Eancastet 3ntellfgencer. 6 no Dv aftJ IMNWW, 4101MItIOIMMI:311/ The Thug Organ and its Ticket. Any stranger who m ight look through the flies of the Republican newspapers of this city would naturally concede that the filnly matter deemed worthy of consideration by their editors is the State Treasurer. One and all, they seem to be chiefly concerned as to who shall fil :that very lucrative office. The Ex- amino. does have something to say in lavor of Dickey occasionally, but the Lapress and the Inquirer devote their editorial colums exclusively to the dis cussion of the claims of certain parties who are striving to secure nominations for the lower house of the State legisla ture. The contest, is conducted in the most acrimonious manner, and with the bitterest eriminations and recrimina tions. In order that our readers may have a clear understanding of this fight we will endeavor to state the true posi tion of the warring factions. The Express is under the management of a couple of gentlemen who make great pretensions to honesty and integ rity. One of them figures largely at Temperance Meetings, and the other pays great attention to Sabbath Schools. We do not suppose the temperance part ner is at all influenced in this conduct, by the fact that the firm are the author ized printers of the material used by the Good Templars, and also of the paper published under the sanction of the or der; nor would we lie guilty of insinu ating that the zeal of the other partner in the Sunday School cause is quickened in the least by his ownership of a patent method of marking and registering books in Sunday School libraries. Be sides, all that has little to do with the present article, in which we propose to look at the political conduct of the Er- press and its rivals. The J•.rprvss has attracted considera ble attention by occasional reprobation of rascality in the conduct of certain Radical officials. It is a most subservi ent tool of the party, but once in awhile, when some outrage occurs which can neither be concealed nor defended, its editors assume a high moral tone which is calculated to lead credulous country folks to believe that the Erprrss is the most unbendingly honest journal pub lished. It has had much to say about the corruption attendant upon the °nice of State Treasurer, and yet it has been conducted in the interest of a man who is known to have had it large hand in every species of rascality which has been practiced in connection with the /Mice. And it is now most diligent .ly striving to secure the nomination of a ticket which has been set up in the interest of ( leneral Irwin.— When we say that General Irwin has had a hand in every species of eorrup- lion connected with the olliceor State Treasurer we speak by the card ; and no knowing Republican in Lancaster county will undertake to deny the as sertion. Ile not only loaned out the moneys bf the State to his - political friends and to banks and other institu tions at a profitable iwreentage ; but last winter he deliberately hired a few Re publican members to bolt the caucus nomination. Sam iqoon, the fellow Who does all the bribery which the Pennsylvania Railroad desires, united with aftk.r tI mucus had be,ti 11(.1(1, 111111 \I r. 111el:ey regularly settled ; and bet \reel' thew they managed to buy up a 011inViellt number of Itepublican members to prevent the eleet ion of i‘lael:ey. elf eoui . se t 11; I/enlocrats were ready to brval: the Ihulioal slate, :11111 they ha.d motive enough, without re eeivitit; a thdl:u• Of uwucy, to VIII(' for a disorgaitizer like Irwin. Sant of Philadelphia, and tho few Democrats who followed the 1,;all of that corrupt may llaccgllt 11101Iey I . ol' helping majority the DLl)ueratie :uou were actuated f.filely by a fle,fire to Ihn fie a firebrand into the camp id their opponent:. In xn tltting they were right, Gee het we'n Afar) ey niul Irwin I here was really no eholl . o. ( \V:IS Ihl Other W , "" 1 1" . "P"' , I" du e t „f in aiding anti abet ting the Lois or the Lancaster members. L. was ma outrage upon party discipline which no political oi•_:uiization can af ford to tolerate or forgive. Ithul Hein with Wiley anul the rest betrayed the Democratic pally aS they did that to which they belong they would IleVer have uat•cd tit ask a remunthediuun—they soul] hardly have dared to return home with the price of their trickery in their pockets. Ilad Irwin been more honest than Alacktiy, Iteinuehl & Co. would have had some excuse. Inasmuch, how eVer, as it is universally admitted tied Mackey did nothing in his office which Irwin haul not done herom him we do not see how any good Itepublican eau excuse or forgive the treachery of Reitt urhl Co. to the party. But, the point we desire to make clear and to have well :toil distinctly under stood is that the editors of the and c;eilr g e Brubaker, the King of the Thugs, were acting in complete aecord in the support of Irwin, tutu that the partnership in rascality then formed still exists, and is to be continued. It huts been openly charged by well in formed Republican's that Brubaker was well paid, money in hand, for the vote.; of two members of the last Legislature, which votes hr professed to own, and to he able to control absolutely. What von sideration the A:r/i,•,,.x tie veil for sid ing with Brubaker in favor of a bolt, :out in support or Irwin we do nut know. We do know, however, that the editor who owns the Sunday School book patent was in the secrets of the bolters, and that he went back and forth front ILtn•is burg while the transaction was going on. Those who know hint best laugh at the supposition that he was act uated in this matter by honest motives alone. The man who would sell his editorial support to candidates in the county, would not he likely to sulks• tt candidate for State Treasurer to go un fleeced ; especially an aspirant who oc cupied the peculi:u•pusiliun held by Ir win last winter. 'Vital.(general Irwin and Sam. Moon brought about the bolt and defeated Mackey by freely bribing certain members of the Legislature and subsidizing newspapers, one pre tends to doubt, and no one call success fully deny. The contest on the Treasurer has been kept tip and is still going on. In this county only two of the bolting mem bers stand any chanceof being returned. George Brubaker and the Exprrs.‘, Con cluded bargain at the beginning of the present canvass. The terms of the contract are that the Expre.vt is to allow the,King of the Thugs to slip his man, Wiley in; and that Brubaker is toaid the pet of the Etjo,,,,q, .Maj. A. C. Reino tio far the bargain between the King of the Th ugs and the etti tors of the Erptc.,, has been faithfully kept.. Brubaker has lost control of the Liquircr, but seems to have a firm hold upon the mom/ organ of the Radical party. The Ex/tom is now universally recognized as the Si mon pure Thug organ. Its legislative ticket is a Thug ticket, and Brubaker and Geist are pulling lovingly, side by side, in the present contest. The one is riven by Reinceld, and theothur by Wi ley. The combination is oa9 of the most singular ever seen. It beats a Missouri spike team all hollow. Engle and Mc- Clure are sandwiched in between Rein mid and Wiley, and Geist and Bruba ker expect to put their combination through. We shall wait with some anxiety to see whether these worthies have power enough thus to control the RepubliCan party under the Crawford County System. The new Thug organ is working hard to effect the single pur pose in which it seems to be interested, and Gen. Irwin ought to come down handsomely if Brubaker and Geist suc ceed in securing the nomination and election of members . : who will bolt the caucus nominee of the Republican:party again. Shall Religion Be Taught in Our Com mon Schools? An interesting and animated discus sion was had in the State Teachers' As sociation upon the question of religious instruction in the Common Schools. As will be seen by the complete report of the proceedings published in the INTEI,- moENCER, the question came up for dis cussion after the reading of an able es say by Prof. Beistle, of Titusville. He took the ground that the schools of the State should preserve the unsectarlan character which was given to them by the fathers of our Common School Sys tem. A member of the body injudici ously introduced a resolution declaring that the Bible should be read in the public schools. This led to an animated discussion, during whirls Prof. Brooks, of the Normal School, at Millersville, offered the following as a substitute: Resolved, That it is the opinion of the Pennsylvania State Teachers' Association that there should be religious instruction in the schools, and that the Bible should be made the basis of such instruction. This opened up the whole question - of religious instruction in the Common Schools of this State, and the discus sion took a wide range under the liberal rulings of the Chair. Finally Prof. Brooks' resolution was adopted. We think those who opposed the reso lution were in the right, and will state the grounds of our belief as briefly as possible, considering the question under three aspects in which it cats be viewed. First, it is held by some that mere in tellectual culture, without religious in structiondsoften useless to the individual and sometimes detrimental to the State. They argue that religious instruction should he partof the curriculum in every school. But they admit that this can not be had in schools which all are taxed to support ; and they are therefore opposed to the Common School Sys tem as it exists in Pennsylvania.