Lancaster 2ntelligencer.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1871
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET
FOR AUDITOR GENERAL,
GEN. WILLIAM McCANDLESS,
OF FIIILADELFISIA
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 THAT,
AND DS OP IMPRESS THE
NEIGH TRUTH OF IT UPON THE
MIN HIS
Opposition to Grant's Re-nomination
A resolution recommending that
Grant be re-nominated, was introduced
into the Committee which was appoint
ed to prepare a platform at the Radical
State Convention of Pennsylvania, and,
after a full and free discussion, it was de
termined that the party ought not to be
weighted down by such a resolve in the,
campaign of this year. The prudent
men of the party wished to go before the
people of this State uncommitted on the
subject of the succession, but the office
holders were anxious to do all that lay
in their power to secure their continu
ance in the snug berths they occupy,
and, when the resolution which the
committee had rejected was offered in
open convention, there were enough
Federal officials present to secure Its
adoption.
Since the adjournment of the Penn
sylvania Radical State Convention sim
ilar assemblages have nu•t elsewhere,
and General (rant has been given the
cold shoulder. In the Ohio Convention,
those who were opposed to declaring in
favor of re-moan sating the present occu
pant of the Pre,idential chair proved
too strong for the crowd of revenue offi
cers, postmaster:4, tide•waiters and other
government employees. In lowa the
result was the saute. There was an en
dorsement of some of the measures of
the administration, but no declaration
in favor of (brunt's re-nomination. It
looks as if the Northwestern States
would openly oppose In . :int': re-nomi
nation when the Repnblic.m Natimml
Convention assembles.
The more thoughtful nom of the Re
publican party fear that eermin defeat
would be inevitable if . t ;mu t should be
again put forward. They see and feel
how completely he has lint the confi
dence of the American people, and are
convinced that no enthusiasm can be
created among the masses by again pa
rading his war-record before the country.
Gilt buttons cannot be made to shine so
brightly us to dazzle and blind conscien
tious voters. Should Grant be a candi
date for re-election he will be forced to
BMA or fall by the civil record
he made for himc,elf while in the Presi
dential chair. His official acts and the
motives which prompted them will be
closely scrutinized by the voters, and
'thousands who supported him before
will repudiate him if he should again
demand their su ttrages. It is not strange,
therefore, that opposition to Grant's re
nomination should be daily developing
within the limits of the Republican
party. The light between the office
holders and the Republicans who. are
not influenced by mere mercenary mo
tives will be a bitter one, and there will
be lively times among Radical politi
cians until the people settle the matter
by electing a Democrat.
A Governmental Failure
The Territorial Government provided
for Washington city by l'resident
Brant and a Radical Congress turns
out to be a failure. The lower
board of the City Councils which
was elected by a popular vote is
under the complete control of a set of
corrupt rascals. Appropriation bills of
the most extravagant character have
been devised and passed ; and every
hing of the kind has a big job in it. An
attempt to put nearly live millions of
dollars in the hands of a set of rogues,
with power to disburse it as they please
has just been exposed and the property
holders of the city are naturally indig
nant. The probabi i ties are that Congress
will be petitioned by nearly every proper
ty-holder, without respect to party, to
make the lower branch of the City
Councils appointive, as well as the other
officers. 'Phis State of affairs is one of
the effects of negro suffrage, which the
Radicals have forced upon the country
by means of the Fifteenth Amendment,
which is now part of the Constitution.
and only to be got rid of by the adop
tion of another amendment. In that
lies the criminality of the Radical lead
ers. They have managed with deep
cunning so to imbed negro suffrage in
the fundamental law of the land, that
we are forced to accept it as a fixed fact.
But it is Mule the less odious, because
we are unable to prevent the evil conse-
quences which now from it. While we
make no factious opposition to the negro
amendments, it is our duty to hold those
who forced them upon the country pp
to that scorn and contempt which they
BO justly merit.
A Timely Address
We publish elsewherg an address to
the Democracy of Pennsylvania, which
was prepared by Hon. J. S. Black, be-c'
fore the meeting of our State Conven
tion, and referred by the Committee on
Resolutions to the State Executive Com
mittee. It is a strong, full and clear
statement of the antagonistic posi
tions occupied by the two great
political parties of the country.—
It very properly arraigns the Repub
lican party for its many violations of
the Constitution and its numerous mis
deeds. The indictment is one from
which the Radicals will attempt in vain
to escape. All that is necessary to in
sure their punishment for the many
crimes they have committed is for the
Democracy to push the case to trial at
the bar of public opinion.
DruiNG the present year the womel
have gained several very decided vieto
rice in their struggle with the maseu
line part of the medical profession
They have been admitted to the clinic
of the Pennsylvania Ihospital iu Phila
delphia, after a prolonged struggle.
San Francisco they have succeeded in
obtaining the admission of one of their
delegates to the American Medical' As
sociation, and the American Honneo
pathic Institute has lately admitted
three women to membership. The
Medical Society of Pennsylvania has
decided to permit its members to con
sult with female physicians. So far as
the right of women to be recognized as
regular physicians is concerned, it may
now be considered as having been defi
nitely conceded. Opposition will still
he made in certain quarters, but as the
women cannot be dislogded from the
vantage ground they have already gain
ed, their complete victory is only a sues•
lion of time.
A GRANT and Cameron club has been
started in Baltimore. A desperate ellbrt
will be made to nominate Simon Cam
eron for Vice President, if the office
holders should succeed in forcing Urant
upon the Republican ticket. The com
bination would be a most appropriate
one. What Urant does not know about
making money out of office, Cameron
could soon teach him, and the two to
gether would manage to run the White
House, in such a manner as to secure a
revenue greater than any despotic rulers
ever wrung from their subjects.
THE election for Governor, State offi
cers and the Legislature, is made more
interesting in Kentucky, than usual,
because some forty thousand " colored
citizens" will vote for the first time,and
a United States Senator is to be chosen
in place of Hon. Garret Davis. In
'spite of the colored accession to the
Radical ranks, it is estimated that the
!Democratic majority will reach 30,000,
which is sufficient for all practical pur
poses. • •
THE LANCASTER WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1871.
The German Nation.
The success of the Germans in their
ate contest with the French has attract-
ed public attention to a nation which to
day stands at the head of the martial
powers of Europe. It was only in the
year 1701 that Leopold, by virtue of the
powers which are always assumed by
the Emperors of Germany, erected Du
cal Prussia into a Kingdom in favor of
the Elector of Brandenburg.
The rapid rise, progress and develop
, ent of apy nation Into power naturally
akens attention to its literature and
philosophy, as well as to its martial
prowess.
German literature cannot be said to
have had what we call an age of gold or
an epoch, where the progress of letters
was encouraged by the protection of the
Chiefs of the State. Leo tith in Italy,
Louis the xryth in France, and in an
cient times Pericles and Augustus gave
their names to their age. The reign of
Queen Anne may also be considered as
the most brilliant period of English
iterature. But the English nation,
solated as It Is, has never been indebted
o its monarchs for its great men.
Germany has been divided, and there
is no love for letters found in Austria;
and Frederick the Great, who centred
in himself the whole of Prussia,
manifested no interest for German writ
ers. Literature in Germany has there
fore never been united in a common
centre, and has found no support from
the Government. It is perhaps Indebt
ed to this isolation and indepcndence
for much of its originality and energy.
From the fact that men of letters in
(;ermauy have not been assisted and en
couraged by the Government, individu
al efforts have alone slowly developed
a literature as attractive and remarkable
as that of any of the civilized nations of
the globe. The German language has
been cultivated for a period of more than
a thousand years; first by the monks,
then by the chevaliers, and afterwards
by the artizans, such as Hans Sachs,
Sebastian Brand and others, up to the
time of the Reformation ; and lastly by
scholars, who have converted it into a
language proper, fur the expression of
every color of thought and every shade
of sentiment. In examining the works
of which the German literature is com-
Elt=gl
cultures, as upon mountains we see
strata of different rocks and minerals
which the revolutions of the earth have
deposited there. Thestyle changes with
the nature and character of the writers,
and a foreigner is required to make new
studies for each new book he desires to
understand.
Like most of the European nations,
the 6erinans: have had their Troubu
dors and soldiers, who sang the love of
combats. There is still in existence an
epic poem entitled Nibelungs, composed
in the 13th century, in which is found
the heroism and fidelity which then dis
tinguished man ; when everything was
like the primitive colors of nature, true,
strung and decided.
The Berman of this poem is more
ear and simple than it is at the present
ty ; general ideas were then not yet
nrodueed, and trails of character are
lone related. That nation w•as then
the most belligerent of Europe, and her
old traditions wily speak of strong cas
tles and beautiful mistresses, for the
possession of which life was willingly
yielded up. When at a later period
Maximilia9 undurtook to revive chiv
alry, the üblic mind of the nation
had no lodger that tendency, and the
religious quarrels had already cora-
meneed, which turned thought into
metaphysical:channels, and concentra
ted mental force in opinions, instead of
into war-like exploits.
Luther, in a singular manner, perfect
ed his language by making It serve the
purpose of religious discussion. His
translation of the Psalms and of the
Bible is yet a beautiful model. 'the
meth. conciseness which he imparts to
s style, is iionforomble to the Germ
The civil and religious wars in chic
the Germans had the misfortune of t
combatting with each other, withdrew
attention from literature; and when
they commenced its cultivation anew,
the influence of the age of Louis the
XIV th, was everywhere felt, and it be- I
came the fashion of all the writers of j
Europe to ituit.de the French.
