Eancaster 3jntelligencer.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE! 8, 1870
The Coming Congressional Elections.
The people of the United States will
have an opportunity to right many of
the wrongs they have endured by the
election of abler, wiser and more honest,
men to represent them in the Lower
House of the next Congress. The Rad
icals have had a majority of more than
two to one for some years past, and have
managed to preserve that disproportion
ate preponderance by gerrymandering
States so as to prevent a proper repre
sentation of the people, and by summa
rily turning out numbers of Democrats
who were legally elected. With such a
majority the Republican party cannot
complain if it is held to be entirely re
sponsible for what has been done, as
well as for what has been left undone.
Tried by that test how do the mem
bers of the present Congress stand before
the people? What have they done to
benefit the masses? They tell us the
national debt has been reduced. Grant
It; and what credit can be claimed
therefor? With taxation kept at the ex
orbitant standard reached during the
war ; with burthens of the most oppres
sive kind laid on every branch of indus
try; with stumps on every thing to
which those once odious appendages can
be attached, from the title deed of the
millionaire to the box of matches from
which the hod carrier lights his pipe;
with a tariff' that with unseen fingers
i tisidiously steals a considerable per cent
age of every dollar that conies Into
the laboring man's hands ; with un
inquisitorial tax on all incomes, which
the rogue evades while the honest
num pays more than he ought; with
taxes in an infinitude of shapes—taxes
on all that we cut, drink and wear,
taxes on necessities a 1 luxuries, taxes
on our daily wants and on all our pleas
ures, the government manage, after
rascally officials have stolen a very gen
erous Isar Tentage, to extract front a bur
thened and not over prosperous commu
nity the enormous sum of over four
hundred million dollars a year, And
liecause they do not spend the whole of
that vast stn, because a fraction is
saved and :Tidied to the payment of
driblets of the national debt, the people
will be asked to throw up their haLo
and re-elect the Radical members of
thu present Congress.
We fancy that intelligent white voters
will want better reasons for their votes—
for the negroes we can not answer.
White 'ten, those of them who read
aunt Iltiul:, Will examine the record of
the present Radical Congress; and we
imagine that very few who are gifted
with sufficient intelligence to under
stand a plain matter will lie satisfied
tvith what, has been done. Revonstruc
t ion lies been tinkered :it, and ficorgia
has been admitted to the Palau only to
be turned i oil again ; a bill full of pains
and penalties has been passed for the
ostensible purpose of enliireing the Fif
teenth Amendment Itw h ich no one had
attempted to violate) but designed in
reality to transfer thi.e4lntrid of elections
to Congress; that gigantic swindle, the
Northern Pavilic Railroad bill has beeu
Through, and a multitude of similar
jabs Inane 111,11 perreeh'll. That is
about all of importance Unit the
present Congress has dune. Months
were spent in driveling debates over a
remodification of the tarill; a display
was Wade Of the greed of Yankee mo
nopolists am' of (twit' power, alld then
the whole sal'ie , t was ' l, 'l'l' ol . A
funding bill was prepared and passed ty
the Senate which was heralded as the
greatest financial invention of the age,
but the National Ranks had it transfer
red pt a committee in the Lower House,
and there it still sleeps with very little
show of Iwing ailed upon. The debates
iin the lin:owes of the country, the great
question in which all elte,es are alike
deeply interested, have show n n lament=
able w:utl.'ml eat ctrl ty among, the mem
bers of Ihr present Ciingre ,, . The vast
Railieal majority has exhibited an utter
want id'tthilily to l grapple with the liv,
isues to the day, mid they must be
tht ust out, told wiser men put in, if flit
people wwibl have relief.
we can only hint at a few of the rea
-iins silty the people should feel ini
pe111•11 to make a complete change in
the eh:trailer of the next Congress. l'he
iairrmition which confessedly exists at
Washington ought to be sufficient to in
sue the defeat of a majority of those
who :I.l'l. -wekiilq re-election. Rings as
corrupt and mercenary as those which
are known In have existed in the Penn
sylvania Legislature have been formed
among the Radical members of the
present Cimgri-s. Many or them are
known It deal no longer with lobby
agents, lint directly with prineipals who
have jobs to put through. Members of
oifituliue,, take charge of improper
bills, Seen re a favorable report and engi
neer the passage of paying legislation.—
Radical Senators live in princely style
al Washington on salaries which would
wit pity for thee4tertainnients they give,
and members of the Lowerd louse amass
Miami,. hi a term or two. The people
do awlCeti In be toll hint t here i s rtu i k
1.1 lest) . at t h e laittom of all this. It
is so evident that it .ean not be denied.
That many Radicals NViii la unseated
at the ,itithing
NV, ilaVl` 110 111.11iit. The 111,111' illlll,i
iluu . spapers admit that such
trill he the ease. Large Ikanovratii.
gains in New lurk an' coneeded, and
them are a mother tit' districts in this
State ‘vltich tan be revidutitinized. \ Vt.
shall take oceasiun shortly ti, speak id
them in detail.
A Bridge at MT:ill's Ferry
Tile 11.x)1)1 10 c•:tlls attention to an Act
of .Assembly, passed by the last Legis
lature, incorporating a company for the
erection of a bridge over the Susque
hanna:it Ferry. The corpora
tors are Samuel I nitigherty, James ltoyd,
John Odin, Robert Smith,
Itimalioe, 1,. \V. Findlay, licarge 1.
Steinman, David \V ilson and ii. \V.
Books for subscriptions have
been uponc~l al the store ul• (leorgc
Slciunuui & Co., this city; at the tavern
of :Michael Donahoe, NII 'all's Ferry,
and at one or lev places in York coun
ty. It is to lie hoped that the bridge
will I,e speedily built. The filet that a
former Fridge 10:1s swept mvity, ought
not to deter from the proposed iniprove
nient, as modern engineering can easily
overcome Ihi• causes Nvhieli led to iLs
ilestruetiom
Directions In Regard to the Census
We publi,ll elsewhere full details or
the question,: 11l will be asked by the
falters; of the censtis,l with explicit ili
rectiiffis as to the answers whicil 5115111,1
be giv e n. 'l'lijs is iniporlalll Matter,
anti persons who post themselves
thoroughly will save considerable
trouble, both to themselves foal the
oflielals. 'rho iliquisitiv, fellows will
be eallinft 11121 . 01'V l..eg, and we
advise (111 reaf furs 1.0 loi•prupared to meet,
thew. such preparation the
suuam:u • y whirl 55t , publish elsewhere
will be rollllll to 111.15,,,,
value.
•'i'iao edi tor a a weekly newspaper in
this date saw lit some time ago to de
clare himself favorable to the nomina
tion ofJohn W. Forney as the succes
sor of John \V. Geary ; whereupon For
ney, after vainly waiting for an endorse
ment of the suggestion by other weekly
or daily newspapers, writes a letter
that he has no aspirations for the
gubernatorial chair, and that he
does not want ally ollice. In view of
the fact that Forney has been one of the
most indefatigable place-hunters in the
country his wordy abnegation sounds
strangely. lint, as his letter is largely
made up of an exhortation to editors to
speak kindly of each other, we forbear
further emninent upon this singular
production. He declines to be a candi
date for Governor two years in advance
of the nomination. That is being wise
in time.
Subservient Journalism
By his vote on the Northern Pacific
Railroad Bill, Mr. Dickey laid himself
open to the animadversions of an inde
pendent press. It is a swindle of the
most gigantic character, and those who
watched the course of the measure in
Congress, did not hesitate to charge
boldly that it was bought through. Be
fore this infamous job, the attempt to
transfer some Nine Millions of Dollars
worth of Railroad Bonds from the Trea
sury of this State sinks into utter insig
nificance. Yet we find that virtuous
journal, the Express, excusing the ac
tion of our Congressman. That is a line
of policy which is perfectly incompre
hensible to us. For thelife due we can
not understand how a delinquent public
servant can be eulogized, and his ac
tions condemned in the same newspaper
paragraph. The editor who does that
sort of thing, lays himself open to the
gravest suspicions.
In its attempt to insinuate that we are
influenced by a preference for Professor
Wickersham, who intends to contest
the Congressional nomination with Col.
Dickey, the Express only shows how
uneasily it rests in its present very awk
ward position. It confesses that it is
committed to 341 r. Dickey, and admits
that it dare not honestly criticize his
actions. It does this, not openly and
boldly, not manfully and in a straight
forward manner, but in that peculiar
cringing way which distinguishes it.
