboats, to hotels, to
places of public amusements, to the jury
box an, to all other public institutions
on a perfect equality with white men.
In Washington city the public schools
have been almost completely broken up
by the enforced admission of negroes,
the theatres, churches and hotels have
been opened to them, they sit on juries,
ride in the street cars and enjoy all the
privileges of white men. This has
all been accomplished at the National
Capitol by a diligent and unrelenting
enforcement of the Civil Rights Bill,
which was passed in 1866.
The Express must remember that Mr.
Sumner does not propose to enact any
new law. The bill to which it objects
is only designed to enforce an act which
the Republican party has approved and
sanctioned It is too late now for any
Radical to object to the enforcement of
complete negro equality. The Civil
Rights Bill must either be repealed, or
its provisions must be honestly curried
out. Mr. Sumner proposes to carry
them out in good faith, and for so doing
he is taken to task by the Express. Our
neighbor is thin-skinned, and decidedly
illogical. It ought to be ashamed to set
up ally opposition to complete negro
equality, after having gone so far as it
tins already done. It would show more
consistency if it marched squarely up
to the position taken by the leaders of
its party. Lancaster county is not the
place, and the paper which so long
boasted of being the organ of Thaddeus
Stevens, is not the journal to object to
the enforcement of the ('ivil Bights
Bill.
The Express is evidently scared. It
sees that the Republicans of Lancaster
county are not prepared to endorse what
has been done by the leaders of the party.
Hence its wail of agony. It professes to
believe that Congress will not attempt
to enforce the odious statute now in ex
istence, and concludes its most lugubri
ous article as follows :
We have no fear that Congress will lend
,iny countenance to a measure which no
body would have so much reason to depre
cate as the colored people themselves, and
which would give unalloyed pleasure to
none but their enemies and the enemies of
the political party which would be rospon
siWe fur its adoption.
Why should the negroes "deprecate"
the enactment of a law providing for the_
enforcement of a statute already on the
books, and why should Stunner's bill
"give unalloyed pleasure to none but
their enemies and the enemies of the
political party which would be respon
sible for its adoption?" If the Civil
Rights Bill, which the Express hailed
as "one of the grandest advances of
modern civilization," is right in princi
ple, why nut enforce it? Do the Radi
cals still desire to shirk the issues they
have raised? Does the Express suppose
its party can continue to deceive the
men who followed blindly in its wake
until the hideous reality of negro equal
ity was suddenly brought face to face
with them by the declared adoption of the
Fifteenth Amendment? Our neighbor
will speedily learn that the day for such
trickery has gone by. The Republican
'tarty can not allbrd to deny the negro
a single privilege enjoyed by the white
man. It 'mist stand or fall by the doc
trine of perfect equality. Sumner is
right and he is in earnest ; so are his
while followers who embrace in their
ranks the brains of the party, ands,' are
the• negroes, upon whom the party must
rely for SLICCVSS in all future elections.
When the Expo,.s undertakes to kick
against the pricks in this way, it only
makes itself ridiculous. Let it march
squarely in the ranks of its party, and
stand by the doctrines which distin
guish it. There is room for dill'erence
lin the taritlquestion inside the Itepub,
lican organization, but no room for a
dispute about the en foreement of negro
equality. Sumner is right and the Ex
press is stupidly illogical :mil hopelessly
- NV rOll g.
The Cuban question
During the present session of Congress
many speeches have been made in favor
of extending a helping hand to Cuba,
but not until this week has any serious
effect been produced. Now a sudden
spirit tf indignation against the
tyrannical action of the Spanish of
ficials who lo . rd it over "the ever
faithful isle" has been aroused.—
Mr. Voorhees, of Indiana, made
an appeal in favor of taking prompt
measures to avenge the outrages com
mitted upon citizens of the United States
by the Spanish authorities, and he was
followed in a similar strain of lofty in
dignation by a itumber of the ablest Re
publicans in the House. So profound
was the sensation that it is believed, that
resolutions of the most positive charac
ter would have been adopted, almost
without a dissenting voice,had they been
promptly proposed. The subject is now
in the hands of the Committee on For
eign Affairs, of which (:eneral Banks is
Chairman, and he is known to be in
favor of reeogn icing the belligerent rights
of the insurgents, and of extending to
them substantial aid. Both sides of the
House now stand strongly committed to
the cause of Cuba against Spain, and
the probabilities are that very decided
action will at once be taken. The de
cided sympathy of the administration
with Spain, and its prompt interference
to prevent any species of aid front being
ex tended to the insurgents is not likely
to. control the action of Republican
members of the House any longer. It
is not unlikely that we shall speedily
witness a complete change of action,
awl leneral Grant may go to the oppo
site extreme when he breaks loose front
the fetters with which Secretary Fish
has bound him.
Judge Black's Reply to Senator
Judge Black's reply to Senator Wil
son's article on Stanton is such a strong
and scathing document that we have
concluded to publish it entire. ft con
tributes much that is valuable in a
historical point of view, and gives a
clear conception of events which occur
red during the close of Mr. Buchanan's
administration, and in the beginning of
that of Mr. Lincoln. Radical news
papers may rail about the pungent style
of Judge Black, but they can not thus
avert the overwhelming force of the
statements which he makes on the best,
possible authority. lie completely vin
dicates the fame of Mr. Buchanan, and
covers the Massachusetts Senator with
shame.
More Democratic Thunder
Important elections have just been
held in Richmond, Norfolk and Mem
phis, and in every one of these cities the
Radicals have been defeated. If they
cannot control the negro vote in such
localities, it is all up with them in the
South. The Democracy have generally
conceded that their opponents might
win in the Southern cities, but it seems
that even there the carpet-baggers and
scalawags have thus early come to grief.
Count the whole South solid for the
next Democratic candidate for the Presi
dency!
GE AST has signed the Northern Pa
cific railroad swindle. It would be In
teresting to know whether he finds
sign big such bills as profitable as the
dispensation of offices. He promised
to give the country au economical ad
ministration, and this is a specimen of
it, we suppose.
THE LANCASTER WEE -‘ ' 4l " P a V ,
JUNE 1, 1870.
Sumner's Supplement
The Express persists in its opposition
to Sumner's bill for enforcing the pro
visions of the Civil Rights Bill. The
original law met with its hearty appro
val, and when Andrew Johnson vetoed
it our neighbor denounced him for that
act. In his able veto message the Presi
dent stated, as one of his objections to
the Civil Rights Bill, that it was design
ed to enforce equality between the races
by congressional enactment, and in de
fiance of all State laws. The Radicals
did not deny that such was the meaning
and design of the act at the time it wris
passed by a two-third vote of Congress
over the President's veto. It became a
law in spite of the Democratic mi
nority in Congress, and in spite of the
opposition of the President. Under that
act numerous suits have been brought
by negroes against railroad companies
in the South and elsewhere, for refusing
to permit them to enter the cars set
apart for white ladies and their male
companions ; and such suits have been
uniformly decided by Judges of United
States Courts in favor of the negro com
plainants, and that on the ground that
the Civil Rights Bill prohibits any dis
tinctions from being made nn account of
color. On the same plea, boldly set up
under the same bill, negroeshave forced
their children into the public schools of
Washington City, side by side with the
whites. This was done when no neces
sity for such action existed, there being
ample provision made for the instruc
tion of all colored children in schools
set apart for them.
In view of these examples it will not
do for the Express to undertake to deny
that the bill recently introduced by Mr.
