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This word should, probably, be wri
lea dunning or thaw, instead of our
spelling of it its the caption of this pa
per. It does not occur in the dictiona
ry, in the sense its which iL was used on
the shopboard forty years ago. J)awn
Means the first faint appearance of
morning light, and therefore a meridian
sun, would be a nearer correspcndenee
to the sense in which we use it here.
Daunt, one meaning of which Is to in
timidate, makes perhaps, a nearer ap
proximation to the tailoristic use of this
word; because, the ,Peel of a dawn.
upon an inferior workman, might be of
an intimidating character, but it is not
arbitrarily or necessarily so by any
means. A dawn or daun, then, nwant
a very superior workman, or a very ex
peditious workman ; but the shop-board
would say, a very " fast worktnatn."
At that period the greater number of
journeymen tailors who were entitled
to the appellation of damn, were great
flints, great I tanipN, and also great d
Mks. So generally was this believed to
be the case, that runic, of very inferior
abilities, absolutely contracted dissolute
habits, in order that flay might appear
to be dawns. Some jours, however,
were dawns only in a particular depart
ment of work. For instance, one would
excel in making button-holes, another
iu stitehing edges, and another in giv
ing form and solidity to a job; but in
dependent of these, there were those
who could dawn it "till through." It
is not asserting too much, perhaps, to
say, that these men did impliedly claim
immunities, privileges and indulgences
that would by no means have been ac
corded to inferior workmen ; but at the
same time many of them were exceed
ingly useful to the apprentices, or tile
younger journeymen, who were ambi
tious to excel in their profession, and
who, they ( the dawns, ) sometimes
would—for a consideration or other
wise—condescend to take `under-teach.'
They enjoyed this advantage, at least,
over their fellow-workmen, they could
always obtain employment, where their
abilities were known, if any work at all
was to be had; tend often, a medium
workman would consider himself for
tunate in having the privilege of work
ing " on the joist" with a dawn, and
would also perform the greatest amount
of the labor, to enjoy that privilege.
ISA there were some paws who were
dawns only in the matter of expedi
tious, or fast workmanship, and it was
astonishing in how much shorter time
they could " put, up " a job, than it re
quired other jours to perform the same
amount of labor. Alt hough, a// of these
did not unite proficiency in workman
ship, with the dexterity in "getting On"
with their ~work, still, a few of them
possessed both these qualities combined.
nese men could, and often would,
whil e away half the week in idleness,and
still make an ordinary week's work.
We have often thought that these men
were really tailors by nature—that they
were in the exercise of their natural
mechanical functions, and it was often
demonstrable that they were totally un•
lit for any other l,ii o in life, and
consequently, they remained anchored
to the shop-board, to the end of their
days. Asa general thing. the dawn
was no further pecuniarily advanced in
the world, than the ?twill am workman,
or even so far its some who were only
infrrior in mechanical capacity, and it
was not always manifest how thisshould
be so. It is true that some dawns were
exceedingly slow, and others exceed
ingly negligent, and unreliable in point
of punctuality ; besides, there was a
kind of dignity attached to the dawn,
which made bins presumptuous, and
therefore Ise would only make a partic
ular kind of work, and at a particular
wive, and there were some crooks who
could allbrd le employ them, amt con
silk-red them cheap, at any reason
able price ; and " in a pineh," at even
unrcallonabie prices. In our boyhood,
for instance, we heard of 011 e dawu,who
would not work on anything but blue
clot/i frock-coals, nor at any price, less
Hiatt sill (1011artland three fhippennybits.
Not he—he would rather "tramp" than
do anything less than this—it would be
lowering his dignity—cud tramp he
often did, money or no money. At that
period, however, like the present, a
great many blue frock-coats were worn,
no that he could be accommodated, in a
large town or city, to about as many as
he cared about making, for he was a
genius of that peculiar character, who
depended more upon his wit than his
work, to "get along" in the world.
When we sand that snow dawns were
presumptuons,w6 did not mean that this
was their universal, or even their gen
eral character; for, in most Instances,
they were exceedingly modest and un
pretending, for men possessing such
transcendent abilities in their profes
'sion—indeed some of them did not seem
to know that they were dawns. Not that
they could not, and did not, distinguish
between tile quality of their own work
and that of their fellow-craftsmen, but
they seemed to look upon the thing as a
matter of course, or as some thing they
could not help. Although workmen of
this character were pretty certain of al
ways nutting employment, yet the un
reliability of many of them was so great
a source of vexation and anxiety to their
employers that they were compelled to
restrict their work to that which would
' cause the least disappointment, in case
It did not "come up to time;" for dawns,
• as a general thing, had the greatest re
pugnance against the limitations of
time, in finishing their work. To "work
•
so long, and get so much," was about
the sum of their ambition—indeed, on
one occasion, we heaid a dawn declare
that the height of Ma ambition was to
obtain a situation where he could get
twentyeps dollars for making a coat, and
Tit)t XaititeOttit
VOLUME 72
board for a dollar a week. Of course the
reader will discover in this characteris
tic, that peculiar selfishness, which dis
tinguishes unregenerate human nature
everywhere, and perhaps in every de
partment or occupation in human socie
ty • and which makes it so exceedingly
difficult In governments where the peo
ple are professedly sovereign, to adjust
systems of tariff that will protect the
whole people. Men's sympathies always
run parallel with their own individual
interests, and never athwart them, In
behalf of the interests of their neigh
bors. When prices are rapidly "going
up," and men have anything to sell, how
readily do they realize this fact and act
on, it without for a moment seeming to
realize that the same rule has any ap
plication to what they may want to buy.
Therefore these selfish peculiarities did
not pertain to dawns because they were
tailors, but because they were imbued
with the aspirations of poor fallen hu
man nature.
Dawns did. in our earlier days, consti
tute a sort of " privileged order " among
tailors, who might do many things us
we have before intimated with a sort of
impunity, which would not have been
tolerated for a moment in an inferior
workman. in seine places they hail a
reputation outside of the precints of the
shopboard, and fastidious customers
would desire their garments should lie
placed in the hands of particular work
men, and would endure any number of
disappointments, in order to have them
make them.
Niany were the anecdotes, and extra
(Hilary feats of mechanism, related of
tese gilled men; some, no doubt, of
hieh, were mere myths. Our recollee
nt goes back to a then, rather famous
two--one ;ace,' rlcst'r, and subse-
imently to a Bill /,miy. It was (luring
our novitiate 111 tailoring, and therefore
we cantiot speak from what we know,
hut front what we hC(tr(1,11.11 , 1 W:LS getler
any 1..1 ieVva. Stror, ZIS " (leaf as a
post," lan possessed till the qualities of
I he (lawn hoth in Lite excellence of his
%yolk. :111,1 the celerity with which he
could eXt-4•111t• it. We remember this
too--that he 11115 addicted to his "pipe
and pot," and had the additional repu
tation or being a "hard ease." It was
said or him, by those who professed to
be competent judges, that he could, and
1111l1“1 as good a job, in every re
spect, with a common " button-needle"
and "patent thread," as any other man
of his day could with the best " six-be
tweens," and " letter A. silk ; " anti a
bthrt job, than any ordinorg workman
of his time. And this was not all—he
could make it in a shorter time. And
what, was perhaps the most remarkable,
in a man of his peculiar habits, he re
tained these qualifications to a late peri
od in life, for he was at least sixty years
of age when we saw him. From the
manner in which work was made Oita,
this was more of an achievement than
such a feat would be now; for there
were no 4ewing machines, and im proved
implements, and sewing silks, to assist
in the execution of work, as there are
110 W.
'he chieffeat of Lang, however, was
working " button-holes," both as to
le and to quality, and if anything, he
to a " harder ease" than Pfrder. Ilut
I=M=9
nil no doubt, their betters, in every re
pea, have risen in their stead.