As between the two men who are con
tending for the Radical nomination, we
have expressed no preference. We have
criticized Mr. Dickey freely because we
regard his vote on the Northern Pacific
Railroad bill as radically wrong.—
We condemn him for it, just as we
have condemned every one of the ten
recreant Democrats, who united with
tell times that many Radicals, in the
pitssage of an act which gives to Jay
Cooke and his fellow corporators a ter
ritory nearly twice as large us the whole
State of Pennsylvania; and that with
out exacting a single restriction, or
providing for any of the rights of actual
settlers. So infamous a measure calls
for the severest condemnation from an
independent press, and none hut subser
vient. journals will remain silent or ex
cuse the outrage.
The Lupin,. is 00 the fence. It seems
to have no opinion upon Congressional
railroad jobs, and does not know wheth
er it will support Dickey or Wicker
sham. It leaves that to be determined
Icy future events. It would not be harsh
to infer from such language that it is
ready to he bought and waiting to see
who will make the best bid.
The I NTELLinENcEit is the only in
dependent newspaper published in the
English language in Lancaster city.—
The others are all the organs of sonic
petty taction. The subserviency and
corruption of the rest can be judged
by what they say of each other.—
If we are to, believe the loyal fel
lows .who control them they are
"a pretty pack of thieves together." Our
circulation is extending among the more
intelligent and honest Republicans of
the county, and our paper is read by
them because they know that it can be
relied upon to give a truthful account of
public :drafts. We 010 not aspire to make
it an organ of any Whig or fraction of
the Radical party, but are content to lie
recognized by the best men of the party
as the only really honest and reliable
medium of public information published
in this city.
The Census Takers
Marshal Gregory has not been able to
select Deputy Registers for Lancaster
County yeL. The applicants for these
petty positions are almost innumerable
:11111 the tiVah'y between them intense
and hitter. Inasmuch as Geary rose to
the Governorship, from the position of
census-taker under James Buchanan,
there are some men in this county who
looklu lltheollieuoCtownshipcuuuu•r
-alor as tlie:stepping stone to future polit
ical exaltation. Embryo Assemblymen
find would-be State Senators are eagerly
striving to , secure the opportunity of
being thus brought into notice, and en
abled to extend their acquaintatiee with
the voters in all capacity. It is ru
mored that. Gregory's chief of stall'in this
district, an ex-Congressman who gave
t'Videllte of intense loyalty by lodging
the negro orator, Fred. Douglass, in the
best bed in his house, is hostile to our
present representative ill Congress, and
ready to use all his influence to prevent
Ids renomination. How this may be
we know nut; but should the Deputy.
Marshal send out his small army of enu
merators, every one :u•nted with a record
of Dickey's vote on the Northern Pacitie
Railroad swindle :LIM other of his of
ficial acts, we imagine he ought give the
gallant Colonel of the "Bloody Tenth"
no little trouble. \Ve hope whatever•
quarrels exists may be speedily compos
ed, and the taking of the (111505 per
mitted
tO begin in Laneaster County.
The Self-t'ondemeed
Senator Alorrill, of Vermont, has pu
on record a very high compliment to
(len. F. I'. Blair, jr., the late Democrat.
is candidate for Vice President, which
seems to he now unearthed for the firs(
time. In a speech in the Senate, he as
serted (hat hut for the unswervingvalor,
patriotism and gallant conduct of that
gentleman, Missouri, in the early period
of the rebellion, would have been ar
rayed with the Southern Confederacy
in the attempt to dismember the Union.
NVllat a 'severe rebuke from high Re
publican authority to the revolutionists
of Missouri, who deny to this most gal
lant officer the army the elective
franchise upon a frivolous technicality,
whilst conferring it by wholesale upon
illiterate negroes.
THE labor or six long n u mths•which
have been devoted by the House Special
Committee to the preparation of tt bill
for reviving American ship building has
ended in naught. 'Pie Pennsylvania
members united to break down the
Heavy duty on copper, but stunk up for
a high protective Million the iron used
in building vessels. The Western mem
bers opposed it, 011111,01,111 t 01 its draw
bail: features, which they denounced as
the worst kind of protection. So amid
a mntest of (dashing interests the bill
was killed very dead indeed.
Wit EN ( ran I was inaugurated lie an
nounced that he would have no policy
of his own, and lie Mu+ so far kept his
word in all except the San Domingo job.
That promises to pay a party of specula
tors with whom he has formed a co
strt nersh ip, and our money-loving
President is hound to put the thing
through. lie has just sent a message to
the Senate in regard to the matter,
in which he very strongly urges the
ratification of the treaty. It is to be
Loped the Senate will snubb him.
Tiff: Washington correspondent of
the New York 1 Icrald says it is likely
that a resolutMti expressing sympathy.
with the Culaut insurgents will pass the
I louse only to be summarily defeated in
the Senate, which body Is said to be in
harmony with Secretary Fish, and to
approve of his foreign policy. Sumner
will bitterly appose any hill looking
to the acquisition of Cuba, and a Major
ity will follow his lead.
IS to be believed in Washington
that the passage of the proposed Inter
nal Tax bill would iusure the reduction
of the force of local officers fully one
third. It would accomplish this by al
lowing collection districts to be consoli
dated. If any such effect would be pro
duced the bill ought to be passed without
delay. We are of the opinion, however,
that sonic excuse would still be made for
keeping in all the swarm of officials who
are eating out the existence of the peo-
OICE of the beet things the New York
Sun has said lately is this:
"The beat thing that can now be said of
Gen. Grant is whatwas once said of another
illustrious failure, namely: that he has a
brilliant future behind him."
THE LANCASTER WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1870.
The Income Tax
The tax on incomes has been very
bitterly denounced by almost every
newspaper published in the East. It has
been persistently decried as inquisitor
ial, unequal in its exactions, and'ealcu
lated to encourage rogues in evasions of
the requirements of the act. The effect
has been seen in the House. Members
of Congress have been told that they
could not go before the people with a
prospect:of re-election if they failed to do
away with this obnoxious law. The
West does not seem to look at the matter
in the same light as the East. Not a
few Western members were strongly in
favor of continuing the tax without
abatement or alteration. When the
question came to be settled by a vote a
compromise was effected. On motion
of Mr. Cox, of New York, the rate of
taxation was reduced to three per cent.,
and on motion of Mr. Hale the amount
of income exempt from taxation was in
creased from $lOOO to s:.noo. Should
the Senate concur in the action of the
House those upon whom the income tax
has heretofore pressed most heavily will
be relieved.
From statistics before us, we infer that
these changes will operate about as fol
lows : the increase of the exemption to
$2OOO will relieve about one hundred
and fifty-nine thousand salaried men,
and other people of limited means, from
the payment of the tax, who now pay
between nine and tell millions; the re
duction of the rate to three per cent. will
take uhf about $0,400,000 more front the
remaining hundred and sixteen thou
sand taxpayers who will still remain
subject to the tax. As the law now
stands, the income tax of last year was
levied upon two hundred and seventy
five thousand persons, who paid $2.5,-
02,3,008. If the foregoing amendments
Shall be finally adopted by the House
and the Senate, they will reduce the
amount raised from this source about
$10,000,000, and leave about $9,1100,01H)
to be collected.
The Fight for the Mayoralty or Washing-
The cry which the Radicals raise
about election frauds is only designed to
cover up their rascalities. In Washing
ton City the straight-out, Ilegrtl laCtloll
of the Republican party are getting
ready to re-elect Bowen I\ layor of the
city. The Registers are very busy, and
wagon loads of Maryland and Virginia
negroes are constantly arriving from the
surrounding rural districts. As soon
as they cuter the city they are
taken in hand by the active
managers of the party, posted as to
what answers they shall make to
the questions asked, aud speedily trans
formed into citizens of Washington city,
for the time being. They are paid so
much a day for the time thusspent, and
are fed and lodged at the public expense.
It is said that Bowen has imported
enough of these rural negroes to render
his re-election certain. The Democrats
have no candidate in the field, and the
contest being bUtWel . ll two Radicals only
renders it more desperate. The entire
police force of the city is engaged in
electioneering 'and thousands of idle ne
groes lounge about the grog shops and
other places of low resort all day long.
They arc engaged in playing the part of
American citizens, and can not con
descend to work.
The Debasement of Southern Polities.