— This view is held, not by Catholicsalone, but by many thoughtful Protestant di vines. They argue that education should be committed to the care of the various churches, and that the Stateshould cease to exercise control over the matter. Their views have the advantage of combining logic with religious liberal ity. Unfortunately however, there are many children in the State who would be left in ignorance under such a sys tem, and we apprehend that the ideas of this class stand no chance of being adopted. The Common School System of Pennsylvania is one of its glories, and we hope to see it preserved and per petuated. There is a second class, less logical and more narrow-minded than the first, who hold to the belief that the majority have a right to :compel the reading of their version of the Bible in the schools of the State, and to entorce religious in struction according to their creed upon the minority. This proposition involves ' ill it the very essence of despotism. It strikesat the root of our Common School System, and is calculated to Impair its efficiency immediately, and ultimately to destroy it. Some of the :etym.:des of this view are narrow-minded bigots, others are ' cheap patriots,' who indulge in clap-trap talk lweause they wish to put in an appearance on what they im agine to he the popular side of the phi's ' lion. The third class embraces in its ranks the must sensible and liberal minded teachers and thinkers of the Stale; those who are disposed to stand by the Common School System of Pennsylvania as it has been handed down to us by its authors. It is grand in its perfect, free dom front all sectarianism. It :Winds to every child the means of education, but it interferes with the conseience of none. It leaves the Directors ••f each school district free to say what text books shall be used. I 1 they •leetn it proper they (sill order any VerSitill lw the Bible they may select lola. read in the schools; or they can leave the religious education 11f the children exclusively to the par ents, where it of right lwl•mgs. Every good teacher will inculcat•• lessons of morality, but none should le required or expected to give what is recogniZeil as religious illSirllethill. If Snell :I thing sl•uld be attenmt•.•l it would have 11l be accomplished (II rmigh the agency of text hooks prepared expressly for the purpose; awl (lint w••uhl necessitate the establishment of a uniform creed. A catechism would have to be drawn up, and a Slate religion established. Very few parents would be willing to allow the untrained teachers who have charge ••1 a majority of the schools of this State to interpr••l the Bilde for their children. , Religious instruction in Common Schools must always be impossible and improper u nd er ag.•vernment ill which there is 1111 establishes church and no 10111111 betWeell I'lllll'cl' 111111 State. TIM discussion ill the ASSueiatioll WaS enlllillekil Wii111:11i any great degree of acrimony, and it will he productive of gaud in the end. The wise and moderate VinWS St: ably eXpreSSell by Professor Burthof Pittsburgh, must have produced a decided impression even upon the l.:dad -7 voes of the whirls was adapted., By far the ables sp••••••11 made on the other . side was that of Prof. WA •} ers,ofWest Chester,an I he eoncluded by •xpressing serious d ul•ts as to the pr• L priety of any law p ovi•ling or re lip ous instruction in ie schools ••t* the St: t••. As this goes on is agitated, the (ea, ers and the pe mle of Pen nsyl van la will be aught o see no•re nearly the wisdom •• le men who established our o•lnnant School System ; and the foundati••ns which they laid deep and broad will, we trust, never be disturbed. Paul Sclueppe's Crimes We publish on our outside a sum mary of the crimes; committed in (termany by Paul Schteppe and his father, and of the proceedings hail in the Courts there against. them. It appears to be proved beyond the pos sibility of a doubt that the young man was guilty of forgery and theft, and thud Ins father connived at his crimes and was a sharer in his unlawful gains. They both served a term in the Peni tentiary at Ilerlin, and afterward emi grated to this country. Some of the movements of Paul Selneppe in Ger many recount his actions with Miss Stinneeke. Ile now lies in the jail at Carlisle under sentence of death, and trill be executed unless Governor Geary should interpose the Executive clem ency--a thing he is not likely to (I() under the circumstances. Democratic Editors Popular Able and conscientious - Democratic editors need not complain that they are not appreciated by their people. John It. Bratton, of the Carlisle IVltnterr, 11:: just beaten two opponents in a race for Congress, on the Crawford County System, in Cumberland county; C. B. Brockway, of the Bloomsburg Cohn- Nem , has been declared the choice of the Columbia county Democracy for Congress, and I'. (:ray feel:, of the Bellefonte Inti,/thwit, has been renom inated for the Legislature in Centre county. The three gentlemen named publish lirst-class newspapers, :old they are worthy of the confidence and sup port of the people. Death of Admiral Farragol. For several days past the American people have been anxiously expecting to hen• of the death of the naval hero, Admiral Farragut. The BOWS which we publish elsewhere of his decease will t.anse a sigh of regret from all who hear it. He was a patriot without re proach. llomms's black-and-tan troops, with which he attempted to carry the recent election in North Carolina, will, in all probability, have to wait some time for their pay. An injunction has been taken out to prevent money being taken from the State Treasury for that purpose. Thus Kirk and his brother cut-throats will have perilled their souls, and yet missed the ducats. THE LANCASTER WEEKLY . INTELLIGENCER, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST I'7, 1870. The Teachers or Pennsylvania.. That the teachers of Pennsylvania are rapidly assuming the high position to which their honorable calling enti tles them, must be apparent to all who witnessed the proceedings of the State Teachers' Association during the session which has just closed. A casual glance at the crowd of teachers, which almost filled our capacious Court Room, showed a body of well dressed Indies and gen tlemen. A closer scrutiny revealed many handsome and decidedly intel lectual faces. Among the ladies were a number who combined rare personal at tractions with the stamp left by mental culture upon their fair faces. 0 thers were plainer, and the countenances of many showed the lines cut by the cares of the school-room, and the traces left by mental eflbrt. The air and bearing of thelady teachers was relined, and no One t.ould look upon them without be ing c l imvinced that they were abundantly prepared to do well their part in the great work of educating the children of The State. We believe the average of capacity and fitness is higher among the female teachers of Pennsylvania than it is among the males. The reason of this is that the best of our young men (I() not generally adopt teaching as a permanent profession. Few who can aftbrd to engage at once in other and more lucrative pursuits enter upon the work of teaching even temporarily. IL is one of the few fields of honorable la bor left open to women, and many of the best and brightest female minds of the State are now to be fumed actively en gaged in training the children of the Commonwealth in its Common Schools. \Ve are glad to know-that the narrow minded prejudice, which has heretofore refused to pay women equal wages for equal work, is feat disappearing from c donuthi of our Public Schools. There is no reason why an equal ly competent female teacher should receive one penny less salary than a male. Directors who make such a distinction are unlit lm occupy that honorable office ; and all such should be summarily displaced, and intelligent men, with ideas in accordance with the age in which they live, be selected to take their places. Among the male teachers present at the Association were numbers of well developed and strong intellectual men. A change has been going on for some years in this State whiuli has at last made it possible for a Mall to live com fortably, and to provide for the main tenance of a family out of the wages , iven to teachers in the best of our Com- m Schools. Year by year the number of situations in which a man can be sure of a competency are increasing. The people of Pennsylvania are rapidly be coming more liberal in educational mat ters. They are still far behind what they should he in this respect in very many parts of the State, but an impulse has been imparted which will continue increase until teachers Will be coin paradively :LS well paid as any other Blass of men in the Slate. When 'LL imiut ir: re:whed throughou the Coininotwealth, our Commol Schools will speedily attain the higl standard of excellence which IMS 1,1,1 e fond dream or many or the hold men \vl to have labored in them foryears without being half-paid. No one could listen to the proceedings of the State Teachers' Association without being convinced that there arc many men of most excellent capacity, now employed in conducting the Common ; ,, chools of Pennsylvania. Those in the lead have advanced the standard of excellence full high; and all who desire to remain in the rallkSWill be et/Illpelkd to keel, pace with the noble and wide-awake men who compose the van-guard. lie in- Iluenee exerted tiiinn the profession by tie meetings of the Stale Teaehers' As sts.ialkin must prove lo be most salutary. They are seasons of pleasure and profit and have a tendency In give the teach ers of the State a proper idea of the high character of their calling. No live teacher ought to absent himself from these annual gatherings. N 6 Legislation on the SultJect of Itelig iOUS 1 (Illeatit)11. 'rho folloeciugrc oluli m, t)in•rell by Prof. \V iekersham, was adopted with out oppisition in the Tv:teller,' :\,soci aliun ilt..voireft, That in joa.,ing the rese,htlic)ll pill,ving of religions iretlllietiell ill the siihools, this Aiisiioiation did not ontomplate any on the subjeot. If such a procisu had .1;rool;,' \could IILVO 1/(1'11110 Iterillll/11iIIIIS Of he yuesliou. All Will agree that ow %Oily ought to lie ill1•1111illillli to the 'llllllllOll School;, 20011111011 e Will deity hat the - Bible forms the lee:h. of moral tistruction. So long :IS the school lasts of our State are left to i•ittnil upon the liberal foundation laid down by the founders of (lie system, our Common Schools will continue to prosper. 