Lancaster jritelligentet. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 14, 1870 -The Action of the County Committee. When the Democratic County Com mittee met on Monday, itwas ascertain ed that there was a very general dissat isfaction among Republicans throughout Lancaster county, with the ticket which was recently nominated, and the Com mittee was found to be almost unani mously of opinion that it would be well to allow time for the effort being made to put an Independent „ ticket in the field to develop itself. In accordance with such a belief it was decided to postpone the calling of a Democratic County Convention for the present, and a committee composed of D. G. Eshle man, H. B. Swarr, Dr. Henry Carpen ter, Henry Shaffner and B. J. McGrann, with R. R. Tshudy, the Chairman of the County Committee, added, was ap pointed to take the matter under advise ment and to report to a meeting of the County Committee to be held hereafter. This movement may be productive of good, and we are sure the Democracy of the county will be ready to endorse any judicious course of action which may be determined upon. Death of lion. Wm. H. Hiller Hon. Wm. H. Miller died at his resi dence, near Harrisburg, yesterday after noon. He was in his usual health, at tending to business in the city on Sat urday, but was taken with a congestive chill on Sunday, and died on Monday. He was the son of Hon. Jesse Miller, who for many years bore a distinguished part in the polities of Pennsylvania; was born in Landisville, Perry county; graduated at Franklin College, Mercers burg ; studied law and was admitted to practice in Bloomfield; was Prothono tary of the Supreme Court of Pennsyl vania from 15.5 i to I86:1; was Clerk of the Semite of Pennsylvania dur ing one session ; and was elected to Congress in 1562 front the Dauphin district in the face of a heavy Republi can majority. He was connected with the Harrisburg Patriot for a number of years. In every position he discharged his duty with zeal, faithfulness and ability. He a vigorous writer, a popular political speaker, a judicious counsellor and a fearless and eloquent advocate. The wronged and oppressed always found a defender in hint, and he never' stopped to calculate the conse gences, or to count a fee when the hum ble and the weak appealed to him for Counsel and assistance against injustice. In public life he was a pure man, scorn ing all the corrupt acts of modern legis lation, He was a warm and sincere friend, and every appeal made to his bounty met with a generous response. In the nnidst of a life of usefulness, he has been suddenly and hav ing been very widcly known, the intel ligence of his death will cause genuine sorrow throughout the State. Ile died in the forty-second year of his age, in the prime of a any and useful life. Business and Advertising The columns of the city newspapers indicate very plainly that the summer is over. The merchants who have been enjoying Lhe recreations of fashionable resorts have returned to their counting rooms, and the first thing the more sa gacious and enterprising of them did was to advertise. The result is fewer columns of rending matter in the vari ous city newspapers, and the devotion of a largerst 'ace to advertising. Even the oldest and best established houses are in danger of being forgotten, or passed by if they overlook the instrumentality of the press, while new establishments which understand the art of advertis ing take their places. In the great com mercial metropolis of New York, the most extensively known houses keep their advertisements constantly before the public. Mr. A. 'l'. Stewart, the king of dry goods merchants, is one of the most extensive advertisers in the country. Everybody has heard of him, and everybody who has walked up Broadway knows where his magnifi cent establishment stands; but he does not deem that sufficient. Ile keeps his name constantly before the public by means of attractive and carefully pre pared advertisements. The New York ./o/rrna/ of 0 , 1,1111,r , shows that it un derstands the subject of advertising thoroughly When it says: " If a house is not \yell Kamen, it shout become so by liberal advertising; and tli better it becomes known and the larger i business, and the more independent would seem to be, the better still does pay to advertise it. Advertising is not till a means of success, but it is ;It once th evidence of it, and :1 guarantee of its COI tinuance. That applies not to New York City alone. It is equally true of Lancaster, or any other city or town. Those who imagine that their establishments are so built up that they can atlhrd to dispense with the great modern lever of business success are grievously at fault. 'They' to not take into account the competition in business, and :tre in danger of being lost sight of unless they take pains to keep themselves and their business con stantly before the public by means of a liberal system of advertising. There is no business which cannot he vastly ableil by advertising in these days. People have learned to look at the advertising columns or the newspa pers they take before purchasing.— If the farmer wants an agricultural implement he will naturally go to the dealer who has taken the pains to re commend his WarCS through his favorite newspaper. The farmer's wife, when she collies to town, will lie sure to go to the store which advertises most liberal ly in the paper which makes its regular visits to the houshold. it is with the people of towns or cities. They read the advertisements and are gradually but surely attracted to those establishments which most frequently : , et out their claims to pat ronage. There is no business which will not be vastly benefited by liberal and judicious advertising; and no money is so well invested by any business man as that w h ich he E•niploys to keep himself and his business mil stantly known to the public through the proper channels. Now and Then - When Grant ran for President the boast of his party was that the Govern ment had paid off in three years and some odd months after the close of the war, eight hundred millions of public debt. Now Secretary Iloutwell, who is ninety-nine parts partisan, and one part statesman, sends a despatch to Senator Morton, who is stumping Indiana, stat ing that the public debt will have been reduced over one hundred and forty-six millions since since General Grant came into power, while " during the last six teen months of President Johnson tieing in power only eight millions of reduc tion was made, or a little over ; certain ly less than nine millions." The question recurs, who fibbed when Grant ran for office, or Who is lying now The Republicans sworn by At kinson, of Massachusetts, then ; hut, unless they mean to stultify themselves, they cannot swear by Boutwell now. Newspaper Change The Harrisburg Printing Association, of which Benjamin Singerley, is Presi dent, have purchased the _Daily nri,, and they propose to issue in its stead a morning daily, of large size, to be called The Pennsyltunia State Journal. It will be Republicanliu politics. The first is sue of the new journal will appear on the morning of the 3d proximo. Editorial Excursion quite a number of Maryland editors, principally representatives of the rural press of the State are now making an extended excursion over the Northern Central Railway, as invited guests of the .company. They will no doubt have ajolly good time as the officers of the road have had considerable experience in enter tainments of this kind. Witness Grant's xi:outing excursion last spring. THE LANCASTER, WEEKLY INTELLIG-ENCER, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1870. The Effects of the Fifteenth Amendment In Delaware. The municipal election in Wilming ton, the principal city of the little State of Delaware, was carried upon the square issue of a White or a Black Man's Gov ernment. The white men of the city, including some hundreds who had here tofore acted with the Republican party, held that to mix the races in the gov ernment of City or State was wrong. The negroes, to the number of five or six hundred, held their meetings, made addresses, vehemently excited each other with false prejudices, and were led in the contest by a smart and influential negro, who was backed up by the entire power and energies of the white Radicals. The result was a com plete victory for the white man's party. For the first time in many years, Wil mington went against the Republicans. Six years ago they carried the city by 600 majority, three years ago by 300, and since then by smaller majorities—now the Democrats sweep it by a majority of over 200, in spite of the six hundred negro votes which were cast solid for the Radical candidates. The victory of the Democrats in Wil mington must extinguish all the hopes which the Radicals have entertained of carrying the gallant little State of Dela ware. The State has about 40,000 voters, one-fourth of whom are negroes. The five thousand negro votes combined will not enable the radicals to succeed in wresting power from the while men of Delaware. The same causes which oper ated in Wilmington will prove to be productive of like results throughout the State. The combination of the blacks to aid the Radicals will drive thousands of de cent Republicans into the Democratic party not only in Delaware, but in every northern State. The people of Pennsyl vania will not attempt to prevent the negroes from voting, but they feel deeply the outrage which wits committed by forcing negro equality upon them against their wishes, and without allowing them an opportunity to decide the question fur themselves in a constitutional man ner. They will enter their protest against the manner in which the pre tended ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment was effected when they go to the ballot box on the second Tuesday of next October. Many a Radical as pirant for office will be astonished to hind himself defeated where he had good reason to