If some dawns had not a world-wide
•eputition, at least it was State-wide, or
tended for many miles in the cities and
towns, on the line of the great thorough
fares of travel; but the fame of others
was confined to more circumscribed
districts, or perhaps, even to the towne
or cities in which they were, for the
time being, domiciliated. Not that their
fame necessarily extended to the 711(ISSCS
of the people, but mainly to the frater
nity of tailors. Among those whose
reputations were tolerably widely ex
tended about live and forty years ago,
wits a certain Jock ll'idlucc, more fa-
millnriy known as "Raw-edged Wa
lace." The way he received that peen
liar name, was related something in th'
wise. Jack was always rather "seedy'
. .
in his wardrobe, and on this occasion,
when his reputation was not yet so
widely extended as it became after•
wards, he was more than usually so.—
In this condition he "kicked for a job"
at a tailor-shop in Pittsburgh, and ob
tained one. The "crook" not exactly
comprehending his man, gave him a
lasting dress-coat to make, which Wal
lace regarded as equivalent to an insult,
for where he was known he was always
accustomed to having the best of cloth
work. lle, however, suppressed his
indignation, and took the job to the
back-shop to make it. At that period
many bummer garments were made out
of " Bombazine," " Bombazet," and
" Lasting,"—the last named material
being the same as that used by shoe
makers, for ladies' gaiters, under the
name of "Prunella,'' and by far the
most difficult to make, as dress-coats
were then made with the waists, the
cull's ' and the lappells "cut oil'," and
" patuktent-nicks" at the ends of the
collars. Of course, iu this kind of ma
terial all the edges were "turned in,"
whereas in cloth-work they were all
made "raw." But Jack made up
lasting job raw out of sheer revenge.
When it was finished he sent it to tl
front-shop and immediately "tramped
without even demanding his pay.
was said to have been the most beau
fully formed and finished job that had
ever been made in Pittsburgh ; but at
the same time, for all practical pur
poses, it was totally spoiled. The "fray
ing" or "raveling" character of lasting
is such, that it could not have borne the
ieast brushing or handling without all
the edges fraying out and parting. Front
this circumstance, he was ever after
wards known as "Itaw-edged Wallace"
_ .
mil perhaps his chiefest and most a is•
tinguishing peculiarity, was in that
name, and the notoriety which attached
to It; for, when we saw him, his fame
as an extraordinary workman was al
ready very far on the wane.
Cooper Omni, the "great tramp,"
was also at one period of his life consid
ered a grad dawn. Of him it was said,
that on application for work at a shop
in Wheeling, Va., a rough satinet
coat was given him by the proprietor.
He felt incensed, but said nothing, in
wardly resolving, however, to resent
such an insult to his tailoristic dignity
in a manner that would be felt. Ile ac
cordi ugly went to work and made up
the one half of the coat, even to the put
ting on half of the collar, producing
such a perfectspecimen of workmanship
as had never dignified satinet before,
and perhaps never since then. When
this was accomplished, and all the other
hands in the back-shop had gone to
their dinner, he took three tliq-loaded,
large iron nails, and with it hammer
drove them through the breast and col
lar of the half-coat he had made, into
the shop-board, up to the very head, and
clinched them beneath, and then pre
cipitately " tramped." When the half
coat was, with great difficulty extricat
ed, no journeyman could be found to
make up the other half in a like man
ner.
It is said of Salter, the great English
dawn, who flourished In the city of Bal
timore before arid after the war of 181 . 2.,
that a certain employer in a country
town in England, gave him a pair of
breeches to make by a certain time, for
some noble lord ar duke, who was to at
tend a ball, saying rather roughly,
"There, make a pair of bellows, or
tramp." In true" glass "style,
Slitter did make up the breeches in the
form of a pair of bellows with two necks,
then handing them to the " call boy,"
told Lim to tell his master that he might
add the nozzles himself. When the
crook, with a bailiff, reached the back
shop, in a high state of rage, Slater had
tramped.
When Kurtz, the Philadelphia (lawn,
of about the same period, applied to the
celebrated Churky Watson for a job, he
gave :him a; bombazett dress-coat to
make, somewhat reluctantly too. Born
bazett having both sides of the goods
alike, Kurtz took advantage of this, and
made up the two halves of the coat for
the same side of the customer, and then
precipitately took his departure, leav
ing his chagrined employer totally una
ble to find a journeyman who could
make two corresponding halves for the
other side,
of the same workmanship,
out of such material.
These, and a hundred other stories,
which were current and familiar to the
shopboard long years ago, may be as
mythical as the history of an 0 wlglass
or a Munchausen, and equally as hyper
bolical ; still, they were believed in by
the novitiates in the craft, and consti
tuted a part of the traditional literature
of the back-shop. But dawns of work
men were not wanting among the fra
ternity of tailors, at any period of its
historyand independently of the increase
of population, we believe we have as
many of them now, as we had in times
gone by ; none of whom perhaps would
attempt the pranks of their presumed
ancestry. It does not follow, necessari
]y, that a dawn is a dissolute or disor
derly character, any more than it does
that every one of this character is neces
sarily a dawn.
The term dawn was sometimes used
in the opposite sense. For instance,
very inferior workmen as wall as infe
rior and poor paying jobs, were called
" crabs ;" and therefore,
.the meanest
among these were ironically called
dawns—that is, dawns among crabs, for
the term meant that which was ex
tremely bad, as well as that which was
extremely good. That very superior
workmen should be presented with
very Inferior work, where their artistic
qualities are not known, is not at all
surprising' for many a crook has been
pained by having his work spoiled,
through an excess of confidence in
,lours,
merely because they were trampers or
" hard cases." Nor is it at all surpris
ing, on the paler hand, that a workman
of real excellence should feel offended
when in ferior'work is given him. These
men generally knota-their powers, and
by comparison, have a better knowl
edge of what their labor is worth, than
many of those who exercise the func
tions of a crook, and who may really be
no tailors at all.
We have seen dawns who were timid
and exceedingly modest of their abili
ties, seeming to be unconscious that
they were such superior workmen,—
like a coy and modest woman, all un
conscious of her own beauty. But there
are, perhaps, more of them of the oppo
site character—men who " prill" over
their own work, and exercise a rigid
criticism on everything that fulls below
their own standards, even to a pair of
" blue drill over-ails," or a " green
baize m o nkey-jacket."
Perhaps nothini , has broken In more
upon the status of the ancient dawn,
than the introduction of iinproved nettl
ing ntae/titres , and by which a medium
workman may produce errects that
equal those of the dawns of the olden
times. Nevertheless, there is a certain
something—a certain "life,'' as it is
called—which a genuine (lawn can im
part to a coat, which no sewing ma
chine that has yet been invented and
manipulated' by the best operator, can
impart, and we think, never will be
able to impart. It is said, for instance,
that sewing machines have a felling at
tachment, and the ability to jell, with
some machines, is boastingly placarded
ill newspapers, on imposing band-bills,
and on rocks and fences everywhere.
This is all a mistake, if not a willful
misrepresentation, for no sewing-ma
chine that was ever made can Jell in the
original sense of that term ; simply be
cause it nuts( do "th rough-and-through"
work, if it works at all. Now trod ell
ing is not by any means" through-: ti
through work. In (dung, except in
felling and " dimpieing," the stitch
ought never to be seen on, or even
reach, the opposite side. The needle is
set in, and when the point gets about
half-way through the cloth, it is sud
denly turned up and drawn out on the
same side—a mere sewing of one part to
the surface of• another part, without
passing through. Can a & wing-inachinc
unless endowed with human genius do
such a thing? We trow not. What-.
ever such an endowment may be worth,
it is one that belongs peculiarly to the
human species, and is bound to be con
fined to that species, until the advent of
a " ctleslial dawn." We have digressed
so far from our main subject that we
despair of getting back again, and there
fore we may as well here conclude our
paper on" dawns and dawning."
GRANTELLus.
The Wife of Socrates
Socrates was undoubtedly a great
philosopher, a deep thinker, a man of
huge intellect, of purity, integrity of
purpose, and unselfishness beyond most
others;
of unflinching honesty, spend
ing and being spent for the cause of
truth and virtue. But, on the other
hand, he had many qualities which
women are not apt to admire in hus
bands. Ile was certainly ugly, and has
himself drawn a comical picture of his
own defects. Praising the beauty of
utility lie declares that his prominent
eyes are beautiful, because they enable
him to see sideways as well as straight
in front; his nose is beautiful, because
the upturned nostrils inhale odors from
all sides, while noobtrusive bridge shuts
from one eye the sight of the other ; his
vast mouth is beautiful, because adapted
for biting large morsels, while front his
thick lips may be expected soft and
abundant kisses. Through these out
ward tokens of his humanity, Xan-
thippc may be excused for not discern
ing in their plenitude the inward
and spiritual gifts of the philosopher.
While gorgeous sophists iu their flow
ing robes, were followed by crowds
of eager listeners, the poor and humbly
clad Socrates was treated with ineffable
contempt. He was rude and ungainly
in his movements ; unlike all respect
able citizens in his habits. Barefoot, he
wandered about the streets of Athens,
absorbed in thought; sometimes he
stood still for hours, fixed in meditation
Every day he strolled into the market
place and disputed with all who were
willing. In appearance he resembled a
Silenus. llis flattened nose, with wide
and up-turned nostrils, his projecting
eyeballs, his thick and sensual lips,
his squab figure and unwieldy belly,
were all points upon which ridicule
night fasten.
