Eancaster. 3intellfgencer.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1870
The San Domingo Job Again.
When Grant came into power he an
nounced that he " would have no pol
icy," and for some time he seemed Like
ly to keep his promise. He accepted
presents, rewarded his benefactors by
elevating them to high position's, and
provided fat offices for all his numerous
relations. The very first intimation
which the country had of the departure
of the President from his policy, of hav
ing no policy, was a very earnest recom
mendation for the ratification of a
treaty which had been prepared for the
purchase of San Domingo. At first
this scheme excited no opposition with
in the ranks of the Republican party.
The President at once began to solicit
support for it among the members of
the.Senare, and among others whom
he approached was Senator Sumner.—
Mr. Sumner was then on the best terms
with the administration, and he listen
ed patiently to President Grant's repre
sentations in regard to San Domingo.
Supporting the President was well in
formed, and not doubting his honesty,
Mr. Sumner was at 'trot rather favora
bly Impressed with the project. But
when he came to examine into the man
lier in which the pretended treaty had
1 / 1 ,011 made, anti to look Into the influ
ences which were at work, he at once
bream° a determined opponent of the
proposed purchase.
That Senator Stunner had good
grounds for opposing the wishes Of the
President is abundantly evidenced by
the speeeh whieh we publish elsewhere.
The whole job is there completely ex
posed, and the exposure presents Presi
dent I (rant to public gaze In an attitude
flo4t Is fur from enviable. According to
Mr. Sumner, land there is no loan in
the country who will doubt the truth
or every assertion he Mabee In regard
this mtatter,i the treaty was illegiti
mate lit Its conception, and the whole
business has been tainted with fraud all
through its various stages. It had Its
origin with three political jockeys,
Itaeyz, ' , aliens and Cazeneau, who as
ilciateil with them General Babcock,
who went under the high sounding
title of " Aid-de-camp to (7, S. t;rltnt,
President or the [tilted States, and his
special agent to the itepublie of Domin
ica." Babcock entered into
I'M' the purchase of the entire ter
ritory of the Republic or Dominica
from Ititeyz. 71Ir. Sumner proves very
el/110111Si vely that Babcock had 110
aw
thorlly to make any such agreement,
sod that Hueyz hail neither the right
nor the power to elicit the proposed
transfer. Ile shows that Baeyz has
hump Mill still is nutintained In tempor
ary power by rotted States ships of war,
which l o ne been kePlot , the cousluf San
iiimingo by 11 rant, at an enormouscost,
iiir a year past; that the people do not de
-ire to be annexed to the United Stales,
:and that the project which is being so
strongly pushed ;rant is hare-faced
robbery. The synopsis or the speech
%% Melt we publish elsewhere:will be read
with interest by all classes, and no roan
of intelligence can fail to be astonished,
while reading it, at the conduct or the
President.
The truth is, there are between ten
and twenty millions of money involved
in this San Dinning. ..bib, and I irant is
determined to secure his portion of it,
auil lip liclp his conlederates to their
share of the plunder. That is the real
reason for the extreme anxiety he has
manifested, and for the obstinacy with
Which he adheres to the scheme. Beaten
in the attempt to force the illegitimate
treaty concocted by Babcock through
the Senate, he has resorted to all illegal
method or accomplishing the proposed
robbery.' Ile has shown that he has
power enough to control a majority of
the Senate, and it is not likely that there
will be till.re virtue B ou nd in the Ilmise.
Ile is jubilant liver the passage of the
resolution which authorized him to
send out a committee, packed for the
express purpose of bringing back a ht
vorable report, but the end is not yet.
'There will be atiiither desperate tight
bi fore the proposed mitt-age is tinnily
and die whole country
will lie made to ring loudly With other
itsieches Imp honest Republican Con
gressmen. Grant may force his pet job
through, but it will be at the sacrifice
orhis own honor, and over the grave of
the Republican party. The ablest Re
publican Senators side with Stunner ill
opposition to this corrupt job.
It ()nom.)
W.• Wider:4111111 that our economical
Fitt' Mother; have riticeil the pay Of
lie laborers at the City Mills to :i41.35 per
day. \Ve believe in economy, but doubt
whether the IVater Committee in this
instance has connneneed retrenchment
in the right place. The laborers, who
toil in the mud and water and ice, more
than earned the :51.50 a day they had
been receiving, if the bosses, superin
tendents, engineers, and other sinecur
i,is earned the or SI a day allotted to
them. We suggest to the City Authori
ties that money can be saved to the City
Treasury by paying the poor laborers
lair wages, and dismissing the high
privy(' sin ecurists. If the Superintend
ent. and Engineer id the 'Water NVorks
are not competent to set up and put into
running order the steam engine, let
them lie dismissed find their places be
tilled by others who are competent. It
don't look well to see a City Superin
tendent superintended by somebody.
else, 111111 City Engineer taught how to
put ill and run his own machinery by
tin outsider. Either the outsiders are
slnecurists or the officers incompetent.
Let the services of one party or the
..leer be dispensed with, and let the
laborer who does the difileull and dirty
work be properly paid ; and above all,
let the long drawn out job be finished.
Besides the complaints of the laborers
ut the !seduction 01 their wages, just as
severe winter weather is setting in, and
when they have no other means of
maintaining their families, we hear
owpLtinbs made that all the brick used
in the reeent " improvements" have
been furnished from the yard owned by
the Mayor 1111 d his partner, who super
intends the work at the City Mill. 'Thin
may he all right ; perhaps the brick are
as good and as cheap as could be pro
eared in the city, and perhaps proposals
from other brick-makers were solicited
and found to be less favorable to the
city; but the truth remains that there
in considerable dissatisfaction manifest
ed that the Mayor'and his partner should
not only furnish the brick, but that the
partner should also be paid by the city
.r superintending the laying of them.
A Model Judze
It will be seen by the proeeedings of
the,B6ard of Return Judges In the First
Senatorial District, which we publish
elsewhere, that one of the fllows, who
was appointed a Judge by the Itudieal
II ard of Aldermen as a Judge of a Re
publican Ward, came to the meeting
drunk, and without the returns from
Ids district. Since the right of the peo
pie of Philadelphia to chose their own
election ollieers has been taken away
from them, the most unscrupulous char
,,ters have been frequently given con
trol of the ballot-boxes. It was through
c,s4eney of such men that Covode
OfifIbIPII 1,, reverse the decision of
ppf,pip Pennsylvania, and to
~, t4 or Of , nry into the thibernatorial
ro; r.
Wk t,e,f 6hn olli , erg In the Ler
),4l pv4llo, that lien.
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(4" tloput.iPQ And tinfaln di vimlons
.nnri 44•11111/44 t to, tt,tt of J
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GIII 00De WA Z terppp? Oral al al :10,6 4 0 'No al al Pi is re* Di :NM al Weis M Ciell DI:3 wirmr4mo - EMBER 28, 1870.
The Victory In the First District
The election of Colonel Robert P.
Dechert to the State Senate from the
First District is a splendid and a highly
important victory. It gives us a Senator
who is distinguished for ability, and one
whose character issoelevated that every
Republican newspaper in Philadelphia
was forced to speak of him in terms of
the highest praise. It secures to us con
trol of the State Senate, and will cut up
by the roots many of the evils in legis
lation of which the people of Pen nsylva
niahave so longand sojustly complain
ed. It insures the adoption of an appor
tiontnent for members of Congress and
State Legislature which will be fair to all
sections of the State and just to all parties.
It gives assurance that a non-partisan
convention will be called to reform the
Constitution of the State. It does away
with Metropolitan Police bills, the ger
rymander of cities and towns so as to
secure Radical control of Democratic
majorities, and all improper special
legislation. It puts the Democratic
party in a position where It can check
corruption and break down the abuses
which have made the name of the Penn
sylvania Legislature a by-word and a
reproach. In giving the Democratic
party suoh power, it also places upon it
grave responsibilities, which will be
faithfully met by Its Representatives in
the State Senate. We cannot now enu
merate all the good consequences which
must flow from the election of Colonel
Dechert, but those which we have men
tioned are some of them.
In selecting their candidate the Democ
racy acted wisely. They put forward
one of the purest and ablest young - Men
in the Commonwealth. In opposition
to him the Republicans choseone whom
all their newspapers declared to be their
strongest man in the district. Mr. John
Price Wetherell was thrown overboard
and Joseph 11. Lyndall selected, be
cause it was believed the latter would
commend himself more strongly to the
baser material of the Republican party.
Money was poured out like water, and
all the power of the National and State
Administrations were brought to bear
in the election. An immense negro vote
wits polled solid fur the Radical candi
date —and yet he was overwhelmingly
defeated. This result was brought about
by causes which are now operating all
over the country. Many honest and
conscientious Republicans quietly cast
their ballots for Mr. Dechert, because
they had grown weary of the course pur
sued by the leaders of the party with
which they have heretofore been con
nected. The spectacle of hordes of ne
groes marching to the polls In solid pha
lanx, with badges bearing the name of
Lyndall on their coats, disgusted many
a white Republican. The gallant De
mocracy of the First District are worthy
of all praise for the manner in which
they rallied to the call of their peerless
candidate, but the many Republicans
who helped to swell the majority of Mr.
Dechert are equally worthy of honor.
Throughout the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania Democrats are to-day con
gratulating, each other on the result of
the election ill the First Senatorial Dis
trict. For the first time for many years
the power of the Radicals in the Legis
lature of this State has been broken. A
new political era dawns, and the
long reign of corruption and bribery
is at last at an end. This is It result ove r
whirls no honest Republican should
breathe a single sigh of regret, and we
are sure that multitudes of the best men
of that party are secretly rejoicing with
the Democracy to-day over the election
of that gallant soldier, that able and up
right citizen, Colonel Robert P.Deehert.
