Eancaoter 2intellfgencer.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21,1870]
The Case of Tennessee Butler.
The indictment of Roderick Random
Butler and his trial will show up the
rascality of one of the brood of repro
bates who have managed to crawl into
Congress under the sheltering folds of
reconstruction. There are two indict
ments now pending against Butler, each
of which contains six , counts. The first
countlof the first indictment charges
him with having forged the name of
Bethany Farmer, the widow of J. Cal
vin
Farmer, of Ashe county, North 1 1
Carolina, upon a check drawn by the
President of Raleigh National Bank
upon the National Republican Bank of
illew York city, in favor of said'Bethany
Farmer, for the sum of $473.12, with in
tent to defraud said Bethany Farmer.
The other five counts are framed to cover
other parts of the same transaction. The
second indictment is similar to the first,
the party in this instance defrauded be
ing Rebecca J. Madron, of same locality.
Both the women are the widows of
members of the 13th Union Tennessee
Cavalry who died in the service. Pen
sions were granted and the checks duly
made out and sent to Butler, who was
acting, or professing to act as the Attor
ney of these widows. They never re
ceived a dollar of the money, or saw the
checks until they were shown to them
in the office of the United States Dis
trict Attorney at Washington. The
endorsements were forged by,Butler and
the money drawn and pocketed by him.
When Butler was first confronted with
the charges he made light of them.—
Subsequently he asserted that he had a
power of attorney from Mrs. Farmer
authorizing him to sign her name and
draw the money, but un examination of
the document he presented showed that
it had also been forged. The Washing
ton correspondent of the Cincinnati Ga
zette, who on August let published cer
tain particulars of the ease, said at the
time, referring to this power of attor
ney :
"Sometime afterward the charge was
rondo Butler appeared with two-half sheets
of paper, on ono of which was what pur
ported to be a power of attorney from Mrs.
Farmer, bearing date in October, 1800, and
previous to Butler's endorsing her name.
rho other sheet contained a sworn state
ment front Mrs. Farmer, dated In April,
1870, setting forth that the affidavit she had
forwarded a short tinie before was written
under a misapprehension of the facts, and
was erroneous.
"Both those papers were sworn to before
a notary, and attested by the clerk of the
Court in Tennessee, who, in title case, was
Mr. Butler's soil.
" When they came to be closely exam
ined at the Pension Office, it appeared that
the paper was not only the save, but that
both documents had formed part of a sin
gle sheet, as wits HbOWII by LIM fart that
along the torn edges the ragged projections
on ono side exactly fitted the indentations
upon the other."
It Will be remembered that Butler was
crested last summer, during the cam
aign when he was a candidate for re
election. lie had a writ of lutheas cor
pus served on his captors, and being
taken before a United States Judge in
his section,was released. 'Phe action of
the Judge was open to grave suspicion.
The adherents of Butler threatened to
mob the pension agents who had ar
rested him, and they had to leave the
country. Subsequently the Pension
Bureau turned the case over to the De
partment of Justice, and the result is
the indictment of the accused. Not
withstanding the charges hanging over
him, Butler daily occupies his seat on
the Radical side of the House, and he
made a speech in the Republican caucus
the other night against amnesty. Ile
declared, when he arrived in Washing
ton, that he intended to rise in his scat
and make an explanation of the mat
ter, but has never attempted to do so.
He will now haves_ an opportunity to
make his promised explanations before
a Court of Justice.
Would it nut he better to Iu the
First District of Tennessee represented
by an ex-rebel than by such a repro
bate? Would it not be better do allow
the people of the South to send their
representative men to Omgress. than
for the 001111113• to be disgraced by a set
wretches such as have come int(
power under the reconstruction acts'.
These are questions which it seems t(
u , any decent Republican would tied i
easy to answer.
Houtuell and Grant
The report which was current in
siVashington a day or,two ago, to the
,ffect that, Secretary Boutwell was about
to resign is now denied ; but there is no
loubt that he is dissatisfied. The causes
if grlevani-! on the part of the Secretary
,re said to be, first, the evident disposi
i ion of Congress to do away with all in
ternal revenue taxes except those upon
wines, spirits, malt liquors and tobacco,
as evidenced by the almost umutinmus
passage of such a resolution by the
_House the other day ; aml, secondly,
the impression prevailing that the
President has been converted to the
theory that our taxation is much too
heavy. Secretary Boutwell holds that
to cease paying ohr the nabonal debt
would be an abandonment of that poli
cy upon which the administration has
prided itself so much, and he is nut dis
posed to yield to the sudden change of
programme which is now proposed. If
the:President insists upon making a com
plete departure from the course which
has been pursued, the probabilities are
that Mr. Boutwell will feel compelled
to retire from the cabinet. Ile Is pledged
to the rapid payment of the National
Debt, and that can not be effected with
out a continuance of the present heavy
rate of taxation. The shrewder poli
ticians of tile Republican party have
sense enough to see hat such a course
is unpopular, and th y want to balance
the boat and trim sail for the Presiden
tial contest In 1872. If Grant takes
-ides with the politicians, Bout well will
,nave to go overboard—if he sticks to his
Secretary, they are sure to founder to
gether The dilemma Is not a pleasant
one for either party.
The Devil's Political Career In North
LCarollna.
A resolution was offered hi the North
Carolina House of Representatives, re
questing the delegation in Congress to
use their influence in favor of a general
amnesty and a repeal of the:test-oath,
and reeeived On affirmative to la. nega
tive votes. Of the 13 nays 10 were
negroes. Many Radicals, however, vo
ted for the resolution. One of this party
said in debate that he was willing to
"endorse the individual application of
Zeb. Vance, Joe. Turner or the devil,"
to which Mr. Jones, a Conservative, re
plied that the" devil had certainly been
tiler no disabilities in North Carolina
for the last two years. He was in near
ly every office, and his cloven foot cold
be seen in almost every act done by the
party so lately in power."
Connuvrio.ts; and bribery seem to
lave become the order of the day in
bis country. A recent investigation
ws that a publishing house in Phila-
This (Eldrigde St Brothers) 111L4 been
oing the school teachers of that city
'enure patronage. The report of the
~ innittee establishes the fact, but we
zkre glad to see that only a small number
of the teachers have been implicated in
•his serious and disgraceful charge.
Bribery in Congress and in our Stale
2gislatures is bad enough, but has be
so common as no longer to excite
wonder. Bribery in the Common
Schools of the State is the very latest
exhibition of the degeneracy of our
times.
Archbishop Spalding's Lecture
We publish elsewhere a complete ab
stract of the lecture of Archbishop Spald
itig upon the temporal power of the
Pope. As this is a subject which is ex
citing no little attention throughout our
country at the present time, the lecture
of Archbishop Spalding will be read
with interest by all classes.
THE LANCASTER WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1870.
The Art of Gerrymandering.
It is natural for any political party to
seek to perpetuate its rule, and experi
ence has shown'that politicians are not
scrupulous aboutthe means they employ
to accomplish such a result. One of the
devices which has been much resorted
to of late years is the dividing up of
States, districts, and even cities, in such
a manner as to defeat the will of the
majority. The speech of Senator Wal
lace, which we publish elsewhere, shows
how effectually this thing has been done
in the State of Pennsylvania. There is
no honest or right-minded citizen who
can read Mr. Wallace's speech without
being convinced that great injustice has
been done by the gerrymandering of
Congressional and Legislative districts.
Ours is professedly a representative
government, and whatever prevents a
fair representation of the people of any
district or of any party is in contraven
tion to the spirit of our institutions.
There is no decent Republican in the
State of Pennsylvania who will under
take to defend an apportionment,which
requires Democratic candidates for Con
gress to receive nearly twice as many
votes as are necessary to elect Republi
cans. There is no honest man who will
dare to utter a word in favor of a gerry
mander, which allows 3,700 Republi
cans to elect a member of the Legisla
ture in Philadelphia, while it requires
0,000 Democrats to elect one; which.
gives three members of Assembly to the
Republican County of Chester, with a
population of 77,824, and only two to
Democratic Montgomery, with a popu
lation of 81,512 ; which allows only one
to Democratic Cumberland, with a pop
ulation of 93,855, and two to the com
blued Republican counties of Tloga and
Potter with a population of only 48,256 ;
which allots two members to the Repub
lican counties of Bradford and Sullivan,
with a population of only 59,2110, while it
gives but two to the Democratic counties
of Columbia, Montour and Northum
berland, which have a population of 85,-
:,1311; which permits the Republican
counties of Susquehanna and Wyo
ming to elect two members, with a pop
ulation of 42,115, while the Democratic
counties of Wayne, Pike, Carbon and
Monroe, with a population of 63,521,
only elect the same number; which
gives Lancaster county, with a popula
tion of 121,425, four members, and two
Senators, and Luzerne, with a popula
tion of 150,951, only one Senator and
hree members.