With the re-election of 'Whittemore,
the disgraced army chaplain and cadet
ship trader staring hint in the face, tt
correspondent of the N. Y. Tribune,
himself a Northern Radical, and there
fore unquestionably good authority,
writing front Charleston, gives the fol
lowing in relation to the ruling power
in South Carolina politics:
"There is an unpleasantly large class of
politicians who live only by politics, who
know 11,, other profession, and who look
upon the legitimate and the illegitimate
emoluments ~1 the trade with equally fa
rnrablo eyes, When to these we add an
infusion in the Legislature of
as the test eligible iu acommunity .114,1,1
hand:, who never saw a school house and
never owned a five thdlar bill, it iv easily
to be Seell that dangers bt•sct the publi,• af
fairs of South Carolina.-
That is the condition to which a Rad
ical Congress desires to reduce the en
tire South. For the accomplishment
of such results the Union 11:1,4 been kept
divided, and the infamous hill for the
enforcement of the Fifteenth Amend
ment passed. We would despair of the
republic, but for the fact that we believe
many men who have heretofore acted
with the Republican party in the iNorth
are beginning to see the evils which the
corrupt leaders of that organization have
brought upon the country. That there
will be many and very decided changes
at the coming t•ongressionat Elections
is the opinion of t h ose who are best
informed, and with the destruction of
the overwhelming power ut the Radi
cals in the National Legislature we may
expect a change of policy.
RANT iv to leave the cares and
troubles of the Presidential (Mice on
NVednesday for it week's trout fishing
with Simon Cameron. That he will
have a jolly season we have no doubt.
Simon can afford " to stand treat" in
consideration or the appoint neat of his
son-in-law to a first-class European 111
Grant's trout fishing always costs
his friends someilhing,. The last time
he tried the gentle spurt was one Sun
day in August. Suuu• true sportsman
made information against his Excel
lency tin' violating the game laws or the
State, and Col. Kane paid a line of live
dollars Mr each fish caught. 'phis time
( ;rant comes in season and it is he hoped
he won't fish on Sunday. It is setting
a very bad example to the rising gener
ation.
IF Congress duos not adjourn soon
there will be no public lands kit fur the
people to settle upon. It will all have
been given away to Railroad Corpora
tions, and put into the hands of monop
olists who will grind the faces of emi
grants and compel the hardy pioneer to
pay exorbitant prices fur a home. Thus
will the opening up of the great \Vest be
delayed, :Old the i n terest of the , Nation
injuriously atli-oted. low long will hon
est Republicans continue to countenance
Congressional corruption?
A CANVASS lies been made of the Sen
ate since (It'ant sent in his silly message
in favor of the San Domingo Job, and
it has been ascertained that but a single
vote has been changed by it. Senator
Iloward is announced as ready to vote
for the proposed swindle. It is thought
other arguments more weighty than
those contained in the President's mes
sage have been brought to bear upon
him. The whole transaction is sur
rounded by all atmosphere of corrup
tion.
REyNot.ps, the Radical State Auditor
of Alabama, wrongfully collected a large
emu of money from an Express Com puny
and refusing to refund the same, was
committed to prison by Judge Busteed,
of the United States District Court.
Reynolds wants to be Governor of the
State, and this appropriating game, it
is said, will improve his chances for a
nomination by the Radicals.
SIMON CAMERON has not been cod
dling Grant for nothing. His son-in
law, Wayne McVeigh, Esq., has just
been nominated as Minister to Turkey.
Grant will no doubt feel as much at
home in the mansion of Lochiel, which
he is soon to visit, as he would at the
hotel of that name. He has paid his
scot in advance.
A DESPATCH from Washington says
The Senate Pacific Railroad Committee
has determined to make hereafter some in
quiries as to the antecedents, character and
financial standing of applicants for railroad
charters and land grants First come firmt
served has heretofore been the rule, and
parties desiring franchises to sell or use as
a basis for bond operations have been serv
ed as readily as capitalists asking charters
in good faith for the purpose of building
the roads.
That is locking the stable door after
he horse has been stolen.
NORWICH, Connecticut, has elected a
Democratic Mayor by :NS majority.
The Official Vote of New York
The official vote at the late election in
New York has just been published, and
It foots up a Democratic majority of 84t
-206. The Democratic majority :in the
city, is 59,965, and in . .the Country
tracts 27,241. These figures completely
do away with the silly stories about the
election having been carried by frauds
practiced in New York city. The Rad
icals made a very poor show in the rural
districts, and in some of the most relia
ble Republican counties a complete rev
olution was eflbcted. The Tribune sticks
to its exploded falsehoods about repeat
ers, &c., but other Republican news
papers can not see it in that light. The
Times says :
The fact Is we must go behind all thesug
gestions of the Tribune to find the real ex
planation of the result of Tuesdays elec
tion, as well as to discover the means of
preventing a repetition of the disaster in
November. The truth is rapidly growing
apparent that the Republican party lacks
harmony of thought, as well as efficient
leadership. A great party, like a great
army, must have both a cause and
leaders in order to achieve success.
The policy of the past, by which we
have hitherto won victories, has been meas
urably merged in accomplishment, and
out of that accomplishment has sprung a
variety of now issues, which no one has yet
attempted to deal IA ith in a statesmanlike
spirit.. The Republican leaders in Con
gress, whose legitimate work it was to con
duct. the party, have utterly failed. Instead
of rallying round the Administration, and
co-operating with and strengthening it, they
have been indifferent or hostile, while at
the same time they have neglected the pub
lic service, and developed nothing but a con
flict of policy, and a diversity of action, the
first fruits of which were harvested in this
State and Connecticut.
An honest confession is said to bo
good for the soul, and we have no doubt
the editor of the Times felt better after
telling the truth about the election. The
facts stated are recognized by sensible
Republicans everywhere throughout the
country, and their force will be felt, not
in New York alone, but in every North
ern State at the elections next fall. New
York only leads in the great political
General Hancock
On the arrival of General Jianeock at
Sioux City he was waited upon by the
editor of the Sioux City Times, and his
attention was called to the Associate
Press despatches from Washington of
May 22d, charging hint with having
shown discourtesy to the President on
different occasions while the latter was
General of the army ; the said despatches
also stating these allegations as a reason
why the President refused to assign
General Hancock to a command com
mensurate with his rank, and at the
same time giving to a junior a command
of a higher grade over General Ilan
cock. The General asserts these alle
gations to be in the main false, anti
says that he intends to take an early
occasion after having seen what has
been published in reference to this
subject, while absent on the upper Mis
souri, to formally reply to the allega
tions, as charged, in detail, they seem
ing to bear the impress of the sanction
of authority, and this occasion being
the first opportunity presented that war
ranted a formal reply to such allegations.
General Hancock was not aware of the
publication of despatches, or any part of
them, correct or incorrect, as published,
nor the origin or cause of their publi
cation, until he received the newspapers
containing them two days since at Fort
Randall, and therefore is not conversant
with all that lots gained credence (luring
his absence.
Letting Light in on the San Domingo
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Sun lets some rays of light in
on the San Domingo Job which Grant
is so diligently laboring to put through.
He says:
The limitation of a million anti a half of
dollars for the purchase money is only a
trick to deceive the public. That is but a
drop in the ocean of projected expenditure.
The scheme is to get the island at any price,
and, having got it, to build up a naval sta
tion of magnitude without regard to ex-.
pense. For this purpose the lobby have .
secured the best sites on the island for
quays, docks, and the like, with the lauda
ble Idea of making Congress pay roundly
for every inch of the speculation. Twenty
millions would not foot the bills for St.
Domingo, ifonee acquired. It is the largest
job, after the railroad spoilations, which
has been put up, and the ramifications in it
extent! from the White House to all the
sources of real or supposed influence.
What a spectacle is here presented to
the country and to the world ! Let
the people look at this man Grant in his
true character. Let them remember
how lie has systematically made sale of
offices, how he tilled his cabinet with
mediocre men who had given hint gifts,
how he has parcelled out places among
a greedy gang of impecunious relatives,
and how he has grown wealthy by the
acceptance of presents from men who
look to be paid by favors; and then let
them behold him boldly and impudent
ly taking his stand ill the ante-rooms of
the Senate Chamber, where he button
holes Senators and begs them to vote
for his San Domingo Job, which he and
his friends have set up in such a shape
that they will make immense fortunes
if it is put through. Even the gold
speculations in which Grant and his
brother-in-law Corbin were engaged
looks almost respectable beside this last
and most impudent attempt to swindle
the tax-payers of the nation.
Tito School Fund of Tennessee was
stolen during the reign of Brownlow
and his saints, and a Committee of the
Legislature of that State is now engaged
in tracing the missing property. It ap-
Iwars by the evidence of Mr. Itutter,the
President of the bank in which the fund
was deposited, that it was arranged be
fore his bank was made the financial
agent of the State, that it should fUrnish
a certain amount of money to the Radi
cal leaders as a party corruption fund.