Accounting for the Defeat
The Harrisburg T•icyraph has hit
upon rather a singular way of account
ing for the Radical defeat in the First
Senatorial District. It says :
Instead of attending as they ought to have
done to the important election in the First
Senatorial district yesterday, too many of
the prominent Republicans were busying
themselves about tile exhibition of Roth
-1•111114. s picture of the Battle of llettysiturg,
for which the State has already paid the
liberal sum of f;;25,1100. To this compara
tively unimportant matter they appear to
hare-given alnittst exclusive attention, to
the neglect of their political duties, by at
tending to which they ought have carried
the First I tistrict easily and secured tile
preponderance of the Republican party in
the Senate by the election of r. I,yndall 4
city Republicans have so little at heart
the interests of the party, as to prefer the
int tmentary gratification resulting from the
exhibition of a battle picture to party suc
cess, they may give up all hope or future
triumph in that city.
t may be the Tr trgraph is right. It
is barely possible that a thousand of the
"high toners" of the First District were
gazing in rapturous admiration at the
costly picture of the battle of Gettys
burg, when they ought to have been
voting—trying to understand the posi
tion of the Union and Rebel lines when
they ought, in the estimation of Simon
Cameron's henchman, to have been
leading long lines of negro voters to the
polls. If reports be true the Republi
can precinctg in some of the wards
were given up to the care of the waiters
about the Continental :rioted and other
"uppish " dark eys. They did all they
could to elect byndall, but their suc
cess among white voters was not
remarkable. We do not wonder that
many a poor while Republican turn
ed away In disgust When he was of
fered a Radical ticket by some ..well of
a negro, dressed In the height!' of the
fashion. The fact that sonic of the
American citizens of African descent
wore lavender-colored kid gloves, did
not help the matter a particle—the tick
ets they handled were considered none
the cleaner or more acceptable by white
working men with bare and horny
hands on that aecount. When white
Republicans of the working classes
went to the polls and found them
blocked by blecktunores W 110 wore
satin badges bearing the likeness and
the name of Joseph It. Lyndall upon
their fashionably cut coats, they either
left without voting or turned to the side
where white men stood, and took from
men of their own race and of their own
class, a ticket having on it the name of
a gallant soldier.
The :A leiltaph seems to think that
this picture of the battle of Gettysburg
ought not to have been thus put up at
exhibition for a price. In that we agree
most heartily. The stun paid the artist
by tile State was a most liberal one—
far
more we dare say than the thing is
worth as a work of art. It ought to
have been first unveiled in the State
Capitol, where it is intended to be hung,
instead of being set up as a common
show in the city of Philadelphia. The
whole thing is of a piece with much
more that tile Radicals have done. If.
,however, the election of Colonel Dech
ert In the First District was owing to
the attendance of the Union League at
the unveiling of RotharmePs picture,the
taxpayers of Pennsylvania can afford to
he well contented with the speculation.
ft has saved them many thousands of
dollars more than it cost, by breaking
up the domiliallon of the Radicals ill
the f..gl•latere.
Two prominent Radicals or LHn city,
publicly drrlan•d y rrnlerduy, that they
would abandon the Republican party if
the Democratic candidate Jri the First
iienatorial Inntriet should be eleeted.—
(me Of them 14 a lawyer, a candidate for
District Attorney ; the other la a bach
elor Cootie'knurl from the First NVard.
As Deehert has been elected by a very
decided majority, we MIMI expert these
Radical gentlemen to stick to their
word. They will be taken into the
Democratic party on probation. With
the bachelor Councilman it will only be
a return to his first love.
Tut: Washington Chronicle has been
sold by Forney to John M. Morris, a
earpot-bagger, who has made a fortune
in the position of Chief Clerk to the
Sonata of South Carolina. The paper
will be recognized as the:personal organ
of Proddent (l rant hereafter.
Let the Figures Decide.
The Express continues to make feeble
attempts to excuse the infamy of theex
'sting apportionments for Congressmen
and members of the State Legislature.
We have exposed the shallow subter
fuges•on which it relies, and might very
safely let the question rest where it now
stands. But the array of figures which
can be brought to bear against the as
sertions of the Erprem are so crushing
that we cannot resist the temptation of
repeating some of them.
In 1884 the Republicans polled 254,-
808 votes in Pennsylvania, and elected
16 Congressmen ; the Democrats polled
243,074 votes, and elected only 8 Con
gressmen. In other Ve ords it only took
15,025 Republican votes to elect a Con
gressman, and required :10,381 to elect a
Democrat.
In 1866 the Republicans cast 362,458
votes, and secured 18 members of Con
gress; the Democrats casting 291,806
votes, and getting only 6 Congressmen.
That year it took 48,513 Democratic
votes to elect a congressman, and only
16,803 Republican votes to elect one.
In 186.8 three Democrats who had been
fairly elected by small majorities were
turned out of their seats, and the Re
publicans were thus given lli members
from Pennsylvania, and the Democrats
again left with only six representatives.
That fall the Republican vote for Con
gressmen was 32.0,6.12, or 15,310 votes to
each, and the Democratic vote was 322,-
276, or 53,712 votes to each Reprerenta
live.
The late Congressional election baf
fled all the calculations of the Republi
cans, and a popular revolution in the
western part of the State swept out of
power six Radical members of the pres
ent Congress who had grossly abused
the trust confided in them by the peo
ple. The Congressional election of 1870
is not, therefore, a fair test of the iniqui
tous workings of the apportionment
bill, but It serves to Illustrate it. The
Democrats curried the State oat the Con
gressional vote, casting 256,334 votes for
their candidates, while the Republicans
cast but 2.50,172, leaving a Democratic
majority of 102, for which the Republi
cans obtained one Congressman, equal
to 21,000 of the popular vote.
We thus find that during four Con
gressional terms It has required an aver
age of 3.5,89:i votes to elect 11 Democratic
Congressman, whilst 17,800 votes were
sufficient to elect a Republican. 'lice
difference in the whole vote polled at
these four Congressional elections has
been but about 31,00) votes, or less than
Is allowed for two Congressmen ; and
yet sixty-four Republicans Luxe been
sent to Congress fur three terms, and but
thirty-one Democrats. The above fig
ures, taken from Senator Wallace's
speech 111111 Other sourees, furnish an un
answerable reply to the paltry quibbles
so far as the Congressional apportion
ment is concerned. The Exprom can
not explain them away. There they
stand to convict of defending one of the
most outrageous political frauds ever
perpetrated.
When the apportionment for Weill
hers of the State Legislature was framed
in 1504, the Republicans thought they
had made sure of 22 out of the :73 Sena
tors ; and for a time they had 14 single
districts and the four double Ones. To
form their four double districts the
strong Democratic county of Montgom
ery, which had always had a Senator,
was swamped by being joined with the
Radical strongholds of Chester and Del
aware; Blair, Huntington, Centre,
Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, stretching
from the mouth of the Juniata to the top
of the Allegheny mountains, were join
ed together, and Lancaster county was
given more than her share of represen
tation. The unfairness of this apportion
ment of the Senate is clearly seen when
it is remembered that Lancaster
with a population in 1,00 of 110,314
was given two Senators, and the Dem
ocratic counties Fayette, Westmore
land and Greene, with a population of
117,058 but one. When we asked the
Exprr,s to point to localities iu which
the DemocraLs were given any compen
sating advantages, it uould only in
stance the district represented by Sen
ator Wallace. The census of lsuo shows
that his district had a population just
about one-half as great as that of Lau
casterilt is vow posed of live coon ties ly
ingtogether, and there was no other way
to dispose of this Democratie stronghold.
There was no large Republican county
near at hand under which hi swamp
Clearfield, Clarion and Elk. It' there
had been, Mr. 'Wallace would have been
summarily disposed of. His district was
suffered to remain as it is, because the
Republican Legislature of 1804 could
not touch it without destroying the ar
rangements they had made for perpe
trating frauds elsewhere. That they
had the will to In so is abundantly
shown by what they did in other parts
of the State.
\Ve need do nothing more than refer
' In the fact that the present int'amousap
, portionment was framed for the express
purpose of insuring a Republican ma
jority in tile Lower House of the State
Legislature, even when the Democrats
carried the State on the popular vote,
and to the further fact that it accom
plished its purpose for seven years. The
Expo. has not even referred to the fig
ures contained in the damaging array ,
which we made against this part of the
dtadical gerrymander the other day.
Its mouth Is closed by facts which can
not be gainsayed and figures which can
neither be explained nor reversed.
The election of t 'Monet Dechert to the
State Senate from the First District
struck the death knell
l ot political vil
lainy In Pennsylvania. It would really
seem as it Providence had interfered to
protect the people of this ( . 0111111011weulth
front further outrages, by the removal
of Mr. Watt front the seat which he ob
tained by one of the grossest frauds on
record. The Democratic members of the
coming Legislature will demand a fair
and equitable apportionment. They
will ask nothing mare and will accept
nothing less. The Democratic majority
in the Senate will have the power to
compel the. passage of a just bill, and
they will he justified by the people in
using that authority to its fullest extent.
Bringing' the Law to Bear
As will be seen by the full report of
the proceedings of the Board of Return
Judges in the First Senatdrial District,
which we publish elsewhere, the Dem
ocracy brought the terrors of the law to
bear upon the Radical onicials who had
threatened to give the certificate to
Lynda!). Mandamuses were issued from
the Supreme Court and the Court of
Common Pleas, requiring the Judges to
discharge their plain duty by counting
the returns as they were tiled in the
office of the Prothonotary. This step
was rendered necessary by the course
pursued by the Radical Board of Return
Judges in Istin, when they disregarded
the returns and gave Mr. Watt the cer
tificate to which Mr. Diamond was
fairly entitled. There was good reason
to believe that a similar outrage would
be again attempted. The temptation to
the commission amid' a crime was very
great, as it would have enabled Mr.