The above figures are taken (ruin the re-
turns of the census just made publie,and
the apportionment was made when the
relative population of the counties was
about the same as it is at present. For
further evidence that the apportionment
was made on a fraudulent basis we have
only to refer back to the census of 1860,
which shows the following great dis
proportions. Then Chester had a popu-
ation Of 74,578, and Montgomery a
population of 70,500 ; then the Demo
cratic counties of Columbia, Montour
and. Northumberland had, a population
of 07,040, and the Ilepublican counties
of Bradford and Sullivan only 33,466;
then the Democratic counties of Wayne,
Pike, Monroe and Carbon had a popu
lation of 67,18:,, and the Republican
counties of Susquehanna and Wyoming
but .18,607. These figures are sufficient
to show how the last apportionment of
the State was made. That it was vil
lainously dishonest, no one can deny.
It is by such means that the Repub
lican party has managed to keep up its
large majority in the Lower House of
our Legislature and to control the Sen
ate for seven years together. Just now
the Senate is more nearly balanced than
it has been at. any time since the present
outrageous apportionment was made. It
is only so because one of the double dis
tricts and one or two of the single ones
have disappointed the expectations of
Republican politicians. The death of
Mr. Watt leaves the Senate a tie, and its
political complexion will depend upon
the result of the coming election in the
First District. That district is Demo
cratic, and a full and fair vote will elect
the I)emocratie candidate. The Repube
licans have complete control of the
Lower House and have the Governor.
If the Democrats obtain control of the
Senate a fair apportionment bill will be
adopted, one which will give to all sec
lions of the State and to both political par
ties a fair representation in the State Leg
islature. The .I)emocracy of Pennsylva
nia ask nothing more. \V hen they were
in power they never gerrymandered the
State as the Radicals have done; nor
would they do so now if they had the
opportunity. They recognize the fact
that ours is a representative government
and would not attempt to do violence to
that great principle which lies at the
basis of our republican institutions,—
Not so the Radicals. Should they sue-
ceed in electing their candidate for Sen
ator in the First District, the State will
be again gerrymandered as it now is.—
The appeals which we daily see in Rad
ical newspapers show that such is the
fixed purpose of the party leaders. We
hope and believe they will be defeated
in their evil designs by the triumphant
election of Mr. Dechert, the Democratic
candidate for Senator in the First Dis
trict.
The people of Pennsylvania will not
rest satisfied until an amended State
Constitution shall cut up the system of
gerrymandering, and other Legislative
evils by the roots,. giving a free ballot
and fair representation to all parties,
and rendering our Legislature pure and
respectable.
The Mayflower a Slate Ship
Fred. l)oughtss made a speech at the
New England dinner, given in the Con
gregational Church of Washington City
the other evening, in which he asserted
as a historical fact that the Mayflower;
which brought over the Puritans, was
subsequently fitted out by them as a
slaver, and a cargo of slaves brought
front Africa in her. He claimed that,
as a descendant of that slave cargo, he
had a peculiar and an indisputable right
to speak at a meeting called to celebrate
the landing of the Pilgrims who came
over the Atlantic In the Mayflower.—
And, why not? According to Fred.
his ancestors were Pilgrims as well as
the Puritans.
The white Pilgrims crossed the Atlan
tic in the Mayflower voluntarily, the
black Pilgrims were brought across it
in irons. The white Pilgrims soon forgot
that they had been driven out of Eng
land by persecution and began to hang
Quakers and others who differed with
them in religious belief; they professed
to be "the Lord's anointed people;" but
they thought it all right and proper
for them to tear negroes from their
homes in Africa and to reduce them
to slavery. It was not until long
after the immediate descendants of
the Puritans had sold the ances
tors of Fred. Douglass to the Catholics
of Maryland, the Cavaliers of Virginia
and the Huegenots of the Carolinas,
that the New England conscience be
came alive to the iniquity of the slave
trade. It was by the votes of the New
England men that the clause containing
the slave trade was inserted in the Con
stitution of the United States. Fred.
Douglass has a splendid text in the fact
that the Mayflower was converted into
a slaver, and Ile might get up a grand
sensational lecture upon the subject.—
Its delivery would no .doubt create a de
cided impression in Bostma,
Hydrophobia
We publish elsewhere an able com
munication on the subject of hydropho
bia, written by Dr. N. 11. Smith for the
Baltimore Sun. Dr. Smith is one of the
most eminent physicians in the coun
try, and his plain statements of the man
ner in which the dreadful effects of a
bite from a rabid dog may be avoided
ought to be made familiar to every pie.
The article is of great value and should
be preserved for reference.
Defending the Fraudulent Apportion.-
The Express Is the only newspaper in
Pennsylvania which has the hardihood
necessary to defend the infamous Leg
islative and Congressional gerrymander
of the State, which;was made by the Re
publican party. Other Radical news
papers have indulged in ill-natured
flings at Senator Wallace, but the Ex
press is the only one which has attempt
ed to refute the facts contained in his
recent speech, or which has dared to ex
cuse the injustice which he so clearly
pointed out. The Express asserts that
its party only followed the example set
by the Democratic party,:ha concocting
the infamous gerrymander by which the
Democracy have been cheated out of a
fair representation in Congress and the
State Legislature. How false that charge
is may readily be shown by a reference
to the past political,history of the Com
monwealth, without entering into de
tails.
Up to the time when the present ap
portionment bills were:passed, the party
which carried the State on the popular
vote was almost certain to obtain con
trol of the Legislature, and to secure a
majority of Congressmen. The Demo
crats paid due regard to the principles
which underlie our form of government,
and did not violate the great doctrine
which recognizes the rights of all par
ties to be represented according to their
numbers. The consequence was that
when public sentiment in the State
changed, the sentiment which proved
strongest was fairly represented both in
Congress and in the State Legislature.
It was reserved for the Radicals to vio
late the principles on which the govern
ment rests, to give to Republican coun
ties and districtsa representation greater
than was accorded to Democratic coun
ties and districtswith a larger population,
and to join together counties which had
no natural relation to each other, for
the express purpose of swamping Demo
cratic majorities and securing an undue
preponderance of power in the National
and State Legislatures. Had the
Democrats been as reckless and as un
principled as their opponents have
proven themselves to be, they might
have prevented the Republican party
from securing fair representation, and
might have held the State Legislature
and u majority of the Congressional
districts in spite of all the nwtations In
public sentiment Which have taken
place. They did not do so when they
had the power, because they were re
strained by a higher sense of honor and
a more conscientious regard for princi
ple than has been exhibited by the
leaders of the Republican party.
The Exprem. does not refute a single
one of the long array of damaging facts
which are so clearly set forth in the
speech of Senator Wallace. It says:
"A r e could easily point out districts
where, under the:present apportionmen t
the Democrats get more than they are
entitled to." If so easily do: e, why not
do It Why make a bold assertion with
out backing it up by facts and figures?
The truth is the E./pr0,.. , can do nothing
of the sort. All the advantages of the
existing fraudulent apportionment are
on the side of the Radicals. The gerry
mander is so palpably fraudulent and
so grossly outrageous that no newspaper
in the State, except the Exprois, has
attempted to defend it. It stands alone
us the apologist of the most infamous
political swindle ever perpetrated—and
it does this while professing to be Ott in
dependentjoumal,audlwhilc pretending
to be an advocate of legislative reform.
We do not pretend that there is no
danger that the Democratie party
might be induced to follow the bad ex
ample set by the Radicals, though the
fairness of apportionments made under
its rule would justify such an assump
tion. We want to take away from any
party both the power and; the tempta
tion to indulge in such political swin
dles for all time to come. We are, there
fore, an earnest advocate of such changes
in our State Constitution as will ensure
a fair representation of minorities as
well as majorities. The course pursued
by the Express, which also professes to
be a friend of sull reform, and the
action of prominent Radicals in other
parts of the State, are calculated to
shake the faith of the people in the pro
fessions they make. U a Constitutional
Convention is called, it must be entire
ly divested of a partisan character.
Till: ninny after it had published a full
report of Surratt's lecture, Forney's
Press spoke editorially as follows:
Yesterday morning tine rr,,,,v alone of all
the papers inn Philadelphia or New York,
contained a full report of the revelation of
Joint IL Fitirratt, as made in his lecture,
delivered at the inaecessible little town of
Rockville, Maryland. While the coin mim
class shoots contented themselves with the
meagre abstract of the Associated Press,
One or two of the ranking journals of Now
York published considerable portions of it,
but none had the enterprise or ability to lay
the whole, without note, colnillent, or sy
110psis, before their readers.
We commend tine above to the editor
of the Eril COM. It may have a tenden
cy to remove the redundancy of bile
from his troubled stomach.
Qrand Army of the Republic
protested against cleneral Pleasanton ass
Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
and nearly all the politicians were op
posed to him, but grant sent his name
iu, thus showing that he is as obstinate
and untractible in such matters as ever.
He evidently regards (dikes as some
thing provided for the express purpose
of enabling him to reward his personal
friends, and can not be induced to con
sider them in any other light.
