Raman' 3ntelligencer. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1871 DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET. FOR AUDITOR GENERAL, GEN. WILLIAM McCANDLESS, FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL, CAPTAIN JAMES H. COOPER, OF LAWRENCE COENTY. A 'FULL POLL OF THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE WILL SECURE TOE ELECTION OF OUR STATE TICICET BY A LARGE MAJORITY. LET EVERY DEMOCRAT REMEMBER THAT AND IMPRESS T.E THUTPI CU , IT UPON THE MINDS OF 1118 NEIORDORS. Circulate The Intelligencer. ' The WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER will be mailed to subscribers until after the October election for FORTY CENTS. Let it be put into the hands of every man who will read it. Every dollar thus spent will be worth five times that amount paid for brass bands and forget ting up big meetings. Ws Rendered We have sent out bills to all subscrib ers to the WEEKLY INTELLICENCER, whose subscriptions are more than one year In arrears. The price of the paper is $2 per annum, If paid within the year, and $2.50 If not paid until the year has expired. We hope our sub scribers will bear that in mind, and al- ways pay in advance, or within the year. They can all see how their ac counts stand by looking at the figures opposite to their names, which show the date to which subscription has been paid. We shall be pleased to hear promptly from all to whom bills have been sent, and from all who have not paid in advance. Money can be uafely sent through the mails. The 'War Claims or Pennsylvania Revelations, very damaging to the ad ministration of Governor (ieary,are now being made in reference to the collection of certain claims of Pennsylvanhi against the Govermnent of the United states for expenses incurred during the rebellion. The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, a staunch Republican newspa per, has been engaged for some days in publishing a series of documents show ing up the fraudulent transactions of George O. Evans, of Philadelphia, who was appointed a special agent for the collection of these claims. The following statemen I of facts, which Is made nil from the document, published in the Jhdlr tin, will give our readers a clear conception of the trans• actions of Evans, who was appointed by Governor Geary to collect the "dis allowed and suspended " claims of the State against the United Slates, under an act of the Legislature of I'ennsylva• nia, approved March 22, 1867. The agent's compensation was not to exceed ten per cent on the amount collected.— The claims collected by Jlr. Evans from the date of his appointment to this time amount to $ . :fl,:l0s,201.1;1. (If this sum three government warrants, amounting to :i 4 3:2 1,011. D, have revel been paid into the• Treasury of the Statc of Pennsylvania. One of the warrants, dated May 1, 1867, for $7 8 ,510. 89 , drawn In favor of (lovernOr (teary, wits paid to 11. O. Evans on the first of May of the same year, within less than a month 01 the appointment of the agent. More than four years have elapsed, and the Treasury has no account of the money. The second unpaid warrant is for .'_41115,- IlTh4ll, is dated October 28, ISIN, and is drawn in favor of Governor ( leary. The third, dated August 27,1570, is for .;;;I:17,- ; 16.09. of these sums there is no ac count in the State 'treasury. Dr. Evans. instead of paying over the invey, has been using it for his own puric)ses.— Whether others have been connected with him in this job will be fully deter mined in the future. In withholding this money, he has proved himself a faithless, corrupt and dishonest agent, mid should be prosecuted criminall without a moment's delay ; and all who are associated with hint ill the job should be exposed and punished. - Within less than a month of his appointment he received the sum of $7 8 ,51 0 . 8 9, and alr priated it to his own use, and to that ol his official and unofficial accomplices. Evans has made a statement of his accounts which appears in the fluUrtin, but he utterly fails to clear up the grave charges which have been made against him. He does Out give the slightest account of the warrants dated in Mil.