Lynda!' to be sworn in, have enabled
him to take his seat, have allowed him
to participate in the organization of the
Senate, and have forced Mr. Dechert
into a contest, which would have been
decided against hint in spite of the evi
dence by a packed partisan committee.
Every good eivizen will be glad to wit
ness the triumph of law and order in
this case.
(iEN. PLEASANToN, the new Commis
sioner of Internal Revenue, has arrived
at Washington, but will not enter upon
the duties of his Mike until after the
holidays.
GENERAL SCHENCK has been formal
ly nominated by the President as Min
ister to England. He will be promptly
confirmed by the Senate.
A Remarkable Specimen of Newspaper
Enterprise.
The ancient borough of York is evi
dently lagging behind the:are, If we are
to judge by what We see in one of the
Radical newspapers published there.—
The Republican, In Its issue of yester
day, gives a prominent place at the head
of ha editorial columns to the following:
The Election In the lst District.
Believing that the election yesterday In
the First Senatorial District was one of
vital importance; that the result thereof
might change not only the political aspect
of Pennsylvania, but, indeed, of the whole
country, we determined to lay before our
readers the result at the earliest possible
moment. Securing the co-operation of
the gentlemanly telegraph operator here,
Mr. George Shock, and making the neces
sary arrangements In Philadelphia, we are
enabled to give to our readers this morn
ing, the result in the First District; and
although it is not such news as we desired
or expected, we feel that we are but fulfill
ing our duties as public Journalists to give
it to-our readers.
Special Derpolelt to York Republionn.
PHILADELPHIA. Dee.
The Chairman of the State Central Demo
cratic Committee claims the election of Dech
ert, (Dem.) as State Senator, by a large major
ity. The Republican Colnlntitee do not give
it tin.
Second Drrpftrh
PHI 6A neLl'lt I A, Der. 011.—1. P I'. M.
All hope gone. Deehert elected try a large
majority. State Committee give It up. C.
Securing two small special telegrams
Is evidently considered a wonderful ex
hibition of newspaper enterprise in York.
We can imagine the weight of responsi
bility which the proprietors of the Re
publican felt resting upon their shoul
ders, as they "secured the co•operation
of the gentlemanly telegraph operator,
and made their arrangements with C.
(evidently ('ovode) hi Philadelphia."
We can realize their disgust too when
the news came, which was to " change
not only the political aspect of Pennsyl
vania, but indeed of the whole coon try."
We can fancy the mingled feelings of
hope and fear with which they pondered
over the dubious contents of Covode's
first telegram, and the blank despair
which seized upon their souls when the
dread announcement came, like a clap
of thunder, in the three terrible words
" All hope gone." Covode gave It up.
! Ile had counted Cleary hi, but 1.106 in
1 one Senatorial district was too much for
his within etical powers. Ile was thrown
Into a fearful state of excitement by the
figures as they came hi. At lust he
threw down his pencli,after penning the
despatch to the York Republican, called
for another drink, put on his overcoat,
and went out to condole with the man
to whom he sold a cadetship.
Seeking a Pretext for Fraud.
Every independent newspaper pub
lished in Philadelphia declares that the
election In the First Senatorial District
was quiet and fair. In this the Ledger
and the Record both agree. The Day,
which is owned and edited by Republi
cans, says " the election passed off eery
goofy." It attributes the defeat of Lyn
dall to the apathy and outright opposi
tion of the negroes. Forney's Press ad
mits the fairness and quietness of the
election, and attributes the defeat of its
candidate to the fact that "(he Republ i
f and did not nuunijese Ural interest in (he
elect ion which they should ha re dom.."
The Post is the only paper which incites
to a renewal of the Infamous fraud by
which Mr. Diamond was cheated out of
his seat, and Mr. Watt, the deceased
Senator, given the certificate of election.
The Poet is bold in its villainy, and It
exhibits utter shamelessness in thus
seeking a pretext for the commission of
a crime. We can scarcely conceive it
possible that the Radical members of the
Board of Return Judges will dare to at
tempt a repetition of the outrage perpe
trated upon Mr. Diamond. Mr. Dech
ert's magnificent majority of lksi ought
to silence all such murmurs as those
which come from the Post. Its conduct
is incendiary and its course in this mat
ter a disgrace to journalism.
The Harrisburg .Stet,- Jora•nrtl attri
butes the result to treason in its own
party and scouts the idea of fraud. It
says :
Unless there are good and sufficient
grounds for the charge of fraud, it should
not be made by the chairman of the City
Committee, for It only weakens a cause to
attempt to sustain it by false cries. The !
truth is, that the Republican party is in
such a position in this State that the two !
opposing factions tight each other more
fiercely than they tight the common enemy.
The result of that tight this year is a Dem- I
ocratic majority in the State Senate. It is
now time to sound a truce. There are Re
publicans enough in the State to make
one successful party, but not enough fur
two.
State Items. !
Two negroes had a quarrel in Chain
bersburg the other day, when one of
them deliberately shot the other, in-
Meting a severe wound.
James Clegget has been sentenced to
eight years and six months imprison
ment, for murdering Policeman Sulli
van, of Philadelphia.
Mr. John Dulebaum, of Chambers
burg, was found dead in his bed on •
Monday morning by his Wife, who slept
beside him.
The gas works in Hanover, York
county, are rapidly approaching com
pletion, and the inhabitants expect to
inaugurate the new year in a glare of
gas-light.
A vein or coal has recently been dis
covered in Dark Hollow, Warwick
township, Bucks county, which pro
mises well. The coal Is said to burn
equally as well as the best Lehigh.
Mahlon Pepper during a row in Nor
ristown, some days ago, beat a man so
badly that he died. Mahlon fled, but
was yesterday arrested in Mannyunk
and sent back to Norristown.
Mr. D. Hackman, of Hamilton town
ship, Franklin county, shot a fine wild
turkey the other day among his tame
flock. It had come down front the
mountain and followed the tame tur
keys to the barn.
A Miss Heitz, a sister of the wife of
Col. J. A. Statile, of York, was found
dead in bed on Thursday morning last.
She resided with Col. Stable, and re
tired in her usual health, and died some
time during the night.
The tallest member of the State Leg
islature, soon to assemble, is Samuel D.
Clark, of Lawrence county. He stands
six feet seven Inches in his single soled
boots. Capt. H. K. Sloan, of Indiana,
is six feet four ipches in height.
The District Court of Pittsburgh has
decided that an agreement to pay ground
rents in silver coin holds good, and must
be complied with, although the owner
of the ground rent may have for a num
ber of years past accepted greenbacks in
payment.
The locomotive " Boston, " of the
Reading Railroad, hauled a train of 175
loaded four-wheeled cars, on Monday
afternoon, from Dauphin to Harrisburg.
This is the heaviest train that ever pass
ed over the road. It is said to have been
over two-thirds or a mile long.
In Pittsburgh on Thursday a lad
named Jacob Rogers, 14 years old, em
ployed in a coffin making establishment
while attempting to run one of the belts
din its pully on the shafting above, was
caught in the be.l and drawn in an in
stant over the pully and dropped dead
on the other side.
A miner from Fall Creek, by the name
of Timothy Gui'toy, was run over and
instantly killed on the night of the 16th
inst., while lying on the railroad track,
a short distance from the railroad bridge
that spans the Susquehanna at Towanda.
The head, arms and legs of the deceased
were severed, and the body otherwise
horribly mutilated.
The Indiana Deino , tut gives the par
ticulars of a runaway match between
a man named Bill Lloyd and a girl
named Kuntz. They got to Greenville,
where the girl was induced to break off
the match and return home. William
and a friend followed her up, smashed
the conveyance in which she returned,
and set fire to her father's bare. The
would-he Benedict is now in jail.
On Friday night last several colored
men of York borough were hunting
opossums, and having as they supposed
treed one of their game,imagine their
surprise when it came to t he ground be
ing shot, to find a good-sized Wild Cat.
The animal weighs twelve pounds, is
two and a half feet long, and was killed
on the farm of Henry Welsh, Esq.. some
three miles from York.
Iteuben Bohn a farmer, residing in
Bern township, i3erks county, commit
ted suicide by hanging himself in his
father's barn Friday morning. When
discovered he was hanging suspended
to one of the rafters by apiece of driving
rein, his feet touching the ground. He
was a man about 40 years of age and
leaves a family. No cause is assigned
for the sot:
OUR BUNDLE OF NOTHINGS
No. 33.—Kral Hringle
" Carlatklndchen komm ;
Und mach mlch fromm;
Da. Ich zu dir Im lilmmel komm
This name is variously spelt, and vari
ously written, with perhaps a still greater
variety In its pronunciation, by is variety
people. We sometimes find it written,
" Christ-Kinkle," sometimes "Criss-Krin
gle," and then again " Criss-Cringle," but
they are all miserable, anglacized corrup
tions of "Christ-Kindchen," which means
nothing more nor leas than Chrint-Child.—
Among.the " Pennsylvania Dutch," where
we passed our boyhood, it was usually pro
nounced "Christ-Kindly," and was ap
plied to any gift, made during ;the Christ
mas Holidays; therefore a Chrixl Kindly
among those people, meant the same as a
"Christmas Gift," or Christmas presents,
among the English. Tho simple little
triplicate at the head of this paper, is a
common German Nursery rhyme, and may
be literally, rendered—Christ-child come;
and make me devout, that I may come to
thee InHeaven. Many a Teutonic wanderer
or sojourner, in our vast country, as the
annual festivities of Christmas approach,
will have his thoughts carried back to the
days of his childhood in his Fatherland,
when he confidently hung up his little
stockings, and repeated these lines before
he went to sleep, In the expectation of be
ing held in retnembranee by the good
Christ-Child, in the person of his myster
ious deputy, the good "St. Nicholas," or
What a dread we had of
the " Pelz-Nick el " when we were a child,
notwithstanding our desire that he would
quietly enter the house, during our sleep,
and till our stockings, or the "Christmas
boxes" we had set apart for him. We
dreaded him because his hideous represen
tative was al ways fearfully masked, and was
accompanied by a long whip and a bell. This
bell, was perhaps the origin of the corrupt
tions of "Bells-Nickel" or "Bell-Snick le."