Surely such a husband must have
seen a trial to the most exemplary of
And his works and ways were
still more provoking than the grotesque
surprises of his person. For a passion
ate woman, how frightful an ordeal to
have a morally and physically bespat
tered and besprinkled husband say, with
Victor-Hugonian terseness, " After the
thunder, the rain!" Or conceive the
horror of a husband who might, after
you have been irritated by a long dis
cussion. address you thus: " The re
sult which I have acquired from my
conversation with you is that lam wiser
than you, for neither you nor I know
anything of what is truly good and hon
orable; but the difference between us is,
that you fancy you know them while
I :on fully conscious of my own igno
rance; I am, therefore, wiser than you,
inasmuch as I stn exempt from the capi
tal error."
Or could a wife be content to have for
a husband such a social nuisance as a
man who could defend himself by say
ing, " In this research and scrutiny I
have been long engaged, and am still
- - -
engaged. I interrogate every man o ,
reputation. I prove him to be defective
in wisdom; but I cannot prove it so as
to make himself sensible of the defect."
Surely ton wife, as to the Athenian pub- ;
lie, Socrates must have seemed an "im
possible person." A person, agnin,who
could address one thus : "My mission
as your monitor is a mark of the special
favor of the god to you ; and, if you con
demn rue, it will be your loss, for you
will find no other such. Perhaps you
will ask me, Why cannot you go away
Socrates, and let me live in peace
This is the hardest of all questions for
are to answer to your satisfaction. If I
tell you that silence on my part would
be disobedience to the god, you would
think me in jest, and not believe me.
You will believe me still less if I tell
you the greatest blessing which can
happen to you Is to carry on discussions
every day about:virtue, and those other
matters which you hear me canvassing
when I cross-examine myself as well as
others, and that life 'without such ex
amination is no life at all. Neverthe
less, so stands the fact, incredible as it
may seem to you." An impracticable
man evidently, and ode who no woman
could pardon, should the story prove
true that he and tianthippe had but one
dress between them, so that only one
could leave the house at a time.
But there is still another ground, a
delicate ground of accusation, which
Xanthippe might have brought against
Socrates. Socrates' intimacy with. As
pasta might well have offended the most
inexacting of wives. Plutarch tells us,
for example, that "though the acquaint
ances of Aspasia took their wives to hear
her converse, the business which sup
ported her was neither decent nor hon
orable, for she kept a number of courte
sans in her house. Or, again, even a
reasonable wife might be suspicious of a
man who went to persuade himself by
the sight of his own eyes whether the
beauty of Theonote, a courtesan, who
sat as a model to artists, and with whom
he engaged in a long discourse on the
value of friends and the best method to
gain them, was really beyond the power
of words to describe.
Western journals report that twenty
three persons in the State of lowa alone
have suffered an involuntary amputa
tion of their limbs this season, in using
reaping machines,
LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING AUGUST 16, 1871.
Mark Twain Tells AU About Them,
Mark Twain has the following excel
lent article " About Barbers" in the
August number of the Galaxy:
All things change except barbers, the
ways of the barbers, and the surround-'
ings of barbers. These never change.—
What one experiences in a barber shop
the first time he enters one, is what he
always experiences in barber shops af
terward till the end of his days. I got
shaved this morning as usual. A man
approached from Jones street as I ap
proached it from Main—a thing that al
ways happens. I hurried up, but It was
of no use, he entered the door one little
step ahead of me, and I followed in on
Iris heels and saw him take the only
vacant chair, the one presided over by
the best barber. It always happens so.
I sat down, hoping that I might fall
heir to the chair belonging to the better
of the remaining two barbers, for he
had already begun combing the man's
hair, while his comrade was not yet
quite done rubbing up and oiling his
customer's locks. I watched the prob
abilities with strong interest. When
I saw that No. 2 was gaining on No. 1,
my interest grew to solicitude. When
No. 1 stopped a moment to make change
on a bath ticket for a new comer, and
lost ground in the race, my solicitude
rose to anxiety. When No. 1 caught
up again, and both he and his comrade
were pulling the towels away and
brushing the powder from their custom
er's cheeks, and it was about an even
thing which one would say "next!"
first, my very breath stood still with the
suspense.
But when, at the final culminating
moment, No. 1 stopped to pass a comb a
couple of times through his customer's
eyebrows, I saw that he had lost the
race by a single instant, and I rose in
dignant and quitted the shop to keep
from falling into the handg of No. 2;
for I have none of that enviable firm
ness that enables a man to look calmly
into the eyes of a wailing barber and
tell him lie will wait for his fellow-bar
ber's chair. I stayed out fifteen minutes
and then went back hoping for better
luck. Of course all the chairs were oc
cupied now, and four men sat waiting,
silent, unsociable, distraught and look
ing bored, as men always do who are
waiting their turn iu a barber's shop.—
I sat down in one of the iron-armed
compartments of an old sofa, and put in
the time for a while reading the framed
advertisements of all sorts of quack nos
trums for dyeing and coloring the hair.
Then I read the greasy names on the
private bay ruin bottles; read the
names and noted the numbers on the
private shaving cups in the pigeon
holes ; studied the stained and dam
aged cheap prints on the walls, of bat
tles, early presidents and voluptu
ous, recumbent sultanas, and the tire
some and everlasting young girl put
ting her grandfather's spectacles on ;
execrated in my heart the cheerful ca
nary and the distracting parrot that few
barber shops are without. Finally, I
searched out the least dilapidated of the
last year's illustrated papers that litter
ed the foul centre table, and conned
their unjustifiable misrepresentations of
old forgotten events. It last my turn
came. A voice said "next," and I sur
rendered to—No. 2of course. It always
happens so. I said meekly that I was
in a hurry, and it affected him as strong
:ly as if he had never heard it. He
shoved up my head and put a napkin
under it. He ploughed his fingers into
my collar and fixed a towel there. He
explored my hair with his claws and
suggested that it needed trimming. I
said I did not want it trimmed. Ile ex
plored again and said it was pretty long
for the present style—better have a
little taken off; it needed It behind,
especially. I said I had it cut only
a week before. He yearned over
it reflectively a moment, and then
asked, with a disparaging manner,
who cut it. I came back to him prompt
ly with a "You did!" I had him
there. Then he fell to stirring up his
lather and regarding himself in the
looking glass, stopping now and then
to get close and examine his chin criti
cally or torture a pimple. Then lie
lathered one side of my face thoroughly
and was about to lather theother, when
a dog fight attracted his attention, and
lie ran to the window and stayed and
saw it out, losing two shillings on the
result in bets with the other barbers, a
thing which gave me great satisfaction.
He finished lathering, meantime get
ting the brush into my mouth only
twice, and then began to rub in the
suds with his hand ; and as he now
had his head turned, ;discussing the
dog fight with the other barbers,
he naturally shoveled considerable
lather into my mouth without know
ing it, but I did. He now began
to sharpen his razor on an old suspen
der, and was delayed a good deal on ac
count of aeon troversy about a cheap mas
querade ball he had figured at the night
before, in red cambric and bogus ermine
as some kind of a king. He was so grat
ified with being chaffed about some
damsel who he had smitten with his
charms that he used every means to con
tinue the controversy by pretending to
be annoyed at the chaffings of his fel
lows. This matter begot more survey
ing of himself in the glass, and he put
down his razor and brushed his hair
with elaborate care, plastering an invert
ed arch of it down on his forehead, ac
complising an accurate "part" behind,
and brushing the two wings forward
over his ears with nice exactness. In
the meantime the lather was drying on
my face, and apparently eating into my
vitals. Now lie began to shave, digging
his fingers into my countenance to
stretch the skin, making a handle of my
nose now and then, bundling and tum
bling my head this way and that as con
venience in shaving - demanded, and
"hawing" and expectorating pleasantly
all the while. As long as he was on the
tough sides of my face I did not suffer ;
but when he began to rake and rip and
tug at my chin the tears came. I did
not mind his getting so close down to
are; I did not mind his garlic, because
all barbers eat garlic I suppose; but
there was an added something that
made me fear that he was decaying in
wardly while still alive and this gave
me much concern. He now put his
fingers into my mouth to assist him iu
shavingthe corners of my upper lip, and
it was by this bit of circumstantial evi
dence that I discovered that a part of
his duties in the shop was to clean the
kerosene lamps. I had often wondered
in an indolent way whether the barber
did that or whether it was the boss.—
About this time I was amusing myself
trying to guess where he would be most
likely to cut me this time, but he got
ahead of nie and sliced me on the end
of the chin before I had got my mind
made up. He immediately sharpened
his razor—he might have done it before.
