ilariraster - 311tFilignicrt. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 187:4 DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET. FOR AUDITOR GMTERILL, GEN. WILLIAM McCANDLEIBI3, Or PHILADELPHIA PottatiRVEYOR GENERAL, CAPTAIN JAMES H. COOPER, OP LAWRENCE COUNTY A FULL POLL OF THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE WILL SEcURE THE ELECTION OF OUR STATE THE ET BY A LARGE MAJORITY. LET EVERY DEMOCRAT REMEMBER THAT M AND INDS OF IMPRESS T N..EEIGHBORS. TRUTH OF IT UPON THE HIS Our PooMon. We observe that Republican journal ists are very busy misrepresenting the position of the Democracy of Pennsyl vania, in reference to the late Constitu tional amendments. They seem to think that we have changed the opinion which we have so long and so steadfast- ly maintained ne to the impropriety of dices amendments, and that we peni- tondo* admit our error and concede the ifujierlor wisdom of our adversaries. We do no such thing; we neither ad- mit that they were right in advocating the adoption of these amendments, nor that we were wrong In opposing them to the utmost of our power. We ure as strongly convinced now as over we were, that them) amendments were im proper in themselves, and that they were unfairly and wrongfully made port of the Con3titution. We simply yield to superior power; the amend ments have been declared by the proper authority to be a part of the Constitu tion;, and, us law abiding citizens, we have declared that we will yield to them the obedience which le due to them as being a part of the law of the We have not said that we ap provetloi them ; and we apprehend that it will be long, very long, before we do say so. Being now a part of the Consti tution, they can only be repealed by the consent of three-fourths of the States. We are hopeless of being able to secure the a.ssent of this number of States by the continued agitation of the question, anti wo therefore think it the part of wisdom to refrain from the present dis• cussion of negro suffrage and negro equality as party questions, confidently expecting that If they are allowed to drop out of the domain of party politics, the most decent members of the Repub lican party will shortly become so dis gusted with the negro, as a political ele ment of our society, that they will pray for deliverance from him. In their pres ont degraded and ignorant condition, negroes as a class are not competent citizens, and all Republicans of ordinary intelligence freely admit it; but blind ed by partizan feeling they have voted against their convictions and have sad dled upon us the negro voter. We "accept the situation." We ac cept It because it is the law ; but more cheerfully than we otherwise would, because we conceive it to confer upon us a very decided political advantage. The negro vote In the Northern States is too small and insignificant to do us any par ticular damage, and we are notsolicitous as to how it Is cast. The white popula tion of the Southern States Is strongly Democratic, owing to the ungenerous manner in which these States have been treated by the party ln power ; and ex perience has shown that this white pop ulation still controls the negro popula tion as it has In times past. The supe rior race always will controlq ( be Merl or, especially when there is so vast a dif ference in intellectual power, as Is that which exists between the Southern planter and the Southern field-hand.— The South—except for the present South Carolina-1s solidly Democratic, and has Increased political strength, he cause the negro now counts as much as a white man In the apportionments of representation in the national councils. Negro suffrage, an evil thing In Itself, will therefore have one good effect, for it will greatly aid the restoration of the Democratic party to power. It will have this effect not-only because we will con t rol a majority of the negro votes, but because we will obtain the support of moderate and sensible Republicans,who will naturally feel a great respect for a party which can so far control itself as to yield a ready obedience to a proposi tion it has bitterly fought, as soon as it has been declared to have become the law. They will remember that the most obedient soldier malice the best commander; and solicitous of a long era of peace and prosperity for the coun try, they will turn to the Democracy as the party most likely to secure it. French Massacres The inefficiency of Death as a punish ment for political crimes, has Dean so often demonstrated to France that one would have thought that, by this time, the leaders who happen to be on top in the frequent revolutions that are occur ring there, would try some other way of disposing of their enemies and estab lishing their power. But their in genuity seems to be able to devise no other method for their own pres ervation, save the physical anni hilation of their foes. At first flush this plan looks as though it was the most efficient one that could be adopt ed ; and yet we know that it has been repeatedly tried in France, and has as repeatedly failed to achieve its purpose. No ;civilized nation in the world is so turbulent as the Feneh, and no other changes its rulers with the same fre quency and facility; and yet the first thought of each French faction that attains power is the masacre of its enemies. The total failure of this plan of securing a permanent lease of power should have suggested to the present " Versailles" government, a humane treatment of the enemy they have over come ; but they have been as brutal as any of their predecessors and have slaughtered the men and women of the Commune without -mercy. 1 t is a had augury for the continued existencd of the Versaillists lu power. People who have no greater ingenuity in devising means to restore peace to the State than was possessed by Murat and Robespierre, will hardly remain in power longer than did those infamous• men. France will never be mit on the pathway to her former greatness by men who murder her citizens by thodoands, although they know full well that she has no lives to spare if she hopes to contend again in the future with the populous German Empire. The leaders of the Commune had they been successful in the 'struggle, would doubtless have been even more blood thirsty and unrelenting in the destruc tion of their subdued foes, than the Ver sailles party have been in executing vengeance upon them. Their acts, be fore Paris was taken out of their hands, were simply those of madmen. Their destruction of that-beautiful monument of the valor of their ancestors—the Vendome or without justi fication or palliation, and was an act only worthy of the most de graded barbarism. Conscious as they must have been that their struggle to retain power In Paris was utterly hope. ess it was the meanest folly for them to draw down upon themselves the su-• preme vengeance of their opponents by such en act of vandalism. Of a similar character were their frantic efforts to burn doWn the city which they could no longer ,hold. And a still more foul and diabolical outrage was their massa cre of Archbishop,Darboy and his fel low-priests, %mink whom they had ne cause of offence. As the New York Ecition says: "Tills was worthy of Greek brigands or Feejee Islanders. Indeed, it -was worse than the brigands, for . 44 only massacre their hostages to prevent their threats • being treated as empty -the next tuna they held' anybody for ransom; but; in this case, the slaughter was **Wed TEE LANCASTER Nl:llsL Y`lN 1871. apparently in pure deviltry, when all hope of success was gone. The fad, too, that it was committed hyper( who have charged theniselves in all serionpnesS with the task of reorganizing society, on a Duster and more human& basisi. fur nishes one of those horribic4limpsOwe get every now and then of the thinness of the crust which we call our ciiiiiM zation, and of the fierce tires which burn below it." The Pennsylvania and Ohio Resolutions. The first two resolutions of the Ohio Democratic; Xion;velftl4, treat of the recent amendments to the Constitution. of the 'United States and read esfollowe': First. That denouncing the extraordin ary means by which they were brought about, we recognize as accomplished facts the three amendments to the Constitution recently declared adopted, and consider the same as no longer political issues be- fore the country. Second. We demand that the rule of strict construction, as proclaimed by the Demo cratic Where, accepted by statesmen of all parties previous to the war, and embodied In the Tenth Amendment to the Constitu tion, be rigorously applied now to the Constitution as it is, including the three recent amendments above referred to, and insist that these amendments shall not be held to have, in any respect, altered or modified the original theory and character of the Federal Government, but only to have enlarged the powers delegated to it, and to that extent and no more to have abridged the reserved right of the States; and that, as thus construed, the Democratic party pledge itself to a full, faithful and absolute execution and enforcement of the Constitution as it now is, so as to secure equal tights to all persons under it, with out distinction of race, color or condition. For the sake of comparison we sub oin the Pennsylvania resolution : .Itcsolvcd, That we recognize the binding obligation of ail the provisions of the Con stitution of the - United States as they now exist, and we deprecate the discussion of issues which have been settled in the man ner and by the authority constitutionally appointed. The Ohio resolutions seem to us to go farther than our own, inasmuch as their warding might Justify the inference that the Democracy are satisfied that these amendments shall always remain part of the Constitution, with the important qualification, however, that they are allowed to construe them in their own way. They were adopted—as was the Pennsylvania resolution—against the earnest dissent of a large minority of the Convention, who thought that the na ture of the amendments and the