'Lancaster gintEllfgenter. WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1871 DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET. FOR AUDITOR GENERAL, GEN. WILLIAM McCANDLESS, OF PHILADELPHIA. FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL, CAPTAIN JAMES H. COOPER, OF LAWRENCE COMITY. A FULL POLL OF THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE WILL SECURE THE ELMTION OF OUR STATE TICKET BY A LARGE MAJORITY. LET EVERY DEMOCRAT REMEMBER THAT, MEND DR III I 3 NEIGHBOR THE TRUTH S. OF IT UPON THE s OF County Committee Meeting The members of the Democratic County Committee will meet for organization and election of Chairman, to serve for the ensuing campaign, at their Rooms in Centre Square. City of Lancaster, on TUESDAY, JULY 18th, 1871, at 11 o'clock, A. M. The punctual atten dance of every member In particulary uested, R. R. TSIIUDY, Chairtnan. 11. J. MOGnANN, Secretary. The following is the lint of the members wile compose the Committee. as far 114 11114 re turned to the Chat man Lancaster Cily let Ward-I'. F. IflcElligott. 2/1 Ward-Joseph Barnett. Ward-G. E. Selmer. Rh Ward-Dr. Henry Carpenter. Otis Ward-Jacob liundaker. Sin Ward-H. B. Swarr. 711. Ward-Wm. A. Morton. nth Ward-George Wall; Otis Wdrd-Fred Nixdorf. Adamstown-Reuben Bucher. Bari-Robert Ferguson. Ilreekuock-Reuben E. Shots,. Carnarvon-Daulei D. Zell. 5 'ls y-Wayne S. Hauck. I, calico Fast-Cyrus Ream. Cocalleo Went-Col. Jesse Reinhold. 'oleralne- Samuel U. Steloher. Gdombia-Ist Ward-Joseph M. Watt s. " 211 Wartl-14. S. Detwiler. Ward-Samuel Arno,. Conestoga-Ulrich Strickler. Conoy-John H aldema u, .Ir. Drumm - a -Richard Edwards. Donegal West-George W. Wormley, Sr. •' East (MaytowiD-John L. Jambs:. " I Marlettal- Wm. Rittenhouse " 11. Bramll. Earl- haute 8011. Earl Esot--George Duch man. Earl West-Henry Karnali. Eden-Willlant Dungan. Elizabeth-George 1 note. Elizabethtown-S. L. fetter. Ephrata-Dr. I Reeinsf* der. N'ullon-John Hawk. llemptield Went, (Sliver Springs;-11.•tiry M. Weller. Indlantown-Charles J. Rhodes. Lampeter West-Swum-1 Long. I.llllllleter Ell.lll-011. Jl/1•1 L. Ltght tn•r. Lancaster Township-Benjamin lint ser. Leneoek-Dr. S. R. :sample. Leaeock Upper-Ilenminln Work luau. Little lirltasn-Jest. Pat Larson. J r. Manlielm Tow nship-•Bernard J. Metlratin U.apho (Manhalin MeGoinis. Manor (New)-John S. Mllllll. Mart lc-Thos. I.abeziso. Marietta-Franklin Millendowu-Jacob (iamb. r. Mount Joy y Mount Joy Twp. John .)lest ILI, Paradlse-.A. P. Mel Irus 11. l'olll3—E.lllo 1111e1 KI•1•1.1•1'. I . l.4lllear—Alll l /1 1.. 1411,.. Petersoulg-B. I". Lutz. Providence -.1 oh n Tweed. Itgsho (Newlowil)-11. Menitcheon It. silo (Strickler's S. IL) -Jos. S. Dec wiser. Itohrendown-DoNld Ring wait, Sadnlntry-Wm. lloy. Salisbury-Wm. Hamilton. Strasburg Borough-sionniel P. Bower. Strasburg Township-Franklin stark. Warwick-Isaac F. Bomberger. Wanhington-.1511110,1 11. Douglass. Radical Extravagance In Municipal Af The CRS( of Philadelphia has been so districted that the Republicans have been able to bold absolute control of the City Councils for several years, and (lur ing that time thu debt of the city has been increased to au enormous extent. On the 'first of January last the debt of Philadelphia was over fifty millions of dollars. Since that time it line increased and it is still being swelled daily. The rate of taxation is no heavy as to be op pressively burthensoine. It takes fully forty per cent. of the money raised to pay the interest on the debt and the interest will noon absorb more than Ii fly_ per cent. of the taxes. We take these facts and figures front the columns of the Leaficr,a paper which is not given to misrepresentation. Another feature of Republican administration in Phila delphia is the fact that warrants drawn upon the City Treasury are not paid. La borers, mechanics, school teachers, jury_ men, contractors, and all others who trust the city are compelled either to wait a weary time for their money or to submit to a heavy shave at the hands of noine greedy broker. This is not only bard upon those who trust the city, but it is a disgrace to the municipality. At the beginning of the present year the claims thus outstanding amounted to 1,1.10,830.61, and they have been con stantly increasing ever since. Large additions have been made to these dis honored obligations a ithin the past six months. Familiarity with financial mismanagement under Radical mis rule has blunted tho sensibilities of the people of Philadelphia, but the weight of the burthens laid upon the shoulders of the taxpayers is becoming too griev ous to be tome. It is customary for the Republican newspapers of Philadelphia to attempt to shield their party friends from the opprobrium which they so richly de serve by pointing to the expenditures of a Democratic administration iu New York city. The comparison is certainly a most unfortunate one for those who make use of it. New York, with its magnificent public improvements, has something to show for the money which has been expended, but poor Philadel phia has almost nothing. Corrupt rings have stolen and wasted a very large per centage of the millions which have been wrung from the taxpayers of the plundered and debt-ridden quaker City. Wherever the Radicals have control of municipal governments extravagance has been the order of the day. W Mains port has just been released from their clutches, after being plunged so deeply into debt as to be practically it) a bank rupt condition. A short term of Radical rule in Lancaster has been sunicient to make an enormous addition to the debt of our city. All the money raised by taxation has been squandered, large stuns have been borrowed and the limit set to borrowing has long ago been ~reached, temporary loans have been made, and every conceivable device has been resorted to for the purpose of fur nishi ug supplies to an extravagant ad ministration. But that the Democratic minority in Common Colima/ have unit ed with a few Republicans who have sonic respect for obligations and sonic ideas of eConomy, there is no tell ing how much greater the addition to the debt of this city might have been. The debate ill the last meeting of the Common Council showed a repre hensible recklessness on the part of a majority of the dominant party. With great difficulty were they induced to al low time to form any estimate of the cost of certain proposed improvements, or to determine whether the necessities alleged to exist really constituted such "an emergency" as would justify the making of an extraordinary temporary loan. But for the judicious opposition of one or two members of his own party in Common Council, our young and vig orous Mayor would have forced through his pet scheme expending from twenty to fifty thousand dollars in the erection of a palatial lock-up, in which sumptuous quarters would have been provided for 'bummers and other disreputable char acters. Jobs of all kinds have been pro posed. Some of them have been defeat ed, but many of them have been put through. It is not likely that the peo ple of-Lancaster will learn how much he election of a Republican Mayor has ° tit them until a Democrat is chosen to succeed him. That wilt no doubt be done in October. and we shall then have a complete overhauling of the accounts, and a statement of the financial condi tion Of this city which the people can understand. It will tell a story of ex travagance, as compared with Demo cratic administrations, which will be heeded in the future by the tax-payers of Lancaster. NEW YORK speculators have furnish el Fabens with the large sum of money, which Is necessary to continue the lease of Simians Bay. Fabens could not raise a thousand dollars In Wall street on his own security. It Is the endorsement of U. S. Grant, and his assurance that the San, Domingo treaty will yet be put threugh, that enabled Fabeus to secure a ll: the money MI wanted. The San Domingo Job is flat yet dead. Grant is letting it sleep a while. THE L_A.N . CASTER WEEKLY INTELLIG-ENCER, WEDNESDAY, JULY . 12. 1871. General Sherman's Opinion. General Sherman has in his composi- tion the qualities of a plain, blunt, out spoken man. He is noted for truthful ness in the expression of his views, and he is not biased or restrained by political influence. He waged bitter and relent less war against the people of the South during the rebellion, and his march lo the sea was marked by the ruthless ravages of an unsparing conquerer.— But, as soon as the rebel armies sur rendered, he accepted that surrender in good faith, and from the hour when he arranged terms with General Johnston to the present he has Insisted that the people of the South were entitled to be fully trusted. In his speech at New Orleans he boldly avowed the belief that the Ku-Klux-Klan had no exist ence as a political organization. He regards the investigation now going on at Washington as nothing more than an attempt to manufacture capital for the Republican party, and, though a Re publican himself, he' does not approve of such measures. He has no fears that the people of the South will ever prove untrue to the pledges made by the lead ers of their armies when they laid down their arms. Having lived much in the South before the war, and Lev i Lig mingled freely with its people -duce the bitter contest ended, he is abundantly able to form a correct opin ion, and his views come to us with the sanction of authority. He is no seeking political aspirant. He has but recently declared that lie would not accept the ni nation for President If it were ten- erect to him. His present position at he head of the United States army suits him best, and he would not exchange it for the highest civil office in the gift of the American people. Hearing con stantly from his subordinates in the South he is better fitted than any man in the country to form a correct opin ion of the state of that section, and of the opinions held by tho:e who control the sentiments of the Southern people. At (.4eorgetown College he made a ,rief address before the students, which s calculated to explode the theories of he Republican leaders. After