I do out like a close shave and I would
not let him go over me a second time.
I tried to get him to put up his razor,
dreading that he would make for the
side of my chin, my pet tender spot, a
place which a razor cannot touch twice
without making trouble. But lie said
he only wanted to just smooth oil one
little roughness, and In that same mo
ment he slipped his razor along the for
bidden ground, and the dreaded pimple
signs of a close shave rose up smarting
and answering to the call. Now he
soaked his towel In bay rum, and
slapped it all over my face nastily ; slap
ped It over as if a human being ever yet
washed his face in that way. Then he
dried it up slapping with the dry part of
the towel, as if a human being ever dried
his face in such a fashion; but a bar
ber seldom rubs you like a christlan.
Next he poked bay rum into the cut
place with his towel, then choked the
wound with powdered starch, then
soaked it with bay rum again, and
would have gone on soaking and pow
dering it for evermore, no doubt, if Iliad
not rebelled and begged of He pow
dered my whole face now, straightened
me up and began to plough my hair
thoughtfully with his hands and ex
amined his fingers critically. Then
he suggested a shampoo, and said my
hair needed it badly, very badly. I ob
served that 1 had shampooed it myself
very thoroughly in the bath yesterday.
I "had him" again. He next recom
mended some of " Smith's Hair Glori
fier," and offered to sell me a bottle. I
declined. He praised the new perfume,
" Jones' delight of the Toilet," and pro
posed to sell me some of that. I de
clined again. He tendered me tooth
wash atrocity of his own invention,
and when I declined offered to trade
• knives with me. He returned to
business after the miscarriage of this
last enterprise, sprinkled me all over,
• legs and all, greased my hair in
defiance to my protests against it, rub
• bed and scrubbed a good deal of it out
; by the roots, and combed and brushed
• the rest, parting it behind and plaster-
lug the eternal invented arch of hair
down on my forehead, and then, while
combing my scant eyebrows and defil
ing them with pomade, strung out an
account of the achievement of a six
ounce black-and-tan terrier of his till I
heard the whistle blow for noon, and I
knew I was five minutes too late for
the train. Then he snatched away the
towel, brushed it lightly about my face,
passed his comb through my eye-brows
once more, and gaily sung out "Next !"
This barber fell down and died of anpo
plexy two hours later. lam waiting
over a day for my revenge—l am going
to attend his funeral.
NAM Trip over Lake Michigan
Prof. Steiner, who made a balloon as
cension iu Milwaukee on the 4th, and
passed over Lake Michigan, gives an
account of his trip, which is published
in the Milwaukee News, in the follow
ing shape:
At quarter past six the ascent was
made, the balloon going north of the
Cathedral, clearing the steeple by about
fifty feet. In fifteen minutes an eleva
tion of 5,000 feet was gained, when the
ascent became more gradual. At this
time the balloon wag some two miles
out over the lake. Here a most mag
nificent view was spread out beneath
the delighted eye of the intrepid voyag-
er.
The coast was visible for fifty miles
in either direction ; all the villages and
lakes in the interior were spread out be
hind him, while before him the vast ex
panse of the lake stretched away till the
horizon terminated the view. The
thermometer indicated a temperature of
forty degrees. The current in which
the journey was begun Witik of the ra
pidity of about thirty miles an hour.
'Phis held good for some thirty miles
when the barometer showed an eleva
tion of 10,000 feet. At this point, and
at this tremendous height, both shores
of the lake were visible for 100 miles in
either direction. The sun was fast
sinking in the west, and the view was
beautiful in the extreme.
Here, for over au hour, at an eleva
tion of 12,000 feet, the current, which
had been carrying the balloon to a little
south of Grand Haven, died out, and the
balloon was completely becalmed, not
moving a mile iu that time. Forty
eight vessels were counted moving in all
directions. The stillness was most in
tense. The Professor says that in all
his experience he never before had re
alized such perfect quiet. Not wishing
to remain all night over the lake, a de
scent to an elevation of some 5,000 feet
was made, With the view of continuing
it to the water and being picked up by
some vessel incase no current was found,
the car of the balloon being a complete
life-preserver. At the height mention
ed a current to the south-southeast was
struck, blowing about thirty miles an
hour, and here the professor determined
to remain, as it would carry him near
St. Joseph, Michigan. In this current
the journey proceeded for about an hour,
when the sun went down and the earth
was shrouded in darkness. There was
now no longer ahy object to be seen with
which to compare the motion of the bal
loon and gauge its rapidity.
In such a place, at such a time, the
sensations experienced are most partic
ular. Professor Steiner says that lone
liness is no name for the feeling that
came over him. Beneath him was the
black void, overhead the stars came out
one by one, and twinkled merrily in
the vaulted sky. Toward the south a
thunder-storm was seen passing over
Chicago. At last the moon rose in great
beauty, adding new grandeur to the
Scene. The sight is said to have been
one of the most splendid that can be
conceived. At this time (9 o'clock) the
balloon was 8,000 feet above the lake,
some twenty-five miles from the Michi
gan shore. By the light of the moon
the aspect of the country was plain
ly visible. Here a brisk westerly wind
was encountered, which carried the
Professor in an east southeast direction
at the rate of fifty miles all hour. Soon
the Michigan shore was reached, but
not finding a good place to laud the
journey was continued. Lights are seen;
rockets asonded now and then ; can
non was heard, anti occasionally a vil
lage was indistinctly seen. About 10
o'clock a railroad train was heard thun
dering along, and presently the head
light of the locomotive was seen flash
ing among the woods. The balloon
was now going east very fast. It was
quite cold, the thermometer showing
31 degrees. The Professor bundled up
in his cloak and began to feel very
sleepy. At length lie concluded he
wou Id alight,as he was over a finefarming
country, where he could make a good de
scent. The valve rope was pulled, and
down the balloon went till comparative
ly near the ground. Here fiddling and
merry voices were heard, and the tero
naut thought this would be a good place
to stop. So, at a little after ten o'clock
the anchor was thrown out, and, after
tearing up a fence, it held on to a good
bottom, and down came the air-ship its
a clover-field, beside a road leading to
Mattawan, a station on the Michigan
Central Railroad, twelve miles this side
of Kalamazoo. The descent was accom
plished most successfully, and once safe
ly landed, the Professor heard a wagon
going past, and called for help, when a
number of young men came to his aid.
They were greatly astonished at what
they saw, and still more so when told
that the stranger they beheld came from
Milwaukee direct, by the overland route,
ever before traveled by mortal mall.
A Romance Courtship
A student who had completed his
studies and was commencing his pro
fessional life under very favorable auspi
ces, was on his way home late in the
autumn to make a little visit to the pa
ternal roof. It was in old times, when
the only mode of conveyance for travel
lers was the stage-coach. Among his
fellow-passengers in the coach was a
young lady of very agreeable person and
manners, who first attracted his notice
by her kind consideration for an old
woman, who was assisted into the
coach at the way-side inn. In the course
of the day the gentleman became pretty
well acquainted with the young lady,
whose name he ascertaineti was Mary
NV—. He began to feel a strobg interest
in her, and it would seem front the re
sult that the interest was in some degree
reciprocal. In the course of the conver
sation that they held together in the
stage, and also walking up certain long
hills, where such of the passengers as
were so disposed got out to relieve the
horses, they learned mutually many par
ticulars of each other's parentage and
history, so thatas the day passed on they
began to feel somewhat like old friends.
During the afternoon a rain-storm
came on. The road became wet and
heavy, and the progress was made slow.
The sky was overcast, and darkness su
pervened at an early hour, while the
stage was yet several miles from the vil
lage where it was to stop. As the
wheels went on plowing . through the
mud and ruts, the passengers becatno
uneasy, fur the driver hat no lighbs.
The young lady, however, evinced so
much calmness and composure as great
ly to increase the interest which the
student felt for her. The danger was
real, as the event proved, for Just as the
coach reached the top of the hill the
wheels on one side went off' the edge of
the road Into adltch and the coach over
turned. .
The [Auden t called out to the passen
gers to Ile still as possible, so as to get
out quietly, one by one, from the open
ings in the side of the coach which was
uppermost. He was himself near the
door on that side, and was the first to es•
cape. He then assisted the others by
feeling, for it was so utterly dark that
nothing could be seen. The young lady
came next but one. The road was so wet
and muddy, he said, that she could not
step in it, and she must let him carry
her to the bank on the side. She con
sented.
