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Lancaster 3intelligenctr.
®WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1871
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET
FOR AUDITOR GENERAL,
GEN. WILLIAM McCANDLESS,
OP PHILADELPHIA
FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL,
CAPTAIN JAMES H. COOPER,
OF LAWRENCE COUNTY
A FULL POLL OF THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE
WILL SECURE THE ELECTION OF OUR STATE
TICKET BY A LARGE MAJORITY.
LET EVERY DEMOCRAT REMEMBER 'MAT,
AN I/ IMFRLSS THE TRIM'. OF IT UPON TIIE
MINDS OF 1115 NEIGHBORS.
Is Simon Cameron the Republican Party?
The Republican party of Pennsylva
nia has ceased to deserve the support of
any decent citizen. It is no longer a
political organization in which the mass
of its adherents can have any real in
terest, ;but has been converted into a
mere instrument fur the advancement
of the selfish purposes of a set of corrupt
politicians. For years Simon Cameron
and the Pennsylvania Railroad have
controlled its action in State affairs
whenever they chose to do so. When
Cameron wanted to be elected to the
United States Senate, he deliberately
bought up enough Republican mem
bers of the Legislature to defeat Andrew
0. Curtin and Thaddeus Stevens.
When a successer to Jlon. C. It. Buck-
Mew was to be chosen, the Pennsylva
nia Railroad set up one of its paid attor
neys, and John Scott was sent to the
United States Senate, while Simon
Cameron contented himself with the
elevation of his creature, Robert \V.
Mackey, to the profitable office of State
Treasurer. At the next session of
the Legislature there was an un
adjusted quarrel between Cameron and
some' of the managers of the Pennsylva
nia Railroad, which resulted in the de
feat of Cameron's candidate fur State
Treasurer, after he had received the
caucus nomination, the Democrats vot
ing for Irwin :LS a choice between two
evils. At the recent session of the Leg
islature, Cameron was completely tri
umphant, and Mackey was again placed
All charge of the monies of the Com
monwealth. When the Republican
',hay came to select candidates for Audi
tor and Surveyor-General, Mr. (luay;
Chairman of the State Central Commit
tee, and a mere tool of Cameron, named
the men, and the Convention servilely
registered the decrees of the man who
owns the Republican party of Pennsyl
vania, and runs it fiir the interests of
himself and his adherents.
Cameron's rule is supreme in all re
spects. For a time President Grant re
fused to countenance Into, but he lags
succumbed to his arts long ago, and now
the Chief Executive of the Nation recog
nizes the chief of a corrupt ring as the
arbitrary ruler of the Republican party
In this State. 1 'ainerwi lias dictated
every appointment made by Grant ill
Pennsylvania for months past. His
word is i:INV at Washington as well as
at I larrisburg, and he controls the dis
tribution of Federal patronage as com
pletely as he does a Radical majority in
fair Legislature or a Republican State
Convention.
ir Simon Cameron were a great states
man and a pure patriot the Republican
party of Pennsylvania might submit to
his dictatorial control without anysense
of personal and political degradation. But
lie has been all his life a base and truck
ling demagogue. So long as the Dem
ocratic ',arty was firmly seated in power
he kept within its lines, and endeavored
to practice the corrupt arts which he
has plied with superior success in the
Republican organization. Ile early saw
an opening in the Radical ranks fur a
display of the political brigandism by
whiell he has profited so largely, and he
eagerly threw himself into it. Ile has
none of the elements of the statesman,
and his utter lack of principle was aptly
described by Thaddeus Stevens, who
said, in his peculiarly sarcastic way,
" 1 do not believe Cameron would steal
a red-hot. stove."
It is sad to think that the Republican
party of Pennsylvania has sunk so low
as to be nothing more than a mere po
litical machine by which the decrees of
such a man as Simon Cameron are reg
istered and carried into execution. Yet
such is confessedly the fact. There is
not all intelligent Republican in the
State who can deny the assertion which
we V, and 1101 an honest num in the
ranks of the party who will attempt to
do so. The truth is that there is no Re
publican party its Pennsylvania to-day.
As a political organization it has ceased
to have an existence, and has become a
mere instrument in the hands °fa cabal
of corrupt men, by which they manage
to enrich themselves at the expense of
the taxpayers of the State and the Na
tion.
Such an organization does not de
serve, and ought not to receive the sup
port of any intelligent and reputable
citizen. The candidates tiow running
MrState olliceson the Republican ticket
are merely the creatures of the Canter
onian ring. I t is bad enough to have
Mackey in control of the State Treasury
—it would be the height of folly to elect
the tool which he and Quay selected to
till the responsible position of Auditor
( leneral. No decent Republican ought to
feel bound to support nominations thus
made. \\Then what was once a great
political party, has become but the mere
Mllowing of such a Mall as Simon Cam
eron, it is high time for all good citizens
to abandon it, and we believe that thou
sands will do swat the coming election.
The Right Chairman for the Radicals.
The Radical p•autdidates for Auditor
and Surveyor-( ;client! seem to be hav
ing great difficulty in finding sonic one
willing to assume the duties of Chair
man of the Radical State Central Com
mittee. The last man to whom they
otrered the berth is Linn llartholomew,
of Schuylkill county, and he peremp
torily declines. We suggest that they
t the( fuorge Ifrubaker, Esq., the learned
and polished District-Attorney of Lan
caster county. Ile has as few scruples
as any man we know, and boasts that
lie began his political career by cheating
at a primary election. It seems, ac
cording to leis own story, that he was
entrusted with the writingof the ballots
for the party which he desired to defeat,
:old with a cunning that would have
done credit to Ali-Sin, he wrote the
names with a pen dipped in water, and
then poured black sand upon the moist
letters. The result was that the sand
was easily rubbed oil by him when he
Come to count the tickets, and the hat
was half-full of blank ballots. We
have been thus particular in describing
the first political exploit of this great
manager of the Republican party of
Lancaster county, because we are sure
that such qualitleations:for the position
of Chairman of:theJtadical State Cen
tral Committee will recommend lion
most strongly to the creatures of
the Canteronian ring. George Bru
baker would be the very man to cheat
in counting votes. Since the death
of John Covode, we know no man in
the Republican party of Pennsylvania
so well-fitted for that kind of business.
In all else he is fully as ignorant as was
the late Chairman, though we are not
able to say whether he spells physician
with an initial for ay. Let the Radi
cal candidates make Brubaker Chair
man of their State Committee.
IT is said that Grant has fully made
Up his mind to appoint General Sher
idan to Icarry out the provisions of the
Ku-Kkix bill. He knows Sheridan
fully, knows that he is ignorant, brutal,
careless of consequences, and utterly
without regard for the civil law of the
land. .He may find him ready to exe
cute his orders, but the consequence
will be such wide-spread alarm for the
liberties of the Nation, as will insure
his overwhelming defeat by the vote of
the Northern States. -
THE LANCASTER, WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1871.
Radical Speeches and Editorials
Since the Democrats of different States
have declared in the mostauthoritative
manner that they do not intend to dis
obey the amendments to the Constitu
tion of the United States, and that they
will not attempt to overturn them by
violence when they come into power,
Radical orators and editors find them
selves in a sad predicament. Hereto
fore their whole stock in trade has con
sisted of wild and excited denunciations
of the Democracy as a treasonable and
revolutionary organization, whose chief
object in seeking power was to secure
an opportunity for inaugurating a new
rebellion to re-establish slavery.—
The fact that we quietly accepted the
situation and voted peaceably along
with negroes, without so much
as challenging a single one of the
sable suffragans in Pennsylvania, did
not silence the slanders of the Re
publican press or prevent the lying
speeches of such men as Senator Mor
ton. Our complete devotion to the
Constitution and our absolute and faith
ful obedience to the odious fifteenth
amendment, was not sufficient to close
the mouths of our constant vilifiers.
But, now that our State Conventions are
speaking out and putting into words the
sentiments by which our conduct was
actuated, Radical editors and orators
feel that they are estopped from pursu
ing the line of argument which they
havepersistently followed for years, and
by which they have managed to divert
public attention from the vital issues of
the day, and to prevent the people from
scanning closely the ninny outrageous
usurpations of Congress and the multi
tudinous wrong acts of Grant and his
administration.
Every Radical spotter in the land is
just now at his wits ends. The speeches
which have served them for more than
seven years, will avail no longer. The
stale platitudes about " red handed
traitors," "Copperheads, ,, and "vil
lians who are ready to remand the blacks
back to chains and slavery " are " play
ed out." In their eagerness to make the
Democracy appear inconsistent the Ite
publican newspaper press has almost
unitedly asserted that the Pennsylvania
and Ohio resolutions go further than
they do. They have been interpreted
as a complete approval of negro suirrage.
