Lancaster 3intelligencer.
hOwißpomvarasteastzvosamovircil
The European
The armies of France and Prussia are
being concentrated. The other powers
maintain a neutral position. The news
for the past week has been of little im
portance. A great battle may be ex
pected very soon, as both rulers have
gone to the front. We will furnish the
readers of the WEEKLY INTELLWENCER
with all news of importance, but do not
care to cumber our columns with rumors
that come by cable one day only to be
contradicted the next.
The Estate of Thaddeus Stevens.
Thaddeus Stevens left behind hint a
will which. is singularly ambigeous lu
some of its provisions. It is not such a
document as was to be expected from
one who enjoyed the extended legal rep
utation which attached to its author. It
gives his executors great power, and, by
making the final disposition of his prop
erty dependant upon the happening or
not happening of several contingencies,
leaves the bulk of the estate in their
hands for an indefinite period of time.
Of course the trust confided to them is
one of a sacred character, and one which
the law will strictly guard, if invoked
by ally party having a right to call the
executors to account. The executors
men who occupy high positions in our
community. lion. Anthony E. Roberts
represented this district in Congress,
and lion. (I. J. _Dickey was chosen
as the successor of 'Mr. Stevens in
that body, and is now seeking a
renomination. It would be strange
if such men should be found derelict
in their duty as txecutors of the
WWI WhOSO iuliuuatcfriends they were,
and ttliose devoted :idmircrs they pro
fess to be. Yet they have so fur failed
to discharge one of the most imperative
duties imposed upon them, and have
violated one of the plainest provisions
attic law relating to the estates of de
cedents.
The law of this State requires every
executor mill administrator to make a
true and perfect inventory of all the
goods, chattels and credits of the tle
ce:lsed, as far as they may.know or can
ascertain them, and to exhibit flu .want
into (hi . I;ryist, e's upper reit hi n thirtgthly4
frmil thr lilnr ti.lirn the Will is proren or
lrNtry if ad i rat ion grantcd. The
law is imperative, and tit) executor
tir atlntinistr:ttor can attempt to evade
it without exciting suspicion. As a
getteiml thing there are interested par
ties \vim wilkummarily cite a delinquent
executor or administrator to appear be
fore the Orphans' Court, and :newer t i or
negleet of so plain :t duty; but it so hap
pens that theambiguous chttracter of Mr.
Stevens' will does not vest such author
ity in any o n e. It gives the executor
. much power, :toil leaves them very wide
latitude, hilt we do not imagine that Mr.
Itieltey will prt•tend to say that it frees
him and his co-executor from the obli
gation to obey a law which rests with
equal binding force upon all who tiveupy
the position of eXerillors
or admiuislra
ttits.
Th, will of Tlintlticus Steven.: was til
ed in the Itegi-th.C,(tilke or this oouuty
early in the month of August,
Since that time almost two years have
passed away, :Led, .1, yet, no inventory
has been exhibited. The estate is said
to be very large, of flue executors
admitting that it exceeds two hundred
thousand dollars. siiyor Laiwa,ter
has a vontingent . interest in nearly the
whole of this estate, but there is no out.
herewith authority to eall the executors
Itt acettunl. The bull: or the property
may go lit lilt' horougtl Iti colunibia,
under certain contingencies, lint there
is no one there to cite the executors
liefore Still the duty or
Roberts :lint llickey is plain.-
liy neglecting to they the imperative
requirement , or the law they have al
ready set malivious tongues to Nvaggi
and halo giveli ground `41,411i1•11/11 in
the Minds of well meaning people.
have heretofore called attention
to this neglect of duly on the part of Mr.
Stevens' executors, mill we tell them
now, in plain lerms, that they eau not
longer renew to ....nutty with the intiter
,live I, ' , l ,, ir v it o ' l,l, of the l awWith""
doing injustice to the dead and damag
ing iii public t,dintation.
'fliers are members of >I r. Stevens' party
who freely ileelare that he Moil with a
large alumna of the lionikatillc or t h e
I'nl'l I' Railroad; ill ilk pos. scion. Is
that Init.: If it ho not, let the sworn
inventory of his executors brand the
rumor as a falsehood. Let them obey
the 111 w. Thus will they do justice to
the dead and remove suspicion from
Raising a Corruption Fund
IZadivala arc alarmed at the pros
poet before them in the coming tqatt..
:nal Congressional elections. Itttly of
those \vim have been log-rolling laml
grabs at \Vashington Item' they will be I
dell•ated this fall. They will spend 0
reasonable tillittillit ti the money they I
made, tall they begin to believe that the
close districts \till be carried by the De.
inoeracy in spite of the negro vote. 'ro
save t heloseives from merited defeat
these fellows have procured the assent
of kraut to a regular black-mailing
scheme, and they have addressed a eir
ettlat to all the clerks at Washington
and other tttlice-holders throughout the
country informing them that they are
required to forward by draft or money
order pc cr it/ , t 1 llu it mi1,(171 to
Zacluttialt Chandler, John 1.1. lietchttnt
and John 11. Platt, Jr., the ltadieal
Coligressitaial Celan:Mee. Z -'4:111e 01 . the
clerks at \Vashington refuse to "pony
up" and swear they will not submit to
be thus blackmailed. We imagine,
ever, that the Seta:NV:4 will he applied le
all the refractory, and that they trill
eventually come down with the stamps.
\Ve do not believe, however, that mon
ey enough van he raised by the It:Idle:0
l'ongtessional l'ommittee to turn the
strong title that,is now settling against
the party. Tut, seal of Wally or
have disappointed tlirrxpreutiiw e:
of the country will be tilled by wino
crab,.
Execrating the Carpet-Baggers
The oxalttion or Whittemore by the
negroes tlf South Carolina, his acknowl
edged leadership of the Republican uarty
of that. Stab., his complete control or the
state convention, in which lie acted as
Chairman or the committee on Creden
tials and Chairman tit* the Committee
alt Plat l'orni, is beginning In open the
eyes of northern Republicans. They
see in this unmistakable evidence of the
rottenness and the degradation of the
party in the South. Sonic Republican
newspapers :ire furious at the course
things 11.1'1., taking, and the Philadelphia
Equity' l'ficyraph declares that the
party " be obliged to repudiate the
whole race of carpet-baggers, and to give
them plainly to understand that the
loyal people of the North decline to be
their backers any longer." The 'Plc
graph seems to forget that Its party has
been built uplin the South by the mill-
ary support given to these very carpet
baggers. If they are abandoned and
military interference done away with
there will be no Republican in the South.
It Is only kept alive now in the Caro
linas the moat, rascally agencies.—
Every where else in the South it is dead
or ha arlicido mortis. The sooner IL is
completely buried out of sight in both
the North and the South the better it
will be for the people.
Radicalism In South Carolina
As will be seen by a report which we
publish elsewhere the Republican con
vention of South Carolina was run by
the Reverend thief and convicted cadet
peddler, \Vhittemore. The body was
composed of ignorant negroes and a few
very mean white men. How much
longer do decent Republicans in Penn
sylvania intend to stand by such Li par
ty?
War Sympathies.
Meetings to express sympathy with
he European belligerents continue to be
the order of the day in our cities. The
quick blood of our Teutonic; Gallic and
Hibernian citizens is kept at fever heat
by an eager discussion of the war news,
which is daily delivered with commend-'
able punctuality by the Atlantic Cable.
The Germans are largely on the side of
Prussia, and many who fled from the
land of their birth, on account of disa
greements with the government of
King William, are now loudly pro
claiming in support of him. The idea
of German unity is a captivating one,
and the fact that they have permanent
ly cast their lot in America, does not
prevent very many of our German citi
zens from giving expression to their
sympathy with Prussia in the pending
contest. Still there are many of the
more thoughtful among the Germans
with whom this wild enthusiasm for the
Hohenzollern family finds no sympa
thy. They say, with what truth the
reader may judge for himself, that the
quarrel between Prussia and France is
not an affair of peoples, but a contest
between rulers with whom republicans
can 11:1Ve very little sympathy. They
regard the war as a struggle between
two ambitious men who care little for
the people, and only wish to aggran
dize themselves and establish their
thrones inure permanently, so that they
may resist all the encroachments of re
publican ideas.
'Phe French in this country side with
Napolean front a feeling of nationality,
and the Irish because they hope to see
England involved in the struggle and
dream that Ireland's lung delayed oppor
tunity will then coon•.