So he took her in his arms and began
to carry her across the muddy road,
feeling his way in the utter darkness,
made more intense by the trees of the
forest that bordered the road. She
yielded herself so readily to his grasp,
and reclined her head so confidingly .
upon his shoulder, that he was encour
aged to whisper in her ear, " Mary, are
you engaged to be married?" She an
swered " No." " Are you willing to be
my wife?" She answered " Yes." He
sealed the promise with the usual little
ceremony, and then placed his prize on
a flat stone by the road-side, the white
surface of which reflected the sky suffi
ciently to make its form just visible, t
after which he went back to assist the
other passengers.
They were married and the lady
afterward told her friends that she
always had the most agreeable anode.;
tions with the idea of the upsetting of 'ts'
stage-coach, though they could not
imagine why.
sittettigicr(?et.
Dollinger Interviewed
Ilts Views and Position
A World correspondent claims to have
had an interview with Rev. Dr. Doll ing
er. From his report we make these ex-
tracts :
I ventured to remark that there was a
very general belief that these " little
Protestant sects" were about to be in
creased by one more, at the head of
which would be Dr. Dollinger.
"No," said he, with earnestness; "be
lieve me," It is not so. They call me
'the new Luther.' Heaven forbid !
have no ambition to play the part of
Luther ; there is no Catherine Bora who
is luring me away. am excommunica
ted, it is true; but I am not a schismatic.
And pray, clearly understand that I have
and can have no sympathy whatever
with the errors of Protestantism. I have
spent most of my life in combating these
error4and I am annoyed now to tied
that lerotestant clergymen and theo
logians imagine that I am in sympathy
with them, or have changed my opin
ions. Do they forget my 'Doctrine de
l'Eucharistie dana lee Trois Premiers
Siecles,' my work on the interior de
velopment and the effects of the Lu
theran schism, and my sketch of Lu
ther? Ah, sir, I see clearly enough
that the sudden notoriety which has
been given to my humble name arises,
not from sympathy with my desire to
preserve the Holy Catholic Church
from what I think is au error, but from
hatred to her, and a desire to bring
about her destruction. Vain desire; for
she is built upon a rock and the gates
of hell shall not prevail against her!"
"But," said I, "is it not probable that
the opposition of yourself and your ad
herents—for already you have adher
ents—to the doema of the personal in
fallibility of the Pope will bring about a
schism •."
There is no question of a schism at
present," replied Dr. Dollinger, "nor
need there be one. To make a schism
there must be two parties—one desiring
to separate itself from the community,
the other wishing to exclude their ad- '
versaries. Doubtless there is now a party
which wishes to exclude us, but we have
neither the intention nor the wish to
separate ourselves from the Catholic
Church. We are like the nun Saurin,
who, in England, some months ago,
brought her plea before the courts,
not to be released from her convent,
but to be protected against those who
sought to expel her. We wish to re
main in the church as a lump of liberal
leaven until we leaven the whole, and
we wish to do this without abandoning
any of our rights. A schism in the Cath
olic Church is not so easy as it is in the
little communions of the Protestants,
who separate the one from the other on
little points of doctrine or opinion, and
who then re-unite themselves as easily.
No! I repeat again, we are Catholics,
and we wish and intend to remain so.
Perhaps we shall repeat the example of
the Jansenists, who never accepted the
bull onigenilas but who, for all the rest
remained Cat h olics; or of the dissi
dents of the excommunicated Utrecht
school, who were treated tis heretics,
but who rested nevertheless in the Los
om of the church."
- -
I asked Dr. Dollinger if there was an
organized party of which he was the
head, or whether the opponents of in
fallibility were acting without concert
with each other?
" There," replied he, " you touch a
very important point, and one which
1 should be glad to have well under
stood. When I speak, I express only
njS , own sentiments. But it is evident
that there is a large body of people who
adhere to this movement who have
nothing in common with me. I con
stantly receive letters and addresses
signed by Atheists, by Israelites and by
Protestants, and to all these it is evident
that the interior character of the move.
ment which I have set on foot has not
the slightest interest. They wish to at
tack and overthrow the Catholic relig
ion ; I, devoted to that religion, seek
only to save it from what seems to be an
error. Nevertheless, throughout all the
World there is a hatred of ultramontan
ism and a recognition of the necessity
of erecting abarrier against the doctrine
of the personal infallibility of the Pope.
If all who share this sentiment were ac
tuated by my opinions I could welcome
them as allies; but as the great major
ity of them are inspired by nothing
better than a hatred of all Christianity 1
can have no association with them. It
is certainly to be feared that the reform
inside the Church will be forgotten and
overwhelmed in the attack made upon
the Church front without. I confess that
one who takes issues with the Church,
animated by the best of motives, treads
on dangerous ground. In my case, I
plant myself upon the position that I
am not in conflict with the true mind of
the Church, and that the Council did
not express truly, in the dogma of
the 2Sth of July, the mind of the
Church. The truth is iu the bosom
'of the Church ; we must believe
that, or we go adrift at once. I
say to you that it is certain tl,iat when
dissidents pass beyond limits' that are
perhaps not well known, :they fall into
the abyss, into nihilism. We have seen
too many proofs of this. And I confess
that while, in all the addresses I receive
I easily find the negation, the denial of
the dogma of infallibility, I look in
vain, among elements so diverse, for au
affirmative agreement. But all we de
sire are tentative measures; provisional
measures for repelling the dogma, and
for maintaining the just rights of the
civil power, which this dogma, i n our
opinion, invades.
In the course of the conversation Dr.
Dollinger repeated, over and over again,
that he did not wish for a separation of
Church and State, and that he did not
think such a separation in Bavaria
would be possible. Said he :
" Here the church is very powerful,
and the peoplealwostuuiversally regard
as indispensable a close union of the
schools, which are State institutions,
with the Church. Ido not say they are
right or wrong—l state the fact."
The Ex-Emperor's Intrigue with Mar
guerite Hellanger
The following editorial from the Lon
don Tinies, on an incident in the pri
vate life of the ex-Emperor Napoleon,
elicited a denial from the ex-Ernpres.s
Eugenie that she ever contemplated
divorce, as alleged therein:
'l`owarti the latter end of November,
ISW, the Empress Eugenie startled the
friends and enemies of the Bonaparte
dynasty by a private visit to this coun
try. Although the Emperor, made
aware of her resolution at the eleventh
hour, so far saved appearances as to be
"just in time" to see her ofrat the North
ern Railway terminus, and although it
was given out that the Empress' journey
had no other object than to spend a few
days with her former governess in Scot
land, still there was something so sud
den and clandestine in her departure
and in her style of travelling that It
could not fail at the time to give rise to
every variety of report and conjecture.
The members of the French Embassy
in London, whom the telegraph ac
quainted with the Empress' move
ments, attended at an early hour to re
ceive their sovereign's consort at any of
the stations at which she might be ex
pected to arrive. Somehow, the au
gust traveller contrived to escape their
attentions, and drove unrecognized,
and accompanied only by one gen
tleman and two ladles of her suite, to
Caldridge's Hotel, whence, after a quiet
saunter In Regent street, she proceeded
by rail to Scotland, and was next heard
of at Edinburgh, at Glasgow, and on
the track of Summer tourists in the
Highlands. After a three weeks' stay,
and a private visit to the Queen at Wind
sor, she re-appeared at the Tuileries.
One explanation ascribed the Imperial
lady's visit to grief for the death of her
sister, the Duchess of Alva ; another to
a passing fit of harmless eccentricity;
another to a longing, natural in one not
born in the • purple, to withdraw, for
however short a period, from the weary
monotony of her lofty station. But
none of these seemed sufficient, and
the supposition which obtained most
public favor was that the flight of the
Empress was the result of some storm
in the Imperial household; and, as
Eugenie was extremely devout, and at
that moment the Emperor had just
openly countenanced the Italian inva
sion of the Marches and Umbria, and
was endeavoring to prevail on the Pope
to consent to the loss of those provinces,
it was surmised that husband and wife
had quarreled about the Roman ques
tion. But there were, besides, shrewder
newsmongers, who asserted that jeal
ousy was at the bottom of the Imperial
disagreement; that the Empress had
taken umbrage at some indiscretion of
her lord the Emperor, and had vowed
not to go back to him unless the cause
of the offence was removed.