The works of Hagedorn, of Gellert,
of W and others, were overburdened
with French. They contained nothing
original, nothing, that was conformable
to the natural genius of the nation.—
These authors desired to reach French
taste, without there being anything iu
their modes of life and their habits, to
give them inspiration. They subjected
themselves to this regulation, without
having either the elegance or the taste,
to render that despotism agreeable.
Another school soon succeeded to that
of the French, in the German Swiss.
This school was founded upon the imi
tation of the English writers. Bod
mar, supported by the example of the
great Haller, undertook to demonstrate
that English literature was more in
accord with the genius of the Germans
than French literature. Gottsched, a
learned man,but without taste or genius,
combatted this opinion. The dispute
between these two schools continued
for a considerable time, in which there
was developed as much acrimony as
learning. it was while this controver
sy was it its height that a few men com
menced hewing out a way for them
selves. Klopstock held the first rank
in the English, us Wieland did in the
French school. But Klopstock opened
a new career for his successors, whilst
Wieland was at the time the first and
the last of the French school of the
eighteenth century. The first, because
no one equaled him as a writer in this
style ; and the last, because, after him
the German writers followed an entire
ly different course, and for the past half
century German literature is essential
ly German, in all its characteristics.
There is in all the Teutonic nations
sparks of that sacred fire, which time
has rekindled from its ashes. Klopstock
in imitatmg the English succeeded in
awakening the imagination and the in
dividual character of the Germans in
literature, as Winkelman did in the
arts. Lessiug in criticism, and Cliethe
in; poetry—these men founded a true
German school, which is destined to ex
ercise as important an influence upon
mankind as the martial prowess of Ger
many exercises upon the destinies of
Europe.
The Methodist Book Concern
The Rev. Dr. Carleton, the manager
of the Methodist Book Concern of New
York, tills a remarkable variety of po
sitions. Besides being a clergyman and
the manager of the liook Concern he
testified the other day, in the examina
tion which is being had into the affairs
of the Ilook Establishment, that he was
an Alderman at Elizabeth, a Director of
the Shoe and Leather Bank, a Director
of the Home Life Insurance Company,
a Trustee of Genesee 'Western College,
also of the University at Syracuse, and
that he had been a Director of an Oil
Company. It strikes us that the Rev.
Dr. is being overworked, and that his
church ought to relieve him from the
managementof their Publishing House,
and remit him to the Directorship of
his Bank and Life Insurance Company,
and to his aldermanic dignity at Eliza
beth. Various ugly charges have been
made relative to his administration of
the Book Concern, by his assistant, Dr.
Lanahan, and the persecution which
the latter has thereby Incurred and the
efforts made by Carleton and his friends
to preventa full investigation being had
of the charges, has induced the public
to believe that there is a good founda
tion of truth in them. The Methodist
Church owes to itself that the affairs of
its Publishing House should be fully
inquired into, and if wrong has been
done, the guilty should be punished
without fear, favor or affection.
Grant at Long Branch
Our worthy President is enjoying
himself hugely at Long Branch, and is
not bothering himself about the affairs
of Government, unless perchance such
as there may be money in. Of this latter
class is the tax of a million dollars levied
upon the New York Central Railroad.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
and the Secretary of the Treasury de
cided that it must be paid ,and instructed
the Collector in New York to collect it
at once. Whereupon Vanderbilt ap
plies to the President and persuades him
to direct that the collection of the tax
shall be delayed. Now, why should the
President, on representations made by
the delinquent party, interfere with the
decision :in favor of the Government
which was arrived at by the proper offi
cer after a full argument of the questions
involved? The President must have
well known that his unnecessary and
improper interference in the disposition
of this case would give ground for the
suspicion that he was influenced by cor
rupt motives ; if he is not guilty, he is at
least very reckless of his reputation. Per
haps lie thinks that as that has pretty
well gone already, it is hardly worth
while for him to try to save its rem
' nants ; and perhaps too he don't think
anything at all about it ; which latter
supposition, as it is in accordance with
" the nature of the beast," is quite as
likely to be correct as any other. There
is one thing to be said iu favor:of the
presumption of Grant's honesty; which
is that he is not smart enough to be
anything else. The favorite newspaper
of our President seems to be the New
York Ilcrahl, which circumstance af
fords a significant indication of the
state of both his mental and moral
forces. They sympathize in their
strength and bias with the pabulum
upon which they feed. The reporter of
that journal interviews the President
about once a week upon the verandah
of the Long Branch Presidential palace.
He declares that lie is cordially re
ceived and being accommodated with a
plain but comfortable arm-chair upon
the right of his august entertertainer,
he proceeds to pump from the President
his opinions upon current topics. After
an exhaustive 011)11 he pumps him dry
and tills a column of the ikruid. flut
there is nothing in IL. Grant is an un
promising subject for an interviewer,
for he furnishes him neither with words
nor ideas.
The llepubllcan Ticket In Phllndelphla.
The City 'ticket, lately nominated by
the Republican Conventions of Phila
delphia, is very unsatisfactory to the
better class of the Republican party of
that city, and it is openly denounced by
the _North A itl./can, Inquirer,
and Telegraph. The corm pt ring of
politicians, which, under the lead of
Mann, Bunn and other like characters,
has so long ruled the Republican party
of Philadelphia, was completely suc
cessful in its attempt to dictate the can
didates; but these men seem to have
overreached themselves,and have made
a ticket which is so offensive and abomi
nable that the respectable portion of
the Republican party revolt against it,
and will refuse to vote for it. There
seems to be little doubt that if the Be -
mocracy present a reasonably good
ticket, it will receive a large majority of
the votes cast in October ; which is not,
however, saying that we are equally
confident that it will be declared to be
elected. The Ring people must have
known very well,when they made their
offensive nominations, that they:would
thereby disgust a large portion of
their party friends and lose many of
their votes. And—evenly balanced as
the two parties are in Philadelphia—
they would not have forced so many
obnoxious men upon their ticket if they
had relied for their election upon a fair
expression of the will of the people at
the ballot-box. It was because of the
immense power which is given them,
under the Philadelphia Registry Law,
to count and manipulate the ballots and
the returns in their own interests, that
they were so defiant of public opinion
in their nominations. They control the
appointment of the election officers and
of the Return Judges, and they expect
to declare their friends elected whether
they do or do not really receive a ma
jority of the votes cast. They will cheer
fully permit the people to do the voting,
quite satisfied that as they will do the
counting, they will be able to check
mate any disinclination which their
fellow-citizens may feel towards select
ing them as their rulers. They have
tried this game several times heretofore,
and with uniform success. But it is ob
vious that this is a pitcher which may
be taken to the well once too often ; and
time will show whether it can go there
again in October next without being
cracked.
The Ku-Klux Investigation
The Ku-Erlux investigation whie
he Radicals in Congress inaugurate
ast Winter, under the conviction tht
hey would make a great deal of polit
cal capital for the next, Presidential
campaign ,does n at seem to be answering
very well the desired end. The Com
mittee which is sitting in Washington,
does not seem to he getting hold of the
right sort of witnesses. They must be
scarce; and as the kind they are exam
ining now, do not testify to suit them,
we expeetan early th
Owing to the extreme htqlt of the %yea
er, the Committee has adjourned for
the Hennner to enjoy the ocean breezes
and the mountain shade.
A short time ago, they examined
Governor Lindsay, of Alabama, as to
the large and dangerous Ku-Klux or
ganization in that State ; and the Gov
ernor told them that he had official in
formation that there was nothing of the
kind there, and that somebody surely
must have been trilling with them,
when he put them on that scent. A
few days ago they examined General
Janice If. Clanton, of the same State,
who was equally ignorant of the exist
ence there of a Ku-Klux organization.
Ile had heard of outrages in a few local
ities by disguised bands, but Alabama
was as peaceable and quiet:as before the
war. No more violations had occurred
since the close of the war than in any
of the Northern States. The greater
part of the crimes in Alabama had been
committed by members of the Radical
party. The Democratic party in that
State were in favor of the education of
the negro. He had advocated it five
years ago in a speech in reply to Mr.
Wilson, of Massachusetts, and was al
ready advertised to deliver a speech on
the 10th of July next, at a State Educa
tional Convention, in favor of the edu
cation of the colored race.
The Only intimidation he knew of
at the last election, was by the Radical
colored voters against those of their own
color who wanted to vote the Demo
cratic ticket. The cause of all the trou
ble was not the brave men who fought
one another in the late war, but the
politicians, sutlers, and horse-holders
who followed the two armies. The
true men of each army respected one
another, and were willing to meet and
forget. The leaders of the Radical party
in Alabama, with but few exceptions,
were destitute of morals—mere irregu
lar spoilsmen.
Most of the negroes had behaved
well. A generous policy on the part of
the Government would hest subserve
the interests of both races in the South,
and soonest restore the fraternal feeling
and affection which once existed for the
Union. The South loved our form of
Government, but abhorred its malad
ministration. He had always counsel
ed submission to law and order, and
believed it could and would he preserved
in his State without any outside inter
ference.