It did advance that party twenty thou
sand dollars at one time, to aid its leaders
in maintaining power in Memphis
through the the Metropolitan
police. It advanced money also to bribe
membeN of the Legislature and to sup
port Radical newspapers. In this way
the whole three hundred thous:nut dol
-1 Lrs of the school fund were used up.—
liaton,the RadicalSehool Commissioner,
owned and edited the Nashville Post,
and thousands of dollars of the school
fund went to aid in propping up and
keeping that rotten organ in existence.
These are the facts brought to light by
the Committee of the Legislature, and
they show how utterly and shamelessly
corrupt are the leaders of the Radical
party in Tennessee.
Effects of the Rains on the Wheat
The continuous rains and uninter
rupted cloudy weather of the last week
have prostrated a great deal of the wheat,
much of it being very badly down. As
the grain is just blossoming it is feared
that no little damage will be done We
notice by our Maryland exchanges that
the saute thing has happened in parts of
that state. Elsewhere there is no com
plaint that we have heard of.
IN order to show his complete subser
viency to Radicalism, the ex-rebel Cres
well appointed a Negro Postmaster in
one of the countes of Maryland, where
the negro population is most dense. The
darkey could not give bond, and so he
was compelled to abandon the office.—
The Postmaster General is reputed to
have been much chagrined at the mis
carriage of his scheme for destroying all
distinction of races in his native State.
emloos, who has been figuring for
some time in connection with the May
oralty of Richmond, Virginia, has, at
last, tumid his level. He has been in
dicted for forgery, by which the State
was defrauded out of seven thousand
dollars. What a precious set of scamps,
scalawags and plunderers now rule and
lead the Radical party North and
South.
RETURNS from Whittemore's district
indicate that he has been re-elected to
Congress by a majority of 8,000. He
was supported exclusively by negroes.
What will the Radical Congress do with
this member of the party. If they turn
this thief out they will offend the ne
groes, if they let him in they will dis
grace themselves.
Whittemore Re-elected
The expelled carpet-bagger Whitte
more has been re-elected to Congress.—
He had no Democratic opponent. A
negro took the field, but it is believed
he was bought Another carpet
bagger of more reputable character run
the race out, but Whittemore beat him
badly. A correspondent of the New
York Tribune, writing from the district
of Whittemore gives the following ac
count of him :
If the gossip which this gentleman's own
neighbors retail about him be true, it seems
strange that even the most infatuated of his
black constituents should not pprue soon to
know the man. I have Listened to nothing
from the lips of Rebels or Democrats, and
get my estimate only from true, earnest
Republicans who have had to work beside
the man in one capacity and another, in
legislation and in electioneering, and have
come to know him by degrees. These all
give him the praise of being a tireless, con
stant laborer, ever ready 'to answer
any call, able to speak in sten
torian tones by the hour and by the
day, equally capable on the stump and in
the pulpit, and an adopt in all the social
expedients known to the local politician.—
But they all attribute to him a readiness to
replenish hie pockets by any method, a
willingness to confiscate small perquisites
as well as large ones, and inability
to distinguish between his personal
treasury and that of the party which
cannot but bring any politician event
ually to grief "Why, Sir," said one
gentleman to me, "when two lady school
teachers came to Darlington, and the hotel
refused to take them in, this man took
them down to the house of one of the best
citizens, and got him to keep them over
night, a man with the real Southern notion
of hospitality; and then the Representative
in Congress collected 75 cents apiece from
them fur their lodging, and put It in his
own pocket. They went to the same house
for shelter again a few weeks after, and of
fered their host in the morning the same
sum they had paid before: and he resent
ed it as an insult; and so the
whole contemptible swindle came out."
" Yes, and that was hardly smaller than
collecting dimes and quarters from all the
negroes in Isis district for a national stag,
and then getting the money for the same
stag from people in the North on the plea
of the peverty of his people." We found
his accounts in a sad state in our Republi
can State Committee ; and when we in
quired into some of the deficiencies, hosaid
he had spent a certain hundred dollars for
printing ballots for such and such a village;
but the leading negro front there contra
dicted bins on the spot, and said on the
contrary hu hail sent down and demanded
collection of money to inky for the tickets,
which had been duly made and entrusted
to him. So wo were unable to certify to
his correctness, but made a report speaking
of his great ardor and indefiaigable work
in the campaign, and regretting his vitro
lessness in keeping his accounts." Of
worse I, MI a brief sojourn in South Caro
lina, cannot testify to the correctness of
these stories; I merely give them as speci
mens of multitudes of allegations freely
made upon his political friends, so far as I
know uncontradicted, and going to show
how natural and consistent with his entire
career was the lapse which occasioned his
departure from Congress.
What a commentary that is upon
negro voting! How completely it ex
plodes all the theories of the Republican
leaders! What a farce such an election
is, what a mockery of Republican insti
tutions ! It remains to be seen what the
Radicals will do with Whittemore. He
comes back to defy them. Will they
turn him out again ? We shall see. He
is scarcely meaner 111:111 some others of
Isis class.
Massacre of the Jews Iu Mournella
The story of the Massacre of the Jews
in notnnelia, which we publish else
where, is one of the most horrible reci
tals which has shocked the public in
modern times. If the telegraphic re
ports be correct the "native christians"
of the Turkish Empire have proved
themselves to be more barbarous than
heathen. How, after having been per
secuted by the Mahommedans for cen
turies, they could turn upon the Jews
and butcher them in cold blood passes
our comprehension. Can it be possible
that this was done in the name of Chris
tianity ?
Itoumelia,Room-elee,Rumili, or Rou
mania—ltoman land—is the name for
merly applied by the Turks to the largest
of their European provinces, comprising
their most important possessions in
Greece and north of it as far as the north
ern ridges of the 'Balkh', and is now ap
plied by them to the territory comprising
part of Macedonia arid some adjoining
districts to the northwest. The name is
generally used, however, to designate
the provinces known to the ancients as
Macedonia and Thrace alone. The whole
number of Jews in European Turkey,
in 1660, was estimated by Dr. Kolb to
be 70,11(1(1. What proportion of these re
side in the. province of lionmelin, we
cannot say. The number of Greeks and
Armenians, who are called Christians,
in Eurolicall Turkey, is set down by the
same authority at 10,1si0,oilo, and of Ito,
man Catholics at (*Ono. From these
figures, it would appear that the Jews
are not sufficiently numerous to defend
themselves against an attack by the
" Christians."
We hope that future accounts will, at
least, lessen the extent of the inhuman
butchery as reported ; but that a wick
ed and cowardly work has been done, of
sufficient magnitude to sicken the civil
ized world, appears far too probable.
The Truth About Congress
We publish elsewhere a letuling edi
torial from the New York Herald which
tells the truth about the present Con
gress. The article is all the more signifi
cant when it is remeniliered that the
Hrrald is the most sycophantic flatterer
of Grant to be found among the news
papers of the country. The opinion that
the present Congress is in fanniusly cor
rupt is so general that even independent
Republican newspapers arc compelled to
speak out in terms of open and undis
guised denunciation. The Washing
ton correspondent of the N. Y. San
says:
It is not to be disguised that the breaking
up of the Republican volumn is roost seri
ously threatened. Superadded to the rea
sons already given, the class legislation
here, the enormous land grants, the vast
spoliations on the Treasury, the partisan
violence which sets aside all justice, and
wide-spread corruption, have tended to
alienate and even to disgust moderate and
upright men, who in not think it a part of
their political inissionkit countenance frauds
and to cover up plunder Mr the benefit of
Republicans in Congress.
All that is needed to insure the defeat
of the Radical candidates for Congress
in several of the close districts of this
state is a proper presentation of the is
sues to the people. Thousands of honest
Republicans are alarmed at the corrup
tion which exists at AVashington, and
they can be induced to vote for Demo
crats of ability and unquestionable in
tegrity. Let our best and purest be nom
inated throughout the State.
THE Radicals in Congress put their
opposition to universal amnesty upon
the plea that rebels would be sent to
represent the South. IL is even feared
that John C. Breckenridge might Inc
returned as Senator from Kentucky.
We admit that such a thing would be
likely to prove extremely disagreeable
to the Radicals. Such rebels would not
only tower far above most of the Radical
Senators in intellect, but they would
expose the rascality and corruption
which prevails in Congress. It is no
wonder Radical Congressmen dread the
reappearance among them of such men
as used to represent the South.