noticing he fact that the studen bi were from all :alas of the country, sonic from Maine, (one from A labaina, and some even 'min remote Mexieo—he said that " All Americans, whether they came from Alabama or Maine, must have at heart the interests of the whole country, which must never be divided." lie next lode(' to the war with the South, add with au einphasis , that gave more taut ordinary signilleatiee . to the words, would as soon expert to see an at nip( lu dissoto• this Union in fano . , nnej - 101/1 thc North usfrom the South." What have the Radicals to say to thi, opinion of the Commanderof the Armies thus boldly expressed. It explodes all the falsehoods the Republican newspa per press has been so industriously cir culating, and knocks away the props which bolster up the platform ;or the party. The declaration of ti eneral Sher man is true, and in its truthfulness lies the potency of the blows he strikes at the edifice of liesi which the Radicals ye been so industriously building The Temperance Men in the Field. The Temperance Men of Lancaster county have het etofore been looked upon :is a bob to the political kite of the Republican party; but, it appears that they are now disposed to assert their in dependence. On the 3rd of last June, the Executive Committee of the Tem perance Men of Lancaster, adopted the following resolutions, which we find published in the latest issue of the Key :dune, T,mplat : WnErcE,vi, Prohibition of the sale o gums is a political measure that ran only attained or enforced by the use of the allot in the election of friends of such ingsure to all Legislative or Executive offices in the gift of the people ; therefore, L'esol red, 'Phat this Committee, believ ing that the time has arrived for politically exemplifying our convictions of the im morality and impropriety of the licensed trade in liquors by endeavoring to till our public °Oleos with friends of prohibition of such traffic, do order and direct, and urgently ;all friends of Temperance to meet in Mass Convention, to he held in Temperance Hall, in the City of Lancas ter, a; le o'clock, A. ta., on Thursday, the 7th day of September, to nominate candi dates tier all offices to be tilled in Lancaster county :it the annual election of 1571, or so many of them as to the Convention may seen proper. Pr:mired, That a sub-committee of seven of whom M. Brosius, Esq., shall be chair- man, be appointed to issue a call for such Convention, in connection NviLli such other Friends of Temperance as may join in such call, and to make all needful arrangement, for such convention and the purposes of its assembling. Remolvol, That said sub-committee be authorized and directed respectfully to :id d roes each candidate who may be nominat- ed by the Republican and Democratic par ties, and ascertain their sentiments and practice. First—On the question of total abstinence front the use of alcoholic liquors as the duty of individuals. lierond—•l•he right and duty of the :State to prohibit the manufacture and sale of intoxicating drinks, and whether or not such candidau will favor the passage and execution laws to that end, anti submit to the Con ventiou all answers received. The comtnittee as constituted is com posed of the following, gentlemen, by whom the call for a convention has been formally issued : Brosius, James Ithtek, John 11. Pear soi, U. Knox, E. 11. Bauch, llarr Spaog Ilenry l coyer. Several of these individuals hay, heretofore figured conspicuously at. Radical politicians, and the conse quenee is that there is considerable ex vile:Hunt over their action among Bo leaders of that party. Both the ECM?' and the Loptircr have proceeded b read these men and their followers 0111 of the organization. lectlng of the State Teachers' Assoc The teachers of our Common Schools have banded themselves together into a regular Association, and a meeting of the body will be held at Williams port the tith, 9th and 10th of August.— A varied programme of exercises has been arranged for the occasion, awl the hotels have reduced their fare for the oc casion. It is estimated that there is hotel room in the city for live hundred guests, and accommodations will be pro vided for as many more at private houses. An excursion will be arranged at cheap rates from Williamsport to Ni agara. The chances are that the occa sion will prove to be a most interesting one. Prof. A. N. Raub, of Lock Haven, is President of the Association. The French Elections The supplementary elections, which were held in France on Sunday, to fill some 117 vacancies in the Assembly, have resulted, according to Versailles ad v ices, favorably to the admit] istration. It is claimed that of 114 heard from 80 or 90 moderate Republican deputies are elected. The Monarchists seem to have been beaten at nearly all points. Among the Republicans reported elected are Gambetta, Victor Hugo, Gen. Fuld herbe and other prominent Republicans. So the Republic seems to have to the extent of the election a fresli endorsement from the people, and a fair start on its peace probation. TILE Republican Congressional Com mittee is busily engaged In distributing electioneering documents. The mails are burthened with copies of speeches made in favor of the San Domingo job ; and there is no doubt that the scheme of annexation is to be keptalive so long as Grant remains in office. He will never abandon that promising specula tion until he is turned out of the White House. GRANT'S colt 118 said to be improving in health, and we are now informed by telegraph that the President will not visit Washington for some time to come. The seat of government is deserted, not a single Cabinet °nicer being in Wash ington. JUDGE WATTS has announced his de termination to accept the position of Commissioner of Agriculture, and it is probable that there will•be a new man chosen to preside over that very slow railroad, the Cumberland Valley. The San Domingo Job Not Dead People who imagine that the San Do- mingo Job is dead know nothing of Grant and less than nothing of the gang of greedy speculators by whom hale sur rounded. , The Springfield Republican says : Mr. San Domingo Fabena, who has been trying for some weeks past to raise money by private subscription to pay the second year's rent due from the United States for the lease of the Samana Bay, and who fail ed of getting much in Boston, has succeed ed in raising the needful in New York. He does this sort of business, we suppose, with the sanction of President Grant, who is very unwilling to give up his pet scheme of annexation, and is nursing it along in this undignified way till he can get it be fore Congress again. The President drew $150,000 in coin out of the Treasury of the United States to pay the first year's rent of Samana Bay. This he did without any warrant of law, taking the money from the Se cret-ServiceiFund in the Department of State. Grant expected that by taking the money thus surreptitiously from the Treasury he would be able to commit the country irretrievably to his job and to coerce Congress into a ratification of his illegal act. Of the money thus drawn from the Treasury only one-third was paid over to the Dominican author ities, the balance being pocketed by Grant's partners in the project, who proved to be doubly thieves, robbing both the United States and San Do mingo. A considerable portion of the money never left Washington City. The lease of Saniana Bay aL $150,1510 a year was an audacious fraud, like every other part of the annexation project.— As a coal-station the examination of the Commissioners showed it to be useless, the water being so shallow as to render coaling there a very expensive process. A more accessible and vastly better coal ing station is now rented at St. Thomas by the Navy Department for $50,000 a year. The ,failure of the San Domin go treaty concluded the lease of Santana, and the Slrayroll which were unlawfully taken from the Treasury by Grunt were irretrievably lost. 'the peo ple would have been satisfied to close out the job with a clean loss of that amount awl the unestimated expense of sending out the Commission, but Grant is nut willing to abandon his pet project. He has continued to keep two ships-of war on the coast of San Domingo for the express purpose of supporting the miserable despotism of Baez at the expense of the tax-payers of the United States. And, now his tools are " shinning it" round the cities to raise money enough to pay another year's rent, in order that the treaty with Baez may be kept alive and an oppor- tunity be given to force the job through some future Congress. I)ous any one suppose u dollar could be raised for such a purpose unless it win understood that the President was still barking up the San Domingo July" Men are often ready to risk their money iu desperate enterprises, but they want some very promising assurance that it will he re- paid to them with large interest. Grant has done all in his power since Congress adjourned to secure an en dorsement of his San Domingo Job from the Republican party. In Ohio it was his well-understood intention and de sire to force the noinitnition of lieu. Wade and the insertion of a San Do mingo plank in the platform. In lowa he did actually secure the passage of such a resolution. In the Pennsylvania Convention he was lauded and renomi nated, with the assurance that he could depend on both our Senators in any emergency, and upon the Radical mem bers in the House. Those who suppose that Grant has abandoned his San Domingo Jot), do not understand him. Ile is distinguish ed for pig-headed obstinacy. }le defies the will of the people and expects the whole Republicau party to bow their heads iu the most abject submission to his dictates. li !lowing nothing of states- manship, he has exhi oiled a complete want of honor and the most avaricious spirit in the acceptance of every species of presents. lie has voluntarily sur rounded himself with a gang of the most unprincipled and mercenary political adventurers. To them and to their chief the acquisition of San Domingo is a thing greatly to lie desired. Its annex ation