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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:
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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