Whatever mystery might yet have
hung upon that now almost forgotten
episode in a wedded life which has been
otherwise singularly free from domes
tic clouds, has been unveiled by the sen
tence pronounced by the French Court
of Cessation in favor of M. Devienne,
the late first President of the Court of
Paris. It seems now certain that the
Emperor bad really, some time before
that short breach of his domestic peace,
succumbed to the fascinations of a
young lady whose beauty was the theme
of much conversation in the Paris
world, and that the displeasure of the
Empress was caused by the reports
which reached her of the degree of inti
macy existing between this lady and
the Emperor, and of the consequences
the connection had entailed, which
could hardly fail to lead to some scan
dalous exposure. The happiness of the
wife and the safety of the husband re
quired something more than the re
moval of the rival. It was necessary to
obtain from her a retraction of the as
sertions upon which she founded her
claims, and upon the strength of which
she threatened to bring the Emperor
before a court of law. The Empress,
generously giving up all idea of a di
vorce, and consenting to a reconcilia
tion with her erring husband, exerted
herself to extort from her rival a decla
ration to the effect that she had deceived
the Emperor, and that their intercourse
had no such results as she had led him
to believe.
We do not think that, out of France
at least, people will greatly concern
themselves about the part played by the
Chief President of the Imperial Court
in this delicate transaction. All the in
terest concentrates itself on one point,
and that is the wholesome fear the Em
peror Napoleon entertained us to the
consequences of , his indiscretion. Be was
at that time at the hei g ht. of his popu
larity, for his Lombard campaign had
won him the applause even of his ene
mies, while the annexation of Savoy
and Nice had reconciled to him the ad
vocates of a more strictly national poli
cy. But a law-suit such as his culpable
attachment so nearly involved him in,
teas more than, even in all his might,
he would have ventured to face. His
wife, though placable to the fault,would
have been inexorable to the expo
sure, and peace could hardly have been
made until a means had been found to
hush up the scandal. The Emperor's
prospects for himself and his dynasty
would have lost much of their bright
ness, and the nation which had condon
ed the coup d'etat and accepted personal
rule, would have murmured at domestic
rregularities to which, generally, socie
ty shows only too much indulgence, but
which the high rank of the ()Wender
would not have allowed it to Ignore. In
our age, when we place kings and
princes above us, we expect them to be
the best among us ; and if they actually
are not what we would have them, we
insist, at least, on their seeming to lu
so.
Scenes In Africa
An Aron I'lllr—A Wonderful Ciorn,--My4
terles of Robyn , rlean
Amusements.
In reviewing a recent volume from
the pen of Lieutenant-Colonel C. S.
Vereker, the London Examiner says:
"After remaining for a time in Al
giers, visiting the palaces, the monas
teries, the ruins and the chief 'show
places of the city and its vicinity, Colo
nel Vereker set oil for the interior. On
his way he was fortunate enough to wit
ness the celebrated Fair at Boulfarik,
which is frequented by the wild Berber
and Arab tribes from the mountains.—
There he saw Kabyles in great numbers
selling olive oil out of wild boar skins,
Arabs with their sheep and herds, and
Moabites and Jews offering for safe all
description of merchandise. At Blida,
beautifully situated at the foot of the
Atlas range, the scenery begins to be
romantic and picturesque. The lofty
mountains in the background are cov
ered with immense forests,
while here
and there Kabyle corn-fields peep thro'
the vistas; from the heights pour
pown sparkling streams, " which feed
the fountains anti irrig ate the groves [of
oranges anti lemons for which Blida is
celebrated." From this charming place
our author rattled off in the diligence,
drawn by eight-in-hand, and soon
reached the steep ascents of the Clint
Pass. This wonderful gorge, cutting the
Atlas range in two, deserves its name
of " one of the wonders of Africa."—
The pass is twenty-five tidies in length,
and the precipices are covered with lux
uriant maiden-hair fern, lichens, and
long weeping grasses. " Rock swallows
skim sportively about the crags, while
eagles, kites, falcons, buzzards, and rav
ens soar aloft in the azure sky, and the
tame black and blue thrushes dip along
from spray to spray, as if to keep the
traveller company." But it is not until
the Ruisseau des Singes is passed that
the finest scenery commences—" truly
grand, and more Alpine titan Pyrenne
an," as Tristram enthusiastically de
scribes it.
" Soon after passing the heights of
Mouzaia, the traveller reaches Boghar,
a town perched on au eminence above
the valley of the Client', and command•
ing the northern portion of the Sahara.
It is situated in the territory of the
Oulad Auteur, who, although moun
taineers, disclaim the appellation of
Berber's (iietulians or Kabyles, and
boast that their ancestors came from the
East with Autar, a renowned chieftain
whose heroic deeds are perpetuated in
Arabic poems. It is a curious fact, too,
as General Baumas has pointed out, that
the more the mysteries of Kabyle life
and society are explained, the more
traces do we find of the ancient Chris
tianity of the Roman era among the de
scendants of the Berbers. Thus, in
many of their usages and customs, they
differ materially from the precepts of
the Koran, more especially in the laws
relating to theft and murder. The Ka
byles, unlike other Mussulmans, do not
regard the Koran as the only complete
and universal code, but observe, besides,
certain particular statutes,called canons,
which they trace to a pre-Saracenic pe
riod, before the religion of Mahoniet was
forced upon them.
After wandering for a time on the
Atlas Mountains, indulging in boar
hunting andpther African ion ustime tits,
Colonel Vereker found his way to Con
stantine, the ancient Orta, a city in
teresting both for its ancient associa
tions and for Rs extraord I nary situation.
Founded by the Phomiciiins, some time
the capital of Syphax, the birthplace of
Massinissa and .1 ugurtha, afterwards
the residence of Juba, destroyed in the
year 311, and rebuilt by the Emperor
Constantine, it is perhaps historically
the most important of all the cities of
Africa. It stands on a rocky promon
tory surrounded by trdmendous precip
ices, except at ,the dorsal ridge where
the Mile grates stand. It is said to have
undergone forty-eight sieges, and it was
before the invention of artillery, proba
bly the strongest city in the world.
The city itself, however, Is intersected
by narrow streets, and the houses are
low and filthy. One Arab writer de
scribes it as " the city in the air," while
another compares it to " a beautiful
woman reclining, clothed In rags."
The Roman ruins in the neighborhood
are very remarkable, more especially
the lofty arches of the aqueduct built
by the Emperor Justinian.
Colonel Vereker visited Tunis and the
ruins of Carthage on his way back to
Europe. Although he allows that the
country generally looks civilized and
well-cultivated, he protests against the
disgraceful way in which it is governed.
Even in the city of Tunis it is danger
ous to go abroad at night. Nearly every
one carries a lantern and a revolver,
though it is sometimes dangerous to
show a pistol, as a stranger may be mur
dered by a native in order to obtain
possession of the weapon. Among the
curiosities which our traveller saw at
Tunis were the camel-butcher's shops
and the Courts of Justice. The Bey has
at present one wife, and thirty or forty
beautiful Circassians in his harem. His
wife wears a huge diamond ring on her
thumb, and has her hair hanging
straight down, and cut off across her
cheeks. She and all the other Inmates
of the harem are enormously stout ; In
deed, it is considered disgraceful for a
married woman to be thin In Tunis.—
As soon as a young girl is engaged to be
married, even at ten years of age, the
fattening process begins, and she is
stuffed, even through the night, with
"kouskoussou" and water.
The Sheriff's posse which left Savan
nah on Monday night to arrest colored
rioters on the Savannah Seaboard Rail
road returned yesterday morning, hav
ing made no arrests. The rioters had
left the cars and fled to the woods.
NUMBER 33
THE STATE TEMPEHANt E'A•OIIIVEN
A Lively Time among the Cold-Water
General 504 i Owens and Rev. Pennell
M==9
A Slate Ticket. Nominated
The Convention of the Temperance Re
formers amsombled in the Senate Chamber
at Harrisburg yesterday 'corning. The
body was called to order by E. 11. Ranch,
editor of the Good Tempt".
General Josh Owen, of Philadelphia, who
only quit drinking and united with the
temperance men a 3 oar or so since, made
a speech bitterly denouncing the idea of
organizing a separate party and putting
candidates in the field. Rev. Pennell
Coombe sustained General Josh. A sharp
colloquy ensued between General Owen
and James Black, it being evident all the
time that the General was almost entirely
without support in the Convention. Dif
ferent delegates denounced the course pur
sued by General Owen, and he was freely
charged with a want of consistency.
On motion of Col. George F. McFarland,
James Black, Esq., was chosen permanent
President of the Convention. Ott taking
the Chair, Mr. Black spoke at some length.
lie recited a largo alllOUnt of statistics of in
temperance and crime as impelling to in
dependent action. Ile had lost all faith in
the Legislature, which even went so tar as
to unanimously repeal the Philadelphia
liquor law of I,Str,". Ito had nothing to
hope from either of the existing parties.
which wore divided against themselves on
this subject. Party success was their pri
mary motive, and nothing] could be done
with them until the temperance non have
ten thousand votes that will be east front
year to year for independent w 011, w hell
parties will come to recognize the temper
ance power and respect it.