But this is not the origin of the terms Pet:-
nickel. It collies front pct:-fur; because
St. Nieholas was rep2sented disguised In
a huge fur cap, and trange fur-trimmed
apparel, with a cap clous bag flung over
his shoulders, from which he distributed
his gifts among the little folks, and espehi
ally if they bad been -good children. But
somehow, we very early discovered that
St. Nlcholits—good as he was reputed to be
—did nottliscriminato fairly In this respell.,
for he always seemed more lavish in him
gifts to:the children of the rich, than he was
to the poor, no matter what their characters
respectively may have been. The reason
for this discrimination Is, however, very
obvious, but If there are any who cannot
comprehend it,'let them try to get a "bill"
through our Stale Legislature, or through
Congress, and It Will become unmistakably
manifest.
Although the terms Krieg-Kriegle is
somewhat vaguely used in those districts
In the 'United States where Dutch and Ger
man customs prevail, for both Christ in his
childhood, and for St. Nicholas ; yet, it is
generally applied to the latter, who is sup
posed to be under the Influence of the for
mer, who is presumed to Issue his rewards
to good children, on the vigil of his annual
festival, or "Christmas Eve." What mul
tiplied the terrors of the supposed visits of
St. Nicholas—especially among naughty
children—was the fact, that he was pre
sumed to have heard all about them, and
particularly all the evil things they did
throughont the veer, through the counnu
nlcation of the olunicient Christ-kindelien,
or Christ-child—the good,Kriss-Kringle.
But ST. NICITOLAS is also said to have
had a real history. Ile was the patron
Saint of boys, and is said to have been
Bishop of Myra, in Lycia, a district in
Greece, and to have died in the year, A. B.
T2ll. (if his personal history little or noth
ing is known with any degree of certainty.
The young were universally taught to re
vere him, and the popular fiction which
represents him as the bearer of presents to
children on Christmas Eve is well-known,
and seems to be perpetuated through each
succeeding generation ; and it would seem
almost a pity to dissipate the pleasant "hal
lucination." An old chronicler states that,
St. Nicholas —or Nicolm, as It is sometimes
written—" is said to have supplied three
destitute maidens with marriage portions,
by secretly leaving money at their win
dow ; and as this day occurred just before
Christmas, he thus was made the purveyor
of the gifts of the season to all children in
Flanders and Holland, who put out their
shoe or stocking, in the confidence that
Santa ('buts or kuocht Clobee, as they call
him would nut in a prize for good conduct
before morning. Another legend describes
the Saint as having brought three murdered
children to life again: and this rendered
him the patron of boys—especially school
boys."
Santa t 'tau., ur K twin, , Mch collies from
the Dutch pronoun Santa Molest', is synon
ymous with St. Nicolas or Nicholas, and
means the same person—real or imaginary.
All these names, however distinct they
may originally have been, and however
mythological in their characters, are now
blended with the advent of that Christ
rhiltl, who was born in Bethlehem, and laid
in a manger, eighteen hundred and seven.
ty years ago. How strangely in contrast
with that great event,—its surroundings,
its objects and its ends—are the multitudes
of diversified paraphernalia which:are now
used in celebrating and perpetuating it
among the families of man. now lowly
the " Babe of Bethlehem," how haughty
and aspiring his professed worshippers in
many cases. Still, all these symbols and
these associations are elevating and useful,
when employed as '11,1,5 in attaining
higher alms and ends. When we rest in
theitymbobtalonc, and do not look beyond
theta, then we relapse into idolatry, more
grievous than that of ancient tittles, or of
modern paganism.
That event.professedly proclaimed "glad
tidings of great joy to all people," and us If
in realization of ita truthfulness, whenever
Its anniversary occurs, it Is unresistably
the harbinger of good feeling, of merry
making, and of peace, no matter how ad
versely things may have gone during the
year. The glorified Christ-child still vouch
safes Ills benign influence, and those rep
resentative deities, which the child within
us propitiates in the person of a Krim
/it-Ingle, a Santa (!tatot, a .Sain t
or even make their benevolent
visits, dispense their bounties, and crown
the ovension with joy. Tint thpy unfor
tunately should be partial in the distribu
tion of their gifts, the wrong may still be
righted, if those who are blessed with alum
dance, would, out that abundance, play
" Kriss-K Ingle" with their poorer, or des
titute neighbor. If all these things are
"soehing," they way, through the alchemy
of generous hearts, Inc transmuted into
atonething," and with the hand, dear
readers, we tie up our bundle for the pres
ent year—but not without wishing you
many happy meetings:mil syeeet
liELLE-V my,
Another (:nn plintion---Clnelta no Ii In
“yrlght---$lOO,OOO Dationgeo.
CINCINNATI, Dee. I9.—A t. P. M. to-day
a terrible explosion occurred at the gas
works. At the time of the explosion the
holder contained 450,000 cubic feet of gas.
Persons who were within a few squares of
the site of the gas works first waived a low
rumbling sound and an oppressis e condi
tion of the atmosphere, like that attending
an earthquake, when red and whiteeolored
names suddenly shut upward, lighting up
the heavens and revealing the outline of the
surrounding lulls. The report of the .ex
plosion was heard at a distance of several
miles.
The eight immense columns that sup
piirted the holders were thrown down, and
tor the most part broken to pieces. Some
portion tell across the roof of the office,
crushing it and making a wreck of the
place.
The holder was constructed of No. 12
gauge iron, and was regarded to be one
of the best in the United States, and was
erected in place of one that was destroyed
by an explosion in the summer of 1860, It
had a capacity of 480,000 cubic feet.
The buildings of the company, in the
neighborhood of the holder, were some
what scorched by the flames, and were
otherwise injured by the flying and falling
masses of iron. No person was at the hold
er when the explosion occurred, and at
present the cause is unknown. Only one
man was injured—and he slightly—by fire,
although forty men were at work at the re
torts, a few hundred feet away. The losses
to the company will ho about $100,006;
The Commonwealth vs. The Crean Mo
===!
.I.lAantsnurto,;December A—The case of
the Commonwealth vs. The Credit Mob!.
Her of America, Attorney-General Brew
ster and L. W. Hall for the Commonwealth,
and R. C. McMurtrie and George W. Bid
dle for the defendants, closed at a late hour
last evening. Judge Pearson delivered the
charge to the jury this morning, and this
afternoon a verdict ,was rendered that the
Credit Mobilier pay into the Treasury of
the Commonwealth N 36,868.33, the exact
amount claimed.
Almost the entire business portion of
Brandenburg, Ky., was burned on
Thursday morning. Loss, $llO,OOO.
THE SAN DOMINGO JOB
Sumner•s Great Speech
Terrible Exposure of Grout
How the Robbery was Planned
flow it lo to be Accomplished.
Mr. Sumner then addressed the Senate in
a long speech, iu which he reviewed the
whole subject of the proposed annexation
of St. Domingo and severely criticized the
administration for its connection therewith.
He Field that the resolution before the Sen
ate committed Congress to a dance of blood,
and was a new step iu a measure of vio
lence, in which several steps had been
taken already. Instead of a measure sim
ply of inquiry, the resolution actually
created these diplomatic officers, and its
real object was to commit Congress in ad
vance in favor of annexation by a prear
ranged report by a commissioner, having
the color of diplomatic authority looking
to that end. The President could now ap
point an agent to visit San Domingo with
out the necessity of any resolution. He
said the information which had reached him
from that Island since the rejection of the
treaty confirmed bim in his belief that its
negotiation had been consummated in vio
lence, and, so far as it had been maintained,
it had been fraught with violence ever
since, to the infinite discredit of the United
States. He used strong language, but only
such as the occasion required. As a Sena
tor and as a patriot he could not see his
country suffer in its good name without an
earnest effort to save It. Entering into the
history of the Dominican negotiation, Mr.
Sumner said it had its origin with a firm
of tFeiee political jockeys—Baez, Fabens
and Cazneau—who seduced into their firm
a young officer of the United States, enti
tling himself aid-de-camp to U. S. Grant,
President of the United States of America
and his special agent to the Dominican re
public, and that they together hail gotten a
protocol, in which the young officer pro
ceeded to make certain promises on behalf
of this country. If tins so called aid-de
camp has acted upon any title or instruc
tions in taking this step the fact was con
cealed, and no inquiry thus far had been
able to penetrate it. Sn it an office
as aid-de-camp to the President of
the United States was unknown in
our governmental history, mid probably
no correspondingly silnilar designation
had ever been assented in the diplomatic
history of any government. But this
young officer, attempting to represent the
United States or A ineriea, had signed a
treaty by which the President of the United
States was pledged to use his influence
among the nun leers of Congress to make
the annexation measure popular, and all
the Senate know how faithfully the Presi
dent had carried out that pledge, not only
using but exceeding this intim:ewe in lavor
of the annexation scheme. Mr. Sumner
went on to show that at the lime and since
the negotiation, Baez., with whom it had
been made, had been maintained in power
by the presence of uu r ships of war ill llay
lien waters. In other words, Baez was
sustained by the United States that ho
might betray and sell hie country. Ile
(Sunnier) would challenge the Senator front
Indiana (Morton) to deny that fact or to
doubt it by a single utterance. NVe were
now treating Baez as a puppet. In order to
obtain possession of that territory precise
ly as England treated the Mosquito chief.
The documents in the 'Naval Department
proved all this, and it is further so bstan
dated by the testimony of naval officers
who hail returned from there.
Mr. Morton here remarked that the best
means of answering the broad statements
made byMr.Suminer were indicated by the
resolution authorizing an actual investiga
tion by a commission. Ile wished tit sub
mit one question to the Senator: whether
all the parties in San Domingo, both the
adherents of Baez and Cabral, were for an
nexation if that was so, then all that
Senator Sumner had said was immaterial
and frivolous, and its only effect was, as
intended, to obscure the subject in the pub
lic mind.
