Eancasier 3ntelligenter. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1871 DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET FOR AUDITOR GENERAL, GEN. WILLIAM McCANDLESS, OF PHILADELPHIA FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL, 'CAPTAIN JAMES H. COOPER, OF LAWRENCE COUNTY A FULL POLL OP TILE DEMOCRATIC VOTE WILL SECURE TUE ELECTION OP OUR STATE TICKET BY A LARGE MAJORITY. LET EVERY DEMOCRAT REMEMBER THAT, AND IMPRE`AS THE. TRUTH DI IT UPON TUE MINUS OF JIIN NEICLLIBORS. Circulate The Inteillgencer. The WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER 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 bands and for get Ling up big meetings. NOTICE TO CHAIRMEN • 01' COUNTY comenTTEEs., DEMOCRATIC STATE. CoMMITTRE Ilooms,l Clearfield. Pa., Aug. 7, A. It., P. 71. 5 Chairmen of County Committees are re,ioeel• ed to report forthwith to my address: First. The names and post-Diller mid res: el each member of Coon ty Committee. Second. The district, mines and post -"In, address of each N'lgilunee Committee-man Third. The date o f holding of Comity Con trentions, if not already held, Fourth. The District and Omni y Ticket it formed. By order of Exnent Ivo Commlttt,.. WILLIAM A. WALLACE, Chairman. Mrs. Henry Wharton The Baltimore legal authorities seem to be actively engaged in hunting up testimony to prove Mrs. Heny Wharton guilty of the commission of the shocking murders for which she is next month to be tried. In some of their movements they betray symptoms of apprehension of the weakness of their case; notably so in exhuming the bodies of dead and decayed Whartons all over the country and bottling up their viscera for analy sistfor It is difficult to see, even if: the exTinfts do find traces of poison in the contents of their jugs, how testimony to that effect can be introduced against Mrs. Wharton in her trial for the mur der of General NIII hum. She is not under indictment for the murder of the Whartons, whose bodies have been ex humed, and we fail to see under what authority or reasonable pretext the sanctuaries of their tombs have been in vaded. The Maryland authorities have come into Pennsylvania and, apparent ly,without:a.sk inglanybody's leave,have disinterred and carried away bodies rest ing.here. To get the body of a living man aertess the border, they would have had to obtain the authorization of our (lovernor. Should there be any. less formality observed in taking away the body of one dead? The disturbance, hi its last resting-place, of tt solemnly buried corpse is a thing which should not, be lightly undertaken. Vet in these days there seems to be such a mania for analyzing dead men that an additional pang is lent to death. ./,'(7tii ,o,l/1 iu 2111, , is no longer a mandate which. obtains respect, and it has be come highly necessary for those who contemplate the possibility of a sudden or violent death to imitate tile prudence of the young woman who committed suicide in - Washington the other day, and seize sufficient time to leave on record the cause of their taking off She left a note behind her stating that she did not wish the doctors to handle her, and to 111151 them all trtmble she inforum rd that she died of an overdose of laudanum, voluntarily taken because she deemed her affianced false. In relation to Mrs. Wharton's case we think the newspaper press is in error ill apparently prejudging it to her preju dice. As the matter stands, With all the newspaper mninent that hasbeen made on the ease, it may be difficult for her to get amimpartial jury. A great many unfounded rumors have been published, and the homes:lion has, been created that she has for years been systematic ally engaged in a vigorous and success• ful cttort to extirpate by poison the whole of the Wharton tribe ; and that having got pretty well through the list, sl•.' has sought fresh victims among her friends, and has slaughtered Ketchum and has sought to slaughter Van Ness. The fearful charges against her may be true, but they have not yet been proved; nor are, perhaps, the real facts weigh ing against her incapable of explana tion. That General Ketchum was killed by poison would seem to be reasonably certain; but it has hot yet appeared that it was designedly administered to him. Mrs. - Wharton's good character and previously unblemished reputation will weigh greatly in her favor. Those who have known her intimately, uni versally declare that she Is the last per son in the world whom they would have suspected of being charged with the commission of crime. :She was appa rently it devoted wife and a woman of the most marked amiability and piety. We have ourselves heard those who know her well, bear this testimony to her virtues, expressing similar senti ments to those contained iu the follow ing extract from a recent letter written by an old friend of Mrs. Whm Mu, who knew her many years ago at the army posts on the frontier: "Do you know that this Mrs. Wharton, of whom you write-1110 pretended prisoner —was one of my best army friends? 1 cannot tell you how shocked I was to read the accounts of her present situation. 1 feel I should be quite willing to swear to her innocence, simply from lily previous knowledge of her character and life. I first knew her before my marriage at hors illSoll, where she was a universal favorite —a perfect hilly in blood and in breeding. I have been to her father's house in Phila delphia, and have known all about her since her marriage. She was also at hurt Kearney, after 1 had been married four or liye soars, where I became very fond of her, as dill Illy WllO would do anything in the world to serve her. I feel confident and assured that there is foul play somewhere:. I ler marriage Slits It runaway match, but a happy one; her husband, although not a man to command very lasting respect, she wits entirely devoted be. Ile was in the. Fifth I nlantry, 115 was alas ieneral Ketch ulll, whom 1 knew very well, and whom we did not greatly admire, As to the in ordinate passion for dress Which Mrs. Wharton is said to have evinced, her (ix - COSNiVO gayety and proclivities to int prue deuce, this is all false. When I knew her she dressed very plainly, notwithstanding mewl° means. She was very domestic, and wrapped up in the children. Some of my happiest days I have spent in the house; she was very intelligent, and a most charm ing conversationalist; very hospitable, keeping open house to all the officers:tithe post. Hers Wits II sweet, 50111111 nature, with a kind, generous heart, and she possessed, It pure, earnest womanliness, which I cannot believe capable of conceiving, much less perpetrating, the horrible crimes ascribed to her." SINCE Secretary Fish has given up his fine house hi Washington, the ru mors of his intention to withdraw from the Cabinet are renewed. It has been known for a long time that lie wished to resign, and only remained at the per sonal solicitation of President Grant, who is loth to spare him. Mr. George William Curtis is named in Washing ton as the New Yorker who would be most likely to re-unite the New York ftepublicansas a member of the Cabinet, and it is believed that he would make a good Secretary of State. FELIX BRUNOT, of Pittsburgh, has been appointed Commissioner of Indian Affairs instead of General Parker, re signed. Mr. Brunot is now one of the Board nf Civilian Indian Commission ers, and is said to be a proper man for the place. We are glad to record the fact that Grant has at last made one ap poihtment which was not purchased, and which really seems to be respec table. TIIE election, in Kentucky has resulted in a Detnocratic victory. Leslie has Wen elected Goyernor by a majority of over 30,000. 'THE LANCASTER WEEELY INTELLIG-ENCER, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1871. Our CouncUs. If the decent Republicans of the city are not disgusted with , the men they have elected to rule over them, it cer tainly is not because their conduct does not give them abundant reason to be so. Our fellow-citizens must have read the proceedings of the last meeting of Coun cils with feelings too deep for utterance. The majority of the members of the Street Committee have been lavishly expending the appropriation for streets upon new pikes in front of their own doors without authority, and have neg lected to do work which they were ordered to do. And worse than this, their Republican fellow-committee man, Mr. Bitner, declares that they pay two or three prices for the work which is done ; and Mr. Pearsol,. the publisher of the Radical daily organ, states in his place in Council, that they have permitted a cartman in their em ploy to haul ashes for a citizen while being paid by the city. It is note-worthy however, that Mr. Pearsol never even called attention to this fact in his news paper, where one would think it would have been his duty to severely animad vert upon so glaring a piece of rascality. Mr. Samson, one of these accused Street Committee-men gave evidence of the material of which lie is made, by voting last Wednesday evening for the passage of 11.11 illegal Ordinance, on the ground t hat " Councils could in an emergency like this, take any action they might ileem best, whrther legal or otherwise." No wonder that a man entertaining such sentiments, recklessly administer- ed his duties as Street Committee man, without regard to the laws or ordinan ces. And his fellow members of e 01121.