expect success. Thousands of men who have heretofore acted with the Republican party of Pennsylvania will either voluntarily absent themselves from the polls, or quietly vote the Dem ocratic ticket. All that is needed to in sure large gains in Congress and our State Legislature is a full poll of the Democratic vote. Let that fact lie in delibly impressed upon the minds of liemocrats throughout the State. Radical Rule)! Harrisburg and Other l'he proceedings of the City Council of I larrisburg, piddished in yesterday's sliows that the citizens are grov elling in dirt, groping in darkness, and clamoring for gas-light, water pipes, sewers and surface drainage, and that there is no money in the City Treasury tomeet their wants—the last dollar hav ing been appropriated to pay for tire killing of "one dog"—most likely the " market dog" which has given the newspapers of that benighted city so much trouble lately. Meanwhile the members of Council arc quarreling like dogs and cats, and calling each other naughty names. A couple of years since the Legislature gerrymandered the City of Harrisburg much after the style of Lancaster, and the change from a Dem (male to a Radical administration, has produced its natural and legitimate re sults. The city councils of Harrisburg are, however, fortunately prohibited by law from making contracts exceeding in amount the revenue derived from the taxes levied each year. This seems to us to be a wise precaution. It pre vents the accuiuulation of a debt to be shoved off upon the shoulders of suc ceeding city administrations, and com pels those in power to levy a tax each year sufficiently great to meet all antici pated expenditures. The people linding the rate and amount of their taxes in creased will immediately inquire as to the cause. If the object to be obtained by increased expenditures be one for the COllllllollgoml, of course the city au thorities will be sustained, in their ac tion ; if it he otherwise the remon stranees of indignant taxpayers will lie heard and in most cases heeded. In Philadelphia, where no such limi tation exists, the Radical City Councils have piled up a debt of such gigantic proportions that it is properly regarded as a serious hinderance to the prosperity of the city. Williamsport, under the rule of Peter Herdic and a set of liadi- I oils who follow his lead, is so heavily I laden with debt that the rate of city taxation is equal to ten per cent. on the , valuation of property, and that enor mous tax barely suffices to pay the in terest 011 the debt, and to keep the machinery of the municipal govern- Meld running. lfere, in Lancaster, hit debt of the city has been largely in.." creased within the last year, and we have almost nothing to show for the many thousands of dollars which have been recklessly squandered. Every where Radical rule seems to he attended with the same consequences. 'Wherever that party has control, government is made costly and corruption prevails. All For Capital, Naught For Labor A Radical paper published in the city of Pittsburgh, in a spasm id - candor, dis cotu•ses thus: The wide-spread discontent now Mani leSting itself in every section of the coun try aniong the workingmen calls for tile thoughtful considerations and earnest el- Mrts our best citizens to remedy, as far as possible, the evils of which they comm. plain. That there is cause for complaint— that.leir Nerenti years past, the legislation of the country has been almost entirely in the interest of capital, and is calculated to render the labor and industry of the coun try tributary to associated wealth and cor porative power—cannot he denied. 'rids is an honest confession of the truth of the charges which Democratic newspapers have persistently made against Congress and the administra tion of President (/rant. lie who looks at the records of Congress will find that the action of that body has been con stantly- controlled by what the journal referred toaptly calls "associated wealth and corporative poWer." So unvarying has this been, that it would be difficult to point to a single piece of legislation that has been devised with a view to benefit the laboring classes or relieving them from the heavy burthen under which they have been laboring. The tariff' has been so arranged as to put mil lions into the pockets of Yankee man ufacturers while the farmers, and the workingmen of the country are taxed almost beyond endurance. Everything has been done for monopolists and cor porations, nothing for the toiling masses. It is high time there was a change, and the right place to make it is at the bal lot-box on the second Tuesday of Octo ber, when Congressmen are to be voted THE Radicals have been counting upon carrying the little State of Dela ware by the aid of negro votes ; but there, as elsewhere, they are doomed to find the negro a cause of disaster to their party. At the municipal election just held Wilmington the Democrats elect their Mayor by a majority of 200. Last year, when the negroes did not vote, the Radical majority was 50. The negroes voted with the Radicals this year, but white men left the party. So it will be everywhere. LATER returns from Vermont show heavy Democratic gains throughout the State. Towns have gone Democratic for the first time in ten years. In twenty-five towns our vote is over fif teen per cent. larger than last year, while that of the Republicans is not half that. Some Demoeratic warmth is being imported even to this frigid zone of Radical intolerance. the Loyal Thieves Hon. Roderick Random Butler, the Radical Congressman from the first dis trict of Tennessee, was arrested and taken before a Radical Judge in the town cf Bristol, East Tennessee. on Tuesday, the 30th day of August last, to answer to a charge of having de frauded the widows and orphans of de ceased Union soldiers out of their pen sions, by means of forged receipts, and for having cheated the Pension Bureau out of various sums of money by secur ing pensions for parties not entitled to them, a rebel soldier being one of the number. The Radical Judge stood by the Radical Congressman, and Butler was discharged from custody, without being compelled to stand a trial or forced to enter bail for his appearance before the proper United States Court. The people ought not to be surprised at this result. It has come to pass in this country that no loyal thief need fear conviction. Millions of dollars have been stolen from the nat l onal treasury, and the robbers are at large, active members of the Republican party. Exe cutive Document No. 2137, printed by Secretary Boutwell in pursuance of an inquiry made by Congress, contains the names of three Inindred and forty de faulting Revenue Collectors. Everyone of the rascals is altadical politician. Ten of them have stolen from the government $5,933,113. These ten wholesale plunderers fobbed nearly six millions of the money wrung from the people by t& most oppres sire taxation. The rest of the three hun dred and forty thieves did not dip quite so deep into Uncle Sam's strong box, but carried off enongh to make them comfortable for life. And not a single one of three cicn t alb cc has been prosecuted. They are all permitted to enjoy their ill-gotten gains in undis turbed security. When Republican newspapers boast of the honesty of Grant's administration let the people remember the contents of Executive Document No. 2117. It was printed un der the supervision of the Secretary of the Treasury, and not a single one of its facts or ligures can be controverted. As the Harrisburg Patriot forcibly remarks, the "Forty Thieves" of the Arabian Nights bad their , SCSMIIIIC, but the magic word of the Three Hundred and Forty who have despoiled the government, is Loyally. It would be disloyal to touch a hair of their sacred heads, or to force Roderick Random _Butler to stand a trial for the crimes lie has committed. Dissatisfaction In the Republican Party of Lancaster County. The recent primary election under the Crawford system has left wide spread discontent in the ranks of the Republi cans of Lancaster County. Many of the best men of the party have been cum- Pletely disgusted by the exhibitions of baseness and corruption which marked the conduct of the contest. It is not'. only admitted that unjustifiable means were employed to control the result, but the charge is boldly and openly made that returns were altered to suit the wishes of those who had control of the election officers. Multitudes of the more honest and upright men of the party do not consider themselves bound to support a ticket which was settled by_ such fraudulent means, and there are very many who will refuse to vote for a majority of the candidates upon it.— The dissatisfaction is not such as is sometimes seen. It is not made up of the querulous complaints of de feated candidates. Nine out of every ten of the men who are now loudly de nouncing certain of the nominees on the Republican ticket are intelligent and influential private citizens who have no political aspirations. They are actuated by principle, and not by any narrow minded and selfish motives. The party lash cannot drive them front the stand they have taken, and the managers of the different rings know that as well as they know anything. They may crack their whips, but those who are kicking iu the traces now will not submit to the lash or the goad. They will act with the independence of intelligent freemen, and will refuse to sanction the great frauds which have been practised, and the gross corruption which prevails un der the present management of the Re • publican party in Lancaster County. , Will Prussia Allow Peace to Be Made? When King William took up the gage of battle which Napoleon threw down he declared that lie warred not against France, but against the Emperor. Now that the Empire is ended and the arms of Prussia crowned with laurels, it re mains to be seen whether King William will make his word good. Should Prus sia exact unreasonable terms of peace from the newly established French Re public, she will nn longer have the slightest claim upon the sympathy of any true American, 1111 matter what I may is his nationality. A merivans can never forget the aid which France ren dered to our revolutionary fathers in the years when they contended for freedom from British rule. 