Lancaster 3ntelligencer. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1871 DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET FOR AUDITOR GENERAL, OEN. WILLIAM McCANDLESS, OF PHILADELPHIA FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL, CAPTAIN JAMES H. COOPER, OF LAWRENCE COUNTY. A FULL POLL OP THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE WILL SECURE THE ELECTION OF OUR STATE TICKET BY A LARGE MAJORITY. LET EVERY DEMOCRAT ICEMEMBER THAT, AND IMPItEsS THE THUTH OF IT UPON TUE MINDS OF HIS ZiEIGHBOILS. Circulate The Intelligencer The 'WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER will be mailed to subscribers until after the October election for FORTY ClisTs. 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 bands and forget flog up big meetings. The Revival of Know-Nothingism The proscriptive spirit of K now- Nothingism has only been slumber ing in the Republican party since the election of Abraham Lincoln. A t the Convention which nomina ted Mr. Lincoln Curl Schurz appear ed and demanded that the custom ary Know-Nothing plank should be left out of the platform of the party. He was recognized as the spokesman of the lermans of the Northwest, and his commands were obeyed. The leaders of theoath-boundK now-Nothing lodges consented to sink their distinctive prin ciples, .and to hush their' proscriptive war cries for the time being. During the rebellion, while the army was being filled with Irish Catholics and other foreigners, the malignant spirit of Know-Nothingism did not dare to show Itself; but no sooner Was the war over than it began to crop out. Preach ers, who had found a field for sensational harangues in denouncing Democrats as dislnyal,speedily returned to vindictive, and vituperative abuse of Catholics; :111,1 Radical newspaper editors, when in want of fuel with which to rouse the rank and file of their party, revamped the old lies of Know Nothing days. The New York riots, which have been as strongly condem ed by the priests and the laymen of the Catholic church as by any oilier class of citizens, are now being made an excuse - for the re vival of the Know -Nothing organiza tion within the ranks of the 'Republi can party. Some of the more sagacious among the Radical leaders see what will be the effect of this movement and dread the result. They do not feel strong enough to repel the foreign pop ulation of the lotted States, but they can not control the bigoted zealots who Kling to their narrow ideas with won di ful tenacity. We put lisp elsewhere a telegraphic report of a meeting which was held in Baltimore city, on Tuesday evening. That city was one of the strongholds of Know-thingistn. All the worst elements of society there were check by jowl with the religious fanat ics, and there was a carnival of corrup tion and rowdyism, until the infamous and odious organization became an in tolerable pest and a public nuisance. This open revival of Know-Nothing : ism in Baltimore is full or significanee. It should attract the earnest attention of every gond citizen, and should call down maledictions upon the heads of all who are engaged in it. It not only threatens those who profess the Catho lic religion, but it is a menace to every foreign-born citizen of the FMK(' Slates, without respect to religion or race. The Republican party has in its ranks to day the bigoted and proscriptive men who tormed the infamous Know-Noth ing organization. Some of the mon liberal supp,rters of Bell and Everett an with the Democracy now, but they are such ati bCC:11110 convinced of their errors Thu leaders of the movement and tin rank and file are still in the folds of tin Republican party. The Democratic party is now, as it always has been, the only liberal and truly national party. It never asks what religious creed any man professes, and does not question any one as to the place of his birth. Ii holds all who have voluntarily taken upon themselves the garb ~r America , citizenship to be the equals of those who are natives of the soil. 'chits it stands. as it has always stood, ready to do battle against any and every organization which undertakes to violate the great principles upon which our republic win. founded. Our Narrolr•liatKe Railroad We publish elsewhere the report of the committee appointed to examine the routeof the,projecled narrnw•gauge rail road from Safe Harbor to Rending.• A, will be seen by the report of the emgl• veer, the proposed route is perfectly practicable, and, what Is especially Im• portant, the ground surveyed is of such a character that the road can be easily and eheaply constructed through a sec tion of country which needs an outlet, and which will furnish a large amount of freight and passenger travel. Col Arms, who Is a scientific and practical engineer, gives it as his opinion that the entire road can be constructed and equipped for less than six hundred and fifty thousand dollars ; and no one who has given the subject any attention can doubt that' the road would pay hand somely on a capital considerably larger than the estimate made by Col. Arms. The data furnished by the report of the committee ought to be sufficient to satisfy any man, that the stock of this road will prove to be a safer and more profitable investment than any of the far-Western roads into which the people of Lancaster county are putting, thousands of dollars every day. 'l'lle peo ple Ii vingalong the route of the proposed road can build it and equip it without any help from outsiders, and we believe they will be found ready to do so. There is not a loran, a mill, or any other piece of property along the line between Safe Harbor and Reading which will not be enhanced it) price by the construction of this needed thoroughfare. The peo ple see that, and they are ready to give a liberal support to the project. They will do so most cheerfully,when they see that the money which they invest will pay a remunerative rate of interest, in addition to enhancing the value of their real estate and other property. We feel assured that we can conscientiously commend the stork of this railroad to all who desire to invest. A careful ex amination of the report of the commit tee must necessarily lead others to the same conclusion. Zlegler's Demo( rade Ilnraid That is the pretentious title of a hand some nine-column newspaper,now pub lished in Butler county by our old friend, Jacob Zeigler. Uncle Jacob does not:believe in hiding his light under a busuel. He always has something good to say, and he naturally desires to speak through a proper medium. So he has enlarged the little flutter Herald, until It is almost as big as the weekly INTEL LIGENCER, and has re-christened It. His son is associated with him. We wish the Zelglers and their Herald the most abundant success. May they soon herald the overthrow of Radicalism In Butler county. Tin; people of the United States paid over two million dollars last year in the shape of taxes on matches. Like near ly all other business, this has been thrown by Radical legislation into the hands of a few monopolists, and those who heretofore manufactured on a small . scale have been driven from the market. An eßbrt will be made to reduce the stamp duty on matches, but the mo nopolists will fight against lt, and they will succeed If they • can afford to pay enough for the merchantable votes of members of Congress. THE tANCA.STER, WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1871. The Address of the Radical State Cen tral Committee. Mr. Russell Errett, Chairthan of the Radical State Central Committee, has issued an address which cannot mend the fortunes of the Republican party in Pennsylvania. It is full of misrepre sentations, which are so bunglingly put forward that they cannot deceive any intelligent voter. He starts out with the assertion that the Republican party deserves great credit for reducing the debt of Pennsyl vania. That claim is unfounded. The system under which the State debt has been reduced was originated by the Democracy, under the able administra tion of Governor William F. Packer. The establishment of the Sinking Fund was a Democratic measure, adopted by a Democratic Legislature, and the debt of the State would have been greatly less than it now is, if the provisions of the law creating that fund had been faithfully observed. In order to gain a temporary and fictitious popular ity, a Republican legislature repealed the three-mill tax, a measure which would have been proper, if provision had been made at the same time for meeting the extravagant expenditures of Republican administrations. To make up the deficiency caused by their large yearly appropriations,the Republi cans violated the law relating to thesink i lig fund and took therefrom millions of money. When Mr. Errett proves to the people of Pennsylvania that the fifteen or twenty millions of dollars, unlaw fully 14ken by his party from the sink ing fml, have been honestly and prop erly expended, lie may claim credit for the management of the State finances, but not until that is done. After indulging In some of the worn out loyal cant, with which the country has been dosed until everybody Is per fectly ,1:•If of it, Mr. Errett speaks of the three amendments to the Constitution of the United States. Of these three amendments he says: Having all been duly ratified in the method pointed out by the Constitution, are r u se a component part of that instru ment. Their adoption stands as the grand est peaceful achievement of ancient or tnodern times. Ni, party ever before un tiqrtnok so great a task ; and its accom plishment, in at, short a space of time, is a work of which the Republican party may well feel proud. In that short paragraph