man ner In which they were fraudulently made a part of the Constitution, required that they should be declared null and void. In our Convention, the majority, while they fully agreed with the mi nority as to the vileness of the amend ments and as to the fraudulent manner in which they were adopted, thought that since they had gone through the forms of adoption and had been de clared by the proper authorities to be adopted, they should be accepted as ac complished facts until they were re pealed or set aside by judicial decision. The question was simply one as to the propriety of a public recognition of existing facts, and is not such a one as should cause ally great difference among Democrats. The resolution of our Con vention has been bitterly criticized by many Democrats, and we obserVe that it does not receive the approval of a number of the influential Democratic papers of the State, among which are the Philadelphia Mercury, Bellefonte Watchman, Bloomsburg Columbian and West Chester Affcroonian ; the latter Paper urging the assembling of another State Convention " to draw black lines around it." We are disposed to think that these journals give too much Im portance to the resolution, and ascribe to It a more extended meaning than its plain terms will justify. We take It at its face value, and find in it a recogni tion of the fact that these amendments, although improperly adopted, are at present a part of the Constltution,and a statement that we will obey them as long as they remain there; but no Intl' mutton that we will hot remove them when we can properly do so. We have beeff In fact, . obeying and reeogndeing.the Fl fteeu th Amendment ever since Its adoption. We have been voting alongside of negroes at the polls and have carefully refrained from Instructing our Dem ocratic election officers to refuse to re chive their votes; so far as we know, we have never made up a test case to have the validity of the amendments judicially decided. We have not sought in any Democratic district, before a Democratic Judge, to dispute the election of auy official who has been chosen by negro votes. We have by silence and non-action been practically recognizing the existence and present validity of the Constitutional amendment, clothing the negro with the suffrage. 'We have done this because we could not, as peaceable and law-abiding men, do anything else; but we have not, either by our conduct or by ourjresolution,given our approval to the amendments or pledged ourselves to respect them any longer than we are required to do so In yielding a proper submission to the laws. We suggest to our friends of the Jeffer sonian, if they persist in wanting a re consideration of the ninth resolution of our platform, that they may accomplish it more reedit than by calling a Con vention, by bringing the matter up at the meeting of the Democratic editors of the State which takes. places at Belle fonte, on Tuesday of next week ; or bet terstill,byadjou rn ing it until next year's Convention. The resolution of our Con vention being adopted on a question of National politics, has of ccurse no bind ing effect upon Democrats, who are only concluded by the decision made upon such questions in a National Conven tion. The National Platform of 18(18 re mains the platform of the Democracy of the Whale country until it is superceded by the platform which will be adopted at the National Democratic Convention of 1872. Platforms of 'State Conven tions are only entitled to respect in their treatment of National quest ions,because they express the opinion thereon of the Democracy of the State, and to that ex tent foreshadow the sentiment of the Democracy of the country. Our friends, who are restive under the treatment •w hich the constitutional amendments received in the Ohio and Pennsylvania platforms, will have abundant opportu nity to have the matter reconsidered In the State Convehtion next year, before it is finally adjudicated upon in the adoption of the National platform of 1872. THE Express astonishes us with the following statement, defending the Rad ical members of the House from the charge made by a Radical Philadelphia newspaper, that they bad defeated the Public Buildings Bill: We have not seen the yeas awl nays on this motion, and we believe they have not yet been published, but it is notorious that many of the most zealous advocates of the Senate bill in the House were Republicans, while every Republican but one voted for its passage. It is somewhat strange that a person, who acknowledges that he has not seen the yeas and nevi on a motion, should be able to so confidently affirm that in the House "every Republican but one voted for its passage." Notwithstand ing the confidence with which it is made, the statement is not true; it wopld have been sufficiently near the truth, however, if.instead of "Republi can" in - the extract we have quoted, we read "Democrat ;" and it was perhaps a lapsus pennce In the Express not to have so written. Among the bilis passed by the late' Legislature, was one conferring the cu mulative s'ystem'of . voting upon the :citizens of Chambersburg at all elections for local officers. The borough author ities wanted to borrows2o,ooo to fund the borough debt, and . then the cumulative system of voting was added by the Sen ate as an amendment to the blli for that purpose.. As it Passed the /louse with out oppositioa, it, would be, a satisfac tion to know why a bill of szactlY einir liar character, for.the. benefit: , of Jib/ city, was killed in the Mame after hair ingiassed the Senate. Will anybody tell us? . •• • . . The Phlle4eiPlLla Publican Helps. The bill introduced into the giiiiateby fileriDeph . ert Iq relation to the NiAc il ungA l ilit thicl4 "W -444 1 1 tit, e geP j• Y .... ti Bfl 4o r Y .- ~ tile citizen!! of p . .el and was: only, apposed by ! • inaj . . , y ojthe Ilaildini Vomtaissioi: *ho.,aitif *rested.' by the, law as it now staiiosMth autocratic power over the mattef of the construc tion of the buildings, was finally defeat ed In the lower branch of the Legislature. The Philadelphia Bulletin says, editor!. ally,"after three efforts on the part of the Democratic Senate to extend such relief to the taxpayers of this city, the House came so far up to a recognition of its re sponsibilities as to express, by a vote barely short of two-thirds, its desire to check the enormous and dangerous powersof a self-constituted body, which nearly every respectable newspaper In Philadelphia has declared to have for feited the confidence of the people. But this eleventh-hour recognition by the Republican House was defeated by the votes of a few men, recklessly sent to represent Republican principles and the interests of Philadelphia, but who have proved themselves wholly unworthy of public confidence." The Bulletin charges that the derea of the measure was caused by the re• fusal of the Committee of citizens ap pointed by a public meeting held at the Academy of Music, who had it in charge, to accept corrupt overtures which were made them by members of the Committee on Municipal Corpora tions of the lower House, who offered to Bell their votes at the low price of $4,000 for eight votes." The Committee was plied again and again by a portion of the Committee on Municipal Corporations, with over- ures to ea/ the votes requisite to secure the abolition of the Commission, and these offers were repeated, with an ascending scale of prices, up to the very evening when Senator Dechert's bill was negatived. From first to last, these offers were steadily refused, and the an swer was again and again returned that the Committee would lose its case rather than consent to pay a single dollar. The sums named were not large ones; the last and largest was only four thou sand dollars for eight votes, and there mwero gentlemen enough on the• Co- mittee to whom such a sum would have been the merest bagatelle, could it have been honestly paid. But, to the honor of these gentlemen be It recorded, there was no dissenting voice to the steady refusal to buy votes at any price. They were told, on all sides, both in and out of the Legislature, that in no way, but by using money, could they succeed. The beet men in Harrisburg,—men to whom anything like a bribe would have been resented as the grossest insult— united in the opinion that they could only " fight fire with, lire," and that argument and appeal to principle would only be thrown away upon such a Ring as had evidently been formed." This charge against its Radical friends' is distinctly made by this Radical news paper, and will readily be believed, as it Is quite in accordance with the popu lar estimate of Legislative venality. Is there no remedy for these wrongs which the community is constantly enduring? If not, the question must occur to every reflecting citizen, how long can our pres ent form of government endure the un dermining effects of this gross corrup tion on the part of our public servants. We hope that efficient checks upon It may be devised by the wise men who assemble within a year to amend our State Constitution. But we almost hope against hope, for we fear that the evil springs from the state of public senti ment. The attainment of wealth is the one ambition of our people, and the ac cepted sentiment seems to be, "Get rich ; honestly, if you can ; but any rate get rich." Wealth Is honored; and the manner of its attainments effects but little the estimation In which Its posses. sor is held by the community. The man who attains It. has nut only the material benefits, comforts and luxuries which It can buy far him, but he Is regarded by his fellow-citizens as a bright, keen fellow who has lived a successful life. Look, fur Instance at the railroad magnates, such as Vander bilt and others nearer home, who in a few years have becomeposeessors of mil lions, although ostensibly In the receipt of but moderate yearly salaries as offi cers of their roads ; all amassed through the Influence of their positions "In ways that are dark," and necessarily at the expense of their stockholders. Look