IN the United States Circuit Court in
Philadelphia on Friday Judge Strong
decided in favor of the constitutionality
of the income tax.
Radical buppresalon of Truth
We have stated that there is no Ku-
Klux organization in Alabama, and
have given as our authority the testi
mony of Governor Lindsay and General
Clanton, of that State, as taken by the
Congressional Ku-Klux Investigation
Committee. Our Radical cotemporary,
the Expreas, took occasion on Friday to
plumply deny our statement and to
sneer at our authority as that of "two
Southern Democrats." It further asked :
What is the use of our Northern Copper
heads expending so much labor to disprove
the existence of an extensive, dangerous
and murderous secret political organiza
tion among the late rebels, when the fact is
admitted by newspapers and men of all
parties in the South, and only denied by
unscrupulous sympathizers, or attempted
to be belittled or concealed when it is
deemed necessary to hoodwink the North
ern people.
Unfortunately for our cotemporary
we received by telegraph from Alabama
on Friday of the following strong
confirmation of our position, and as it
will be perceived on first-class Radical
authority, that of the organ of the Re
publican party of the State:
MONTGOMERY, Jime23 —The Daily ,State
Journal, the organ of the Republican party
of Alabama, in its issue this morning says:
"We have lived in this State for more than
a quarter of a century, and have never felt
insecure in person or property on account
of political opinions. We are sincere in
our Republicanism, and we feel safe be•
cause we love our people, and honestly be
lieve that we are pursuing a course that
will redound to their peace, happiness and
prosperity.
" Those men who call themselves Re
publicans and who are continually trying
to got into ollice by stirring up discord and
strife and poisoning the minds of voters in
secret dens at midnight, where honest men
and sincere Republicans are plotted against,
simply because they are honest and sincere
and have social standing in the communi
ty, may feel unsafe. We indorse no such
libel upon the whole people of our State.—
Radical, vulturous Ku-Klux ellice-seekers
of every party are doing us inure harm as
a people than all the libels ever written.—
We believe that every hottest man is sid e
in Alabama, no matter what his political
opinions are."
That telegram duly appeared in our
elegraphic columns on Friday, just as
t was received. The Exprcs, received
t also, but finding that it gave the lie
o the article in its editorial columns,
it deliberately suppressed it. This is a
striking exemplilleation of the princi
ple—or rather want of principle—on
which our cotemporary is conducted.
The statement of falseho.nl and the sup
pression of truth, is its habitual mode
of enforcing its ideas. It is customary
for all live newspapers to publish all the
important news they receive by tele
graph, whatever may be its political
bearing or howsoever touch it may tend
denlolisli their political theories
They do this, because they publish
ncwspapers and believe that their read
ers are entitled to read of the events of
the day as they occur, for their satisfac
tion and enlihtenment. This is the
main end of the daily newspaper. It
furnishes the news and makes there
upon such editorial comment as seem to
it lilting and just.
The E.rprcB6 cannot say that it failed
o permit its readers to see the Alabama
elegram because it thought it unini
uprtant. It can hardly call a statement
unimportant which it thought proper
editorially to deny when it Was made
by us. The telegram contained a strong
denial of the existence of Ku-Klux in
Alabama, by the _Radical newspaper or-
gan of the State; and the Express re
fused to print it, although it gave as its
ground for refusing to believe a similar
denial made by us, that we were not in
a position to know as we were not on
the ground, and our authority was
worthless because it was Democratic.
The readers of the E.rp%cna will now
inderstand that they are only permit
ed to read such news as accords with
he views of the editor of the paper, wlto,
noreover, does not hesitate to make
statements and denials which are total
ly at variance with authentic informa
tion which is lying right under his
eye. This way of editing a paper,
it is true, is .one which it seems to
be difficult at present for Republi
can editors to avoid falling into.—
ley occupy so many untenable posi
lions, which thetruth, if fairly disclosed
would compel them to evacuate, tha
the temptation to them to suppress am
falsify it, is very great. But a party
which is thus compelled to sustain itsel
by fraud and deception is founded upon
le sand, and cannot long mainuti
itself. The rank and file of the party
will resent the insult to their intelli
gence, which is implied in keeping back
front them a true statement of facts as
they exist, and they will desert the false
teachers who would lure them into
sustaining their wrong; doing.
The elthrts of the Radival politicians
to have the Southern States once more
ground down under the iron heel of
military power, on the ground of the ex
istence there of a Ku-Klux organiza
tion, havilfg for its object the subver
sion of the government, will totally and
ignominiously fail of success. That
organization is a myth and does not ex
ist, as is abundantly proven by even
Radical authority. If the denial of its
existence in Alabama by the Radical
State organ is not sufficient, we append
for the benefit of our readers and of such
subscribers to the Erprcss as like to read
the news, the following statements of
the Radical U. S. District Judge:
Judge Busteed, of Alabama, was exam
ined by the Ku-Klux Cominittee, on Fri
day. Ile said that he was told confiden
tially, a year and a half ago, that there was
a Ku-Klux organization in the northern
part of the State, but his informant did not
tell Into its object. lie believed now there
was no such organization in the State.—
Person and property were as safe there as
in any other part of the Union. The char
acter of the subordinate State officials was
notoriously bad, both as to intelligence and
onesty. Since his appointment as Judge
by President Lincoln, there has been no
obstruction to the administration of his
office or the laws, except once by the Re
publican Auditor of the State. Ile thought
the feeling of the people was to obey the
laws, although deeply convinced that they
were not eilual and impartial. flu said Rev.
Mr. Lai: in s statements were untrue. Lakin
asserted that thirty-three indictments had
been found in .loge Busteed's Court for
violation of the Civil Rights Act, but the
truth was that only one indictment had
been found.
What eur Neighbor Thinks of Grant.
The Exprc,, had an editorial in its
last issue in which it dealt a very dam
aging blow at President Grant. After
bitterly assailing General Pleasanton,
the Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
doubting his capacity and casting sus
picions upon his honesty, it says :
•
"11e evidently relies upon the President
to sustain him, no matter how absurdly be
construes the law, or how great his incom
petency or unwarranted his assertions of
authority."
Now, if the assertions of the Expn•c.s.s
be true, (trant must either be utterly
incompetent to discharge the duties of
his office, or in corrupt collusion with
an unfaithful officer. The readers of
the Express can believe whichever ver
sion of the story may best suit them ;
but we hope none of them will fail to
remember what the Express has said
when, a year from this time, it urges
them to vote for the re-election of the
man against whom it brings such seri
ous and damaging accusations.
THE Efp /T.:SS copies a silly slander
against General McCandless from the
Harrisburg Slut , Journal. If will take
the trouble to look into Bates' History
it will find a record of gallant services
rendered by the Democratic candidate
for Auditor-General, of which any man
might welt be proud, while it will
search in vain throughout the contents
of three bulky volumes for ally favorable
notice of Dr. Stanton. He was a non
entity in the war, and would never have
been heard of in politics, if Cameron,
Quay and Mackey had not been casting
about to find a facile creature who would
unhesitatingly do the bidding of the
Treasury Ring. The Exprcss made some
pretense of fighting that gang of plun
derers on former occasions, but it now
yields a most ready and subservient
support to the tool of the corrupt com
bination. In so doing it belies all the
pretenses of political honesty which it
paraded so noisily bailie its readers.
A Confession
. The Express acknowledges that it
omitted to publish the telegram which
it received from Alabama, containing a
denial by the editor of the Radical State
organ of the existence of Ku-Klux in
that State ; a denial which " gave the
lie" to an editorial in the Express pub
lished in the same Issue which ought to
have contained the suppressed telegram.
I ttries to excuse itself for suppressing the
despatch, by declaring that the editor of
the paper did not know of its receipt,
and that it was left out because it had
not time to put in type. That we may
not do it injustice, we give its words as
follows :
• + • " The writer of the editorial re
ferred to did not know of its [the despatch]
having been sent until the next evening,
and the assistant, who has charge of the
telegraphic despatches, did not know there
was to be an editorial having a bearing on
the subject matter of the despatch." • •
"It is a matter of not unfrequeut occur
rence that despatches of no special interest
which come in late on Friday afternoon,
are not inserted, as was the axe in two
several instances, both on last Friday and
the Friday before." " Another telegraphic
despatch, which appeared in the Intelligen
cer of that evening,Avas also omitted."
Giving our cotemporary credit for
telling the truth in explanation of its
failure to give its readers the telegraphic
news to which they are entitled, we
may be allowed to express our mild
astonishment at the state of organiza
tion in its office which would render
such an occurrence possible. An editor
is generally supposed to know and to
direct what goes into his newspaper.—
But the sub-division of labor seems to
be so arranged by our neighbor, that
literally, one hand does not know
hat the other doeth. In behalf
of the .subscribers to the Repress,
we must protest against the " not un
frequent " suppression of telegraphic
news in which the editor of that paper
acknowledges that it indulges. Tttfy
are entitled to all the news, and if our
cotemporary does not reform its habits,
its readers will be compelled to rely
habitually, as they now do generally,
upon the I NTEimmENctm, to keep
them posted on the events of the d:ty.