\ 18117,in October 1,93 S and in August 1870. lie confesses that he has retained a soil, amounting 1.0 $2lllllOl, and claims it as Iris percentage for services rendered under the law. 13ut the resolution un der which he has been appointed de dares that the amount of percentage shall not ex,ccil tern per cent. Evans' confession convicts him. More than four years ago, on May 1, 1887, less than :1 month from the day of his appoint ment, he received $78,516.89, and has not paid it over to this hour. Thi, alone proves the animus furu ndi, and makes out the case against him. Did lie retain this entire sum for his percent age 7 The percentage would have been $7,851.68, but he kept the whole of it. - Within a month of his appointment In drew the sum of $1,782,:2:18.71, on which he cooly claims a commission of $178,- Does any man believe the pay ment of these claims was due to the ef forts of Evans ? They were already in process of adjustment under an act 01 Congress, and Governor Curtin in his annual message, in January, 1587, shows that one large claim on which this heavy percentage is impudently retain ed was already settled. ®II commenting upon this matter the Harrisburg Putriot very forcibly and truthfully says, Pennsylvania has no need of this agency at Washington. All the just claims of the Coninionwealth would have been paid in due time with out the intervention of a mean lobby sneak, going about making corrupt prop ositions to clerks in the departments. But this is one of the inventions by which the truly loyal have contrived to plunder both State and Federal Govern ments with their claims fur enormous percentages. The scheme was a bur glarious one from the beginning in which the Federal and State Treasuries were alike to be plundered. The first step was the passage of the resolution, and the second was the appointment oh Mr. George 0. Evans for chief crack man. Evans ought to be subjected to a crimi nal prosecution at once, and Congress ought to institute u thorough investiga tion of this job. Ix Kentucky, the Democratic majori ty for Governor will be about 38,000, or 7,000 majority more than it was last year, for members of Congress. The newly elected Legislature of Kentucky will stand—Senate, 35 Democrats and 3 Republicans ; House., 82 Democrats and 18 Republicans. The Democratic ma jority on joint ballot is ninety-six. This will do. The total vote of the State is about 220,000. THE Democracy ofHuntingdon coun ty have declared ih favor of General Hancock as the next Democratic candi date for the Presidency. John S. Mil ler, Esq., was chosen delegate to the next State Convention, with instruc tions to support General Hancock. The tide of feeling is setting strongly in that direction' throughout the State, and there seems to be no doubt that the Pennsylvania delegation to the next National Convention will be composed of men pledged to the support of the gallant hero, who has such a strong hold upon the hearts of our volunteer soldiery. THE LANCASTER WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1871. The Corean Conquest. As if to atone for its want of national spirit, if not absolute cowardice, we have been treated with much flourish of trumpets to a foreign war at a safe dis tance, with grea.t glory to ourselves and great loss to the enemy. The deeds of valor have been duly recorded ; the kill ed and wounded counted up, and com merce for a week felt that it was safe, even in the sea of Hoang Hay, some times called Yellow. But, before we get up into a heaven of ecstacy over the valor of Commodore Rodgers and the American Navy, let us refresh ourselves a little in regard to this far away king dom with which we are apparently at war. Corea is a Peninsula in the northeast of China, and very near to Japan. It naturally would form a part of the Chinese Empire, but it is an indepen dent kingdom, although nominally tributary to the son of the Sun and the daughter of the Moon. Its government is a despotism, as a matter of course, and as there are about twelve millions of inhabitants in a territory about the size of Pennsylvania, we may imagine that the people stand pretty thick. 'the peninsula is about 400 miles long by 150 broad. A number of islands add to the area without adding much to the popu lation ; but they afford capital hiding places for the pirates, with which these seas are infested, and 'for the trade by whiCh so many of the people get what they consider an honest living. Lying on the grand highway from China and the China seas to Japan and the North Pacific, Corea is admirably situated to harass commerce and carry on a con- traband trade. So much for Corea. It is human nature to strike back when we are bit, and we do not think but Commodore Rodgers was all right in giving the rascals a touch of his quality; but it turns out to be a great mistake to suppose the job was finished, and that those who won the fight have nothing to do but to wear the laurels. It is a great mistake to suppose that 12,000,000 care anything about the loss of a few forts, which we cannot hold and they will occupy again as soon as our forces are withdrawn. (.urea, like China, has a greater population than she knows what to do with, and life is held very cheap. We dare say we could buy a regi ment for a case of opium. Commodore Rodgers found this out when he sent to inquire what he should do with