'the first French Re public was hailed by Ileorge Washing ! ton, and the action of the American minister at Paris in instantly recognizing .the second Republic was sanctioned by the 1111:110111011,4 seutimeut of our people and by an almost I.IIIIIIIiIIIOIIS vote o Con gress. The sympathies of the American republic have always been with any people struggling to establish a free, rep resentative government. We greet the new French Republic and wish it God speed. It is to be hoped that a way may be speedily found to put an end to the war now raging, but should the Kingof Prussia demand humiliating or dishon orable concessions, the French Republi cans will have the sympathy, not of Americans alone but of all who are lovers of fair play, the wide world over, in the struggles to come. An Absentee Administration The Attorney General of the United States is perhaps the must important Cabinet officer. He is the offiCial legal adviser of the President, and ought to be a lawyer of such well known ability that the people may always feel safe in trusting to his opinions. He ought to be free from tile trammels of party pre judice, and to be prepared to give his entire attention to the study of the prin ciples which should control government al action, the conduct of the Executive and the action of Coneress. That Mr. Ackerman is such a man we have no valid reason for believing. He is now down in Georgia, haranguing the ne groes of that State, and has been absent from his office for a considerable period. In the meantime one Judge Richardson, an obscure Yankee lawyer, who occupies the position of Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, is also acting as Deputy At torney General. At the Cabinet meeting which was hurriedly held the other day Judge Richardson tilled the places of Secretary of the Treasury and Attorney General, both Boutwell and Ackerman having been absent from Washington for weeks. What a wonderful adminis tration is that whose members are all off on pleasure excursions when the most momentous complications are perplex ing Europe, and when great need of wiser government is felt at home! Greeley Beaten Since Grant has been at Long Branch, where 4 New York politicians congregate in vast numbers, he has taken a decided interest in the politics of the Empire State. About a month ago he gave out that he wanted Horace Greeley nomi nated as the Republican:candidate for Governor of the State. The fact was duly proclaimed, and the Federal office holders all set to work to put Horace through; but the fact that Grant was for Greeley sufficed to prevent his nom ination. That shows how little influ ence the President of the Great Gift En terprise Government has with his own party. A fire at Pomeroy, Ohio, on Saturday Bight, supposed to be incendiary, de stroyed a square of buildings. The loss is estimated at $15,000. Legislative Reform In Dauphin County. Fierce quarrels are now going on among contending factions of the Re- publican party almost everywhere throughout Pennsylvania. There is scarcely a single Congressional, Sena torial or Legislative district in which there is not deep-seated dissatisfaction. Corrupt rings have forced the nomina tion of many obnoxious men, and mul titudes who have heretofore steadfastly adhered to the Republican party refuse to support its nominees at the coming election. In some districts the dis satisfaction is shown by the running of two sets of Republican candidates, in others tickets independent of party have been put in the field. The Dau phin County Convention furnishes the latest instance of the kind. We learn from the Harrisburg papers that the renomination of the two men who misrepresented Dauphin county in the last Legislature was secured by cor rupt means. On Monday night, when most of the delegates reached the city, Smith and Parsons found that they could not muster half a dozen delegates between them. Most of the delegates were, however, afterward interviewed by agents of Shnon Cameron, and the result was that the very men who were elected in opposition to Smith and Par sons nominated them on Tuesday morning. Commenting upon the out rage thus committed, the Patriot says : The fame of Parsons and Smith in the Legislature had spread throughout the county, and the masses of the Republican party had determined that they should never be permitted to return. For the purpose of defeating these unworthy men delegates were elected, who have openly betrayed and sold the people to the Came ron-Mackey ring. In this city Smith is so odious that we may safely predict that it will be carried against him by several hun dred votes. The white Republicans utterly repudiate him. His only constituency are the newly en franchised negroes. The name of Parsons will appear on few ballots which do not bear the name of Smith. The people of Dauphin county are de termined not to submit to any such be trayal of their wishes and interests. A movement for legislative reform has been promptly inaugurated, and the corruptionists will be taught a salutary lesson. The Patriot says: This organization will embrace demo crats, republicans, conservatives—all—who are sincerely determined to overthrow the Cameron dynasty, which rules through such vile agents in the legislature as Smith and Parsons. In a short time wo hope to be able to announce the names of two can didates for the legislature who will rally to their support all who desire a genuine re form in our legislature. In foisting Smith and Parsons once more on the people of Dauphin comity by weak and corrupt del egates, Senator Cameron has afforded another evidence of the evil power which he exercises. I fad he not put down his Inuol, the will of the people would not have been so shame fully betrayed as it was last Tuesday. Sen ator Cameron knows full well that these two time,, have made themselves hateful to the people of Dauphin county by their bad course in the Legislature. Yet he insulted the people by demanding their renomina tion at the hands of delegates who came to Harrisburg with the purpose of nominat ing new candidates for assznibly. lie has succeeded once inure in corrupting a Radi cal County Convention. It remains to be seen whether, with all his evil power, he will find the people of Dauphin county SO facile and mean-spirited :as to ratify the acts of his convention by electing his tools, Smith and Parsons. We are glad to chronicle the fact that there are many honest Republicans in Dauphin county who are ready to unite in a movement for reform. Only when true men are found willing to rebuke the wicked devices of mercenary party lead ers can our polities be purified. and the interests of the people and of the State be properly protected. A Deserted Capitol President Grant made a flying visit to Washington yesterday,break fasted with his bachelor Secretary of the Navy, held a Cabinet meeting, at which only three members were present, made a few ap pointments, and then hastened back to Long Branch, where he has taken up his residence. Just now, when events of transcendent importance are transpir ing in Europe, there is nobody left at Washington except Deputy Cabinet of ficers and clerks in the dillbrent depar merits. The Secretary of State is repre sented by a disreputable fellow who took a bribe of sixty thousand dollars in a single transaction, and who was con victed of the grossest corruption by the Legislature of Massachusetts. The At torney General is down in G ei6rgia making speeches to promiscuou bwds of negroes and whites, speeches which show that he is utterly unlit to occupy the high position to which Grant has called him. Boutwell is in Massachu setts, Cresswell at some watering place, and others scattered here and there.— Meanw Idle the President smokes, drinks, bathes occasionally, drives on the beach and attends horse races at Long Branch. Ide runs up to New York city occasionally, and makes trips to points in New England where they provide good feeds, choice liquors and imported segars. What a contrast was presented by the hard-working and dig nified statesmen who occupied the Presidential chair in Democratic days. It is no wonder that many leading Re publicans are ashamed of the man whom they helped to elevate to ihe position of chief magistrate of the United States. We are informed that Gen. Grant does not intend to pay another visit to Wash ington until some time in the latter part of October. By that time horse races, county fairs and ether like amuse ments will all be over, and the theatres of Washington city will be ready to en tertain our ever-smoking ever-ennuyed President. Riot in the Georgia Legislature---The Ir repressible Harkey'. The colored members of the Georgia Assembly became somewhat riotous on Thursday in consequence of a ruling by the Speaker that a bill indefinitely post poned cannot again be entertained, some twenty colored members being on the floor blathering at the Speaker at the same time. One member called for the reading of the riot act and others for order. Turner colored) said the action of the colored members was disgraceful. The yeas and nays were then called, but two-thirds of the Republicans had left the house, and no quorum was present. The House then adjourned until the af ternoon, when the ruling of the Speak er was sustained by three majority. ONE of the stupidest pieces of campaign lying, that has fallen u ruler our obser vation, says the Cincinnati Enquirer, is a document just put forth by the Rad ical committee at Washington, and very freely quoted in the rural newspapers. One of its objects is to show a large re duction of taxation, which we are asked to credit to the present administration ; and we are therefore