ADM MAI, C7i.ISSON, .a
relative of ex-
Senator Drake, was sent only a few
months ago to relieve Admiral Itadfo•d
front tire command of the European
squadron. Aiu,l plow he is conning home
to be retired on his net; rank, and of
course to be provided like otbers, with
easy and profitable shore duty. Under
this extraordinary system, there will be
more admirals than captains in a few
years, and the cost to taxpayers of idle
officers will be immensely increased.
Tin•: Postal Bill has passed the House
with a clause abolishing the franking
privilege. The free exchange of news
papers and magazines is retained, as it
should be, cow let the Senate concur
in the action of the Jjouse, and do away
with the abuse which costs the people
an immense sum of money, without
conferring any compensatory benefit
upon them.
Da. SAMUEL BARD, editor of the True
Georgian, who was nominated by the
President as Governor of Idaho, nut
after concaniation declined, has joined
the Democracy. in a letter to the Presi
dent he gives his reasons for the change,
opposing the Republican policy in re
gard to the South, but declares that his
high personal regard for the President
is unchanged.
THE New York E.cpre.s thinks Fred.
Douglass might buy the Washington
Chronicle from Forney, and combine it
with the paper he now publishes. Fred.
would be just the man to run the Radi
cial organ at 1.1,1 e seat of
,government.
He is in favor of universal amnesty, and
in some other respects mare Jiberal and
decent than Forney has proven h/auself
to be.
Amorcu others who are spoken of as
likely to be the candidate of the Demo
crats for Speaker of the next House of
Representatives is P. Gray Meek, Esq.,
of the Bellefonte Watchman. Meek has
won kvr himself a high reputation as a
man of ability, and he would be an un
exceptionable eandidAtte. He has al
ready served two terms in the Legisla
ture.
NArruitif has finally accomplished
what Ben. Butler failed to achieve. A
great flood in the James River washed
out the Dutch Gap Canal so as to allow
the passage of steamboats through it.
This shortens the route to Richmond
considerably.
Grant's New Dodge on the San Domingo
After all Grant Said in his message in
regard to San Domingo one would sup
pose he would scout the idea of sending
a commission to the island, to Inquire
into its value and Its condition. In his
message he gave to the country a de
scription of the coveted territory, more
particular and circumstantial than the
advertisement of any ptoperty in the
catalogue of an auctioneer, whose
profits depend upon the price he - gets.
The immediate and unconditional pur
chase of San Domingo was first
urged upon the Senate all last win
ter ; falling to secure the necessary two
thirds in that body, the proposition to
make the acquisition by a majority vote
of the two Houses of Congress was made
the prominent feature of the late annu
al message. If the Republican members
believe and trust Grant they ought not
to demand any further information on
the subject. The message ought to be
enough to satisfy them. But they evi
dently do not believe the President. Out
of their distrust of his word springs the
proposition to send out aset of Commis
sioners to begin the whole business
anew. If Grant knows the scheme to
be proper, honest and clear of fraud, he
ought to be able to prove it to his party
friends in Congress. He is the man who
seems to be chiefly interested in the
proposed purchase. A few men, like
Morton, of Indiana, champion the job
out of favor to the President, but the
majority of the leading men of the Re
publican party are opposed to it in tots.
The people of this country do not want
this new domain ,with Its turbulent pop
ulation of barbarian negroes,hitched on
to the United States, and the belief uni
versally prevails that Grant is only
eager in the matter because lie (.apeets
to make money out of it.
The Cost of Contested Elections
Under the encouragement given to
this business by the Radicals, contests
for seats in Congress have yearly be
come more numerous. There have been
before the Election Committee of the
present House thirty cases. In salaries
alone $50,000 have been paid to those
who have failed to establish claims to
seats, and the expenses of these contests
has amounted to fully as much more as
the salaries paid, the printing in a sin
gle case costing $7,000. Last winter a
bill was presented providing that uo
payment shall be made to any contest
ant unless he establishes has right to a
seat. Such a law would be just and
right In every sense of the word.
The probabilities are that there will
be nearly as many contested seats in the
next House as there were in the present
one, and there is no good reason why
the thing should be encouraged by of
fering a premium in the shape of a
handsome salary, and the payment of
all expenses In the case of failure to
make out a good claim. During the
past fourteen years, under Radical rule
in the House, a quarter of a million of
dollars have been wasted by this iniqui
tous system. If a candidate for Con
gress believes that he has been cheated
out of an election, let him make good
his case at his own expense, and let
him be given the full salary for the
whole term if he succeeds in unseating
his opponent. With a committee which
would decide contested cases on their
merits such a plan would insure sub
stantial justice, and no man would claim
a seat who was not honestly and fairly
elected. If such a law were passed, and
in connection therewith an act remodel
ing the method of deciding contested
seats, the people would be saved expense
and there would be greater fairness in
the conduct of Congressional Elections.
A partizan committee, such as that of
the present Congressis an unfit tribu
nal to decide upon'fa contested election
cue. Some of the decisions of the pres
ent committee have been simply out
rageous. All Democrats ask is that the
evidence in such cases shall decide them,
and not the ;mere partizan bias of the
men who 'are constituted judges. Let
there be a thorough reform in this mat
ter. Honesty and decency imperatively
demand it.
SENATiqt. SrMNER, has introduced a
bill which proposes to prohibit the fur
ther printing of greenbacks and frac
tional currency, and then to retire grad
ually the fractional currency, so as to
get rid of the whole of it within a year,
and to begin at once, retaining in the
Treasury the gold interest payable to
the banks on bonds deposited as secu
rity for their circulation. If this bill
passes it will be the first practical step
taken by the government in the direc
tion of a return to specie payments, and
Mr. Sumner will deserve the thanks of
all the friends of a sound currency if lie
gets his bill through.
IT .is said that Grant intends to name
Fred. Douglass us one or the Commis
sioners to report upon the propriety of
purchasing au Domingo, should Con
gress authorize the sending out of such
a Commission. As the inhabitants of
the island are nine-tenths negroes,
Grant might as well make the Commis
sion up entirely of " American citizens
of African descent." lie will, in any
event, take good care to appoint no one
who is not committed to the job, on
which he has set his avaricious heart,
and by which he experts to profit so
largely.
Morals of Radical Congressmen
The New York Tribune says
. The XLlst Congress is not likely to go
down to history with a commendable repu
tation fur good morals. 'lwo of its mem
bers have been expelled for selling cadet
ships, ono resigned to escape expulsion,
three or four others got o ff only by the hard
swearing of their accomplices, one has con
victed himself of attempting to procure
counterfeit money to pass among the poor
negroes, one is charged with cheating
soldiers widows out of their pensions, and
now the indictment of another fur bigamy
is reported.
T4e fellows who are thus held up to
scorn are members of " the party of
great moral id 12118."
IT Is stated in North Carolina papers
that Senator Abbott will exert himself
to prevent the removal of Gov. Vance's
disabilities, and then assert his claim
to the seat to which Vance has been
chosen, on the ground that lie (Senator
Abbott) received the next highest num
ber of votes in the Senatorial election,
and is therefore entitled to the seat should
Governor Vance continue under the
congressional ban. That is just such a
trick as we might exneet the Radicals
to indulge in.
A mm. has been reported by the Ju
diciary'Committee of the House for the
relief of parties whose lands were sold
for taxes in the South. It provides for
repurchase by the owners or their heirs
on payment of taxes due, expenses and
costs. 'lbis tsiU relieve some who would
otherwise suMr grievously.
Tnn appointment of the Rev. Mr.
Cramer, brother-in-law of (len. Want,
as missionary to the Danes, has been
rapidly followed by that of Mr. B. F,
PeixAnte as Missionary to the Rouma
nians. Is there no end to the list of the
President's relations?
TIM bill abolishing the grade of Id
mind in the Navy, which passed the
House, wiij meet with more opposition
in the Senate. Cinnit is doing all he
can to defeat it and to secure the con
firmation in the ofllee of his friend
Porter.
THE amount of internal revenue col
lected from the Ist of July to the 12th df
December, 1869, was $80,493,238.60. For
the corresponding period of this year the
returns a decrease of 1,972,918.71.
C. C. BOWEN, Radical Congressman
from South Carolina, has been indicted
in Washington on a charge of bigamy.
Of such hi " the party of great moral
Ideas."
Counterfeit Dealers In Counterfeit
Money.
