Lancaster 3ntelligencer. WEDNESDAY') JULY 27, 1870 The Pause Before the Storm. " All quiet on the Rhine." Such is the news that has come to us for days past, and our people not only wonder that no battle has been fought but seem anxious to hear the boom of hostile cannon and the sharp rattle of needle and chassepot guns re-echoed by the Atlantic:cable. Through the morning mists which shroud the historic streams whose banks have been the scene of so many bloody contests we see the French army massing on the Moselle, near Sierek and on the Rhine in the neigh borhood of Strasbourg, while the Prus sians appear to be forming a line from the fortress of Coblentz to Mayence. Let nobody imagine, because we do not immediately receive news of great battles, that there's to be no war. War is certain and inevitable. The combat ants have gone too far to retract, and the powers of Europe which have de termined to maintain a position of neu trality-, anxious as most of them are for peace, know that any attempt at medi ation would be useless, until the strength of the hereditary foemen shallhave been tested in one or more great pitched bat tles. in order that such a battle may lie fought, it is necessary to get great arniies on the territories where the fight ing is to take place. This requires time. No matter how thorough the prepara tions of the combatauts may have been, they can not place their foryeA at once upon the scene of action. If, as is re ported, the French propose to assemble three hundred thousand men between titrashourg and Thionville before they strike a blow, it is hardly possible that the task should be completed before tile lst of AtignA ; and even that would be ia i ddily or luovoulout without prece dent in military annals. The Pros si:ms are, no doubt, using all possible ~Iiii*•1114 . : but, it must be many days koforo a I'llo , "1:tn line of Imttle can he drawn up opimsite to a .Freneh army, tool lIIC dreaded signal for a contest between the two be given. In 15,",” preparations for the %Val' between France:old AuAria were makingasearly a,,lanuary, but not a blow was struJk un til 1 . :1y, In Itic,i; Austria and Prussia he- gall 1./ put tlu•h • upon a win• foot ing in March ; but, though they moved with unexampled celerity, the battle tiallOW3 ld. fought Wall July. Thep:wile:4u th,pentlingconlesture put tine forth all their energies, but not all the facilities allorded by modern inven tion can enable them to annihilate time and space. Let us not be impatient for the aiwful conflict to bee;in. As there is always a pause before a great tempest is let loose , it is a fitting that there should he a pause before this pandemonium of death :mil destruction is unchained in Europe. Happy would it be for the people of France and Prussia if the com ing combat could be avoided, but that sums 11015 , to bo utterly impossible.-- War is inevitable, and there is no lulling how I.l' w h enH. will end. \owl, wisdom dioiite , to o. is piu,io. government of the States should preserve tlw strict est neutrality, /11111 ill SO doing the ail minislralion v, ill have tin , support of all siritsilde men, NViihmit distinction of partic , . ow• of our statesmen said in a niemoralde speech, "our party dif -I,rioices cease :Lt till Nvalur's edge." As itation 10c have all interest in the pending Europc:in eimtest only so far Os it may alli•el our commeree and the rights 4,1' ,oir citizen , upon the (wean mill in foreign land:. Patriotic citizens will ioler.lll. hi' 1111111/St freedom of in dividual opinion mid sympathy ; but no lie is enlightened 11,1 well ILS pal it• will Wkil to s‘vav thet;oycru unvil line hair's ht•adtli from that per feet neutrality \vhieli will leave it at equal lil.crty to demand redress of I..rance or Prit , sia, if cithiv „hail alms,. rights as a kelligvrent. llinoritj ItepreNentation ,itto-lion of iiiitwrity marked pl,llOllOllOO ill A cl,HVulill4Plllla-d , i•ell Called I !WA.' 1111 , :;1,1 Ail- , L. en , ider the ,1116t,t. The call ~ifie.Anne the Itepublivate , in I heettutt tt here that party in the iitinarity. .eeet til ht . :1111111',Sell 11, politic:to- exclusively, but. we are some e. hitt :it a los— to determine whether the Illtellii4oll of the framers to confine it to that party. II is a Which kill hr 111`it•1111 . 111ell ',arty, and 1% . 1. bvlirvo the limo Ilt•ar :II hand the ile,ireil eliange in the Constititiiiiii of this State will be made. We have explained the proposed method the NVIIIII whirl is foil, soot have espre..erl our earnest conviction of the neeessity Nchich exists for devising a plan by \clingh the minor ity may bk. inirly 1 . 1.1.re51 . 1111 .1 1 in all leg klative and other elective bodies. 'the idea i , perhmtly in accordance with the I rue theory or Itopubliean government, and it , adoption would (111 RW:l3' with very many of tile grusn evils which have op omicronr present sys.teni. It perfectly fea , itile, :mil we are glad to , cii that very litany of the best newspa pers in the i - ititte, without respect to party, are advocating the early adoption such a cumulative system of voting which will ensure a lair representation of minorities. War in North Carolina Finding themselves unable to main tain emitrol of the Stale of North Caro lina by pcacalde means, the Radicals have resorted to the desperate expedient of arming hands of militia at the public expense; and .inservative meetings are now being violently broken up and ',routine it citizens seized, imprisoned and threatened with military trials and stun rare execution. Even after all the outrages whieh we have been compelled to chronicle, this news front North Caro lina is calculated to startle the people.— f a li flaw like 11 - olden, who could never obtain office when the people of North Carolina were free to vote their honest sentiments, is to he permitted to put him self at the head of a free of armed men, and to arrest and try by drum head court martial all who are opposed to his re election, then can this country furnish to the world an example of tyranny such at no other civilized nation ever exhibit ed. \\'e ask Northern Republicans to look nt this result of the Congressional system of reconstruction. It is of a piece with much else that has been done, and a lit illustration et the working of Rad ical in the South. Compliments to Congressmen lion. S. S. Cox met with a grand re ception from his constituents on his re turn from Washington. They turned out by thousands to greet him, and he entertained them with one of his keen ,,t awl wittiest _Democratic speeches. John D. Stiles, win has repre- rented the Lehigh and :Montgomery distriet so faithfully, also met with a very cordial receptitin from his constitu ents. Mr. Stiles is one of the most effi cient among the Democratie mentheN Con Tess, and we hope to see him re nominated, though we understand he is willing to let the nomination go to Afontgomery county if she claims it. Uncle Jacob Zeigler Jacob Zeigler, Esq., editor of the But ler County ikruld, has been nominated I.y the Democracy of that county for the ,eislature. If the people will lay aside party prejudice and vote for the best man "I,:ncle Jacob," ;LI he is familiarly called, will certainly lie elected. He comes as near the Jacksonian standard for otlice as any man we know. He is both "honest and capable." We hope to record his triumphant election, with a Democratic House to back him up. A. J. STEINmAN, I.:sQ., junior propri otor and editor of the briummonuctut, has been suffering for ten days past from a severe attack of lutermittent bilious fever. 1 is many friends will be pleas :ed to learn that he is convalescent. A Speck of War in Lancaster County. We are having a speck of war in Lan caster county. TwO hostile armies are fast arraying themselves against each other. The forces are all drawn from the ranks of the superlativelyloyal Rad ical factions, no 4 .‘ copperhcads" being allowed to enlist or fight under the ban ner of either of the distinguished mili tary leaders who are soon to join battle. They are both Colonels, and both served in the Union army at a very safe dis tance from all rebel bullets. Colonel Dickey marelm i lsThe "ins" and Colonel Wickersham the "outs." The prize for which each is Contending Is the Republican Congressional nomination, and an engagement which Is likely to prove decisive will be fought on the last Saturday of August. The weapons will be fists, and the ammunition "short tickets." • • The preliminary skirmish es promise to be very exciting. Col. Wickersham has fired a broadside in the shape of a fourteen page pamphlet at Col. Dickey, which had the effect of making him swear as terribly as ever the English army did in Flanders. He is the mad dest man in Lancaster, and fuller of tight than ever he was during his ninety day campaign against the rebels. Col. Wickersham has also planted a battery on Duke street, from which weekly dis charges will be made upon his oppo nent. The gull is so constructed us to shoot round cameo+, and Col. Dickey will be kept dodging sharply until the campaign is over. The Bultetin of his opponent intimates that he is remarka bly good at dodging, and the skill it charges him with having displayed In Congress may stand him in good stead now. The Examiner has trailed its old east_ iron Calllloll on Col. Wickersham's forces, and is la Iching out volumes of sulphurous vapor. The Krprcx, main tains a position of armed neutrality at present, but it is expected that it will finally abandon that attitude and talc• the field on one side or the other, as a hired mercenary. The Imptirrr is ex pected to range itself on the side of Dickey iu a few days. We understand that negotiations to float( effect are now going on. The Vo/kxfrrand seems to be engrossed in the Prussian war, and where it may stand in the tight now hie ing waged in our midst we are unable even to guess. Jiillon• Abraham is pre paring to do battle after the Chinese fashion. It will use "stink pots," and will hurl them against Wickersham with wonderful fury. 