at A. T. Stewart, who the richest, he also said to be the meanest man in New York In his treatment of his employee's. Look at the ninny men who by persistent lying about their worthless nostruths have heavily taxed for their large wealth a credulous and suffering hu manity. In a certain town in New England it is said that public sentiment is so far advanced in "accepting the sit uation" that one of its wealthy and hon ored fellow-citizens. Is well known to have made his money by a burglary , perpetrated upon the bank in the town in which he lives; an offence which he compromised by surrendering a part of his booty; .but ,retaiffing enough to en able him thenceforth to live comforta bly, without labor or theft, for .the rest of his days. And we are quite prepared to believe that it may not be long before many othe's towns in the country will have sufficiently progressed to accept a successful burglar as adistinguished fel loW-citizen, as unhesitatingly as they now, take to their bosoms those who have achieved success by tricks and de vices less timidly executed, but equally criminal. The Speech of Jeff. Davis Considerable attention is now being directed to the utterances of Jefferson Davis, who is traversing the South on business connected with his Life Insur ance Company and who, as the Chief Executive of the Confederacy, in whose behalf the Southern people struggled so long and suffered so much, is naturally received wherever he goes with demon strations of enthusiasm and regard. Mr. Davis says that he does not "accept the situation," if, by that indefinite expres sion, it may be concluded that he has changed his opinions as to the wrongful ness or rightfulness of the issues which were practically decided by the result of the war. He does not believe he did wrong in holding those opinions, nor in maintaining them to the utmost his power. He however recognizes the fact •that his opinions have been overruled by the trial of arms, and that it Is his duty to yield a cheerful obedience to the laws of the land. He distinctly repudi ates the idea that any further resort to arms should ever be had by the South to maintain its construction of our gov ernmental compact,. He says that "sub mission to the law is the duty and the obligation, and should be the pride" of the citizen. And thla Is all that can be reasonably expected of the men of the South, who so strenuously and at so much cost to themselves waged battle in defence of their opinions, and who have never pretended that they surrendered be cause they: were convinced' that they were wrong"; 'but simply because they, were conquered: it would be strange, Indeed, If they had so lightlytaken up the guage Orbstile;.plat the Opinions in behalf of which they waged it, could be changed by Its disastrous resift Amen whole knocited devin : beCause he has called another a liar, - gets up with an in- Oreased,resPeci for the''physical vigor of 'adversary, lnit not necessarily with a atronger belief in his veracity. The terrible cost of the War to the 'Southern peOple has, rendered It impossible for them ever to-think' of its renewal; but their, Muse milatifled' to them by the -loss of their, kindred vita sealed their devotion to it with - their blood.] Tito city petti Tlictiffesent Radical City Governmei} . baying recklesalyhtectrzed afiebt karm 51n'icrceseof the subzwhiclithey were permitted toll:mar to the city - cht: sought to havilheil.conditcklegaliz 4 4, by theLegislkture, and asked for the iller sage, f auluien s auteitt to, the City Char ter, enlarging the limit filed open their capacity to borrow money. The De mocracy of the city said to the Legisla ture that their Radical rulers, having vio lated the City Charteran d incurred heavy liabilities which they ,Nrere forbidden to incur, had made themselies personal: ly liable for- their liquidation; and if they desired the City Charter to be amended, so that the burthen of there liabilities should be transferred to the citizens at large, the Democracy of the City desired that certain other equitable . amendments should, at the same time, be made to our Charter. We mildly suggested, for instance, that our city had been greatly gerrymandered in the numerous frantic efforts which the Rad icals had been making for a series of years to get the political control of it, by invoking successive Legislatures to amend the Charter. In fact, we doubt whether for the last decade, a year has gone by without a legislative enact ment for the benefit of the Republican party of Lancaster City. Having at length secured a Demo cratic Senate, to the Democ racy of this ity that it was about time that this legislation for the benefit of Radicalism hereabouts, should end.— And when they came up this year with their petition to the Legislature to have the City pay their debts, the Democra cy interposed and suggested that if they wanted any more amendments passed, they should undo some of the wrong they had done us by their previous legislation, and surrender the manifest ly unfair advantages which they were enjoying under our very much amend ed Charter. We told them that they had very reckleissly and improvidently expended this money which they were not au thorized to expend ; that they had lav ished it upon foreign mechanics and ili made work ; that they had wasted it, and squandered it, and used it to feed political leeches. But that as they neverthelesshad given us forour money, even though at an exorbitant price, something that looked like a water wheel and pump, and which might pos sibly do for us fillet our old pumps were doing—viz : keep us supplied with water except in times of drought—and which at any rate was worth to us Its welght to old iron—we were willing to assume their debt and relieve them from their threatened insolvency. But we reminded them they must do equity when they asked equity. We then suggested cer tain reasonable amendments to the Charter ; and that they were reasonable our readers will judge when we enu merate them. We asked that the representation in Councils of the Radical First Ward and the Democratic Eighth Ward should be altered so as to be equitably proportion ed to their taxables and population. We asked that the City Treasurer and other city officers should be elected by the people, instead of by Councils; a change which the Republicans if this county must favor, as they have just made their Prison-Reeper elective by the people. We asked lastly, that the cumulative system of voting should be applied to the election of our Councils; a sys tem which has nothing in It of a partisan character, but which Is endorsed by Re publicans and Democrats alike. But our Radical office-holders would not hearken to the enacting of any amendments to the charter, except the particular one which they wanted made ; and the very natural conse quence was that their little amendment was not passed by the Demociatio Sen ate as it came from the Republican House ; but It was amended so as to in clude the featnres we have alluded to, and in that shape went back to the House, where, it seems, to have finally died—in the house of its friends. Our Radical. friends are in a great rage about the failure of their pet scheme, to get all and give nothing— and can't quite understand how Reame about. They have been so used to op pressing our poor City Democracy with a handful of local laws procured each ses sion from their obliging Radical friends that they are disposed to think it the height of impertinence for a Democratic Senate to spoil their little game,and they go about open-mouthed, Idiotically ex claiming " they had a caucus! Oh— Lud ! They had a caucus !" The wretched men would have shown more wisdom if they had been less stiff-neck ed. We have a Democratic Senate now, and nest year we expect to have also a Democratic House. In which event we will speedily make such amendments to the City Charter as seem fitting to us, and we may not feel so well disposed to relieve the present City officials from the pecuniary liabilities they have incurred. In taking from them, next fall, the charge of the City Government, we will assume the payment of all debts legally incurred, but we will not feel under any obligation to recognize any whiCh may have been unauthorized or inhibited by the law. Decent Philadelphia Republicans In Re The Philadelphia Evening Telegraph is getting restive under the reign of the Manna and Bunns of Philadelphia and proclaims the very sensible doctrine, that it is far better for Republicans to vote for honest Democratic candidates for the city offices, than for Republican candidates who they well know will mal-administer the affairs of the city to the great injury of its citizens : "While the Democrats have hold their hounds in lashes and compelled the vile elements of their party to remain In en forced retirement, the Republicans are from present indications, more likely to select the bulk of their ticket from a class of pos itively bad, indifferent,or inferior aspirants than from the hosts of talented, honest, good and true men belonging to their or nization. If these fears are realized, the Registry law, and all the false counting that dishonest return judges can do, will not save an ignomini. ous Republican ticket from deserved de feat. Thousands of the rank and file of the Republican party, and of its most exem plary members, are rife for revolt. They are tired of voting for local candidates whose tainted reputations are the sure pre cursors of iniquities in office, and the doc trine is growing every day more popular that it is infinitely better to vote for au hon est, exemplary, faithful, and talented Democrat for a local office, not involving partisan principles in the discharge of its duties, than for a corrupt, disgraced, igno rant, or disreputable Republican. Ludlow as Judge and Sheppard as District Attor ney, command the respect of the commu nity, Democrats though they be, and they serve the interests of all good citizens, while it is plain that the Republican party has been injured rather than benefited by