Sumner is what it purports to be, a sup
plementary aet designed to enforce the
provisions of a former enactment. It is
true that the Civil Rights Bill was pur
posely made very general in its terms.
I fad the Radicals used plainer language
to indicate what the courts lhave
since decided to be the meaning of
the law, many Republicans would
have revolted against its passage, anti
it is even possible that the Express
might have opposed it, instead of ap
proving all its provisions. The uncer
tainty of the language employed, its
designed obscurity, was part and parcel
of the trick played upon the people in
It gave Radical newspapers and
stump orators an opportunity to misrep
resent the meaning of the Civil Rights
Bill, which was afterward so clearly de
fended by the courts; but the Radical Leg
islature of this State understood the true
intent of the bill when they passed a law
prohibiting ally railroad company from
setting apart cars for negroes, or from
denying them the right to select such
seats as might suit their sable dignities.
The operation of that law may be wit
nessed by any one who has occasion to
ride on any of our railroads. We have
seen a huge, greasy, buck negro fore ;his
way right into the car set apart for the
aceommodation of ladies, while white
men traveling Without female company
were denied admittance.
This attempt of the Erprom to deny
the meaning of the Civil Rights 13ill
goes beyond that hypocracy for which
it to so much distinguished. Its bold
assertions and baseless declarations are
all met and answered by repeated de
cress of the Federal Courts. Radical
Judges have over and again interpreted
that act to mean exactly what Sun
finer claims that it does; and the pains
and penalties of his new bill are only
designed to enforce what a Radical
Congress made the law of the land
by a two-third vote over the veto
of Andrew Johnson. If the Express
desires the repeal of the Civil Rights
Bill, let it say so. It is unmanly for it
to cry out against the• en forcment of an
act which net its unqualified approval
at the time of its passage. If the Civil
Rights Bill was right, then is Sumner's
bill of pains and penalties perfectly
proper. The latter is only a logi
cal. and I ivces,try sequenisc of the
former. No one who approved
the original enactment uuglet to
object to such supplementary legisla
tion as is necessary to secure its perfect
enforcement. Let the Erpress come
nut and advocate the repeal of the Civil
Rights Bill, if it is not prepared to see it
fully carried into elli•el. Its present at
titude is ()tie which is calculated to dis
gust every negro member afire Repub
lican party, while it can nut possibly
deceive a single one of the thousands of
dissatisfied white men * who have here
tofore acted with it.
Pensions for Old Soldiers
The bill grunting a pension to indi
gent and dependent soldiers of the war
Of 1812., (and to widows of the saine,)
has finally passed the lower House of
Congress ,and we hope will soon become
a law. It is only just to the aged survi
vors that such of them as stand in need
of aid should receive the pittance of
eight dollars a month. There was con
siderable opposition to the bill, owing
to the fact that the annual pension list
is now thirty millions of dollars, or more
than all the revenue derived from the in
come tax. The bill was sent to the Senate
and referred to the Pension Committee.
A proviso of the bill, which the House,
by a vote of a 0 to 111, refused to strike
out, directs that none shall receive
a pension without first taking the
iron-clad oath. Ben. Butler op
posed the proviso as there had been
no general confiscation, and for onee
Butler was right. The soldiers of 181'2,
who survive, must all heat least seven ty
five years of age, and it is not likely
that any of them lent any material aid
to the rebellion. It was ungracious to
tack such a proviso to the bill.
WM.:NEVER the Express desires to
frame an excuse for some rascally act
of a Radical Legislature or Congress, it
points to certain instances in which it
has condemned other acts, or other
members of the Republican party. A
careful scrutiny of the course of the Ex
press will show that it has seldom spoken
out against corruption or outrage unless
there was a chance of making money
by such conduct. It has been well paid
for its opposition to certain politicians
in this county, and there is every reason
to believe that its course on the State
Treasury business last winter proved to
be pecuniarily profitable. It finds it
easy to condemn the Northern Pacific
Railroad swindle, while defending
Dickey for supporting it. Such plia
bility is really wonderful.
Tit A'rgrand-con ti nen tal-cotubi nation
land-grabbing-swindle, the Northern
Pacific Railroad Bill, the greatest fraud
of the nineteenth century, was put
through the lower house of Congress
yesterday, Hon. 0. J. Dickey voting for
it. Rumor says that immaculate patriot,
Thaddeus Stevens, died with two hun
dred thousand dollars of Central Pacific
railroad bonds in his possession. How
many thousand dollars worth of North
ern Pacific bonds did his executor and
successor get, is a question which we
have heard people asking. Who will an
swer the important query? We hope
the postmasters and revenue officials
wont all speak at once.
THE Express tries to excuse its defense
of Dickey and the Northern Pacific
land robbery by intimating that the IN
TELLIGENCEI2 never condemns the acts
of derelict Democrats. That is resorting
to falsehood for an apology, and doubles
the guilt of our neighbor. The INTEL
LIOENCER has persistently condemned
corrupt members of the State Legisla
ture, and has not hesitated to denounce
such by name. It stamped with disap
proval the ten recreant Democratic Con
gressmen who united with ten times
that many Radicals in support of what
an honest Republican denounced on the
floor of the House as "a gigantic swin
dle." We have charity enough to be
lieve that the Express would not have
resorted to such a pitiful falsehood If it
had not been acting as a hired mercen
ary in the employ of 0. J. Dickey.
The Northern Patine Railroad Swindle.
The most gigantic and unmitigated
swindle ever put through any legislative
body is the Northern Pacific Railroad
bill, which has just been finally passed,
under the previous question, by the
lower House of Congress. An almost
limitless domain, nearly fifty millions
of acres, a territory vastly greater than
the whole area of Pen nsylvania,has been
given to a set of corporators who had
no shadow of right to demand such
unexampled generosity from the Federal
Government. That it was a set-up
job, skillfully manipulated and prop
ped-up by all the corrupt appliances
known in the most venal circles of leg
islation, there can be no doubt. Wash
ington correspondents of leading news
papers do not hesitate to declare openly,
that the bill was " bought through."
In vain did the more honest members
of both political parties protest against
this infamous measure, in vain did
they endeavor to secure the • adop
tion of such restraints upon the
corporators as would protect the
government and secure the rights of
actual settlers. Under the drill of a
powerful lobby, under the operation of
the previous question, without debate,
an empire was carved out of the heritage
of the people.and summarily transferred
to a set of greedy speculators. One
amendment after another was promptly
voted down, and the rascally scheme
I was relentlessly forced through in the
I precise shape dictated by those who
were to profit by the transaction.
The great bulk of the people of the
United States are becoming thoroughly
indignant at the manlier in which the
public lands are being parcelled out
among corrupt Congressmen and grasp
ing corporations. Republicans have
not forgotten the outcry which was
raised during the Fremont campaign
about the possible introduction of sla
very into the territory of the great west.
They recall with marked distinctness
the appeals which were then so art
fully made, the earnest exhortations
to preserve the boundless forests
and fertile prairies as a sacred heri
tage for their children and thier chil
drens' children. The men who heard
the oratory of that day and read
Radical newspapers cannot witness with
pleasure the course Congressmen elected
by them are now pursuing. The masses
of all parties very properly consider that
they have an interest in the public do
main. The farmersof Lancaster county
expect it to furnish cheap lands and pleas
ant homes for their descendents, the me
chanic in the crowded city hopes to see
his children comfortably located where
they will enjoy a fuller and more vigor
ous life than has fallen to his lot, and
many a laboring man looks forward to
the time when he may be able to sit
under his own vine and fig-tree in the
generous West,with his little ones grow
ing up in independence to wealth and
honorable positions. It is agai list these
people that Congressmen sin grievously
when they sell themselves to railroad
corporations and barter away the sacred
inheritance of the poor man.