he sets out very clearly the difference between the leaders of the two great political parties. The Democracy accept the amendments as part of the Constitution of the United states, but they can never cease to re gard with aversion the violent means by which their adoption was secured. The Democracy will never attempt to destroy these amendments by violence, ur resort to unlawful means to prevent them from being enforced; but there are thousands of hottest Republicans who do not feel proud of negro equality, and who will not vote for any party which glorifies these amendments as the spokesmen of the Cameron ring I floes. Mr. l'rrett is evidently in favor of the extreme policy of Secretary Boutwell, and would continue to impose the most burthensome taxes upon the people, for the purpose of making enormous annual payments of the principal of the nation -1 debt. Between that policy and the more liberal one, which would promptly pay the interest and a small amount of the principal each year, the people Of Pennsylvania are called upon to decide, and vve have no doubt that the Demo cratic idea will be endorsed by a very large majority of the tax-payers. In his attempted contrast between the action of the Radical Douse and the Democratic Senate of our last Legisla ture r. Errett is peculiarly unfortu nate. The people of Pennsylvania do not need to be told that the session was unnecessarily lengthened by the refusal of the Radical majority in the House to pass any appropriation bill which could be accepted. yearly all .hat was good in the legislation of last Winter had its origin in the Democratic Senate, and the falsehoods of a creature of the corrupt Cameron ring cannot alter the record. Mr. Erma devotes the concluding portion of his address, about one-third of the whole of it, to a discussion of the New York riot, and makes a deliberate attetupt to revive the bitter hatred of - Nothing days. In this, as in other parts of his address, he shows great indiscretion. It would have been better for the Cameron' ring if 1,,, address had emanated from the committee of which Mr. Errett is chair man. Ile has failed to put forth such a manifesto as was needed to withdraw public attention from the fact that the Contract Surgeon, Stanton, and the coal monopolist Beathe, are mere tools in the hands of Cameron. Quay, Mackey & Co. That fact remains fixed In the popular mind, and thousands of honest Repub licans will refuse to vote for theereatures of such a ring. State Executive Committee The last State Convention adopted a resolution making the regular State Committee to consist of the Chairmen of the several County Committees, and re quiring Mr. Wallace, Chairman of the State Committee, and the two State can• dilates, to appoint an Executive Com mittee of eight, on whom should devolve the active work of the campaign. The members of the Executive Committee have all been appointet as follows : W in. A. Wallace, of Clearfield, Chairman Mutchler,. Esq., of :Northampton lion. Samuel J. Randall, of PhLadelphia C. B. Brockway, Esq.. of Columbia. Robert L. Johnston, of Cambria. lion. Charles .1. Biddle, or Philadelphia Lewis S. Cassidy. Esq., of Philadelphia General George W. Cass, of Allegheny L. A. Mackey, Esq., of Clinton. M=S=EMMEM I ton. Win. McClelland, of Lawrence county, was chosen Secretary. The men trained have ability and are entitled to the confidence of the Democratic party. And, now, gentlemen, the work of a most important campaign is before you. Pen nsyl \WWI can be rescued from Rad ical misrule, and McCandless and Coop er triumphantly elected. What is need ed is perfect organization and a full poll of the Democratic vote. That can only be secured by judicious and well-direct ed eflhrt. The Committe of nine has no light task imposed upon it, but we be lieve it will be found equal to the occa sion. The masses of the party must be aroused and inspired with confidence. Let the work begin at once, and let it be prosecuted with unremitting energy throughout the campaign. A NARIWW-GAL'OE railroad is being built from Tunkhannock to Montrose, the county-seat of Susquehanna county. The citizens along the route have sub scribed a sufficient amount of stock to insure tits speedy completion, and the farmers have freely given the right of way. It is proposed to build it with out issuing ally bonds, as it seems that the whole cost of the road will be readily taken as stock. It is expected to pay Cutely, but has no better prospect than that now projected between Safe Har bor and Reading. Tun Alaska seal contractors are in directly swindling the government by taking no seal-oil for which they have to pay a somewhat high bonus. It costs them sixty•two and a-half cents per gallon, and will only command thirty seven and a-half cents lu San Francisco. Consequently they do not take any, but strip the felt off the seal and leave the carcass to rot. By this means much valuable seal-oil is wasted, and the gov ernment is substantially a loser to the amount of many thousands of dollars. GENERAL MCCANDLESS, Who is stop ping at Bedford Springs, was serenaded the other night and made a speech of an hour's length, In which he reviewed the political questions of the day in a mas terly manner. Wherever he goes he finds hosts of friends and not a few Re publicans who avow their intention of votingfor him. Theeoldiererallyaround him with wonderful unanimity. The Evils of Ring Government In the editorial columns of the Har risburg State 'Guard, we find the follow ing paragraph : Ring government, we care not which party tolerates it, means robbery of the taxpayer, and it is time the people of all parties open their eyes to the neressity of controlling political affairs for their own benefit. Political rings are the curse of the American system of government, and whenever you bear of one or more men having a potential power over, and in a political party, be convinced that there is corruption therein. The masses of a party who do not think and act for them selves are ruled by corruption. If we had set ourselves down with the deliberate intention of penning a para graph which should accurately describe the condition of the Republican party in Pennsylvania, we could not have found words more fitting or have put them to gether more skillfully. For years past that organization has been ruled by a corrupt ring, the centre of which is Si mon Cameron. His power over the State Legislature,was supremeso long as there was a Republican majority in both branches. Only once was his right to rule the roast seriously questioned, and that was when the Pennsylvania Rail road ring insisted upon sending one of its salaried solicitors td the United States Senate. Then Cameron consented to a division of power. He made no fight upon John Scott, but took care to have Mackey made State Treasurer. This Cameron ring has resorted to every de vice known to corrupt politicians. It has habitually sent money into the dif ferent counties of the State to control legislative nominations. At the last election for State Senators in this dis trict, Cameron's money was lavishly expended. The Express openly made that charge at the- time, and, by per sisting in its allegations and supporting them by a strong show of pkoof, it man aged to defeat the maehinalions of the ring. 111 other Republican districts Cameron has met with little opposition. He has found the Radical newspaper press to be purchasable, and he now con trols nearly all the Republican newspa- )ers of the State. John W. Forney made t show of lighting Cameron for a time, but his virtue is of the easy sort, and he at last succumbed to the blandishments of the man whom he so frequently and so freely denounced. Even the .State Journal, which was once recognized as the organ of Governor Geary, is reputed to have joined the ring. The last Re- publican State Convention was coin pletely controlled by the Cameron ring No motion was adopted which did no come from some one of the faction, and the candidates selected by Cameron Mackey, and gaay were nominated without any difficulty. The unbroken control of the ring has completely cor rupted the Republican party of Penn- sylvania, and made it utterly unworthy the support of the people. vote given for Stanton and Beadle is a vote to con solidate and perpetuate the power of Cameron and his jackals. .State Treas urer Mackey is the creature of the in famous cabal that only needs an Auditor- General which it can control, to give it complete command of the Bounces of the State. Stanton and Reathe are not entitled to the support of any honest and conscientious Republican. They are not the representatives of the party but the mere tools and creatures of the i•or rupt Cameron ring. Hypocritical Temperance Leaders The editors of the Expo . . undertake to laugh oil' the effect of our strict ures upon their course in relation - to the new departure of the temperance men, but, under the thin veneering of mirth their distress at the awkward pre dicament in which we have placed them is plainly visible. One of the most un comfortable creatures in the world is an exposed hypocrite. The experience of our neighbors has had a tendency to harden their sensibilities, but we are glad to notice that they are not utterly callous. They do Mel very uncomfortable in the role they are now playing, and can not help showing it. The condition of our neighbors is aptly described in the last issue of "TGr Kr,vstonr (iood-Tcm plar." After administering a rebuke to professing Christians who take their toddy, it says : "The natural all ten of this kind of Chris tians aro the conservative temperance men who are in favor of prohibition, provided it don't Otte; live with their party; who