would till many au empty purse, and would:add to the ill-gotten gains of the man who first made merchandise of the chief Mike in the gift of the American people. Should Grant be re elected he will devise some method A forcing the San Domingo job throng' The money there is in it constitutes a temptation which his sordid nature can not be expected to resist. Coal Production The short time which has elapsed since work was resumed in the anthracite coal-regions of our State, has been suf ficient to demonstrate that the troubles have heretofore sprung front over-pro duction, and to prove that steady em employ meta at remunerative wages cannot lie given to the large number 01 millers there collected. Last year the •onsumptinn of anthracite coal wa. about sixteen million tons, or abut hree hundred thlMSalldper week, witil the production fully equaled the de mand iu spite of the fact that the miner. were idle for months. ('oal is now be ing brought to the surface at a rat which will give a yield for the curren year of twenty-six million tons, whit, the consumption cannot exceed seven een Here is a vast gap whirl must he bridged over in some way. rite result will Be an overloaded 'make Ind depressed prices, which the opera tore will again attempt 1,, remedy by in hieing the miners to strike. There is abundant evidenee to shun• hat the rate of production is increa ing instead of diminishing. The large operators have heretofore been able so to manage affairs as to secure immense profits, and new mines and new rail road lines :ire being constantly opened. The miners are a class not likely to learn wisdom front experience, and they may be expected to tied some imagi nary or real reason for a strike when the operators want to bull the market. During the summer months the canals furnish clieap—transportation, and the railroads tire IlMn most successful ly operated. The chances are that coal will gate low until frost comes and liresj are needed, when, by some device ot's,l he operators, the price will be raised. All who can aftbrd to do so should lay in their Winter sup- ply of coal during the latter months of Summer, or early in the Fall. By so doing they will be sure to save money. There has been an over production of anthracite for sonie years past, but that has not prevented a rise in prices at the very time when the most numerous class of consumers are forced to buy. Tin•: artillery and the cavalry are the two branches of the military service, which are held out as the prizes of hon orable ambition at West Point. The graduates who attain the highest honors, and whose record is consequently best, professionally and morally, receive this recognition of their merits. F. D. Grant, son of the President, who grad uated almost at the very foot of his class, has been assigned to the cavalry over the heads of deserving graduates, who had won distinction by good con duct and attainments, such as he never exhibited. Nepotism is thus carried into West Point, as it has been every where else. ULYSSES S. GRANT, of Long Branch, New Jersey, will pay a brief visit to Washington next week. One of the colts which he received as a present is sick in that city, and he is anxious to see how the animal is getting on. He does not go to Washington with any idea of attending to public business.— Office-seekers who may desire to see him will do well to go to Long Branch, where they will be cordially received if they take acceptable presents.with them. Centralization as an Issue in the Next Presidential Campaign. We find an elaborate editorial article in the Chicago Tribune, the leading Re publican organ of the Northwest, on the subject of " The next Presidential Campaign," in which the "new de parture" is considered, and in which the points upon which the opposition are seeking to make au issue are also examined. As to the " new departure," the Tribune regards it as placing the two parties on the same platform as to negro suffrage, negro citizenship and negro equality, and is inclined to think that if the Democracy (or opposition) have no popular issues apart from this, " the people will give their preference to the party which has always occupied that platform!" But, says the Tribune, if they shall succeed in convincing a limited number of Republicans that they are sincere in their change of policy toward the colored people, or that the Constitutional amendments are so se curely anchored that they cannot be disturbed, and if they shall at the same time advocate other principles which appear to be preferable to those advo cated by the Republican party it is quite within the bounds of possibility for them to carry the election. Three tubers in each school district throughout the elated States can change the nority into the majority. The Tribune thus sums up the issues which have already been presented in some of the Democratic State Con ven- tions, anti which will probably be adopt ed as the platform for the Presidential caropaigu, as follows: 1. Opposition to Congressional interfer ence in the local affairs of the States. - - 2. Universal amnesty, as a complement of universal suffrage. 3. Opposition to the annexation of San Domingo. 4. Opposition to protective tariffs. 5. Payment of the public debt in green backs. Opposition to the National Banking ystem. The most significant comment of the Tribune is that upon opposition to Con gressional interference in the local af fairs of the States. Taking the Ku-Klux bill as the strongest advance of Radical ism towards centralizat ion, it comments upon at with a freedom no' often exhib ited by Republican journal,. While it appears to think that the bill itself will not be enforced to any considerable ex tent by the President, it regards the principle,,ambprecedent as very danger ous. Thb remarks of the Tribune. on its point deserve to lie carefully noted. hey are as follows: It is the teiiih'iow of the hill, rather than the bill itself, or the execution of it, which gives force to the assaults of the Democracy. This tendency is toward the obliteration of ',gates, and the centralization of all powers at Washington, alter the French model of government. The election law, paned to enable the general goyernment to control the machinery of Ulliversal suffrage in New York City, but applicable to all cities of more than 20,000 inhabitants, is another of the signs or this te n dency . o is a question for fair debate whotLerit is desirable to tinge our form of government trues Federal lie, where each of the embers makes and itdininkters the laws r the regulation ol its own internal Fairs (including those which relate to elec ions and to the preservation of the a:Contral or National Republie, where all aWS are enacted and administered by a %minion legislative body and executive. It is not possible that we should have both the National and State governments at- tempting to regulate, 1111,1 to be responsi ble Mr, the public peace or the purity or elections in the States; bocause it is a familiar and necessary principle of law tat whenever the United States Govern lent has the Constitutional power to per irm nn act, and chooses to exercise that ower, it supersedes the State Government ntirely. From which it results that, if Ito United States Government has the ,over to interfere to preserve the public, )eage, or to regulate the machinery of elee ions in the States without the invitation of State Governments, it supersedes am - - abolishes the Stale Governments as to those particular functions; for these two bodies cannot occupy the same space at the same time.'We say that it a question for fair debate whether it is wise to introduce change of this kind into our system of government. - - We believe that the people will role it demo aut overwhelming majority whenever, if •err, it shall be the (Ira ehie:f pointof difference reto cent political partice. I , Lor the 'resent we note the fact that, if three Rr aiblican rot,ws in each school dist rid shall pink that this is the principal issue in the rest Presidential campaign, and that the troposed change in our form of govern nent is dangerous, they will have it to their Joiner to elect the Democratic candidate. Here is an important admission by a eading Republican organ—and it is ob .ervable that the 7'ribune speaks as if it the event contemplated would be 'ound opposing the Republican party. local Option In Massachusetts. Last winter a Local-Option Law was presented for the tamsideration of the Pennsylvania Legislature, and we took occasion at tho time to point out some of the most patent objections to such legislation. The system is one which has been tried in iSlassachusetts and elsewhere in New England, but it has not produced the results which were an ticipated by its projectors and support ers. Only last week elections were held in Boston and other cities and towns of Massachusetts, to determine whether the sale of malt liquors should be al lowed, anti the result showed either a lamentable lack of strength on the part of the Temperance men, or an inexcu sable want of devotion to the cause. lit Boston they did not poll Iwo thousand votes. This shows that in Massachu setts, as elsewhere, public opinion is not favorable to the enforcement of prohibi tory liquor laws ; anti it is better to have no such laws than to have them stand ing a death-feller on the statute books. Declines a NOUllaalltal Captain George \V, Skinner, of Frank lin county, who Las been a prominent member of the Legislature fOr two years, and who received a very Ilattering sup port for Auditor-lieneral, declines to return to Harrisburg. Ile intends to devote himself assiduously to the prac tice of the law. Captain Skinner won reputation for Utility in the Legislature, and was recognized as perfectly honest. Etc is a rising young onus in his section of the State, and will be heard of here after. St set: the first day of June President Grant has pissed three days in Wash ington, and for that immense amount of service he has drawn from the Treas ury of the rnited States $2,1153.33, or nearly $7OO for each day that he attend ed to the duties of his office. The bal ance of the time he has spent With Tom Murphy, and other congenial and con vivial spirits, at, Long Brunch and else where. ON Friday lust Boston voted in favor of the sale of beer. This shows great weakness of the protectionists in (me of their strongholds. The vote stood 7,421 for malt liquors, and only 1,495 against. The temperance men did not take the trouble of going to the polls. This shows the folly of local-option laws.