Lancaster 3ntelligenrer.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1870
A Speculative Beggar.
'When It was charged last Fall that
President Grant had been, engaged,
through his brother-in-law, Corbin, in
speculating in the New York gold mar
ket, few persons really believed that he
was guilty; the circumstances connects
lag him with Corbin's transactions were
very suspicious, but they were not suffi
cient topositively prove that Grant was
wait his position as President, to regu
late the financial policy of the country
in such a way as to fill his individual
pocket. It was well known that he was
greedy of wealth, and :that he would
steadily reward such persons as gave
him presents of houses and lands, wines
and cigars, libraries, horses, dogs and
sea-side cottages; but this little failing
of his was attributed to the bad habit he
had fallen into before the war, and after
he was dismissed from the army for
drunkenness and indecency ; he lived
then at Galena, Illinois, and not having
a emit of his own, nor any disposition
to earn one, was supported by the stray
dollars which he begged from his inlet
ed relatives. A beggar then, he is a
beggar still. Now, a beggar is not ne
cessarily a thief, hut nevertlieless a pru
dent, housewife will keep a sharp look
out on him, as long as he is in the vi
cinity of her (+Altos-lines, table furni
ture or Other 1110V:tide property. So it
will behoove the people of this country
to keep a sharp eye on I ;ran t. Ile was
a very needy beggar before good luck
and the war made him a Woody butch
er, and since Hie War he again be
come It greedy 111 ~tr, and has, DION,
0V12r,11, We !lace rhe , erVed, heel) ,Illirelt
ed with the suspicion or a connection
with the gold gamblers.
And now other develnpun tit, are tak
ing place which give us fortlwr reason
Io distrusi his 111,11,1 y. Ile has !Well
f o r mouths a ,I rung :Lod persistent :el
vocate of the luirchase of San Domingo,
an bdand a-c
try ; it Hour tur,,,, out that the
project, to induce the Mate,
plirchll-1. it \Va., eool,eted by SWIle NeW
specidahJrcforth,' benefit of their
OWII ',whet:, and the it friends.
Three ;Lroly ollicers appointed by I ;rant,
go to, -;an Domingo to make the treaty,
and Grant, Ihvy, and the other
S. agents,--all except ,mc poor fellow,
whom theotl er:lnrlu it uliiu jail beeliti,e
is w:uilcl hi expo .. ' Weir rase:ll4,--
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Jouritallitic
The jh ),41,0(/ rtultuk,ll, (IS iu
111.5' type, givntly enlarged and ntlier
imprnved. \\'e are glad to nntha•
this L•vnien,e among the
Son 1,1 't huiulrr
the ib ui,,,•r,'l:tttuudaut
ri/r/i.tei r ha , just coin
ploted its titty-sixthDuring a
period of altuu.,l tlitiv-s,s)ri• year., it has
Itcen slcadlast and unwavering sup
porter of I)t•iiilicralit• priucipleU. It is
Lly conducted by i is Itroncut pr.privtol's
anti wits
never More prosperotiS.
Gen. Banks' Speech on Cuba
We publish elsewhere the speech of
Gen. Banks on the Cuban question. It
will be read with great interest by men
of all parties, and there are nonu who
will not be convinced that he thorough
ly riddles the ini.wage of the Prei.ddenL
THE Boston Pont believes that had
Andrew Johnson left his post fur [rout
ing excursions, he would have been im
peached on the sole ground of the im
morality of angling, and a special
committee would have been 'raised to
intercept the lines he dropped, to dis
cover if there was not treason at their
Rads.
iThe Collection of Taxes
The records show that over eighty
thousand men are employed In the col
lection of the Income tax. They are
chosen, not on account of their fitness
for the position they are called upon to
fill, but solely on account of their polit.:
ical relations to some Radical Congress
man or other official. Many of them
are destitute of business talent, not a few
lack honesty, and multitudes of them
are mere bummers and brawling pot
house politicians. To keep up this
vast army of inefficient officials costs
the tax-payers many millions of dollars
every year, in one way and another.
The Revenue Department has been con
verted into an asylum, where many of
the worst men belonging to the Repub
lican party are pensioned off and sup
ported at the public expense. The
masses of that party can not be so com
pletely blinded by prejudice as not to
see the evils which exist, and we are
sure that thousands of them would
gladly vote to remedy the abuses which
affect all classes of the community alike.
In our judgment the best and the
cheapest way to collect the taxes which
are necessary to support the general gov
ernment, would be to apportion the
amount among the several States, ac
cording to their ability to pay, and to
leave each State to collect the amount
thus levied upon it from such sources
and in such a way as its authorities
might deem proper. 'fire same officials
who collect the State and County taxes
could collect all taxes levied for the gen
eral government, and the whole army
of Federal officials might be thus dis
pensed with. The States being re
sponsible, would hold the county of
ficials to a strict accountability, and
they would exercise a like restraint
over their subordinates. The people
would choose the men who would gather
the tax from them, and they would se
lect honest 100 l capable persons. The
Legislature of each State could appor
tion the taxes in a more equitable man
, ner than Congress does, and the whole
system being brought under the imme
diate view and control of the taxpayers
would Iba• vastly' Shit lie d , i nnpruved
and cheapened.
011 e of the greatest cursesid this is,llll
- is the increase of Federal office.-
holders which has taken place since the
Radicals obtained control of the gen
eral government. 'Flits garden must be
weeded out, and whole crops of useless
officials cut up by the roots. The people
are all interested in cheapening the ex
penses of the government, and they la -
gin hr see how they have been imposed
upon. Let them apply the remedy at
the ballot-box in too mining Congn.s
sional elections. Let none but unques
tionably honest omen be voted fur, nail
lid every candidate who will nut pledge
hinnsel I' 1,, give us a cheaper governmen
lie defeated.
A Trld; of Butler
After due deliberation the litttise
Committee 1111 itlilifinstrurtimi voted to
report tt. bill for the admission of I Ittorgia
with the Bingham antentiment, which
defeats the imptitiLtnt and outrageous
tlttenipts of I tovernor IlulloclL to perpet
uate Ida rule in the State, against the
will :Lint wishes of the people. Ben.
Butler fought the proposed amendment
till through, but was cuutpletely beaten
out. tt- , etting that he multi not carry his
!mint fairly lie resorted to a disreputable
trick, and aL :1 subsegtient meeting of
thel'ontinitlet, when two of the mem
bers Nvere:absent, he litttl the vote at
taching the Ptinglutin amendment re
contddered, and It rosnluliun 1/1l9S1•11 ill
filv , ir of the bill as it stood without it.
\Ve can hardly conceive it Imssilde that
-Lich a rascally device can lie successful
ly carried oaf, but then, is no telling
what baseness the present Congress is
ettpahlesdf. It has done so many incall
things that to SllOlllll not be surprised
to see it endorse :11111 approve this dirty
trick.
TIM rea , ill why Ile:night is still
I:ept mil of the because ( kir
I:MI:silt awl it gang Of thieviin .
offlee-hohlrrsof Nrlioni he is the leailer
desire to el:Mil:Lie phintlering the peopli
for a%B its !finger. They haveaniasset
alreany by iliSlloll(itit praetices,
but with all the greed of the horse leech
ihey , stillery "aive,givs;"atill It:tale:Ll
I basel:S up the deninnas of tilt
hi the meantime the Slat,
suffers in :ill its interests, and her recur
pry Irian by till
\Vilr is retarded. It i:i high titre fo
in 1111.• North In re
blike WI the part of lilt
neon now in power.
