;Lancaster jntelligmcer.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1870
Another Big Land Grab
The Radicals of the U. S. Senate voted
on Saturday to give away another im
mense slice of the public lands. They
passed a bill transferring to the Central
Branch of the Union Pacific Railroad
the odd, and to the Brownsville and
Fort Kearney road the even sections of
a tract of country fifty miles wide by
three hundred miles long. It has been
customary in these grants to reserve al
ternate sections for actual settlers, but
here every foot of land for fifty miles on
either side of roads extending for a dis
tance of three hundred miles is given
away without the least equivalent. This
action of the Senate is totally without
precedent even among the annals of
this thieving race of Congressmen. It
Is so barefaced and shameful a "job"
that the New York Tribune is forced to
cry out against it. That paper says:
"The action of the Senate is not only
without precedent as one Senator argued,
but without wisdom as a dozen others voted.
It seems, indeed, so wholly indefensible as
to smack strongly of a very positive "job."
The Senate has been for a long dine past a
sort of free hunting-ground where specu
lators poached valuable game on the nation
al preserves. We look to the House to
stop the rascals (speculators, not Senators)
in their first attempt at tire present bold in
novation."
The charge that the Senate is a hot
bed of corruption is not a new one.—
Democratic newspapers have repeatedly
called attention to this fact. ?how that
the Tribune admits it we suppose it will
no longer be denied., What a spectacle
is presented to the world when it is con
fessed that the highest LegislatiVe body
in this nation ie notoriously corrupt;
when the leading Republican newspa
per of the country charges a majority of
Republican Senators with being engaged
in a gigantic job or stealing. That is the
true name for it milder term will
properly deserilW it. It is by such de
vices as this that men who were poor:,
few years since have grown to be enor
mously rich since Ihey heroin• members
of the United States Senate. Some of
them own princely mansions in Wash
ington, and UV(' ill sot], splendor as
would tax the resonrecs or an English
nobleman --and all on a salary' of live
thousand dollars a year. These land
grabbing jobs explain how they manage
to do it. Let honest Republic:tie:look
at these things, and then let them say
whether they can continue to vote the
Radical ticket.
'file Oregon Election
The election in Orcg„on is both a sub ,
:old a valtialilv lriumplt fur the
I),ll,..rativ party. It shows limv the
tide of opposition lo misrule
is sweeping over the country. It is a
response ill ( . I.lllWHiCiituu dSe \c Void:.
The only victory Ili• Iteptiblieans
have achieved since Illy wieldien of the
Fifteenth (lie election of
the thief \Vllitienwre.
not only elect the State ticket in Oregon
by a very decided majority, • hit they
carry the Legislature and secure the re
turn of :\ Ir. Nesmith lathe l'. S. Senate.
Nesmith isnot only a man of sound
practical senseduit he is ;in imperturba
hlu wit. Ile \Vas iu the ; - "enate during
the early part of the stir, Nvlien, lie said
one day on the floor, in the midst of :t
thousand other side-splitting things,
"Ilrigadiers were Si/plentiliil ill the
streets and hotels that a boy couldn't
tlu•ow a stone without striking one of
theta,' • and it iris not till after he had
thus let tly his light battery at them
itiaslted as it had been before behind
the dryest kind of liu•ingi that Mr.
\Vie, was Witch nunsyrd at the
sntnll army that class a the service
that hail ronrruttuteil on
iris vuabled le drive Went out of ,:ueh
pieasant quarter , and get them to the
front. That "\ Ir. Nesmith ever got
the credit that vcaa doe him till this
"oti‘vard movement" frolii
we de not lailieve, it to wind
110\V, \Olen he i , s candidate again for
Selialiiri in order it it
• justice mny.be
Ilene to him.
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Wt. 'widish elsoNeliere the remarlts al
Jultii D. Miles, menthe' . of Con
gress num the Lehigh and )Inntgoiery
district, upon the infamous hill for the
”nron•L•ment of the Fifteenth mend
nn•lit. r. Stiles is one of lite most
efficient and faithful Donmeratie Con
gressmen. Ile has had enough ttr ex
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S. S. l'ox', Speech
We el,ew hen• the vtirhitling,
portion speech
tigainst, the hill for enforcing the Fif
teenth .Aineinlment. It is a complyte
exposure llefariotiS purposes of
the ltadivals and a scathing rel.111:o to
them. The sentiments ex pre , sed by Air.
('ox, will lied a restinnse in the hearts
of the white men of l'enmylvania.
Item' it, and hand it to cony Itopublican
neighbor.
'gnu h 011
James It. hansom, rffimerly ed
itor of the Fulton ..th »rocrul, and more
lately the I ttliwrut, has
struck oil in Armstrong county, and has
a \veil called "The Little Annie," which
is said to be "pumping twenty-live bar
rels a lay—,ul improrig." Sansom
sieduced us into the editorial business,
having induced us to buy the Fulton
_Democrat from him some =even years
ago. lle is a wash fellow and deserves
all the good luck that can possibly rail
to his lot. Two (alter editors are inter
ested in "The Little Annie," and we
hope it may improve until it produces a
thousand barrels a day.
Tim New York Tribune honstingly
asserts that the Radical Superintendent
of Common Schools in New Orleans is
resolved to force negroes into the same
schools with white children. If the
present teachers of the Common Schools
resign, Yankees will be imported to take
their places, and applications from one
thousand have already been received.
To carry out their pestilential theories
the Radicals will stick at nothing.
l'or trout is the most faseina
ting sport we know of, but there are a
great many people who will be disposed
to think that the President of the United
States ought to stick to his post, at least
while Congress is in session.
Our Indian Policy
We have so long disregarded the rights
of the Indians that we seem to have for
gotten the fact that they once owned
every foot of the soli which constitutes
what we proudly call our national do
main. The right of the Aboriginess to
this widely extended territory was as
complete as title by occupancy could be
made. This was fully recognized by the
founder of Pennsylvania when lie pur
chased from the red men the soil of the
great commonwealth that bears his
name. Some of the early settlers dealt
justly with the original proprietors of
the land, but the white man was gen
erally unjust and overbearing in his
treatment of them. The superior skill
and greaterpower which civilization had
given to the European was too often
mercilessly used; and It is not strange
that a race of high spirited savages
should be greatly irritated as they found
their huntinggrounds, and the game on
which they subsisted, destroyed. They
had the right to make war for the preser
vation of their property, and It was
scarcely to be expected that they would
deal more mercifully with their white
captives than they were accustomed to
do with those of their own race whom
they made prisoners. War is always
barbarous, and the war of savages for
their rights can not be expected to be
gentle in its nature, or devoid of barbar
ous deeds.
From the lirst but little regard has
been paid by our government to the
rights of the Indians. As the title of
emigration has swept westward the
strong arm of the national authority has
been employed to crush out the origi
nal owners of the soil. Treaties have
been made with the red men only
to be broken. 'The government has
not deliberately violated its plighted
faith, but it has permitted outrages
committed by its citizens to go unpun
ished, and has taken sides with them
against, the Indians, without inquiring
who was to blame, and generally with
out attempting to adjust the quarrels in
peacable manner. Our Indian wars
haVe already cost us more money than
would have established all the Indians
On reservations, and have supported
them until they learned the arts of civil
ized life. I rad the money expended in
war been used to encourage the Indians
ill agriculture, and in stocking tile coun
try set apart for them with domestic
animals, our relations with them would
IlaVe been vastly different to-day. In
stead of being forced to keep up a stand
ing army at a vast expense, to repress
the incursions of a few broken bands of
savages, we should have had large dis
trietspopulated bya people living happi
ly, prosperously :Old ill full accord with
the civilization :Wont them.
tile press has been oftener
wrong than right upon this great ques
lion. The hot tem per of the frontiersmen
1111 S possessed the minds of editors, and
they have called for indiscriminate ven
geance upon a feeble race. They have
given details of outrages committed by
Indians, but the wrongs perpetrated by
white men have never been reported.—
Let us hope that there will be an end of
all this. Let the entire press of the
country unite ill demanding that a wise
and 111.11111111 e pulley of dealing with the
I nolians shall be inaugurated and stead
ily carried out. It is vastly cheaper to
feed the red than 10 light them, and
infinitely more christian-like. A great
nation like ours can not aflord to be unjust
or even ungenerous, ill its treatment of
the remnant of a people from whom it
11110 taken the vast don sin which
constitutes what we boasting!) . call
•'the area of freedom." Let the ap
propriations made to the Indians be
liberal; let pure and humane men be
employed to disburse the money; let
that money he largely used to establish
the roll muu ill agricultural pursuits,
too purchase stock, farming utensils,
wools and all that they need to enable
them to make a change from the roving
and proTarious life that they now lead ;
lot their lands be as sacredly protected
from invasion as those of any other
class--let these things be done and we
,114111 h:n•ele:a•o will, the 1 IllliallS for all
time to come. Surely that is a consum
mation most devoutly to be wished, a
thing for which all thristian nu•n should
be willing to play, and for whirl) the
people of this country would be found
ready to pay liberally without grumb-
liemorrat le l'auvus
TI• Demoeratictienators and members
on Friday,lield a cancusat the Capitol to
night, Representative Randall, of Penn
sylvania, in the chair. A proposition
for an elli•ctive t•ainpaign organization
in the close Congressional districts,with
a view ,ti' electing Democratic represen
tatives next fall, was discussed, and it
was finally agreed to appoint a vommit
tee, consisting of Senator Thurman, Sell
:dor Hamilton, and Representatives
Woodward, Beck, and Shober, to take
the matter under advisement and devise
a plan. 'Fhe (uiet's discussed the feasi
bility of uniting on some financial poli
cy, but an adjournment was carried
Ny itimut tiny result having been reached.
