Lancaster 3ntelligencer. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 18711 DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET. FOR AUDITOR GENERAL, GEN. WILLIAM NWANDLESS, OF PIEILAbBLFFIIA FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL, CAPTAIN JAMES H. COOPER, OF LAWRENCE COUNTY A FULL POLL OF TUE DEMOCRATIC VOTE WILL SECURE THE ELECTION OF OUR STATE TICKET BY A LARGE MAJORITY. LET EVERY DEMOCRAT REMEMBER THAT, AND IMPRESS T TRUTH OF IT UPON T.H.F. MINDS OF MS NEIGHBORS. Circulate The Intelllgeneer The WEEKLY lETELLIGENCER 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 lt. Every dollar thus spent will be worth five times that amount paid for brass bands and for get ling up big meetings. The Importance of Our State Election. It is customary for politicians to en large upon the importance of each re curring election. Every year the peo ple are told that the future destiny rf the nation depends upon their votes. No doubt there is too much of this. The masses have heard the story so often hat it falls upon their ears without pro ducing the intended effect. They have been rallied to defend their institutions so often that they have at last come to regard the utterances of politicians with almost as little concern as the shep herds did the call of the boy who cried out wolf, when no devouring monster threatened the flocks. We do not wish to be classed with false alarmists, when we say that the pending political con test in Pennsylvania is one of prime importance, and we shall, therefore, en deavor to substantiate the allegations which we make. The coming election is important on account of the local issues which arc in volved in the canvass. For years past Simon Cameron has been struggling to obtain complete con trol of the Republican party in Penn sylvania, and he has ut last succeeded in accomplishing his purpose. When, by the free use of money, he succeeded in being elected to the Senate of the United States over Andrew G. Curtin and Thad deus Stevens, he broke down all the bar riers which stood in his way ; and from that time until the present his decrees have been recorded by Republican ma jorities in the Legislature and his man dates have been obeyed by Republican State Conventions. To such a condititin has the Republican party in the great State of Pennsylvania been reduced that it is recognized as being owned by one man—and he the most corrupt politician within the bounds of the Com mouweath. The convention which nominated Stan ton and Beath was composed of men, a majority of whom were the willing tools of Simon Cameron. Ills creatures hunt ed up candidates to suit their own pur poses, and there was no one who dared to oppose their nomination. The can didates who are running on the Re- Publican State ticket are the creatures of the Infamous and corrupt ring which has seized upon thu office of State Treasurer. The gang of plun derers who have the disbursement of the 1110110y6 paid into the State Treasury by the taxpayers, want one of their own kind to pass upon accounts; and they have selected Doctor David Stan ton us their man. The election of Stanton and Death would break down he last barrier which exists between a gang of greedy adventurers and the moneys of the. State. With a pliant tool in the office of Auditor-General, they would have no one to check their schemes of plunder, or to expose their misdeeds until after it would be too late to aliply a remedy. These we take it are cogent local reasons why the candi . dates of the Cameron lan Treasury Ring should be beaten. But their are national reasons why the Democratic candidates should be chosen. A vote for the Radical candidates is a vote fur the renomination of Grant. Should Stanton and Beath be elected, Simon Cameron will be able to pack the next, Republican State Convention more easily even than he did the last ; and there will be no difficulty experienced in pledging the Pennsylvania delega tion to vote solid for Grant for Presi dent, and for whomsoever Cameron may see tit to name as a candidate for Vice President. That will confirm and chrystalize the power by which Cam eron has been able to sway Grant and to secure a controlling influence over him. But there are other and wider consid erations of a national character which ought to arouse the Democracy of Penn sylvania to such exertions as they have never put forth. Upon the result of the October election in this State, the result of the next Presidential election will in great measure depend. If the Democratic candidates for Auditor and Surveyor- General are chosen, Brant will not be re-nominated, or will be beaten if he should force himself before the people by the votes of Northern (Au-holders and Southern negroes, carpet-baggers and scalawag officials. With such a change at the coming October election as would be likely to insure Grant's de 'feat, he would be abandoned by all the better class of Republican politicians ; and, should his nomination be forced by the office-holders, he would be beat en at the Presidential election without a struggle. The Democracy of Pennsylvania has it in their power to decide the next Presidential election in advance. They can carry this State in October by a large majority, if they will. A full poll of the Democratic vote will insure the elec tion of McCandless and Cooper by a large majority. Of that there is not a doubt. Every Republican politician in the State will admit the truth of what we say. In fact, the only hope of the Carneroniau Treasury Ring lies in the belief that there will be it serious falling-01l in the Democratic vote, on account of dissatis faction with the Sill resolution,and from general apathy in our ranks. Shall this corrupt Ring be gratified? Shall we lose the great prize which lies within our grasp thrbugh a criminal neglect of that highest duty of the American citizen, the duty to vote? We never had such an opportunity to make a complete change in the course of both State and National Govern ments as is now presented to us. We can break the power of Simon Cameron In Pennsylvania, and there are many Republicans who will help us to do so; we can prevent the nomination of Grant, or Insure his defeat; we can render cer tain the triumph of a conservative can didate at the next Presidential electioiT; wecan restore the National Government to the control of those who will regard the fundamental law of the land and respect the wise restrictions of the Con stitution ; we can bring back perfect peace and revive the fraternal feeling which once existed between the people of the North anti the South ; we can re store the decayed commerce of the na t on; we can insure the adoption of a financial . policy which will relieve the taxpayer while it advances the credit of the nation; we can out up by the roots the justly odious system of giving away the public lands to railroad corporations; we den greatly reduco the number of public officials; in short, we can restore good government by rolling up a decid ed Democratic majority for those gallant soldiers General McCandless and Cap tain Cooper. Shall we do so? It is for the working Democrats in the different election dis tricts to say. If they will arouse the people and get out our full vote we shall win a great and crowning victory. But such a result can not be achieved with- out organization and labor. Let that be remembered, and let no means for se curing victory be left unemployed. Now is the time to enter upon the work of organization. It must not be left to the last hours of the campaign. Let meetings of prominent Democrats be called in every election district, and let proper measures be taken for getting out a full vote. Remember that a full vote will insure a glorious victory, and remember how much is to be gained by such a victory The Temperance Party in the Field. As will be seen from the report, which we publish elsewhere, the Prohibition ists of Pennsylvania have boldly enter ed the political field and put forward candidates for Auditor and Surveyor- General. The gathering in the Senate Chamber was not large, some forty del egates being all who put in an appear ance. Of these twc-score about half a dozen were unable to turn their eyes away from the prospective vision of fu ture elevation through the agency of the Republican party. General Josh Owen has an exalted idea of himself, and he is not entirely without hope that other people may eventually get to see him as he sees himself. He perempto rily declined to venture upon any new departure, and he was backed up by the ghostly counsels and the ministerial authority of the boisterous Pennell Coom be. Brother Coombe has had rather snap of it in his official position or a roving temperance orator, and it may he that he considers his craft in danger. The General and the Reverend depai led from the Convention in very bad humor, after trying in vain to turn the dch•gntes from their purpose. They went out without a following, and the Convention proceeded to finish up its husine,, In a harmonious manner. The candidates put forward are men of nerve and of character. Barr Spangler is known to the Deople of Lancaster county, us it roan of high respectability and perfect probity. He is no self-seek ing politician, but a man who bolds to his opinions firmly and expresses them freely. Mr. Wheeler represented the Radical cowl!). of Mercer, in the lower house of Lhe legislature, and while there he se cured the application of the Ohio dam age law