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iLantastrr .slltelligencer.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1871
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET
FOR AUDITOR GENERAL,
GEN. WILLIAM MCCANDLESS,
OF FIIILADELPHIA..
FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL,
CAPTAIN JAMES H. COOPER,
OF LAWRENCE , COUNTY
A FULL POLL OF THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE
WILL SE. UILE TD E ELEMION OF OUR STATE
TICKET EY A LARGE MAJORITY.
LET EVERY DEMOCRAT REMEMBER THAT,
AND IM OF R HIS NEIGHBPESSTPUORS.TII OF IT UPON TILE
MINDS
Circulate The lutelligencer
The WEEKLY INTELLI 0 ENCER will be
mailed to subscribers until after the
October election for FORTY CENTS.
Let it be put into the hands of every
man who will read it. Every dollar
thus spent will be worth five times that
amount paid for brass ba . nds and forget
ting up big meetings.
The Temperance butte Convenilon
The honest Temperance men of Penn
sylvania have at last become tired of
figuring as a mere bob to the political
kite of the Republican party. They
have determined to take a new depart
ure, and, on the Oth day of August, they
will assemble in State Convention, at
Harrisburg, to nominate candidates for
Auditor and Surveyor.t lenerals. Their
call has been issued, and their free flag
hasbeen boldly flung to the breeze. The
true leaders among them, the men who
care more for temperance than they do
forpolitical parties, seem to Le in serious.
solemn earnest. The Er;/shoe Good
Templar, the organ of the Temperance
men, is fully committed to their new
departure. In an editorial referring to
the action taken by the members of the
tate Temperance Committee, at their
recent meeting in Philadelphia, it says:
un the question of organizing antler the
re:winnow. atlopmd by the late 1:011
cntion, the committee WU, 1111M11111 , 11S,
the plan of
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,tormy time at their State Con
vention, 'Fhe Republican press of the
State has severely condemned their
proposed independent action, and the
light which was so vigorously waged in
the State Committee will no doubt be
renewed in the State Convention. An
attempt will be made by certain Radi
cal politicians, who wear the mantle 01
temperance us a loose cloak, to prevent
any nominations for Auditor arid Stir
veyor-t leneral. A failure to carry out
the object of the call will by fatal to the
lopes of the true friends of the Tem
perance cause, and they might as well
abandon the political field if they yield
or suffer themselves to be overcome.—
[laving taken a stand they must main
tain it, If they expect to accomplish
anything through the potent agency ot
legislative action. Should they suc
cumb now there will be no future fur
therm and the liquor men will laugh
them to scorn.
The l boil Templars are numerous in
this State,and they embrace within their
limits a large number of voters who are
pledged in favor of the passage of pro
hibitory liquor laws. If they can be got
to act in concert the Temperance petty
can poll a large vote. We shall watch
the proceedings of the lith of August
Convention with no little interest. II
the leaders allow themselves to be
frightened from their declared purpose
by the comments of the Radical prese
they will sink into deserved contempt.
They can not abandon the programme
they have laid down far themselve,
without being driven from the field of
political action forever. They have
crossed the Rubicon, and they must ad
vance or perish miserably. A failure to
push forward will lie as fatal to them as
a retreat would have been to Ctesar.
Having landed upon the shore of the
enemy they must burn their ships be
hind them and give the courage of des
peration to their folloWers.
Suppression Of Tesilmony by the Ku
Klux Committee.
The Radicals expected great thingt
flout the Ru-Klux Committee. They
calculated that it would be able to accu•
mulate a mass of testimony which
would justify the enactment of the law
which gives despotic power to the Pres
ident. The ellbrts of the committee
have resulted in a complete failure. Ont
after another the lies of such willing
witnesses as the Reverend Lakin have
been refuted by the testimony of prom
inent citizens who were well known
before and during the war as Union
men. The Witnesses who have t esti.
tied so freely to the peaceable condition
of the Southern States and to the readi
ness of the people to perform all the
duties of good and loyal citizens, have
heel men who were summoned by the
Radical members of the committee.—
Out of the mouths of their own wit
nesses have they been condemned.
'the Democratic members of the Coin
mittee, Mersrs. Beck, of Kentucky, and
Blair, of Missouri, were greatly surprised
at the non-appearance of certain prom.
inent Southern gentlemen whom they
had caused to be summoned us witnesses,
and who, it was well-known, were in a
position to give a correct and truthful
view cif We Southern situation. In
view of the unaccountable delay in the
arrival of these witnesses a despat ch Was
sent to the Southern papers, stating the
surprise that was expressed. Not half a
day elapsed before telegrams were re
ceived from men who had been sum
moncd, stating that despatches had been
sent to them by J. It. French, the Rad.
teal Sergeant-at-Arms of the United
States Senate, announcing to them that
they were not needed as witnesses, and
that they need not appear. Some of tht
Radical members of the committee may
have been ignorant of this outrageols
act pf French, but it is not likely that
he acted altogether on his own motive
and entirely without authority. A viler
trick was never resorted to, and this
ought to be sufficient of itself to cast
suspicion over any report which may la
made by the majority of the Ku-Klux
Committee. A similar attempt to
suppress testimony and to prevent
an opponent from securing the pres
ence of important witnesses would
ruin any case in„ court mid ren
der the perpetrator . of the fraud lia
ble to severe penalties. The Radical
members of the Ku-Klux Committee
can be reNied through the proper chan•
net of public opinion, mid they must be
promptly arraigned and forced to answer
for the infamous trick which was per
petrated for the express purpose of sup
- pressing truth.
THE Radical Governor of Florida ha•
a son in the Jacksonville Post-office,
and when the father was impeached
the son furnished him with seventeen
thousand dollars of the public money,
to pay the expenses olya trial. The Post
master has been called upon to pay up,
and the Governor is now in New York
trying to make a raise by selling rail
road bonds which he stole. Such is the
news which comes to us from Wash•
iugton by telegraph, and such is the
material of which the Republican party
in the S,outh is composed.
THE Examiner copies as original a
paragraph which appeared in the Village
Record. The West Chester Jeffersonian
of the same date denies that it ever used
any such language. Will the Examiner
make the proper correction ?
Coitalßational Reform In North Caro•
The respectable people of North Car
olina, the orderly citizens, both white
and black, are just now engaged in an at- I
tempt to reform some of the gross abuses
which sprang up like rank weeds . under
the rule of the carpet-baggers and scale
wags, who seized upon the government
when the reconstruction acts of a Radi
cal Congress were in full force. The ex
isting Constitution was the work of a
set of desperate political adventurers,
whose only concern was to provide
means for enriching themselves at the.
expense of the property-holders of the
State. - The Commonwealth was reck
lessly plunged in debt, its credit was
destroyed and its bonds were huckster
ed in the New York nl%rket while Hol
den was Governor, in a manner that
was both disgraceful and ruinous. The
debt of the State, which was only four
teen millions when the war closed, was
speedily increased to nearly forty mil
lions, and the lavish appropriations that
made up this enormous amount were
squandered and stolen by Radical offi
cials, and a set of railroad stock-jobbers,
who were given almost unlimited li
cense to traffic in the credit of the State.
several of these worthies are now untie'
indictment—two of them for as large
,inns as seven millions of bonds. The
Clip.' uses of the State were increased to
fur limes what they had been prior to
tin war, by the creation of a multitude
of .upi Iluous and sinecure offices. The
of State officials were doubled;
a borthensome township system was
('rear I: judges were made elective,
and it numbers were increased; and
the I ;,•lics of the various Courts were
tilled %% neon) peten t and corrupt per-
US. on l y took $750,000 to defray all
e ex p, tows of the state Government
fore tho war—it now takes not less
an foci millions, all of which must
wrung Cron) an impovMshed people
Violet - such circumstances it is not
strange that the reputable citizens of
North Carolina, black as well as white,
are ready to unite in an ellbrt to amend
the Constitution of the state and to re
pair some of the evils which Radical
misrule has wrought. The Radicals
rely almost exclusively upon the more
gnorant portion of the negro vote, and
hey expect to influence them by the
owest falsehoods. The blacks are told
lint the proposed new l'onstitution will
take away all their rights and return
them to slavery. Multitudes of them
will believe the lies of the blackguards
who are ready to sleep with them for
political effect, but the more intelligent
to .k I
of the negroes are turning theft backs
upon the white adventurers who are en-
LTaged in this despicable work. Such
Northern newspapers as Forney's l'rcss
are to -y misrepresenting the action of
the North Carolina Conservatives, but
they, will have the sympathy of all de.
ent men, without respect to party, in
heir desperate struggle with organized
tolitical rascality. They deserve to win
L great and' crowning victory, and we
ire glad to know that there is every
respect of their doing so.