his prisoners, the answer being—"Do what you please with them !" Commodore Rodgers might have cooked and eaten his prisoners for all that the King of Co rea cared. It would lie rather a relief to get rid of a million of men than other wise, as there would be a little more room for the rest. The standing army is supposed to be more than half a mil lion,with a naval force of some hundreds of vessels, such as they are, of not much account as vessels of war, but capital for the purposes of piracy, and for escape in some of the many bays with which the coast is indented. What, then, is to be done? We have thrown down the gauntlet of war, with: out apparently producing the slightest effect ; yet, can we honorably escape its prosecution? We have attempted to show the savages what civilization can effect through poWder and ball, and have been laughed at for our pains. Shall we continue—and what is tile probable end': To doany serious damage to such an enemy we must make an invasion of the country, at an immense cost of men. Shall we titillate the costly valor dis played by England, when she sent a❑ invading army into the very heart o Africa to punish that impudent negro l'heotiore, King Of Abyssinia'? That is the question to be met and answered by the administration. It the taxpay ers of the rnited States were consulted they would be willing to let an end be made of the Corean quarrel as it now ,lands. The Rascality of the Ring The Radical political cauldron is bub bling and boiling all over the State, and most filthy shunt is being brought to the surface. In Philadelphia the Itepu•bli cun candidates are so notoriously cor rupt, that a majority of the newspapers of the party have been compelled to de nounce them us unworthy to receive the support of the people. In this county the usual scramble for political prefer ment is going on the usual way. The creatures of the corrupt ring, which has so long ruled here, expect to carry ott all the principal prizes at the coming Priinary Election. They will he sup ported by a combination, which is pow ful on account of its superior discipline. It has its agents actively at work in every election district, and many of these are utterly unscrupulous. That they will not hesitate to resort to bal lot-box stuffing and every known fraud ulent device, for the purpose of carrying 'tit the orders of the leaders, is univer sally conceded. The Express confesses hat tickets have been heretofore made by the ring, and the people cheated of their choice of candidates by the use of " ballot-boxes" with false bottoms, by personating dead men and absentees, by tinkering returns, and such like tricks." The confession is a humiliating one, but there is no doubt about its truth. The Republican press of this State has kept up a lute and cry about election frauds, but no charge has ever been snore openly made, or half so well proven, as that which a leading Republican news paper of Lancaster county produces against its own party. The Express intimates that it will not consider itself bound to support a ticket which may be made by such means, but we fear its courage will fail in the end. Next Sat urday will tell the tale. The Fall Elections This Fall the States of California, Maine, Texas, Pennsylvania, Ohio, lowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missis sippi, Minnesota, New York, New Jer sey and Wisconsin, and the Territories of New Mexico and Wyoming, hold general elections and choose different officers. California votes, on the nth, for Governor, State officers and Mem bers of Congress. Governor Haight is the Democratic candidate for Governor, and Newton Booth the Radical candi date. Wyoming elects a Territorial Leg islature, September 3. The Maine elec tion for Governor and Legislature takes place September 11. Perham, the present Governor, is the Radical candidate for Governor, and C. I'. Kimball is Ids Dem ocratic competitor. The election in New Mexico, for Delegate in Congress, Sep tember 11. Texas votes for four mem oers of Congress, October 4. The Demo cratic candidates are: In the First district, W. S. Herndon; Second dis trict, J. C. Connor; Third district, D. C. Giddings; Fourth district, Jno. Han cock. The Radical candidates are not yet nominated. Pennsylvania elects au Auditor, Surveyor-General and mem bers of the Legislature, October 10.