to his section of the State. That law makes the owner of a house rented for the sale of liquor, liable for damages done by the seller to any member of the community, and also holds the seller himself to a strict responsibility in damages. We shall, hereafter, have something to say about the propriety of such ac tion as the temperance men have taken, and of the Issues involved in this new departure. Radical Candidates us Letter-Writers. When E. H. Rauch rose to read the letters addressed to the Temperance Convention by the Republican candi dates for Auditor and Surveyor-General, he remarked that by a singular coinci cidence they both reached him in the same mail. When the documents came to be read, they were found to be not only similar in thought and tone, but identical in some of the language used. Dr. Stanton concluded by declaring that he had " great respect for all earn est and conscientious workers In the temperance cause, and Mr. Beath wound up his epistle by asseverating that lie had "the greatest respect for the earnest and conscientious workers In the cause of temperance." It is not strange that this Identity of language should have culled forth the ridicule of some of the delegates. It was evident, at a glance, that Mr. Rauch's letters of inquiry had been submitted to some one for inspec tion, most likely the Chairman of the Radical State Central Committee, and that the draft of a reply had been for warded to each of the candidates. For years past Radical politicians have been playing upon the credulity of the tem perance men, but the game of deceit In which they have indulged cannot be kept up. Mr. Barr Spangler exposed the duplicity of Republican politicians very thoroughly in the speech which he mule on accepting the nomination. Old übscrlbers Mr. Zacharlah Killian, ()I' Ulnkle town, Mends the money to pay for the \ inn:i.v INTRLLI(IENCisn in advance, and Informs us that he first commenced to lake the paper in 1829, when it was edited by Mr. Ferran. We have some subscribers on our list who date farther back than Mr. Killian, but he is en titled to rank among the oldest now liv ing. The WEEKLY INTELLIGESCER has been a constant visitor to many families in Lancaster county since 1799. When the fathers died one of the sons would have it sent to him, and so It has gone on from generation to generation. We are glad to say that it has a much great er circulation now than at any former period. 'We would be pleased to have a list of our oldest subscribers, and shall be glad to hear from any, who can date their subscription further back than that of Mr. Killian. r. Peter McConomy, one of our most prominent citizens, showed us a receipt given to his father for subscription to the WEEKLY INTELLIOENCER, from the 'oth of December ISII, to the same date in 1513. The receipt is signed by Thos. It. Jordan for Wm. Dickson, Mr. Dick son being the founder of the INTELLI GENCEn. The WEEKLY INTELLroEs cEit has been a household companion in the family ever since, and Mr. Peter Me(onomy did not cease to take It when he subscribed for the Daily. It was a sort of heir-loom which had come down to him from his father, and he still holds on to it. There are many other families in the county where the WEEK lNTF.m.mksckit has thus passed dow n from one generation to another Thomai Ferran, Esq Thomas Ferran, Esq., who is now vis iting his friends in this city, called In to see us tilts morning. Mr. Ferran will be remembered by numbers of our sub scribers as a former editor of the INTEL- Lin EscEn. He conductel it with abil ity from June, 1826 to November, 183 G. The WEEKLY INTELLIOENCER was much smaller then than it is now, and it was worked off on a Damage press, which required two pulls to print each page. The office was then In a building on North Queen street, next to Shober's Hutel. Mr. Ferran has held responsible and Important positions in the depart ments at Washington for nearly thirty years. He was chief clerk in the Cus toms Department of the Treasury under all the changing administrations, since 1833, until Grant came into power. We were glad to meet and converse with our predecessor, and are sure that he will have the good wishes of all the readers of the INTELLIOENCER, whether they remember hini , or not. IT was reserved for the Democratic Legislature of New Hampshire, on the 13th of July last, to enact that " sol diers serving in the late rebellion, and disabled from manual labor iu conse quence of that service, shall be and are exempted from paying poll-tax." Un der the Republican ascendancy preva lent in New Hampshire, from the close of the war up to the reversal of parties at the Democratic sweep this year, the above acknowledgment of service done the State remained unmade. Too crip pled to gain a livelihood, the veteran was nevertheless forced to pay his tax GIN. A. H. GLATZ has been nomi nated for State Senator by the Democ racy of York county. He Is a good fellow, and has already served In the same position. Adams and York com pose the district, and the question as to which shall have the candidate will be settled by a conference. Adams will present the name of Hon. Wm. McSher ry, a gentleman who also served one term in the State Senate with great credit to himself. THE LANCASTER WEES.LY INTELLIGENCER, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1871. A Convention Controlled by Bayonets. We publish elsewhere an account of the first instance, In the history of this nation, when Federal bayonets were used to control the action of a political convention. Under the lead of Grant's relative, the rebel General Longstreet, United States troops took possesion of the hall in which the Louisiana Repub lican State Convention was being held, and forced •ut all the delegates who were supposed to be opposed to the re nomination of the man who now occu pis the Presidential chair. No one was admitted who did not carry in his hand a ticket given by a United States offi cial. Ninety, out of one hundred and eighteen delegates, were barred from ad mission by having bayonets pointed at their breasts,by soldiers wearing the uni form and bearing the arms of the United States. The men who made the Repub lican party of Louisiana were driven out by United States soldiers, because it was believed they Intended to protest against the re-nomination of U. S. Grant. When the Ku-Klux bill was before Congress, certain Republican newspapers charged that the bill was meant to aid Grant In securing a re nomination, and the whole Democratic press alleged that an attempt would be made to employ it as an agencyto prevent a fair election. The interference in Louis iana with the action of a Republican Con ' vention shows how far military inter ference will dare to go. Even under the Ku-Klux bill no authority for such an outrage can be found, but Grant and his officials are ready to usurp any power they may deem necessary to secure the objects they have in view. The liberties of the people are threatened by a band of desperate creatures who care for noth but public plunder, arid S. lirant leads the gang. Let the masses of the American people take warning before It is too late. The Kentucky Election Certain Radical newspapers profess to regard the Democratic majority of thirty thousand In Kentucky as a very small victory. They put us in mind of the sinner who stood up to his neck in water on the top of a high mountain as Noah's ark went floating by. The wretch:begged lobe taken ou board, but, being Informed that such a thing was clearly against orders, he blasphemous ly told Noah to go to a warm climate, remarking that he did not believe it was going to be much of a shower after all, We would remind the Express, and all other Radical newspapers of like char acter, that thirty thousand was the out side figure the Democrats of Kentucky claimed after forty-five thousand ne groes were added to the voting popula tion. They have not only made their claim good, but, in spite of sonic local dissatisfaction, have exceeded their most hopeful calculations. The Radicals professed to believe that they would either carry the State by the help of the negro vote or reduce the Democratic majority do so small a figure as to give Radicalism a chance in the future. Our rooster has abundant cause for crowing over the result in old Kentucky. The latest news assures us that the Demo : cratic majority will be forty thousand. Grant's Recent Visit to Washington. Grant's recent visit to Washington was surrounded by secrecy. Nobody knew that a Cabinet Meeting had been called. The President was quietly smug gled Into a special car at Long Branch by his Private Secretary. A despatch had been senCto the Secretary of the Navy to have a close carriage at the depot to convey his excellency to his mansion. When quest was made at the livery sta bles It was found that every close car riage had been hired for funerals. The result was that the presence of the Pres ident "was speedily fruited abroad, but Grant escaped the importunities of of fice-seekers by shutting himself iu the residence of Secretary Robeson, and re fusing to allow a man to be Introduced, or to look at a card. There is a terrible pressure just now to accomplish the re moval of about one-half of the present incumbents, and the appointment of others to their places. I runt " can not see it." He believes that the fellows who are now feeding at the public crib will work hard to secure his re-nomina- Um], and he will not risk making