They cannot be expected to suffer long
uncomplainingly because of the " not
unfrequent" suppression of news by the
Express, because of the desire of its
managers to get their Weekly to press
early or for any other such reason of
convenience to the Aloe. They wantthe
news; and the INTELIAGENuER gives
o them at whateter cost or Mconve
niente ; and so should the Exprom. Let
its editor hereafter see that the tele
egraphic news gets into his paper; and
be very careful likewise to tell the
truth in his editorials, to the eud that
they may never hereafter be contra-
dieted by the facts which should appear
in another column of his paper; other
wise the temptation to suppress the lat
ter may be too great to be resisted by
his reckless " assistant."
(i RA ST will be perfectly happy on the
4th of July. On that day the races at
Long Branch begin, and they are to be
kept up until the Sth. Nearly all the
st horses of the country will show
their paces, and there will be plenty of
free wine and cigars at the command of
his Excellency, and plenty of fast men
and women for him to associate with.
He will not give a thought to the cares
of State, unless some one should present
him with a fine horse, or a house, or a
farm, when he will take time to make
out a commission appointing the donor
to some lucrative Mike.
Hon. George Sharswood will spent,
the summer at Milford, Pike county,
This is his third season at that point.
A well•executed two dollar counter
felt bill on the West Chester Nationa
Bank is in circulation
(;eorge Cook, the Democrat
ic candidate for Governor of Ohio, was
born in 11'ashington county, Pennsyl
vania, ill 1521.
Mrs. Huteliiilson, residing near
Spruce creek, Huntingdon county, ad
ded three to the population, a few days
ago.
The Bellefonte Wal , hinun says " the
best-looking man in the late editorial
excursion party to Watkins Wen was
Frank Magee, of the It'i•ightsville Slur."
.1 edge Jordan, of the fourteenth judi
chit district, has decided that a man
cannot be legally imprii-oned for drunk
clo'neti unless lie commits a breach of
the peace. . ,
(tovernor Geary has signed the bill
requiring every vessel over seventy-five
toils burthen entering Philadelphia to
register at the Warden's °Mee and pay
0 I'l.o of &La).
Lewisburg has about 1i , :',06,000 invest
ed in manufactories, the yearly receipts
of which are about sn9s,ooo. The num
ber of melt employed is ;l2s, at Ott ex
pense of $135,00t1 annually.
John Beidler, an old citizen of Ches
ter county, residing near Lionville, who
is 92 years of age, has voted at every
election since he was twenty-One years
old, at one poll and at the same window
in Lionville.
" You'd better look out for yer buss'
feet above here, mister," said a ragge
boy to a Reading traveler. "NVIly ?'
said the gentleman, nervously Mullin
up. " Cos titer's a fork in the run
there," was the candid reply.
On Friday night last, the residence of
Francis M. Dick, in North George
street, York, was entered by burglars,
and a number of articles taken there
from, among which were two silver
watches,and a tin-boscontaining:valua
ble paper ,
The Great Council of Pennsylvania,
Improved Order of Red Men, will be
held in Pottsville during the third week
in July. Among other things, a grand
pic-nic will he given at Agricultural
Park on the ISth of July, in honor of
the Council.
A Philadelphia journal relates how a
lady in Indiana applied for a divorce on
the ground that her husband was a "con
founded fool," and the judge said that if
the plea were allowed, every man who
married would be liable to the same im
putation.
As a measure of municipal reform.
the Philadelphia. Public le, cord sug
gests that the present system of double
Councils be abolished and a single body
substituted, consisting of one member
from each Ward, with the Mayor as r.r
oilb•in President.
A large number of dead fish, large and
small, were observed floating yesterday
in the Pennsylvania Canal, between
Harrisburg and the lock at Rockville,
and between Fort Hunter and Rock,
Dille. The cause of this fatality among
the fish no one residing in the vicinity
was able to explain.
While Mr. Peter Binkley was riding
along on the mountain road, between
the Loudon and Mereersburg pikes, a
few nights ago, a wild:cat or catamount
sprang upon the back of his horse, but
notwithstanding it sunk its claws deep
into the flanks of the animal, be suc
ceeded in clearing himself of the dan
gerous companion.
Edward C. Pass, inside boss of the
Feeder Dam Colliery, Schuylkill coun
ty, was fatally injured on Saturday last.
He had gone into the mines on a tour
of inspection and had visited nearly all
the breaks, but on entering the last an
explosion of sulphur occurred, by which
lie had a leg and an arm broken and
was otherwise badly injured.
Hon. Asa Packer has signed an agree
ment to take charge of the New Jersey
West Line Railroad, and complete it
within eighteen months and settle its
indebtedness. He has teen chosen
President of the Board of Directors, with
Robert H. Sayre, of the Lehigh Valley
Railroad, as Vice•]'resident, and others
of the same road as Directors.
Ou Sunday evening as the passenger
train from Harrisburg approached Read
ing there were standing on the track,
near the Lebanon Valley Bridge, about
a dozen cows. The engineer, Barney
Butz, not being able to stop the engine
before reaching the cattle, put on a
strong head of steam and dashed through
them. The train ran over and killed
three of the cows and injured a fourth so
that she had to be killed.
A very large deposit of emery has
been found on the property of W. C.
Gray, in Middlotowu twp., Delaware
county, near Black Horse Tavern.—
Some years ago a small piece was found
on the surface, but little attention was
paid to it at the time. However, some
few weeks ago, W. C. Gray, of Newark,
N. J., a son of Mr. Gray, came on de
termined to develop it if possible, and
after digging to the depth of twenty
feet, his anticipations were realized. It
is supposed that hundreds of tons are
burled there. It is a very valuable
mineral.
News Items
Song of a gold hunter—'
news is ore."
The way to get at the root of a thing
is to—cligt
The last language to be spoken on
earth—The Finish.
The matter of a good-fitting coat is
only a matter of form.
Every drop in the sea of life imagines
itself an ocean.
What is the worst seat a man can sit
on—Self-conceit.
An unpleasant sort of arithmetic—
Division among families.
People who come to high words fre
quently indulge in low expressions.
Some people argue—very logically,
too—it's impossible to keep your word
if you give it.
" Out of sight, out of as the
mad wag said when he saw a blind lu
natic.
At San Francisco, Henry Weimer
was shot dead by Thomas Farren at a
christening party on Sunday.
Major Andrew Jackson Donelson died
suddenly at Cincinnati last evening
of cholera-morbus.
James M. Cavanaugh, it Is reported,
has even defeated of renomination as
delegate to Congress from Montana.
The President has appointed James
E. Dexter, of the District of Columbia,
to be Commissioner for the Centennial
Celebration of Philadelphia.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
given notice that the payment of the
July interest, without rebate, will be
commenced on Monday next.
Generals N. If. Forrest and Gordon
Adams, and District Attorney Jacobson,
of Mississippi, have been summoned to
testify before the Ku-Klux Committee.
The black bass are said to be literally
swarming in the Potomac opposite
Washington, and anglers are catching
them by the hundred.
"Are dose bells ringing for lire ti"
inquired Simon of Tiberius. "No in
deed," answered Tibe, " dey lib gut
plenty of tire, and de bells are ringing
for water.
During a thunder and hail storm at
Rockford, Coosa county, Ala., a dog was
killed by a flash of lightning while
being fed by a child. The child was not
hurt.
Butter k now imported from Austra
lia to England, and is said to arrive in
large quantities and in good order. It
is only a few years ago, since the reverse
was the ease.
A lire at Northampton, Mass., on Mon
day destroyed a building occupied by
Clement & Hawks' Manufaeturing Com
p.my and the Northampton Pegging
Machine Company. Loss, $165,000,
Cultivation of the beet for the mann-
facture of sugar is being prosecuted with
considerable vigor in England. A beet
root sugar company has just peen start.
ed at Sandwich, in Kent.
The stone-cutters on the New Capitol
building at Albany Pave demaded $4 50
for a day's work of eight hours, but this
has been refused by the Capitol Com
missioners. The stone-cutters now re
ceive $4 50 for ten hOurs' work.
The earth is said to be growing small
er. In two thousand million of years it
will be as small as Rhode Island, where
they are now unable to shoot woodcock
with the finest bird shot, for fear of
shooting into some other State.
At Stone Lake, Van Buren county,
Ind., on Thursday, Addle llwight was
shot dead by Chauncey Barnes, because
she refused to marry him. Barnes af
terwards shot himself, and is not ex-
.ected to live.
The American whaler Sunbeam re-
ports the submerging of the loftiest por
tion of the island of Tagolanda, lat. 2.2!)
N., lon. 12,5.20 E.) by eardmuake, be
tween March 2-Ith and 20th, to the depth
of 25 fathoms. Four hundred of the iu-
habitants perished.
At Princeville, 111., last Saturday, a
man named McNamee attempted to
hang Miss Patton, a school teacher, for
punishing his child. He succeeded in
fastening a rope around her neck, and
dragged her to the school door, when
she was rescued by two men who were
passing. McNamee is in jail.
Isaac Cl. Lansing, a farmer of Water
ford, Saratoga county, N. Y., was ar
rested on Thursday, charged with con
spiring to have his wife murdered. A
man, named Abram Devoes, swears
that he was paid :. , 105 to murder Mrs.
Lansing at night, during her husband's
tbsenej from home.
John Miles, engaged upon the Cali
ornia Docks in Jersey City, met a fear
ul death on Thursday. Ile was engaged
it hoisting a hogshead of tobacco, when
he ropes gave way, and the hogshead
ell upon him, ceushing hint to a shape
ess mass of flesh. Ile was about forty
years of age, and leaves a large faintly.