'llie moment sectarianism, or a spirit of re ligious proscription is allowed to linter thorn, they will be thrc:itened with dt— struetrion. THEN New York Teihrim . is sad enough over the general rti,itilt of the election in North Carolina, but is alliicted most seriously by the defeat of James 11. II:ails, the negro candidate Mr Congress in the Raleigh district. It thinks lie would have proved to be a very able Radical member. Considering the utter incompetency of the white Radicals in the present Congress it is almost a pity that this negro should not he allowed to spite' his superiority over them. Let Harris emigrate to Massachusets. Negro candidates and carpet-baggersare "play ed out" in North Carolina. TiE negro Senator Revels brought with him to Washington aprivate Secre tary. \Vhetlier white or colored the papers do not stale, but it is now an nounced that the sable Senator has turn ed his Secretary adrift and the poor fel low finds himself in a strange land, without friends, and " nary red " in his pocket. A subscription has been started in his behalf, headed by Senator Sum ner, who subscribes five dollars. The impecunious Secretary is in Washing ton where the black Senator left him, when he started out to enlighten the white Radicals of Yankee land. LlttleaStet' IN'L I.IUIENCER haR its rooster out. Ile has been (wowing, over tho lawlessness of Tennessee and North f'arolina for several days.—(bf unthia Npy. If the editor of the Sny had sense enough to understand the real issues involved in the elections referred to, he would see that our rooster has been crowing over the restoration of law and order in Tennessee and North Carolina. But, if lie had the requisite amount, lie would have to have superadded thereto a little honesty, before he could be ex pected to admit the truth. The Negro Cadet IL seems by the report of the commit tee appointed to examine into the alle gations made by the negro cadet at West Point that the black scamp was lying. Had lie been a white boy lie would in all probability have been dismissed, but being the first negro sent to the Military Academy, and the negro vote being now a thing to be carefully courted by the Radicals, he is only reprimanded. A DISPATCH from Chicago states that President Grant ex premes himself favor able to Horace Greely's nomination for Governor of New York, and thinks that no candidate could get more votes against Hoffman. What present has Greeley given to Grant to induce such an expression of favor and confidence? We pause for a reply. Nowrir CAROLINA elects five Conser vative Congressmen out of the seven, has thirty-three out of the fifty-three State Senators, and eighty-two out of the one hundred and twenty members of the House, which insuresaDemocrat ic United States Senator, vice Abbott, of New Hampshire, retired. Grant backed HoIc.M but who backed Grant? The Epitaph of the Republican Party. The Republican Congressional Com mittee has issued a long address to the people of the United States. It is a wordy document, of little force, and cal culated to produce very little effect. It might be appropriately appended as a prefer to the history of a defunct pol i ti cal party, and we cannot resist the be- lief that the author had such an idea in mind when lie penned it. It really reads more like an epitaph than the pro nunciamento of a leader who is marshal ing his forces for a battle. The Repub lican press sees this, and is not slow to express the conviction. The Philadel phia Evening Telegraph says : It has none of the stirring invocations by which political legions aro usually mar shaled to victory. It dwells upon the past achievements of the party without presenting any well•defined platform upon whiclk it is to be rallied hereafter; and it contains sonic sentences which indicate that iLs author felt that Republicanism had been forced into a defensive attitude in stead of being able to maintain the aggres sive with the zeal of its more vigorous days. The New York Sun says : In entering upon the defence of the Ad ministration, the Committee are forced to admit that the expectations of many Repub licans have not been realized in the action either of the President or of Congress. In other words, the Committee acknowledge that there is a good deal of dissatisfaction in the Republican party with the failure of hen. Grant to redeem the pledges made when he entered upon office. It needed no such address to assure the country of this ; but coming from such a high quarter, and in the form of an appeal to the people on the eve of elections which are to determine the political character of the next Congress, and perhaps settle the next Presidency, the admission is very sign itleant. This fuel admission is not compensated by the Committee's elaborate laudation of the financial policy of the Administration, which is put forth as its chief merits. The Committee grossly exaggerate the compla cency with which the people accept his pol icy. By keeping up during the past eigh teen monthes the war tales of taxation, in cluding the odious and unconstitutional income tax, the Administration has been able to call in some of the outstanding übli gations of the Government. But before a sorely burdened community sings paeans to a policy that role, Peter to pay Peel, it prefers to wait and see whether, under the boasted prospective reduction of taxes, the Treasury will be full enough to enable the Secretary to continue to hull live-twenties on the Stock Exchange. Tho address sounds the praises of the In dian policy of Gen. G rant; but before the people join in the chorus they desire to hear the cello from beyond the Mississippi, itnil to learn whether Red Cloud, Spotted Tail, and their brother braves chime in.— It will be time enough to smoke the calu met when the war-whoop, now in full blast on the Plains, has died away. The Committee pronounce their unqual ified eulogium upon the course of the Ad ministration toward the States lately in rebellion ; but they fail to give us their opinion upon the proscriptions, corrup tions, and downright thieving of the carpet bag governments in those States. Nor do they inform us whether they disapprove of the scarcely concealed purpose of tioneral Grant told,' those governments in retaining power by fraudulent elections this fail, and to uphold them by the bayonet on the con dition that they will support his Adminis tration. The address, though twig and elaborate, omits all reference to the most prominent feature and most conspicuous failure of the Administration—its foreign policy. It does not utter a solitary word upon thikiimpor hint subject. It puts forth no extenu4ion for the inexcusable neglect to try mill do something to secure 0 settlement of the Ala bama claims. It has no scathing rebuke or the greasy San Domingo job. It is silent about Cuba. U . pon the whole we think this address will damage rather than advance the inter ests of the Republican party. The cobbler Senator from Massa chusetts may congratulate himself upon Laving achieved a decided literary tri umph. His epitaph of the Republican party, written on the eve of its demise will no doubt prove to boa valuable eon tribution to history of defunct pal organizations Another Peddler of Cadetships Nomina led for Congress. The E./press is ready to commend any rascal vlo may be running for office against a Democrat. In speaking of the re-nomination of Gen. J. 11. Sypher for Congress in Louisiana, it says. " hops Mr. Sypher will he eleetod, f,,r he k true nn the reisignizeil anil real is sues between Itepublicauisin and sham Deinueraciy." Several other IZepubliftan newspapers have the decency to be ashamed of this fellow. The Philadelphia /My says : r.. 1. 11. Sypher has been renominated for Congress ut Lielkialla. IVllittelllol,, of South CarOlilla, was renominated :mil re-elected, but was refused a seat in Con gress. lie is again a candidate. Roderick It. Butler, of Tonoess,e, who was also identified with eaglet corruptions, and who is now held to answer to various oharges of swindling as pension agent, seeks a re nomination. It is tIOVOIIIIy IA 1,0 hoped that none of these unworthies will lie re elected to disgrace Rination:a legislature. The Ercniny 7i frgraph says : J. 11. Sypher, the 1.611W:111a earpel-ba.:- ger, has been renominated for Congress by the Republican Convention of that State. Sypher, it will lie recollected, is the indi vidual who figured in the Congressional investigation last March with reference to [hes:ooof cadetships, having :tsked the sum of foran appointment in his gift, and who only did not take the money Lecturehe could not get it. That such - a man as this should be one of the !cost promi. cent representatives of the Republican party in Louisiana is a disgrace, and every honest man in 010 country would rather see a decent Rebel elected to the Ilouse of Representatives from the First. Congressional district of Louisiana than a loyalist like Sypher, who considers his loyalty tist so much stock in trade, to be dispose, of fur the benefit of his hank ac count. It is tint to be wondered at that the work of reconstruction is difficult when such sped wens as Sypher and Whittemore are the managers of the Republican party iu the South, and the reconstruction can never be satisfactorily accomplished until the whole tribe of carpet-baggers are repu diated by the Republicans at the North. It is the support that these nom have received and do receive from the North that enables [bent to obtain any foothold in the late Rebel States, awl we hope that the leaders of the Republican party will have manli ness and sense of decency enough to decline giving any farther eountenanee to them. The livrning Post says: 'that Mr. J. It. Sypher has been rennin i Hated for Congress in Louisiana is a revela tion of the terrible moral depravity of tha State. Mr. Sypher, every one knows, was acoused e -ftinH,y public opinion con victed of having sold a West Point cadet ship for top thousand dollars, and Mr !trucks, so lio•,Lanted Mho the buyer, testi ties that Mr. J. Ilii. - Sypher, of this city, wa named as the broker in the transactions Now, we ask nothing more tints that Mr .1. li. Sypher shall be elected. That wil give the !loose a chi