— They are either evaded or sutler defeat at the polls. Jr is rumored that there is serious talk of running Hon. Thomas E. Frank lin as the regular Republican candidate for Judge, with George M. Kline, Esq., as a candidate for District Attorney. That would constitute a ticket entirely too respectable to suit the average Rad ical politicians of Lancaster county; therefore, we can not credit the report. Tule Democratic members of the Ku- Klux Committee will refute the slanders and perjuries of such wretches as the Rev. Lakin, by taking the testimony of prominent and well-informed men from the different Southern States. A num ber of representative men from Georgia have already been summoned. IT is announced that Simon Cameron will decline to run on the ticket with Grant. If that be so, Simon has good reason for such action. He may have arrived at a proper appreciation of his own merits, or he may regard Grant's defeat as inevitable. THE races at Long Branch continue and the President of the United States is in ecstacies. He declared to a friend that he had not enjoyed anything so much as he did the hurdle race, since the day he rode the mule in the circus. Bowen% Pardon — We publish elsewhere the document which has been given to the public, by which President Grantpardons the big amist Bowen, and in which he under takes to assign reasons for this remark able exhibition of Executive clemency. The paper is bunglingly prepared, it violates the rules of syntax and con tains more than one untruth. It is not true that Bowen was " inno cent of any violation of law," or thet"he acted in good faith believing his former wife to be dead." On the contrary, when on trial, he put in the plea that he had been divorced, and he produced a document to prove that allegation which was shown to be a forgery. If General Grantallowed himself to be cheated into granting a pardon on the strength ofsuch false representations, he . has, to say the least of it, shown an utter lack of such care and circumspection in the dis charge of his duties as should distin guish a President of the United States. But that excuse, poor as it is, can not be pleaded in behalf of General Grant. lie did not even need to read the record of the trial to be convinced of the falsity of the allegations contained in the par don. The Mayor of New York had officially notified the President of the fraud and forgery which had been boldly committed by Bowen in the course of the trial, and bad requested him to de lay the pardon of this despicable crea ture until the method of this fraud and forgery on the records of the Courts of New York could be investigated. Of this official request, made in the inter est of law and good government, the President declined to take any notice, but he cannot deny that he received it, and he cannot escape from the very dis agreeable position in which he is placed by a comparison of the facts with the loose statements contained in the pub lished pardon. Again the President says of Bowen: "It appears that he rendered good ser vice to the cause of the Union during the rebellion." What that "good ser vice" consisted of it is very hard for any to say who is conversant with the ca reer of the pardoned criminal. He vol untarily entered the rebel army, and managed to get himself into prison fur criminal practices. He was suspected of having incited to the murder of his commanding officer, and that may be the "good service" to which Grant al ludes. He had married three women, all of whom are now living. With one of them lie seems to have compromised, and from the claims of the second he attempted to escape by the production of a forged certificate of a divorce which was never granted. This case may have in it elements strongly commending the crintinal to the favor of President Grant, but the people will fail to dis cover asingle extenuatingcircumstanee. The pardon of Bowen is just such a reck less abuse of power as might be expect ed from :rant. It never had its paral lel ill this country, or anywhere else in the civilized world. Even Geary's pa don of Brill looks respectable when compared with it. The pardon of such a man, under such circumstances. is against the public interests and all out rago which cannot be too severely re buked by every good citizen. It was made in the interests of a set of 'desper ate political adventurers, and at their dictation. Bowen is contesting the right of a negro to a scat in Congress, and it is not unlikely that we may soon see him, triple-crowned with marital honors, welcomed to a seat on the Re publican side of the use. There are men there in whose eyes the worst crimes are mere eccentricities of genius when the perpetrator comes Hushed with political victory, and bearing in his hands the pardon of President Ulysses S. rant. The Debt of Philadelphia The Philadelphia people all:, very properly becoming alarmed at the won derful rapidity with which the Repub licans have been piling up the debt of that city. The Evening Herald cyphers the thing out as follows : The city debt, in round numbers, is to clay fijimene dollarn. In Isal it was less than nineteen million. Allowing eight million Mr war expenses, and we have as at result an annual increase of the debt for the past ton years of tu•o minion four hundred o,mo:um/ dal li ers. Divide these big figures by 365, and we have a daily increase amounting to about six thousand jive hoo d; ed and fifty doltam Divide this by '2.1, and we have for the hourly increase of the public debt two hundred and seeenty three &dim,. Divide this again by GO, and iy will be seen that for every minute of y hour of the last ten years our city debt has been increasing at the rate or juur dnltars (tad jilly-five cents. The debt of Lancaster City under Radical misrule is also constantly being increased. How fast we canflot tell, as there has not been any intelligible fi nancial statement published since the Present extravagant administration came into power. Tut.: Tammany Society of New York celebrated the Fourth of July alter the style which has been customary with the association for many years. Patri otic speeches were made by Grand Sachem Tweed, General Runyon, of New Jersey, and other distinguished Democrats, and letters were read from Governor Hoffman, Frank Itlair , (ben• eral Icrlellati, John Quincy Atlanta, and others. THE Democracy of Northumberland county have very wisely concluded to abandon the Crawford County System of making nominations. It has 110111ing about it to recommend it to intelligent men, Si has proved to be a source of dis,,osions and difficulty wherever tried. 'rho " ilovernment" is now carried On by a lent heads of Iln reati, aim such clerks as )(it remain in Washington.— Net el' before in tier Miliele history, has the tailsllleSS been so culpably neglect ed, or sin wilfully subordinated to private cenVelliellee anti pleasure, at the expense 01 the peo pie, as under this Administra tion. tieneral ti rant inaugurated a prac tice of absenteeism, the baleful curvet of which has been felt through every branch of the civil service, and utterly demoral ized the little remaining sense of duty, which laxity in other reiiireelti had lea. As a necessary consequence tit this want of Executive supervision and personal care Mr public and private interests, corruption and jobbery prevail to a most alarming extent.. The rights of citizens and claim ants are either ignored, or carried by down. right venality, while great national affairs involving untold millions of expenditure, are relegated to the hands of subordinates, who, under the influence of bad example and loose administration, exercise power for which they are entirely untitled. There is now but One member of the Cabinet at the Capital, and he returned re cently from a protracted visit to Georgia. The President, since the Ist of January, has devoted nearly one Minim time which belongs to the public to his private con cerns, in frequent journeys to different parts of the country, and yet has never deducted a cunt from his full salary. And all others have adopted the same rule.— The following list gives the names of the principal absentees at this time, with their Pay President Grant, absent continuously since the Ist of June, salary ,3:15,0t1e per an num. Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State, sala ry sB,uoo per annum. George S. Boutwell, Secretary of the Treasury, salary $4,000 per annum. Columbus Delano, Secretary of the Inte rior, absent more than half the time since his appointment, salary $.5.000 per annum. W. W. Belknap, Secretary 01 . War, sala ry 00,000 per annum. George H. Robeson, Secretary of the Navy, salary $4,000 per annum. J. A, J. Creswell, Postmaster General, salary $5,000 per annum. F. E. Spinner, Treasurer of the United States, with large stall, now iu Europe, salary $6,000 per annum. W. A. Richardson, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, with staff of clerks, now in Europe, salary 13-1,000 per annum. F. A. Walker, Superintendent of Census, now in Europe, salary $-1,000 per annum. These simple facts speak more strongly than any comment could do, and they con • lain the best commentary on the sham of civil service reform, which is now paraded here by a commission, when the President and the Heads of Departments are wan dering about in search of amusements.