• CI IS who united withlim to pass this clearly illegal ordinance, are scarcely in a le sit ion to take Mr. Samson to task . for his violation of law. The Select Count•il ,cent to have so looked at it, and reins, d to raise a committee to in quire int, the conduct of the Street Committee, because they felt that it would not do for the pot to call the ket tle black. These sweet Councils of ours did di vers other fantastic things on Wednes day evening. A fterordering a new wa ter main to be laid in Orange street, at a cost of s2o,tiou, they ordered the money to be raised by a temporary loan, of which $5,000 is to be annually re-paid ; although they well know that the City revenues do not under their present management do no more than suffice to pay the ordinary expenses of the City Government, and that it will re ,mire the strictest economy to enable us to annually raise these extra $.5,000. They evidently do not expect to be in power next year, and are recklessly saddling the City with a load of debt which they expect the Democracy will have to provide for. We have but one word of advice to give to those who take this loan ; and that is, that they be very careful to ascertain that it has been le gally authorized before they advance their money on the strength of the se curity offered. The Democracy when it collies into power Will take care of all Illy indebtedness which has been legal ly incurred, no matter how recklessly or improvidently it has been accumulated. lhit they will not feel under similar ob ligation to provide fur an indebtedness conti•acted in contravention of the hew. The present City Government has been living from hand to mouth, and has contracted a habit of arranging its debts by robbing Peter to pay Paul. It has put the City into a debt greatly ex• eeeding the limits allowed by the char ter.' This it has sought to provide for by issuing temporary loans to an amount greatly exceeding the ability of the City to provide for out of its ordinary reven emu's. IL has borrowed all the money that is in the Bounty Fund, promising to re-pay it when the holders of the Bounty Fund demand the redemption of their bonds ; although, where they will then get the money from they have not the slightest idea. They well know that the City finan ces aro in a deplorable condition, and they are afraid to publish the annual statement of the finances to the close of the tiseal year, (June Ist,) and they do not propose to publish it until after the GeMber election; this they openly de- A Female Candlante for Congress iss Tennie C. Clallin, member of the noted firm of Nyoo,llllll], Clallin Co., female brokers, has boldly oll'ered herself as a candidate for Congress in the sth district of New York City. The district is at present ably represented by James l'aooks, and the election does not take place until November 1872 ; but Miss Clain believes in taking time by the forelock. She publishes quite a lengthy platform, and urges her election on the ground that a contest for a seat in Congress, by a woman,would bring up the female suffrage question in such a shape that politicians could no I tiger dodge it. She is great on equal rights, but rather misty in the enunciation of other principles. Miss Tenn ie is in the wrong place to catch votes. She ought to have settled in Boston, where she !night have formed an alliance with every conceivable into abd have had some slight Jume of success. After the disclosures recently made in regard to the domestic relations of the Clatlin family, Tennie's sister, Mrs. Woodhull, withdrew her name as a candidate for the Presidency. We shall see whether Tennie will stick to her candidacy with more constancy than she does to her lovers, whom she is reputed to change oftener than her married sister does her husbands. llon. C. M. Duncan I lon. (7. M. Duncan, State Senator from the Franklin District, has been renominated by the Democracy of his own county. The District was changed by the new apportionment, amt is now composed of Franklin and Cumberland. There will be a sharp contest between the two counties for the coveted posi tion, but Mr. Duncan's chances of se curing - the nomination are excellent. lie stood high in the Senate, and won the respect and esteem, not only, of his immediate constituents, but of the De mocracy of the State, Should he se cure the endorsement of Cumberland he will be re-elected by a large majority. Tit I.: New York Timcs advises the peo ple of New York not to pay any more taxes until there is a change of admin istration. flow would it lie if the peo ple of Lancaster should refuse to pay any more taxes until the infamous ger rymander which gave the Republicans control of our city government is re pealed. If it would be well in one case would it not be well in another? Isn't that sauce for the goose which is sauce for the gander? Ilavu't our people a right to be;indignant• over• the extrava gance and corruption of tile present city administration? GOVERNOR C .- EMlv r Mi n ister to Rus sia, recently asked leave of absence, with the intention of returning home for a season, but he afterwards recalled Ills request, in order to press an import ant claim which it is believed will be speedily allowed by the Russian gov ernment. The friends of Governor Cur tin assert that he will leave St. Peters burg and return to the United States in time to take part in the next Presiden tial election. If lie does that lie and his friends will have something to say in regard to the next election of a United States Senator in Pennsylvania. UNDER Republican ring-rule the-debt of Philadelphia has been run up to over fifty millions of dollars, and it is rapid ly increasing. Will the Republican ring in Lancaster be good enough to publish an intelligible statement of their financial doings, in order that the tax-payers may know how much the city debt has been increased during the past two years. The IT. S. Attorney-General Inciting:to Attorney-General Ackerman, for whose legal opinions no lawyer in the country has the slightest respect, has been• down in North Carolina, ha ranguing the negroes at a political meeting. Some five thousand blacks were collected by the white Radicals who are managing them. Many of the negroes got drunk and a bloody riot en sued. When a negro policeman at tempted to arrest some of the leaders he was shot down, and several white men who were assisting to preserve order, shared a similar fate. It is not strange that such a scene should have followed the speech of Grant's Ex-rebel Attor ney-General. That legal luminary told those who listened to him, that if the people of North Carolina voted to amend their State Constitution, Grant would nullity their action by a bold usurpa tion of authority. Is it to be wondered at that ignorant negroes thought they might indulge in killing. a few Conser vative cilizens„after being told by the Attorney-General of the United States that the President would recklessly vi olate the law. This threat of the Attonley-General shows the tendency and the temper of the present administration. Grant is too ignorant to know when he is going beyond the Constitutional limits of his authority, and he is surrounded by a gang which is made up of desperate politicians, or of men almost as igno rant as himself. Ile has not in his councils a single one of the more able and thoughtful men of the Republican party. The only men in Pennsylvania who have his ear are Simon Cameron and certain wealthy Philadelphians, to whom he is indebted for presents and good dinners, lie would not hesitate fora moment to i n ter fere with the right of local government in any State, it by so doing he could advance his own sel• fish ends Ills re-election would be the greatest calamity which could befal this country at this time. What is needed now, both for the benefit of the North and the South, is a return to Constitu tional government, and to a proper re spect for the reserved rightsof the States. That would restore peace,and quiet at . once throughout all our borders, and it would be speedily followed by a revival of languishing i dustry and prostrate commerce. Let it be remembered that much depends upon the deci sion of Pennsylvania at the coming State election. The defeat of the Re publican candidates for Auditor and Surveyor-General, will insure the defeat of Grant. Let every Democrat in the Slate lie made to feel how much depends upon his vote in October. eost of Cur' Royal Household Farmers, mechanics and others who receive from two to four dollars per day, out of which they support their families and pay taxes to keep tip the best Gov ernment the world ever saw, would no doubt, like to know what becomes of a portion of their hard earnings. From the following statement, it will be seen that to.keep up style the sea-side lounger makes away with a good share of it. In Democratic times $1:5,000 per annum was considered enough ,to keep a President; but times have changed—the I lovern ment has found new quarters at Long Branch ; besides it likes fast horses,good cigars, champagne, etc.; in fact it revels in theni, no matter if the tax-payer's nose is kept at the grindstone. The statement alluded to is for keeping up the White House at Washington for the year ending June ::0, 1571, and is as f.,1- lows : Salary, Privale Secretary, IL I hifigla. Assistant Private Secretary, .1. To Ely 12,50( Executive Clerk, I. P. Suckley... I,Mit Executive Clerk, C. C. Detailed Clerk, \V. 11. Creek I,Gut Detnilud Clerk, \V. ll' Fr 1,601 Mil. Se., Alaj. and 11%1. llrig. ((tn. Piirter Alaj. and ISvL. Brig. itru O. E. Itala:eek Adam Ilatleaa. ',set item V. 