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Vote Conscientiously.
Political parties spring up naturally
underaDemocratic form of government.
Where the people decide upon public
questions by means of the ballot two or
more parties will always be found to ex
ist. Intelligent voters divide according
to their convictions on great questions
of national policy, and parties once
formed frequently live for many years,
maintaining their existence through
mutations of sentiment by pursuing a
popular course of action. Eventually it
comes to pass that many men adhere to
a certain partybecause their fathers have
acted with it, or for other reasons than
such as should influence intelligent and
conscientious citizens.
In this country two parties now ap
peal to the people for their support.
The one has had unlimited and unre
strained control of the government for
ten years. It has had a two-thirds ma
jority in Congress, and has thereby over
ridden vetoes of the Executive, has
changed the Constitution to suit its
caprices, and has not hesitated to vio
late the fundamental law of our national
existence when party necessity seemed
to demand it. 'Many who supported the
Republican party enthusiastically in
its earlier and purer days have Le
conte convinced that it has not pur
sued a proper line of poliejj, and
there are multitudes of its aillictal 7 nts
who are attached to it to-day by
very slender ties. The cry of loyalty,
which was once found to be so potent in
stilling discontent and so powerful an
agent for rallying the masses of the IZe
publiean party, has lost its charm.—
Thousands see that the,professed patriot
ism of Hadieal politicians has been used
'as a cloak to cover the most .•xletisive
corruption :aid the worst kind or
Intim]. •
Still loamy _Republicans 0110 are con
vinced that the Jarly h., not worthy of
support, seem to lack tliat degree of
courage which is needed to enable then'
to break loose from an organization
with which they can no longer act (.oii
scieritiously. 'l'lley deplolo the ra,cality
which runs rampant in the Federal and
State Capitals, and they I:00 Ns. that there
Is no hope of a change except through a
change of parties. They admit to Dem
ocrats that the overtlirmv of Itadical
cendency at I 1 itrri,hurgand Vcashinglon
would benefit the State and Nal ion, but
when they come lo the polls they vote
as they have done This they do
with many t herl:s of tonsriente :nut a
sense of humiliation, :It the l'IJIIN'il•tii)11
that partisan prejudice is stronger hi
their breasts than a sense or public (hay.
They allow their vote:, to be controlled
by narrow emotion: NVIIOO they feel that
it would be in linitely more manly to rise
above all !..111•11 considerations.
It is high tine' I'm all such men to
take :t decided stand. Tln•y have no
Interest in polities except that tcliiclt is
shared by every g‘noll citizen. The.
want no others, and expert to reap no
pecuniary benefit from the support of
any party, exeopt Fu far :is they are af
fected with the mass of the people by
Judicious or injudirion.
There they have a and if they
were wise they Ivould :it .11,0
that p:trty wit eli has 0, greatly in
creased all governmental expenditures;
\Odell has I,ensiontd so vast a throng
of useless olliciar- , ; whirl' has plundered
the public treasury and given :INV:L.)" the
public lands t, railrwul e,,rimrations,
and 'Alden lias ymistantly Icgi- , Latod in
fut'ur of innimrolie, , and lu , _ranized eap
it.4ll, and against the intere , ts ui lal.r
and industry,
At the coining Congre,,ional and
Legislative election, the many keptil,
licans, who are \\Atli the con
dart of the nit2n w 11., have been running
that party hi their twit intere,ts, will
have an opportnnity to ell'eet a 'HIRAI
needed re6Jrnt.
who eau not eoie , eientiou, , ,y vote for
_Radical van‘lidate , for Coolgre,s or the
Stale Legislature. :\ 'any trill volun
tary ah,etit thetn,elve. from the ,
in this State, hut they trill
shirlt Nvhat they feel I. lw a duty. I,et
every man \elm is ;i:aliai Jtritltthe
course NVllit•il I 'on ro,a and our State
I,egi,laltiro have por,oed torn out atol
vote for a ,•11:tioze. It i , the duty of
every good citizen to Vude,:iliti In Vide
The War New,:
'l'o-day is again very contradictory and
inisatisfaelory. I , roni Vre111•11 sorces,
via London, tinder date of the . 2st 11, we
have rep..rted i Itlr> II i it' I 1
24 ill, 111 . 4 wh i ch 1 • 1 I i ill . l A
anti/In-t Vrod,f-
Cliaylc, was k alga ; (111- 1111e1 . 111 , 1111
We 111100 II 1,,111111111 , llted to
day which report: a battle yesterday
and alrumored dereat of )1,0•M:.11. NV,
place little reliance on the hr,i report ;
that of Very hi,l•ly true so Car
at least us t un great battle having been
fought, if not as to the victors in il.
Great preparation, :ire being made to
vigorously defend Pall, should tlw
Prussians approaell its wall , while
measures of precaution seem ter be
1111:011 ( . 011tellirl:1011V (heir
eupaney of the city. Along with the
destruction, in part, of the beautiful
woods of the isoologo,, go the grand
pictures of the Louvre, bid fortunately
not to destruction, but to a place of
safety. Beautiful hills and forests can
be reproduced, but not pictures by g;rent
artists now no more. it is clear the
whole environs of Paris :ire to be sacri
ficed to save the oily. The Prussians
count first upon revolution to save the
city, then upon the interposition of idea
of wealth at Paris to save their property,
and then upon Peace before the walls of
Paris or in the city; but As yet we see
no evidence that revolution or interest
will prove as great as the demands
patriotism. 'Phu military people breathe
all one spirit, and so does the civil power,
with here and there an exception.
There are many things to admire just
now within the city of Paris, a; there
no doubt are ill Berlin and elsewhere in
Germany. NVe refer particularly to the
presence of the Empress of the French
in the military hospitals, where, with
all the ladies in high life, she is engaged
in giving succor to the wounded from
the French army, and to the tender of
the imperial stud, and all that can be of
advantage to the common cause.
The City of Bourges, it is said, :is hy
ing fortified as It place of, retreat for the
French Government should Paris be
come untenable. Bourges then will
become the seat of the government of
France, and Paris is simply a city vir
tually iu a state of siege, and no longer
the Capital of the Empire.
Bourges is a city in the centre of
France, with a population of about :;nl
- It is the Capital of the I 4partment
of Cher, stands at the confluence of the
four rivers, Amon, Yevrette, Langis
and Aloudon, 111111 is ila miles south of
Paris. It is on the Canal du Berry and
the Itail way .1u Centre. It will be seen
that it is quite favorahle Mr the new
purpose for which it has been selected.
It is an ill-built city, Lit contains the
handsomest cathedral in France, a st rue
ture which is larger than Notre I)anie,
and is well supplied with libraries,
schools, and has a ] - Intel de Ville, for
merly the residence of J . :y..llles Coml.,
the celebrated financier of Charles
VII. It is the birth-place of Louis
XI. Six centuries before the Chris
tian era it was the capital of Celtic Gaul.
Julius Cesar besieged and took it :5:2
years before Christ. Under the Romans
it because the capital of Armitan ht. In
475 it fell into the 1011015 of the Visi
goths. When Clovis vanquished Aiaric
it became the capital of the province of
Berri. It was devastated by a great tire
In 1487. In 7583 it was depopulated by
the plague. Seven Councils have been
held at Bourges, and the Pragmatic
Sanction was accepted there by the
clergy in 1438. It was celebrated in the
middle ages for the number of -carnivals
held in it, and it was to Bourges that
Charles VII. retired at the commence
ment of his reign.
It will be observed that Napoleon has
chosen no insignificant place, so far as
its history is concerned, to which to
transfer the headquarters of the Empire.
Whether its history is to be rendered
still more remarkable and conspicuous
by the death or the resuscitation of the
Empire within its limits, is a question
that will likely soon meet with a decided
The Iron Rule of the Railways
When railroads aro to be built the peo
ple are called upon to contribute their
money, by private subscription or
through the agencies of the State and
the National Governments. When rail
roads are completed the people lose all
control of them, and are compelled to
submit to whatever terms the directors
of these corporations choose to impose
upon them. So long as there is brisk
competition between rival lines, freights
and passenger fare are kept down to
reasonable rates, but the moment com
petition ceases travelers and shippers
find themselves at the mercy of a mon-
opoly. For some years past the people
living along the line of the Pennsylva
nia Railroad have been compelled to
pay the highest schedule rates on local
freight, while through freights, between
Eastern and - Western cities, have been
carried at very low rates owing to the
competition of rival lines; now however
all freights are to sullbr under the
burthen of heavy charges as an arrange-
men t has just been entered into by the
magnates who control the great through
lines in this State and New York,where-
by competition is to cease and a gigantic
monopoly of consolidated railroad:4 is to
grind out of the people the last cent of
trillute that can Lc wrung from thew.
