Lancaster jatelltgencer. WEDNESDAY JULY 13. 1870 Reading the Express Out of the Party As will be seen by the report of pro ceedings had in the Republican COhnty Committee, a full report of which we publish elsewhere, the Express has been publicly and deliberately read out of the Republican paity. The reasons which prompted the recognized representatives of the Radical party, In formal council assembled, to commit this act, are sol eninly set out and specifically assigned In the resolutions which were unani mously adopted. The editors of the Express have proven themselves to be political heretics, and they and their newspaper have been formally excom municated, and are henceforth to be regarded by all the faithful as anathema maranatha. In our opinion the Express did not deserve to be so severely disciplined. It has only offended in one instance. Its opposition to an exhorbitantly high protective tariff is a single piece of re calcitration in the midst of along career of the basest servitude under the party ash. It has bowed in meek submission to the yoke for years, not daring to call Its soul Its own. It has approved every violatiOn of the Constitution of the United States, and has endorsed all the follies and crimes of Congress. It de fended every outrage committed against Democrats during the war, and went as fir as any newspaper in the proscription of all who differed with it politically. It has been full of hatred and all man ;:r of uncharitableness. It gave itself up to he used as a packhorse of the Rad teal party, and carried all the heavy and tlirty loads put upon it until an attempt wai turtle to saddle it with a tariff franied by a league of monopolists for I heir ow n aggrandizement .Against this it revolted, and has been mildly kick- arc disposed to believe that the ../.. , joica. is honest in its convictions on this yiestion, and can not help thinking licit those Republicans who charge that it is being paid with British gold for its advocacy of free trade are mistaken. 'true it is that its extremely mercenary character is calculated to induce a be ,ii f in the report which is so widely cir- Mated, but the accusation is so grave that we must deeline to accept it as true until further evidence is offered.— It is unfortunate for our neighbor that the opinion should have obtain ed almost universal currency that it makes merchandise of its political columns. The charge has been fee tmently and openly made that it re quires all candidates who desire its sup port to pay liberally therefor, and they have been made with such circumstan tiality that we arc forced to credit them. Still we must insist, in simple justice .to our iiotemporary, that we lane not seen sulffident evidence to prove that it has been bribed by British gold to advocate lice Irate. Its argu ments upon that subject are sound and unanswerable, and it is Our opinion that the County Committee acted very fool ishly in reading it out of the Republi- VILII party. We cannot welcome the E.nprr,s into the ranks of the Demo cratic party until it abandons the many Hill , hint heresies to which it still clings; :mil we suppose it must be regarded hereafter as a sort of Radical guerrilla. Paul Sehoeppe's Case 1311131 111,1,111111 of the supreme Court in the ease of l'aul Sehooppe, h:4 been rendered. The judgment of the l'ourt below iy affirmed, and I.lle verdict of nun•der iu the list degree There 11311 v remains but to execute the decree of the Court, that the prisimer shall 1114 11:1111Zed. The eaSe 1,4 new i❑ the 111/11,1,1 of the I loverniir, and it re mains to he Seen whether lie will ex erciii.e Executive clemency ill the 'natter. 'Phi Supreme Court criticise the art passed by the Legislature over the veto of the (;,,ver.,,,r with deserved severity. .1 ed g e glicw says, "it has cloangtal the whole ilia-trine of the criminal law to the speed and certainty of punish ment, :mil lent to the felon both the hope and a 11.)1 . of 1.,c1lrl!, 11010111 y front the law's delay, !nit by prison breach, anti :ill the various ineatis of avoiding retri lititivit justice." The net was hurriedly with a Viva' (U tile case of Selmcp• pc, lon wit, iiintle general in its terms and apiti:t:ttion. It is to lw hotted that it Nl .l /I i,•• during the lint days of lit :icy The New currency 13111 Curi'i'ney JIM, which has just lie emu, a la \%, by receiving the signature the wit favorably —l. - •1 b% the tilecoun- V•u V:11: 4 1 ohj , eii ,, n , to its pro ;tic out. hy the financial e i limrs aI i11.111)1•11111'11I lIVW.-11111111 , . It is argued a ilh perfect plausibility that it kill have the e'l'ect ul delay ing a ni twit to speelepayments. The tifineiple width it in banedisalso regarded as mis:itrid. and well areexpri—seil that immixeau-lanai co r depreciated paper eurruticy may lead t Milers of a similar ellameti•r. The I' r• • ,in ed 's of the hill do not seen' lit siilliviently clear to he generally under stood, awl the ambiguity or the law is very pi operly regarded a, a subject id just complaint. It provide, for an M e •ease or the National Lame curretim to the extent or $54,000,000 ; no(' thi, addition to the v.h.inie or the currenii is regarded as a serious hinderance to a a return to specie payniutits. Of the in. crease about ten millions ab sorbed by Western banks, and the rest he taken hy the Small. Negro Statesman Wm. II Andrews, a nmlatto member of the Virginia Legislature, has been pit in the lock-up and the jail of Rich mond time and again for drunkenness, breaches of the peace, cc. Ile has loch tried by the House for conduct unbe coming a member, one). publiely repri manded by the Speaker, and frequently threatened with expulsion. He has finally been committed to jail On charge of perjury, having made oath that a negro companion stole his pocket book while they were drunk together. Ile is to be tried both in the courts and before the House, and the probabilities arebthat he will he expelled from his seat, convicted of the crime charged against him and immured in the peni tentiary. Whittemore and Andrews are samples of the kind of st.•ttesmen who tire given to the country by the re construction :lets of Coligre,s. Let the tree be judged by its fruits. Another Way of Stealing Public Lauds. A coo l way of plundering the licv erumeulof its lands was ventilated Jul) it, in the House by Mr. Julian, (Rep. of Indian:l,J who showed how, under the Swamp hand act, lands have been sur veyed ny'fir n fecqul, and millions of acres thus gone into the clutches of State authorities to he dealt out to spec ulators. Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana, had thus got hold of 28,000,000 acres. The way in which the Swamp act is carried out just now is reported us a huge, frightful conspiracy against eiv- Hization and the rights of the people.— 'l'h i Radicals have already told so many furls of each other's " conspiracy, "robbery," &c., that by-and-by it limy Le presumed the eyes of the people will he wide open to the facts in the case. Thr Credit Moldller Case This eiise, which excited se much in ter;:st liceauge of the vast amount mid the great prineiples involved, has been dceitied by the Supreme Court against the Commonwealth. Time judgment of the court of Common Pleas of Dauphin county is reversed, and a new trial or_ derail. TnE.Supreme Court of this State ha , decided that it will not attend to natu ralizations hereafter. The increasing burthen of business is the chief . .reason ase:gn,td for this action.; Minority Representation The subject of minority representa tion and cumulative voting is attracting much attention: The new Constitution of Illinois applies it to one branch of the Legislature of that State. The State is divided into fifty-one Senatorial dis tricts, in each of which a Senator and three Assemblymen are elected by the People. The system of cumulative vot ing is not applied to the Senators, though it might have been, but each voter is allowed to distribute his ballots for As semblymen as he may deem proper.