tit, investigate tic charges against him, which it could not ili last sesshis because he was not then : motiber. What a cow went:try upon the pr tended h o nesty of the Kr s, VOCaCy of the electio❑ of.eucL a Fell!, 40a tlti this Sypher RODERICK RANDOM the Radical CollgreSSlMall \VIM represents Andrew Johnson's district, has been arrested for forgery awl theft. The vic tims of his crimes are the widows and orphans of [Mon soldiers. com mitted forgery in under that In; night be able to steal the little pittance they draw from the government. Of such is "the God and Morality Party'' com posed. Let every deeent While man come out of it! WE notice that a large number of the "second class" Marge, well kept and commodious) hotels in Cincinnati have reduced the price of board:from transient customers to one dollar and tiny cents per day. This is a reform that is badly needed and would work well in other places. Hotel and hoarding house bills are yet up to the war standard in most places, while almost everything else has declined front twenty to fifty per cent. carpet-baggers who have been preying upon the people of the South, mid trying to live by securing offices which would enable them to steal are packing to return to their homes with whatever of spoils they managed to gather together. The North Carolina election sounds their doom, and the whole rave will be speedily consigned to merited oblivion. THE Radicals have been defeated in their efforts to prevent an election in Georgia. The election will be held this fall, according to the requirements of the State Constitution, and we expect to chronicle another complete Conserva tive victory in the Empire State of the South. WITTEMORE has concluded not to run for Congress again. He intends to change the sphere of his rascality, and is going to the Georgia Senate. Of course he will be elected, and of course he will steal anything he can lay hands on. He is a representative Radical poli tician. Paying the Debt When a Democratic newspaper calls attention to General Grant's incompe tency.for the position he now occupies the Radical press cries out—" Look how he is paying the debt !" To the grave charges made against his receiving pres ents ; to his appointment of unfit men to high offices ; to his disgraceful ne potism ; to his neglect of business and his constant junketing about at water ing places as a first-class dead head; to his blundering foreign policy; to his unwise and impractical suggestions ou the twin - and the revenue ; to his im proper use of the military power in the South ; in short to every charge made against President Urant we have but one reply--" Look how he is paying off the debt." When Congress is assailed we hear the same cry—" Look how the debt is being paid." Do we point to the ac knowledged corruption of the National Legislature ; to the jobbery, the bribery and the wholesale sale of votes; to the wanton distribution of the public do main among a set of greedy corpurators, by which Congressmen profit largely; to the class legislation which imposes enormous burthens upon the massses for the benefit of a favored few ; to the extravagant appropriation of public moneys ; to the costly administration of the government; to the vile means used to control elections; to the rascally de cision of contested election comes; to the sale of cadetships and other villainies of Radical members—the only answer we et is "Look hurt• the debt is being \Ve have looked; and Nv e find the Secretary of die Treasury making :t false exhibit monthly by excluding the Paci- ltailroakl I;,.nils from the count. 1;111., suppose we were to take his showing as correct, what credit is due to the present administration? Let that: able and in iluen Gal Republican newspaper, the New York .Sin answer. It says: The public. debt was diminished over seventeen millions of dollars in the month of .1 nly, and the partisan press boast of the fact as a matter exeetslingly crolitable to the present administration. lint what else could have been done with the money ex cept to pay it out upon the publiedelot ? It was in the Treasury, and must either be applied to this use or stolen. Besides, bow is the administration entitled to particular ~•redit for having so large a sum of money in the Treasury '."rlie taxes which pro dimisl this stun ttmre levied bolore I ; rallt vaim , into power, and it no merit his that they t., have been so much larger than there teas iitty llUell The truth i, that it ivotild he much more honorable It the liepuhlicaii party if it hail reduced the lases, so that instead of put ting, a surplus or tlvo hundred millions it year into the Treasury, it had left that, sur- IS ill t h e 114101:ebi:ilf 11111 pccph txos Itt , more glorieilis to a linvernmont lan an elioritimt, revenue extorletl from n• poor and suirering nmsses. CtirEM 14)1:Alt Y .Sayti that Jim Fisk drove the President to the verge of mad ness by a series of petty persecutions at Long Branch. Mr. Fisk drove his six in-hand furiously past lids Excellency on the beach, tilling the Presidential heart with chagrin, and the Presidential eves with dust. And the Prince is said to have been in the habit of holding his nose, as it he smelled something when Ibis Excellency sauntered by. 'rids is damnable. It is sad that the head of the Nation can not take a quiet prom enade without being treated as a night cart by a Yankee peddler; but really, we don't see what we arc going to do about it. Mr. Fisk's nose is his own, and can anybody blame him for holding 11 ()V, 11 Tin: fact that ll°lden's negro militia and GranCs:white soldiers could not car ry the elections in North Carolina in favor of the Radicals, is urged by the journals of that party as proof that the military were not used for political pur poses. It would be as logical to say that a "jimmy" foulid upon the premises had not been used in open ing a store, because the safe could not he "cracked." Grant and [olden tried the military dodge in North Carolina. It failed, and now they are "going back" on the instruments the instruments they made use of in the Tin; Republican ;State Convention of Ohio declared against a high protective tara, and against giving away the pub lic lands to railroads and other corpora tions. It is no wonder .-lchenelt - . and several other Republican Congressmen fear to go before the people, when their acts are thus publicly condemned even by their own party. The Democracy ought to carry Ohio this fall. THE Conservatives and Denv)erats of Wilmington, :North Carolina, had a grand demonstration yesterday in 1101101' of the signal and glorious victory. Col. A. Waddell, the Conservative Con gressman civet from that district made a speech in which he expressed the be lief that the newly elected Legislature would not attempt to disturb the 1,1:101:,1 in the exercise of the civil rights tiny enjoyed 'l')u; Philadelphia J dip r says An drew Johnson has been nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the First _District of Tennessee. We think the Convention for the district has not been held yet, lint hope the Lidg, r may he cerreet. We want to see Andrew John sen in (11, , next Congrcss. ;' , .',.rct:lry or I I t. I ht,-i•i4,r inlcu iv II rl , i2,11:1111gli (),1.1,cr. Th, Natimial nwets wt•El( . . Vice Admiral l'.! . 1,•1. Nvill ,11,,ped Far ragut as Admiral. Three and a halt' wiles of the ic.:111A:1,4 Railroad were laid Tuesday. There was .100 deaths in Phila., last week, being 7 less (our during the pre vious week. .J. IL Walker, a prominent citizen of Adams county, lowa, was assassinated by an unknov,m person la , t Thursday. James Richards t_ted committed "micide at Cordova. 111., on Friday. Ile had been reprimanded al the tea-table. The German Sminary (*muffin.lee at Fr allll,4 . 0, 011 S:1(111 - 11:1y, n 11 1 .110,1 ;; , 211,111111 i 0 Nettie Itralte, tuzed four yeaN, \1":1:4 11111 W Heil iu a vistern al New I lanthur.!, N. Y., un Saturday. caidlicr .1 . the I,:tiik Nova Sco tia ha-, Liam discovered to 1,, , a deratiltcr to the airnount of Sil:2o,aoo. 1.7,x-Socrotary Seward left Aidairii on his trip Fralici,co and (11,, Aelibisle)p ef ar rived at Nett' Ytak, yesterday, frvnu 1.:11 repe. 'Piave were 3000 (lentils in New York (luring the last six weeks, an increase or 12110 ocer the corresponding period last year. At Chicago, im Friday, e young Mall named Samuel Newbold, from Jaek- SMlVille, 111., was in a house of ill-repute by a polieeman who was trying to arrest him. A New York despatch says the Orangemen of that city will soon have a pie-nic, "outside of the Metropoiitan district, c aw' be prepared to resist any attack." Two frriight trains collided near Ilornellsville, N. Y., on Saturday night. n engineer, named Emory Chapman, and a fireman, named French, were killed. The Republican Convention of the Fifth Congressional District met at Doylestown yesterday, and nominated Alfred C. Harmer for Congress on the first ballot. The 5.40 train from Washington to New York, on Saturday, ran over a cow near Magnolia Station, and was thrown from the track. Two express cars were burned. The engineer and fireman were badly scalded, but none of the passen gers were seriously injured. The Louisiana Republican Conven tion met yesterday. A Dubuclet was nominated for State Treasurerand other State officers were also nominated. Re publican Congressional Conventions also met in the first three Louisiana districts, and nominated .1. 