— IVa.sh Mgton Patriot. Hon. D. J. Morrell was thrown from his carriage, near Johnstown, Penn sylvania, on Thursday evening, and very seriously Injured. His physicians believe that he will recover, if not in jured internally, although - he will be confined to his room for a long time. News Items. Wilmington, N. C. ;has a long-haired chicken with no eyes. Attorney-General Akerman is the only Cabinet officer now in Washing ton. General Spinner will leave Europe on his return to the United States ou the 28th inst. Ten of the Ku-Klux prisoners, on trial at Oxford, Miss., have been admit ted to bail. Mrs. James K. Polk visited the State library in Nashville last week for the first time since 1880. A Minnesota juror addressed a note to the judge, in which he styled him as Onarable jug." A man in lowa City found, while digging a well, a layer of locusts, twAve feet below the surface of the ground. At Covington, Oa., when a man gets drunk, his head is shaved by the au thorities. Most of the citizens wear wigs Tad. Lincoln, son of President Lin coln, is so ill of dropsy, at Chicago, that his recovery is doubtful. Mrs. Charlotte Hellman was found drowned in a cistern in her kitchen, in Elizabeth, N. J., on Saturday morning. She was subject to fits of apoplexy. In IS3O the hay crop in the United States amounted to 19,1-O,l*JB tons, worth $191,1!.J1,1280. The crop in 18711 was at least 30,000,000 tons, worth 5300,000,0110. Reports from all portions of Califor nia show a better wheat crop than was anticipated, but the total product will be slighly short of last season's. At Buffalo, on Thursday night, Chas. Rosenfelt, a sailor, way stabbed to death by a notorious rough named James E. Kelley. Kelley was arrested. A man named McDaniels was shot dead by another named Green, in a dis pute "about rival dancing parties," at (Jul ust, California, on Thursday. Four hundred prisoners are engaged • in the manufacture of shoes in the New Jersey penitentiary, and 2,000 pairs of finished shoes are turned out daily. Miss Nett ie Power Houston,the (laugh er of the late (ten. Sam. Houston, of rexas, is a graceful writer and clever •ontributor to the Southern press. :\ Ir. Lawrence Oliphant is now, by he English journals, said to lie the real author of the "Battle of Dorking," and not Col. Hamley, as has been supposed. Pension Agent Lawrence's defalca- Lio1s:1111mil1t to $.50,n00, lie writes that he is in Texm, and that his "disaster" was the result of "stock speculations." New Hampshire boasts of a habbraid- er, a young girl, who finished :22 hats in a day. Twelve is ordinarily counted a good day's work. • lie nutnher of foreign immigrants arriving at New York to July tith was against to the corres ponding date last year. A temperance paper asks, liith•rly, "(to into one of nor American gin-pal aces, and what do you tind Very apt to lied What can exceed the joy ,if the parents of a houseful of little people when they are all safely in lied on the night after the Fourth . 01 inly. A daughter of a New York stock ,roker exults over the fact that she has ,een to Europe six times, and has never een the inside of her mother's kitchen. A hopeful youth of Fort Wiiyne, after gratefully aiicepi ing a Bible from Isis aunty, walked °lli and exchanged it for a copy of Bret liarte i , poems. The orders for lager beer -tarilps re .eived by the I illeroal Revenue (Mice low average about 4o,toir daily, or n o ear- y four times as many as the correspond ug period of last year. lion. \Vm. Pinckney Whyte, it is •aid, will lie the Democratic candidate r (tovernor of Maryland. The notni ating Convention meets July Nth, u MEE Senator Pint+beck, of Louisiana has sued the Nev Orleans and Jackson Rail road Company for t.i25,0110 damages for refusing hint a berth in a sic...ping car on account of his color. Four men, mitnel . l Me( raw, Me Don Custis and Finlay, have been ar . ested at Albany On suspicion of havin , Irowned a man anti woman by throw tug them front a boat. George Sheppard, of Newport, Ks'., was beaten insensiblr•and robbed, whilt On his way to a hotel ill Lockport, N Y., on Tuesday night. lie is not ex ieeted to recover. Governor Palmer, of Illinois, has call ed ashecial election on November 7, foi a Congressman at large to till the va canny caused by the resignation or ( ;en eral Logan. At San Francisco,:on Thursday night, a noted desperado, named Junes F. Wilkinson, alias " Iron-clad was slot dead, while trying to escape tram the police. The Internal Revenue Bureau is ad- vised that there is great dilliculty in rot lecting the revenue in Dakota and Art zolla, owing to the hostilities of the In Seven hundred and ninety-eight year. of widowhood came together at Pai s Haven, coml., the other evening—di vided up, it is but fair to say, hetweet Ii relics of departed worth. James or Jim Sims, a colored fiddler, s one of the district judges in Georgia .y Gov. Bullock's appointment When le comes to hold court the court-houses tre found to be locked and the officers 'gone a fishing.' At Tarrytown, N. V. on the evening or the Fourth, the carriage faelory of 1 , G. Plower.; and nine houses, with sheds &e., were destroyed by lire. It 16 111,,e1i that the fire NV:L., caused hy a reek et. Loss, At New Orleans, Thursday morning, Samuel ltayney, general book-keeper of the New Orleans Nalional Ihtnk, NVaS lii; desk by \Vin. Boyd, with whom he had " Call MS. .1 1 n AL 1),.w, of New York city, fiir merly of Augusta, 1 ia. , committed sui vide'l'lntrsduy. llv was years or age. lie had amassed a fortune of iiii.oo,tioo in I Morgia, and lost most or it by specula tion. The body of Joh it O'Brien seas found on Wednesday, near lieialitly'sStation, I\lo., pierced by fourteen wounds. Two meir who left with O'Brien last Wednesday, have been arrested on sus picion. All had been drinking freely. Mount ville, West Va., was visited Thursday by a storm which blew down the stockade around the Penitentiary, allowing a prisoner to escape, unroofed Louses, demolished fenced and destroy ed grain. At Cincinnati, on the Fourth, Put nam & Riicher's chair factory, with three dwellings, a carpenter-shim and lice small building s , and lour or live frallle lealSeS and a stable, Were 'Milled by lire-crackers. Total nearly The propeller Maine exploded her boiler near Ogdensburg, on Tuesday night, killing the engineer and fire man, and a passenger. Three others were badly Seallied. The Maine WaS uu her way from Chicago to Ogdensburg. Ed ward Brine of Pit I county, Noah Carolina, l o ok t.O the swamp n illy years ago to avoid being drafted into the army. The Miner day lie was discover ed, illid was greatly astonished to learn the war had been over for six years. At Berlin, Canada, a Sunday-School pie-nie sought shelter in a tannery from a rain shower on Monday,when the floor gave way, precipitating about one hun dred children into the vats below. All were rescued except one little boy, who way drowned. At Staunton, Va., nn Mooday, Mrs. Margaret Platt was burned to death by the explosion of a(a of coal oil, and her son ( ieerge was badly burned in en deavoring to extinguish the flames. She was pouring oil on wood, to light a fire, when the explosion took place. A train on the Tretant (lifted Blair Railroad, in Nebraska(was lifted from the track by a tornado, and blown to a distance of twenty feet. A child was killed, a ma I agent fatally injured, and fifteen or twenty other persons inure or less hurt. At Granby, Newton county, Mo., on the Fourth, Henry Blow, nephew of Hon. Henry T. Blow, was m urdered by a party of young men who went to his house and assailed it with stones, and on his opening the door shot him in the heart. No arrests have been made. Charles Wilson, a young physician, supposed to be in embarrassed circum stances, committed suicide at N iagara, on Thursday morning by jumping from Goat Island bridge. He left a note to his father on the bridge, recommending his wife to his care. Mexican advices to June 27th, via Matamoras, shows that the Primary Elections in most of the cities heard from favored Juarez. In the City of Mexico the vote was almost unanimous for him. The police and soldiers, it is stated, were "very watchful," and ar rested "all noisy persons." ,The Board of Trustees of the Lehigh University, at their last meeting, were enabled to announce that by the addi tional liberality of Hon. Asa Packer, founder of the University, the tuition in the institute will be hereafter free. They also created two new professor ships—of mining and metallurgy, and of civil and mechanical engineering, thus rendering the technical course complete. Political Fiction Versus Positive Fact. If the news communicated by Senator Sherman (Chairman of the Finance Com mittee of the Senate), in his late speech at the Ohio State Convention, were only reli able it would bo a subject of national re joicing. He says: "Under the present tariff laws all departments' of mechanical industry have sprung into healthy life, diversitying our products, consuming our farm products and extending our rail roads." Is this a correct statement of the condi tion of the industries of the country? On the contrary, is it not just the reverse? Have not our importations of foreign fab ric and merchandise increased enormous ly in excess of our exports, choking up the channels of consumption, to the great damage of American manufacturers, drain ing the country of its coin, transferring our public bonds to Europe, thereby in creasing this drain, and adding to the com mercial balance against us to such an extent that all our surplus products are not sufficient to pay it? The exports of our manufactories are less than they were ten years ago, and though the export of raw products has increased, it is at largely diminished prices. So also has the propor tion of articles of a common order of labor increased, superseding, in the home mar kets, goods which in critter times we held the market for without fear of competition from abroad. Is it not notorious--and can the Senator be so blind as nut to know it—that in most of our leading industries there is great stagnation? Our foreign ,oininerce is almost totally destroyed. Shipbuilding is likely to become one of the " lost arts" in this country. The President, in his special message to Congress on the subject, esti mated the amount we have to pay to for eign ships on this account at tkki,ooo,ooo a year. • The loss of the shipbuilding cannot be less than this sum ; making i',• , tio,ooo,lalo a year diverted from American labor, and front the consumption of home products. Does not the Senator also know that a largo nil other or the leading woolen mann lactur era or the country have united in a memo rial and statement that they aro unal:le, in consequence of the taxes upon raw mater ials, to compete with foreign manufacturers in any but the coarser kinds of fabrics ; that " lead lug man ufacturers of machinery have stated that the tariff, by its burdens on labor and materials at home, enables for eign machine builders to lay down ma chinery in this eountry cheaper than they can ;" and that "the cotton manulactlirers complain that the tariff makes machinery S. costly that they cannot afford to replace theirs? And it is notorious that American Manufacturers of cotton have not kept pace with the iniprovenientm iu canon has he read the late memorial of the boot anti shoe manufacturers, anti does he think that he knows intiro or their prosperity than they do themselves? What opinion has he of the late statement of Mr. I: reeler, that "there are now a Million of workmen in the towns in excess .of any reliable de mand for their Are nut farmers, who were to be directly compensated t . or the high prices Mall that they consUMo by a better market, for their produce, selling their wheat and their h u g ph - millets at prices less than they were Is-tore the war? And many other industries are equally unremunerative. The secondary Workers in iron lire struggling for an existence. There are comparatively but a few indus tries that are prosNrous, and they are monopolies. 'rhe huge expenditures of the war ',Cun t/Weil our manufacturers and they made Money, and this prosperity Was Seemingly increased by the inflation of !dices caused by Um depreciation of paper money. Itat it is well klitiWil—mud of Senator Ohrrwan dons not kms it, his igimiralieo is niti, cos:Why—that for the last f•cur years our Inatilikiellirers have not been plinspeitine, anti are groin ing steadily weaker tinder this system which diffuses enorutous taxes over ell the runt of production, and which practically closes the inarke!s of the \Vest Indies, South America—in filet, nearly all the markets oldie world—against us. The Chairman of the Finance Committee of the United States Senate is, or seems tic be, singularly and inexplicably deficient in the special knowledge which is required for lie proper exercise of his high tunctions, and Mu sooner he examines the sillijetit impartially the better it mac be for Mtn and for the onintry.-1 5 /dia. Record, and Cooper at lielly%lairw. ' The battle of Gettysburg was ill its far reaching olle,a, and eOliStSillellreS the rest important or the War. It WKS o u t of the divisive battles Whirl. Settle the late Or nations and detersive the course of history. tin the field of Gettysburg WO 'lower oldie confederacy Ras t•rushed. The prestige id . victory departed from its banners, :mil al though it afterwards put new armies in the tield and delivered desperate battles, it never recovered front the deadly blow which was given on the soil of Pennsyl vania. Il i,tory will not fail to do:11111110 . 01Stit, to the splendid bravery which wasilisplay ed alike by friend :Ind n l foe on that terrible theatre of war. In assigning credit for the services performed by the various actors, the gallant and conspicuous part borne by the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps will never be forgotten. 'Throughout the three days of July, during which the storm of battle raged around the beautiful town of I;ettys burg, no corps in the army more heroically performed its duty. Among - (lie members of this brave and faithful body of l'etillSyl- Vallia soldiers were t \Vim :11'Cand less and Captain Janice 11. C o oper, the 11121110- math. candidates liar Auditor-General and Surveyor-General. The splendid bravery with which General NlT:tintless led his brigade to the charge has been mentione,l ill army orders and is recorded in the capitol. The frightful list of killed and wounded bears sail testimony to the havoc which was made in the ranks of the devot ed Reserves at Gettysburg. At a critical moment of battle, it is conceded that this corps turned its tide 'and decided the vic tory. While I leneral M'Cand less was lead ing his turn to the attack, his colleagne ou the ticket, in VOIIIIMUId of that battery which has become historic IL Coopers Battery" was dealing death into the face of the foe. II is name, also, is borne in gener al army orders for the bravery and skill which he displayed on the field of Gettys burg,. But the wars are over, and these two heroes of Gettysburg are before their fel low-citizens id Pennsylvania ni_u candidates for honorable office. 'l•lneir ability , to till the positions fur whirls they have been nominatied is arknOWledged on all hands. A grateful remembrance of their services to the COUldry and the COllllllollWraltli R ill secure their triumphant election. There will lie no haggling or hesitation, but the spontaneous and free suffrages of a uptg nauiuume will be areOrded to them. if malignant partisans shall seek to ignore their claims, disparage their services, and impugn their motives, the noble old Com monwealth will put her arms about, these two hero', stilts, and bear them on to vic tory.- 1141,,bury Patriot. !MEI= A correspondent of the Newark .1,1,,, fiscr, writing from liethlohein, says: A most munificent otter lute just been until, to the Trustees of Lehigh l;nicersity, all otter which not only excites 111111 . 11 ell thusia....ll here. but merits the gratitude of the people of all the surrounding country. 'l•he Lehigh I:nicer:idly WilB ft,lllltiell 111 l ell, by the Ilan. Asa l'ACker, ml \l:utclt Chunk, as a l'olytechilic Institution, hav ing special reference to the mining inter ests of the coal-regions. The al/111 origi nally bestowed was $. - 00,Uotl, tilt& niiistiit which has been used to erect magnificent college buildings:mil houses fiir the Faculty Packer limy lits the following propo sitions before the Board nl Trtl,leeM: The in,tit.tiffin is to be hemzi u •r under the auspice, ul the l'riitonialit I iiiko4)l.l Cllll,ll. The tuition in to be absolutely free in all the regular chts,,K. The original endowment is Ui be increas ed by ,'''.lro,ooo, an noon an the Board .d Trustees ralSeS *12:000. A st•ei,ffil gift of $.!.:01,000 is ill ho od who!, j,y flu arl. Until the tirst *11:3, 1 1 ,11 is raised, the volt erous Lnuwer %%Ail give 11 year tote_ arils the itividelit.tlexpeuses. From Llll,O Irtets IL tc 111 Lo SCPII that .ruclte iuterels the institution h succeed. I 1 hls euuanion+are fu ICI I led, le will have given very unfelt over *i, , .10,0 0 to this nistitlithlsi. I,ifig linty he live to enjoy the blessing tylueli must result tree his generosity. An oilier Jermey Mitt, rota,. Isla. through U.. Ileaci hi 111 . 0.14 it Yesterday afternoon an unknown man was found dead at the rootot a tree in the woods un what is kill/WI, King's estate. It's head and lace were disfigured with clotted blood. A large hole was visible at the right ear, through which the track of a 'bullet was clearly perceptible, and the face was blackened with dies and worms. The right band or deceased rested on the grass near a revolver, the barrels of which had been discharged. The respectable ap pearance of the dead man at once excited suspicion regarding the manner it which he had inlet with so sad an end. lie was dark COM Alex ioned, had dark hair and mustache (the hair being partul in the middleo wore a black cloth vest and light pants, and had his coat beside him. lle was apparently a Clertnan, about ofago. The coroner was at mire sent for, and he examined the deceased's pockets, but failed to discover anything . that Might. lead Id his identification, except a white handkerchief, on which was im printed the letters \V. 1). The body NVIIS removed to Mr. Crane's °dice at Iloboken, where it now lies. IL is difficult to tell whether the unfortunate roan has been foully murdered or has committed self de struction. An investigation Will be com menced to-day. Where la the Champion Type-Sette A Montreal paper of Tuesday last says: " At a typo-setting match held. in Le Nou veau Monde ollice, last Thursday evening, between Alphonse Barrette and Alphonse Mondon, the former set 2,038 ems and the latter 1,044 ems in an hour. The measure, type and copy were similar to those used at the match held throughout Canada and the United States on the 10th of May last. The best done then was by George Arens burg, of Philadelphia, who composed 1,822 ems, and received the championship prize from the International Union. The two young French Canadians above-mentioned have now surpassed him, and have proved their superior swiftness, so far, over the craft on this Continent. About fifty per sons were present at the match referred to. The proofs of the contestants wore remark ably clean. A Rand of Armed Negroes In koralh for. °lota Attack n House In Revenge-- One White Nan Killed—Another Man and Two Ladles Wounded. From the Augusta (flu.) Chronicle, July 4. On Sunday night the city was excited by rumors of a serious collision between the white people and the negroos in Barnwell county, South Carolina. From the first reports it appeared that a regular battle had been fought. Fortunately, these re ports proved to be gross exaggerations. 'rho best news, however,proved be terri hie enough. Definite information received yesterday morning from Silver Mull, on the Savannah river, stated that a band of armed negroes had killed one white man, wounded another, shot one lady seriously and another severely. After the shooting took place they had retained their arms and their position, and defied arrest. Be yond these fragments nothing else was re ceived until yesterday evening late, when two participators arrived in Augusta—a white man who had been shut, and a negro who hail been with the band of shooters. From what we can gather of the affair from gentlemen of South Carolina and the color ed Ku-Klux himself, the tragi.dy 5001115 to have been enacted under the fellow ing cir cumstances : The diniculty took pinee at the house of Mr. Angus lied, situated on !leach Island, about twelve miles from Augusta. At a late hour on last Saturday afternoon, n large band of armful negro Mee were seen approaching the house occupied by Mr. 