That assertion hits been made to influ
ence the minds of such Republicans as
were dissatisfied with the fifteenth
amendment and the manner of its adop
tion. Such strained interpretations can
only have the effect of concluding Re
publican editors and orators. They call
not return to the position they once oc
cupied, and they will be forced to aban
don the ambuscades in which they have
heretofore sheltered themselves, and to
light on the open plain of truth and ar
gument. Appeals to the passions and
prejudices engendered by the war will
not avail our opponents this fall, or in
the coming Presidential campaign.
They must meet US upon the vital issues
of the present, and they can not stand
before us in such a contest.
Just now the Radical press of this
State is eking out its barren nesss of ar
gument with a little clumsy ridicule.
The stupid fellows who attempt to be
funniest, do not see that every shaft
which they hurl at us recoils like a
boomerang upon their own party. In
charging that the Democracy have
fi
nally aequiesced in their work of forcing
negn) on irrage upon the States against
the wishes of the people, they do us uo
injury and their party harm. They con-
vince all their readers that the Demo
cratic party is a party of law and order,
ready and willing to yield implicit obe
dience to every requirement of the Con
stitution, but they disgust many by
claiming credit for having forced the
odious condition of negro suffrage and
negro equality upon them as well as
upon us. We can anrd to laugh with
these would-be witlings at all their at
tempted jokes, seeing, as we do, that
their barbs strike home to the breasts()
their own partisans.
The Narroe'•Gauge Railroad
In our local columns will be found a
report of the preliminary meeting of the
Commissioners named in the act incor
porating a company With power to build
narrow-gunge railroads, from Lancaster
to Reading, and from this City to differ
ent points on or near the Susquehanna
river. The authority conferred upon
the corporators is amply sufficient for
all practical purposes, and the charac
ter of the men named is such as to com
mand the confidence of the public.—
Among those present will be found the
names of quite a number of our most
prominent and substantial citizens, men
who are anxious to advance the interests
of our city and county, and who would
never connect themselves with any
doubtful enterprise. The feeling among
those who were present, was such as to
conviiiee us that the projected enter
prise will be pushed forward to comple
tion without any unnecessary delay.
It seems to us that this project is one
which must commend itself with great
force to the people of Lancaster county.
Our farmers will find their lands greatly
enhanced in value by the construction
of narrow-gauge railroads through their
neighborhoods, while the cost of reach
ing market with all kinds of produce
will lie greatly lessened. Those who
have money to invest, will lied in these
home roads a first-class security, better
in every respect than some of the far-oil
Western roads in which many thou
sands of dollars have been placed by
our people within a few years.
The,Committee will go to work at once,
and it is to be hoped they will meet
with proper encouragement. The farm
ers of Lancaster county will:find it to
their interests not only to grant a free
right of way to narrow-gauge railroads,
but to subscril e liberally to the stock.
We believe that such roads would pay
handsomely,wherever they may be'daid
down in this great and wealthy county.
Inhuman Senators
In the message of our worthy Mayor
co lain members of the State Senate are
very hitterly assailed. He charges them
with unwarrantable interfeience in a
matter of local legislation, and even goes
so far as to declare that they lack "com
mn humanity." That is certainly a
very grave accusation to come from so
high a source as the Mayor of Lancaster
city, speaking authoritatively to City
Councils in his Annual:Message ; and
but for the fact that His Honor is great
ly given to getting offjokes it might be
considered serious.
When eve come to examine into this
matter,we find that all the fuss and fury
of the Mayor is excited by a complete
misapprehension of the aflitir about
which he is talking. The Democrats of
the Senate did not defeat the proposition
to borrow more money for our Water
Works. On the contrary they passed a
bill giving Councils authority to make
the loan which was asked, and it failed
to pass the House, where the Mayor's
political friends were largely in the ma
jority. :True it is, that the Senators, of
whom the Mayor complains so much,
did attach certain fair and proper
amendments to the bill, not with a de
sign of preventing the borrowing of
money, but for the purpose of correcting
some of the gross outrages of the "gerry
mander." If the Republican members
of the House from this county had been
actuated by anything except partisan
malignity,they would at once have pass
ed the bill as amended by Mr. Bucka
lew. Then the Mayor would have got
the money he had set his heart upon,
and we should have had some improve
ment in our city government, if not at
the Water Works.
OLD BEN. WADE has written a letter
declaring that be will accept the Radi
cal nomination for Governor of Ohio.
His former letter declining the office
was only a bit of political coquetry. We
hope he may be nominated and pitted
against the gallant General McCook.
The Free College.
We are glad to understand that the
movement instituted for the purpose of
making Franklin and Marshall a free
College forever for the young men of
Lancaster City and Township, is pro
gressing finely; more than half the re
quired sum—sls,ool}—has been already
raised, and but a comparatively small
number of our citizens have as yet been
called upon. The object is an exceed
ingly worthy one, and we trust that it
will continue to receive liberal support.
Great benefit will accrue from its suc
cessful accomplishment to both the City
and the College; the advantages will be
so great to both that we cannot say to
which they will be the greatest.
The City will be obviously benefited,
became all its young men, who desire
to acquire a liberal education, will be
able to achieve it, howsoever poor they
may be, since it will cost them nothing
but their time; and any young man
of fair abilities, who is really determin
ed upon thoroughly educating himself,
can readily earn enough money at odd
intervals and during vacations to keep
body and soul together while lie is go
ing through College. At the New
England Colleges young men are doing
this all the time. So that there is noth
ing iu the objection which some have
suggested to the project under discus
sion, that it will not benefit the City, in
asmuch as poor young men cannot spare
the time to go to college and to others
the tuition money will be no object.—
The latter part of the statement is even
more fallacious than the first; for while
the $156, which is the cost of tuition
during a four-years course, will probably
not be a sufficiently large sum to deter
parents in moderate circumstances from
sending their sons to College, who are
anxious to do so, yet it will be an im
portant element in fixing the determi
nation of the large number who are
constantly hesitating as to whether it
is worth while to gratiry the desire of
their sons to secure a collegiate educa
tion.
The freedom of College tuition to cit
izens of Lancaster will likewise benefit
our town, because it will add to its pop
ulation that numerous class of people
in moderate circumstances who are
anxious to start their children in
life with a lirst-rate education, be
lieving that it is the best capital
they can give them. Such parenta as
these, who are often widows or persons
retired from business, are always on the
lookout for a pleasant place of residence
where they call live comfortably and
educate their children cheaply. Lan
caster will fulfil these conditions. It
will give a good education for nothing.
If the free college is established, the
course of studies should be so lixed iu
our Male High School as to make it a
preparatory school [utile College,which
will then become in effect a part of our
Common School System.
The advantages to the Oillege from
the projected endowment are not less
obvious. It gets 5. , i." - ,,oun and gives in re
turn advantages which really cost it
nothing, but rather benefit it to give. --
It has facilities for teaching without ad
ditional expense a much larger number
of students than it now hue, and natur
ally desires to do all the good in its
power, and to teach as many as it can
accommodate. There is no danger that
Lancaster will ever send it more than it
can take. For every one that goes from
here, one will be added from abroad ;
since of nothing is it truer than of Col
leges, that to those who have, it shall be
given. Young men in selecting a Col
lege naturally select the one which has
the largest catalogue, thinking that
since it is the most prosperous, it must
be the best ; and then they want com
panions.
Some narrow-minded members of the
German Reformed Church object that
under the new arrangement students of
all religious denominations will be ad
mitted to the College. And so they will ;
and this is one of the best features of the
project. Theology is not taught in the
under-graduate departtnentsof Colleges,
nor do sectarian Colleges ever succeed.
A successful College needs to strike its
roots in every direction and to seek suc
cour front every source. If our tierman
Reformed friends are really desirous of
having a small private denominational
school with a Collegiate Charter and a
full corps of Professors, they can readily
arrange it, but they must show a far
greater disposition to reach deep into
their pockets after their filthy lucre,than
they have yet exhibited in their last
support of an institution which they
now loudly proclaim is a "Church Col
lege."
Conviction of a Radical Governor
One Radical reprobate has been
brought to justice, and it is to be hoped
that his fate may prove a warning to
other corrupt officials. David Butler,
the Republican Governor of Nebraska,
has been impeached, convicted and re
moved from office for the employment
of sets very similar in some respects to
those practised by President Grant. It
was clearly proven that lie converted
$1.7,000 of the school-moneys of the State
to his own use, and that lie lied to the
Legislature and misrepresented facts in
relation to the matter. I t was also sho w n
to the satisfaction of the Court of Im
peachment that lie accepted large sums
of money front parties who were favored
with State contracts, and "bartered the
influence of his public position for his
own private emolument."
For these crimes he has been convict
ed and removed from office in disgrace.
We believe it has never been proven that
President Grant actually appropriated
any public moneys to his own use, but
it is not denied that he has received large
sums of money front persons on whom
he has conferred offices, and that he has
"bartered the influence of his public
position for his own private emolu
ments." How much better is Grant in
this respect than the Radical Governor
of Nebraska? If the one deserved to be
impeached and removed front office does
not the other also merit a similar fate?