Mr. Sumner, resenting die charge of fri
volity in its application to his remarks,
asked, was it frivolous for him to protest
when he saw the mighty power of the re
public degraded to an act of oppression?
His answer to the Senator's question as to
the favorable disposition of the people of
San Domingo to annexation was exactly to
the contrary; for information furnished
him, and only four days old, was to the ef
fect that the people were much divided.—
While, to some extent, the proposition was
received favorably along the seashore, the
people of the interior were averse to it. Be
sides the political jockey there of whom he
had spoken, there was another chieftain,
named Cabral, and who, as he { Mr. Sum
ner) was informed, was the real represen
tative of the people of that country. Ca
bral some time ago was in favor of the sale
of the Bay of Samaria to the United States;
but, according to his M r. Summer's) in for-
iination,h6tiever was in favor of the annexe-
tion of the island to the UnitedStates,his pol
icy being to bring the two governments of
Hayti and San Domingo once more together.
In this connection Mr. Sumner stated that he
was informed that Baez was now waiting
to receive front the United States the money
for his sale of his country, in the expecta
tion of being able to slip oil to Europe,
there to enjoy the proceeds. Referring to
the indignation with which the rumor had
been i eceived that I tismarck would take
Louis Napoleon front his prison and treat
with him tin peace, as a pretext for over
riding the young Republic of France, Mr.
Sumner argued that exactly the same poli
cy was about to be resorted to by the Uni
ted States in its treatment of the Republic
of San Domingo. As one illustration of
this policy, tending to show what it had cost
the government during the lost year, he
read from a published San Domingo letter
of December it, menttoning the presence at
adjacent point of the Swatara, Yantic and
Nantasket, United States war ships. lie
said that under cover of this naval force the
neighboring Republic of Hayti, the only
colored government new in existence, had
been dictated to; an American Commodore
had presumed to threaten the Republican
Governmentof Ilayti,that if they undertook
in any way to interfere with the Dominican
Government he would blow down their
town about their ears; an A Meriean COllllllO
- in the spirit of Tittlebat 'Finn° use,w ho
was careful never to light with a boy of his
size, had undertaken to insult a sister repn b
lie. If this was on his own !notion and wit t
out instructions from Washington he ought
to have been removed at once. Rather
I than carry out such instruetions he ought
to have thrown his sword into the sea.—
The Senators 'night murmur at him , Mr.
Sumner), but he would remind them that
there was a rule of morals and of honor
above all other rules. No soldier and no
naval officer should ever consent to do an ,
act of dishonor and wrong. This was a I
principle upon which our fathers insisted
in the Revolution, and their descendants
had not failed to glorify those British offi
cers who refused to seretith a bad cause.
Enlarging upon the point of the alleged in
terference as designed to; interdict Hayti
trout the collection of thd debt owing - in
part by the Dominican government, Mr.
Sumner proceeded to show the extent to ,!
which the latter government was liable for '
that debt. Noticing the Senator (Mr. Mor.
ton) taking notes, with the likely purpose
of answering his remarks under this head,
he supposed that at, attempt at Justification
would be made upon the mistaken hypoth
esis that under the late of nations the Uni- ;
ted States could rightfully exercise )(iris
diction over the territory which was the I
subject of negotiations for annexation. To
refute this he quoted front various author
ities upon international law, showing that ,
the treaty could be of no effect until ratified,
and that every attempt at jurisdiction in
Dominican waters was a usurpation. In ;
his opinion every such trespass was nil /Let
14 . War made by the Exisaitive without the ;
consort This outrage upon a
sister Repo wit./ ag!,:ra, wed Inv the issw• ,
! which the President. of lilt' 1 . 1111,1 SW,,
had direi•tly made nt hi-, annual Message,
with the President of the Republic of Hay
ti. This issue was apparent upon a simple
StatNilellt Of t h e utter tne,• oi l each lit
these Presidents upon the some q11 ,, th , 11.
President 1 ;1,111t, in 1.i4
hail asset fed that the rojeetion of the rue
minican treaty nu t h e port o f the Senate
was an net 4 , 1 folly, a bile the language or
the Ilaytien President sea , that ttle• xie- ,
ties caused in Hayti by the WOWS:I64in 1110- I
Liect hail been dissipated been, the good
; sense and wisdom of the Senate at Wash- ,
ington. The former, .-litioking with the
voice of forty milli
1 1 1,1111 e had called
the rejection an act nt t. illy ; while the lot
ter, representing only 4.4;l it hundred thou
sand people, Anil they all Hook, had its-
I sorted the Very Orpiita. opinion. NM
' content with that, the President of the hal
ted
. States, in his toes-ago, acting in the
spirit (This Commodore,had nine tones me
naced the independence of the Republic
San luaningo. The first of these was his
proposition lair the acquisition of the is
land; next, his representation that it WKS
desirahle because of its geographical post
tion ; and so on to the end. These must'.
tute nine distinct menaces against that Re
main°. The Senator (Mr. Morton may I
answer that this was accidental; but he ;
(Mr. Sumner) would remind the Senator ;
that an accident could not he repeated nine '
times without a purpose. Ile would say
here, too, that tile President could not af
ford to throw out any menaces in the city
of Washington, or oppress the weak else
where. That savored too strongly of the
policy of Pierce, Buchanan and Andrew
Johnson. In other days a President of the
United States had attempted to change a
Committe of Congress, and this session see
are called upon to witness a similar en
deavor. The President was not satisfied
with the Committee on Foreign Relations
as constituted fur years. Ile wished to
change it. Ile asked tirst for the removal
of the chairman (Mr. Sumner). Somebody
told him that would not be convenient.—
( Laughter.) Ile then asked for the remov
al of the Senator from Missouri (Mr.
Schurz), and he seas told that could not be
done without affecting the German vote.—
(Generalmerrimetthoccasionally renewed.)
He than called for the removal of the Sen
ator from New Hampshire I Mr. Patterson),
who, unhappily, had no Ciernians in his
State. It was finally settled that that could
not be done. Mr. Sumner said he alluded
to these things with reluctance, and because
a vote could not be reached on the question
without passing them In review. He called
upon the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Mor
ton), who, the newspapers said, the Pres'. '
dent had kindly received in the Blue
Room,
AV /NTEIIIII.7PTION AND A NENSATIoN.
Mr. Morton, Interrupting, here arose to
ask the Speaker a question.
Mr. Sumner remarked that he did not
desire to be interrupted In the middle or a
sentence.
Mr. Morton appearing to persist In his
Interruption.
Mr. ;Sumner, Romewhatlexeltedly, ap-
pftled to the Vice President to sustain him
in his right to the floor, which the Chair
accordingly did, remarking that under the
rules a Senator could not be interrupted
while speaking, without his consent.
Mr. Sumner then resumed. He said that
when interrupted he was about calling
I upon the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Mor
ton) to repair to the White House, and by
his advice save the President from the dis
astrous policy he was pursuing. Formally
addressing the Vice President, Mr. Sum
ner continued, with much emphasis :—Sir,
I call upon you, who are next to the Chief
Magistrate In place and honor, to call at
once upon the President, to repair imme
diately to the Executive Mansion and tell
him by the authority which you can Justly
command not to follow the example of
Franklin Pierce, of James Buchanan and
of Andrew Johnson; tell him not to op
press a weak and humble people; tell him
not to exercise the war power without:au
thority of Congress; tell him not to forget
that there is a grandeur in justice and in
peace beyond anything in war. Mr. Vice
President, I appeal to you as you love this
Republic, as you are devoted to that party
which has so recently honored you, to ex
ercise your great influence to set the Pres
ident right on this important matter.
At this point Mr. Morton again endeav
ored to interpose a question, but
Mr. Sumner declined to yield for the
purpose, as he said the Senator would have
an opportunity to reply. Proceeding furth
er to review the probable consequence of
annexation, Mr. Sumner characterized the
whole thing as a bloody lawsuit, and read
from a letter from Davis Hatch, in regard
to whose alleged false imprisonment in San
Domingo an investigation was ordered last
session. The letter was corroborative of
the speaker upon several points. As illus
trative of the expenditure and suffering
which would follow the adoption of the
policy advocated by the friends of the reso
lution, Mr. Sumner cited the case of Spain,
which had spent forty millions of dollars
and sacrificed fifteen thousand of the flower
of her army in the vain attempt to possess
herself by force of the key to the Caribbean
Sea and the commerce of the fl ulf of NI ex ieo.
Ile hoped the example of Spain would never
be followed by his own country. One other
consideration suggested was that the island
of San Domingo never could become a
permanent posession of the United States,
On account or the climate, influences, tia'.
In conclusion Mr. Stunner protested,
against the adoption of the resolution, as
he had done in the beginning of his speech,
as another stage in the drama of Mood. lie
said he protested against it in the name of I
justice outraged by violence, In the IMMO
or humanity insulted, In the n mie of the.,
weak, trodden down ; in the !moo of
peace imperilled, and in the name of the
African race, whose first effort at indepen
dence had been rudely assailed.
Cpon the conclusion of Mr. So niter's re
marks Mr. Morton obtained the 11,,i0r, but
gave way to a motion by tl r. Sherman to
take up the lions° bill, correcting an am
biguity in the late relating to the elassiiica
tion of sugar duties, which prevailed.
Mr. formerly, (Dem.) of Cal., submitted
and advocated an amendment respecting
the Income tax.
Mr. Trumbull, (Rep.; of 111., strenuously
advocated the repeal, maintaining that the
argument or itm necessity was contradicted
by the fact that the Secretary of the Treas
ury wan steadily boarding up millions of
gold, upon which we were paying Intoremt.