Thum• Hundred l'ougressmen
The hill increasing the number of
members in the Lower 1 louse of l'on
gress In three hundred has passed the
Senate, and kill no 110111.1 pass the
louse. "111 a multitude of l'ouneellors
there is safety" says the scripture, but
we are not sure that this nation will be
:inc safer in the hands of three hundred
Congressmen than in those of a smaller
holy. True it Nvotilil cost more to buy
tip a majority .4 . dit.in, unless Fives
should he reduced. Some little jobs
?night fail to get through, but schenn•sof
holesale plunder the Northern l'a
citie Itailrond liillwouldlind
stitliviently great to interfere with
them. The Democrats trill insist upon
engrafting a provision for minority rep
resentation upon the bill when theelatise
relating to the election of t'ongressinen
at large conies before the litaise.--
\\liether they will succeed in securing
the adoption of so wise a measure re
mains to be St'Un. 'Hie proposed bill in
crease.: the representation or l'ennsyl
vania from t‘venty-four to twenty-nine
- -a gain to us of live.
Biennial Sessions
't he Vermont Lutist ituliuunl Conven
iiilll has determined to do away with
annual sessions of the State Legislature,
and has :Molded the plan of holding
biennial sessions. This rule is general
in the - Western States, :mil it is found
to work well wherever it has been
tried. It would be a good thing to adopt
it in Pennsylvania. The pamphlet f mt.
Mining; all the general laws passed at
the I:1,1 session of our legislature is very
thin, indeed, and the lawyer who looks
through it must conclude that it is hard
ly worth while for the people of Penn
sylvania to he put to the expense of
electing and paying legislators for all
I hey do that is wise or beneficial. The
truth is that our legislators no longer
fit tend to public business. From the day
they are elected, most of them, theyturn
their attentiOns to private bills, and
many of them only concern them
selves about paying jobs. We can easily
dispense with annual sessions. Let the
taxpayers demand this as it measure of
reform, It will reduce expenditures and
do away with much of the corruption
which now prevails at Harrisburg.
THE city election held in Waterbury,
Connecticut, on Monday last, resulted,
in the words of the Waterbury Ameri
'Wl, I itiadiCai "in a 'lran sweep for the
Democrats in ercrythbw cxcept the Sec
ond Ward." The A mcrioan chums that
this is not surprising, excepting as re
gards the Third ward. "'Phis ward" it
says, "is known to he strongly Repub
lican, but it went Democratic." The
Democratic vandidate for Mayor, Isaac
E. Newt o n, was elected by 193 majority,
Waterbury, last year elected a Radical
Mayor by 316 majority, but her citizens
scent to prefer a return to Demoeratic
management.
\\ i..,h
Os 3,londay the Dennierats of New
London, Connecticut, elected their
entire city ticket, with 160 majority.—
Last April the Radical majority wasl.l.o.
Another cvidence of the popularity of
Brant, the Fifteenth Amendment and
Chinese labor.
THE stolen $20,000 worth of $lO green
backs have not yet been found. The
detectives are on the lookout all over
the Country for the expert thieves who
so cleverly got off with the money.
THE LANCASTER WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1870.
Whittemore.
The only Radical victory we have
been obliged to record for several:
months past, is the re-election of ',Whit
tentoie, the reverend carpet-bag thief
and cadet-broker,. who, after having .
been expelled from the House of Rep
resentatives,Was tritimphantly returned
by a negro majority of 8,000. The Rad
icals don't seem to be particularly jubi
lant
over their triumph. On the con
trary
they talk seriously of kicking their
brother, a second time, out of the seat to
which his colored constituents have
elected him. But why should they do
I so? Of course, he WAS elected exclu
sively by ignorant negroes, but that
should make him the more lovely in the
eyes of his fellow negro-worshippers.
Of course, he traded in West Point ea-
detships, but so did quite u number of 1
those who proposed to reject him. Of
course, he is a knave and a thief, but if
all the knaves and thieves were expel
ed from the present liouse of Represen
tatives that loyal and imtriotic body
would be left without a quorum. Be
sides, it would appear from the well
known proclivities of his colored
constituents, and the handsome majo
rity they gave him after they had
been fully advised of Ilk character,
or rather his want of character,
that he is truly their " representa
tive man;" and in this free and equal
republic, each peculiar interest should
be entitled to its peculiar representative.
High tariff constituencies have high
tariff representatives—railroad monopo
lies elect railroad monopolists—and even
Democratic constituencies, When their
majorities are overwhelming, are some
times permitted to lie represented by
men of their own principles. Then why
should not a eonstitueney of hug and
hominy thit•ves lie represented in Om
gress by a thief '."fliey need somebody
to look after their itit•rest-: and protect
them in their loyal fill the hen
roosts, and smoke-1i0n,,, and pig-pens
and potato-pat , •ln , of the white rebels
who own the land in their Congressional
District; and who el- , could so prop
erly represent Il n :Is Whittemore?
Butler and tailield and Logan and
Dickey and the re-t, have faithfully
. ..oil by Satoh., and hi. intere , ts to the
Let them not go hack Oil
Admit Whittemore to his
People who live in glass houses
should not throw stones; and it is more
than likely that if a brick were thrown
at random into the 11x11 of the House,
it would strike a greater seoundrel than
Whittemore.
MIMIC
The New .kttorne) General.
\Vn wcre iiii4htkon in our con . incture
hat at would in,i,t upon having
L Pennsylvanian inailk. Atl,,riwy
Ucn
:rul. 'chat is an titlinn which has inw
attaclinti lei it, anti 1,11.`-
011 . 11Ily it tioloNactly in Hillitli•S
WOlll,l un lue,tiunnh l y 11111 , •il 1,11 . f . er
mane ; 4 4.1:11 . 1.:IIN i i rtalc, %%110 has
SLlperVi,il,ll over fffil.i . .2ll -
Men iti, 11c out` of I I It• 1/i).:(21 . '-
rutaries to ttltnut i, roiuluittcil -4l•l
Colll.l'ol iit Lome. Ile
vary for empty honors any
a full iing desires a hats , limo.. \V illit
Ill' want, i, nu .pporlunity to Incarl nut
tilt` 11( . 11 spoil, among: his political ad
herents. \Vith the influence whiell he
lets obtained over ( ;rant we expect him
to root out the last remnant of the l'ur
faetion, in this State. 'That Wow he
will reign without a rival, and Ilium
down the siiiiptre of political power to
his son Dom who has :Wilily fill' party
management almost viol:it to that of the
great \Vinneletgo
BILL it NV:AS 11 1 /1 .1' Silll , oll
designs that we intended Mb:ruin. \viten
we commenced this article. We wished
to ash: who tht• nett . A ttnimey t reneral
is: If wt , look 1,, surd, I:t•ptil,lieal news
papers as litter , reached us, lee are :It a
14/s, (.1 asi•erlain oven tilt' Ilalile t:i the
iu~li\'illhal who has s 0 ,111111,1ily 111,11
up 1 . 1,111 Ibc \\ :dors 1/l' pulitiral
idiseiiriiy. Ono piipidr ions its his name
is :\ lips, another gives him the ptitio
nten of Thomas, r-eripturill hot h ofthem.
We suppose some:Marl , reporter will get
hold or his berme lung and
then the mystery tehich al taehes to the
new Attorney (rimer:ll will Is ,
It will take longer to discover what he
14 1.11:1I1 to get tip :ill :11 . 1 . 111'at ,
what he Ilan been. II Illay IWlllat there is
something in the new nonentity, but the
app.illllll , lll snob indi
vidual lit "'hat eery irroperly
le rc
gariled as the not-1 r e sponsible position
in the nation must Mil In satisfy the
Itepublican
It is evident that(;rant has a lilting
for small num. \\*Muller it is I,ecause
he dues not NVi,ll to Ile
tly trims 11511 \vino.
for some other reason, we al, uualio t..
determine; lint, rs•rtaii, it is that this
appointment givt•. Ilirpririni , e of an alder
cabinet than Hie tier, steal: inenin
petent ones tellich tile President. Inn ,
already had. it thilt a 1•11111-
rkto n'llllllll.lill,Zlll . the 111.1• , l'hi rickety
concern may to l'XI11.1•1,1; but there is
little likelihood that it will Le followed
fry such appointments as will retleet
Credit 1111011 ill(' I . ollllll'y.