A Wholesome Reform In Ylrglnla.
The correspondent of a Virginia news
paper, writing from \Vise county, an
noun, es as a fact that the Democrats of
that county have determined to throw
over all the men who have publicly an
nounced themselves as candidates, and
says that those who have been riding
round and soliciting votes, will all be
repudiated. There seems to be a gener
al feeling down there that offices ought
to seek men, and that men who eagerly
~ e ult offices ought not to be nominated.
If that sentiment could be generally in
culcated, it would do more to purify our
politics than anything else. Let us im
agine the existence of such a State of
affairs in Lancaster county. Let us
suppose that a convention could beheld
in which delegates would get together
untrammelled by pledges, and nominate
the bast men for office, Whitt a glori
ous change that would be. Oue lesson
‘if tffitt sort would kill off the whole
crop ,f corrupt Radical politicians.—
l'here would lie an end of rings and
ring-masters. The business of the
county would be honestly conducted,
the tax•payers would be saved large
sums of money, and a delegation would
be sent to Harrisburg which would be
an honor to their constituents. In \Vise
county, away down in South-western
Virginia, such a feat may be accomplish
ed, but we fear there is no locality in
Pennsylvania where it would be possi
ble. liere, in Lancaster county, the
people are compelled to witness a dis
gusting scramble over the Judgeship,
an office which ought to be colnpletely
removed from politics. Verily we have
fallen upon evil and degenerate days.
Western View of the Treaty with En
The St. Louis Republican predicts that
the operation of the Washington treaty
w t ill result In banishing our inland com
merce from the lakes, as effectually as
our foreign commerce has been wiped
from the Ocean. By its provisions Brit
ish vessels are p muitted to enjoy unre
itricted trade with the lake ports, and
the cheap-built steamers of Canada and
the Clyde may drop alongside of the
more costly American craft at Chicago,
Bu ffalo, Milwaukee and Erie; and ,o wing
to the difference of cost in construction
and running, obtain the bulk of the
produce transportation of the North
west. As there is direct communication
between Chicago and the sea by the way
of the lakes and the St. Lawrence river,
English vessels will draw northward a
large portion of the productswhich have
hitherto found an millet through the
Gulf of Mexico, thus striking a heavy
blow at the carrying trade of the Missis
sippi and its tributarieS,"aud indirectly
at every department of industry through
the great valley.
The people of the West are given to
independent methods of thinking, and
are less strictly bound by party ties than
those of the Eastern States. If the views,
of theeffects of the late treaty expressed,
by the St. Louis Er - Tub/jean, should take
hold upon the Western mind, Grant
would ne greatly weakened in that sec
tion by his connection with it. Tlie
Democratic Senators from the Western
States did not look upon the treaty with
much favor, and they were no doubt in
fluenced by such views as those express
ed in the Republican. The treaty may
exercise a decided influence in the West
ern States during the coming Presiden
tial election.
A Tombstone for Thaddeus Stevens
A correspondent of the State Journa
mourns over the fact that the bones o
Maddens Stevens are crumbling to dus
without so much as a stone to marl
their resting place. He suggests that th
children of the Common Schools of the
Mate shall be called upon to subscribe
mites to pay for a / monument. We
would remind the coerespondent of the
Stale Journal, and all the rest of man
kind, that Mr. Stevens did not die a
pauper. He left behind him a hand
some fortune, which his executors have
had complete control of since his death.
Iwo of them have been engaged in
building fine residences for themselves
in this city since the money of Mr. Ste
vens came into their possession ; and,
as their costly piles of brick are now
completed, it is possible that they may
find time to order a monument for their
deceased friend and have money enough
left to pay for it. There is not the slight
est necessity for calling upon the school
children of the State for contributions.
Our Congressman and the two Radical
ex-Congressmen who are Ills co-execu
tors would spurn such a suggestion.
DEFALCATIONS are the order of the
day among Radical officials. Scarcely
a day passes without the. record of such
an event. The Savannah Custom House
is the latest, on the list. The Deputy
Collector has pocketed about $B,OOO.
AWN - lv , WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1871.
Army Reform In England
The English Premier, Mr. Gladstone,
being unable to carry through Parlia
ment an act abolishing the system of
purchasing rank in the British army,
has succeeded in accomplishing his pur
pose by a flank movement. He has in
duced the Queen to issue a royal war
rant abolishing the purchase of commis
sions in the army. The opposition in
Parliament came from the aristocratic
and tory party, which is powerful in the
House of Commons and supreme in the
House of Peers. The action of Mr.
Gladstone has produced intense excite
ment throughout all circles in England.
The declaration of the Premier was re
ceived with cheers in the House of Com
mons ; but Mr. Disraeli! and the tory
members generally were unable to re
strain their anger. They heartily de
nounced what they termed the arbitrary
course of the government, but were
challenged by Mr. Gladstone to move a
vote of want:of confidence. Should such
a motion carry, Mr. Gladstone would
go to the country on the question, and
there is no doubt but that he would be
sustained. The measure which he has
forced through in a summary manner
is a very popular one, and should an
appeal be made to the people upon it,
and a new Parliament be elected, he
would be likely to obtain a much larger
majority than he has now.
The abolition of the purchase of army
commissions is a heavy blow to aristo
cratic privileges in England and an im
portant stride toward Democracy. The
purchase of commissions was one of the
oldest privileges of the aristocracy and
wealthy classes of Great Britain. The
army was an asylum for the younger
members of the titled families. The
positions of rank in the army were sold
to them because the pay would enable
them to live in a style that was supposed
to be proper to their birth by the invest-
vent of their limited means. This eye
tern of con missions had nothing to do
with merit, and rarely wits merit in the
army recognized unless bucked by
floiley or powerful family influence.—
Ina action of :Mr. (iladatone will tend
to improve the efficiency of the army,
wlffie it opens the service to merit for
all classes. Thus, one by one, the props
of aristocratic privilege in England are
being thrown down.
Vitality of the San Domingo Job.
The Lancaster Inquirer Is alarmed at
the fact that the Harrisburg Telegraph
still continues to advocate the acquisi
lion of San Domingo upon the plan per
fected by U. S. Grant & Co. The Tele
graph is Simon Cainekin's organ. Cam
eron is Chairman of the Senate Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs, anti the
master of the Republican party in
Pennsylvania. The Inquirer ought to
know that Simon's word is law to the
Republican party in this State. He is
cheek by jowl with Grant and speaks
the sentiments of the President through
the columns of the Telegraph,. Grant has
not abandoned the idea of annexing San
Domingo. The pecuniary profits of
that promising job are too great to be
given up without a further desperate
struggle. Grant and Cameron will
make herculean eftbrts to put the ob
noxious treaty through at the next ses
sion of Congress, and, should they find
the opposition too great, they will quiet
ly retire again and wait until after the
next Presidential election. Should
Grant be renominated and re-elected he
will calm that the people have endorsed
the San, Domingo treaty, and will find
some means for securing its ratification.
The Inquirer may depend upon it that
the San Domingo job is not dead.. It
will not be permitted to die so long as
Grant has a pecuniary interest in it and
power to push it. It can only be effect
ually killed by the defeat of its greedy
and grasping author. Grant will cling
to it with all the stubbornness of his
nature so long as he sees a chance of
making money out of it. Nothing else
could be exljected of a man who has
habitually used the cillice of President
as a means for enriching himself and
his relations.
The Democratic Party the Friend of the
The Democratic party has always been
the friend of the laborer. Its history in
this State and throughout the United
States proves that. The workingmen of
Pennsylvania are indebted to the Dem
ocratic party for the abolition of impris
onment for debt, for the ten-hour law
for the three-hundred-dollar exemption
law—all enactments which protect the
poor from oppression. The policy of the
Democratic party in national politics
has always been favorable to the masses.
It never favored the protection of mo
nopolies to the injury of those, whose
only capital is their daily labor, while
the opposing party has always in
clined to do so. When Mr, Jeffer
son became a candidate for the
Presidency the Federalists were pro
jecting a system of land-grants, similar
to those Which have made Republican
Congresses infamous in our day, and
they would 110 doubt have been suc
cessful had not the people repudiated
the party which proposed the measure.
National banks were never favored by
the Democracy, and we might go on,
enumerating one instanceafter another,
in which the Democratic party took
ground in favor of all the rational ideas
which are contained in the platform
that is put forward by those who are
undertaking to lead the laboring men
to a new Oeparture. If the working
men of the United States are wise, they
will concentrate their energies in an
attempt to give back power to the Dem
ocratic party, instead of frittering away
their energies in an attempt to form
another political organization.