Kan Domingo Dip!((((( Rey
In his late annual message, the Presi
dent expressed his official opinion that the
non-acquisition of San Domingo would
work an early public " calamity," and that
the negotiation which ripened into a treaty
"needs only to be investigated to be ap
proved." We have Investigated it, and we
cannot approve it. Upon the data before
us, and before President Grant, also, let its
deliberately characterize the subject in
hand.
It is a conspiracy to make money, by
procuring an internationai treaty with the
aid of fraud and force. The conspirators
are Dominican, English, and American.
The Dominicans, who are the heads of that
Government, expected to receive from the
United States, and appropriate to them
selves, the price of their country and peo
ple; the Englishmen expected to get the
United States subrogated to the Dominican
Republic for the satisfaction of enormous
and spurious claims ; and the Americans,
procuring from their Dominican co-con
spirators the necessary show of concessions,
expected for their pay a general monopoly
of franchises, lands, mines, and other
grants in au annexed territory of the United
States. One individual, indeed, an old ac
quaintance of General Grant's—a loan
named Fabens—is common to all parties.
The members of the Dominican Govern
ment had another incentive, namely; that
unless they could get the armed protection
of the United States they would all lase
their heads. President Baez said this dis
inctly. President Grant, too, has incentives.
He thinks the '• Monroe doctrine," or some
sort of thing, is involved. Probably Fa
bens told him so.
Such was the situation before the serious
business began. The people of Dominica
—mostly negros, Ignorant, debased, and
poor—not being much of account in an en
lightened age, these enterprising gentlem en
thought it well enough to take their coun
try from them and parcel out its resources
among themselves. Filibustering, how
ever, would have been robbery. If they
could but get the United States Govern
ment to be so good as to send down ships
of-war and a hag and a general or two, the
spoilation would be assured without inde
cency. On the other hand the members of
the I fominiean Government were afraid of
their lives and needy. Puttig this and that
together, the thing was plain. Baez and
his officials should sell their country to I
f :rant, subject to ratification by the
people, Grant to send him the naval
force of the United States for the purpose
of securing his people against all tempta
tion to forego a proffered blessing. This
was all right, because it would turn nut
better for the Dominican rabble ; and who
would blame a visa ruler for selling his
people for hisown good, particularly when
he was afraid of them, and, besides that,
needed money ; or a President of the Uni
ted States for stationingships of war to up
bold the job and call it "Monroe doctrine ?"
I We are speaking of the matter before the
serious business began. It was necessary
to get this scheme of subjugation and
seizure solemnized by a transaction of no
less formal dignity thou a public treaty
between sovereign nations.
The business began, but difficulties arose.
An experienced Consul, Mr. .1. Somers
Smith, was at the Dominican capital; but
i the plan was studiously concealed from
I him. A Mr. Hatch, domiciled there, de
clared by the conspirators themselves in
; telligent and honorable, exposed the abom
' i sable plot In American newspapers. Both
these gentlemen are ardent annexationists.
General Babcock, with plenary powers,was
sent down. Mr. Smith was removed from
the consulate, and a rash, bold, impractica
ble man, Mr. Perry, was substituted for
him: Meantime Baez had arrested Hatch,
I without assigning any sufficient reason.
Ships of war overawed everything, and
everybody, except the conspirators; all un
der Babcock. Perry had been Instructed to
sign any treaty Babcock should negotiate.
Ile felt the slight, and In letter after letter
to the State Department, exposed the fraud.
Neither - Perry nor his dismissed predeces
sor could succeed ingettingliatch released.
Babcock freely used his powers In con-
atraning the pardon of an American assns
sin, who had been sentenced to death. 110
was Informed of the reasons given for de
taining Hatch. They were these : that he
was in Iffiencink the A merican public
against this particular plan of annexation.
and thus contravening (lenerel (irant's
purposes. Babcock would not a. lc his re- j
lergio; the CUSP was out of his sphere., Vet
It was familiar In the Executive Mansion
and in the State Department. The 11111111 -
Ly of Perry at length effected Iris release,
(unroof I :rant was lliMpleaMed.”
So Babcock told Perry. An American i•it
tizen kept for months in a foreign jail to
keep him front writing against " ieneral !
rirant's policy," and that with General
rirant's knowledge and consent! But in
this polla all incident:
Hatch was tinder arrest when Babcock
arrived. Consul Smith, in Baberiek's pre.
sense, demanded his release. Babcock of
footed ignorance and indifferenve in the
premises. Cart refused. Smith retired.
Ilaez and Babcock then conferred about
I latch, who had not yet been formally
charged. Babcock swears that he caution
ed Baez, if he in tended to bring Hatch to
trial, to be sure that the record would hold
water. A record is eheap in Dominica,—'
This took place on theglith of August. The
':nth August Is the day (latch was arraign
ed. The trial was en admitted sham, sen
tence of death pronounced, a "grace of
granted, but Hatch still retrained,—,
The record" was made. Balicock's sug
gestion had been heeded. It was months
alter this that the President heard with ails- '
pleasure that !latch's relea, was ut last.
effected.
Meantime, the master spirit a the Do
minican side of the ring, Win. 1,. l'azneau,
formerly a rebel agent,) and the President
of the United States were in f.onfirlential
correspondence prominently on this very
Hatch matter; Cazneau repeatedly urging
his detention as necessary to Grant's poli
cy. The treaty, meantime, had been ne
gotiated and carried back to ‘Vashington.
Baez had delayed signing until be attracted
eager curiosity. He then publicly offered
Babcock a grant of land out of favor, and
in order to give it validity, must reserve
his signature of the treaty till after its ac
ceptance. Babcock, of course, repelled the
surprising temptation. All were happy.
The treaty was signed—its immaculate
purity established. It vet needed to be
ratified by the people of Dominica, under
what Secretary Robeson had called "the
moral support of your guns," in an order
to the naval commander. Perry says a man
came to the rolls and voted "nay." Ile was
instantly arrested. Baez told him he in.
tended to shoot or banish any man who
voted nay.
The Grant-Baez nation-selling business
was sustained too well. A few,had.to bo
directed to vote "nay" for show, as there
was no minority at all. Hatch was still
muzzled. If the Senate of the United
States could be got to ratify the treaty be
fore Hatch could got access to the Ameri
can people, all would end successfully.—
But when, to Grant's displeasure, Hatch
got his liberty, the first thinghe did was to
make known his case to Senator Ferry, of
Connecticut, and thus it has come to pass
that the private business of so many dis
tinguished gentlemen has been meddled
with.
There is not a matter of fact bore stated
which the published documents do not fully
substantiate. In this rapid analysis we have
been constrained to withhold much of the
damning testimony produced in the Hatch
Investigation. But It may be asserted that
the outrage upon the American citizen,
which was perpetrated by a colluslen be
tween the agents of the President and Baez,
in order to consummate this corrupt bar
gain called a treaty, is the most disgraceful
chapter in our whole history. We do not
approve the product of this stupendous
prostitution. President Grant does. Let
the country decide for itself.— Waahington
Patriot.
THE FIRST SENATORIAL. DISTRICT
The Return Judger
The Radicals Cotttrolled by the LAW.
A Supreme Court Injunction and a Man
1 1 / 1 11i1111 by the Court of Common Pleas.
Late last evening Mr. Lewis C. Camldy ap
peared before Chief Justice Thompson and
applied for an Injunction against the Re
turn Judges of the Second, Third and
Fourth Wards.
The bill is - between J. Rinaldo Sank,
Peter Logan, Thos. J. Miles, John littline,
George Rite, William Overholt!, L. P. Ash
mead and James J. Breen, plaintiffs, and
Henry Everly, John F. Manley, Henry
Rocken, Isaac J. Jeffries, Penn Righter,
James J. Monaghan and Daniel Jamison,
defendants.
Atter the,lormal part of the bill the plain
tiffs complain "that the said defendants
have been elected the Return Judges front
their respective wards, and as bellows:—
Henry Everly, for and from the First Ward;
John F. Manley, for the Second Ward ;
Henry Rocker, for the Third Ward ; Jas. J.
Monaghan, for the Fourth Ward ; Isaac .1.
Jeffrey, for the Seventh Ward, and Penn
Righter for the Twenty-Sixth Ward, ' •
• That at such meeting it will be the
duty of the said Judges to deliver the said
certificates of election in their Respective
Wards to the President of the said Board,
who shall cause the clerks In presence of
the said Board to add together the number
of votes which shall, appear thereby to have
been given Mr the said Robert P. Dechert
and Joseph R. Lynda!l for the said office
that the said judges are,under ex fisting laws,
required to receive all such certitieates, and
to cast up the votes watch shall appear as
shown by stub certificates to have been
given for the stud oaten of Senator, unless
such core turtle or certificates lie so detect
ive 11.`i to prevent the same from being un
derstood and computed in adding together
the num her of said votes. 'lliac such cer
tificates and duplicate returns of the votes
so given, and of the election held in the
Second, Third, and Fourth Wards of the
said city, have been duly made out and
given to tire Kalil several defendants, who
have been duly elected, as aforesaid, the
Return.ludges from the said several Wards.
That your orators charge and aver that the
majority a the said Board, the defendants
aforesaid, threaten and Intend to 'trot and
reject the returns of the election HO held in
tar said three Wards, or ono or more it the
said returns, and to refuse to add together
with the general return the votes which
appear by the said certificates tin have been
given to the said eandidates Mr the said 01-
1100.
'rho bill then prays ter relief as follows:
1. 'Chat the Maid dolendants, their Presi
dent and. Clerks, may be restrained by un
issuing out of this honorable
Court, front omitting or rejecting, the cer
tificates of election c[fthe Second, Third and
Fourth Wards of the city of Philadelphia,
in [soiling up the votes wlth-11 shall appear
upon the said eurtificaten to have been given
Its the Haiti wards respectively for Rola. P.
Dechert and Joseph It. Lyidall for the .1%
lice of Senator.