— He can either vote for three candidates, thus giving a single vote to each, or he can vote for two, giving each of the two one vote and a half, or he can cast a ballot for a single can didate, which will be equivalent in the count to three ordinary votes. Thus the minority is insured a representative in every district in which they number one third of the voters. That minorities are entitled to such representation lu all legislative and other bodies elected un der a system of popular suffrage is now generally admitted. The advantages of such a change in our mode of conducting elections are many and obvious. It would prevent the gerrymandering of States whereby the dominant party is too often induced to act with the grossest injustice ; it would insure a fair repre sentation of all the people, and would do much to purify the halls of our Nation al and State Legislature ; it would pre vent the nomination of improper men by breaking down the power which is lodged In thehands of political tricksters wherever either party has a large and reliable majority ; it would do justice to all, at the same time that it would liftour politics once more to a higher and purer level. The system WAS fully explained by Senator Buckalew in the great speech on cumulative voting, delivered by him in the Senate of the United States. That it is destined to be generally adopt ed before long, We have 110 dl.ubt; nor have we any doubt that it will eventu ally he implied to all elections. We notice as a signifieant sign of the times that the plan was fully endorsed at a meeting of Republicans front the mi nority counties in this State, which was held at the t;irard blouse the other (lay. Democratic and Republican politicians, in strong majority counties may en deavor to prevent the adoption of any plan which will lessen their power, but the people of both parties will ere long take hold of the matter and insist upon a change which promises to he productive of so much good. We no tire with pleasure that many of the hest Ii wspapers in this State, irrespective of party, are advocating the proposed re- Mrtn. Let them make the light an earn est and vigorous one, and they can speedily compel the calling of a con vention to introduce the desired changes into our State Constitution. Desecrating the Fourth of July When the South Carolina Legisla ture, during the secession fever, voted to abolish the Fourth of July, that was heralded as an evidence of the must rampant: treason, and every Radical in the country professed to be inspired by the most ardent love for the Anniver sary of American I tolependence. Vet Itadieal Senators, refused by a very de eided vole, Lo adjourn over the Fourth this year, told spent the day in discus sing and passing a bill for restricting the naturalization of foreigners. 'the Chinese are out the only people who will feel the effect of the bill which has been put through. It is Purposely de signed to render it more difficult for white Europeans Lo become American citizens, and its provisions have been carefully framed with a view to the car rying out of such an unjust and illiber al policy. Among the grievances set ffirth in the Declaration of Independence against George 111, as a justilivation for taking up arms against him by the Col onists in 1776, was "his endeavor to pre vent the population of these States by obstructing the laws of naturalization of foreigners. refusing to pass others toen courage their emigration hither," &c. l'he Naturalization Bill which has just sell passed was conceived in a similar spirit, and has been put through Mr party purposes alone. The Senate would have acted wisely if it had left the naturalization laws to stand on the sate footing established by the Fathers of the Republic. Then neither negroes nor Chinese would have been entitled to the rights of citizenship, and un necessary restraint would have been put upon men of the same rare with ourselves. Let every white foreigner in this country renieTilher that the Fourth of July, 15711, was desecrated by a Radi cal Senate, in order that a bill might be put through which gives the right of naturalization to negroes, but renders it more difficult for white Eurorwans to become American citizen,. The men who did this are no better than the tones of the riwcthltiffli, and they de serVe to be equally cati.rated. Too Much Fourth 01 .d uly Our peripatetic President seems to have the F ourth July too much .0 Oave_eeL , evrated the ever glo rious day a little too gloriously. Des patd!eS alllealllee that he was laid up for a season ut the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York, on his return to that city, :did when he left he was pre/vide(' With a parlor ear in which he was carefully deposited, in order that he might re cOyer froth the fatigue his trip to Con occtiout. They have no .laine liquor law in the land of wo idyll nutmegs, and that accounts for the exhausted condi tion of his Exeellency. (trail( goes on these trips he goes in fur having what the If'hoys call " a good time," ale! he is not always in a presentable condition. He is said to have made his appearance on the balcony or the Her dic House al \Villianisport, during his t routing excursion, in a sadly demoral ized condition. There were numbers of ladies present, anil our befuddled Presi dent greeted them with the following brief address: to see you, I-dies. I k-iss the 'hole lot, voin-nieneitig with the 11-111 est. first, eh?" He made no snecehes after an early hour on the Fourth, during his recent escapade, and we presume he will be ' all right," and ready for another ex cursion by the time Congress adjourns. The Income Tax Retained On Saturday an attempt was made in the House to defeat the provision for re taining the odious and unconstitutional income tax, Which had been passed by the Senate ; but the power of corpora tions and railroads, which feared they would be taxed to make up the deficien cy, had more weight with Radical mem- I iers than all the complaints of the peo ple. lien. Schenck reported the bill back to the House from the Committee of Ways and Means, with a resolution that it refused to concur with the action of the Senate. Ile fought gallantly to relieve the people from this burthen, but the power of interested corporations was too strong for him. Upon a motion to suspend the rules and non-concur he was badly beaten. Col. 0. J. Dickey wrivne of the members who voted to con tinue the unjust and unconstitutional income tax. Cause of ugh Rents To ascertain whether the high rents paid by workmen were justified by the increased cost of building, inquiries were recently addressed by the bureau of statistics at Washington to the lead ing builders in various cities and manu facturing towns, asking the cost in 1801 and 1809, respectively, of the various materials, as well as of labor, employed in the erection of dwellings for work ingmen. The response, it is stated, ~hows the increase in Cho cost of mate rials to have been 58 per cent., of labor, 103 per cent., and' of building lots, 147 per cent. This, of tour-e, is in the de preciated paper of the time. THE LA.N. C..ASTE.R. W.EEKEY IN - TB-LEI GEN - CETI,- W-F.,I)N - BSD AY, J - LILY 13, -1870. Chinese and Negro Voting When the Radicals began to agitate theZ'question of negro suffrage they took . the ground that the right to vote ih republic such as otdp was a natural right, which could - notbe i justly*trict =: ed by any line of color oi,deniedlo men of any race. Acting upon, that:theory they manag&t, to :torceihe Fifteenth Anientimertyli rough. 'Vliat it*;'as ever fairly adopted we dimly, and we hold that no negro in Pennsylvania has a legal right to vote to-day. Had the Fifteenth Amendment been fairly en dorsed by the requisite number of States the case would have been different; but we shall always hold every negro vote cast •in this State to be illegal until that is done ; or until the people of this State by their own voluntary act strike the word "white" from the Con stitution of Pennsylvania. The argu ments urged by the Democratic party against the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment were not based upon any narrow prejudice against the color or the nativity of the negro. It rested its op position upon the broad basis of political expediency. While holding the most liberal views in regard to the naturali zation of white foreigners the Democratic party desired to keep the negroes from the ballot-box ; not because they are black, but because the great mass of them are utterly unfit to exercise the right of citizenship in an intelligent and capable manner. The soundness of the views entertain ed by the Democracy upon the question of negro suffrage have been admitted, at last by a large majority of Repub lican Senators. In the debate upon the new naturalization bill, which we pub lish elsewhere, it will be seen that those of the dominant party who opposed the admission of the Chinese to the rights of citizenship were forced lit take the same ground upon which the Democratic party has always stood in its opposition to liegn , sffiragc. Not u word was talvlVii against allowing Chinese to become voters by Rgpuldican :sten:Mfrs which could not be applied with greater force and more complete justice to the negro population who have keen entrusted with the elective fran chise. The yellow race is infinitely superior to the black in intelligence. Ile who looks at the two at home tan not fail to see this at a glance. The Chinese are justly piaiudirtgreit" country and of their civilization. When our SaNllll atneestors were still rude barbarians, living In huts and sub sisting by hunting and fishing, agricul ture and the mechanic arts all ilourish ed in China. Before the coin pass, porce lain, gunpowder, paper or printing were known to Europeans they had an existence in the Celestial Ent pi re.