'l'. Dent... tt,tltH Steward tt,ltot Aleestatger Si( Furnace Keeper 72( Policeman Watchman tint 'Watchman Doorkeeptir-iiechii4 1,001 Assistant iloorl:nelier GUt Sticreutry to sign lanil patent , , N. (:. Itrool:s Stationery :tnil contingent fund Lamplighters Laborers on sidewalks Laborers on grounds... Fuel Manure and hauling... Painting exterior ibis r.lants, etc., for gruelllnniso 5,000 Annual appropriation For fitting - . up :Ifni refurnishing Additional du What Grant's Signature costs Every important paper requiring the signature of President Grant, is sent on to Long Branch by a special messenger who is allowed ten cents a mile mileage, each way,, hotel bills and contingent expenses. It is estimated that every Lime the signature of U. S. Grant is now appended to any commissory order, bigamy pardon, Or other paper, it costs the tax-payers about seventy-five or a hundred dollars, according to the allow ance to the messengers. And all this, while Grant draws his full salary, smokes his cigar, laughs in his sleeve at a cajoled people, and plots with his crowd of ollicediolders to secure a re nomination. What a very patient set of asses the American people would prove themselves to be if they should re-elect him. The Harvest lu Europe Some facts have been published by the European journals regarding the harvest prospects in the grain-growing countries of Europe. In Prussia the prospects are not at all favorable, espe cially for the early crops, and the late ones have suffered severely for the want of a warm sin. As is the case in this country, there has been little or no Sum mer in Prussia, and this has had its ef fect on the crops. In Saxony, however, matters are different, and the prospect of a good, healthy yield hits gladdened the hearts of the farmers. 'rho wheat and barley crops of France, especially in the West and Southwest, have great ly improved, and promise a productive and bountiful yield. _Russia will, ac cording to all accounts, be up to the average of last year. The promise of an abundant harvest in Hungary is grati fying, and in ItMunania, Bulgaria and ISesaralda the promises are flattering. Tit 1.: New York Tribune eomplains that the entire management of the Re publican piety in that City has been committed to Custom-House officials, and other Federal office-holders. The City Commit tee is composed of these gentry, and Inspectors of Elections are chosen from among them Cirant is preparing to secure a re-nomination, and everything is made to bend to that one purpose. The same thing: is true of Philadelphia, and it is notorious that the Republican State Convention, which nominated Stanton and Beath, was completely controlled by V. S. ofll - The masses of the Republican party are completely ignored every where. Jr is said that ex-Congressman I3owen, who was convicted of bigamy, will con test the seat iu Congress held by Mr. De Large, the colored member from South Carolina. The Columbus (Georgia) Enquirer hopes that " every Democratic member will vote to retain De Large, for the idea of investigating to see whether Bowen or De Large received the greater number of illegal votes, or which side committed thegreater frauds, is preposterous." THE Philadelphia Press entered upon its fifteenth volume last week. It is represented to be in a flourishing finan cial condition, and is as fanatically Rad ical as it can be made. Hoclooking the Hypocrites. • The Republican press of Pennsylvania has been in the habit of claiming that the Republican party is the friend of temperance, and denunciations of the Democracy as a " rum party" have been very freely indulged in. We notice, however, that the Keystone Good-Tem plar is tearing the cloak from the backs of these Radical hypocrites. In a recent issue it administers adeserved rebuke to Forney's Press, and has a word for that very virtuous sheet, the Lancaster In quirer„ which would apply equally well to the Express. It says : On the same subject we also find an edi torial in the Lancaster Inquirer, also a leading Republican party paper, saying: "The only possible practical result of no ur inating a temperance ticket will be Demo cratic success," and asks whether honest temperance men are willing to place them selves in such a position—opposition to a party that has "done much for the success of such legislation as they [the temperance men] have asked?" Now, we ask, when did the Republican party do the first act, make the first move or utter the first word of sympathy for temperance or prohibition? If the late Republican State Convention did anything like committing the party for prohibition, or even for that very small crumb, " local option," do please, Mr. Inquirer, lot us know it.. The latest political act in this State, having a hearing upon the question, was the passage of the bill repealing the Duncannon local prohibitory law, and by so doing to re-open the flood-gates of rum, crime and social discord into that town! That act was passed, first, by the Republi can House of Representatives; second, by the Democratic Senate, and third and last ly, but by no means least, it wan officially approved by that well-known Republican moral-suasion-an ti-pol i tic-al-party- rad ical conservativ e-temperance Governor, Major- General John W. Geary, S. of T., G. A. R., I. O. Li. T., O. U. A. M., I. O. O. , IC of P., T. of M., A. Y. Id., A. 0. D., I. 0. It. M., Y. 111. C. A., Ac. We do not wonder at the indignation of the Good Templar. The pretensions of Republican editors in this State are sufficiently ridiculous and presumptuous to excite the ire . of the least honest friend of temperance. They have habitually used the temperance agitation as a means for strengthening the Republi can party, and have played upon the feelings of preachers and other simple minded people by hypocritical arts of the most transparent character. The consistency of Republican politicians was displayed last Winter,in the passage through- the lower House of the Legis lature of a Local Option Liquor law, for the State at large, and the repeal of the special act, in relation to Duncannon. They put the general bill through as a piece of political buncombe,and repealed the special act because they thought some. partisan advantage might be gain ed, by licensing the sale :of alcoholic beverages in a town which had applied for and secured the privilege of deter mining the question for itself by a vole of its people. Let us have no inure of this twaddle about ktemperance from newspapers editorsw 114 are wedded to the Republican party. The Good Templar is doing a good work when it strips the cloak of hypocrisy from the :shoulders of these fellows. They deserve to be held in contempt by every honest man in the Stater no matter what may be Iris views in regtvd to the sale of liquor. The Leeching of New York There is . not a particle of doubt but that the City of New York has for years past been undergoing a course of severe phlebotomy. A Board of Supervisors, composed of members of both political parties, which has now brew abolished by the recent City Charter, held during its existence high carnival upon the City's financial body, and:freely bled it to their own great enrichment. The Democratsami Republicans in the Ring united together in the pkasing and lucrative business of laying up unto themselves riches at the expense of the tax-payers. This fact, although one of common notoriety. has not heretofore attracted any very serious animadver sion from the press of New York, until now. Singularly enough, after the old Board of Supervisors has been abolished and can do no further harm, the New York Tiincs, having lost the ad vertizing patronage it enjoyed under the old regime, appears for the first time to have been made aware of the misdeeds of its old friends, and aided by other Repub lican journals of the City, who have joined with it in full cry, has succeeded in getting up a first-class sensation on the matter. Of course, these Republi can' journals are animated by the hope that they will be able to make political capital out of the exposure; manifestly a very vain hope,astheir own statement shows that an equal number of men of both parties are involved in the matter, and that their sole object was personal gain. The _Democratic party is not in volved in the matter, and . cannot be in jured by it, if it promptly repudiates Tweed and such other members of the party as may have been engaged in the robbery. Mayor Hall and Comptroller Connolly are taking a very straight forward course in the matter, and as will be seen by the subjoined letter, court the fullest investigation of the accounts of the City. I,thy) 1 MU a,uoo 5,11011 a,IRIU 15,11110 "MAYOR'S OFFICE, NEW Ynnu CITY, August 4, ISTI, j To the Him. William 1,7. Dodge, President of the rhumb, of Cuunnerce, o m his obsence Ihu Ilun. George Oinlyke., "Dear Sir: In view of the gross allega tions continually made by a partisan jour nal in relation to the accounts of the city and county of New York, the expenditure of the public moneys, the public debt, and the city resources, the undersigned respect fully request that the Chamber of Com merce appoint a large and influential com mittee of well-known and upright citizens to make a full and exhaustive examination of the public accounts and condition of the public debt, and then report the result when completed to the people of this city. The accounts will all be published at all early day, but it is the earnest desire of the un dersigned that the original accounts and vouchers shall at once be thoroughly exam ined. The undersigned would feel obliged, in Cll,lO there is no regular meeting of the Chamber within a few days, if a special meeting could be convened expressly fur the purpose indicated. The uuder,igned make this proposition irrespective or their