2. That the said defendants, their Presi
dent, &c., may be restrained l rum °Mating
to add together with the general return the
numlier of voles which shall appear by the
certificates of election in the Second, Third
and Fourth \l'ards to have been given for
the said itolit. P. Dechertand .Ins. It. Lyn
dall, and also front [flaking out and sign
ing any general return of the said election
wherein such votes are omitted.
The Chief J ustwe directed the injunction
to iBBllO, nod thin Writs were ,erved this
morning, some as early as 3 o'clock.
Meeting. of the Retorn Judge,.
As anticipated, lung before 10 o'clock
this A. M., a large crowd of politicians and
others assembled around and about
O'Neill's Hall, Lombard street, east of
Broad, the place set apart for the meeting
of the Return Judges of the several Wards
comprising the First Senatorial District.
The Chief of Police had made ample pro
visions to guard agailist any infriwtion of
the law, there being sonic 200 policemen
present. The stairway leading to the hall
was carefully guarded, and none but Re
turn Judges and members of the press
were allowed to enter. The hall was cold
and cheerless, no aceommodatiiins having
been provided, and the cola furniture con
sisted of half a dozen broken settees nod an
old music stand.
Some delay was caused by the absence of
the Return Judges from the Seventh mini
Twenty-siath Wards': the former when he
appeared, in an inebriated state, was minus
Ins papers, when he was immediately sent
after them. The Judge of the Twenty-sixth
Ward finally appeared, and the papers of
Seventh Ward being produced, the meeting
was, organized and proceeded to business.
As each Judge appeared Chief Mulholland
served him with a copy or the following
doeinnent:
"In the Court of Common Pleas Mr the
city and county of Philadelphia. In the
matter of the petition of Henry B. Tatham
et ti. for an alternative mandamus. Re
turnable December Z.l, 1 , 70, 11 A. M. Be
it remembered that, on the of 1/0(1,111-
tier, 1870, on motion of 1.. C. Cassidy and
'l'. J. Barger, E 5,14., the Court granted a
rule for au alternative mandamus directing
the Return Judges to proceed to count the
vote which appear in the certificates or elec
tion 111 the Second, Third and Fourth
Wards of the city of Philadelphia, Me I to
receive the said certificates, and add the
votes therein to the general return of elec
tion for Senator in' the First Senatorial Dis
trict of Pennsylvania_
" inn testimony - whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and anti zed the seal of the said
Court at Philadelphia, the 'id day ,if De•
em her, 1070.
"It. DONAOA N, Pnithonotary
Tho following is the list of Judges :
First Ward—Henry Everly.
Seerind Ward—John F. latiley.
Third Ward—floury R. ltoken.
Fourth Ward—Jiimes .f. Monaghan.
Seventh Ward—lsaite .1. Jeffry,.
Eighth Ward—Penn Righter.
Twenty-sixth Ward—Daniel Jllllll,lOll
The meeting WM organized by the elec
tion of Henry Everly as President, Win.
Calhoun and James Glieegan, Secretaries,
and \V. S, Douglas, Doorkecper. Alder
man nacho!l being sent for, administered
the oath of office to the Judges.
The certificates of the Judges were than
received, after which the returns of the Ins
trict were read off WY follows:
Wards Lyndall, le. 1).. , 1,,,1, A.
First 2,1.!:1 1,.5as
Second . 2,036 3,130
'Third 1,05 a '2,077
Fourth 912 :2,770
Seventh 1,449 1,514
Eighth 1,411 1,190
Twenty Hi:COI . . 2,!,5:1 1,978
,Lc f4,r 1),,111.1.1
.
The meeting then adjourned.
During the session Jesse Johnson, EWI,,
WAN present. With the following document.,
ready to serve It, hail °evasion offered :
Therefore we command you, the said
lien ry Everluy John 1 0 . Manley, Ilea ry
H J
ocken, Jan. J. Monaghan, Isaac S. Jel.
fries, Penn !tighter and David Jamison 11l
revel ye the l'Ortiiivaten of election In the
said Sniquid, Third and Fourth NVarils,
provided the said eertllleaten are not Mil
,i(•re.etion• .ht‘ their fare as to prevent tho
from being and ..1,111-
plitcd in adding to wit Lill. number "1
vipt(t+, Li, /Uhl I,r
lOu added to the general return iir the
election of Senator in and fiir said First
District, the number of votes which shall
appi•ar by said VerliileaLeS to hltial been
given in the said %Vanish, Robert I'. 1./ecii
ea and .Joseph It. Lyndall for the voice of
Senator, or show eatlno Nby you should
not, in answer to the said petition, :it the
'losecourt-room, Sixth street, below Chest
nut street, in the city of Philadelphia, on
the =,l day of December, A. I isto, at hi
o'clock A. M.
"Witness the lion. Jos. Alliann , 1,1.. IL,
President or otir said Court of ComUtn❑
Pleas, this '22,1 din• of 01,4,1 ber, A. IL 1570.
..1;F:O. T. DElss, Depute Prothonotary."
The petitionaries fir the above Illftlithllllll.l
were I IL Tathenl, V. B. Finn, Van.
overtiehl, .1. Rinaldo sank, l'eLor
Jaa. 11. Carr, Jno. Burnie,
(10,, File, 1,. Y. AshrneadruelJaa..l. Breen
Incendlarimm and Attempted Rape
(in Sunday morning last the large hank
barn of Mr. Samuel Sharp, Jr., residing: 111
Nl.ll'll/11 township, *hoot three-fourths of a
mile north-west of NOWVIIIO, 1.0 the right
fit' the C. V. R. it., was entirely destroyed.
From the information obtained, we are en
abled to lay the following particulars .1 . the
conflagration before our readers: At an ear
ly hour in the morning, a servant girl in
the employ of \l r. Sharp, proceeded to the
barn to do the milking. WllllO 80 Ongage,l
a man descended from the hay mow and
attempted to ravish her, at the same time
threatening In kill her if she made any
noise. The loud screams or the girl roused
Mr. Sharp. As he left the house the harp
was in names, and it was with extreme dif
ficulty that ire succeeded in rescuing one
norse and two colts. There were 3 horses,
14 head of line rattle, all his hay, grain,
-corn, oats and farming implements COll
The man above referred to suddenly dis
appeared, but was captured some tune after
by Oilieer Kennedy, of New ville, who plaii
ed him In "Fort Foreman. on Monday
morning, where he will remain until the
January court.
The barn destroyed had been built
the past live years and was a large and
substantial building. The loss is fully
ti•Letlr, on which there is an insurance of
about ,51,500.
Peter O'Rourke, the prisoner, was recog
nized by the girl as a bummer" that had
been at Mr. Sharp's residence on Saturday
previous, soliciting alms. In this connec
tion we would also state that the same in
dividual had been released from Jail on
Saturday last, having been Incarcerated as
vointnon vagrant.—Lbiumbia Hero/d.
It Is reported In Washington that the
family of Itobeft'lil. Lee were much mor
tified at the gratuitous eilbrt of Senator
McCreery to have the Arlington estate
restored to them. They declare that
they did not authorize the attempt, and
have not entertained the idea of recov
ering the property.
TOE WAR IN EUROPE.
BORDEAUX, Dec. 21—Evening.--Tli,
was a severe engagement near Tours y
terday. Six thousand French fon
against ten thousand Prussians, with Lw
ty-four cannon, for seven hours. 1
French finally retreated. The Prussi:
followed and commenced to bombardTou
when the Mayor went to the hetulquart
of the Prussian general and surrende
the town, as there were no troops to dere
it; but this evening the government
announces that the Prussians have evert
ted Tours to-day, retreating towards Cli
eau Renault. General Boomer, near Nut
checked the Prussians. Ile advises t
government that ho can keep th o enc. t
from advancing. Among the prisoners
cently captured are many who state 1.1
that they have been but two weeks it, Fran
LONDON, Pee'2...''..—Despatclies f, OM VI
Rallies state there is no Indication of a t
citify° engagement in Franco until after I
holidays. A large numbor of Prussian ,
(leers are returning home on furloogl
Skirmishing eontinues faintly.
LONDON, DOC. 2.2. —Troops are !solidi
into Cherbourg for the defenee of the p„
At Havre an immediate attack is ex pe, t,
The Germans lire approttehing iu ineress
force. A Berlin despatch threatens II
unless Paris soon surrenders, It regular I
tack will begin.
The English ship Sasimina. bonita La V.
paraisc, ‘V/IS run into and badly diming
by the Prenell transport Ilarlll4lxlio, XV
mistook her furl Prussian vessel. Till. I
pairs will be made by the ia
meat.
I.oN DoN,tool t
to Ow night of the bring an of
vial roport of Cho recent wilrtun ITV!
bons. Thu reports ,1N" iJpi.ration. 0.
resumed to day, anti only ceased :it itigl
Gilt, tin the right, t;etirrals 11111 - ti
occ•opitql Net-illy Stir Marto.,
Evrtirti nod Makl,ll Itlitnelte, all to the 1.-
of Paris. tiro of the eitt.ti t ys‘,.
lenee~l al all points.
It in Staled that alter a
Which I;etteral Faye It us %,.1111.It•.1,
front St. Main under Adliilrat Lit It..
vivre, carried Ihnirttet,
l'aris, but Ivory unable to Indd the pla
and retreated, haring raptured nay lilt
tired priNonerm. Tint niret, timer
Inicrot were al,. engaged 4ntith of II
oily in a violent artillery actitin again-4 NI
Albion and It Nlesnil, and at ing
Ittlefrot tweliplett I iroqty 1111,1 ()rang,.
tielleral NOl.l Matte a feint 4 , 11 the
Mont Valerie,,, %vv.!, agam
Montrettait, and (later of liattllll..ll
ovellitleti the Island of rhiard In the scut
'rho nnibllized National t;tiartl rolight Wu
the trtwps in the-,' eligagettiontx w,d 01
played great arth,r, 'rho garti.,ll .