changes at present. .1 le always keeps his eyes on the main chance. Radical Opinion of Boutwell We publish elsewhere u telegraphic despatch from Washington, which must place Secretary lioutwell in a very awk ward position before the country. The author of the allegations Is a Radical in good standing with his party, and his assertions must all be believed, unless Mr. Boutwell shall disprove them. We shall wait to see what he has to say for himself before indulging in further com ment. The charges made arc specific and of the gravest character. Let every one read the exposition of Mr. Wood. WILLIAM B. MANN, the Radical can didate for District Attorney of Phila delphia, was the first Colonel of the regiment commanded during the war by General McCandless. Mann served a few months and then resigned. Mc- Candless served until the regiment was mustered out. Mann is considered an excellent soldier by journals like the Inquirer, but 'McCandless a very poor One. Malin is a corrupt Radical ; Mc- Candless is a Democrat. The odds make the difference. ONCE there was a Roman Emperor named Pertinax. When he was raised to the throne he resigned to his relatives his whole private fortune. His reason for doing this was that they might have no pretence to solicit favors at the ex pense of the State. Useless S. Grant has profited by this example in Roman his tory, only he has turned over all the offices of the Republic to his relatives, that they may have no excuse to solicit favors at the expense of himself! TILE number of the dead by the ex plosion of the boiler of the 'Westfield has now reached one hundred. This was the number which rumor assigned to the victims on the day of the disaster. It is seldom that the reality so sadly verifies the first reports in a case of this kind. They are usually greatly ex aggerated, and that they have proved accurate in this instance, shows how fearful was the power exerted in the work of destruction. CONN ECTICITT has El model legislator who refuses to take pay for the (lays he was not in his sent.—Ex. (brunt's salary as President would amount to ten thousand dollars a year, If he would do likewise. Instead of that lie gobbles twenty-live thousand dollars a year salary, and his household expenses last year amounted to one hundred and thirty-two thousand, eight hundred dollars In addition,' for which the taxpayers had to sullbr. Tier trouble In Cincinnati regarding the Sunday law continues: The Coun cilmen passed an ordinance repealing the for Mer enactments, and the Board of Aldermen has refused to concur. The vote In the latter body was very close, standing 12 to 11. A resolution request ing the Mayor to enforce the Sunday law was tabled by a vote of 13 to 0. The fight Is likely to be carried into the po litical contest now pending. SENATOR SUMNER has declined the gold medal tendered him by the people of Hayti. If the Haytians wish to get rid of the medal, they might offer it to President Grant, who has no Consti tutional scruples against the taking of presents, especially when the expres sage is prepaid. Hoar. GEO. H. PEN DLTONE has arrived from Europe in the Scotia, and will take the stump in Ohio In a few days, and infuse new vigor into a canvass al ready the most vigorous and thorough the State has witnessed for some years. Bontwell's Failure Boutwell has been hawking the new U. S . loan throughout the financial mar ket of Europe without success. Spinner was sent to England, and then Rich ardson was sent after Spinner. These special agents were given large sums of money to be used in creating an impres sion in favor of the loan by advertising and•other means, but their efforts met no response. In the bands of Grant's Secretary of the Treasury the United States loan of 1871 has been, as all corn peten tjudges foretold from the first, that it would be'a disastrous and ridiculous failure. After nearly six months of in cessant effort and reckless expenditure Boutwell ends where he ought to have begun, by calling upon an American banking house to ascertain whether the thing he seeks to do can be done. After spending a round million in sending superannuated Treasury clerks like Spinner and Richardson on a junketing tour through Europe, be his found it necessary to turn over the "disposal" of the bonds to-Jay Cooke & Co. The terms of this arrangement have not yet been made public, but Jay Cooke & Co. having made a vast fortune out of the " seven-thirties " will know what commission to demand. Should Jay Cooke succeed in disposing of the new loan, that will reflect no credit upon the Secretary of the Treasury, whose only idea of financial management seems to be the ruinous one of keeping the coun try bleeding at every vein from which a drop can he drawn by his army of tax-collectors. In the meantime the ignominious figure, which this incapa ble financier has caused the credit of the United States to cut, has been made more ignominious by the fact, that while he could not contrive to get an Ameri can loan of two hundred millions, so presented to the world, as to be taken up in six mouths, the finance Minister of the French Republic, emerging bruised, bleeding and dismembered from one of the most calamitous wars in history, succeeded in placing a loan of equal amount In hardly more than the same number of hours. 'And yet Grant's administration expects to stand upon Bautwell's tinanciering. The Prison Ring The Eipress Indulges in some very proper and sharp strictures upon the manipulations of the Prison Ring, which has plundered the taxpayers and disgraced the people of Lancaster coun ty for years. It boldly lays bare the fact that Mr. Levi Sensenig is working most diligently to secure the election of his creature, the present Keeper. When this man Mentzer was chosen by a bal lot of the Inspectors the charge was freely made that the Ring had paid fif teen hundred dollars for a single vote, and that by that vote Mentzer's election to the office of Keeper was secured. It is and has been generally understood that Mentzer is the tool of Sensenig, and it is almost universally conceded that the Ring is toostrong to be beaten. There are few politicians in the Republican party who do not expect to see Mentzer renominated. Somehow Sensenig has corns to be a great power in that organ ization. In fact, lie is looked upon now as a sort of king-maker, and his power is said to be greater that that of George Brubaker was in the palmiest days of thuggery. It must be very hu miliating to high-toned Republicans to see the party managed and manipula ted by such creatures, but few of them have sufficient backbone to make a vig orous and effective light against the in famous corruption which prevails with in the limitsof their organization. Like bigots they submit to be made the tools of a.set of the veriest knaves that ever schemed to enrich themselves by means of plundering the public. If the Exprese wishes to do a good work, let it bring forward some first class man for the office of Prison-Keeper. We know that there are some men in the Republican party of Lancaster county, who would discharge the re sponsibilities of the office without plun dering the taxpayers and abusing the office. Let the Express name some such man. and if a creature of the cor rupt Ring is nominated, let It peremp torily refuse to support him. By so doing It will win the respect of honest men, and will add to Its influence. If it quietly supports Mentzer after he shall have received a nomination through the manipulations of Sensenig and his Ring, the E.rpress will earn the contempt (If all decent and right-mind ed citizens, and will give the color of truth to all the damaging accusations which have been made against it In the IT Is not so easy to arrive at a clear conception of the manner in which the finances of New York city were man aged for some years, under the compli cated enactments which were passed by a Republican Legislature. As matters stand under the law enacted by the last Legislature_ no bills can pass without the signature of the Democratic Mayor and the Comptroller. Under Republi can management an Auditing Corn m ittee,composed of an equal number of Democrats and Republicans, passed the bills over which the New York Times is making such a fuss. We mention this fact in order to set the Express straight, and to enable it to give its readers the truth, if it has any desire to do so. By the way, how are we to account for the silence of the Express in regard to the gross mismanagement of our city fi nances? Will it be good enough to let a little light in upon that important sub ' ject? Can it tell us how many thou sands of dollars have been added to the debt of Lancaster city under Radical rule? That is a matter in which every taxpayer is interested, and there is no question of divided autliffrity here. THE Radical city government of Pitts burgh has been building a City Hall. The concern was expected to cost about $300,000. Twice that amount has already been expended as the structure is still far from being completed. Among the items of expenditures is $BO,OOO for iron used,and a dozen of sheet-iron shut ters are all of Iron that can be seen about the building. So it goes. Wherever the Radicals rule extravagance is the order of the (lay. Philadelphia has been plunged deeply into debt by them, o and our wn city has felt their heavy hand since the present young and vig orous administration came into power. WI: chronicle the fact that the great sea-side lounger has arrived safely at Long Branch again, where he will tarry the balance of the Summer, unvexed by any cares of State, If the naughty boys In his Cabinet will only quit their quar reling. He will smoke and scheme to secure a re-election, while clerks run the government. If an order or bigamy pardon is to be signed, a special mes senger will be sent on from Washington at au expense to the tax-payers of one or two hundred dollars. THE Radicals used red tickets at the recent election in Kentucky. This was done in order that the negroes might be watched. In Kentucky, as in other parts of the South, the Radical leaders urge the blacks to the commission of outrages upon all of their own color who do not vote the Radical ticket. The red tickets of the Kentucky Radicals were a devise for securing a solid negro vote. GRANT staid in Washington Just long enough to remove General Pleasanton and to advance Assistant Commission er Douglass to the vacancy. Douglass is Simon Cameron's man, and his eleva tion is another triumph for the most corrupt and unscrupulous politician in Pennsylvania. HON. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS has concluded to accept the position of Ar bitrator under the Treaty of Washing ton, and he has so informed the Presi dent. This is a good appointment. . Extension of the Ring In its last issue the Express mils at tention to the fact that a desperate effort is being made by the corrupt 'PrisOrf Ring to extend its control to the Man agement of the Poor House and County Hospital. Unsophisticated peoplemight very naturally be led to wonder what mine of profit could be discovered in these institutions ; but a very little in vestigation is sufficient to show that large sums of money could be made by such management as has prevailed in connection with the County Prison. The purchases of material which are made for the Poor House and the Hos pital amount annually to large sums of money, and a snug little arrangement, by which a per centage could be charged on all the commodities purchased, would put thousands of dollars in the pockets of the Ring-masters. The tax payers would not be able to tell where and how the stealing was done, unless some one of the gang should peach on the rest, but the profits made would be shown by the aggregated increase in the annual expenditures. The Express gives an instance of the purchase of cat- tie for the Poor House which has a very suspicious look about it. The charge made by the Expreas to the effect that Messrs. Gast and Fry arebeingset upon by the Ring, with the intention of de feating them, and ;electing tools of the Ring in their stead, is another proof of the corruption which exists among the recognized leaders of the Republican party in Lancaster county. If the Erpresa is to be believed a cor rupt and powerful Ring is actively at work to control all the nominations. The Ring has its candidates', for Judge, its choice for District Attorney, its " set-up " for the Legislature, and its nominees for County Commissioner, Directors of the Poor, Prison Inspec tors and Prisol Keeper. We have not been informed whether the Ring has also a candidate In the field for the office of Auditor, but it is perfectly fair to presume that the men who are mak ing all their arrangements for plunder ing the County Treasury would want friends in the Auditor's office to pass their accounts without objection or comment. Certain Republican politicians boldly proclaim that the Express is Influenced by mercenary motives in the exposures which it has made from time to time.— However that may be, there are very few taxpayers who will not feel obliged to it for the comes it has pursued during the present contest. The people have a right to be informed as to the rascally designs of the corrupt Ring which has secured control of the County Commit- ee and the management of the Repub lean party in Lancaster county. We are naturally somewhat anxious to see what will be the result of the coming Republican Primary Election. Should the Ring succeed in nominating its candidates the Express can not sup port them without putting itself in a position where it must forfeit the respect of every decent man and completely destroy its political influence. So far it has spoken out In a mere negative man ner. Whether it will eventually make its utterance more positive and specific we wait to see. if there be men whom it believes to be creatures of the Ring be forethepeople for office,let it name them without hesitation that they may be marked by all honest voters for defeat. there be others who are free from such contaminating influences, let the Ex preas name them by name and boldly and fearlessly urge their claims. If by so doing it can secure the nomination of proper men for Judge, for District Attor ney, and for the other oillces to be filled it will do a work of which it may well be proud and greatly inerease its influ ence. A Fizzle When bigots all over the country be gan to make the riot in New York an excuso for the revival of Know-Noth ingism we predicted that the attempt would prove to be a ridiculous failure. The most noticeable meeting was held in the city of Baltimore, and the speeches then made showed very clearly that the proscriptive spirit which once banned all Catholics and all foreign-born citi zens still lives In the Republican party. But when he work of or ganization came to be perfected, the new movement turned out to be a grand fizzle. In most of the Wards nobody was present at the meetings which were called to re-organize the Know-Nothing party, in connection with Radicalism. In the Seventeenth Ward the few who assembled, finding that all sensible Protestants held aloof, it was announced that members of any political organization would be re ceived, "provided they would oppose the present Democratir city, government." At another place, all who had responded to the call in four wards, were gathered into all adjourned meeting, and the whole number only amounted to twen ty-five. At another point those as sembled took steps to form a Republi can Ward Club. The whole movement in Baltimore resulted in a grand fizzle, but the animus of those who did con vene was clearly shown. The few leaders, who met without followers, were all radical Republicans, and they did not disguise their design of making political capital. The attempts to.seize upon the New York riot for such a pur pose is the last desperate device of a decaying political organization, which has been a source of evil ever since it had an existence. The Scott Centenary The centennial anniversary of Walter Scott's birth, was celebrated in Edin burg with becoming ceremonies.— The cable gives interesting accounts of the honors paid to the memory of the man who did so much to instruct and amuse the world. Many Americans were present at the celebration in Edin burg, and nowhere are the works of this great author more universally read and admired than in the United States. They appeal to the sympathies of all classes, and strike a responsive chord in every heart. It was fitting that the Scott centenlary should be handsomely celebrated. A FINE set of thieves these fellows are who are forever plunging the coun try into hot water with their tales of Ku-Klux outrages. In the old slave States occur 94 out of the 291 revenue defalcations confessed by Secretary Boutwell, and of the twenty odd mil lions admitted by him as stolen, $6,789,- 721.95 are to be put down to the score of these same persecuted patriots. A flue picture it makes of Southern outrage's, these dry figures, telling how govern ment functionaries steal with both hands, bawling meanwhile at the top of their lunge "Ku-Klux !" MRS. VALLANDICIHANI, wife of Hon. C. L. Vallandigham, whose tragic death shocked the nation but a few weeks ago, died at Cumberland, Maryland, yesterday. The news of the fe te of her husband undermined her nervous sys tem, and she rapidly passed into the same shadowy vale. Mrs. Vallandlg ham was a woman of many virtues, and her sad fate will be mourned both In private and public circles. HoN. WM. ELLiorr, of Philadelphia, "Billy of the Gas Ring," the man who had the notorious murderer, Wm. J. Ovens, made Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives last winter, has been made Secretary of the Repub lican State Central Committee by Mr. Russel Errett. He is unquestionably the right man in the right place. The appointment of his friend Ovens might have been still more appropriate, but Billy Elliott will do. P. GRAY MEEK has been renominated for the Legislature by the Democracy of Centre county. He is talented, honest and fearless. His opponent was a good man, but it is evident that the Democ racy of Centre know how to appreciate a faithful public servant when they find him. At the Sea. Side Shall we go to the sea-shore or to the mountains where mineral springs give promise- of health? That is a question which many ask themstiltres as the heats of Summer approach. Year by year the number of those who seek relaxation and rest at watering places becomes greater In this country. Fash ion demands that its votaries shall go, and from the first of July until the last of August absence from town is regarded as a necessity by many. Some who insist upon keeping up appearances without be ing aNe to afford the expense of a sojourn at watering-places, shut their doors and windows and pretend to be absent. When Autumn comes they emerge from their se clusion and talk of the