'rile outside forces seem to be pretty evenly divided, and we are prepared to look on with all the complacency of the fellow who SaW his wife engaged in a 111(11(1 to 111111(1 encounter with the bear. I'Ve don't care which faction whips.— It is only a tight for the spoils, and the people really have no interest in it. (to it Dickey! Go it Wiekey! Phil. Sheridan Wo notice dint the better class of Re publican newspapers are condemning Grant for appointing Phil. Sheridan to visit the seat of war in Europe, as a representative of the tJ. S. Army. They do not regard him as titled by nature or education fur such a position. Sheridan may learn something from European Generals. lie will discover, if he is an observant man, that in modern Europe- war private property is regarded as lured, that barns are not horned, and that women and children are nut butch ered in their sleep. This will be a val uable addition to his stock it military I:nowledge, stay enable hint to re gard the devastation of the Shenandoah valley and the butchery of the l'iegans in the sante light as thatNvltieli the civ ilized world looks at his west prowl- tient arts. Brant seems destined to nutl:e blunders ill his appointments. Ire nial:es fewer good kill, uud 11101 . i ball ones titan till the Presidents who preceded hint put. together. The reason is he is always governed liy intere , ted lII' Pe i'Sniia I uuilices,and ill) t by a regurti 6ir Illness or the public gund. it Unpublished Letter from F. \ -Presi den( Buchanan. I'lle .:11e . S$1•1111 , r 11111oliSilt'S he following filler Nvrltte❑ U, \VIII. IL I lose, Esq., of Wallington l'lllinty, n• James: Ihu•hnu:w, arl,r his reiirk- mint from t h e Pre-tioltiney, and Miring lie iteriotl when lie \vas ,tti bitterly antl unjustly us,aileil by the ltrtilitials: Wll EATLAN o , Sold. 11, laGI. .3/// lot .I'ir—il reply to your favur of the :all inst., requesting me to infurm you of my age: 1 aeav mini till (Ili. iii April, 1791, I ani glad tu learn that you have two sous in the army of the I' Mull. If I \eel, young man 1 should he there myself. I hope they may return 1., cull with lumen, after having served their country bravely and faithfully. Yours very respeetfully, t•IIANAN. Will. 11. Itti,e, Esti. Mr. Buchanan never made any parade of his sentiments, but those who were in deity intereourse witi; him know that lit; was as thoroughly devoted to the Union as any num in the nation. fe might have silenced all his ealutnniators at ones had he chosen to rush into print; but he chose to pursue the even tenor of Lis way, leaving those who knew him to bear record to his loyalty, and resting secure in the conviction that history would abundantly vindicate his charac ter from every unjust aspersion cast upon it by a reckless and inendavious partisan press. Terrible Effects of the Ileat Upwards of sixty rises of sunstroke occurred in New York oily on iqondity —the hottest day of the present heated term. On that dny the average temper ature was ninety degrees, and in some parts of the city even ninety-eight and ninety-nine in the shade were attained. On Tuesday there were seventy-six eases of sunstroke in the same city, of which forty-six proved fatal. Brooklyn, Newark, Hoboken, Philadelphia, Balti more and other cities have also saeri- tired daily numerous victims to the blazing sun. These terrible etreets of the heat should Warn all, not only against direct exposure to the sun's rays, but against every excess that can aggravate the general prostration of the system at this trying 5,144011. TO walk the dis tance of a single block, even on the shady side of the street, is now equiva lent to running three times thatdistance in winter. I t might prove fatal to forget this simple fact. People should now carefully abstain front violent exercise, from fiery and poisonous liquors, front anger and other evil passions, and, as far 118 possible, from worry and exhaust ing work. They should indulge but very moderately in iced water and min eral drinks. Negro Mass Meeting. The Strasburg Free Press says The colored people of Eden and iulloin ing townships will hold a political Mass Meeting in Jacob Snavely's woods, one fourth era mile north of Spring Grove Ito-' tel, ou the road leading to Dry Wells, on Friday, August sth, commencing at 10 o'clock, a. nt. Eminent Speakers will ad dress the. meeting, and several bands of music will enliven the occasion. A eor dial invitation is extended.' This is the.first Republican Mass Meeting we lilve scen advertised this year in Lancaster county. IL is export ed that both the contending candidates for Congress will be present, all the :As pirants for Legislative honors, and every Radical who is a candidate for any office. The negroes have taken time by the fore-lock; and it is intimated that certain leading men among them, having already learned the tricks of their white brethren, will hold out for the highest bid and vote and work at the Radical primary election for the candidates who come down most liber ally with their greenbacks. We ex pect to gee a nice speeimeumf political huckstering at this negro mass meeting. TriE papers in his district are clamor ing for Judge Noah Davis to resign his seat in Congress, co as to give Fred Douglas a chance to occupy it. There Is an evident determination to put Fred in the House, in spite of " prejudice." The Outrages In North Carolina." There has been no attempt made by the Radical uC . Wiipaperii . WoBl4the eon try, to contradict; the" repoks of gross outrageaßiNortliearollia btflie horOes ef,irregular militia whlch,have the liehlunder.tlie luitTiticildOs of Holden. Thisqman Holden is lighting to maintain hitiisiTf in power. He knows that he wouldbe utterly re- pudiated by the people at any fair elec tion, and he has deliberatOy resorted to military force for the plirpose of pre venting an honest expression of public sentiment through the,ballot-box.._The desperado, Kirk, who has been - put in command of the ruffians that make up the body of Holden's militia, has viola ted the laws of the land in the most reckless and glaring manner. Many citizens have been seized, treated with extreme indignity,and thrown Into pris on. They appealed to the Courts of the State for redress, but a Radical Judge denies them justice. Chief Jus tice Pearson has deliberately decided that Kirk is not bound to obey the writ of habeas corpus, and citizens are thus left to the tendl.r mercies of the cut throat chieftain and his gang of out laws. Judge Pearson does not pretend that the writ of habeas corpus has been law fully suspended in North Carolina, but, with that facility for which Radical offi cials are distinguished, he finds a means of helping his political associates to carry out the villainous schemes in which they are engaged. It is impossi ble for any lawyer to see on what grounds Judge Pearson could possibly rest his decree, which leaves Holden and Kirk at liberty to set all law at de , riner. If the writ of habeas corpus is not suspended in North Carolina Kirk can JIMd nojuatitiention for his acts in the libgat orders of hissuperior in office and villainy. Can Judge Pearson mean that if tiovernor Bolden were to order Kirk to commit murder that order would be sufficient to justify the act, or to shield Idol from the penalty attach ing to the crime? There wasa time in this country when the liberty of the citizen MIS considered as sacred as his life, and when the vibli lion of the one would have been as sun tinnily punished as the unlawful taking of the other. Now, we have a Chief Justice of North Carolina promulgating doctrine utterly at variance with the highest courts of this country and Eng land, and violative of every principle of constitutional liberty. Only in an ab solute despotism can the orders of a su perior be pleaded in justification of any crime the inferior may commit. Only a Judge, Imbued with the loose and dan gerous principles promulgated by the Radical party, could be found ready to make such a decision as that just ren dered by the Chief Justice of North Carolina. A greater outrage was never lwrpetrated in the name of law. The attention of the at ministrant ins been called to the outrageous emit ion of atrairs in North Carolina. Hot Belford Brown, formerly a Unite :tales Senator from North Carolina had an interview with President Grant and laid before him a truthful and do tailed statement of the outrages emu miffed. He informed the President, of the eve of his departure to Loot Branch, that there was no such thing as an insurrection in North Carolina, no more than there was war in Wash ington ; and he showed plainly that the vhole movement of the irregular mili tia, and the declaration of martial law was only a deviee to enable holden and his friends to control the Congressional elections which take place in a few days. Grant, listened in stolid si lence and deliberately made up his mind to let the in finnous work go on. He informed 'AI r. Brown that he could not interfere without being N tillCAell to du So by the Legislature of tile