— On the seine day, Ohio electta Gover nor, State officers and members of the Legislature ; and on the same day, lowa chooses State officers and a Legislature. Maryland elects State officers and a Legislature, November 7. On the same day, Massachusetts elects a Governor, State officers and a Legislature; also, Mississippi elects a Legislature; Min nesota elects a Governor, State officers and a Legislature; and Illinois elects a member of Congress at large. THE conviction is general in Harris burg, that a large portion of the plund er of Mr. Evans has passed out of his hands into those of a band of men who procured his appointment, and cannot be refunded. This is likely true. Evans is only the tool of worse men in this State—men who are now preaching morality and leading the Radical party. These are the men we wish to see un earthed, and they will be, if Attorney- General Brewster does his duty. No 'matter whom the axe may strike, let it fall. Swindling Unborn Generations. The amount of public lands disposed of by the Government is stated at near ly five hundred millions (447,266,080) of acres. Of this amount 106,588,000 have been sold, and the large balance of 840,- 678,080 acres have been given away for military services, colleges, railroads, canals, wagon roads, schools, asylums, public buildings, &c. A glance at these figures is sufficient to show the work ing men of the nation how they have beentefraudediby the Republican party, out of the grand heritage which ought to have held as a sacred trust for those who were disposed to seek a home In the West. The father may be-con tent to spend his days in the place where ho was born, but his sons and the descendants will be apt to seek new and wider fieldsof action. So longas the fer tile lands of the West remained open to the children of the nation they could se cure cheapand comfortable homes at little cost. When the Republican party,under the administration of U. S. Grant, gave up the virgin fields of the West to the absolute control of selfish corporations, the people were cheated out of one of the most valuable privileges which they enjoyed in the past. The wrong thus done to the masses is a gigantic one, and it should be rebuked by every laboring man in the nation. Not only is the pres ent generation being swindled in the most outrageous way by a corrupt and extravagant administration, but unborn millions have been deprived of what would have been to them a birthright if the Republican party had never had an existence. If the people would prevent the balance of the public lands from be ing given away to soulless corporations they must turn out the men who are now in power. The Butters from the Temperance Co❑ The editor of the Krgstunr (jowl Tem plar goes for the immaculate Joshua Owens, the boisterous Pennell Combe, and for certain Republican newspapers in a very lively style. A day or two after the adjournment of the State Tem perance Convention the following item appeared in the Harrisburg Stale Jour nal: Members of the Democratic State Central Committee, it. is said, were in Harrisburg on Wednesday, engineering the proceed ings in the Temperance Convention. We do not know this to be true, but give it as a eharaeteristic part of the Democratic in trigues to ensure the defeat of the Repub lican party. Temperance men who are Re publicans will appreciate this statement. To Nrhich:the /;:mp/or replies a 8 follows: That editor keeps on the safe aide of this story, by saying he does "not know this to be true." But, he knows that it is a lie, atanti . lart arca by himself; and he doubtless knows, tw, that the only •'State Central Committee" influence that appeared in Harrisburg on that occasion, was the ap pearance of a Heim blican party delegation of curbstone members of the convention, who came in the interest of their party, and made themselves extremely ridiculous by first trying to get into the Convention which they could not do, and second, by publish ing a card seceding from a Convention of which they were not members. It seems to us that the bogus bolters and their Radical editorial backers get decidedly the worst of it in the contro versy which is now going on. Why Bas Sot Evans Been Arre s ted " George 0. Evans, Governor Geary's defaulting agent, boldly:refuses to com ply with the demand that he shall pay into the State Treasury . the moneys which he collected for the Slate. He has written an insolent letter to the Au ditor-General and the State-Treasurer, in which he characterizes their demand as most extraordinary. He does not in tend to pay over a penny of the money which lie has embezzled, and the Audi tor-General and the State-Treasurer ought to have him arrested at once. It is said that a large amount of the money which Evans owes the State is deposited in a bank of Washington City. That money ought to be attached at once. The slowness with which the officials move in this important matter, is suffi cient to confirm the belief that a thor ough investigation would involve mem bers of the Republican party in high places. Delay may cause the money to be lost and allow Evans an opportunity for escap'ng from the punishment he merits, but the whole truth in