A FENN" days since Dr. Angier, the
Radical State Treasurer of Georgia, de
clared before the Ku-Klux Committee
that Governor Bullock had violated the
plain letter of the law in many in-
stances in issuing new State bonds, by
will i the debt of the State had been
great • increased. He further declared
that t e Governor was addicted to the
gros,/st malpractices in office, and gave
it as his deliberate opinion that the fuss
made. about the Ku-Klux was only a
disguise under which white and black
thieves carried on their plunderings,
regardless of .the political sympathies of
their victims. How many Republican
newspapers in Pennsylvania have pub
lished the testimony of Dr. Angier?
Not a word in relation to it has appear
ed in any Radical newspaper of this
city. They are ready enough to spread
abroad the lies of such creatures as Rev.
A. S. Lakin, but they persistently con
ceal the truth. By such means they
hope to keep their readers in ignorance
of the true condition of the South.
DISINTEGRATION is taking place in
the Radical party. In all parts of the
Country, evidences of these facts are ap
parent. The Omaha Herald says that
Senator Tipton openly declared, when
in that city a few days since, that if
General Grant was nominated for the
Presidency, he would take the stump for
Mr. Hendricks, in case the latter should
be nominated by the Democratic party.
He further declared that, if the State
Convention of his party should select a
delegate to the National Convention,
favorable to the nomination of Grant,
he would stump the State against him
before he was nominated.
THERE are Ku Klux in North Caro
lina: An organized band of them have
a regular encampment from which they
sally forth and kill innocent persons.—
Why does not Grant enforce the Ku-
Klux bill, as he swore he would ? Is
It because the outlaws are negroes who
vote the Radical ticket? If they were
white desperadoes, United States troops
would, no doubt have had orders—for
ward, march ! before this—and a howl
for vengeance would have gone up from
every Radical newspaper in the country.
One of the proprietors of the Lancas
ter Expres . a is a leader among the tern
perancellion of t his county. At every
temperance convention he mire his
voice in earnest tones, and any one who
heard him would suppose that he regard
ed temperance reformation as the one
great question of the day. It is evident,
however, that he holds the cause of tem
perance as secondary to the interests of
the Republican party. Such being the
case we are not surprised to find the Er
press denouncing the action of the State
Temperance Executive Committee and
abusing the Democratic party in the
same breath. It opposes the proposed
new departure which the Temperance
Committee decided to make, and its
temperance editor will no doubt attempt
to secure the position of a delegate to the
Harrisburg Convention, not for the pur
pose of furthering the cause of prohibi
tion, but, for the express purpose of pre
venting the inauguration of any inde
pendent movement.
James Black and other honest tem
perance men in Lancaster county know
very well that the Republican party is
not to be trusted. They have had oc
cular proof of the manner in which the
Radical leaders constantly pander to
the liquor interests. Under the Craw
ford County System, of which the Ex
press is the chief champion, drunken
ness has been greatly increased in Lan
caster county. Each candidate is
expected to visit every tavern and to
treat all who may be present. It is safe
to sny that whiskey has as much to do
with the nomination of Republican
tickets under the system now in vogue
Laboring Man
Insincere Temperance Men.
a this county, us any of the rings which
the EXIWC SR assails periodically.
The.Republiean members of the Legis
lature of this State made quite a pre
ense of being in favor of local prohib
tory laws last Winter, but that did not
irecent them from voting to license
averns in this county by special leg-
illative enactments when the bills
were presented by a man who is
now a prominent candidate for the
highly responsible office of President
Judge of this district. We mention these
things to show the utter Inconsistency
of the Republican party. Radical news
papers throughout the State are now
claiming that the Republican party is
the true friend of temperance reform.
, The truth is that the Radical politicians
of Pennsylvania are a set of despicable
tricksters. They run with the fox and
cry with the hounds. Like the, editor of
the Express they are friends of temper
ance when self-interest prompts them to
pretend to be so, but they are always for
self and for the Radical party when It
conies to the test.
We repeat what we have said. If the
eaders of the temperance movement in
Pennsylvania suffer themselves to be
driven from the position they have
taken, they might as wet abandon the
political field forever. It will be made
manifest to all that a majority of those
who profe:4, to be temperance leaders,
hold their principles in subordination
to the supposed interests of the Repub
lican, party. The organization will be-
come a laughing stock, and it will be
hooted trom the political arena should
it attempt to enter it hereafter. We
have no doubt that all earnest temper
ance men will agree with us in this
view of the matter. They lutist know
and feel that they can not draw hack
without abandoning alt hope of future
success through political action.
Young Radicals
There are in this city certain youth
ful members of the Republican party
who are not satisfied with the manner
in which they are treated by the older
politicians of the party. They have an
exalted idea of their own abilities, and
imagine that, they ought to be put for
ward as, representative men. Some half
dozen of them aspire to represent the
county in the State Senate, fifteen or
twenty of them would be satisfied with
seats in the lower House, and the bal
ance of them have their hearts set on
the county offices. They have at last
determined to act in concert. The fol
lowing item from a letter to the Colum
bia Spy lets us into the secrets of the
combinations :
"The young men are organizing for a
partial control of political patronage nest
Fall. They are tired of the tyrann VOl the
rings in the division of spoils, anil will
combine to force a fairer dispensation of
these earthly blessings. Several prelimi
nary meetings have been held, and plans
lor carrying the object into effect are be•
tug projected, and whenever they concen
trate, the old " stagers - must stand from
under."
When this combination of Young
Radicals is fairly organized the old
political hacks will have to look to
their laurels. The youthful bloods may
carry off all the political prizes.
The i rizona Massacre
The massacre of unoffending and
peaceably disposed Indians in Arizona,
is not only a disgrace to the nation, but
a deed which ought to call down con
dign punishment upon all who were
engaged in it. Punishment in this case
is demanded not only by justice, but by
public policy. If the criminals are per
mitted to escape, how can the Govern
ment undertake to execute vengeance
upon any Indian tribe, which may fall
upon a white settlement and massacre
its inhabitants. No tale of savage butch
ery ever exceeded in details of barbari
ity the massacre in Arizona. It was
simply fiendish, and the perpetrators
ought to be hunted down and hanged.
A Remarkable Fish Story.
The editor of the Harrisburg Tdc
graph is stopping at Atlantic City, and
has been witnessing wonders during his
sojourn at the ocean side. He is re
sponsible for the following fish story,
which will astonish the initiated:
Many small fishing or pleasure boats are
riding over the waves, ono minute seem
ing to go up seine twenty feet mid the next
down in the valley. And then the
P%motas
are dancing before the visitor, 'a ithin
thirty or forty feet of the land, jumping
sometimes eight or ten feet in the air, re
minding those on hull of an exhibition of
Arabs in a circus.
We copy the item, caps and all, as it
appeared. It is evident that Bergner
dues not know the difference between
porgies and porpoises.
The Premature Publication of the Treaty
The Grand Jury of Washington City
have found indictments against Hiram
J. Ramsdell and J. White. newspaper
correspondents, and Charles A. Tinker
and Joseph A. Rirby, of the Western
Union Telegraph office, charged with
wilfully and unlawfully refusing to tes
tify on certain points before the Special
Committee of the Senate of the United
States concerning the premature publi
cation of the Treaty of Washington.—
This refusal is declared to be against
the form of the statute in such cases
made and provided. The presentment
in each case is f, and on the evidence of
Senators Carpenter, Conkling, Sumner,
Trumbull and Garrett Davis.
INDIAN COMMISSIONER PARKER has
resigned, because, as he says, he has
nothing to do. The duties of the office
have been narrowed down to mere me
chanical work to which the clerks are
able to :attend—so Mr. Parker resigns.
Here is an example which a multitude
of the useless Radical officials, who are
now eating out the substance of the peo
ple, might gain renown by following.—
But they choose rather to follow the ex
ample of the Presifient, who is eager to
make all he can out of the office, by fair
means or foul, and anxious to continue
doing so; Inasmuch as Grant finds
nothing to do. at Washington why
might he not follow the example of
Commissioner Parker—and resign
TErEitE have been some dissensions
among the Democracy of Ban Francisco,
but all these have been healed up and
the party is now a unit in California.—
That might to instite the re-election of
Governor Haight by a large majority.
More Chorpennlog Jobs
The Washington Patriot of Saturday
gives at length the history of a system
of gigantic fraud and corruption, which
has grown up in the administration of
the Post-Office Department by Mr.
Cresswell. This is the system of " straw
bids" for mail contracts, and has been
exposed by a recent decision of the De
partment for mail lettings for a number
of distant Southern States, where the
great routes are located. At the recent
lettings nearly all the successful bidders
were men of straw, put forward to fall.