We cannot expect Congress to bring
Grant to justice, but the great court of
the people will try him if he persists in
forcing himself forward as a candidate
for re-election, and we can not doubt
that they will convict him and dismiss
him front the high office which he has
disgraced.
NEW HAMPSHIRE has experienced a
complete political revolution. For some
thirteen years she has been in possession
of the Radicals, but having at last seen
the error of her ways, she determined to
record the change that had come over
her in no timid and hesitating manner;
so she has made a complete change of
her rulers, and to-day will inaugurate a
Democratic Governor. The (governor's
Council is Democratic, and so are both
branches of the Legislature, as likewise
the entire delegation to Congress. The
New Hampshire Republicansseem to be
very much astonished at the sudden
collapse of their political lortunes ; they
made desperate efforts in the Legisla
ture to avert the impending ruin, but
they were of no avail. The old State
was determined to celebrate her return
to the Democratic fold, by sweeping
away every vestige of her submission to
Radical dominion.
Political
The amendment to the Constitution
of West Virginia, which removes polit
ical disabilities, and is popularly known
as the "Flick Amendment," has been
adopted. The complete official returns
were counted on June Ist, and show
that 23,546 votes were cast in favor, and
6323 votes against the amend men t,giving
a majority of 17,223 votes in favor of rat
ification. No returns were received from
McDowell and Logan counties. The
total vote was small, being only 29,869,
while the aggregate vote tor Governor
in 3870 was 56,030.
An Amendment to an Amendment
At the last Mayor's election the De
mocracy of this City very foolishly quar
reled among themselves, and the result
was the election of the present Radical
incumbent. Through the instrumen
tality of a most rascally gerrymander
the Republicans had obtained control of
both branches of the City Councils, and
when Mayor Atlee was inaugurated
they bad every department of the City
Government in their possession. They
came into power with loud professions in
favor of retrenching expenditures and
inaugurating a more economical man
agement of the affairs of our City. Near
ly two years have elapsed since the
election of Mayor Atlee, and we have
not yet been furnished with any full
account of the expenditures made under
his rule; but enough is known to ren
der it certain that the present adminis
tration has baen the most extravagant
this City has had since the days of
Know-Nothengistn. Not only has all
the money derived from ordinary sources
of revenue been spent, but the limit fix
ed to borrowing in the City Charter has
been reached long ago, as is proven by
the application for au extension of that
power which was made to the Legisla
ture at its late session.
A greater outrage than the gerryman-
der of this city, whereby the Republi
cans are assured an overwhelming ma
jority in each branclrof the City Coun
cils, was never perpetrated. The bill
was passed under the lash of party drill,
at a time when protests from the Democ
racy were utterly useless and always un
heeded. They naturally bided their
time, and were found ready to embrace
the first opportunity which offered for
remedying thegross injustice which had
been done. Having control of the State
Senate they determined to give the Re
publicans au opportunity to prove their
devotion to the system of cumulative
voting, which had received the sanction
of the Express and
_been approved by
both the Senators from j,ancaster
County.
The amendments which were attach
ed to Mr. Warfel's bill for borrowing
money were prepared by Senator Buck
alew, and they gave to the Republican
party a representation in the City Coun
cils fully as large as that party is enti-
tied to under any conceivable condition
of affairs. If they could have carried
the City at future elections, they would
have chosen all the City Officers and
have had a majority in both branches
of the City Councils; and, even when
the Dethoeracy carried the City, the
chances would have been that the Re
publicans would secure a majority in
the Common Council, owing to the
manner in which the wards are divided.
If there was any thing wrong in at
taching amendments so perfectly fair
to Mr. Warfel's bill for borrowing forty
thousand dollars, we can not see where
in it lies. Mr. 'Warfel's bill was an
amendment to the City ('barter, and
Mr. lluckalew's bill was an amendment
to the amendment. It came in at the
right place, was germain to the subject,
and proper according to Parliamentary
rule. The Democrats in the Senate
voted down the point of order raised by
the Lancaster Senators, and very prop
erly passed the bill with Mr. Bucks
lew's amendments. It failed to become
a law because the Republican represen
tatives front this County preferred to do
without the forty thousand dollars rath
er• than do away with the existing ger
rymander. That is the plain truth, and
the whining of the Mayor in his mes
sage is as childish and foolish as are the
comments of the Pap
The Democrats of the Senate were
not bound to permit the IZadical
Senators from Lancaster to pass any
bill they might desire. The prac
tice which prevails in our Legislature
whereby it has conic to be regard
ed as improper Mr one member to in
terfere with another's private bills, is
wrong in itself, and a source of much
of the corruption which prevails. The
"Senators from the Interior" of whom
our worthy Mayor complains so bitter
ly, did exactly what was right, and the
taxpayers of this city, without respect
to party, iiiight lo thank them fur it.—
They will certainly do so when they
come to sec the sum total of the money
which the exis:ing administration has
already expended, not on the Water
Works alone, but 011 various other jobs
and in a multitude of ways.
The New Jersey Railroad Companies.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Compa
ny iswaking vigorous exertions to have
its lease of the New Jersey united Rail
way Companies ratified by the necessa
ry two-thirds of the stockholders of
those roads. It has subsidized nearly
all the newspapers which are likely to
reach the eyes of the stockholders and
exercise any influence over their action.
It has a corps of writers busily engaged
in writing advertisements and " com
munications" for the newspapers,which
depict in glowing language and in con
vincing figures the great advantage
which the lease will be to the interests
of the holders of stock in the New Jer
sey lines. They propose to guarantee
ten-per-cunt. dividends upon the stock,
which they declare is not now earning
seven per cent. They are manifestly
therefore offering for it a great deal
more than they think it is worth ; and
one would think that the stock
holders of their own road would
be getting a little anxious as to
the effect of such an extravagant bar
gain upon their interests. They com
fort them, however, by declaring that
they can make a great deal inure money
out of the road than the present owners
can, and they talk mysteriously about
the immense increas2 of business they
will obtain by sinking a matter of live
millions of dollars or thereabouts in a
marsh at the New York terminus. In
asmuch as this New Jersey corporation
enjoys a ,nonopoly of the transportation
business between New York and Phila
adelphia, and now gets all the New
York freight Which the Pennsylvania
Company takes into or out of Philadel
phia, it is not surprising that many of
those interested in it are not tempted by
the oiler of a guaranteed ten-per-cent.
dividend, but prefer to operate their
own lines and work out their own sal
vation; confident that they will be more
apt to ihld themselves in the continued
receipt of ten-per-cent. dividends in the
future if they retain the control of their
roads, than they will be should they
surrender them for the guarantee of a
Company,which is recklessly guarantee
ing the undertakings of numberless
railroads from New York to San Fran
cisco and from Baltimore to New Or
leans.
President Galzmer, :of the Camden
and Amboy Railroad, is strenuously
opposing the confirmation of the lease,
believing that it is adverse to the best in
terests of the stockholders of his road ;
but he is likely to find that the interest
he is opposing is too powerful to be suc
cessfully opposed. The Pen nsyvania
Railroad people want a railroad of their
own to New York, and are satisfied that
they cannot get it without buying out
the powerful Railroad Corporation at
present occupying the ground. They
threaten, if they do not succeed in mak
ing the contemplated lease, that they
will build an opposition road to New
York ; but they know very well that
they cannot accomplish this in the face
of the hostility 01 the United Compa
nies.
THE Legislature of Rhode Island has
finally adopted a resolution to submit
amendments to the Constitution of the
State abolishing the property qualifica
tion for suffrage, but requiring that the
voter shall be able to read the Constitu
tion of the United States. This will
give the State an augmentation of
voters, as nearly all its inhabitants can
read and write, while it is generally
taken for granted that nobody holds any
property there except the rival families
of Sprague and Ives.
Captain James 11. Cooper
The following sketch of the Demo
cratic candidate for Surveyor-General is
fuller than any we have seen before.
It is taken from the Lawrence County
Democrat, and will be read with inter
est:
Captain James Harvey Cooper was born
in Ross township, Allegheny county, Pa.,
March 6th, 1840. He lost his parents when
quite young, and removed to Lawrence
county in 185:1. He attended the common
schools until he received as good au educa
tion as could be obtained by such means.