11. Sypher, A. L. Shelden and C. B. Darrell. The National Labor Congress met at Cincinnati, yesterday, and was called to order by Mr. Trevellick, President of the National Labor Union. Seventy three delegates were present. Objection was made to the admission of Mrs. Hathaway of Chicago, representing the Working Women's Co-operative Bureau, but it, was decided to admit her. A long address by President Trevellick was read. OBITUARY Admiral David GlaseOe FarragaL Admiral D. G. Farragut was born at Campbell's Station, East Tennessee, 1801. Appointed Midshipmanat large" Decem ber 17, 181.0 ; commissioned as Lieutenant, January 13th, 1825; attached to receiving ship at Norfolk, Va., 1527; serving on board sloop-of-war Vandal's, Brazil squadron, 18'. and '3O; attached to sloop-of-war Natchez, Brazil squadron, 1833; commis missioned as commander, September Bth, 1841; commanding sloop-or-war Decatur, Brazil squadron, 1513; attached to Norfolk Navy Yard, 1S10; commanding sloop-of war Saratoga, Home squadron, 1847-9; serving at Norfolk Navy Yard, 1850 ; com missioned as Captain, March 1851; on Ord nance duty, ISSI-54 ; commanding Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 18513-55; commandingsloop-of-war Brooklyn,Home squadron, 1859-60; waiting orders, 1861; commissioned as Rear Admiral, July 10, 15431; as Vice Admiral, December 21, 1864 ; as Admiral, July 25th, 1866. Helm' twen ty-live years' sea service; eighteen years' shore duty, and has been fourteen years unemployed. The name of David tilascoo Farragut is ono of the most famous in the annals of the United States Navy. When a boy of nine years, his father procured him an appointment as Midshipman, and his first cruise was in the frigate Essex, Com modorciPorter. While serving in the Essex he participated in the engagement which resulted in the capture of H. M. ship Alert. On March 25th, 1841, after a desperate and bloody tight of three hours, the frigate Es sex was captured in the Bay of Valparaiso by 11. M. ships Ph.cbe, of thirty-six guns, and Cherub, of twenty-eight guns. • Midshipman Farragut, twelvo years of age, was wounded, the only wound he ever received, being knocked down the hatch by a falling man, and severely bruised. In his official report to the Secretary of the Navy, Commodore Porter made special and honorable mention of the lad, saying with appropriate regret that “the boy was too young for promotion." tinder Commodore Port, r, in the West Indies, Midshipman Farragut took part in the attack on the rendezvous of pirates, at Cape Cruz, on the south side of the Island of Cuba, July 23, is 1. The United States naval force consisted of the schooners (Irey Hound, Lieut. Commander L. Kearney, and schooner Beagle, Leila. Commander L. S. Newton. The attack lasted twelve hours. The boats of the pirates were cap tured and their village burned. From this time, for nearly forty years he was sailing about the world, or quietly serving at dif ferent naval stations ; and at long intervals, rising by son iorty from grade to grade. When the rebellion began Captain Far ragut was sixty years of ago, and had been in the service forty eight years. lle was living at Norfolk, Virginia, where he had married, and being a native of the South, it was hoped by the rebels that he would oast his fortunes with the seceding States. finis determination to remain true to the flag, called forth no. unmeaning threats. I le was phainly informed that it would not lA , safe for him to remain in the South with the sentiments he hold. He left Norfolk on the 10th of April, goal , the night before the burning of the Navy Yard and ;oven.- ment vessels. Captain Farragnt's first appointment during the rebellion tram to the iionfinand of the naval oxpedition organized for the capture of thueity on' New ()Heim, Ills orders reached him January on the:id of February ii llua iug he sailed from I lampton Roads, in his famonse flag ship I lartford, for Ship Island, which place the fleet reached in safety, and there made final preparations for the attach on the de fences of New ()Heinen. Those defences consisted of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, mounting ono hundred and twenty guns of Inning range and heavy calibre, IL fleet of twenty arnica steamers, and four powerful thousand tons, with a battery of sixtt•en heas•y gnus, and, in addition, of elmitis, rafts, and tiro ships, ()n the 2lth of April, I , arra•gut attanktsi and passed the forts, en- countered and destroyed the rebel lleet, under J. lt. Al jiving!, and 111.11 . 01111 ea thin Mississippi river. On the _sth attacked the Chalmette batteries, on each side of the riv er, three miles below Now firleana, drove the enemy from their guns, took possession of the rort,+, and MI tine sonic day captured the city. June 'l , ltli, ISti3, the Admiral, with his fleet, passed Grand Gulf; on tho 2sth commenced the attack 111/011, and passed illblSbUrg and its surrounding bat teries. tun the fah of July, to the mortifi cation of the Admiral, the rebel iron-clad ram Arkansas made its appearance, hav ing escaped fiut of the Yazoo River, passed through the fleet exchanging shots, and reaction! the cover of tho Vicksburg batter ies. At 7, I'. M., the fleet passed down the river, engaging the batteries and rain at Viekburg The army having railed to co operate with the fleet, and Farragut not having sufficient force to make a land at tack on Vicksburg, he was compelled to proceed to Now urleans, as it had become neeessary.to repair most of the vessels of Ilk Squadron. inn .1% larch, lotis, Farragut was ordered to open communication with Hear Admiral Porter, of the squadron, and t loneral G rant, both or whom were operating agaiiist V icks'hurg. lie therefore moved up in strong force from Baton Hogue, and on March I Ith the lleet attempted to pass the batteries at 1 1 1/ri. Hudson, but only the flag-ship Hartford and the,Albatross were successful. With these ho succeeded in approaching Vicks burg, and in communicating with Heal Admiral Porter across the Peninsula. The ablaut act or near ..uhnirat Varragut being effected, the navy 111111 command of the river between Vicksburg and Port Hudson, and was enabled to ( 1 111,11/Ikll block ado of Red River, nnd thus intercept the supplies from Texas destined for the rebel armies. This accomplished, the Ad miral left his llag-ship, the. I lartford, and returning below, by way ofthe tehAfalaya, he resumed operations ff a . a final assault on Por i clludson. ay Sltmn ho engaged the batteries at Port Hun sou, and from that time until uly kin,f when` the garrison surrendered, Inc gallant ly and co-operated with the army in its in a/stinent of the place. The river being now open, Farragut turned over to ' 'tear Admiral Porter the entire control of the western waters above New:f frleans. Deeming that his long service a n d useful labors of eighteen months entitled the gal lant officer to special consideration, the de partment tendered him a leave of absence, which he aocepted. August 1, lsfi I, the fleet under Hear Ad miral Farragut passed the forts at the en trance of Mobile Bay, and engaged the 1 rebel iron-clad 'fennesseo and her consort,. After a desperate tight of several hours' duration the rebel Beet surrendered to the United States naval forces, and the fall of Nlobile became a mere question of time; Fort Powell was blown tip August 11th, Fort. li:tines surrendered August Sill, and Fort Morgan August :13d. In September, 150-I, Vico Admiral Fairs gut was offered the command of the expedition, then tilting out for the attack upon the defences of Wilmington, North Carolina; but impaired health obliged him to dtsline. In the summer of Ise? Admiral Farragut was ordered to the uommand of the European squadron. Ile sailed from Brooklyn, New York, in the frigate Frank lin, in 1507, and returned to the United States in the fall of 1505. During this cruise Admiral Farragut was everywhere received with respect and courtesy. The crowned heads and tilted nobility of Europe seemed to vie with their humblest subjects in doing honor to this noble specimen of the Ameri can naval officer. Coolirnintion of the,Reported Attack Up oil Dupre,. a. Ilenedirls'm On Saturday afterneon last, considerable excitement WaS created in Philadelphia, by correspondence in the Now York Herald of that day from Elko, Nevada, dated Aug. h, is 70, :mil stating that the coach, con Imprez. fi lieneilicrs Minstrels haf been attacked by hostile indents, and sev eral of the ccaapaity 'rho letter in lial•stion teas ns foilt,Ws, Ei.llo, Nov., August 0, 10r711. To the Ed il,,i• Thrc, t,achr, Weft!, Farup when aln,t eight miles from Hastings Pass ? en 11,11 t, Ittr A 11,611, were ,tOpred 10 -day ily a party of Indians, numbering eighteen or twenty. Three passengers \sore killed, and the driver and several others severely wound ed. Among the passengers were members of a troupe (ruin the East—Duprez Pom ctlict's--who were molten to night ustim l'harlos Reynolds was wounded in the hint, and is now in town, and is lint ex tooted to recover. :sir. Duprez is lying at Pleasant Valley, six miles from here. 'two of the troupe ore missing. I could not as certain their names. The killed were a Mr. Nicholson, a miner; Mr. Heinrich, and Mr. Dougherty. The attack is sup posed to have been mad. by white men disguised as Indians; but I doubt it, as the Indians are quite troublesome about here. The TIM,' law regulating the issue of pat ents prescribes the ftdlowing fees: tm tiling each original application for a patent $l5 ; on rsvuing each original patent, $211; on tiling each caveat, $10; on every appli cation for the reissue of a patent, $.;0; on Ming each disclaimer, $lO ; :on every applieation for the extension of a patent, i"0; on the granting of every oxtenstuu Or patent, $3O ; on an appeal tor the first time from the primary examiners to the exam iners-in -chief, $10; on every appeal from the examiners-in-chief to th e - commission ors, $2O; for certified copies of patents and other patents, ten cents per hundred words; for recording every assignment, agreement, power of attorney, or other paper, of three hundred words or under, $1; of over three hundred and under ono thousand words $2; of over one thousand words, $3 ; for copies of drawings, the reasonable cost of making them. IZZOttett General Sully reports to the Department the death of Victor, head chief of the con federated Flathead nation, aged eighty-five years. This is a great loss to the Flatheads. In former years ho was one of their great est warriors; but many years ago ho joined the Catholic Church, and over since has been a devout Christian. General Sully says ho does not know of any one among the Flatheads who can take his place and have the same influence over the nation. Sr. Louts, August 15.