Over 150 have been reported since the Ist
of July, as unable to give bonds for the
execution of their contracts. When this
happens the local postmaster on the laps
ed route enters into a temporary arrange
ment for six, nine or twelve months,
with the former contractor at the old
price. Hence his interest in procuring
straw bids. If the Postmaster-General
favors the arrangement, the monopoly
is secured, and everything is snug
This has just happened in regard to the
bids in Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana.
They were all awarded to men of straw,
and therefore the former contractors go
on at the old rates, until a new letting
shall be made. Between the " straws"
and the old contractors there were re
sponsible bidders ready and willing to
take the routes at half the present price.
During a third of a century the prac
tice of the Postmaster-G neral has been
in case of failure, to take the next low
est bidder, and the act of Congress of
IS3O makes ample provisions to meet
the case. The Patriot continues its ex
position of the fraudulent practices in
the Post-Office Department:
Here is ample authority and the largest
discretion to resist corrupt combinations,
if the',Postanaster-General was so inclined.
But instead of exercising it as his predeces
sors have uniformly done, for tho benefit
of the public interests, Mr. Creswell has
lent the influence of his position to aid a
combination, of which, as in the case of
Chorpenning, his immediate surroundings
form an integral part, and in connection
with which ho is subjected to grave sus
picion.
If ho Intended to act in good faith, there
was an easy mode of showing it. lie had
only to summon the recent bidders and re
quire 010111 to present bonds Within thirty
is sixty days, and then to award the eons
tract in the spirit of the law. That course
was plain and straightforward, and ron
.sequeutly did not suit the slaws of Mr.
Creswell, who is aiming to accomplish a
political object In Texas and oilier States
by abuse of the :nail service, and at the
same time to favor a ring of speculators.
lie has announced his intention to read
' vertise all the lapsed routes, or, in other
! words, to repeat the costly farce, for the
profit of those who are in possession of
contracts at enormous prices. This is a
game of venal deception, and nothing else.
An act of the last Congress requires bid
ders to deposit five per cent. on all propo
sals exceeding $5,000. But:it furnishes no
protection. Take the case of any of the
large contractfitrs in Texas or the South
west.. Ile puts forward his straw-bidder
Ibr 55,1011 in ten or a dozen cases, and de
posits the five per cent.. or $.255 in each ease.
When a bid is formally accepted, the tie
posits must be returned to the competing
bidders—all probably representing one
combination. The "straw " gets the con
tract, and he fails, as in the first instance,
at a sacrifice of iii2s3, wilds the old contract
or—the two being really one and the same
person—is employed to continue the ser
vice at the highest price, and to laugh it,
the face of all candid competition. And so
the vicious circle is rounded during the
four years, while the country iS robbed in
the name of carrying mails.
This scheme, if applied to only a few bids
in the Southwest,would put more than half
0-111111inn of dollars in the pockets of the
Post-office ring, and, if extended to the
Pacific Coast and other parts of the country,
would swell the toll levied on the treasury
to millions. It is in keeping with the out
rageous frauds which were disclosed last
Winter, in which Mr. Creswell. Mr. Earle,
Mr. Cessna and Mr. Chorpenning figured
as the principal parties in a deliberate con
spiracy to appropriato half a-million of
dollars, by means of a legislative trick, for
a pretended claim, which bad already been
paid three times over, and never had any
legal existence whatever.
Proposed Mr Isloa or Texas
The people of Texas will vote at the
Full election upon the question of di
viding the State into three sections, to
be called Eastern Texas, Middle Texas
and Western Texas. Eastern Texas is
to comprise all east of Trinity river,
with a popnlathin of 3413,01)(1; Middle
Texas all between the Trinity and Col
orado rivers, with a population of COO,-
000 ; and Western Texas is to embrace
all west of the Colorado, with a popula
tion of 200,00 M There are 3.53,71 f, whites
in the State and :251,427 negroes. It is
not certain that the proposition to dl
vide the State will carry. A provision
for the division of the State was made
in the treaty of annexation, and the
Radicals are anxious to put the project
through, as they hope thereby to make
a gain of I - nited States Senators.
Leer Sunday a week the gauge on
the Louisville branch of the Ohio and
Mississippi railroad, a distance of 33
miles, was changed to correspond to that
of the Baltimore and Ohio, with the in
terruption of but a single train. Both
rails were taken up, moved and bolted
down again, within a space of seven
hours, Last Sunday a similar change
was made throughout the entire length
of the main line, a distance of NO miles.
This change was brought about through
the influence of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad, which expects thereby to se
cure the shortest route from the Missis
sippi Valley to the Atlantic Coast.
(:. C. Bow EN, the polygamist
pardoned by President Grant, has been
recommended to emigrate with his nu
merous wives to Utah, where he can
lawfully play husband to them all, The
Salt Lake I kruld indignantly expresses
the hope that he will stay away. It
does not want any sneaking fellow like
him around there, passing himself off as
a single man on unsuspecting spinsters.
The Mormons, it says, make their matri
monial arrangements openly and above
board, and if they are married already,
,say so to the new objects of their affec
tions.
TI I I: \Vit.+ horrill,d at the irx
hibition which took place at the trot
ting race m Tuesday, and it stigmatizes
those in attendance as gamblers and
blacklegs. Will it now be good enough
to'give us its opinion of the propriety of
President 6rant's habitual attendance
upon horse-races. He has left Wash
ington several times and gone hundreds
of miles to witness such exhibitions as
the Erprcss condemns. Will it be good
enough to give us its opinion of the ef
fect upon the community of the Presi
dent's example? Will it help to re
elect bins?
HENRY WARD BEECHER Las preach
ed a sermon in which he ranted and
raved about the New York riots much
after the style for which he was distin
guished during the Kansas troubles.—
The conviction that there is no hell,
which Mr. Beecher entertains of late
years, has not made any perceptible
change in hint. die is the same violent
bigot and vain sensationalist no matter
what may be his creed.
TII E Lancaster Inquirer administers
the following rebuke to Simon Camer
on's home organ :
The Harrisburg Telegraph, the organ of
Senator Cameron, publishes an editorial
advocating the acquisition of San Domingo.
If the Telegraph desired the defeat of the
Republican ticket in Pennsylvania ti is
fall it could take no surer method of bring
ing it about. The Republicans of this
country, and particularly of this State, do
not desire the acquisition of that island
under the present circumstances, and he is
a dull politician who does not know this
fact.
THE Lynchburg Virginian thinks
Ben. Butler is just the man to be made
Governor of Massachusetts. But for the
fact that there are many good Democrats
in the State we should be disposed to
agree with the Virginian. Butler is
good enough to rule over Yankee Radi
cals, but no Democrat could live in a
State which would elect Butler, without
blushing whenever the name of " The
Beast" was mentioned.
Minister IVashburne has written to
friends in Illinois that he will npt re
turn horde this year. He was ill with
the ague, and intended to go to Carls
bad for his health.
Extending the Ring
Simon Cameron & Co. are busily en
gaged in extending the influence of
their plundering political ring. Gener
al Pleasanton declines to resign and in
sists that Grant shall dismiss him from
office, if he wants to get rld of him. It
is expected that this will be done befOre
long, as there seems to be no chance of
an agreement between Pleasanton and
Boutwell. In case the former is thrown
overboard it seems to be conceded, that
Simon Cameron will succeed in having
one of his tools, J. W. D6uglas, of Erie
made Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue. That will give to the wily Win
nebago complete control of the most
lucrative appointments in the country,
and will enable him to farm out offices
at an immense profit. Cameron has
obtained great influence over Grant by
representing to him that he, and he
alone, can insure him the support of
Pennsylvania in the next Republican
National Convention.
Commenting upon this expected ex
tension of the corrupt ring which owns
and controls the Republican party of
Pennsylvania, the Harrisburg Patriot
says:
"Thus is the dangerous power of the ring
steadily progressing. Mackey in the State
Treasury Is intriguing day and night for
re-election, and setting up nominations for
the Legislature in all parts of the State. Con
tract Surgeon Stanton, Cameron's man,
Quay's man, is nominated for Auditor-
Ueneral to settle the accounts of Mackey,
the Treasurer ; and, now, Douglas .s to be
placed in control of the important office of
Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Thus
the work of the ring is going steadily on.