'lto' 'wad, of this State have long
groaned under the oppression of power
ful railroad corporations, but have found
no legislature of late years honest
enough and bold enough to listen to
their complaints. The fact is that tile
Pennsylvania Central, the Reading and
ILe Northern central Railroads have
owned the Legislature of this State
for ten years past. The Net,' York
lb ra , ,/ said truthfully in t o t editor
ial the other day: "The Punnsylva
nht C,•nlrul own, and contro( , ; ,S7atc
of I', nwwlecrnia (18 much sir . ranee than
!Iv ilro,ul, of Ni w do the Slate
w.h I f any man doubts the
truth of that assertion let him go to
larrisburg and look at the secret work
ings of the legislative machine. lie
will Itutl there a shrewd and unscrupu
lous fellow, named Samuel Moon, act
ing as manager for this powerful corpor
ation. It is conceded to be a fact that
tin tre than a majority of the members of
each branch of our State Legislature
were bought up early in the last session
by \1 r. ti con. A regular bargain was
concluded Whereby memlwrs agreed to
vote for every bill which the managers
of the Pennsylvania Central might de
sire hi , have passed, for cud in COnSider
atiffil ,it e,qtain sums of money to be
duly paid to them in hand at the end of
the session. 'They were sure of their
reward if.t:hey did the work required of
them; and how well they stuck to their
bargain the records of the session show.
\Viten such is the condition of affairs
in a great State like Pennsylvania, and
when other States,where powerful rail
road corporations have their centres,are
subjected to similar demoralizing intlu
ences,llOW Can the people prOteet tilelll
- from extortion Shall they de
pend upon the generosity of railroad
corporations? I row Call they, hi view
of the aphorism which so truthfully
says " corporation, have no souls'."
Ind any one ever yet see a corporation
that consulted the interests of the pub
lic:' Do they not always regulate their
poliey by their If these
interests :weevil with the interests of the
',oldie, it is well if not, the public
must take care of itself. This is the
experieni., of all the past, and it will be
the experience of all the future.
then shall the people do? t4hull
they appeal front corrupt and vunal
:-ate Legislat tires to the Congress of the
[tilted t-luttes'."l'lnit would only be
leaping from the frying pan into the
lire. For several years past Congress
has liven the most. corrupt and merce
nary railroad ring in the country. Not
only have railroad magnates been able
to control legislation of an ordinary
charaeter, bait liew corporations have re
ceived grants of so many millions of
:Acres of the public lands that it would
lie difficult to compute the number thus
given away ; and it would stagger the
mind ,ordinary person to compre
hend the V,1,111c, ,, of the aria of l a nd
ihu.:,•iit from the heritage of the people.
There is no hope from Congrest Ulan
that body is composed of entirely differ
,
eid material from the Itailical majo
rity which has been engaged in
these gig,antic thefts. It is delivered
ov e r In be the SblVe I.t . N.:111 el/1110ra.
t and ienibei , b \ :LtnaStied mag
nificent fertunes by robbing the people
of the land, \vhit•li ought to hate been
preSerVed :1, a heritage for them
and their children after them. Jelin
Swett WaS trall , rt . lll . ll fruit the pnsition
ul Selicitor Ceti the l'ennsylvitiim 'en
t rid lo the United: 4 l:M, Semite. Ife \vas
selected by the managers el that inenop
iily it,4 linir representative limn, and
they sevureil his n o mination by a Re
publican caucus and his election by a
Republican Legislature. Ile is the ser-
Vallt of the Pennsylvania Central now
just as much as lie was when he sat in
his office at Huntingdon and received
orders from the officers of the la/lap:My.
has a son who is Presi
dent of the Northern Central Railway,
and is himself largely interested in other
railroads. In a light between railroads
and the people bolth the Senators of
Pennsylvairia would always be found on
the side of the monopolies.
\\*here then shall the people look for
protection? Shall they appeal to the
Supreme Court or the United States?
Some of the men whom grant has ap
pointed to the Bench of that Court are
the ablest and staunchest henchmen of
railroad corporations ; and it is believed
that they owe their seats to the influ
ence exercised upon the President by
railroad Kings.
This state of affairs is one which is
well calculated to excite alarm in the
minds of the people. Every one is in
terested in cheap freights and fares, and
no one can chain :exemption from the
effects of a combination among the
railroads of the country for the purpose
of advancing prices. Everything that
the people use Joust be affected by
:in ad Van in thecostoftransportation.
The bulky commodities of agriculture
will command less than they would at
lower rates, while everything else will
advance in price. This matter of rail
road monopolies is really a serious (Ines
live for people of all classes. They are
left without hope from State Legisla
tures, or from Congress. The last resort,
and the only remedy left is to roc found
in the application of the doctrine of
Stale rights, and the insertion of protec
tion clauses in our State Constitutions.
Illinois has led °Tin such a reform, and
it, is time for Pennsylvania to follow her
example. In no other• way can the iron
rule of the railway kings be broken.
N consequence of the large amount of
warrants drawn on the Treasuryduring
the current month, on account of quar
terly pensions, it is likely the forthcom
ingdobtstatement will not show as large
it decrease as the previous month by at
least five millions. _Estimating from
this fact, the probability is t h at the de
crease will be from ten to twelve mil
lions.
The Chinese Massacre
We publish on our outside, to-day, the
full and horrible details of the massacre
of Christians in China. It is from a
special correspondent of the New York
Tribune, and gives full particulars of the
terrible tragedy.
THE LANCASTER WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1870.
The Cry of Loyalty---It Is "Played Oat."
" Patriotism is the refuge of scoun
drels." So said one of England's shrewd
est observers; and the history of the
world has proven the truth of the para
doxical aphorism. This country has
just passed through a crisis in which a
multitude of greedy adventurers have
managed to make profitable merchan
dize of their professed patriotism. For
some years past the never ending cry of
"loyalty to the Union" has been wade
the only test of fitness for office among
us. Many people were possessed for the
time being with a sort of insanity, and
they were made the easy dupes of
designing rascals. Corrupt men aban
doned the Democratic party, professing
to be actuated solely by love for the
Union, and straightway they were re
ceived with cheers by the Republicans
and elevated to positions of power and
profit. The more freely a man boasted
of his patriotism, the less modesty he
displayed in portraying his pretended
love of country, the more perfectly were
the infatuated mass of intensely loyal
voters deceived by his loud-mouthed
pretensions. There never was such a
harvest for mercenary scoundrels be
fore. With a government conducted on
a scale of the most lavish profusion ;
with expenditures of unexampled wag
tude in every department ; with offices
increased in number to an almost lim
itless extent, and salaries advanced be
yond all precedent; with unbounded
opportunities for stealing, it is no won
der official thieves came swarming upon
this land as the locusts did upon the
land of Egypt. Every robber of the
public treasury, from the highest in office
to lowest tidewaiter or whiskey inspec
tor was intensely loyal. Ilow tile word
valiant rascals did abuse rebels whom
they were too cowardly to face upon the
field of battle ; with what bitterness did
they denounce us " copperheads" and
'sympathizers,' all who dared to expose
the corruption which prevailed, or to de
'nand that the government should be
administered according to the require
ments of the Constitution.
Under this test of loyalty the venal
and mercenary horde who have dis
graced the halls of our State and Nation
al Legislatures have conic into power.
Loyal majorities in the Pennsylvania
Legislature have sold the offices of
United States Senator and State Treas
urer to the highest bidder; loyal ma
jorities have introduced and brought to
perfection the infamous system of bribe
ry which prevails at I larrisburg ; loyal
majorities have neglected the public in
terests and made paying private legisla
tion the chief business attended to at
our State Capital; loyal majorities of
unprincipled legislators have made
the very name of this grand
old Commonwealth a bye-word
and a reproach among the States
of the Union. "As corrupt as the
Pennsylvania Legislature" has become
a proverb, since a loyal majority has
been assured by an infamous gerryman
der of the State. 'the loyal majority in
Congress kept the Union divided for
years that they might enjoy an oppor
tunity to plunder the public treasury;
the loyal majority in Congress has ex
pended annually since thu war ended
more than three times as much money
fur ordinary requirements of the gov
ernment as want needed in Democratic
times; the loyal majority in Con
gress, has sold Itself' to corpora
tions and monopolies, and piled
taxes on the laboring classes in or
der that a few rich men might be made
still more wealthy ; the loyal majority
in Congress has given away the bulk of
the public domain to railroads, and the
members have pot•keted large :gns or
money paid for this despoliation of the
heritage of the people; the loyal major
ity in Congress lifts pretended to reduce
taxation, but takes care that the burthens
shall be taken front corporations mud
rich men, and not from the shoulders of
the laboring classes ; the loyal majority
in Congress has bolstered up the Na
tional banks, and given us a variegated
currency inferior to the greenbacks, at
a cost to the people of nearly twenty
millions of dollars; t h e loyal majority
in Congress has refused to abolish the
income tax, because that would force
thous:Lds of otne,holders find their un
derlings to work for a living, instead of
being supported in idleness by the toil
of the laboring men of the country the'
the loyal majority in Congress has de
graded the right or suffrage, and forced
,he odious Fifteenth Amendment upuun
flue country, to prevent white voters
from controlling the goVerliniolit estab
lished by their fathers.
All these things have been done by
loyal men in the name of loyalty. And
the story is not half-toll. We might
till columns with amen,. ,fflooeration or
the ionotioos outages wilieh lase Lrcu
perpetrated in the name of loyalty. Un
der the specious cry or patriotism every
department of our government has been
filled by incompetent men, and rftscali
ty has flourished as it never aid under
any government in the world. We are
glad, however, to know that the gain,.
which has preyed so successful is about
played It, 'file people lire sick of the
cry of loyalty. It will not avail the Re
publican party in the coming elections.