are in favor of political action —after awhile; who call ace no harm in attending wine and beer-drinking dinners and banquets, pro vided they don't swallow ••too much" themselves; who tied It just as agreeable to be among wine-1,11,1,er, as arming any other people, provided these are respecta ble; 101111 are openly in . favor 01,y/dating, but not prohtbiling the sale of runt under the license laws of tie State, and who are Very decidedly of the opinion that the tem perance 1111e141IIII must, by all means, be met and disposed or without ;Illy regard to politics or religion." The man who wrote dolt paragraph must have had the editors of th,e prom in his eye at the time. A more complete portraiture of the two pro prietors combined could not have been drawn. They must have set for the picture before a mental doguerrotyplng apparatus which hail the faculty of making one face out of Lhe features belonging to two persons. We could not improve on the description of toe Good Teittp/ar, and we leave It to be admired and criticized by those who know the proprietors of the EapvcBs. A Comm TT 00 appointed to take that subject under consideration has just re ported to the Nebraska Constitutional Convention in favor of minority or pro portional representation, and there are not lacking indications the principle will find a place in the new Constitution framing for the State. The committee say they cannot favor the restricted vote, as for instance, if three officers are to be - elected, allowing each voter to vote for two ; nor do they think it proper to apply the principle of the cumulative vote to the case where two 'officers are to be elected ,but do recommend the adop tion of the three-cornered constituency and cumulative volt system, or the di vision of the State into districts electing three officers each, every voter to have as many votes as there are officers chosen, and to be allowed to cast those votes as he may see lit—all three to one candi date, one to each of the three candidates, one to one and two to another, or one and a half each to two. EIIiAMY Bowls::: was tendered a re ception in Charleston the other night, and he made a speech eulogizing Grant and declaring that he expected to oust his negro competitor and be bask in Congress early next winter. The negro who beat Bowen maybe a mean creature, but I e can not be worse than the dirty white Radical who has escaped from the penitentiary through the interference of a President who seems to have no conception of the requirements of his position. It is not unlikely that the Radical majority in Congress will give Bowen a seat with them. p: taxes collected iu Texas for the support of the State government in 1860 are given as 8454,804. In 1807, under the Andy Johnson restoration of civil government, they were $344,208. For this year, 1871, the assessments are $5,- 837,953 ! In 1800 the tax rate was 12/ cents per $100; in 1807 it was 15 cents; and now it is $2.25. It Is not remark able that a paper, published in the re gion tormented by reconstruction, ob serves : " The patience of the Southern people is a marvel In the history of op pression. W. W. HoLniN, having been im pesched and removed from the office of Governor of North Carolina, proposes to take a hand in the impeachment business himself. He proposes to im peach Secretary Boutwell and the finan cial policy of the administration. He holds that there is no necessity for haste in paying off the national debt at a time when the people-fare so grievously bur thened by taxation, and is about start ing a new daily paper at Washington, to enforce his financial views. Senator Nknion In Kentucky Senatonforton made a speech in Ken tucky, the other dfiy. He found him self estopped from a further use of the arguments he employed when be nom inated Grant for a second term from the porch of a Washington tavern. He de nounced the Democrats as insincere in the new departure, and insisted that all distinctions between the races in the schools of Kentucky, and elsewhere, ought to be abolished. That is the pro gramme of the Republican party. The leaders are forced to take that position for thepurposeof maintaining theirhold upon the negro votes. They enfran chised the blacks to prevent the coming triumph of the Democratic party, and thereby created the necessity for pander ing to the negro population. There are aspiring negroes in every community who will demand perfect equality, and the Republican party is pledged to grant it to them, The Democratic party is honest when it announces that it accepts the amend ments to the. Constitution as existing parts of the fundamental law of the land. It will never attempt to get rid of them by any violent or revolutionary action. It is a law-abiding party, with a respect for law and a reverence for the Constitutiomto which the Radicais have shown themselves to be utter strangers. It would never attempt to accomplish any political purpose by increasing the number of. Judges on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States, and appointing partisans pledged to de cide in a certain way. It condemns all such acts as dangerous and demoraliz ing, and would scorn to accomplish any purpose by such despicable and revolu tionary devices as its opponents have resorted to. The Democratic party appeals to the sound reason and the good Judgment of the white people of the United I•ltates. It will present all the great and vital questions of the day to them at the coining Presidential election, and will ask the voters to cast their ballots as independent freemen should. It will not enter into competition with the Radicals for the negro vote in :My Northern state, but will leave the Radicals to pander to that el. ement by such offers and pledges as those made by Morton in Kentucky. Financial Mismanagement In New York Radical newspapers are now parading before their readers certain statements of extravagant expenditures made by the government cf New York City, and are endeavoring to create the impression that the Democratic party is responsible for these things. We are not the defen ders of Tammany hall. We have on more than one occasion condemned the course pursued by sonic of the leaders of that organization. We do not deny that there has been great extravagance in the management of the municipal affairs of New York City ; but the truth is that the long list of figures which the Radi cal press is parading wasmade/up in the days when the city was under the con trol of Commissioners created by a Republican Legislature against the protest of the property-holders. Commissions were abolished last Win ter by a Democratic Legislature, and the government of the city was once more placed in the hands of the people. For the extravagant expenditures which Radical newspapers are now parading, and for the frauds which have been per petrated, the Itepublican party of New York is responsible. The Democracy will be responsible for the future man agement of the finances of the City, and we shall never attempt to shield them from full accountability for any irregu larities which may occur. 'The lute and cry in regard to these New York expemliturfs was raised by the New York Tinifs, a paper which had not one word to say in cuudeuuta• tion of the city government tffTriil a large slice of city advertisimir was taken away, from it. It grew virtuously indignant after Democratic officials had decided to curtail some of the extravagant expen ditures, which had been sanctioned by the Commissioners, who held office un der a law passed by a Republican Legis lature and apidoved by a Republican Governor. The !rum, ceased to be a high-toned newspaper when Henry J. Raymond died, and it has degenerated still more since the son of Mr, Raymond left it. In New York the motives by which it is actuated are well understood. Jr is now said that ( ;eneral Grant has abandoned the idea of visiting Califor nia this Summer. Phil. i- 4 heridan in forms his excellency that the season is too far advanc . ed for a pleasant visit, and " the government "will remain at Long Branch the balance of the season. The hotel-keepers of that resort are said to have raised a big purse and quietly pre. settled it to the President. That may have had something to do with the abandonment of the California trip. The hotel-keepers have had a bad sea son so fur, and they are determined to lose no chance for making money be tween this and the day for shutting up shop. Grant's presence attracts 'unify politicians and not a few fashionable fools, and the hotel-keepers could very well afford to subscribe liberally to keep hint at Long Branch. A 5I tx9At, telegram to the New York Ileraid, which we publish elsewhere, gives au account of one of the boldest at tempts to plunder which has yet come to light. It seems from this statement that John W. Forney, Collector of the Port of Philadelphia and the editor of the Prts,, adds to his other employments the trade of ollice-broker. Ills bargain with the State agent was duly made and his failure to carry it out is the roars pro voking as Forney can not compel him to comply with the contract. The old rule of "honor among thieves" is the only law which exists between such THE New York .I'un say The Lanciaster baci/i'gencer complains that ono of the proprietors of a rival !lows. paper is an insincere temperance man. If so, he is very d i Ire rent from Deacon Rich aril Smith. of Cincinnati, who is a sincere teniperance man, never using alcohol in any form unless his infirmities demand it., and who is a truly good !nail in alt respects, one without deceit and without guile. It would lie better for him were he also with out his wicked partner, S. Homer, Reed, the results of