A closely-contested will suit at New
)'leans hinges on the validity of the
estatrix's mark, she having declared
that she "could not write," the opposite
party claiming that this is not equiva
lent to saying that site " did not know
how to write." The distinction is tech
nical but important.
Some robbers entered a Southern Ex
press car on the Mobile and Ohio Rail
road early last Sunday morning, over
powering the messenger, and threw out
a safe containing a large amount of
money. Subsequently the safe was
found open. On 'l'l n u•stlay two of the
thieves were captured, and part of the
money was recovered.
jl'or the Ititelllgenver
Letter front New fact le
N ism Cas - rmi, .1111102 i, 1071
if 0015. Edam, :—New Castle is located
at the base of the Broad Mountain, in
Schuylkill county, about four miles north
of Pottsville, a town with a population of
about fourteen thousand ; one mile north
west of St. Clair, the population of which
is between six and seven thousand. It—
New Castle—has a population cf about five
hundred souls, all told. By being so close
to those large towns, we have only two
storms, but they aro very good ones; three
taverns and many other places of business.
there are three or tour largo collieries
within a tulle of it. A branch of the Phil
adelphia and Reading Railroad passes
through it. Tine Company have purchased
a large tract of coal-band here, and we ex
pect they will soon sink a shaft on it. The I
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Com
pany have bought several thousand acres
of coal-lands inn the county; they are at
the pr,went time sinking a shaft at the East
Mines, a place about mid-way between
Pottsville and St. Clair. In a few years
they will own all the coal lands and col
leries in this county. Mr. F. Bowan, the
President of the road, is in Europe now.
The stock in tine Reading road is owned—
or the greater part of it—by , English capi
talists. The Company have got a loan
of twenty-live millions of dollars from
England recently; We suppose they aro
putting it in the lands and collieries which
they have perch:Wel. The valley upon
Which this village is situated Wits once,
We think, an inland lake, several miles in
length, but not very There are two
ravines in the Mine Hill, (a small 'noun
tain which runs parallel to the Broad
Mountain on the soutli,ione is near Miners
villa and is k (WII by the Miele of "Mine
Hill Bap ;" it is a narrow truinaccrac val
ley passing through the mountain to the
valley, not more than a h rind red yards
wide. 'rho railroad, township road, and a
small stream of water pass through it; on
each side of it the wall of rocks have a per
pendicular height of about two hundred
feet. There is no doubt that years ago
there was a cataract or water-fall there,
perhaps equal in grandeur to that of Niag
ara. Tim other is just north of St. Clair,
and is, we Stink, called the " Narrows."
This one is somewhat deeper then the one
at Millersville. A large creek, township
road and railroad pass through it. Now,
if the water wore but ono-half inch of the
rock away in one year, about five or six
thousand years ago thee• gorges were not
in the mountain, and this valley was a
great inland lake, and at St. Clair and Mi
nersv We, were Falls equal inn height and
grandeur :to any on the continent. The
scenery in Schuylkill county, we think,
is as good as any in the State. There are
many people in Lancaster county that
spend every year several hundred dollars
traveling ; they could not make a better
investment than to plat some of it in our
mountainous,country. Besides the natural
scenery, there are works of art here that
would be very interesting to people living
in a place remote from coal-mines. Our
hotels in Pottsville, Ashland, Mahanony
and Minersville, are as good as any to be
found in the State, and a more hospitable
people can not be found anywhere than in
our county. A more obliging and genial
set of landlords are hard to find in any
city in the State, than in Pottsville. The
Merchants' Hotel, kept by Messrs. Med
' lar S Fager, is one of the best in Potts
ville. If any of my Lancaster county
friends come to this county, they would do
well to stop there. I should be pleased to
have them call and see me. If they do
they will always find the string to my
door-latch hanging on the outside.
SCHUYLKILL.
Editorial Excursion—Committee Re
port.
The following is the report of the com
mittee appointed to draft resolutions ex
pressing the thlinks of the Pennsylvania
Editorial Association, for hospitalities re
ceived daring their first Summer meeting
and excursion:
"My hnppi-
The Editorial Association of Pennsylva
nia desires to record its sense of obligation
to the various gentlemen to whom it Is in
debted for the great pleasure that has at
tended its first Summer meeting and ex
cursion: • _ .
_
To the Pennsylvania Central Railroad
Company, the Philadelphia and Erie Rail
road Company, the Reading Railroad Com
pany,the Catawissa Railroad Company and
the Cumberland Valley and Bald Eagle
Valley Railroad Company, we offer our
hearty acknowledgements for their kind
ness in extending the use of their respec
tive roads to the members of this Associa
ation, and the ladies accompanying them
on the excursion.
To Messrs. Henry W. Gwinner, of the
Pennsylvania Central Railroad, Ed. S.
Young, of the Northern Central Railroad,
and Wm. A. Baldwin, of the Philadelphia
and Erie Railroad, we return our thanks
for their promptness and courtesy in mak
ing all necessary arrangements for our ac
commodation and comfort while passing
over the several roads with which they are
connected.
To Mr. George W. I. Ball, second assist
ant general passenger agent of the Pennsyl
vania Central, who had charge of issuing
the excursion tickets, special thanks are
due for the efficient co-operation he gave
the Secretary of this Association iu arrang
ing the routes, and for the great t ains he
was at in performing that service in the
most satisfactory manner.
To the Mayor and citizens of Williams
port, for their cordial reception ; to Messrs.
Schofield h Barry, of the Herdic House
and Minnequa, for their entertainment; to
Messrs. E. W. Capron and J.11..1. Kinstoo,
for their active co-operation and kind at
tentions; to Mr. Peter Herdic, for a !Mist
agreeable excursion: on the Susquehanna,
and many other considerate attentions; to
Mr. Wm. U. Elliott, proprietor of the
Academy of Music, for the use of his beau
tiful building in which to hold the meeting
of this Association, we ako return our
warmest thanks.
To Messrs. John J. Van Allen, Frederic
Davis, Jr., NVIi. Baldwin, G. A. Wicks, IS.
Hurd, of Watkins, N. V., and to Mr. L.
M. Llano, of the Watkins Expnws, for the
open-hearted hospitality witn which they
welcomed us to their beautiful village, for
the generous provisions freely made for our
entertainment, and for a delightful excur
sion on Seneca Lake. Their friendly wel
come will long he gratefully remembered.
To Messrs. Baker k Sons, of the Fall
Brook House; to Messrs. Gamble Rich.
ardson, of the Jefferson House; Mr. D. C.
Wilcox. of the Langdon House, and Mr.
Calvin ISarthie, of the Waverly, we are in
debted for unusual attention to nor com
fort while in their respective hotels during
our stay at Watkins.
To the proprietors of the liciavan lions(
and Rathbun !louse, at Elmira, N. V., ani
to V. Al. Long. Son, of the Troy house,
Troy, Is., and also to the citif.en; of Troy
our thanks are due and are hereby tender
ed her their many courtesies.
We cordially thank Mr. E. B. Parsons
proprietor of Watkins' Glen, Alr. Joshui
Jones, lessee of the Mountain Ilouse, am
Mr. lorvalden Ells, manager of the (lien,
for their unromitted attention, and for th
elegant entertainment provided for us. A
the cattle 111110 WO would express our ill
debtedness to the Plea.sant Valley \Vint
Company, for their liberal and opportune
supply of their sparkling product. The
pleasure of our visit to Watkins' Glen and
our appreciation of its marvelous beauty,
which excited our wonder and admiration,
were much enhanced by the kindness of all
connected with that charming resort.
To the conductors and attaches of the V,
lions roads over which we paNSOti, we are
indebted for courteous attention to all our
Wall La. Their affability has contributed
largely to the enjoyment of our trip, and
we cannot too warmly commend the a b ility
with which they hare disyhargisi the duties
of their trying positions.
Finally, our thanks are eminently due to
H. S. Menamin, Secretary of the Associa
tion, for his tact in organizing this excur
sion, for the ability he has displayed in iL
management, and for his ceaseless and suc
cessful endeavors to proraote the pleasure
(]l' all participants in this delightful social
re-union of the Pennsylvania press.
Respectfully submitted,
Ir. J. Sea II LE, 1J ettysbu rg Com pi I,r,
lit HA It YOUNG, York True Demurral,
P. DEA Lt', Phil's. Boning Herald,
W.W. li. hay no, DoylestownDemocrra,
E. 11. M esDAY, Phil'a. Proof-Ebert,
Committee
The Great Railroad Lease—Eleetion of
°Meer.. of the N. J. Railroad—The
Prospects.
The directors of the New Jersey Railroad
Company Met on Friday, and elected the
following Board of Dilicers :—President,
A. 1.. Dennis ; Treasurer, 11..I.Southmayd;
Superintendent (and Vice-President), li'.
W. Jackson ; Secretary and littneral Pas
senger Agent, F. W. Rankin. The subject
of the lease to the Pennsylvania Railroad
was discussed, and front the statements
made by the Committee having charge of
the lett..so, it appears that of thc, 70,000 shares,
owners of over 50,000 have approved of the
agreement. Since it is claimed that only a
two-thirds vote is necessary wider the law,
the friends of the lease have thus secured
3000 shares more ti t an are needed. lif the
Camden and Amboy Railroad Company,
holders of 3.1,000 shares have approved out
of the whole number of shares, 50,500. In
the Raritan and Delawate Canal Company,
the committee have procured signatures
representing :"0,000 out of 5.5,500 shares.