A few interested and recreant _Demo
crats, among them Van Auk en, of this
State, voted to give away this vast slice
of the public domain, but the Radical
majority are responsible for the passage
of the bill ; and no man is more to blame
than 0. J. Dickey. He knew, as well
as he could possibly know anything
that the people of Lancaster County,
without respect to party, would fail to
countenance any such transaction, if
submitted to them for approval or rejec
tion. He had sufficient warniv, and can
not plead ignorance of public entiment.
We presume (Mr. Dickey's record on
this and similar questions will be
thoroughly ventilated during the
coming contest for the Congression
al nomination, and we can assure ()or
recreant Congressman that he may yet
lied his vote on the Northern l'acith•
Railroad swindle a load too heavy to
carry. Large as the puldic domain is
it will soon be exhausted if the present
policy is persisted in. It might all be
given away to actual settlers without
disadvantage, but to transfer it to large
and wealthy corporations is to lay the
finindations of a powerful landed aris
tocracy which will grievously oppress
the masses. It is against this gigantic
evil that we earnestly protest.
Serious Charges Against the Postmaster-
General,
A serious charge of maladministra
tion, if not of corruption, is made
against Postmaster-General Creswell,
by some of the leading envelope manu
facturers of the United States. They
allege that the contract for furnishing
stamped envelopes to the ( lovernment,
for which bids were publicly solicited,
was recently awarded to the highest,
and not, as required by law, to the low
est bidder, the quality of goods offered
by the former being no better than those
offered by his competitors; and that
when the contract came to be executed,
provisions were inserted in it for other
sizes than were mentioned in the adver
tisement, and for extra compensation
for lined envelopes and ruling. The
manufacturers say that the Government
will lose by this action of the Post
master-General from $200,000 to $lOO,-
O 0). They also contend that the whole
system of furnishing stamped envelopes
at present prices is wrong in principle,
interfering with the regular trade, and
costing the nation $1,000,000 annually.
We take it for granted that the Post
master-General will be quietly white
washed by a Congressional Committee.
It would not do to convict a member of
the administration, you know.
Against Philadelphia
Under the above caption the Philadel
phia Ledger has all article complaining
of the conduct of the managers of the
Pen nsy 1 van ia Railroad. It seems that
under the schedule of fast line travel
between New York and Chicago, which
has been adopted the mail arrange
ments provided for Philadelphia are so
imperfect that letters sent from that city
arrive at Pittsburgh one whole (lay be
hind letters carried over the same road
from NeW York. That is such a dis
crimination against Philadelphia, as is
calculated to cause On outburst of right
eous indignation. Lancaster is not the
only point, it seems, which is being
slighted and injured by the mammoth
corporation wlhic•h liastiecti so 101511 fos
tered by the State.
THE Elpro. underUkkes to dofcnd
Mr. Dickey's vine ILr the pas,ag, of ti o .
North,. puoifio I,:id-(:rab. That was
to be expected. It is the paid supporter
and hired tool of the present. Congress
man, as it WaS of 'Thaddeus Stevens be
fore him. It has all the qualities of a
Swiss mercenary. 11. tights for the party
that pays for its services, and is ready to
defend any act of the public loan in
whose employment it limy Le. Such is
the character which this pretendedly
moral newspaper bears among the best
infornivd it,publivan:, of Lancaster
county. The charge has been repeated
ly made by its own party friends, and
it has never been successfully refuted.
Of course the ErpticBB dttnds Mr.
Dickey.
Massachusetts Giving Way on the Liquor
Question.
Our last accounts from the Massachu
setts Legislature say they have modified
their liquor bill so as to permit not only
some indulgence in lager beer, but like
wise in porter, ale, strong beer and
wines. Is this a small matter for the
descendants of those pious Puritans who
used to shut up their hives of bees on
Saturday night to keep the thoughtless
bees from working on Sunday?
JOHN CESSNA voted against the N orth
ern-Pacific-Laud-G rabbing-Swin dle.—
He feels that he has a very insecure
footing In his district. In spite of the
negro vote he will have a mighty hard
road to travel. He knows that, and is
lightening up for the race. When Cess
na misses a chance to make money the
danger of exposure must be great in
deed, and the chances of getting offsafe
ly with the booty perfectly desperate.
How White Men Arc Disfranchised in
Rhode Island.
The attention of Congress was some
time since called by a numerously signed
petition to the fact that in spite of the
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments
to the Constitution of the United States,
between ten and fifteen thousand white
Citizens of Rhode Island were dis
franchised. The committee to 'whom
the petition was referred found, on ex
amination of the election laws of that
insignificant Yankee State, that its Con
stitution prescribes alternative classes of
qualification for voting. The first gives
to all male citizens of the United States
over twenty-one years of age the right
to vote, if they own real estate of the
value of $134. The second gives to every
native citizen the right to vote, though
he may own no real estate, on the pay
ment of an annual tax of $l. Foreign
born citizens, who do not own real es
tate, are thus excluded from the right to
vote in Rhode Island. Every houseless
and homeless negro vagabond can go to
the ballot-box, but no Irishman, Ger
man or other white man who may have
been born on foreign soil dare approach
it unless he holds a fee simple title to
real estate in Rhode Island. The Radi
cal Congressional Committee, after due
deliberation, reported that there is noth
ing in the Constitution of the United
States, and no existing law of Congress
to prevent Rhode Island from thus dis
criminating against foreign-born white
citizens. The report concludes as follows:
The committee is unanimously of the
opinion that by the Fourteenth and Fif
teenth Amendments natives of foreign
countries, who have become citizens of the
United States, are not entitled to vote in
Rhode Island without regard to the quali
fication imposed by her Constitution. The
privileges and immunities of citizens of the
United States, mentioned in the petition as
secured by the Fourteenth Amendment,
do not include the right of suffrage. If
they did, the right must necessarily exist
in an citizens of the United States, from the
mere fact of citizenship, without the power
in any State, or in Congress, to abridge the
same in any degree, and in such ease. It
is enough to say that the rights se
cured by this amendment to the Con
stitution are of an altogether differ
ent character. The Fifteenth Amendment
does apply to rights ofsutirage, and to them
only. By if the State of Rhode Island, in
common with every other State, is forbid
den to deny or abridge the right of citizens
of the United States to vote on account of
race, color or previous condition of servi
tude. No fact of race, or color,or previous
servitude prevents any citizen from voting
in Rhode Island, neither of those qualities
depends in degree upon the plate of his
nativity. When the Fifteenth Amend
ment was under consideration by Congress
it proposed to embrace in it a proposition
of any denial on account of nativity, that
this proposition was not agreed to for the
reason that Congress did not think it ex
pedient to restrict the ancient powers of the
States in this respect any further than ap
peared to be needful to secure to the whole
people the great results of the overthrow of
the rebellion. The committee are, there
fore, of the opinion that there is nothing in
the provisions of the Constitution of the
State of Rhode Island referred to, as in con
flict with the Constitution of the United
States.
Here we have an exhibition of the
manner in wllich foreign-born citizens
are cared fof by the party in power.—
They are left to the tender mercies of
proscription and narrow-mined State
Legislatures. The doctrine of State
Rights is not annulled so far as it relates
to naturalized citizens. Being white,
they may be deprived of the ballot with
impunity. it is only negroes \who are
protected In the right of franchise by
the Radicals of Congress.