whose bad influence cause many bitter tears from the true friends of the good Deacon. Our neighbors are much like the Cin cinnati firm. The Senior is a warm friend of temperance so long as it does not promise to interfere with the pros pects of the Radical party, and the Junior takes his toddy whenever he gets a chance to swallow a drink of good liquor behind the door. SEVERAL members of the Cabinet have got back to Washington, but it is not likely that they will tarry long. It is said that Grant will not set foot iu the White House until after he returns from California. The people will be thoroughly convinced before long that Grant and his Cabinet can be entirely dispensed with, and they will be ready to elect a President who can spare time enough from his pleasures to attend to the duties of the office. THE editorial association of Tennes see will visit Philadelphia on the 18th of August. They will come by way of Washington and Baltimore, and will tarry in the Quaker city a day or two, going thence to New York and home by way of .Niagara. The editors will be accompanied by several leading citizens of Tennessee, making a party of about one hundred. PRESIDENT GRANT was in Philadel phia on Friday, to see his son Frederick Mr to the West. Frederick goes out as a civil Engineer on the Pacific Rail road. As the President shook his son by the hand for the last time, he said : " Fred, my boy, always seek the com pany of rich men, and never refuse a present," The Office-holders' Candidate If Grant shall be re-nominated, he will owe it tq the army of office-holders. A Long Branch correspondent of the. New York Herald says: The present offic.-holders are jubilant over the prospect of a renewed tenure of office, and seem to hold in derision the idea that the disaffected Republicans can shake the firm foUndations upon which their hopes and their power is placed. These men are as anxious to keep up the strife which divides the party. and which es tranges the best and foremost men of the party from its chosen chief, as they would be to defeat a Democratic candidate dyed in the wool. They are willing to trust to that lucky combination of events which, to the popular mind makes the re-nomi ' nation of Grant as indispensable to the peace and welfare of the country as was that of Mr. Lincoln in his day. A reconcilia tion between the President and the disaf fected Republican chiefs would be the death-knell—at all events so they fear—to many of these office-holders, and so in their petty wa3 , they would willingly play the role of rule or ruin." It is safe to say that a large majority of the honest and conscientious Repub licans of Pennsylvania, would greatly prefer to vote for some able civilian in preference to the man who has disgraced the Presidential chair, by filling the best offices in his gift with incompe- tents who gave him large presents and with those who are related to him.— lithe Republicans of this State should be consulted, Grant would not receive the support of the Pennsylvania dele gation. It would be a unit against him, but for the influence of Simon Cameron and the army of office-holders. These creatures constitute a ring which con trols the Republican party of Pennsyl vania, and the masses of the party will have no voice In the matter. Grant could not be re-nominated if Pennsyl vania should cast her ballot in_the Re publican National Convention as the majority of the party in the State would desire. If he runs again it will be as the candidate of the Federal office-holders, mid even Republicans who do not ex pect to share in the public plunder, will have no indlicement to vote for him.— Let the role of " rule or ruin" he played out by the office-holders. In the defeat of Grant and the discomlitur3 of the gang which surrounds him, the country will once more find peace and the res toration of economical and constitu [lima' government. General Hancock Nominated by the He moeracy of t ambria County. The Democracy of Cambria county met in convention the other day, put an excellent ticket in the field, and ex pressed their preference for General Winfield Scott Hancock, in the follow ing resolutiOnS : R•oulrcd, That while we regard military success alone as no evidence of fitness for the Executive chair, we can proudly point to the record of one whose capacity as a civilian is only equalled by his heroism and brilliant success in the field. Reso/red, That while the military career of Major General Winfield Scott Hancock, will compare favorably with that of Grant, or any other General that ever "set a squad ron in the field," his crowning glory is shown in the record Milk civil government of Louisiana and Texas. Besolvcd, That as Washington was first, not only in war, hut in peace—as Jackson in saving New Orleans front the British army, submitted to the civil law and paid his line of one thousand dollars to the cou rt that imposed it—so General Hancock, after leading the most glorious and successful charges during the rebellion, when ap pointed military commander of Louisiana and Texas acted in subordination to the civil power, and proclaimed in his general order that "The Hight of Trial by jury, the Habeas Corpus, the Liberty of the Press, the Freedom of Speech, thgNatural nights of Persons, and the }tights of Property must be preserved.' Reso/vcd, That Major General Winfield Scott Hancock is the choice of the Demo cratic party of Cambria county for Presi dent of the United States in IsT_', and our delegate to the nest Democratic State Con vention is hereby instructed to give him an unwavering support. Reading Beast Butler Out of the Repub Ilcan Party ' . The New York Tribun , is bitterly op posed to Ben. Butler's bold project of making himself Governor of Massachu setts. It seems to think the Mate would be deeply disgraced by the elevation of Beast" to the Executive chair.— One of its reporters interviewed Butler the other day, and the Tribzwr professes to discover evidence that the Lowell statesman is about to bolt from the Re publican party. When asked what he would do in case he lailed to receive the nomination for Governor " Old Ben" said "I have never contemplated such a contingency." Commenting upon that expression the Tribune says: Before a threat like this, from such a source, will the Massaehusetts Convention hesitate as to what is decent and polite? We cannot but believe the party will nom inate one of the thousands of better and truer men it has within its ranks, and will leave this adventurous freelance to seek the odds-and- ends indorsement he is now aim • ing at, and let him assume his natural po sition as a Carnival candidate—a king of shreds and patches. That is a formal reading of Butler out of the Republican party, and a very rude one at that. Brick Pomeroy never said a harsher thing of his pet aversion. Where will Butler go when helm kicked out of the Radical rucks. lie need not crawl bank into the _Democratic party. We 110 1101 WOlll. 1111y111111g to do with 111111. Till: \\*chili miners in the anthracite coal regions hove heretofore voted the Radical ticket in a body, but their organ, the Scranton Punnt r, has been kicking against the ring candidates for Auditor and Surveyor-General. In order to re concile it, Mr. Russel Errett has ad vanced money enough to pay all the debts of the concern. So anxious are Cameron, Quay and Mackey to have one of their toots in the Auditor-Gener al's office that they can afford to divide their plunder to secure such a result. If all the impecunious Radical editors lu the State should make the same bar gain the editor of the Banncr did, it would take a large amount of money to foot the bill. Still it would no doubt be forthcoming. The Treasury ring can afford to pay a big price Mr the election of their to, Is. Let impecunious Radi cal editors" pitch in." Row is their time Two or three articles directed against the ring will bring the answer speedily. Till:Savannah t Ga. say: , : "The entire Democratic press, North and South, ' departure' and ' anti-de parture,' agree in extolling Hon. Jere intuit Black's address to the voters of Pennsylvania. We like it outsets-es, and now, to settle all disputes, to bring Mr. Stephens and Manton Marble, Ma jor Thompson and Dr. Baird, and every body else, together, we propose that the Democracy of all the States adopt Jere miah Black's address as their platform, and when the Democratic National Con vention,when it meets, forgoes the usual string of resolutions and whereases, and put the same address as the platform of the National Democratic party. This, is good advice, and we don't care if they put Jeremiah Black himself upon it as the candidate. THE Hon. James B. Beck is stump ing Kentucky. He declares that when the books of the Navy, the Post-Office, the Interior, and other Departments pass into the hands of the Democracy, such an exhibition of rottenness will be made as will astound the world. He says the heads of those Departments would sooner see Grant emperor to-day, with the right of succession to his son, than see the evidence of their guilt pass into the hands of the Democratic party. Mr. Beck adds that he expects to hear of a big lire or tome other casualty in the Department kuildings, if conceal ment can be malhtaineil in no other way A NEORO made a clean breast of it lu North Carolina the other day as he stood on the gallows. He not only confessed to the murder of which he had been convicted, but he gave the assembled crowd of negroes some wholesome polit ical advice. He advised them to keep clear of the Radical party, and enforced his exhortation by saying : "There is a party called the Union party—the Radi cal party. They never do us no good. They do us harm. They