There are now needed 5000 shares from
both companies to make up the required
wo.thiros vote. The assent of this amount
of stock the committee are confident of
obtaining, and it is probable that it will be
obtained—by purchase of the stock, if in no
other way.
on the other hand, the opponents of the
lease are nuking up their delay by attack
ing the lease in the courts. Thu injunction
which has been prepared to prevent the
officers of a mutual board from executing
the lease will probably be served early in
the present week, and both parties will
prepare for a hard struggle in the Court of
Chancery. In the Philadelphia Common
Council, on Thursday evening, a resolution
was introduced instructing the City Direc
tors of the Pennsylvania Railroad to use
every practicable effort to prevent the pro
posed lease, and the City Solicitor to adopt
legal measures by injunction in equity to
arrest and prevent the measure. The res
olution was prefaced by a long preamble,
averring that the consummation of the lease
would necessarily shift the seaboard point,
thereby occasioning vast injury to the coin
meneial interests of Philadelphia. The
resolution was received with favor and was
debated at length, the speakers favoring
the defeat of the lease. It was finally re
ferred to the appropriate committee. It is
hoped by the friends of the lease—Who ex
press the greatest contempt for those legal
proceedings—that the proper number of
signatures may be obtained before July I,
so that the Pennsylvania Company may
take possession,
Serionii Difficulty Helve' Pill...gland and
cer maim Deiiire
The (s)rrespondent or the New irk 11,a•-
ald in Berlin scuds the Inll"wing
ISERLIN, .111110 '25.—A serious eninplica
tion has arisen between (;erlllatly and Eng
land, and several despatches are passing
between Prince Bisinacrk and E.trl ran
villa.
The German Government observes
im
penetrable silence on the subject of the
present difficulty. but I Rill informed that
Prince Bismark hits addressed a not° to
Count Bernstorlf, the tierman representa
tive in London, informing him that the
Imperial German Government desired to
acquire Heligoland, and empowering him
to mako propositions to the British (love, :f
-luent for the purchase Oldie island.
Earl Granville replied in the same man
ner, saying that England Will 114,l part with
Heligoland, and that the ltritish I ;overt)
uient could fillertaill 110 proposition look
ing to the cession of that island.
l:pon which Prince Bismarck again ad
dressed the British government through
Count Bernstortf, declaring that the
arvlui
sitlon of Heligoland Was necessary for the
protection of the t ferroari coast, reciting as
an instance the facilillos for coaling and 1111-
111111111 y from attack which the French fleet
enjoyed at Heligoland, by which it was
enabled to blockade Hamburg and par
alyze the commerce of the German coast.
lie looked upon Heligoland, on Recount of
its elf's° proximity, as German territory,
and its possession by , any foreign power as
a standing menace to Germany.
Earl Granville again replied that Entr•
land was only hound to consider liar ii
interest,:; that the wish of Clic a
Germn v
ernment to acquire Heligoland did not
constitute her right to it, as the island had
never been under tferinitn rule,
The controversy now rests at this stage.
K iNosTON, Jam.. June 2l.—St. Thomas
advice of June 17th, litatt, that the l!. S.
war steamer left San Domingo on the 12th,
and 011 tie 1.101 the troops the•e, imm
boring 1200 to 12410, attacked an equal num
ber of Cabral's fort-es at San Juan. The
latter was defeated with heavy loss, includ
ing two cannon captured. General St.
Clair was killed, anti eighteen prisoners
and camp equipage were taken. When
Cabral saw it was necessary lor him to re
treat, he ordered a powder magazine to be
tired, which was dune, and nearly the whole
town of San Juan, according to report, was
destroyed. Baez during the action remain
ed at Azua, but has since returned to the
Capital. The Nantasket was at Satnana.—
The Swatara, after coaling, will return to
St. Domingo.
WASIIINOTON, June 26.—Insanity usu
ally causes a multitude of sins, but the
opinion is ventured that the plea was
carried to rather a •unusual extent in this
vicinity quite rec 9 tly. Itseems thateome
time last week Dr. 11. 11. Bean, of Charles
county, Marylain in the expressive lan
guage of a Washi ton judge, Ina decision
in a similar case, armed himself with a
shot gun and wont gunning for his neigh
bors.
An aged colored man, named Proctor,
came within range of this sportsman and
paid the penalty therefore by having the
whole top of his bead shot away. An in
quest w 11.4 subsequently held, and the Cor
oner's Jury summoned on this occasion
rendered a verdict to the effect that the
deceased came to his death at the hands of
Dr. Bean, while the latter was laboring
under a fit of temporary insanity, and the
murderer was subsequently released on
bail.
Foreign News
Inmanllly and Murder
Some Gomalp about Mr. Va
Ma Aspirations mug Ditappolutments.
From a readable sketch of Mr. Vallan
digham, written by "Mack," and publish
ed in the Chicago Bepubfican,wectuoto the
following paragraphs:
"Mr. Vallandigham would have been a
great statesman if he had not been so great
a politician. Ho was fond of popular ap
plause, fond of place, fond of power. He
was devoted to the Democratic Party be
cause he believed himself to be the Demo
cratic Party, and because be always bad
faith in a great reaction which would come
during his lifetime and give him fame and
position. Four years ago he felt well as
sured of a seat in the United States Senate
—which he had often told me was the goal
of his ambition ; though I believe ho would
have regarded it rather as the stepping
stone to the Presidency. The election of
Judge Thurman was the great disappoint
ment of his life. It produced a wonder
ful change in his character, making him
more selfish, more distrustful, and more
venomous than ever. Conversing with
him on the subject a year ago, ho said:
'That thing can't be repeated. Tho next
Democratic Legislature of Ohio will elect
me to the Senate, or by the eternal God it
will not elect any other Democrat. I am
tired of working for the benefit of others.'
This was in reply to a suggestion from me
that Pendleton would be chosen in the
event of a Democratic success this Fall.
There is a fact connected with the politi
cal history of the country during the Ad.
ministration of Andrew Johnson, which I
am astonished has never got into public
print, considering the activity and energy
of modern journalism. In the Spring of
immediately atter the veto of the Civil
Rights hill, rl r. Vallandigham went to'
Washington inspired with the idea of revo
lutionizing the party politics of the time,
and restoring the Democracy to eomplete ,
power. lie had gone see far as to draft lerti
cies of agreement, in which it wits stipula
ted that the President should give the pat
ronage or in, Federal l:uverutnent in the
different States to certain own therein
named, who, in [Urn should actively (inert
thelilsinVes in the illeastires of ti e '
then existing Administration. It is unnec
essary to say that Mr.Vallandigliam's m a ne
figured conspielionsly in the document ns
leader of thee Mie, Democracy. I lieVer Saw'
the original of this; but I saw what Mr.
Vallandighion said was a • rough draft'
of It. I was in Washington at the time of
Mr. Vallandigham's arrival; he sent a note
to me requesting Me to call and see !din,
which I did. lie told ine what he lead done
—that he had called on the President, ex
plained his mission, and left the document
with him ; and asked Hie to call on the
President that evening and get his views
of the matter. I eumluhed; 101 l l Memel the
President quite , unwilling to agree to the
Irons Of the colltritet. Ile objected to the
men who Were lianied in it, and especially
M r. obnoxious
to the people, out likely to do barn,
than gaud by their slipport of ally
istration: I called Upon Mr. Valbenilighain
next day, and told hint plainly what the
President had said. It seeined to excite
him very much to be told that he was un
popular. Ile insisted that he represented
:.:,1100,01111 of votes in the North, and that the
support of these votes could never lw ob
tained by any Administration that elisre
garded him, or consigned him to , a 'back
seat.' From that Lay torward he never
liked Andrew Johnson.
his life any be called a failure-and,
measured by his aspirations, I think it was
--it was attributable in no small degree to
his personal selfishness. Said I to him, one
day : "I l'yoU Were ;Ls 'hail fel low wel 1 -tact'
as Sam Cox, you'd be President ~r the
united States, if the I lonlooratie ',arty over
canto into power." His reply was a long
dissertation on the valises of What l had
Caned his Unsociability in. selfishness; and
it was to the effect that he had been badly
treated—that he had mot been advanced ley
the party in proportion I, his deserts—that
he had inrilishod the brains to make other
men the leaders ; and that he Was sick and
tired of dial sort of thing, and must hence
forth look Wit for himself only.-
Theory (' •erolow SlIk(1111.1111111111 !dine.
An old rivertnan, who has fished in the.
Susquehanna tor forty years, sets up a new
and plausible theory concerning shad. Ile
says that Itefort3 the Philadelphia, Wil
mington and lialtiniore Itailroad was built,
thirty-two years ago, the sleet canto up in
immense numbers, and herring .veto sit
plentilul that they were used to enrich the
soil. Alter the completion of the road it
steamboat was placed at the mouth of the
Susquelettina at 1 I:tyro-do tine—, which
conveyed the cans across the river, here
about a mile in width.
boat, as the traffic increased, wits
almost in constant motion, day and night,
ploughing backward and forward, and the
commotion it created in the water had the
silent, it is believed, of driving the lisp back
into the bay to seek other and quieter
spawning-grounds, After Four years, since
the boat was su prrccde i I,y the magnifi
cent bri Igo which now spans the river at
that point, and Irotti that tittle the number
or shad ruining up has yearly increased.—
The past season has 110011 lOW of the most
successful knots, in many years on the
Susquehanna. yield ol . Coluttilli:t alone
has been as high as :illl.lO lio .10110 in twcuty
-I'our eonsectitlve hours.