'l•lre discussion between the adherents
of the contending parties are as warm
as the weather, and the drinks which
are taken have no tendency to cool the
constant debates. The I terinan grins
more voluble over his lager, the French
man increases his vivacity by repeated
draughts of iced Claret, and the Hi
bernian atltfs force to his eloquent de
nunciations of perfidious England by
copious libations of potheen. Of course
there is no disposition on the part of
any one to check the enthusiasm of the
diflerent factions. They are at liberty
to talk in private, to discuss the war in
saloons and at public meetings, and to
furnish as much money as they can
spare to aid the sick and wounded.—
There is nothing in our neutrality laws
to prevent all that. But it behooves all
classes, Iterman, French and Irish, to
remember that when they becotne citi
zens of the 1: nited states they deliberate
ly forswear all allegiance to any foreign
potentate, and especially to the ruler
of the country from which they come.
Having become American citizens this
country has a right to demand their
eomplete allegiance in all things. With
it they should sympathize more strong
ly than with any other, and to preserve
its honor and perpetuate its power and
glory should be their chief car .
Is Onr Congress a Good School for Ora
(111 . )'?
1111111 . 1111:1111till With tilt , fiWt.
suppo,r that l'ongre.s.
Nvotihl la• a good , :choot for the trainiti!
or an orator, and the correction 1/'
fault, ul' III:WM . 1' :I - . :kn.' likely to attach
U. tu:un• ul the rural la \eyers m h o 11 11 (1
their Nvay into that body. time
Ica, \viten the 111,e.t di,play, of modet•n
clognenee e , ndd bcwituesstd within the
walls of our National Capihil, and peo
ple traveled thousands or miles to listen
to the elihrlsor Clay, Calhoun, \Vt•hster
or Douglas. day has departed,
and in its stead has oonica day of swan
tutu and poor Congressional
\NW overt foreibly reminded ol this fact
when listening to Col. InelLey's
at the lierutan :\ lass Meeting. It is
tortnin that hi' has not improved his
style of speaking by serving two
Sion , in l'mtgru , s. Its did not pretend
to disetiss European polities, did not
exhibit any hat he had studied
the secret springs of the eonlest between
Fralire awl Prussia, and did
tc. III:11:e a learned orstatesinanlike
speech. Ile ,L. 0111141 to inut,gine that he
had the Emperor Napoleon arraigned
hefore a Lancaster county Quarter
ce
''Lions Jury, to :Los \ver for eommitting
m• , rracal , l assault and hal Ivry ninnt
; and he prureeded to deal
Nvit It the royal eulln•it would
wills ill thr I.x. Ile
valled 111111 :11l Manlier of foul names,
ho inalle ugly Is:Lees:a him, he pointed his
lillet•r 111(11 tlllll di:if:1111 Slllll . l . 111111 S 11001:
it Willi threatening tremulousness'. at
the far on' I rongdovr, he wagged his
head, humped up his hack, serect•hell
like a eat in a dark alley, and went
•
through all that great variety of antics
aunt contortions kir which he is distin
guished. lle workeil hitt:sell up into a
terrible passion, anil it was not until
foain gathered about the corners of his
mouth anti a lather NV:IS per-
above his shirt collar that he
subsided in an exhausted condition. It
is tiviiltint to ifs that I)ickey's ora
tory ha , not hoeu iIIIIn • in • edliy his ser
vice ill In fact sonic or hid
most
,v,laring faults scciii to have been
exaggerated.
It may be, however, that the eiretini
stances muler which the ('olonel spoke
were t•aleulated to excite him unduly.
II the 01'74 ,lot. 01•11 Ile hall 1111ldt . siuoe
his return frc.in Washitigt.ti, and icl;-
ershani had the impudence to take a
stand right in front of hint :1111014; 11
gang of those who had ,inee been Ml'.
Dickey's devoted adherents, but who
are now training with his opponent.—
'Plum, 6111, till' 011011e1 01111,1 linthelp
remembering how active lie had been in
the Know -Nothing cause only 11 few
years ago. and kith What bitterness he
had denounced the people whom he was
limy called upon to praise. Polities
makes people acquainted with strange
bed fellows, but the Colonel had nut
got to feel quite at lo me aiming his
ne \cly-found :Issociates. Ile deemed it
necessary hi be all the noire 111111til ye of
Napoleon on aecount or his former de
' nimeintion of those whom he used to
, style "toed -d, dumb 1)utell." Under
, be
511)•.1 v.IVIIIIISI:1110) , it ( , 1111 , 1 113I'llly
, upt lied that our ('ottgro,t,ttittit would
! aitit.tr to the very itOt4
Declines the Honor
Tiw Washington correspondent of the
N. Y. Sun says : Mr. Frelinghuysen de
clines the mission to England. Warned
by the brief tenure of his two itunedt
alt• predecessors, he thinks it better 10
stay at home than to run the risk of tie
ing summarily superseded tool disgraced
without Johnson and Motley
Were allowed about a year of diplomacy
each ; one for speaking too inuelt, the
other for writing too little. It seems
that Motley supposed, in the innocence
of his heart, that Sumner turned the
crank of the Universe, and therefore
addressed despatches to him instead of
to the illustrious Fish. This went very
well until the days of San Domingo,
when (Irma shouted in his wrath, as
the expected gains of that job disap
peared, " with his head! So much
for Motley!" Mr. Frelinghuysen is
Wise, if it be true, that he hesitates to
serve under such a toaster.
A Lo NO BRA Neu letter-writer classi
fies the President's neighbors curtly and
specifically. lie speaks contemptuously
of them as "your horseman, your sen ior
merchant partner of semi sporting pro
pensities, yon• actor-manager, and your
city mushroom, whether of the flower
of polities,• money-shaving, or• quasi
law—au uninteresting set, fond of im
portance and yearning for the news
paper notice they aired to despise. The
best of them—the best being determined
by a sort of snobbish blackballing per
formed with the eyebrows—try horses
on the beach drive, encourage their
daughters to know one another, give a
supper twice a season, and open half a
basketofchampagneerery second night.
And that is the sum total of their daily
experience." We should think they
wouldjust exactly suit the President.
Grant Backing Up Holden's Outrages,
The Raleigh Standard, a paper pub
lished at the capital of North Carolina
by the son of Governor Holden, an
nounces oflicially.that "President Grant
fully endorses what the Governor has
done, and will practically aid in the sup
pression of the new and dangerous trea
son." Since that was published the tele
graph informs us that Grant has sent
several companies of United States
Soldiers to North Carolina, with orders
to act in concert with Holden. This is
a matter which cull not fail to excite the
indignation of every intelligent and
patriotic American citizen, if properly
understood. Holden is acting, not in
the capacity of au elected ruler of
a free people, but as an appointed
satrap of a muster :at Washington•—
Acting in that capacity he has deliber
ately undertaken to control the coming
Congressional elections by force of arms.
He has gathered together a band of des
peradoes, armed them at the expense of
the State, put them under the control of
a desperate villain named Kirk, pro
ceeded to break up Conservative meet
ings, to arrest llie speakers, to drag
unoffending and peaceable citizens from
their homes at dead of night, and to hold
them under guard of his militia. His
minions have torn up writs of habeas
corpus and arrested and imprisoned the
officers who attempted to serve them.
Holden now deliberately declares his
intention to subject his victims to a
trial by a drum head court martial, on
charges tramped up against them.
- -
The President of the United States
was made fully acquainted with the
outrages being committed by Holden
and his gang of desperadoes, and was
besought to interfere in behalf of the
citizens of North Carolina who were be
ing thus maltreated. He declined to do
so, but took occasion immediately there
after to put Coiled States troops under
the command of Holden ; and the son
of that satrap announces in Ids paper
that the President is in full accord
with his father. Such proceedings a u •e
violative of every principle of our gov
ernment, and are illithitely worse than
any act ever committed by Napoleon.
NO monarch in Europe would dare to
be guilty of such gross outrages upon
the most clearly recognized rights of the
people. It is the very substance and
essence of tyranny.
6eneral Grant has shown his true
character in his treatment of the citi
zens of North Carolina. He is deter
mined to hold on to the °lnce which
he has managed to convert into a source
of immense pecuniary profit, and fear
ing that he may not be renominated if
the Radicals are left free to chose a can
didate, lie has determined to coerce
them into again selecting him as their
nominee fur President. NVith the aid
of such men as Holden, he expects to be
able to control the delegations from the
Southern States, and will stop at nothing
which may he likely to give hint success.
If he can plunge the South into social
disorder hecan control the Radical party
of t ha t section by brute force, and will
trust to the corrupting influence of ex
ecutive patronage to give him enough
votes in the North to make up a ❑cajuri
ty in the nePubli"" Natio n al I'""v"" -
tion. He has ignored the leading poli
ticians ()flip. Republican party, and has
surrounded himself by weak civilians,
while he depends Mainly upon suet
OrtiVON Or the army :is are ready to de
his bidding. Ile is completely ignorant
or :ill that constitutes the statesman,
and has shown himself to be as Wieldy
regardless of law . as the brutal lirk who
commands the militia of Holden in
North Carolina.