'I'11(' 1:110-4. IletV, is that the nett
torney-1 ;rciicral teas opposed Insreessiun
at the start, that he afterwards went
teith his State into rebellion, that he has
acted with the Itelorlilican rally silo,
the war, :old has had his disabilities re
moved. It isnot et•rtain that the Senate
will confirm him.
.1 Railroad ExcurNion
A largo
11 with riilrtiail
enterprises and prominent nierellants,
have been making a tour nyor the
Northern Central :Ind the Pennsylvonia
railroads. The porly took dinner al
llarrisburg, supped and spent the
night in the eorntinelious hotel of the
Pennsylvania Railroad at Alloono, antl
are now trying le see sights through the
murkey atir °sphere of Pittsbur,gh. ho
party is under the case of Samuel l'. 1)e
I.'ord, Esq., South-costern agent fur the
Northern Central, Pennsylvania, Ft.
Wayne Lk: (liicogo owl other prominent
railroads. ulr. Uu l'ord is one of the
twist thot•uugh lousiness wen in the
eountry, and one of thecleverest fell,)ws
alive. nder his guidanec the eXCllr
si.n can nut fail hi be all that such o
thing should be. The Pittsburgh pa
pens contain lengthy awl elaborate
descriptions of the movements or the
party.
The next political contest in Delaware
is likely to be a very sharp ,sie. At the
Republican Stale Convention at Dover,
last week, when Thus. B. Course). was
nominated for Governor, and Jos u a T.
Heald for Congress, resolutions were
adopted which, while endorsing the
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments,
approve gencral ronitedll, express con fi
deuce in the administration, favor free
schools, and criticise the record of Slate
management by the Democracy. The
Democratic majority in the State ;it the
last election was 3,320, as follows: New
castle county, 713 ; Kent county
and Sussex county, 1,249. The colored
vote of the State is estimated as at least
The Republicans are not san
guine, however, as to the result in Kent
and Sussex counties. The colored vote
in Kent is about 1,500, and in Sussex
about 1,250. But there has been consid
erable feeling in regard to the nomina
tion for Governor. The more Conserv
ative Republicans think the negroes
htive taken ton great a part in the elec
tion of delegates to the convention. The
Democracy of Delaware are in good
spirits and in good lighting trim, and
expect to achieve a complete victory.
NONE of the Radical newspapers of
this ckty seem to have heard of the live
ly time their grand old party had in the
Philadelphia nominating conventions.
They cohtent themselves with publish
ing a dry list of the nominees. No
wonder so many intelligent Republi
cans are subscribers to the I,NTELLIGEN
(TB.. It is OA only spnrce through
which they can be made acquainted
with the doings of their own party.
While Grant was trying in vain to
catch fish at the head-waters of the
Susquehanna, the son-in-law of Secre
tary Fish was successfully angling on
the banks of the Potomac. He is the
recognized Attorney of the Spanish
GovernmSnt, and several prominent
Republican newspapers have charged
that he controls his father-in-law, and
has so far prevented the administration '
from expressing one word of sympathy
for the struggling Cuban patriots.—
During Grant's absence he prepared the
message on Cuban affairs, which we
I published, and before Grant got the
fumes of Cameron's champagne out of
his head, he was induced to sign it. Its
presentation to Congress took that body
by surprise, and Banks and other friends
lof Cuba were astounded at the substance
and the tone of the document. Its trans
mission at this particular moment, when
it was well known that the House had
the subject under consideration, is re
garded as unnecessary and entirely un
called for. The feeling in Congress is
shown to be very bitter, and there IN" 11S
an excited debate on the subject.
General Banks made a vigorous and
decidedly bitter speech against the
President's Message, characterizing its
statements as false, and severely criti
cising it throughout. No message of
any President of the United States was
ever thus received by the House of
Representatives. Gen. Bunks charged
in plain terms that the message was pre
pared by a lawyer, who was paid in
gold for doing the work.
The infamously disgraceful scenes
which attended the nomination of Radi
cal candidates ill Philadelphia are a very
sad commentary upon the character of
that organization which claims to repre
sent "all the decency" of the country',
and WiliCh has had the audacity to style
itself "the (;eil and Morality party."
The lights, the frauds and the exllibi
thm of all the baseness that can attach
to politics was not confined to a single
convention. IL extended to nearly every
assemblage of the kind which win held,
and there were about, seventy of these
gatherings all in operation at once. The
report which we gleaned principally
from Republicaia newspapers is said to
Lace been a very feeble description of
what actually oecurred. It has come to
pass in the City of Brotherly Love, that.
In, man can hope to secure a nomination
on the Republican ticket without buying
it. In commenting upon this admitted
fact the Morning Post' says:
A political Convention in this day is a
Man-market, where delegates expose their
votes for sale just is a butcher does his
pork or beef. 'Fhey study that business just
as a gainbler educates his hand to hide a
card, or a thief pra,tices the art of picking
pockets. There are honest men elected to
every l'onvention, undoubtedly, but they
cannot control Llie professional delegates i
tahn o btain elections for the solitary par
pose or solliog themselves for the highest I
price. This is so notorious that it is nuly
a mall of great popularity, :We or whom
the petty politicians :11 - 0 afraid, who dart,
to go int. , NVII.IIOLIC throwing
(1016,11 a !anise, and saying like Claude :%lel
notte, "I outbid you sordid hucksters,"
and paying for Ins nomination. honest
men do their II:1111,S lief :re Conven
tions, but gel:or:illy a, :I. protest only, and
with little hopcl4,lll7,SS. There are men
who will promise, give security for the
performance—and keep the promise, too—
that fora certain sum they Will buy you a
nomination. They know that in nearly.
es cry convention the purchasable dole
' gates hold the balance of the power, and
they have their hungry followers as well
a , a band 01. brigands: We. ass'
all this ua Wednesday, alld w litre men
enough could not be bought, they were in
SOlllO vases thrown out of NV illtl6Ws and
driven away with pistols and clubs.
That is an hottest confession, and it
cannot be disputed or denied. 'rule Post
is high Itadival authority in Philadel
.
plia, and in this. matter it speaks by the
caul. Lcl the Republicans of Lancas
ter county look nttins exhibit, and then
remember the clisgraeeful confessions or
eorruption in our midst which hays
Leon made by :ill the It:ahead p a lmy
published in this county. With such a
state of facts before them, they must he
completely besotted in political bigotry,
if they ran :tny longer [relieve that the
party which they 11:1V0 So steadfastly
suppmacd has any claim to he called
moral or ,Vi•IL decent.
lit New York ,`‘'ttit i. one of the most
ably contluideil and high-toiled Itcpuli
lican paper , in the country. Mil. Dana,
Ivllo Seeri•lary of
War under Stanton, and it \Va , hi. great
intellect hid/Wilt/al/IC ilerSeVl'l/111,
that til(,,t of the Still that
the Itepuldican rutty seem to be so
proud of. The attt milt of a foss* small
purelue:alic Nvspapers to read
Itana:iitit the party bceau<e hr Will
not lend the villainous
or (limit :111,1 his fellow phut
ilerer, is ,imply ritlictiltiu,t. Although
We loive Ireyueuto , eadiou
the S///1, it treats , all important put iir
matters with an entire independence of
the leirty 1,11 Ilint merits , our este, , tn,
:old takes gi,inid WI many itubjeuts
Nve heartily commend. The
House of ilepresentatives the other day ,
pa-sell the following substitute for' ,
l'ulian resolutions
lai 'That the President, is hereby
:mthorized to renimistrate against the har
hartalS manner in Which the \Val/ in I
has been 1,1111111.1,1, and, if he shall deem
it. expedient, 1.. ,011.• It the CO -operation or
„thee w,vernnients ill such measures as he
may deem necessary t. , / secure from( both
euntendin , 4 parties all 1/1/SlTVallel` or the
laws of sae ree , gnized by all civilized ita-
Whereupon Ole Situ indulges in the
fellowing coo anent
This is empty.. It means nothing, and
,twounts to nothing. It is a skulking at
tempt on the part of the majority Of the
House to avoid coodenining, (len.kraut's
cowardly Spanish tne,sage. It is a conclu
sion which even the ring of speculators,
who Wel,11011,a1111•1•ti by lien. Logan in his
speech on \Vednesday,llll.,4lit be ashamed of.