—The Democratic State Central Committee have issued a cir cular to the Democrats of Missouri, setting forth the reasons for recommending that no Democratic State ticket be put in lie field next Fall. The Committee, however, urge the election of as many Democrats as possible to the Legislature, but recommend voters in no case to vote for any ono not publicly pledged in favor of removing all suffrage restrictions. A Candid Confession by a Republican Newspaper. In the Evening Telegraph, ono of the ablest Republican newspapers of Philintel phia,wo find the following remarkable arti do occupying a prominent place in the edi torial columns. It speaks plain truths which may servo as a warning to Republi: cans and an encouragement to Democrats: I.lne Upon Lino! The North Carolina election Is another grave admonition to the Republican party that it can maintain its supremacy only by promptly correcting the evils it has too long cherished within itself. While the issues of the war were undecided, patriotic men would close their eyes to corruption, to in competent or otherwise unworthy candi dates, and to the madness of selfish leaders, and vote the Republican ticket to save the country; but now the war has garnered the - fulness of its harvest, and honest citi zens will no longer be made the supple tools of corruptionists. Every election hold this year has boon a fresh notice to the Republican leaders that the party must reform itself. Connecticut opened the campaign of 1870 with disaster, whereby a faithful and patriotic Governor was displaced by SW majority. Oregon followed, and ono of the ablest and most blameless of our Republican Senators lost his place. Washington city followed with an open and decisive rebuke to the political managers who claimed to be the Republican party. New York, hitherto a debatable State, gave nearly 90,000 Democratic majority, when the political complexion of her courts of last resort was involved. Kentucky gave no substantial Republican gains, even with her large colored vote polled for the first time. Tennessee hasgiven over her courts to the Conservatives, thus surrendering the last vestige of Republican power in that State, and now collies North Carolina, in the face of bayonets forced upon the peo ple by the ill-advised counsels of bail lead ers, with a Legislature two-thirds Demo cratic, and but two Republicans in the entire Congressional delegation. A Senator is tints sacriticd, and a long stride taken toward making the next. Congress Demo cratic. With all these admonitions, the profess ed leaders close their ears to wisdom. Instead of meeting the i s sue frankly, and appealing to the intuit igence of the people, we are met with the startling proposition that Georgia notxt net hold an election, because the Republicans cannot carry Ow State ."This reckless suggestion to nullify the laws and defy the people is made this morning by a Republican con temporary. If not hold an election in Geor gia, why hold one in any other State? It is conceded that the Republivans t.annot gain Congressmen, while it is most likely that they must lose some in most of the States. Why not, therehire, decide that all the Legialstures, :and all the Congressmen, and all the I kivernors shall hold over until matters can be arranged fur Republican victories? The only reason for not hold ing an election is that the Republicans will be defeated; and the ware rule will apply with equal if not increased potency in all other Status, if mad leaders insist upon de fying popular opinion and insulting the i intelligence and patriotism of a people pe culiarly jealous of popular rights. North Carolina SOILS last, as were most 0 the other States sacrificed this year by selfish and blind leadership. tiot' .l lottlell allowed the honor and credit of his State to he destroyed by irresponsible adventurer. with the hope of securing a seat in the Sell ate • and, to make assurance doubly sure he undertook to force political results by armed Jayhawkers, who defied tho laws, ignored justice, a n d disregard 110 , marts. The result was a change of 15,uun to 311,11011 against the Republicans and the surrender of the State to Democracy for years to enure. In Pennsylvania the salllt , mad policy is aimed oft. 'rho it,pubi lean party caw ',II, coed only by deserving, the approval and 01,111111ellt , Or the intelligent :nut patriotic people of the State. Its abuses, corruptions and subordination to shameless pretenders like Cameron, are justly appreciated by all sections, and unless the Republican organ ization, as an organization, shall show an earliest, determined purpose to reform it self, and restore thu State to faithful goy eminent, we shall limo half a dozen or more Oaigressmen, Lou:l possibly the Legislature. Senators like Wilson anti Cameron, who bowed to tho Washington lobby awl con tinued the inquisitorial ineomo tax to save corporations from las on gross receipts, may levy heavy tribute upon starving clerks to defray election expenses, but all tho power of money or patronage will fail to give tho Republicans victory if the party t_‘. not sail, it by deserving Changes in the War Field A retreat from the front of Metz by the army ..I . llazaine, under the eyes of the Em peror; a retreat from Nancy by the :only of M: u •Mahon; another surprise of the French forces, and this time it is the Em peror's own troops that are surprised; a tierce attack upon the retreating troops near Metz, while crossing the Moselle; a four hours light, in which the Emperor says, ho " reps trod the Prussians with great loss to thorn, - lint which the King of Prussia claims as n " victorieus combat," and still another battle in which the ler limns were the victors. These are the rapid events and reports of Sunday and Monday, after a week of comparative quiet. They make a tremendous change in the situation, adding greatly to the hu miliation of France, in i'ul vi ng heavy losses of the material of war, as the retreat front Metz must inevitably cause, and again chi monstrating that the campaign is entirely at the will of the Ferman Generals, who are proving thomselves to be able toasters of that branch of the military art, Which en- Miles them to compel, and to a large ex thent, control the movements of their ad versaries. Nothing short of the direst necessity can explain a retreat from so strong and important a place as Metz. The dire necessity in this case WaS, that the right of the French position had been turned, driving MaeMahon from Nancy to Tool, and thus exposing the whole of the right bank of the valley of the Moselle from Nanny all the way down to the edge of the fortifications at Metz, and cutting obi the railway connection between Metz and Paris. The Gorman troops were reported to be "swarming" in that vicinity. There scan 110 alternative but to commit the town to the defence of the townspeople mid the garrison, and have it and them surround ed by the hostile army, as was dime at Strasbourg. Thus, superior generalship wins its way even When the Way is guarded by the strongest fortresses producible by military skill. There is some report of a contemplated "evacuation - of the city and works, Lot the proclamation of the Emperor on leav ing the city yesterday, as well as the im probabilities of the ease, shows that it is not to la) given up without a light. Mete is a place which no army can afford to throw away for. light cause, It has been regard ed by the French Government and people .1,1 cut impregnable barrier to the passage of an enemy into France by that direction. IL nw been a strongly-n,rtilied town fur hundreds of years. More recently it has beet, made an intrenehment Twelve millions of francs have been spent upon it since 1567, with the express view of mak ing;it one of the groat bulwarks of France. 'FI) old works of Vatiben were enlarged by Cormontaigne, and to these have been - added fortifications on all the surrounding heights by eng ineers who studied the renowned works Toduebon, at Sebastopol, and all those mounted with innumerable heavy guns. The town con tains one of the largest arsenals in France, a canton foundry, an armory, and an im mense powder magazine. These and the delensiVe Works are tilled with the materials of war on a scale eonnininsitrative with the fertilicalions and the vital importance of the place, and with the express view if re sisting the strongest attack :Old the longest. cu te. . . . 'rho retreat from Nruiry minor rot sisitioni., lint this, toil, it.lrls the !twilit ittl,l the Prosii:ll army :Ind It will rt o the strongest oxertirinolti strotti.i. arwt or miliLary governtitottl Alt kct tint ifuiet , the filet' Or Kuril r As It) tile new or the t era h ar mies, zl.ll es atuii alien ufany ;4,4,d map mill show that the toe wings Or armies, hereto f4,re ,0 widely separated and extended were brought unto 11111)11 closer contact by their recent rearward inevements, and were in position to he IllarHellVred as one army.-- Beth the French armies were on Sunday night no the left hank of the Moselle, Mac- Malion's in and near the Mrtilled town of 'fuel, twelve miles west of :Caney, on the railway from Paris to Metz anal Nalley; Bazaine's position was about tweutc-lice mlles to the northeast, in the vicinity of Metz. Rut, closely as their centre and right are pressed by the Germans, it lonks now as if the French will have to fall back still further along the line of the rail way to Paris, and in the direction of Chal ons. The Emperor, judging from the place Where his Sunday night dispatch was da tod, has gOllO a consicierabledistanee to the rear. Longuerille is a small market town en the Paris and Strasburg Railway, about twenty 'Mies nearer Paris than MacNia hon's head quarters, and at least forty Innis from Bazaine.—Phira, Ledgcr. Fall Elections and When They Ore., The following is a list of the fall elections and the date on which they occur: California September ii Maine September 12 Vermont September ti Florida October 3 Indiana October II lowa October 11 Mississippi October 3 ihio October 11 Pennsylvania October 11 West Virginia October '27 1/claware November I Illinois November I Kansas November 1 Louisiana November 1 Maryland November 8 Massachusetts November 8 Michigan November s innesoto November 1 Missouri November 1 New Jersey November S New York November 5 South Carolina November 7 Wisconsin November 8 Murder of Rockport . —The Murdere Encupes. MAUCH CHUNK, August 15.