A campaign t.ommittee, to be located in
\Vashington, will probably be decided
The Massacre In Roumelln
Tlw reported massacre of Israelites in
itoumelia, appears to have been greatly
exaggerated. If later reports, gi Vet' on
the authority of the Associated Press are
to lw credited, nothing more than an
ordinary riot occurred. The• latest des
pah7lleS Sint, that the report of the Inas
,arre arose front a street disturbance at
Ittituschany, a town of about 4,500 in
habitants, situated in the Northern part
of Moldavia, :tint •;n miles northwest of
Jassy. It is further reported that on in
vestigation, the riot was a disturbance
growing out of a tight between parties
of s,•hootboys, who used stones as their
weapons and broke a large number of
windows.
The York True Democrat
The York True lk,ituvrat enters upon
its seventh year with a larger circulation
and a Latter advertising patronage than
it ever had befm'e. It is all admirably
managed. newspaper. Mr. Young, its
proprietor, was. formerly a resident of
Lancaster, and he has shown what en
ergy Call accomplish under adverse cir
cumstances. 'rho only fault we have
to llnd with him or his paper is, that
they are tooth extremely ltadival in pol
ities.
'l' war has been over live years, the
last formal 'Confederate surrender tak
ing place in flay, P.‘nii, and yet the
nhm is unrestored. Georgia is not yet
admitted. Doubtless there are those
who are now, and have for some time
back beeen collecting material for works
upon the war, and to these it is submit
ted :Is the text fur the chapter how these
live years past have operated as an
c.l . pm, .ac•lu ills( i licatiou or secession.
THE Hon. David Kilgore, ex-Con
gressman from Indiana, was recently
indicted for fishing on Sunday. Grant
fished on Sunday up in Elk county, last
summer, and was not indicted. Ile was
informed on for catching trout out of
season, and Col. McClure paid his fine.
Dickens is Dead
Such is the sad news which the
Atlantic cable brings us. The an
nouncement will startle the world and
cause millions to h eave a sigh orprofound
sorrow. The deceased had a place in
nearly every household throughout all
civilized nations, and there is no man
living who has a hold upon so many
human hearts. Peace to the ashes of
the illustrious dead! Heleaves a whole
world to mourn for him.
Another Novelist Dead
William Gilmore Simms, the distin
guished Southern novelist died at his
residence in Savannah on Saturday
night, aged 64. The telegraph gives no
particulars.
THE LANCASTER WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1870.
Will Whittemore be Admitted?
We are informed by telegraph that an
informal canvass of the House shows
that Whittemore will not be permitted
to take his seat ir . Congress. The pies
tion raised by the re-election of this
dligraeed and disreputable rascal is one
of no little importance.: He comes back
endorsed by s' majority, of eight thou
sand votes from the most populous ne
gro district in the South. The ignorant
blacks who supported him are confes
sedly unfit to exercise the right of suf
frage intelligently. They have proven
thistotheentiresatisfaction of the whole
world, by returning to the Congress of
the United Statesa thieving wretch who
has been guilty of all manner of petty
meannesses. Whittemore's sale of a
cadetship, was not the first or the only
infamous act of which he has been
guilty. The exhibit of his former ras
cantles, made by a correspondent of the
N. Y. Tribune, which we published a
few days since, shows the fellow up in
his true character. That he was dis
graced as an Army Chaplain, and that
he was a thief, is us well established as
that he sold a cadetship.
Such a villain is certainly unfit to oc
cupy a seat in Congress. But what will
the Radicals do? If the negroes of South
Carolina are legal voters, then was
Whittemore legally re-elected, and
we do not see how he can be refused
a seat. Ho appealed to a densely ig
norant constituency, and by the basest
arts of the low demagogue succeeded in
being re-elected by an overwhelming
majority. The intelligent whites of his
district have been deprived of the right
to vote or to hold office by the infamous
reconstruction laws of Congress, and
they lake no part in politics. The stu
pid field hands, the horde of ignorant
and barbarian negroes who were lately
slaves,now lord it over white men, and
show their utter incapacity for self-gov
ernment by sending Whittemore back
to plague the men who, for selfish pur
poses devised the i famous system which
made his elevation to tt seat in Congress
possible.
In our judgment it is not within the
province of Congress to inquire into the
general moral character of those whom
the people may select to represent them.
'Jo unseat a regularly elected Congress
man, without good and sufficient legal
reasons for such action, would be to vio
late the principles which lie at the very
basis or popular representation, upon
which the whole super-structure of our
government is founded. Whittemore
kalifs the barbarian negroes Who elected
him. lie is their choice. True, lie is
a thief—a bold unblushing thief—so
brazen in his impudence that he does
not shr elf when the eyes of the whole
world are turned full upon him, and
when all tongues are denouncing him ;
but he has been regularly elected to re
present one of the pet districts of the
Radicals. Ile is the fruit of the perni
cious seed which they planted.—
If he should be turned out the proba
bilities are that conic equally worthless
Yankee carpet-bagger, would be select
ed to take his place Whittemore
preaches and prays while lie steals,and
whines through his nose about his
wrong while he eats and drinks with the
negroes; and, they, tired with indig
nation at the outrage which they are led
to believe hiss been perpetrated upon
their chosen representative,triumphant
ly return hint to the seat from which he
has been summarily ejected. Congress
has not the power to turn him outagain
unless he commits some other act worthy
of expulsion, anti it ought not to possess
any such power. To con,d, it, would
be to grant tort majority;unlimi tell power
by the exercise of which they could un
seat.any one who might be obnoxious
to them.
The only plea upon Nv hich any mem
ber of Congress would be justified for
voting to exclude the disgraced carpet
bagger and cadetship peddler from his
seat, would be that the negroes who
elected him are not entitled to the exer
cise of the elective franchise. l'he
Radical two-thirds can hardly be ex
pected to admit tlmt,after all they have
done to force the Fifteenth Amendment
upon an unwilling people. l'he pres
ence of Whittemore in Congress will
he a standing rebuke to the combi
nation of fanatics :old selfish par
tisans whose action rendered such
an even( possible. With the deg
radation of the elective franchise
will inevitably come the election of cor
rupt and unworthy turn dillee. Melt
of high (diameter and honorable feeling
will n o t associate with ncgroes upon all
equality, as Whittemore did, and unless
they do so they can not expect to be
elected. Were we a Deu ua •ratic mem
ber of Congress we should decline to
vote fur the expulsion of Whittemore,
and leave the Itailicals to get out of the
serape as best they could. As they have
made their bed so let them lie.
The New Naturalization Treaty
The new Naturalization Treaty be-
tweet' the United States and Great
Britain, recently sent by the President
to the Senate, is substantially the same
as the protocol on the subject negotiated
by Mr. Itevenly Johnson, in 180 s, and
approved by the United States Senate
on April Ifith, 1859. The treaty provides
that British subjects naturalized as citi
zens in the United States, shall, in all
respects and for all purposes, be treated
as such by (treat Britain, and that re
ciprocally, citizens of the United Slates
naturalized as subjects within the Brit
ish dominions shall be treated as such
by the United States. Natives of one
country now naturalized in the other
have the absolute right, within two
years of the ratification of the treaty, to
publicly renounce their naturalization
and resume their original nationality.