This is only of a piece with other leg
islation of a similar character. A new
naturalization bill has been introduced
into the Senate, which proposes to take
away from the State Courts all power to
grant naturalization, and to vest the
authority exclusively in the Federal
Courts and Federal Registers' of Bank
ruptcy. This would leave many coun
ties of Pennsylvania without a tribunal
before which foreigners could appear to
be naturalized. The proposed law pro
vides that no naturalized citizen shall
be entitled to vote for six months after
naturalization, and imposes other disa
bilites upon them, of which we will
speak more at large hereafter. If the
naturalized citizens of the United States
would not be thus discriminated against,
if they would maintain the rights here
tofore freely conceded to them, if they
would not voluntarilysink below the ne
gro in the scale of citizenship, they must
unite in an effort to strike down the ty
rannical and unscrupulous party which
has secured its hold upon power by the
use of fraud and force, and which is
ready to resort to the vilest moans to
perpetuate its rule.
The Fenian Fiasco
A m a dder enterprise than all assault
upon ( 'anada, such as has just been made
by the Fenians,can not well beconceived
of. IL seems to have had not a single
one of the qualifications necessary to se
cure success. The men who led in it
displayed neither military skill nor the
ordinary courage of soldiers; and it is
not surprising that all the actions of the
rank and file should be weak, wavering,
purposeless and futile under the circum
stances. The hostility which rankles
in the heart of every true Irishman
against England is natural, and we can
not help sympathizing with it; but with
such "wild goose chases" as that which
has just come to a ridiculous end we can
have no sympathy. When the Sons of
the Emerald Isle are prepared to deliver
an enctive blow for the freedom of their
native land from foreign domination
we shall be ready to back up those who
bear the Sunburst banner with all the
moral force at our command; but we do
earnestly protest against such ventures
as that which has come to so farcical a
conclusion. Let the Irishmen of this
country see to it that such palpable
frauds as General O'Neill are not again
permitted to plunge hundreds of patri
otic and impulsive men into a ridicu
lous and unfortunate dilemma. Ireland
may yet be freed and enthroned among
the nations of the earth in sovereign
state, but it cannot be done by sueli
foolish ventures as that which has re
sulted in nothing wore serious than the
frightening of a few scattered Canadian
fa e rs.
A Suit Under the Civil Rights Bill
Charles Caldwell, an employee of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has just
been tried, at Washington, on the charge
of ejecting a son of Fred. Douglas front
a seat in a ear on that road for the right
of riding in which extra charges were
made. The seat taken by Douglass had
been previously engaged and the proper
price paid for it by a white man, but the
ambitious son of the great negro orator
W:LS deteo•mined to show that he bad a
right to ride where he pleased under the
Civil Rights Bill. The Judge charged
that under the law Douglass Mid a right
to recover, but there being a couple of
obstreperous whites on the jury, they
failed to agree. Wait till Sumner's bill
for transferring 2111 such suits to the Fed
eral Courts is passed, and the
picked out by the I. S. Marshals will
all be soundly Radieal and always ready
to convict. Then the Civil Rights Bill
will be rigidly enforced ; and woe to the
railroad conductor, the church warden,
the school director, the hotel keeper, or
any other man who undertakes to deny
perfect equality to any negro in the land.
This is the first instance where such a
suit Into failed in Washington since the
Civil Rights Bill was passed, and there
have been several of a similar charac
ter tried.
THE Er . prcs grew wonderfully indig
nant over the Jersey Shore and Pine
Creek Railroad Bill, and was very vig
orous in its virtuous denunciation there
of. It now countenances the transfer of
a territory nearly twice as large as Penn
sylvania to Jay Cooke & Co., corpora
tors of the Northern Pacific Railroad
swindle; beside which the proposed dis
persion of the bonds in the Sinking
Fund of this State was a mere trifle
Circumstances alter cases. 0. J. Dickey
was a chief supporter of the great land
grab, and he owns the columns of the
Express That accounts for its obliquity
of 16810E4 For a highly moral paper
commend us to the Express.
Just Like John Cessna.
John Cessna is well known,where he
is best known, as a very tricky lawyer.
He is a sort of embodiment of the mem
bers of the celebrated firm of Quirk,
Gammon & Snap. He has all the bad
qualities of the three, but lacks the lit
tle of latent manliness that would now
and then break through the profession
al rascality of Oily Gammon. His pro
fessional brethren can not trust to him,
and have long ago found out that his
word is not to be relied upon. He has
not a particle of principle, and is ready
to resort to any sort of sharp practice to
carry a point. He is utterly destitute of
honor, and completely lacking in all
those high qualities which mark the
gentleman. He was a Democrat up to
the end of the war, and only turned
Radical for the sake of securing of
fice. Since he has been in Congress
he has done an immense amountof dirty
work as a member of the Committee on
Elections. Being an:adept in trickery and
utterly unscrupulous, he has champion
ed the case of everyßadical claimant with
a zeal that paid not the slightest regard
to the oath lie had taken. He has been
instrumental in securing more than one
unrighteous decision, and lie glories in
his brazen rascality. His latest display
of the peculiar qualities fur which lie is
distinguished,surpasses anything which
has yet occurred. The following tele
gram, which was publicly sent from
Washington to the press of the country,
and published in Radical as well as
Democratic papers, tells the story :
WASHINGTON, May 17.—A sharp dodge
was practiced in the House to-day, by Mr.
Cessna, a member of the Committee on
Elections, whereby Mr. Wallace, who was
the contestant fur the seat of Mr. Simpson,
from South Carolina, was declared entitled
to his seat, and accordingly sworn in. As
soon as the reading or the journal was fin
ished, Mr. Cessna sent to the Clerk's desk
resolution declaring Mr. allaco entitled
to .his seat. But few members were pres
ent—nut to exceed forty, all told. The
Clerk read the resolution in such a low
voice that the members did not seem to
notice what the nature of it was, or at least
to consider that it was all election case. The
Speaker then put the question of adoption
to the House, and there being no response in
the negative, it was declared adopted. The
motion to reconsider was then made, and to
lay that motion on the table, winch was
adopted, with no dissenting voices. This
sealed the whole matter. The calling of
Mr. Wallace to the bar, by the Speaker, to
be sworn in, was the first knowledge that
the majority of the members present had
'as to the natur6 of the resolution passed
a moment previously. Objections wore
made by a score of voices to swearing Wal
lace in, hut the Speaker decided that there
was no way in which the House could re
consider their action unless by unanimous
consent, which, of course, could nut be ob
tained. After several members had made
a protest, Republicans as well as Demo
crats, Mr. Wallace was sworn in. The
whole transaction is a g' oildeal comment
ed upon.
Such a piece of unblushing rascality
was never perpetrated in any legislative
body, and it ought to prove amply suffi
cient to damn its author to eternal in
famy. Many of the more decent Re
publicansof the Sixteenth District voted
for John Cessna very reluctantly at the
last election. They felt ashamed of the
111011 who had succeeded in securing a
nomination by means which were
far from reputable. That he will force
himself upon the party again there is
said to be no doubt, but that he will be re
elected we can not believe. His only
hope is in manipulating the negro vote,
anti he has been very busy among that
class since the Fifteenth Amendment
was declared to be adopted. Cessna ex
pects to poll a solid black vote, but we
do not see how any respectable negro
eon support him. We are sure no repu
table white man can do so Without
blushing to own it forever after.