Ile hoped this small meeting would lie
the salt that would save the many. What
principle have the Democratic or Republi
can party at issue thin day equal to the
great temperance reform conven
tion would be the Bible shepherd boy \rho
with his sling slew the giant enemy.—
Whether we be few or many, if We aro
right, we should stand by our cause.
There were but thirty-five in the first
meeting called by Thaddeus Stevens, In
Lancaster, to send delegates to the first
Republican Convention. This movement
would go on until it became a mighty in
fluence. [Applause.]
Colonel George F. McFarland and Mr.
Lichtenberg, were elected Secretaries.
Captain Bauch moved that a committee
of seven he appointed by the 'hair to
frame a platform and name candidates, to
whom all resolutions be referred without.
debate. Agreed to.
General Owen then withdrew, making
a statement deprecating the movement.
Or, Coates, Rev. Mr. Coombe, Mr. Fenn
and four others also left, taking seats in
the lobbies amid applause from some of the
spectators.
Col. McFarland claimed to have acted in
good faith. lie did not love the principles
of the Republican party less to-day than a
year ago, but ho had repeatedly urged his
party to come with him ; but they had re
and he saw no other way of advanc
ing the temperance cause than by Inde
pendent action. Ile regretted that i;oneral
Owen had neglected to api KUM a committee
in obedience to the direction of the Phila
delphia Convention. Time would tell the
wisdom of this movement.
Mr. Kauffman said the bolters acted In
bad faith by speaking on the floor against
the Convention, without offering to com
promise or harmonize.
Rev. Pennell Coombe then Calllo excited
edly within the bar and demarded to be
board: and, after some objection, leave was
granted. Mr. Coombe charged that Mr.
Kauffman had promised to offer a resolu
tion to allow the seceders to be heard, but
has failed to keep his promise.
Mr. Kauffman replied that he was ready
for suggestions of compromise.
The chair announced the following com
mittee on platform and nominations :
I). McCaw, of Allegheny; George F. Mc-
Farland, of Dauphin; E. 11. Rauch, of
Lancaster; S. S. Kauffman, of Schuylkill;
lion. Mr. White, of Mercer; Mr. Ange, of
Montgomery, and It. A. Simpson, of Perry.
Mr. Rauch moved to name candidates to
be referred to the committee. Carried.
Mr. Rauch named Barr Springier, or
Lancaster, for Auditor-General. Colonel
McFarland nominated lion. E. IL,Whceler,
of Mercer, for Auditordieneral ; Mr. A mgr
nominated Jesse Evans, of Montgomery.
for Surveyor-General; Mr. Mctiaw, of
Pittsburgh, named James M. Sharp, of
Oil City, for Surveyor-General. James
Black was nominated, but declined.
McFarland was also 110111illated, but de
clined. Mr. Lichtenberg named Robert li.
Beath, the Republican candidate fur Sur
veyor-General.
Mr. Kauffman exel aimed that this was a
wise nomination. Col, l teeth is certainly a
good temperance man.
A Voice. So is Governor Geary.
Mr. Kauffman. Yes, over the left. Ile
vetoed the Duncannon Pt ohibition law bill.
Mr. Bauman, of Harrisburg, nominated
Capt. Cooper, the Democratic candidate for
Surveyor -general.
The Convention then at Ci o'clock ad
journed till 1 o'clock.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Convention re-assembled at 1 P. M.
D. C. Wright, of Dauphin county, ad
dressed the meeting while it was waiting
for the Commitee on Platform and Candi
dates to report.
At 140 the Committee on Platform and
Candidates entered.
Mr. Kauffman, from the committee, re
ported resolutions nominating Barr Spang
ler of Marietta. for Auditor-General and
E. A. Wheeler, of :Mercer, for Surveyor-
General. The report was adopted.
The following is the report on resolu
tions.
WHEREAS. The friends of Temperance
have, for the last forty years, endeavored
through moral suasion and stringent li
cense liquor laws, to correct the evils of
intemperance, without accomplishing all
its friends have desired; and viewing with
alarm the demoralization and degrading
effects therefrom, not only on communities
but on the nation, and still maintaining
the correctness of our views as to the un-
holy traffic in intoxicating liquors as a
beverage ;
therefore,
Resoll'eil, That, called by a sense of duty
to take the initial step of organization, and
the continued use of the ballot for the pro
hibition of the traffic in intoxicating drinks
which is at unceasing war with the Institu
tion of the family, the church and the
school, the only true foundation for a free
Christian Commonwealth—in the name of
Almighty hod and for I lie honor and glory
—and for the welfare and protection of our
families—we set up our banners, humbly
relying upon him for guidance.
Reset vial, That the Government has no
right to authorize any business injurious
to public or private interests. That per
mitting the sale of liquors is destructive of
both public and private interests, theroloro
it must be prohibited.
itcro(vcd, That the, history of past legisla
tion abundantly proves that it is impossi
ble to adequately regulate by license, so as
to promote the public good, it trallie so es
sentially destructive in its tendencies.
/10,e/reft, That drunkenness is a vice that
unfits any person for ellice, either National
or State, whether as executive, legislative,
judiciai, military, or municipal, and that it
saps and destroys the moral,socialauld finan
cial interests of our emmtry; therefore it
behooves every g, foal citizen to strive and
remove this evil by opposing the legalized
liquor traffic.
Resolved, That wo invite all citizens,
whether tf 'tat abstainers or not, who recog
nize the terrible injuries inflicted by the
liquor traffic, to unite with 11.4 ill its over
throw by Elllpporting the candidates this
day nominated.
Resolved, That n Campaign Executive
Committee of nine members be appointed
by din President of this Con volition to
manage the campaign and secure the elec
tion of our candidates.
Resolved, That while prohibition of the
liquor traffic in Pennsylvania is our pri
mary object, wo in common with our fel
low-citizens aro interested in and shall
faithfully endeavor to maintain, through
our candidates, the imperishable principles
of civil and religious liberty embodied in
the Declaration of American Independence
and our Federal and State Constitutions,
the inseparable Union of the States, (the
inviolability of the National and State
debts), with the payment of the memo as
rapidly as our resources will admit, the
faithful and impartial execution of the laws
and the performance of assumed duties by
all office-holders, the strictest economy in
public expenditures, the fostering and ex
tension of our public school system to meet
the object and want of general and liberal
education; the maintenance of a generous
provision for the care and education of the
orphans of our fallen soldiers; the protec
tion of life, liberty and property of all in
habitants of the Commonwealth ; protec
tion of domestic industry and development
of agriculture and commerce, and that the
right of labor should be maintained.
The ticket as nominated is :
For Auditor.General—Barr Spangler, of
Marietta, Lancaster county.
For Surveyor-General—Hon. H. A.
Wheeler, of Sharon, Mercer county.
Mr. Kauffman offered the following res
olution :
That we cordially approve the principles
enunciated and the mode proposed for the
organization of the Prohibition Party or
Pennsylvania, unanimously adopted by
the State Convention which met in Phila
delphia, May the 18th and 111th, 1871, and
do exhort all prohibitionists to give
their utmost aid for the speedy organiza
tion of the State by the State Central Com
mittee.
mnAdopted, a d the Chairman of the Co-
mittile on Resolutions authorized to give it •
iti proper place in the platform.
Mr. Kauffman offered the following ad•
ditional resolution, which was adopted :
Resolved, Tbat we approve of Bud adopt
the principles laid down in the platform
adopted - 1)y the National Prohibition party
at the convention held in Chicago, Septom ,
her, 1869.
Affemale suffrage resolution was defeat
ed after a lengthy and spirited debate.bte
Captain Rauch proceeded to r e fol
lowing letters :
NEW BRIGHTON, Aug. 5,
Your communication asking mo to define
my position on the Temperance question,
and whether I would accept the nomina
tion of the convention of Prohibitionists, to
be held at Harrisburg on the !nth Inst., was
not received until yesterday, it having boon
misdirected.
In reply, I have the honor to say that,
having accepted the nomination of the Re
publican party, I do not feel at liberty to
take any action in the matter ludependent
of the State Central Committee,
hoc repre
sent that party, anti whose advic annot
now bo obtained owing to the late date of
your letter. With great respect for all earn
est conscientious workers in the temper
mice cause, lam yours truly,
DAVID STANTON.