The musses denlaliti a change. They
are tit C M' of the rule of loyal thieves,
tired of the corruntion and extravagance
which has pervaded all departments
of the government, aunt they will turn
a deaf ear to the stale cry or loyalty.—
Partie•s will be judged by the position
they take on the vital issue of the pre
sent day, find candidates will he weigh
ed in the balances of enlightene.l public
opinion.
Tile Tax on Sales
The ./;.rpr,s,i in attenipting to reply to
our article denouncing the action of
Congress in not selecting l'or release from
taxation articles whereon the tax is
chiefly paid by the poor man, rather
than those 011 which it is paid by the
rich, only adds fori.e to our argument,
by admitting that the lax on match
es which was n o t taken Mr, is
one which is mainly paid by the
laboring classes. This tax falls heavily
upon them because it is a specific
amount levied upon each box of matches;
and bearing a large proportion to the in.
trinsie value of the article taxed, it is of
course added by the manufacturer to
the price of the goods. But the tax on
sales being it general tax upon the
amount of goods sold can not so well be
added by the seller to the price of the
article sold because of its nature, and
because the tax bears but a small pro
, portion to the value of the goods, and
I the competition of trade will generally
compel the dealer to charge it to the
account of profit ;tint loss and deduct it
from his gains.
'Movements of Grant
In a letter received by General Dent,
the President writing from Newport,
It. 1., says: " I will leave fur \Vest
Point on Friday evening. I du not know
when I will be in \Vashington again.''
He is of so little account at the seat of
government that the public, generally,
don't care how long he stays away, or
whether lie ever gets back. Let him
take his time, and have a pleasant chat
and smoke a friendly segar and break a
genial bottle with the nigger cadet at
West Point. Such relaxation will do him
good, and be much more congenial to
his tastes and inclinations than to both
er his brains with State ailltirs about
which he knows nothing.
SP EA KEli Blaine has issued a speech
that should immortalize him as a man
ufacturer of figures. He says that the
army costs but $23,000,000; which would
be good enough, if it was not for the re
port of the Secretary of War, which
says that the expenses of the army are
$57,655,675. Mr. Blaine says, also, that
the expenses of the Government have
been reduced to $105,000,000 per annum,
which the Secretary of the Treasury
gives the lie to by officially publishing
that it is $132,683,573,83. Either Mr.
Blaine or the Secretaries are fooling with
the people.
Who Ire Itenelltted by the Iledaetton of
The PI/press has been trying to make
a little political capital for Grant's ad
ministration by publishing a table
showing the amount and character of
the reduction of taxes made at the last
session of Congress. The figures dis
played so exultingly are thus set out by
our neighbor:
In 11 eal
pear 1870.
Special taxes, including
those On Bankers
Gross receipts
Sales
.10,67J,1M1fl
b,SO-1 OW
Income, including sale
rtes
Legacies
Successions
Articles In Schedule A.
Passports
Stamps
$,3,016.00)
We do not think the editor of the
Express can have examined the above
table with any care, though his pub
lishing it twice would seem to indicate
that he took more than a mere casual
look at it. When scrutinized and prop
erly understood, it must be regarded as
anything else titan a cause for exultation
On the part of Radical politicians. Like
nearly all the legislation of Congress the
reduction made in the taxes was made
in the interests of monopolies, corpora
tions and rich men. The table displayed
by the E.rprrss shows that nearly all the
reduction of taxes over which it crows
was made in the interests of capital, and
not of industrial pursuits or the laboring
classes.
The first item, the abolition of special
taxes, including bankers) :amounts to
$10,074,000. 'lie removal of this amount
affords no relief to the mass of the peo •
plc. It only touches a small class of
wealthy and favored individuals.
The second item, that of gross receipts,
atrects railroads and other corporations.
It amounts to i 56,754,000. It is that
much tax lifted from railroads, &co, but
the people will not derive a dollar of
benefit frotit that reduction of taxes.
No railroad in the country has lowered
its fare, or rates of freight, since the tax
on gross receipts was removed, and it is
perfectly safe to predict that none will.
On the contrary, Tuesday's New York
papers inform us that the New York
Central, New York and Erie, and Penn
sylvania Railroads have combined to
raise their rates of freight enormously.
This is the report:
At a consultation of ,lay Gould, on the
part of Erie ; Commodore Vanderbilt, on
the part of the New York Central and II tid
son River Railroads, and Colonel Scott,
representing the Pennsylvania Central
Railroad, a uniform rate of freights from
this city to the West by these respective
railroads was agreed upon. The rates set
tled upon exceed them:turner charges about,
seventy-live per cent., and are shown in
the following list of first-class freight prices
adopted on the three :sods, taking effect to
day :
1n....0 Vorono oo
_Vet,' Ion: to
Cleveland s 6:1
S :32
Columbus, t ohm __
-no
Cincinnati po 15
Indian:moll , Oo" -17
Evansville 1 lo 57
Louisville, 1:3 - I 12
St. Louis,
Quincy,
St. Joseph, ALi
Chicago, 111 I no SU
The' following are tile rates steam by
way of the laittH
I , '“rulov
To Detroit, Cleveland and
$ 6:1
To l'llivag“ .t::lll‘vankio. 71
The fitre for transportation of rattle from
Huilalo to New York, which has been car
ried on for some months past at the compe
titian price of one dollar per ear load, has
been increased to $1 4o per ear load.
The third "item of reduced revenue
that coming tram the tax on sales, only
afrects heavy dealers. It does not touch
the retail traders and storekeepers front
whom the people buy. It is sti,sol,ooo
taken oil' those who could very well af
ford to pay it.
The next item is that of inuoines, and
that brought little relief to the masses,
for comparatively few of them paid toy
part of the E- , 37,2-IX,OOO,
The reduction made upon legacies,
suceessions, passports and articles in
schedule A., which includes watches
and gold and silver plate, will bring no
relief to the taX-ridden
The last item in the list is stamps.
This does net include stamps (tit the poor
man's box of matches, but applies to
stamps on notes, checks, le. With such
things the working classes have not
very much to do, and the relief exper
ienced from the reduction of 01,:17,0,0ou
will not be felt by them.
Let the people look at this table, which
is now going the rounds of the Radical
newspapers; let them study it item by
item, and then let them tell us, if any
one of them can, how the masses are
benelitted by this boasted reduction of
taxes. The tax on income was :1 w:tr
measure, of doubtful constitutionality,
and it :illbcted some people who lived
on comparatively meagre salaries. The
change in its provisions brought relief to
soon• who could illy all'ord to pay livelier
cen hof all they received above a thousand
dollars ; but, with that exception, we fail
to see how any except the capitalists of
the country have been benelitted by the
reduction made in the taxes by Congress.
The truth is the Radicals were true to
their theory of Legislation in this as in
other things. They protect the rich,
favor capital and aid monopolies. The
industry and labor of the country is left
to bear the burthens of all extravagant
government. It needs nothing more
than the exhibit which Radical news
' papers are now making to show how
completely Congress :Ind the adminis-
I fruition of Grant are run in the interests
of monopolies and certain privileged
classes.
The Colored Folio
The colored folks of Lancaster ire
feeling their oats as is manifest from
their "resolutions" published in anoth
er column. Brother Boston introduced
them and suceeedl,l in getting them
put. through :oiler slight demur from
brother Morgan, who was squelched by
an indignant speech in advocacy of the
resolves from the eloquent Doctor S. .1.
C. NVilliams, quondam barber—who, by
the way, in his former low mofession
contracted a small bill at this Miley,
which we take this method of delicately
reminding him that we would he happy
to have him call and settle.
The colored folks demand equal position
in the common schools and elsewhere
with the white folks. They very mod
estly dont ask ;is do their colored breth
ren in Louisiana, to he preferred to the
whites. In the late Republican Con
vention in that State Governor War
mouth was a candidate for chairman,
but Lieutenant Governor I num, colored
WaS the opposing candidate, and was
elected. Governer \Vannouth then
moved to make the vote for Dunn unan-
MIOUS. 111 accepting the chair Lieut.
Gov. I)unn said : " It is the first time,
1 believe, in the history of this I - Mon,
that the Governor and Lieutenant Gov
ernor of a State have been members I,f
the same convention, and I :on sure
t is the first time that a Governor and
Lieutenant Governor have been candi
dates against each other fur the presi
dency of a Convention. I like the Gov
ernor very well. I thank you, gentle
men of the Convention, for the compli
ment you have paid me in electing me
over hint."
The Sixteenth fihtriet
.11r. B. F. Meyers, of Ile(Mrd and one
of the proprietois of the Harrisburg
Put riot, was nominated yesterday by the
eon fereces of the Si xteenth district as the
Democrat lc candidate for Congress. The
district comprises thecountiesof Adams,
Franklin, Fulton, Bedford, and Somer
set, and is one of the closest in the State ;
the present Radical member, John Cess
na being elected in MS, by a majority
of 144 in ISG9 the same counties gave
Packer, for Governor, a majority of ISS.