Death of Jonah D. Homer, Esq
Jonah D. Hoover, Esq., prominently
known throughout the country as a
leading Democratic politician, died at
Washington, on Saturday last. Mr
Hoover was United States Marshal fur
the District of Columbia during the ad
ministration of Franklin Pierce, be
tween whom and himself a very warm
personal friendship existed. Mr. Hoover
was a gentleman of high character, and
enjoyed the confidence and esteem of
men of all parties. He was for some
time engaged in the newspaper business
as publisher of the Washington Eaprcss.
He frequently visited Lancaster, and
was well known to many of our more
prominent citizens.
Grant "ficated on a Monument Smiling
at Grief."
The New York Sun, loyal Radical,
thus notices General Grant contempla
ting his Waterloo defeat in New York :
The Republican party in New York is !tt
disintegrated ruin, and General Grant,
seated on a cigar box, contemplates this
ruin, and in undisturbed placidity blows
smoke through his nose.
The New Minister to Turkey
The nomination of Wayne McVeagh
as Minister to Turkey is not regarded as
any great compliment to Pennsylvania,
or as a thing which is likely to aid the
Republican party in this State. A very
large portion of the party are disgusted
at the influence which Simon Cameron
has somehow managed to establish over
the President. The Philadelphia Eve
ning Telegraph speaks of the new
Turkish minister as follows :
President Grant yesterday nominated
Wayne McVeigh, Esq., of Chester, to the
Senate for the mission to Constantinople, to
take the place of Hon. E. Joy Morris, of
this city. We think that there is eminent
propriety in the appointment of Mr. Mc-
Veagh. He is the son-in-law of Senator
Cameron, and cannot get office from the
people of his county, district, or State. His
last effort was less than two years ago,
when, with all the appliances Cameron
could command to aid him, he was beaten
only five to one in the Convention. Being
a son-in-law of Cameron, he must of course
have office ; and as he can't get it from the
people, he must get it from Grant. At first
the Cabinet was selected, and it was an
nounced by Cameron that McVeigh would
soon succeed Attorney-General Hoar, but
rather than miss, a second-class mission is
now accepted. The appointment will cost
the Republican party of Chester county a
reduction in its majority of five hundred or
so, and many thousands in the State; but
no matter, Cameron and his family must
be provided for.
The Color Question In the Theatre
Washington city being immediately
under the supervision of a Radical Con
gress, the great doctrine of the party is
being rapidly worked out to perfection
there. Negroes have been admitted to
the public schools and are received at
the entertainments given by public dig
nitaries. The Washington correspond
ent of the New York herald, records
the following instance of the pushing
impudence of the blacks :
" The equality of color is making rapid
progress in this town. Last night two ne
groes, dark as the ace of spadts. occupied
conspicuous seats in the orchestra at the
National Theatre, enjoying the English
opera. The night preceding, an otticer of
the House of Representatives created an
iIIIIIIOIISO sensation, by appearing at the
SUMO theatre with two dashing and ele
gantly dressed colored ladies. lie bore his
honors manfully and meekly, paying no
attention whatever to the curious looks di
rected towards him by his white brethren.
Route very excited white folks went to the
manager of the theatre to protest against
the "outrage," as they called it, and to
suggest the propriety of putting the colored
gals and their white escort out of the thea
tre. The manager declared he couldn't do
it short of a tine of live hundred dollars,
which he did not propose to incur this sea
s et."
The House t Georgia) Reconstruction
Bill, ready to be reported at the first op
portunity, goes even far ahead of the
Gingham amendment. It is specially
provided therein that a new election in
the State shall be held the coining fall,
as is provided in Ilse State Cons( i [Whin.
The bill differs in all its essential fea
tures from the Senate bill, which was
some time since passed by that body in
such an incongruous shape after a very
protracted debate. It is gravely appre
hended that the present status of the
question, and the seeming incompati
bility of views in Congress, will, after
all, put oil an adjustment of Georgia,
till the next session. We are not sure
that this is to be regretted. The present
condition of Georgia is bad enough, and
any additional Radical legislation can
only have the effect hi aggravate her
sufferings.
CERTAIN overzealous and hide-bound
Radical newspapers—such as the Lan
caster Express, for instance—have denied
that the New York Sun is entitled to be
called allepublican newspaper. It does
not support all the bad measures of the
administration, and occasionally tells
some very ugly truths. The following
is one of its latest and hardest hits:
If Gen. Leo were President of the Uni
ted States just now instead of Gen. Grant,
with Jeff. Davis for Secretary of State, in
stead of Hamilton Fish, the policy of the
Government could not be more averse than
it now is to the cause of human freedom.—
We doubt whether both England and
Spain would not prefer the present Admin
jstration."
That kind of talk is enough to rile the
whole tribe of syeophantic Radical edi
tors whom Horace Greeley once aptly
characterized as "the insignificant in
sects whom Providence, fur some mys
terious purpose permits to edit Republi
can country newspapers."
WHEN the Effpre.so is worsted in legit
imate newspaper controversy it resorts
to blackguard ism and abuse. Its last
issue is On instance in point. It goes
off into a flurry of loyalty and lashes it
self into an agony as desperate as that of
a dying whale. It
prates about copper
heads and apostrophizes Jett". Davis.
That is its method of carrying on an ar
gument. It is a very poor one, to be
sure, puerile and ridiculous, but it seems
to be all that it is capable of. We do not
suppose it will ever discover that epi
thets are not arguments.
Tito Pittsburgh Comm, rciid thus ilk
poses of the proposition to make John
W. Forney the next Itailical nominee
for Governor of Pennsylvania:—
" A Harrisburg totter writer to the Ileav
or Rodic‘d expressos th,‘ conviction that
the name Of John \V. Forney will be urged
fer Governor before the next Republican
convention of the State. Ile ontiLs to add
that it will be urged in vain. 'the writer
proceeds to give a history of Forney's po
litical career, just as if the people of the
State are not fluniliar and disgusted with it.
Attempts like this to bolster up pMitical
leeks only lead decent people to Lou if the
time will never come when the Republican
leaders will cease to insult the masses in
this way. Cameron Mr oiled States Son
:gor, Forney for Goveritor ! Who is the next
patriot on the list ?
A SPECIAL do p atch to Forney's li' so
shows how deeply he is ehagrinegl over
the result of the Municipal election in
\Vashingtim City. He says:
The defeat is attributable solely to the
course of the disalfeete,l Republicans, who,
almost :thogether on account of personal
41ilrereitees, united with the Democrats
against the regular Republican nominees.
'l'he case is the same as in Virginia and in
Tennessee, where itepliblh•ans deserted
their party standard. And in Washington,
It.s in those States, such liopliblicalls will
4inichly learn the error of their ways.
1=!
Eight thow-nnil imum, arc 14,t. ,ale in
Ecars pr4,w ling ttl.ut iu Blair
county.
A NVOIMiII • near ; -, l•ranton ha , given
birth to triplets—two boy's and a girl.
All are doing well.
The term of Hon. James Thompson,
Judge of the : 4 uprenie Court, will expire
next year.
The Presbyterial' Synod Harris
burg will meet at Bellefonteiin the Listli
inst.
A little boy playing, in the Heading
market ran a meat-hook in hie wrist.
It could only be removed with ditlieul-
Nathan Hellings has erected immense
building, costing over s:2o,uno, near the
Delaware river, two miles above Bristol
for the preservation of all kinds of fruit.
A child 13 months old, of Mr. E. M.
Reynolds, of \Vilkesbarre, picked up a
bottle of corrosive sublimate with which
its mother was cleaning bedsteads, and
drank it. It died in a short time.
The locust trees through the State are
unusually full of blossoms at present,
tilling the air with their fragrance.
This is said to be a sure sign of a large
and bountiful corn crop.
The Governor has appointed and the
State Department commissioned the fol
lowing notaries public for the term of
three years each Charles G. Milnor
and C. H. T. Collis, Philadelphia.
At Thomasville, York county, George
B. Thomas is appointed Postmaster,
vice Emanuel Spangler, resigned. A
new office is to be established at Mount
loyal, York county; Michael B. Leas,
postmaster; en route York to Dellisburg.
The Montrose Democrat says Joseph
Shupp, while hunting on Saturday last
found and caught a rattlesnake on the
fourth rail of an old fence, winch
measured live feet three inches in length,
and was proportionally large in thick
ness.
The citizens of Bethlehem, recently
had an adroit swindleramong them. He
opened an office as agent for a Boston
Life Insurance Company. One party
invested $163, but afterwards had some
doubt of the agent's integrity, and he
wrote to the principal office for proof.