If any citizen of the United States na
turalized in Great Britain should renew
his residence in the United States, he
may be re-admitted to the character and
privileges of a citizen of the United
States, upon such conditions as may
hereafter be imposed by the United
States, and ((rest Britain will not claim
him as a British subject on account of
his former naturalization. And the
same conditions are established in refer
ence to British subjects naturalized in
the United States,,,,Who renew their res
idence in Great Britain.
lion. Henry D. Foster
The Democracy of Fayette county
have just declared in favor of
I). Foster as their candidate for ( 'on
gress. Since that Mr. Israel Painter
has declined to run, and General Foster
has the field to himself. Ile was fairly
and legally elected to the present Con
gress, anti was deprived of hisseat by the
combined etlhrts of Covode and Cessna.
The people will see to it that he is sent
back with such a majority as will pre
vent a contest. ('ovode refuses to run
against Foster again. He knows he
would be overwhelmingly defeated.—
General Foster is one of the ablest men
in the State, and as hottest as steel. He
is just such a man as should represent
every Democratic district in Congress.
Reduction of the Army
Such a reduction of the army as ought
to take place is not to be secured while
Grant is President and Congress Radi
cal. A Conference Committee of the
two Houses has at last agreed upon a
half way measure of reform. The rates
of pay fixed by the House bill are to be
adopted, and the army kept up to the
standard of thirty thousand men. That
is at least three times as many as are
needed in time of peace. A provision
is made for giving officers one year's
pay if they resign, and all officers are
prohibited from occupying civil posi
tion. This will cut off Sickles, Badeau,
Kilpatrick, Dent and others, who are
drawing pay as army officers and the
salaries attached to civil officers.
THE Nominating Convention of the
Schuylkill Democracy will be held on
the 11th of July. We hope they will
put up a strong, pure man for Congress.
If they do the district can easily be re
deemed from the grasp of the Radicals.
Greeley's Opinion of the San Domingo
:The New York Tribune is opposed to
Grant's San , Domingojoh. It presents
various reasons why the scheme should
be abandoned, and among the rest this:
We cannot afford to Awallow new terri
tory and peoplia too rapidly. Our Repub
lican institutions, now more than ever
before, can rest safely only on the general
intelligence and virtue of the people, on
churches in every village, and school
houses throughout the length and breadth
of the land. We have just adopted into the
body politic four millions of negroes—
lately slaves,. by no means vet up to the
highest type of educated freedom. We are
receiving vast accessions of uneducated
foreigners on the Atlantic coast, and the
Pacific is bearing to us, far more rapidly
than we are preparing a welcome for them,
the patient, tolling, opium eating, idol
worshipping children of the remotest East.
We are confronted by the Indian problem,
and seem rapidly approaching the dividing
of ways, before which we must pause to
decide whether we shall take the one, lead
ing to the extermination of these original
owners of our soil, or the other, leading to
their civilization and citizenship. Here are
elements enough for lowering the standard
of our suffrage. We need to make haste
very slowly indeed towards this further
addition to the turbulent, indolent, unstable
and uneducated Spanish Americans,
whether white, black, or half-breeds. The
new problem fur American statesmanship
is how to delay, not how to accelerate this
tendency.
• •
There are some importan Ladmissions
contained in the paragraph we have
quoted, and no intelligent man can read
it without being convinced that Horace
Greeley is very doubtful about the pol
icy upon which the Republican party
has been acting. He does not regard
the enfranchisement of the negroes as
an experiment that is free from danger.
He evidently trembles as he looks to the
future. And well lie may. The work
ines the system have not been satis
factory so far, and the fruits it has
brought forth have been evil. They
will be no better in future, and the peo
ple of this country will soon begin to
curse the folly of which the Republican
party has been guilty and the apathy
which enabled its leaders to carry out
their mischievous plans.
Democratic Gains In the Ncit Congress.
The New York Sun, in an ably writ
ten editorial upon the probable com
plexion of the delegation from that State
in the next Congress, admits that the
Democrats will gain largely. At the
recent election the Democracy carried
twenty-four of the thirty-oue districts in
the State. It can hardly be expected
that they will do quite so well in the
fall, but the Sun says " it will require a
desperate etlbrt for the Republicans to
rescue more than live or six of the lost
Districts out of the hands of the Democ
racy, thus leaving to that party a de
cided preponderame in the delegation
from New York in the next Congress."
That is good news. A gain ill Congress
is what the Democracy should most
diligently strive for. They should put
forward tile best and purest men every
where and make a desperate effort to
elect them. With a full poll of the Dein
oeratic vote in Pennsylvania we tian
carry eleven out of the twenty-four
districts. We carried nine districts
at the last] Congressional election,
carried them all fairly on an
honest vote, but three of the Democratic
members were summarily turned out to
make room for defeated Radicals. There
will be great apathy in the Republican
party this fall, and all the Democracy
have to do is to avoid falling into a sim
ilar condition. Let the Democratic ed
itors of the State rouse the masses of the
party to a realizing sense of the Impor
tance of the Congressional and Legisla
tive contests and we shall win a victory
that will dismay our opponents and :u
-touish
More Damning Evidence Against the
Yankee Saint General Howard.
Every possiYe obstruction has been
thrown in the ry of Hon. Fernando
Wood, who haspbeen investigating the
kt
conduct of Gene • f Howard, in his man
agement of the reedmen's Bureau, but
every now and 'ti , en some startling evi
dences of the corruption of the Yankee
Saint are brought to light. There is
proof to show that Howard paid out of
the bureau funds scone zi" . *:.!-10,tiou to the
American Missionary- Society ; about
$l-10,000 in rations were sent to Florida,
the rations sold and the proceeds pock
eted by the agents of the bureau. The
United States Marshal for South Caro
lina and one of the United States Sena
tors from that State were brought in to
prove that about $400,000 of the educa
tional fund of the bureau were used for
the purchase of rations, the majority of
which were sold to the negroes of South
Carolina, on time, for the purpose of
securing the election of I lovernor Scott,
who is the friend of Whittemore. With
such an exhibit against him, it will be
scarcely possible for the Radical major
ity of the committee so to whitewash
the damaged sanctity of this specious
hypocrite,that it shall pass current here
after.
Sumner on the War Path
Sumner made quite a bitter attack
upon Grant during the discussion of the
motion to investigate the San Domingo
job in Executive Session, the other day.
Ho styled the President's method of
forcing this matter upon the Senate as
simply arrogant in its exactions, and
declared that the Senate would be forced
to yield to a power that is tending to
imperialism if there was not a change.
Of course, such language drew forth
quick and sharp replies front Eye,
Chandler, Iloward, and other interested
parties. It is to be hoped that Sumner,
Shurz and such Republican Senators as
have shown honesty and manliness
enough to oppose the wishes of Grant
and his fellow lobbyists will continue to
stand firm. Grant's friends make their
boasts that official patronage and the
pressure of Executive authority, will
yet triumph, and the treaty be ratified.
If it should turn out so nothing can in
duce the people to believe that corrupt
means Wert' 11 , , l employed to put the
job through.
The Negro Cadets
The two negro Valets who were ap
poiute•d lo \Vest Point were both reject
ed, one it is said, because he had weak
eyes, the other because lie was toll igno
t•ant to pass the examination. There are
those who believe that white boys with
weaker eves and :is little education have
been admitted to the Academy ; and
some disloyal people go so for as to say
that the color of the negro cadets was
the sole cause of the rejection. This is
" going back" on Sands,. It is a repu
diation of the principles and professions
of the Radical party, and it ought to be
carefully looked into.
Cropping Out
The Pitb.kburgh ((tzetfr, a paper which
boasts that it is the oldest Itadieal jour
nal in 'Western Pennsylvania, said the.
other day :
The next duty of Republicanism is to
A meriehnize the nation which it has liber
ated. Y•he Republic is for freemen and for
A merirallS.
That is another :kssertion of the deep
seated hostility to naturalized citizens
that lurks in the heart of the Republi
can party. It crops out in every direc
tion, and has become especially notice
able since the adoption of the Fifteenth
Amendment. With the negro vote in
their favor, many of the leaders of the
party say they can dispense with the
Dutch and the Irish.
OREGON has elected the first member
of the Forty-second Congress. Mr.
James F. Slater, the new Congressman,
is a Democrat, and his election is a good
omen for the political character of the
next Congress. The Democratic victory
in Oregon, following as closely as it has
after the sweeping victory in New York,
and achieved as it was in spite of the
efforts of one of the strongest politicians
on the Pacific coast—Senator Williams--
is another proof of the turning of the
political tide. Whatever may be the
result of the next Presidential election,
it is already evident that the next House
of Representatives is to be Democratic.