'They were within a few feet of the front door befere they were discovered. The ladies in the house gave a scream of terror, as if apprehensive of the bloody in tentions of the black fiends. Mr. Thomas A. Lew, n neighber, who was in the room, and lying down near the front door, heard the warning signal, and attempted to rise. As he was in the not of rising, the negroes tired a volley at 16111, killing loin al must instantly. 'Hie muskets with whieh the colored lie-I:1MS were armed, were loaded with buckshot anti small halls, and the missiles Were Sent in every tli recti,m. Besides killing r. Low, they wenottltsi Mr. lied in theshou Wei-, wounded his wife, Mrs. M. A. L. Bed, in the nee k, and his 'nether, rs. S. E. lied, in the kite. The negroes then entered the house, as Waugh it was a fertress taken at the point of the bayonet. '('butt they at first intended 1: ill ing Mr. lied I here Vail he 110 doubt; lust when they R aou l Wet wound° I tiny (-en tente,' themselves with disarmieg hue, threatening hi n t with 111Stalit death if he dill net "dye ep his pistol. .\ tier they had severed this they left the premises w Weed bestewing any attentien upon either the theall or the wounded. They returned te the plantation of r. Paid F. I la n Mond, trout when.. they had tsnue, and remain mg there armed, set the law and its officers at defiance. Mr. Lew was retool riddled with bullets —literally riddled. The effili,,,, had tired the volley when they wet e within a very short distance of him, and :nest er we bails had taken ethss in his arms and [ltaly. The surgeon who examitesl the wounds ut the coroner's iruluesl , held the nest ing, found intore than !illy to his is•r• sew mid of this number no less than seven lad pierced the peer heart. The mannish and .ther porti. , ns of the Ludy were !rightfully mutilated and netegled ly the sled. The COreller'S jury returned a verdict in 3eVerlialleo With the met, of the case, anti We nearest magistrate was Itpplied te .11111 it warrant issued by hint ler the arrest ill the inurderirs. But the ilegrc.es had nu idea Of being arrested, and as we have said Iteftwt, had set the law at I.Varning that they hail net 11.1, but still remained :it their holues, it I lepllty Sheri!' i sell( to Mr. HattollenWs leant:ohm en' Sunday morning for the pis rites,. of arre st. illg them. The negroes were haled there, tort still armed, and while they eth•red uo violence to the mlieors, they refuses to he arrested, and said they Nyland 1,141 their position In the last. Seeing that they meant to keep their went, Mud that a rolilliet With thelli Week' Ln useless, the Officer retired. mernieg lie paid them :Mother visit. They still deelmed iu be arrested, hilt said that they would ge lu Aiken 01l Ttiosday 04. day b and stand 3 tri.il. Sev eral tif the riegleaders es-artist and carrion their gulls with them. They are at largo, and will d,spelatoly resist :my attempt :tt spume. tun of them, however, we are glad to say, haS lass, bagged, and is new ill the jail el Augusta. Yesterday :Weld ii n clerk, a gentleman who lives he loW the the read teSand liar Ferry, the police that a Mall who Was supposed 111 bu nut er the leaser,, ill the attack, had vrossed the SaValthah river at Sand Bar Ferry, and was flailing in the city. A petit-wean and a etnitity venstable were at Intl-e. IleSpatelled to the Inver intr. Hon of the sits', and setts nits the fugitive, arrested him and brought him to the Citv flail. The prisoner freely admitted that he was One ill the party that went to Red's house, but denies that he tired himself, and says that he advised the Other, not to tire. 'file lidlu wing is his stery. Ile gives his 11:11110 as ()Wen S. W. Smith, and says that he cattle I . l'olll North Carelitet seine tine. ago, Ile Ilas been residing On Mr. Hain mend's plantatien and to•aching a small pri Vale .11(.1. Ile says that early Satur day evening Nlessts. Red arid 1.‘,4- visited the 11,1,0 of a mgrs, whom they accused tilt:Le:ding, and threatemsl b, kill hill, put • Ling their revolvers I, his head, and 01113. sparing his life at the earnest solicitatems of the rulurus Welllell uu the ',cruises.-- So.li afterwards the negro made his escape out td' a buck window, and Messrs, lied and Lew returned to the house of the form er. In the n,euilitiuuf the nogn) went li, the quarters :loci h)llll3nty he had been treated, and a scheme ef revenge Was agreed upon. Smith says that he advised them nut to shout anyone, but he oho took a gun and went along with the party. 11 is accenntoh the killing corresponds with what we have above written, except that he says Mr. Red would have oho been killed had he not iuterceded fur him, in deenced by IT kindness Which the 6n r tnor had dea n . hind Smith Was arrested as a fugitive freni _tus ks., and has been bulged in jail her thirty lays, to await a regilisilion Irmo lan, of holll i n Carolina. It is liiilleVed Ina olio . , or Inn gang will do d down Lii,l arrested. The Trouble% of the Republican Potty A Joint High Provo...it The I{olllll/111`,11 lwalty is sulrering from many troubles. It has its troubles in lassiteluisetts, where, aecording to Wen dell Phillips, the .I,lllllatell spirit or "the critter is ; ;one. and the concern is morally derelict. Gen. Butler still Ryes and is still lively; but since the settlement ul the li,ll - t[ll,tilOl (•‘'l,ll I littler rturnul raise breeze of excitement at Cape Cod. In Penn,ylvama the Republicans are all at sixes and sevens ; but while they are di vided upon everything and everybody else they have at least a commits rallying ground around General Grant and his ad ministration. lit nl issouri they have liven SO CUL lip 6ettvrcu I irate. Itrown, Carl Schurz :1.11.1 I ;011eral Prank Ithar, that they are apparently g one beyond reroVery. Ira (Mi.. and Illinois the IWO traders and civil service reformers awl general amnesty guerillas, beaded hy sue Ii Olen 11,1 General I and Senator 'fruit: hull, are making As for ( hmeral Lo g an, lie bai, haw an eye upon the White House, for lie thinks ono term enough for General lioNvii in :larN land, and foist nl' the other Southern states, they havoseveral hula clashing eliyues, each claiming to be 1110 Si 111.1el'Ore I{II.IIIIIIeKOS. In hurt, We doubt if titer° is a single State in wbii•h tine HATO hlieWll4 are a unit, unless it is the Stale I,l' lielitticky, and there they have not the ghost ul t chain, for anything against. the over,vhelining Dimmer:toy. 1:11t the wranglings and the diciuinns :1111011g the Nets' York lily ami rote ;re the most stupid, the most malignant and apparently the most hope esS of all the lot. The two principal he.- iir the party here are the inside', and the outsiders, headed, the one by Senator Conk ling., the other by Senator Fenton. In the outset General 1; adrttiuis trat,on Senator Fenton got. hull of the working wires of the New York Custom House, and then to rent,' and his connsl erati,, and his followers, everything wit lively lit Washington, and General Grant was .t model President. lint Scuatur Fellelll, was fmunt nut, and s o hit ti 11 from grace, :mil all his tat is in the lire. In fact, hound Iris retainer, tuts',' been b.ueishesl Innu till, and the ,1"., is shut against them, and so they have resolved that Gen eral (Irma shall he redneed to tine and 111:l, Fenton or Greeley shall LAI,e his and that ronkling, Who now i 0 Cheek by jowl with Collector Murphy, shall walk tbe Si, they 'fills New York Custom I louse, however,, has beisinie (milli.); lan a I/11X of Pandora dr Hui party hohling it. I 51, there were ill this Ott' and State twin factions among the Deiniieraks which absorbed the whole party—the I lardshells and the Solt sheik; and in the quarrelling of thesellards and Solis iivr the Custom-House spoils and plunder they became each an inde pendent party in the State elections, a n d so on the Custoin• llouseSpoils (piestion be tween the Bronson I lardsliell ticket and the Redfield Son-shell ticket they turned over the Stme to the common enemy. So it will most probably Inn with this ICrpublican split over the Cll+lolll-1 limos spoils. iii course the Tammany sachems are jubilant, for fr present appearances they will carry New York in NoViiiither by at least fifty thousand majority. Senator Conk ling, down at Long Itranch, has been talking over these troubles with General Grant; but we fear I hey are too much for Senator Conkling, and we fear that the only way whereby a Custom -House treaty of peace can be made is the way of the Joint tligh Commission on those Alabama claims. Let this plan of arbitration bo adopted, with a share of the spoils to Senator Fenton and a sop to Mr. Greeley, and the country and'our ',reeio('t institutions may be saved. Otherwise let General Grant prepare for a scrub-race for the Presidential succession, with half a dozen Richnunids in the field. "The cohesive power of the public plun der" is well known, but its explosive power is awful, and heni at once lie the safety and the danger of the Constitution. —N. Y. ficruid. General Cavatio—Another Lover of Lib erty Executed by Sponinh Authority. HAvAsA, July 10.—Cavela was executed on the let inst. at Puerto Principe. lie previously wrote letters to Villaniel, his brother Adolfo, and other Cuban generals, advising them to surrender, as that was the only favor they could do to Cuba ; that a continuation of the struggle would only entail a useless shedding of blood, and that the Cuban cause was lost at homo ) nd in the United States, . SOUTHERN SENTIMENT What Ex-Rebel• Nay of the New De parture. The people of the South accept the situa tion. They have no disposition to light a useless battle against accomplished facts. They are ready to take tho Constitution of the United States as it Is, and will be glad to see the day when a President span be inaugurated ivho will check the encroach ments of Congress upon the fundamental law of the land as it exists. The following extracts from loading Southern papers will show the current, of public opinion in that section of the country: I Vrom the Rlclunond Fainalr r Tito mission of the Democrats of the :Muth is to unite with the great lteinecratie party of the North, and to try to beat the Republicans in Mc Union. 