treated to a tabu lar statement from which it would ap pear that taxes to the amount of $5:5,212,- 000, annually, have been removed from the productive industry of the country. That looks exceedingly well—on paper; but the same statement claims that the internal revenue Was actually increased from March, 180, to May, IS7O, $66,550,- 6-10.25. Now here we have two diame trically co n ilicting avermen ts—one, that our internal taxes have been reduced sonic Pity-tive millions a year, and the other that the revenue from that source has been increased to about an equal amount. One or the other of these might be true, but it is apparent that both can not be. Our loyal friends will find it necessary to employ more expert profes sors of mendacity, if it is expected that the public shall put faith in them. THE Germans of New York city through the Executive Committees of the various societies have come to the conclusion to make no public mani festation of joy over the Prussian victo ries. They have decided that the money which would be expended in a costly Parade can be put to better use—the re lief of the wounded and of the widows and orphans of Prussian soldiers. THE papers in every part of the coun try contain complaints arraigning the census-takers for incapacity and inac curacy. If we intend to get a correct census of the United states it will have to be taken over again.: Lowry is. Schofield Morrow B. Lowry has entered the lists as a candidate for Congress in the Erie district against Glenn W. Schofield. The call circulated by the friends of Lowry already contains the names of over a thousand Republicans, many of them leading men in the different elec tion districts of Erie county. The pri mary cause of complaint is the manner in which Judge Schofield manages to secure a renomination. The district is composed of the counties of Erie, Elk, Cameron, Clearfield, Forest, Jefferson and McKean. The Erie Daily Repub lican, a leading Radical journal of the State, boldly denounces as " a rotten borough system" the plan of making the Congressional nomination now in use in that district. The great county of Erie, with its eight thousand Repub lican, votes is overridden and controlled by the little counties of the district, with their handful ofßepublican voters. The Daily Republican, in speaking of the matter, says : Erie county has Republican voters enough to make fifteen such counties as Elk, or eight such as M'Kean; or sixteen such as Cameron ; or twenty such as For est; or four such as Jefferson and Clear field, and yet for five congressional con ventions they have combined together and dictated the nomination. It is true in some cases, as this year Erie has entered no pro test against this; but this course was plain ly seen, because those who would have been candidates in Erie county knew that the rotten "boroughs" are stocked against them, just as a pack of cards in the hands of a gambler is stocked against the novice ; and so long as the war lasted, and the ques tions arising from it were unsettled, they did not wish to rebel. But now, when all these questions are settled, they are dis posed to seek a redress in revolution which, if successful, will clear the political atmos phere and teach their brethren in those counties that the Republicans of Erie have some rights which the minority is bound to respect. The war upon Schofield is to be pushed with intense vigor during the few weeks which intervene between this and the Second Tuesday of October. The political star of Morrow B. Lowry seems always to have been a lucky one, and we expect to see it in the ascendant on the night of the election. There promises to be quite a political revolu tion in Erie. The Republicans are tired of the corrupt rule of the mer cenary rings to whose domination they have been subjected,and very many of them will boldly bolt the nominations for Judge and State Senator. The hon est men of the party are determined to effect a reform, and they deem the pres ent a proper time to accomplish the de sired result. They have not abandoned the party, but have taken advantage of the present occasion, when there is no State ticket to be elected, to reform abuses under which they have suffered until forbearance has ceased to be a vir tue. There are other districts in the State where honest Republicans should emulate the example set by their breth ren in Erie, and Lancaster is one of them. St Syr: the last election in North Caro lina, the number of land buyers and the inquiries in regard to farms and other real property for sale, have greatly in creased in that State. Instead of the carpet-bagger, intent upon olAce and plunder, the farmer, mechanic and cap italist are going there with an intelli gent appreciation of the advantages of the soil, climate, and natural resources, with a view to bettering their own con dition and contributing to the general welfare and prosperity. The prospect of there being now some stability and honest administration of the govern ment is having its due effect. Strong Nominations The Democracy of the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Congressional Dis tricts have put in nomination James H. Hopkins, Esq., and Colonel William Sirwell. Mr. Hopkins is one of the ablest lawyers and purest men in the western part of the State, and Colonel Sirwell is a gallant soldier and a man of talent. With proper exertion they can both be elected. The election of Mr Hopkins is regarded as almost certain. Many Republicans will vote for him. Dn. 11Esnv L. ACKER, editor of the Norristown Reyister has been nomina ted as the Democratic candidate for Congress in the sixth District, com posed of MoutgomeQ, and Lehigh coun ties. Dr. Acker is an uncompromising Democrat and he will be elected by a very large majority. SPEAKING of the split in the Radical party of Missouri, that well-known Re publican newspaper, the New York Sil, says: Senator Schurz. is a pretty shrewd politi cian, and seeing the unpopularity and ul timate downfall of Gen. Grant's Adminis tration, he may think it best to take_time by the forelock and gain credit by dealing it a heavy blow in one of the foremost - Re publican States of the West. At all events, this disastrous quarrel in Missouri shows how easy it is to rend in twain the organi zation that elevated General tlrant to the Presidency. The example may prdve in fectious, and become the initial step toward the prostration of the party throughout the entire Northwest. The car works of W. L. Sands & at Pottstown, Pa., were burned on Sat urday morning. Loss $20,000. ft will interest Philadelphians to know that J. 13. Sutherland is a Democratic candidate for Congress in Michigan. Mrs. Esther Bailey died at the resi dence of her son-in-law, Mr. Jas. Haiti well, in Altoona, on the 2(1 inst., at the advanced age of 103 years, 4 months and 1:3 days. The Irish American Protestant Aso tion held their annual parade in Phila delphia, yesterday. About three thous and members of the different Lodges participated in the ceremonies, many of them wearing "orange' neck-ties and " orange ribbons." Many of the Lodges carried beautiful banners and flags. No disturbance occurred. From the Perry county papers welearn that a little girl 10 years of age, daughter of Michael 7.\liller, of Centre township, was enticed into the woods by an un known villain and horribly outraged. Every effort is being made to ferret out the perpetrator,and the citizens threaten to mete out speedy justice to him when found. The Tyrone Mud f• says that Mr. Jas. Irwin and lady, of Clearfield county, met With a serious accident last Sunday. While on their way to church, as they neared the town of Clearfield their horses took fright from the ringing of the bells, becoming entirely unmanage able. They ran at full speed until they arrived in front of the residence of Hon. Win. A. Wallace, when they made a short turn, precipitating the occupants of the carriage to the ground, injuring them so seriously that it was necessary to carry them to their home on stretch ers. On Tuesday, the 6th instant, while James Colbeth and men were removing a log pile from a pier at the lower end of the Jersey Shore boom, they found the body of a man who had probably been washed in with the drift in the June flood. The body appeared to have been of a large sized man, but nothing further could be told, as the body fell to pieces immediately upon removal. The only article of clothing upon him was a pair of heavy boots, with the soles filled with large headed nails. The remains were deposited in a grave upon the shore near by. Po IiTLAND, Sept. 12.—The election to-day was conducted quietly throughout the State. The vote seems to have been pretty heavy, and exceeds that of last year. The returns aro coming in slowly. Perham will be chosen Governor by a large major ity. 'The Congressional delegation will be en tirely Republican. Nothing definite can be ascertained concerning the complexion of the Legislature as regards the United States Senatorial fight between Gov. Cham berlain and Senator Morrill. Descendants of Highlanders in North A writer in the Lutheran Visitor says: Four counties back of Cape Fear river aro filled almost entirely with the descendants of those banished by the English govern ment for following "Bonnie Prince Char lie," and their relatives who afterward fol lowed them. So closely are they settled, and so few strangers have come among them, that Gaelic is spoken: now by the third and fourth generations of these patri otic exiles with as much purity as it is in the wilds of Badenoch or Glencoe, at the present day, or as it was around Loch Kat rine, or on the braes of Leny, in the days of the Fiery Cross. Worthy ministers, Sunday after Sundoy, point them to the Cross of Calvary, in the language of their plaided and bonnetted ancestors. News Items. In Eastern Virginia the crops are suf fering from drought. Peter Parker, one of Boston's wealth iest men, died yesterday. Topeka, Kansas, contains sixty-six gamblers and four policemen. A Kansas gardner has raised sweet potatoes three feet long. During the past ten years Pennsyl vania has produced 23,000,000 barrels of petroleum. A new school-house in Braintree, Mass., just finished, at a cost of $23,000, was burned yesterday. The war in Europe affects the Japan ese markets, and Yokohama advices to August 22 report the silk market " life less." The will of the late John Simmons, of Boston, gives half a million dollars to establish a "Simmons,,Female Semi nary." The Boston ..