A Speech From Gen. Fisher
-We thought Brigadier General Joseph
W. Fisher had retired from politics. He
moves along our street so quietly, wear;
ing his double honors of Alderman
and Mayor's Clerk so meekly, that we
really began to imagine the baleful
fires of ambition had died out in his
heart. No one who sees him as he sits
in his official arm chair and dispenses
justice to a row of vagrants just out of
our subterranean Lock-up,would dream
that he once led armed men to battle and
hurled the thunderbolts of his erratic
eloquence at the heads of listeni d
laughing Senators. The earth 1
tinue warm after the eruptions of i;
volcano have subsided, and gaping
cracks tell where the earthquake has
been busy with its Titanic hands ; the
tiger preserves some of its fierceness
even in captivity, and the roar of the
caged lion is still terrible. Such being
the case we are not quite overwhelmed
by astonishment when we saw in the
Examiner an "extract from a speech
delivered by General J. W. Fisher,
at the meeting to ratify the Fifteenth
Amendment, at Marietta, June 6th,
1870."
General Fisher knows the negroes of
that region, and they know him. He
used to have considerable practice
among them when he played lawyer up
in Columbia, most.of the cases in which
we ever seen him engaged being of that
character. It seems fitting that the man
who defended them in the Criminal
Courts, should be selected as the chief
orator on the occasion of their admis
sion to the rights of citizenship. We
have read the General's speech. There
is nothing new in it—nothing which
was calculated to instruct or improve
his hearers. It is a rehash of an old
and weak harangue, which lie inflicted
upon the Senate of Pennsylvania at the
time when the ratification of the Fif
teenth Amendment was under consid
eration. We believe the Intetligencer
was the only paper in the county which
noticed it at that time. The only addi
tion or alteration which we perceived,
was at the conclusion, when he urged
all the negroes who heard him to vote
the Radical ticket. His appeal to them
was so pathetic that we are convinced
he still cherishes ambitious projects.—
Aspirants in the Radical party would
do well to keep au eye upon him.
Greeley's Opinion or Whittenmo•e
We call the especial attention of the
religious editor of the Repress to an ar
ticle headed "Congress, or the Peniten
tiary," which appears elsewhere in our
paper. In it he will recognize the vig
orous style of Horace Greeley, and it was
no doubt written by the editor-in-chief
of the New York 7'ribunc. It does not
attempt to disguise the fact that the Re
publican majority in Congress have en
deavored to shield the scoundrels who
were found selling cadetships, while it
gives due credit to the Democracy for
"spurning and promptly casting out
every member of the party found guilty
of this cadetship infamy." Mr. Greeley
points out a method by which the Re
publican party may be saved from the
disgrace of being represented in Con
gress by Whittemore. He can be in
dicted and sent to the penitentiary. Let
the United Stales officials move prompt
ly in the matter ; and let them prosecute
not only Whittemore, but Butler, who
still holds his seat, and all whom there
is good reason to believe guilty. If vig
orous efforts tire made a number of Rad
ical Congressmen will be transferred to
a position in which they may learn a
trade by which they can make an lion
! est, living. The country would be great
ly the gainer thereby, and the Republi-
I can party would obtain credit for some
honesty of purpose. By all means let
at least half a dozen Radical members
of Congress be transferred to the Peni
tentiary. That is where a good many
of them would be now if they had their
deserts.
Negroes Registering In Philadelphia.
Acting upon the advice of Forney's
Press and other Radical newspapers, the
negroes of Philadelphia have been very
busy registering for a couple of days
past, so as to be prepared to vote at the
coming primary elections. The Er( -
ning herald says:
We visited several of the places l'or regis
tration yesterday down town, and we Must
say that a more fitting dis p lay of the con
dition of the Radical party in this city could
not have been made. Wherever there were
any number of colored voters in the vicin
ity, there the registration windows were
completely surrounded with crowds of the
darks: and, with the exception of one or
two hundred Mike-seekers or rummies,
scarcely a white person could be seen.
White men—that is, decent ones—would
not mingle or participate. Even the one or
two whites at each place seemed ashamed
of their resence, and hung their heads like
whippe t dogs.
I 1 is exiweted that the Fifteenth
Ainendment will drive thousands of
white men from the Radical party in
Philadelphia. Workingmen who have
heretofore voted the Republican ticket
hate the Fifteenth Amendment, and do
not believe that it was ever fairly adopt
ed. They do not relish this thing of
being put upon a plane of equality
with the negro, and thousands of them
will never touch a Radical ticket again.
If the Democracy of Philadelphia act
wisely they can more than counterbal
ance the negro vote.
Government Officials Engaged in Election
A Radical paper published i u Wash
ington (..-ity boldly charges that John L.
Thomas, the Collector of the port of
Baltimore, sent gangs of negro bullies
to the National Capital to vote for
Bowen, the administration candidate for
Mayor. As proof of what we say we
quote the words of the Republiorin :
The Bowenites were desperate fir several
days, and on Monday morning imported
forty-two colored and finir white 111011 from
Baltimore, for the purpose of voting for the
now defunct Manes .1. Bowen. This gang
of rowdies Wits marshaled by John 1..
Th mnas ..l l% , colleetor nt the Port 411 Haiti
inure. The ',lice arrested the imrty, and
thus prevented their conilnitLitig a frund..,
the ballot-box, In the albtrilmill the Balti
more roughs were taken to the depot, and
John 1.. 'Phones furnished then, with
money and tickets to enable them to again
reach Baltimore. Will the Seeretary of the
Treasury please take notice of the fact that
one of his otheials was engaged in the mean
Lu-.iuess of trying to poll illegal voters in
this I)i,triet ? Is such a MiLli tit Itt held
IA•l us hear no inert• front Itadieal
papers akall frauds in New Perk until
thi , bold villain and Lappet-hex .tufli•r
ejeete,l front olliee.
THE San Domingo job is beim: - very
vigorously pushed by the President, and
he has managed to secure a majority of
the Senate. Senator Schurz Miler,' a
resolution in Executive Session direct
ing inquiry to be made into the means
which were being employed to induce
the adoption of the proposed treaty.
This motion was vigorously fought and
finally defeated. The debate was sharp,
and some pungent personalities were
indulges; in. The vote was close, but it
showed that the persistent of of
Grant had produced some impression,
and there is reason to fear that the job
may be put through.
THE notorious and infamous Dick
Busteed, is still flourishing as a United
States Judge in Alabama. lie has just
been indicted for libel, and a negro con
stable was deputed to serve the warrant,
but the Judge evaded it by driving rap
idly out of Montgomery in a close car
riage. When will the vultures and car
rion crows who have flocked from the
North to feed upon the people of the
South be sent to their own place ?
Dos I'IATT, in speaking of Mr. Wells'
searching exposure of the iniquitous
workings of the protection monopoly,
says that, "as the fearful reports came
out to enlighten the people, pig iron and
Bessemer steel were struck with the
same sort of astonishment that befel the
drunken brute who vomited in his wife's
basket of goslings; Good Lord, wife,'
roared the astonished inebriate, ' when
did I swaller them things.' "
ANDREW JOHNSON, it is now said, is
to run for Congress. We hope he may
be triumphantly elected.
The Election or State Treasurer
Under the above caption Governor
Geary's organ, the Harrisburg Topic,
has the following editorial :
General Irwin, ,a worthy, popular and
attractive man in every respect, has scarcely
been in office as State Treasurer two months,
when the- struggle fora re election is
commencod=commeneed as much by
those who Were disappointed by his election
last January as it is by himself or friends.
Indeed, we had better write that the strug
gle to get possession of the State Treasury
is now the principal object of the contend
ing factions of all parties. It shapes
politics in every county in the State, and
many men make an effort to get into the
Legislature, solely for the purpose of voting
•r a Treasurer, as out of that vote they
'calculate they can make double what is
.aid for a session's salary. This is a des
plorable condition of politics, but it never
theless exists, and we must face it, either
to submit to its disgrace, or boldly at
tempt its reform. In several localities we
confidently expect asplit in the Republican
party on this question, so that we may
thereby lose the control of one of the
branches of the Legislature. The mass of
men cannot longer keep their eyes closed
to these facts ; and they must take the elec
tion of State Treasurer out of the hands of
the Legislature and give it to the people, if
reform is honestly wanted. No party, no
government, can long stand the shocks of
such a struggle.
An honest confession is said to be good
for the soul, and we have no doubt Dr.
Gihon felt greatly relieved after speak
ing so much truth. The picture which
he presents of the shameless corruption
DOW prevailing in the Republican party
of Pennsylvania is not overdrawn. Let
honest men look at it ! Let honest Re
publicans remember that this is no
"copperhead lie," but a confession ex
torted front an extreme Radical politi
cian. Is it not high time to make a
change?