The swindler was arrested and put in
jail. Some of his friends disgorged the
$163.
News and Other Items.
One hundred females are now study
ing law in this country.
The King of Prussia has among his
pets fifty white mice.
Michigan complains of invasion by a
legion of potato bugs.
The rains have caused heavy freshets
in the Southern States.
lowa city has got pure water by boring
400 feet.
A Chicago joke is to grease the keys
of concert pianos.
The number of cattle owned in Eu
rope is 95,700,000.
During a thunder storm at Chicago',
yesterday, three men were killed by
lightning on North avenue.
Cowley county, Kansas, which had
not a white family two years ago, has
now a population of 2,000.
It is said that the new detachment of
Canadian Zouaves for the Papal army
will leave Canada late in June.
At Portland, Maine, on Saturday, Mrs.
Hutchings,a deaf old lady, was run over
and killed by a locomotive.
Despatches from India, mention an
alarming outbreak of cholera in Bewail,
in the Bengal Presidency.
The fruit and grain crops in Central
Illinois are reported to be nearly a month
ahead of last year, and to promise splen
didly.
An extensive fire is raging in the
woods of the Metapedia district of New
Brunswick, and miles of telegraph poles
have been burned.
On Saturday, Hon. Wm. H. Tweed,
of New York, paid a bill of $.5750 for the
transportation home of Fenians from
Vermont.
There were 271 deaths in Philadelphia
last week, a decrease of 33 from the re
turn of the previous week. There were
30 deaths from scarlet fever.
The Union Pacific Railroad company
is employing Chinese laborers for the
section west of Cheyenne, and the dis
placed laborers are making threats.
At Central City, Colerado, on Friday,
Leopold Klein was killed by an idiot
named Tuttle, whom he was driving out
of his garden. Tuttle is in jail.
The Fulton Re publioun, Fulton coun
ty, Ims again changed hands. Mr. It.
E. Shalkr having re-purchased the
office from Mr. H. B. Jeffries.
James N. Miller, 11:1,1sold the Wayne::
burg., Green county, Rei.wit,,ry to Mr
\V. (I. W. Day, of that place Who Will it
the future run it.
Ropresentatis•e Voorhees made a po
litical speech at Terre Ilante on Satur
day evening in the course of which lie
said he intifinled "t 1) make lint one more
race for Congress.
At Deerfield, sew Hampshire, on
Sunday, a boy, named Little, aged ten
years, shot another, mimed Bean, aged
live, while playing with an old musket,
and killed him instantly.
The smallpox is raging among the
Crow Indians, 111111 there is 'very little
hope of checking it, as, owing to some
superstitious idea, they refuse to be vac
cinated.
Scott county, Illinois, was visited by
a destructive tornado, on Saturday. For
a space of four or five miles in length,
by one in width, all the trees, crops,
fences and vegetables were destroyed.
No lives were lost.
There is a place on the top of Laurel
Hill, in Fayette county, known as the
Philadelphia rocks, where snow can be
seen now three feet deep and icicles as
thick as a common saw-log.
Mrs. Owen Franks committed suicide
by shooting herself through the heart,
at Pekin, Illinois, last Tuesday. Do
mestic unhappiness is assigned as the
cause.
A eat owned by H. M. Collin, of Ro
chester, N. 11., lately caught a large
perch which ventured too near the edge
of the river, brought it into the house,
uninangled and still alive, and laid it at
the feet of her mistress.
A vigorous old lady of Westport, De
eatur county, Indiana, by the name o
Wheedon, walked to Greensburg a few
days ago, paid her taxes, and on return
ed to within 21 miles of Westport, mak
ing 30 miles in one day. Her age is 7•
years.
Colonel Morrow, commanding at Fort
Buford, Dakota, reports that the Indians
in that vicinity have declared war
against the whites, and are preparing to
attack the fort. Morrow had fifty men
to defend the post, while from three to
five hundred Sioux warriors were in the
neighborhood.
In Kansas, thirty-five Indians have
attacked Col. Nelson's mail station be
tween Camp Supply and Hays City,
killing two privates and wounding Ser
geant Murray. The Indians have also
killed a Mexican servant at Camp Sup
ply, and carried of 50 mules from the
vicinity.
At Chicago, complaint has been made
to the Health authorities of a sickening
odor in the vicinity of Washington and
Wells streets. The nuisance was abated
esterday by a visit of the Health offi
cers to a Medical College, under the roof
of which was discovered a vast collec
tion of dissected human remains in var
ious stages of decomposition.
In Chicago, the erection of a new ho
tel, to be commenced on July Ist, is an
nounced. It is to have a frontage on
state street of El feet, and on Monroe
street of 2,52 feet, to be eight stories high
to contain 7riU rooms, and to be in the
style of the Louvre at Paris. The cost,
including the ground, is estimated at
z 42,500,14111.
The Erie war has been renewed.—
Commodore Vanderbilt yesterday noti
fied Jay (;ould that all arrangements
between the New York Central and Eric
Railroads are void, and that Erie tickets
between New York and Buffalo :tad
Niagara Falls will not be received on the
Central. The Pennsylvania Railroad
has received the same communication,
:LIM negotiations arc said to have been
opened between that road and the Erie
for an alliance offensive and defensive.
The International Typographical
I'M ion began its 15th annual meeting, at
Cincinnati, yesterday, one hundred del
egates from the United States and Brit
ish provinces being present. Among
the delegates are two women from New
York The following officers were elect
ed for the ensuing year :—President,
.T. Hammond, of New Orleans;
Vice-President, Thomas Willard, of
Albany, and John H. O'Donnell, of
Roston; Secretary and Treasurer, John
Collins, of Cincinnati; Corresponding
Secretary, Miss Augusta Lewis, of New
York. The session will last until Fri
day.
At the Third ward polls at Washing
ton city, on Monday, during a difficulty
bet Ween the whites and blacks, one of
the latter was shot in the wrist. A riot
occurred in the Seventh ward, which
became so serious that the officers were
obliged to resort to force. A colored 11121.11
was shot by one of them,the hall entering
the left side. ity riding into the vast
crowd and briskly using their batons,
the mounted police succeeded in dis
persing the rioters, some of whom
were arrested. With these exceptions
there was general gem!, order through
out the city. Never before has there
been so much interest exhibited in the
municipal election in this city. 'The
main coutest was between Bowen, the
present Mayor of Washington, and
Emery, also Republican, who was for
the greater part supported by those out
side of that organization.
The Terrible Story Confirmed!
PA ills , J one it—\l id night.—The in (omit
tion respecting the massacre of the Jerrii ill
itolllllelia, as telegraphed to the American
Press Ataticiation, emanated train the Cen
t ral Committee of the Alliance Israelite
llniverselle of Paris, who published a tele
gram from Constantinople, announcing,
that on Sunday the LtUch of May, the Chris
tian populace of Botuschang, in the pro
vinee of Roumelia, attacked the Jews by a
preconcerted signal, committing a terrible
massacre. M en, women and children were
slaughtered, and the scene is described as
terrible beyond expression.
on the following day the attack was con
tinued. All the Jews had lied from the
neighborhood. The Jewish telegram re
ferred to described the fury of the populace
as horrible in the extreme, and implored
that succor should be immediately sent
them as they were houseless wanderers.
No contradiction to these accounts has
been received.
The Indian Vleltore
WASILINGTON, June G.—Red Cloud, Spot
ted Tail and the other Indian Chiefs, were
received by the President this evening, and
the entertainment is reported to have been
in every respect as elegant as that given
to Prince Arthur." There were present,
besides the President and Mrs. Grant, the
Cabinet Officers and British and Russian
Ministers and families, Eon. Felix It. Bru
not, Vincent Colyer, Commissioner Parker
and members of the Indian Committees of
Congress. The chiefs and squaws were in
full Indian costume. The President pre
sented each of the Indian ladies with a
bouquet, while Mrs. Grant and her daugh
ter made similar presentations to the chiefs.
The Indians were much pleased with their
reception.
Ei=iiVEMEEMI
wwentrarroN, June ti.—The charter elec
tion to-day passed off, contrary to the gen
eral expectation, very quietly, only ten
riots occurring, and they wore not serious,
and were soon put to an end by the police.
The reform Republicans have swept the
city clean and elected a mayor, and have a
majority of aldermen and city councilmen.
It is generally conceded that Emery, the
reform candidate, is elected by three thou
sand majority.
SKETCHES OF TRAVEL NORTHWARD
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No. Vlll.—Sharon Sprtors.