No General Amnesty
A Washington telegram announces
that not half a dozen Republican Sena
tors would vote for a General Amnesty
bill, and that there is a similar unani
' 'idly in the House against it. It is also
stated with positiveness that Grant will
not recommend the passage of such a
hill. It is so manifest that the whole
action of Congress and of Grant's ad
ministration is controlled by the single
purpose of continuing power in the
liands of those who now possess it, that
no ono can wonder that an immense
number of whites are to be kept from the
polls, while the ballot-box is thrown
open to every negro in the land. Grant
and the Radical Congressmen are con
vinced that a fair election would put an
end to their misrule, and they do not in
tend to retire until they have stolen the
last acre of the public lands, and made
away with all the plunder of every des
cription, that they can lay hands upon.
When there is nothing left to steal we
may perchance have restrictions remov
ed, :01d be allowed to see free and fair
elections again throughout the country,
Meantime let ex-rebels submit to negro
rule, and Northern taxpayers submit to
being mercilessly fleeced without mur
muring.
Cessna's Dirtiest Trick
Republican newspapers are in the
habit of making a loud outcry about
frauds every time an election occurs in
New York City. The assertions in
I which they abound are principally false
; hoods, designed to account for the over
whelming defeats they repeatedly suf
fer; but, if all that the roost unscrupulous
of them have ever said were true, every
reported outrage of the kind would be
Made to appear respectable when coin
! pared to the action of the House upon
the ease of Wallace against Simpson.
Mr. Simpson was elected by a ma
jority of over five thousand, but lie
I was summarily ejected from his
seat by a sudden movement made at an
unexpected hour when the House was
almost empty, made with the concur
rence of the clerk who read Cessna's
resolution in so to a tone of voice that
members could not hear it, and with the
knowledgeaml approval of all those who
voted for it. If that decision is permit
ted to stand, the Republican party will
he forever estopped from complaining of
any frauds which Illay be perpetrated
upon the ballot box. When compared
with Cessna, and those who stood by
him in this disgraeuful transaction, the
lowest repeater who violates the election
laws, and perjures himself for a price,
becomes respectable. The Republican
majority in the House must du one of
two things--they must either repudiate
the action taken under the lead of Cess
na, or they roust stand branded as the
supporters of the most disreputable
fraud that was ever perpetrated. In
either case this act must doom Cessna to
certain defeat.. We cannot contrive iY
possible that he can be renominated after
such an rxltibilion of his utter baseness
and, should Inc succeed in forcing him
self upon the ticket all decent Republi
utms would be compelli,l to refuse to
vote for him. John has done a great
many mean things, but this is, 'unities-
Lionably, a little the dirtiest trick of
which he has ever been known to be
guilty —jud a //Mr.
Is our criticism of the official c.iurse
of I ton. 0. J. Dickey we are actuated by
no feeling of personal hostility toward
him. Our relations with him have al
ways been perfectly pleasant. We are
compelled, however, to make a distinc
tion between the man and the Congress
man. We are sure he was in company
with a very corrupt crew when he lent
Ids support to the Northern Pacific Rail
road bill. He may possibly have been
actuated by pure motives alone, but he
would have stood much higher in the
estimation of honest men if he had
boldly taking a stand against this un
blushing robbery.
A Mew Child's Paper
A monthly paper, to be called "The
Children's Argus," will be issued from
the (Mice of the Easton Argus, on the
third Thursday of June. An able corps
of contributors has been engaged to fur
nish original matter, and it will be got
ten up in handsome style. Mrs. Re
bekah B. Shunk 'will have editorial
control of it. Mrs. Shunk is a lady of
brilliantintellect, - and possesses the very
qualities of mind which are calculated
to fit her for the task she proposes to
undertake. We predict that " The Chit
dren's Argus," will be a complete suc
cess.
The Enforcement Bill
The bill for the enforcement of the
Fifteenth Amendment has been finally
put through, in shape and substance al
most exactly as it originally passed the
Senate. We publish elsewhere the
amendments and alterations which
were made by the Committee of Con
ference. This infamous force bill, with
all its long list of pains and penalties,
will prove to be a mere brutum julmcn,
a law so odious that its enforcement will
never be attempted. An attempt to en
force it would make those who should
engage in it as infamous in the eyes of
the community as ever a volunteer
champion of the fugitive slave law was
in Massachusetts. In fact the features
of the Enforcement Bill are similar to
the most objectionable parts of that
measure which called forth such loud
outbursts of indignation from New End . -
land. It is designed to scare timid peo
ple, but its authors will find that they
have roared at the wrong party. The
Democracy will obey the laws while
they exist, but they will see to it that'
negroes are not allowed any privileges
at the polls which white men may not
claim. Every woolly-head that comes
up to vote will be subjected to a close
scrutiny, and men will employ whom
they please and discharge them when
they see proper, without assigning any
reasons therefore to the spies and in
formers of an inquisitorial government.
This odious law will only tend to injure
the negro without adding any - strength
to the Republican party. It will open
the eyes of white inqp and cause a re
vulsion of feeling which will largely aid
in restoring to power that political or
ganization which successfully adminis
tered the government of the United
States for three-quarter.-1 of a century
without having recourse to any such
Napoleonic appliances for the control
of elections.
Facts For Taxpa}ers
Mr. Dawes, Chairman of the Committee
on Appropriations, and, therefore, post
ed on all such matters, said in debate that
"the United States navy, which consist
ed of only 9,500 men, cost 528205,671 ;
while the estimate of the British navy
last year, which consisted of 93,000 men,
was only $49,000,000. Every vessel in
the United States navy cost an average
annually of $135,944, and in the British
navy $09,000. Every ton in the tonnage
of the United States navy cost $151.10
per annum, and in the British navy
$7i2.60. To keep the American navy
afloat—to keep it in repair—cost $OOO a
man, while the British navy cost but
$6O a man to keep it up to the standard.
The United States Navy Department
had estimated for $0,075,000 for repairs,
while the estimate of the British navy
for the year ending March 31, 11)70, for
new machinery and repairs, was but
$3,000,749." And following up the same
line of remarks, Mr. Logan, Chairman
of the Military Committee, said that
"there were in the United States navy
51,409 officers and but 8,500 men—one
officer to every six men, and a fraction
over. The pay of the navy was a little
over $7,000,000, and of that over $5,000,-
000 was paid to the officers. There were
on the active list of the navy 759 officers
at sea, and on shore 050. Why should
this swarm of officers be kept without
any necessity for them 9" And further,
that "there were now in the Treasury
Department sixteen hundred employees
more titan were authorized by law, and
six hundred more than were employed
last year." Such is the "economical"
and "honest" administration of Grant
which has been so much lauded by
Radical newspapers.
That Misplaced Switch
Thu Philadelphia Ledgrr says
" It is by the mercy or Providence that
twenty lives were not lost instead of two,
by the accident near Leaman Pelee, on the
Pennsylvania Railroad on Tuesday morn
ing. Through the misplacing of a switeh
the Philailelphia Express, coming east, ran
into :In Emigrant train standing on another
track. The brakesman killed (Thomas
Swayne, of this city,) was at his post and
faithfully doing his duty. Whether the
switch,was left misplaced by negligence or
by design is not clear, lint in either ease the
occurrence affords another illustration of
the necessity of using the style of switeh
that, cannot he misplaced by either negli
gene°, stupidity or malice, but which, Un
der all circumstances, keep s the main track
unbroken. It has been demonstrated be
yond all doubt that the Wharton Safety
Switch does this, It is approved by the
most experienced railway mechanics. We
can imagine no reason why it is not gener
ally adopted, unless it may be on account
of some difference about expense—and that
ought not to lie Weighed when the question
in safety to human life."