MANY of the Radical Journals deny
the significance of the late Conservative
victory in Washington, and also con
tradict the report that General Grant
acted openly for Bowen and his band of
corruptionists. But the New York Sun
puts a difrerent face on the matter, and
says; "The administration put forth
its utmost exertions to secure the
triumph of Bowen. The President took
a special interest in his success, for Bow
en had figured actively and played a
conspicuous part in the matter of the
purchase of the famous house which had
been given to General Grant by Ids
admirers. The emissaries of the
administration and the attaches of
the Executive mansion perambulated
the departments, and gave the clerks
to understand that they were ex
pected to vote for Bowen, and that any
delinquency in this crisis would be vis
ited with sore displeasure by the leaders
of the Republican party at the Capital."
When these facts are considered General
Grant and his administration was con
demned as well as Bowen by the result
on Monday last in the National Capital.
Ir ix now feared that Dr. Livingstone
must be given up. That great explorer
of the African interior has nut been for
a long time heard from, and hope has
but little foundation left.
A CALlVffitNf AN is making a special
dozen of wine as a present to Mr. Grant.
There is another sort of California quartz
which would he more acceptable; but
in any event we fear the places are all
filled. It isn't every day that a new
mission can be created. '
A nevc 7AfaSOll le Lodge Ruorn wo,4dedi
eated in Curlise on the t4tli ult.
l'hiladelphia boasts that they devour
one hundred tons of strawberries et day.
A very large wild eat was killed in
Monroe county last week.
J. S. Cornnian, of the Huntingdon
Monitor, is a candidate for the Legi,,ht
ture.
The Exchange Hotel, Huntingdon,
recently de6troyed by tire, is to be re
built.
A black snake, measuring, 8 feet and 5
inches in length, was killed lately near
Lewistown, Pa.
Five families left Fulton county re
cently for Texas, where they propose
establishing huge stock farms.
A writer in the Oil City Tiims says
there is not demand for one-half the
crude oil produced. Therefore oil must
come down.
The coal miners of Pennsylvania
promises to give John Chinaman a short
and sudden passage to the " Celestial
City," if he works at lons' terms.
Mr. Worth, of the Lebanon f'ourUr,
was last week afflicted by a paralytic
stroke. He is , we understand, recover•
ing, but the attack was a severe one.
A Bible agent who canvassed the
town of Chambersburg lately, found
forty-seven families without a copy of
the sacred book. They were supplied.
The United Brethren will hold a
camp meeting opposite White House
station, in Dauphin county, commenc
ing on the oth of August.
The attempt to create a new county
out of IN;orthampton, and make Bethle
hem the county seat, has been aban
doned.
The grist mill and paper mill Of ('.
Dull, at M'Veytown, was entirely con
sumed by fire betwen one and two
o'clock on Sunday morning.
Frederick Lauer of Heading, was re
elected Chairman of the Executive
Committee of brewers at the late meet
ing. lie has held the position for eight
years.
A prospectus has been issued for a new
Republican paper at Greensburg. It is
said that it will, /Oita cxtublished, at
tempt the herculean feat of making
Harry White Governor of this State.
Mr. Moore has sold an interest in the
Altoona Sun to John W. M'Kinney,
Esq., and the business of the office will
hereafter be done in the name of Moore
aL .M'Kinney.
A little boy two or three years old, son
of Henry W. Hanawalt, of Lewistown,
was accidentally crushed to death by
having a heavy log fall on him, while
his parents were at church.
The Reading Eagle says that the races
at the Rending Driving Park have been
indefinitely postponed. This is owing
to the continued rainy weather, and the
subsequent heavy condition of the track.
On Thursday about midnight, a horse
nearly black, G years old, was stolen
from the stable of Caleb Hartison, in
Union township, ab ou t a quarter of a
mile ea-t of Birdsboro'. A reward oN•.",0
is offered for the arrest of the thief.
The I
ell Ile :\ len will lie l'ildidan i gh,
hd. Largo dologation-
Inini :ill the trilit, in (hi- and adjoining
wind lin \‘ . itii a grand hall
The Fulton /kuutert f. the organ of
the Dentocracy of soundly Democratic
Fulton County In this State is l'or sale.
The paper is doinu. a tine Ittisine,:s and
all the material in the olliet , is new. A
:rood elinnee for a lorititilr with small
capital.
Berl:eley 1.4,11111N', Virginia, ha. just,
by a ,v,•rwhelilling majority, voted in
favor of the snbseription of :l.1:1-lit,unn to
the capital t he :\ insburg and
l'ottninte Railroad. This ,eetireq the
extension of the Cumberland Valley
Itailnaul to I . :trtittsburtz.
('upper ore, emit:titling so per of nt. of
_Afflatusrupl , t•l' leas horn di-o.,ccrcl in
county, on a farm near Monterey
Springs. The land lies within a hun
Bred yards of the old 'Fapeworni Itail
road, \vitene the ore is said to I, :Wan
dant.
A black bear, weighing 105 pounik,
was killed libst Sunday morning in
Ininbar township, Fayette county, after
a running light which was kept up fur
a lung time between the bear on one
side, 11.1111 seventeen men and a dozen
dogs on the other.
The body of a lad named Fred. W.
Keel was found in the canal at Harris
burg on Friday morning. The boy left
his home on Thursday evening, and the
next morning the canal was dragged, it
having been ascertained by his parents
that he was last seen on the batik near
where his body was found.
The Perry county Dernocrrzt says :
"On Sunday morning, 2:2i1 of May, the
wife of Mr. Samuel McConnell, of To
boyne township, this county, gave birth
to a child without eyes. Our informant,
a gentleman of veracity, says that there
is not even the resemblance of an eye
in the place where the eyes ought to be.
Otherwise the child—a boy—is perfectly
formed, stout and healthy. It is a won
derful freak of nature.
On Saturday last the men and boys
employed about a brick kiln, which had
just been burnt, at Sharpsburg, Alle
gheny county, were engaged in cutting
through the sand which fills the space
between the outside wall and the bricks
the red hot sand rushed out, in a large
body. Eight boys were caught by it,
and as they were bare-footed, they were
terribly burned about the feet and legs.
One of them named Herbert Cupps has
died since, and a brother of the deceased
is not expected to live.
SH ETCHES OF TRAVEL NORTHWARD
No. IX.--Magarn, Falls
About half-past seven. o'clock, upon a
warm summer evening, we reached the
Cataract Tlouse, Niagara Falls. This house,
which Is ono of the finest summer hotels
In the United States, is located upon the
brink of the American Rapids, in full view
of Goat Island and the Canadian shore.
The parlor is surrounded on three sides by
an elegant balcony nearly two hundred
feet long, and hero the tourist may pass
many pleasant hours of a summer evening
gazing upon the Rapids, which aro very
grand and imposing, especially when view
ed by moonlight. The river makes a de
scent of fifty-one feet in a distance of three
quarters of a mile, and as far as the eye can
extend it closely resembles the ocean after
a severe storm.
About nine o'clock we proceeded to
Prospect Point, uoar the hotel, and there
had an excellent view of the Falls by moon
light. The moonbeams playing upon the
agitated waters as they dash into the terri
ble abyss beneath, the sprays colored by the
soft, silver light of the moon, rising like
smoke, and the silence of the night broken
only by the roar of the cataract, combine
to give to the scene such indescribable sub
limity and grandeur that no language can
convey the impression of the tourist.
Early the next morning we visited Goat
Island, which is connected with the main
shore by a bridge, spanning the Rapids at
a distance of fifty rods from the American
Fall. Reaching the Island we drove a short
distance and then took a foot-path leading
to Centre Fall ( or as it is sometimes called
the Cascade) located between Luna Island
and Goat Island. This is the smallest of
the three falls. Beneath it is the Cave of
the Winds. A small bridge leads across
this fall to Luna Island, so called from the
fact that lunar bows aro seen hero once a
month, when the moon is full and the sky
clear. Upon a clear day magnificent rain
bows aro visible front this point, caused by
the sun shining upon the spray. Standing
here, between the American and Centre
Fall, Within elle foot Of the precipice and
within the earth tumbling beneath him, the
tourist may behold the angry torrent dash
ing in all its fury upon the rocks below.