He then engaged in mercantile pursuits
with his brother in Mount Jacksnp. At
the breaking out of the rebellion, he on
hesitatingly made up his mind to enlist,
his love of country overcoming the persua
sions of his friends and his prospects in
business. lie was elected orderly-sergeant
of the Mount Jackson Guards, which after
wards became known as Battery B, of the
First Pennsylvania Artillery, but more fre
quently taking his own name—Cooper's
Battery. To write of what he did during
his term of enlistment, would only be to
re-write the history of that gallant organi
zation of men. He was an active partici
pant In the battles of Drainsville, Mechan
icsville, Gaines'Mill, New Market >1 Roads,
Malvern Hills, Gainesville, Second .Bull
Run,Chantilly, South Mountain, Antietam,
Fredericksburg first, and Fredericksburg
second, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Mine
Run, Rapidan River, Wilderness, Laurel
Hill, Spottsylvania Court-House, North
Anna River, and in front of Petersburgh
from the middle of June 6
184, until the Bth
of August, when after having served for
over three months more than the time :for
which he enlisted, he was honorably dis
charged. Before leaving, all the officers of
the regiment serving with the Army of the
Potomac, signed a petition to the Governor
for his appointment as Colonel of the regi
ment. It received very strong endorse•
mento from General Wainwright, com
manding the Artillery Brigade, Gen. Hunt,
Chief of Artillery of the Army of the Poto
mac, and Gen. Meade. This petition he
never presented. Gov. Curtin afterwards
in conversation with a mutual friend, re
gretted that Captain Cooper had not pre
sented it, as he said it would have been a
pleasure to him to promote so gallant an
officer. The Governor commissioned hint
Major without any solicitation. We feel
safe in asserting that no man in the army
was inure esteemed by his brother officers,
for those noble and manly qualities which
make the true gentleman, than was Captain
Cooper. His reputation as a soldier was
without a blot. He was the special favorite
of that other gallant soldier, Gen. John F.
, Reynolds. Words can scarcely convey to
the reader the high estimation in which he
was held by all those with whom he came
in contact, At the first battle of Freder
icksburg, when Battery 11 stood immovable
—the only opposition on the left of the line
to the enemy marching to the river in the
rear of our army—Gen. Reynolds said,
" Captain Cooper is one of the bravest sad
coolest men under fire I ever saw." Ilis
name is known all over the State. As to
integrity of character, he is known suffi
ciently well to our readers generally, to
make it unnecessary for us to say more than
that his straightforward, open, frank dispo
sition is only equalled by his modesty and
unassuming yet easy manners. His kind
ly beaming eye is the index to a noble,
benevolent heart, and the casual acquaint
ance is won to fast friendship. Ills busi
ness qualifications are of a high order, and
the office of Surveyor-General could be
placed in no better hands. Ile is also a
self-made man, anti a representative of the
laboring men of the country, having for the
past four years worked day after day on a
saw-mill, wher e, with coat ofT, he has labor
ed to regain his business fortunes, unfor
tunately but completely sacrificed while
battling for his country. In this too. he
shows the true spirit of the gentleman, ad
verse circumstances being powerless and in
vain to discourage and detest hint in busi
ness life.
For all these and many other reasons,
hundred of voters throughout the State,
without respect to party, will cast their bal
lots for Capt. Cooper. The Democracy, in
placing our favorite on the ticket, expects a
good report from Lawrence county at the
next election, and we are assured she will
do her duty. Let us all go to work now,
and take a native pride in ono who so nobly
sustained the reputation of our county in
the "times that tried men's souls."
(_;eneral McCandless, the candidate for
Auditor-General, is a favorite in Philadel
phia and the eastern part of the State, and
together, McCandless and Cooper make one
of the strongest and best tickets the Democ
racy has ever selected.
WitEx Holden, the Radical Gover
nor of North Carolina, was impeached
for various misdemeanors in office, and
removed, the papers in his interest cried
out political persecution. In that case
a majority of the Legislature was op
posed to the Governor. But what ex
cuse will be offered for Governor Butler
of Nebraska? He, like Holden, has
been impeached and removed fromoffice.
But it cannot be said that the move
ment was a Democratic one; for it origi
nated in a Radical House and was fol
lowed by conviction in a Radical Senate,
against a Radical Governor. A large,
section of the party in Ilse State was
hostile to the Governor, it is true, but
the hostility was due to his alleged mis
deeds, which the Senate votes have
proved against him. It is worthy of
note, that justice is at last reaching the
men, who having been lifted into pow
er by force and fraud, used their author
ity to rob the people of their rights.
EL=
The Clarion Democrat, nut to be be
hind its neighbors, has put on a new
suit of type, and is greatly improved in
appearance thereby. :%Ir. Brown gets
up a lively paper.
J. E. M'Laughlin, of Titusville, mid
N. L. Dorrance, of Chicago, will wrestle
for the championship and id,thio at the
Opera House, Titusville, on the twen
tieth inst.
Mr. Davis, of Liniestoneville, Mon
tour county, has secured a patent on a
gull, which will shoot sixty times in
succession. The inventor has been of
fered $::00,000 for the right.
~mall-pox has broken out in Erie.—
Cards announcing the terrible disease
have been posted up op several houses
in that city. The pure lake breezes are
expected to prevent it front spreading
much further.
A man named Frederick George, an
employee of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, was on Friday killed at Cono
maugh Station, some miles front Johns
town, while coupling cars there. Ile
was a resident of Latrobe, Westmore
land county.
Mr. Renneville Breneiser, who fell
from a scaffold in Reading, on Monday,
has died from the effects of his injuries.
He remained in a stupor up to the time
f his death, and it was believed that he
had sustained a concussion of the brain.
Mr. lireneiser leaves a family.
A passenger train on the Lebanon
and Pine (trove Rrilroad was wrecked
by running over some cows near Mif
flin Station, Pa., on Friday night. The
conductor, Joseph Thomas, was killed,
and. The brakenian and several passen
gers were injured.
Mr../F'rancis Bastian, of Jackson twp.,
I.yeoltOng county, died recently, aged
75 yeak t 8 months and 7 days. Mr.
Francis was the father of 14 children,
the grandfather of !II), and the great
grandfather of 27, in all 127 descend
ants.
The Philadelphia and Reading Rail
road Company have purchased some
twenty acres of land lying at tie junc
tion of the Chestnut Hill and Norris
town Railroab, on which they contem
plate erecting machine shops and other
works needed for the use of the German
town and Norristown branches of their
road.
On Monday morning, a boy by the
name of Wagner, son of Jamb Wagner,
residing in Spring Gat(len township,
York county, was drowned while bath
ing at the High Rock, on the Codorus
Creek. The body was afterwards re
covered and taken to the home of his
bereaved parents.
On Thursday last George Pollonger,
Esq., Register of York county, missed
a pocket-book, containing $-14t, and on
Friday evening, suspicion having point
ed to Edward Pfatiler, as the person
who committed the theft, a warrant
was issued for his arrest. Officer Pow
ell, of York, then took him in custody,
and $355 of the stolen money was found
in his possession, some of the bills be
ing identified as being among the mis
sing money. Prattler was committed
to prison in default of bail.
:On Tuesday afternoon, about 5 o'clock,
Samuel L. Ruckstool, aged ten years,
son of Mr. Samuel Ruckstool, of Read
ing, was drowned in the Union Canal,
at the aqueduct, above the Lancaster
bridge. He had gone in to swim with
some companions after school, and in
diving was caught in a broken plank at
the bottom, and was unable to re
lease himself. The alarm was given by
his comrades, but when help arrived
the unfortunate boy had been drowned.
His body was recovered after considera
ble effort.
On last Saturday, as Tobias Smith,
carpenter, was putting up scaffolding at
the barn of Noah Bergey, in the village
of Dublin, Bucks county, he was thrown
to the ground, a distance of some ten
feet, by the tilting of a board—and the
board following after, the end struck
him directly on the back, breaking his
spine—the unfortunate man surviving
his injury only until about nightfall.—
He was a young man, noted in the
neighborhood for both industry and in
tegrity and leaves to lament him a wife
and child—with many friends who son
row at his untimely decease.
E=!
Detroit has a colored base-ball club
called the "Waving Dillies."
In all quarters thanks are being given
for the recent much-needed rains.
Chief Justice Chase is said to be med
itating a trip to Europe this Summer.
A large number of guests are said to
have already taken up their residence
at Cape May.
John Brougham is quite ill at Hart
ford, Conn., and his theatrical engage
ments have been cancelled.
Five hundred and twenty-five thou
sand six hundred trains leave London
in the course of one year.
It will take sixty years to restore to
France the forests ruthlessly wasted in
the military operations of the late war.
John Brennan, of West Roxbury,
Mass., has been arrested on a charge of
beating his wife to death.
The militia were called out in Lin
coln, Pa., to stop the whipping of the
school teacher by a pupil's mamma.
A man in Kansas, on whose shoulder
a lady laid a lash, didn't sue for dam
ages, because it was an eyelash.
A Memphis journalist complains that
the delivery of Mr. Greelev's address in
that city was " slabsided and granny
ish."
The town in Coos county, N.
named " success" is a failure. After
twenty years it has only live inhabi
tants.
'The girls of Athole, Mass., whipped
the boys of that burg at base ball, the
other day, and are now recognized as
the coining women of that section.
A Virginia editor lent a copy of De
foe's "History of the Devil" to a friend,
who borrowed it under the delusion that
it was a biography of lien Butler.
Fadladeen, a race-horse owned by Mr.
T. B. Davis, of Alleghany county, Md.,
recently made a mile in 1:43, the fastest
time ever made in that county.
On Saturday night the wife of Prof.