own personal consid erations, and bo-mtse or tine msauits made upon the city credit.; and it is addressed to you because you r 'Roily is composed of 111,11- partisan and commercial gentlemen. Very respectfu lly,yonr obedient servants, A. OAK EY HALL, Mayor. RicitAito 11. Comptroller." The Lyeoming Mandard The Lycoming St a ndu JULY changed hands. Andrew Hopkins, Esq., has sold out to Messrs. \V. I'. Furey and H. A. Huernsey. Mr. Furey is one of the brightest young men in the state, being a line writer and an eloquent speaker. Both the retiring editor and his succes sors have our best wishes for their sue- Cess in life. I • r is now announced on what scenic to be good authority, that Commissioner Pleasanton will retire from the Revenue Department. to make room for Simon Caineron's man, J. W. Douglas, of Erie. Simon has more influence with the President, now than any man in the country. The two have leading traits in common, both believing sincerely in making money out of political position. THE Harrisburg Jou nutb , ,ays : " Gov ernor Geary, we believe, is the only Ex ecutive who remains at the Capitol of his State during the heated term, quietly attending to his duty. While the Pres ident of the United States and uearly,if not entirely, all the Governors of the States are recreating at watering-places, Pennsylvania's Governor remains at his post of duty." Good for Geary. A CALL has been issued in New York for a grand mass meeting of citizens with a view to an investigation of charges made against certain city of ficials. Why not have a mass meeting in Lancaster to investigate the conduct of our Street Committee and the gen eral extravagance of our "young and vigorous administration." A Peekskill paper has received the following admonition : "Mr. Editurs— What did you print my family matters in your papur for it is noneyur biziness if my wife did have twins I pays for them and youl get yuor head punched you had best tend to yer own hiziness." The Pleasanton-Boutwell Difficulty. The disgraceful embroglio at Wash ington between the Secretary of the Treasury and the Commissioner of In ternal Revenue seems to be about ap proaching its culmination. ThesPresi dent has suddenly arrived at Washing ton, called there it is said by a new dis agreement between these officials. The telegraph informs us that Secretary Boutwell refused to sign a requisition for printing circulars containing Pleas on tou's order reversing the decision of Delano, on the tax on borrowed capital used by bankers and brokers. Pleas anton, hearing this, on Saturday set all his clerical force to work copying the order, and one copy was mailed to every Assessor and Collector in the country. On Saturday night Boutwell dispatched a special messenger to Long Branch with official do'cuments in relation to this matter, and protesting that it was a defiant act, and that the President should act promptly or serious embar rassment would result. IL seems scarcely possible that Bout well and Pleasanton should both re• main in office, entertaining so radically different views as they do of their re spective powers and functions. The difficulty arises from the special legis lation which was had during the Pre:- idency of President Johnson to circum scribe the powers of the President and his Secretary, and to release from their control and supervision the Chief of the Internal Revenue Bureau, who was a Radical after the Congressional heart. The invention has now, however;return ed to plague its inventors and basset by ears two high officers of the govern ment, to the great scandal of the coun try. Pleasanton naturally claims toex ercise the same independent control over his department width Rollins and Delano enjoyed ; while the Secretary desires to regard him, as in fact he ought to be regarded, as a subordinate officer• whose actions and decisions are subject to his control and revisal. The President will have his hands full in settling this trouble in his " happy fam ily," especially if Pleasanton proves ob stinate and refuses to resign ; for un der the tenure-of-office act, Grant can ' not remove Min without the consent of Congress; in which body at the next I session, therefore the whole matter will be likely to be ventilated. Robblug the tinterument The Washington Putriot calls atten tion to a system of robbing the Govern ment of the United States more auda cious than that from which the city of Now York is suffering. At the close of the rebellion, the Uni ted States had actually en hand and ready fur immediate use, Inure of the material and resources of war than ally other country in the world everpossess ed, before or since. It is to be doubted if the united elements of Germany anti France ill the recent struggle, compared in value with the prodigious collection which remained upon our hands the day that Lee surrendered his sword. It was the accumulation of four consecu tive years, with enormous annual ex penditures, and appropriations almost without limit. Some idea may be form ed of the magnitude of these supplies, by the fact that over twelve hundred millions of dollars were voted in on the very ev • of peace, and when the condition of the South might have been known. Ships of war, cannon, steamers, arms of every description, ammunition, horses, mules, tents, equipments, stores, clothing, supplies, and all the vast machinery of war, in all its costly and countless forms, were in possession of the various branches the War and Navy Departments when the last gun was fired. It is extremely difficult to form even an approximate idea of the value of this property, from the deceptive manner in which the pub lie accounts are kept, and the persistent refusal of the Republicans in Congress to permit any investigation to be made. The Departments have habitually resist ed information on this subject, and for evident reasons, us will be shown. The appropriations awl the public debt per mit some basis of calculation, in the absence of stricter proof. But one thing iseertain, and it is that which most concerns the American people, who had to bear the cost of the civil war: ait this proprily has disap urcd, and no returns can be found for it on the books of the treasury! It is estimated that over live hundred mill: ions of dollars at least have been realized front this sou rce by salessince 1565, not a dollar of which hits been accounted for, so as to relieve the con ntry or to diminish the indebtedness. Not a cent was ever paid into.the treasury front these sales. W hat has become of this enormous sum of money ? The question is asked with 110 expectation of an answer, because this administration has remained deaf to every demand, and its while aim is to stifle inquiry. It is pretended in partial extenuation, that the great sums thus received from these sources, have been expended by the War and Navy Departments. But Low expended? Congress appropriates annually, upon estimates furnished by these departments, all the money re quired for the public service, and often largely beyond their real wants. So that, if this explanation be true, the Ar my and Navy have not only spent the regular appropriations, which were le gally presumed to be sufficient, but have squandered lice hundred or more mil lions besides, without authority of law. Radical Rings In Lancaster County A correspondent writing for the Ex press boldly exposes some of the cor ruption which exists among the Repub lican leaders of Lancaster county. He does not mince terms but talks out in language that is plain. He says: Nor need we leave our own county and State to lied the baleful influence and dis• estrous work of "Rings." Under their con trol the Prison has been a source of reve nue drained from the County Treasury by a system of vagrant " repeating" and "bummer" boarding, and the apparently insignificant Mlles of Prison Inspector has been the controlling power in primaries to which even Congressional nominations had to Bend. For years bridges have by a system of contracting been lot, not iu the interests of taxpayers, but to procure plunder to till the pockets of those in the ring, and to pro cure material aid to carry primary elec. to for ring candidates. iL Is notorious that ("rand Juries have been packed with sworn tools of the ring, for the express purpose of thwarting the ends of justice by ignoring certain classes of bills of indictment in spite of the most pos itive and conclusive testimony; and prosecutors, who believed that they would be protected in endeavoring to se cure a proper enforcement of the laws, have been saddled with costs by ti rand Juries, and in many instances poor but honest citizens—outraged wives of Brun ken husbands, and heart-broken mothers of err • Mg SOUS—have been saved front imprison. Meta for those cosh only by the interven tion of frieze's. These are outrages and evils it were well Mr the people to ponder on the eve of a most important primary election. The Ring is actively at work,while Mutest citizens are sleeping. Candidates, selected Mr their fitness to serve Only cor rupt purposes, are to be 110110inated.