The Itepuldican party had a chant, to
keep the lead of the country. All that teas
I . .ir it to be I tii
I.4iipp!i•
The struggle in
Cuba just ,u.. 11 i, ours with
England in 1776. t.x.•cpt Ihat thoeithans are
a ,Ippro,ed, and
their sure is n 11,11,11111 him, nler
ib~rinu: than It the
word
for Cul., Wry W II it lute all heart-.
with thi-ni.
I%tit I litty hot hml v.iiiragit 1.1 du it.
Hit l,ocilitc Ita it to Ili"
muck
. •
way N% it h t lit tn. The Itepublit•an President
stand, 10-113 V a 161i:11.10 ~11 the ,:idt•
er,Spa: 11 anti •iaVery ; 31111 ;110 ItOpll 14 . 11,111
11.11 , e1tc Itopre,entativeS is With 111111. BLit
the 1 . 1111 is wit vet. When ',telt men 11.5
I,tt,:tut and [Telt tight liar littumn
liberty, they cannttt be beaten. The lie
publican party way t•ttlutnit suicide; but
the ri.2.11t, t 51,111 eatuitd be killed.
Delaware
'l'l I. city election at Independence,
issouri, which took place on the 14th
inst., resulted in a glorious triumph for
the Democracy, and that, too, notwith
standing the fact that the registration
1010 added one hundred and twenty-two
colored names to the Radical vote. The
N Sap, that the Radical leaders
confidently expected to elect their ticket
with this new :ICITSSif ; but - they for
got the white man, and the white man
forgot them. Large number of Radicals,
hitherto in full fellowship with the party
went to the polls and deposited straight
Democratic tickets." The candidates
on hoth sides were personally popular.
J. If. Shover Wenmeratt was elected
Mayor by :2.9S votes over Peter Adams
(Radical 1, who received 22.4 votes. James
Peacock y tDemocrat t was elected Mar
shall ; out of nine Councihnen the Dem
ocrats elected seven. The white man's
column still marches on in its unbroken
series of successes.
THAT the days of "bold privateers"
are not over is evidenced by the late
cruise of the Cuban vessel, George B.
Upton, which sailed a few weeks ago
from New York with an expedition for
Cuba, landed it, and then sailed for As
pinwall, and there embarked another
cargo of soldiers, and landed it, also, safe
ly on the " ever faithful Isle." This
vessel arrived in Nev, York yesterday,
and meanwhile the astute Spaniards are
sending their men-of,-waT hi search of
her in the West Indian seas. -
Grant's Cuban Message
liadlealkm In Philadelphia
The Cuban question
Negroes Selling Their Votes in Model-
We clip the following from that truly''
" loyal " sheet, the Philadelphia Eve
ning Bulletin :
Among the lower classes whiskey assert
ed its sway. The craftier of the politicians
circulated among them, putting afresh the
bottle to their lips to steal away their brains.
Some openly offered themselves and theit
votes for an equivalent in money. At the
tavern of a man in Dickerson street, twen
ty-six colored men openly sold their votes
in the interest of one of the cliques. They
will all vote in that precinct. They sold
themselves as a unit.
That is the account which a promi
nent Republican newspaper gives of the
conduct of the negroes at the Republi
can delegate elections. It is a pity the
reporter did not state the price at which
the twenty-six negroes sold their votes.
It would have been instructive and in
teresting to know the value which the
Philadelphia negro sets upon his ballot.
It must be remembered that this sale
of negro votes took place at the very
first election in which they participated ;
and that the darkey's took occasion to
bleed those who profess to be their
especial friends. If they sell themselves
thus in the very beginning, it will not
be hard to predict what will be the re
sult of negro voting in a few years.—
They will furnish a large class of pur
chasable material in all future elections,
and thus will our politics be still more
degraded than they are at present.
The old slave blocks have been done
away with, and the bodies of negroes
are no longer offered for sale, but they
have set the example of putting them
selves up at auction. Political bum
mers in cities and towns will become
negro traders, and thet"raffic in black
ballots will eventual& be a recognized
business. This is one of the blessings
of negro suffrage.
The Republicans Feel the Blow
That ableand well-known Republican
newspaper, the New York Sun, com
ments upon the recent elections ILS fol-
The recent elections would seem to Mtn- I
trite a turn in the the drift of political tide.
The defeat of so worthy anti personally
acceptable a candidate as (toy. Jewell iii
Connecticut, last April, WaAdouhticSs dao
to the unpopularity of lien.grant's Ad
ministration, anti especially to its anti- ,
American, cowardly, anti shameful attitude
on the Cuban question. The overwhelming
Democratic majority in this State at the
judicial election was caused in a great
measure by the disarrangement and de
moralization diffused through the ranks
of the Republican party by the absent,: of
any inspiring idea in the conduct of our
affairs and by the unwise Federal appoint
ments made front this State anti city. The
lons oft tregon is also a severe blow to the
Administration. The seat of Mr. Williams,
the present Republican Senator, and coma
the foremost men of the Pacific slope, was
at stake, his term of office expiring in
March next. Great exertions were there
ftire put forth by the Administration to
carry the Legislature; but the Democrats
having secured both branches, a member of
that party will succeed Mr. Williams.
The most signal and insignificant of these
defeats is the eleetion of Emery as Mayor
of Washington, by more limn:Wee majority
over Bowen, the regular Repithlican eat
dilate, and the confidential friend of the
President. Now that this catastrophe has
happened to the Administration, of cunrse
its Chalalpitak declare that lien. ;rant took
no interest in the matter, and that the fail
ure to achieve the triumph of his fay, trite
is not a striking proof 0: his weakness at
the Federal capital. 'rho people do not
believe this; and, at all events, every shrewd
politician will assert that it' the President
did nut use every effort in his power to
elect Bowen, he ought to kayo done so, and
that his liel11141111•11cy only affords another
proof of his incapacity to leatl a great party
in a trying crisis.
In any sicw of the remit, the stunning
overthrow of Bowen, under the very eye of
the White I louse, in the presence of a Re
, publican Congress, and in a city swarming
with the beminciariesof the President, slit
be accepted as an indication that either his
days or those of his party are drawing to a
close.
How the Lands Are Voted Away
'flits is the way the public laluls are
voted away 1 Convress. In the Sen
ate last Monday.
lht motion of Mr. Tipton, the Senate took
up the bill granting lands to aid in the con
struction of a Railroad from (lrantsville,
Nebraska, to Denver, Colorado.
. ,
The bill wa., von,iderecl, anionded auit
passed.
(in motion of mr. itanisey, lice Senate
took up the bill granting land to :lid iu the
construction of a Itail road in the Territory
Daeutah, which was 'I insidereti and
passed.
ThUS, 1110 re ,11.1i1•Idy tht`
t riot: fOIII,WS the cry of '• presto change,"
vast tracts of the pull is domain :ire
transferred to railroad corporations.—
Let the people remember these things
when tiny vote for Congressman next
fall.
PLom.i: are be to eusport that
lir:tilt during the pa ,a two weeks lon
been indulging with inon , than his usual
freedom in champagne and cognac. I m
his late fishing excursion lie was un
able to catch a single trout. As soon as
he reached 'Washington he lout his name
to an abominable fulmination against
Cuba that he had never read, and now
he appoints to a position in his cabin( t
a late rebel soldier, whom 11,12 never saw
and never heard of until old Ebenezer
Hoar told him that h, once knew hits
father, who was a New England anus;
that Amos had gone South I.q seek his
fortune; was first a Union Whig, then
a Secession Demoorat, then a pettifog
ging lawyer, and afterwards a rebel
soldier on (;en. Toombs' stair, but doubt
less had not done the Union cause nearly
so much damage as either Gen. Long
street or I ;ov. ,10. Brown ; and that like
them he was now a truly loyal Republi
can who had "accepted the• situation"
and was therefore a "wondrous proper
man to accept the situation of Attorney
I:eneral of the United States. I:rant
was convinced and Amos was appoint-
Pemportralt or a Radical Congressman.