make us do mean things." Many a white man has been made to do mean things by the same corrupt party. THE State Guard, a paper which was once recognized as Governor Gealy's organ, but which has been subsidized by the Cameron ring, does not like the political outlook. It says : In one or more districts in the State, we regret to notice a bitter difference in the Republican party. This is unfortunate, and if not arranged and satisfied, it will prove fatal. Let Mr. Russell Errett be sent round with the greenbacks No doubt the dis affected can be induced to support the ring ticket if money enough is given to them. The Journal seems to understand what is the matter. It berates the dis satisfied creatures as follows : He is a shabby Republican who cannot make a personal sacrifice for his political principles. In fact he lacks principle, and is the meanest of all politicians, because he is only for himself. It is evident that nothing but cash down will heal the existing dissensions and the officeholders may make up their minds to bleed freely. THE people of Texas do not vote at the coming election upon the question of dividing the State. The act directing a vote to be taken upon the subject of division, did not pass the State Senate. The report which has gone the rounds of the Northern press was started by a misinformed Radical editor in Texas. Mrs. I3urnside, daughter of Senator Cameron, is again ill. and not expected to live more than a few days. Titusvillians express value in terms of oil barrels. Thus they speak of a fashionable young lady as wearing an eighty-six-barrel opera suit. H. Jones Brooke, esti., of Delaware county, has in contempiation the erec tion of a large boarding-house at Media, that is to cost not I ess than SOO,OOII. Louis Snowden, a brakeman on the Collnellsville railroad, had both legs cut ill on Wednesday while shifting curs. He died shortly afterwards. The lianover . Gazat , is informed that Augustus Crouse, of Littlestown, this season raised MI two and a quarter acres of land. near that place, une hundred anti seven bushels of wheat. Daniel Rutledge, Krantz and .lesse Lethery were on a ti,hing excursion to Bermudian creek, York county, a few days ago, and one of the party captured a pike 211 inches long. The Sullivan County I)cn+oi',•al says there was froi-t at Laporte on sat archly morning last, and that there has been frost there every month for ten consecu tive months. Two men named Lytie and DeWitt, waylaid and robbed George Wilson and his son, in Bradford township, Clear field county, On Saturday last. They have been arrested and lodged in jail. Mrs. John Allan, of Washington borough, was instantly killed by light. ring (luring a severe storm on Wednes day evening. 11,E , r youngest child, and also a beighboreElizaheth Wulf, were stunned at the same time. A poodle dog belonging to Patrick Parrall, of Derry township, Dauphin county, hatched nine ducks this year, and ten or eleven chickens last year.— The dog sat on the in st the same as a lien or duck would until the progeny was produced. The wild huckleberry crop on the Blue Mountains, from the Delaware to the Lehigh river, is worth about $50,000 annually. Pike and Monroe counties, in this ~tafe, and Orange, Sullivan and Ulster, in New York, are the chhef huckleberry counties. A Philadelphia judge has decided that a procession has no right to interrupt the ordinary travel on the streets. The case arose on all order given by the Mayor of that city, that no street cars should be allowed to (Toes a certain street while a procession was passing, which order wits disobeyed by one of the lines, and the questions finally reached a judicial determination, with the :c-ult as above stated. I .sowa "The total of deaths from the I:2th of July riot in New York are stated at 51. It is reported that there were slight frosts in Northern Ohio uu Sunday and Monday mornings. Mr. Schlosser, the new llennan Min ister, is to arrive in New York, by the steamer Westphalia, on Sunday night. Tom Carrigan, siiloon-keeper at Peta lumna, was shot dead by another saloon-keeper, teamed Smith, on Tues day. Both were drunk. A letter from }lay ti, received at New York, says that nineteen citizens of that republic have been arrested and im prisoned at Petron ville fur cannibalism. From three to four hundred dollars worth of counterfeit legal tender? an fractional currency is received daily a, the redemption division of the Treasury It is returned lo the senders. A matrimonially inclined gentleman of our acquaintance says that a girl with . 1 1 lt,ono or more a year isalwaysanobjeet or interest, heeatise she has so much principal. \V. :\ tenth. Addington, Who was V. District Attorney tor Maryland under President Buch a nan, died. on Monday night, at the White sulphur :4prings, West Virginia. At Long I;ranch, h iy, Joseplitis Newings NVLIS k 110 C kUlt IIOSII and run over while trying . to stop a rumµ tly (e:111, Willi SO in,jurcd that lie died in two hours. People who write for the papers often complain of the mistakes the printers make In settiog up their inantn , cripts, hut seldom say auythlng about the inis takes they correct. A remarkable family lives In Dallas enmity, Ark - . The father is lUS years old, the mother Imf, , and the two are the parents of 29 children--15 boys and 14 A peddler, speaking of the villainous whiskey they have out in Colin ado, says after taking two drinks of it he stole his own goods and hid them in the woods, and for his life can't remember where he put then). Professor Peters, of Litchfield Obser vatory, Hamilton College, announces the discovery of a new plmet at 3 A. H.,'l'ueeday. It is the 114thlof the aster oids, and is between the ltlth and lath magnitude. Lt driving a London underground railway tunnel we are told that in one part of the line the cuttings were made through a mass of skulk and hones six teen feet in thickness, the remains of au old burial-mound. In another place a forgotten secret passage, twenty feet wide, was discovered, supposed to date from the fourteenth century, and this also hail to le turned to good account. in I• Riot ti Goldsboro.---Tlse Town In or Drunken nod I ollarlitled Nr.roes.----3 i.e 1. 'gilt Between S eg - ro rourrmru Ithlln Y. eg - ro Mob ly '2.l.—A bloody riot occurred at Goldsboro, to-day. A bunt live thousand negroes arrived here Irian New bern and the lower counties on all excur sion train, chartered by the Ili-publican state Committee, to attend a niassdnecting, at which Congres , inan Thomas, ex-Senator A bbott, >l areas Erwin, and R. C. Badger, were to be speakers. There were very lea. white people in the town, and many of the negroes became intoxicated. The police arrested one turbulent negro, and while on the way to the guard-house with this prisoner, the negroes rallied and rescued him. The coloied police fired at the pris oner, who was re captured and taken by the pont eto the Exchange lintel. About one thousand of the negro mob, with clubs and pistols, rallied ,on the police,attempting another rescue. The riot was commenced by the negroes throwing brickbats at the police and using clubs, when a cross-tiring began between the police and the inob. The white citizens forebore, but are now armed for the emergency. There is great excite ment here. About thirty shots were tired. Three or more whites were hurt, and live negro was killed, and one colored police man was killed and two wounced. A com mittee of citizens, appointed by Mayor Robinson, waited upon the Republican leaders, and :dr. Stanly„ President of the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad,. and requested that the teal's and negroes be carried away. Tin this, Mr. Manly replied, that he would not carry them away until be was ready. THE WEAPON OF THE RADIeAL SOUTHERN STATESMAN. Three Negroes Cut n V. bite Maze,. Throat Ith n Itatz.or. A Home Case fur the Commit WASIIINCITON, July 31.—Saturday night Andrew Curtin, a white man, while quiet ly on hie way home accidentally stumbled against a colored man, who was carrying a water n. The colored man was ac companiatitby two other men, who knock ed Curtin - down, while one of the party' drew a:rator a, roes his throat, completely severing his windpipe. The wounded man will probably die. the assailants escaped, two policemen being unable to overtake them. The Nationa/limn says: "It is about time this razor business was stopped, and It could be If In all the cases brought to light the maximum instead of the mini mum line should be imposed, as was done in a case before the police court on Satur day. The men who own razors seem to be entirely too willing and ready to use them for illegitimate purposes at unseemly times." The Saratoga Springs In the valley, a mile and a half to the south of the village of Saratoga, on the road to Ballston, is located the Geyser or Spout ing Spring, which was struck by drill'. 