regard to this outrageous piece of business will be laid before the people in all the de tails of its hideous deformity. The offi cial documents will enable_ that to be effectually done. The Eight View The fatit has been mentioned that a riot in Ogdensburg, New York, led by a railroad contractor, on Tuesday, broke up an audience assembled to hear a lec ture from a man announcing himself as a converted Catholic priest. The New York Times, which, in general, is not 'toted for its religious tolerance, concedes that the evidence so fur goes to show that the professed priest is not what he pretends to be, and that his lectures are neither instructive nor convincing. The Times adds an undoubted truth when it says that " these facts would, without doubt, "have secured hint small audi ences and general indifferences. The mob has succeeded in making a great excitement in his favor, and securing him sooner or later an extensive hear ing." This is one specimen of the in sensate folly of mobs and of mob vio lence, their inevitable effect being to make new issues involving principles to which the public at large, profoundly indifferent as they may be to those which entered into the original causeof offence, are keenly sensitive, and of which they Fasten to become champions when they suspect them, rightly or wrongly, to be imperiled. OrpiciAi. despatches from nearly all the counties of North Carolina show, that the call for a Constitutional Con vention has been defeated. Many timid Conservatives voted against the propo sition because they feared that disturb ance would ensue. The old Pine Tree State is soundly Democratic still, how ever, and her vote will be cast for the Democratic candidate for President next Fall. Of that there is no doubt, and the most extreme Radical newspa pers do not hesitate to concede that neither Grant nor any other Republi can can command the suffrages of a ma jority of the people of North Carolina. In a New Dress The Bucks County Intelligcncer has put on a new dress and the paper is as handsome as its talented and genial proprietor. It is one of the best coun try newspapers in the L'nit.ed States. The only , fault we can possibly find with it is its politics. It is decidedly Radi cal, but it is always high-toned and gen tlemanly. WE publish elsewhere the very polite invitation which has been addressed to Mr. George 0. Evans by Auditor-Gen eral Hartran ft and Tieasurer Mackey, requesting the rascal to pay over the moneys belonging to the State. It seems to us that a more proper method would have been to serve a warrant on the scoundrel at once. His crime ought to put him beyond the pale of gentility. TILE Philadelphia Apr says that after pages of Radical cyphering, the facts still remain uncontradicted that, under the Democratic rule, the debt of the city wasarlineteen millions of dollars, and taxation one dollar and fifty cents on the hundred dollars. Under Radical rule, debt fifty millions of dollars ; tax ation, at same valuation of property, five dollars and forty cents on the hun dred dollars. No Radical sponge can wipe away this record. OUR Radical neighbors are sick over the Kentucky election, and do not fur nish their readers with the latest news. The latest returns show that Governor Leslie polled about ten thousand more votes than any candidate ever received in Kentucky, and his majority is about forty thousand—a gain of seven thous and over last year. We will give the official figures as soon as ascertained. Dissatisfied with Grant Many thousands of honest Republi cans throughout the country, are op posed to the nomination of General Grant. Multitudes of those who desire no office, eagerly desire to see some man of purer and higher character put for ward as the candidate of the party, and it is safe to predict that many indepen dent men will decline to vote for Grant a second time. Numerous Republican newspapers have freely expressed their dissatisfaction with the administration of the President. They see in his ready acceptanceof presents, Lind in his whole sale nepotism, such a degradation of the office as Is calculated to excite the ac tive hoitllity of a majority of the Amer ican people. Some of these journals boldly avow their opposition to the re-nomination of Grant, while others speak with bated breath, as if they fear ed to commit themselves. The Lances ter Inquirer concludes a leading edito rial in its last issue with the following significant paragraph : Should things go on for a while as they have been doing for some time past, and the office-holders under the administration continue to exhibit adeumnination to stifle the expression of opinion on the part of the masses of the party, it is quite probable that a demonstration of the latter may take place such as is