Retracing our steps we proceeded but
a short distance when wo reached Bid.
dle's Stairs, named after Nicholas Biddle
of United States Bank fame, by whose
directions and at wh,,se expense they
were erected. These stairs are
' firmly secured by heavy iron bolts
fastened into the solid rusk. The total
number of steps is ninety. At the foot of
the stairs are two paths leading in opposite
directions. By taking the one leading
I down the river we soon beheld the Cave of
the Winds, in all its terrific grandeur. The
visitor may hero procure a gum suit, and
accompanied by a guide, pass beneath the
Centre Fall. The other path is somewhat
difficult, and leads to the foot of horse
shoe Fall, when the tourist will behold ono
of the grandest scenes imaginable. The
long (4,11111111 of sparkling water, seems to
descend to an immeasurable depth, and the
bright sea-green curve above appears to lie
sot in the sky, While the tremendous roar,
as well as the great, height of Ow Fall, re
alizes his utmost expectations. It WM near
Biddle's Stairs that the fool-hardy Sam
Patch made his two celebrated leaps in the
year 1029, leaping ninety-seven tell into the
river below. A ladder was raised, 11w hot
tom resting upon the edge of the river and
the top, upon which was a small platform,
inclining over the water ; he stood upon
the platform, gazed upon the inimesc mul
titude that had been attracted to the spot,
said; "One thing can be done as well as
another," bowed to his audience and eoolly
stepped otr the platform and went down
feet foremost, During the same year he
made a leap at the Genesee Falls, at -no
ehester, which was his last. Ilis body was
I never found.
Ascending Biddle's Stairs it is but a
short walk to the slender bridge leading to
Horse Shoe Tower fby some called Pros
pect Tower and by others Terrapin Tower f
which is situated within three rods of Horse
Shoe Fall and is about forty-live feet high
and two hundred feet above the river below.
Many persons aro afraid to visit the tower
on at-count of its extremely dangerous po
sition, yet it is thought to be perfectly
safe. 'Fhe scene from this point is of unsur
passed magnificence and beauty. The
I Shoe Fall is the largest of the three
and is the entire circuit from Goat Island
to the Canadian shore. It derives its name
front its shape, which however is gradually
changing. It is one hundred and forty
four rods wide and one hundred anti fifty
eight feet high. The highest scientific au
thorities have estimated that not less than
one hundred millions, two hundred thou
sand tons of water pass over th i s Fall every
hour. In 1529 one of the condemned lake
ships, the Detroit, was sent over this 1•'all.
It drew eighteen feet of water and passed
over the point of the Horse Shoe without
touching, thus showing conclusively that
the water, which is of a dark green color, is
at least twenty feet deep. The depth of the
water at the foot of the Falls is front two
hundred to three hundred feet, is of a very
dark green color, and appears to be perfect
ly still. The boundary lino between the
United States and Canada runs in the
of the river through the point of the Horse
Shoe. The roar of the Falls depends upon
the state of the atmosphere and the wind.
Sometimes it isscareely heard at the Cataract
House, at other times it is distinctly heard
at a distance of twenty-five miles and in a
few instances it has been heard at Toronto,
forty-five miles away. The spray of the
Falls can be seen at a great distance.
On the southwest side of Goat Island,
some distance above the horse Shoo are the
Three Sisters Islands, which are now con
nected by bridges. On float Island, near
the Three Sisters, is a spot known as The
Bathing Place of Francis Abbot, the Ile,
mit. This eccentric individual lived here
entirely alone fur almost two years, and at
night was itt the habit of bathing at this
point. He was drowned in the year 1511.
Leaving Goat Island we proceeded to the
whirlpool, situated about three miles be
low theFalls,and visited it on account of the
wild and magnificent grandeur of its
scenery. It is said to resemble the cele
brated Maelstrom on the coast of Norway,
and is ~,11,1011ed by the river, which is
here very narrow, turning :On aptly to the
right. The descent to the river bank is
al,out three hundred feet, a n d the visitor
who wakes the (loseent will get one of the
best cirws of the Rapids below the 1•all.s
that is to I,t• had. The eurrt'nl here ruhy
with aurh fearful veloeily a., riot' up in
lit' niiddlo of the ricer eloN en and a half
fel`t it It' Lill` Side,
t iu the 13th or .1 tme,lSill, the little steam
er 11.1 f.f which 11:111 been 11,0 d
11r a 111111 her of y('11, n. take pi.op!.. tip to
the l'are , , sva , 4 taken through the Itapids
Le the darile.z . Itolpin•oti, who had percorlll
- >o many exphlit. ill
the lirrs .d Lersou+ who had lath, into the
river. Th,. coal lost her ,moke stark, and
was ittlitTWitil• injured, yet she made the
trip in per tort surety, and i. litoW perform
mg less 11:17.ardillIS N.Fyagus on the SI. Law
rence ri, or. Mentors the Fans and the
Whirliesil, is the great Stispen,iiin Bridge,
eight hundred and twenty-two feet long,
nod two hundred and litly-eight feet above
one niaildi,d streams oa the globe.
It is owned by a stock company, and was
erected about the year mid( r the direr
linn
4,t the late John A. Roebling, eta cost
of live hundred thousand dollars. It is
crossed liv the ears of the (treat NVestern
Railroad, and twenty-eight feet below the
tracks is the carriage way. From the
bridge you have a splendid view of the
Rapids.
A drive of a rew wow en to upon the Can
adian bank of the river brought us to the
Museum, containing more than ten thous
and specimens of animals, birds, fish and
minerals, many of which were collected in
the neighborhood of the Falls.
Near the Museum was Table hock, which
was removed some three years ago on ac
count of the number of accidents that had
happened by large pieces of it falling oft•
It was formerly some fifteen rods long and
three wide and projected over the precipice
about sixty feet,forming a sort of table upon
which thousands have stood and gazed upon
the bewildering and enchanting scent
spread before them. Below Table Rock,
at the water's edge, is Manitou Rock, upon
which the Indians used to sacrifice a day
to the Great Spirit.
A short distance down the bank is the
Clifton House, the only hotel upon the
Canadian side of the river. Most persons
visiting Niagara stop upon the American
side. The recess, behind the centre of
Horse Shoe Fall, reached by the descent of
a spiral stairway from Table Rock,is called
Termination Rock. Comparatively few
persons visit Termination Rock; there being
many dangers and difficulties attending the
adventure. A recent writer in describing
this point says that the path leads "over a
frightful ledge and through the drowning
spray, behind the mighty Fall, and the
`courage of noise behind' alone persuades
the gasping sufferer to take' o9Q_ desperate
stop more."
From Table Rock wo drove. to Lundy's
Lane, the scene of a desperate battle be
tween , the Americans and British,. July
1814. On the battle ground there is a
high weeder' tower, from which we had a
splendid view of the surrounding country.
By the aid of a telescope we saw several
church spiresin the city of Buffalo, some
twenty miles away, and Brock's monu
ment, upon Queenstown Heights, about
nine miles distant. Here wo met an old
Canadian, who acts as guide, and who gave
us a full account of the battle in a studied
speech of thirty-five minutes, and Con
cluded by asking us our candid opinion of
Queen Victoria. The speech was a curious
one, and abounded in patriotism, spread
eagleism, etc.
Returning to the American side wo were
soon at Prospect Point, where we viewed
the Falls by sunsets As the spray rises, it
is colored by the setting sun, and as it
rises still higher and becomes less dense,
the color changes, making one of the most
enchanting and magnificent sights upon
which the eye can rest. No language can
do justice to the scene; there
Neer came such pictures to a painter's sleep,
Nor breathed such visions on a soul.-
Language is inadequate to give Co the
stranger a correct idea of Niagara. The daz
zling splendor of tho sun shining upon the
Falls, the ceaseless thunderof the cataract,
the rainbow smiling serenely upon the rag
ing torrent, all combine to render the scene
awfully grand, sublime and terrine.
In closing the present series of articles,
which have been written for pleasure and
not for profit, may we indulge in the hope
that we have awakened among the readers
of the I NTEI.I.I , ENcint a desire to visit that
portion of our count ry,so justly velebrated
for its magnificent scenery and so rich in
historical and literary memories, of which
rye have spoken so feebly and so imper
fectly in these humble and unpretending.
rrellEs uF TRAVEL NoirrliWAliti.
I.lllz,rliitsc
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ath.l piy 114
Mirth that ‘,1111:1,1 cart. derides
=llll
Some great doctor has sail somewhere,
that It would be far better for a mounto
bank to enter a town under circumstances
invol% ing its health and happiness that
for all Ass loaded with pills to enter it;
and that ' is saying a great deal, for a man
whose profession is snore or less connected
with the "pill business." 'Phis is, how
ever, only a little stronger mode of stating
that rheerfa/sow is better than medicine,
and Ire believe Oast doctor was very much
inure than "half right. in bsughissy, there
are muscles and emotions exercised, which
du not belong to any Other department of
man's physical :11111 111Ciltai e011,11.11,111.10h.---
There are, however, appropriate times and
places to laugh, and proper subjects to
laugh at ; and therefore, out of time, out of
place, and out Of proper laughing
may become an evil ; but, wider any eir
euunat:un•os, it is doubtless less injurious to
the laugher than anger, spite or envy. The
same oracles of Divine truth Which declare
that "there is a time to weer," just as em
phatically declare that "there is a time to
'Phis, 111111 the that malt pos
sesses the faeully of laughter - the only be
ing which iSod has created, that, does un
mistakably possess that faculty—must
evince that it is right to laugh, that it is
pen to laugh, and that it is proper to laugh.