—A man named Dennis Tolan, residing at Rock port, was shot at this place by William Davis, about 11 o'clock on Saturday night. Davis was arrested and held until late yes terday afternoon, when he made his escape and is still at large. No previous difficul ty is known to have existed between the mon. Davis alleges that Tolan followed him homo and struck him. All possible efforts aro being made for the ro-arrost of the murderer. THE WAR IN EUROPE. Intenve Esc - Inn= Scene In the French M=l The Miolotry Forced to Retire Proclamation of King William FieUlm.; Scenes In the French Chnnther A Republic Demanded The French Retreat Beyond the Mow The French Attacked While frill:slog Six Hours' Hard Fightina—The French Forces Defeated—Panic in the French Ranks—The Loss on Both Sides Heavy. PARIS, Aug. 9.—Tho sossion of tho Corps Legishull opened at 2 P. M., M. Schneider presiding. As soon as the formalities of the NVCri) over ullivier address ed the House as follows: Mossieurs—The - - Emperor in his proulamation told you it' circumstances should prove unt'avorable that the Empress would call you to her, and we have waited until the situation was vonivromised before calling you. inter ruptions.). M. Fay re exclaimed, "This is too auda cious." \f. Ullicier enntinue,l: IVo vaned you at to first sign of trouble. Suintiof our troops avo met with reverses, but tho greater onion rentain (tar eita- I ols, our natioual dotou.oov and our [mii ions am intact. Wo ask you 10 aid as in rganizing the National Ituartl. Deputy l'icre---A II sacrifices w it hout you! Orlivier respoutiott— Wo are all pro %trod. Wo can :trill 150,1,00 men. Paris hi h o departments N% hiell are lu ro in it state of SiegO. Iltpos dd to her I,WII advantages I our inte no troublea, but her ox laii•tat ions Will II o realized. Wo shall 4101 . 1.'111 tqlrselvos. Order is safety. Now, Jessie ors, one NVI/1 . 11 It were unpatriotic at such a time to dsvel upon personalities. Accuse us, doubt, us IN, stud! 11,,t. :Ln,tver except to tlehaid th measures Ave intend to propose. If th Chamber is tint with us ironical laughte and interruptions) it is wanting in the por forma nee of its first duty. Let 11.4 not dos 1.11110 itl the discussion. I beg - a perhaps this is the last time I shall 111.111 this tribune-snake uu inure sprecl e Sen, us away it you deem it bust. t Khouts inn he Leil of" Yee !" " Yes!“ Deputy Dumoulin intorropted, proposil lint tho Prosideney or the Council of \l ii store LW conferred OS t ;1`111 . 1,11 NI. Favro demanded that Ill:mil. . . }multi at, onct , ;04N11111..1.110k111,•Iii , 11tri In: it :tliairs. M. l'aul de ('assaigitaii -.aid that if he w: t >linivtrr ho would, nrnd liol i oro it 4,11Ilt• war tutu sustaining such a A .crone of great V11,11.11i, hero Cll,lll`lllll 5 01.11 the inothlier,, Picard uoI do th: he lin:amino:: IL 51111 , 11r ,011,111 against the NI Misters, hit inimilims of ti Loft rnntinunlly demanding callstoiirile Cassitignar, tetnnimarily preiddin refused to accede in 1111 , 1 • I , ,sayii that vi4)1,,,, , on ()impart (intik] iinly prndu vitileime on the other. MMEM?M==I . . inako himself Learnt amid the confil•io said, "timin'oCiny r,dh , agues2 , l, He it svouldhavethein shot." nuk, dr i;rainilsout eNol.dtne "They all ought to be. - At this expression I eilnity rushed toward the Ihike do 1i.,1111114,1 shaking his list in his tare. . . I)oputy Ferry !cit. hi, ,-oat, hreatened the I)Etko, :Ltul the 111,1111. e, hu right frelll their In restore order. 'rho Prt,ident p on his hat, :lila in till` 111liki itill' runt sine the session NViIA the Elit , SI SlOll, Ih•uuunlyd thy , 1111111,i1:111 Lion propo,ition, 1,11 it o_i+ by a vote of Inu 1,, Intverno, than pr0in,....1 tin , order the day, declaring tin.• Chamber de-irl, insuring energy ill the nati./Ilai defence l'assed to the order of tine Clay. M. 011ivier retuned w accept the order MMEIZ=IN=E un passage. 11,0 order Wa4lt.loplell, at the request a reecss w Laken that ho might withdraw and runs' syn.!, his colleagues. lie returned in a short time and 1110l1r1 iitg the tribune, said : " In the presence of the vote of the t•h: u nber, the :%liiiistry has given its collective resignation to the Em press Rewind wild has accepted it. lam instructed to doehtre that (ICI, l'alikao has been charged with the duty of forming a lout Ministry. (.Ipplaused As Mr us, we shall continue to do whatever our country demands of us, and from the present !Inf luent our successors, whatever misfortunes they may encounter, will have our sup- port. - Xfwr this declaration the Cham bers separated in great agitation. lit the Senate the resignation of the :11i oisters wa, also announco I. ',sin's, Aug.. /0.--A ,pecial di—Fitch to the London papers, datiNDParis midnight, - gives the following account of the seem' in :mil near the d'erps liegislatil yesterday.-- Deputy I:eratry demand'sl tiro dep.isit ism of the Emperor. lie WAS called to lord, Lc the I 'hair. 'rho Deputies then abandoned the hall and scattered to their committee rooms. Outside a wild crowd \VAS asset~blod :ctrl refused to disperse. llodies of cavalry and lancers Wore Sillaitillll in all 010 surround ing streets. The court yard of wil l cries was thronged with soldiers around the hall or the Corps Legislatik Tho police repeatedly charged on the mob, but the latter reiortned after each charge. Builies of Ow Natitopal Ousel (damn don'le !lave rH en, midfrrtto.rai,d the populace. other delacloneuts remained passive in the barracks. Marshal Baraguay d'llilliers organized the troops, and the mab Silo everywhere charged. The Ctnrrespondent rels,rts that as he was wiling to post his despatches, he heard the sound o f drums :Ind bugles inn every direction. I aside [lv, hall .fthe Cnrps Lo~ialn[il; thy. ,One was one of fear anti ht•wilth•rinolll.. 10.—After the adjuurnniont ()ftho rpS thoorewd, Whose footings had been is might up L. a pitch or fury, went to tho residen c e of arnier da l'assagna,, and iinoto threaten ing demonstrations. l'assagnae, warned of danger, fled to the house of his son, and the mob net finding . their intended victim, dispersed. "I,c ys," Cassagnao's I,,ur - nal, to-day dennunces the Ropuldivatt4 allies or Prussia. l'aul to Cassagnac pilidislies a letter to the Prefect of Police, sdating that M. Lissa gary, who NVIIS 0011,11 , 11111,1 t., 11 months' imprisonment, and %vino io I irii,ets to escape punishment, ha, returned to Paris, and last night was at the head of the niel, whirli wanted to haw; his lather, ;ader to I'assagnao. Yatu 104. 10, via 1,0,01.0 t- -A di,tator ship is antioipatol, with 1;0040,1 Tr 0,101 us supremo head. The Einiorror has Leen iuritrd to roturn 10 lark, :1101 Ass :Lit. a IVI•ot1StrIlf•tioll 01 the. is rofo,ll Coll , i , 11•1111 ‘.ortain. 14;iti.tN, ug. 112.--.\ copy I/1 0 proclama tion, prepared I:ing NViiiiarll ill Ihr French langua,....m for distribution anti ,mg the people un the Prussian army advances into French territory, lha, I ue•n rccoierd for publication. following in the teat of the proclamation: "Wu, William, Ning of Prussia, I n:da• known to all inhabitants of French terri tory occupied ily I ierituni forces, that the Emperor Napoleon haying by sea and land :Lttacked the (lermani nation, tee, eager to live in peace with the ilaNe armies, to repel aggression, allii by military event, IlaVI. been 1,111/ pass the French ft,iitiers. NVe war agaitißt soldiers and nit citizens, and therefor° the latter to contimie se curt•. in !person and property 011 long so they al,stain from hostile acts. NV° grant them protection as a matter of right. •I'lu: gen erals commanding corps 51,11 decide 5c hat Illi`aNllll, ilia, necessary usages of war and will als,, regulate the requisitit ois necessary to sustain their troops, and Lis the diner once of exchange between Gorman and French currencies in order to facilitato dealings between solcliorq and M. iron attiaarl.riteken, Augn,t, 1570." PARIS, Au;. Nirrlr /41,11,401 of the Trench :truly at MetZlaom. hundred unit thirty thousand men. It counsels the tt itialratval of the French Rl' my tri the line of thin >lruse fir .Nlitrne rivers. The 1 ,,,,,edin g 4 of the ('‘,,70,1 yesterday %yore marked hy a still inure violent i legato than that which finned the withdrawal of Idivicr and his NI inistry.- Amid much tumult nl. I:eratry moved that a committee of inquiry he, instituted, and Marshal Le Peen!' summoned hefure it. In the tumult, an uuktiuNvii voice from the Left cried "Summon I:onaparte, and not his creatures." As soon as the confusion quieted M. K orates proceeded, and referred to the French position in 'll2. Then as now de feat stared France in the Nee, but a similar cornmitteo appointed by the General As sembly restored victors to our eagles. The French Generals were shown that defeat was crime and our reverses ceased. M. Tillers replied and opposed the mif tin, 110 said the reverses to the French arms were inscrutable, but that the officers must not be called front the field to an swer inquiries while the army remained in so great danger. Mr. Tillers concluded his otherwise tem perate speech: "The Empire is henceforth out of the question. There can be no Em pire without an Emperor. To this state of event a Republic must inevitably succeed.' [Cries and the greatest confusion.) The French Chambers have voted in fa vor of forced currency bills on the Bank of France. The war loan has been raised to ono thousand million francs. During the deuate in the Corps Legisla Lif last night Count Pali kao, Minister of War, declared the French reverses to be repaired, and that revenge was near and certain. PARIS, August \L—Official dis patches from the city of Colmar, depart ment of Haut Rhine, forty-one miles north east of Strasburg, state that all is quiet on the right bank of the Rhine. This in telligence is reasse ring. A French ollielal dispatch states that there is no danger of the immediate capture of Strasburg, as the place is supplied with provisions sufficient for a six months' siege. The Corps Logialatif is In secret session. The Chamber is discussing the proposition of the deputies or the party of the Loft, pre sented' to that body through M. Jule 3 Favro, providing for the organization of a committee of national defense invested with dictatorial functions and empowered to adopt any and all measures for the security of the national defense. It is asserted authoritatively that the :Minister of War, Count Pidikao, made an exceedingly ill tempered speech in opposition to M. lay re's proposal threatening that in else it was adopted he would tender his resigna tion as Minister of War. 