A new Radical newspaper has been
established at Bellefonte, this State. Its
mission ,02111 S 10 be to prevent the Rad
ical who represents that district from
being renominated. Its title is
Irm,bi, and it speak: out sly plainly
It says:
I,lll` 41111,(14,11
,11. tit all tint , , t t!Il t .t11,1
t•qtt:st•ittlttit,tlts IttttliVt'S t d , i Ilk NI . I
tit ttltritittlllitill liltdt.lcat of W. 11. .\rlil
>trnn;;,
lii fro,.
tilt 1 , 111 liklrict, believinallittl In I.f•
and Iliprct , riary b,ul, and .-,.•,)l,llattlicari.-
t,,i•rat, lvho ;thhor, :1 :tiltl
;..,211..
Thal is prohaldy a 1.1 . 1 . ,.1
in•n-portrait of Mr. \Vt`
kl 1(,
11,:-.,tatc Io \vll-111 it N,a1,1 ni,-
r.,t. all ta,cal,otit
A n,inusnoNDENr f 111 New V.irl
speaking of Ilu• Nat iiitial 'ap
Itol ,I,
EVPrybutiN" wishc. 01. a the .'io•IIIILAt•I:f. , 1.
C 1,111,1 Like the brenze en the cepale
he' a target, and lire till they Int.,okekl is
desvti.
That iS a aentiuuut \\AIM! Will he re
echoed by all who have looked at thi•
monstrosity which stands there, pro
claiming to all the NVOII4I the barbarous
taste of the Radical Congre' , i("'"l
%Odd' adopted it :is an .rtia
meld. It is a dark complexioned (
ilessor Liberty,and wilt:selected:it :Wine
when white ems considered to be :I dis
loyal color.
News from Darien
We took occasion, some creeks ago, to
say that the discouraging, tidings from
the first attempts of the surveying party
to lied a canal route across the Cordil
leras must not lead us to give up all con
fidence in future exploration. Com
mander Selfridge now writes in very
good spirits with regard to his success
thus fur, and still believes that the route
from the gulf of San Blas to the Bayano
river, and thence to the Pacific, will
prove practicable. However, he will
continue his explorations until the best
possible route is obtained. It is certain
ly to be hoped that American energy
and capital will carry through this great
undertaking, which promises such valu
able results.
THE Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has, it is said, secured the controlling
power in the new railroad between
Washington and Fredericksburg, as
well as that of the Baltimore and Poto
mac Company. George D. Roberts, of
Pennsylvania, has been elected Presi
dent of the former.
Is there Corruption In Congress
The Harrisburg Topic, Gov. Geary's
organ asks the above question, and then
proceeds to answer it as follows :
"The acrimony displayed in Congress
during the debate of the Cuba question, and
particularly the bitterness manifested be
tween John A. Logan and Ben. Butler,
affords the evidence to men who choose
to ponder it in all Its bearings, that there
is a reckless corruption practiced in Con
gress, which puts to shame all the de
basement of the same kind usually prac
ticed in our Sitate Legislatures. Gen.
Logan was quite emphatic in the insinua
tion that Gen. Butler had been bought by
Spanish gold, while Butler in response, se
riously declared that Cuba bonds had a
great deal to do With the sympathy mani
fested in Congress for the struggle to make
the Island free. Retorting to this, Logan
proclaimed that the object was to get our
Government to purchase Cuba from Spain,
which could only be effected by preventing
all recognition of war in that island. Here
is a reflex of a debate in Congress. What
do the people think of it? In what light
do Logan and Butler stand? How do their
criminations and recriminations reflect on
the honor of our Representatives? It is not
possible to reply to these questions without
exposing the fact that the corruptions now
practiced in Congress are of the most
frightful character; this is now irresistible.
Congressmen have themselves to blame.
The popular opinion is fast gaining ground
that money is freely used to secure the ac
tion of Congress on all subjects, for which
John A. Logan anti B. F. Butler are entitled
to the credit. In their speeches, these men
give the people cause to believe this to be
true. In a little while honorable men will
shrink front going to Congress.
.
nucli a confession of Radical corrup
tion, from such a source, ought to pro
duce some impression on the minds of
honest Republicans.
What Dana says of Grant
C. A. Dana, editor of the New York
Sun, speaks as folli;ws of our imbecile
President. The portrait is true, if not
complimentary :
Toward s;ess. s:rant av President we OM
less that we cherish a very profound feeling
of disappointment and dissatisfaction.—
There snore few men in the country toles
had taken inure stos-k in Inns than we Isad.
During the war, when he was digging
canals at Vicksburg, and was on the point
of being relieved front Isis 1•1111111111I111, Mr.
Dana slid is hat he could to have Mtn re
tained at the head of the army in the
Mississippi ; anti the Pirtn't seats
sur
ressful. But for his agency I:rant U,1111 , 1
(hen 1101, bCf'n .von( IJ , G , tlr•ll, ; Intl in
Ural emit he could It ri I her /tare broom,:
iii-( It" •trtil y 11-11• 1 -
<1 , 11( of th' Until e•el NI at es.
Next, when he was st candidate for the
Presititinoy, we slid what we cssulil to secure
Ibr hint the nomination of the Itepublican
National Convention; and then lye lisellit'd
to get hint the votes of a majority of the
Americans petsple. All this we dial simply
because we thought it hest for the coun
try; ansl all we demanded of tiers. s:rant
NVIV4 :111 holleSt. Selltiilllo, disinterested, and
psttriotio issinsinistration rut - his olliee. Does
anybody think that was too stnieln to es
pol•t of him?
But instead of this, Isis achninistratisisi is
had, foolish, weak, cotvatislly, corrupt, anti
:knsericsul, t•olltelnptitile:ll. home, ansl noire
abroad. It is impossible to
speak the truth and deny that this is 5.3.
It is iutpus<ihle for in.h•pentlent journal
: ist, anxious to di,charze his ohli.g - ati ,, ns to
the people, to coneral or palliate l'acts s u
fearful and so notorious.
The President is incempetent, lazy, neg.
lectitil or his duties, unable to comprehend
them, and careless about performing them.
I t• appoints tutu to ell ice simply becall,Se
they have made hitn:pre , ents, or are his
relatien , , er because smile caprice
prompts it. Ile de4raties the country in
the eyes of all the Nvorld, and stands trem
bling like a coward for liar of a corrupt
and bank rn pt power like Spain. The man
,Vll,, , saVed. the liatiOn as a soldier is revering
us with shame as a l'resident.
Must we forbear to tell the truth about
him I,ceause it is unpleasant to 'hint and
his satellites? Itist Ivo prophesy only
smooth things 11e,,1111 , 0 a few 1 . 4m1s charge
us With personal animosity ? We do riot
so iiirlerstand our office. .111 our judgment,
if there i, :Inv man who has the right to
speak the sc hole truth in this case, to state
all the facts, and to urge (he'll lipsn inllllll .
atteritic,it 1110.11 the 1111,1 of the tsmritry is
entirely aroused to the subjer t, that right
is ours. Nor is it :1 right alone: it is a
duty.
It is alleged that, Ir. liana wanted the
New York Custom Bah! What
if he did, or what if he didn't? Dees that
allect, ono way or the other, the great his
t“rioal truth that rant's civil adininistra
thin failure--a dreadful, deldnrahle,
shameful failure?
A Good Sign
The Philadelphia /10/ti tin of last eve
ning in it leading editorial proclaims
open rebellion against the ring of roost
er=, pinelleN and corrupt:millets that
have secured the nominations from the
Radical Conventions recently held in
that city. It says :
"Such men as these, wrapped up in their
own sottish and cur Emit schemes, have
failed to note the changes of the tunes.