Sharon Springs are situated in Scholarie
county, New York, at a distance of about
sixty-live miles from Albany, from which
they may be reached In three or four hours
by either the New York Central or the
Albany and Susquehanna Railroad. By
the former road tho tourist will proceed
to Palatine Bridge, and then take the stage
for the Springs, some ten miles distant,
while by the latter he will have a stage ride
of about the same distance from Cobble
skill Station. Tho country is very hilly,
and either ride will be found rather tire
some.
The principal hotels at Sharon are the
Pavilion, the Eldridge, Congress Hall, the
United States and the Union, all of which
(except the Pavilion, which is the most
fashionable) are near the Springs. There
are also several smaller hotels and a num
ber of cottages.
The Spriugs-4ourin number—aro at the
base of a lofty mountain. The waters flow
for a quarter of a mile and are clear and
pure, closely resembling the White Sul
phur of Virginia.
The tourist who visits Sharon in search
of health will rise early in the morning and
drink two or three glasses of magnesia
water before breakfast, taking care that the
first glass contains several toaspoonsfull of
salt. This water is remarkably clear and
cold, and is not at all unpalatable. Daring
the day persons usually drink front eight
to ten or twelve glasses of sulphur water,
which is rather dark in color and exceed
ingly unpleasant to the taste.
Eleven o'clock is the hour for bathing.
Tho sulphur water is heated by steatußand
supplied in numerous small private bath
rooms, an attendant being present to regu
late the temperature to suit the invalid.
These baths are very beneficial, especially
to persons suffering from rheumatism. We
know of several runes where they have
effected NViniiintlin en roe. Persons fre
quently visit Sharon early in the season
unable to bathe, and leave late in August
thoroughly cured. A ft, a bath you feel
very weak, and it in advisable to take a
sleep, especially if you have had the water
very warm.
The afternoon may bo pleasantly spent
in rambling, among the mountains or in
riding. Tine "drives" about Sharon are not
very numerous, the country being rather
too hilly. TM, most popular and perhaps
the pleasantest "drive" is to Prospeet I lilt,
a few miles from the Springs, or to ('horn•
Valley, still farther away. From the former
the visitor will ohlain a splendid view of
the country fur miles and miles away..-
Near Sharon is Cooperstown, the Inane of
J. Fenimore Cooper, to whose writings wo
have frequently referred in former articles.
In the evening hops aro given at the prin
cipal hotels, and are generally well at
teinhsl.
The season at Sharon eonunencea about
the first of .1 ay and usually terminates
late iti August, but if the weather is not too
cold many persons remain as late as the
first of October. Tho etimato is pleasant.
During the day it is sometimes warm, bnt
there is generally a line air, and the morn
ings and evenings aro cool. Occasionally
it becomes SO cold that tires and overcoats
are not uncomfortable. Fruit of all kinds
is rather late, strawberries being quite
plenty in the middle of August.
Sharon is now visited by persons from
all parts of the country, and is destined at
no distant day to become One of the most
popular of our summer resorts. During
the past year efforts have hems !made to ex
tend the railroad to the Springs, and when
this is accomplished Sharon will rapidly
grow in public favor.
We have been compelled to wake Wig
article unusually brief and, we fear, unin
teresting. In our next we shall speak of
Niagara Falls. C. A. L.
OUR BUNDLE OF NOTHINGS
Paying the Printer.
"I do kuppose, all knowledge flows
Right from the Printing Press;
So here I goon, In these old clothes,
And settles op I guess,"
No one, not immediately connected, in
some manlier, with the " Printing Press"
of the country, can form any correct idea
of the tardiness and general reluctance,
there is manifested on the part of subscri
bers, in "paying the printer"—and especi
ally in what is called the Country Picas.
Now, we have not the most remote idea of
making an . invidions comparison between
city and country subscribers, or between
those, rather, who support country, and
those who support city publications,
whether newspapers or magazines; never
theless, eve think it is demonstrable that
there are people, in some communities, who
"strain at a gnat and swallow a cainel "
that is, who pay a fire dollar city subscrip
tion with curnmendable composure, but
who " wine° awfully" ill paying a onc
dnikn• country subscription. But we do
mean those persons per se who theoretically
acknowledge that all knowledge flows
from the printing press, whilst at the same
time they place the paying of the subscrip
tions to their newspapers and magazines
on the very lowest line in their catalogues
of pecuniary obligations, if indeed they do
not place it on an "air line" below the
lowest. Most unquestionably they all
intend to pay, and this intention would not
at all be objectionable, so far as it goes, if
it were not that many who so intend, seem
to think—like Mr. Skimpole -that smell
intention is just the same as if they had paid.
Some shockingly bigoted old religious en
thusiast has roost inconsiderately blunder
ed out that "The way to hell fr pared with
good intentions," lint surely nobody be
lieves him in these enlightened days, and
why should they? when all of Mr. Sk Un
pole's philosophy on pecuniary obligations
runs in a "diametrirally oppoisito direc
tion—when good intentions may efface any
obligations, pecuniary or otherwise.
The little "couplets," however, which
constitute the head of this insignificant
"stick" in "our bundle of nothings,"
breathe all encouraging and refreshing
I spirit—something more than a mere inten
tion—something more tangible than an ob
solete skimpoleism. They indicate such
an honorable itch - nowledgment, honest in
tention, and s uc h a practical net, as ought,
to stimulate all those who aro under pecu
niary obligations to the printer and pub
lisher of any journal, whether In town or
country. When an individual truly be
lieves that the printing press is ono of the
most prolific sources of knowledge that
ever has been vouchsafed to the world—or
rather perhaps wo should say, the most ef
fective mcd/uni knowledge—for all
knowledge has its source, primarily, in
lied, immediately in man, and mediate
ly in the workmanship of il3llllS—
if then this were fleknowledged, there would
not lie so much reluctance ill according to
it that pecuniary recompense which it so
richly deserves. Ilia there are absolutely
people, in this closing third quarter of the
nineteenth century,who hare no faith in the
printing press as a medium of knowledge.
Here is a !UM 11011 S response from such a
person. " Donil sent me yor poper no
longer fur i dond reel et, i ony shaf woos
in a weeg, an i hef to mood' shafen paper"
If such a communiection can yield any
balm to the weary head and heart of an
Editor, it will lie nothing for him to re
pose tranquilly upon a " bag of augers,"
and digest "gravel 11.11." But that is ab
solutely nothing, in regard to the volume
it speaks, concerning tl.e intellectual status
of him, who does not read his paper. Such
a man has not oven good intentions. lie
belongs to no school of philesopy,:and prob
ably has no /foil hut gold, or "green
backs." Ile does not intend to "pay the
printer"—he does not make any " guess
work" alsmt it, for his fixed purpose isnot
to incur such a pecuniary obligation. There
fore, this stick of ours, has no power to
"stir up" him, but must be applied to those,
who having voluntarily assumed such an
obligation, vet delay, and hesitate, and
equivocate, in a prompt and honorable dis
charge of it. BELLE-V 1 Jaw,
MIME=
A Filibutstering Expedition Broken tip.
11...v.LNA, June s.—Do Bodas telegraphs
that the filibustering expedition which
sailed from New York on the steamer Goo.
B. Upton, disembarked at Punta Brava, a
few miles east of Nuckvitas. They were at
tacked by a Spanish force, 100 strong, as
sisted by two gunboats, and dispersed, los
ing 10 killed, including Capt. Harrison ; 2
were drowned and 3 captured. The steam
launch, rubber rafts, and the entire cargo
of arms, ammunition and medicines which
had been landed, were captured with
some correspondence. The Spanish naval
commander telegraphs that the munitions
captured consist of two tons of powder, over
100,000 cartridges, and 1,700 rifles. CLsnepoa,
who commanded the expedition, had sailed
on the Upton, with the balance of her cargo,
for Columbia, for the purpose of bringing
back an expedition of 200 Columbiana.
The editor of the "Voz do Cuba" reports
that six tons of gunpowder,ooo rifles and
the entire material of the Upton fell into
the hands of the troops, and several pris
oners taken wore immediately shot. None
of the despatches state when the lauding
was effected.
[For tho Intolllsoneer.l
CAPE ISLAND.
CAPE MAY CITY, Juno 2, IS
" A life on the ocean wave,
A home on the rolling deep,
Where the scattered waters rave,
And the winds their revels keep."
Had the gentleman who wrote this
lad been hero for three days last week
would have been thoroughly convin
that the scattered waves and wild wi
wore keeping their revels in downri
earnest. The sea run mountains high,
wind blow a perfect hurricane, and the
poured down in torrents. The sight
grand beyond description. But the sl
has passed, and the bright sun is a
shedding its genial rays over us.