-Liverti4er thinks that a branch of our "Improved Order of Red Men" is much needed on the Western Returns of the Vermont election from 136 towns show a Republican majority of 13,365. The majority in the whole State is estimated at 22,000, A Boston despatch now states the amount bequeathed by the late John Simmons to establish a college for women at $1,400,000. At St. Joseph, Mo., on Friday, John Greble was hanged for the murder of Joel Drake, committed on the first of January last. At Bangor, Maine, on Saturday, John P. Lawrence was sentenced to be hang ed, for the murder of Lavinia Atwood, last January. Mr. Frank Osgood, owner of the yacht Magic, has accepted Mr. Ashbury's chal lenge, and will sail a race with the Cam bria off Sandy Hook, October Ist. Mrs. Mary Clark was burned to death in Cincinnati, on Tuesday evening, by the explosion of a can of coal oil, which she thoughtlessly left on the stove while lighting a tire. A disturbance arose at a chowder party at Bayonne, N. J., yesterday, dur ing which a hotel was sacked, and a man, named Scullim, dangerougly stab bed by another named Joseph McCall. At Raleigh, N. C., Josiah Turner, editor of the Raleigh SCJltill, I, has brought suit against Governor Holtlon, his, Aid Douglas, Col. Berger and of hers fur false imprisonment. There are at present six Catholic Bishops in New England. S., late as 1825 there were only four priests in the New England States. Now there are 3.50 and a Catholic population of ii2o,- 000. Baltimore celebrated the anniversary of the battle of North Point yesterday, by a fine parade and dinner of the Old Defenders, closing of the city offices and public schools and general display of flags. Don Joaquin Oodoy, Minister from Chili, and Senor Santiago Perez, Minis ter from the United States of Colombia, were presented to the President yester day. The usual corn pl i men tary speech es were exchanged. Sergeant Huntington, head of the re cruiting office at Milwaukee, disappear ed on the night of the 6th inst., after stealing Government clothing and forg ing endorsements and several cheeks. A reward fur his arrest is oared. The anniversary of California's ad mission into the Union was celebrated on Friday, under the auspices of the Pioneer's Association. General Sher man attended the celebration, and was enthusiastically received. Three bodies were disinterred from the ruins of the Farewell block, Chicago, on Saturday morning. TWO of them were identified as those of Henry Dorn heimer, a clerk of Farwell & Co., and a young man named James Campbell. Four other persons are missing. A man, giving his name as John Con ner, was arrested yesterday morning in the act of placing a large stone on the railroad track near Belttville, Md., as the express train from New York and Philadelphia, due at Washington at 5.50 was approaching. At Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday, R. S. Ayres, on trial for the murder of Dr. Oliver, the betrayer of his daughter, was acquitted. The Judge remarked that "the verdict was natural, but in ac cord neither with the law nor the evi dence.'' The Kansas Republican Convention on Saturday renominated J. N. Harvey for Governor. The resolutions adopted declare against the alienation of the public lands to railroad or other monop olies, and express sympathy with Prus sia. Reports that yellow fever prevails in New Orleans are contradicted by Re presentative Sheldon, of Lousiana, who has just arrived in Washington. He says the last reported case occurred two weeks ago and previously not inure than live or six sporadic cases were report ed. MEE= No. 27. Domestic Economy ' Penny svise, tel pound fuollsh flair to cool; an ',tile: Put an olive into a lark ; put a lark into a quail ; put a quail into a plover ; put a plover into a partridge; put a partridge into a pheasant; put a pheasant irno a turkey. First, partially roast; then carefully stew until all is thor oughly done Clown to the olive. Next Open the window. Throw out the turkey, the pheasant, the partridge, the plover, the quail, and the lark. Pica at olirc. The quintessence of six birds is concentra ted in the olive." That', according to Wilkie Collins, is the great French recipe for cooking an olive. We need not inquire as to whether it is a real truth, or whether it is mere bagatelle, to fill up a gap in the conversations of high life; it has its counterpart in many of the books on cookery and domestic economy, which are ostensibly written and publish ed for the million." It would be well to preface such publications briefly, with something like the following—" No poor man, that cannot afford to appropriate at least wir thousond dollor.l o year to the exclusive use of his cook, need consult this work." The fact is, these linoks are trot made fur poor people, nor are many of the recipes that get into the columns of our magazines and newspapers. Be sides, many of them begin the subject in the middle of it, leaving you to infer what necessarily precedes, in performing the operation ; and then again, the quantity of the ingredients prescribed, is too great to Make them practicable in a small family; fur, there are people who are so literal in their interpretations or silent a book con tains, that they will not deviate a hair's breadth from what is laid down. Hence these hooks on domestic economy," only incul , •ate a system of domestic extrava gallee, often producing such a heterogen eous "mess,.' as no Christian would yen- Clime to take into his stomach willnait conscientious qualm. Tears ago a b:u•helor neighbor of ours installed his brother—who hal recently arrived from the " green Isle of Kris"--as his cook. Willie very readily assumed the function, because he was a c tive and in dustrious, and wa; anxious to make him self useful. Ile got along well—indeed we may say r cr.q well—for one so raw as he. On one occasion having a 1111111 her of potato diggers and pickers to provide for, he thought of welcoming their advent, by varying from the monotonots routine, which, up to that period, he hail followed. Consulting an old almanac, he brightened up with the idea of making a cheap .roep therein described. It ran something in this wise : " Take six ?wilds of meat and chop it in small pieces; one peck of potatoes, pare, wash clean,and slice; two solid heads of cab bage, cut up in pieces half as big as a hand; one pound of rice, previously boiled; six onions, sliced; two handsfull of garden herbs ; two handsfull of salt and one hand full of pepper. Boil the meat, the cabbage and the herbs thoroughly for two hours, press out all the essence and throw the rest away, retaining only a small portion of the meat and cabbage as an ornamentation; then add the potatoe and the rice and con tinue the boiling until well done. "Serve hot." With Willie, meat was meat, so he improvised six pounds of salted rancid flitch. So also herbs were herbs, and there fore he appropriated tansey and rhue. The recipe slid not say whether itshould be salt or fresh meat, and so the two handsfull of salt went in. When it was done it was thick as mush; but, as it NV 8.9 soap he was making, he added water to thin it, and when the proper consistency was attained, ho had a.large iron kettle full. The grease floated on top, and it looked for all the world like the beginning of a soft-soap-making opera tion; and it did'nt taste much better. No body could eat it. Even the swine indig nantly refused it. Bnt it was economical, for such a kettle of soup would have lasted a family a "life time." This may be con sidered a hypercritical criticism on "Domes tic Economy" and on "Cook-books," but nevertheless, thero is a strong smack of truth underlying it BELL VIEW. Platform of the Pittsburgh Democracy. At the recent meeting of the Democratic Convention of Allegheny county, Mr. George S. McLain, Chairman of the Com mittee on Resolutions, reported the fol lowing platform of principles, which ar raigns the Radical party for its corruption and profligacy, and clearly sets forth the aims of the Democratic party: The Democracy of Allegheny county, in Convention met, arraign the Republican party, and demand conviction and final judgment: Because, It ;has palliated and sheltered the most shameless corruption, by refus ing to prosecute defaulters, who have bold ly robbed the Treasury of millions of dol lars, which the taxpayers have to reim burse ; by tolerating and encouraging lob by rings at Washington and Harrisburg, which have corrupted and controlled legis lation for years, in the interest of jobbers, monied corporations and monopolies, to the detriment of the people; by elevating to and retaining in the office confessed criminals, recipients of bribes, and men who by fraud, perjury and forgery, have robbed of their pensions our gallant sol diers and the orphans and widows of our patriotic dead; by making merchandise of positions of honor and trust ; and by creat ing unnecessary jobs and letting them out in the interest of rings. Because, Of its reckless and profligate expenditure of the public funds; by giv ing immense subsidies to giant corpora tions ; by parcelling out among corrupting monopolies the public lands which by right belong to the honest and toiling mil lions of the nation ; by creating innumera ble useless offices in which to pension idle partisans; by refusing to pass such laws as will prevent private speculation with the public funds, and enable nation, State, county, city, ward and township officials to enjoy the