They have failed to recognize the gradual
change of ;front of the great 111:1,SOS of the
people. They have looked upon the pub
lic, so long,ioi a mere machine for theirown
aggrandizement, a sort or trough at which
they could gorge themselves, undisturbed,
that they have been unable to reaiine that
the people of Philadelphia, as a mass, are
possessed of intelligence, independence and
virtue. Xery the,' Men are to town the
lesson they have so vorutulie mused to
. .
The ilemand which the people make,
through the independent portion of the
public press, is a very plain and decided
ne . people demand the, retirement of
ry mini from Hi , 1,111,1,1 eIY le/el, vlm
hex been in the .I.,ryisPie nt, f ,
Messrs. .L.7ltott, 0,1,1 Mill e r . They
demand, also, the rutireinent of Mr. Bunn
from the ticket. And they Wean to hack
this demand with acti,oi. The alternative
is a very simple one. It . these 111011 quietly
withdraw from the eontest, other and good
men will he pUt in their place, and eleet
i.d. If they will net withdraw, thew Iral/ be
at the pills, unless the !winner:us
are Cools enough to put Up ad, bad Candi
dates as they are, which is easily possible,
but extremely improllable.
Let our citizens ill the several Legisla
tive districts inaugmate this movement at
once. Let these 111011 la, Walled 011 and in
vited to withdraw. It' they want to lie
paid for their withdrawal, pay them and
let them p). If they :re obstinate and frac
tious, let independent nominations Le
made, they will obtain an amount of
support, which such nominations have
rarely received lienire. It IS 1101, ,1,11.11
while for the Itepuldican party to
lose its power in the Legislature, or in
the administration of any part of the city
government, merely to gratify 1111. rapaci
ty of this little "Ring.-
Radical Legislative Nominations In
Philadelphia
That thoroughgoing Ileptihliran news
paper, the l'hilailelphia Er,niny
Galt,/ says:
The Legbilative little or un
improvement over I:Lst yvar. ot . tilo
WWI 55'110 are, entirely 11111,110,‘ II to
tilt pu Llir, may be very goon I 1111.11, but of
tho,‘ us hill hal', 11111 d it rt.o"rtl , ,
FllO.ll, ill are the mils
, iippprt °row 11,••k
-tier, Clmt,l, it t.,
,ty that tlivy :Lro iffiii.ttoly
cuh 010 pa..l 001,1115 i I larr,
Intrg ttink, thcir rt•-algwarati,, im
ILr luditio.l.l 1111.
of Pliil.olciphm arc i,..1111.1
The vot,r, %,1!!
11 . ,11.1
lie lik,lyt“ gain
11 . :\ r. 11011 z :it Sitittit
•huui.l ho put itt
EISEIBMI
cr the La\o I.tilo'd 1:1
llu'll' JII , 111,1. 44 thvin ii,t J.nu•.
'tyho 11% Aelcermon
Ain, T. A,l;criplail, noininatnd ii ilr.
Mar's Ne•w If :mil,-
-.lan., a gratin:ll, Irartanalth I '"11,.4c,
and about. 4 1 1 coat', of :1270. 111 , I,IIION 1.11 tin
I;l,rgia lo•Ilnro lie (damn," his niajnrity,
and ,tudieil law in tin,
Perrier, an 051'. S. Semam, and also Pres
ident Jail:soil's Attorney. Ile has been
one of the leading lawyers in the Snni 11,
Lett has icier held pulrliv ntlbai until ap
panted by Predilent :rant S. A taimnev
bir the Restrict of Morgut, a position which
he now hnlds. Ile was cheep,' id large on the
;raid tii•ket. Ile was fir,nerly a Whig, lint
sin, the war ha. , been idou ti llr,l with the
['Min party in the Smith. During the
war, although a [nein man, he w:ts forced
into the Confederate army, and served on
the stair of lien. Toombs, whom he delend
ed in his celebrated court-martial case in
1561. lie served in the Rebel army until
the close of the war. lie is married, has
three children, and is in humble cireum
stanees. lie had no intimation that he
would be appointed, and there is no posi
tive information that he will :crept. lie
was first brought to the attention of the
President by some speeches which he de
livered during the Presidential cam
paign. The announcement. of his nomixia
lion was received here with profound as
tonishment by Senators, members, and all
classes. It was said he Wan even more ob
scure, if possible, than Messrs. Boric, Rol o
son, or Belknap, and the question was
asked over and over again, Who is Acker
man? Resident-s of Georgia, temporarily
in the city, were the only wigs able to solve
the mystery. Muell opposition to him is
expressed, and some even say that the Sen
ate will not confirm him, but this is mere
conjecture, founded on improper ideas as
to other possible changes in the Cabinet, of
which so much has been said lately.
tirnnt Endorsed by the Organs of Span
Ist, Tyranny
IIAvANA, June 17.—The Dittro ' and I'o_z
de (Juba, comment favorably on President
Grant's message to Congress on Cuban at
fairs. Everybody talks of it; and the
Spaniards praise Grant's conduct.
State Items.
General McCandless sailed on the 15th
inst., for Europe. ,
Mji,j• Gen. Rosecranswas in Reading
on-Wednesday.
Fifteen or twentythousand miners and
laborers are having a grand jubilee at
Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania.
A movement is being made in l'itts
burgh, in favor of the teaching of the
German language, in the public schools.
The congregation of the Locust street
M. E. Church of Harrisburg arc con
templating the erection of a larger edifice
for their accommodation.
Garrett Brown, of Philadelphia, was,
on Wednesday, prostrated by the heat.
This is the first ease reported for the
season.
Yesterday was the 9.5t1i anniversary
of the battle of Bunker Hill, and busi
ness was generally suspended at Bos
ton.
Hon. Alexander K. McClure will de
liver the annual address before the lit
erary societies of Jefferson College, at
Washington, Pa.
There have been rafted out of the Sus
quehanna boom, at Williamsport, the
present season up to June 3d., 245822
logs sealing 51,57.3,.:::;6 feet, board mea
sure.
The Miners and Laborers' Beneficial
Association held a jubilee at Wilkes
barre yesterday, from fifteen to twenty
thousand persons being present.
The trots at the I fertile Park course,
Williamsport, on Tuesday and Wednes
day, were very thinly attended. The
rain on Thursday prevented any raping
that day.
The Philadelphia Po , ;( wickedly says:
'' Governor Geary was completely ex
hausted after writing his address to the
neople. The people are completely ex
hausted after reading it."
A coal operator in Schuylkill county
has received an order front parties in
New York for live thousand I.OIIA Of coal
dirt, to be used in burning brick and in
zinc and paint works.
A cow belonging to Mr. John Entin
ger, of Silver Spring twp., Cumberland
county, gave birth to a pair calves,
one w eighing 621 b, and the other
making a total of 13111 s.
William Carpenter fell from a swing
at Marysville,on Sat urday,and sustain
ed serious but not fatal injuries. llie
spine was affected It the tall, but his
physician thinks he will recover.
Two brother in Westmoreland co„
aged respectively • - )7 :Intl fill veal',
became enamored \\Atli their pretty
maid-servant, and had it llght alitint the
matter, in which pistols were freely
used.
A bny named Sl44.4llonger
;LII engine 4444 the Petne•ylvania rail
road at )lary,villt., 4411 Saturday eVell
ing last. Ills injuries \Vero seriou-4, and
Lis life was despaired Ill'; hut on Satur
day evening 114.4 NV:IS still alive.
A small skill, containing INvii mon
ant two young women, capsii.etl Sun
day last in the I)idaware, at. the \vest
end of the canal through
]stout, opposite l'hiladelphia. (Me
young tviinian was drowned.
Jelliisson county has a survivor of the
Perry victory, iu the fleNl,ll of :\ Ir.
Itaniel Swisher, of Frostburg'', who re
ceived one of the medals orilereil by
Congress for men Nebo participalcil in
the Little of Lake Eric.
The hullof the burnctl iron-clad " N CNN
I rote-i11e,," which has been lyinLt in the
I telaware river, lielow Philadelphia, for
a long time, wit. shivered h a rtoo nnn l
torpedo, ye-terilay, >n that the removal
of the fragments will now lie easy.