Henry, of the ,Omithsonian Institute,
fell down a flight of stairs, breaking her
collar bone, right arm and wrist.
A boy at Hudson recently went in
swimming near the railroad track, when
a train came along and the locomotive
ruthlessly carried away his clothes.
The Emperor of China is said to have
a very large income from gaining houses,
estimated at not less than $:l,000,04)0 a
year.
A dress recently made by a fashiona
ble modiste in New York which W LL`4
ornamented by three hundred and forty
two bows.
George 11. Holden, a lawyer, of Suf
folk, 111 ass., has been sentenced to four
mouths' imprisonment, for implication
in a fraudulent divorce case.
The people of New Orleans hold mati
nees at the st. Charles Hotel in that
city, to gaze upon the Moabitish in
scription left upon its register by I borace
Greeley.
Edward Merrill, of East Lynne, Mass.,
is reported to have found, in a pork stew
he was eating, a diamond worth $2,500.
How the diamond got into the'stew is
a mystery.
A tornado swept over Paxton, ifol-
en and West Boylst.n, Mass., yester-
day, leveling every building in its path,
and injuring three persons, one of theta
seriously.
The chief sceret of comfort lies in not
suffering trifles to vex us, and in culti
vating an under-growth of small pleas
ures, since very few great mica are to he
had ou long leases.
The National Commercial Conven
tion is to hold its next.session at
Ihalti
more, :-_ , eptember Istlwand the city au
thorities are already making prepara
tions for the reception of the delegates.
Dawison, the German trage
dian, has been pronounced hopelessly
insane by his physicians. He can no
longer speak distinctly, and is said to
be in a state of idiocy.
The internal revenue receipts for the
first six days of the present 11100th show
a decrease of nearly $5,000,000 compared
with the receipts for the corresponding
days of June, ali7o.
A new tariff for Western freights hag
been adopted by the Erie, New York
Central, Hudson River and Pennsylva
nia Railroad lines. It is about per
cent. higher than that adopted last
month.
A Maine paper compliments two
young surgeons fo'r the skillful manlier
in which they performed a delicate op
eration, and predicts, "though the pa
tient died," great stweess to them in the
future.
Shoholu, I'ike county, Pa., is a pleas
ant summer resort. At the l t wt or Rald
Hill is a plot of ground covered with
stones, where small parties can kill
twenty-live rattlesnakes any warm
Morning.
One of Hartford's characters is a man
who throws dice with himself whenever
he wants a drink, to decide whether or
not he shall indulge. He has had a run
of poor luck lately, and is unpleasantly
affected by the consequent drouth.
Vaccination has received a new lease
of life from the testimony of Sir Win.
Renner, the great English physician,
who declares that he would be wanting
in his obligation to his six children did
lie permit them to go unvaccinated.
If there is a lesson, says an English
writer, to be learned from the burning
of Paris, it is that political passion
driven in on itself by external violence
festers in Frenchmen
. until it develops
political insanity.
The result of the primary elections in
California indicates the:nominations for
Governor, of Booth:by the Republicans,
and Haight by the Democrats. Both
are pledged to oppose local subsidies to
railroads.
At San Francisco, the Corner's jury
n the ease of the Chinaman who was
nu rdered in the street by a gang of boys
has found that he died from "causes un
known." The newspapers denounce
the iniquitous verdict.
Butterflies have been found flying at
sea, six hundres miles from laud. Their
buoyancy is great and the muscular ef
fort of flying must be small, while the
wind drives them forward rapidly over
great distances.
A fellow, having a spite at a sausage
maker, rushed into his shop, when
crowded with customers, threw a large
dead cat upon the counter and said:
"'Pleat makes nineteen ! we'll settle
when you're not so busy!" and made
his exit.:
A Jew, while indulging in a morsel
of forbidden food, had his meal inter
rupted by a terrific thunder-storm, and
as the thunder roared and the light
ning flashed around him, he exclaimed:
my soul, cot a budder -shust
about a leetle pork."
(ten. George 13. McClellan, the Hon.
Allan G. 'Thurman, and Wm. 13utler
Duncan, trustees for the re-organization
of the Atlantic and Great - Western Rail
way, have decided to make a final issue
of X-100,000 of re-organization stock, at
.t.so per cent., for the purpose of provid
ing funds to meet any contingencies or
claims that may arise prior to the sale of
the railway, under the decrees of fore
closure. The trustees have, according
ly, authorized agents in London to offer
this amount of stock for subscription to
the holders of the first issue of £400,000
stock.
WASH! NUTOS, June 9.-11 was an nob need
to-day that F. A. MacCarmey, who was
widely known and much esteemed, had
lost his reason, and been confined to the
Insane Asylum for treatment. Later in the
day new excitement was created by the re
port that much confusion had been discov
ered in his accounts as Disbursing (Hiker of
the Post-office Department. Postmaster-
General Crossw.ll was first informed of this
state of accounts on Friday last, and imme
diately commenced an investigation of
the matter, and although he has not yet
ascertained as to the exact amount due to
the Government, it is thought the deficit
will not vary far frornsl3o,ooo. Maceartney
on being interrogated by the Postmas
ter General acknowledged the deficit,
saying it was caused by blending public
and private business and by speculations
on water power and marble quarries at and
above H.rper's Ferry. MacCartnev told
the Postmaster-General he did not know
the precise amount he had invested in
these enterprises, but he assigned the
amount, whatever it may be, with his
other effects to the sureties on his bonds, iu
the department of justice, which is investi
gating the affair. It is the opinion that the
Government will not lose a cent. Mac-
Cartney is a man of education and culture,
a good writer, and successfully filled edi
torial positions on the Chronicle, National
Intelligence? . and Waehington Expreee. In
1809 he was appointed disbursing officer of
thePost-officeDepartment byMr.Cresswell,
whohad unbounded confidence in his integ
rity. For a year or two AI acCartney has been
In very bad health, suffering from con
sumption. He has only lately realized
that he must die with that disease. His
wife, also, is in bad health, and this, with
his own continued illness, greatly impaired
is mental faculties. MacCartney's friends
=plain that the term " defalcation" is
applied to the confusion, as they allege of
public and private property and funds,
when it is admitted that nothing is lost,
and when the fact of insanity would neces
sarily involve a derangement of business.
The fact is recalled that E. B. Olmstead,
MacCartney's immediate predecessor as
Disbursing Agent, was discovered to be a
defaulter to the amount of $65,000. His
lapse appeared to have resulted from aber
ration of the mind, produced it was stated
by excessive use of opium.
[For the Intelltsencer. ]
The Free college
Several meetings, attended by progres
sive and influential citizens, were held a
short time since in the Court House, for
the purpose of consummating a plan
whereby the young men of Lancaster city
and county may receive a liberal education
at small expense. To the accomplishment
of this magnanimous object Mr. H. Miller
files objections. With this privilege which
Mr. M. sees proper to exercise we find no
fault, we only claim the prerogative to dis
cuss and criticize the untenable and illiber
al Ideas on which his remarks aro based.
That any man, in this day of enlighten
ment and progress, should attempt to
throw obstacles in the way, to prevent
Franklin and Marshall College from con
secrating its halls to intellectual freedom
is to us a matter of surprise. We bad
thought long ago, that exclusiveness and
intolerance were numbered with the relics
of the past, and that an era of brightness
and goodness had dawned on the world,
foreshadoWing religious unity and univer
sal education.
In his first paragraph Mr. M. truly re
marks that the Free College question "is a
matter of some importance to the young
men of Lancaster city." We would briefly
add that it is not only a matter of some im
portance, but of great importance to them ;
and for this very reason Mr. M. should
lend his hand and heart to the movement,
and exercise his philanthropy in its behalf .
We know from experience something of
the difficulties that young men, not favored
with riches, have to encounter in securing
an education; and we further know that
the adoption of any measure, extending to
them greater facilities for obtaining thor
ough learning is recognized with heartfelt
gratitude and hailed with acclamations of
Further: ho says, "there is a scenting
beneficence in multiplying the means of
education and extending them free to all ;"
but he fails to demonstrate by any logic,
that making Franklin and Marshall Col
lege free forever would be but a Seellthly
beneficence. What Mr. M. means by stat
ing in the same paragraph, " that this bene
licenve may be modified by the motives
and by the actor," we cannot for the life
of us even conjecture.
Again : he asks "whether our citizens gen
erally desire the adoption of the meas
ure?" In the advance of testimony to the
contrary, We take it fur granted they do.—
Our people have a strange habit of endors
ing whatever is progressive; and at the
meeting in the Court llouse not a dissent
ing voice was heard—it was encouraged by
the eulogium, eloquence and logic of the
ablest men. "Would it be lawful?" That
point we cannot answer until we know
something of the provisions of the charter.