POTTsVILLE, Aug. 7, 1871.—E. 11. Rauch
—Dear Sir :—The great Republican party
that saved the integrity and unity of the
nation, tried through the treason of Andrew
Johnson, and that has so successfully ad
ministered the affairs of the State of Penn
sylvania for the past ten years, having hon
ored mo with the nomination of Survoyor
lbouornl. I do not feel privileged toilet upon
the subject matter of your communication
without consulting the State Central Com
mittee, St 110 represent that party, and w• 110,
I feel assured, act and determine for the
good of the party in its widest field of use
fulnes.s, and advances all Issues of progress
and morality. With the greatest respect for
the earnest and conscientious workers in
the cause of temperance, and sincerely re
gret that your letter is of 50 late a date [hat
I cannot in justice to the emiunittee an
swer its inquiries more fully,
I am respectfully yours,
Rommy B. BEATH.
A delegate wondered how it came to pass
that the concluding words of each letter,
referring to the temperance mon, happened
to be exactly identical. (Laughter.)
Another delegate hoped no one would
suppose both letters emanated front the
saute person. It Wits only a very singe by
insumee of two mom hundreds of miles
apart thinking the Onto thoughts and
speaking the same words, a wonderful ex
hibition of intellectual identliy. (Loud
Laughter.)
Messrs. and Cooper, the
Democratic eandidates sent no letters in
reply to the note of Captain Rauch.
Barr Spangler, the candidate for
Auditor-General, tieing called upon, name
a decidedly v igorous speech. Ile said he
Was not sure but that the Convention haul
erred in nominating all extreme Radical
like himself. Ile had little of the Conser
vative in him had been an RbOlitiolliSt of
010 old school, and haul flinght with the
Republican party until it seemed to have
filled its mission. Temperance fuljert.luive
nothing to hope from it it it is or t I I7MI
and run in Pennsylvania. It hash mvtr
for !max) than ton years, but has drtnernoth
ing to restrain the liquor traflie.
The professions of its politicians and
newspaper editors are hollow and mean
ingless. It is responsible for the ex
isting condition of our license laws, liur
it has haul full power to modify them, and
has persistently refused to do so. It cowers
before the runt traffic, and has proven to
be no better in that respect than the De
, outer:my. The only hope left to TOlllper
alleo 111011 is in independent political action.
They may not poll a very large vote this
year, but they will increase it with every
succeeding election until they hold the
balance of power and compel politicians to
accede to their demands. Mr. Spangler
said he accepted the nomination in the
spirit in which it was tendered, and would
do all In his power 10 110.00Mplish the 110110
designs of the party which had put hint
forward as a CalltlidatO. The nag of the
Temperance men, which hail this day been
nailed to the mast, would never be lowered
until a victory was achieved, which would
make glad thousands who now mourn.
\i r. Wheeler, the candidate for Surveyor
General, was also called out, and he nude
a vigorous speech), hilly approving of inde
pendent action and accepting the nomina-
James Black, Esti., made a speech VOll
- the delegates present on the 10.-
0011 which had heart tikes, and eulogizing
the candidates who had been selected. lie
adduced statistics to allow how rapidly rho
cause of prohibition had advanced in other
States after the formation of an I:Mei:end ,
ont temperanee party, and how futile hail
been all efforts outdo without such organi-
ZatiOD.
A delegate moved that thanks be return
ed to (lad and his blessing invoked through
prayer, whereupon a minister who was a
delegate, led in prayer. 'Such a sight in a
Convention which had just nominated eau
didates for noire, was entirely now, and
the effect was solemn and
After (ha Cralthaelhth of some unimport
ant business, the Convention adjourned,
with the benediction.
General josh. ()won and his two vont •
panions have published the following .
cam , :
11a11111SIIIMI, August 9, 1571. —To
Members of the May tionicution Mel (I,
FriCMIN of in Pc n )13 yl runic
The undersigned, momborti of the Central
Committee appointed by the authority el
the Convention held in Philadelphia May
IStil and 111th last, being prosent at II arris•
burg, deem it their duty to that body Pllll
thin valise generally to enter their solemn
protest against the action of certain of
their follow-members, who, in violation of
the action of the Convention in May, bane
called and aro this day holding a Conven
tion to nominate independent ea riditlunw
for Auditor-General and Surveyor. C (mural,
thereby ignoringf, the plan of action ;Wilms I
in May loot: and having been informed
the men engaged In this movement that it
is purely an individual enterprise, and that
no one could be allowed to take part in the
proceedings unless willing to pledge him
self tu carry out the objects named in the
call, and having failed to obtain any change
of purpose on the part of those engaged in
the revolutionary movement, wo du hereby
declare that the said Convention and 11111
nominations mode by it are In violation or
the action of the May Convention, and with
out authority from the State Central Com
mittee. JOSHUA T. OwEN,
I'. COOMBE,
EDWIN U. CoATES.
"fore of the Man Domingo Job
Almost every day brings to light HOlllO
new fact, exposing the duplicity of the
President in regard to San Domingo. That
strong word is used, because no other fits
the occasion so exactly or tells the whole
truth honestly. In a message to Congress
last April, he pretended to renounce the
project entirely, " and referred the matter
to the ;judgmentof the American people."
There never was any such intention, and
the message was only contrived to mislead
the country, so that the project could be
pursued with more success, under the cover
of this delusion. The scheme of a fraudu
lent lease of Samana was contrived by
Fabens, not only with the knowledge, but
with the direct personal aid of the Presi
dent, who recently recommended him to
the postmaster of Boston and (Ahern, in
order to raise the money for that purpose.
This fact has never been disputed, and con
tradiction of it is now challenged, while the
President happens to be accidentally In
Washington.
It has been heretofore Hhown, that this
Rase VMS perfectly understood on the
island, and that the motley to be derived
from it, together with the ships of war
which aro still shamefully kept there by
the President's order, wore the only means
by which Baez could hold on to power.—
But there appears to have been a job with
in a job. The only lease ever made for
Samara, which ex,pired at the end of four
months by lapse of the treaty, cost tan
country e,149,000, which the President drew
out of the secret-service fund, and applied
to that object. The speculators, who, with
the President's consent and co-operation,
have audaciously lei:mined to renew that
lease, In order to maintain their foothold in
San Dinning°, looking ultimately to
nexation, borrowed money reeently in
Now York, and gave t h at r obligations,
founded on the loose, for $ re,ooo. They
sold this contract for f'. - iii,l7oo in cash and
32.5,We In inferior anus; 'so that Baez
will get one-third of the snot condition
ed fur the lease, with a lot of con
demned antis and ammunition, while those
concerned In the job Intend to claim $150,-
000 from the United States. This In the mint
of 1,118111(38H in which the President has been
engaged at Long Branch. A recent letter
front San Domingo, addressed to M r.I I ateh,
of Connecticut, who was HO cruelly out
raged, in order to aid the commiracy of an
nexation, confirms previous intelligence to
the same effect, as will be seen by the fol
lowing extract:
SAN DOMINO() CITY,
July IS, 137!.
No money of any conneimenco in in cir
culation, but It Is reported that the steamer
Pont (Spofford itt Brothern') Is to bringout
llfty thousand dollars. It is certain that
the Tybee brought out a lot of arms nod
am munitionn.for them. It is said that Fa
bens ham boeu so successful as to mortgage
to some New York parties the amount due
this Government tor the year's lease of
Saloons, giving receipt in full, and has re
ceived anti amount and arms In payment.
The two chips still remain tit Somalia. I
understand the Swatara WON to pass the
hurricane season in the Catoleram; she is
expected to arrive here soon.
Baez IN going to Santiago the moment
the money arrives, and without doubt will
then issue him paper currency, which is
now lying Lin the treasury.— Wunkingten
I Patriot.
Destructive Fire in neon' Mine
Mallen Crimuc, Pa., August 10.—A lire
broke out lu No. 6 miuo, Lehigh Coal end
Navigation Company, Summit Hill, at 3
o'clock this morning. There were no
miners nor animals in it at the time. The
origin of the tire is unknown, as the air is
so bad the men cannot go in. A number
who tried were overcome with the gases,
and some are still sick. If the lire is not
put out great damage will be the conse
quence. The vein of coal runs along the
Panther Creek Valley to Tamaqua, and a
number of slopes tap it. It also crosses the
Nesquehoning tunnel Borne distance from
the mouth of the south approach. If-the
fire continues it is feared the gas and bad
air will stop the work. At this time it is
impossible to find out what damage has
been or may be done. Submarine divers
were telegraphed for today, and it is hoped
that they will be able to, enter the mine to
morrow. The latest to the Coal Gazette
says the superintendent of mines at Sum
mit Hill is stilt sick, and that men had not
boon able to enter up to 7 o'clock.