The :Move theory of an old fisherman, is
deservedly worthy a atioaia,, 1101 ru tae
give it place in our columns. Conscious of
the anxiety Or our tip-river friends to en
courage the inhabitaifis of that deep to visit
their waters, :tint the construction nll/111.11-
ing, in the dams, and the prohibition
against lish-ba..skets, ci rot, in the river,
having htilt4l to furnish the coveted supply,
we call attention to the fact that, asteanilmat
crosses the river at this place almost he/trig,
and iron, old gout's thcorN• is corset, cer
tainly some injunctions should he placed
011 the boat. Let Commissioner 11'orral
and the ichthyologists 11i . the Shut' gist' lhu
matter deserving consulemtion. - IC, ,g/ds-
A Wi,li•rn Hank Robbed i lin• Do,
i • in 11.1 Aniliteiniviiy n
Boni Man
ner.
Doom the Mee, Imm hol,
'lllO county seat cd . this Ivas Vis
ited 1)y [Mir men on Saturday night, mutt
committed the boldest :mil most daring
robbery over committed in the West, rob
bing Ocobock Itrethers' bank of $44,00, at
the hour of two o'clock in the after:mem
and making their escape from a multitude
of men, who had assembled at that place
to hear It speech in the interest of the
I. and Nebraska It:litre:id, by Henry Clay
Dean.
For several days previous to the robbery
four strange ;l11(1 suspicious Characters hail
been seen in and about l'orydon,whose bus
iness no one knew. I laving heard that J 1 r.
Dean was 1.0 address the people or Corydon
on Saturday last, they armed theniselve.
each with tour navy revolvers, and rode
Corydon, taking advantage of the larg
number of men ill 1.10411, sollo were at tha
hour collected at the Meth o dist Episcopal
Church, to hear Mr. Dean, the church be
ing situated some distance from the s q uare
The robbers rode into town and m
to the front door of the bank.
Mr. h 'obock, the junior member
of the firtn was seated in the bark
room of the bank. They quietly and coolly
approached him, each presenting a revol
ver, and said: "(let up, walk easy, don't
say a word, and unlock that safe."
Oeoliock, appreciating the situation,
went to the safe, and it seems found it dif
ficult to hit Lhr 1,111 hilillt1 , 111, either through
Jr 4 from some other eat/Se, When
0110 of the robbers drew back his revolver,
and, in a C11111111:01,h11g eoirr, th.lllalllloll
hint to "open that safe within live seemuls."
The vale way lIIII , Jeked by \1 r. OcolJocli,
when one of the party grabbed for
the money and got it, crammed it into
a pair of saddle , bags, which they had
brought along, for that purpose, and bid the
banker "goodday," mounting their hors,
dashing through town and right by the
church occ upi(•d by at least six hundred
111,1, dClialltly Ilourishing thl . ir
Mviting the air , ady-alarined crowd
• renll. and yelling at the top of their
voices, "II urrali for John 11'ilkes Booth."
and "Take us it you can." our, of them
llourislied a 1,,,1Ver and it 1 1 .0 1 .111.1 the
crowd that, that was "OW Dud that killed
thus slict,ssflllty com
mitting their hellish deed, and making
their escape.
The Board of Supervisors of the county
s iu session, :Lull has generou.ly uttered
he:liberal remtrol :, , -I,olpo for the arrest of
ill! parties, ehii h u e Srhot.e will be suill
a,:nt ini,utive to their capture.
A Wife for 85.000---A floor Cane of ?for
ry log for Jtooey--The Judge Po,
Med.
'Thomas \‘'right desired one or iSir 101IoS
ba marry ;She said that he must first
give her a mortgage on his property. This
he derliui•tl to dn, but they finally came to
all agreement that he should ell, her it
note Then she married him.—
They soon quarreled, and
She sued ill the anti the referee
found in her favor. 'l•he husband appealed
the Supreme Court, Ileneriii Term,
v'estnrility, though divided, affirmed the
judgment.
Judge ('itrdozo, uiving the opinion of the
majority, holds that the consideration of
the promise or no,rroigo, followed by the
fulfilment, is sufficient, and that whatever
rimy have been the 0111 law, under tile re
cent st dmen giving a Wile illilepetsielit
rights ill her nroperty her right of action
was not extinguished by her isiverture.
Whether her action shoot.' have
law or on the equity hide of the Court ile
holds immaterial.
Judge liarnard dissenting„ thinks that
the consideration did notarise, and there
tore the contract wan not completed until
after tile marriage, when (A tracts between
the plaintitt and defendent would have
been null.—.Neis 1 - ark Sun.
Heavy Whlmkey Fraud,.
The preliminary examination into the
Baltimore whiskey frauds, whereby it is
claimed that the uovernment has been
swindled out of upwards of a million of
dollars, has resulted in the binding of one
of the defendants, Charles C. Gogel over to
the United States District Court in $3,000
bail. There are three of these cases, con
cerning as many parties, in each of which
a charge is made, to wit: Having removed
distilled spirits from the place where they
were distilled to a place other than a bond
ed warehouse, and with having bribed the
United States revenue officers. In (fogeys
case the amount involved is about three
hundred thousand dollars. The ruling of
United States Commissioner Rogers wl3-4
that from the testimony already produced
before him by the supervisor, Mr. Fulton,
and the affidavits which had been filed
with him, he was satisfied that there was
sufficient probability of the guilt of the ae
cused, for him to hold him for another tri
bunal, and that he thought it was his duly
to bold him to appear to-day.;
' New Jersey Caving-Zn.
[From the Now York World.]
BROADWAY, N. J., June 22.—'fie earth
quake which paid its shocking attentions
to New Jersey, Staten Island, and Long
Island on Sunday night last was also felt
hero. What is meant by " here " , thls
Broadway is a small village In Franklin
township. lying between the buoy, thriving
towns of Washington and Now 'Village. Its
population is small. Its houses, mostly
dwellings, are situated far apart.
• • • • 4QT t
The first break in the canal occurred on
Monday morning, at 10 o'clock.
Daniel Williams, captain of a boat, was
coming up the canal a little before 10
o'clock on Monday morning. Nothing
unusual occurred after passing New Vil
lage until he struck the shores of John Mc-
Kinney's farm, when suddenly ice heard a
great rushing mdse. His boat trembled,
and ho said to the boy at the rockier,
"'limes an earthquake, Billy." The white
faced captain ran to tam bow of his double
suctioned craft, and to his titter wonder
and dismay, saw an immense whirlpool
about 1101 feet ahead of him. 110 at unto
jerked the mule that was hauling the boat,
and ran the vessel hard against the tow
path shnro. In a few In Um boat was
[lard aground and the water In the canal
had begun very rapidly to recede. Jump
ing ashore, the captain, by this limo scared
almost to death, was immediately followed
by the boy at the he'll/. Nf, sootier had
his feet touched the towpath than another
sound struck his ears. It WILY ItlllloSt like
the report of a cannon. Looking over 11110
the cornfield on the ea.stern side of the
canal, he saw an immense hole in the art 11,
and, waiting ter 110 special instructions, ho
and the boy made a rapid retreat, and,
nislittn4 tip to StirtCs store, mail° Liman
what had happened.
An alarm war at 01100 Slllllllleol, 111111 the
villagers turned out in a body to look upon
the wonderful scene. A careful survey of
the ,unketi places was made, and eliorts
were at rune begun to till the lisle in Ito
canal.
hut the all :tbsorbing question was
1111 W
it, till it. Trees Were eta hun
dreds of
bundles of cornstalks were iili•
tallied, and these were thrown int.. the
vortex, down w Mich rho water sus Slat
pouring and disappearing as last Is it weal
des,. I' l lll3lly', slier nearly a due ' s won i s ,
hell or bag w:is Mimed, into w Inch earth
sans thrOWll :11111 .. 111111i111'11 11 1111111 it teas
thought safe to tiirti the water in the 11,1 , 1
again. The water Wlei accordingly Willett
011. 31111 the boat, began to passand re-pass
and business ell the canal Sc vitt
for nearly a
careful examination of t h e hots was
then made and ...stilted in 11111,10,111 g
nearly ,eery one present at the Sc 1111
(110 belief chat , It' use all e. pr0,..11 made
by calleller, Ito ll llllllie 1 was Wait ,
111 , , and 1111111111 1 t•t111111 1,1, 1 it, 100 hoe. -
The principal sink in the cormield was
1 . 01111.1 til 111 , ilbellL leetity !eel lal 111111111.11.1,
111111 nearly twenty Ilse feel deep. Thel , lo
Wit, era iIS regutuiv as 11 it had 14,11 111.1110
11111111'11,0 Fiore. At Its bolouu litV 3
111111. 1 , 11111110 01 1 Witler, hilt the 1•11r111 W Inc li
hail les,
T ,.•arried away 1,14 isw, here 1..
to seou. hus CAVIL N• s Ilhollt tall'llllll,ll,l
3101 Ally feet 11 , 011 1111' 1,111111, Oli
sceitiiing grsiniti. A botit sot e Ie!