profit realized from unexpend ed balances. Because, It persistently refuses to modi fy the system of revenue, which, in its as• sessments, is inequitable and oppressive upon the laboring and middle classes, and in its mode of collection is arbitrary, odi ous and extravagantly expensive; and continues the iniquitous income tax, in spite of its solemn pledge that it should cease. Because, By its blind policy it has de stroyed Our former maritime greatness and driven American commerce from the seas. Because, By reason of its repeated brok en promises it gives no hope of restoring official purity—punishing corruption, breaking up rings and lobbies and decreas ing the onerous burdens of taxation, and re-establishing general prosperity, happi ness and content. And we proclaim as the policy which will guide and control the Democrats when restored to power, that the most rigid econ omy and the strictest integrity shall be ex ercised in every office of trust. That taxation shall be unitirnt and just to all cl a sses without being oppressive upon any, and that the income tax shall lie repealed and all the burden lessened promptly and effectively. That the financial policy of the Govern ment shall have respect to the interest of the tax-payer rather than to the speculator and bondhslder. That slavery shall not be re-established in the form of Coolie laloir, or in any other way ; but organized and unnatural impor tation of a race not homogeneous or capable of becomin g so, shall be discouraged, as should every movement or measure which tends to lessen the dignity cilt labor or de prive it of just remuneration. That a tariff is indispensable for roventio and should be so adjusted as not to preju dice any of the industrial interest; of the country, while securing to our home pro duce', fair competition with foreign capital ;mil labor. That the public lands stud! not he given away, or divided by corrupt Congressmen among themselves, or corporations and speculators, bill reservist for soldiers and SettiCrS. That there shall be no special legislation; lobbying coil bribery shall be severely punished; public morals reformed; pri va e virtue encouraged; official purity se cured, and general prosperity promoted. The report of the Committee was received and the platform of resolutions enthusias tically adopted without a dissenting voice. The Attorney General of the United States, Mr. Akermau, of Georgia, has late ly made a political speech at Atlanta, in whicli there is less of the earnestness, gravi ty and fairness becoming ffinjudicial advise' of the government than might have been expected from his antecedents. It may Ic' doubted, indeed, whether high offi cials of the government, especially those connected with the law department, add to the dignity. -respect and independence which aro essential to the proper influence of their position by- mingling in party as semblages, and advocating the claims of those to whom they owe their official posi tion. It was not expected by ally one of Mr. Akerman, when he accepted his pres ent responsible post, that ho semild relin quish the political ideas which since he be came a resident of the South, ho is under stood to have consistently maintained, but at the same Gino it is a taunt not becom ing the lips of a Southern man, whether by adoption or birth, to utter such words as these in his Atlanta speech: "The colored men in this country are grappled with hooks of steel to the republican ticket whenever they vote according to their will: and if democrats want harmony with the uegro, let them come and join the republi can party!" Nor is the following much more becoming the first law officer of the government: "As well as I can judge of the political sentiment of the people of this State, a majority of at least twenty thous and prefer for the first office of the land Ulysses S. Grant either to Jefferson 'incisor Horatio Seymour. - These jocular, if not insulting thugs at those of the people of Georgia, who do not seek to bask in the sunshine of executive favor seem rather like the slang of an ultra partizan stuflp speaker than the learned and dispassionate utterances looked for in old times from At torneys General of the United States. We feel the more free to speak plainly thus of Mr. Akerman's present course because of the manner in which see justified his ap pointment at the hands of the President, when party friends of the latter were this posed to oppose it.—lhilliinure San. 'The Radical !Split in Minnourt The Missouri Repubbean Dem.) thu commends the bolters front the ltepul ii eau State Convention: " The first striking feature of the Brown platform is the remarkable absence every thing concerning President Grant's Admin istration. There is not one word about it, good, bad, or indifferent. The omission 1,017101 be are Ideldit 1 ; it certainly tea, pre determined; and ire IllltSl leek lv (lie Ille ILLS Of (he CUltriliiiiS to explain (lie phenom enon. 'rho Brown party will Lind that • they need a new name; and, when they decide on the name, it may afford a solu tion of the mystery. Can it be that they propose to proclaim What Mr. Brown would call anew evangel,' not only out side the Radical party of Missouri, but above the Radical party or the country, and above the Administration they assist ed to power in IStki is the omission only an expression of Mr. Brown and Sen ator Schurz's estrangement from the Pres ident? As for the actually expressed reso lutions, they contain manifest merits; in deed, ill the main, they are good ; for six out of the nine are stolen ”lalo.xt bodily from the Deinocratir platforms of the collit try, and simply repeat principles that the Democratic party of Missouri have again and again avowed, for vQars," —IL is clear that the whole business was "predetermined:" and that the end content plated by the bolters was fraterniaatiiiii with the Sham Democracy. But for that, their l'ailure would expose [he'll Is a . l,ent rklicule and ultimate contempt. But they have st irted fiir the enemy's camp, and will not linger long on the way. Reference was briefly made yesterday to these Provinces, which it has been report ed the N ing of Prussia desires either to an nex to his dominions or to fern[ into inn in dependent State, a n d a further account giv ing some historical particulars, may he interesting,. Alsace and Imrraine !odium, exist on the map of France, the division of that country into Departments, in 1790, having changed entirely the nomenclature of the different regions. Instead of being coin pusisl of thirty-two large and eight small Provinces, France, at the com mencement of the Great Revolutin, was laid out into eighty-nine Departments.— The old Province of Alsace was divided into the Departments of Ilant Rhin Upper Rhine), and Its,, Rhin l Loser Rhino Haut Rhin, in loom, had a popula tion of 5:10,255 souls, and Bas Rhin a popu lation of 553,970, !so that Alsace, hail a pop ulation of 1,119,255. 'She territory called Alsace originally Mrmed part of Celtic Gaul, and passed with the rest of Gaul under the Roman yoke. The Franks seized it under Clovis, and after his dismembered territories were reunited under Charle magne it was included in the Empire of that Prince. From 940 to 1048 Alsace be longed to Austria, but by the treaties of Munster, in 1010, and of Ryswick, in 1197, nearly the whole territory was ceded to France. After the Revolution in 1709, an other portion, consisting of the territories of Montbelliard and Muhlhausen, was ac quired by France. Lorraine in 1790 was divided into the De partments of Moselle, Meuse, Vosges and Meurthe. It hail in I 31.14) a population of 1,001,199 souls.' Lorraine, originally Lothai ringia, was so called from Lothaire, a de scendant of Charlemagne, and for a long time existed as a kingdom, attached to the Eastern or Austrian Empire. It afterwards became the Duchy of Lorraine, the posses sion of which was long the subject of con tention among the rulers of Europe, and finally in 1766 it was made apart of France. Previous to this time as partof the negotia tions, Francis, Duke of Lorraine, on mar rying the Archduchess Maria Theressa, afterwards Empress of Austria, ceded his domains to Stabislas, ex-King of Poland, the father-in-law of Louis XV of France.— The incorporation of Lorraine with France was part of the price paid by Francis fur his election as Emperor of Austria. Democratic Victory In Delaware, WILMINGTON, Delaware, September o. At the City election here to-day, the whole Democratic ticket was elected. William Bright fer President of the City Council, receiving over 200 majority. The Demo crats carry five wards out of nine. Much interest was manifested, as it was the first election hold under the Fifteenth Amend ment. The Radicals elected their candidate for Mayor last year, by 50 majority; a Democratic gain of 250 in one year. THE EUROPEAN SITUATION. Recogmlllon of the French Republic by the United States• Speech of Mr. Washborne—Reply of Terrible Dleaster at Laon Recor,nitiora by Other Nattorks Pane, Sept. S.—A Prussian corps has occupied Rheims. A dispatch from Marseilles says that a republic has been proclaimed in Italy, but this is not confirmed. No Prussians have yet been seen In the Department of Seine. The strategists are puzzled by the abandonment of the siege of Montmedy when the town was half burned. The Prussians, under Gen. Mob ring, have occupied Rheims. PARIS, Sept. S—Midnight.—lt is official ly stated this evening that the Prussians, after a number of ineffectual attempts to carry the works at Montmedy by storm, had abandoned their object and raised the siege. The Prussians suffered severely from the tiro of the mitralleuse. - - LONDON, Sept. S—Midnight.