Mr. Myers is very popular and is almost
certain of being elected.
A uointEsPoNDENT asks us who wrote
the lines ,
"Oh no, we never mentionLidin,
His name Is never heard;
Our lips are now forbid to speak
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They are generally attributed i,to the
editor of the Eaptcss and were written
after his fraternization with the King
of the Thugs, and refer to John E.
Wiley, the " big steal" candidate for
Assembly.
What CoTads Thinks of Things
The Republican State Central Com
mittee met at Altoona the other day to
take into consideration the work before
the party in this State. The attendance
was slim, and the feeling among those
who were present far from hopeful. It
was conceded that the Democrats stood
a good chance of gaining half a dozen
Congressmen at the coming election.—
John Covode hectored and ranted about
the necessity of preventing such a re
sult, and all present coincided with him
in the belief that it would be a disaster
which must be averted if possible. The
ways and means of keeping the Radi
cal party upto the work were discussed,
and it was conceded on all hands that
money would be needed, and that
in generous profusion, to make up for
I the revulsion in popular sentiment
which had been caused by the uupopu
lar legislation of Congress ; by its ex
travagance, its land grabs, its subser
viency to monopolies, and especially by
the forcing of negro suffrage upon the
people of Pen nsy van i a agai net the wish
of a vast majority of the white popula
tion.
310,1 - 4 I 1
t 1,7,1 I I
1,411 COO
(ovode thought lie could promise
some money from the Congressional
Committee, which is engaged in laying a
tribute of one per cent. upon the salaries
of all clerks and other oflice-holders. He
admitted that many of these were dis
posed to revolt at the exaction, but
thought the administration would allow
the screws to be applied to them. If that
were done, he was of opinion that a
considerable sum could be furnished
to marshal the negro vote, to whiskey
up the hurrah boys of the party, and
to get out the lukewarm. The guar
, rel in his own district was alluded
to, and "honest John" to said to have
sworn a streak . at the mention of the
disorganization in Fayette county. He
expressed himself as very doubtful about
that district indeed, and we take it for
granted that he does not entertain the
slightest hope of defeating 'lon. llenry
I). Foster with the Mall he has put up
against him. Other districts were
spoken of in which great dissatisfaction
and bitter quarrels existed. John
Cessna's chance of being returned was
regarded as decidedly slim, if the Dem
ocrats made a strong nomination. The
case of Creeley and O'Neill, in the Sec
ond Philadelphia District was taken up,
and a re,;.l.ition pa,scd directing the
EXCCUIiVI` 00111nlitil'e that city,
takcev;deuce and decide \cho is cnliticd
to be regarded, as the rt.tmlarly 110min:t
ied enticlidate. deci-itm oft'ovotle's
conlinittec has 11W among the
supporters g.t . tlt are disposed
to rt.sen t interfcrcuee with the tie-
cis.. a the Radical City Executive
Comm.ittee, which ruled Creeley out.
Armstrong was considered to be in great
danger of being defeated; the Bucks
District was regarded as just as good
as ; the Reform movement made
thing,: look blue even in ..\Jleghtiny;
and there was clanger that the party
would Lo deliver,' of still-lwn twin
candidates in the Crawford District.--
Such was the coudilion of the Con-
gre,sional canvass us reported to Covode
at the recut meeting of tlw Radical
Mule Central Connnittev
And then, there was the Legi-dature
in danger—at least the state Senate.
Lowry was kicking up the biggest kind
of a row in the northwestern corner of
the ; 4 1.ate, the double district was likely
to return two _Democrats, and nothing
could beat John lieek in Lyeoming,
Union and ".:nyder. It is no wonder
Covode swore in the worst kind of Eng
lish.
The Dcmovrats of Pennsylvania have
a chance to win a most substant lid and
valuable victory in October. They can
carry all the close Congressional dis
tric•ts, may secure control of the State
Senate, and might elect a majority of
members of the 1 - louse by polling their
full vote. Let the organization of the
party be completed everywhere at once,
:Old let the battle be fought bravely and
energetically. The coining contest is
really more important than that of last
fall. Let the full vote of the Democratic
party be polled, and the second Tuesday
of( )etcher will be a day of victory.
Radical ()Onion of Radicals
'Hie Philadelphia 7/ typelph, a proin
hient ;Ind influential Radical news
paper, in its editorial columns last eve
ning, pays its respects to the Radical
editors and oilice-hunters of this county
in the following pithy paragraph :
The Republicans of Lancaster vote On
Saturday for Congressional, Legislative,
and other candidates, and the contest has
I wen singularly animated. 11' half is true
that is published by thedoeal papers against
the various candidates, every man pressing:
for a nomination much more merits a cell
in the penitentiary titan a seat at \Vaithilig
hin or I larrishurg ; awl according to the
history the several editors give of each other
all of thom should have been reposing be
hind iron liars years ago. The I nstrict At
torney should present at least filly hills to
the next grand.lure, if the newspapers ire
at all credible, :unl promptly WON, for an
enlargement of the county jail. Editors
and candidates generally should Is: indict
ed in the name of the Republican party,
unless honesty has entirely ceased to vege
tate in the Old Guard.
The Colored School
Brother Boston and lii colored friends
complain in the resolutions they ftdopt
ed the other day, that only the lowest
grade of sehools--the primary--is open
to their children in our town. But
the difficulty is with the dusky young
sters themselves
of 010111 are
einillWielit t.. Mlle a scl I of higher
grade: and there are but from fifteen to
twenty who attend the primary school,
which is kept up :it great expense for
the benefit, of juvenile blacks. Eaeh
negro child educated by the town costs.
it from three to five timcg , as much its
a white child ; and the taxes paid by the
negro population would scarcely sup
port a mosquito for a week anti even as
hard to collect a 011 V hill :*llll
Tir cowl
ty last \ye, I: unanimously nominated
lion. Den. W. Woud \van! G ar President
Judge or the Distriet eoitiposed of Sus
tittelutnita and Ilradlord vounties. Ile
declines to lA' a candidate, as it would
necessitate his removal into that
dis
triet_ It is probahlt. that \e ill rereive
the nomination President Judge or
his owit I)istrict, having said in tins o v er
to ticumnitinicathin train the ittenthers
or the liar of wiikesb:Lri.e hit he wm.hl
:,,e,pt the munination if tendered.
TILE emigrants who arrived in Now
York during the week ending on last
Saturday, August 27th, amounted in
number to or not more than Itvo
lifths of the average weekly arrivals in
May, June and the early part of July,
This diminuthin is altribut.•rble to the
war in Europe. The actual number
ar
riving last week from Bremen and
Hamburg is only -1117, thi,e pas
sengers must have tiled before the VOW
mencement of hostilities.
A. ELDRI .1 the
Fourth Congressional district Wis
coniiin has again been nominated by the
Di:inner:its of the District. This is the
fifth nomination received by Mr. El
dridge, and as lie avill, Or course, be
elected, his next term will complete ten
years of honorable service.
Cunt n.—Robert Cupid is the name of
the black barber in Marietta with whom
John E. \Viley was closeted last week,
in negotiations fur the negro vote. Is
it because Wiley so freely fraternizes
with the blacks that the Erp rcsB has
ceased to denounce him for the "big
steal?" or is it for sonic other eonsidcra
tion
Tut: Democratic conferees of York,
Cumberland and Perry met yesterday
and nominated R. J. Haldeman fur
Congress. The conferees of Cumber
land very foolishly withdrew from the
convention because they could not se
cure the nomination of Mr. Hratton.
Hurry H. Davis, the Harrisburg artist,
who is now United States Consul to
Cardiff, was married to Mrs. Ann David,
a Welsh widow, on the 4th inst.
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The Forest City Base Ball Club of
Cleveland beat the Olythpie at Wash
ington yesterday, by a score of 13 to 17.
J. W. Jennings has been nominated
by the Republicans of Harrisburg rs
their candidate for Mayor.
Dr. W. N. Davis, has left Reading for
the seat of war in Europe. This is the
fourth physician who has left Reading
for Europe since the commencement of
the war.
The Coroner's inquest in the collision
on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, near
Quakake Junction, by which a fireman
was killed, finds that it was attributed
to neglect of the agent at the Junction.
The Annual Teachers' Institute for
Chester county will commence at West
Chester on Monday, October 31st. Prof.
Monroe and other prominent lecturers
have been engaged.
General Ryan, the Cuban leader, was
arrested in New York yesterday, on the
charge of having resisted a United
States officer executing the neutrality
laws.
The Comptroller of the Currency, yes
terday, authorized the Farmers' and
Planters' 7cational Bank of Georgia, to
commence business with $lOO,OOO capi
tal.
Captain John It. Steel, one of the Old
Defenders of Baltimore, died in Wash
ington county, Md., on the 17th inst.,
in the 90th year of his age. Ile was a
native of Harford county.
The rosin and oil distillery of William
A. Woods, in Brooklyn, was burned
yesterday afternoon, causing a loss of
$30,000. A flock of imported pigeons,
valued at $2OOO, was also destroyed.