-- The Chinese is the oldest written lan guage, and books abound ranging from treatises upon the most abstruse scien tific subjects to covets as trashy a, our yellow covered literature. In the me chanic arts they excel, in agricultural skill they are unsurpassed, and they have long had a regularly established system of schools in which the young are educated. They have the oldest regularly constituted government in the world, with laws printed ages before King John atlixed his mark to Magna Charta. They have a standing army, a regular navy, and are in all respects a people entitled to be called civilized. What a contrast doesthe negro present when we look at hint at home. lie lives to-day, as he lived in the beginning an utterly degraded barbarian, without arts, without a written language, with out laws or government, a cannibal :ind a savage in one of the most fertile re gions of the earth. And it is out of the descendants of this incapable race that the Radical party has hastened to make voters while it denies the same right to the Chinaman, and einleavors to restrict the naturalization of intelligent white Europeans. AVe are alike opposed to negro and to Chinese suffrage. \Ve do not believe that either of these races are tit to he entrusted with a voice itt the manage ment of our government; but if the al- Irritative or making citizens of one or the other were forced upon us we wntld infinitely prefer the Chinaman to the negro. NVe regard the debate which we publish elsewhere, and the vote of the Senate as decidedly important. It isatt abandonment of their distinctive doc trines by the Itadival members of the I: it ited States Senate, and a clear eon fes sion that they committed a stupendous 1.11111,1er, awl were guilty of the greatest conceivable folly when they conferred the rights of suffrage upon the negro. Split Iu the It:idle:it Party of Missouri. 'Plic Radical, or missoori Itacc spin into two bitterly 'Cho on, is he,,,t, , ,t ,' llic st. ,•,•,,r, the old and reco r niu,l organ of the Republican party. wing op poses a high ',roil i•iive tari H . with great energy, and facers the speedy' culr;ur Nytio trace heretofore deprived of the right of eehiug under the infamous reconstruction acts of congress, and the slring.ent and un just local lams of the State. 'l' he ether faction is in favor or a high tariff anti the disfranchisement of thousands of the hest white two iu the State. \Vith lines so drawn the contest in this fall, ought net to he i uhtiul. It is conceded that the Deniecrais will sup- port tho candidates of the 'midi:raw wing of the Repot)lioan paty, and that a new order et affairs will be inaugura ted in ease of soon as the white wen of Missouri are permitted to vote, the State will he as soundly Dem ocratic as any in the Union, and the day when such will he the ease is not far distant. It will emu(' round before the next Presidential election. OLT On An Electioneering Tour Christopher Colom bus Delano,l ;rant's Commissioner of Internal Revenue, is going to Kentucky to organize the ne groes of that State for the coining 'on gressional campaign. As nearly all the white men of Kentucky will vote the Democratic ticket, Mr. Delano will "go to the goat's house for wool and conic back shorn." This thing of sending out Federal office holders and members of the Cabinet to do the electioneering of the Radical party is a thing which de serves to be severely denounced. If Mr. Delano would stay at Washington, and attend to the duties of his office,he might possibly devise some meatus fur relieving the people from a portion of the heavy taxes under which they groan. The Oldest Living Congressman The Oldest living Congressman is Hon. Andrew Stewart, of Fayette coun ty, this State. He was a colleague of ex-President Buchanan, fifty years ago, and is the sole survivor, we believe, of all his cotemporaries. lie is about eighty years old, but is still in good health and quite active. Ile paid a visit to Washington City last week, where he was welcomed by many members of Congress, and regarded as a venerable relic of the past. He was first elected to Congress fifty years ago, and served several successive terms with great cred it to himself and constituency. THE expedition which was sent to explore the Isthmus of Darien, with a view to finding a route over which ii ship canal to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans could be constructed, has returned. They found the route ex plored by them unfit for the purpose, but are not without hope that a practi cal solution of all difficulties may yet be discovered. Other points will be ex plored during the next dry season. The object is one of too much importance to be abandoned on account of a singh failure. Anyrittat effort to grant Mrs. Liu coin a pension was made in the U. S. Senate on Saturday. Several Itadical Senators opposed it bitterly, and Sum ner's motion was lost. It is evident from remarks made that the widow o, " the late lamented" is not in savory odor with Radical Senators.; What the Pennsylvania Railroad Says to Our Mayor. pie Pennsylvania Railroad runs thrOgh the hearfof Lancaster city for a dlalance of over 'two miles, a consider• able pari - )Ufithe way through deep cuts. Five of our streets cross it at a consider able-elevation, and the bridges, with a single exception, aiertarro*, dilapidated wooden structures. In February last a resolution was passed by our City Coun cils calling the attention of the Company to the condition of these bridges, and requesting that they should be re constructed in a manner suitable to the demands of our population.— For months our city 'authorities waited in vain- -for an answer to this very reasonable and proper demand, but not a word in the shape of a reply came from the officials of the Railroad. Then our young and vigorous Mayor, being moved thereto by the just complaints of the citizens, addressed a note to Mr. J. Edgar Thompson, President of the Pennsylvanialtallroad Company. The Mayor's letter was written in his official capacity, signed with his official pen and sealed with his broad seal of office. This authoritative document brought the an swer. It was formal, decided and al almost insolent in its tone. It told our city authorities in very plain terms that the great monopoly would not accede their request. We do not wonder that our City Fath ers were stricken with sudden amaze ment when this curt epistle from the Railroad officials was read. Our repor ' ter says the solons of Select Council sat in silence fur a considerable period after the lust word of the document had fal len from the tongue of the clerk. They were literally stunned. The scene was one calculated to excite a variety of emotions in the mind of any spectator. Reason returned at length, however, and then resentment seemed to have taken the place of blank amazement. The proposition to compel the company to station flagmen at every street cross fug, so that the lives of our citizens might not be constantly endangered by the Milling of Express trains at a high rate of speed acniss our streets, would doubtless have been favorably received, but for the fact that a Radical Legisla ture has passed a law, which a Radi cal Governor made haste to sign, whereby a paltry price is set upon the life and limbs of the peo ple. There was bitter truth in the suggestion that this wealthy corporation would prefer to take the risk of paying the price set upon the lives of our citi zens, rather than comply with an or dinance requiring it to protect them.— With this gigantic monopoly . everything is a question of dollars :mil cents. It „al ; will neither build tb su i table bridges over our streets nor lake any steps to protect our people from the dangers to which it recklessly exposes them unless it is compelled to do so. The bridge question has been referred to that profound lawyer, the City Solici tor, who rejoices ill the appellation of ' Pycayune' Johnson. Many important and intricate legal points may bednvolv ed in the matter. I t may be necessary for hint to go hack to the black letter law of England for decisions with which to patch up defective statutes. Let bite bring the entire force of his giant in tellect to bear upon the subject before him, and he may be able to extricate our City Fathers from the labyrinth of difficulties in which they are involved. If he discharges his duty honestly and competently he will certainly be able to discover that our city has some rights which the Pennsylvania Railroad is bound to respect, and that our people need nut be left completely at the Mer cy of a soulless and cellist corporation Pay of Congressional Contestants If a man who is elected to Congress gets 01000 a year fur his services, how much does a man who is' nt elected get? Answer—From S'2.f tnn to $4OOO, accord ing to circumstances. We believe one of the three Radicals who failed to secure a seat was allowed $4OOO the other day. The way the thing is done is very simple. After it has been decided who is to keep the seat a motion is made that he be admitted and that the defeated candidate be allowed two, three, four or five thousand dollars " to pay the expenses of the contest." Numbers of Democrats have been wrongfully de prived of their seats during the present session of Congress, and, great :is the outrages thus committed have been, we would have preferred to see them turn ed out without a single dollar, rather than behold the establishment of the outrageous custom which has grown up. There ought to be a summary end of this thing. If a man is not entitled to Seat in Congress he should not be paid for attempting; wrongfully to secure or to hold it. We expect to see effected in the next Congress, as we be lieve the Democracy will make sufficient ! g ains to enable them to put in practice many reforms, if they do not have a clear working majority in the House. Should they sect o r a majority the coun ' try c o ut,l lilt fait II) he greatly bent:fit ! tud in many \\sap:. A 'tette! Controversy The failure of the rebels to follow up the victory of the first hull Run battle, by an advance upon 'Washington, has always been a source of surprise to most people in the North, and many in the South blamed Jefferson Davis for hav ing prevented such a movement. The responsibility lor the course pursued by the Confederate forces, is now shown to have rested with I:Littera' J. E. Johnson and his fellow commanders. This is proven by correspondence just made public in the second volume of Alexan der 11. Stephen's book: "The War Between the States." The correspon dence referred to shows that the rebel tinny was not in a condition after the battle to make :111 advance, and a tear of the troops under( ientiral Patter son, who wai: prevented from participa ting in the battle, hail much to do with causing the halt of the rebels at Fair fax Court House, and the subsequent delay in operation, which enabled Lien eral McClellan to bring order out of chaos, and to pot the demoralized troops of the Union Army into splendid fight ing condition. Some time in the future, when the passions engendered by the late contest have subsided, We may ex pect to see a history of the rebellion written which will give an honest and comprehensive account of the great struggle. The materials for such a work are abundant, and they will remain un destroyed until a hand fitting for the task shall seize upon them and give to the world a book worthy of the subject. IN regard to the late election in Ore gon, the Portland //oyth/ I Democratic says: "In ViCW of the iIIIIIII,IISC agencies which co-operated against the Demo cratic party of Oregon at the late elec tion, we deem the triumph achieved Iw that party one of the grandest victories recorded in the history of our State poli tics." Jr is said that Secretary Fish goes out of the cabinet to take the post of Minis ter to England. Mr. Motley is to be removed, and one reason assigned for his withdrawal is the vote of his friend Senator Sumner against Grant's Salt Domingo job. THE Spanish throne has been offered to the Prince of Hohenzollern. England views the matter with indifference, but France is bitterly hostile to this transfer of the Spanish sceptre to a petty German prince. TILE Radicals voted to allow Mr. Adams, of Kentucky, to retain his seat in Congress, but-voted to give the con testant $5OOO to pay expenses. It is not grange that Radicals contest the seats of Democrats under the circumstances. EVERY vote east in the United States senate to continue the unconstitutional aid inquisitorial income tax was given ,y a Radical. The Democratic mem .,eis voted solidly against it. Let the people bear that in mind. The Fish Question the Supreme Court of the State has jest rendered a decision, sustaining a decision given below in the Court d i pauphin county, to the eirect;:that the Penn Sylvania Canal Corepan'y cannot' be required to alter its dams alqfig the. Susquehanna so as to allo'W the passage: Of fish up that stream ; This renders' additional legislation on this subject necessary. Four years ago the Legisla ture undertook to follow the example of other States in which the subject of fish culture has engaged the atten tion of many intelligent men. In New York ex-GovernorSeymour,SethGreeni the great trout breeder, and R. B. Ro senfelt, a gentleman who has' given' much attention to the subject, are the Fish Commissioners, and they have been laboring diligently and intelligently to restore the streams of that State to a condition which will enable the shad, the salmon and other migratory fish to ascend to their original spawning beds. We have had a Fish Commissioner in the person of Mr. James Worrall for four years past, and have been paying him a salary of two thousand dollars a year, but he has done very little to earn the money he has drawn from the State Treasury. We have read all the reports he published, and can say without ex aggeration that they showed on their face that he is not fit for the position he occupies. True it is that he could not compel the Pennsylvania Canal Com pany to alter its dams, but there was much else that he might have accom plished, all of which lie has left undone. He has not even had the good sense to make practical suggestions to the Leg islature, and scents to have contented , himself with drawing his salary. '1 he subject of fish culture is now en gaging the attention of all the States north of us which have streams suited for such purposes, and Pennsylvania ought not to be a laggard in such enter prise. The Susquehanna and the Dela ware, with their net work of tributaries, furnish one of the finest fields for the scientific propagation of fish in the world. Arrangements ought to be 'mule at nice to admit shad to their spawning beds far up these streams, in which they so delighted and abounded in early days, and the young should be effectually pro tected from death by the eel pots, in Which multitudes of them now annual ly perish. Besides, all our streams could easily be abundantly stocked with black bass, next to the brook trout, the gamest and finest flavored fish. The cost would be trilling, and plenty of men could be found who would catch them and dis tribute them throughout the waters of the State for less than we heave been paying Fish Commissioner Worrall for doing nothing. The subject is one of importance, and we hope to see the next Legislature take intelligent action upon it early in the session. The Republican Bolters of Allegheny County. The loon who have dissolved connec tion with the regular arganizatiou of the Republkall party seem to be in serious earnest. They have not only nominated an unexceptionable ticket, but they have put forth a declaration M . princi ples which must commend itself to the more honest 'nen of the party. They That reform in the administration of party affairs is indispensable to the main umance of republican ascendancy in Penn sylvania. The General Assembly has be come a reproach to the State, and the public confidence has been withdrawn front it.— corrupt special legislation has grown into an engrossing public evil, dehanching the public morality and entailing enormous burdens on the State. It is publicly charged in the newspaper press, and generally be lieved, that the high Mikes in the gift of the Legislature are bought and sold.— The remedy of these evils is with the people, and can be exercised only by the selection of honest and capable representa tives and by mil-rioting the legislative pow er of the General Assembly through a con stitutional convention. That the greatest danger to our party and country at the present time is the corrup tion that pervades the public service and the wild scramble for office. The doctrine that to the victors belong the sprits is de moralizing and destroying the gi ivernment, and we therefore insist that the despotism of patronage and public offices be tiktin trout partisans and given only to compe tent persists, on the principle of the Jelick es Civil Rights bill. That the true polie•y of the national government is the reduction of taxation, which can be accomplished by the funding of the debt at a low rate of in terest, thus extending the time of pay ment, and we especially call for the re moval of all inquisitorial taxations which requires ariny nt officers fur their col lo:thin. That is as strong On indictment of the Republican party of this i-tate as sr C remember to have seen in any Pc no erotic newspaper. That it is true no one can for a moment doubt, when it is re membered that it has received the en dorsement of many of the ablest and best Republicans in Allegheny county. We commend it to the careful study or men of that party in this part of the tstate. Delay in the Pa) meat of Pensions A bill has been before Congress for seven month., to etreet Zin alteration in the payment of pension., by %%Mich in stallments shall he paid every three months, instead of every six as the law and the practice now are. At first sight this scents a mere tinegtion of adminis trative detail. lint, in fact, it is much more that that. (if tie 21,000 pension ers, it is a source of positive ,ffikring to a vast majority to have the intervals at which their finances arc doled out to them lengthened to six months, and a source of real relief to have them short ened to three. The preferable way, if it be a practicable way, would be to have them payed as often as once a month, so that the money might be available for the defrayal of current expenses.— This might involve additional clerk hire, but the result would be well worth the cost. As it is, it is easy to see that money which comes even so seldom as four time; a year is much more iniporLalit LO hiw 01 . Maine it 101'111 , itn appreeialile part than ii it hut %vice. It i, hoped 1 iiing re, nntc not adjourn without doing at least as 111, 1110 111.11111lig Lill pro po.cs to :11,1111- 11111irl iu the interests of justice and hu manity. 