The people cannot be too frequently or too
earnestly warned against this dangerous
and corrupt faction. The office of State
Treasurer is not enough for them. They
must also have a tool in the Auditor-Gen
eral's °Mee who will permit them to settle
iu their own way their accounts with great
railroad corporations for taxes and with
the Commonwealth. Now they are reach
ing out for control of the internal reven
ues of the country, and of the immense
patronage and spoils con iected with the
collection of the public money. There is
one way of giving them a quietus forever;
and that Is to elect the gallant Ueneral
MeCandle.s to the office of Auditor-Gen
eral.-
The Postal Money-Order Convention with
Great Britain.
'The Postal Money-Order Convention
with Oreat Britain has been eitected,
and the provisions in which those pro
posing to transmit no are Interested
are as follows:
The maximum of each order in fixed at
.ClO when issued In the United Kingdom of
treat Britain and Ireland, and when issued
in the United States at t 450 In the papercur
rency of the the latter country.
No moues- rifer shall include a fractional
part of a penny ur of a cent.
Any person in the United Slates desiring
to remit to the United Kingdom a sum of
rnoney within the limits prescribed by ar
ticle Lmay pay it into any pnst•oflice in
the United States designated ior such pur
poses from time to time by the Post
master-Ueneral of that country—such per
son shall, at the same time give the name,
and address of the person to whom the
amount is to be paid to in the United
Kingdom, and
his own balite and address.
Any person in the United K ingdom desir
ing to remit to the United States a sum or
money within the same limits may pay it
into any money-order office in the United
Kingdom, giving, at the same time, the
name and exact address of the person to
whom the amount is to he paid in the
United States, and his own trains and ad
dress.. The receiving Yost-master in either
country shall. in accordance with the rules
established, by tine postal administration,
notify every such payment to the despatch
ing exchange orrice. The Post-master of
New York, upon receipt of every notifica
tion of that kind, shall make out and for
ward to the payee in the United Kingdom
a money-order, payable in sterling at the
Post °thee in that country, designated by
the remitter of the order, it being under
stood that the money orders sc remitted
shall be sent, in the lirst instance, to. the
controller of the money-order office in
London, and shall not be subject to postage.
Until the two general Post Offices shall
consent to an alteration, it is agreed that,
in all matters of at-count relative to money
orders, which shall result from the execu
tion of the present Convention, the pound
sterling of Ureat Britain shall be consider
ed as equivalent to ,s4..lsnot the gold coin of
lie United States.
-7 :All payments for money-orders, whether
to or by the public, if not in gold, shall be
made to the nearest practicable equivalent.
The value in gold coin of the United
States of deposits in paper money made
in that country for payment in (treat Bri
tain shall be determined at the exchange
office of Now York, according to the rate
of premium on gold on the day of receipt
at that office of notification of such depos
its. On the other hand, the value in Uni•
ted States paper currency of money-orders
certified in the lists sent from the exchange
office of Loudon to the exchange office of
New York, shall be determined also at
New 'Volk, in accordance with the pre
mium on gold on tile day of receipt of such
lists.
nriler.s which shall lot have been paid
within ta - elve calendar months troll the
month of issue shall heroine void, and the
sums received shall accrue to and retnain
at the disposal the country of origin.—
And the motley will lie eventually paid
hall( L 9 the sender, lees i.oinniisbions.
Rev. Dr. 'Jacobs, for .40 years a profes
sor in the Pennsylvania College, died at
(tettysburg on Saturday.
There were 4117 deaths in Philadel
phia last week, a decrease of 32 from the
mortality of the previous week.
George Tyson was injured so badly on
the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad,
by being run over by a train of cars, at
the Falls of Schuylkill. on Monday last,
that he d ed on Tuesday.
A camp meeting, under the charge of
the Methodist Protestant Church, will
be held on the land of John Barton,
near Fawn Grove, York county, Pa.,
commencing on the 10th of August.
The pall-bearers at the funeral of the
late Dr. Jacob Marshall, of Reading,, on
Tuesday afternoon, were all old soldiers
of the war of 1812, selected at his re
quest. Their names and ages are: Mi
chael Reifsnyder, 86; Paul Ammon, 81;
James Norton, 80; Joseph Brelsford, 76.
At a special meeting of the Grand
Lodge of Pennsylvania, of the A. P. A.
held in Reading on the 17th inst., for
the election of a District Deputy Grand
Master for the Middle District, Mr. H.
13. Smink, of Reading, Lodge No. 74,
was elected on the first ballot.
Mrs. Anna Jones. wife of Hon. J.
Glaneey Jones, of Kent county, died
suddenly on 14th inst. She had been
ill but has improved. She had started
to walk across the room, when she fell
into the arms of her nurse and instantly
expired. The immediate rause of her
death was heart-disease.
On the morning of Monday, the 17th
inst., Mr. James Wagoner, son of (jet,.
Wagoner, of Tyrone township, Perry
county, while making preparations to
thresh grain, fell front the mow to the
barn floor below, breaking both fore
arms, and bruising his head in a fright
ful planner.
On lust Thursday afternoon as Mr.
Henry J. Rice. son of \Vim Rice, of Ty
rone township, Perry county, was haul
ing a load of sand from Bell's hill, his
son, aged about Ii years, was standing
on tile slide bar of the lock, when he
fell between the hind wheel and the bed
of the wagon. The child was crushed
between the wheel and bed, and thrown
to the ground, after which he jumped
up and staggered forward to his father
and fell dead as the father caught him
in his The father was not aware
of the accident until the child came for
ward to him.
A collision occurred on Friday after
noon on the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western Railroad, near Morristown,
New Jersey, between a freight train go
ing west, and a coal train going east.
They ran into eaetr other while going
at the rate of fifteen miles an hour. Two
locomotives, three freight cars, and
twenty coal cars were smashed, but no
one was injured—the engineers and fire
men having had time to jump ott. The
cause of the collision is stated to have
been " a confusion of orders."
There was a white frost at the White
Sulphur Springs, Va., on Saturday
morning.
The wife of Col. Alexander Hamilton
died at‘New Brunswick, N. J., on Fri
day. She was a niece of President Mon
roe ; her husband is a son of the great
Hamilton.
A water spoutstruck a passenger train
on the Central Pacific Railroad, near
Granite Point, Nevada, on Friday, caus
ing it to run off the track. The track
was much damaged.
The steamer Olive Branch,' from St.
Louis for New Orleans, sank below
Grand Tower on Saturday morning,
and it is feared will be a total loss. She
was valued at $37,000.
McGehan, the Ohio murderer, whose
counsel Vallandigham was when he
shot himself, recently escaped from jail
and has not yet been recaptured. He
wag one of the seven prisoners who dug
themselves out and fled.
A Montreal despatch says that an
agent of the Cuban Junta has enlisted
a number of volunteer officers and about
200 men In that city. Many of them are
returned members of the Red River ex
pedltion. The party are to sail from New
York.
Letter from Saratoga.
SARATOGA, July 10, 1871
Saratoga is a beautiful town lying an
hour and a half's railway ride from Albany,
and celebrated for its revolutionary nyun
ories, but still more for its life-giving
springs of mineral water, unparalleled in
their magical effects by any other waters
in all the world. The town has a resident
population, all the year round, of some
10,000, while in Summer it overflows with
pleasure and health-seeking pilgrims from
all over the world. Being born °fits springs,
whiCh make it the resort of the wealthy and
the well-to:do r its—buildings are nearly all
of a substantisl or elegan t character. Many
of its Summer visitors dwell iu their own
cottages, but the vast -majority resort to the
hotel and bZiiirding-hrinses. Hotel-life is
the feature of the place, and in this respect
it contrasts violently with its fashionable
rival, Newport. The reason for this differ
ence is found in the fact that the majority
of the visitors to Saratoga go there for the
use of the waters, and achieving the de
sired benefit in a few days or weeks, they
leave for the lakes, the mountains,.the sea
shore, or some other selected abiding place
for the Summer.
The two largest hotels in Saratoga are
"Congress Hall" end the "Grand Union,'4
both built within the past three or four
years, and both unsurpassed in sizetd
elegance by any hotels iu the wort
"Congress Hall" is situated on the ma
street, covering the square between the
"Congress" and the " Hathorn" springs,
and contains 650 rooms ; while the "Grand
Union," which faces it on the oppositesideof
the street, has over 800 rooms. Both have
very wide porticos running along the
length of the buildings, facing the street in
front and the lawns in the rear; and the
massive columns of Congress Hall rising
to the second story and the graceful pillars
of the Union three stories in height, give to
each an architectural beauty of front which
it would be hard to surpass. In the eve
ning when the verandahs aro brilliantly
lighted up, and gay crowds throng them,
and pass along the street, and cross it from
oue,notel to the other, Broadway, between
the two hotels Is a scene of life, animation
and beauty which cannot be excelled by any
similar scene the wide world over, not even
on the gay boulevards of Paris hersel l Each
hotel has an immense and elegant parlor,a
large ball-room, and a luxurious elevator.