quiet time they bad in some remoto rural region. People . who live among the mountains ought to go to the seaside, and those who live by the sea would do well to visit some of the mountain resorts. Certain diseases are greatly benefitted by a complete change of air, and even when no positive disease exists, the general health is improved by such a transfer. It needs no one to call at tention to the great change in the atmos phere which is always observable as the sea is approached, and all who have =vie a sea voyage have noticed how the air becomes Impregnated with odors from field and mountain when land heaves in view. Lancaster being located near the moun tains there seems to be a natural tendency among its people to visit the sea-side, and many of them make an annual trip to Cape May, which offers the finest bathing along our Atlantic coast. Philadelphia Iles half way between and offers all the enticements of shopping to the ladies. The West Jer sey Road runs express trains which make the trip from Camden to the Cape in a little over two hours. The road Is well equipped and the ride is pleasant except during very dry weather, when the earth beneath the ties is beaten into dust, which rises in iqoutls. The scenery slang the route Is not what would be called tine, but there is much to attract the attention. The sandy soil re quires careful cultivathin and mar uring , but it produces crops which pay well. Corn springs rank and green from the white sand, sweet potato vines trail over acres, water melons lie thick on large fields, forests of poles bear up the clinging bean-stalks, grapes cluster about long rows of stakes, and peach trees bend with their delicious burthen above strawberry plants. Towns of frame houses are rapidly springing up, and the very moral city of Vineland, which was founded by an enterprising Dutch Yankee, from Lancaster county, is flour ishing. Its yards and gardens are not fenced, the flowers, vegetables and fruits presenting a tempting sight to boys who have nota proper respect for the eighth com mandment. Maybe the strougdnindcd women who are said to dwell in the town have eradicated the propensities of the av erage boy. Wagon-roads stretch away from ' the railroad-like paths covered with snow, so white is the sand. The :ide creeps along through oozy creeks, and wild flowers bloom in the swamps where the rich green leaves of the dwarf magnolia forms a prom inent feature in the foliage. These things attract attention, and render the ride from Philadelphia to Cape Island one of interest to all who have an observant eye. Cape May City would never have had a name or a place on the maps if it had not been for its peculiarly fine sloping beach of smooth sand, which makes it the pleasant est and safest bathing place in the country. Long before a railroad was laid down through Jersey many people came here by boat and stage to spend a portion of the Summer season. Tho town has a resident population of some twelve hundred, and most of them make a living by supplying the varied wants of visitors at a large profit. It Is gay for a few weeks In Summer, but a dreary, sleepy place the balance of the year. Most of the good residences which are not hotels, are cottages erected by men of means who send their families here to spend the season. The hotels are numer ous and comfortable. Chief among them are the Columbia I louse, the Stockton and Congress Hell. We put the Columbia House first because wo happen to know most about it. It oc• cupies the moat eligible silo, has the finest lawn, is in front of the best bathing ground and is admirably kept. Its proprietor, George J. Bolton, runs three hotels, and runs them all in such a manner as to satin• fy the wants of the traveling public, and to draw a large share of patronage. During the season he remains at Cape May, where he is now ably assisted by John Potter, as cashier, and flurry Resley and Mr. Doak as clerks. Now and then he runs up to Harrisburg to Mid Charley Kemp doing a thriving business at Bolton's Hotel, and occasionally he stops over night in his Philadelphia hotel, the Washington House, which is now tinder the supervision of our former townsman, K. Seheaffer Metzger, and Henry Frogmen. The present season has been a hard one upon all the pro prietors of hotels at watering•places.— July is the month during which money Is made at such places, and the past July was the most unfavorable known for years.— The cool, rainy weather deterred thousands Who desired to go from leaving home, and many were glad of an excuse to escape from the expensive and arbitrary decree of fashion. Up to the first of August, no hotel at Cape May had begun to pay ex penses. The heat of the present month will be apt to let some of them out with a profit, but others will lind a large balance on the wrong side of the ledger, and their . keepers will have short bank accounts and long feces. The American people demand so many luxuries at hotels that it is an ex pensive business to keep them up. If they would be satisfied with less show and plainer and more wholesome food, hotel bills could be reduced and expenses greatly lessened. They have only themselves to blame for the prices they are compelled to pay. The sea air and the bathing, are of course the chief attractions at Cape May. The wind comes off the ocean full of moisture. When it blows stilly In the evening, your clothes are speedily dampened, but no in jurious effect is produced. On the contrary, a feeling of exhilaration is experienced, and many a weakened frame is rapidly braced up and invigorated. Now and then a land breeze sweeps over the marshes, bringing heat with it and sometimes clouds of mos quitoes. These pests are generated in broods which last about nine days, when an interval ensues, during which the eggs laid by those which have died are hatching. Fortunately land breezes at Cape May are not frequent. A word of advice here may be timely. When you go to any seaside resort, do not object to taking an elevated room. :Mosquitoes rarely rind Mid their way above the second story. They are borne along near the ground, and do not rise high in the atmosphere. Miss Urundy has settled the time for bathing without regard to moon, tide or even the will of the bather, Half-past eleven o'clock is the fashionable hour for indulging In this delightful recreation, and every ono is expected to emerge from tics bathhouse and enter the water immediate ly after the clock has chimed the half-hour. The sight of a crowd in the surf is estrange and amusing one. The transformations which take place aro marvellous. Busts of the most beautiful contour aro suddenly flattened out by the first dash of the billows ; forms of voluptuous fullness grow won derfully attenuated 1.1.4 wet robes reveal the actual proportions, and the magnificent heads of hair we are accustomed to see have nearly all disappeared. Here and there may be seen some really beautiful maiden, with a form such as might have belonged to one of the Nereides, disporting herself amid the waves, which seem to struggle' with each other for the privilege of embrac ing her and kissing her ruby lips. Fat women are a sight to see when they bathe, and fat men are by no means attractive ob jects. Some people are unable to overcome a dread of the sea while others lay their hands familiarly on the ocean's mane.— We noticed an elderly couple, evident ly man and wife, floating with link ed arms on the swelling waves where they rode as composedly as if they could neither sink nor be carried out by the undertow. By halt-past twelve o'clock the bathing for the day Is considered to be over, and the motley crowd have doffed the flannel garbs of varied hues, and be taken themselves to their chambers. It is considered orthodox for gentlemen to take a lunch after bath' and a mint-julep at the bar, and ladles have a delicate morsel sent to their rooms to be eaten while they sip a glees of sherry or a lemonade. The bath is generally followed by a slight feel ing of languor, and many take a nap before dressing for dinner. The afternoons are spent lounging about the hotel piazzas and parlors, or in drives along the beach, which offers a wide roadway of sand packed as hard as a floor when the tide is out. In the evening Multitudes promenade along the planked pathways near the edge of the surf, and here the murmurs of the ocean strive in vain to drown the whispers of lovers who stroll arm-in-arm. Hops and balls take place every evening, and there the art of dressing can be studied as the gay butter flies of fashion glide through the mazes of the dance. Dancing men seem to be in great demand, and many ladies are forced to forego tho pleasure for want of proper partners. From 11 o'clock at night until 5 o'clock in the morning the police regulations allow buff bathing. In other words, you can bathe without clothes during those hours. If you wish to enjoy the full luxury of an ocean bath rise at 4 o'clock, slip on your nether garments and walk down to the shore in your bare feet. It Is only a little distance from either of the principal hotels, and pleasant memories of boyhood will be awakened as the soles of your feet come in contact with mother earth once more. When you plunge naked into tie sea, the slight shock which is caused by the contact with the waves that break over you and lap you in their embrace, is exhilarating and delightful—very different indeed from the sensation experienced when you are wrap ped in a suite of flannel with grains of sand sticking in its pores. He who has once tried a buff bath will be anxious to repeat the pleasure. When you return to your couch you will soon be wrapped In a delicious, dreamy slumber, from which you will rite wonderfully refreshed and invigorated. Ono of the most amusing sights to be witnessed at Cape May is the bathing of the horses. Early on Sunday morning we were awakened by shouts and loud laugh ter, and looking out of the window in our chamber, which faced the sea, .re saw nearly a hundred horses with their riders gathered in a group. Most of the horses seemed to dread the surf, and it took sharp spurring to induce them to enter the break ers. An occasional animal walked in quietly with the air of being accustomed to it, but the majority struggled wildly with their riders. Now and then some groom would be thrown, and then a loud shout and peals of laughter go up as his steed galloped away. 