—A Berlin telegram to the Times states that the Prus sian annexation includes the cession of all Alsace and northeastern districts of Lor raine, including the fortresses and cities of Metz, Thionville and Strasbourg. The arondissetnent of Havre has been declared in a state of seige by a prodama- tion front the Ministry. Princis Mathilde has been released from surveillance. The death of Marshal MacMillan' is con tradicted. A report reached this city by private sources that ho had arrived at a chateau near Namur, accompanied by his wife and personal aids. Paris despatches say M. Tillers has gone to meet King William on a peace mission. BERLIN, Sept. S.—The King of Prussia entered Rheims on Monday. The seaports of Brest, Ifavre and Cher houriz are being actively placed In a com plete state of defense. Fears are expressed liere that General Bazainc, penned up in Metz, will he forced to capitulate in a few days, as he is now reduced to a sore strait for lark of provi- 'ions and ammunition. The parts of Lorraine now in Prussian muds, and all of Alsace, will pro ably re iresent the territory to be demanded from 'raneo an indemnity by Prussia. P.l ItIS, Sept. B.—Tlco fidlowing official are matlo public: A. despatch from he prefect of the Aisne to Minister tom ilateil at Loon, September 7th, says: 'A Ilag of truce ireetiiiing; three corps l'arom:e from Rethel, Chateau Porcein and Rheims, has just been conducted to the citadel, and luts addressed to the gen eral commanding a summons in the 110.1110 of the Kmg of Prussia, who loft Itethel this morning. 'Chu advance guard of 0110 corps should now be in the neigh borhood of Soissons. The reconnoitring 'arty ‘vhieh was arlVell kw!: yesterday be onged to this carp=." The Minister of the Interior has issuit.l he t'ollowing rirrular to Prefects or Depart 'lents : . . The enemy is advancine; on l'aris iii three corps &armee, one ut which has ur rivcdeit Soissens. The advance guard of this corps has ,uninioned l.aon , which shuts its gates and resists.' fhe interrup- . . lion of telegraphic communication with Epornay and Chateau Thierry indicates the presence of the enemy at that place. Com munication continues with Atezieres, Epi nal and Mulhouse. There is no news from Bazaine. The news or on, death or Mat mahon has not been officially confirmed. At Paris order is perfect. 'rho inhabit ants have received with warm demonstra tions of conlidenee the assurances given by the government that the city is abundantly provisioned for two month;. The Prefect or the Rhone sends word•that harmony has been established between himself and the committee which took the direction of af t'airs, and order prevails. Esquiros has arrived at Marseilles, where he is received with enthusiasm. The work of revision is actively going on in all the departments. 'rho third. Mobile everywhere arks to bo led to Paris, and nano haLtaliffilS are now here, or on the march 'hither. i.kmarrr.k." PA ms, Sept. s.—Late yesterday after -110011 Minkter WRSIII,IIIIIO had an inter view with Jules Pas re, at Which he an nounced that the American I iovernment had recognized the sister Republic a France. NI. Favre sv e 4 111111 . )I moved, and grasping Mr. Wa.shburno by the hand, he exclaimed, '• I receive the notification with gratitude and profound emotion." The Official Jmirnal of the Republic to day printed 0 letter from Mr. W. 111,111110, declaring himself authorized to recognize the French Republic, nod offer the congrat ulations of the American Government and the people, who hose heard with enthusi asm of the proclamation of the Republic unattended with bloodshed, and oar every sympathy with the great movement, which is big With results, and happy Mr Franco and mankind. The letter after calling the traditional friendship between the two countries, closes with congratulations on the choice of.lules Favre as Foreign Min ister. Pan's, Sept. S—Evening.—Great crowds of the ktrde Mobile :Ind citizens carrying the French and American flags made ;t demonstration to-day, beibro the American Legation, in gratitude for the recognition of the French Republic by the United States. The letter of Mr. Washburno M Jules Favre gives great satisfaction, and the peo ple seem to be persuaded that the American I.lovernment will interfere in favor of peace. LoNnos, Sept. S.—Drummond, the hank er, writes to the unit an interesting account of the Emperor Napoleon while a prisoner. says " Before long we joined the rear of the Emperor's train. The cortege was of great length, and we had a good oppor tunity of seeing it as it passed the bridgo at right angles with the main road. First earns the Emperor's own carriage, travel ing to Berlin, then an open carriage, and after these two or three carriages like pris on vans, all marked ' Maison Militaire de l'Emperenr,' and containing the members of his stall. A number of horses followed, some mounted by Imperial servants in liveries. The horses were magnificent ani inals,:over 16 hands high. There were re lays of horses for the carriages, and pack saddle horses and chargers. t noon the Emperor alighted at Bouillon and walked to the hotel. The crowd of people was l`llorlllollM, but was kept MI by the Belgian troops. French officers of high rank, among them Prince Murat, strolled about. The Emperor ap- peared at a will low and the crowd cheered. The French,prisoners were silent and made no response. It was impossible to find quarters and food at the hotel, and the Em peror dined first and then his suite, and the rest took what they could get. At 2P. M. the Emperor, accompanied by ( ieneral Pas teiniwr, route to the door of the railway station. lie seemed well, his face showing no emotion, though he leaned heavily on the arm of a servant Nvllo led din ont wore a red kepi, embroidered with gold and carried a decoration un his count. De spatclws were handed to him, and he sat down on the platform, and wrote replies and afterwards paced up and down the plat form, smoking cigarettes. Ile returned to the waiting room and read the fade/rend arice Brig, until the special train arrived, when he departed. Svpt. .N—;Special to New York Trdranc.)—The following report of a decla ration by the French Foreign Minister comes to me from a private correspondent, whose position enables hint to know the facts, and who guarantees rho accuracy:— Jules Favre had been appealed to Mr a quasi official sanction to a republican dem onstration in Madrid, with the intimation to prim that he could be, PreSillent of the spank!, Repuldic. Favre replied that the Government of France could not at this moment inakearly luoVeinent to encourage a republic in Spain, and would even prefer that it should not be declared. "'rile reason which obliges 11,i to refuse, is that repub licanism so spread would alienate and ter rify Russia and imperil negotiations pend ing between the Provisional Government and Russia for an nuance offensive and de fensive vainst Prussia, should the latter prove too exaetnig as to terms of peace; in ether words, if the alliace takes plave— and it is on the point of realization—Russia marches straight upon Berlin. "She has already begun to arm and send troops to her western frontier. If you ask what can tempt Russia, Russia answers that the same military strength which Prussia has now directed against France will worrier or later be • turned against. Russia, with a view to acquire all the German provinces of Russia." My correspondent adds:— " You may make use of this intelligence, for it eannot long remain a secret, and it Imlay be depended upon absolutely.' Pn rtis, Sept. 9.—The following is the ad dress delivered by Minister NVashburne Gr the crowds of people and soldiers who came to serenade him last evening: "I thank you, on the part of may govern ment, for this denionstration. I shall have great pleasure in transmitting the thanks you express with so much eloquenee for the recognition of the new republic of Franee. In frIV eornlnlinivation. d, which you make such kind greeting, I have but made known the sentiments of the President and people of the United States of America, who take a profound interest in the great movement just inaugurated in France, and will desire most fervently its success and the happi ness and prosperity of the French people. Existing Menisci woo under a republican form of government, they know how to appreciate its benefits. With warm Hearts and language they felicitate their former allies on the accomplishment of a pacific revolution, free from all shun of blood, and claiming the sympathy Mall lovers of true liberty." Among the boulevards there were many shouts of " Vivo les Etats Unis?" and " Five Independence!" The action of the United States Government is warmly com mented on in all parts of the city. Jules Favre called again to-day to reiter ate his thanks to the nation and to Mr. Washburn°. The La France newspaper recalls the fact that in 1818 the United States was the first country to recognize the French Re public, and she is first again in 1870. FAN RE'S REPLY TU WASHBURN E. - - _ The official journal of the Republic to day publishes the reply of Jules Favre to Minister Wa.sliburne. Ho says that he con siders it a happy augury for [lie French Republic to have obtained her first recog nition from the United States, who founded States, who founded their wise and careful institutions on independence and civil vir tuet and in spite of the terrible ordeals which they have passed through, conserved with unshaken firmness their faith in the great principle of liberty, whence issue dignity and prosperity. Nations desiring to become masters of their destiny must fo' low the course pursued by you, must take as symbols love of Industry and respect of the rights of all. This is the programme of the Govern ment Just established hero from an unfor tunate crisis, the result of the follies of des potism ; but at this moment we can have only one care, to deliver the nation from the enemy. There again we have the bene fit of your example and your persevering courage. In the accomplishment of this task, we count upon the support of all men of heart and all Governments interested in the triumph of peace. Strong in the justice of our cause we have firm hope of success. and the adhesion of the Government of Washington gives us confidence. The members of our Government request that we make known to you their gratitude, and beg you to transmit it to your Govern ment. Pants, September 11.