Let the people of this country turn
their eyes away from the war in Europe.
Let them look at home. A taut e st is
being waged here which more nearly
concerns all American citizens, native
or naturalized, than the war between
France and Prussia. 11l ;rant, llulden
and Kirk can ,ffitrageeverY nriplc ul
liberty, strike down all law, overturn
the Courts of Justice, throw hund b •eds
of unollimiling citizen• into the guard
house, and try them by military com
missions in lilac ofprofound pence, then
is the United States I overnment no
ladder than the most unmitigated des
potism with Mitch the world was over
cursed. Let Aun•ricun citizens of till
classes luck at the totitcat.tes which an•c
being committed at home.
Bungling Legislation
. .
The Radical majority in l'ongrt,slias
exhibited the most wonderful Nvaiit of
legislative capat;.ity. Tht•y failed 1.1
male ally tippl,priati , /IIS 1 . 01 . (111. pay 01'
janitors to the public building , t, anti t hey
must lie left without care or guardian
ship, unless those in charge shall talte
the 'jolt or :Lod trusting to
future legislation for pay. A corr,.poild
owe between the l'ostinaster of Phila
tielphitt and the Acting Secretary of the
'Treasury 0110 up the matter in a light
which maker the action of l'ongress
appear very ridiculous.
No money was appropri..ted to itay.
the ~Ilicers e•1Lo are to retire under the
new army NIL and the \Var Department
is likely to be gristle tunharrassed iu
this way. Other irregularities , and im
perfections iu acts passed have teen dis
covered, and so great is the difilettlty
likely to he encountered by the admin
istration that it is thought an extra ses
sion of Coul;ress will have to be called
to ruffled.) . the I,lttiolors of the last out , .
What aounnientztry is hereby tarnished
upon the ineilleiency of 111, ,
majority.
A VI ye( 111.1:H1'cl 11:15 I, FA, k out
among, the Radicals in the Sixth Judi
cial district in this State. The district
is composed of Warren, Elk and Erie
counties. Each county presents a can
didate for Judge. According to party
usage each county was entitled to five
Delegates. Erie county, having more
Radical votes than Warren and Elk
combined, claimed the right to double
representation. This was refused the
Erie delegation, and (hey declined to
participate in the Convention until the
t!.:2.1 instant, when a compromise was
wa d e, g i v i ng Erie t en delegates, Warn,
eight, and Elk six. Up to the _all
ultimo, 24(1 pallets hail been taken, and
double that number of glasses of whis
key drank, and, oaths launched at each
other. The proceedings were of the
most, disgraceful eharacter, and one
delegate, 'after kicking over a table, and
blacking a brother delegate's eye, ex-
" When compared
with the Philadelphia Conventions?"
On the evening of the 2. - ,th ult., a reso
lution, asking the candidates to give
their conferees liberty to vote for any
person within the district, was passed,
but the Erie delegation refused to call
upon their candidates, and expressed a
determination to stick by Woodruff,
first and last. T'lle Convention then
broke up, with an understanding that it
would convene in Erie in August. But
the tires are lighted, and they cannot
lie quenched. Th 4, Sixth District will
most likely be presided over by a Demo
cratic Judge.
Synipallu for Prussia
The meeting held in Centre Square,
un Wednesday,by thr.se who sympathize
with Prussia, was large and enthusias
tic. It did great credit to those who en
gaged in getting it up. Our German
fellow-citizens never do things by
halves, and the very successful meeting
of last night is another evidence of their
enterprising character. Is only right
for us to mention the fact that the tier
mans of our city are not a unit upon the
subject of the war in Europe, and the
meeting of last night only represented
a part of them. Had they been perfect
ly united the demonstration would
have still more imposing.
A NUMBER of prominent Californians
have Invited President Grant to make
a visit to that State. Whether he will go
or not depends altogether upon the In
ducements they offer. He can ho in
duced to do almost any thing by those
who know how to approach him.
Itoneyfugling with Negroes.
The Radicals have had all the male
negroes in this county carefully regis
tered, preparatory to their primary elec
tion. A careful count shows that be
tween live and six hundred black voters
have been added to the list by the fraud
ulent adoption of the Fifteenth Amend
ment. The consequence is an extraor
dinary
excitemept among the various
aspirants for office. Prof. Wickersham
held a long conference the other day
with the Reverend Cuff, of this city,
and it is said that the religious part of
our colored population will support the
pedagoguical candidate for Congress; but
then, on the other hand, it is claimed
that all the negroes who are outside
the pale of the church, and in favor
of free love and free whiskey, will sup
port the gentleman who is the Execu-
tor of Thaddeus Stevens. There is a
rumor to the effect that old Thad's col
ored housekeeper, with whom Mr.
Dickey lives at Washington, is to be
brought on to instruct the darkeys of
Lancaster county as to the opinions of
the Old Commoner, and his desires in
regard to who should be his successor.
In the boroughs . bf Columbia and Mari
etta, their is an intense excitement
among the negroes. Certain magnates
of Tow Hill can be seen in daily and
• -
lightly consultation with Radical office
. eekers. It is rumored that some o
those who pretend to be leaders of the
black voters demand money for their
intluenc?, and take all they can get,
promising to support every man who
pays them. The negroes in the lower
end of the county have concluded to
make a lump job of the business, and
they will hold a mass meeting at the
Spring ( ;rove Hotel, on the sth day of
August, at which every Radical politi
cal aspirant who may desire to negotiate
for their support at the Republican pri
mary election is expected to report him
self. We undersland that Dickey and
Wickersham will make speeches from
the same platform. We would advise
tile pedagogue to keep a sharp eye on
his competitor. If he does not he will
be apt to find that agencies more potent
with the negroes than arguments will
be used against him. We have not been
able to learn what is the opinion of the
negroes in regard to the state Treasurer
ship, but we presume most of them are
still as open to conviction as were any
of the Radical members who bolted the
caucus nomination last winter. It is
not to be supposed that negroes will
prove more virtuous or less avaricious
than white Republicans. We wish our
Radical friends a happy time with their
African associates, and for their sake,
we hope, there may be a speedy abate
ment of the excessive heat which has
prevailed so long without interruption.
Honeyingling with negroes cannot be
very pleasant work when the thermom
eter ranges steadily away up in the nine
ties. Let every Radical aspirant pray for
cooler weather.
That Secret Treaty.
lit Europe and in this country the
ecret treaty which Napoleon and Ilk-
marek wore busily considering ill 15t;13
is still tho topic ~f newspaper comment.
Il is nut bviieVed that thS111:11Tk
half as virtuous as he would fain appear.
The truth seems to lie about half way
between the statements of the two par
ties. Bismarck unquestionably gave
publicity to the document lie had in his
possession with a view to intluencingthe
action of England. It is no doubt true
that Napoleon expressed a desire to ab
sorb Belgium, but it k also true that Bis
marck was ready to annihilate the King
dom of Holland, the possession of which
would give Prussia a sufficiently extend
ed sea coast, and enable her to assume
the position of a great maratime power.
The two conspirators could not agree as
to the division of the proposed spoil, and
from that day to this there has been
bitter enmity between the rulers of
France and Prussia.
The spectacle pro-anted by the parties
NOM were deliberately vonsidering the
terms of this secret treaty is One which
no Republican can calmly contemplate.
Two boll schemers sit down with the
well understood purpose of annihilating
two or more small and weak States.—
Holland and Belgium were to be the
principal victims. 'Whilst they were
quietly pursuing their usual course, de
voted to industry, commerce and the
civilizing tendencies of our day, abstain-
Mg from any meddlesome interferenee
with their neighbors, content to be
peaceful and useful, with no improper
ambitions, Napoleon and Bismarck
were deliberately plotting their mini
; hilation as nations, and their reduction
to mere make-weights in "the balance
of power." That is the true meaning
and intent of this secret treaty, the ex
posure of which has caused so much
commotion. It is no longer to he
doubted that Biimarck was as deep in
this infamous scheme as Napoleon.—
t mier the light of these disclosures,
what wretched stuff was all the fuss and
indignation, the virtue and dignity af
fected on both sides. How hollow
seems the nice distinction drawn by -
King William between his readiness to
disavow the Hohenzollern affair as the
head of the family, and his refusal to do
it as King of Prussia; and how ridicu
lous the assumed anger of Napoleon at
the slight offered to Count Benedetti in
the garden of Ems. llow miserable are
the pretexts upon which a gigantic war
has been brought about, which will cost
many thousands of lives and entail
misery upon millions of people. The
curb is the existing war is a contest be
ween ambitious rulers for personal and
'amily aggrandizement, ;11111 the people
ire only blind tools, to be used until
.)roken and then thrown aside.