One of the most remarkable devices
ever invented for extracting money
from the pockets of the simple, is that
which has been largely practiced by
certain rascals In New York city, who
profess to be dealers in counterfeit
United States currency. Circular let
ters are sent out by these scamps all
over the country, and the parties re
ceiving them are assured that they have
been recommended and carefully chosen
as proper persons to be entrusted with an
important secret. The circulars then go
on to state that counterfeit United States
currency of different denominations
will be forwarded at rates ranging
from fifteen dollars of good money
for a hundred of the - bogus, down to
five dollars, or less,for the same amount.,
according to size of bills and quantity
ordered. These rogues do not trust to
the mails but have the money forwarded
to them by Express. They avoid the
mails In order to avoid the eyes of the
police. They pretend to have an un
limited supply of counterfeit currency,
which, In the language of one of the
circulars, the agent will "take a solemn
oath will never be detected." That oath
might be safelytaken, for the dupes who
would be knaves never receive any
thing in the shape:of money. Either
they never hear from these fellows who
addressed them as "Dear Friend," or
they receive by Express a package of
brown paper or shavings.
The extent to which this infamous
trade has been carried has been made
manifest by the arrest of a couple of the
sharpers engaged in it in New York.
On examination of their memorandum
book it was ascertained that they had.
received in forty-seven days thirty
thousand dollars from their dupes.
Among the letters found in their posses
sion were two from a Radical candidate
for Congress in the State of Georgia,
which we publish elsewhere. Mr. Wim
by no doubt intended to use the " bogus"
to buy up negro votes, and the near ap
proach of the election will account for
his extreme anxiety to receive it. We
can scarcely lind it in our hearts to pity
the fools who are duped by this dodge.
Every one who has forwarded a dollar
to them has not only lost Is money,
but has superadded thereto the con
sciousness that he was ready and will
ing to engage In ,the worst kind of
knavery. The adtual dealers • In
counterfeit moneyl, resort to no
such devices. When they have
perfected what they regard as a suc
cessful imitation of a bank bill they
quietly distribute it by careful hands
among those who are known to them,
and known to be worthy of the evil con
fidence thus placed In them. Them,
simultaneously in different parts of the
country, "the queer is shoved," as'they
say in their thieves' jargon, as rapidly
as possible. In plain English an effort
is made to get rid of the greatest possi
ble amount before the ebunterfelt is de
tected by experts and the public warned
through the press. All who have sent
money to these counterfeit dealers in
counterfeit money have been served
right. They deserved to be swindled
and have been most effectually tricked
out of money which they risked for the
purpose of being enabled to cheat others.
A Strange Report About Forney
The New York Journal of Commerce,
a paper which is not given to sensation
al reports, has the following among its
Washington despatches:
".1. W. Forney, it is said, has abandoned
President Grant after au interview with the
President on Thursday, when the latter in
sisted upon his advocating the purchase of
San Domingo. This he refused, on the
ground that he is opposed to it, and that he
would not write against his convictions for
a person who had never substantially re
cognized Ills labors in the party."
If Forney is indeed about to desert
Grant, it must be on the same principle
that rats desert a sinking ship. He
never supports any party or adheres to
any man any longer than he finds it
pecuniarily profitable to do so. We
should not be surprised to see him john
the Revenue and Civil Service Reform
Party. That would only be a slight re
turn toward the principles which he so
zealously advocated when' he was a
Democrat, and edited the haelligeneer
and the PeinWi'ilittan. It may be he
only intends to advocate the claims of
some other candidate for the Radical
nomination in 1872. He will look well
before he leaps, and try to light 113
near as possible to some pile of public
plunder.
The tone of Forney's feces leads us
to conclude that the paragraph which
we quote from the Journal of (nnmerec
is correct. In a special telegram from
Washington he berates Grant severely
for his appointment of I. len. Pleasanton
to the office of Commissioner of Internal
Revenue. He accuses him of falsehood
and duplicity in the matter, asserting
positively that the place was promised
to :gr. Douglass, of Erie. We may look
for open war soon, unless Forney should
be appeased in some way. (irant can
stop the mouth of this Cerberus by a
lucrative appointment, and in no other
way.
inoN CAmmtnx and John W. For
ney have " lost faith in human nature"
since Grant declined to make their man
Douglass,Commisslonerof Internal Rev
enue. If Grant does not soon do some
thing to appease Cameron, he will not
be asked to go on a fishing spree next
spring, cud will no more taste the deli
cious ehampagne which Simon imports
direct for the use of guests at the hospit
able mansion of Lochiel,
Boutwell is to be removed, we
would suggest that Wimpy, of Georgia,
should be made Secretary of the Treasury.
He has shown great financial ability in
his efforts to secure a large supply of
greenbacks for his negro constituency.
If he should be defeated for Congress
he ought to be rewarded with a fat office,
that being the order of the day under
Grant.
secret of Grant's renewed friend
ship for Porter has been discovered.
Porter is a paitner with him In the San
Domingo Job, and one of its most earn
est supporters. Our worthy President
swallows all the insults which the Rear
Admiral put upon him, in hope that lie
may be put to good account in this dark
transaction. If Porter is not confirmed
by the Senate, Urant will be greatly
disappointed.
L,ss•iyear Ilolden and his supporters
wanted to get rid of some Conservative
Judges in North Carolina, and they
passed ii, lily providing that any State
officer who might be impeached, should
be suspended from office during the trial.
Now Holden has been impeached, and
he will be suspended by the operation
of the law he had passed. This is an
apt illustration of the old proverb that,
" curses, like chickens, will come home
to roost."
THE price of votes RI the lat.e Senator
ial election in South Carolina was $,500
for the average, and for influential mem
bers as high as $2,000. The Radical
members are said to he rejoicing in their
honest gains, and waiting with anxious
concern for another election.
Tilt: House Military Committee have
rejected the Senate 33i11, extending the
time for reduction of the army to July
Ist, and in so doing they have acted
rightly. The people of this country do
not \v¢l}t, to be taxed for such a purpose.
JoiLN, - W. GE4Ry beep re-elected
President of the National union League.
He is sufficiently bigoted, narrow-mind
ed and self-important to make a good
figure head for a proscriptive, secret po.
litical society.
BRICK POMEROY and Mr. H. B.
Ghanaler, late financial manager of the
Chicago Times, hate purchased the Mil
waukee News, and took possession on
the Ist.
A Hard Hit at Cameron
General Morgan, of Ohio, made a tell
ing point in a short but vigorous speech
against Butler's bogus Amnesty Bill.
Commenting upon the clausewhich ex
cepts from amnesty whoever, having
been educated at the:Military Academy
at West Point, or the Naval School at
Annapolis, shall have engaged in the
rebellion and insurrection against the
United States, or given aid and comfort
to the enemies thereof," he called atten
tion to the fact that, according to the
official Army Register, one hundred and
eighty officers of the regular army were
allowed to resign after Fort Sumpter
had been captured by the Confederates.
Simon Cameron was then Secretary of
War, and he received the resignation of
Robert E. Lee, April 2.3, 1881; Joseph
E. Johnston, April 22; James Long
street, May 3d, and others less distin
guished within these dates. Referring
to this matter, the Washington Patriot
says:
If they committed treason, what is to be
thought of the Secretary of War who col
luded with them, and by whose official act
alone their services and skill were furnish
ed to the enemiesof the country? They did
not issue those resignations from conceal
ment, but in the light of day, and in the
face of the startling events which had then
taken place, delivered them here in Wash
ington to the head of the War Department,
whose special duty it was to protect that
arm of the service against defection. If
Lee and Johnston and the others who laid
down their swords are guilty, then air.
Cameron, who accepted them, is a double
dyed traitor, for he conspired with them,
and thus officially gave aid and comfort to
the enemy.
He kne - w of their purposes, for they were
avowed, and with that knowledge ho sent
them forth to make war. Had Mr. Camer
on then and there arrested these chiefs, as
he was solemnly bound to do, if there be
any truth or sincerity in his present pro
fessions,the Confederate armies never could
have been organized as they were, and the
calamities which befell the country might
have been averted. The fact that he failed
to perform that duty, authorizes the suspi
cion that he was either conspiring with
"treason," or that he desired to provoke
the war for ulterior designs. In any event,
ho stands guilty of criminal complicity
with whatever offence these officers rosy
have committed. If they nro traitors, he is
worse than a traitor, for it was by his agen
cy and his treachery that they were enabled
to perfect their treason. He is the rnan to be
punished If there be justice In human tri
bunals, and to be Mandell with ignominy
for all time, if history be fair and truth
ful,
Tlf E °Mend vote of Alabama by coun
ties is given as follows: For Governor,
Lindsay, Democratic, 77,721 ; Smith,
Radical, 70,21)2; Lindsay's majority,
1,429. The majority for Moren, Demo
crat, for Lieutenant Governor Is 4,777.
The Radical vote is about the same as
that cast for Grant, and the change
arises from a handsome increase in the
Democratic vote, which has risen from
71,412 to 77,721.
THE CinCliinati , if (1 tenders
this Presidential advice :
It is to lie hoped that, during the present
session of Congress, Grunt will never at
any time cease to remember those words
of his inaugural, in which he ostentatious
ly proclaimed that, during his administra
tion, he would have "no policy in oppo
sition to the will or the people. - We did
not consider the saying tremendously wisp
when it was uttered, and yet we think it
will be a good enough Idea for (;r4nt to
keep in his bead during the winter,"
Turkeys and chickens are a drug in
Lebanon.