little dreamed of by those in power. If this should occur, we know of no man who could concentrate in the movement so much iutellectial strength, moral force, and enlightened intelligence as Horace Greeley. It is evident that the Inquirer under stands fully the manner in which the re nomination of Grant is to be forced upon the Republican party. " The office-holders, under the administra tion" whose name is legion, are an or ganized body with interacts which are identical. They care little fur the Re publican party 'except as a means fur advancing their own selfish interests, and a vast majority of them would be willing to see the nation suffer serious disasters rather than resign the profita ble places they hold. In consequence of the vast increase of federal officials Grant hasactiveagen is posted in every election district. Wherever a revenue official or a postmaster is to be found, will be seen au active politician ready to work industriously for the re-nomination of the man under whom he holds office. The many thousands of office-holders who are scattered all over the land con stitute an enormous power. It looks as if they would be able to control the next National ConVention of the Republican party and to force the re-nomination of General Grant. The better class of Re publicans will not be consulted as to the choice of a Presidential candidate, and they will be forced to enter their protest at the Presidential ,election. Enough will do so to defeat Grant if the _Demo cratic party puts forward popular candi dates and places them on a judicious and conservative platform. Tbc Workings of the Crawford County System. Our Republican fellow-ctizens of Lancaster county, are now revelling in all the delights of an annual Primary Election, under the benign influences of the exceedingly moral Crawford Coun ty System. Every rum-shop is reaping a rich harvest, and whiskey is flowing like water. Bribery and corruption of every description stalk abroad in open day. Men who own farms and are well off iu the world, demand money for their votes, and ward politicians and political bummers are busily engaged in fleecing the anxious candidates. Slates are being formed by different rings of in terested adventurers. and the chances are that even the President Judgeship will be sold in the political shambles. tinder the Crawford County System more improper nominations have been made iu Lancaster county for the Re publican party than under the old dele gate system, and It looks as if things would go from bad to worse. Let other counties take warning. We hope no Democratic county in the Common wealth will be tempted to adopt the system which has proven to be so com plete a failure in Lancaster. It fails to cure ills which are sometimes justly complained of tinder the delegate sys tem, and i troduces others which are still more to be dreaded. Let Demo cratic counties avoid iti as they would the plague. Greele3's Vplnion of Grant An attach e of the New :York San had an interview with Horace Greeley the other day, and the farmer of Chapaqua express ed his opinion of General Grant quite freely. Speaking of the impropriety of re-nominating him, Mr. Greeley said : " There is no doubt that there is a very widespread feeling of dis.satisfaetion n'ith the :Idntinistrationalllo7l9 teepubbcans. ..11y judgment is that (.; EN. URA NT has made too many enemies to run—that he is not the Can didate that can be elected. Therefore it is necessary to have another candidate." "The fact is, there is a general feeling that the GRANT faMay is too (Vey C." It is clear from these declarations that Horace Greeley is as decidedly opposed to the re-nomination of Grant as any man in the United States. There are multitudes of Republicans who feel as he does, but they are paralyzed by the conviction that the Federal Officehold ers will control the Republican National Convention and force the re-nomination of the man to whom they owe their positions. The chances are that the placemen will have a majority in the convention sufficiently large to nomi nate Grant by acclamation. To re-nom inate him is one thing, to re-elect him is another and verb different thing. National Faith and National Bonds The New York Journal of COMMCree in the course of a review of the national finances, reaches the sound conclusion that "the truth is that a Live-per cent. and probably a fcur-and-a•half-per cent. bond could easily be negotiated at par if our government had not undertaken, by packing the Supreme Court, to enforce the doctrine that a contract to pay mon ey may be lawfully settled, if an act of Congres3 so order, by the tender of an other contract ora paper promise. That legislation of asham has damaged Amer ican credit more than all else besides, and there never