I teuiv unlit the nwriue 4 hut enti.iderabl y
attael.ing Illairttet, th,
tither trtinpr Wert. not Ilea% y.
TrOtllll I'l,llllolln otitni.teof 1 1,,k
two army.
1441. Yorlortiny . ..lllll.o,,
inent 1111111 .1111rc..4 that Ili.. It
diviviow. Ulu artily
re,ted n intwit.,ll,
il
r.ituitutli;H.
1 , 4 , 4% 1),111144.; tho
wirtiv inmt furl., 4,11 1Y4 , 4111,41 , ty, 1 , 144• F
luck many 1111414114 , 41 1,1 . 4.44,t14 , 1,
The gotloral .41141,1ti,411 14 111 . 1.
1 . 44 r the FrNich.
Thu mmult.ovotipalloar • Ti I mum
treat of ether l.ere•oe.
I(.1111,, aro maid t.) 110 the reemiill eel the
tilovenitelits eel 11111 i li..1111.:11,
1(.1111'11 !MY luval 1111111/Sl rutlrrly levarliate
by the Prl l / 4 ,11Z111,1. There lore 'only 101,1
hunelrieel lleerittet. 4010i10r4 there ye4terchn .
litht tllttit,tilltedly ott
Gluon leer thee pttrptt , .e 4.1 cAti.ttmllig LI
thitrell or the 111111 V 10 I (.11. F•Lli
110(11(..
I.oNr4oN, Doe. :17.4 1 learn from p It
/111.1 N l lllllllO 4 / 1 111,1 1 /4 01111 the 1 , 011114.11,11114 4 1
of three a hi.. )) .11111
(trot Ility ni,lanuarY. These 1 . 44ri, 5,,1
1144 1 WI tiro ,ullll Slllll 4,r ow city. I:, 1,
thing 1/4 ready and :111 detail., al-1,11;4041.
Thu atiaol: and boinintratint,ni ‘‘,lll
Imve commonc..ll I.lr llt tint
siderations ut Ito re , dl,ll nl t '1111.11.1.1, •
terlained by [be
night.,[ Now Your I I
thrown into tlitteretit partv ul Puri*, 1..rtl
purpomo emtabli.thing the range oI tl
ii,tnao gum+, art, whioll
ment will oontltltio moil II
vapittilatlon.
heti. She rlmuen. Yrltl r op.!
.kt the New England itaminet Ili Nei
York on Thursday, dii. Sherman, m 11
Sllllll,lO to the toast of the urwy and 11111 . 1
gave the following outline M his id Mg 1 1
I learned from hooks 111 1 i111., hail 111 16 . 1
I - I years after the Pilgrim 1 . '31111.1s I:11
111 Nylll , llllll three per.ons 111
11111110 111 Sherman 1,1 , 111'11 the Ito.fa
coast: the they. John Sherman; he , eousli
John Sherman, who ties styled li, cap
hail; 21,1111 Lis brother, Sill 11111•1 ISII/•1•1111111.
' The Rev. John Sherman and the ol he
cousin settled at Watertown, Nlass.,
is related of the itov. .14.11 n SllOllll,lll ili.l
he preached It sermon under it tree thole.
Samuel Sheri/nut, El palm.; man, ahem I
years or age, and adventurous, emigrated
l'ormeetictit. Samuel Sherman sus Ile' all
eestor of my Manch of the family and ' , et
lied at Stratford, Conn., and 1114`1's
years alter reaching his home. 111• murnr
and had eliiidren, and his second son, Joh,
Sherninn, adopted the legal I , roles-oon
That John Sherman haul another
Jahn, Wlli/ 11/111 /I sill, Daniel Sher mail
a man of ill 11, Jay, a i'iill.lllliiil
arc of Rogers, and a member of . ..1111
ail ut Safely and the Legislative . \ ~e 1111.1. ‘
Ills youngest child,Ta) for Sherman, , et
tied at Norwood, U 1,1111., %%S, “C Ih
I'robate Court, and was one of tho.e o 11.
lost property 11l Arnold's descent opal Ile
coast or Connecticut. 11l ill no S, /14
those who inherited part or the o hl l
the SitateMConnectieut donated in the \\
ern Reserve, and WaS,nuil , ”l . o hi
to the West to arrange a treaty NV ILII the I I
diuus. In ISOS lie returned to riaimiiaielit
Ile went out again in Itios and insole a psi
titian of the lire-lands. Ills slim illy lath,
then a young awn of yeairm, tnarr,..
Mary I fort 1 , 10, an.
their familes still live there. My Oahe
went to laiweastle, llhio, followed by to
mother and her child, on Inirseliaels. Thu
child Illy brother, .1 lidge (Marlys Shia
man of (din,. I was the sixth child tin
Bather died and lett us all very hare. Iti l
friends 4111110 up and assisted us, 1,3.1 weal
reached maturity, and we all married, :111 ,
the lino/J/0r •Vilildrell we hail I Trail
rannot keep on vaunting. Llentlemen,
Shertnans lire a 111111101,114 tinnily and
may safely a.smort that they all oheyeil
Divine commandment-011'y wont birth
increased and multiplied, and I hope the .
have Mine their share toward repleoodiiii
the earth.
E=l
'rho mh,sh.ippi steamer, \lrk Nall, sire, I.
a snag above iirand lake ill the 41,1,1
Sunday night and the robin on which welt
nine hundred barreln 1,l pork and
wagon, fell in en the larboard side, pi,
venting the escape of the pannl•ngers, 1,l
fifteen rnlitt partnengern nine were lust;
12.5 deck pasnengern, thirty were lest all
emigrants from Chicago ter I teergla and
Texan. One entire family from Metriplii.
bound to Grand Lake, ineluding a bridal
couple, were loot. The boat floated (lire,
miles down the river, when it was snot Iry
the steamer SOIIIIIIOIO Which oil' the
passengers and freight. Thu bottk. and
Hale were hayed. 'flu, crew were id I
except the baker. Commander Pe 's w
is badly )rounded from the roof tail e ing le.
The hont, and freight were Insured.
Captain Pee released hie will, Irt t . It n •
cabin, which WILY toll of wilier, by comet;
a little through the roof directly ever
She received a gash nn the heal by the as,'
used by her hintitand, and u:l4 hrnughl oil
111.011filiiiV, lilt Wit,
C. %V. TUyi,,r, 411 . th, Ur
for lirnluuu , nl Juiii•rhf,ll, %S A.- I.•
1.0V(Ir011 lord I,urlwl 111 Marylilllti
Nn other ititueei et" the 1',,.t an. 11•04•11.11111..1
The Look ~oventy togr
germ, principally North Cirr.,lnioto., an.
tieorglithei en ',WI. to Tex..
diNaStA, is . 010 11104 t ILI/1)1111111g diet
has occurred since the explosion nl tlu• Nut
Lana In lMi.n. Ainuog Ilia lost Is a hrl,tl
party that grit run t h e bo at hon..
Enmity ~,,, At .nu t.tt.•.....
The Middletown don
lollowing: Last week the Mindy ot NI r.. 1
S. Stoner, 1•041•11111111111 f, 1110111,11 g 1 11111,
her or his leuttl., Shl.lo all poisoned w ilit M.•
exception of himself. It seems that ,one
poison 111141 1.14211 played 111 11 pia, 111,1 11,-
1,0111 11111111 harrel tor the ptirpo,si. ol
Mg rats. .k 1111 , A ly installed hmt,tllniti
went into theeeller to get s4,1111•II11.31 Mt the
purpose hiking eukes, She picked up
the plate and, supposing it to he 11,, art
tined for dishing out the timid, In.ed 11 im
that purpose. Hilllll 111,1,111. Run 1111%1,1
11f1 among 11111 Mr., The oaken 111,0 Irak
al and a lot of them eaten, w hen all ale.
partook or them I/I.l'lllllo 111.10
vomited freely. They had evidently tdd
en lilt overdose, W 1111•11 AA Vel lilt,' 111:4•,.
We are happy to state that they are lilt
about 1111111, and with the ext.epten t of ttv..
are apparently iis well n. I,l'll'. NI r. n. wd,
uhsent lit the ton,
Thud int..... A pporti 111 l 111.11.
The Philadelphia b.,y,
Ma=
Thu i• 111151• 4 , 1 CuI.JIII.I I/1,11011 •
0101 . 11011 Was, dmilitkiss,the desire of the fief,
ple m make one branch of the Legislature a
cheek 1111011 the other, and thus 1, 0 11/1/01 :1
fair tippet tionment euid fair leglislatimi
generally. The present apportionment i.
a disgrace to the COllllll,lll, cell h, hui 111,4
been made, manifestly, for partizan pili
poses, regardless or 1,111111011 tleeeney, alai
the extreme partisan legislation that lias
been perpetrated under its operations 1111• L
been no less offensive /11111 outrageous. The
people are tired .1 . 24'101 work, and the oloe.
don of Colonel Definer!, it in 10 be hoped.
Neill have u Wholesome ellert en preyettLlM,
further disregard and defiance of the mil,
lie will and welfare by the Legislature,
Eitik, Der. Railroad I/llleiul.v repre
senting all the Important trunk lines thf
travel assembled hero to-day. Thirteen
railroads were represenusl 1•3- h•rty oth
cern beside. representaLiVes 01 transporth
lion anti ',looping-car minipanic.. Among
the °dicers hero aro Horace S. Clark,
lould, A. Moody, Louis Worth t lEpon, .
it. Vanderbilt, Thomas A. Scot . Mc-
Cullough, and J. D. Potts. The., nye:atmt
will organize to-morrow. The object In to
devise a plan fur pooling the earnings or
the various roads represented, anti making
an equitable division of them. Everything
promises a harmonious conference. The
offloors aro quartered at tho Reed Ronne,
and will remain In cession until Friday or
Saturday.