Slate or the Governor. That was an easy way or escaping from the re sponsibility, mid permitting the out rages to proceed, Whiuli were being perpetrated hn• the express purpose of defeating Conservative candidates. It' the stale of :drafts had been reversed (trot NVOLII.I 1111.Ve deVISCd sonic method of putting a stop to what was going on. As it was only a violation of all law for the sake of insuring a continuance of Radical rule he had no remedy to apply. When the Chief Justice of State and the President of the Culled:States leave 01(ms:outs of citizens at the mercy ofsuch villains as Governor Holden and such desperadoes as the brutal outlaw Kirk, there would seem to be but one course left for those who are thus placed beyond the pale of the low's protection. They must defend themselves. Should blood shed follow in North Carolina, and deeds of terror be ellat!ted, the pe'rsons to blame will be the tit' North Carolina, the Chief. the State, and President Grant. IL will lie seen by the latest reports, published elsewhere, that Kirk deliber ately tore tip the writs of habeas corpus which were served upon hint, anal ar rested and imprisoned the officer serving them. Such conduct ought to be suffi cient to awaken a feeling of deep indig nation against all who 1111Ve been par ticipants in these acts, and of all who defend or approve such infamous and unexampled outrages. Death or Gen.Thmas L. Price The veteran politician, Gen. Thomas ; L. Price, who died in Missouri last week, wits born in Virginia in Isot. He beeame a resident of Missouri in 1532, and W:l6 elected Governor of that State on the Democratic ticket in 1848. Presi dent Lincoln appointed him a brigadier general In Nil, and he remained in the military service of the Lulled States until 1812, when he was elected to Con gress. In 1804 lie was the conservative candidate for Governor of the State against Thomas r letcher, but owing to the invasion of Missouri by the Confed erates under General Sterling Price, the Radicals hail everything their own way, the State being placed under martial law, and Fletcher was elected at the point of the bayonet. He was a dele gate to the " Johnson Convention " at Philadelphia, in 1806, and presided over the National Deumcratic Convention at New York, in July,lBoB, after Governor Seymour, the regular President was brought forward in the Convention as a candidate for the Presidential nomina tion. In the death of General Price the State of Missouri loses a distinguished and useful citizen and the Democratic party of the Union an honored and faith ful inCrilber. A Negro GoTernor The South Carolina Radicals are not content with Ciov. Scott. Judge Car penter, an ambitious aspirant for otlice, who was elected to his Judgeship on the Republican ticket, has organized a party of his own, and contrived to have himself nominated as Oovernor. The negro element in the party propose, in retaliation, to nominate for Oovernor Cardoza, the present negro Secretary of State. Of course, the negro vote will be able to command the election of the negro candidate. AN DUEW JOHNSON never received : more palpable snub than was adminis tered to poor Grant in igndring his anx ious message to Congress on the last day of the session. Every puny whipster takes his sword now. He may'retire to Long Branch and smoke his pipe; at tend the races, or fight bull P`upS; no body cares what he does, and he seems to be in the happy condition of not car ing what anybody thinks about him. As AN evidence of the direction in which the wind is blowing in Tennes see, it is worthy 6f note that alt the can didates are anxious to be considered Conservative candidates. - The. Radical nominees are Swearing thht they are Conservatives. CADET-SEJ,LER Whittemore is making arrangeaients to take the Acid asa can didate fot election next fall to the Forty second Congress. He has just left Washington for South Carolina. —.., • How to Moderate, the Heat. '7hereis iceepouglrintlie neighborhood Of, the IsMatt pole to' idol the - 'Atlantic arid Pagifie oceans, ar i l to reduce the giermerileter from the frightful attitude which- i t has, persistsg.t in etirnbing to /15r ~A tetts. peat: Igthe vadt. Heide and mountains of ice which are now held bound in the Arctic regions could only be unloosened from their moorings the currents of the oceans which bound this continent would carry them down along our coasts, and we might regfdate the temperature by increasing or dimin ishing the. supply.. That lids ia_pos sible to modern science a recent Euro pean writer has demonstrated. He shows how, with nitro-glycerine and picrate of potassium the mighty ice fields of the Hyperborean regions could be easily broken up, and the detached masses left free to be floated southward by the ocean currents which set steadily in that direction. A system of telegraph lines could be established by which in formation could be sent from New York on the East and San Francisco on the \Vest every hour in the day, stating the range of the thermometer and giving directions as to the amount of ice to be loosened. It might take some time to get the process into complete working order, but one season of scientifically conducted experiments would ascertain the rate at which ice would be carried southward by the currents, and the amount which would be required to re duce the temperature to any given de gree. The advantages of such a scheme are too obvious to neat elaboration. The Fourth of July could be made as pleas ant as the balmiest day of May; work would not be stopped in (mr great cities ; there would be no long catalogue of lentils from So t roke for us to chronicle he laboring wen of the country wouli be vastly beneiltted ; a great cause o liseases would be removed; epidemieS such as the eholern, would be shorn of their terrors; (lrant would not need to run Mr to the seaside, and there comes in one se lions drawback) Congress might set all the year. Here is a grand champ for a specula tion. Let a company be at once organ ized. Let it lay in large stores of nitro glycerine:aud pierate of potassium. Let telegraph lines be established radiating from the north pole to all points south. Let a prospectus be at once Issued, taking boldly the scientific ground that detached ice-blocks, floating southward from the great Polar Sea, would lower the temperature, and reduce the torrid heat under which we have been so long sweltering to the most delightful atmos phere. Everybody who has been pant ing under the reign of Sirius would take stock in the concern, and every editor in the country would exhaust his energy in writing elaborate pull's, which would be gratuitously inserted. The company could also go before Congress at its next session and secure a subsidy of fifty or a•huudred millions of dollars, provided a sufficiently liberal price was paid for voles. (;runt would not refuse to sign the bill, if he was pre sented with a lire set of furs properly lined with greenbacks. If any One doubts that the money would be grant ed let him look at the enormous sums given to other companies during tthe last session: We have no doubt Hon. 0. J. Dickey would be one of the warm est supporters of this great cooling pro ject. The scheme would certainly pay— at Wash i n glen, if not elsewhere. The. Georgia Muddle That Congress atijourued leaving the Georgia muddle as great a muddle as ever, the following contradictory state-. limits relative to the bill reported among the last moments of the session, serve to show. Thus in the Senate: Mr. Drake inquired whether it was not the effect of the bill its amended to compel an election nomt fall?" Mr. Howard replied that be did not un derstand that the bill affected that question at all. Mr. Thurman, a member of the eommit tee, said the innendinent would secure an election this tall, unless usurpation was' resorted to. The struggle, it will Lc remembered, arose over the amendment offered by Mr. Bingham, declaring that an elec tion should be held this fall at the end of the term of the present Legislature. The I louse and the Senate put this pro viso into their separate bills; but these ! went to a committee, where B. F. But ler fraudently got rid of the Bingham amendment. What was its ultimate fate no hotly seems to know, for the Philadelphia Pte. says : 'rho fleorgia bill tied kindred measures have gone through conferences and mostof I them have been adopted. The 4 :corgi.. bill is said to be acceptable to iho Republicans of that Slate, though SOlllO say the proviso : added to the House Lill is the Binglinin I amendment in disguise. What a condition fur the legislation (,r a great country! There is too much reason to fear that the fraud that got the thing in its present muddle will bring it out in the shape the conspirators want it. No Extra Session The Jourind of ( 'wnitirroc hopes noth ing will occur to make au extra session of Congress necessary, as there is no guessing what absurd schemes would be hatched out of the heated pates of Congressmen like alligators in the hot sand of their shells. In having no ex tra session lies our safety ; not simply from becoming involved in a European war, but front more legislation such as that that disgraced the last session.