supporting the unworthy men who have occasionally been elected heretofore by their suffrages. All other things being equal, the masses of the Republican party prefer to support Republican nominees; but a large and growing minority of its members are in no mood to invoke the great evil of entrusting important local powers to untrustworthy men simply be cause some remote, presumable, or imagi nary good may thereby be accomplished." RUSSELL ERRETT, of Pittsburgh, has been made Chairman of the Radical State Central Committee. He is one: of the Quay-Mackey ring, an enemy of ex-Gov. Curtin, and an adherent of Cameron, . who made him a paymaster during the war. He is now one of Grant's Assessors of Internal ReVenue. He is an unscrupulous man. The Har risburg Raft..to? bniadly intirtnites that the contributions which he will levy, right and left upon his party friends Trill be apt to cling to his fingers at the .close of the campaign,and Wlp amply console himself and his friends, in case ,Of their defeat in the contest, for all their saori; flees and serViees.. , GEonoz pericaori; the. historlarr has been appointed Envoy gitrOyd! nary toilie German Ntnpire,:•, Stade Item. senator Schurz and family.have gone .1411ehem, where they will spend 144ttnight lad named..Fraul Iferr, aged 8 1 40 w, was drowned inlhe'eanal at llarrlsburg, last evening' while bath , .1)0X age d" about nineyears, zueneff -Thedfiests Jeffers, fell into'. the iffinks, ,rora creek at Perryville, Juniata bounty, on. Wednesday, and was drowned. Three large steers, two of which weighed 2 100 , pounds, ' died near New Bloomfield, on Monday, from the in tense heat. ; Orolluesday mowthw i gtemptrwail -ricadelo'buhl the car atltiddle-i town,_Papphin c_ountx. ortunately the lire wasdistave'rea arid—ailltikuish ed before it had gained much headway. Coal is corning down the Lehigh Val ley at an astonishing rate. The quan tity shipped over the Lehigh and Sus quehanna last week was the largest in the history of the road, aggregating'o,- 688.01 tons. On Saturday evening last, John Lech ling, of Lynn township, Lehigh county, aged about fifty-six years, died from the effects of a wound Inflicted by himself on his throat with a pocket knife, with the intention of ending his career. Col. M'Farland formally surrendered the Orphan School Department to Col. J. P. Wickersham, on Thursday morn ing, in accordance with the prevision of the appropriation.bill consolidating the two school systems of the State. The charter of the borough of Ken nett Square, Chester county, upon the petition of over two-thirds of the tax payers has been so amended by a de cree of the court, as to make unlawful forever in that place the sale of intoxi cating liquors. A. few days since Clarence Hull, of New Milford, Pike County, a lad of eleven years, was struck on the head with a base ball bat, breaking his skull so that a portion of the brain oozed out. His condition was critical at last ac counts. A wresting match for $lOOO a side and the champion belt of America will take place in Titusville in a few weeks be tween Major M'Laughlin, of Titusville, and N. L. Lorrance, of. Chicago. $5OO have already been deposited in the stakeholder's hands. M'Laughlin gives Lorrance $2.50 for choice of ground. The correct number in the mine at Pittston, at the time the breaker was discovered to be on fire was sixty-nine. Twenty-two of these were taken out be fore the works burned down; seventeen were taken out of the pit dead ; fourteen have died since, and the sixteen remain ing are all doing well and will probably recover 12=1:01:1! They have in Cincinnati a physician whose name is Dr. Walkingpest. Out West they can now raise all kinds of grain at all seasons— by the elevatorS. You seldom see a carpenter as good looking as his wife, because he is gener ally a deal planer ! The deaths in Philadelphia last week numbered 300, an increase of GO over the mortality of the previous week. Inaleo has just found out (or believes to have found out) that she has nine million inhabitants. Every seventh man in London is a pauper, according to late statistics in connection with the ceasus of that city. There is a postmaster in a Western town, named Goodate, who, when in a X hurry, simply signs himself X. A freshet at the Arkansas Hot Springs, on Saturday, washed away two hotels and several other buildings. The wheat harvest has begun in Southern Illinois—earlier than ever be fore known. The yield is abundant. The U. S. steamers Minnesota, Hart ford, and Cnnadaigua, are to form the fleet for the reception of the Russian Prince Alexis. The Government expenditures for May, not including payments on ac count of the public debt, amounted to $17,780,840. At Chicago, on Saturday night, Pollee men Mitchell and Patten were eho while endeavoring to disperse a disor der] y crowd—the former, it is thought fatally. A Mr. Hawk, while driving cattle from hie farm, near Piney Creek, Md., on Monday, was attacked by a vlalouß bull and gored to such a degree that he bled to death before he was round. At Lawrence, Mass., on Saturday night, William A. Scott and Emma Horne took arsenic because of opposi tion to their marriage. The girt died, Scott survived, and is now under arrest. A draw in the new railroad bridge at Winona, Minn., gave way on Saturday, plunging a train, which was loaded with stores. into the river. Several per eons were ;inj ut 4 ed. The estimate of the coining wheat crop of California 'is nottr one-third larger than *lt was two week's 'ago, and the surplus for exportation is expected to be 150,000 tone. A recent writer says that the fences of the United States have cost more than all the craft that float Moor waters, salt and fresh ; more, indeed, than any other class of property except railroads. Some one once said to Dr. 'iVaylarid, "You Baptiats do not gain thehighest 31ass, nor yet the lowest." " Exactly was the answer; "we surrender to you the head and tail of the ox, and are content with the body." A young ruffian in Milwaukee, who Insisted upon paying the fare of a young lady, unknown to him, in a street car, and, when she left the car, got out and attempted to accompany her, was ar rested, tried, and fined $25 and costs. A parson, reading the funeral services at the grave, forgot the sex of the de ceased, and asked one of the mourners, ate Emeralder, " Is this a brother or a sister " leather," replied Pat, "only a cousin." A despatch from St. Paul, Minn., dated Saturday, reports a serions riot in progress on the Northern Pacific Rail road, east of Braingra, growing out of a strike of laborers for higher wages. Troops have been sent, for to Fort Rip ley. Miss Burdett Coatis has offered to make over the Columbia Market, on which she has expended S1;250,000, to the corporations of London, under cer tain conditions rendering It specially serviceable to the poor, for whose bene Ht it was created. Who will deny the cheerful and joy ful disposition of the news-man who gave birth to the following paragraph : The season for sitting on circular saws has begun. A man down East sat on one the other day, and they buried both of him in the same grave. Right Rev. Bishop Wood, of Phila delphia, and Father O'Neill, of Cincin nati, were thrown from a buggy at Wal nut Hills, near Cincinnati, on Thursday evening, and badly Injured about their heads. They were cared for at Walnut Hills, and taken to Cincinnati yesterday morning. Wm. E. Chambers, aged 38, the oldest member of the Order of Odd Fellows in America, died at his residence In New York on Tuesday night. He was ini tiated by the Loyal,Westminster Inde pendent Lodge, London, in 1801, and was one of the Brothers to establish the Order in New York in 1806. When young people make up their mind to employ a minister and proceed to,fix on a day to have the knot tied, let them bear in mind that of the days of the week for marrying— moacay for wealth r Tuesday for health ; Wednesday the best day of all ; Thursday for cros. es ; Friday for losses; Saturday no luck at all. The conflict of opinion in Germany growing out of Doilinger schism (op position to the infallibility dogma) is progressing, although the vast prepon derance of German Catholicism is against the docttir's position. Dol II n ger' s attitude gas induced a general and in fluential manifestation of devotion on the part of the Catholics of Germany to the Pope. A clergyman of Cairo, 111.,. expressed lately his., contempt of nickels in his' Sunday collection, and poeitively for bade any of his coggregation from con tributing anything under the denomi nation of dye .cants. "Save your cents,"_ said the good, man, !'•unttl Srot have 'llya before* yOu put ,your bands 1P this box. The widow ' s;: mite . business is prayed, . • ', Atistriazi 43eotge, who killed Miss Monanlel•at Cherokee Flat, Cal.; a few • days since, was captured • n the moun tains • near Chetbkeei yesterday, by a. party of citizens; whb shothim,dead and then "•bbrned his body.tbadhes.H. It is stated that he sfiot:Miss McDaniel , be, Cause 'alie'refused tO marry -him. . • In Bona linty, Ito., last , Wednes ' day, ItlChard A. ,Menifor , three bk?theraifildned'iJiiderw.dod,'b ad fleulty.about a term, the remit O4which WO that one :ofthe lindetWooda Wad Facirtia t twottoded; and Mehlrer shot deagi, niter bresited to have been 00 , 0 ,6 bit f itsp*ir aikiticf 09!1at' ,w 6 re, 00 3 ., .C; -I- • • A Mae With Dombrowski. Patna, May 19, 1871.