But if the legality of the question is the
only hindrance, it can soon be remedied;
for our legislative body would unanimous
ly favor an amendment to,or a remodeling
of the charter having in view an object so
beneficent and noble. Marshall College,
he argues, "was chartered without intend
ing special privileges to the young men of
Lancaster City." On this point, we sup
pose, the originators of the charter were
entirely neutral, and since they did not
embody in the charter any positive inter
dictions to an act of this nature, wo do not
imagine it to be a violation of the charter
to extend such privileges; and as special
privileges cannot be granted to all, it does
not follow that such privileges should be
granted to none ; besides, it is an old adage,
that charity begins at home. Though we
may be unable to extend relief to suffering
thousands abroad, the sequoia is not to be
inferred, that we are absolved from the
Christian duty of extending aid to the
needy at our very doors. "Marshall Col
lege was established with the special in
tention of educating young men aspiring
to the ministry of the German Reformed
Church," says Mr. M. Suppose that was
the original idea, is it an unpardonable sin
to modify and liberalize that intention.—
Does not M. know that the world moves,
and that in the course of human events we
move with it—that light and experience
point out to us our errors and methods of
improvement, and teach us the fallacy of
1110 V i up; in bigoted, circumscribed circles.
Besides all this, Mr. M. need not fear that
the doctrines of his church will not still be
taught ; and is it not in his opinion a con
stimulation devoutly to be wished, that
Jews, Infidels and Fanatics, shall sit at the
feet of Orthodox Protestanism, and hnbibe
those religious virtues to which he so tena
ciously clings? For the happy fruition of
such a same of ;Whirs lie should most earn
estly pray. The spirit of the times ainis
to erase denominational lines: and if we
expect the introduction of that golden age,
the millenium, of which the poets and
prophets have sung, it must bo accom
plished by unity of sentiment and action,
and not by fostering sklfish, sectarian
views. Mr. M. remarked, " the scheme is
unprecedented in the annals of any simi
lar institution." So much greater then the
glory which covers the College for individ
ualizing itself in so noble a manner. As a
wise pioneer it has taken initiative steps
that will be emulated by similar institu
tions, until the light of higher intelligence
shall have reached the lowliest dwellings
of our land. The doctrines which Christ
began to inaugurate were unprecedented
in the annals of the world's history, and
yet they were perfectly correct. In taking
steps towards linking this institution with
the Public School System, iLs friends have
manifested a truly democratic spirit.
M.'s arguments do not comport. He sa3 s
"the City of Lancaster already contains a
sufficient number of young men to crowd
that College, and with its rapidly increas
ing population soon there would not be
room enough for them all." Further on he
contradicts this statement, by adding, " i t
is not the paltry sum exacted for fees that
keep young men out of college." Wo hope
that the Free College may be tilled to over
flowing with young men from Lancaster
city, and should the building prove too
small, our lumber merchants will gladly
enlarge its dimensions.
Who knows but that there may be in the
streets of Lancaster the bare-footed boy,
who, through the instrumentality of the
Free College, is to become an Edwards or
a Simpson, to adorn the church and to add
lustre to the world's literature. Success to
the Free College movement. It. S. G.
,For the I ritelllgeDeer.!
Letter from New Crottle, Schuylkill Co
NEW CASTLE, June!, 1571.
-1/mars. Editora:—A large and enthusias
tic Democratic meeting was held in Potts
ville, on last !Monday. Speeches were made
by lion. William Randall, lion. James
Ellis. and others. It was agreed to hold
the Democratic County Convention on the
first Monday in July. We will tort have
much trouble to tied inert—and weal inerl
nit Lin our ticket. There are a con
siderable number who aro willing to sacri
fice themselves. We will have a very full
ticket this year: three Representatives;
one Law Judge; one Associate Judge;
District Attorney ; Commissioner's Solici
tor; Treasurer, County Commissioner;
County S4Oveyor ; Director the Poo!:
and Cot; el% Our manner of making
Count icket ditTers from some other
count' s. Each election district sends two
Delegates to the Convention. They have
the power to east the full Democratic vote
of the district which they represent. For
instance: if at the last October election a
district polled two hundred votes for the
party, each one of the delegates from that
district, will cast one hundred votes in the
Convention for his favorite candidate;
therefore, a candidate to be successful in
our Convention, must have a majority of
all the Democratic votes cast in the county
at the last October election. We do not
know whether it is the best plan that might
be devised or not, for making a good tick
et; it is certain that delegates representing
a district largely Democratic—say one that
casts four hundred votes for the party—
would have a much greater influence in
the Convention than those from a district
that polled only fifty Democratic votes.
If the Democrats in this county were as
corrupt as the Republicans are in Lancas
ter county, we do not think this system
would answer very well; but so far we
have been pretty successful, though some
of the best men in the party prefer the old
manner, the same as in Berks county.
A Coal-Breaker near this place was
burned a few evenings ago. It was the
work of an Incendiary. We believe it was
covered pretty well by insurance.
SCHUYLKILL.
Preaching and practicing do not always
go together. Henry H. Hurlburt, a noted
temperance lecturer In New York, was
sent to prison, at Whitestown, the other
day, for committing assault and battery
upon ayoung man while deliriously intox
icated. He now serves as a warning in
stead of au example.
Horace Greeley on Southern Whites
Having, with an unconscious Intimation
of his owu estimate of the relative import
ance of the two subjects, first devoted a
letter to the condition of the blacks in the
South, Mr. Greeley next devotes a column
of Tribune "editorial correspondence" to
that of the white race ; and this is the sub
stance of his conclusions: To the question
—"Do they acquiesce in the abolition of
slavery?" he answers:
" I am entirely confident that no consid
erable number of the Southern people
either expect or purpose to re-enslave their
former chattels. None know better than
the great body of the Southern whites that
the re-enslavement of the freedmen is a
moral impossibility. Their very general
complaint, he adds, that 'we can't control
our labor' has a very real foundation. A
given force, say twenty families, will not
pick so much cotton in the mouth as they
did ten years ago.
He thinks that emancipation has borne
less hardly upon planters than their wives.
Of these he says: "Many of the wisest and
most resolute among then: have learned to
do their owu work, with their daughters'
help; some have obtained white help,
mainly of foreign birth; others get on with
hired black servants, but most of these get
on badly."
The poor white next claims hk attention,
and is found to be much less black than he
has been painted. Certainly there are idle,
poor whites" still, as there are
equally worthless blacks; bur they are
fewer than they have been, and growing
fewer clay by day. The "corn-crackers,"
"sand-hitters,''"elay•eaters," of the
last generation, will be unknown as a class
after this century.
The political views of the Southerners
are thus intimated: "They propose to re
new the tight, but not with gun and saber.
Thep ex pect to regain as Democrats through
elections the power they lust as rebels
through war. They herein evince that
wisdom which protits by the lessons ut ex
perience.
"And while a bitter spirit is cherished by
many, 1 feel sure that the number who
acquiesce, it they do notabsolut•ly rejoice,
in the restoration of the print, is daily in
creasing. Thousands hate the 'carrot
baggers,' with their alleged corruptions
and spoliations, who protest that they do
not hate the 17nion."
Upon a review of the immediate outlook
in a partisan sense his conclusion is:
' "Should the South show an anti-Itepuli
liean majority in 1572, it will be a vow,-
quenee of injudivious appointments and
removals, of actual or reputed prodigality
in legislation or ill (Mice."
A summing up of the situation in a ina•
tonal and moral sense is stated in these
terms:
" That the South is steadily recovering
from the valaniities and losses consequent
on our late civil war, is very chylous. The
process might be more rapid, but could
hardly be inure substantial."
"It were irrational to expert that all the
bitterness engendered by twenty years if
sectional collision, including tour of bloody
sear, should be etract‘d in a day, and ut
course it is not; but the tendency is right
and 'rime will exert its healing inthietice
if no untoward liVrTit should
prevent it."
And in this connection it may he inter
esting to quote the extract from one of AI r.
iireeley's speeches, as reported by the
Vicksburg //craid, it only as throwing
some light upon the character of tbe man,
and his mental attitude toward the South.
ern people Nvhile making tl.l observations
upon which the foregoing 1•MII•ILI,i,,11,4 were
bared:
"I greet yen here, sail Mr. tl reeler, "as
citizens who will in bine ft' ol hoist„, Ihr
[gm?, of Stoncorn 1l „Mr kso Ito 11,11 /is f/too,
who n.,5 in lo•pnso 11 • 11110,, Horers:
echo will glory alike in the glory of R. if.
an welt an (/tear alm /Ought Ilgol n.Nt lute. Ile
felt that the clouds that now hover over the
country would be swept away, and vanish
in the grand, growing and rising republic
which will cite day embrace ill the coun
tries and all the people of this North Amer
ican Continent.”
From time to time we. hall endeavor I,
edify tax-payers of the Commonwealth
with the items from the last appropriatiim
bill. It will not do to overwhelm them
by bringing too many of these items to
gether at once. here is a rich nugget:
"For seats for public grounds, to Thom
-11-4 J. Close, fifteen hundred dollars."