3 in February 1870. about 150 feet below surface. It is one of the most remar of the springs, because it is the only one, the water of which is thrown up high above the surface of the ground by the force of its own carbonic acid gas ; it is a natural foun tain, and its jet is constantly playing, day and night, Summer and Winter. A gallon of its water contains a larger amount of solid contents than a gallon of the water of any other spring contains, but with similar medical properties. Because of the strength of its saline properties, it is not Po pleasant a water to the taste as the less strongly im pregnated mineral waters. The principal ingredient of all these waters is Chloride of Sodium,, test to which come the Bicar bonates of Magnesia, Lime, and Soda. The first spring in the Scuthern end of the village, is the "Washington," which Is situated on the lawn at the side of the Clarendon Hotel. This is a tonic spring and forms a group with the "Colombian," " Hamilton" and " United States" springs, which differ with the reel of the springs in their effects, being used for their tonic rather than their cathartic properties, and are therefore drank in the after hours of the day. The next spring, a few paces to the North of the Washington, is the " Crys • tat," lately discovered, and situated along side of the main street, Broadway. On the other t ide of the street is the Congress Spring Park, at the Western end of which, near to Broadway, are situated a few paces apart, the "Congress" and the " Colum bian" springs. Going up Broadway one block and turning to our right into Spring street, we find about the middle of the block, on the North side of that street, and• opposite the north end of Congress Ball, the celebrated "Ilathorn" spring, discov ered but a year or so ago, but now a very favorite water and disputing the palm with the old Com_ ress. A few paces to the East, at the corner of Spring street and the stree running in the rear of Congress Hall, i. the " llam spring, much resortei o for its beneficial etlecbs upon the kid 'toys. Going North again a few blocks, we come to the " Pavilion " and " United States" sp: iregs—two springs of very flitter eat waters, within ten feet of ono another and under the same pavilion. The waters of the " Pavilion " Spring we thought were very line. Still going north up the valley, less than a quarter of a chile, we come to a series of springs very close to gether. The Saratoga Seltzer, a new spring, which bubbles up brilliantly and beauti fully four or five feet above the ground in a square glass column or pipe, is one of the prettiest and most refreshing sights at Saratoga. The water is said to resem ble the German Seltzer and meets with a large sale. Then a few steps off we eOlll6 to the oldest of the Saratoga sidings, the celebrated High Rock, which is the most remarkable in appearance of all the spri togs. It conies up out of an aperture, a foot in diameter, in a solid rock eight tons in weight which hasbeen formed by the gradual deposit of the mineral substancrs combined with the water; its material is chiefly impure lime and it is what is de nominated calcareous tufa. The rock is cone shaped, three feet and-a-half in height, and tweny-four feet in CiFVUMferenve at the base. In order to take measuics for the prevention of the surface water VOlllming ling with the mineral water of the spring, its proprietors in 134;6 heel this rock lifted front its place; they found that it rested on a stratum of commingled muck and tuba seven feet in depth and covering an area of fear hundred feet; beneath this was a layer of tufa twee feet thick, then a layer of muck and then a stratum of tura three feet Oda. lying upon this last stratum of tufa was fiound a pine tree, shown by its rings to be 130 years old, its upper surface worn smooth by its use as a passage way to the spring by the Abo rigines thoueanols of years ago. A cal culation has been made as to the age or this spring, grounded upon . observation of the annual lines or deposit shown in the tufa ; and as the re sult it , is declared that the High Dock Spring has been flowing between live and six thousand years—its birth being thus coeval with the creation of Mall. It was known to the Indians as the "i ;real Medi cine Spring," and was first made known by them to the white man,when in the Summer of 1767 the Mohawks revealed to their friend Sir William Johnston--War-ra-ghi-ya ghy—its wonderful medical properties. Ile lived at Johnstown, 10 miles from the spring, and was suffering ill health, there suit of a wound received at the battle of Lake t leorize in 17,7,5, where be defeated the French under Dieskaw. On the 23d of August, 1767, borne on a litter, hereached the spring, and, kneeling by its side, In , reverently plated a roll of tobacco upon the rock as a propitiatory offering, and filling and lighting the great pipe of the famed Pontiac, he drew 1 . 1/llt it a NV ham.] passed it in turn to his Indian friends; only then did he drink of the waters of the spring.— lie stayed only f o ur flays, but was greatly benelitted, for he wrote on his return tohis friend General Philip Schuyler, "I have Just returned from a visit to a most ing spring, which almost effected my cure: , Within a stone's throw of the 11 igh Rook to the northward is the " Saratoga Star" spring, an excellent water. A little dis tams beyond It, Is the "Empire" spring, whose reputation is weldestabllshed. A few steps further and wo come to the " Red" ' , Erring, a newly discovered foun train of very good water. Near It Is the Saratoga "A" spring, the water of which is trot Row marketed. A half mile or so up the valley, past the new Water-Works of the town, takes us to the " Excelsior'' spring, a very fine water which Is chirdly put up in a zinc-lined barrel, from which it can be drawn for use without the loss of any of its carbonic acid gas. Sumo dis• tunes higher up the valley we reach the last of the present series of springs— the "Eureka"—adjacent to which is a '• Sul phur" spring. A grand avenue is now being laid out by the town authorities which pusses by all the springs and ex tends to the lake, a beautiful sheet cf water four miles away, upon whose high, breezy and shaded banks it is delightful tar recline. Thither the gourmands go Joe breakfasts and suppers of lakidlrrSut, wood cock and other delicacies of . the season.— There we saw one afternoon August Bel ' wont dining with a party of ladies, and consoling himself for the defeat of King fisher. fly the way, what a world this is, which permits so insignificant-looking a man as Belmont to assume a position of prominence. Is he a great eon:' e 'en oral Irvin :%Icl/owell would say ye , , for as be argued of Grant "if lie isn't, how did he git there?" And that argument was con , elusive—to the tieneral. • Speaking of Eingtisher, what a noble race that was betwixt him and Longfellow' We saw them run and from the terrible leaps whirl, Longfellow runic we hail no hesitation in believing that he made the first mile in 1.40 anti would even have credited faster time if the watch tad award ed it to hulk. He is a large long horse, dark brown in color, with big strung limbs and broad chest, which bespeak nir him en durance as extraordinary as his speed.— His Owner, old John Harper, of Kentucky, we saw on the evening of the race, sitting on the piazza of Union Hall. He NV 11:i pointed out to us by Purser Welch, and it needed his positive a Shit ra i re to convinc us that the seedy-looking old man before us, with a greasy old slouch hat on his head and clothed in laded attire of divers hues, was the owner of a horse valued at .51t,0,000, and for which :$30,000 had been re fused. Ile is a slim, bright-eyed old man of seventy-live, a horae•raiser but not a frequent attendant of race-courses. Ile has got a great horse now, however, and he is giving his personal attention to his wel fare; sleeping in the stable at night along with his negro boys, ho "gangs his ain gait" perfectly indifferent alike to Sarato ga criticism and Saratoga luxury. A. J. S. NOW•NOTHINGIRM REVIVED An Antt•Cathollc Meeting in Baltimore. BALTIMORE, July 20.—Meetings were held in this city last night to further a movement commenced Home days ago to form a ndw party. Resolutions ware adopt ed and speeches made endorsing the course of the Orangemen of New York, and In opposition to Catholics. It was proposed to hold a Convention on the Bth of August to organize a party, to be called ths Ameri can Union Party. The meetings were not larglely attended. Three New Torsierslylrrled over Malt M=l NIAGARA, July 28.—Three young men, supposed to be from New York, at a lute hour last evening attempted to cross from the Canadian to the American side !n small boat and wore carried over the Falls. Fragments of the boat have been found this morning, Suicide of a Beant , ful Southern Woman In New York. She Shoot. Herself In the Breast/ nod Refuses to Say 11;1:ay. . zeeret Between the Victim and Her God. SO. e three weeks ago deceased and her sister Fidelia, both exceedingly beautiful and highly accomplished young women ar t ived in this city from their home in Char lotteville, N. C., with the intention of vis iting Saratoga, Long Branch, Newport and other fashionable reports, and secured apartments at one of the Broadway hotels. Subsequently, preferring to live in a pri vate house, the sisters went to 117 West Thirty-first street, where, on the evening of the lUth instant, Fidelia Rockwell, on going to her room, was horrified at finding her sister Genevra on the bed, bathed in blood, which was rapidly oozing from a wound in her breast. The poor girl ad mitted that she had shot herself, but re fused to make any: explanation, saying that it was a secret between herself and God. which nothing could induce her to divulge. Roundsman Edward Knight, of the Twefity-ninth precinct, testified that alter the shooting he was called into the house, and on the third tloor found ti enevra on the bed bleeding from a pistol shot wound Of the breast, the pistol then being on the bureau, In answer to a question by the roundsman, she said she had shot herself, bat the cause for the act must die with her. The wounded woman was ti rst taken to Bellevue Hospital for treatment, and suit seq uently removed to 130 East Twenty seventh street, where death ensued as stated. Pr. Walter NI. Fleming, who hail been in attendance upon deceased, gave a certificate or death, which, of course, was not honored by the hoard of Health. Who referred the raise to Coroner Schirmer. Nu , Venligt but that of suicide by shooting could be rendered. Deceased was twenty three years of ace and a native in Virginia. After Miss Rockwell shot herself an anonymous telegraphic despatch Wits re ceived from (mealier friends in MO11111011(1. Va.. announcing, his intention of coming to New York it' attsollituly oereamvV• othorwise ho would not, Evidently, certain parties have taken it deep interest in keeping}he facts of the ease from the 'titian! VIOW ; but they roved unstiecttetsitt I, intlimuch its the mat 'r was brought prominently to the notice rat of lttiptitin Iturtlett, at the l'wenty. 