The Wharton Safety Switch may be a
good thing and probably is, but we think
a still more useful invention, and one
which would tend to a far greater degree
to lessen railway accidents, would be
that of an independent Coroner and an
intelligent Coroner's jury, who would
not through ignorance or a fete• of rail
roads, fail to thoroughly examine into
the causes of the numerous railway ac
cidents that spread mourning and deso
lation throughout the land.
How Carpet• Baggers Electioneer
A letter from Florence, South Caro
lina, to the New York Sun, says:
" The disreputable Whittemore is very
busy visiting the negroes in their cabins,
eating and drinking with them, and other
wise successfully conducting the political
campaign, which will terminate probably
with his re-election to Congress. Mrs,
Whittemore is also active. Standing and
campaigning for her husband on the plat
form of the railroad station in Darlington,
she kisses the negro wenches whom she
meets there, and the dramatic effect is pow
erful. The wenches are very grateful, and
quickly balance the condescention of Mrs.
Whittemore, by reciprocating the favor in
kind. This lip service also helps Mrs.
Whittemore's school along, where she gen
erously teaches the young negroes for 2.5
(puts a head per month. The pupils are
very numerous, and the ineome which she
accumulates is highly advantageous to her
self and husband."
We may expect to see the rival Radi
cal candidates for Congressional honors
going through a similar process among
the negrues of Tow Hill, as the time for
the primary election draws 'high. (to it
Dickey!—(.o it Wickey !
A Female Negro Office-Holder
A white woman, the wife of a deceas
ed soldier, has been turned out of the
Fourth Auditor's Office of the 1.. S.
Treasury, to inake room for K:tle V.
Jennings, a mulatto, whose frillier is
reported to hate• great influence with
the negro voters of Washhighin (11. y.
'fills is the first appointment of an
African female among the lady clerks
in the Treasury Department. It is such
concession to the negro . vote as the
ltadir•als will be eiimpidled to make it
they expert to hold it. That they are
wady to make the sat•rilices demanded
of them their conduct shows.
CZ=
Th. New York San says: When Gen
eral Grant was told that the Puma,bean
party in New York was dead, he would
have made the same reply that A naxagor
as did when informed that his son had this],
"I never supposed I had begotten an im
mortal," if he had studied Greek. lint in
his unelassical wa y he answered quite as
the Stoic lloshut one eye and blew a
mouthful of cigar smoke in a thin stream
tip to the ceiling. Translated, said: "Par
ties aro dreadfully short lived. There is
nothing enduring but Havana cigars.' Let
us smoke."
Fatal Accident ton Reporter
About twelve o'clock on Saturday night,
John F. Meeser, aged thirty-nine years, a
brother of Mr. William Meoser, the pro
prietor of the Sunday Mercury, mot his
death instantaneously under the following
circumstances: During the tiro at the
Philadelphia skating park, Thirty-first and
Walnut streets, on Saturday night,: the
illumination was very great, and the de
ceased seeing the light went to an upper
room of his place of residence, the house of
Mr. Joseph .Mountain, at Poplar and Sar
tain streets, in order to get a better view of
the fire from a window. lie pushed open
the window and throw back the shutters,
when unfortunately he lost his balance, and
before he could recover himself ho pitched
head foremost to the ground and struck
his head against the curbstone, killing him
almost instantly. The deceased was well
known, and was much respected by his
acquaintances.
A thriving young town which has
lately sprung up on the Lyman Smith
and Mcßride farms, on the Warren and
Franklin turnpike,
sonic two miles south
of Pleasantville, has been christened
" Tip Top."
Mrs. Josephine Simpson, of Toledo,
has accumulated a fortune of Sai . ,(X) o .
She is the owner of a canal boat, which
she commands in person.
In the Morris County (N. J.) Court,
yesterday, Thomas Halloran was sen
tenced to 17 years' imprisonment, at
hard labor, for murdering his wife.
A train was thrown from the track of
the Newark and New York Railroad
yesterday, by a misplaced switch. The
cars were badly damaged, and four per
sons were injured.
The receipt of the internal revenue
thus far—s•2o,ooo,ooo being expected fur
June—indicate that the total amount for
the fiscal year, eliding June 30, will be
$175,000,000.
According to a letter from St. Domin
go, the Cuban insurgents recently cap
tured Sagal, agent of Ueneral Valmase
da, and forty men, at Cautillo, and all
the prisoners were shot.
A bridge on the Pittsburgh, Cincin
nati and St. Louis Railroad, at Rich
mond, Ind., was destroyed on Friday
night by an incendiary tire. The loss
is $lOO,OOO.
A despatch from Richmond, Va., re
ports an atrray thereyesterday afternoon
"in which Congressman Porter and
Collector Humphrey were roughly han
dled."
A still exploded in Peter Schwatz's
distillery at Hamilton, Ohio, yesterday,
killing Mr. Kline, beer runner, and Au
gust Frederick, mash hand. The cause
of the explosion is not known.
At St. Paul, Minn., W. nay,
printer, fell from the third story of the
Pioneer newspaper office, on Saturday
night while drunk, and W ILY Instantly
killed.
At Dayton, Ohio, yesterday morning,
Mrs. Moeller and live children were suf
located, and an infant was badly burned,
by a tire resulting from carelessness.—
Particulars are not given.
In the Massachussetts blouse of Rep
resentatives, on Saturday, the Senate
Liquor bill was amended so 11:4 to exempt
ale, porter, beer, arid all wines, and
ordered to a third reading.
John G. Barry, a printer, eighty-four
years of age, who, in taxi, setup the an
nouncement of the death of George
Washington, took part in a funeral at
Holly Springs, Mississippi, week before
last.
At Liberty Corners, N. J., on Tues
day night, an old man, named Franklin
Hope, hanged himself in a barn. On
Wednesday,a boy,named Maurice Con k
ng, went to the same barn and hanged
himself front the same beam.
Captain 'Matthew Hunt, the oldest
pilot of Boston, died 011 Saturday morn
ing, aged 71 years. He was a pilot in
the war of Isl 2, and witnessed the fa
mous engagement in Boston Bay be
tween the Chesapeake and Shannon.
Figaro says that Prince l'icrre Bon
aparte has a startling way of calling his
servants. lie tires his pistol once fur
John, twice for James, and three times
for Francis. When they don't vome di
rectly, he keeps up a running tire with
his musket.
In - Wyoming Territory the Indians
raided on the stage route between I tryan
and South Pass on Sunday, carried ill'
stage horses, and wounded a man, named
John ('oneness. All the stuck between
Bryan and Smith Pass is supposed to be
gone. The vicinity swarms with Ara
pahoes and Sioux.
Hon. Horatio Seymour, president of
the American Dairymen's Association,
late Dentocralie candidate for President
of the United States, is complimented
in the Ikurth am! Home with a portrait
of himself and a diagram of his farm.
Mr. Seymour, as an intelligent country
gentleman is hospitable and is esteemed
by his neighbors.