—" Will you ooixe with met" said General Docubrowall.l. It tn . * a leading question. Ft'orn our position Sn'the Chauseee -"de la.Muette, near ,the Chateab, we could - - see - far doles the - TOR* kttruelisg albng Weide the ramparts, which' Wait et that-verritement being plowed up milk. shells. Here and there.: Along the *bade dllitance the earth could-he seen.fly inettriaelth. the Mack emerte.whlale al ways marl; the explosion of a shell, and the pieces uld be heard whizzingin every direction. It would be a dangerous ride , _ but General Dombrowski looked as though he would say you are afraid, and so I an swered, "Avec plaisir." We started down the road at an easy trot, and the same scene of destruction and ruin presented itself to oar Aytei thatydiid ;dein +at Nettilly and the Avenne`debt Giand Arinee at ".Imy" and wherever the biting touch of this most hor rible civil war has been felt. Five days ago,'when I passed down this road, the houses were all inhabited, the gardens wore being planted with flowers, and chil dren were playing in the shade, of the trees and ono could never have thought that such a work of destruction could have been wrought in so short a time. Since then shells have been falling almost continual ly. In the quiet, shady road not a house but is riddled, not a garden wall that is not battered down, nor a roof intact. Three-fourths of the trees have been broken off, their splintered fragments lying in the road, which bas been made al most impassable by the broken branches and other debris. Some have fallen and are lying in the deep out of the circular railway, which passes here between the street and the ramparts. And the railway itself, down deep behind the walls, bas re ceived hundreds of shells and It is still-go ing on. Shells were continually flying about us, some exploding on' the ram parts, some In the streets, throwing up the earth before our horses, and many passing over our heads and falling into the village of Panty. I was astonished that we were not struck by one of the many fragments that went whizzing by us, but General Dombrowski seemed to take it es a matter of course and I could do nothing less. Arriving at the Caserne, which is about half-way between the Ohs tau} de la Muette and the Point du Jour, e crossed the bridge over the railway and mounted the ramparts I descended from my horse and contented myself by looking through the loophole between the Band bags that were placed on the top. But General Dombrowski rode along with an eyeglass, his head and shoulders exposed above the walls as a mark for the enemy. There were a few men here acting as sharpshooters, watching the enemy closely, who were at a distance of about three hundred yards, busily at work throwing up the earth like gophers. Very few of them could be seen, as they were completely hidden in their trenches. Occasionally one would show himself, and then there would be a dozen shots exchanged in rapid succession. But both parties kept too well out of danger to kill or be killed by this kind of firing. " But General," I said, "If von do not drive them out of those trenches they Will be in to the walls in less than three days." "I know it," he !wiled. "What do you intend to do 7" I asked. "I am going to attempt a sortie this eve ning." "Do you hope to succeed ?"j "No." " Why?" "Because my men will not go out," said he. " I intended to turn them from the Neuilly side by working in the earth as they are doing. But the men refuse to work outside the fortifications unless shel tered by houses." " You have only one thing left to do then," I remarked, " that is, mount two hundred guns on the fortifications, and pour'in a storm of iron hall that will ren denim* whole Bois de Boulogne untenable." "I have found that also impossible," he replied. "I have one hundred and fifty guns placed in position upon the ramparts but only eighty artillerymen, .and half of them are drunk all the time." "You consider then the defence of Paris hopeless?" I asked. "I do," he said, "If the provinces do not rise to help us. That is our only hope, and it is a feeble one." "Why, then, do you continue to head the insurrection?" "Because I cannot honorably retire, nor can I do it with safety even," continued be, "as I will explain to you when we have a bettor opportunity for conversation than we have at present' We continued our promenade along the ramparts nearly to the Point du Jour, the General remarking closely the positions of the enemy and exposing himself Ws most reckless manner. We afterwards returned by the same road to the Chateau de la Mu tate, where the General intended conoerting measures for the sortie which was to take • place in. the evening. A. breakfast ten. Dombrowski told me tn.Lo overtures had been made to him and groat inducements had boon offered to him by the Versailles government to surrender either ono of the gates on that side of tiro city. They had offered him live hundred thousand francs. And when he informed time Committee of Public Safety of the offer they ordered him to accept It. This he did after oonsiderable bartering and quarreling about the price and the tlmewhon the money was to be paid. Their object was to induce the enemy to march in a large number of troops near the.walls some where, under the impression that the gates were to be betray ed into their hands, and then, when least ex pecting it, to pour in a murderous fire upon them, throw them into confusion, charge them with the point of the bayonet, and thus gain a victory by which they should recover the prestige lost at Day and Vanvres, The plan was on the point of succeeding when ElOlllO of the members of the Committee of pubßo Safety - were replaced by others-ft was beginning to be known by too many. The Versailles negotiators became sus picious, and it was thought better to oper ate the arrest of all those engaged in it be fore they should take the alarm, which was accordingly. done. This, Gen. Dombrow ski explained, was one reason why he could not well resign. The Commune, knowing be bad been in communication with the Versailles government, would im. .medlately suspect him in case he offered his resignation, Ills position was there lore a very delicate ono. He had come and offered his sword to the Commune upon pure revolutionary principles, out of a love of human liberty, and he could not aban don the cause under circumstances that might leave a stain upon his honor, al though that cause might bee hopeless ono. He would therefore Wit on till the lest, and depend upon his 'sword and his inge nuity to escape amid the confusion and dis order of the final "smash-up." He had already sent his wife and children to England, to put them out of harm's way, of which fact he had informed the Versail les negotiators when they offered a laiaser passer and safe conduct for his family. [For the Intelllgencer.) Letter from the Coal Regions. NEW CASTLE, June 2, 1871. Messrs. Editors :—Abortt four weeks ago, it was supposed that the Wadesviller Shaft, about a mile from this place, owned by the Hickory Coal Company, was on fire irons of the back chambers. The mine was closed and the pumps stopped. After the water rose to a certain height, and the fire was thought to be quenched, the pumps were set to work and the water taken out; but the fire was not extinguished—the wa ter had not reached the fire. It will have to be filled up again. The Company that own it employ about six hundred men and boys, and could have shipped about two hundred cars per day, or a thousand tons. All the men employed in the mine are thrown out , of employ, and will have to seek work elsewhere, for a time at least, for it will take several months to fill it and pump the water out again. The Company will lose heavily; they have expended about seven hundred thousand dollars to make the colliery what it is. It is the deep est mine in America. The following de scription of the Hickory Shaft, was given by the Engineer some time ago: "The slope workings - of the Mammoth Vein Con solidated Coal Company, at St. Clair, in Schuylkill county, have reached a depth of 400 yards, on an average angle of 191 degrees south in the Mammoth Coril.Bed. Their main gang-way, westwarl, is 9,60(1 feet long, commanding an area of about 130 acres of Mammoth coal, which bed has an average thickness of 30 feet. The quality of ~,:.s coal has no superior ass pure white ash; in fact, it is as nearly simple carbon as is found In the shape of fuel. From this slope of 400 yards, four bps have been worked, and the coal hoisted by one engine of slity.horse power. Two pumping en gines are used; one lifting the water 200'. yards into a sumpt, or reservoir ; and the other from this sumpt to the surface. The width of coal from the gangway to the surface, increases as the bed crops higher up the mountain going westward, and at the highest point is 1,800 feet wide, where the main air-way of the mine is driven through to the surface, and where the mine is ventilated by an exhaust-fan of twelve feet in diameter, driven by a steam engine of twenty-five, horse power, at the rate of 200 revolutions per minute. To get an idea- of the venti lation of this Colliery, a true cooception of the magnitude of the Inside workings must first be had. Overlying the Mammoth- Bed, with but 15 or 20 feet of slate inter-. vening,le another bed. of coal, known as the "Seven-Foot," the average thickness Of which is 10 feet.. About 800 yards west ' of the toot of the slope oii'the Mammoth- Bed, a tunnel is ailven southward from it into :this .seven-foot bed,,aeci a gangway driven. init about parallel with the gang way on the Mammoth Vein, and quite as. far - westward. From these gangways, *Mat are nothing more than out-lets, or pasiutgeg for coal ;oars, the coal in the two beds Is mined out, and the workings though ', L. _ atio, ramify in all directions . 