Thomas .1. Close, wo understand, is a
loyal constituent of Robert Johnston, who
represents the Seventh Legislative District
of Philadelphia. Anxious to oblige his
friend, Thomas, :Mr. Johnson has ipi de
munificently put him down in the appal
priation bill for the above sum of fifteen
hundred dollars. It is not stipulated bow
many seats the aforesaid Thomas is to sup
ply in order to earn his money. 110 is
quite at liberty to furnish two seats or two
hundred. NV hen they Shall be delivered,
the loungers in the capitol-griiiiiiils will be
able to decide in regard to the subject.
Fifteen hundred dollars for seats in the
grounds is a good, round sum, line-fifth
of the amount, would provide all that are
required. There is no guaranty that
Thomas .1. ('lose will deliver any ..I these
appropriated seats. Ills rumored that this
Is ono Of the small jobs the profits ill . which
a little ring ini Capitol-I I ill are in the habit
of dividing among themselves. We ask
the Auditor-General to keep a sharp look
out for Thomas J. Close antl his stools.
The appropriation bill does not specify
when or to whom the seats are in be deliv
ered. TiiereMre it is the esigicial duty of
the Autlitord.eneral to see I. it that the
petty plunderers on the bill make nothing
out. of 'this paltry job. Ileretmi.rit it has
been the custom Mr the Superintendent...lj
the public grounds to provide the neces
sary seats. But a Radical member from
Philadelphia wanted a small job fora enttly
and the Capitol ring were lainishing for a
little "divy." Theiseason has come when
the new seats are needed, if needed at all.
Birds are singing in the hushes, and lovers
who seek the shade of the trees in Llie pub
tie grounds on sultry afternoons, wmild
be much obliged to Thomas if 110 would
hurry up the seats.
This sop which has been Iliing to the
hungry Thomas Well illustrates the loose
and improvident manner ill which the tat I,
lie money is thrown away. \\ * hen the ((m d
icalorgans of this cit raised a Hamm about
1
the enormous sums which have been ap
propriated, we prow jseil to show that each
extravagant item had been oldaineil
through the mendacity and greed of
their own officials. NV() shall redeem
that pledge. The house originated this ap
propriation bill. ()wing to the lateness of
the SeSSiOll the Democrats of the Senate
were not able to subject the bill to the
scrutiny which should have been given to
it. To have quarrelled with these items
would have jeoparded the entire appropri
ation and have still further prolonged the
session. 'lbis has enabled the Radical lob
by to pick up such crumbs as this which
has been flung to 'llionia.s .1. Close.—//ar
riA it ry .i'a /riot.
Where a Serpent Want Welcome for Onn
Terithe Fight with Alligators
A gentleman who has been stopping in
our midst for some time gives an account
of one of the most terrible scenes ever re
corded in the annals of this country. While
steaming up the placid waters of the( la
waha river he witnessed a conflict which
made his hair stand on end, never to be
forgotten. A fter rounding Sackett's Point
the stream widens and deepens, and the
water at this bend always looked troubled
and black.
Suddenly the steamer encountered a sea
of alligators, floundering and splashing in
water in every direction. Their bel
lowing shook the foundation of the waters.
The captain says that he never heard or
witnessed such a scene before, and never
wishes to again. Before the speed of the
little steamer could be checked they finind
themselves in the Midst of these terrible
monsters. To back ur go ahead
pessi
The passengers endeavored to drive them
away by shooting, and the hands on beard
beat them with hand-spikes, yet they seem
ed more determined to obstruct the passage
of the boat. The situation every Memel,
became critical, and the crew and passen
gers more amid more exhausted, and the de
sti netion oldie boat scented inevitable. Al
ready three colored hands had been devour
ed by these ternble monsters and several
others had been wounded, Several planks
were torn from the hull, and the steamer
was with difficulty kept from sinking.—
ust at this period a source of relief came.
A huge serpent appeared, making his way
from the lakes—the same, it is supposed,
that was seen at "Devil's Elbow " last fall.
The alligators 80011 dIVCIsed, following
the sea devil, or whatever you may call
and such righting never was witness
ed. At a point below, where the river
suddenly narrows, it soon became blocked
with dead alligators and the water was red
with blood. It is dilliculut to account for
the number and sudden appearance of
these animals, but the latest theory may
throw sortie fight Upon the Mu bject. It is
believed by ninny that there is a large sub
terranean passage of water between the
head waters of the tick lawaha, and the wa
ters of the Ukeecho bee lake, and that these
monsters have band their way here in
great numbers,and if not. 8.,11 exlerminat•
ed will obstruct the navigation of the OA
lawalia.—Pautko th•ratel
I=l
Some of Nephew Butler's friends h.iv ;rig
been indiscreet enough 'to publish in tile
Lecrtat Herald a fancifully flattering ac
count of his career as Co . itstil t;eneral to
Egypt, an American resident at Alexandria
followed in a letter giving. the real fact,. of
the case. lie charger that Butler openly
sold the minor appointments in his gilt,
says he is discourteous to American and
English travelers, and that the Americana
in Egypt "feel themselves aggrieved and
their country dishonored by his niannera,
his morals, and his official conduct. Per
sons interested in the reputation of ' Amer
ican drinks' may be satisfied with his con
vivial accomplirnments ; and the ghawazu
of Tanta and Ussidot were doubtless de
lighted by his distinguished patronage;
but real Americans do not feel It any honor
that he has demanded and received the rec
ognition of the fictitious American citizen
ship of some hungry Greeks, who hoped
thus to successfully prosecute their enor
mous and fraudulent demands against the
Egyptian Government." What more need
be said to prove that Consul Butler is a
worthy nephew of his uncle?
John Murchison, residing in Meade
county, Ky., having had a large piece of
skin torn off in a saw-mill recently, had
its place supplied by a rat skin, and the
surgical operation was a perfect success.
It is said to be the first case of the kind
on record.
10=!
Complete Victory—Weston Elected Clot.
eroor-.Both Branches of the Legisla
ture Democratic.
CONCORD, N. H., Jung 10.—After an all
night's session, spent in ingenious parlia
mentary delayings on a call for the pre
vious question, on Mr. Bingbani's resolu
tion to notify the Senate that the House
was organized, a vote was reached at six
o'clock this morning, and passed by a vole
of 148 yeas to 123 nays. The question then
reverted on Mr. Bingham's original -
tion, to notify the Senate of the organiza
tion of the House. which was passed, 147
to 121. Mr. Bingham then offered a reso
lution that the House is now ready to meet
the Senate in Joint Convention to till vs
eaneles, and moved the previous question.
After consultation with the leaders on the
Republican side, Mr. Bingham withdrew
his motion for the previous question, and
it was agreed that no opposition should be
made to the resolution, provided that Mr.
Scott, Republican, of Keene, be allowed to
vote on his arrival to day, as expected, and
that the baLot shall be kept open until his
arrival, or immolation from him. With
this Understanding the resolution of Mr.
Bingham passed without. opposition. At
7:15 A. M., a recess was taken until 11) A.
M. Many members were sleeping during
the tedious session, and had to lie aroused
by watchful friends to vote on the goes
tions as put.
At 11:311 A. M., the Senate and !Lome mot
in Joint Convention to till vacancies. 1 o
the Senate the Speaker announced the Con
stittitionaleandidatesito be for District .N um
ber lace, Daniel Marcy and W. It. Martin,
and called upon the members to prepare
heir ballots. Marcy, Democrat, was elected
by a vote of till to 111. The Convention
this afternoon filled the vacancy in the
Tenth Senatorial district by the following
vote: A Ihena Ilan, 11;1; Alvah Smith, 11.6,
Labor itmorili. The couvvot,oo the.
bul
hated lor Governor with the following . re
sult: James A. Weston, Democrat, 11;7;
James Pike, Radical, 1:3: 1 . The Logi...ln
lure will ad MI MI over tintiVrilesday, when
lievernor N . e...t.0n will be qualified, 'I hit
Vac•IllIele , ill the t . ”1111t•ih , 1" Ilktrivt. It, It,
tilled to - day, by the
1)1,110,er:it.
Ity the eleetioie+, ht-day, tete!' hrtliell
the t:t , cernou•nt hrreete. • 1 . I:o
1;i1V1.1 . 11,r tt ill prehably he Itmligtirated nu
NVetlt,lay nest.
Georroll Slo•rooto Moolsle% lo lir it Coo
didltie lor the Pre%ltlvon3.
11i.119,11 5111,1113.11111, , Sc ritten the Intl, qtr
lug 1.•ltor to lh1• I•dit,,r of Ih1• N err Yorl:
lir , hi , •lt put. all 1.1111 10/ :di talk
mak lug hull a 1,11 , 1141:110 I , l . thn
:
511.1., kNt'llE
ay 1 , 71.