— A jost law, which no honest man could question, and which a majority of the County Committee, acting on their own convictions of Painless and right, were prepared to adopt, was, at the eleventh hour, defeated by the secret labors of the leaders of the "Ring" of this county, and the honest yeomanry of the Republican party defiantly notified that candidates who will ignore the interests of the people, and servo only their masters, are to be put through from Judge, and District Attor ney, down to Auditor. These are no idle words. Men as unscrupulous as Tweed and Sweeny, are living in our midst, and if the people of this county de sire to continue s pure and untrammeled judiciary, a fearless and honest proecuting attorney, who will enforce the laws with out fear or favor, honest Representatives, a Commissioner In their interests and not in the interests of jobbers, they must waken to realize the fact, that only by placing hu offices of public trust men in whom they would implicitly confide the care of their private affairs, call they expect to have the public interests honestly and properly cared for. Draining the Pockets or the People. During the month of July, the public debt of the United States has decreased $B,- 108,318, being a little over the average rate of decrease maintained during the three mouths preceding. We enter upon tho month of August, therefore, with a Nation -al Debt amounting to $2,288,328,857, or about $59 per head on thirty-eight and a half millions of population. During the twenty-nine months last past the total di minution of the public debt had amounted to $242,134,402, or nearly $8,350,000 per mouth. This is encouraging for the pub lic credit, but the question comes strongly up whether it is not time to abate a little in the burden of taxation, and allow the trade and business of the country, which is sore ly oppressed, to revive a little. Quite as much may be effected in that way, and in making wealth, as in draining the last dol lar from the pocket in paying debts.—Pirit. Ledger, State Items. Freddy Cook, between three and four years old, son ofJ.H. Cook, of Williams port, was accidentally drowned on Fri day last. Mrs. Amy Franks, of Fayette county, Pa., is ninety years old, and has five hundred living descendants, including fourteen sons and daughters. The Cameron Herald, published at Eniporium, Cameron county, has placed the name of Gen. Winfield S. Hancock at the head of its editorial column, as its candidate for President in 1872. A maniiamed James P. Boyd, about 27 years old, was run over by the cars on the Allegheny Valley road, and cut in two on Tuesday night while lying across the track drunk. A little daughter of Mr. Chas. Fraley, of Towanda, went visiting friends in Wysox township on Sunday last, and while playing near a hay rigging it toppled over and crushed her skull.— She died in a very few minutes. A young lady, named Emily Taylor, of Indiana county, who has been in a trance, arose on the twenty-first day, and is fast recovering her health. She is the wonder of the people iu the south ern part of Indiana county. Two boys went down an abandoned mine shaft 100 feet deep, on Penn's Mountain, near Reading, yesterday, and one of them named Francis Snyder, aged 1:.1 years. was affected by the foul air and drowned in some water at the bottom of the shaft. In Philadelphia on Saturday, Joseph Severly, aged in attempting to take a bale of cotton from a shaft, was caught in the machinery, and before he could be extricated both legs were crushed, one hand was cut otl . and he was ether wise horribly mutilated. He died in a few seconds. J. K. Turnel., who made his escape from the United States Marshals by jumping front a train on the Erie and Pittsburgh Road, was recaptured at the Diamond tavern, about nine miles from Titusville, Venango county, on Tuesday night. He was taken to Erie, where he arrived at 3 o'clock in the morning. The wife of Mr. William Lynch, of Mine Hill Clap, on Tuesday morning last at five o'clock, presented her hus band with three babies—two living and sprightly, the other dead. The father is jubilant and the house overtiows with visitors. The dead one is a girl, the others a girl and boy. An attempt at rape was made in Lock Haven, a tew days since, by Joseph Long, upon Lizzie Clayton, a Mew; be tween 11 and 12 years of age. The mother let slip a hot tlat-iron at the ras cal, which left its mark in an ugly wound upon the forehead. He has had a hear. ing before Justice Batcheler, and com mitted to jail iu default of $.500 bail. Early on Saturday morning last a man in attempting to jump upon one of the freight trains passing Duncannon sta tion, on the Pennsylvania Railroad, missed his footing and was hurled to the ground. The train passed over and crushed both his feet, and horribly mangled one of his legs. The leg and foot were amputated, but the man (lied about two hours afterwards On Tuesday last Martin Reilly,employ ed by the McNeal Coal and. Iron Com pany, Yatesville, Schuylkill county, 11,4 killed by a fall of coal. Ilewas a sin gle man of about forty-eight years. He was a soldier in the late war, had been wounded and drew a pension. His fu neral was attended by a large number of his soldier comrades. The Lock Haven Deniocrut says that a singular occurrence took place on the farm of Mr. Jett: Caldwell, Bald Eagle township, a few days since. His bees left their hives without any apparent cause, mad as hornetti on a skirmish, and made first for the dog, and stung him to death. They then betook them selves to the fields where the hands were harvesting, and etude so furious an attack upon the horses that men and beasts had to take shelter in the barn. Having whipped everything in their way they went back to their hives. C=l! A little girl wanted her father to go to the loafers and get a loaf of bread. The S Vth attraction—a darkey's love for a razor. On Tuesday last a colored num was run over and killed by the ears near Itis hig Sun, Md. At Terre haute, Ind., lubricating oil W:LS "struck" on Saturday night at a depth of feet. Two farm laborers were shot while stealing grain in Mereed county, Cal., last Thursday' night. , The Democratic Stali, Convention of Illinois is to meet at f4'pringlield on Oc tyber 4th. Lt Richmond, Ind., recently, it Woman pulled the Of a Judge, 'who had just fined her. Robert Bunt., a butcher, died at Sacra mento on Tuesday, from the elkets of a bite MI the neck hunt a blowily. A census of Chicago, just finished, gives that city a population of 3:41,•270, the males having a majority of, 62.;i2. (dovernment expenditures for July, not including payments on ac count of the public dent, were $13,1-12,- The thin] annual meeting of the Grand Lodge of Ontario of the Balti more tinily of (kid-Fellows is progress ing at Toronto. It is reported from New York that (diaries Francis Adams has declined to he arbitrator Maier the Treaty of Wash ington. No people under heaven can excel the Americans in the manly art of sitting on a bench and seeing eighteen men play ball. The first entire colored jury ever drawn in Erie county, N. V., tried two cases of their own color at Ennio ou Saturday and acquitted them. The famous trotting mare " Purity " dropped dead of heart disease while ex ercising at Buffalo ou Saturday. (bold smith Maid made 2.P} time while exer cising at the same place. The first bale of the new cotton crop of Louisiana has arrived at New Or leans. The cotton along the Red river looks better than was expected after the Spring rains, and a fair crop is expected. At New Orleans a policeman named Ilenset, was shot while walking on his beat, ut two o'clock yesterday, by two men who are supposed to be burglars. He is believed to be mortally wounded. Now that the army has been reduced to MAO men, the Government can get more recruits than are needed ; there fore the standard of height has been raised to 5 feet li inches, one inch more than heretofore. Two companies of U. S. troops ar rived at New Orleans ou Friday night. Their presence is said to, be for the pre servation of order (in Wednesday, the day for the meeting of the Republican State Convention. A cautious wife refused to permit her husband to go on a fishing excursion, because he was very apt to get drow mid when he went upon •the water, and moreover, did not know how to swim any more than a goose. On Wednesday the Isaly of James Slavin was found horribly mangled on the Philadelphia, Wilmington and I lab timore Railroad, near Elkton. lie had been seen on the track di link the eve ning before. A coal train was thrown from the Al bany and Susquehanna Railroad on Friday by the washing away of a por tion of the track. Blanchard, the fire man, was killed, and Whippole, the en gineer, seriously injured. There was a narrow escape from dis aster on the Long Branch Railroad on Friday evening. A car rail oil the track •amt the train was stopped "within three feet of being precipitated into the Shrewsbury river." During t h e past few days seven ves sels—one of them a steamer—have ar rived at New York with yellow fever on board and been quarantined. They are from Cuban and huff ports. A number of yellow fever cases are in the hospital. The President has appointed Matthew M'Dougall United States consul at Dun dee, Scotland; John G. Stevens Alt thl Erastus Cleveland, of New Jersey, and Thomas H. Caldwell, of Tennessee, to be Commissioners of those States to the cell tennia/ anniversary in Philadelphia. Returns of the election in North Car olina still indicate the call of a State Constitutional Convention by a small majority, although many of the counties show large Republican gains. The Re publicans oppose, while the Democrats favor the calling of the Convention. A New Orleans despatch says that seri ous trouble is apprehended at that city at the meeting of the Republican State Convention on the 9th Inst. A most bitter feeling exists between the Dunn and Warmouth factions, each charging the other with contemplating violence and fraud. A terrible hail-storm swept over Albi on, Wis., and vicinity on the 31st ult., destroying the corn and tobacco crops, and causing