1 .until. the xvh a : area, is. catioombed, or Mined out., to all these: gangway' there, atrial pass- . a rrent of air !to .supply the wort - nice, tiiii,to' carry off the gatSir gun- Sratid in the nsinO.' Hyoid of the exhauft ; fan, the air is drawn down the dope az through the main4fanitwafiint 1 it reach es the "Seven-Foot"irehi. — • In' the main giu3gwaYsillet- inside cif the-month of the Iwnnel„4 afrong door :ia'placed, which di- Widiergite.air current, turning one-half of it through the:4lmo' inioihe "Seven-Foot" Workirtga,arid•the oiherthrough the work thlCBoPthetarriMilth ..The area tints ventilated - about 200 acres; or 130 acres on each vein." The mine has a vertical depth of about 1,000 feet. - cztart.xtr.L. For the Intelllgencer. Letter from Clinton Comity ;NonTs Pont; June Ist, 1871 Maitre Editors: This is not exactly the Winter of our, discontent, for /taste° warm, but our lumbermen say that it is their !Summer of diseontent, as bat fel , / of their number have managed to get their logs to the mills. We had an abundance of snow in early Spring•Ume, and they depended upon it to keep up the streams, but alas for human hopes! it departed as do some transient customers from village boarding houses—quietly and unnoticed, and the lumbermen werecaught "napping!" We have had a number of fishermen hero lately, and like tax-collectors, they are always on the come. All have been duly rewarded for their labor. Young Woman's Creek is now considered the best trout stream in the State; it far outrivals any stream, as can be proven by statistics gathered by the writer during the last year. Perhaps it is the romantic name that makes the trout more plentiful in our creek, but if you are in doubt as to the success gener ally attending fishermen, we would kindly refer you to Messrs. Crane and Detwiler of Columbia, who paid us a visit one year ago and were successful in securing a great number of the speckled beauties. We attended the Republican State Con vention and were pleased to notice that it honored the soldiers' by placing in nomi nation two gentlemen who had worn the blue, and went home fearing that the Dem ocratic State Convention would place in nomination a brace of civilians, but we were rejoiced to heat of the good work it performed, and of the great compliment it conferred upon our grand old division of Pennsylvania Reserves, by placing in nomination our old friend, as he was familiarly called, " Duckey " McCandless, and the brave and gallant Cooper, whose,. name was as familiar in the Army of the Potomac, as is the name of General Wash• ington in the house of every American. Cooper, the nominee for Survoyor.Gener eral, and McClelland, then his Lieutenant, but now M. C. from the XXIITth District, we have especial cause to remember. We can call to memory many scenes through which,in onnection with theabove-named, we passed during the late struggle, but none so vivid as the Second Bull Run Bat tle, when with "-Battery B," they so nobly held-their own against two rebel batteries pitted against them, and when ordered to fall back, begged to remain as their ammu nition was yet plenty. The Democracy made a wise and Judicious selection of nominees and we cannot go back on the Pennsytvania Reserves, and the same can be said of every membor of the division. With McCandlessand Cooper for our stand ard bearers, in conjunction with the ex cellent platform adopted by the Conven tion, we are bound to win. R. W. VINCHNT, Formerly of the 6th Penn's. Reserves. (For the Inteillgeneer.) WEAVEBSTOWN, June 6 Mr. Editor : In looking over the columns of different papers I observe that the spirit of improvement seems to be active through out our progressive old county; and that while many parts thereof have been the subject of remark, nothing la said about what is taking place here at Molasses Hill. Now, I claim that we also are some pump kins, inatimuch as we have a flourishing school and a now barn at the foot of the hill, besides four of five barns and as many dwellingii, (not, Counting the hog•pene) within the space of a few miles square, built or being built. I shall not mention the names of those erecting them, as oar people, generally speaking, aro modest and unassuming, and would perhaps not like to see their names appear in print. Yet, notwithstanding, the houses, dm, aro going up, and some of them aro whoppers at that, and, I ant free to say, will rank or compare with the finest In the county. I also notion with regret that in Nome of the papers, the grass crop is spoken of as likely to be a failure. This, so far as our im mediate neighborhood is concerned, is not the case.; on the contrary, not only the grass, but all the other coming crops are lookinglinely, the copious rain of last Wed nesday, having given them a fresh start, and judging front present appearance, there will'be an abundant supply, not only of grass and cereals, but alko of the various kinds of frult.L-the peach trees, In particu lar, are, so to . speak, fairly groaning under their load: NOV Tor oar Big Or or Steer, which is Still in a go ahead condition, and can be seen by the admirers of the species Bo vine at the..stable of the owner, Jacob Stoltz fus, and I assure you hole really a monster worth looking at, weighing at present not far from 4000 pounds, and being a good feeder Is likely' to exceed that figure next Spring. Jacob has • also a splendid cow which on last Friday produced a calf, which when 24-hours old weighed 106 pounds.— Beat this who can. Now, with your indulgence, a fow words about my trip to the not far West, extend ing all the way to Lancaster, Wabank, Mount Joy, dr,c., where and when, I am pleased to state, I found the growing crops and coming fruit in equally as good condi tion min our own country, and I presume I may add, our country, at this season of Whit-suntide rejoicing and merry-making, seems to be in all respects most especially blest in her basket and her store. But I started out more particularly to notice that noble and praiseworthy indtitution, the Mount Joy Soldiers' Orphan School, which it was my happy lot to pay a flying visit. Words, however, fail to express the de lightful, gratifying feelings and emotions I experienced In witnessing the happy and gladsome appearance of the boys and girls composing the school, and enjoying the unbOunded hospitality of the gentlemanly and lady-like principals and conductors. Of this institution, so pleased was I with all I saw, that I was almost tempted to in dulge the insane wish that I too might have been offered upon the altar of my country, in order to secure to my little ones the benefit of such noble training, to gether with the chance of attaining, free of expense, a thorough and substantial edu cation. In all seriousness, no person can visit that school and witness the kindness and atten tion of those having the control thereof, without being led with me to exclaim : 0 I my country, noble and glorious in ail thy multifarious ramifications, never so long as thy watch-towers are so well guard ed, shall the heel of a foreign despot, nor the insidious mancetivering of a secret foe within thy borders, trample with impunity upon right so dear to every lover of hu manity and supporter of universal liberty of speech and the press. Here then at least, 1 close this silly, senseless Jumble; Glad if you look It over, and do not scold or grumble; Surely It would please me much to see this In your paper, My Joy would be so great as to make me cut BOMB caper In short, though it may make some worthy people frown, To read the foolish rhapsodies of a simple country clown ; However this may be, 'twill ylease soma - Cep- , perheads at Weaverstown." A Sell on Horace Greeley The New Orleans correspondent of the Philadelphia Press, writing about Mr. Greeley's visit to that city, says: We have a practical joker here—one Joe Sommers, a " sporting " man, originally from Baltimore. Sommers IS educated, and dresses fashionably, and but few on looking at him would believe him to be a gambler. When Mr. Greeley jumped from the hack, Joe: met him at the entrance of the hotel. and extended his hand, saying, " How do you do, Mr. Greeley?- I am very happy to extend the right hand of fellow ahip to so renowned, a gentleman as your self, andas One.of the citizens of this great metropolis-of the 'Smith extend, to you, air, the freedom Of our city, and the honest geod-will of our citizens. Sir, allow me to Introduce to your notice two estimable gentlemen—Col. Starr, of Mississippi, and Mr. William Johnson, one of our leading bankers." Starr 'and Johnson are both' gamliksra and the: sudden. introduction somewhat unmanned them, and they slid out of sight as soon as Poltaiblu. Of course Mr. Greeley did not underitand the joke,. bat the lookers-on did, arid . enjoyed it hugely. 'The Illse..e•Coburzi , ' The deontion or Harry Hill; stakeholder 'in. the Mace-Cobarn match, the' effect that the question is notyet settled, treated quite a stir in . sporting circles and tbek in (tic:Micas are that Mace and Coburn will meet again to decide by fight'which is the best man. Coburn. meanwhilO keeps in training.. ge announcoi awe his readiness tomeet and fight him% it244bot ring Tor $l,OOO t 0115,000 a Mde andiawalta his Ohio Democratic elate Convention. CoLmattra, .71artet.1.— ;- mocratin State Conventiollt:-- --.ten o'clock this morning . ',Wen ant e is h -, lt'. , large, :.I T.-24 1 E.114ey was; .. I .mpo rail widotan, d the 1 . 