The Prize Clip
The Prize Cup sailed for by yachts (df
all nations mid won by the America at
the regatta of the Royal English Yacht
Sqpindron, :it l'owe,, England, August
22d, IsJt, teas presented Icy the OWIlerS
or the 111Crit•A to the NVW York Yacht
flub WI the following conditions: Any
organized yacht ,dul, of any foreign I
country shall always been titled through
any one or more of it , members to claim
the right of sailing a match for this
cup with any yacht or usher vessel, of
not hiss than thirty 1101' 111Ort. (11:111 300
tons, measured by the Custom House
rule of the country to \vhiell the vessel
belongs. The cup is to he considered as
the property of the club and not of the
meinheN thereof, our of the inner, of
the vessel winning it in a match, and
the condition of keeping it open to be
sailed fur by yacht clubs of all foreign
nations on the terms stated, shall always
be considered :is attached to it, making
it, perpetually a challenge cup for friend
ly competition between foreign coun
tries. Other conditions are attached as
to the mode of giving notice of the chal
lenge and the loarticulars of the race.
Mr. Ashbury, the owner of the Ctllll
- and member of the English Yacht
Club, having complied with all the for
malities, will enter on the contest for
the future possession of the challenge
cup, and the race is to come °lron Mon
day, August sth, over Ole 11S1.1111 course
of the annual regatta of the NOW VOrk
Yacht (1111).
Tint news from North Carolina not
wily confirms the report of the repeated
hanging, of Mr. Patton, but informs us
that Other persons were suspended by
their thumbs by Kirk's gang of ruffians,
to make them confess that they belong
ed to the Ku-Klux. Vet we look in
vain for any such report in the news
columns of Philadelphia Republican
newspapers. They deliberately sup
press the news because they fear the
effect it will have upon the minds of the
people.
TILE knowing ones assert that this
heated term will give way of a sudden,
and that it will be followed by a season
of whether uncommonly cool for the
season. We shall get up some morning
when the thermometer will mark 90 0 or
so, say meterological prophets, and in
the evening of the same day ask for
blankets and overcoats. So mote it be.
• • The Outrages in North Carolina,
Republican newspapers are trying to
break down the force of the news which
comes from North Carolina by publish
ing the explanatory letter of Governor
Holden. They lay before their readers
the one-sided statement of the chief
malefactor, taking care not to publish a
line of the mass of evidence against him.
The following extract from the corres
pondence of the New York Herald
shows the condition of affairs, on July
in the community over which the
reprobate Birk has been domineering:
"Last evening, a lady standing in the
doorway of ono of the residences here, ap
pealing to a gentleman named Withers,
said: 'Do pray, Colonel, come and sleep
here to-night, for I am terrified and don't
know what may happen. There is nobody
here but myself and the children, and we
aro nearly scared to death."lndeed, Mrs.
Johnson, said the gentleman, 'I would do
so with pleasure, but I have already prom
ised Mrs. that I would stay there to
night. You know she has a largo family
of daughters, and they require, more
than von do, some male protector.'
'God, help us!' said the lady, 'what
will become of us ?' Tins brief con
versation took place between the wife
of one of Kirk's prisoners and a citi
zen, not yet arrested, who now employs
himself affording protection to the families
of the gentlemen who are contined in the
Court House. When the citizens still at
largo are distributed, there is scarcely a
sufficient number to allow one to each
house, and in consequence of the roving
and depredating propensities of the jay
hawkers the greatest alarm and insecurity
are experienced by the helpless women
and children. A town occupied by an in
vading foe scarcely ever underwent a more
trying ordeal than does the village of Van
ceyville at present, for here there is a horde
of ruffians who seem to be impressed with
.he idea that their express mission is one
persecution and outrage."
But we are told that the men who
have been arrested all belong to the
Ku-Klux Klan, and confessions pur
porting to be wade by certain persons
are produced to prove the allegation. —
How Holden and his desperadoes under
Kirk have managed to obtain confes
sion is shown by the following tele-
grant:
ItALmoit, July 30.—Elirk's men arrested
30 citizens of Alamanee to-day. They
hung Wm. Patton, a respectable citizen,
three times, cutting him dawn each time,
to make him contess who murdered the
outlaws. The last time Patton was cut
down it was over an hour before he mem"-
ered. lle 111:11.10 no confession.
The rack is a mild method of dealing
with memin comparison with repeated
hangings by a set of brutes such as the
inorderer Kirk commands. It is not
' strange that some should have been
found ready to sign any document pre
sented rather than submit to such treat
ment. The wonder is that Kr. Patton
did not accuse some one falsely to free
himself front the hands of the fiends
who were torturing him. Ile must be
a man of the most undaunted bravery,
anti possessed of a conscientious integ
rity which prefers death to dishonor.
There arc few such heroes in the world
now. Very few men would have acted
as he did.
'Plc President of the United States
backing up Kirk and Holden in their
outrages, and he can not be ignorant of
the fact that all these things are being
done for the purpose of controlling the
coating elections. The Washington
correspondent of the New York Times
telegraphs to that well known Republi
can journal as follows:
Additional troops have beet sent to North
Carolina, and ttov. Holden has ten com
panies of regulars at his disposal, eight
elthem being artillery and two infantry,
and all of 110.iin armed with Springfield
breech loading rifles.
The elections take place on Po, rsilay, etna
as these regular troops hare becd as widely
dial ribs(,'' ! (Is their at re ngth will alit,', it is
hall' hoped that the acre:fill , Will pa:s
"ht serious di tneullies.
The italicised paragraph furnishes the
key to the situation. All the Outrages
reported in Radical journals, and set
out in detail by Holden's letter, have
either been manufactured to order or
grossly exaggerated, in order that they
might serve as a pretext for quartering
troops upon the people in time of peace.
There is abundant testimony to show
that the citizens everywhere in North
Carolina are and have been peaceable
and law abiding ever since the rebellion
ended. Some crimes have been commit
ted, but these have not been hall as nu
merous or shocking as can be shown by
the polite records of any one of our north
ern cities. There has been no general
disturbance, and nothing h justify the
calling out of the State militia or the in
troduction of Federal troops; and even
now, with all the gross provocations
given by irk's cut throats there is no
outbreak or attempt to meet violence
with violence. The _Radicalconspira
tors who have tontbined to carry the
coming elections by ['tree are responsi
ble for the state of affairs which now ex
ists. The Congressional elections take
place on Thursday, and the voice of the
people is to be stilled and Radical can
didates returned. To effect that purpose
Holden has put a gang of outlaws under
command of kirk,and Grant has order
ed United States troops to be distributed
throughout North Carolina. Such is the
truth about the matter, and the Radical
press can not conceal the facts in the
case.
That the state of nnlthirs in North Car
olina is the result of a deliberate plot on
the part of Radical politicians there can
be no doubt. On the :2.2d of May last
the NeW Verk Tribiuo published in its
Washington correspondence a complete
exposure of the scheme which was then
hieing perfected. The paragraph to
which we refer reads as follows :
" The manner in which partisan tele
grams from the South have been manur.•
cured and published in the North, to fur
ther the personal designs of unscrupulous
and ambitious men, was well shown up on
the developments brought out in reference
to the Washington Chnmiele during the pro
cress of the recent Georgia investigation.
'rile same game is now going on in connee
tion with the internal affairs of the other
Southern States. It is believed that the ensu
ingeleetionsin the South will restilt,in some
instances. not perhaps in the defeat of the
Republican party, but in the defeat of cer
tain individuals wino are and hare been us
ing: that party ncn a Ilnlati , mily tic their n, n
sottish advainyment. For, , e l ing this, the
illicit is 1.• Oct lip an nxeinse la declare mar
tial la', and Meal newspapers ill the inter
est of the Men alluded he are Wein : llo4 With
accounts nr “olltragus. •l This is particu
larly lino ease in Nnrtli landing. and nn
surprise need ho 1 . ,•1t at a daily dish linr
rnrs fin. that State, servcd nip in the
nto•le " "no 411 tint N “rth
Canmina Seuaturs , " wc• intend to Icon the
Military, and, tan institioatimi, wr must get
these , tateitielitn thrmiLth One
North."
Itepuhlican netyspapers linty ld'irse to
aildish the repors oroutr:;ges in North
'arolina whieli are rurni,lL.,l the
'gents of the Associated Press, but they
.1m not keep their readers in h_unirtuive
\Vilat is transpiring. Neither ~:111
hey prevent the people 111 . the North
'min seeing that Holden and Kirk
aro playing a most desperate gale to
prevent any free election ; and that
( ;rant is, backing the scoundrels up with
the power of Federal liayoneti.i.