'Phis remark cre ated a profound impression, and at the sug gAstion of several members the further consideration of the same was postponed indefinitely. An informal vote was taken during, the discussion, in which seventy liberals voted against the proposition of M. Jules Pavres. 'rho session in the Chambers to-day was of the most tin portant. character. Count Palika, announced to the Legisla tif Corps that Marshal lineal to was moo Commander in-chief of all the French armies in the tield, and that no other person shared the power with him. M. thimbetta thereupon declared that the Chamber must form itself into the position of a connnitttle of derenso and pronounce b.... the salvation inf the country or the safety of a dynasty. bream excitement rol rowed the speech of tiambetta. I ing William at Saar bruck has issu e d a proclamation abolishing the conscription throug h out the territory of France at present occupied by the 1;01,11111 troops. All cArICLI3 confirmation has been receiv ed in this city of the report that the Crown Prince Fre.lerick William, with the Prus sian left, has occupied the Fortress of Pralgsburg, commanding the great central way across the Vosges mountains. Prnssiau eavalry aro !votive. A de tachment have arrived la:Foul Department M tile Icurthre twelve miles west. of Nan cy. )larshal NI:Mallon with his command is pested at Netifellateati, in the Metrzem thirty-lice miles nortlnvest el I?pinuil, gat the lino et 14:1:1.1N, August II -evening. King v", at I It•rny '1"-day, trboru Iho oiljejai [wad quart,,, ut tho tkro intsv o . In , pan•lies riweivotl horn fr"in the front thi.atterin.ll: St3lo . tilat 010 Pr I, an si:s tht - -triyea rtanninnicatn , n Lc ttrcon Mot, and and .•aptur. - 11 nunil , er "f French Iran-1...rt. - I botro N 1,14 10.10(1 ii ith forage. Srt•rrili.k .\ i,rttNt 11. The n•llm% official intelle_tence Icm hrrn 1,41•1\111 111 this city: "l'he French Inel tal.en np a np,ln the River Ncid, intelehntt 14 dispute the l'rn4sian moveinont in the real' "I Nancy, lilt thov o Since abanilimed thoir line sat the :ma retreated avre•-• the :%I4e.elle. II is Ile!, Ihnl Nai.ey :51111 1.1110, iII: lint tI 1/14•11 taken by 010 Tlll` rower lists 1,o.•11 etlicial intelligence received Iterlin. 1 . 11[1)11,,,,.‘ • Prit ,, i,in I,IN i.t Prim, het, ,ll•lat•ilt.ti, and atchittg the loretich ; 1. Ilitcho, 11 110•11 12,:irr,,111,1 lii only Ihrec hlmilretl 1111'11 )11:11, A 11. N I,lt ..1 Vranot ;trout, halo the kohl. 11::. 11. 1 , ,F;1r 11;1'1,1141 ;,•;•• 111;111 lull iii 114 rocelltly ,1“1”;,•;IctI iu Tarn, wilt , wet, hen rlll it,Vl` r 1,11 4 .1. hy •Priicr or - 1111.-IH, 111.ri1 od in 0114 lull Th , y by four Illitirlrt..l oh., 111•1 , akil 1 , 111- P:tri, nn .1,111141 .0 . Ow m.. 11. men. V I Nl, A 11_•:. I I. Irian the wear rs 4,11,•115i!y 1,l lhr Tyr,d. Alip,tl,l 11, 1 , 70 ovt•llintz. is a rrpurl in 11,0 !hill 1110 Mill trill 110,, t.rs an , otoll.avclriwz Inhrin;lnLuut pear,. hotN\ eon, FrAtlt••• l'rtis,,t. 'rho r,0,•,,./, with rricronce Thcri. ran by 1111 ilurvli~~n ..111glii tir ti.ms H0.1;410 id . 411,11 ;I ••.11111 , 4 hr 11111,1.1,1 i I , t :illy Thu 1 . 1"001•11 !.. , 1101411 , 0 111111, Alllllll,l Willall l Zlll, 1,11001 in 1110 Itillllo hurt., Cho it.l. 1.4, t141,t II I, vnituz. The• lc thwt...l -.111,14ml:411' (ht. I,litlatlth:uil.l•r In ,t,•11 1,1. n In.l, , I , y hay. , I,r,•n carkrl,ll, , ,,it hi. 1,11,1t111311“11 ref I 111 i NA% IIIL .‘llg. 11. A 11,,1111'11 1 . 1 . 11i1l I las.torlati, dated l"-day, say, 111;,t Nial•Mall4.ll', ;trill). evacuated Nancy tortl:ty, nu the cll . ((11. C1‘.11.1 1'ri11.41 . 14 nnuy, aunt retreated Tito tlistriiyeii Ilia. 111141,4(i , Nvhich . ,pannrd tilt rivr. The forc‘,“r iht. Prinvo now occupy N 111111 ). 111181 Frouard, at the juurlion of 1110 I'llll4 and Straskairz railroad Nvith 1111' 1,11111 10 NlP'''. 'Pilo Prnssian,l attavlictl Pont a driving out tho Fronch, but ..111,,,mently It'll ha,k tosilo main bod . v. in.a.l.inar ti•r, of Ihn united armn, it Fro,l,ln - 1, l'harh, and (1,101,1 Itriulurtz are at 11, - ry, on a .hrt,t liar Nvith Sam brm•lo•n, awl within tsventy milt•snr !Stet,. I.arge inan titioanf on.reN %%01,1 c.aptnr,l tht. \1 0 (z. rrn.... , ard',i i.ion 10-t 11l ilv nn I , ira. .k dr,r.Llch from l'arl,rnhc, to-clay, says that :- , t1a,..• bourg was honthardc(l with hot .hot on I , rida\• and tiatnnlay. The Liarigoll 101 . a 11111 . 10 S, 1111(1 1101, given l“ 111a111, thoy tnalhl surri•nder. 1,,0N0.0N, ug. 1,--TllOl,l tray rt 1,31110 longht urar Metz yt,torday, both I,:trtn, vlann a victory. 11iA1.01,110N • -1 AOOOI . NT 111•"I'11 It 11 Altg. 15. Thl , rl/111Viing ant 11f,rateil to 010 I, • jii.+l, I ii I,Nizr I I --I0 I. 31. Th. army comillon,4l to cr“s,. Lti thin 11 , (1. iir the this Hitt. gi/arl/ lial ilo id. ally iureo or thu Wile, half or min' an had er.sseill over, the PrilAsians .11.1- I len ly attacked in great r.iret. Afters tight ,•1* four hour. they %veil) repttlmed wide great 1” , :s Inc them. Sig:l4,ll NA POLEON. 1,11 , 1111 • VM", at %V hil•11 !Oa,. the ahoyP lolcll Oi l tho railroad from Siritsiiiirg ,1.1)0111SoVenty wilos nest smith of Metz, nu.l litty miles Va...lt. ,k 4 the 1 . :1111PerOCS lostilopiiirtors Ivero evidently at this puini last. he was prolirthly lle I..uL 111 Nviiy too:arils Chalons+, tchioh is the line a tho railraad.] • Aug. 15.-The 1 . 1 . 11 , 1.1101h111),V111,4 dated ill lie vicinity mt Metz: Sundae Evelliag.• -A Virt,161,,,i ooeurre.i Hear Mote, to-day. 'nip tr.:oto, 1110 Ist am. 17111 4 . 4111, 11:trtiVirtlilig. I le, tell to tho soil., of conflict. 4l glle.ll \ i .Lug. F•.—Last by order of the pis ernitietit, all telographintr throughout the French Elie piro svroi stispetoleil. This morning ii'elook those restriotiiitin Nverii agititi re !lowed. the :%luselle telograplei the fulluAving 111.• 1 mister of the Interim.: The Empt.r.ir 101 l to-dav, at :2. n'elu,k. fur Vl,lllll, aIViPIIIIIII - tic the bat ing Ilia Majesty iaaurd the ndluv,ilig, pn el:utnttiau : Un quitting rill ti. light OW 111,011'1, I N/11111111h,, yultr pairi.,tlsm the dell•time this great nily. ni.vor allow thn nullity to taiil.j. , ,,esAion of phis Ittilwark Friinee, mid 1 trie.it yen kill rival the army in liiyalty 1•011ragli; I skull eye,. With gratitude the reception I ilaNd , lLuwl \\ALIO yell! . :led 1 hul* that in noire jnyous lilies 1 may he Mile ill return to thank you Mr your niiiile iv Mill in tlin hawk a tin, vrow•h. ',INDIO:, :real I, iii.i•trd at Ang. opinion of llie .V.l - ellmillltcs Ihn fni . i.o for the .1.•1..n., or Paris at 1:i0,1111111111.11. Six hundred ar.i mounted. I,NnoN, Aug. The I , roncli admine.- Lration hate :4, en notieu that the t mi.sion of all private telegrams both for and through Franco is now .41e.pointed. Mo , sages for Spam Portugal may be transmitted olifiddeof F 1,11 1 ,1. Nv:iy 111, , Fallii,ifith i 11,1111.1 1. 1. 1 J: 1 11/0N, Mtg. 15. -2 e. 11. - . 1 . 114` Vrenelt order in regard to telegrams Mel been con siderably modified. It is now annotineed that private tnlegranis 1,111 be al,•01/1.441 1./1" and through France, except for the lotion'. ing departments: Mosello, It,rs Vosges, Halite 'HMI, flout Nlaine, Wetirth, Nlenz Haut, and Savonne. ItEitt.tY, August midnight.-- Further particulars of the great battle at filet,. yes• terday have been reveived. The battle 11,11.1 finiglit at. the Vi11a . ..11 1 of Paguy, near :%letz, and raged fiercely for six hours. 'Floe Prussian furors engaged in 1.1111111 . 111111 numbered sixty thousand. 'rho :ten %sere under the command of I ;(!imrat Steinmetz. The French artily was coal mantled Marshal P.azaine. The number of troops engaged Mt, not been ascertained. The tire from the k'retich infantry and artillery was territio, but the Prussian line never li e ' an instant ‘vavered, but followed up every ,nlvantage, under a perfect had of shot awl shell front the enemy, and finally, after a hard fought and bloody struggle, succeed ed in breaking the French lines, when a general !Janie ensued in the French ranks and the troops under Marshal Martine wore driven in great confusion into Melt, whilo one corps retreated 'llion VIT4IIIII. The corps of Marshal l'Adruirault and (ion. :%1 leiter were engaged in the aetion.— The hiss on either side has not yet been itseertained, but it is thought will exceed that 01 \Voerth. l'Attis August I3—Midnight.—UniMit States Minister ‘Vashburne has been au thorized by the Minister of the Interior, Al. 1 lonri Sherreim to extend temporarily the protection of the United States Govern ment over the tientlanS dolllkiled in Faris. The American branch of the sanitary commission receives no encouragement from the French govenunent. Partl,7llnm of the Second 122012212022 Maus, Aug. W.—The following addi tional particulars of the second battle near Metz were received last night. Late on the afternoon of Monday, the hit and 7th Prussian army corps vigorously attacked the French forces under the walls of Metz. A sanguinary conflict ensued, and the French were at length driven within the city witha loss of four thousand mon. On the same day a grand roconnoisaneo, under King William in person, maintain ed itself some hours within two lines of tho French defenses without any effort on limo part of the French to dislodgo thorn. This fact shows tho utter demoralization of tho French army. BERN E, Aug. 16.—Tho Swiss Corps of Ob servation has boon disbanded. LoNuozr, Aug. Ill.—The Telegraph's Paris