'rids righteous act ought to lutve Leon passed long ago, but the cal majority has , heel' too litisy man ipulating paying, jolts and putting through land gratis to pay any ittnintion to the wants of the crippled soldier:, and the needs of the orphans anil widows 1,1 those who perished on the Little-110111. The Howard Investigation We do not suppose that any one will be much surprised to learn that the Congressional Committee which wa , appointed to investigate the charges against General Howard, the thief agent of the Freedman's Bureau, have decided to make a report white-washing the at eus6l. To condemn him would be to add another weight to the great burthen which is now hanging about the neck of the Radical party, and threatening to sink it beneath the deep waves of popular condemnation. 'rite minority of the Committee will make zt true state ment of the damaging facts elieited on the examination, and the charlatan who was paraded for several years as "the Christian Soldier" will be shown up in his true light. Both reports will be published shortly. TUE Columbialkrah/ wants to know why Hon. 0. J. Dickey and Hon. A. E. Roberts have never tiled ar inventory of the property of the late Hon. Thad deus Stevens, whose Executors they are. We have asked the saute question repeatedly, but have failed to get an an swer. The Ikrald calls attention to the fact that the collateral inheritance tax due to the State front the estate of Mr. Stevens has never been paid. Such conduct is certainly not creditable to the Executors of "The Great Common er." Let them be made to comply with the requirements of the law at once by the proper officer. PROMINENT Democrats are preparing to start a Democratic daily newspaper at Washington city. It is needed, and we hope to see the projected enterprise speedily carried on to completion. Watch the Thieves The New York Tribune is greatly alarmed at the thievery which is now going on in Congress, and it calls upon theffew hOuest men body to watch the thieves during the last days ofthq„sisfision:': ft Says: lßetvleen Moilkilay and I•'riday the appro priations will Summit to possibly a hun dreCniillions„perluips much:more.. There are thousands of items tube considered, and there is no time in which to consider them. It is the Thieves Carnival. Within the next five days they will spring all manner of projects upon Congress.— Some of them will want little appropriations for forgotten claims. Others will want innocei4-looking changes of a. few words M existing.lawS! "merely for a local pur pose, Sir;" whicli, - when too late, will be niund ut. Lavery-loyal indeed.- •Some will have pet clauses to be smuggled into ap propriation bills; others will have laud jobs, others subsidies, others increase of salaries, others release from obligations. They will have the most harmless amend ments of live words to bo inserted, by general consent, on the third reading.— They will have tricks of springing obnox ious measures when the enemies of them are asleep or off at dinner. They will find means of reaching Conference Committees. They will even attempt tampering with engrossing clerks. We are about to try funding our debt. We are going to reduce taxation. We are on the eve of a sharp and close campaign before the people. We cannot afford, on any of these accounts, much more on all of them, to spare one dollar to these cormor ants. We make our appeal to every Con gressman who wishes re-election, to every one who desires to point to a clean record, to every one who wishes well to the party, to every one who seeks to guard the inter ests of the country ;—for every hour from now till the adjournment, Watch the Thieres! Desperate indeed must be the condi tion of Congress when the Tribune is compelled to speak of it in that manner. The people have shown so little care in the choice of Repref-entatives that Con gressmen have grown perfectly reckless. The Radical majority is ever ready to aid in any swindling operation which can be put through without being speed ily detected and eaplsed. A majority of the members pay more attention to tilling their own pockets than to the in teresLs of the nation or the wants of the people. They are thieves, and need watching. Let the Democrats keep a sharp eye on the Radical rascals. How Grant Behaved In Connecticut A correspondent of that influential Rept!hliran newspaper, the N. Y. Sun gives the following account of the Man ner in which tirant conducted himself in Connecticut: The exhibition tie made bore was a painful one, and I cannot deseribe or dis cuss it without a mingled emotion, com pounded of humiliation, commiseration, and indignation. The Legislature, irre• spective of party had made the necessary arrangements to receive the President in a titling manner, and the municipal author ities had concurred in a programme that would give him an opportunity to seesoine thing of the town, and at the same time gratify his pet weakness, which is to he flattered, and feasted, and toadied. There was considerable curiosity I, See Jilin, :aid 1.11110 of the feebler It:publicans hoped to avail themselves of the event to von,,hdato their dissolving organization. A few saga cious inert of [lle party hail their apprehen sines of the result, for they had seen grant, and knew there would be a general feeling of disappointment, if not of disgust Mien he came to be seen and heard. l[ut the thing far exceeded their worst alltidpa- LioMi. The. Republicans were grieved and cha grined at the exposure of the pitiful ap pearance and boorish miumers of the nom inal head of their party, and Mortified at his manifest inaptitude for his high place and his general insignificance. Ile took no interest in anything; land no attLntion to what lie saw or heard ; but sat in n oily silence, evidently discontented and un happy, enduring the ceremonies With sul len ft:lin:Wile°. lle Was ill at ease, absent- Minded, and on two Occasions, when lie could not avoid responding to complinwn tary addresses, he spoke a le W words ab ruptly, incoherently, and iu bad taste. Clearly ho was nut tot rapport with any of the persons around him. lie had nu one in his suite except a couple of superfluous army officers whom he has attached to his person in the capacity or executive secreta ries, and two or three toadies out or office, but hoping to find places at an early day by favor of the President, Nit a member tit' the Cabinet or any conspicuous man was in his train. was of the party of 1;ov. English who went to Stamford to welcome the President in behalf of tine Legislature and the people of Connecticut. It would have amused an indifferent spectator, the surly, grind anti clumsy Insulter in which (front received the courtesies tendered him. The I iover nor addressed him briefly, and in excellent taste. In 'natter and style he was .xeeed ingly happy. f/rant uttered a few un meaning words, inn a disagreeable :mil al most offensive manner. ' lle looked and acted like a somnambulist. Ms embar rassment and perplexity were painful to witness. Ile came from Washington in a sleeping car, and the fatigue of the trip had overcome hint so thoroughly that his utter and permanent prostration scented inevita ble. During the ride to New Ilaven he was dull and stupid, like a man under the in fluence of a powerful narcotic. The for lorn-looking who With with him front Washington partook of ids reel ings, and the Whole party seemed pre pared to Unit(' in the chorus, " Let US all lie unhappy together. Andy Soh usou swinging ruinol the circle, Seward and and t ;rant in a SUM' of exuberant Seward making maudlin speeches, and iirant smoking to silence, but i•lljoyingthe thing hugely, composed an tsluying and dignified spectacle when compared with this remarkable exhibition. Tile Republi cans flung their heads it shone and WOW- Iluation. The Democrats, although mrseu ing the overthrow of the l(adieals, to be a, culerated and etude more complete by t insult's absurdities and want it' decorum, were nevertheless distressed as A tail/A . IIS that their Chilli MilVisirlail rouhl so ilo - forget the proprieties of Ids position, and the respect duo to the prejudices 1,1.11 of a well-ordered contrmunty. When a colored brother or sister is suffer ing from sickness, he or she complains of a misery in the head or other port of the • body where the pain is heated, and card players gainhling with the game /d' ISosbtn know what is "big nikery," and "ltitle misery " also; liut of all the miseries of this Miserable world, the misery el' hnctnq a party leader whose and get Irche rto, his followers have to defend, and who has not sense enough" to serve his friends or take care of himself, is the most insupport ! able. is disgusting to hear Radicals arid Radical papers talk about " the odious iueo in' tax." If they had any sense ”i sham, they would tare that kind ;if woin talk to Dennierats who always do 1:1 sit kid • sdav sousing, while rt: t h a t, t a x it, •• lug ill unloading grain i7i; seine, unequal and unjust. Ilut tin Se first, about three miles ahove that city, Radieak fur five year , , defended it us : he 6211 from the mow of the barn and and was Sy seriously injured that his lire is Indeed, di• , paired tilelll seeliled l'e;Z:1.1,1 nl it, it, icy ill, the national debt, „, a ,I, : \ „ 1 . 1 ;; in Reading, !,r- I I " he l'r" ( "I noddy ' ',rots! 1 budding hs' Tle Herne their I 1,, belong 14. ( . 