! The table fare at each is excellent and the
attendance to your wants upon the part of
servants is all that the moat exacting could
desire. Congress Hall this season has not
been so full as the Union, lint it has a bet
ter class of guests. The Clarendon, situa
ted a square above these hotels Is much
smaller, but is likewise a tirst-class house
and enjoys a very select patronage. Be
sides these hotels there ere many others,
and the boarding houses are innumerable
A favorite way of visiting Saratoga is to
mako up n congenial party sufficient to
till ono of the pleasant cottages whieli are
used as boarding-houses; and in this way
accommodations equal to those of first
class hotels can be secured at a Innen more
moderate price; the former charging lire
dollars a (lay and making no deduction,
though you stay a month.
'there are some thirty mineral springs at
Saratoga, each one differing in the analy
sis of its solid contents from all the others,
yet most of them varying but little in
taste ; some have more gas than others;
some are more saline, yet they are suffi
ciently alike to be known at once as twin
sisters of that cool, lively- and glorious
beverage, known as Congress Water, which
is nature's champagne, better than any
made by the art of man, and dear to the
palates of all who have once quaffed it at
its fountain head. Until of late years the
Congress and the Empire Springs were
the only ones that were well-known away
from Saratoga, their waters only being bot
tled to any large extent. Now, however,
most of the Springs are bottling and bar
reling their waters, and through the ener
gy displayed in putting the different writ
ers on the market, the use of Saratoga
water has been very largely increased.
The sales of the Congress and - Empire have
been more than tripled in the last live
years, while many of the others sell all
they can send to market. 'I he owners of
the Springs derive no revenue tram the
waters that are drank at Saratoga itself;
these are free as air to all who choose to use
thew, the only tax being sneli gratuity as
the visitor electa to give to the "dipper
boy" who wait, all day at the Spring side
to serve out the water. All the springs
are covered with pavilions, and the pro
prietors of the Congress throw open to the
free use of visitors the beautiful and fine
ly shaded Park in the heart of the town,
and at the edge of which their Springs, the
"Congress" and the "Columbian," are sit
uated. Here the most of the visitors take
their morning walks, to digest the three or
four glasses of water which they take at
intervals before breakfasting. And a most
marked peculiarity of this water is that,
while it is highly cathartic in its effects, it
produces a ravenous appetite; and another
of its peculiar effects is that it leaves one
without any desire, and, indeed,with a pos
itive distaste for spirituous liquors. During
the week that we sat at the thronged tables
in the immense dining room of Congress
Hall, we are quite sure that we did not see
more than a dozen bottles of wine of any
kmnd drank ; and most of this was Claret.
The bar-room, too, was very poorly pa
tronized. We should recommend Saratoga
as a Sutnmer resort to the Honorable James
Black and others of our Temperance apos
tles. They can dwell there with minds
perfectly at ease, undisturbed by sights of
drunkenness and wine- tabbing. It is as
near an approach to a Temperance tmut's
Heaven as he is likely to get on this Earth
and our Lancaster Apostles shoulo freely
resort to it to restore their mental tone,
severely tried as it is by the beer-drinking
proclivities of their fellow-citizens. We
met the Rev. Mr. Ibebin,son at Saratoga
and he was looking vastly improved;
thanks to the waters and the temperance
atmosphere of the place; though we fear
he will not look so well when he reaches
home, as he wag intending to return via the
bibs lons town of Wilkesbarre, where he
hail left his wife and hinter.
EM=tll
LEwtsnunu, July
Me..ctrr. Editors: I left ew Castle nn
Wednesday morning, took the train to the
head of the Plains. As I went up I passed
through the region of country which on
last Sunday was s isited by one of the most
destructive tornados that ever occurred in
this section of the State. It was only about
one hundred yards in width. A barn own
ed by Mr. Rau pt, which stood in its track,
was raised right tip and Carried slim 4 , of it
two miles away. The barn was On by !to
feet, one of the hart barns in Seim . ) lk ill
county, nearly new I t took tip a dog• ken
nel, in which there wits a very title speci
men of the canine race, and carriad It some
few hundred yards, but the dog was a pret
ty good teronaut, and he returned in about
a hall-how —none the worse of his ride.
Trees and 16 nicht s in diameter were
twisted oil' like a with,. : grass, core and
everything it hint stood in its way was de
stroyed. Mr. llaupt's loss is c!stlniated at
about $.4,000. This was the t Illy building
that stood in its track.
At the foot of the Planes I took the cars
for Shamokin, a town of about nine thous
and inhabitants,situated in thecoal-regions.
Thee are some very tine buildings in it.—
I was informed by the Rey. Mr. Boyle, that
there were fourteen churches in it, which
certainly speaks well for a borough of that
size. On my way to Shamokin I passed
through Ashland, a borough of about seven
thousand souls ; Locust Dale and Mt. Car
mel; both of the latter are considerable
towns. At Shamokin I again took the
Northern Central train for Sunbuty; here
I changed cars for Lewisburg. Sunbury is
a thriving town, the county-seat of North
umberland county. The Company have
no clock in the depot, and it is the first
time I ever saw a depot in a town of that
size without a time-piece in it. The depot
is rather a dilapidated concern.
Lewisburgh is located on the west bank
of the West Branch of the Susquehanna;
it is a town of about forty-five hundred in
habitants; I think it is one of the prettiest
towns in the interior of the State. It is the
home of Senator Dill. Lewisburgh Uni
versity—one of the _finest seminaries of
learning in the country—is located here.
The citizens of this place say they have one
of the finest halls in the State outside of
Philadelphia, and I think it is true. The
surrounding country is very fine, the soil
is good, I think it is equally as good as any
in Lancaster county, though the valley is
not as large. There are a great many peo
ple living in this:county who formerly re
sided in Lancaster and Berks counties.
Mr. Eligot Ammon, originally of Barks
county, owns a -very fine hotel a few miles
out of town. Charles L. Cox, who was
born and raised in Carnarvon township,
Lancaster county, resides In Lewisburgh,
and keeps ono of the finest hotels in the
borough. A new railroad is being built
f nom this place up through Buffalo Valley
and on through Centre county to connect
with the Central railroad at tyrone. It is
something the people in this valley want,
and it will enhance the price of land twen
ty-five per cent. Land sells in the valley
from $l5O to ;5200 per acre. Lewisburgh is
the county seat of Union county. The
Court-house compares very favorably with
that of Lancaster or Schuylkill county.—
The private residences of this town are
much better than any that I have ever
seen in any other town of the size in the
State. The Baptist church cost about
s3o,ooo,the spire is one hundred andelghty
five feet high. There are also very fine
Presbyterian, Methodist, Lutheran, Ger
man Reformed and other churches in the
place. The crops have been very good in
this valley. Corn looks well. Fruit is not
very plenty. SCHUYLKILL.
FOC the Intelligenoer
A ehlel's emend ye lalcin' dotes, lalth
prent'em."
The composition of the Republican Party
in this county presents a strange amalgam
of easy virtue, miscellaneous morality and
slight tincture of stupid honesty. A glance
into the pandemonium of sly knavery and
the bsbel of confusion which lately assent
bled in our Court House, pretending to be
a convention of the Republican County
Coin tnittee,strikingly revealed the compo
site character of the party,and the prospect
for the campaign opened by the candidates
for nomination at its hands.
There sat in the presiding chair—King
John, of Penn—the "oily gammon" who
is a past, and, Wa and erStalid, u future can
didate for Senatorial honors. 11is double
team race with the smiling Rudy, having
been ummecessful, we suppose he will
drop his running mate in the next cam
paign, and go It on his individual muscle.
Bland and courteous in his alallaCt to each
and all, he presented a eontrast to the
boisterous heifer on his loft, who with
blast ring tone and terrific gesture, indig
nantly scorned any insinuations that there
were grounds for charges of corruption
against his party in this county, In chaste
• poech he denounced the attempts to throw
arousal the ballot box the least semblaiwe
of protection against frauds, and placed
confidence in the traditional honor which
tis:supposed to exist among thieves. Scatter
ud o'er the room, were poi itieians of various
grades of respectability, and Vaal] Malta of
doubtful reputations. There was the hawk•
nosed pugilist of the Second Ward and
here sat the CadlIVCl,ll , l candidate fir Dis
t rict-Attorney. Hero sat the genial Andy
Kauffman, supported Iry the elegant Sulic•
dor of the Prison, and galls it cx Sherill
hobnobbed with a candidate for Assembly.