a loss of $2,50,000. Some of the hailstones were 21 inches in diame ter, and in many places the ground was covered with them " sufficiently to run a sleign. According to private advices the har vest of Spring wheat in Wisconsin is In progress, and reports from nearly all places in that State give favorable ac counts of the yield and quality, which, in both respects, are better than had been expected. More than an average crop is anticipated in the localities re ported from. A party of colored excursionists on Monday took possession of the cars on the Savannah and Seaboard Railroad and the men cut loose two of the cars and began fighting in them. The oth er cars, with women on board, went on to Savannah. The Sheriff was to go from Savannah last night to.arrest the rioters. A letter from Texas received at New York says that the troops there, to the number of several thousand, will take up their line of march on August 15th, with a view to concentrating at the head of the Washita Mountains, under com mand of Colonel McKenzie, for a cam paign against the Comanche and Wash ita Indians. The troops desire the ex termination of these Indians. In Louisiana delegates to the Repub lican State Convention were elected on Monday. Among those elected In New Orleansare Lieutenant-Governor Dunn, LI. S. Marshal Packard, Postmaster Lowell, Collector Casey, and Colonel Carter, Speaker of the House. Eight wards voted against Governor War mouth, and four in his favor, one being doubtful. The State, as far as known, gives an anti-Warmouth majority. Special Correspondence of the Intellige..., PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 4, 1 S 1 Gentlemen :—You may be somewhat sur prised at receiving a Cape May letter from Philadelphia, but the fact is that one can not visit this city on such a fearful dog-day as this, without reverting to most delight ful recollections of the City by the Sea.— Of all the watering places of easy access, none to my mind offers greater induce ments than Cape May. It has the advan tage of both Atlantic City and Long Branch, in ways which I will enumerate in detail at another time, and content myself for the present by pointing out the 'node of reach ing it. To those who prefer water communica tion, tho steamer "Sue offers the induer ments of tri-weekly trips, and moderate fare, avoiding all dust, and setting her pas sengers ashore at the steamboat landing greatly refreshed by the cool breeze of the bay. Ifer trips consume more time than the trains, and as many persons prefer to save time and avoid the possibility of a Westlield disaster, the West Jersey Rail road offers the choice of three daily trains, and delivers its passengers in safely in about 2.1 hours from Philadelphia. By this route you obtain hurried glimpses of a number of thriving towns and villages which have grown as if by magic, and are peopled with a thrifty and money-loving population. Among these limy be men tioned Glassboro, Clayton and Vineland. The latter Is a worthy monument to a de serving man. A few years ago a pica for est marked the place whore comfortable homes, churches, stores and steam mills now stand, testifying to the rapid march of improvement in West Jersey, and the cer tain reward which ever awaits well-direct ed energy. The only disagreeable feature of Vineland is its Senlinary,w hick is a huge unsightly pile of stone and mortar, topped by what must be meant for a Mansard roof. A board ladder carries the pupils to the front door, and while it is not by ally means a dangerous mode of climbing the heights of knowledge, it certainly is a dif ficult one. Most of the windows aro board ed up for the double purpose, I suppose, Of keeping the pupils in and mosquitoes out. At tittles the latter are very plenty, but never grow larger than a Spring chicken. The door is surmounted by a sign bearing the simple title "Seminary," and at first glance you are puzzled to tell ivbother the sign was put up first and the building add ed to it, or the building first and the sign added. in either event the result is that the Seminary cannot in any sense be called a "thing of beauty." By the time you reach ('ape May Court House, notes this side of the city, you forget all about Vine land and every other kind of land, for the saltiness of the air reminds you that the broad Atlantic is growing nearer, and that a few more hours will find you disporting, like a porpoise, among its glorious billows. The finest lintel on the Island is the Stock ton, capable of aceommodatink 1,200 guests. Congress Hall and the Columbia lions° aro also very enticing, and offer as much plea sure as the Stockton. There area number of other good hotels and cottages, but fur real home comfort give into the Atlantic Hotel. It is less pretentious than some of the others, but its situation is nut equalled by that of any on the 1,1:001. It is literal ly at the sea-side, and you can sit upon its porch and see every wave break in inipm toms) upon the beach. Its proprietor is Jolm McMackin, son of the late Benjamin, the well known Captain of the "Edwin Forrest. ' lint is clear-headed and large hearted, but unfortunate. Ile became owner of the MI A Mollie, which stood on the opposite, side of the street front the present house, and aemin modated :Lin guests, on a Priility—autarky day for him—in Is 0; and during the Mein orablo tire on the :list of August, of that year, house, furniture and everything else disappeared in a few hours, and left hint shorn of property worth ;360,000, without a dollar of insu ranee. With indomitable pluck he commenced the present building on the 4th of November, of the same year, and occupied it on the 26th of the following May, and now, with accommodations for only 210) guests, ho claims Lis share of cus tom, not on the strength of his misfortune, but on the real merits of the house, and the abundance and excellence of his bible, Ile is ably assisted by E. C. Hewitt, for two years past steward of Congress JIM!. The season at the Cape commences on the sth of July, and continues fur ten weeks, but this year has been an unusually cold one, and the anticipated profits will in all probability remain in anticipation. The Island is dotted with handsome cot tages. Several new ones have been built facing the ocean, just north of the Stock ton House, and quite a number cluster south of Congress llall. The most costly residence on the Island is owned and occu pied by T. li. Witney, of Glassboro. Al though Mr. W. is a glass manufacturer, he does not believe in living in a glass house, and the handsome frame residence testifies to his willingness to invest $40,000 for the purpose of enjoying the breeze and bathing of the Cape. The beach at this place is magnificent, either as a promenadeor drive, and you can not only drive on the beach front the light-house to the inlet, a distance of nearly li miles, but. you can (trice into the ocean. I saw a patent medicine Man drive his two-horse wagon into the billows, until the lookers-on really became appre hensive that the whole concern would be carried out to sea. It was more bravado and display in the man, b u t it was nearly death to his horses. If he had been drown ed there would have been one fool less in the world, but it would have been a pity to lose the horses and the medicine. The bathing is at all l illlO,l ..30 , ,:11.11111 111,1i111111L ever occurs m n bather ueless brought 1/11 by his own foolishness. During my sojourn on the Island the Ed itorial Association of New Jersey, with their wives and sweethearts, arrived, and were quartered at the Stook ton. They are a numerous but not by any means a hand some set of fellows—Ma nearly as much so as their wives. With the ex caption :if the editor of the Rahway 11einoreal :Ulll laic wife they enjoyed themselves finely. The latter wan taken sick just after her arrival and remained so during the entire visit, and upon leaving had to be carried into the car. The entire expense of the trip, includ ing three full days at the Stockton, amount ed to only $lO per head. 'On the night of their arrival the proprietor of the Stockton gave them a complimentary "hop," but it was not a success. Most of he editors had been training under fictional Iriorion3, and the General's tactics are not conducive to hops. Others were not so graceful on the light fantastic too as the fairies, and were let off by simply acknowledging "the corn." On one of my return trips from the light house, I met one of the editors some dis tance down the beach, and he politely asked me if I could point out the place whore the diamonds were found. Knowing that the fraternity is made up of sharp fellows, I was at a loss to know whether this partic ular member was for the time being car rying a brick in his hat, or merely under going the experience of a first visit. Sup posing the latter view to be the correct one I kindly informed him that they were found at intervals—long intervals some times—along the entire beach, but that it was growing too dark, I thought, to find many that evening. Ile continued his search, however, but front his appearance afterwards, I doubt whether the breast-pin trade will receive much of an impetus from the diamonds captured on that occasion. I would like to give a description of the Light-house at Cape May, and my impres tliODS of Long Branch, and will do so next' week if I am not occupying apace needed for more important matter. Yours truly, H. R. S. [For the intelllgericer.] . • The, !femmeWawa Case The party consisted of John B. Warfel, Esq., Major A. C. Reincehl, Rev. B. C. Suesserott and son, and Messrs. Michael