— The pressure upon Congress to do some thing that would mix us up in the con tinental troubles would be great and hard to resist; and if Congress did not rush into a blunder In that direction, it would be sure to commit other follies enough. We have little fear of the Ad ministration doing anything to embroil us with France or Prussia, on its own motion. President :tint Secretary :if War who have been so inactive and ex cessively cautious iu dealing with the Cuba a u nt Alabama questions, may be trusted, we should think, to be careful how they meddle in the European crisis. The Colored Cadet The 'Washington correspondent of the New York lri,m s under date of Tues day, says: '•A court-martial was to day ordered to convene at West Point for the trial of various cadets. The most notable ease to be investigated will be the allegations of ill treatment preferred by the colored cadet there, and which are so widely at variance with the state ments of the hoard of visitorsand other responsible persons that it is believed the young colored martyr will be con victed of gross exaggeration, or worse, Tit E Chicago Trihunc says that the elevators of that city contain Inure grain (of the old crop) than iSIISUIttni this sea son of the year, awl advises caution with regard to the probable demand for our breadstuffs in Europe. The editor decides that the farmers will scarcely find it to their interest to hold back their grain in hopes of a large advance in the future, It will be much the safer, and will, in alt probability, prove to be the wiser course, to send their grain forward while they can realize.good prices, than to wait till the opportunity has passed away, with the return of peace. Ef.E17 . 10.N6 will be held this fall in all the States except Oregon, California, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Islaud. Sixteen States will elect T,egislatnrcii which kill choose United States Senators. Of these the Radicals will carry. Vermont, Maine, Massachu setts, lowa, Minnesota and Kansas. The negroes will be successful in North Carolina and South Carolina. The re mainder of the States will be carried Icy the Democrats. HEN. SCHENCK, v, - ho was the Atlas of a high protective tariff; has been forced to retire from the Congressional arena. He hat accepted the .presidcnay of a land agency, snpposed to be a 'company got ten op to dispose of lands granted to railroad corporations by Congress. Coed-hy,e, Seheock. 'the Suicide of the French Minister lit....qwinection with the war ~,newa. , . fvip. - Enrope comes the Bad butch na . ling 'ticcountof the suicide of the - new Frenth Minister at Washington. Lucien Arta tolePrevost-Paradol is the4mst dispia guied and able man whq . bas been ablit, to represent France at the seat of our COVernment during the present century. He was the son of a French naval en gineer, and a talented lady connected with the Comedie Francaise Theatre, and was born at Paris on the Bth of August, 'Educated at the Calleg6 Bourbon,heparly displayed great talent,_ and carried off a number of the highest prizes. Afterwards he entered the Ecole Normale, from which he gradu ated in 1851, securing, when he was but twenty-two years old, the prize for elo quence from the Academie Francaise. The degree of Doctor in Letters was con ferred upon him in 1885, and the same year he was appointed to the chair of French Literature at the University of Aix. Having a decided inclination forjour nalism he abandoned his professorship in 1850, and became an editorial writer on the Journal (les Dcbatts. At that time the Journal was the recognized or gan of the Orleanist party, and was waging as bitter a war against the Na poleonic regime as NMS possible without subjecting it to suppression. The paper teas in declining circumstances when M. Prevost-Paradol became connected with it. He assailed the Government with consummate skill, and so adroitly that his attacks, bitter as they were, failed to present a tangible point which theauthoritiescould take holdof. He al so became a contributor to the ('hurler des Dimanelie, a Sunday journal, which as sailed Napoleon so openly and bitterly that it was repeatedly warned and sus- pended, and finally suppressed. His articles in the Journal des Debatcs also became so vexatious at length that the government determined to suppress the paper without making any specific charge against it. Its publishers' con cluded to modify its tone rather than submit to suppression, and so the name of M. Prevost Paradol ceased to appear at the end of political articles. lie was thus forced to abandon the field of po- ideal Journalism for that of pure lite ary labor. hi 1557 he published a book entitled " Du Role de la Famine dims l' Education," which was "crowned" by the French Academy. After a while he again entered the field of political journalism, and did much to secure the elevation of his friend, M. Olivier, to the Premiership. The leaning of Napoleon to ❑cure liberal ideas had assuaged the bitterness of M. Prevost-Paradol, and he supported the Emperor. He presented himself as a candidate for the Corps Legislatif only to be beaten, and his labors were con lined to journalism until he was appoint ed Minister to the United States. He left Europe in a state of perfect peace and arrived here in trine to learn of the war which had so siallenly broken out. The excitement attendant upon his labors, and the depressing effect of the intense heat, are supposed to have superinduced temporary insanity. The death of such a man by his own hand is one of those sad events which must excite universal regret. No human scrutiny can fathom the causes which led to the fatal act, and speculation, such as being indulged in by seine of the newspapc N of this coun try, is foolish and heartless. 1 Bargain Between Prim and Bismarck The New York Sim has an editorial in relation to an alleged bargain betweem i the ripanish Minister Prim and Count Bismarck, which makes statements of a startling character. It is declared that an agreement was concluded between the two to the effect that Prince Leo pold, of Hohenzollern, should be placed upon the Spanish throne, and the in dependence of Cuba thereupon recog nized, with the proviso that the people of that island should solicit LllO protec tion-of Prussia, and be placed under her ,guardianship. Prussia was to ltav the use of the port of Ila vanda or the (lull* of Nipe as a naval station, the Cubans were to pay tine hundred millions of dollars to SPai u , and Prussia to guarantee the payment. It is stated that Lord Clarendon, of Eng- I land, gave his assent to this arrangement and did all lie could to favor it during the latter part of his life. The Suit al leges that apart of the hundred millions stipulated for has :thready been paid over to Prim by a (derma[ 'Banking I Louse of Loudon, upon Bismarck's responsibili ty. The whole statement is of so strange a character that we are disposed to wait for further evidence before according it entire credibility. The Stuff concludes its article as follows : The intrigue between Itismarck and Prim, which we have now revealed, is one that would never tins' been undertaken had tine United States possessed an Execu tive worthy of the sa u te. But with an in competent political fossil at the head of the St.ate Department, whose son-in-law and corrupt Assistant Secretary regularly sell him to a gang of mercenary adventurers sinning to enrich themselves by the trans fer of Cuba, it would indeed be surprising if such a man as Count Bisnnarek regarded the United States Government with anny feeling but contempt. Paying Income Tax Under Protest A number of prominent citizens, mer (quints and others, of Philadelphia, have united themselves together under the title of " The Anti-Income Tax Associ ation." They have prepared and are using a printed protest, to be tilled by the Collector when the income assessed against them for ISG9 is demanded and paid. This protest denies the validity of the acts creating and continuing the income tax, and the authority of the Collector to receive the same. The pro test asserts that payment is only made by the protestants in order to escape from threatened legal proceedings, and claims the right to recover hack the money so paid by due process of law. It is the intention of the Association to test the validity of the law before the Supreme Court of the United Stales, and the decision of that Lolly will be looked for with much interest. Prussian Privateers It is reported that a prominent repre sentative of the Prussian Government is now engaged in York in the purchase of war vessels, to .