4.111%1,1 either pre-ent or p:L-4 hypecifi , y, and is Weiser and similar in size Itt the tilt seta It, the oftiLiwts. It is it 10 the Ifard Ili( at t h e twttate. Shtith,thiatt I itt.titnt Tip. N e w yttrl; ettrittnetit ing Ilium the now 11:11111%IliZaC1 , 11, hill gets nil' the lellewing excellent hit at the Rad ik . : LIS Of the I'. S. Sento, The 5t•11:1t0 Inward haels the Ilittlll'armili.)ll laws an ripen the it,t,alie tax. It: la.l d o .eisha, that Mr. liuniner's ann•ndineut striking the word " white - out tees for that it permitted Chinese naturalizathad That is none safely repealed, /0111 etily At rieati naturalization permitted. I itiatrine the learned disciples of Conftionis their brains to understand the philosophy .litteriettn - - Democratic Nominations. The Indiana county Denuteraey brave nominated for ('oligress, I leery 1). Fos ter; Assembly, Captain Irani) ibal Sloan and Major S. S. Jamison. The Jefferson county Democracy leave nom inated fur the Assembly, Edmund Eng lish ; As,mciate Judges, Hobert It. Means and I)avid C. Gillespie ; Commissioner, Henry H 11111; I)istriet Attorney, E. Heath Clark. JUDGE GRAGAN has decided that the question of illegal and fraudulent votes cast at the recent municipal election in Richmond, Va., can not be gone into. The Republicans claim that this de cision in effect gives their candidates the offices, while the Conservatives still claim ilie offices on the ground of infor mality in the election. A RADIcAL newspaper which op poses the income tax says, Senator Cameron went out to see a man cross the Avenue when the vote on restoring that odious measure was taken. Cam eron undertook to explain his absenCe, but did not seem able to do so satisfac torily-. ISAAC HAZLEHURST, an old line Whig politician, and once a candidate of the Know-Nothings and Native Americans for Governor of Pennsylvania, was de feated by a negro as a delegate to one of the Radical nominating conventions In Philadelphia. The Coming Elections—The Issues Made Up. That well known - •l3,epiiblican news paper,. the New York Sun, comments as follows upon the county - elections : Congress and the Adininistration aro making up a record which will insure suc cess to the Democrats lathe contest for tho next House, provided' . the latter exhibit good sense in their conduct of the cam paign. The Democrats can present before the p s e'bple a fearfully long indictment against the Republicans fur their sins of omission and commission since Gen. Grant took the oath of office. For example: The Republicans, as a party, have not shown the slightest sympathy for the Cu bans in their struggle for independence, but, on the contrary, have humbled our Government at the feet of one of the weak est and meanest despotisms in Europe, barterin g , human rights for Spanish gold paid to ffie son-iu-law of one of the Re publican leaders. They have done nothing toward the set tlement of the Alabama claims, but, on the contrary, Senator Sumner sonic time ago got off a string of rhetorical extravagances on that subject at which England became angry, and all the rest of Europe mado sport; while our minister at the Court of St. James; seems to find time only for din ing with aristocratic ffunkeys and drawing his salary. They have made an ostentatious display of official purity in driving from Congress oneor two small carpet-baggers for bestow ing.eadetships in return for presents; but when asked to strike at like offenders of a loftier grade they have skulked away, leav ing corruption undisturbed in the high places of the Government. They would not even investigate the question whether Gen. Grant had appointed any Copperhead cadets at the request of A. T. Stewart, and wheth er there was ally reason for such appoint ments except that Stewart had given Grant money. Thep have refused to abolish the odious and unconstitutional income tax, and boast of their skill in finance because, by keep ing up war taxes in time of peace, they are able to bull the stock market, and buy tive twenties at a premium. W hen Congress is in session, and engaged in maturing the most important bills of the year, and when the lurid cloud of an Indian war is rising on the Western horizon, the Republican President runs hither and thither over the country to participate in small jollifications at thEinvitation of char latans and demagogues, to the neglect of the public business and the disgrace of his office. It is on such it record that the Republican party propose to im to the country in the .•miling campaign for the choice of the nest !louse of Representatives. It will ben mar vel if it is not very thoroughly beaten. ==! \\•ilkoslutrre It:u• will give Judge a banquet on the :Id or 4th ul .\ John Forel), an employee of tile Lochiel Iron \Vorks, at flarrisburg, drank hi En,l( to death on the Fourth of thly. Several trdrd , attempted M leave I)att pititt with tile circus the other day, but tailed- rittatititot being an hand in time to rcenver their daughters. On the Ith Mr. William fleetly was at Itiixlittry, Franklin enmity, NV . hile fishing tinder a bridge over the Crt.ck by the falling of the struellire. lhi (he H . 1,111 Fi)rgl` Estate NVeill -111:111.,1 ill Lehaiiiiii eiiiinty, there iS IIONV ,taiiiiing a vhestiut tree that Inca- Hares t \verity-six ti•ct eight iuchca ill foot from the ground. It has been suggested by several en terprising eitizens of Harrisburg, that the Nicholson wooden pavement be laid on liirket street, at the expense of the property owners on that thoroughfare. The Philadelphia -\"ui•th American ,ay, that the Pennsylvania Railroad Coniliauy is actively preparing for tile establishment of a line of ocean steam ers, to run between Philadelphia and The oldest couple in Lehigh county arc Peter Osenbach and his gaud slut dame, living near Rittersville. Thry have both entered theireighty-seventh year and are as hale a pair wi can be tiund anywhere. The Union Leaguers, of Broad street, Philadelphia, allowed the New Orleans Firemen to pass their Head-Quarters, without demonstration of welcome, but when the negro band approached, they cheered it lustily. A gang of rulliansattaeked two broth ers named lien. H. and \VIII. A. Miller, in Philadelphia, on Monday, and so se verely beat George, that his life is die paired of. One of the gang, named Wm. Meade, has been arrested. At Sinnemahoning,Clearfield county, July 4th, while a number of men were engaged in firing salutes from a cast-iron anvil, exploded, instantly killing a man named Black, and seriously injuring two of his companions. The new iron county bridge across the Little Lehigh, n?ar the East Penn Junc tion, in Allen towu, in place of the One swept away by the freshet in lsks, Into been completed, turd was ring opened for travel on ilaturday. On Thursday of last week a young man who was standing in one of the windows of a new building at Mount Alto, Franklin county, while a storm was raging was struck by lightning and so seriously injured that his life is de spaired of . A German prisoner cum nit tied suicide in the Huntingdon jail, by cutting his throat with a razor. He had been in carcerated hula few days previous, upon some minor charge, and his family of wife and children Wail left him but a few months prior to the suicide. Walter Kemple!), colored, was before the Mayor yesterday morning charged by John Hippie with drawing a razor on him whilst in the discharge of his ditties on the night of the Bit, as lock inspector in the Pennsylvania Railroad yard. At licatling 101 'Tuesday a wan nam ed John Wise attempted CO get upon a coal train going to Pottsville, Mill ill was by a down train, and crushed and rolled between the t wo. Ills injuries although severe are uot nlu ratal character. \Vilke , harre claims to have the finest itmrket house in the State ; that it will .eon have Iln. tinest opera house outside ol Philadelphia; that it has the most inagnithamt haul: building in the Com monwealth, and only needs a free bridge to complete its on Tuesday afternoon, John and I;corge Wunderlich, aged respectfully eleven and thirteen years, were drown ed while bathing in the Delaware, at the nunilh of Chester creek. Their bodies were recovered, and taken to their par ents' residence, in CheSter. lly au art of A-sembly passed last winter, -.ldlers "1 the war of 1 , 1.2, or their widows, draWing thl • ir pen 'wilily Treasury, must make la , fore all Alderman or tistiee of the that Ho.y are not worth g.in i. The County Treasury will forni-di printed forms for the :illldavit. The Reading, Di.vJelfrh states that a braneh road from the neighborhood of Springfield tt, Ephrli ta, iu 1.:1111!:Ister 1 .11111", is now looked upon as the feeder for the new Wilming ton and Heading line most to be desired. The people along the line are moving in the matter. Such a route would make new and direst connection with the Cornwall iron ore, and Pinegrove coal. (in Saturday eVell i lig last, a lad named McLaughlin, aged about nine years, and employed on a boat lying in the basin in Honesdale, Wayne county, made use of kerosene in kindling a lire, and pro duced an explosion by which he was very seriously burned. Ile is alive at this writing, but we understand hisease to be considered critical.' His parents live in the Open Woods. On Monday evening a little boy named Lambert Knorr, about ten years of age, was playing with some other boys in front of his father's house, on Liberty street, Allegheny, when a fire cracker by some accident was thrown into his mouth, where