Zahm, G. M. Zahn, John B. Kevinski, Jacob Stauffer, S. S. Rathvon, and J. D. Pyott, who left Lancaster at 3:10 on Thurs day morning, August 3d, and after some delay at Columbia, reached Marietta at 4 o'clock, where they were joined by Judge J. J. Libbart, 11. M. Engle, Esq., and Messrs. Barr, Spangler .and George W. Mahaffey; and after stopping at all the In termediate stations, arrived at Middletown about G o'clock ; and were joined here by Col. Schock and Mr. S. Landis, of that place, making sixteen in number. Unfor tunately Mr. Westhaeffor, at Lancaster, and Mr. Geist, at Marietta, missed the train. They took breakfast at Keudig's Hotel at 7 o'clock, and started up the Union Canal, in an open boat, drawn by two horses, at 5:30, arriving nt the cave at 0:20. Entered the cave at 0:10, and came out at 11:12. After devoting about half an hour in making their "toilets," they sat down to lunch On the "-green " W ith most " magni (bent "aped tea, at 1 o'clock, I'. M., and "tin fished" with half-a• bushel of luscious peaches and pears, furnished by Mr. Engle, as a dessert. At 2 o'clock, started again, on the return trip by boat and after stopping to explore a cavern im mediately on the berme bank . of the canal, and again to pay a visit to a fishing pie-nie on the shady banks of the Swatara, they reached Middletown at 3:13, and at 4, took rho cars for hcune, arriving at :Marietta, and parting with friends there, at 5:13, acid resulted Lancaster about It in the evening. E=l=l Tho party was not organized by any pro fessedly scientille men, with any scientific preparation, nor for any scientific purpose. It was improvised under the uurpioca 01 . \I r. Engle, of Marietta, and Mr. Landis, of Middletown, and was merely intended to furnish an opportunity to spend a Sum firer- day in out-door recreation, and to visit a rare, that Ha many heard of, lint so few had seen, and therefore could not terminate in any special scientific result. Whether proved an "elephant," or otherwise, will depend entirely upon individual expecta tion. Although no one of that party might desire to visit the cave again, while it is in its present condition, yet, on the whole, we think none regret having done so on this betaillSO of the general :associations connected with it, Its well as the practical illustration of that era lint, which had only oxisled before as all !drib• This cave is in Dauphin county, on the Swatara river, or creek, aleciut tour miles in a northeast direction truth ,l iclilletown; its mouth northsvestwitrd and about fifty yards from tire stream. The hills which flank the creek oneriell side are calcareous, iund on passing up tire vand immense pure limestone quarries are seen car the left build, nearly the whale ilistams., the strain's,- thins of which are very distinct, and, ex cepting a few undulations and the southern clip at tire lower end of lire series, they lay clearly horizontal. tune might naturally expect eaves 111111 caverns in such a locality. It is nearer IlimunelstoNvn than n 1 Wilke towel, 111111 is perhaps oftener visited from the former than the littler plitee, hut owing to the interymniup hills, that tenth is mil in sight, when :11.pr...idled from the canal, and from which :u•ooss is had near itsuvpouainu brid;;o across the creel:. The mouth of the rave is about twenty feet wide and scarcely eight feet high, with an immediately descending floor, and the sensation produced in entering it fin a warm Hummer flay is like descending into an ice-house or a cool beer-vault. lint by some additional chithing, and the exercise required to pass through its devious ways, the temperature soon becomes agreeable, so much so that on coining out again into the open light and air you feel like entering a heated oven. The floors in all the lower apartments of the cave are rileered Willi It layer of mud, some planet nix inches In depth, Ulla Si) tough that it is ittlietssiblo to retain a pair of overshoes unless they are very securely fastened. Wu lost ollfS be fore we had to...weeded filly yards in our progress, and having folly a thin pair of boots under them, am! having all our )tad a eat-like aversion to wet, loot, we never felt u uo •e like "t•aviug in," and abandon enterprise altogether, than We dill Olt 11115 occasion ; but We finally overcome our repugnanee and proceeded, the disa greeable sensation, however, which we all rho while experienced about our pedal ex tremities, hu n g titan a dismal incubus fiver us, fuel dampened our energies, still we contrived 11, visit all the general apartments the cave that any one else did, and on the whole found it much larger than we had expected to lint! it, but saw nothing in it accessible, that wo considered worth carry ing away, all the stalactical formations within reach, having long since been ap propriated by the different persons who haa•e visited it. Soule t h e eh:ollie:n.l when illuminated by a inagnosian light and reflecter, revealed some stalactical beauties on the walls and pending from tho vaulted ceilings, but these, like " the fox's grapes, were sour," and therefore wo did not want them. Perhaps the most notable objects which came under our observation, were three stalagmites, one of which the imagi nation under more favorable circumstances, might conceive to be like a small statue in a grotto or niche, another like a pulpit, and the third—minus the head—like such figures aa are sometimes seen in millinery estab lishments fur the exhibition of their cos tumes, With all the pull's, and frills, and flounces, and furbelows that characterize the present styles. This latter would weigh at least half a ton, and if possible to de tach it, it would lie utterly impossible to get it up through the 'lubber's hole' which must be passed through before access to it call be had. A Iburth, and to us, the pret tiest object we saw, seal all eXeellOnt tell- Cation of a .cascaded fountain, about ten feet high, and projecting ill almost hemis pherical relief from one of the walls. Im agine a marble fountainsoith a series or ba sins—the smaller at top, and the larger at the base, and while ill lull play, and the water descending from one basin to another to be suddenly congealed. I then sawed unequally in two, the lesser portion would be 1111 incitation of that in the Mee, but perlllips Mere perfect anti immaculate. The present condition of the cave is very unfavorable to a thorough ex ploration having toil toilet, Mild and moisture 14, ell - ColllltVr. ludeeQ, Nl. e felt all the while as if we had been swallowed by stime`lingo 1 and after being hurried through his ponderous bowels towards:the point or anal egress, which failing to Mel, had been as unceremoniously disgorged again, city ore,l with the slimes of his filthy stomach. This is owing lo the recent heavy rains, the surplus waters absorbed I.y the earth above, being in an active stab, of percola tion; and this also indicates tint the ceil ings of 141,1110 Or the chambers—from twenty to thirty feet in height —eannot be very far from the earth's surface above, perhaps not more than eight or tell feet. In go ing into the cave, and climbing over, and crawling under, and pitching forward, and slipping backward, and creeping through perilous and almost impassable holes, you think you have traveled about two miles before yen reach the end, but on coming out you reach its mouth in about two hundred:yard, =MEM Ala favorable season, and provided s ith compa.ss, thermometer, ropes, lines, and mathematical instruments, this ease is worthy of a.wiestifie visit moreover, there were some divergingavonues that were not explored, and on a closer examination oth ers may be discovered. And again, about a Mlle below, on the opposite side, is a cav ern, which a thorough exploration may move as large a cave its the ono we visited. We doubt, however, whether the cave we visited is ever inhabited by a single living animal of any kind—except, perhaps, the outer chamber, which is sometimes occu pied by a colony of bats as a Winter resi dence. A good pair of stout boots, a scull cap with lamp or candle In front, so that both hands can lie free, and warm, but not cumbersome, clothing, aro necessary also as an outfit. MEE= On the night previous to our departure wo "bunked" with onr esteemed friend, and other scientific half, Stauffer:, and when wo wended our way fu the early morning towards the depot, nothing could exceed the calm, silent beauty which per vaded the city of Lancaster. The moon 'poured out its silvery light upon the deep foliage of the trees along the sidewalks, casting their dark and almost tangible ihadows upon the ground beneath, and wo mentally exclaimed : "(I, night 0, glorious night, 0, solemn beau teoushour." And the poetic charm was only dispelled when the great "iron horse" came rushing along to bear us away. There Is no poetry in an engine. As we wore passing the Islands in the Susquehanna, above Bainbridge, the gold en rays of old Sol broke forth from . the eastern horizon, gilding the hilltops mill the plains below, and casting westward before him the long shadows of the trees.