On Friday forenoon, James Drewitt,
employed iu the Harrisburg Cotton Fac
tory, got his left hand between two cylin
ders in the milkand had it torn off at the
wrist, besides having his arm so severe
ly injured that it had to be taken off
The Susquehanna Railroad has been
discharging a lot of conductors because
they stole over three-fourths of the re
ceipts. One would suppose conductors
would learn after a while that no well
regulated road allows their conductors
to keep over half they take in.
The Republican delegate elections in
Chester county, on Saturday, resulted
in favor of the renomination of Wash
ington Townsend for Congress. Dela
ware county had already elected Town
send delegates, so that his renomination
is considered certain.
A vote on the question of sympathy in
the Franco-Prussian war has been taken
among the visitors at Allegheny Springs,
Va., and resulted two to one in favor of
France. Among the French sympa
thizers were the ex-rebel General Beau
regard and Hardee.
A young man named Henry Hines, a
repairsman in the employ of the Road
way Department of the Philadelphia
and Reading Railroad Company, was
killed on Friday last, near Phomixville
station, by being caught between the
bumpers and crushed.
Friday morning at about ten o'clock
a boy named James Drewet met with an
accident in the cotton mill, by which he
loses one of his hands. His hand was
caught under one of the "beaters" in the
picking department, and was taken off
above the wrist.
On 'Wednesday lasOfr. Benj. Walker,
of Pennsbury township, Chester county,
while riding through his woods, with
his grandson and grand-daughter, the
cart upset, throwing them all out, and
killing the little girl instantly, by break
ing her neck.
The fines imposed for violations of the
liquor law go to the school fund of the
strict where the offence was commit
a. In the tirst twu days t,t . the Court
Erie, the Sch..' Treasury ,of that city
received an accession cf ufout
from this source.
The city gas bills of Harrisburg
amount to over $lO,OOO and the author
ities decline to pay them. The city has
not been lit up since last June. Th,
Radical officials now propose to light it
with coal oil, as being cheaper than gas,
for which is charged by the com
pany.
John Keiper, one of the police officers
of Easton, and a resident of West Ward
eloped, on Wednesday evening the Isth
instant, with a woman by the name of
Maria Ginnard. The woman was a
seamstress and unimn ried. Keiper
leaves a wife and two children behind
him.
The Venango says : "What
a few weeks ago was the gamboling
grounds of myriads of rattlesnakes, cop
perheads and other natives of the wild
woods, is now Fagundus city, with one
thousand inhabitants, a Methodist
Church under headway, and a wilder
ness of derricks."
Mr. Martin It. Eshleman, of 'Derry
township, went out a few days ago with
his gun ,anil had not gone far till he spied a
"silvery wave" through the thick leaves
above him, some one hundred and thirty
or forty feet. Ile drew his piece to his
shoulder and tired killing six grey
squirrels.
The st. David's Episcopal Church nr
Radnor, Chester enunty, has been di
vided. One branch has purchased two
acres of ground on the Lancaster turn
pike, near the Eagle I haul, of John Pal
mer, for luUU. A new church build
ing will be erected thereon, to be called
St. David's Chapel.
OUR BUNDLE OF NOTHINGS
26—Female Dre. 4
"There are nuttly yeung
the einnallll/11
hark's et rn..re value
Thall the II 111111 ill 11111• hi •'
Age, and many old ones yet, net
twees:etrily so, because they belong to the
female sex. Somebody 4 . e asked a Ven
erable connoiseur of staMr3 - , what could
possibly be chore beautiful than a well
dressed woman, and scan somewhat shock
oil, when he received for a n swer—.l icemen
without dress. Nevertheleas, the savan
spoke the truth, irit wmiiim was
the subject; for what, for instance, would
Powers' "Greek slave - be, if dressed up ill
the present female style M . decorations 1
But this is not exactly the train of thought
we had intended to pursue, when we mode
the quotation at the head of this paper. We
confess to some weakness, perhap , • in our
admiration of beautiful and well dressed
women. 'When the tiny healthful We mean
neither pretty nor hawholno. some, may
be content with these latter qualities, but
as for ourself, we must say, that we are not.
NVe have seen very many pretty women—
handsome women— and we have also seen
very many pretty and handsomediills, but
the one excited very little of our admira
tion, more than the other. True licauty
exists in the mind, and when it is really
t/mcc, it never fails to manifest itself ex
ternally in a beautiful and becoming man
ner and dross, imoving the more
valuable than the Wilnie o u tside. The
present fashions are eximislingly Mtn
isfit ordeal fir woman to pass through. If
tie , taste i , not cultivated, the sure
to be taWklry, incongruous, cud often even
repulsive, leaving one in extreme doubt,
whether the subjes in reality ex initits i a
proper costume, in - is only a niiiying figure,
advertising, the wares of snub rinup and
gaudy clothing .hop.
Perhaps it would be going inn say
that j,rrl(ii, atO ❑rr iipver . more
deed eery often so, leaving the " bark - -
the mere 0,a...id, or in., v:11110, - 11n10 the
whole in,lin , be. - tint ipunetrato4
to the very soul, mid illumines the outside
with its rays, through the meridian or life),
:nil into " green old age. - The dress of
Loa! beauty, is always appropriate, always
harmonious and dignified. It is not a mere
sham WIC OIL fur a ,fa`riai Out . asioll, but is
an external manifestation of a solid and
rational internal condition. It is almost
impossible for all ignoratnui to dress rcii
—of either sex ; if she wishes at all to make
all appr,ll,lV•C, She haul bettor submit at
once to the judgment :if an intelligent mit
iner and mantuamaker, whose business it
is to blend colors and material in a becom
ing manner. NVlty even the most intelli
gent and highborn ladies of France sub.
!nit entirely to the dictates .if the man
milliners. of Paris. Such a jumbled up
mass of gaudy ribbons, and horsetails
aml sea-weed, and artiticials, and feathers,
and showy prints, and other stuffs, a.s are
exhibited on gala-days, are only lit for
Caney balls, or South American carnivals;
and all this is recognized as proper "female
dress," just as if woman was specially de
signed too an exhibitor of the ludieerous.
How many of them when observed from a
rear view, seem as something, but behold,
when we obtain a front view, wo find a
doll-like vacancy—all absolute nothing.
Strip many of them of the "dry goods"
they carry, and they become valueless .
We say nothing concerning their social and
civil rights, in this respect, where it does
not violate the rights of others ; but there is
something absolutely ridiculous and dam
aging, in a poor, hard-working girl, putting
on the appearance of an indolent rich one.
Many of them deprive themselves of mind
culture, of heart culture, and of soul cul
ture, merely to make an ephemeral
"splurge" in the world, and then, perhaps
subside into slipshod slatterns for the rest
of their lives—evincing in reality that the
" bark" was of '• more value than the whole
inside be." BELL-VIEW.
LETTER FROM KANSAS.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 13, IS7O
Editors Intelligencer : Having promised
you in my Omaha letter to write ono from
Kansas, I ant now ready to verify it, and
lay before your readers some information
respecting the great State of Kansas.
I left Omaha on the Sth of Juno in eOlll
- with Messrs. Kauffman and Hostet
ter, from Manheim, Pennsylvania, who
were on their return from
Reaching Leavenworth the same day at 4
P. M., we put up at the "Planter's House,"
where we found Jacob E. Kreybill, Esq.,
who moved hero last spring. Leavenworth
is situated on the western bank of the Mis
souri river and on the Kansas Pacific Rail
road, and is the county seat of Leaven
worth county. It is said that fifteen years
ago there stood but ono house where now
stands the city of Leavenworth, claiming
about thirty thousand inhabitants. In this
county can be purchased valuable im
proved farms, according to location, front
thirty to one hundred dollars per acre, and
unimproved land front ten to fifteen dol
lars per acre, all first quality limestone
land. From here I went to Lawrence, the
county seat of Douglas county, a city of
several years' growth, claiming fifteen thou
sand inhabitants. Ou the 2lst of August,
166:3, quantrell made a raid upon this town
anti burned it, and shot and killed one
hundred and ninety of its citizens. It has
since boon rebuilt and now claims the
above population.
.My next stopping plave Wa, With a Penn
i sylvania flintier, near Prairie City, Win
proposed that I should stay with him one
month and help him to do away his har
vest, to which, after some bargaining, I
finally agreed, and pitched right into work
in regular Pennsylvania style. I pulled
off toy coat, rolled up my sleeves,
kicked away my boots, took an old cra
dle that was banded to me, and cut nine
acres of Fall wheat, seven of Spring
wheat and twelve of oats. 'lbis Pennsyl
vania farmer Off. Baker is his name) came
to Kansas thirteen years ago a poor man,
and now owns two hundred and fiirty acres
of limestone land, of which twenty .I.cri, is
timber land, and generally keeps front
Go to 75 head of cattle. Ile bought this
Spring a thorough bred breeding calf six
weeks old, paying fifty dollars for it; keeps
a breeding horse tied took the .Mate Prem
ium when two years old; and lets tin or
chard containing one hundred and fifteen
peach trees, that yielded year be fore last live
Hundred bushels of peitehes. Thus you see
what a poor man can do by going West where
land is ahcnp. Douglas county is one of
the early settled Ones and contains choice
farms, that can be purchased from thirty
to fifty dollars per acre.