it exploded. Ho fell to the ground and was taken into the house, when a physician was sum moned. The bey seemed uninjured in every respect, except that his voice was completely gone. It has not yet return ed, and it is feared that he will lie per manently speechless. An adjourned meeting of the Berks County Medical Society was held at the Berks County Alms House, June 27, 1870, when the following resolution was passed, and a committee of five ap pointed to prepare an address to the people of Berks in behalf of the im provement proposed in the resolution : Resolved, That every dictate of hu manity requires that the people of Berks county should erect additional accomodations for their poor, and in our judgment it is imperatively neces sary that they should build as soon as possible a hospital for the Insane and sick, capable of enlargement hereafter, as occasion may requirg, ==! The rain fall during June wan over six inches. Alexander H. Stephens now weighs 76 pounds. Admiral Farragut is the guest of Com modore Pednock, at the Portsmouth Y. H. Navy Yard. His health Is said to be good. A full Investigation of Ex-Collector Bailey's accounts, made at the Internal Revenue office, shows his deficiency to be $131,000. Five boys were accidentally drowned In the Mississippi, at Dubuque on the Fourth. No particulars are given. McCoole paid forfeit in St. Louis on the 2d inst., and the fight between him and Tom Allen is therefore off. The new school board at Cincinnati organized yesterday. The officers elect ed are all in favor of the Bible in the Public Schools. Robert Montgomery, shot during an affray on the Fourth by James Eagan. on First Avenue, New York, died last night. In Pittsylvania county, Va., on Tues day night, Mr. Anderson, father of the State Senator from that district, was murdered, and his store was robbed. A pair of Chicago lovers went up in a balloon to get married on the Fourth of July. Earth was altogether too dull a spot for these two turtle doves to mate. Gen. John A. M'Clernand has been elected a Circuit Judge in Illinois, for the district to which the City of 6prlng field belongs. Representative Barfield has been unanimously renominated for Congress by the Republican Convention 01 the Nineteenth District of Ohio. The greater portion of Gold Hill, Nevada, was destroyed by fire yesterday. No details are given owing to the des truction of telegraph lines. It is stated that the area of land de voted to grain in lowa is greater than ever before, and the crops never looked so promising :is this season. It is now stated from Washington that Secretary Fish may soon resign. It is also stated that 3lr. Bancroft, our Minister to Prussia, is to he recalled. Attorney-4 ;eneral A kerman WILgSWOIII into office yesterday. and afterwards at tended the Cabinet meeting. Judge I lour left t'or Roston in the early after noon train. The Treasury will receive sealed pro posals until July 20, for the exclusive right to take fur seals on St. Paul and St. t teorge Island, Alaska, in accordance with the act of Congress recently passed. At 1.7n10n 11111, N. J., :Michael Rey nold, of New York, was stabbed and in stantly killed by another man who wl.O pursuing sonic one with whom he had a difficulty. It is proposed Its certain parties to an nex Mobile to the• State of 'Mississippi. A delegation to urge the matter are in Jal•kaou, where the Mississippi Legisla ture is now in SetiSioll. 'l'he \\•orks of kk Lyons, at l'ittshurgh, were burned on Thursday attt•rnoon. Loss, $:.'.11,1 1 01). The the \VW , eattsst by rp: u •Il from a locouudi1•o. \ Villiants, Chief Engineer of the Tehuantepec Company. telegraphs from Ilavana that helms recently crossed the Ist limusaml made IL new recoil noissitnee and ascertained that t I wre is enough Lea ter for a ship caal. The Census 1\ larshal, in California, thinks that State entitled to another l'ong,ressman, under the I , ourteenth .Anietithinint, if the Chinese residents be counted among the population, and hr his directed his deputies to enumer ate the l'hinese. In Buffalo on Tuesday night Michael Kane, got out or 1,,,t to get a drink of water, 111)(1 in groping, about in the dark stumbled over a ehair, and thrust his band through a pane of glass, severing two arteries, and bled to death before a physician arrivm•d. I=! Temperance parties are forming in most of the States. Alex. 11. 11. Stuart seems like to be the next Conservative candidate for Governor of Virginia. There arc indications of the organiza tion of three Radical factions in Louis iana. Thus the political atmosphere is purifying The New England " Crispin,'" :ire all going over to the Democrats, although tiny admit that the Itailicql party is a " Celestial " one. It turns init that the riot among the tegroes at Tuskegee, Ala., was instiga ted by two white carpet-baggers for pol itical purposes. Ben. Butler is slow to forget his war experiences; hence the fears that in a conflict with Spain we should be badly punished. The Chicago Trihunc grows more dis gusted with the Radical party everyday and uuw threatens to leave altogether. A bitter canvass is going on for a Radical (lovernor of Missouri. B. liratz Brown, (lovernor McClurg, and Messrs. Stallard, Benjamin and Van Horn are among the contestants. The Congressional majority is said to be making preparations to resist the ad mission of ( lovernor Stevenson, of Ken tucky, as successor to Senator MeCree ry, of that State, on account of his " re bellious principle." The ConHtititti,mal amendment strik ing the word " white" from the Consti tution of Connecticut, which passed the 1-louse ; now goes to the next Legisla ture for two-thirds vote, and if adopted, goes before the people for ratification or rejection. ht• I ntelligenc,. /..Widens -I spent the lastSunilay in the town and vicinity of Ephrata; and through the kindness and :assistance of fir, U. Rhine hertz, whe,,e hospitality I ids. enjoyed, I was shown the curiosities and natural beauties of the place. 'llieNlountain Springs llotei, located here, is a place Or noted popular resort. 'rho Springs numbering seven or eight, are walled in and turned into pipes to supply the hydrants and fountains at the hotel, with their refreshing and invigorating sea ters. •I•he insist of them discharge their waters at least cum hundred feet above the Coe:direcreel:, which passes near the vil lage. ']•his plain Nature scions to have sulrrlyd for a Special display of her pow,. From the Oliservatory, which stands on the high est print of the mountain, is inn• of the grandest views in the State. on this etc vatien, which is about three hundred feet above the swain in the valley, and one thousand tine bemired and fifty feet above tide water, you command a view of many miles around, which Germs grout basin .0' excellent land. cm the East the eye rests its vision Iso the White Knob beyond Reuling; ell the South-west it reaches the lurk Ceenty Hills; and on the Nerth •st the Furnace Hills, with the Blue Ridge behind, forming in beautiful border to the grand 1111111S.pe. And the whole thiekly dotted with farm houses, barns, fields, orchards, groves of Direst trees, and all the improvements of an agricultural people make it a picture of acti•ity,life alai beauty. Here is comprehended in a singln view the most varied and pleasing scenery. Next We visited the brethren and sisters houses of the Seventh Day Baptist/4. The sisiety have considerable property here, with the two principal houses 3 and 4 stories !Ugh, eitmaining between 30 :ma GO rooms each. in entering the silent cells, and traversing the long, narrow passages, the visitor is reminded of the tortuous wind ings of sonic old castle, and imagines lie is breathing the air in the hidden recesses of romance. The ceilings are but 7 feet high, the passages only a few feet wide, the doors feet high and 2n inches wide, and the windows IS by 24 inches, awl but 0110 in each cell. The chapels are adorned with large framed sheets of ink paintings of the most elegant penmanship, in ornamented Gothic letters. They aro mostly texts of Scripture, con stantly admonishing the beholder of chris thin duty and to purity of life. Ono repre sents the narrow and crooked way, and another the three Heavens. In the first is Christ, the Shepherd gathering his flock; in the second are about 300 figures with harps in their hands, and in Capuchin dress ; and in the third is seen the Throne of Hod surrounded by 200 arch-angels. These paintings wore executed by mem bers of the Society. They made and man ufactured everything they needed. One of the first printing presses in the country was here ; and when Congress had to leave Philadelphia and come to bannister the Continental money was printed at Ephrata. They also had a paper mill fur the manu facture of their own paper ; also a grist mill and shops of different kinds. But their former learning, art and skill have depart ed with the fathers. There are but three old sisters living a recluse life, and their wor ship is barely maintained. There is noth ing but the reminiscences of the past that makes the place interesting now. Ephrata is growing rapidly since It has railroad facilities, and no doubt has a pros perous future before it. July sth, 1.370. J. V. E. TROUTING IN WEST. VIRGINIA "Never wont a