Tin: attempt of the editor of I' Itr r
.lbrahaffi to foist his puny little paper
upon the Republican party as a negro
or . ..tan has proved to be a complete
I is circulation is rapidly declining,
and its early demise is expected. If a
negro organ is to he kept tip by gratui
tous contributions let it be the Pruyo es
qt . Lily.rty, a Radical sheet which is
edited by a negro. l'it. Schwelliebren
ner's attempt to break down his black
brother is utterly contemptible.
flit: editor of Fallirt ..11wrtlueni pro
nounces Governor Geary a humbug,
and declares he don't owe him any
thing. Geary may congratulate him
self. Bob. Mackey holds a claim for
$5OO against this virtuouseditor, and can
only get abuse in payment.
Democratic Nominations in Fulton
County.
The Democracy of Fulton county have
nominated the following ticket:
Treasurer—J. M. Fields.
Commissioner—Lieut. A b. Hess.
Auditors—Natinan Barnett, G. W. 11
Sipes.
District Attorney—Jno. A. Robinson.
Jury Connuissiuner--Jouop T. hicllott.
George A. Smith, .s4:/-vas unani
mously declared to be tiii,Kboice of Ful
ton county for Congro4;ttitti was au
thorized to appoint hisirVit:delegates to
the District Conference:"''
Recruits for the Prussian and French
Just now, when our citizens of for
eign birth are excited over the war in
Europe, it might be well for them to
Make themselves acquainted with the
obligations they are under to the gov
ernment of the United States, and what
will be required of them by our laws so
long as this country maintains its posi
tion of neutrality.
No German or Frenchman can enlist
or volunteer in this country for service
in the Prussian or French armies. No
organized armed body of men can leave
the - United States to make war a.cainst
France, or any other power. But any
German, or ally other man, who desires
to fight for Germany, France, or any
other country, can leave any American
port and make his way to the territo
ry of the Government he desires to
serve. Five hundred or a thousand
men possessed of this disposition may
take ship from America for any
other country whatever, provided they
be not organized or equipped, and
give no sign of hostile intent against any
power With which we are at peace. If,
however, they should desire to go to
Germany, for example, we could not
guarantee them protection against
French cruisers on their passage into a
German port. We could insure them
safety to England, or Italy, or Austria
—always provided they had not, indi
vidually or collectively, entered into the
service of eitherof the billigerents. Our
laws, which are strict in regard to these
matters, are necessary to prevent our
country from getting embroiled in Eu
ropean troubles, and we have no doubt
they would be rigidly enforced by the
administration. Under such restrictions
it is not likely that either of the contend
ing parties will receive any great addi
tion to their armies from this country.
qualms of Conscience
The editor of the Columbia Spy scenic
to be troubled with sonic qualms of con
science. lie talks in the following style:
" After the disgraceful conduct of the late
Treasurer, Mackey, and our present Trea
surer, Irwin, it was fairly presumable that
no honest Republican having a proper re
gard
for his own character, would serious
ly think of re-electing either. There was
but one sentiment throughout the State
during and after the session of the Legis
lature on this subject. Strange to say, how
ever, a In iraculou, change has corn,. over
the dreams of our political managers of
easy virtue NC lin have lately determined
that the contest for the °Mee of Treasurer is
to be narrowed down to these two um - ti dos,
anti for that purpose candidates for our
State Senate and I louse are to be selected
with reference to a choice of either. We
are, therefore, again to be insulted by the
obi system of bargain and sale bribery and
corruption that has disgraced our Legisla
ture for several years past, to realize the
- -
mortifvint , truth that no holiest man can
be ele cted State Treasurer, and that our
Treasury is nothing more than a place for
the in-gathering and temporary keeping
of the public funds, until the annuli thieves
shall assemble to plunder it. It is lamen:
table that in good, old, staid Pennsylvania
such a scheme should oven lie thought of,
but, unless pains are taken to prevent it,
this movement will be carried out anti our
party again have cause to blush at the dis
graceful exhibition of 011,11pti011 in their
representatives who falsely represent them
selves as worthy of public confidence. The
suggestion, therefore, made by a cotempo
rary for an amendment to our constitution
providing for the election of a State Trea
surer by the people is a wise tile, and
should be adopted, and should also lie ex
tended to the election of an Litited States
Senator...
NO one \ORO reads thealeyVe pantgral
will need to be told that the editor of
the .Vpy is young in years and a novice
in his profession. If lie were not he
would have learned by this time either
to go In for Mackey or Irwin, or to keep
his mouth shut up as tight as that of an
oyster. Every Republican editor in
Penrrsylvania knows that his party is
rotten to the core, and is fully aware of
the fact that it has long ago ceased to
to enable a certain number of lucky
fellows to grow fat on the spoils of of
fice. We believe the editor of the Spy
has had a crumb thrown to him in the
shape of an appointment to the position
of Notary Public. It may he (taverner
(teary has a candidate of his own for the
office of State Treasurer, and that our
youthful and verdant friend of the Spy
has been ordered to assail bath Mackey
and Irwin. All that he says is very
title ; the only wonder is that he has
dared to say anything. " Keep quiet
till the crib is cracked, and then divide
the spoils," is the motto of burglars and
the loaders of the Republican party.
An Unfortunate Allusion.
Napoleon, on taking personal cow
inand of his aridly, issued an address
\\lnch has the Napoleonic ring in it
but which ha.; also, for the honor o
France, an unfortunate allusion. II
conveys the idea of invincibility to the
enemy in these words: But nothing
is nl the persevering efforts of the
soidiers of Africa, Italy and :\ lexico."
The last word—Mexico—is particular
ly unfortunate. The I‘lexican expedi
tion is the disgrace of France. It wa.
conceived in wickedness, executed ii
weakness, collapsed in disgrace. Its
termination was an additional evidence
that Napoleon could break his word when
it suited his purpose. I [cleft Maximilian
to his fate hecause he S:1 \V he could not
carry out the original programme.—
The French expedition to Mexico is
amongst the laughing stocks of mili
tary campaigns. 'fo remind French sok
titers of that is about lige weakest allu
sion in military annal. \Ve can only
account for it on tlio ,tippo , ition that
the mention of three countries wa
necessary to give the sentence a Napo
leonie turn. Mexico to France was
turn-out. If the Emperor's cheek eve
blushed with shame it must be when It
reealls the ind,iellts if that campaign
'l' he widow Louis Na
poleon would not ace. In her loci
moments she charged hint with the I.(
trayal tot' lwr dead husLand. \Ve fanvy
we tan hear the laugh of .kle•tri:ra
prira,,,it tins allu,ion t o Mexico, and
in thi, Itt•puldiv, where tho
or the Freirati Era per, art , pdit,tly
u ndcrstond in re.,:.ard to the Mexh•an
expedition, an that on, of
Oory for Vrclit•ll I.roop, itil
laCI: of aract• ti n tl ,avors
'N‘ More Thlel lug Radical Congressmen
'l' \vo uu,rt• of the It:olio:II Coligre,,it,n
.al thieves have lwvit detected in their
crimes. ltoderiel: Itaudoto of
'Fennessee, and a fellow elected frwu
(;eorgia, who rejoiees in the title of
Judge Winiley, have been caught steal
ing motley belonging to the widows of
deceased soldier,. The pet,i , oi
are said to have the proof dead on the
rascals, :ma they ale to he arrested :tnd
tried fur theft. (if such k "the party of
great moral idea." eumito,ed.
IT is suggested that now is the time
the mercury ranging somewhere from
t) , .) to lon degreesl for Capt. I lall to man
his ti;.50,00u expedition to the North Pole
If ever the people can be convinced of
the propriety of North Pole expeditions
it is now.
Blair County N Inatiott%
The Democracy met in convention at
Hollidaysburg on NVedlicsilay and nomin
ated tho following:
State Senate—Col—John C. Everhart, sub
ject to the decision of the I'oll l) C the
district.
Assenibly—\Ciii. Smith.
Prothonotary—Joseph 11. Blackburn.
Sheriff-I°ll - n B
Associnto.Judges—.Juba and
w. A. Brooks.
'Treasurer—.Jacob Nfitttern.
County COllllllismic , ner—Joliti IL llile
mon.
Poor Director—John E. IloW Man.
.Jury Commissioner—Matthew Stewart.
Auditor—John E. Burchinell.
Messrs. \V. Jackson, Samuel Lloyd and
James H. Patterson were selected Con
gressional Conferees.
S. J. Woodcock Was made Chairman of
the County Committee.
What Doom It :Kean
General U. S. Grant, President of the
United States, and Gen. R. E. Lee, Presi
dent of a college in Virginia, aro both at
t‘
Long Branch enjoying as ay may the cool
Atlantic breezes. We ho a this meeting
has none of the signiticane that usually at
taches to the meetings of gr at men beyond
the Atlantic. It is certain Vint their last
meeting had a wonderful significance for
the country ; but then there aro no apple
trees at Long Branch.—N. Y. Heroic.