Ou Saturday an excursion train e:
down with six hundred Presb2, - to
ministers on board. They arri
in the midst of a heavy rain ale
which marred their pleasures, m
to their regret. However, they
trived to enjoy themselves, and all w
smiling faces as they gazed upon the br
ocean from the stops of the Stockton. S.
ventured out on the beach, and gath
clam and couque shells to take limn
mementoes of their trip. A sump luou.
past was served up by the Railroad e
piny, and they all ate heartily.
astonishing what appetites these 'ireful
have, but probably they were only spar
ed up by the effects of the salt air. 'r
were supplied with six hundred gullet
milk, but no gin. I think that this wa
oversight on the part of the company,
verily believe that a few converts ei
have been made to the gin and milk
trines of the 11ev. Mr, Smyth. The re
having been finished, the prayer said
the hymns sang, they were carried ot
carriages to the depot, all seemingly
lighted with their trip to the sea sliere.
The hotels aro making extensive pre
ations for the 91/111,111•11i1111, 501144011. The
mantic, the Centro, tho WashiLviol
several others of the smaller 1U11......
already open, but the guests are,
very few at the present time, being in,
composed of persons who hays ruulo 010
look alter their cottages.
The Columbia House will again td
leading position this season. Me.
Itultuu, the proprietor, who has made
self so popular, both her, allii
burg, WILS down lhr 00101'
to work to fully ;wept, himself tor
opening day, which will take place on
Ind old one. The improvements made
the l iiimobia sin, last season show s
liberal spirits of the proprietor. Ile It
hesitates at expense where the tu n a furl
hie patrons are iS earl it .
a Very gl`lllll4llllll, uu,l is
serving W . llllll'll praise for the
Manner ill which Ile ens 111,1141 his 'ilt
Thorn Is nothing in the l'hiladelphi,
New York markets too good filr lii. ;ilk
For lint) oysters and lisp there 1,11 lie
better than those, at Cape May. 'They
taken out of the I ieeatt fresh every [nor
expressly for this house. Tito best c.
are employed, and the admirable kit.
arrangements cannot be surpa,scd.
Bolton has arrayed around hint nrr
clerks who understand their business
know how to be courteous and anon
Aznong them I notice NI r. John Polo
Harrisburg, an estimable young ge
man, who is now hero superintendhe
refitting of the house. :NI r. Bolton pi
ices to excel himself this season, Ile is
scantly, I mu told, receiving applieati
by letter, for choice rOOlll,l, which sh
very clearly that then, will soon be c
rush here of beauty and fashion.
(4,1 feature of tire coteelhin Iluu so,
an important one, is that its patr. , ll:l.
from the most wealthy and relined raiii
of Philadelphia, and the entire intern
Pennsylvania. 11'ith no great aim at
play, you bind the essentials of u retired
genteel summer home, and the appo
atoms of the house throughout are stir
swim especially adapted and applied In
desires of its guests.
Thine,
Official Deapatch from General Han
elm:Aim, Juno 3.--Tho following
patch was received ut the Military II
quarters, Elated Sioux City, .1111111 2.
I have just, returned to this point. I s
to the Cheyenne agency, above Fort N
and had conversations with the ludi
Troops have been placed at old T.
Whetstone Creek, Cheyenne and I;
River agencies. I have visited all
cept the latter. General Stanley Was
it lbw days since. Everything wits
I have ordered two eempanics to
Lower Brute agency, eighteen miles la
Crow Creek agency, on the application
agent, who informed me that he could
continuo his business operations Lin
troops were placed there. Evcryil
seems twiet, Lit the intern is iainsidi
uncertain along the river :tt. 1 . 114 , .: el
Major Randall's agency, tie, only p
where I talked with the Indians, I olisia
that they made premises for the Fitt
and sonic of thoni there, :vi
points, complained of troops being pl.
on -their reservations. They unili•rst
however, why iL 1”lie, and seem t,
nit the i justice or it. My impression is
wo I have no trouble with thei
the government continues the
feeding therm Otherwise 1 have
doubt there will be serious trouble.
were more likely to make tree Llu r
where, however, as they ran only trail.
the Missouri. The policy of sending
representative men of the refract. dry
dians clearly would have a good eltert,
would generally break down their ie
01110 With the 1111H/init. I request
thorny to advertise a reward of t?.. - 0,1
$l,OOO, say in horses, for the murder,
the family on the Nebraska river. I
hove we may thus capture iheni,
least produce the effect of Mitering all
from like Crimes, for fear of being :trre
through the same rewards. I leave lei
first train for St. Pants.
W. S. ILAN.
Major-(;eneral, uitml Statv, t
The monthly public debt sbnement
issued, shows it reduction luring
month or Slay of $14,:101,962; anionn
coin in the Treasury, $106,759,731; 0111•1•
cy, $14,243, 016. The following la till .
capitulation statement of the debt bear
interest: Five per cent. bonds, $2.21,:"..
300.00; per tint bonds Ixsr,, $3..:3, 1 d00
$2,107,943,2011.00. Interest, $1.:,11
451.14. Debt bearing currency inmres
three per rent. certificates, $15,510,000.
navy pension fund at three pereent.4ll,l
000.1/0. 'Vote], $59,510,0110 Imi. Inter
$462,103,71. Debt on which the interest
ceased since maturity,53,721,317.3::; inter
$401,030.64; debt bearing no interest,
and legal tender notes, 1,ta:, , ,,,107,221.
fractional currency, ;
titivates of gold deposited, tt:ta,:te, - ,mo
TllOO, $.131,011,070.311, 'l'lloal 1,1111,11111 ,
standing, $2,602,215,595.74 ; interest,
900,675.53; total of debt, principal :11111
terest to date, Including interest due I
paid, $2,645,124,271.27 ; amount in 141,mi
coin, $1013,769,731.6::: currency, $14,::43,
; sinking fund United States coin int
est bonds and accrued interest there ,
$35,463,228.51; other United States eoin
terest bonds purchased and ileecu Oil lilt
eat thereon, $42,0115,122.27; total 11111111111 L
treasury, $236,561,809.49; debt less anim
in treasury, $2,4(16,562,:{71.76; debt I
amount In treasury of Ist ult., $2,4211.10
334.35 ; decrease of debt during past neon
$14,301,962.57; decrease of debt HIM,
Ist, ;31,76(1,105.39.
Negroes 1 n the Public SCI/001/d
The State of Louisiana has a Constitut
that VMS made by negroes and carpet-I,
gore, and, as a matter of (nurse, it .11
'anent prohibiting distinctions ins acco
of color or race in all places of a pill
character. One of Ms articles provides
"all children in the State shall be admit
to the schools or other institutions iif lea
ing, sustained or established by the St•
in common, without distinction of r
color, or previous condition. There sl
be no separate schools or institutions
learning established exclusively for
race by the State of Louisiana." The nc
and carpetbaggers' Legislatures enactc u
school law to carry out the Said `41:114.11 a
cle of the Constitution, and the State Sul
intendent of Schools—one Rev. Outwit
is enforcing that law by putting nc
children in the common schools with
whites. .4 great commotion among w
parents and their children is the con
uuence. Several public meetings In
been held by the whites, and iirrangeme
made to establish private schools Mr wl
children alone, leaving the common
public schools to the negroes.
The German citizens of New Orleans
progressing in a very businesslike w
Their plan is to establish "one prim
school in each of the six districts of the ci
and ono intermediate school in the hi
and Second districts, the establishing 0
high school depending on the reportsof
Committees on Finances and Teacher
The enrolling of pupils has already
moucod, and subscriptions are being Ire
made.
Tho future of the public school system
assuming ominous appearaiwo. 'roe rat
OfieN will not send their children to I
public schools on account of religious cur
plus. White Protestants will not scud th t
children to the public schools that Lulu
black children equally with white. 'II
result will be that the public schools NS'
be left altogether to the negroes. Who
parents, who are too pair to Send tht
children to the private schools, rather tin
let their children go without education w
send them to the Catholic free schools.
that way the Catholic free schools will seen
as pupils pretty much all the poor whi
children. Poor people will prefer the
children to be educated as Catholics, rah,
than educated as social albinos. kith
that, or Protestant whites will have to t
as the Catholics; tax themselves to Lista bli.
free schools for poor white children, and
taxed at the same time to keep up the pu
lio schools used altogether by black
colored children. Such, it appears to
will bathe result of the general enfurcente
of the Louisiana school code, Which Ls e
bodied in Mr. Sunnier's bill.