'rho sight was full of amusement, and we wa wiled it from where we lay until the gentle caresses of a soft sea•breezo fanned us into a de licious morning nap. There is good fishing at Capri .Nlay. For a dollar a piece a party of three or moth can be supplied With very comfortable boats, lines, bait, and a man who knows the fish ing grounds in the sound. A party of us caught a line lot of excellent fish near the inlet one morning. We anchored some distance inside the bar over which the waves rolled in long and Hashing lines of white foam. 11 r. Schillenger, who lives about a mile from the principal hotels, and runs a line of omnibuses in and out every hour, furnishes all the necessary appli ances, and hires them out at reasonable rates. There is gu nn irig too along the sound Willets, curlews, bull-head plovers, ox.. eyed snipe and the large and small Toucan be killed. After the lirst of August the fishing and gunning is at its best. Take it all in all Cape May is a pleasant place to visit, and it is not strange that it has come to be a great place of resort.— Those who go with a determniat ion to en. joy life without being subjected to all the restraints and Inconveniences to which the votaries of fashion voluntarily submit will find themselves benefited physically and mentally, by a sojourn at the sea side. The season is now at its hcighth, the hotels being comfortably full, and all the pleas ures which are customary being kept up with spirit, 1f... 5. Stale Item, Prof. Lowe, of Chester eounty, is meet ing with great success In the South with his leemmehines,and will probably reap a fortune therefrom. The peach, apple and cherry trees that were stripped of theft fruit and foliage by the late hull storm In lycomlng county have put forth a new crop of blossoms. Two twin lambs in Washington coml. y, whose mother died, were suckled by t heifer whose first call had been taken flom her. The lambs are uncommonly largo and their step-mother, the heifer, treats them with the greatest allbction. Samuel Macomb, of Solebury, Bucks county planted this season one Peerless potato from which he raised 66 potatoes, weighing 17. pounds; and from one Early Rose he raised 53 potatoes, weigh ing 1:3 , 3 ; pounds. Some of the Peerless potatoes weighed over half a pound each. The Philadelphia " Bulletin" opposes two of the Republican candidates for city officers, Messrs. C. H. T. Coll is,and P. A. 13. Widener, and four of the can didates for the Legislature, Messrs. Dully, Lamm', Albright and (tray, be cause, it says, they are mere " baript cies." .Nlrs. Colt, widow of the revolver wan ufacturer, is the richest woman it America. Margaret Willis, aged so, was run over and killed by a train at Lynn, Mass., on Friday evening. During the last live days a smoke has prevailed on Lake I [won, so dense as to impede navigation. Hon. It. C. McCormick, Delegate to Congress fron Arizona, has gone blind, and it is sal to be doubtful whether tie will ever ga,in his sight, The selly 4- Campbell has arrived at Kenosha, \ , -114 - . J with the wreck of the lumber schooner Scottish Chief. It is supposed the crew of the latter were lost. The steamer Chautauqua exploded her boiler near Maysville, N. V., yester day afternoon. Five persons were kill ed and fourteen injured. Several of the injured are expected to die. Nearly three-quarters of a mile of snow sheds along the Pacific Railroad at Emigrants' Gap, with station build ings, were destroyed by tire on Wed nesday. Trains were delayed 12 hours by the disaster. Two brothers, named Hardwick, at tacked some Chippewa Indians, accused of stealing, near Lake Darling, Minn., and killed two of them. The Bard wicks then gave themselves up to the authorities. The Apaches were reported at last ac counts " very active" In Arizona and Sonora. General Cook's force was mak ing progress in Arizona. The Mexican authorities had altered $.;0,000 addition al bounties for Apache scalps. Most of the booty stolen from the ex press delivery wagon in St. Louis re cently has been recovered. The recov ered property consists of $56,00i in Kan sas Pacitic Railroad bonds, which were found in the woods, a short distance from St. Louis. Fifty persons were injured by the railroad disaster at Bangor, :Slaitie, ou Wednesday night, owsed by the break ing of a bridge, which precipitated four passenger eats into the road. Two were killed. All toe injured ore reported "in a fair way of recovery." A. tire at (loldsboro, ou Sunday night, destroyed two hotels, tell stores, the railway ear sheds, and several out buildings. Loss, about $BO,OOO. 'l'lle fire was ineendiary, and is believed " to have hall its origin out of the late negro riot." At the drawing of the Sacramento Pioneer Hall and Library Association Lottery, July 2lst, the $lO,OOO prize was drawn by ticket No. '211,7.12, which be longed to a hard-working widow named Mrs. McDermott, who supports her fam ily by taking in washing. A New York despatch reports a seri ous accident on the Susquehanna Rail toad last Saturdag. The particulars are not given, but it Is stated to have result ed in the drowning of a fireman named Blanchard, the Injuring of an engineer named Whipple, and a loss of about $lOO,OOO to the Company. The horrible Atlanta, (la., Ann says: "The New York Sun wants to know if suicide is ' It would be a pity If It were so and were not to Invade the ,S'un office. There are few places where a few suicides could be committed with more advantageous results to the country." The Cincinnati Tinics says that Mr. Colfax Is ary sure of a nomination as Preskient,Grant. We are at a loss to know whether this means that Mr. Col fax has changed his mind In relation to withdrawing from public life, or wheth er the Tinaca thinks General Grant will not be renominated. The Fort Scott Monitor gives a dis• couraging report of the cattle trade in Kansas, caused by low prices at St. Louis and Chicago. At Bax ter Springs, one of the sources of supply, there is no stated price, and no cattle are offered, When sales are made, the rate Is usually about one cent per pound. Lust year It was two cents. At Nashville, Tenn., Judge Baxter has decided the State tax on lawyers to be unconstitutional. The Legislature ordered atax of $5O per annum as priv ilege to be levied on the lawyers ; one of them, named Colyer, paid the tax under protest and sued for its recovery, the suit resulting in this decision. The mat ter will be carried to the Supreme Court. The Teachers or Pennsylvania Their Eighteenth Annunl Meeting. [From our Special Correspondent.) WILLIAMSPORT, Aug. 8, 1871 Editors Inlctligencer : Thinking that perhaps a few rambling notes on the State Teachers' Association, now convened In this city, might not be uninteresting to your readers, I place the following at your disposal: The train arriving hero at 2:0.5 P. M., yesterday, brought a small delegation of teachers, mostly from the southern and south eastern counties, but not till the eve ning trains was there any influx of strati. gers. These, however, with the early morning trains brought in quite a respect able number from different parts of the State. This morning, a tow minutes after ten o'clock. the Association was called to order in its elegant place of meetingi(the Academy of Music) by the President, A. N. Raub, of Lock Haven. Probably three hundred teachers and others bad already gathered In the Hall. After opening with prayer by the Rev. J. R. Davis, an address of welcome was read by the Rev. A. H. Horne, City Superintendent of Williams port. In this address, the reverend gen tleman, besides extending a very hearty welcome to the Association, uu behalf of the citizens of Williamsport, made allu sion to the various objects of interest, nat ural, architectural, historical, tkc., which it might be profitable for the teachers to visit during their stay in the city. Ainon g other things, attention was called to the extensive lumber Interest centred in thia beautiful and thriving inland commercial emporium. Tho addreaa was delivered in a very hap py manner and being agreeably inter apereed with sallies of wit and humor, made every one feel that the heart• wel come was not a mere empty form of words only, but really more to he interpreted ac cording to Webster. This address was very pointedly and happily responded to, un the part of the Association, by Prof. A. 11. New pher, chairman of the Executive Committee Re marks wore also made by several members of the Association, all ealculated to main tain the general good feeling already estate. hshed. '1 he following committees Were then appointed: tht enrollment—Messrs. Burgitn, of Centre; NValthaner, of West moreland; llarrisumof Pittsburg: and Stout, of Philadelphia. Tn audit accounts of Treasurer-1.1 essrs. I of Mifflin ; Patt• terson. of Pottsville and Slicely, ut Frank lin. To revise the constittittiiii—Mesars. Parker and C. I. I larding, of Philadelphia; Woodruff, of Chester; Ford, of l'ildidiurgh and Woods, of l'raw Ford, After various iniseellaneow; silizu:ostions and 511111 , 111110,- ments the Assoolation adjourned till lui o'clovk I'. NI. Besides miscellanyouniai,dues,, the Prps- dent's inaugural, on " lur educational want -9," and the presenting or a 001100 tit romolutions relath e to LI (+death of Dr. Bur owes, by lion. J. I'. NVickershitin, were the principal features of the afternoon ex ercises. This was an able, and to teachers at least, a very interesting address. In faaJsCaltiag the 'alter oreasinni was takinn by Mr. IViekershain to pronounce a very eloquent etiloe,2v on the deceased, dwelling especially on his great work, in the cause M popular cultivation, Prof. Brooks, 01 Millersville, .1. l'lnutt, nut NVilliainsport, 11. I'. 