•ruise against, the French mere! mit vessels. It is also stated that a swift strainer is now being rapidly fitted out in Brooklyn gs a priva teer, and that a crew of picked !nen has been engaged. The German mail strain era, it is alleged, will be armed, so as to protect themselves against attack. It these reports are true, theunited States may be brought into collision with the belligerent powers, and hence the (105-- eminent, following the precedents of other Administrations, it is not unlike ly will soon issue a proclamation, en , joining neutrality upon the citizens of this country. The Extra Session Talk Nothing will come of this, the Snn thinks—but the talk about it, neverthe less, the editor reasons, grows out of the universal distrust of the Executive. There is not (says the a man in the ismintry—we care not to what party he be longs—who really believes that Fiamiloin Fish is competent to conduct our foreign re lations in such a crisis as has now come up on the world. Mr. Fish is as desti t uto of the intelligence, the character, and the knowl edge that are indispensible for such a duty. This universal feeling of distrust is greatly intensified by' the fact that his son-in-law, Sidney Webster, is an agent of tlie Spanish Government, and has been in its pay; and also by the fact that his Assistant Secretary, J. C.' B. Davis, has been proved by the Legislature of Massachusetts to be guilty of receiving bribes. In addition to these rea sons for denying all confidence to an Ad ministration with Mr. Fish at its head, is the accusation, broadly propounded and never denied, and which can easily be provedbefore a proper investigating com mittee, that the .State Department' has Tor months been practically conducted in the Interest of a ring of speculators, who have expected to make sixteen millions Tor • themselves in the shape of commissions upon the purchase•of Cuba. (This is certainly lintting the case very strongly-,-anci IY The Sun were not a Ito publican journal, vO BLOW say it ;Wan laying itself open to an notion, or seven al actions, for libel.)) Father Abraham Aspires to - be the Or gan of the Negrpes. otft ,, arr.k a cam:, icidgn . prospictualor 1870. It Vopo* tog tOiStbsFtd:fe aekroPa, of thlti State .I":4n44.lvaniaNtscletind RadiCalism, .tirroac . Af,Chwefile b.renneTTEsci., and says: '• • "We have also many thousands of new voters iri Pennsylvania, under the Fif teenth Amendment. These, although na turally inclined to support the Republican party, which gave them liberty, will also need the benefits of just such reading mat ter a.l, the contents of Futlier That oVidences ;the ' , desire df".ll.llher Abraham to IT...recognized as the official organ of. ,the negroes of genusylvania. The paper is-about 'the lowest. sheet in the State in point of literary merit, and as full of lies, and gross blackguardism, as the carrion carcass of a dead dog is of maggotain dog.d.ays. We think the editor puts a proper estimate upon the work of his hands when he offers to make his filthy sheet the organ of the negro wing of the Republican party. The only difficulty that we see in the way of the proposed project is the fact that any decent negro would be ashamed to be seen reading Father Abraham; and those who may be low enough in their tastes to appreciate its contents can not read English, much less such gibberish as the bastard Penn sylvania Deitsch in which Pit Selmer tiebrenner's letters are written. The new enterprise of the editor of Father Abraham doe, , , not look to us as if it June. So thick were the blossoms thal the \Vhele Serf:tee WILY white as StIONV. The logs and stomps were all covered as com pletely as they would have been beneath five feet of snow. 'l'housxnds of bushels of berries might be gathered here, and the bears and raccoons come from the sur rounding forest to feast upon them. The house stands on elevated ground be tween the north and the south forks of Maid:water river, and from the porticoes you look down into the deep ravines through which the streams flow. Tho north fork is much the largest, and the mountain gorge through which it winds its way the deepest. The view from the house is very wild and grand. As we looked - - upon it, jUSI. ;trier Wawa, a d e nse fog rested its editor line been connected, and it is in the ravines below. Su still and blue would be likely to prove a paying spec ulation. By the time the negroes learn to read Pit Schwetllebreniwr's letters their author will either be dead or 11S old as Methuselah ; and the negroes in Pennsylvania will all have died out or emigrated to Africa. 11, looks tons very much as if the editor was scheming to get some gullable Radical philanthro pists to subscribe for his paper at club rates, with the design of having it circu lated gratituously among the negrocs• The concern must be about on its last logs when so desperate a device has to be resorted to. Rims lasted longer now . than any of the puny papers with which time to expect it to "play out." The negroes have an organ of thair own, published by a negro, at Harrisburg, which is fully equal to Father Abraham in literary merit, less filthy in its con tents, and as Itadlcal In its polities. We can not imagine that any negro who is able to read could possibly be so stupid 11.4 to prefer father..elbruhum to a Re publican newspaper published by one of his own race. What Gcn. Meade Thinks The reporter of the Philuclelphia San (hill Times, himself a soldier, gives the following account of an interview he hail with General Meade, while the Ma ryland Fifth were passing through that city : Passing down Chestnut street, wo met Gen. Meade, "our old commander," at the corner of Tenth. There can ben. question about his patriotism or devotion to his country. Inquiring what lie thought about sonic people treating the Maryland Fifth coldly, he frankly stated that he would re view them at Cape May, and would do it cheerfully. Ile said : "There iaa great mistake in this busi ness. The war is over now, and we should let by-pones be by-gones. I disapprove decidedly of the sentiments expressed by the livening Bulletin concerning this regi ment. Judge Bond, of Maryland, one of the most Radical Republicans of that State, told me last week, at Cape May, that the reports about this regiment being compos ed of a majority of Confederate sol diers—(Meade used the word Confederate constantly when talking about the Fifth) —were all wrong. The Colonel, it is true, was a Confederate officer, but tho Lieut. Colonel was a Union officer during the war, awl must of the men, I believe, served in the Union army, and some of them in the Confederate army. lint what of that? Cul. Herbert now serves under our flag, and I would trust him just as quick as I would any 111511. nor people ought to be ashamed of keeping up this hostile feeling. They should let it die out. But there are 501110 mon determined to keep it up for political purposes. I art no poli tician," continued General Meade, "so I can express myself freely, and I think the sooner we bury all this animosity, the better." Thus spoke the hero of Gettysburg—the 111:111 who, at Glendale, was struck lose by a rebel bullet, and tall en from the if he call forgive and forget, why should not (he " I tome ivard " warriors. The First Battle It is a curious fact that the first battle growing out of the little unpleasantness between the French and Gertnans,should have been fought not, on the Rhino, but on the I,illey-• not at Mete., but at Dublin! 'l'rue, there does not appear to have been anybody killed or wound ed, thou It the cable telegrams (which see, for details, assure us that fully one hundred thon.and men were en gaged in it. The Irish turned out to sympathize with France, and the police turned nut to take away certain French flags which were displayed in the occa sion. At the start the latter was victori ous, tie lotted tri-color was squel..Thed— but, nevertheless, we real, " the mob rallied and re-took them." Whether this bloodless 'scrimmage' on Irish soil, is a foreshadowing of mili tary results on the continent, or not, it is of course impossible to say ; but that does not detract from the comic fact that the - first real tight of the Prusso-Franco war has taken place where it was least expected—on the banks of the IA (Fey ! The 3laryland Fifth The 'Maryland Fifth met with a !nag nificent ovation in Philadelphia, and the morning papers vie with each other in praising it. The Evening Miltelin had the bad taste to' make a bitter as sault upon this organization, because it Lc largely composed of men who served in the Confederate army. This roused a feeling of indignation, and the good people of the Quaker City, without re spect to party, determined to show that they were ready to forget all the bitter fends of the past, and to shake hands with Southern men ill a bond of lasting friendship. This is us it should lie. It indicates a return to I.LSOII. The trade of Philadelphia has been greatly dam aged by a few bigoted Cook, who think with the narrow-minded editor of the Rath //amid are ready to tear open afreeh, the wounds calked by the War, whenever any one NV 110 was a rebel 11:Ippe to cross their pathway. All the morning papers of Philadelphia unite in iloolaring that the Mary:anti Fifth surpassed the New York Seventh in military excellence, while their conduct is represented to have been infinitely 1110 re gentli.manly. Ft: Li, returns from the i)n.gon election make the majority for the Democratic candidate for Dovernor, Mr. Grover, (;31. :-. 4 i yinour and Blair carried the State by only 11;5. The Dclooeratie !gain, therefore, is IGti. Governu Grover tile first Democratic executive elected by the people of Oregon for ten year,. THE New Orleans Time , thinks the I,e,t. Senatorial joke was to find Mr. Yates making a speech in which he said the Chinese labor problem was a matter for "sober" consideration. BEvEl.s complains that, while in Boston and other Eastern cities, he was flattered, cotted and femted, in our \Ve,4- ern cities lie receives nothing but a "cold shpulder." Which is rough on the son of IT am. Sodden Death of Protes.or Stoever. ProreK,or Martin Luther Striever, of the Pennsylvania College, at Gettysburg, died suddenly hi Philadelphia, on Friday, of nervous prostration and congestion of the bruin, front long-continued labor.— Thirty-one years of his life wns spent in the Pennsylvania college at Gettysburg, the institution at which he was graduated is Ik4s, iu his nineteenth year, iirst in his class. At the time of death ho was Pro fessor of the 'Latin Language and Litera ture, but itt hiS long service as professor at Gettysburg he had filled nearly all the chairs. Prof.Stoe vc rw as a most enthusiastic devotee ofhis country and her institutions. This was a marked trait in a character re plete with!good 'features: lie was for sev eral years editor of the Evangelical .IZeriew, end published two memoirs, ono of Dr. Henry Melchoir Muhlenburg, and the other of the Rev. Dr. Meyer. lic was born at lermantown„ Pa., in 152.0,, Dentrzia4ive Firo fu Sea lEampahlre CONCORD, „idly 2.3.