When I loft my Pennsylvania friends I
wont to Ottawa, the county scat of Frank_
lie county, for the purpose of trying my
luck ill running :termss an outill bound for
the Southern partof Kansas. Volume favor
ing me without much loss of tine. and h o tel
expenses, I happened to lied Illy Wall, Mr.
Peter Dillon, who was starting out with
two 'nurse wagon in search of a hoti:c. Ito
proposed to camp out :ma live on camp fare.
I agreed thinking it a line opportunity to
I I taste frontierism and camp life. Matters
being sow fully agreed upon, We laid ill
provimions and :munition f”rIll. a Ililll*
ti,ur. Being now fully equipped awl
outtlitetl for the expetlition, the ery "All
Aboard - NVili.l gicrn, anti in
a soutl,ve:torn direction tlll,ll ,71i kago
county, crossing the Sac and Fox Indian
lands; thence through emnity on to
the :Neosho river, crossing it and entering
the Neosho Valley, a title and rich valley,
with heavy thither along the river. Travel
ing north front here We write to Emporia,
the county seat of Lyon county, which is
situated ~n the Junction City and Non ,sh a
Valley Railroad, ;111,1 is quite a business
place. Art immense amount of freighting is
done from this place to the southern part
of Kansas. 'the State Normal School is
also twitted here. here we took rho Sante
Fe road to Chase county, thence down
South Fork river to Chelsea, a town in
Ihntler county. From here see Went \Vest .
to Wichata,a:town of three month; growth,
containing one hundred finished houses,
and one hundred more being in contract.
This town is destined to boa business place
some day, being situated ~n the Ark:ins:et
River, in Sedgwick county. Wo now went
down the Arkansas valley in Summer
county; thence into Cowley county, wl rich
is just beginning to settle up. During the
months of May and June, no less than fif
teen hundred families settled ill this oolin
ty. Next wepasse,l through reenWood and
Woode.oi x llumbolt,.\ Hon coun
ty, where is looated the United Stab, Land
011 ice. Here I left my partner and r , ok the
stage to l,aronett,-Anderson comity, where
I took the ears to Prairie City, then, the
stage again to Olathe, Johnson county,
where I took the train and went to Kansas
City, where I am at present..
Ilaving now been in Kansas almost two
months, and traveled through sixteen of
her counties, ill the right time of the year
to see her crops, I claim I ought to know
and to be able to say a little solliething
about Kansas. In the first place, she may
be called a great State, ranking already, as
young as she is, with 001110 of the first ag
ricultural States, and judging by the vast
amount d Machinery shipped to various
parts of the State, and the immense emi
gration pouring in daily, she will ere long
be the leading agricultural State or the
Union. As a :stock: growing State slit' is
not to be excelled; her rich extensive
prairies, covered with tine grata, are inex
haustible. Apples and peaches will be
scarce this year, owing to an unusual late
cull snap in the spring. The Wheat crop
is nahldling,owitig to a dry spell at the time
of sowing, but what is of it is good. Mr. Ba
ker took wheat to mill that weighed six ty
four pounds per bushel, tool Mr. Earl had
his threshed which weighed sixty five lbs.
per bushel. Corn looks exceedingly well
where it had rain. I was shown a stalk
in Ottawa, that was planted on the 11;th of
,May by Mr. Griffin, and taken out us the
lath of July, for exhibition, that measured
thirteen feet two inches. Last Fall there
was a corn stalk exhihited at the State
Fair, that measured sixt,• n feet.
In some counties of the State the crops
failed, owing to the drought which pre
vailed. In Greenwood county th e y had lit ,
soaking rain since last October. In the
Northwestern and Southern luta of the
State, the drought is great this year. Last
year it was very Nvet in I(ansas. In the
Southern part of Kansas, including the
southern tier of counties, are eight millions
of ai re-. of land, culled the "Usage Indian
LOUIS," tchirh were laaa•Illly given up La
the Indians to the GoVerlllll,lll., Which Will
soil it only to a-•teal settlers :It per
:u•re. Tthe pruceetls of said lands art. itt go
to the Intlituts, Who are to Its roll tnsetl on a
reservatitin in the Indian Territory.—
This "pelts a (dials, Inn actual snnlers
My next letter I trill write trunt
stoma. .1, S. li.tK Eli.
I nn, wg...27.—l:overnor i:eary
has issued a 111, Prlalllatioll Walla' this
various illin`lldfllelltS to the Na
tional and State laws by copy, and
r
ing that it 1111, club h, his Kanto ledge 111:11.
the, IS 1,/,' a deficient cliforcenn•nt oldie
Fifteenth iiniendinent in .Nlontgonicry
county, concluding as h/lll,ts .1 tul
whereas, it is my constittitiosil itnd official
duty ht take rare that the laws he faithfully
execst,d, and it has come to my knowledge
that sundry assessors and registers of V,m.rs
have refused and are refusing to assess and
register divers colored male citizens ,of the
lawful age and otherwise, qualified as elpe-
Wrs: now, therefore, in consideration of the
premises, the County Commissioners ~r
said county are hereby notified and direct
ed to instruct thu several assessors and
registers of voters therein to obey
and conform to the requirements of said
constitutional amendment and laws; and
the Sheriff of said county is hereby author
ized and required to publish in his election
proclamation for the next ensuing ON lion
the herein recited constitutional amend
ment act of Congress and act of the Legis
lature, to the end that the same may be
known, executed and obeyed by all asses
sors, registers of voters, election officers,
and that the rights and privileges guaran
teed therein may be secured to all the citi
zens of the Commonwealth entitled to the
same.
liven under inv hand and the
great seal of the State, at I hurls-
S EA I,
burg, the day and year first above
Written. JOHN W. f7e,t tn.
Et-President Johnson not n Candidate
For Congres,
Some of the friends of ex-President An
drew Johnson have called on him and
earnestly solicited him to become a candi
date for Congress, which he very politely
and as positively refuses to do.
There is no man in our district that wo
would support so cheerfully as our honored
ex-President for nny position that he would
accept. Ho would he a tower of strength
and a terror before the enemy, causing
them to quake. But we have been assured
and reassured that ho has no idea of being
a candidate for Congress. So then friends
and foes mardispel their hopes and fears
on that score ancL look for some other Ajax
who will wield the two-edged sword iu the
coming light.—Creenville (Tens.) Union.
The Massachusetts population has in
creased but live-fold during the past
hundred years.
From our exchanges and the letters of
correspondents wo gather the followirw
interesting notes and jottings of the war in
Europe:
POLISh LEGION IN FRANCE.
. .
For some time the French government
has been hesitating about enlisting Poles
in its army, but have now concluded to do
it, as appears by a letter received in Wash
ington from Paris by a government otll
cial, which says that in the ten days previ
ous to the writing thereof' there had been
enrolled :mil organized a Polish legion or
torts thousand men. Most (ml them have
seen hard service in the Polish contest,.
against Russian and Prussian tyranny, and
in soldierly qualities are excelled by no
body of men in Edrope.
EMT=
The German cavalry arc conquised of
cuirassiers, dragoons, hussars and ultlans.
The last named, who seem to alarm the
French so much, are I ulcers. They are a
part of the regular cavalry forae, lightly
armed, well mounted, and are probably to
make raids in the country in advance of
OW lierman line of marah. Therefore they
naturally excite unusual and wido-sproail
terror. Ilia they are only aerman cavalry.
Tho (;urmans seemed to have learned front
our success in looking "raids - during the
Last War, how easy and how eirtilqiVe
ilarritSS, With cowl rt cat cavalry, the cne
my's country.
The French and Insh residents of New
York are 111 have a festival at Jones' Woods
or Elm Park this week, the proceeds Of
which are to he devoted to the fund for the
relief of the sick and wounded in the French
armies and hospitals. Many speakers have
promised to be present. :Au invitation has
been extended to the Mayor and the Uoo_
eror of New Vi,rl:.
Sovoral silly dispatches havo boon sent
front l'aris a proposition in one or tho
journals thorn to put electrie lights on the
fortitleittion:, so ie. to tlarzlo the assailants,
anil to exhibit them to sharp.booters and
artillerymen. 6 , 1' the 111:111,
no eieetrie light luta ev,r been invented
which be :It all "11././.1111:2' 111 the distance
nC Arhich a It ial Hilt , gnu be sure
ill th•• tins its ma
chinery; unless it happened to br more
useful to the than t• , the besiei. , eil,
far liNing the dire.•tion amf range nt the
gum-.
The Trochu, expo:ling
from I':'i, N% 110 11:IVe 11411 tiuilkicut
1/f 5111,1,(1.11,., and might thorefore
11,1,11111• n litlrtit'll tliii put lir st.,re , ,
ill hi. martial
la‘v. In •.•ity ball' ••t"
inhabitant, the I.ll2llhey of such people
must be utimmon, ; :mil ii“thittg, more ap
pallill 1,0 thall ~0r,.1.111,4
whi,h 1111151 result trout tht`lll) out
int, , the 11.1110, tt ithffilt prorisionrs or shel
ter. If this order i 0 enf”reed to tho letter,
it kill prove 11.11 l'dr, • t.. del . , tided Id
the 1.1, , t extremity.