011 ID ...i. , . mmit tee otaiktetelation were appoln • -': : Wm. M. Rintse•A M. oin olloari.C. . - ' alien dinemm,UDari awkineN. • . _• .. icon, C. A. WilitaXe' Witigkt,„fik- =fleet, G:1 1 '. Dlcklatscoi; T. Ef. - -Stifd ' t - • rge A. Aller,__A. Mayo, George W. Mo i ~, D. S. Uhl, W. R, olden, J. M. Estep, ' Wor ley, W. W. Armstrong, J. H. Odell. -' A resolution instructing the Committee on Resolutions not to consider the four teenth and fifteenth amendments in Its do liberations was tabled. A recess was take:141111 PeMr 1 The Democratic: -Convention Jr .I at 2P. id., when a permanent or ganisation was effbeted . Pendleton, Chairman, and one Vice Presi dent for each Congresakmatdistrict. After reports from several Committees, General George W.. Morgan submitted res olutions on the report of seventeen out of the nineteen members of the Committee on Resolutions, and moved for their adoption. The following is the substance or the resolutions :; Firat.:,Deodaring that, while denouncing the means by which they were brought about, the Democracy of Ohio recognize se accomplished facts the three amendments to the Constitution recently declared adopt ed, and consider them no longer practical issues before the country. Second. Demanding that the rule of atrict construction embodied in the tenth amend ment of the Constitution be applied to the Constitution as it is, and inch:ding the three recent amendmente, but insisting that mere amendments shall not be held to have In any respect altered or modifted the original theory and character of the Feder al Government, but only have enlarged powers delegated to it, and to this extent and no more, to have abridged the reserved rights of the States, and as thus construed the Democratic party pledges itself to the faithful enforcement of the Constitution as . . it now IN, securing squat rights to all, with out distinction of color or previous condi Third. Declaring that they shall always uphold the American system of State and local governments for State and local pur poses, and the General Government for general purposes only, and opposing all attempts at centralization of power. Fourth. Adhering to the principles of maintatnlng perfect independence between the coordinate departments of the Gov- Fifth. Declaring that all legislation is temporary and subject to change, modifi cation, or repeal at the will of a majority of the people, and that it is the right of the people to judge what legislation is neces sary to enforce the powers of the Govern ment- ,Sixth. Demanding a general amnesty. Seuenth. Declaring that while they de nounce all riotous combinations in the South or elsewhere, they also denounce bayonet and Ku-Klux bills. teighth. Opposing the annexation of San Domingo by the means taken and evident ly intended by General Grant. Ninth. Favoring a strictly revenue tariff; and opposing the protective theory. Tenth Condemning extravagance in the Federal Government land grants to rail- ••-•- - - - - roads and other monopolies, and the na tional banking system. Eleventh. Favoring a large reduction in the expenditures of the Federal Old State Governments, and the collection of Internal revenue by the State authorities, and the speedy puniahmentof the thieves who have stolen the taxes paid by the people. Twelfth. That while we regret repudia tion, we equally regret the proposition to pay bondholders more than the contract with them demands; that if the bondhold ers have rights so have taxpayers, and we insist upon justice being done to both ; that the creditor is entitled to be paid in the same currency he loaned to the Govern ment; that where he loaned greenbacks, unless the contract otherwise provides, be should be paid in greenbacks, and whore he loaned gold he should be paid In gold ; that to guard against too great expansion. greenbacks should be made convertible into three per cent. bonds at the option of note-holders, said bonds to he redeemed In greenbacks on demand ; that the true method of returning to specie payments is to make custom duties payable In legal tender currency, whether paper money or gold. Such a policy would secure uniform currency, stop gambling in gold, and there by elevate the credit of the ilovornmon , . Thirtecntit.—Calling for general reform irrespective of party. Pourteenth.—Asking for a State Constitu tional Convention. Mr. Vallaudiglium seconded :the reso lutions.; Frank H. Hurdt on behalf of tho other two members of the Committee, moved to strike out the lima two reaolud6s of the majority report tend hasort,the following: Redelved,that 11th fourteenth and Uncouth amendments having boon made parts of the Constitution by violence and fraud, aro revolutionary and' void, Lost—yeas lOU, nays 290, and the major ity report was adopted—yeas WM, nays 15U. • The oonvention made the following nom inations: Governor, George W. McCook, Lieutonant-Govemor, E.S. Hunt, of Ham ilton; Auditor, Col. Cochran, of .Adams; Attorney•Gonoral, E. S. Wallace of Clark; Treasurer, Dr. Bruehl, of Hamilton; Su preme Judge, G. W. Geddes, of Richland; Member of the Board of Public Works, Arthur Hughes, of Cuyahoga. The Great Auction Gale at New York on Wednesday. The sale was the first In the past six mouths, It was well known that the ro tail yards In NeW York were almost entire ly without a supply, as wore the yards of manufacturers and others. This fact crea ted a very general impression that the first sale, on a hungry and excited market, would realize very large prices, leaving a return to the range of prices ruling before the coal fight began to 'aubsequent sales— Such, however, was not the caw. Those of the retail dealers who were familiar with the leading thoughts in the new programme bid actively, but lotv, and when they did all they chose to buy was knocked down to them at, under the supply conditions, really moderate rates. . Soon after the Pale began, it became understood that the 80.000 tons of Scranton coal to be sold would be "let go" at an average of lessllian six dol lora per ton. Sled the holders desired more it it elear to every one familiar with the scanty supply on hand they could have secured it without having resort to oven the more common inanufuvres for upholding rates; but they did not, and the reason will begiven below. The bidding for stove and grate sizes was spirited ; but the prices bid were low. s Lump started tit five dollars per ton and at that price a lot was sold. The re mainder of that size went at from $4 65 to 462}. The size used on steamboats was started at $4 50 and the first lot was sold at 85 per ton. But the decline was rapid and subsequent sales of that kind were made at $4 971, $4 95, $4 821, $4 80, $4 75 and $4 70—a rather remarkable de cline with a harbor full of almost empty bunkers Grate size was started at $5 and the first lot went at $5 05, and a second at $5 071, at which other sales were made. Egg was started at $.5 per ton ; rose on bids— the immediate demand being very large— to $5 15, at which all there was sold. Stove was started at $5 60; was changeable for a time, but finally rose to the maximums rate on the card of the day, and was sold at $6. The demand was most extraordinary, and yet, in the face of that fact, the subso• anent .sales wore made at $5 871, 1 , 5 85, $5 80 and $5 771. Chestnut was also in good demand, and the bidding, though lively, was low. The first lot was started at $4, the other sales having fully satisfied buyers that a low range of rates was the rule for the day, and the lot WWI knocked down at $4.00. The other lots of the same size brought, some I}4 65 and others $4.621. Compared with the sale made fully six months ago, the following small difference is shown In the price: Tons. Norember, May. Lamp—.. 12,14.0 113.47044413..5.1 34.11214etri.85 Stottutecult...lo,ooo 8.60 508.83 47., (45.00 (irate ..... .......16,0 0 0 3.75 (4 3.81 5.0734(4 Egg 10,100 3.07 4 4.,0 5.16 ot. Stove .... .......20,000 4.50 CT , 4.55 5.77‘44 0.00 Che5tne . t......12,000 3.,0 (4 3.524 4.80 (4 4.66 These are the peculiar and highly impor , tantfeaturesofyestertlay'seale. Let us now give the public the cause and its promise: -Competition in coal mining, like successful competition in almost any other necessity, has a tendency to lessen the price, when the field of production le large. This was 1 the case in coal ; and with the natural pro duction realized from the number of men employed, the supply really exceeded the demand. This vexed all the owners, but especially those controlling the smaller ' mines, who cannot produce and deliver and return a profit on as low a rate as the larger owners. " Very cheap coal" is now to be the rule. Not that the large dealers have any tearful say on account of the benefit following to the people at large, but because by holding coal well down they can force the small owners to sell at a loss, if they sell at all, and because, by showing a determination to continue the reduction in price below the range at which the small oWners can profit ably sell, they feel sure that they can force them tesell their mines instead of their coal, add thus be retired from power to Injure the trade. That this coureehas been deter mined upon we know, and it tsetse known to his 'that the prices realized yesterday, with the demand unnauill , and urgent, are bnt premonitory symptoms of theplanomd that lowan and still lower rates axe Do follow until the small Mamma shalls have been forced to leave' and the large ones have the field to themseivea- In this effort bottilhe hea Sf y owners and the railway men are joined. It is claimed that the object of the movement Is not to . 'finally secure exorbitant rates, biltaimply that they may be able to control the min ing interest with a view to Satan regulari ty in rt e management.and to a old lassie thernseleotkand to the publl simply be cause/ a few ; mall owners no t . produce and dellimr se eheeply,as th ir, gigantic ri vals, while paying the same rates, to their men. ' This; forth (early future atleast, affords an agreeable feeling ha . the consumers of coal. 