[nun this lisle is another, finish less in
di:u actor, tut 'l.llom d eep..\ ll urea all
both of these excavations l widen err 111 it
ten-ecru lull are large Ilsslurs in the earth,
the WlllllO 101, 111 fart , living elliehell 111
every thing.
\\lien flu , earth disappeared and the , , ,
holes were made, a min tiling muse, 111,
distant Ihlmdrr, sas heard, caismig gen
cral consternation ilirm.glinnt Isla
i.4.171\ /-14`111i4, I kit..
thc Frrtrincottl
\\ hat Is lilt, 1•111••• L of Ilie the
S. Supreme Court reversing the lewd len
der Mv•ision 011 t•mitraets, where pArties
have agreed LP !lay gold, siker,
Spanish milled dollars, ell:. sie . ll I,IIIIIWI ,
as exist ill sort/ Illally L.:1 , 111101-11 . 111. (11,11,
11l this city and in other places? the
holders such rents hr 1/1111;4011 to e(sit
greenhavl:s ? M. It. 'l ' .
Si, fill: Its we 1111111,StIl1111 11111 hint 11101 1111 ,
1114.0 , 11 N Semen.. Cotirt, mi. The
points that Um Cmirt latssed upau in its
rombq - id on the Ist
1571, in the 0.1 , 1 iir vs. Lll, 0..11
l'ai ker vs. Davis, were- -First, is 11111 1101.1.1
Congress, kno tau us the I,egal Tender Act,
itutionai as to emitracts made byline
its passage ? Second, is it valid as 111111111,-
1110 t,l transactions since itspa , sage? Them.
q luestions were both decided ill 1.110 111111'11111-
11,1. l't,lll Is to say, Elie legal•tender 11111' IN
( . 1/11, , 1i1.11L11/11111, salt,! us to trinisav
lions since its passage. Thi, derision doe:+
not 111,1111 iho 911,,,u,,1, ur 1,1111,..•Is prowls
'
Mg payment or money ill gold or silver lll
callor spocillc thl nls, l'entratas promising
pay•nielit. er la‘vrtil money In the ordinary
:ts Nvell berme MS utter the passage of
the legal-tt•tiller art, in 15112, may be paid
in Mgal-teiriler notes. Previmis lu Me
original decision ill the legal-tender 15 5 1.,
ill deciding which Judges Il.tvis and Swam
wmilt against the Justice, both those
Judges agreed tcilh hint in holding, in
what is popularly known :Is 1110 "
ease," I Itrialson 55. 11.111/110,1 110vi,11 , 41 near
ly it year before, l ila/ in .111c:74
inquired ,tr payment itmild hilt e to la. 111
1,111. Art ti/1/ "
Hepburn vs. (iris it'll ldl tvhlrhtoWJ.
etiMret. the pa,vitient "r gold 1/11 a prom •
ise ill 11111 I.rilinary way to pay 1110110 Y,
stool PM• !pdri pirprio,o/
Chase, liner, NOl , llll, CllllOlll, 111111 VICIII,
1 ' /""0"' al ll'lll
11'1 . . 11l Itilat 511,11111 as Lim "wild ease, -
Itroii.i .1
ni . (15"1)1- , 1 WlllOll 0..111, I.LI 011 101,0
payment in the special medium proine.ed,
11,V11114 1,111. the Chief .1 listn•l. 11011 .1
Liti• pelf int )0,,, Itt
Nel,c,ll,Chlr , ll . ll,: ,, :iiik, ‘l,. awl 1 . MI,
ym• /Wilt r ',U", 11l- As appears
by the official l sport. 5111111 the "gold 011,1 ,-
111,i11141, 1111 Judge IPII 11111 141'11011 het
11111 14 1 ' Hier dissented Iron lho V ,ll ‘ l 111. 11
lay en : 111111 in 1110 stihscquent. 010.10 or Mil
ler vs. I lowlts, tlhoro thew:mind-n.lll tit.44l
called 171 r "giiinews, - tilt 110110,1 111111. ('sill
he 111.1,1 111:1.1 1110 partv: milst pay their 31110.
S" 1-11111. the 1 . 1 . 111 "." 11 rev ll' , Mg "11111. as
lillioWil 110 leg:Ll - 1011 1 10r 11001,1011 111.1• A
not 1011011 1110 1,0.0 as suggested by 01If
551•:•:Iii• 1,011 11r
thing is promised the !mini,'
Shortly before 1 i iichiek on Wednesday
night the residence nil Rev. Thomas It.
Harris, pastor of St. Paul's Episcopal
l'lnirch at Tremont, 'Westchester county,
N. V., wax entered by IL burglar whose
plundering opemtions, fortunately, awoke
the 'mini Luring head I dille 1411111 y. 11,,, i , .14
hastily slipped tut a pair of pantaloons, the
minister bounded to ILII nil joining ronni,
where he Hats', and at " tor " the
reliber, who was then 111 1111 , IL , L
Of rifling a dressing 1,40. Tile telenions
intruder— a retie,' of lusty
Olro'red a determined resistance, and in the
Inuitle-hand enceitiller w Inch immediate
ly ensued, the pure'" displayed a laudable
amount el muscular Christianity by put
ting " it head,' • adorned with a jet Marl:
,eve and numerous severe contusions, oil
the sorely bothered 111 , 1 . X Or his antagonist.
During the struggle lint, fellow fought his
way to the streettleer, and teltllid, perhaps,
have escaped, hail not the parson called
loudly fur assistance, which wen soon forth
coming front the startled neighbors, who
quickly ',,cured the desperado. tin meach
ing his person, seine eight or Nil., 111/II:US
were found, which the ruffian hail secured
by breaking 'pen a missionary contribu
tion-box and a child's "nuvingn-bank.' •
'rile ill!C11.1d was arruigueil Ll,lim, .I endure
Lent yesterday, whoa he gave hie menu Its
Williain Fischer, and slitted that he hail
wily arrived fr,in I;erinany about tw.,
months ago. Ile wits fully rimmilu•d liar
the action of the grand jury, new sitting at
I Ire mid itti I xpo..
llon oat Oil It,
II .... y.
A terrible explu.ion, followed bye luird
of name which shot up high in the air,
heard and seen in the vicinity I,r the l'ol et
I;rel•Ze 1 111.1 Workm, Philadelphia, on Thurs.
ibly night. about. nine o'clock. Indeed, 1.11 11
rl.l.ort. Wll4 heard tar into the city,
sound being very distinctly detected ill huh
vicinity et viri.h and Chestnut streets. 11
was V. at nil that the agitator, a large, cylin
drical wrought-iron tank, 1 , 1 , 11111 list
high, in the extensive /ill refinery estab
lishment of the Atlantic Petroleum Storage
I • auipauy, SlIjOi11011.! 10 the north of the gas
works, had exploded with 11 terro , h, Lurie,
blowing the huge top, weighing some six
Mns, to pieces. This agitator had a capacity
of smile 1 . 2.0,000 gallons, and louts well tilled
at the time of the tire and explosion. • 1 • o
this alone wan the tire Cllll li 11011. The place
is IL very ex LellSl VO ur.e, prolitibly the
largest in Llie country, and bail the lire
communicated to the other stills, tanks and
breaking-houses, the losses would have
been immense. ignited till was Imre
ing al midnight, and leis nn doubt contin •
tied to do 40 until the entire contents ale
consumed. Porto 1110.111 y 110111111 NILS injun•d
when the tire took place. Tie, refl.!, of
the eeLeidi.leeent is enable to state till,
reline or the lire. lle was 111 11111 adjoining
buildingl, when the explosion occurred, and
stated that 1411011 1.1111 01.111 thy ucrurreil 110
000 was near the tank. A number or lira
engines were iin the ground, but only 0110
wit I.llb into cure ire, to previmt the de
strnetion lir the wood-work adjoining the
agitator.
Four l I filrero to Portia's.° the lehool
and tttttttt le to lite claim...
New Your - ., June 1-I.—Tho San thin
morning says: We learn from unquestiou •
able authority that a proposition of the bil
lowing nature has been made by the Brit
ish loloverninent to the representatives in
London of the Cuban republic: England in
willing to guarantee to Spain the auto of
one hundred million dollars for the cession
of Cuba to the Cuhans. Cuba Is to hind
herself not to become annexed to the Unit
ed States for ono hundred yearn from the
date of her independence. Control of 800
Cuban custom-houses to be given by Cuba
to England as security for the loan until
the latter be paid ; and lastly, Cuba is to be
willing, if the Cowe' possessing the other
West India Islands consent thereto, to milli
one of a Confederacy consisting of all the
Islands.
Indians Wealthy In Splie of 'I her.
A telegram states that Col. E. C. Bondi
not addressed a largo number of Cherokeea
at Big Bend, Indian Territory, yesterday,
in which ho advised them, although they
had been to some extent deceived by the
government, to accept the situation, have
their lands sectionized, and sell the balance,
which would yield them a million of dol
lars, besides leaving 600 acres to earn
family, which in ten years would be worth
$15,0(N), making them the richett commu
nity In the world.