A beautiful white swan was captured
near Punxsutawney, Jefferson county,
on - Wednesday.
A brakeman on the Penna. It. Road
was killed at Brinton, Allegheny coun
ty, on Wednesday.
A car load of wine and brandy direct
from California by the Pacific Railroad,
has just arrived at Meadville.
•
A. Normal School will be built in Clin
ton county next summer. The build
ing will cost $S5,l' l ".
0. E. Shannon, Esq., or Bedford, has
struck a seventy barrel oil well at Stump
Island, in the Allevheny river.
The first locomotive that ever did ser
vice in the United States is now lying
outside of a foundry at Carbondale, Lu
acme county.
The Reading Relief Society has com
menced the regular distribution of soup
to the poor. This is done three times a
week.
There are 632, prisoners in the Eastern
Penitentiary, 10 of whom are women.—
More than 50 of the inmates are sen
tenced for life.
A son of Simon Baird, of Sinking
Valley, Huntingdon county, had his
hand torn oft by a threshing machine
last Wednesday.
Lloyd Britton, the negro who stabbed
and killed Jacob Bay, a white man, at
Williamsport, on the 10th of November,
was tried last week and found guilty of
murder in the first degree. •
Erie advertises an English hound,
nearly six months old, with the front
feet attached to the lower jaw, and hav
ing no nostrils or teeth, or hair on its
body.
The editor of the Lebanon Atli, rtim r,
butchered on Monday, and complains
that his two hogs were not as tine as
usual—only weighing 551 potunk , -4:,0
and 430 respectively.
The Fnion League of Philadelphia
has a library of 2,906 volumes. During
the year the receipts of this league were
i. 4100, 0 ,19,50 and the expenditures :7:': 1 ,-
534.35. The membership Is 1,740.
While the School Directors of Somer
field, Somerset County, were discussing
the propriety of getting a bell for the
Public School House, the voung school
misses raised money by sub.;cription and
had the bell put up.
Mr. Jacob Gotwalt, a citizen of York,
and one of the oldest carpenters in this
vicinity, recently fell from a building on
the outskirts of that town, receiving
such severe injuries that he died on
Thursday, aged about ;I•-) years.
Jacob Casebeer, of Somerset township,
Somerset county, boiled this season,
1,000 gallons of apple butter; made be
tween 35,000 and 40,1101 gallons of cider
vinegar ; sold about ndd bushels of ap
ples.; and raised -lon bushels of potatoes.
On Sunday evening 11ev. 11. H.
Stinchileld was found lying on the pave
ment at Sixth and Spruce streets, Phil
adelphia. He was conveyed to the
Pennsylvania Hospital, where he died
in a short time.
North Beaver township, l.awrence
County, boasts of hall ng the youngest
member of the Forty-Second ('ongress,
Captain William McClelland, and the
tallest member of the next Legislature,
Samuel I), Clark, who Is six feet seven
inches in height.
Mr. Wm. Noble, of \lilllintowu,while
engaged in putting a pump into a well
at Duncannon, Perry county, on last
Friday, slipped and fell into the well a
distance of about thirty feet, and strange
to say received 11,, injuries more than a
sprained foot.
The oldest couple of Pennsylvania, If
not of the rnited States, are living
about nine miles southwest ()I' Tionesta,
Forest County, Mr. and Bags. Allio, aged
respectively one hundred and six and
one hundred and four years. Each is
the other's first companion. They are
natives of France.
On Wednesday last, Mr. Jacob Schaf
fer, of 3lohreville, Berke County, had
the misfortune to pierce his lett eye
ball with a nail while carpentering. He
was in the act of driving a nail with a
hammer, when he missed it, and the
nail glancing oirstruck him in the eye
as stated. Fears are entertained that he
will lose his eye.
Ebene:wr Henderson, of Elizabeth
township, Allegh'eny County, shot him
self fatally last Friday. He was seventy
years of age, and held the position of
elder in the Presbyterian church. A
fracture of the skull, received several
years before his death, is supposed to
have resulted in mental aberration and
led to the commission of the euicide.
Ou Thursday evening last, the Sth
inst., James Itubeclit, aged about twelve
years, son of Jacob Rubecht, residing
n Perry township near 'Windsor Cas
tle,Berks county, accidentally shot him
self. He had just returned home from
school, went into iris father's shop and
took down a gun. 'While examining
the same to see whether it was loaded
it was discharged, the contents lodging
in his head; killing him almost in
stantly.
A. J. Hartzell, of Newport, Perry
'County, has been missing since thed
of November. He is a heavy set num,
aged about 33 years, 5 feet 4 inches in
height, dprk hair and whiskers. He
took a boat load of coal to Baltimore,
consigned to gcc ullou g h & bon, porner
of Pratt and Frenroht'Strdets, who paid
• him his tolls in full, and took 'his re
ceipt ; this occurred about ll o'clock,
A. at., on the 22d ult. His triPOS are
very much alarmed at his absence, and
fears are entertained that he has been
foully dealt with. Any information as
to his whereabouts will be thankfully
received by M. L. Hartzell, Newport,
Pennsylvania,
OUB BUNDLE OF „NOTHINGS
No. 32.—Siuida7 Funerals
"I would not die in Spring time
And tee would not die on such a day of
the week as to make our funeral fall on
Sunday. As a general thing the body
should not be buried until three full days
after the spirit has left it, therefore we
would not die on any day whereby the
three days should terminate on Sunday.—
There may be circumstances under which
the thing might be unavoidable, but ordi
narily, if we could have our desire, we
would request not to be buried on Sunday.
We indulge in no morbid sentiment of
sanctity for the day, but we cannot refrain
from the feeling that Sunday funerals,
generally speaking, are gotten up for more
effect, especially if the deceased happens
to be a military character, or belongs to
one or more societies, which aro in the
habit of making an imposing funeral dis
play. These societies, doubtless, may en
tertain a profound regard for the dead, but
too often, mixed np with it, is a vain exhi
bition of worldly show, in which their
own personal importance may be more.
concerned than any special esteem that
may be entertained for the departed. Sun
day funerals offer extra opportunities for
such displays; for it is one of the weak
nesses of our fallen humanity, that we lean
towards ostentation, and feel flattered w ben
our love of show is largely seen by others.
We aro far from regarding Sunday funerals
as sinful, or even an evil, in themselves;
but too often the martial strains of music,
and the levities which accompany them,
aro strangely in contrast with the sanctity
and quiet harmony that ought to give
character to the day. Sometimes the equa—
nimity of a whole village, or a whole
neighborhood, is disturbed by the advent
of a Sunday funeral; the usual devotional
hours of the people aro interrupted, and
extra burdens are imposed upon the offici
ating minister. Even the family of the
deceased may have its mournful musings
invaded, and the profitable reflections
which such a sad event ought to engender,
surreptitiously broken in upon, on the
one band; or it may lightly regard the un
toward event, and be carried away with
some of that feeling of vanity which the
world's notice too olten elicits on such oc
casions, on thoother hand—the admonition
of the death, contending with the admira
tion of the living.
Therefor, if,under the rule suggested above
It is suitable, if it is unavoidable; or if it
Is han'ilt, that a funeral should take place
on Sunday, then let it be held on that day ;
but do not prolong the time, (for the nacre
sake of a Sunday funeral,) when it ought
to take place on Saturday, nor hasten it,
when it ought to be held on Monday. It
is of no consequence to the dead whether
the funeral is a small one or a large one,
and it is a mere mockery to the living, to
manifest an excessive show of esteem for
ono for whom they exhibited no special
regard, if they did not totally neglect, when
such a regard would have been of use to
him. We would not circumscri be, nor limit
funeral displays, but wo would have their.
in reality what they outwardly purport to
be; and therefore, to our mind, a dozen
sincere mourners would be far preferable
to a thousand cold, formal followers to the
grave. These are our personal reflections
upon this subject, alter the observations of
many years, but they are not intended to
debar any individual from the privilege of
manifesting that personal respect for the
memory of a neighbor, or a citizen, to
which le deems his character, whilst liv
ing, hits entitled him. In this respect we
would leave all men, socially and morally,
in perfect freedom.
Intimately associated tsvithsubject,
whether the funeral Is held on Sunday or
any other day, Is the question of pancheilli
ty. The dead must be buried; the very
fact of death has already sundered the
chords between them and the living; and,
therefore, if any relaxation of the rules of
custom is allowable, it ought to lean to the
side of the living, and nothing would be
more grateful to them, or more conducive to
their comfort in attending funerals, than
punctuality in all their appointments.—
Long, prosey services inside of the house
—extended far beyond the appointed boor
su treeing from excessive cold or heat
which reigns outside, is a heartless cruelty,
both to the Family of the deceased and to
those who may be in attendance at the
funeral. Therefore, punctuality in these
engagements, as in all
,other , , would en
sure physical comfort and a better and
more lasting spiritual impression. Funer
als and funeral sermons have a more direct
relation to the living than to the dead, and
their moral effect is confined entirely to
the former. Event ministers may errone
ously suppose they are in sonie manner
benelitting the dead—not so. neir " die
is east." (loci has permitted this casuality,
and would overrule it for the moral in
struction of the ficiinfl. I.lm.r.fi-V I.: \v.