'But even in :that regard there is something unpleasant which may, as well be known.. ' It, Is a certainty that not With. standing the very :long strike now so re. mently ended, there ,are vast quantities' of, ooal at the mines which had been ,mined and brought up before the strike began.. This 113 the case, with both . the . and small ownersoind' the fact ismdi t_ p nova that coal, when'extbiaid tiolbeeran - d air c ale deteriorated mild in ly e Ind lails n ritlfa: NOT OPTS!: heating poKer ., Tih is the 'condition of a *eat quantity of,coal which will now bo put upon the market. The New`Aretle Si pad Mon. [From tho Washington Patriot.] The Polaris, formerly lbo Periwinkle, is a vessel belonging to the Governtaeut, but rebuilt and fitted for this expedition in such a manner as almost to be a new and very superior craft. She is of about 400 tons measurement, considerably larger than the Advance, in which Dr, Kane un dertook his famous voyage, and abort the same size as the Germania, which left Bra d, d twolears ago on an expedition to the Arctic Seas. She has been planked all over her Atlas with six inches of solid white oak timbank, and has throughout been nearly doubled hi strength ; her' bows being almost a solid mass of timber, sheathed with iron and terhtinating in a sharp iron prow with which to tutthrough the ice. Her engine, which was built some years ago at Messrs. Heath) daevy'a Works, in Philadelphia, is exceedingly powerful and compact, taking up but coMparatively little space, and being peculiarl y . adapted for hard and severe work, and the propeller Is arranged in such a manner that It can be unshipped and lifted up on deck through a shaft or " propeller-wheal " in the stern, which is a great dulvantagb when the vessel is under sail or surrounded by floating lea that might easiirdatuage the blades. As to those who aro going tb bo the prin cipals In this adventurous and dangerous expedition, they are, all told, twenty-id inn men. There is not a man among them whose qualities and character have nut been well tested, from the captain down to the cook. The leader and commander-In chief is, of course, Captain liall ; next in the condmandoomesCaptain 8.0. Budding ton, of Now London, an old whaling-toas ter of thirty years' experience, twenty-ono of which were spent In the Davis Strait and Ballin's Bay. Ho Is an old and trusted irtend of Captain Hall's, who has Implicit faith In his long experience and acknowl edged ability. The second otticer is Mr. 11. C. Chester, also a whaling maid of twelve years experience among the ice; and the third °Meer is Mr. William Morton, who was Dr. Kane's trusted friend and companion, and is the only living mor tal to whom it was over permitted to look upon the open Polar Sea, Ho had the mad privilege to accompany Dr. Halle to Havana, and to bring hie remains from there to Philadelphia for interment. lit r. Emil Schuman wimples the poet of first engineer, and the MAOIIOIIO corps will con sist of three gentlemen, one of whom, Dr. Knelt Diesels, of Heidelberg, Germany, will attend the expedition as a surgeon naturalist. A student from the Observa tory at Ann Arbor, 511011., will probably be the astronomer ; and an °Meer of the Signal Service Department will he aboard in the capacity of meteorologist. lie aides these, there will be a blacksmith, carpenter, steward and fourteen sail ors, besides the Esqulinaux Interpreter Joe, and his wife Hannah. This latter in teresting couple, with their little daughter, are genuine specimens of the Esqlinaux, but having been In constant company with Captain Hall for eight years past, they speak very good F. nglibh,aud have acquired civilized manners. Joe is a famous hunter and "sealer," and his little wife is quite an accomplished woman In a "small' way, with considerable talent for languages crud for music. Their little daughter, who will accompany them, is five years old. Although Captain Hall expects to Re compiled' his purpose 01 penetrating into the groat Polar Basin, if such a one really exists, and visiting the North l'olo In less than three years, the Polaris has boon pre visioned for four years, which can be ex tended to six with a little economy and Judicious distribution of rations. Tile great staple of provisions Is the so-called pemmican," which is composed of three parts of selected dried meat to ono part of the best suet, mixed with some other in gredients. The food is both nourixiiing and wholesome, and, through the absonee of salt, there is no danger of scurvy—that pestilence of Arctic travellers—to be feared from Its use. It is packed in 45-pound tin cans, hermetically settled, and of this there is no less than $lO,OOO pounds stowed away in the hold, the manufacture of which consumed and condensed 23,000 pounds of ordinary beef and 5000 pounds of suet. Besides this there Is any quantity of dried and deusicatod vegetables, such as potatoes, tomatoes, onions, etc., and a large stock of flour, biscuits, sugar, coffee, tea:condensed milk, canned fruits, and all other neces saries for the protracted voyage. Captain Hale, however, expects to be able to econ • om ite with these provisions to a very con siderable extant by substituting In their place the meat 01 the reindeer, musk-ox, walrus, and other game of the regions that be is about to explore. Everything leas boon done to make the quarters of butte crow and oilleorm as comfortable as the rather limited space would permit ; and the between•decks and cabins are perfect models of oloanlineos. The state•rooms, for the ollicoro and oulentista are plain, but gotten up in good and convenient style, and the cabin aft is a perfect tirawhig-room In miniature. The Late Indian fa nacre. A co rrospondont of :Lilo San Prinicisc.. Chronicle, writing from Camp Grant, .t ri• zone, May 6th, mays: A daring exploit was enacted about live milos from Camp Grant, Arizona, by a band of hardy plutioors and noble:At:7.mm orl'uo son, Arizona, numbering, It calculated, about 400, including Pupagoos and Masa i• cane, led by would.bo white men, urinal with brooch-loading arms that were /Mx piled to the Territorial Government. A L daybreak on Sunday morning 300 of time: mon came down in all their strength on an encampment of 000 Indians (about 100 of thew) were men, the met wore women and children) that were under the protection or thoGovornment,linvingsurrendorod them selves and being considered prisoners of war. The Indians have boon working assidu ously everyday for the past two mouths for their sustenance by carrying hay on their backs from eight to ton miles for the benefit of this post, and for government animals. Out of the 600 there encamped, and depend. log on the Government for protection, there were murdered in the most fiendish man ner seventy children, and eight bunks, us they were running away, were dropped in their tracks. About thirty.five children and ono woman were taken captives. The woman was afterward shot and her hair cut oil to decorate the horses of those gallant warriors, Mr. Lord, the United States Treasurer at Tucson, A. T., had the man hood to express his unqualified disapproval of this massacre, and he has boon threaten ed with a dose of tar and feathers by these inhuman butchers. I was out to the slatighter-pen, and my belief is that in fiendishness and atrocity it surpasses any deed of crime that has been enacted since the establishment of this Republican Gov ernment. It remains to beacon if the Unit ed States Government will mete out Jostle. to the murderers of those whom it prom ised to protect; or if their wards shalt be butchered, and tile perpetrators go at large, boastingof their iniquitous deeds and gag ging honest men from expressing their opinions through fear of the pistol or other mob violence. This deed was not done be cause they were guilty of any crime of late, but from a natural dislike those Territorial people have of seeing them on a reserva tion. When the Indians came on the res ervation, after the news reached they boasted of forming a gang to "clean them out." ••• • • This was considered mere bravado; no person supposed that they seriously en tertained the idea of coming in open con tact with the Government, or anything pertaining thereto. Captain Thomas Dunn, commanding Camp Lowell, Tucson, and Company I', Twenty.flrst Infantry, for• warded on the 29th (Saturday afternoon), about 4 o'clock, a sergeant and a private from his company(mounted), with a de spatch to Grant, stating that these anon Imd organized for the purpose of inassacreing the Indians at Camp Grant, but either by the collusion of the bearers, or by their being forcibly detained, did not reach Camp Grant until half past seven o'clock, A. M., on the 30th of April, about three hours too late. Why this delay oc curred, or how it was occasioned, cannot be ascertained until there Is an Inquiry Into the whole attain When the people were in the mountains, and prepar ed for a hostile encounter, not twenty men oould be found to accompany a scout of Lieutenant Cushing's to pursue and pun lab them for a murder committed by them whilst capturing stock ; but now, when living in good faith under the protection of the Government, and their warriors un prepared for any such emergency, their women and children are wantonly butch erpoi at the dawn of day, and when no ad equate force was in the post to pursue and punish the inhuman cut-throats, Captain Stanwood and cavalry being away with Troop H, Third Cavalry. Curious Revelations in the Bowen Mao. my case. During ... the present trial at Washington of Congressman Christopher C. Bowen on a charge of bigamy, the defence produced a decree purporting to show that Mr. Bow en had been divorced from his first wife in this city in 188.5, and that Judge Barnard had signed the decree. Upon subsequent investigation in the office of the County Clerk, an entry of a decree was discovered divorcing C. C. Bowen from his wife Fran ces C. Bowen,the names C. C. and Frances U having been apparently written over other names now illegible. Au examination of Ju. ge Barnard's minutes showed that Le had granted no such decree in that month. It is said that before County Clerk Loew came into office a divorce was grained to the husband in case of— Bowen against Bowen, tried before Judge Barnard In the Supreme Court, and that authenticated copies of this case having been obtained, the names of the persons concerned in it were changed to C. C. Bowen and Frances C. Bowen, and that these altered records were the records recently offered in evi dence at Washington. Mr. Beamish, clerk of Judge Barnard's Court at Chambers, and several of Mr. Loew's clerks, have left fur Washington to expose the alleged fraud.— N. Y. Evening Poet, A Lillie Child }filled by a snake Some days ago says the Marion Herald, a little boy about five years of age, eon of a Mr: Miller, of Grayson county. was killed by the bite of a rattlesnake. The little lel low had gone oat with, some other mem bers of the family to look for eggs, and in hie search he crawled underneath tile fath er'e barn. Alter going some distance under the floorbe screamed to his comban lona that something was killing him,ahey 4 'obtained assistanoe, and rlpp • Up the Pipits in the AOOIA 4 1theli;V:i ' horror they ihundistlit ralGeifta . tiy Coil ed *reined Ws iteelto VW ad ' bitten Mtn •In biters' nimbi ow the boo ' neck, . ad be warnulte deed Whenbiliewur ;,;p,_ •., ;.••:, -....; •:,.;7; -- ...01 . 177,71 ii= i; , ..-t :i.:;• 111111=NI
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