fishing," say you, oh! reader? Then, wo suppose, you are pre pared to endorse old lion. Franklin's sar castic description of the angler: "A stick and a string, a worm at ono end and a fool at the other." If you never went a fishing, did you ever read about It—ever look info Isaak Walton's quaint and soothing vol umo, with its beautiful descriptions of English scenery, Its poetry and Its instruc tive reflections—over read I:it North's account of his struggle with a tongue hooked salmon? Let mo tell you that you have missed much If you never went a fishing. You have never grown familiar with nature In her most charming moods, and have lived a cramped and contracted life. Trout fishing is beyond all comparison the most charming of out-door sports. It ..takes the angler front the hot brick walls oi iu the most pleasant day s'of the year, leads hint along the clearest streann that wind through grassy and flower-deck.' meadows, or tempts hint to explore the most picturesque mountain gorges, where the finest scenery in this country is to he found reserved for adventurous spectators aye. It is not alone the pleasure or catching thegamest and most beautiful fish in the world of waters, nor the delight of feasting on the daintiest morsel that ever tickled the palate of the epicure, that lends to training its chief charm. It is the free life in the wild woods, the escape fur the time being from all the vexations of busi ness, the pure air, the fresh verdure of field and forest, the delightsome pictures that aro presented in over varying variety iti the appreciative eye—it is these things that lend to this pastime a poetie beauty that no other Call claim. Ben. Franklin spoke like an artificial and prawn:Meal coektiey o heat 'he gave his definition of the angler. If any apology were needed tor mil - .1:11( - ing ott on a triiiitingeximrsion to the moun tains .if \Vest Virginia, we think have maul, 0110 ill 010 1 1 / 1 . 01.1 . 01111i; N 1 hirh lIIOSL of our readors mill rog:lrd 101 amply 111111160111. On the evening of Joni' 1711 i, wrtool. the ears for I larri,litirg, speul all hour chat with Harvey I`ollllllalltled the runts ((inch caught the fish with whielt ;rant, it..., were rrrd it e.l: uu•tn iamb, of aa•t hail eaNt. their Ines in the Northern l'entisylvailia this seit,in; 11'14'd SIPIlle Or 010111 t i juiu Ils, but Mok the ears fin. Baltimore. Hero n 4. gut a imp at Barnum's, eat a hearty In c.d.- fast at an early Inntr,:nnl look the lint train \Vest on the Baltimore am! (Min ;all n. 3,1, Tho seetwry alnng this line rnall t. .1,•t• d wily SIII/erllir to tictt Ilit/114 1110 P0111,,,1V3- 111:1Cc111.1,11,:llid sonle.riL in 1111 , 1,1,,,1 hy anything in the Ctitted States. Front finnan tip to nvhere the reentry open. etit into the level and fertile flute lands II“tt and arid Proderiek younties, it wind, al .11; the Patapmee rt% er, %skull i.4.hcalittilii and pi.•ttiresque nl rerun. I.na, tog this it ..p, through one et the finest ugrirullut. it 11•• glow+ in tint United Statom, iit•llis of waving grain prenti,oti an :Woo dant harvest to tilt 1111,10:n1,11111111. Fo.III of Ittn•l:s ill tilt, Limr of the I he- Ines it hugs the Shore, Orlin` ~•• lii r. mottling to 1.111 , eye of the Era: ell, a ...tic ettssion of views that aro will worth a trip .co.ht Th,.111,1, Jefferson proninn•ed the 113,44:144.0 of the Potomac through the hint, Ititlgo at Ilarpor•m Ferry, ".011, , .11 the most stupetnlotni Mvollo , l ..I uuturr, wed sell worth a voyage arnosm nil , A tiantn• t., as it - teas." If we remember w hat an ocean voyage was ill his day we can tell Ile' o'4l - orate he pat upon Lhia magnolismt and no one who has looked :it it well think the author of the Declaration of Indepen dence guilty of any great exaggt•ratem. 'rho Shenandeah and the fete sae 111111 at thin point, anti they seem to have purpose ly combined their forces to break through the solid wall of rock, hard reds of feet 111 height, which stood in the way of thed progress to the sea, The evidences of a, grand convulsion of nature are ooy whero apparent, and the eye Boats upon a svelte or the wildest grandeur. Shortly before reaching Ilarpor's Perry, at the junction made with lhr Il.duuu n and Ohio by the Cumberland Volley flail road, we were joined by Augustus Inincalt,, Esq., of the Chatribersburg Priffey .Y/ord and Capt. Doorge Skinner, who so ably rep. resented that district in the last Legtsla Lure, and who will he returned again in spite of the negro vote. 'rho Upper l'et-P -111:111 is a beautiful river, a clear, lira - ;MI stream abountlim; in black bass, a fish Willett next Lo the brook 11 out is most game, noel furnishes the finest sport tO the angler. I mly abut a dozen of these line lisle were put into tire Potomac at a point a few miles oast ei coin berland, some fifteen years :igo. They were brought in a bllekla, 141Werell into Lilo tank of a locomotive, trout Cheat River. To such an extent have they. irkujjiplitj that they are now caught in groat 1111111 lien+ at all points, from about Washington fir a high dam, ale", I'll Mk,- land; and the South Branch, tiro Shenan doah anti the smaller tributaries all swarm with thorn. IVo met a gerdltonan till the train, the proprietor of the St. Nicholas Hotel at Cumberland, who ix an expert bass fisher, and he informed us that fifty or more of these fish could be sera red and carried alive to any point in the country, at an expense of fifty (lid tars. .%11 that is necessary is fir Heine one to pnev lilt: him self with in large tin beeket, pre nared for the purpose, with a I:error:dell lid that will fasten down securely :toil thin will lit into the opening of the W.O ia• tank attached to it passenger 1...tri0:- Live. Any engineer will ill tin the Itto•ket Lo be sunk in the tank, wed they can be thus transported ill perfect contrition to any point Within railroad commonication, :Intl even carried miles into the virtualy by transferring therm to a barrel and changing the water rrecasionally. The best month. for severing thorn is September, as they bite 11 - 10,1 t freely then, and :tee e.. s 1 ly kept alive- WO hope to are lettAlnher, or our Pennsylvania streams speedily stocked with this gaunt fish The legislature could not appropriate a few thousand dollars to a better purpose. In the hairdsol the right 11111.11 twenty-live hundred dollars would be am ply sufficient tostook lime Stisipiehruma, Lhn time Delaware, the Sellitylk ill, and all the rivers of Eastern ;old Northern Peen sylvan in, IV,: hope to sof a hill for this purpose passed at the next Legislature. It is ill Ito found vastly more valuable 111 11, relillltS then all that has yet beell !deified by our Fish ronitilis , :ioner. too half tit' what has 11,:11 uselessly ex pendid the construetion of fish, ays, el' w !itch not a single shad has ever woold have given the black bay, a line start .:11.1 a permanent settlement ill :Lli cur eastern waters. \Ve hope to see iur Wll beaturfill I stream, the Conestoga stocked by poll tit• enterprise this fall. It s ailmirably fitted for the culture of ha,, and tiller !sang pro. teeter' Ibr 3 few years they wolllll afford the finest sport, and would Bullish all article..: diet vastly superior le any thing now to Is• found in it. But this is a digression. Thu sun had begun to decline rapelly as we began the ascent of the eastern slope of the Allegheny mountains. By two pow erful locomotives our train was rapidly carried up a graile averaging I In feet tit the mile until we reached in point lint above the level of the ocean. This ascent of the Alleghenies is infinitely liner than that upon the Pennsylvania Central which has elicited so much enthusiast:l. We took a seat on the platform of the rear ear and enjoyed to it fullest extent tile panorama of endlessly varying beauty whirls wits presented to our sight. Along the banks the laurel and Wild honey suckle bloomed in the richest profusion, while the delirious odor of wild grape Id:L.:sours greeted us at intervals. Below, on the right, hundreds of feet beneath us, the Savage river brawled along, leaping into miniature cataracts and spreading out into dark pools such as trout delight in, while above and around us tow ered the broken spurs of the Alleghenies which jutted down into the gorge through which wo swept with the speed of steam. No ono who passes over this part of our route can fail to be delighted. Just its the shades of night began to gather we arrived at Oakland, a station on the summit of the Alleghenies, which was our base of mil,- , plies, and the point from which we proposed to make our excursions after the speckled beauties. What betel us thereon(' thereafter must be reserved for another article. Ilionora ton Virginian It has been stated that Theodorie 13. Pry or, eon of Hon. Roger A. Pryor, had grad uated at Princeton this year with higher honors than havo been taken at that college since tho graduation of Aaron Burr. In support of this wo find in tho New York Tribune, of the 30th ult., a notice of the Princeton commencement, in which the• following occurs: "'rho Jay Cooke Mathematical Fellow ship, after the most difficult, and, iu its re sults, the most brilliant ciamination in the history oftho college,was given to Theodorik B. Pryor."
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