"Laugh and grow fat," is un old and fa
miliar saw, which pt; ily implies that it
is also /se,/thy to laugh missed, we should
regard with extreme dis ' uft the man who
never laughs. The man who has no laugh
ter iu his soul, anti is not moved by the
mirth provoking jest, is about as "ill for
stratagems, for treasons, and for spfUls," as
he who has no "itiNir, in his soul," and is
not "moved by a eoneord or sweet sounds."
We ought to eommiserate the grim, cold
and severe exterior .r the man who emu
,,t, or Who Wilt not laugh, for depend
upon it, it is but the eutbirth of as grins, as
cold, and its severe an interior condition.
But (hero is a great aisuae of laughter—that
is, as see said before, laughing at improper
times, improper places, and improper ob
jects. But these, at the very worst, may
only be indiscretions, or manifestations of
indiscrimination, and not at all to be placed
ill the same category with the false, inter
ested, and hypocritical laugh, which so
intensely prevails, in even cultivated soci
ety. If the man who ?ter, laughs, may be
a legitimate object of suspicion, the one
who is t . ecr laughing—ever indulging in a
hollow, meretricious, and superficial laugh,
may be a still grrater object of suspicion.
The external manil'estation of laughter,
sloes not always exhibit its real character.
The genial smile inlay ooze out from a more
sincere 51111 benevolent soul than the
"great horse-laugh" does. External man
ifestations are, however, eonstitutional.—
There are persons, who, if they laugh at all,
must exercise the Co•ully in a more or less
violent manner, or they would explode.
t Milers again have such perfect control of
their muscles and their emotions, that they
never go beyond a smile, hut that wells up
from their hearts. Temperament, has also
much to do in the external determinations
of laughter. The various modifications of
the horse-laugh, the guffaw, the chuckle,
and the titter, are only so many modifica
tions of temperament, in short, the In)! ho!
ho! the ha! ha! ha! the hi! hi! hi! trod the
he! he! he! may all have their origin in the
same emotion, differing only in their ex
ternal manifestations, and may all be good
and healthful for man. But the scornful
laugh, the derisive laugh, the hypocritical
laugh, slid the meretricio US laugh, may ho
only skin deep, and therefore, only ;the
warped and distorted outward show of an
inner emotion, that does not belong to the
category of true honest laughter. Then
there is the sycophantic laugh, which is the
most odious ofthem all. The stale platitude
of the rich and powerful often exeiteki this
latter kind of laughter, 1511111 at the same
time, the real mirthful wit of the poor and
powerless, would scarcely elicit a cum 111011
recognition. The sycophantic and hypo
critical laughs are only "tricks of custom,"
indulged in by knaves, told not at all those
`close denoteinents working from the heat,
which passion cannot rule," in boniest
13ei.1,v-1-et:w.
ID,low Robbery In the Irnßed State
Trelentry—llow It Iran Done.
W'ssii J uno 12, IS7o.—Yesterdrky
the I;ov(•rkinient Wits cleverly robbed It
i‘....111100. The following are the fact, as r -
tanked from that. Spinner, U.S. l'reask er:
At nc:u 3 0 . ,•101 - k it Was reported 1. him
by Mr. Root, Chief of the Issue hicisiout ti
tilt` 'Press 11 ror'N ()thee, that two bundles o
note,, IlliW issue uC grt,tillkli•kS, had
been stolen from his re./111. Karl] bundle
contained 1,000 notes amounting to $lO,llOO.
'fliere aro employed in this room ~early
pill clerks and e-ouutcrs, Yesterday
lunrn-
Mg those bundles of Money, kith :1 number
41f ~(hers, wore delivered by Mr. Met:limey,
l'hior of the Printing Division, to NI r. Root,
who recoipted lor them for the U. S. Treas
urer. These bundles are usually all assort
ed and counted, and then placed in the
Treasury vaults ready for issue. About
o'lock two ladies, acoompanied by a gen
visited the room, as permitted to
visitors. (Me of 010 ladies was well known
to :qr. Root, and the others being her
friends, he showed them the room. TWo
yoting uu•u followed this ' , arty into the
room, and as a matter of emirs° Mr. Root
thought they were MO.o .Caine party. One
of them looked around u little, and walked
past the table where the Innelles of un,ount
“l money were lying, when the other
shoved lira 1“1, into that of a colored woman
who NV :1-`1 watching thiu money, and asked
her for a Miss Clark. The colored woman
answered that liar° Was no Miss Clark
there, and indignantly asked tho young
man not to shove his lace so close to hers,
a.. 1 the Indies and gentlemen in the roof.
would notice it. It was evidently at this
time that the two bundles of money were
taken by the accomplice, who, holding his
hat under his arm, placed the bundles
under his coat, a black sack, and then made
good his escape, because there was no sus
picion that money was stolen for near an
hour after he had left. The ladies and
gentlemen in the room were all closely
examinee(; and nothing found upon any or
them to implicate them in any way. 'rimy
all remained in the room until after 11
o'clock last night, and until after the closest
search was gone through with. Mr. Mc-
Carte., had a thorough recount made in the
Printing Bureau, and every room where
these bundles passed through showed the
check and receipt, NO that there was no
doubt the bundles were delivered, and, in
fact, the receipts for them wore remembered
in Al r. Root's room. Therefore, Gen. Spin
ner has come to the conclusion that the
Treasury has been robbed,andthe detectives
have been set to work to ferret out the mat
ter if possible.
The Roumanian Hoax—No Flo...Wail°
for the Terrible Rumcr.
LONDON Juno B.—Wollr's Continental
Telegraphic Company of Berlin, with the
principal sub-agencies in the principal
cities of Europe, know nothing of any re
cent disturbances In Roumania. The Man
ager of that company declares the telegram
of Adolph Cremieux to be an exaggeration
and says all the reports touching the slaugh
ter or banishment of Roumanian Jews are
baseless. Diligent inquiry here and on the
Continent fails to discover any foundation
for the terrible stories which have been
published In the United States.
LETTER FROM THE WERT
OMAHA, Nebraska, Juno 2.k1, 1,71)
Editors of The Lancaster Intelligence,.
—When I started on a Western trip th:s
spring, a great many of my Democratic
friends, requested of me to write to them
occasionally, and give them sonic general
information of the Great West, which I
promised them to do, through your paper.
The first place I stopped over was at Na•
perville, the county seat of Du Page coun
ty, Illinois, a town of about four thous:mil
inhabitants, very pleasantly situated on
Du Page river, 20 miles west frolic Chicago,
on the Burlington mid Quincy Railroad;
here I stopped five days, with Mr. Bich
elbfte.,..,r who is a Lancaster countiam- -
Naperville is located in a very rich agrittul
tural county, on an undulating prairie,
(with sumo timber land) very fertile and
well cultivated, being almost an entire
Penns) Ivan is settlement. land sells at
$4O to $lOO per acre. The religious and
educational facilities are excellent, while
the manufacturing facilities are ids° well
represented. Among the most extensive
aro the Naperville Agricultural Works, -
This establishment is one of the oldest in
the State. The plow manufactured here,
long ago, acquired a most enviable repira
lion, taking the highest rank in public
estimation, and almost invariably success
ful in competition with all others, wherever
, xhibitud. 'Filo NVestern Star Fork row -
)any, and the 1)11 Page Comity Nor4t.:
re also located hero
Alirora is also all itilportalit LI"
Chicago, tjuincy r. 53,1
twenty wile, south-ivest fruit. illicit:4.i. :led
contains ;ilium sixteen thousand inhale ,
taut. IL is i int` of the best bindle-is lilt,
in the State, being situated ell I.lllsties
of the Fiix Ricer, whiell furnishes amlim
itod water power for ,eoolon
flouring mills, untilailio shops and Mond
ries. The railroad company huie Ile ir
eoinefive .1111,1 machine shop: hole. ,
the place whore the orlobrated
sloepi n;; anti I,lel oars aro built, II a.
the finest p:vo:onger oarriagos in tlio
try, giving einployniont lit ion or te, It r
litindrOd
Next in line ciittles the t little t.ttt
tt i ttiritra srhirh is situ:lto!