M coons. EDITORS :—Our attention was
called to a communication in a recent num
ber of the Examiner, over the slgnaturo of
Reporter," concerning the spelling exer
cises at the late County Teachers' Institute.
We confess that that list of too hundred
words was the most ridiculous idiair ever
brought before a Teachers' Institute of
Lancaster County, and that it proves that
the one who hunted them up has no judg
ment of what a fair list of words would
consist of, or what would be a true test of
one's ability to spell. We believe, with
nearly all the teachers with whom we have
spoken on the subject, and they comprise
nearly all the leading teachers present at
the liistitute, that the gentleman who eon:
dueled that spelling exercise wished to
make the impression by giving such a list
of words, that he was the superior of all
other teachers in spelling. In fact the re
marks ho made in awarding the prizes,
were calculated, ft not intrlll.l6li to convey
this idea. Ile tried to make It appear that
they were nearly rill but ordinary words,
and found fault with the teachers for mis
spelling so many, just as if they were easy
to him. No doubt they wore, after having
hunted them up and studied them, but we
will venture the assertion that if some one
else had made the selection, SI r . 7. w oloq
have missed more than some of the other
teachers did. We have nu apology to offer
fur lain.
But " Reporter" says ; "It has become
quite all evil practice in our public schools
to compel scholars to study - lust xg ch spell:
ing lessons as were given at the Teachers'
Institute, and we have no doubt that emi
nently ovine I?) teachers will take the list of
'2Ol jaw-breaking words thorn propounded
/701//11 with them, and display their good
sense and judgment by trying for the bal
ance of the present school term to ' craw'
thorn into the heads of their pupils." If
we are not mistaken " Reporter" wits for
merly a teacher himself, and prol,ably not
keeping yam with the progress being made
was loft behind, and must:goodly thinks
that pupils are compelled to study too
much, when they make more rapid pro
gress than they iii in his time. We are
not willing to admit, that it has bemire; u
practice "to compel scholars to study just
such spelling lessons." In fact we know
it is not the case, unless it be tat " Report
er's" district, (West Coe:Moot whichstood
so long, solitary and alone in Lancaster
County as non-accepting, having but two
years ago accepted the public school sys
tem, and from which hails the teacher that
mis-spelled 46 of the first (the easiest) series
of 50 words, given at the late Institute.
Nor do we believe that any teacher, at
least none possessing any professional abil
ity or standing, will take that list of words
and endeavor to ' , cram them into the ;beads
of his pupils." We conversed with many
of the teachers especially with a:majority of
a:: that continued spelling through the four
series of 50 words each, and they without
any exception denounced the list of words
as unfair, ar;(1 ti 9 denouncing them, it
would be unjust to accuse then, of giving
them to their pupils, while thO remainder
of the teachers Who would not spell after
the first or second series, would not be so
unreasonable as to give their pupils what
they themselves roftised to try. Believing
that the teachers, in general, (there being
exceptions of course) haye better judgment,
than "Reporter" has ascribed to thorn
their defOilsP has been undertaken by
TEArg En.
Win. Colton, charged with voluntary
manslaughter in causing the death of
John Bond, in New Oxford, on the rith
of last August, was on last Wednesday
acquitte,d •atOrettysburg, the jury ren
dering a: verdict of notrguiq. Colton
was constable of New Oxford toWnship,
and while both he and 'Bond were un
der the influence of llguor he aTtested
Bond, and in the scuffle which ensued
the latter dropped down apparently
dead. All efforts to restore him to life
The Island of Nan Domingo
The New Orleans Picayune gives the fol
lowing sketch of the Island of San Do
mingo :
The island of San Domingo is a large link
in this chain, the largestof all but Cubs. It
is a large domain, nearly 28,000 square miles
in area, extending from the 67th meridian
on the east to the 74th meridian on the west
and of an average width of 140 miles. It lies
oast of Cuba, and is separated from it by
the Windward Passage sixty odd miles in
width. It is about 130 miles east of Jamai
ca, 75 miles west of Porto Rico, 350 miles
north from the nearest point on the coast of
South America, 600 miles east from Cape
Gracios, the nearest point on the Central
American coast, and about the same dis
tance from the southeasternmost point of
Florida.
It is divided Into two sections. The west
ern section is Hayti, with over ten thou
sand square miles, or two-fifths of the
whole island. This section is mountain
ous, with rich valleys, well watered, rich,
luxuriant, productive of lumber, dye
woods, drugs, coffee, sugar, tobacco, cocoa,
indigo and cotton, but with very few man
ufactures and none for export. Twenty
years ago it had a population of 572,000, and
exported products valued at more than five
million dollars. It is governed by the
Code Napoleon, having a Roman Catholic
population, under the supervision of a
Vicar General, with au army of 30,001 men,
and over 90,000 pumls in 025 schools. It has
six principal towns, Porte•au-Prince with
10,000 inhabitants, Cape It aytien With 0000,
Jaemel 6000, Gonitives 4000, Cayes and St.
Nicholas. In 10.11 Hayti exported 1,200,000
Ins. of cotton, 43,000,000 Ihs. of coffee, with
drugs, dyes and timber. It imported every
year liweign wares and products to the ag
gregate value of three millions, consisting
mainly of liri ash manufactures, French
Sr hies, lumber, naval stores and provisions
front the American States, in value from
three to live millions.
Santo Domingo or the Domiuican Re
public occupies three-tifths of the island on
the east, nearly 10,100) square miles, with a
population (I 855) of 136,500, or nearly eight
to eat:h square mile. Nine-tenths of these
inhabitants are either pure Africans or of
African descent, (Sr mixed white and A rri
ram The whites are chiefly Spanish or
Spanish trestles. The Republivan section
of the island is divided into live provinces.
The main towns are Santo Domingo, with
10,000 inhabitants; A zata, ItlOo; Seyba,2luo ;
Santiago, 7000; San Vega, :Polo. Santo Do
mingo is the chief plate, capitalllllll harbor.
It is the most important seaport, but not an
efficient harbor for vesselsofthe larger class;
a city noted as the Iliall.detlWllll O.IIIIIOMM
for a long period, and for its visitations of
earthquakes, and no less for the bombard
ment all)" British Admiral Drake, nearly
three hundred years ago. It is a singular
old city, Where even the wealthy people
have much trouble to realize metropolitan
comfitrts. Th.. 105151 inicans hays' tine for
ests of mahogany, Brazil WOOll, rustic, lig
uum 'apart vastquan
lilies of ornamental wood and dye-woods,
with a considerable amount of tobacco,
hides, fruit:, and I . IIIIIIIT textile fabrics.
They import a considerable quantity of
American flour and meats, and much gen
eral merchatutise from Europe. Twenty
years ago their annual commerce amount
ed to nearly three millions of dollars.
Their government is nominally republi
can. They harp all army of tirt,en nr 11V011-
ty thousand men, and a nominal navy M .
tour, live, or six vessels,
The religion of the country iv inanity
Roman Catholic. Education iv seriously
neglected. Interim' difficulties and wars
with the near Ilaytiens have measurably
'rippled their resources. 'raking the whole
ishuul together, their productions aro in
meagre proportion with their numbers and
their great productive advantages.
Napoleon 111. and President t. rant are
famous saving as nearly as possible the
saute thing. The Conner said, twenty yearn
ago, ' /•://lriPi 1.1 anti loelliWith
phlnged into the t ;Human war, the Cochin
China war, the Chinese war, the Italian war,
the Mexican war, and last, the Pugh vertainly
not least, the Prussian war. I leneral rani,
on accepting the Presidency, said "Let
hare 1,011 T ," and has kept just RI 04,11 t
faithlully the implied promise of au
pensive peace estahlisliMent such as ex
isted beim° the tear. M'e have before us
the expenditures tier the War Drpllflllent,
(luring live years of itetual peaty under a
Democratie government, and the famous
yoar “Let a., heir,- /woe,' expenditure
under (:orient! Grant. here they aro
Alt
19,1:01,774 In
(la
'Total in live year,:
the 3Vl'Mpi pupulatiun during
the :Wove live yea, to have been 35,000,-
000, the annual must per capita for the war
would have heun a f7alqi()ll
ICON than :30 ,sellt.S.
During tile year of grace 157 0, under the
"Let ao liar, peer," the
expenditure for the War Urpurlmcut Wits
$.)7,655,67. - ,.10, which, divided by the pros
cud 'emulation of o,ood,oun, gives its an
nual cost per capita of over $l.-li.