How the Money Goes
The Public ',Word, the new penny
paper in Philadelphia, while maintain
ing complete independence !of parties
deals some telling blows at existing
abuses. Ceder the above caption it has
the following editorial remarks:
Some French Minister,ltichelieu, if we re
member right; used to give directions Whim
tax-gatherers, when they [went out among
the people to gather the revenues, "not
pluck the goose so closely as to make it
squeak." Apparently there is no Annl
iean financier, who has sense enough, or, if
he has sense, who has strength enough, to
0n force such instructions on our tax-gath
erers. That patient goose, our good pit hlic,
does "squeak” most plaintively under its
taxes, and without relief. Yet, it is not so
much the closeness of the plucking as the
nu:inner of it, that makes the Amerioan
public dissatisfied with the operation of the
revenue system. We have a groat debt,
contracted in a long and desperate war.
The people are commit to pay that 11011 t, iu
any just find proper wily, and will make
reasonable sacrifices to that ; but
when they see, as they have seen
for years, an USI;nSiVn machinery For
collection on the One hand, and a multitude
of "itching palms," in those who run the
machinery, on the other hand, it is no
wonder that. the people complain. The case
may be likened to sonic of those foreign
charitable societies, whose purpose is highly
commendable, and whose money, it it
ever roaches the beneficiaries, does a great
deal of good, but who yet lose in Ow trims
mission so great a part of the charity through
the percentages and salaries of agents as to
make the affair a doubly expensive ono to
the charitable givers. Nor is this all.
other elements besides expensive ma
chinery come in to diminish the amount
of the taxes wrung out of the hard
earnings of the people. If any class
of officers should lie nut only above the
charge of corruption, but above suspicion
of it, surely it should be those who /155055
and collect the revenues. Even the judicial
officers of the government ought not to he
more upright, or ineapable of dishonesty.
And yet we habitually Lind revenue offices
distributed as the spoils of party triumph
to men whose chief re(mminendation is
their past party set vice. If our readers
think we overstate the evil, they have only
to glance through the following official
table of moneys due from a few of the ex
collectors of the single State of New York.
This table is taken from the statement of
the Secretary of the Treasury, made pursu
ant to the house resolution demanding a
return of the annum nls dile from collectors
of internal revenue not now in office:
A. M. Wood $443,169 SI
1 :( K. Pratt 115,019 oil
T. C, Callicott 52,738 05
11. McLaughlin (acting) 73,615 85
J. 1.% Bailey 785,869 So
Jos. I lox ie 44,067 62
Lewis J. Kirk 107,210 GO
M. B. 'Field: 529,661 05 !
M. B. Blake (first terno 22,2.54 09 !
Wm. Boardman 16,597 07
Alex. Spaulding 4"455 39
T. O'Callagen 07,524 74
W. Masten 91,508 8.4
Jas. Forsyth 109,227 .53
S. T. Richards 32,310 50
T. R. Walker 122,001 67
R. IL Avery 26,723 57
Samuel P. Allen 1'27,067 49
J. B. Halstead 15,933 98
11. W. llaseall . 72,0111 90
Milton Smith 19,503 30
S. Shook 1,0-12.303 71
Here. then, wo have the amounts still
due from gentlemen no longer in office, in
a single State; and we have struck out,
simply for the purpose of condensation mid
convenienee, all sums below $lO,OOO, thus
materially reducing the size of the list. In
some cases explanation is easy and satis
factory; but, in many others, the govern
ment will never see a dollar of the money
wrung out of the people. Wo all know that
Callicott is in the Albany Penitentiary serv
ing out his term fur del r rauding the govern
ment, and that Bailey isa fugitive from j us
tice. The New York Sun, from whose col
hi inns we condense this list, adds: "Thegov
ern:Tient has instituted legal proceedings
against Collectors Masten, Halstead and
Van Voorhis, fur the recovery of the
amounLs set opposite their names. Others
I ave, since their retirement front office,
engaged in many unlucky speculations,
and therefore lost all their money." Read
the whole system of tax-gathering in the
light of these official revelations, and say if
it is any wonder that the taxed public (s)lll
plains of the rough " plucking" it receives
from the hands of the tax-gatherers ? Pay
ing taxes to decrease the debt is one thing,
but paying, taxes to line the pockets of po
litical adventurers is finite another.
Ml=
Radical Frauds Unearthed at Riehmond
—Ellyslon Probably Elected.
RIC II MOND, May 2.5.— . 1110 Conservati yes
have been much excited to-day over rumers
that the Commissioners of El ectiens, who
are now counting the votes, have discover
ed enough illegal ballots to insure the elec
tion of Ellyson. It is certain that a good
man v marked ballots have been thrown
out, but the Commissioners decline to give
particulars. It is also said that the vote In
the precinct where the ballot-box was stolen
and where Cbahoon had a large majority,
has been thrown out. The Commissioners
have adjourned until Monday.
NORFOLK, May 28.—011icial returns of the
municipal election give John B. Whitehead
(('onservative),for Mayor, thirty-eight ma
jority. Tho Conservatives have el acted twen
ty-eight of the thirty-seven Councilmen,
and the whole ticket except Commissioner
of Revenue, Keeper of the Almshouse, In
mpectorof Street-s, and Clerk of Markets. It is
understood that the Itadiuds will make an
effort to have the election set aside on the
ground of fraud and intimidation.
RICITMOND, May 29.—1 t is rumored to
night, that the Commissioners of Elections
will givecertificates of election Co the whole
Conservative city ticket, and that the Con
servatives will have nineteen of the twen
ty-five Councilmen.
New York Eleetlosy 17, 1870--litale
4,=i - Pi.i ,
The following aro the majorities at the
late election In this State: Democratic ma
jority on Chief Justice, 87,2 H ; Folger over
Andrews, 1,752; Andrews over Mason, 877 ;
Andrews over Hale, 2,820. Folger and
Andrews, Republicans, are elected as the
two minority Associate Judges.
Official vote of the city : Church (Demo
crat), 82,152; Seldon (Republican), =,187.
Church's majority, 59,90.
SU ETCHES OF TRA VEL NORTHWARD
No. VII.---Montreal
Montreal, the largest and most Important
city of Canada, is situated upon the Island
of Montreal, at the confluence of the St.
Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers, and at the
foot of Royal Mountan, front which it takes
its name. It was formerly surrounded by
a wall, but this has long since fallen into
decay, and it Is now entirely open. The
population which Is now about seventy-five
thousand, is largely Catholic, and the city
has been called the " Rome of A series."
The visitor will not tail to notice the
wharves of Montreal. They are built of
solid stone, and are unsurpassed by Ihe>o
of any city in the country. St. Paul street
extends along the river tlio whole length (1
the city, and is the ewer business thorough
faro. 'Vito fashlomthle promenades are
Groat St. Janes a rOet and Sofro Dalin°
street.
The Victoria tubular Bridge spans the
St. Lawrence At Montroa% It is r e ,t,
or almost two miles long, and rests up.ei
twenty-four plots. 'rho heavy iron tubes
through which the railroad truck is laid are
twenty-two feet high and sixteen feet Wide.
This elegant structure cost over six mil
lions of dollars, and WIIN opened With g r cot
pomp and ceremony in the summer or
ISt.lO, during the visit of the Prinecol Wales.
Montreal is noted for its churches,
of which are very handsome :mil ;Oita,-
dye ; we shall mention only a few of the..
Tho mo,d ootio.bto is the French Cathedral
of Notre Dame, an elegant and costly edi
fice of stone, nceonumidathig from oi g io to
10118 thousand persons. It is two Innoln,l
and lifty-fgio feet long, and one hundred
and thirty-four feel wide, and is surmount
ed by two towers, tanth two hundred ;1,1
twenty-live feet high. The windows are
handsome stained glass, and the principal
ono is sixty-four feet high and thirty- t‘s
feet broad. Adjoining is the Seminary iil
St. Su
'rho Bishop's Church, in St. Denis ',lnv',
is a very elegant strum tire, and St. l'at
riek's Chitroli 01 . ClIpil,1
sitiuu ill liagawelietiere street.