A f e w weeks ace there
in Itott,town, York county, with a heal
antl lave like a tame ralthit and the rest
otf its holy like a human hello!. The
head of the child is covered with snow
White hail', and HS eyes are a heautilul
pink. It \va, living at la,t account,.
levernor I ha, reeminni,sionetl
I'. Prater of Chet-ter
ettunty, IS Slate Iteltelter of Supreme
Court eases for a tern) ()I' _
eommencing on the tirst of (flan( next
ti-lupreme Court unanimously
rc
comtneuded his re appointment.
The A thletie and Atlantic sine ball
clubs played at the Capitoline liround , ,
New York, on Monday. Thous mils
of persons Nvere iu tittenilance witne,s
the gain,. The Athletic, iiehiertel an
easy victory, ilefeating,their antagoni-i ,
by a ',ore of 19 to
Ephraim Snieck, of Philadel
phia, hail both of her right leg,
between the ankle and Ittiee joint,
broken on Saturday afternoon last while
picking cherries front a tree. The limli
whirls she had hold of Itrol.cii, tltt•uwi rig
her to the ground with such force tts to
inflict, the shove stated injury.
The .corn crop throughout Chester
county, limits rernarlt'ably well,nottvith
stattiling the excessive wet season.
farmers are at a loss to find clear weath
er enough to cultivate the crop, as it
should la, corn wants hot sun ttnil
thorough stirring up or the soil tont:11:c
it thrive and flourish.
NV. Yeager,'whiledescendinglho
steps of a canal bridge, at It...toting, 'Sat
urday morning, waq precipitated by the
hrealting of the hand rail into the water.
his head against a stone,
rendered him insensible. Ile Nvnuld
have drowned had he not been n•-eticd
be tWrI 111,11 \Olt , SaW 16111 fall.
()II :• , :ltlllll,ly ,
raNti4)rr'S dancers made 0 narrow
eseatie from drowning, ill the 000:11 :It
the (Mari! lie :At
tempted to swim from the Chestnut
street bridge M the lurks, hut became
i•xliam-teil, and was unable to get to
shnre:unl etinineles
a plank and re,tietiliiin from death.
The heavy rains last week caused a
rather sudden freshet in the West
Branch. The water commenced rising
at NVilliamsport WI Thursday evening,
and attained its greatest height—be
tween eighteen and nineteen feet--on
Saturday evening. A large amount of
lumber—estimated by some as high as
eight million feet--escaped and pass,•l
down the river.
On the Pith just., Frederick Smith,
aged 26 years, died ,tehlenly un the Jer
sey shore, opposite Taefitgy. lie had
Imam bathing in the Delaware, and
complained of being chilly. Reaching
the shore, ill!, the arms off a
companion and expired. Deceased ri•-
sidedfin Fourthstrect, below Thompson,
Philadelphia. His bade WilS brought
to this oils, and the Coroner notified to
hold an inquest.
On Saturday afternoon - Ta . :l",
Eirich, aged about ytiar , , of Ri•rii
county, wits driving
two nudes hitcluid to a mowing Ma
chine, the neck yol:ti slipped from
lho tongue of the iianidng ticr
mule , to run aNvay. Young I'.irieh fall
from lii, scat, was caught in the 111:1-
ciiiiii• a
Lip log lo,,I;(
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cainrJ :01,-, II) 111, c•t•11,1r,
rt,ir t.% indow, Owl] 1i,r..t.41 lhoir w:ty
lint I . :vt•ry
\Vai I,lll,Vcd, from Ilir
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IA•••11 wa, lii
until Iln• o
41::y
Contr.-, Ilry -itinth.ll at the
Not - the:int carom Ny larkyl awl Cal
stryirrn, Phildelphia, was totally
dont rtiyi•t i oou i 4 ltilday night fthflllt
11:11f-paA 11VV1V1 . 1,. , •11 , t • k. 'llly knitting
was a two and a half story :int! extend
ed 011 Nyw ,tryyt ;Wont 130 t*.•yi.
The ‘yali.r ru i t ,o/1 on tilt' lirnt floor I , ,otitt
bushel or malt, vann.d at 5.-3 o nun, and
1„3mo barrok or:do and porter. tty.
hi! lon,. will amount to :: ,- .2011,010.
was an inntiranyy on the stook
ill oily companies. The building wan
valued at
Early ,111 Sat 111'11,,V 111 , 011 . 111 g u
IJrllllll 1111prOVI;k 4 •11 111111'11(T lVa- 1111111it11• , 1 4,11 4/110 of the public
\cap, in the northern part of Philadel
phia. 'l' he 111111E1W victim were
I.a(th negroes. The inanner or the deed
wins brielly this: The
by a real or fancied jealousy, fol
lowed his victim a few squares, then ap
proached, struck the woman with whom
the other WaS walkingin the mouth
with his fist, and upon being remonstra
ted by her male companion fur his cow
ardly assault, drew a re \ - olver and ..,hot
the man dea.d.
As a party of several men were fish
ing last week, in :- , ullivan county, they
clinic upon two young fawns which
they captured without any difficulty.
The attention of the men was attracted
to the place where they were by a con
tinual bleating. The poor little things
seemed to he almost starved, and it was
supposed that the doe had been killed
by some wretch, thus leaving these lit
tle creatures to suffix. In a short time
tho fawns were so tame that they would
follow their captors about wherever they
went. They, no doubt, will make plea
omit pets.
Democratic Majority In the Legislature
of Oregon Thirteen.
PORTLAND, Oregon, June 20.—The com
plete returns from the recent election in
the State show that the Democrats will
have a majority of four in the Senate,
making a Democratic majority of thirteen
on joint ballot.
News Items. The A,
Longstreet is sick. wAsitiNoro:
The ailanthus is now dropping its is Me Apportio
blossoms. 1 the Senate this
The air is filling with the chalk white i - 1 " 'lel to p'
s evere/ moth of the cut-worm. I severe/ Sear,
Chicago owes $11,000,000, and wants I Be it eatteted,
to borrow $4,000,000 more If she can. I the 3rd day ,if
Mohammedans say that ono hour of Representative
justice is worth twenty years of prayer.: hundred men
Sound doctrine ! ! among the se,
--- - -
„
A man in Syracuse ate fifty l'ni\
the other day. Ilia aII tit' rtak l e r N''., with the jinni
1; thheaet„ifur„leor
z
named Smith. ! into Me Union
The steamer George It. Upton arrived ! resuntatives of
at Aspinwall on May 31st, having sue- ; ditional to the t
cessfully landed the Cuban expedition. NI, but it the r,
The French Academy has found seve- sha l l h e "' re '
ral plants as sensitive to chloroform as apportionmntwti„, ur l , pr
animals. increased ant
A Janesville, Wisconsimgirl recently any State s., di,
set twelve thousand ems of solid non- ! Ross,
dareil in ten hours. I unless otherwi.
Sec 'flout
" The White Element in our Midst,"
cnuni . eration
was the subject of a colored gentleman's United Stated
discourse at Indianapolis the other day. neeordinoi to la
Why is a perspiring person unlike a September, 1,7
chiropodist? The one feels the heat, ; ( ' , ((sus
while the other heals the feet. ' Seeretury of th
Mrs. George 11. McClellan is an in-
port of tLe ii,(l
valid, great fears being entertained that , to enal•le the •
her health will never return_ piths,, the di
Iknnet of the New York 11, raid is ! SFr. a. Thal
jubilant over the "good news" that Na- I;rovi , " ft' it
poleon is "sound and well" and that the "'"'" biro ,ul
•
"empire is peaee." the Interior, h
preihninarV
What is the difference between a chat- of cueL St
tering lover and a pedestrain exeur- . •;!' represeinan
,h)ll'.' One is a talking wooer, the other he shall aecert,
a walking tour.
Senator Cain, volored, a South raro
lion, says that thieve. , :Ind robbers are
destroying the Republican party in that
State.