'nth procuu•t, awl subsequently to l'up• tiitt Cameron, of the Eighteenth preeinet, viten) t 110 tvuunut died. i/eCeased haul it coal y fuurrai, but ti 11(.1'0 lie vas buried iir at \OW., exptllme did lot 1. //ciiild. The El. - 11111%1111(0 10bIl bblC/01 le Fa pl. lu .h.• Gritud nod I errible'Vlseatomenon. special tekgraph t.. the N,u 1,,r1; Ih•ra'd.' July 27. Is7l. terrible earth inalin visited Lill , I , llllltlh ill tho 1101101 of :`,lay lust. It elllllllllllileti 011 1110 mall I,lltllll 01 ' Can . ignin, live nudes in e•n;;th, near the Island of ' Allsllllli , . There , lad been IL 11111 1 1 1 1 1 ,1.11111 sillleiLs for - onnl months, NN 11 . 1,11.p:11 , d several exten .ivo crevices. 'l'reni I.li ngs of the ground were e.pevially felt till finally, on May I, the level plain near the village of l'etartnin gradually began to ....111....hie, until the tow; or 1.110 111 , 11S('S wci e on a leN el to Flh the slur. I'm, of the earth. A crowd of people were attracted curl ,sity, and remained 1 . ,- st, oral hours :tgerly watching the pllenuollonon, when iultlenly terrific shock,/, accompanied by huntleriug rev,rlm•ration,,, Lora upon Ihu The earth was II 41 , 1;114%1 4 111ti 611 level 1,11 fell in. A t the, le time a kith a crater tint en feet)wide, %%Inch had 14 , 011 liar several days try au unti•nal state or activity. lireke tut lilt, a terrll.lo eruption, ,ending forth columns of NVlllte sulphurous SlllOlie, xnd lonruts of Inca anti boiling water. Ma.,es of rack NVVre hurled aloft intrs the air, enlunins of lire ,hnt tOrth, and st.,lli, !Mt! ashes \Vero threwn tip to the height of thollSalltiS Of fret. (Jule hundred and liny irrsons mere en gulled in the veal w hich opened at the ba,e of the volcano. Several other large open ings Were limit in the ground, !nom which proceeded a terrdi,• explo,ndi and jets id flame. The ex plesion, suundt d like the thunder of heavy hull lasted lor several hours. 'Then suddenly there ensued a pause until dark, when another explu,ion broke out. Vlore crevices were opened, more lava Iletved dotvii the volcano, engulfing }muses on its way, and rushed with a hissing sound into the sea. Itlack dust was driven up ;tiltl overhung the island like a cloud, and col umns of smoke and lire, with hrilliant dis plays of light continued to issue from tho crater. It .seetned Jiterally to rain lire, while strong exhalations of gas poisoned the air. The woods caught tire, the wen and eat tie flying br lire the i1.t1111 , . The Sp.•tal•lo. was frightful. The whole village ,vas de ,troved ; the houses either surrlc into the ground, or were left shapeless ruins. The et option of the volcano still 1•11 II but all the inhabitants have left the island. Trernblings of the ground were telt all over the rieignlroring The island of l'ainignin had, until lately, CG OUU i hula hi tan Is. It produced Manila hemp, the cpulmity of W 1111•11 "tit, tenth (110 wllOlO quantity groNvu Oil 1110 Phil lippine 1,111.11(k. 1:= MIZSIIM The Pittsburgh PoAt mist effectually SpOSeS 01' the proctitious claim made by the Chairman of the Radical State Con, inittee. IL Hass: The puhlie debt %vas not ;.1e,00,100 in round numbers in 1 , 61. The A tnlitor , ietieral's ref ol,t, to I roVOIIIOI . that year puts it la $S7.IIIIS,I,17.:I•11. A t.ttlillAt. this teas It Stint' Fond of leaving the actual ival ch Usl uess of the :sotto on the I.lt ..I.lantiary, or -.onto sl.l,tinn.eoe less than Mr. Errett mute three willions 1,4 than it is nuts, alter ten years of lithheal role. Hut lair financier stops several leagues shirt id the truth in the ex positern, 11 till will pull up,u our ulblble !fiend, the lin), It. W. 1 iiekcy, State 'Treasurer, he will lied that at the 1,1,•51' 111 the lust fiscal year, he state deht 1.1114 111,1i1i1911 instead 111 id, rely nine inillions, and this, toll, alter dedueting ell !Sinking Plunk. Ile will also Ilud outseveral other things m,ortli Among other things he 55'11 I find that In the !natter of Sinking Funds alone. the people el' l'enn.ylvannt have liven rubbed during the past ten years tit lhn tau, t`1'1,531,7 1 i . 2.19. WO propose 11l 1111111011htrale 1111,4 htrt. During the I list tell years the Itddleal Slate gf/Verlllllollt, 'MN 4lsposoJ ,I • the plliaie true its, soutall ta thin Staide tU:).- 1)!1:1,uh3,91, ha is 1111 , 11 It rnalired the .1111 Of 1.62, and 5511irh sea, carried to the :sinking Fund for the el ident purp , .e or nlialVittl_l a MAIIOIIOII or the debt. Put even that amount, added to the ton millions k of Sinking Fund of ten years ago, and subtracted front the State debt, leaves it three millions greater than it was under the last. Democratic administration; or, In other words, the dale debt increased about fifteen millions of dollars in the last ten year., or at the rate of a million and a halt per year, which is the actual increase of the State debt k,r the past year, as setll appear by an inspection of the books of the Sum , 'Treasurer and the A inlitor-t;enerat. NVltat has become et the Public NN'orks of the State? Within the, joust ten years the Radical state government has sold them tar less than one third of their actual value. We shall not stop here 10111MM-1,4(11C iting, that grew• rich in the transter, our make mention of the (MA gougers, who thumbled the eyes of a (.oideting pin bile and la slavered their victims with prote.m uuns 4,1'1,,,t1e,ty. tt hile they g.mged. That is a Slihjet.t. between this uuml tlu• Ictilher ei0011"11. and WO cordially invite the ine,emotis t 'Mumma of the Radical State Committee, who is in the secrets sit the Hing, W 11..,hi , L un in the undertaking. Thar republican staterew.ral con.mitteu of Illinois held a special meeting yester day. The olij,t Was to prepare for the :ital.° campaign this Fall, Ind the Commit tee are tar-seeitig unm. TiWV evidently h ave the good oi the great national Re publican party at heart, fin' they expressed the opinion that I'lys.es S. grant is riot the proper person to s t ake a successful run on the Presidential ticket. They demanded as the next candidate acivilian experienced in (:over, anent “Indr, This action is timely. The Republicans of New York ti ill re echo it. The less character a tho military Itittg who completely control the PTesnlent is under stood by the honest Republicans of the great. State of 'rimy condemn Grant's despotism and his arbitrary and unconstitutional art.') in endeavoring to force his San Domingo fraud upon the peo ple. They utter their protest against t: ran is dastardly Cuban policy, and against his retention of a convicted bribe taker in the State Department. 'I hey rise above the uproar created by Grant's thiev ing otticeMulders and speak the heartfelt sentiments of the laincst Of the great Republican party. lie men of n lino!, have sounded the sloagn. It' their warning is heeded, the party of National Progress may March victory in l $72. if otherwiee,t,dire disaster and defeat are cer taill.—.V. Y. Sail. Snow Storm In New YorM Mole The Dunkirk rChautauqua county, New York,) Journal Is the source of the follow log item : "We have, on credible authority, the statement that snow fell In the southern portion of the Casadaga Valley, in this county, on the night or the 21st of July, 1871, to the depth of nix Inches or Inure. We aro told that the crops in the vicinity 01 Levant, have been thereby greatly dam aged, ano nomeof them entirely destroyed. Captain Smith, of the D., \V. and I'. rail road, reported snow in the Cuoadaga Val ley at 7 o'clock on Saturday morning, 22d, at an inch or more. 'rho arrow fell in the 'village of Fore:defile on the morning of Lire 21st so generously that the boys In the streets Know-balled with each other fur full fifteen minutes." Republican Mem lice tlnt • NEW ORLEANH, July 28.—Thu MORN meeting to night, at the Alechaniere Insti- tute, passed off without disturbance of any moment. Resolutions wore aJopted en dorsing Grant, Warmouth, and the State and City Administrations, When the ques tion on the resolutions was put the anti- Warmouths moved to lay them on the ta ble, but the.motion was voted down, THE PEBS!AN FAMINE Foil fecount of Ito Connell, Extent nod [special to the N. Y. Herald.] We have received the following highly interesting despatch, giving further partic ulars concerning the terrible Persian fam ine, from our correspondent at London: LONDON, July 23.