—A fire brOko out in a tenement house in Colebrook, yesterday morning, which, despite of all endeavors to cheek it, spread untillt ,burned nearly all of the, hualuess portion of the town. The amount ofinsurance Isnot known. Stztoen families are rendered homeless by the fire. THOUTING IN NVE:N.rINTIttiI:NIA Camper In the Laud otCs.inarm Editorial Notes—dliti..loll. .Tired as we Were when WO retired to rest in Dobbin's Hotel, with. a gum blanket spread : upon a bod •Cpt: C litcd4-4ay and a wooleU blanket dravim over us, ire rose in the morning refreshed and ready for what ever effort might be required- of us. I lav ing slept in our woolen shirts and panta loons, little time was spent in making our toilet. Cravats and paper collars are a luxury no ono thinks of indulging in on such a trouting excursion. There was not a female within fifteen miles of us..andwe naturally and easily lapsed from that re gard for personal appearance and the refine ments of life which only flourishes under the fostering hand of woman. When wo attempted our morning ablutions we found that the only towel in the party was one taken by Mr.lakemoro, and ono pot'ket comb had to servo several of us. Weshook off the indolent habits of town life without effort, and rose a little after dawn. Dobbins Hotel is a largo substantial structure, with some eight cominudiuus rooms. It is well built of hewn logs and conveniently arranged, with porticos run ning the length of the main building on arch side. It k Ineated in the midst of an extensive " deadening," the trees having been girdled and left to die and deoiy. A considerable extent of the clearing thus rudely created is covered with a fine growth of timothy :mil white elover, nnL many aerev are overgrown with black ber ry bushes just - in fall bloom on the 20th o 5ra.,1 the mass of vapor that it was with difficulty we could persuade ourselves that It was only mist n o d not a quiet river which lay there so beautiful beneath the dappled dawn. It had the exact appear ance of a broad, smooth expanse of water. The mountaiu which ruse opposite to 11,4 seemed to 0101)0 downward to the stream, 1111,1 the log which had crept up into the breaks and smaller ravines, resembled the nooks and eddies formed by a placid ricer. The illusion was t.omplete, and wo would have launched a navy from where we stood as fearlessly as we would trust ono to lice billows of the Potomac where it swells into a miniature sea. Soon the says of the sun shot down almost perpendicularly from the eastern height into the river of fog be low, and in an Instant the whole mass of mist changed color, and before us lay what seemed to be a wide river of molten gold. For a moment wit were permitted to enjoy this beautiful vision, nod then the mist be gan to quiver, and before the eye had time to note all the beauties of the wonderful metamorphosis that was going on,the iv hole bulk was tossed violently to and fro, though not a breath of air was stirring, and huge clouds of vapor, warmed and expanded by the rays of the sun, rolled slowly up the mountain sides, gradually rising above their towering crests and sailing oIT slowly with the upper currents of the atmosphere, to be condensed and returned to the lap of earth again at night in gently falling dew. As we watched the seene of beauty thus presented to our sight, with its many changes too evanescent to be described in plain prose or caught by the pencil of the artist, we felt that We were amply repaid for all the toil and fatigue of the clay before. The call to breakfast was eagerly respond • eil to. The table was not covered With fine white linen, but upon the bare board was spread a repast Which an epicure might envy. In the clentre was a stack tif delicious mountain trout which had been dredged in cracker dust and fried in glades butter, and Banking it were rashers of bacon.— There was cum breall, crackers and de licious eoffee, which those who preferred it in that acne sweetened with maple sugar.-- We itlways 11111 . 0 collie plain, and imly use sugar to disguise the taste of the parched peas, chietiry and other villain ous stuff with which it is so often adulterat ed at hotels. The table in ruitun• consisted of tin plates, tin cups and a miscellaneous assortment of knives and forks. We did not st:uad 011 ceremony or stickle at trifles, local as became ex perieneed sportsmen. The trout were delirious and the stark ieforti us disappearol only to be replaced by a fresh supply from Charley Atkinson's huge frying pan. Blakeinure forgot the fatigues of the slay before, and felt not the aching of his excoriated feet as lie feasted on the speckled beauties. The main stream of the Black water, which we intended to fish, was two miles and a half from the house, and we deter mints.' to camp on its bunk. So, breakfast. over, we packed our traps and started.— Each itlitorhcCillall carried his blankets and extra clothing, his fish basket, his rods, and tither articles of pers o nal accoutrement. The guide, the cook and two other extra hands carried cooking utensils, provisions, do'. our path to the stream lay through a dense foresband most of the way through a tan gled laurel thicket. The axe of Sol Cal -1101.111 had opened a tolerably fair passage, but many a huge log lay across the nar row path, covered with moss to tile depth of a foot or more. The luxuriant growth of the moss in this forest is really wonderful. A toilsome march of more than all hour found us on the bank of the Blackwat or, a short distance above the great fall. The stream is laid down on the map of West Virginia, but is not named. It runs almost directly west, descending the Allegheny Mountains by innumerable falls and swift rapids, until it empties into the Dry Fork, clear the junction of that stream with the ("heat River. Above the falls it expands in some places into deep quiet pools, three or four hundred yards in width, and is often contracted into a rushing torrent, not over a hundred feet wide. On either hand the mountains tower in precipitous elilfs to the height of a thou Sand or twelve hundred feet, being covered with a dense growth of pine, hemlock and birch, beneath which the rhododendron, or deer-Mngued laurel springs up in the thickest profusion, While oar eiclllllloll musses sprout over rucks, logs. trunks of trees, and every object near the surface of the moist earth, being kept always frt,li and green beneath the dens,' shade of an unbroken primitive forest.— 'flue scenery is grandly beautiful, and so I~unous is this Spot, that ladies from Ihe cities alai the 51,1 , 11.11114 efillatry COMP here every braving ail the fatigue and disown forts that they must encounter, :mil feeling amply repaid for the sacrifices they make. Ito trout :try to be foul' in myriad :Mil any Ludy can clutch 1.111 . 111 With :iny kind of tackle and any kind of bait. 'fhey are small, not averaging UN't.,r Six 1111•110,1, but being genuine mountain trout, of the most tlelit.ate flavor, they can afford to be small. Fastening a small improved trout hook to the end of Our leader, and putting on it a common red worm well scoured in moss, we added a collide of small hackles, one light brown and the other dark gray and proceeded to tempt the dainty little deni zens of the dark stream which is deeply dyed by the hem!, a; roots. l'he trout bit furi ously. They seemed to prefer the worm, but we hooked about Cale third of what we caught on the gray hackle and an oveasional one tin the light bruwu. After fishing for einiple of hours we emptied our creel at the camp, gave them to the cook to clean, :mil on Counting them found that we had taken about eighty within three hundred yards of the camp. The rest of the party having gone down stream WO Ktmllott leisurely along the bank, nabbing a trout nearly every time wo made a met, until we came to the falls.