It kt I n regrottc , l that the teat hog)),
thing hi be ,i).2.l)alizi)4l by the burnilig of Ca
thedrals. It is an ant a vatnlali,)) (4) de
stroy t 11),)) ))4111)4, - .,,,lev , and (4) the w,)).shii)
of ( st,red, a)) (tiny urn, with rar,
tvorks nt art, nihilist never Im re_
placed. An•hitecnirally, ))1),), they are
grand :ifid he:tut:on! t" Lo walihmly ro •
)111).).)1 to rain:. It in a pity that in the di,-
»lati»» natim”:
C. 1,11 1 ,1. hr preserved by
ct,111111 , 111 rvllKPll 1.
Lain , the prllel.l
- to the arni‘•,
4.11 till' 1:411 ilistillit
will he lilt , 1 Ith of
August, that atinivt•r,try*, , ,,r triumph
-4111 return I, Park alter that vain
paU:n Ilhirlt dor i.ii•.l the dt,tiny Al,-
trian tiottlittati"n ill halt. till that, ilsy,ss
alter your Criwean vi, - Lurie-,all 1501-
comet! 11111 1,1111 and
,1111L.si 1110 thy soils L.I the
t4rantl
however, PolissiS 1.. I rivade the sa
cred soil oY Ihv ~titre. latutche,
a 1.01'1,111. 111 , 11. o h o 1101.•
slirpris.sl yl.lll . s :4111 liii• nnnnout
Let 11, 111,1,11 It, eiteennter thew
diet. the-, , 011111 ,
s,, arr,,Ltant to-t 1,1%•, 111110 Litli..rs aS
une Lei thris.;
Six. Isany ,t,!•all,ngymi inflamed he that
exciting li'L hint 4. , 1
ail Frellllllllon,
Tho the th,
vuld ices of the
gr11:111 at I,eitiLt tc lend their
arms t,, the ea.", 1:11,,\y
1111111 MO, i•L 1 1, r the
right,. 1 poll per. After al.urhi n;; millions
trf I I: ll I , atk , and I;ormans, tilt
will nut hesitate t.. ahollrit the Id
54,11011,11 I t rntany. 11.-1.11,1“ , , :1 111 , 0111'W
of pn.perity them. The ,i,pres,it , t,
httintliatiwi 111 From•huien 1,0111ri4 11114
In them. till', 11310 entered rritilt,
only It, littd little grave::. Inldiert , ter
1114111 II:150 to ,11.•11 \ /11.,0:111.1 1,11,1,11 S bat
tles; hut. 111111 meet,[ patri"tisni the
ewtntry's 11,111 r 15111 IR , 101fe. 1 . %, every
Frenchman IV ith a heart the it,ouent
arriViA 111rnnunrr ..r tlio.
English 1L,111,111 , 01 me German Pro
.L l'ollo‘viiig is a re
sume of the i iernian arms sill,. the emu
ineuceinent or the invasion of France:
After the check by the rreindi v:inguard
near Saarhru,•l:, G, rollmved by
route ol lit.•)llLhoti, the I•'renoli main tmdy
retired on the line the Voscl lr. The
fortresses ot — l'llionvilla and Vote,
of the lint (,der, ail well supplied and
entrenched 1 . 4111 j, cot,trtivted,
gave great strength to their note position.
dirvet attael: would. have 11,11 diltirnit
thert•fl,r, the pa,sed to the
south of Aletz %%ark.'" the :loselle, to cross
it :Wove the its .aid di,oun.r the enemy's
movement,.
Such great masses t,Vt.l•ilig a
region, ',soured special prei•autiiiiis.
'rite first ariny was to the enemy's
line 'if march, and %vas directed to tali , a
new pusitiiin near the river N led. In the
ineantinie the tiri.t un,l sissinil armies ap
f/r1);l1•111,11 each ,ether, 111154111',4
over the Muse'',. The smile division, nil
the Utli, kink part in tile tight, in whieli [lie
French Were reptilsed and pursmll until
they readied the priiteetinn ut the guns 01
1 1 / 1 21%. I , lllhat resulted greatly in the
advantage It the Priissial,, aS it retardi•il
the French retreat, and Ili, advantage Sc as
easily fulloweil up.
.
roads rnnnert Mem. with Verdun
and Verdun with Paris. The seeond arinv
refrainiim the pa,5..4. the and
Paris thus thimatened, the French were
nl.,liged to withdraw frmil the re4ht. hank of
the M“:+elle Metz, not Feting
enough to Step the PrI,S1:111
The Ildeallee of the first army, ohserving
the of the
IIgIISL the French rear, tiirmving it
Upon the main Lode, which 1( . 0 , , milipelled
to send back several divisions to support
the rear. The Prussian First and Seventh
corps went on the south -ide to compel the
French to face:Mout. They sueceeded after
bloody but victorious conflict.
Prussian Filth V 1 ,1,111 attacked
Fros,arti, and hy degrees the entire
Preach force became ell'lt,md, and of the
Prussian fore ,s other di e islons of the Third
Corps, Tenth t Of the Ninth
l'orp, and a hri,r,ade of the Euzlith partici
pated. Primo Frederick Charles had
taken command. The movement WWI Sill . -
ee,Sillt, anti the southerly road to Paris w,1,1
intercepted. 'Pile l'russians 14,1iglit, heroic
al' :tint their losses were hinge, hut those of
the enemy, especially the Imperial
wire immense.
French ffilicial reports cstilimte the
engaged :it donl ie trhat it was.
only scat' ILr till. I.:lllper,r to 0,44,111`
fatal ISOlatioll and his supplies
lay un the ii..rtherii linl.. The l'russian
army in the south finding no enemy la.-
I"re it, 101 l Lurk, 1,1111.11111!: 5,111 the .111,
:trill.)'. A joillt attack r,tl the Fronoll teas
thou
Frotieli, r acing to ',treat Lt' the
till, heights
Niutz. The A run' 111,1,41 to
the right, ti its erlitio and loft at VcrlLe
s hrle its right
1,t1,1 in r'ollta , t tt Itil tiro 1..11",t Atllly. All
- la..1t11111• , , for It
along 11111' teas requisite, as the
11.1 , i111.11 v: as a stnaig
At the scat tho9th Corps olicuilillyre.l the
atlvaliced d0t:L..11111,1u,, v. 1111 4,peni,l with
artillery tron the V ernes il!oside. The first
Ita're; . ol,, 11 a, rail oral to (.11,tta:ZO
1•11p11ly ill at I O',•! , •l: OpOl , l
still 511'4,1111,1 alat On"tait I,lllllollade,
ilil.ll I:l,aoti until ilavtight. 'rho
I , rench replio.l 15•1111 t igo r. Ahout
etigaue.l (till, just thin
strongly r1.1r11,1..1 11, 111,, reaching fruin
.Nlarie ux 'lion,. 0, La
I I is pesitien, naturally of great strength,
had loci, s" I..rtified l v eartlitt,,ks and
ditehL, that it ,ecined iinpregnalple.
There was a Unit'," delay lietiaal
ill er,h, in that the enemy had
storp,4l his retreat ill the northern rente.
The r nnbut ls 111111 (1,11,11 tea. long and ter
rible. 4 ill the lent, the (;tiards and SaXiill
:It St. Marie, St. Privat and
Imileourt. Meanwhile the other wing teas
enga.2ell near Ft. Ail, I.al . 4lisse, Wand and
Verne, :Ile, as far as the nerth side of the
northern read Frew .Metz to Verdun.
Eighth and Ninth Corps participated in the
alall/11 11r I,l'aVl•lcalli, and the en ntestspread
front Vail X Li:11,11.111,', wherea brigade f
the arid yr , nth, ith artillery, were
engaged with the clull rt. French urine, Mae
lalion's corps and (sills-s (lit
After sund,,wit the Prussimei took the
heights I,y Morn!, slinging hack the French
along their entire line to theshelter of Mete.
Porrsvil.l.E, August'.—.\ terrible Lc
eident occurred about seven o'clock this
morning at Preston Slope, No. 3, Uirard
ville, by which six men were killed out
right, and another seas hopelessly wound
ed. The cage got oil the track, and the
wagon containing the seven men was
thrown off by coming in contact with the
top timber, which precipitated thorn to the
bottom of the slope, a distance of about one
hundred yards. The I,llowing are the
names of the killed; t ieorge Taylor,
Thomas Robbins, John Taylor, Michael
Wehl, Philip Farley, and Thomas Borerke.
William Taylor lost ono foot, and was
otherwise seriously, and probably fatally
injured. The three Taylors wore brothers.
All the inen, with one exception, lease
large familie,
Peace Negotiations.
NEW Yea N, Aug. 'cholas Ascurate,
special envoy of the Spanish government,
arrived yesterday, for the purpose of con
sulting with the leaders of the Cuban revo
lution, to ascertain front them on what
terms they will accept a declaration of
peace throughout Cuba, and the settlement
of all difficulties.