Alien anti St. 1..)11 . 1.4 It.tilr t 1, IS% .•
miles ,eaftll el Springfield, the t'Apa.ll
lllinek, and ~evenly utdt,. nertli
Leuis. anrrelinding cellllln i. 1 , '.111
lilu 1. 'Phis is the tenure Ames .1
Men acJeln. Venlig near 11t. .loy,
exot.,l,llgly ri,ll in this part
Sichtdas hrubalit.r nti,ed from 1.1,41.1%
avrs, iu "HO ,1•114 t ill, `4l 1111,11 i 14
of 0,11. 0:111 that:'
r. Stollllt.r, a 1.3111•11,E01 . 1,1111111.111, 11111.,
0111,11 10 11 . 101111 111•111 . 111“,1111111.411111
111111 1,11,1,1 Ili° tirst tear, 111111 it
laistiets 111 cum 111111 lilt, 111nu1 rcil
amt thirty ‘.l
sixty 111 Iv 111.01, :11111 11110 11111 . 1.1/I'll .11111
thirty 111 . 4101,i11.2 . , hay I,
hiv mt,101:. l'otaloes :tnr rni.r,l fr,ll tl, n,•
to I;,t, huu,lrr,l I,ll.l)vis th,••,•
it, uiv I ha
man , )1 . intik. T., lIIC
I Will may, lhiv i. h.r 11.1)
Cat 1,11 ari• outlght in the. 111111.,, Viii,.
‘voighing from t•ivloy to thri, 1111,11,1
11011111 k. Not 11111'1 1 1 , 1111`11lly, 111111 It , 1111 , •.
111111111 draught, are sis.ilred, sis Ihnusanl
puumla onisli,equal tolliree re.iiiir,tig
horses tnpull It aslilre.
for catching those large fish ie strom;er l 11.111
these 11,1, I 111 010 Little or in I iii•
SllllllllOllllllllll. 5111110 111,11111.1 11111 y 1,1 1.1. ,
tOtilii.11,111.1fk11,1111•1111•1.,1/111.1,1.1 . 1 , •
suns! I give ‘‘lt3L. I 11 IN .•
rtl/1111 - 1.11,11,10 people. \V hat I wri(e yl.ll I
'MVO 111111 ,111•11 111,11 Ili .1111111111.111 111'11 1 ,1
ker, ltcu, 17:,r1a,h
1111•11, Mt. Joyd and others, ‘vlelso
fur truth is unquestihmed ; nil' illy
101 . 1111/11t11 are 11101111 m, 'il the l).111.1..'-
Churelt. 'l'll . , is a settleniviti,
very lino eluireli they 111,111 1111111 It 1111,i•
1i1 . 111 . 11, itlIV. Itruhal:el
is the preaelier. Lund sells al $.lO le lee
per 1.'1'0; Anne to t.,1 1 1111 and rail rink, s% it It
improvenients, it sills lit high tigurts.,
When I left (;iraril I went ahmit oi u •
hundred and ninety miles ilireeL north to
Sterling, whore I I . olllllilleti 10111ust, (Mc,
weeks in toNvii and vicinity. Among the
t.xtensive firms may IJO niviait,ll4,l the
large Dry G.A..ls, (tut ens and l lartiwurc
W U.lllol' tk: and the Druggists, .las. Pat
terson ; among the Rankers, Jos. l'atters,i,
all three formerly - of Al I. Joy. This is In
rich settlement. Some farmers 41,11 Irau
:11,10 toilet) and Inuoacrui of Enid. The PII I -
illf4S that are put Ofl of late, lure pia Up WOll.
flogs sold last fall, live weight, from 7 to
$ll per I'M- I.:Ulti that was bought at
per acre in 1x73, now sell, :It :31011 1' stun
per store.
When I left Sterling I traveled II e,.lt
the ventral part of lowa. I saw ~oee it., 111
land in lowa, but the 1110,4 that I en ts. - a:1.
1,0 rolling, or marred by precipitous
On Saturday, the 2sth, I arrived in I nea•
La, Nebraska, a city situated on the we-A
bank of the Missouri River, where, on
Sunday, 010 tlth , I had O. VII.,
sixteen fit tho 111,1,1 t. 114.11.0C1 Indian
who wren on their way to VV•:whinghw ill.
a Peace Commission. A 111(.11g thew, was
that noted and ino+l mighty of al Lnhnn
warriors, cloud. - It WaS a great
eight to see these will 111,1 id' do, tar
west ; they Sr: a reventzeinl bleod
thirsty Ic/flf/k ing race ..t tied
As Train says: " Omaha is WI Eh.' !, -
highway; hall-wav between New York
and Sari Francisco ; half-way between the
Atlantic and the ; halt-w I,el WI,II
Paris and Pekin; the new "I' the
new Northwest ; while a grain! river
I.:ISOM], tics thousand wilrw lip ti: Pia t It. t.•
and two th.ll4allllllllli, di/ we to Ne,
()Ht.11,1, 1 . 0111101• LS limnhn tcilh fifty thull,
and miles of lake and rioer 113V1:0.1..,
making it the grunt railway coot., td . llv
eontinont, and the iil the
West."
NelJrask a aluvt 141MM:11111s the llighr~t
price everywhere, and by Sunler
and rail, must be the groat :Ind Corn
centre of the country, .lliing the filk
horn and Platte 5,11110 of tln
Jana in dill SVitriii i it - Itch
bought from Wl to ;?,17 per iii•re. If eiistei
people who work year in and oat ill mat,o
a living, would g.. to est, lOW,. 1111111 Is
Cheap, they Suould du Su ell. Most of the
trrdtLy westerners rano. here pit, :ul.]
started out 1 / 4 , ill, liltluor nothing. Tit,.
way to go \vest iv to go in a colony, voine
dozyti or two families go together and lal.e
al. ig with theta all kinds of
he grounds yield more from the aml
the, market., are as ;food in :Ly
;Lnywhere else., Now, why dn't
people, who live in Imiiied
wi,t, and got up in the l1 ., )1 . 1 , 1r In ill
next litter 1 will deserihe ails:, and Mi.
sonri tho adv3lllllle, tin , l ,11.:•I
vantages as to Meations. .1. S. F.
1.4/Ni,./N,•/Ittle 13. --Till.. 7'ittlt,llll , lii , rt:
I,ly :tritt•lll fiti.tes tilt•
t:. Mtlrrw 111:d. L 111! Ni•tu 11,11 i pit
yl,lilil l ., Chili things :ts .pill
rages and Erie 111i,tuallaw•nient..
It is r..ported. that Inchens 11 11111;4 11,,
before Ins deaLli desired its remain. miCli
be interred in the old burial
Itorliester, which hus ...in., been e lf
that negotiations for pnnnis. i,m are u•nl
pending.
I.riNno9, J • Irish 1111111111:11
. 1.11 1 1
nals concur in saying that the governincilt
ileed not exult over 1.110 chelcat. ii I .
attempt to invade l'anada, and 1.1111 l
1111.4 1 / 1 1,11 learned which w ill insull•
the next time.
tjur:ENsTowN, Juno 1:/. —The NI Mature
steamer l'ity of Itagusa, which sailtsl from
Liverpool May :II uu it voyage across the
Atlantic, arrived iu this harbor to-day.
The 1.111.11111 reports that his vossol 51,1'11114
leak 11.1111 Ile was 1,111pe111,1 to lilt bael,
fur repairs.
PARIN, 13,--Vesterday a Lelograni
WUM received lucre announcing that the
American General Robert Anderson, of
Fort Sumter fame, was in a dying condition
at 'fours. Minister Washburn immediately
sent Dr. Johnston to that city to investigate
the case. The latter called in II r. Iferpoi,
Director or the Mei/livid School or Tour,
and the consultation held resulted in de
ciding that the t;eneral was in 11,, immediate
danger. A change of climate s, as suggest
ed for the patient, and he will thereto,
go to the Pyrenees as soon Ili Ile rail Wifil
safety.
A boy living with John Feathers, in
llemptield twp., Westmoreland ts,, sonic
8 or 9 years of age, was struck by light
ning and instantly killed on Tuesday of litst
week. lle was passing a lire-place at the
time, and the electric !Mid came down the
Chimney. A bolo in one of his feet was the
only mark left by the lightning,
Ono Immo, Otto hog :Old fourteen head of
sheep have been killed. by lightning in
Westmoreland county within the past three
weeks.
James Morgonroth and his son Adam
were both killed by lightning in Centre
county on Thursday week, while at work
repairing a barn.
An umbrella In the hands of a school
girl at Somerset was struck by lightning
the other day. The girl still goes to school,
nevertheless. Brave girl I _
Daring the storm on Thursday the resi
dence of It. IL Kline, Esq., at Now Cum
berland, was struck bw lightning and con
siderably damaged. The attic floor was
torn up and the weatherboarding-of the
gable end somewhat shattered and partly
torn off. Fortunately none of the inmates
were seriously Injured.