Store was heard the clamor lif the loud
mouthed member from Columbia, arid the
honest oracle froni Adamstown shook his
head in grave displeasure. Banged round
the room were the old stagers and the
younger members ,if the party, the more
respectable of both classes having either
been left out, or too weak to make any
considerable Impression. The proceedings,
of which lull details 'have appeared, were
+if a character in accordance with that ol
the campaign now opened, and whose
spirit we would attempt to delineate.
Ai mind the candidates for Judge cluster,
perhaps, the most substantial interests.
though by no means the most exciting.
Although the slates have not as yet been
exactly set up, it in lair to suppose, that We
only prominent candidates will be Cot'
Patterson and John B. Livingston; and
though the former has strong hopes cen
tered in the L.:011,11,1 , , ring, it is said he de
pends mainly un Ills military re,ord, as
leader Of the White !torso Cavalry; the
latter, having considerable personal pop
clarity, expects, doubtless, to walk over
the course without much trouble, though
those who manipulate the wires may make
startling developments between this and
the of August. The announcement
that. Thomas E. Franklin's nomination
would be urged, created considerable con
sternation among these gentleinen ; but,
as has been well said, this ticket, with Mr.
Kline for District-Attorney, would be too
respectable to suit our Republican politi
cians. Whatever be the isstie or the con
test, we trust the successful candidate will
be fettered by no political obligations, our
blemish the purity ut the bench by doubt
ful means to secure a seat thereon,
Fin' no position, however, is so inuoh
anxiety manifested as in the rare for Dis
trict-Attorney, which is confined mostly
to the young and warm-blooded mem
bers of the party. Prominent among then,
is Picayune Juhnson, the York county
carpet-bagger, and late candidate tor As
sembly, and still later aspirant for pugilis
tic laurek—rerMOMilly unpopular, he is
making an energetic canvass, and backed
by the shrewd Houston and the smiling
reist, he rushes to the carriage with Hope
perched on his banner. Ilia old enemy,
Ed. Reed, not being a candidate, he trusts,
In case of defeat, to be spared the niortiti•
cation of the sick lion being kicked'at by an
ass. Next on the roll of the noble army of
unselfish patriots is Davy ltosenmiller, the
pet of the "hurrah Boys," backed heavily
by Sensenig, Mohlenbergs, and the "Ex
aminer Faction " generally, and with good
chances, it is said, of winning, if trots° un
ceremoniously counted out, as ho charges
to have been last Fall. And now a famil
iar tunic presents itself in Pap's Boy Clay,
who is being trotted out by the old Ring-
Master, to "keep it in the family," to be
cure which happy result "My Boy" Is go
ing through the old routine of kissing the
babies and flattering their influential pa
pas, guided in his tours by the careful hand
and shrewd eye of Pap himself. Another
candidate is Billy the Renegade—a sweet
voiced warbler of the blarney schools—at
one time deemed no formidable candidate,
but now by his.own untiring zeal, looming
into importance and staring from all the
bridges and fences of the roomy. Repre
senting the advanced guard of the morality
division of the caul p, wo have Charles
Denues, a gentleman of good reputation,
but who, in the hands of parties seeking
the advancement of their own interests, is
wo fear being manipulated in a manner
which his own shortsightedness prevents
him front d6tecting. Among those promi
nent is Capt. B. F. Barr, a candidate so un
pretentious in hi, Chihli,: that he sutlers
ucilll,r formidable opposition nor abuse at
the habits of his competitors. Last and
least ne have the late County Solicitor—
the immaculate Uriah Ileep—of the bar.
The scotching some time since received by
him at the hands or Oliver .1. is supposed
to have effectually killed the last shadow of
a charter) of his election, with which the
county was threatened.
Of the many candidates for Assembly it
is generally conceded that the two cid
members, Whitson and Engle, Will go
back, while for the remaining position the
campaign has brought out several old and
new card id tiles. Of these Cock Gatehell is
perhaps the most prominent, with Ilun
seeker and Ilurkholder at his shoulder,
'meek and neck ;" of those entered for fu
ture prospects we mention Shuman, NVliite
and Senor ; the latter, if we remember,
having been at ate time c
s coi•rrariro of.
jirial of this district.
The glittering prize of County Treasurer
has tempted as yet but four, of whom the
most promising are Barry Stoner and Dan
ny Brown, of West Earl, a standing candi
date for twenty years.
Considering the trilling emoluments of
the office of County Commissioner, great
interest is manifested in the result of the
election for this position. Royer is the pet
of the ring, and, with characteristic stupid
ity those professing to desire the election
of an honest official, have brought out a
sufficient nunber of candidates to divide
the vote, so as to secure the success of the
"set up." So long as this branch of the
party mismanage their interests, so long
must they endure the triumph of their Un
scrupulous and wily adversaries.
Since the manner of the election of Pris
on-Keeper has been changed, fewer can
didates for Prison Inspectors are Oeveloped,
though there are sufficient for Directors of
the Poor to make an interesting fight,
For the new office of Prison-Keeper, is
being made a desperate tight, between the
rings represented by Weise and Mentzer,
with the chances evenly balanced as yet.
On the whole, considering the fact that
the present is the "otf year,'' it Is an Inter
esting fight, and wo watch the result with
curiosity.
Though some of the offices seem of little
profit, yet It is interesting to the politicians
to have each other show th.ir hands, and as
the lamiediate forerunner of the great con
test neat year, will go far to influence the
result of that dubious and uncertain issue.
JED.
Inoffensive Character of the Camp Grant
Indlans.—The Massacre Unprovoked.
Lieut. Whitoian, whose official report of
the Cnmp Grant massacre was pnblished
in yesterday's Tribune, gives the following
account of the peaceful habits of tholndians
at that po4t, and their progress in civiliza
tion :
Some time in February a party of live rid
women came in under a flag of truce, with
a letter from Col. Green, saying they were
in search of a boy—the son of one of the
number taken prisoner near Salt River,
some months before. This boy bad been
well cared for, and had become attached to
his now mode of life,lind did not wish
return, The party were kindly treated,
rationed while there, and after two days
went away, asking permission to return
again. They came in about eight days, 1
think, with a still larger number, with some
articles for sale to purchase mantles, as they
were nearly naked. Beton, going away
they maid a young chief would lake to conic
In with a party and have a talk. This I
encouraged, and in a tow days he came In
with about 2.5 of his band. lie stated,
in brief, that ho was chief of a band of
about lad of what were originally the
Aravapa Apaches, that bo wanted peace,
that he and his people had no home, and
could make none, as they were at all times
apprehensive or the approach of cavalry.
told him thallm should go to the White
Mountaim9. He said: "That is not our
country; neither are they our people We
are at peace with them, but never have
mixed with them. Our fathers and their
fathers before them have lived on those
mountains, and have raised corn in this
valley. We are taught to make mescal nor
principal article or loud, anti in Summer
and Wittier hero wo have a never-tailing
supply. At the White Mountains there is
none, and without it now we get
SOlllO of our people have been in at Good
win, and for a short time et the White
Nloutains, but they are not content
ed, and they all say, let us go to the
ravipa, and make a tined peace and
lever break it." I told tutu I had no au
thority to make any treaty with hint, or to
promise Min that lie Cl/II IA) ul lOW eil
penuaurut 1101110 here, but that he entdit
bring in hie 1411111 and I would lead them
and report Me wiciles LO the departinent
commander. Ho went nut and returned
about the kior Mardi with hie whole band.
111 the mean time rtlitnes, bad been in [runt
wo small bands, it✓king thu M.lllll.
rtrileges, and the nano. re1.t1114.-
Math, the illicit, reply to all, and by uL~~ni
lie itrell I Itiot over :WO here. I
tvroto it detailed itevoutit or tho whole
touter, mid svilt it hy expre,, to Sat.,
ton, to departtto tit Itoltdpiarturs, t•O.-
only the
general
such ca , ••• for lily gilidanco. Alier
walling nu re titan six week lily !utter war
returned to lIIt. o ILIIOIII C,llllllll'lll,
CalllllZ Illy attention to the raer that it. lilts
not brier al ltroiteriv. At llrst I Wit (11,11
ill ealllp tllit.- flair 111110 U . . 111 lfit , parr,
Anti ruinurd (111.111, 111111 i,rued lhrw riki 11,4
every 1•10,011 ii Old!, . The number
mrrcurail until it reiv•lnsl the nwu 1101' ill
510. Knowing, Ili I did, that Ilitt
nlll t• id 010 NS 11010 mrr.'mrut 1'1,1141 \\WI
me, and that in ('lll.ll of 11113' 1.13.1 111 tlm I
(.111111VIII 1 nwIHK i I it I showil IR , the
leter, I 11
l II
COI I 11
llit 1 I3' 1111111.1 . oh
servAtion, 1111111 I lit I,llly ClllllO to k Ili I‘V
the or 111 the won, but 111.1 1 , 11111 . 11
and rhllJrml. bay %yelp nearly ttalccd, nud
111 evtirything lu thy %Say of clothing.