TROTTING IN WEST VIRGINIA
Night's Rest in the Virginia Canaan--
A ir We Lay's Sport—Exploring the
Blaektrater.
Editorial Notes No. IV
The meek-eyed morn appears, mother of dews ;
At first faint glimmering in tno dappled East ;
Till far o'er ether spreads the widening glow,
And from before the lustre of her face
White break the fogs away. With quieketwal
Step brown night retires; young duy dawns lu
apace,
And opens all the glorious prospect wide.
Toe dripping rocks, the mountain tops
Swell on the sight and brighten with the dawn.
If England's sweetest of rural poets had
been alive and with us he could not have
described more accurately and graphically
the manner in which morn broke over our
camp upon the bank of the Biackwater
river. Two or three times during the night
we woke chilly, and stirring up the lire
and heaping on more fuel retired again to re
freshing slumber. We roso at dawn fresh
and vigorous, performed our ablutions in
the river, and were ready to do justice to
the appetizing breakfast which Charley
soon set before us on now plates of freshly
peeled birch bark. Sol., who had returned
M the house the evening before, arrived
with the maple sugar in time for the las-
tidious members of the party to sweeten
their third pint of coffee, and their serenity
of temper was thereby completely restored.
It is a singular fact that the trout in the
Blackwater will not bite early in the morn
ing or late in the evening, and they seem to
feed most voraciously for the space of about
three hours in the middle of the day. Two
of us went with Sol. by a path to a point
some two miles above the camp and fished
down the stream, the others fishing up until
they net u‘ . .. For a couple of hours after
we began fishing our luck was compara
tively poor, though it would have been con
sidered extraordinarily good in most places.,
In a broad and comparatively still pool,
where we caught hundreds of trout four
years before, one of the party taking fifty
without moving from his stand nil a rock,
we now caught very few. It was not because
the trout were not there, but because they
had not began to feed. When they began
to bite they proved to be as numer
ous and as voracious as could lie de
sired, and the party returned to camp by
Wclock in the afternoon with ere,' one
housale/ fro s t. lieorge A. Smith had saved
ill the little IJzies he took, and ho counted
tut of his ten pound creel, Which was near
y full, over two hundred fish. 'There were
.en of us fishing, and most of us had
rows hack many of the smaller fry
George A. Smith cleaned fifty of the sinall
est he caught and avowed his determina
tion to eat them all for dinner. The cook
piled them up before him on a separate
birch bark dish, and he attacked them vig
orously; but when only half his heavy
task wits done, he began to show signs of
visibly increasing in size, and, after slowly
'masticating his thirty-fourthiish, "gave in"
:std sunk back on his blanket in a state of
exhaustion. A little of the medicine we
mil taken along to cure snake bites, cats
ttl to rally at length; and then we dis
mssol the feasibility of exploring the
ISlackwater to its mouth, while the smoke
'rent our pipes curled gracefully upward
.h rough the embowering arch which was
lortned by the closely interlacing branches
if the trees above us.
]iv the rules of our association every
proposition infecting the party was to lie
:tended be a vote, and the question being
put, Captain Skinner, George A.Smith and
the Wr i ter hereof voted in favor of making
the proposed exploration of the Blaek wa
ter. Duncan and Blakemore (lid not vote;
they stating their desire to return to Oak
land and lisp certain streams in that imme
diate vicinity is here very largo trout are
sometimes caught. Illaketnore's feet were
in no condition for the proposed tramp, and
Dunnm feared to trust a weak ankle. This
agitating question being amicably settled,
we broke camp about 5 o'clock on the af
ternoon of the of June, and retracted
our steps through the dense forest. As the
sun declined the light seas tuned down to a
dim cathedral hue; and the profound quiet,
was very inn pressive. We reached Dob
bin's Hotel in good time and found it com
pletely untenanted. It is not occupied ex
cept by occasional parties, such as ours,
and Sol. Calhoun, our guide, has charge of
it. It was built some years before the Re
bellion by Judge Dobbin, of Baltimore, a
wealthy gentlemen who owns some thirty
thousand acres of land hero in one body.
Ile furnished the house quite eomfortably,
but during the war marauding parties car
ried off must of the portable articles. There
are plenty of bedsteads, chairs, tables, cook
ing utensils and plain table, ware there
now, and any party, wishing to "rough it"
can be amply accommodated. Sol. charges
a very moderate stun for his services and
ine use el' all :he property under his con-
Soon after we arrived some one espied a
line of horsemen entering the clearing, and
BlM:more was sure it was Sam. Smith, of
Uniontown, I'a., and the rest of his long
delayed friends. So it turned out to be.—
Mr. Smith was accompanied by Judge
Ewing, Mr. Miller, editor of the Fayette
county Stmt./a/Maud a couple of other gen
tlemen. They brought an excellent negro
cook with them front Uniontown, and a
guide from Oakland. We were soon in
troduced, and there is no place where all
fteremony melts away more quickly than
it does in the woods. Mr. Samuel Smith
is a true sportsman, and, though suffering
with a bronchial affection, he ramps in the
woods for sonic weeks every summer. His
friends are pleasant gentlemen, and we
were glad to meet them. Our larder sup
plied an abundance of trout for all hands,
told Charley and the darkey soon put on
the table a slipper that any true sportsman
would have pronounced perfect. We had
warm cakes of wheat flour, and the fasti
dious gentlemen of our party had their
very hearts made glad by the production
of an abundant supply of white sugar for
sweetening their coffee.
For the first tune during our trip the
little black gnats threatened to be very an
noying, but half a dozen bright tires kin
dled in dry slumps, about the house, soon
dispatched these dintunitive pests. A
"smudge," or smoking tire is not the thing
to destroy them. They Ily intoa bright tire
by 'myriads, and the surrounding space is
soon effectually cleared of them. We re
tired Pt bed at an early hour on our mat
tresses of loose hay, and were up a little
alter daylight in the morning. After a..-
other hearty breakfast on trout, the party
divided, not to meet again. Sant Smith and
Judge I.:wing went with their guide to OP?
Black water, to fish for trout and see the
falls. Mr. Miller and tt couple compan
ions took to the woods, in hope of killing
,t deer. Dllll , Bll ;11111 ithlkl.lll , Pre mounted
the pack horses :tad turned their laces
toward I ktklantl. Captain Skinner, Item
.1. Smith, 11. cl. Smith, Charley Atkinson
and yonng Mosley, followed Std. Calhoun,
as he led the way toward the Illack water
It %Viill4lll due ,It•libt•rati,i ;Intl
smim misgivings that we ventured upon
this trip. inn - route lay down the bed of
ono of the wildest mountain torrents for a !
dist:time of not It'ss than twelve miles, I
through alt utterly uninhabited and almost
unexplored re4ion. had been over the I
route once in the 111010.11 Of August, lint this
was .Inne, ,ind the river much higher.—
Stones which would be bare in August I
were now more than a Butt underwater, ,
unit eve would be sure to find the current sin
swift as to make fording ditlicult at all
times and generally impossible. The banks
were precipitous, awl the laurel which cov
ered them so thick as almost to preclude a
passage through it. 'rite reader will see
that the difficulties before tin were decided-
Iv formidable. Still we had an eager de
sire to follow this wild stream through
the deep mountain gorgo which confin
ed it, to where it emerged into a
cultivated section of country. When we
began to pack fur the trip, we found we
could carry very little extra baggage.—
Sol's long rifle was locked up and a Colt's
navy revolver substituted. Our blankets
were strapped on the pack horses to lie
taken to Oakland, and wo made up our !
minds to sleep in the woods without cov
ering. An extra pair of woolen socks
all the extra clothing we took. We wore
woolen pants and woolen shirts, and car
ried heavy woolen coats. Our commissary
stores consisted of a piece of fat bacon,
some crackers, a can of coffee, a small can
of butter, some pepper and a small allow
ance of whiskey In a wooden keg with a
handle. Our cooking apparatus and table
ware embraced a small frying part, a small
coffee pot and two tin cups. Thus accou
tred we bade farewell to Duncan, Blake
more and the rest, and struck out for a
tramp of some fifty miles from Dobbin's
Hotel to Rowlesburg, the station where the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad crosses Cheat
River.
In the very first mile of our route wo en
countered obstacles sufficient to have ter
rified any one inexperienced in wood craft.