'Miscall be done if we are not embarrassed by such linpru. dent utterances as those of Mr. Davis. And it Mr. Davis persists in bringing himself bell.) the people, and expressing such sentiments, there is one course to 1,11,110-- and that will be pursued ; the Southern people will disavow him a n d all such ex tremists, and art without thew. '1 • horo Will lint 100 a baker's dozen of them left from the Potomac to the Rio Grande. It IN tillt too in the day to talk about " not AV ceptirig the situation." ;Front the Mobile Itettlster.! R•o Want. 10 51150 the Union, we want h• restopro Iliptlblican liberty, We Want to re duce the expenditures, utt want Lodi:Away with the military, we want to come back to the old era ot honesty and long herly love, and hi do this the Democrats 111.1 libonel ltepublirnns 11111 st unite. loot us all have son-0 /111t1 disrre•liou, and decree that t h e dead past shall bury its dead. Front the l'harlesten iS. NI:W.. III a The is or lulls It great sword \Ouch 1111 :11111 slashed according to the putter that ichicil it. \I any things \tyro ilvehlt ti, and dm late of slavery aiming the re s t. We would not put the , negroes back into their normal condition Mr all the gold it. the universe, lint we do beseech the 1 , 1 , - m,loravy of the North to help nsagainst the cdrpet• baggers anti the military. They Mt , making w, paupers and beggars. ullios 11 , 100 11,11. 1,01 , 11 111.2,11 110111 1111,1 Wtt 11111 N1,111‘111,1 It rock by 11111 I.ll , lllt.•ravy of obit,. eon t N. I%) 5ent...1.1 Now that lit, have got rid of I [olden, and now that we have got our !wad als,o ,cater, we ran survey the political field a little, and criticize here criticism 15'111 do g,,oti. North l'artilinit hails , aath W.llOll I Ills new ha's° eI the ulna haw 1.- racy. It 1s 111110 It, 111,1kIt a 10,11111 light her Constitutional liberty, and w 1,1111, 11, nit Ills Stllllll 11111 , 11 recall 114111110 r its iitil prescience anti discridion. N y e mean to support 1111 , /11111 , 11‘1111i , 111,. 111 tills Static, uuud wii tilt , lii inocraln• fur l'rt , sidelit at least burly thonsviiti wu dint y. :Fran ilo ,Arli. I WO aro an .1.1 Insin..a . ts I kansas, Id ivy stretch hands In Inn., W,,,,, svi a W.I. to ho dolp.ort , l , i nn do, carpol.liaggerN and tho tollitary. ‘,lllilit Work tutuliohls, WO ~.111:wl Huse dtuu, 1111 oanto.t, pay ,Olr ultra 111,11;111114,11 u. I\ II- Is ills /ilia 111 lh i11,..11.)/tIINL, J0..l lot t /looNtatol Arkan,o,lll,l all W ill IR , Wl.ll. 1.11 saVU ,I(II motry, loot wo appoal the Ootiololo ol liboral noplll , ll,lilh or Ow It3llll 'II. IF/11/11 11 , • .1:11.1,11441111...1 1'1,444 (4.: :11.1,1.11 with, Lot., W0:411,0111/1'110 Ili p1..1/LILE”S ‘vt• orts, (SO 11 `lit, I' 111 Ihu 1.1a11.1,11 101,11111,1 Ily 11/11 i s ((All Mllll.l I 111•111 ,1111111,1, 1•I voI 1.1101111 f"tight. 115 111 1 1111 01111 101 a !mull. man, li , , 1360 0110 +l.l, u•-4, (11•,11.11 111 L11111'44 11l 5,1511 Cot11,i1;1/114111111 lii 5. 111111 6Y llio growl , 1,1 111111 It ,11111 i lit. 114.111. 116111 has m•let•141 11:11111 by I.llll‘, 111, 11..11.011111..04LA Ixt 111,, 1 , ,,,,,cracy t.I the V,utlt .1 , 1 Sl,Oll, gain Jr ,, t•11,1or,t,11,1. atill ,11.1.11 lit Jrl,, Ic,r Tht , 1.1.11.11.1,11?, ill.llfght /1/111 till. 1 , 1.111111•rney ,11 111,.. Pr , ILI I ht• A,t1:11101.1 " 1/I,\l relied, In NO netv departure, latc.ni,v IL is Col[lll,llSellAll, 1111110111 p.triy i. the party of 1,111111,1 nrti.Mt. 1\l• it the :Smith want to get A filth, breathing Moe m build mit house, and plant our crops, :old work our livid..., and 'pay our litsv,, ortlt (tut having it legillar army of ssoldier, guerilla army it earpedlitggor,, %Vo a•k the Democracy if Lite North 111141 the liberal Ibmiddivalis to give us a ,dianev. Wear.) for the l'iiimi and the WO ~word, aunt we art a•illmg err abide by tho ileci,lon .11: the sword. (tidy lot every Ihiltiocral w Ito. land murk tor lighter (axe, and Mr a I, turn ipt• the l'on,tdation. [Front the I lore WI, aro all 1./cinder:it., and we los° 010 IMMO of 11011Iocr.1,Iy. 1 . 11.1111' the rill,. of Deinot• ratio l'remolents our taxes Wort light and IlbertlllA Lyon° Intrlyt.L, Not, negro., and carpet-huggers are 11]./II A curse WOl,O LIMO 1110 Ic/011-11, I , ,,,yitt, \\'e appeal' to cur Democratic brethren in the North to ntaitil by us and hell, it, anl", Imo more tight for Constitutional likorty, They may itialco a itlalliodit and wo still stand by IL in Flr,rithi. (only givo 110 from robbers and LIIIIIVOS. Flom Ile• Lone Slur tiazetie I With but live exul`plions, 114 far as wr hart, tiVell or hoard ill, every single netts paper in Texas Illtioraeti this I/halfwit!. All we ask here is a return to the Conslu atoll and to Iltnu+cru•y. \Vc are for uhw lilts. /lust alai If 11 more allallillll,llaHrlllilllehi rail Do li,uud WI any 41111 al/ 41 11, lAll hat l• rioter troll iL. And yet this is not :1 till.o of the extraets Lo List, sumo (IXialli m i g ht niprodllual. 1110 p101ai14,114 uuat• are from Elie Icading fix piessions of !Midi.. apifllu❑ in Lisa lust SOIIOII,II Slates, They hart, escaped the uLLuu Lion ill the nldirul pre,. 111 the Sur III? al all; yet it. Vett.sns lk,,L Lo a,sort, than Ile , :south does not au•rrpl WO doctrines of the Uhiu phatli,rue. Tho Il.adical, know hotter. Their clforta to dig Op buried issuer and thus induce the De mocracy to find shadmss stud spoctri, meat fail. Let the people note this ehject nt their oppressors, and heist! their laillrgle, to meet and dlsuuss the really vital ques tions of the day. They are well set lorth, till` platiorlll of the Ohio DoliliaTiley. Saturday allot - 11mM, at tlireu Llie Nlarmlial of Lim District of Columbia re ceiveil the pardon granted in Mu c:Lso al C. Boss ell, who nun recently i . 4.11 V kit."' and Nolltl , lll . ed 1,11 tlie penitentiary for bigatityAwhicli reads :LS 11,11cIWN : f;rnaf, Dresid vitt ”Ithi. Ilnitr•J Slit r, ' l • a ail WII4IIII it may 14,1.14,11, thrwn prOSPIIIS SIMI come greeting: NVlinre:ts 1411 411111:kh flay 41i . 41 Imo, 1,71 n 1.11. Suprrnu, 4 mtrt.. nl Elm IL criminal larni, WAN 111 bigamy and tii hit La, ycin, LIIII Pi pay tan Imiiili pit and Lilly Willa,. And whoreaq it I, repretil.lllo.l that 1,,. WILM 1111101.011 t .1 - :toy yhdation .it the law *. Heat ho ;teted iti good faith, believing hi, fanner wile U. 110 de•all appears 1113 t ho rendered good servu•e 10 the Linn., during the rebellion and Hill, . its termination, and has enileaVorelt tOo lwel an 1101Ieht 1111,1 upright nit,, runt Inc tine•.,' n•asnun 010V1.II nit' the jurors tv Le. found lieu verdict against bun, and litany other citizens of the highest consideration and woight, urge his pardon, and t!iiiie.l Ntates Attorney Wisher would he gratillo.4 I.y the exorcist, or Exeeutiv,. n-t0u.,." Nine., the•ref.re, Ino it Itllone in, UM!. S, elrun., President at the llnnrd tililleN nt A work., in consinteraiedi nir the pronii,es, vers other good and Stilliolollt r 01,10104 thorounto nnwing, 111/ 111,4:by grant 1.1.1 C. lint, ell a lull and unconditional pardon. In U-stininny whereof I havo herount., igned nAnio, and cati,otlthe aunt of Ow tilted tiutt4,4 t be allied le , no at the city or Washiegten this tir , t lay of Id lily, A, Id , 11 , 71 and the I lid, la•Ildf•Ilve 01 the l'eitell Stali the meet, fifth.IIILA\T. 1:y Lilo I'rvri.letit: J. Il.sNvitori IPAVI A,t11.1.r, Soorotary of Slat, marrdial wrote a 11•I.L.,1, and hy 3i o'clock Mr. I:osvvil ‘valked /AIL I/I jail, a area wan again. Hui!rood Train Coll .lon—Fume I•rr 1.011. P. ICll led i Nine Wounded. New Yon it , July O.—The 5:05 e'elock train from Newark, and the 7:35 train front New York, on the New York and New ark railroad, mot on an open switch, et Brill Station. The engines were demol ished and the first and second curs or i:tu it train telescoped. Both trains were thrown from the track. The cars caught tire trout the locomotives, and two of them were entirely consumed. Four personso seer° killed and trine wounded. The 1111010 , 1 of the killed are: Frank Kelm, engineer, scalded and Bert!. legs broken; John Lynch, fireman, instantly killed; Daniel White, brakesinan, wits caught between the 1010 scoping cars and instantly killed; tf. hall, engineer, killed. The wouroltal are Stephen A. Dickerson, of Newark, internally; Unit Schuller, slightly, and his son, aged six years, head fractured; Mr. Anderson, of Newark, cut arid internally iniiired ; Mr. Banks, a fireman, badly hurt; John Rus sell, brakeman, hadly• cut ; Samuel Taylor, fireman, badly strained; II Fuhrlians, ut Now York, slightly cut of the head; David Letter, WU Ludlow street, New York, 0111 011 the leg; A. U. Varilleet, of Now York, arm cut. Various other persons are slightly bruised. Sumo • persons worked harrt , tro save the ears and lrlllll/0 1 0 1 from total ob struction by tire. N Your:, July 8.--A Newark despatch locates the accident at the Ferry-Street Station, and says the cars are a heap of burning ruins. Already seven bodies have bemll taken out, and it is supposed that many more are in the ruins... Balloon Ancerallon—Accident to an .Era. Tien-, July s.—Yesterday Jas. K. Allen, son of Professor Allen, the :cantata, of Providence, made an ascension from this city in a small balloon, the European. lie lauded at Putnam, Washington county, distant one hundred miles, two hours after the ascent. The balloon caught in a tree top in a forest, and young Allen, in falling to the ground, was quite badly bruised.— Later in the day Professor Allen, with his wife and daughter, Professor Appleton, of Brown University, and others, made an ascension from this city in the great bal loon Jupiter Olympus. They landed in Greenfield, Saratoga county, last night, after a delightful Ball.
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