— What a hopeful and inspiring sight it is to see the sun-rise. No wonder the Pagan nations of the earth have deified item! made it an object of worship. Better such a rind, however, than no tied at all, for corns, pondentially, "God is a San and Shield"-- a sun with "healing in his wings." Ascending and descending the canal in all open canopied boat, the scenery On either hand was delightful, and the Morn ing air cheerful and invigorating, and our party scented to d rink it in, and breathed it out, in pleasiant social intercourse. This was our first trip on the ran& (toot( that public improvement of which we had heard AO 011101 in our boyhood—and which hall been the result of that groat gambling 1 1 11 terpriso, known its "The ('Mien ()Ina! Lol• tiny." it is now almost MI obsolete and useless dad', but is still kept in tolerable order, for the sake of the Ilinm kilos and stone-quarries along its borders. In pass ing through the locks we witnessed that sante old lazy heaving at the ponderous gate-beams, by the slow and vegetating "tender," that we haven' often seen be fore, but not for a period of more than twenty years. What a 111010401111104 and spiritless lilt must that be, of a '• lock-ten der,- of an obsolete and superannuated canal. Anil yet such it functionary k ua necessary as a President, and ii needs be," probably wo could easier do without the latter than the former. Sonio Of our party would not purpoto scion.° nor curiosity under such (11111oullio•; as passing through the niudhoh.s or t h e rave presented, which is nothing to lhoir diw•rodit. NVo reeklossly thattitierod through, and have restpt a hanilsouto huhe inintlio or and urhtw '' as aooutlu•u wuion, but under • rityltralilo auspices would not liesuato nitwit to try it again. W , ` have waited in vain, lire 3,•ihglo evetnl in critivisni or the rlaime oY line nomineo for Survoyor.t;eneral to the nut Irages the people. caphoo to bear a charmed life, in the estimation of I is political opponents, for they have Mot dared to attack him in any 1111111,1er a hat. ever. WII think Wll i,nnoe Iha rea.on of this hind Itlrbellrlllll . o on, the ilndicul managers. A lillin.111111.1e1 . 1111•1111‘41 ;it tin() 1111., WiLtlll,l Ohtani eottipletely Irmo as,all ing Captain Cooper. Their 11111111114 are hertnotivall3 sealed from all utteraneo against the gallant young soldier st un, ru ins the sewed plane on tine Deinovratie ticket. tin tire third day or .I...ary Senate of Pennsylvania proveutirsi Irt the eleetion urullirure ‘v lien Mr. Nagle Irern.) iir nal. trig certain persons fir tint various onto., Mr. Allen, IZep.l of Warren, 'nosed to amend by striking out the 11111110 lit John I'. presented for the utile,. of Sergeant , at-A in :Mr. Nagle's resod.. annul inserting the name of Captain James 11. Cooper. l:pon 11114 a debate sprang rip, in ‘, hick it WlOlOllllOll 111111. Cop- Lain Cooper's 11111110 Wll,l presented Nitheint his authority, and contrary to Iris wish. Rut tetieral Allen pernisted in his 10011 i. rajlinill l'iwper, and stippitrted it in asp/welt which in reported in tire I.yr, .101,11111. ns illlloo'S " Mr. Allen: Mr. Speller, in pre- et ing the amendment which I hnva `11•111 11/ the l'ierk's desk, I feel that I am not only representing the wishes of the Urularrnry of Western Pennsylvania, lent the v‘ imhem of the lioneecravy of the I holm. of It 1101111111V11,1, (1111111111, brined, ,it . stir 111 izxtiun, as Its by , in the merit..., of the g entleman It hose name 1 have presented. I deal, id way,. 1,, tho wkt.e,, or the majority; Grhup that sympathy with my :friends who in,. in the majority ill their l 'fili1,1:1(11111,1 11, triendshin for the deserving soldier, I now l ire:mind a deserving one it that e lams, wit It the ,Vl,llll, 11f (1111 Iteptiblieans ,ir the :--'1•11- tall, 111(1 1 10morntry of Western Penn.% I vault,. and atilt , other 'hone , . that he huu elected to the 1 1W-110011 it Ser g emet at Arius. / the yo n I Icono), 11, d (Intl ill' 11 - 11.4 rt l 1 • 1(r • to rt bpi I .ved , (l. r rr lie• tr(t)• • Jot ("irony la/ ,I.v ) A I ver .v or )1,1 1,0 s I Orel in tti, of lor l„-Al 1/e)ot toy nillo Mod I. on )ro,rnt. No I eimilore at van .1.. 111111,101 r 111,111,411. e no) leo roJ.l Ivor 11. t..ot hirtmo•if 1.1.••• —by voting for 115 111,1'1, iug tt young man its this ; he having pal • ticipated in all the battles of (1111 war, rnoding the ri g hts of Itepublicans Detimeratm. Let. 1110 /11-11 i Illy 1 , 1-1111'elitIll• friends, when in One majority, In iii Watt naninneus and endorse the priuriples have 1111,W:111-11 year after year. \\se claim it as yoeir duty, and aro willing 111 .1 '1111 ) 1.11 in endorsing this young man." 'flee veto 10,15 111011 111k1.11, and 1111 1111' (1111 51,11,1111 a g ree hi ilia its I Ili., follotving named Senators voted in the affirmative: Messrs, A bleu, Anderson, Itil lingfelt, Wool:0, Connell, 1 rola:tinter, Evans, Unthum, Ilemiszey, Kerr, NI 11111111:1, ()busted, Osterhout, Retail and \Vint, Thus every ltxdiral member of the Senate endorsed ley his vote lhu spevele of Senator Allen reesimilionding Captain l'ooper 11-1 "1111(1 or the best young, men the Stab, taus present" and deli ring that "111/ li-111111.11- 01111 taro 110 111111,11.11' injnSLicu by voting 11,1 so deserving a young :nail as this." This ;tenon of Hite Radical party in the Senate m 1,11111,4 for the reticence 'el the lii galls or th.t party with regard he the yield'. tlitcy or ('apt. romper. Although the Ilene ovrats of the Senate, having previonsly notninated her the 0ni..0 of Sergeant id- A ruts, D 1 r. roulilian, Klein a...ldler ,e 1 ua cellent record, 1111,1 CH.I/1-. (.111111111- 1111111/111.•- ing that lie wits not it candidate tier that iel lice, did not vote for lien. Allen's amend aloud, they aftertvartls-dook the 1{101,1%1 .honators at their word, by presenting for /I .higher office the name of Lite deservingsuil • Bier so justly eulogized in the speech olden. Allen. ( course the Senators who vote, for I leneral Allen's amendment will sup port Captain l'oopor lit the polls. tsuinot afford to be incomeistotet. We tin poet to hear that the magnittffitious ItrouLte is brim-full of enthusiteun her Cooper ; that honest Esitias will insist. 1.11 Lancaster returning a majority for the Dettioeratic !candidate fur. Survertir- I - eral ; that Itulan will quarrel with Quay and tile ring rather than cast his vote against him gallant young neighbor; that Olmsted avid make the torests or h'ffiter ring with eloquent appeals to the Radicals of that region to sustain him in his einlorse• ment of the young soldier for whent he voted for Sturgeant-at-A ruts of the Senate ; and that Harry 'White will make diet teen speeches per day for the lighting lheinuieral witoen he so sincerely admired lin thu third of January last. As for I nmieral Harrison Allen, he will 100 MatiSiit'd with nothing short of stumping the whole Stale in the interest if bin former fellow-solther.--Po /riot. IZIS, August 4.—The following are Ihn parLamlars abOUt. till, 1,111 . 11.1 or Lhn I ifit Centre or Ihe National Assembly, whi.•h 11111.1, yesterday, for the pndeuguti..n .d It. ' l'heirm'pull era Its I're.,ldrnt..f - a.? Ito Tho at the Left Centre, v:1111 are nominally all moderate Republicans, welt. convened by a I ircubtr, which bore ~ .ignittlire 4,1 NI. liattibottaL mill "therm, ILI 111190.13 or shaping a policy for 11,11 party, 111111 to take 1.1,111,1 111'1111HO atii. , ll I , lleerllillg the prr,imse.l eatenmioll of M. Thiors' term of .111t•e. 'l•he uniting W:4l very harmonious. All the members spoke in praise of NI. Tidies nelministration, and recommended hint as the only man who is now papable to keep the bahmeu between all parties. 'rite mootingdocided to support M.Thiers in his policy of moderation, and toll i1,1•1111r apa the intimenvres of the legitimism and the Inonapartists. Unto Deputy submitted a [notion re , 1111 , 1- ing the government to abstain from all in.. terferenee in the Ittenant question. It was accepted. 'i'hu patients then voted, by a majority or 190 against to advocate in the National Assembly the prolongation of NI. 'Ciders' powers for three years, with the proviso, Hutt NI. 'riders nalennild I (Ur Linn ❑tle of President nit . the l• • rench liepublip, instead of ('hint of the Exeetttive, 141 heretofore. Tim meoling remol vet by the HlllllO volt, In ereato tho-ollico of Vice Prosithuil. Ilhes Provident to ho 111 the Halllo lilllo Pres bblit of the Council. It wit.~ further 111.eit1011 to ex pross naill- Jeueo in M. 'fliers, by giving him the power to 1'1100,1.1 LllO Vl.ll Prio.ll.lll ; MIL M. 'fliers alone is to Lo tespoosible h., the goverlinietit. Exeape of Convirin front the !n.../ern Penitentiary. The escape of the three negro prisoners, John Thomas, William Thoinas, and Tool Dare, from the Eastern Penitentiary, on Monday afternoon, wt. an minim,' mem of which they. may well bo proud, fur until it WILY successfully accomplished it wm not supposed possible that such a thing could be done. for three men to travel fur nearly hall' a mile through a pi. ..get of only two Met in diameter, twelve foot underground, and through disgusting filth, and with myriads of rats to oppose their progress at every foot of their advance, is something which does not occur every day, and which, perhaps, token as a whole, stands withinit parallel. Emerging front the horrible ave nue, through which they had crawled into the presence of a crowd of people, and being permitted to walk off unarrestod, is scarcely less surprising than their going through the sewer; but when it is remem bered that they reached the upper regions after dark, and were doubtless covered from head to foot with disgusting filth, it is not surprising that the spectators did not think of securing them. Besides this, who for a moment supposed it possible that three convicts of the Cherry Hill Prison weld have found exit from that supposed-t O-be perfectly secure stronghold through!, ml ordinary street-sewer? Taken as a whole, it is a wonderful adhlr—almost staggering bellef.—Philadelphia amino , Herald.
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