11 ichink, of Philadelphia, and Prof, tireene, of Brown iiiversity, IL 1., liillotc ed, each with rettiarks califsl forth by the subject or the resolutions. The remarks of Prof. Brooks and Greens Ivor° peruliurly befitting the occasion aid honorable to the character or the deceased. After various miscollaneow+ business:m.l the appointEnclu of Houck of the School lieptruneut, . Lincavenver, ut Schuylkill, and Laird or Philadelphia, Mi=rl=i= wishing to accompany the excursion to Niagara on Thursday evening, the Associ lion adjourned to 7:4:t. The exercises in the evening 11111Siattal of an essay by Miss Reighard, of Will 41111H port, all address on " Relations of Common Schools to Colleges," by Prot*. liliss , of Lewisburg, and a very interesting one on what might be called ih, " Cnwritten His tory of the Pennsylvania Common Schaal System "—the procraintnes have it " A Retrospect of Ills Pennsylvania Common School System "- by 1100. 11. C. II ichok, el Philadelphia. Tho evening exercises wt re interspersed will, excellent music, and, though rather long, were listened to (eOll sitlering the tropical atmosphere or the hull very patiently by a very largo audience. Altogether, the exercises of the day have Inanootly profitable In ill Who hilt! OW idt.asure to be in attendance. NVE1.1,1.km49419r, At 9,4. U, 1,171 Owing to the copious showers of yesterday, hero, the temperature to•day stands about Iliree collars lens per dicm, than for several days pant. This is a very great improvement, an the mercury has been or sometime persistently 14 cop- - Mg at a torrid altitude to the greet distress of neck-ties and collars made or material anything short of water•proa, not to nay fire-proof. The proceedings of the •'State Teachers' Assoviation," to-day, were throughout or a very interesting and Inn portion character. The session opened with prayer by Hey. Brobst, or Allentown.— Reno] utions of respect to the memory of Professor William F, Wyers, or Went Chester, recently deceased, were then of. toured liy W. W. 'Woodruff, of Bucks. :Sir. Woodruff preceded the offering of his res• ohnion with a very appropriate ellloolllll on the character of the deceased. Al esnrn Maris, of Went Chester, Moore, F. A. Al len, of Mansfield, E. A. Jones, of Erie. Pucker nif Philadelphia, and Professor N. Brooks, or Af illersville, each offered their chaplet of praise to the memory of the departed. On motion, a committee wan appointed to deVbil , a ohm for erecting a monument in the Capitobground at Ilar• rtsburg, to the memory of eminent cd twa• torn of the State. A short lecture on Vocal Muni., in our common schools, by Prole' nor ilopk inn, of N. Y., followed. Profes sor (treene, of It. 1., then opened the dis cussion on "1 he Relation of Common Schools to Colleges," Thin all hjeot el leltod a very animated and able debate, partici pated in by 1/r. Taylor, Professor/4 Mins and Wickersham, M r. Flinger and Rever end ilrobnt. At the afternoon session, the Committee appointed to revise the Constitution et the Association, presented a report, which. of ter being slightly amended, was adopted as the Constitution of the Association. A Report—The Next Step—was then read I.y S. C. Shortledge, Kennett Square, Pa. The committee appointed at the last annual meeting ei the AKeeehtheit to report on the State Board of Examiners and Stale Aid to Permanent Teachers, then presented a report through Professor A. 11. Newpher. The ASS(WilitlOn seemed very anxious to take up the discussion of this report, hut the time fixed fur the 'nimbi:akin eel's having itrri veil that WILY declared to he the business in order, after which item the Association adjourned till 7.. tr,. A limit tlye hundred teacher • are in at tendance, and these, wilh the many friends of °duration and others in town, give the sire, to a lively appearance, while the crowds seeking admission at the various hotels rather severely test Llin patience ul the landlord+. WILLIAM:4I,IOE, Allg 11 , 1",71 'llia proceedings of the A SSOCiillloll con tinued interesting and prolitsible, 'I his morning G. If. 1....1..5tburn, of Philadelphia, read a paper entitled "Science lit Educa tion.•' It was an able arguillent in favor of the introduction of the elements of natural science in 04,1111111111 Setif 50IS, and its only fault was its great length. A committee was appointed to take steps for calling a great natural meeting of educators in Phil adelphia during the centennial celebration. A discussion !elating to State certificates was continued and action in regard to the lair proposed for their- regulation was, on motion of Prod. Wickersham, postponed until the next annual meeting. I ,neral Easton, of \'a•dti,,gtnn, delivered a lecture on "American edt u •atior u al pro gress." Ile advo c ated chi, project of estab ',bine: a national department ofechicatien, a scheme which has been condemed by taunt• of the best educators in the country. At the allernoon mission Pol. McFarland, of Ilarrisnu rg , read a report upon the graded course of study proper for common schools. The it i,vussiott nl ,M,P,W4OrY attendtuu•e at pit blip schools tilts Slid the sentiment of the ma j ority seemed to a WA be enacted. following oilivers ,vere chosen tor th ensuing year: Pre.ident, 11. Ilourk, of Harrisburg Viet , l'resttlents, Prof, tio,rge 0 NI INS Jennie Itenthartl, of \VP. ; j ; ,,,,51;,0rt ; Svcrt•Litry, J. P. Mel'asltey, o I.ltheaster ; Tre,t4orer, 1.. S. llort,, After singintr the doxology, the Asnocia floe a l)nurned to 111( , e1 in Philadelphia, I; 1572. There way no evening session, it consequence of the proposed elontrsion o tile A 5.) , ..1/1t ion to Niagara. Dana, roan Ea perlmenill nix on Hu llramcbc .1/r. Editor,: AI any y'ettrit ago it was prite• Really demonstrated that two trains run ning In opposite directions emit(' not safely pass each other on the same track. ISut new and novel experiment has been tried by the Wilmington and Reading Railroad, which resulted in the death of Mr. Sitertz and the crippling of several others. A new schedule went into effect on August 21. Thu trains were started front Birdsboro on the now time, and the northward bound trains from Wilmington on the old time table, and having but one track a most fatal and disastrous collision was the result. Railroading has been reduced toascience, and companies aro culpable and should be held strictly responsible for keeping in their employ Ignorant and careless em ployees. This late fit,al accident that has deprived a dependent family of its only support was the result of culpable Ignor ance and stupidity. What railroader ever heard of a now uchedule going into effect and but ono end of the road noodled of the fact? If the train, as stated, left Birdsboro on the now time and the 8.15 train loft Wil mington on the old time, and the collision took place at Marshall's Station, where was the General Despatcher or /Train Master, who has his Wilco at Coatesville, that he was not apprised of the upward bound train, as it had passed two telegraph eta• tions before the collision took place? If companies for such negligence are not amenable to the law, tho employees of the road, engineers, firemen, conductors and brakesmen, who at best are engaged In a most dangerous business, should tako the protection of their lives in their own hands by refusing to work on a road managed by such bungling Wilda's, RAILROADER MEE= Meeting of the State Radical Convention Interference of Federal Troops New ORLEANS, A ugust an early hour this morning large crowds of whites and blacks gathered around tho Custom- House building, where the Republican Convention assembled. About nine o'clock two companies of tho Nineteenth United Suites Infantry, with two (lolling guns, under command of Captain Smith arrived. The troops marched in and stacked arms in the hail, at the head of the steps at the Canal-strset entrance. Large numbers of Deputy United States Marshals closely guarded every entrance to the Custom (louse, no one being permitted to enter without a ticket from Marshal Packard. At half. pact ten 'inventor Wurtnoth, accompanied by t leneral Cant pbol ',Senator Pinebback and about eighty followers, sonic with and some without tickets, en• tered the building and endeavored to pass through the hall, but were stopped by it deputy-marshal and informed that no one was permitted to pass until the hour for the opening of the Convention. Wurmoth expressed Indignation, 111011111- cd a chair, and said Having been refused admittance to the hall designated by the Central Committee for holding a Convention, I propose we now adjourn to urtives Ilnll 'mil hold a Convetalim 'rho spetieli was received with eboors, ogled with a low hisses. 