1 shiliiinti the wagons front bringing
that. 1 might. tiny Iron, thrul. I
keLA with which hi pay I hetti
and In rurnural:o Ihrm, with lt,
they wore properly treaten. I per...llV
attjodetl to all thj‘volgliitkg
inquiries IS to Ilia kinds of goods mIJ
them, and price,. This proved illierlevi
411,4,5 ; ill. nnly 1110 V 6 /1111.11 null ehinlren
enraged in tho work, but ninny ni tht ,
viten. 'I he moonlit In. - m.llnd Iny thimi
about Lush) months was nearly 31111,0110
pounds. puling this 1111111 nom). 51111111
parties Innl been out with pa,slls nw la et•r•
Lam niiiiiher or clzu s to 111,11 1111•M•111.
111 ,, 1. parties Nvert. nl maps 1/10Sitg limn)
:int' I Made trysell•urig 1;y 11.1111 o.; Ilia av
lir the party, tint from OM :11111111111 10 .
1111 Ii rini,4lll. in, [hat 11, treachery iv it. 111
tenth., /.
From the lilt I svasileteriiiined ktioit
11lit 11111 y all 11Ire 11111, 1111 t. their 111/1/1,1 111111
litilllS. File this purp,,t. I spout hour-
1 1 11111 11,11 , 1,' With 1.111 1 111 in liX pkitting to them
the r1•1.1,1hill'il they ,hottlil sustAin to the
I ;overilitient, and their prospects lor the
lure in case It either oliedienl•ll
thence. I gia from them, in return, much
nt their hati.ts of thought ;mil ruh, I 11e
-01111. 1 11111111 1 it a /,1111111111 tell 111. 1 111 1111 they
wished to I, lout, 111111 111 11:1 111;1111,4. :Mil
pl , llil 1 1 manlier. They ivt.re reedit
lit/14111'111, and rein.trkahly quick of iilllll •
1 1 r1 1 11011Si1/11. They were happy and
tented, and took ever)' opportunity tll
it. They 111111sentoul runners to feu other
bands which were connected with them by
intermarriages, and had received pi cni , es
from thrul that they St 1,11111 1 . 1/111ti ill:11111 . 111111
1111,1.
I /1111 l'i , [llldollt I ' lolll ell 01111 I 11.IVI. hi'l II
able tO haarn, that tilt her 111, tiiihmkell Inr
blllehPry, by 11)11 (11110 tvu would have 11.1
1,e1(a0 persons, and at Oust .30 ablo-bodu•d
men, As their number increased and the
weather grew warmer, they asked and oh•
Wined permission to move lorther op the
Aravapa to higher ground and plemy or
water, and opposite the ground they were
proposing to plant, and were rationed eve
ry third day. Captain Stanwood arrived
about the Ist of April, and took commonel
of the p.m ; ho had received, while on Ihn
way, verbal instructions from itmeral
SlOOlOll/01 to recognizeand feed any Indians
he might find la 010 punt as Ilrinollol, 01
war. Alter he hail carefully inspected all
things pertaining to their conduct and
treatment, he concluded to mitlie uo
chimges, but hail becotne so well S:01.1 . 0,1
of the integrity of their intentions, that he
101 l on the Slth with his whole troop or II
long scout in the lower part of the 'Terri
tory. ° I'M, ratichinen in this vicinity were
friendly and kind It/ thorn, and felt perfect
ly seetire, and had agreed with me Lo ein
plOy them at a fair rate of pay to harvest
their barley. 'rho todi.w, r..e00l t 0 hits,
lost their characteristic anxiety to purcha
attlintinillllll, and L.ul m 101tily 11041.10101,
sold i..heir best. Lows and arroi-vS. I made
trequent visits to their camp, stint if any
were 1.11)S0111. 1 . 1 - 0111 1 . 011111. 001110 it. illy IMP
1.0 1-(110,. Why. 1111')1 Nils 010 condition
of things tip to the morning, if iho :loth of
April. They hail so, 40.111 00 100 000,
from my first idea of treating , them Justly
31111 honestly as all officer ill the artily, I had
come t 0 1001 as strong personal interest lit
helping to show them the way to a higher
civilization ; I had 1,01103 to lt,ol respect. hit*
Well who, ignorant and naked, ‘1,1,1 stall
unhawul t. 1.1 lie Jill,/ St.!, itild 1 . 1.1 r 50111111 tl
who would work cheerfully like slaves n.
clothe themselves children, but, un
taught, held their virtue aliiive price.
Aware of the lies and hints industriously
.
irculated by the puerile press of CAIN Ter
ritory, I was content to know I had poet
li VO proof that they were SM. 1 had craned to
have any leare of their leaving [writ, and
only dreaded tor them that they might uL
any time be ordered to do so. They fre
quently exprehmed trioiety to hear the
eneral, that they might have MU thlenet,
to build for them...lVO-4 better houses, hot
would always hay, "You know what we
want, and 1r you can ' t soh him you ism
write and do for un what you ran." It is
possible that during this tune Individuals
Irian hero had visited other bands, but
that any number had ever hell out to tie
stmt. in any Illatrittldith4 llttpedittim I k now
is false.
I evuka, Ovalau, of the Fiji group, 1•A •
ports nine thousand bales of cotton lif the
best sea island quality - better, it is said,
than that of South Carolina-per year. It
IlitY a newspaper called the /•'•n l'fne s,
whose columns are well filled w itli itiker•
1111)1 ti hone 111011 , IM _"illors n.
110 111,4,, if 110 Meet 11111 I. - Among the
ail I . rti,oznents IS one headed --" Frllll
eke , / and overland to England," Tlib un
lives wear for dresses the satimliko bark of
a tree, which. It is thought, might be suc
cessfully used in the manufactiire fit
pruning paper. But isn't this ratite, -
" 1.00 thill Levuka is becoming a
port of considerable i 11111011.1411 1 .0 ne 11
coaling-station hill' the
Oi ;he IMO of steamers between Ails.
ralia and San Framaseff. iii tile 1111111
ber of the Time, 1 0,0 to w 0 leitlee
COIIIIIIII .1 . 1111,10 nm flews under the hi ail
of" limes ~r 1)1p/VlilreNtif 1,11,01 . Vessels,"
That Illay a " new 11/11110 101"
it," when we read that a number of vessels
have sailed on a " 6 lahOr cruise "- that is, 10
pick up laborers wherever they eau
er them in " Inrtn among the adjacent
islands. The laborer is, of course, worthy
of his hire, and in the Fiji!, the European,.
rope :11 according to the higher law. 'rim
principal civilized occupants of the Island
consist of about Murteen hundred English
men and SOlllO forty Ainericaes, 0110 Of
VlllOlll, a New York boy, has just returned
home after twenty-three years' absence
among the Fijis, flow long will it be be
fore smile of our " manifest. destiny " men
will want. to 1111110 X the group of Fiji
1:4,..mk, to the great Amerman group of
States?
Trouble Among; the luul lnnN
The last steamer which arrived at St.
Joseph, Mo., from Fort. Berthold, Dakota,
report., that then e were learn of a general
rising of the Indians when she left. Achill,
passed the Fort on the 12th inst., tannin,
lion was rteeived that the Sioux were at
tacking the place, and the Indians of the
Agency were lulling back upon the village.
It was reported that Spotted Tall, exasper
ated by white treachery, had returned
the Rocky Mountains and was warring
upon the whites. The Indians at the earl
nun trading posts are said to be the victims
of swindlers whom "the Government has
taken into confidence." Agent Talent
writes to Superintendent Hoag, trout Fort
Sill, that the Kiowas are anxious to learnt
the fate of their chiefs, Satanna and Big
Tree, and that they have madeunenecrasful
efforts to induce the Cheyennes and Sioux
to war against the whites.
A Youth-Hangs Himself _Accidentally.
A little son 01 the Rev. J. C. Smith,
Presbyterian Minister at Bland Court
House, Virginia, who was living with his
relatives in Floyd county, accidentally
hung himself a few days since. It appears
that the little fellow had a rope or strap
around his neck and was showing his play
mates how people hang themselves, when
be slipped and broke his neck. This Ise dis
tressing affair to the parents and friends of
this little boy.
A train on the Northern Railroad ran
Into a buggy near Toronto yeater.4ay,
killing,a man named Weleh t .and a boy.
=ME