—The reports we are re ceiving hero give new, and, if possiblel even more horrible and appalling details of the Persian famine. The dearth is touch more widespread than at lirat reported. In place of being confined to the province of Kborasaan it extends over the entire land. Already the loss of life has been fearful. Persia is said, on reliable authority, to balmiest fifty per cent. of her population. Thousands of people, half famished, have dragged them. selves across the frontier into Turkish Arabia and Cabool, while those who have not had the energy to emigrate, or have been prevented from doingso by the strong arm of the government, are daily dying by thousands of starvation. A Persian sub ject cannot leave his native country, even to go upon n pilgrimage to Meshed hageill, or to Mecca without special permission from the authorities, and this permission Is even now, in spite of the present appall tog &on dition of the country, still insisted upon. The people, in desperation, however. use every means to elude the vigilance of the government, and escape into happier lands. It appears that there was a terrible drought last year, which was followed, as a natural consequence, by a partial failure or the crops. There was great suffering and privation, but comparatively little mortal• itv. • It is a curious fact that thin famine is. to a certain extent, one result, though of course an indirect one, of the Atnerivan civil war. There is a jolt of country to Persia which is eminently well-calculated for the produe lion of cotton, end the high priceol that arti cle seven Or eight years ago induced many of the smaller cultivators to abandon rais ing other crops and embark in its produc tion. 'rids opening for commerce rapidly developed into a large trade, and a vomthi of lines of steamers have been started trout Bombay t I Itushire, a port on the Persian which Is the only one of illiporlanee on Persia's limited sea coast. The money gained by the sale of the cotton was em ployed to buy provisions from Fars, or Farsistan, and the other Southern pros . i noes, w Heti are bettor adapted to the growth of wheat and Hee. The high price of opium, owing to the tax imposed upon its export h,v the British India!, goVeril • went, has also stimulated the production of poppies in place of grain. Last yea! there were two I t hnusnud chests nt this drug exported from Bust° re. The silk trade has also largely increased. These reuses 11/I‘, all operated to diminish the area of land emploved in the raking of pro f visions, and have doubt less tended to ag gravate the consequences of their pi, sent bad season. The partial Nffii,,e last rear exhausted 0, Pr." . 51411114 as were in the country. The people, however, managed le linger through the Winter, sustained by the hopo that the Spring e•rup ((here are awe yearly e roils in l'ersi,n, would bring littel, plenty. Early in the year, in spite of the general Impov erishment of the people the government with shoel:ing thetaXes. This cnluplrted rho mist•ry el its tothanity subjects. What little money they had lett was torn front thew, unit Ihry Were tell beggared to tiler a year whose horrors had but begun. The first effect of Ihe was to drive the people from their huue•a in the country to the nig cities, as, owing to It curious law, the intliests upon tine, t . the ,t,tl are very notch heavier than these exacted From the dwellers in tow its. In eittes, indeed, the 1111155 la ilia pupa hoinu pritetteally escape tisane n, at.il the revenue is raisi•d, with the exception ul a pal ITS. from the Palfl/111 the. cud uI \Vinter the famine had spread from I , arsistan to thentherprovinees which depended upon It tor supplies. The cities or I , l,lthali Yezd, very ere, iled with starving multitudes. Teheran, the capital, still'. ed least, but oven there Ike prlvlllil/114 were terrible. \\•heat 1.41,1. tit nine times its 1,11.0 ne,v 'Top has tailed also. '1d,,i1.„1,1„ have entleavered to keep thetuselvi, alive by eating grass and rotas, but even this I,ll t t'x hattsteil. In k horassan, which herders nu Calitiel and the w,i'l ph) Mali their rllldren fate shivery 1111111114 the TU1,111111014 ill order to ,eve thorn Irern stile\'llllel fl, an I Ilt 1110 SIIIIIO 11(110 a low ',III:1011 I le Vella In 1110 hat. lat . I'M he well If all the prvinee4 ouuld have tlimpo,etl c,l their 1•11:hlrett In the •1111111 , 11131111,. lu l'airsistan parents slew ;mil then de oured tlipin In 1,11111/11.11 1111,1 111,0 1.1,11 in Ihu exhuming ti e rnrprrs ni111,1,11111.1 the purpose of eatmg Ihem. Annlng the resu.t', of till. falllillo may he mentioned that all domo , t le animals, even oI which Per.ta raimed it great many, not only Mr lirr own blit FM' 1,1/1/11/11.111111.1 /111/111, ilaVll la.un C. 14.11 and calm. A late despatch further informs IS that the l'eflleiefieS in Selne, 111,11 IO guarded by troops, lest lAIOI,OIIIIO, inc.,- atc,l by hunger, should rill,, them of hell ghastly contents. The people are almost beyond the rear), of help. Even it fiPMI Were brought fri,lll India there are no cattle left to transport it into the interior; and even if there were, it is a inmith's journey from Medlin., to Is pahan, and six weeks it, Is 11,11 - 101/111. This dearth will probably be the most horrible on record. Two years ago a collide of millions of people (Ilea 111 Indio fit starvation. Unless, however, the Per !dal) lieVerlllllollt VIIII•ellte br the deporta tion 0' It, subjects, there soill he among its eight millions or i le, r ll. n 1111/rtality even el re appalling than this. The report that the !dawn. Iran broken out is not confirmed ; but the famine lever aril busily at ivorlt, and these urn M11111,•imilly terrible agolits of death. The fitinine.striciten ;mold() urn en viral wills 111110011 S FOrlel, the lellleelllll.lll.o of hunger, while they burn in the torturer or it devouring fever. government, in view of the probability or the rhnlern sprendnrK Into Its dominions, !Me established quarantine regulations along the frontier. lea. j/11111 Veva!m for the Persians Is thus ',Melted tip. Probably the British Indian M4,vortunlitit will soon adopt similar preemillons, arid this will reuse thlf steamers from Itimittay to VI,III A W I' I' 1. T et A U E I) I' und Henri rehilhhr Me.•uo.•--A 11,1%1 I ho Iln.. NW. 1110. 111.11111 01 11111. %life 161.1 Three Little children 1'011•• 011011 hy her flan 111111(1. ThEl (110 At 11. W ! 111111 appalling tragedy that ham stirred the Ileartm id any ern:111111. laity In thin iwation for tunny a year, if over botlon.,,,ecurrod In .Ellingtoli county, about. Iwo miles aline° Station aI, un the l'entral Railroad, about 3 o'clock on Ntonday new. • ing. Mrs. Ash, the .1.,1111 11. Ash, for merly of this city, killed her three Children, and afterward committed euiridu by ail• ministering a sufficient quantity of strycli nine to produce itistantanei ns death. it appears from what see could lean from a gentleman who was MI eon-witness to the, imrrifying seem', that Mrs. Ash, formerly :Miss Laura I miter, of Elling hain county, has liir a chart time past been slightly deranged, at least she 1,1114 sus peeled of being in this condition, Irian cer tain singular appearances and conduct no tieriable to Liaise nearest, her and ill most con lie uous 11 , ,Stiellai, oil With her. thus - ever, nothing serious was apprehended, except that her Muslim.' telt a little anxi ous about her, and with her brothers ioi the subjeet. Tins was all. No more serious apprehensions was lint, although her iillSbalai .111111Illeti to keep a strict watch over her conduct. A shot I time previous he hail purchased a small bottle of strychnine for the purpose of de stroying the rats and dogs that Were rapidly k Ming oil their poultry. This hi- secreted in the night time, taking the precaution n, lock it up ill an old bin rear drawer, hiding ,the key inn place least likely to be di-env ered by Ids wife, no other person in the knowing of the hiding place. Sunday night all went to bell as usual, though before retiring 'Mrs. Ash sat down and wrote a long letter, but did notsuspect anything, although it contained an urcuuut of her feelings towards certain members of liar family, With 51110111 there was SOIIIOIIII - Mr Ash took all three of the children in bed with himself and Wife. 31r. George Patterson, a friend and relative or Mrs. Ash, occupied an adjoining room. About three o'clock on Alonday morning he and 31 r. Ash were aroused by the cries of two of the children, and entering the onin found Mrs. Ash in the act of taking a spoon from the mouth of the oldest child, a little girl, who had struggled and re• sisted until her cries woke her father and his friend, both of WllOlll feeling alarmed, asked her what she was doing. She replied, •• holy giving the children a little powder, and I am alraid that I have not given them enoin.ili." They begged and entreated her to tell them what she-bad given them-31 r. Ash tasting the powder which be diSt,V eled oil tin mouth 01 one tit the children, discovered that it was quite bitter She finally took h im Inn the bureau drawer and showed Min the bottle of strychnine from which she bad dosed herself first and then each ono of her three little ones. It Was but a short time after this before the mother, a young woman about '25 yearn old, and her three interesting little children, two girls and one:boy, were lying still' and tall in the arms of death. Dying In rapid HUCCPSHICM, ono after the other, the' mother, although the first to daka the poison, lived to see her children die, and then followed them herself. It la said the struggles of the poor little creatures were awful ; the oldest falling backwinds, wee drawn together in such a manner Mat her head and feet nearly touched each other. The afflicted father held Me little ones and his wife in his arms till they breathed their last. The time was too short from the discov ery of the deed to procure any aid, although a physician was immediately cent for. lie arrived In time to HMI the father, who In Me efforts to discover what the drug was, had swallowed enough to render his condl• don dangerous. Mr. Patterson came to this city yesterday afternoon to procure coffins to bury the dead, and as coon as hl9 returns it.quest will ho held previous to the In torment. Fashionable Bummer gloves are In putty color, smoke color, strawberries and cream, tea-rose, primrose, pale tan and clan
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