—Importantadvices have been received through other sources, confirming the former dispatches reporting the surrender of Leon and the partial de struction of the city rod the Prussian com mand' by the explosion of the stores of ammunition within the citadel. The following adviees have been received relative to this terrible disaster: The city had refused to surrender to the Prussian column under the Duke of Idecklenburg- Schwerin, and that general prepared to bombard the city. llis siege train was in position to shell the city, which hail obdu rately refused to capitulate. A second summons to surrender was then dispatched to the French commander under cover of a parley. The second sum mons was honored and an answer returned that in order to save the town from destrue lion by the lire of the Prussian artillery, and to prevent the imperiling of the lives of the eon-cuntbatants the trim n Woillil he surrendered. ' The citadel of I.iton then capitulated.— The head of the l'russian column then tiled in through the gates of the city and niece pied the defences. The garrison laid down their arms and the Garde Mobile were lib. crated. 'rile Prussians had not relaitioil posses slim long when a terrible catastrophe oc curred. 'rho magazine which had been connected by a train with the citadel, the larger being mined, exploded, isintimini eating with the powder in the citadel, and the greater portion of the works were de stroyed. The concussion was tremendous. The walls of the citadel were overthrown, killing the Prussian stall, several lininilrisi Prussian soldiers, 111111 also many of the i I ardo Mobile, who were in 010 vicinity til the magazine nt the now. The French eon - inland:int survived, though wounded. Ile surrendered only to save the town. Postal comintolication between this eiiy soil England has bee. stopped, and the (Millie upon the several roads will be Sll - pendent. NI. Kern, the Etivay Of the Ileptililie on Switzerland, has :tendered to the Foreign odic° the official recognition of the French republic by Ids government. The Swiss are earnestly isengrattilatory in thin pistils I terlllinaliOn or the new republie without the throes of revolution. It declares that Switzerland indulges •lii the cordial hope that Franco may be conselidated forever under liaise ratio institutions, ;turd only prosperity be perpetuated under 1110 new regime of liberty. Advienau from :%larsicil Bazaine at Metz, report that the garrison is in 110 illllllolilllo danger of distress front denies or :assault, the magazine being well , nteckeni with pro visions and anitunnition. Itrifidtv, Sept. lu,—lt is slated king Wil liam wishes every courtesy:mil C0111it,, , 11 sion hi he shown to the drifts iii',) Emperor at the ChatiNtin of NVilhelnisholle. It is sail the IC ing desires that civil and military aiii thorities in their intercourse with Napoleon treat Into as the ruling sovereign of France. Five Prussian army enirps, three or which have net taken part in the war, a r.- now fintri•hing upon Paris, the corps nif the Crown Prince and ilar..,ale, ire,. Sedan joining Ilium WI tilt` Illal,•II. Ali of the corps have been ordered to take up their respective position , : on lVeiliii , ility iii,i, ten lea.rnes from Paris. Mamicii, Sept. lin. -A great demonstra tion has been made in favor Of the r e publicll Of FratlVO. A likrgoi.rocession paraded the streets with banners, nags and ~,te,ie. The procession eenehelea its nuareli ilt CaSill• Square, where a mass meeting was organ iz.eil. Five thousand people were present. The proceeding s , though end] Insiastie, wire orderly. Senors Castelar curl Figuern, a!- dressed the assemblage. A grand processioll of twenty thin's:old republicans took place in this city to-day. Banners of the French republic were car ried in the ranks, bearing the inscriptions, Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. The proceedings were very orderly and the procession was greeted with hearty ap plause throughout the entire city. .ti the close a mass meeting Wt4,l hold, at which Senor Fignerni delivered On address, ,it which the following Sellt0111•1. WaS the lit'y - note : "We now hail the French Republic with sympathy, awaiting the moment to support it with our arms." Itainsn, Sept. 10.—Tim Federal Council of Switzerland acknowledges the sister I te public of Frain,. Pants, Sept. 13.—Tho Prussian ailvinina , in now cautiously cloning in upon the city. Twu corps of the Prussian army, nip •ie,ueo men each, occupied last night a position on the Strasbourg highway, between Conlin an ruler and La Lerte. The Villains are Spreall ing themselves on either lianik, mid have appeared at Mullin and Igennix, and are re ported front Iloussaye. I , l,oitEsin•E, Sept. 13.--The Italian 4;10:- eminent have intimated a proposal, which it is proposed to intake to the Pope, on the occupation of Rome. Should no opposition be offered to the entry of the Italuiti troops, the government will secure to the Pope the Leontine quarter of the city, noel pro- Villo for a civil list, including the College of Cardinals. Erman:um:, Sept. IS.—lt In flnllolllll,ll that his Holiness, the Pope, is preparing a protest against the entry of the Italian troops into Itome, and their occupation of the Papal territory. The Pepe will not, however, resist the Italian invasion Of his patrimorly. It in said nit English Frigate of line Med iterranean Squadron, ham been offered to the l'upe as a refuge. Penis, Sept. 13.—A l'Ems•inn division, whose strength is estimated at 50,000, has arrived Ibefore Soissons, and invested the city. Tho Prusaiati General ham de:up:deli end a summoning to the Commander of thn, French I itnarde Mobile, within the city, to surrender in this name of tine king, of Prus sia. 'fine commandant of Soissons replied to the demand for a surrender, that he would never comply, but that he would rather blow up the piaee. The ViLiel.ll4 generally support the determination of the commandant. ' Lotfuos, Sept. 13.—The Pest nays, this lull hopes of suspension of hostilities have been abandoned. An edict has been Issued that no person shall leave Paris after il O'clook on the morning of September 10th, within t special permit. The Nationale Guard° were summoned us tllO fortifications to-day. Berlin telegrams deny that Bancroft has ' tendered mediation um the part of the United States. 'There was no intention of suck proceeding on 010 part or the United States governmont Bismarck', in an official report of Nnpo leon's surrender, states that Napoleon asked for the French, to be permitted to, cross into Belgium and be thearmed. lit, declared, in conversation. that the pressure of public opinion in Franco forced him, the Emperor, to go " into the war ; per sonally ho did not desire it." The Cabinet at Berlin hav• eddrensol is letter to Al Mister Washburn°, tendurieg thanks for his ser•ices inn assinting ex pelled Germaum in Purim. FLORENCE, Sept. 13.-I;en. BiXio's camp, on Sunday, Was at Al ofitepiasoffue, Ntllol, the Papal garrison withdrew without strik , ing, a blew. The Italians occupied Ilagniira, wle•re twenty Z011:1VO nulivera surrendered. The Itomans cut tine rail way bet wee ii (',chine and I , rosinone. Italians are advancing and are well received by the population. PARIS, Sept. 13.--. k in lintssanlora will send away,' their Secretaries, and remain thrill selves Mail tllO lire is 011011.1 MI PUNS. '''hey 101001p:1W In/ Wince Ity in passing the Prussian lines. 'rho ilerman Itilitroi have rut the Si r:I,• boUrg railway unit telegraph, a little be yond Noisy le Sec, eight miles from Paris. BERLIN, Sept. 13.--The Prussian eilleial newspaper says: The enemy, in contra vention of capitulating, blew up the maga zine at Loon. Penns, Sept. 13.—The Prussian rillans aro now at ''rosins, Department of the Seine ci Nlaine. They anneunre the ap proach or twenty thousand Prussians, RS the advance guard of the grand army. Prussians have arrived at d'arlepolit, de partment of the I LONDON, Sept. 13.—M. 'riders anti nine other gentlemen, arrived here this rimm ing early, from Dover, and were visited by tine Earl of Granville. Pants, Sept, 13.—Popular demonstra tions took place in Nlarneil lee, in honor of the United States. Portugal has reeognized the Republic. CrelnineX represenL9 the government at Tours. :11alarat has been recalled from the Em bassy at Florence, annul superseded ,by Re nard, who is entreated with an extraordi nary mission to Victor Emanuel. A Serious Accident on the Lehla.ll and Susquehanna Railroad. ALLENTOWN, Ps. Sept 12.—A serious railroad accident occurred to the train due here on the Lehigh and Susquehanna Rail road at 2.47 this afternoon. The train had left Catasaqua but a few minutes when it ran over a cow. The engine, baggage car, and first passenger car passed over success fully, but the rear,car was thrown over the embankment, over or; its side. A number of passengers, mostly Phila delphians were seriously injured. S. I'. Coughlin, of Florence Heights, N. J., was dangerously injured; ho was brought to this city, and convoyed to the American Hotel ; his wounds are principally about the head ; ono of his arms was fractured. Mr. Jam ison, of Philadelphia, received a cut in the forehead. B. F. Bargo,of Mauch Chunk,was injured about the head. Annie Thomas, Newport, Pa., slightly hurt on head. Sarah Bernard, Philadelphia, badly cut on lip and otherwise bruised. Mrs. M. J. Byrne and child, No. 140 Sixth Street, Philadelphia, both hurt in head ; not serious. Mary Beek and child, 31.2 Race street, both hurt in side and otherwise bruised. Wm. Kerner and wife, Danville; Mr. Korner hurt in arm and shoulder; wife hurt in head; both slightly. It is now believed that only three per- SODS perished at the great fire in Chica go, and only that number are missing.
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