We certainly have not been at war dar
ing the year, though we have Iteeidniassa
cring a few Indians and (Di:dieting the
rest. The chief service of the military
during the year lots been 10 !introit from
one Radical Sillither, rill In
refuse to march on the tsillstitlitielhil ap
peal of a loyal governor W protect his
:State from donwstie violence. trout Brit
ain, with a population in her island 1101110
of thirty-one uuillion., and a population in
her colonies of at bust thirty million
more, expended in ISUs, for the army
I7s. I d., or in dollars about $77,0011,-
000; which, if divided among the 61,1in0,0u0
who received military benefit therefrom, is
a fraction overBl.'2.n pereapitaannuallyonly
or IS cents less per capita than under our
highly favored "/,et hurt art
nonharation of ri republic. This is both
wasteful extravagance and it costly subver
sion of the civil to the military power. The
sting of it is that the people pay in taxes
for the privilege of bring dragooned mit of
their rights.-V. I. W•d•bt.
The importers of salt have Sc lit 0 memo
rial to the Ways and Aleaus L'onouiltee
giving a ntateinent or t he I.lerventage of duty
On the save to the invoice cost of :1 tow car
goes imported during the present year.
They say that they "present a liberal aver
age sample of the present duty on salt at 1 ,
~rits per one hundred pounds in bulk :nit
eonts pounds 111 Sal•h..
The freight will average shillings per
ton, ur 19. - . per cent. of rust. This protects
the (mondaga Salt l'unieuly, who are ;Wont
the only parties benefited Ily the present
really exorhitant rates, about.; per
cent. of the value of the articles prepared
by them for sale. The very high rate of
duty not only affects lh , importtT l.ttt af
fects on A inerh , an inalioraetVei'M 6r salt,
who aro ground into obscurity by the
positions of the fitvored and wealthy o Mon
daga monopoly, and the consumer, who
meets all the OXIWIISe of a monopoly striv
ing to absorb the entire salt trade of the
country. The burden in too heavy to [mar
in times of 10•41., and prosperity. NVe there
fore, earnestly, on behalf of the millions to
be benefited thereby, call for a reduction of
the tariff (In imported salt to the following
rates, viz: salt in bulk, t 1 cents per 1 , 0 11;s, ;
In sacks, 1 cents per 1(10 lbs.
Illogol Toting of WnM hlugloulnn~ In
Mary' ,
Tho Washington J'irtiot may 4
': AL , is well known, every snort was
ovule by line ltepliblicans of this city to de
feat .Nlorrick fur Congress in the fifth
Congressional District of lUarylunil. Num
bers of those, white and colored, who have
been accustomed to hold forth in tllO 11.0-
I til 1,111.11 warn6minelings in this cif v, weld
out weekly to pnlnelcinsletpj anti other
places, and attempted to get up a show of
enthusiasm for the Republican cause by
hawking around Chinese lanterns and
howling out denunciations of the Demo
cratic party. hush this, a large number
of colored men, wino !wry at the last
municipal election, were imported as voters
in thin various precints of Prince (ieorge's
county. 'fine grand jury of said county
have found true Mile against about fifty of
those Imported citizens, and on Tuesday
last lour were caught at liladenslairg, by
virtue of bench warrants issued under the
indictment, and are now in Jail at Nlarl
\Varrants are in the hands of the of
lieers of Prince I:rni-go'. for the arrest of
the whole batch, and from indications they
will be punished to the full extent of thin
law, if caught and von Vieted."
A Negro Buried Alive In Pif!tsiuFmn.
A strange story was lately told a coroner
of Pittsburgh by a colored woman calling
herself Mrs. Thornton. She said that her
husband had Leen subject to "trances,"
during which ho remained apparently life
less l'or several days, lint then recovered.
Hu laid been in this condition several times
since she married /UM, tWoitn , l a half years
ago, and again fell into it last Monday.
morning. She seas tout Lie to waken him
and sent fur physicians, tint they refused
to come because she had no 1110111 T to give
them. In the meantime some friiimis noti
fied the health officers that there MIS a dead
tnan, in her house, and these intim to bury
him: She, explained her condition and
pointed theta; to prep( of her assertion, to
the tact that his body wai. moil:A.l4nd warm.
Still they insisted that the Man Was dOad;
She was removed to the house of a neighbor,
and while she was there her husband was
taken away and burled. She told the coro
tier that several of her neighbors could tes
dry to the fact that after the holy was laid
out and pliweil in its coffin, it was yet warn
and Theist, 'and she .misted on having It
taken from the grave and examined. It the
woman is not crazy the health authorities
have acted in a culpably precipitate way.
Plllll 110 W.
The ini.i-Jog o.cetprnept in the vicinity
of Alexandria, y 4., is in uu wise abated.
A letter says, a dog belonging to Mrs.
Markham, living at Fairfax Station,. was
discoVered to bo mad' last week, and was
killed ! Ho had been bitting a'ealf of Mrs.
Miirkhaufs, s. dog of Mr. ll opk ins', a val
uable horse belonging to Itr. Bichard
Burke, and a cat in the house ofSI r. Mitchel.
All the animate so bitten have since died,
the cat havingpreviouslyattacked and bitten
and scratched a little sou of Mr. Mitchell.
The buy 0u not yet been seized with the
'milady. The horse was taken to Aldie fur
the foolish errand of the application of a
mad stone in posSesslon of wwcfmart there
but it would not adhere to the Wound.
The excitement in regard to the matter in
Fairfax is at a great height, and there is a
general outelaught on all the dogs there
abouts.
Affairs In the Coal Region/1
Tho following letter to the Now York
Tribune contains matter that will bo found
Interesting. It gives a clear account of the
disturbed condition of affairs In the i nthra
cite coal regions of this State at the present
time:
WILKES-BARRE, Dec. question
whether a general suspension of mining
operations will be ordered by the (;nand
Council of the Miners' Union still continues
to be an absorbing theme Mr capitalists and
laborers in these parts. The effect of the
strike of the companies' wen has been an
advance of :about a dollar a ton in the
wholesale prices of coal in New York,
which makes the operators here, who are
still working, rather anxious to go on as
the business is now profitable. The dis
trict Unions of the miners hero have been
voting on the question of suspension, and
the majorities have been ❑t floor of stop
ping. llut the time and place of the fleet
ing of the (trawl Council are as muell
mystery as ever,
The tibJect of the MaSponsion, if it is re
solved on, 11.4 now seems probable, will be,
in,lain terms to advance the price
All ' the miners who are now working re
ceive wages which would be increased by
a rise. The basis here is $3 a ton at wi e .l,-
sale in New York. For several months
they have been receiving the minimum ..r
basis wages, anti even the above men non
ed advance of $1 in coal brings the price
little, if at all, above the basis. The wages
are increased 12', per cent for each rise (
$1 above the basis pri or per ton. 11 . tllll
rises cents wages are advanced six pot
cent. 'rho calculation of the miners is tint'
a suspension of work for live or six weeks
would clear Mr a good share of the surpltt...
now in the markers, ad Vance prices a dol.
bar or so above the basis, and make busi
ness brisk for some months atter the te
surupti..n.
It way be in justitioation of the . .,
liroposeil Lenin, tliat atanit half the vollier
les in the Schuylkill region 11:tvo alrend
sloppy,' tar lack col' business, and that 11.11 i
the miners there are consequently meant
out of einph)yment. Sow, if all work Is
snippet' for a 11101111 or two, when mining
is resume,' there trill 1,0 It W . 111:11111 for tle ,
services of the entire fraternity, as well a
a considerable advance ill It Itgo • • 11 , I 1... t
11111 t y, w hero the hasls and minimum of
wages :ire much lower than they al
here. If there Is a general suspend.,.of mining . operations on the Ist. ul •1.1.1-
nary the reasons slat.' stillbe Ihr••• •
ion of it, and 100 2111 y
hetsveen the ilitrerent 1.1 lighi
the gr. at companies who halo 11111 . 1111 , 111
010 1,41 II ct it .11, a1it)1 , ,,•.i , i. , 111 4 t the pi
strike. The till tiers' II Illo,114“1 1,1-.
counties are, at I,seill, like ..i nl. my
ropean State.. The (troll eminaittli•s hot ,•
at least eileeted this much. The .1111.,..111
section:: Illay 11111 k, treaties and 'nlleulrr ~
and 111.1)• carry MI war together, 1.111 the.
have yet ill 1 , 0111,•( (hat vhssor II 1114.11 t , 111,1
010 t•Mli 111011 110 . 011.0 and ‘‘,l
414 , 111 Ito rwluire. II I 111. all lelj.:1:1•Ii
snsponsiou is carried Mit anti i.tsl, 11 111,11'1,
itwllldotuuralu unltt. iht. tlillerent
at) strengthen their coil fed , r.teV 11 b.,
Continental Congress is
flow anything ,in their lire, 101, 111 , 1..1
Th. , y have never yet :let,' In coneert
'MI
S ti L;
"bj ee t l i w ,; 1,11111 ' tt1111,1;, 1 tht.
is I`VlTli.thittil nit the
41 . 111.1110 its projoctors, i, to re,,aihtte th,
supply of rout, and, to• regulating thus, t.t
regulate the market prices and the rate
wages, llvvr-prduction is cettonly it 11,
bottom of 1111tal. of the l'itt•ctllt iiilhrnlle 4 lit
the lit/itt yogitlllst. There are alretttl v nitaes
and
ly through the Vltitr, to turn out
••••lit.