'rile steamer I ioiirge IS. Upton arrived '
at Nets York yesterday, from Aspin
wall, living landed twii expeditious in
C'ulia, one of thew ,in the return trip.
Th. Southern Methodist Chundi is
rapidly losing its colored membership
at lea,t, it rrpnrt. but
nenihers, year.
The l'ri.,ident iin Sittord:ty ,ent 1 ,, the
Senate the nomination of Roger S.
,if the ,vt
prcrne Territory.
A 110 , ton girl, not quite eight years I
old, pounds. .Around the
.aloes of lilt legs she iiicasurc,l IN% eilly
inches it halt.
In retiring Prom the R,
IS. Anthony ~.ays nhr feels a great calm,
sadness, suidi a Mother I've', in hind
ing out a child she cannot support.
A young Welsh girl in Mont:Lim hit,
taken out iiatiiralizat pre
enipted a el;iini of one hundred and six-
ty tires, and is building holt, thereon.
'ri t e fit. I,nuis Tim., says the eleetiiin
in on Mimility,shii,, that
Emery may he used I t great advantage
iiiimetimes Mr polishing iilt Ebony.
A Vermont. deaciin hitched an orphan
buy beside his 10:1111. 111111 114 , 111111 111111:111
the \ray hiiine as a 1111111S111111.111 1 . 1/r 1111-
fling iiwity to the village.
!tell squaw is said to
have expriisseil s yearning, desire
for 11.1.1'.01 . -Illitt.
111 the trio al )Iyiitie lark, ftisten,
y,st e r i lay, Maid
%von three lii of the four heats, beating I
I mericitii (tint. The
hest time \VII,I 1.21:21/1.
l'eabuJy, niern Millie late
11'11,1 married ILI Z11114,-
vlllll, ()1114,, Ohl
j1,(1111 011111 041•ida, MII.,
welly a resident of
ii4everily-live thousand dollar , lia‘i•
been 111.111,/priat,l by the l'hiladeliiliht
t'iitincils to nunuuence the buililing eta
!fume of l'inineetiiin in that city. Such
an inaihttiun ha , hint; tetra needed in
that nil V.
W 1,111311, \Owi< ill (he
habit of thra , hitig her hie.hantlnt inter
eoneltides the veremenies attend
ing Ihtgellati4.ll -hutting; herself in
the pal Icor, and singing "Near, , r, My
God, to
Strong oppo-ition to the confirmation
of Ackerman loon Georgia. It
io und e rstood that the Bullock Republi
cans have united with Ilthurs with high
lima, of securing either the withdrawal
or rejection of ...I udgeAckerman.
Etruscan jewelry mole loVvr Conn
years ago was recently worn in public
liy an Italian lady, unit WILS declared liy
competent judges to he superior in
workmanship :mil finish to any made
id present in Paris.
It is estimated that duringthecoming
great sziengrrlest in Ohio there will he
extra spent for lager beer in the
city of Cillein mai alone. .1 large
nllllllllO bt I 111',111k its !IVO Cellt
Fr4)ln the numher er.al,,ele4
that :Lnlioutlee
lteading, Milwatiltee, and l'lliea,Lto beer
ter sale, it is evident that the article
brewed in that eily very Ithzl,ly .
appreciated.
IL is riipotibiil ilic luana
L;clT of 111 Ntiw 110,11111VCII
rat an' ‘.l' - ,(1,111111 out of
That t) s:ty, if all bill, are paid Ow 1•X
pt . llllillllo r , vern - ,11•111•11 111
by 110 ahoy,.
inlnwrtul ;1a, , ," of Cin
cinnati, ill a ❑pcerh tilt.
day, informed hi 4 auditors that ht• wow
not, a full-Hoodod Irishman, "hat iuq
!Wt.!, horn in this country ton thy, aftor
ho had lialtithoro."
I.ritran in his speech on the Cilium
question thus significantly referred to
the venerable :-itecretary of State: ,I 0
not thinl: it Was necessay "to go to Penn-
Cur inure We h a y, all
ire,tisllmrt.•' .\t Ivhich
witty sally them \vas "laughter."
tin Tuesday last, while practicing
with the heavy mortar :it the Annaiiii
lis Naval .-‘c:tileitly, it fragment of a shell
ststicli ireenhury's lighthouse,
some two or three distnt, and
perforated the roof. A daughter or the
keeper wan nturh s[uuned t,v the shoek.
A young nuts suggestod h. a young
lady, to whuut lie was paying attention,
that they should call each other by the
eliararteristie name M . some ;mini:ll.
On:till:jug, leave, he said : ;mid night,
toy deer;" 1.. which she replied, "(Mid
night, bore t'' 11, took lbc hint.
111404• Ii is in perigee, (lie ticart,t
point of its orbit to the earth, and much
nearer than for twenty years past. This
gi Veit it the appearance of being much
larger than usual, while it is actually
nearer to us than it will be again in a
hundred years.
The Cd - vviall hend ha+ at 1,1 , 4 liiicome
comparatively oh,olt•te. 'l'lll , huge
Near!, wit admit of its ili-play.
Plain and smooth hair, is also aiming
the Mii , oletistii. NVliitt lailv ,'ells "the
poreimine,
(.1 liair is now the inv4ffit,
11,n. i; n light airy d.'s,ripl
lirt• :
in jail nomlf•ring
ii:trty I
IJ1111 • 1 . ni,ht. Thry
hadn ' t any la , t ri•aily,
lute:. lino, i i ,ay tlii•iii
tlit•y .\
A rrrr ht411,,\ Vin tilt , Way illstris.t
sprint:Hilt; sttiss•ssfully
A of stills tool acids
put in wati•r i•iiiisi.s its du-t -laying
Ilitletil,ilust thus
higiithcr
=TM
1!):1!, iitti•r . it liits dried, it is iti,t it!
ti,
I. fi,r
riievere iif rain WI
unit lightning, nver
•I'roy, Alliany Inc! Itinglianitiin, N. V.,
e,terilay. mere unu
any large, lint! the fruit anil vegeta
ide, iu the vi e inity iif Triiy wlCrrrd
great ly. At. A I hany Lh4.l.ll(•tiamincter
else the storm to
7, degree, after it.
T quirk ult awl the
.11,rn:ny Pout rritioiuucu with
ith ju-iti,e, Clue iii,t,rrecut
s.iiiiithuti give], I.y !rant,
:111.1 tit an alit.tupt to 1113 k, “eth.ha
PeOle , tarlti,lll the legulizerl religion of thou
1:11111. Wc etelt,e,u these CellmllreS upuu
all LI-judged
tun their part. 'flue .i . o.c/ sap.:
" What have the President, the Vice
President and the Secretary of State of the
united:SLAW:4l.O,lQ with sectarian questions?
As private individuals, they of course have
a right to MI pport at all times what religion
they please; but to lend the weight of their
official positions to measures which are not
national or political, and with which the
;overnment and its others have nothing
whatever to do, is, to Ma the least, ill-ad
vised and imprudent. When (len. Grant
tells us that we ought nut to interfere in
the affairs of Cuba, we may aL least till
him that he, as the President, ought not to
interfere in religious matters."
The Story of Enoch Arden Repented
Five or six years ago a citizen of this
place disappeared, and after waiting a rea
sonable time his wife was advised that he
%void,' never return, and to jump at thg first
good chance in the 'matter of u husband.
She jumped as advised, and lived happily
with her second husband . for some three
years or so. Four apd a half years after
-wards husband No. I turned up and 8011 Si-•
Lily viewed the situation, lie advised t h e
wife to return to him and he would prove
all in all to her. She did so. Now it trans
pires that he has again deserted her and is
married to a young lady and living with
her in Springfield. What sort of a ease is
this?—adouble polygamic eoneentration?—
Newark Journal.
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the Shenand
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Brandywine
following ar
President
ham, Mass.
Vice Pres
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Secretaries
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York.
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rock, New
The (.01IVe
several days.
o'elock train
Newark and
two intoxica
non and Pa
New Yurk, N
near the Pa
was fracture
Is not fatally
ejected from
ment of faro