Ti) ow it -
I iIIIVO 111,11 Irtlllg Lill. 'Fe X I jer
far the past 111,11.11, and hero 1110
lima I uu•et !ales I .pers, by
winch I see mute au unneeessat y 111”14, bns
heen r:?l,ed by a purported speech made
by Ill' at :l supper of the Vntott League
Club, of New t , rleans, the toght pre...d
ing my departure Irmo that cliy. \\M..
ever reported that as n sperch I.y toe, com
muted a breach 111 prepr iffy, I', tias i
prt , a14.41, luulla:l , ffe I ..,,,vlll
- le Irspeud 11, Ica,
the President Id . the \oril•ts' Ihal !la re
porters kern prosel,l and Ilatl
wa , i said 111,11h1 bo sa••ri',l and
1110 persons present. Nos,. as to poln m •s.
I think all my persumil friends Imusr toy
deep-seatud antqattlty to the subject, I I L
us 3 . ,a1 hem. not to Understand ale 1 hilt.
lry slate, and 1111 , 1111 all Ihal 1 say, 1 hal I
NEVKIt MEET' AND Nl, Ell \VI 1.1. A
I'.lTnl DATE I , l l a r ; r lIAT 11 ,
INATED 11 1,1 Tll VA: 1:.% ICI I I , 11..1
1 . 1•:ItENIP1 , 111 1.1" 1 , 1: , '1.1 .Tl':, A\l , Er Es I
I'NANINI”L',I.I I.li. 1 ,11.,1'1.1 , 1 , 1 , .c1.1
111 sr.ll
It ylOll ,•311 tint language Mt ringer Igl 4 , 11
\(V tins meaning pal areal libel t . % 1,11 , , II
I ymir iklethent servant,
NV. 'l'. Sit EItMAN,
NI:01y `1•1•tiellS the.11111141111i1.1•11t 51.01i1.11
lit the "Sllnily South" :lie now looking
splendidly, 1111111, the reenpet alive it'll.-
..noes ill a rapidly progressive
construction. The region whiell stietehes
From NOW Nlarl,t, in sslienatidnali ;•taility,
down the valley to Nloinit .I.teksnti, is es
Aerially and eminently etitilli•il In pliteell
in this eategory. It doe's tintil l s heart
good to 11:01,1 ailing the Vililey Tlll,-
161,11, het,Weell the 11111111, 111(1111 d, :11111 see
whutactive energy ean accomplish ill a
s,;iiiparutively short time. The gentlemen
who own andoreupy the titres brrgen is
Cato arc certainly leading the wiry
prnvenients. Beautiful barns, In idges,
dwelling-hoin-es, and a large and vapitelonis
!louring mill have sprung up sin.; Hal ar
as it by Magic. Th.; than
learn, is a niodul lit its kind. It 1•111,,,1•110
111111 1111.1.•11114.11t prejeetnr, builder and
Se learn. will he aide to grind and
d e liv e r ;i t Nl...tit three handred
barrels lit thine per week.
The mill presents it very ; 11 w
pistritilis• on the i/111.1110, and Is, SS, leurt,,
'4lllllllloli IA 1111 the VI•I'V hest 11111,11tnory that
rionlil he ..14.11nril. It Is tails under way,
and is turning orli siiiicrwr guaile
II is on :smith's .reek, :krill is br_
youd the reach of 111.141+. This will,
ill the very lwarl of Ihn lined grain grua
lug region 111 the valley, Enlist , of
Oc,nity, 11.1 11 huge I.usinovs. The 1111, el
11:(1.111 . 1., Ino, is 1111 d, lug bright and unusual-
IV cheerful in this st.etion ill the s
The wheat :Ind the g presenting a
VigilfetlS 111,111,11,111•1•, 11111! shill the vigil, of
prtigross rveryLviwiti :.1.1•11, 111111 the busy
Innis of active, moving every lu au'
heard, the prii,iiis•L is
0.
Hot it i • itliteli1111.11 n
How.
I ,sot week, says a Stalllierli eNclialfi.o,lo, a
gentleman living:war Lout,iatia,:\ I e.souri.
%vent fishing in 81111.1111 creel:. I laving
ledied until he Imecanit. 1.0111.1,4(yd, he look
a scut at the root ol a tree, threw his hook,
which WaS baited with a live Cra,Vll,ll, 11110
the Stroll.lll, lull leaning bawl: against the
tree, he Was SOOll 111 1110 land el'
dreaming t,llingettike.i, basses, etc. In Ile ,
nivantv hilt- Mr. Cratviisli, with a hook
through his knelt helm; it very couscieu
lions kind of a crawfish), loveallie 1.11 - 1011 ,01
hying u.ed as a 'Mil In decoy .oine
innocent denizen of the water Hint so un
pleasant. a plight, crawled In the shore, but
just 111 the 111110 to be seized by all untortii •
!nth , ground le g r. I It in
en . m31.11 his filtst, on timer., tin!,
until he was iiia,dieated and duly swallow
ed, Wll,Oll 1/I°, to Ills sOOrlOOW, lotiml that he
had dined 011 more than erattllsli, tsr bo
clollllil 1.11:a 110 %Vas lay! 011 a Inge, and
in his endeavor 11l free himself 11'0111
If, he awoke the sleeping fisherman,
who jumped up, rubbing his eyes and,
crying to 111 s li•ll,w-lishertnan that 1110 had
hooked a huge bass, for the
animal, in his efforts to extricate himself,
had slipped from the smooth rn •k into the
water, and was making quite a commotion
in the quiet tvaters of Ittillalo. The lisle,-
man, however, soon got hiset es open, and,
alter realizing the state of al;airs, wits
soon ;waster it the situation, for he held the
quadruped in the water until he was drown
ed, and drawing mini out, threw hiw over
his Sllollld, and Mangled for home, re
joicing, that he had 1111010, cuuugh liar 1,14
NVIle, Children and self Mr several days.
Pour little boys and two little girls ,cre
charged, at the Aldershot l'olive l'ourt the
other day, with doing two shillings' worth
01 damage to her majesty's rifle butts in
their search for spent bullets. A fp:Mind
nitric occurred in roust. T he mothers ..1'
the prisoners made a pathetic appeal to the
Magistrates Mr mercy, and, tailing iii their
eloquence, made a furious rush on the au
thorities. For some minutes there 'vas a
pitched battle liet,veen the police and the
women; while the unfortunate little e•riiu
dials, between friend and foe, we: LI heal ly
torn limb from 1111111. At length UM dis
turbine, was quelled, and the sentence was
pronounced, namely, tut(' months'
onment at Winchester jail. Doubtless the
magistrates score actuated by a desire to
put an eltectual slop to a dangerous Ilrao•
/11111 p.511 , 13' tll,O wire ,nlllO t• 1 1 ,1111 1-
4tailives ot aggravation in the ease which it,,
not appear in the published report, other
wise we should rn..,1 iuvllurd to Collmini•st
indignantly on the P110(1110114 .11,101,p,r
-tlOll bet, ten the oiler..o and the penalty.
1r this is a unumplc of justices'
administered at Aldershot, the go, erllllll,lit
will tint Miiipl•ll,4l to get rid of
tricities of unpaid judgeship by appoint
ing a ,•onwetem stipet.ii,ry officer.
flea
II T!!
'I lie A bona Trol,ltur• soya :
in Thursday afternoon last, as the ex
press train on the Western l'eni.sylvalint
Railroad was proceeding eastward, and
run riding aru eve about Mid way between
Leechlairg arid Apollo, in Armstrong co.,
the engineer 1111 Served a WI/Mallon the track
waving tar apron violently in the air.
The first thought was of danger, and lie
initnedietely applied Ins brakes and got the
train stopped j 11,4 in tune im prevent a 1.1.1 . -
did,' accident, as a [nits of rock weighing
about fifteen tons had !alien upon Lilt, track
a low rods trout where she had given the
signal. When the train stoplovil, the pas
sengers were not long in as
tvrtaining the
cause, and appreciating the noble conduct
of the y,uur country woman to whose
presence of mind they owed their I . ,11•110
from a shocking casualty. Colonel Hicks,
the conductor of the train, at once consult
ed with sortie of the passengers, Itllti ill
it short time IL purse of twenty dollars wus
unite up and presented to her. She gave
her Carrie as Mrs. Frank,
What wo have been talking of doing so
long, our Canadian neighls)rs, whose want
of enterprise we have been in the habit of
sneering at, have already nearly accom
plished in the way of cheap postage by
postal cards. Those new cum u li,au postal
cards, we learn, to he Issued by the Do
minion Post-oillee Department ill the early
part of June. They are formed On the
model of the English postal cards, by which
ordinary business communications of no
interest to Laders than the sender and re
ceiver, are written on one side of a card
(the size of a letter envelope), and the ad
dress to which it is to be delivered occupies
the other side. The price paid for these
cards on purchase Includes the postage, so
that on being mailed they are forwarded
with the least possible delay and at the
lowest current rates. The Canadian will
contain BOUM Improvements on the ling
nsh cards, one of which will be having
ruled lines whereupon to inscribe the name
and full address of the reeeiver.—Bosfon