— These falls aro unsurpassed in picturesque beauty. fhe stream sWeelia down through a mountain gorge, wlfitli narrows as the cataract is approached to lass than a hun dred feet. A boye you, full fifteen hundred feet high, °neither hand, towers the cliffs; covered with a dense growth ofovergreens. Every rock is cushioned with , a thick cov ering of moss, kept continually fresh by the ascending spray. The water leaps over a perpendicular precipice sixty-six feet high. In the centre a stream some thirty feet iu breadth bounds from an overhanging rock and plunges fain the dark whirlpool below, which is half concealed by the seconding spray. On the right side about one-fourth of the water , faihr in an unbroken 001- limn half-way doWn the steep; artd• Is then broken into a dozen dlSSoYeted fragments, which spread out like a huge fan, with opening*!,tit • the Alp, bub, form. a feathery sheet of foarn affd sparkling eltryteltals befora they roach the poeil.bolow. • On the left anelihee division of: thel'etream leaps from one projecting step of track to another, foredlng ti, ellvery cascade - nf the most grt - o ffi s . nuiVb6imitiful'elduletor. — WheVyotr,t efitizloglitibitfeeeno from the brink of e falls, you can descend by a path to their foist and enjoy the view from be low. There is a level rock floor on the right bank of the stream which leads op to the very hiut of the cataract. There you call , stand, enveloped by the spray, and feast I your eye on a scene of suilximing cfv9ll 7 ness. Above you rise the chills that hen/ in the stream, almost in perpendicular linea• for more than a thousand feet, while below you, between barren rocks and over mini ature falls the foam-flecked stream swoops away - from the base of the great falls, after its wild plunge, with a rapidity - that onuses the eye to grow unsteady and the basin to I swim. The water which looked to be as blacks ink above the falls takes 11l a del icate pink tinge as it pitches over the pree ipice, and you still not soon tire of watch big the ever-ehanging prismatic effects produced by the light upon the moving curtain before you. We do not wonder that beautiful women conic- to gaze ill rapture on this lovely scene. Some of them bring gout boobs and Bloomer costumes with them, and an gle dexterously for trout. We were too early in the season to meet any of these ad venturous fair ones. flail we lall'allaiPred Snell a party, illakemore would have been the only man among us Will/ could Kaye lOX peatai (.0 escape being hooked. The rest of us, being unmarried, would have been as easily caught as any trout in the brook, our fancy- would have exalted even a very common Mai, creature in, a divinity, if we hail mot her at the Itlack Water Falls; the ice would have thawed front around cacti bachelor heart, and we should inevita bly have Callen in lure, not gradually, but with a plunge as sudden :mil irrecoverable as that which the river makes. By -I o'clock we hail all assembled at camp and the owls were busy gettingilitt tier. We wattled little else than trout, and ate little else. llow perfectly delicious they were, fresh from their native element; and what quantities of the little beauties we did devour. Charley fried lawful after panful before ten hungry fellows were satisfied.— Somehow the maple sugar had been forgot ten, and this was deemed ater•ible tune by son, of the party. Such of us as had learned to love pure tiodee in its purity found nothing to mar the pleasure iif our repast. Our table furniture consisted of plates made of fragrant Lira bark freshly peeled, forks whittled utrt of pronged twigs, pocket knives rind tin cups. The Chinese use cakes made of flee for plates, and tin lah up their meals by eating their plates. If We hail been as fond et' birch bark as wo were in boyhood, we might have Miliiwed the Chinese ISIStOIII. Our table was n moss vovereil rot+, Our chairs sotal ler rocks ranged around it. We did n o t envy any WWI his serviee of silver, and would um have exchanged that dinner Mr all the dainties Delinoniro could offer its, Alder dinner, with pipes lighted, Nor stretched ourselves ill our blankets and discussed flaunt operations. ileorge A. Smith and Captain Skinner seers in favor of exploring the El:Lel:water to its MOUth • mid following Cheat River to the railroad. !Mlle:01 sects opposed, ISlakenode 1135 In alparitated by the condition of his fold, and I was waiting, for a chalice to subject Sol Calhoun, the guide, to a rigid cross exami nation as to the nature of thin trip, hu hav ing boon over it once and being ono of Cory few inen who had over tried it. Night aunt' the dinCUSsioll Platted Or any decision had been reached; and wt' Mad° beds of hemlock branches and wraqing our blankets around us lay down to sleep beneath a canopy of trees sit thick that scarcely a star could its seen to twink lu through. What rollowtsi must Is , told in another nun; be r. 11. I=l ! Alike ! \\Mat art! ytal ? I.',lting In it Dyt•r•!, Vnt To column. 4ensk., sir. I apprnl, Nl'llsll. ntu ltl yull catch I'411 , •// ttit ri.L. \Vo believe it was lir. Franklin who quaintly described fishing its a slick and a string, with a fool at one end and a honk at the caller"- and much of our Irieal fish ing seems to be or this"eiharaeter. \Ve have often been amused to sec hair adozen great brawney fellows, spending a whole day in the hot sun fishing, and then returning 'ionic in the evening, " wet, dry and hun gry,- with about the same number of sick ly looking little fishes, that have bee moo bleaehed and attenuated by constant drag ling through " wind and water," resent bling more a very small " penny hunch" of radishes, than the piscatorial denizens of the aqueous realm. And yot, there is perhaps 110 kind 0( "spurt' more harmless, more healthful, and more universally in dulged in, duet that of fishing; and that yountry roust he destitute indeed, that does riot afford some sort of "fishing eVell if It .hoehi he no Letter than a "frog pond" or a "dyer's vat." Its umfahvis - independent oft!id fact, that, no matter how dull a emu's am,cti le, may ordinarily be, it is sure to become "sharpened up" by day's fishing-- is very doubtful, and if the same forethought, The same precision, and the snub perseverance was exercised in any other occupation in life, the result oath' not fail to lie infinitely more successful, proportionately, than that Mashing. Fish ing, however, sometimes affor4ls a quiet retreat for men of deep philosophical winds, during which they have coined some of their most sublime and cogent ideas. It Is said that Patrick Henry would often sit a whole forenoon or afternoon, Watching, in deep contemplatien, the cork on his line, as it lazily floated on the water, altogether unconscious that his hook was at the same time lying "high and dry" on a rock, and the bait had become as crisp as a stale pret zel, under the influence of a burning soot mer sun. Under such circumstances he could not, of course, expmt catch any thing, physically, except a "bad cold," or a "few pains and aches," b u t Intellectually he doubtless 'aught some of his greatest theughts. Fishing, as a recreation, as a periodical release from the weightier and more fatiguing COIICeIIIS Or life, has been resorted to by some of the greatest and pro foundest men of our country, including IrrhAtcr—llw great, the "ilod-like /aniel." lint then we I nay suppose that Webster indulged in such fishing "as is fishing"— where ashes live "what bites"—and not in that peculiar, :iiiibiguous Idiot of fishing which is mainly made up of "nibbles." Our chief delight, an far as the act of fish- ing is issicerned, consists in liennig boys enjoying this universal sport. Tu wit ness :their perseverance in hunting "Ivories" which, by-the-by, are some how always most scarce, when they are most needed, and rfr' ecrm—their patience in waiting for a '• bite"—and their exul tant joy, or will delight, when they have hooked the first " excites in us a feeling far superior to that whit•h our indi vidual success affords; and when the little g,ogler" adroitly limpsinto the water again and makes his eseape, sin• disappointment and chagrin is fully as deep as heii.t. And then tun, when they have caught a " ratio" or hi, :it one place, or a " smile" at sm other, to SOO them rot,' rut Li, these places again—after haring been unsuccessful else' where—as their "good catfish holes" or sunfish holes," exhibits the hopeful and mending simplicity of youth in its strong est light. . Fishing, on the whole, as an nc• eupation, may be nre,•asory, MS a recreation it may be useful- -hut no matter how de lightful to thefishec,,,,,s, it is more the lees cruel to the fiche!—as convenient means, however, of idling away or "killing Glue," too valuable to be wantonly squandered, it may become little short of criminal. 'hit ter, perhaps, to sit the whole of the " live long day" fishing in a " Ttrick-pond," or a Dyer's r,d. BELLE-VIEW. A MtatrtlinK TnLIC The following table gives the,ollicial re turns of cusses of sunstroke and of deaths from that cause from and inelnsi ve or;inu 7 day last to midnight last night: tY NEW yoRIC CITY. 'fotal Faint Cases, :-.anday 31, a lay rneethay Wetln (lay MEM 111t001“. VS. 'futa ewes. 1 , 31.10 Kith°. 5unday............ Monday Tuesday Wednesday__ Total eases for New York and ltrooklyn 170; cases with fatal result:. 74, There aro, in addition to these, however, many macs not reported by the pollee, while a large proportion of those reported by the politte •to the Coroner's office as . I '. sudden deaths" will undoubtedly , prove, upoqinve,stigatioh. to have been caused by the eseesslye heat. —N. 1". herald. NORTH CAROLINA Progret. of the Irlylll War Throughout ==! The War Prowrannne--ltad Despera• tlon—•The Annust Elertions to be Car ried by Terror—Kirk's Army—Outrnwes While on the Way to llnleigh---Ilabetut Corpus Played Ont. Correspondence of the N. Y. //croft/. (IttEENsnono, July 19, IS7o.—lt may 111/W be safely said without fear of exaggeration, that a civil war is in progress throughout this State, though, so far, none of the nets have resulted in bloodshed. Everywhere you go the people are Intensely excited over the high-handed and warlike meas ures of tio - vernor Holden, in sending a band of armed eutthroats and fugitives from justice over the State, invested with the ex traordinary anti arbitrary power of an army of invasion. In some places the people ap pear to be terror-stricken, and so completely taken attack by the outrages of Colonel K irk's unlawful rabble that they can scarce ly believe they are living in a free country in limo of peace. The worst terrors of the late war are again realized in this peaceful seethe, of North Carolina in a more fearful and alarming manner. Spies, informers, said 1111Sert111111011S1 deteetlyes, everywhere precede the 110,111111r'S 1111111 V 01 terrorism, the advent of wide!' is followed in each neighborhood by the arrest of the lined respectable and influential citizens residing thaw, idnight, too, is the hour selected perpetrating these unjustiiinble and un warrantable outrages. Ilell'll,l are Sal rounded by Kirk's armed band, the inmates are threatened N‘ith illStallt death 1( reNi,l - is 11111,10, 111111 citizens are dragged, in the 11110,111100 of wives and daughters, 1 . 