Aniongtheprotninent l'rotestant Church
es aro Christ Church il , t)r,z,. • s
Church and St. Andrew's Church, a chi,.
imitation of Salisliury C.itheilral, in
land.
street is the Nunnery ~ 1
tlhet I rey Nuris,Avltielt Order NV:I,I linturlrJ in
1692 for the care of rhiWnm awl lunatic+.
The Ilhtek Nuns, fmmile.l
themselves to the othivatimi it relll:oochil
dren, 111111 !MVO it 11111111,y in N..tri. 11,11 m,
street.
The Itonsecours Market !louse 1,13 gruel
vesting Rut, hundred and eight,
thousand dollars. In the 11j1111 1 r story at.
the offices of the Corp.,ratilm, the Conned
Chamber, 111111 a grand ball or ‘,11.011 root.,
capable of seating four thou,aini
Itt a central part of the city i, 3 111.110
mint erected to the memory of the n a v a l
hero, Lord Nelson.
The Court 11011 1 40, the ( 1 11.3.111 111111,1' 31.1
the I'ost 1)1110o, are all all radio
the latter is situated in I;reat. St. .1311.1,
street, opposite St. l.assrenee Hall. hi,,
Merchants' Exchange is in St. Sacrament
street, and St. l'atrick's I lospital and 1,11-
era! Hospital are both ill 1,1,11,31, 13
At the base of Itnvul Nieeet,,i,, is Mei
College, anti on the northern shme of 11.•
mountain is the totiiit Itoyal Cemetery.
The Water Works are about a 11111. 11..,
thu iiityi
British ar tii Si!,ll in all pal
of tlio city, guarding lint
etc. In tic iivoniug wo
parade.
Many of the privatu residrn ern , e , peci
ally 010,111111,0 R 010 suburbs of the,ny.
very handsome, UN ct them lasing Mull
Of SIMI, VVa worn. author disappointed
with Montreal. It is lint Su lOW a city
WI) expected. Many of Lilo streets :re liar
row and poorly paved. During the sum
Inner months it is visited by thousands of
tourists I'l,lll Ail parts of the annum - .
paratively fess por,ulk4 N: kit Niagara
Quebec, the Whitt) Mountains, or the Sa
guenay river, tvilla.oUt eilt,pping . at NI sit
trial.
I:=
1n...11y
• . //tvindy L, iiirroltsing,
.111.1 rm,. Iv dying 1.11
It inay seem in,insistent, and prrhap
inexplicable, to the reader, that. IN, sbouhl
111111111 e such an Do portant .louiction9 as in
sanity, in I,or category of iiorthin!,..g. litd
WO du not refer to insanity, n.x It ix, inidei
the tests of rationality, -hardy and moral
right, but ax it appears, is held, or ree,ard
ed, us a votivenient legal "1.'31W gust
especially by the friends and relati
Itlltrtlerces ;by prinwelit,a, for the de
fence ," fold often, too often, by consul.,
tious jurors, in groat criminal trials. In
this aspect, if we look abroad into this busy,
shifting, and mutating world of ours,
citniiet but be visivinced that insanity I
fearfully on the increase, and that crime
especially what 11.41 10 he generally I'llll
sitlered "capital crime - is proportionately
on the decrease. The life 4,r it. 111111
is ]nuked Ilpoll ILS So/nr(hOly,
quires every duvice, every subterfuge. nil
every possible sacrifice that the toilets
of men Pllll invent or make, in
or
der to Nits whilst himt or the Inm - -
do:wed Is absolutely mil/tiny, uu matter how
much sorrow, suffering, and danger, 11.1.21
been entailed on relatives, un friends, and
on society
Now, to our mind, this is 1/11
wrong—ratlically wrung—and the only w:ty
this wrong elm ever he righted, is to make
Insanity,—especially \Olen used as a idea
to shield a murderer againstiloserved inin-
Islinictit—n penal crime. This
least sireril sosis proteisiiiii to soeiety
against murder, and would prevent ilm•
murderer from living unceremoniously
thrown upon the I.4lintninilty again to re
peat his offence. About the insanity nl' nu
individual there scarcely lei a ques
tion, especially when prunounrcd insane,
by tun intelligent jury, in order to relley♦ a
criminal from the responsibilities of an ant
er murder, The same Jury that we,u
bring in a verdict of insanity to fuel ,P, fine
prisoner in the inurde. ease, would at the
Halllo tins be bringing in
him in the insanity easy, mid therefore, all
doubt, all expense, aunt all further trial
would be obviated.
In such eases, juries would have nothing
to do with anything but. the "lac• and the
facts,'' and to render their verdicts oil thcso
alone. It is true, that motive, and prerions
provocalion.v, may have their weight, mei
may prejudice the cases ben,. them, 05c
way or another, but when the plea of ',-
sanity is made to relieve a culprit from Ib,•
responsibility of his crie s •, these have little
to do with the case, because the face is ddfles
admitted, and is patent to the jury. A 111:111
is sh o t down apparently in cold blood, in
open daylight, and le•fore a hundred Wit
lIONSeS, by a brutalized murderer; and al
though nothing before was ever heard or
seen of his insanity, or that of any of Ilk-,
relations, yet now, that plea is resddridsl to -
Only bcc:uso Ole !let Wait Lee Upperelll tip
adroit of possible denial • to place an :Le
knowledged eulprit, in a position, where,
from any dulls°, he may repeal his .•ri
if an 111S:1110 filth- yea, IL simple 11111141 , L1
inoffensive creature -wile is esb•ewed ill
r • orirpeient to administer ills even affairs, dm
who is liable to doe dangerotlS to his fawily
or the community—must he forcibly im
prisoned in an mono,, Asylum, why should
not one who has committed a murder, frond
sur•h a cause, he also incareerated, if not
capitally punished] 7 A hstraetly consider
ed, all kinds of crimes, known to the
"criminal calender" or m 1,,, aro just so
many species of inSaaiiy : and, if robbery,
burglary, theft, arson, larceny, adultery,
fornication, counterfeiting, fraud, assault
and battery, slander, trespass, and many
others, are penal offences—as only no many
milder forms of insanity—why should the
aggravated form of urn otter, enjoy nn im
munity from punishment —whatever the
punishment of such a crime may legally
be 7 The pleas of justifiable homicide, solid
defence, protection of property, .be., hilly
acquit ono who is arraigned for taking the
life of another, with some show of moral
and legal right, but, it appears to us, that
to prove a Mall i/Vielie , before a jury or
twelve Intelligent men— where the cord in
would otherwise have been Murder gu one
of its degrees—and then to send hint "scot
free" out into the world, and to reoeivo
him into society again, thus offering him
facilities to repeat his offence against law•
and morality, proves also that the jury
themselves, as well as the court, were not
entirely free from insanity.
13ELLE-Vlrn%
Nathaniel Willis, who died iu Boston
on Thursday, at the venerable age of 90
years, was a son of Nathaniel Willis, a
well known publisher during the revo
lution, who was an apprentice with
Benjamin Franklin. He was the father
of Nathaniel P. Willis, the poet, Richard
Storrs Willis, and Mrs. James Parton
—Fanny Fern.