To reach the Blackwater at the point de
sired, we had to descend a mountain side so
precipitous that we wore compelled to cling
to the shrubs and trees to prevent ourselves
from being precipitated downward. Moro
than one of the party got a rough fall, and
even Sol. did not escape. At last we struck
the river at the point whore the North and
South Forks unite. Wowore glad enough
to notice that the South Fork was very
low. This led us to hope that the river
would not be found to be much swollen by
minor tributaries as we descended it, and
we were not disappointed. We wore now
sonic three miles below the great falls, and
we began the descent of the stream with
stout hearts and eager anticipations of. ad
venture. Sol. soon informed us that the
trip would be more difficult than when he
made it in the month of August, on account
of the greater depth of the water. The descent
was toilsome indeed, and only at raro inter
vals were we able to Lind a rod of smooth
surface. We stepped and leaped from
stone to stone and front rock to rock, now
clinging to the side of a precipice, picking
our way along the projecting ledge of stones
at the base, and now climbing to a height of
a hundred feet through a dense under-
growth of laurel, the water at the foot o
110 cliffs flowing in a current from ten to
twenty feet in depth. Many times did we
ford the rushing torrent, slowly takingone
step after another, and picking our way
from one boulder. over which the dark
rater swept in circling eddies, to another
NOW and thou we Iqllllo to iIILCEVILLS Whero
the rock which makes up the primitivo
strataof these numntains Nye, laid hare in its
original horizontal po , ith,n; and onco tw
us walked nearly a iniie over a sinoot
mveinent on which two or threo carriage.
might have been driven abreast, while th
rest toiled Oil amidst many difficulties
- _
being too deep and rapid fir them to lord
it. We fished as we went along, and caught,
as litany line trout as we eared l'or. Cap
Cain Skinner took two out of one pool Oar
of which mind have been over finirtee
inches in length, and ten inch trout we
plenty. We could have caught any quanti
ty, but when we had dined on them and
secured enough or supper tuid breakfast
Lit fishing and traveled down stream
,idly as wo conveniently could.
in its source to its mouth the Black
river flows through a deep gorge,
and the banks rise precipitously, there
being little level ground along the edges of
the stream until you are within two or three
miles of the mouth. The scenery along its
entire . course is of the grandest ch.iracter,
the mountains towering above you on eith
er side to the height of twelve or fifteen
hundred feet. Its course in iillllo4l as
straight as that of a canal cut through a
level country, and yull gait look up and
down it ill many places until the vista is
closed by distance. Its descent is very
rapid, it being a brawling mountain tor
rent even at comparatively low stages iirw.•
toe. There are multittnMs of miniature
falls, fr o m tell to thirty feet in height, and
many of these are wonderfully he:m[lCM.
At the base of them aro deep pools in which
the dark water whirls a b out in wide, c.itn
flecked eddies, and here the trout spring to
your llv With eager voracity. The eye
never tires of the unendi n g variety of pie
turesque scenery. NV° saw hundreds a
views that would have charmed the heart
of au artist, and :lily tine of Which would
have paid richly for painting it. Nothing
but a skill MI pencil could do justice to the
glorious Visions that constantly Durst upon
one sight. ennillOt attellilit a iiiiScrip
trim of tbem. 111 imperfect sketch of a sin
: gle view all We can give.
lhu•r in the early altorltrmll to ',tnrnl nu
the shade side the ricer, beneath it dark
canopy ut hcwlurk troos. Imoking up the
stream, at a distance of three huudrud yards
above we saw the river tumbling over a
sloping precipice, !caking a descent of fifty
feet in that many yards. 'nu , wader which
looked black as ink when it flowed by our
feet was turned to ii. delicate pink tinge as
it rippled down the rocks in the bright
sunshine and formed wide ribbons which
were fringed with silvery 1 . 01011. Below
this pieture , tmely broken fall the ricer
swept wildly downward, dashing over op
piising rocks, damming up against huge
boulders, circling in deep pools, narrowing
into a dark torrent, tind then spreading out
in a wide, rippling expanse which lay be
tween its and the precipitous hank opposite,
along which some of our party were toil
somely climbing. Above their heads, face
to face with us, some baud reds of feet up the
steep mountain side, we caught sight of an
other object of wonderful beauty. A stream
of water, as clear as crystal, leaped nut
of a narrow gorge and plunged down a
perpendicular precipice. It did not de
scend in an unbroken VolUine. In the
middle a thin sheet, seemingly some twen
ty feel in width, pitched headlong, preserv
ingits solidity for thirty or forty feet, then
breaking into white foam which gleamed
like carved marble in the sunshine. On
either side ~f this, rivulets trickled from
the level plane of the precipice, breaking
into myriads of crystal drops, which glit
tered with a brilliancy surpassing that of
diamonds. A thin curtain of foliage inter
posed at intervals between our eye and the
beautiful vision, veiling its features just
sufficiently to lend an additional charm
to a picture that would make a painter's
fortune.
Amid such scenes, toilsomely wading,
climbing, and leaping from rock to nick,
WO made our rev down the bed of the
Illackwater, and down the western slope
of the Allegheny mountains. !Nowhere on
our route did tee see the i s l,t thing to Mills
eate that .such a creature as man had an ex
istence. There was not a foot print on the
shore, not an axe mark on a tree or on the
driftwood along the stream. We were ,•mn
pletely beyond the bounds of civilization,
alone with the wild beast orate forest, in the
heart of one of nature's grandest solitudes.
Twice we caught a glimpse of deer, as they
stood and gazed with mild-eyed wonder lit
our intrusion, and then dashed up the
steep mountain slope. We saw where the
otter had constructed his slicling'places on
the edges of cool deep pools, and the
occasional mark of a bear, but nut the
faintest trace of Mall. To be thus com
pletely shut out 1 . 1 , 111 human kind, even
for a single day-, is a new experience which
begets peculiar sensation. A trip down the
Illack water alum would be a very lone
some jaunt indeed.
About an hour before sunset the guide
proposed that we should camp on a huge
boulder, which stood in the stream awl
rose to it distance of fifteen feet above the
surface of the water. A. large pile of drift
nl had lodged against it, it WaS sumo
thirty feet siptare and we rerched it by
walking a hug , leg. A consultation being
held, it was finally determined td make a
mile or so more, and we finally camped tin
a level bed of rock just abaci a
nat. I lire ivohntinl plenty of wood, which
all hands set about gathering, and soon we
had a huge tire going and our pantaloon.,
hung up hi dry. While Charley cooked
supper, We gathered large armfuls of long
dry moss from the rocks On the bank, and
shortly after supper we retired to rest 011
pleasant as Fitz Janie,' bed of
Scottish heather.
Th.. niurtlturiin.; str.•ain, 1140'. 1114
',IPA! 1011101 11. 011 11, Y 111•11
With mingled lulhth e et night and
Two or three times in the night we woke
a little chilly, but, after piling more trued
upen the tire, we slept :es soundly :mil
sweetly,with no root above us but the wav
ing branches or the (rues and 11,1 cover
except our elothes, as ever any one did
in draped chamber on decorated I . ollcll of
down.
NVllat followed must be told in anothe
number, which will end the lenouritof on
trouting trip to West Virginia.
Pad• LP or Quit
The 1i: lowing letter has been sent to :LI
the Federal (Mice-holders in the country
It will be seen by it that the Radical Cult
gressi.trial Committee are .scared:
CON(IItES.SI ,, NA I. 10.:11:111.1cAN
Ex leUTIV F: COM 'I I l EE,
WaAhington, D. C., July 26, 1,70. S
Sit: —Tho political campaign or N7u,
which has already been commenced in
some of the States, promises to be contest
ed with more than usual activity by the
Democratic party. It is therefore 110008lia
ry that it should be met with spirit and de
termination. Every Republican whose at
tention has been directed to the subject
will readily see the necessity of prompt and
decisive attention. The only defence need
ed by the administration is that the people
limy be furnished with the facts as they ex
ist 4 iTo accomplish this money will be ne
cessary to defray the expense of printing
and circulating documents, and in sending
speakers Into the acid. Your position in
the Republican party warrants the Com
mittee in believing that you would willing
ly contribute to this purpose. They have
therefore thought proper to call upon you
for a contribution of dollars, the re
ceipt of which will be promptly acknowl
edged, and the money expended In main
taining Republican principles. Whore it
can be done, money should be sent by
draft, money-order, or In registered letters,
made payable and directed to lion. J. 11.
Platt, M. C., Secretary Union Congression
al Republican Committee, Washington, D.
C. An answer is expected.
Respectfully,
(Signed) ZACUA RIAU C RAN D LER,
JOHN H. KETCITAM,
J. li. PLAIT, Jr.,
Finance Committee.
OUR BUNDLE OF NOTRINUS
1!EI=!!