EUROPEAN
Marshal Bazaine Still I
111. Forces Expected to
Great Scarcity of Pr
A Great Hattie ban been
McMahon befouled —lire
of the Princtianii—The Pa
the Advancing Prim,.lima
PA 015, Aug. '.2.::.—(Special
tics Etats-1'11.1.-1 saw Lo-d
despatch from Ilazwine, whit
or War, communicated to th
latif. It was couched in gen
it could never havecome fro
Wall or one doubtful of sins
Itazaine wished to leave NI
not able, On his side, the el
wished to seize and eut his ci
with Paris, nor did he sueet
'chits is in INV,, words the sit'
planation of the recent cog,
have sustained sl`VVl•ii allii
is said, but those of Ili• en,
enormous ;Ititl 101110 i. all pr
merelv negative ;ids:lmage
gained.
It i,
What II:Li ntkrn nlarr at VII:
neighb,ho“,l. .kt the \V,
they percinptorily retliso t.
but pa
;Intl Pre,t• 11111011,S 00101,,
the t',II . IIN or 'I allt , 11:111.1 I
coroiled in roachitnx Argon
flank march front that lit
junction with I:,,aine. I
the troops latch' encanipokl
*me thither, but I can allir
L am a. , ,,urett that tlw
Pooyal h a . "Vcr
and that he NValts lii
army la , htre > Ict/. to ttuhytt
other tlit-itatelats say that
[Me.
Everythiniz limn that ilin
and 1 believe that tlie,e
in by the cilia
believe that all ina
I ii tliNpl`llol, :tail to i
1 , 1 phlt . o the capi
TI at Will
11'1100.
tho
thin:; Th4.l, mo
.pii4 tilo di
lint then , 11a, L4•I`11 11 , 1
11111111a111, or I waro, :I, I 11.1
t 4 the 1 1 :111411,01110,,illailerS.
I li.ll.liV 11131. Ili+lnar~•ls 11:
1 ,1 1110,1 14 1 1.1'1' , /klr
Will ilia pezkok ,
it (11, ( . MIIIIII , II, NVIlit•11 it ill
,•11110 f“r 1 , 1,111, 11, I.lkti•
It ie nil. thou .qir
[rut-CH.11%,
:111 , 1,1, 111111.
-Tlll` 1
sirs II jo lul. Th, 11l
rcruL ClO,l'lV, :111,1 :111 a4O
The .111,41,11 ..1 trau.l..
tlio 11,1t1 al,l
tho Ilt•lttral Statt,lll . lll,lla,
:14,111111'
all,. Ito it4.lalt.tl al lir,
had
lhr vi,V1.111111,114 111011:11
hilt It ~1114 n. , ie (11l rt..
with 11..11
1t1.1.41111111.3., roplica t
lior 1.1 I
, trtml I s Vr.Liiro :14
18110
111 , 11 , 10 . 1110 1,1111 , 01 T///to
01 - 1 , in Mit••1.11 . :11k . c,.1111
j,ptint.ll al•I'l \ :11. itn ran
:111111:: 1,1111.11. U.
Ecci•c•lll c•N
j-• 111111 t:
N 111,7
10,11111 y id . llll`
roc•I lhot the
11,1,11 , 1 the dallv,der
1
'ac I, n, addil 101 l to (hi ,
1.0,11 111•:lN liy it .
.\
Yorl, 1 .101 Ilia ,111,
ii3/..11111, ili4
1.:11:l1,1111g p at
ilr:u 1,1 1;:610 , :6.1 1:k1
iv ent, and the ‘vay
\ We is cqually out I
is iiot at Ver.ll6l. I li. iv
l'rtis•iatt net Lit keen
I:,atit4e, the ricer
Metz to El.tm. 4\l' )1441,4414 1
burning. 4.1,44 ,•:41,44,, Ga 1414,
loft. do. Eitiperor and p.trt
weid ill a ;tort he,st direct]
yet as..crtaiii it it is a
1 . .,r :Is I 1,11
the trnup. iv earl lilt, but
Gorr so 11111011 ilu•unip•l , n
in uutmrlt 1,. I lee! pe
leadi•rs du itot ,ay :myth
do riot knoll I,,tter. :,it
smiled command of the
circa Tl,Ollll. The Rvl;;
not violated by the Pros.
I .tiehe , ... de lit rag!
Laving pion itdortilation
los ti del,:
Si'r :111.1 Cher are under uI
' 1 . 4,rk
from 4,11 ti 1111,
011.111 .111.,1111 1111 WO 1 . ..1 Li
kits rrulc,lr,l II Ilk troops.
approachcil the city wE
artily elilallipt..l 1.1,11,1
Si. M 1•111.11,1111, 111111 spat
Noir V esle. They are cal
haul: of Ve.le, look in, d 1
lON riot pretend to say
pei•ted lie n .went
part at least of ILay.aitte's 1.
fro!. :%I,lz, and are OS 111
:urniy at or near I
a rtinior that 11.1z:title is
, ;rand l're .11111
look probahle is a stria
him /Ars. Tht y pro L:
guard.
Silleo I be gait 1164 lette
received at Ilk° l'refeetti
wall part of his :trtity is i
Votiz.ieres, vvry Imrd pre.
sialts. Ile wits llhligt.,l
treat lilt the V 4• 4 -41444, 41.1,
4,14 , 4441 y 11l pt,..4.444,44 4,1 41
I.llla IS Ve ily s,
Avert. .rut ha..: IYunt Ver,
11 . any 1.1,1' II:, N11.,1.1
V,,11,11.1 - 1,, or is ..11 the I,
hair l•Villp1.1i trout Met/.
or is perhaps that eoliiiiitt
had got past lirar,lotte
sians ,eize.tl the road oil
word has 14444441 , 4141,1'0 Prot
days, and illy 'relief is th
t ittly rate hi neuri,t li
closed, and it he has lee
.I.rgonncs thcro ii Ilt, tell
pected a illheth)ll Id his
of >lnr V ahnu ono IS al,
theyjoit:,ol l, ll
will si.rvo undor tho oth
Ili, hotter, although 51*
awl arriving this mon
h,rct, than has hecn allots
egraph. :61,01
extraordinary mt.try that
Lip o:±eape with part.,!'
cutting through thi. rxte
:1 st,ry or wi
nn lvord nt cowirlonLio
Niall Side.
Frelllll tON.l.rralllS, Ilutl
morning and evening, au
don simultaneously tlii
I:ti•Multoit first at Clint
Itheitiea. 'Jul.l latter is
letter sliois S.
A 4•4a.n...ipe411114.41t at till
111,41i111:1114.1.4, ile,crllics I
4pf l'fal7l/41rg nn this 111.11
I.4vi already hi tuiurJ a lit
t‘s.4, fr three day
SHIN it, Sll.,vr.tl nn .igtit it
111 e vans thus (let:011,11, IL
Thi.v nrr 111,1`rthi•le , ,
work. Tht. S./11100111P
to. Tile 1..11 iic+ ,11.1rjil
lull/m*lllg.
111, . •N
there lute h, ell
sine the 111th.
At the C.,tmeil NI i
C,lnt rest,.
the in,iti.,ll
excellent. The Nl:tr.h:
Comt that he ,h.olhl VIS
days nee. led rl.t, 'lilt
\Vas I:110,11i t, 111111 that tt
elli•1111111erod 100.11 lltton ' 4 l
111111 \Viand be 1111a111011111 1
of this delay. Nta,Nl:th , lll
P,ild,r, NV, 11111
111111. It is 1111 , 11•,1.1.111 111
PrusNia how 011111[1,,i his
001,1110 Iran I iI“W the
til ,• l,l . ti. !AVE. It'll till
Li/0 anii.llllo ill Il:uu•1,
tho soar, 11.,
I.l.NlapS. I 1 ,4 1"
11 - 01•/ , 11. NVe have 1t otur
NI,.1.:111t, 11111 C Mile , fr..”
clay, kith the ILlvantatz,
I t,innot cuurlt (.Tr it. 'l'
ini h..re that MauMah,
Prilire :ire 1)11
tilaimelivt . riitg for 1.4,,iti0
is in emiiiitiniicatimi wit
manoctivering In ruin Lit
:lttaVk 4111 the Crown l'r
recent battles, 1)110 fiuct
their result. The Frei.c
stall cannon :it Luntlucc
'Four. The Prussians hay
guns since Woorth.
It is suspected that tl
iierinan army has been
We hoar of sii,ooo liavar
Prince's army, when the
is less than 50,01111stroug.
A new current feeling;
belief that France tends t
Bismarck wishes to unite.
raino to Germany, which
of Englishmen favor Fral
The absence of the Quo
led to her Prussian sy
arousing a had feeling.
man said yesterday in a
'rho Queen and King
more for Napoleon tha
himself."
The Germans aro said
Strasbourg with vigor, b
make little of that opera
I hear to-day that, t he It
French was the Hortha,
captured oil Point Divan
LONDON, Ang. 24.—1 t i.
it is only the regular am
has gone to reinforce lin
being still engaged in g
his forces that were so ba
the battle of Woissenbe
army proper numbers a
this be the army tho