'rho Selittyl k ill I 'kV to 1 . 4 ri 1 . ,1.1
low i,rlees, !tax, not here worked this meat
up to ball their t•Illiill'lly,
tottoths tho markets have
mining lilts been a toning lat , iness. The
consumption of anthracite coal tor the cur
rent vcctr will not ext•t.,l 1.•,00nooti
yet-tiut wines nod I
to furnish front 20,it00,00n to 2. - t,1100,11110 Ettit,
.1 . 110 ttlllitlill 111,0,1,1, in Olt` t•ttli.lllllitilttil
11111Ittt now ht. place, I higher than I,ttott,ttoti
tons, so that the disproportion lads Luc it.
continuo Fit!' 401110 years,
The eau:icily of n tm,:11I1111‘.,
1144itir,t1 thatiJl 1110 breill,rcprcill,ll
- TiliN IS :4 largo awl very es p,•usnr
of 11111011illery. 511.8111,811,1
furnishing einpliiyinclit ton groat nitiohr
of men and boys. fiti4ng,ll eoal miff,
g, t from the winos bola a' to no, in.,
chine running. Thooperator r.oolol
in
rronsu or llitlinish Itt Will the prodoclioll of
the mine, or the number 1f ,11111..,,
I.llllllop, lto i 4 praoticidly
very loirro‘V limits by the power hot
breaker.
NVliim coal Calls belo,v prices the
operators have ini alternatu lint to leduce
wages or 1..111•111.1111 work entirely. Tin ,
niliier, barn heel/111e perfectly ;mart. or the
neia,sity of keeping the supply !thin
ro
numerative limits. They study the moo lint
reports as closely IN they do their employ
ers. They trill invariably tell yon that
they' prefer to work onlv 111011(10, mit
mf tavelve, rather than %,.ork t‘vels o . inontlis
for nine months' wages. It is, then, one
the chief ohjects of their Dolan to ilIallt.:11r•
ate it system olgeneral,mspensions thiriugh
out all the coal region,, tor the espies,
purpose of keeping the price of ,•sal ;it
paying point. .k !though there is ❑ t„trett
deal 10 be sail against this policy,
also something to he tirgtal in its ravor. It
" , 1 1 t , L. than the
that too many are already engaged in the
business, the difficulty is not likely to be
remedied by maintaining reigns :mil pro
tits at so high, a rate that. still more capital
and labor trill be tempted to eiiikarli in it.
Supposing the ii rand Comm] of li.
Miners' I to be emnplotely successlid
in its efforts to 1 • 1Introl the mai 1,01 :mil
maintain wagon, coal mining would Ilea
I ecome an employment which tilleieq
higher wages and nor, i.,•riaiii 'won! ,
than any other. of roil
romid 1.0 la altalll 'OW I.tt.l.ttter
potential magnitude than is at 'pres
ent the case. t Itt gthe other hand, a vl.l
le,v general suspensions I.r mild :1111111 l•1/11-
yllitte Ltle miners that they were taking too
lunch of ow Inad "n their own shoulders.
'They would have to ...111, ender to
1110 laws Or 110111,1111 1.1111 m111.1.1y.
They W'.llllll !Wither 1/.. :11111. Ili Inc
vent the competition of laborers Iron,
having its natural ellect, clot . .....1,111 they
keep tip the price of coal in the face of ill,
constantly inereasing tendency of the slip.
ply to go ahead M . the 110111:L11.1 ;
110,1111 g that they should la, temporarily sin.-
cosl,llll, eumld they prevent lensli capital
from embarking in the 1111MilleSs. NI.IIIO
.O,LI nor any other article will long be pi o
-111.11,1 :Li tt lons, lint uolhiug lilt 1111 1,11,0.11110
1111111.opoly 0.111111 ray high I.t age+, inal,t ,
large profits, and at the SalllC 1.11111. restart
prialuction. if that LIII.
during their periods olgoneral 511111.11,0.11,
,Vl/11111 110 earning nothing, and that nuc
advance which might by these sacrl tce.
be occasioned in,the 'wive 111 0.110, SV.Otl.l
110.1 t illlllll.llitltttly on their f.l
the cowl paion norms pretty c tear That they
%meld not suspend except WI 1/0...0.1./lIS it
pressing urgency.
'Milers have not attempted, I be
lieve, to limit the number mho Irlluns their
calling. 'Thep ill, limit, lions ever, the num
ber of ears which make a day's If
sklllthl and industrious 111011 W,04 hilt 10
striated hl this Nvity, nod norm 11.111,V0il
( . 1111110y ttvu lallortits 110.1011 d 4ir 01111, hu
could cut double his present quantity of
coal. All accounts agree that the limier
Masi not usually perform morn, than front
three to six hours iir steady 11110/r. lie gm,
down in, the shaft between S end 9
and come,. up between 2 std It. re
strictions, however discouraging they linty
be to skill and industry, are irony estai.
lisheil throughout this region, as well ill
1111, 111111E01 of great collipalllllll4 in the
others. They are also•open to the ehjection
Mitt they increase the cu t Or lin/4110 . 1011 , -
mlll whatever imireanes the cost 01 oral in,
ereases W solllu extent the cost of almost.
everything that is bought inn!
IL i IIOLL IIIII /. o V l, l loll Llio Aline'', I.lin ile
however powerful it linty become, sviil
it impossible to maintain high L, :igen and
enable thin operators to make large 1,01,14,
10111111 the ellllll, dine restrict production,
beeituse stud) n condition of things would
be sure to attract fresh lalsir and istiMal it.,•
to the buninens. fiat how meld it lieshould
the great comanien succeed in, obtaining a
monopoly of t his whole northern coal Mild?
—and they are not tar Irian it at thin nee
went. agent informed 1110 11101111V,111
the 1.0i(11 , 11111,110)' , 1,1 . tins, 1.0:1:1%Vitr1 1 , 1. 1 1e4,1•
Wll.llllll, Weideril C.:01,01,00y to pay bet
ter wages than the saute labor would
eonimatid under siiiiihtr circtitinitaiices
elsewhere, The policy of every com
pany, 10.1 will 101 Of every individual
engaged in, buslitess, is to make the
largest prolitm it 1 . 1111. lions . otherwise could
both these be done than by ri,trieting pro
tinetioll And tilts 11 000101,01 y ore.nu bind •
tion mottotailion L1M0.... du. AL pr e. 'lr
tine compimiem are ileyeroping thloir Moil
nens with amazing energy. I 011 . 111011101 t
111 my last. letter that breakers had linen
erected and new shafts sunk nettL.oeit her,
and :•ieraatoti sonjehmt to add t . molll 1,500,-
One to 2.ooo,llentonn annually to the present
supply. Smite estin.itteo place the 11110111 Ma
even higher. This, taken in, connection
with the capacity of the wonting mines to
over-supply the Markel,. 311 1 /ws that the
eOIIIIIIIII.IM are looking to the future 111 , 111.1
11111/1 to 100 present. 'rho U . 1„ and IN,
Company, since they at.quired the :\lurrln
and Essex Instil, have been engaged In
making inn IfiellSe improvements in that
reed, sluirtening 111likr0 1 ..111g
grades, and providing in other whys 14,
make it 'Nei expensive to carry their coal
to New York. 'they are at.,
their leased road between here and Sorithil
ton, laying an itilditional track anal putting
down new iron. nights portend, Mr
the immediate future, it not for 101 time,
cheap coal.
Alt art crude In' the New
furnishes a Short Sketch of Itothttriliers
great work, ' , Pie Battle or Gettyslitirg'," lii
which the figures of several generals occur,
but "nary" Geary. IL is well known that
the present Governor of Pennsylvania,
whoop lep tire filled with lead (and some if,
his head) was a Itrigadier upon diet Kuwaiti
and was the most conspicuous character,
during the fiercest of the conflict. Ile was,
as Ito dashed around the sturimit of
II on in magnificent black charger, tbp
admiratioit or the Vttion, as he oeyftpfp :
ly the dread uf the Retail army. 1.1 o report,
himself as having saved Me day, afar par :
riled the stars and stripes triumphant user
that bloody field, and not. to appear in
Ruthermel's picture, which is to hang u?,
der his eyes iu the Capitol, is an insult to
the State. We hope the Legislature will
promptly take action in the matter, and if
there finite room for Geary, it would tie well
to paint out the face of General IlancociP,
who is a central figure, and substitute that
of Geary, whose gallantry is only exceeded
by his modesty.—Pittsburg/ Post