A. surfeit of the sweetest things
The deepest loathing to the stomach brings
I was brought into conscious being some
live and twenty years ago—have had an
"awful" experience—and, from present in
dications, cannot survive more than live
years at the farthest, when I ought to have
reached the scriptural " three score and
ten." The fact is, I am not my own mas
ter—l am a poor, feeble, persecuted and
overworked slave. Perhaps there is no
species of shivery on this earth, that is
more unrelenting, more cruel, more bur
dening and more destitute of common ra
tionality than mine. lum very simple in
ny structure, having neither head nor tail,
utnds nor feet, nevertheless I perform—or
NV IIS intended to perform—a very important
function in the economy of the human sys
tem. To make the matter short, as to my
individuality, I am nothing more nor less
than a human stomach—sometimes fateti-
ously called a " stmmjack"—perhaps be
cause I :tut very often compelled to boar
burdens and perform labors, that would be
onough —or too much—for that patient long-
eared animal familiarly called a Jack.
Shortly after I was ushered into exist
vitro, my ,merous labors commem,d, with
in
the body Ma rich man's suckling. And
0, what quantities of milk, :Ind tea, and
sugar-water, and pap, and paregoric, and
pills, :Mil sweetmeats and tinctures were
indiscriminately thrown into me, oxpeet-
ing too to digest and appropriate thein,:wki
to ,laliorate the nutriment necessary t o
build up a healthy human, body. I larilly
hail I began to make a sensible impression
upon one instalment than another NVit,
dashed dutch , ilestri tying and disarranging
all I had compelling me to suspend
for a time my manipulations; whereby the
superabundant iintterial on 11111111 in until
sour and ferment, causing niti to reject it
tilt` avenue by tchich it came, ca
acmliug it and
by :1 process p:tinttil d• Illy proprietor,
through an inflamed and eructating
no/ wt/fll, to the outer worlul. AA I gi es%
uhlcr and bevann. more Ci ill
Nvas vonsequently rx pecto,l 1,, perlitrlll
11..1 Inrroaxi•sl If lab, a., II how
I droatlo,l Christmas, anti Now Y oars,
mill Easter, :11111 l'ourth or .1 lily.
,itniatinn sva, a hard and nnonV h ddi•
0110 nt any limo, :tinl undor any cirolllll
bult 0n 01,0 0‘•1.i011,4 it N%:/, 31-
pa,t. ft, I never could gel
11.'1110111s I'l,l. 11 , 111 early till 111. It ul
night. Such
arid valtdi. , , hard-builed egg', 11.11.1
“angps, appie,tild rai,iits, inincopic.,
"ysters nml lid,ter sanco, roast-souse,
and , ttillings, besidt, ti,any (alter
too Lc,linus U, tnrnti,~n, wlnt•lt svcro thrown
into me—as ir I won. a e,1111111.1
- 1,1,1111 . 1 .
hacr put t” sh,uuc any l'atigtmian
I'vegty Islander, awl turn whoa cx -
trent,' pmverless t.xpattshiti, and dilittimis
with showers water, and mill,, alit! h.,
and witty, I het•attn, iniablo to perf, , rtn tny
duties, iitimodiatcly I was saluted
stAtlntents ..1 rhtit...l,, and rash, oil. n,el
opsont salts,,, that
and jalap, until I cmild Itardly 101 l ‘vh,•thei .
I was a human Sti , llllll . ll, or a more rocepta-
ele ul iilcoinzruffits drum. Such N, as we fate
during' LI., whole ILaoleseent period nly
ownPr, ana When lie reached manhood it ,a,
dean wur.e, liar then, WaS uddud ritest 1,‘,•1 * .
;Mkt I,llled limn, allti fish. ;Ina otit . .•l:.
and '•linekwhoat cakes and san:ages," and
tripe, :intl and eidd-,law, and lart
erle,
anti Liudnrger cheese, hi
ininn i rSl i li ina p e ns 0f1.1 . 1,111
Lager, and ltramly, and Sherry, and "IM
Whi,key, - interspersed Ivith peppers, Imti
horse radisli,:md mustard, aml sundry Miler
condiments avid spices, prolonged u m til thu
small hours of the morning,. If I dill not
extract immediately from this superahiim
dance of material the eltyie• that teas 11(.11,-
stirs in support the tottering system ill illy
tyranival proprietor, lie would scud 11•1,1
buses ef lirandretli's Pills, :Uhl )i ishler's
Bitters, and Alartrloy's kippers, to sae what
was wrung, and to dictate to me ho a illy
work ought to be tiolltt, plot It, Il a 1111111 all
stomas is WaS a vointlion apple mill, laud
could grind tip and (ixtraet the nutrition
from such a ill.tert.gt . lte , aN aims, till. saint'
as it could front a gii ell iptitiltity, at ti given
time, of simple and iv holesouto ILod. Theiiii
art lily grieve:woes, and I appeal to the
common sense of mankind to say w limber
the fault is mine, or that it my indisereet,
sir tyranieal master. lie Illay think sill
this vast labor is ',thing, but / ititi con
vinced, liy ilear bought experience, that it
is something.
A Bork, county fanner has a goo., 21
ears old.
'nowt county, in Pennsylvania, has a
cese factory which used tip
nods of milk in June.
The Mattel) Chunk jail is tenantless:it
present time, which speaks eximeil
gly well fur the morals of Carbon.
The Elk Arleoeute notes Okla .1. W.
Oyster, of Elk county, is stocking a trout
pond. This is the that time we have
heard of an oyster propogating trout.
Commander IV. IV. Queen, formerly
of Reading, tuna liven ordered to o out
mound the naval rendezvous it Huila
delphia.
'file York County Steel works, Nt er,
tit in suocessful operation last week,
lie machinery, we are told, all worki,l
a satisfactory manner.
Philadelphia, according to a recent
numeration by the police of that city,
las P.),1i95 horses, 2,44-1 mules, 2,3-17 cow,
:11 sheep, 5,99-1 swine, and 73'2.thrr
le, (gouts, etc.)
A gentleman in Carbon county W:l4
attacked by IL lot of black snakes the
other day. Ile showed tight, and killed
ISE=I
The Titusville lb raid is :itith..rit v
the statement that the Vnion Tine--
railroad in tinder tanitraet and will he in
good running order within the next
three months.
A lad by the name of Clark Betz,
aged It year+, left his 1111111 e 1111 thr rAlt
Any information concerning his
whereabouts will be gladly received by
his father, Jacob Bretz, Newport,
Perry county.
1)r. Cyrus 1). lloninger, of Lebanon,
s talked of as the probable 1/eitiocrali .
lorninee for Congress front the I.elm
,lon and Schuylkill district.
\V. will probably Le ilic Ih•-•
publican candidate.
A son of Mr. I):uiirl I,indernian,
rr
sidingnenr I /ouglassvil le, Iterki.vounty,
was seriously injured, on :‘11)111iZty
by the accidental discharge I,t a guti iii
the !minis of another boy.
passed through both hands,oneof which
has already been amputated, and ii is
feared the other stay have to be also.
:‘lr. J:11111,1 AlIght1110:1111411, ul Clinton
county, :\lissouri, formerly of Dover,
York county, was bitten in the palm of
his hand by :1 rattlesnal:o while voting
strawberries upon the prairie, MI till. :it'll
ult., and died on the sth. lie teas in his
70th year, sad leaves a wife and seven
children to mourn their loss.
Captain Edward Schall, of the First .
National Artillery, Norristown, on Wed
nesday last brought. uit against Robert
C. Fries, Esq., editor of the Indtpcnth
of that borough, for libel alleged to be
contained in a notice of the parade on
the Fourth of July last. The latter was
bound overin the suns of $l,OOO to answer
at Court.
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I\lr. Ilikleubrand, while crad
ling oats, on Friday last, in York town
ship, killed a Snake Which measured
three feet and four inches in length, and
ten inches in thickness. After he had
despatched the monster, it burst open,
and sixty-seven young ones crawled out
of it. 'they measured live and a half
inches in length, and were all of one
size.
Mr. William Schroeder, of Albany
township, lierks county, our the line
of Lehigh, is the owner of a calf having
only three legs, and no tail. It Is three
weeks old, and weighs 70 pounds. It
runs about 11.4 lively as if it had its full
ntunber of " locomotors." It Is esteem
ed quite a curiosity in the neighborhood,
and a large 1111111ber of citizens have
called to see it.
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A short, thick-set negro, very black
and repulsive,committed an aggravated
assault on n white girl, named Ellen
Rupp, la years of age,residing in Cu in ro
township, Berks county, and would
evidently have outraged her, had not
her screams brought her father to her
assistance. The negro escaped, and Mrs.
Rupp was so shocked that she has had
repeated convulsions from which it is
feared she will never recover.
On Thursday morning about seven
o'clock a man named Henry Shaver,
aged about seventy years, a resident of
Mount Union, Huntingdon county, was
run over and killed at that place by the
Pittsburg express train going west. Tho
deceased was standing on the track, and,
although the engineer gave the signal,
did not move. He was a miller by trade.
No blame attaches to the company or
its employees.
INEERIBM