11'ar111011/ descended Irma the chair and enteredi.his carriage,. The crowd took out the horses from the carriage and dragged it trium phantly through the 'streets to Turner's AL twelve o'clock the crowd wa4 mlled order, and Mr. NlaNters, of Carroll par- Wats elected Temporary Chairman. Varnitith, Pinch back, ltamptioll and J intim dentitmeed lhu interference of the ' llitell SEMI, Ofilrers. lii tll/10 iihitracterii• Custom- 1 youse l'otiveution a.. a buds if administration favorites, guarded ityonets and lawless tyranny. l'inchbaek said In at possible we as, a lae put. down lay the government wo have u.rwiuott If that ho the ease, the Noollor its government is torn down and a coon riliy built upon its ruins the better r' Atter eiteeting a permanent organization •ith l'inehback as President, they adjoin ii- I to went in Turner'm tlnll, ui 1111 . 11 . -1,,t,t .%•eli o'clock this evening. l'aokard called the Custoni entio” to order at twelve 111, Ilenry Burch, colored, or Button Rouge, its elected temporary l'intirttuan. A pc, 11, with I.witt, At the evening n.n•hhion lu tho t'ust loni.e, the Committee on l'redentials re carted hnr the Warniellideleghtem ill never I inarindles and live out of the thirteen eitN 'ards. Speechenn were delivered by Post lamer Lnntvoll, Dunn, Carter, Ingralnann, lardy and others, null of which ,vertu ox en...tingly bitter oil \Vartnunntli, the majority of the speakers pronnuncing him recreant to every trust and all enemy to the itol,llll Main party. 'l • he C01111111“00 reported rese• Interns guaranteeing a !dace in the tree. schools to every drill; approving' the 11111 itatien or the State debt to twenty-live mil lioun; palling 111 , 011 UM 1:ocerllOr to pre serve peace; declaring that tieveritm Henry I'. Warinoth 110 1.111)41, elli , lyeti tiler .r the Itointlilman party ; in structing the dOiegalt, to veto S i rant liar renomination at the !text Niltlolllll ; derheriug Lill, No, I,rlvallS /61.4/glean no longer lho lirg:III It the Itopulaican party, and asking the nil., atien In withdraw the Federal ',roil ing !rein that paper, and thanking dent rant ter his promptness iu proteetine, them. All the Federal oinclais %n en. rn. elected on the Central Committee, Mick which the Cow:elite.. adjourned Atilt do • . troops on duty were procured front kteneral Iteynelde, cominikniling in Texas, on IL requisition from the 1 . 15111. ti Mlkrshal. •nutrul ut . Lite slow Executive ite t itti,ttetut ....tau., which coutuutactv epitome, MI utettlttentillette throughout the Shale, 111.1 bus v it tunny controls the Stale election ill 87 . 2.. Thu present State Cell tral 'otti in Met, Ire, a majority of them, opposed to tlnc rnor Warinoth's renomination, «hllu Varinolli, of Course, wants it. Ile rt,IIMP -1111,111.1y goes lor the State Committee, anti • Hiving ill Ilk hilnllA end removing power of nearly twory ffillver tutu Slaty, trout thin Supremo Bench dowil to police jurors and mitistables, ho has pot on the nerews all through the Multi, broken up all word clubs opposed to hint 6y tint 01 tiro 1.1100 Mini eiLy laborers, and carries everything with a high Ills l'oree eunsiula of the olliee•holtlen. tiirolighout the State, Will., tuuuo Is Ile Is opposed by nsour .1. Dunn, Ile, colored Lieutenant-inivernor and Preshiciii of the Senate; lieorge Carter, ;Speaker the Iluuse ; Jwuus F. Casey, Colleci.or oi the Port, and the Mail,' Custom-114,0ne in lured, anti nearly all the 4 . lol.ired VOIOI,I 111/1 111 IL iN 1111110,14aal that IV NVurinutli nur Ill) fc)rm a voitlitilot %vitli lhu oily MS= ridoseil to Join iii), ;14 mildralizo Lila OppOSi tho (qemont ud h, own ranks, and will !Indio a good Ilghl for re-election with thn 1.11,11 - 1111111/1 pain/I/11g ,, placed ill Ilk lounn, 6y incotc.nlorme lege, Istation. od and 'mane:tiled on/10011W* the I.eginluturo 111011tM, 1111(1 010 Dunn. Packard, tirititt and Caney party will hare it all their own way and will undoubtedly carry the Stale. • Senator Kellogg solon with Ow Donn party and rollen on thorn far re•elvctlou, Senator Wont In Warmoth'n chief ..11, , Intor. C.)ngrosmni en Sheldon, tiy pher mutt thirriil I are with Ihotn. 'rho oilier l'otigrussinvii liar.) not shown their hatpin. It'llichavor way t h e tight ends it magnifi cent opening in made for tha Democrats. NEW ORLEANS, August, 10.—At the Con• vention of the NVartnouth wing, last ava iling, 107 delegates answered to thu roll eali, I ieneral flerron'm resolution was adopted, that Senator West tio req hunted to ititroduce a resolution at the next nosnion REEMEOZCIZI= and other officers of the fiovernitient for ell Information in their possession re garding the use of the Custom-house for holding. a State Convention, the authority given the United Staten rI arshall for the ap pointment of I hputy ardial and th.., brin g ing of troops to suppress the llonveu• thin. Another resolution Was referred mantling thu removal or Colonel Camay, Postmaster Lowell, Deputy-Co!Jailor Her wig., Ponied :states \laruttl Pitekaril, As 4ennor Joutiert, and Revenue t'olleetio Stock,lido. Thu lion VOIllll,ll thou mine'rnout until later in the day. The Moldier.. of 101:2—Who they Are and Ilan Itlony-I'PZIPIIOII Applicants, .te. WAiillistrroN, Aug. 10. -Consiti..l. speculation having existed In referent to the question, ..how many Hold i u of MIL survi VO Mill are entitled to petonotin, the following data, compiled from the ollleitti record of the War department, with dodo, Lions therefrom made by the CUM Whisk,. or of Pensions, will be read by many with interest. During Ilia war of 1812-11, the following number of enlistments occurred Soldiers in the regular army who served 12 months, :Lit,lsti; siallors and marines in the navy who served ;12 months, 17,840 ; militiamen Nv ho served 12 months, 7,117; militiaman win" served Ii 1110110111 and less than 12 months, C6.:12:i; militiamen who serred 11,111114 uud 11,04 than I; 111011111, ; 111111031111111 who served 1 month and le,o, than 3 nundlni, 1'23,31)7; 101 t, served less than 1 147,200 lulu) enliAment, It appears from the above statement thin there were 2.Vi,117 who served three months and longer, to winch number should lio added nun-third of those who served ono month and less than three mouths, uuwwt lug w 41,7119. A total of 2liii,9liisixty days' wee, in wluonc ranks those claiming pull • stuns tinder this :Let of February 14, 1871, must have served. It Wits elaborately en ti mated by the Pension ()Mee, and reported to a committee of Congress lit the hesslitit of Isr,s-'9, that Itts,M9 soldiers of the Per of 1 , 1:1, of all terms of service, survived at that lime, and again in lei;m•7 that (includ ing Willows in that estimate) 119,11.",:i wci u then alive. The littler report also r Oferred to the estillittled number of revolutionary soldiers who would be entitled to the Islet - lit of the provisions of the act of Juno 7, 18:12, at the tillie It was pending before Con gress, and to the actual number of pensions admitted under It, which nut only sustain. ed the calculation, but Indicated that it might ho under-rated. The duration of the revolutionary win was more than double that of 1812, and the number enlisting moro than once would no doubt be proportionately Increased. (moot the nets for revolutionary pensions required nine mouton' service, and the ap plicant to be in Indigent circuointames ; and the other required nix 1110111.11nl silo We, wv shout any other restriction. Of the 770,02 I enlistments m that war I lo received pensions—or one to every Ilse soldiers, without including widows. The saint, rule applied to soldleis oi the war of 1812, allowing a period to expire equal to that which intervened between the n.lllllll, tine Of the revolutionary war mid the date of the estimate, viz., tiny-ono years, gluon 59,183 as entitled tI pensions lit 1895. 'lke service required by the act of Fehrm ary 14, 1871, being but sixty days, the num ber would be materially augmented. Front similar data it is estimated by the pension (Alice that in 1865 23,196 widows °Vibe not - tilers of the war of 1812 were then alive, making a total of 52,571/entitied to pensions. 'the expectation of life to this class of per sons has been found, in the execution of the pension laws, to exceed the number of years given In the tables of mortality. So Litr as the examination or these claims has progressed, the average age of the claim ant in found to be seventy-nine years. If 82,579 widows and survivors wore entitled to pensions In 18(15, at tills time, according to the Carlisle tables, 44,592 would be em braced within the provisions of the art of February 14, 1871. It may be also stated that of the total enlistments given (527,954) many were second and third enlistments of the same soldiers, which would materially reduce the numbers representing the sm diersactually In service. Allowing ten per cent. of this class, there would still be 40,- 133 persons now entitled to pensions under the act of February 14, 1871, which, at the uniform rate of $8 per mouth,) would amount to $3,852,788 per annum. •
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