11.111 their beds and homes to the imprisanuea of n eaur, s,,l,jeeted 1., the die curstis, Ole leers, Mel infamous throats of a band Of ussas.sins, It such 111.11.1 are not well cal vitiated to provoke lase rreetion, %Val . 111111 1110011,11141, tllOll 11111111{11 endurance is great Indt,l. Many unsophisticated Ira, tillers from the North iunove•utly, but indignantly demand the 1111,1ffilig m u d 1,111,10 f this in la• tubes But beyond the itif.mniation that tin election takes place next month, in whieli the pr 0...- poets of I iovenun• Holden and hie party ale not eery bright, they learnt nothing. 'l•he I eginning of it, h, nutter, tear fully stated in the //croia liver a month since, tchen several Meg rev, were Mlllt tin Lilt' Peniten tiary for six years each, for committing midnight outrage-. o❑ whit 111 , 011,11. WIIIII• ill.+LLltised and representing them enlVt, u, nnenther3 uC lino kin I: lux la,. When through the it,truituantality of thu Loyal Leaguers thet•e are perpetrated :1 :tenth,. ofoutragem, mostly inn eel trod won, and all on lladieals, in the name of the Is. 1, - .Jux,l 'olden then deep arcs certain i,innitieN Inn state of ine.eirrection, calk out the mill tin, tti.peals to the President for foiled t , .tate, troops, au•l Ine.tly :111010H/I.S Is irk 1.• rake a regiment of one thai,:ad nn•❑ 1,. core,' the elections by terror. Th IA is I lII' peal; rnwuu•, :Ind IL is Mint being carried ant o ithont regard to Inn,v, ...der, or Ow =MIMES la anntlier question frequently asked, and %viler,. did lit, t.onie front l'eNV Innrh about him beyond (Ilia 110 is n 110115 0 ~r us la., during the late A% 30 00111111101tillii Is of di,orters frniti both armies, ciiiilllllMell tll . Nol'lll ( . 111 . 011i11i1114 11101 T011110.0400(111 , 1, 31111 alternately plats the VIIIOII uud rphel rile as the aceu.n at warranted, subsisting by idtilidt , ring the illillfllo iu 1.110 11101111L011 111,1010 ts, 1111101Ig WllOlllllO Nvas a terror. It is alleged that la , 1•41IIIIIIittiql several acts t,14).1,1,,t it La, burden States, ftir which he is aitionable lei the lan's; but the band of tlesperadties x, all Nv 'nail he has always been leeiocilitt,l thus far saved him from the elntelies el the Sheriff. IL Was la•CallS11 hr W av po , mlfitrly ill .1 mull .Ip\ ~..1 1,1 ov,•ry form 111.. Wait,. or al! 111141 . 1,111111t110 . 4 uull tart' tyrant, that 114,1.1,..i Ile pliglit 1.1.1.ab1y hay° rn rrho,l Nip lin.l not. Plllll , l the qt.llllll...itionv ill r,. vtrikiu4 .1 want., 0.11,1.1,.:111,. 11 . 1111.1 or:, . WAS ramified by I:irk, under it 1 ,1 1111111 4 - `llOll reel11111,1•1111 1 1'11.ilill'Ill 1.111 . /Inel . 1111 the otters ut bounty, protni-es of 111,1111il pay, good clothing, excellent 01111111101 If/ Illalto " and the prospect of hat ing it "good time," irk could only 01,11 in 01111,4111 R 111/1/11l lour hundred :tud seventy Nvortliless vagabonds under his free hooting Mounter. A large number oI them Tenessaans, former rollots ors or kilts ; many are ext•Cedill . gly villainy as well le; years, oiiiite it lime hei arc, youths under Ito onty ; het a icon. des Meanie a Set, el/11111 hardly el/Heeled in any other portion it the country. '1 het remind one of set of penitentiary coin irts iurned 14,0,0 it jilt a desperado :it t. 11,11 head. While yet to 1.1111 111.1111.1111, 1111.1 before they use, 344 ~I lloPrs and soldier, or the i,nn Lions! arm y of Nclrth whit•ln Lis I.:1 celionov iiovern.,r Holden hi they v 1,1111110110 1 ,1 military lions by 011,1hilinlig . In hang 111 . phi any citizen who should, hy svord, 111101, taro, offend them. Una of the lint 10'1, 11l the distingtMilled Ifolonel Is irk ,vas to pi" mann.° a sentence of untiasyry agaite4l gentleman named A. I'. A very, residing Morgantoss lilt I; irts•s lieu :Wel; ed, had said hi• W0111,1"hill Kirk mi The order was is,ne.l at .mee to OW viol. Manti that ally (a' 01,11 \NI' at hhln'ty 1.. Shnnt .\ very nil 4ight ; lint Fortunately Im him the regiment was ord,nl 1,. Illah.1: 4 I1 heron; :In could6aiwi, Tin. elan Fa 1 1 against Avery svas entiroly null aiwh"l. They next, a, already reported iu the 11. tact, atleinpted to lin: upw; the gite.t, utlhv 11011S0 at Salkhury, whilr:d sup per in tin.; dining room, for mu tte pros, ration than that one of the hand diseliar t ..;el It pi:tol, which they AWIn . l. Cann, trout tan. house. When they arrived at Italeigh an.l store mtvdered In by a Lieutenant Dam,' It4.lter, ‘vas do:ll:fiche.] with it Sqllll4l 111111:11 maid through the ittl 111 \ I.N, 1111..1. Of lialllll at night, l'itese victims .•t tyriunly were lirouglit to Raleigh al'l,• r great fatigue, and suffering in ramp, and Lodged in jail. What the charges against them were c o uld not be fathomed, but lifter several days' ernitinement they wino brought linfore a United States Commis sioner at tile urgent solicitation of t h eir friends, When they' were discharged. Kirk was then ordered by tits ;overt., to prii inid with a c•outpetent line :\lnnwre coUtity, W 10. 1 .0 lit hm situ,' arrested 11 Vol, ,orvativo candidate fur the Legislature ana several other citizens. \V rit, corpus were issued by 1 'hint' .1 usti,o son, or the State Supremo Court, requiring Kirk to product, the bodies or dm parties arrested in court and shuts' Vall4l , u•hy they woro deprived of their lilierty. In reply to the legal orders, Kirk, with an utter eon tempt for the sacred rights and privilege, the citizens, said— " TIIAT sown ,“."1111Nil Is ED 01'1.- Aud the Chief Joiitich !Inds this legal au thority sent ;it deli:wee by his ignorant and illiterate desperado, who is backed up by the Governor. l'pon this point It Is l, !loved a erailliet will take Wave between the eserntive and Judicial department Ia North Carolina. 1101.1...EN'A It is openly alleged the (;overnor has no illes that at tyrant of Kirk's bhoslthirsty disposition can live lIJIIg among the people. Ho wish°s to provoke a civil war, and if Kirk does not survive his first campaign in Altnanon Holden will he gratified. If the people can be driven to desperation and a conflict with Kirk's freebooters pro voked, then Holden could say rebellion could exist in the Stade, and in It few thpvs 110 would 113,, a corps or ',in.!, men as k irk :net a commander infmlimiselionnli to 11111 thew, if One rll,ll could bo Ilan ul. 'rue Modica! War Agoliral. Lat, and JON- HALF:toil, N. C., July If 2. The Chief Justice, announehd this morning, to the Coo nsel'..f the Alainatieo county prisn, r. in the /whew:. 4W/IM, case. that he would give this deeisien to-morrow 111111.11iW i o'clock. ,lr. Brock. I I olden, a brother of Gov. Holden, is in (110 City. Ile :is a brother-in-law of Mr. ‘Villey, i of the prisoners arrested at Viineeyville. Ile is endeavoring to induce the Governor to of - der the Court of Oyer and Thrllllllol. the prisoners. Ile says that :I`4 fair as a trial can he had in t'a,well, as in any other p.ll-- 11011 of the State. lticrriunhan, July telegram from Danville, Virginia, says last night a party of C.donel I: irk's North Carolina adored Suite troops entered that plaue, and seized nil carried Itandelph U U 111 1: Nlll/1 haul Ilud there from North Carolina, for refuge. Another Itodired Outrage—Writ , . of Cla tter. Corm. Torn tie, and the OM- • rent nerving. Them A rrekted. RALF:Inn, N. C., .Tilly t'.5.---Writs of ha beas eorpus for the citizens arrestell in score icelled by.l inlge itcliell, and served on I'. A. Kirk, en last. Frida), when he tore them tip and arrested, and still holds ill elPittiliy, rho °nicer serving them. It is slated that i;overitor I loldee will respond to-inorrotv to the order of the Justice to produce the body i;. :%licure, 0110 of the A latnative prisoner,. What the response will he is not known. Yin t.Ammen tA, July :20.--An election was Yield to-day by the stockholders the Erie railroad, to approve the new lease M the read by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Prior to the eleetloW a 'protest was presented on behalf of the Cleveland ' , Plainiville and Ashtabula railroad, igraiest allowing the l'eumiyivuoia Rail loud to vide WI nearly forty thousand shares owned by that ,company, op the ground Mat the new lease is in Inver or that,4onipany, :mil (hi, company shenld not' be permitted 'by Its own vote io disidia'rge themselves from the obligations of the former lease. Sixty-three thousand, 1010 hundred and sixty-eight idles were east in favor, and two thotthand seven hundred and seventeen against M elding the question in favor of the new lease The Y. Y. Tribune say,' Cong,ressinen who are startled by tho unexpected appearance or the tranwript from the records of the House 'Mowing. theiriproienee and absence, its indicated by the roll calls, will do well to remember a little episode of last session. :Chis epi sode was the Tariff discussion, which last ed for six or eight weeks. During it the average daily attendance of inemberS wits about 115, outofa total membership of2N. The Cquilwii*oiuen CL EV ELAND, July 2.1.—A, foot mce , lie tweet' women will take, ptaco. on Monday nest, over course it 1:11110 And a quarter long, for a purse of fifty dollars.
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