will be a permanent recovery and re-establishment of that credit until this is revised, or au express stipulation is incorporated in the funda mental law of the land, forbidding any such interpretation of a contract." A ColutEspoNDENT of the E.rpr(ss, writing from Rawlinsville, states that one of the seven Republican candidates for 1/Istrict-Attorney, rote a letter to Jack Richardson, a Drumore darkey, soliciting the support of himself and friends. The correspondent says Jack professes to be a Democrat and has " blowed the whole matter." We would like to get a copy of that letter, or the original, and will be obliged to any oue who may furnish us with it. In the same neighborhood a white girl aged fifteen, who rejoiced in the suggestive name of Hugg, eloped for the second time with a negro the other day. Her father had her arrested, and pro posed to send her to the House of Ref uge. The teachings of the Republican party seem to he bringing forth legiti mate fruit in this country. GIVING to Embezzler Evans the liberal sum of $92,124.08, as commissions on the only claims which he collected, as fol lows : October 27, 1863 August 26, 1870 April 11, 1871 May 15, 1871.. June 23, 1871 He still remains a defaulter to the Commonwealth in the sum 0f5198,922.84. What are the State authorities doing;? Why is not Evans arrested? For days the Philadelphia and Har risburg papers have been filled with ac counts of the enormous and disgraceful frauds which Lave been perpetrated by Governor Geary's agent, Mr. George 0. Evans. The Express professes to be a very honest and independent newspa per, but it has not contained a line in reference to the matter. The Frauds at Harrisburg The Philadelphia Ledger commences an able editorial upon the subject of Evans' embezzlement by declaring that "a studied effort is being made at Har risburg to cover up the peculation upon tne State funds which has been exposed by the official documents." That those who are in league wtth Evans are using their utmost endeavors to prevent jus tice from being done, there is no doubt ; but, fortunately for the taxpayers, the proof is so clear and positive that any attempt to cover up the frauds practiced must be utterly abortive.. Official doc uments show that Mr. George O. Evans, "Agent of Governor Geary" has collect ed over three hundred thousand dollars from the 'United States on account of claims of the State of Pennsylvania, and which he has never paid over to the State. We feel that we cannot make this rascally piece of business clearer to the comprehension of our readers than by copying the carefully prepared state ment of the Ledger. It says: To give our readers a proper idea of the matter, it is necessary to '• begin at the beginning." In 106.1 a "direct tax" was levied by the United States to raise moneys to put down the rebellion. The proportion of this tax due by the people of Pennsyl vania, and which, by act of Assembly pass ed in 1862, was 'assumed by the Stew, was $1,946,719 33. It is essential to mark these figures, because they place one portion of the attempted fraud beyond the possibility of dispute. At that time (1861 2) the State had expended a large amount of money in placing troops in the field—moneys which the United States would have been obliged to pay if the State had not done it. This and subsequent expenditures gave Penn sylvania counter claims against the United States to a much larger amount than the $1,946,719.33 of the "direct tax" due by the State. The claim of the General Govern ment for the "tax," however, "was on the 14th ofJ une,lB62,paid to the United States." Governor Curtin is the authority for this statement. It is in his Message of January 7, 1863; and he tells in thatdocument how it Wa.9 pain, thus: ''partly by toe relinquih• meat of a portion of the sums claimed by lilts State from the Government, and partly in cash, after deducting the fifteen per cent. allowed by , the Act of Congress fur prompt payment." Now let us return to the figures. The amount of the tax due irfl, $1,946,719.33, less fifteen per cent., or $1192,007,92, leaving the sum to be paid by the State $1.654,711.4 I. Of this last amount the report of :state Trea-s -urer, lion. Henry I/. Moore, for the year 1862,shows that $350,600 was paid in cash and hence that the other part, which was paid in 1862 by the relinquishment of Peunsyl vania "claims," was $1,304,711.41. This last sum is the one to which we desire to invite particular attention, fir upon a claim for lie ' collection" of this precise suit of $1.304,711.41 in 1867, Mr. Agent, George 0. Evans, withholds from the State Treasury 8130,471.14, although the whole su in was al lowed to the State by the General Govern men t,according to the evidence of Governor Curtin,flocycars before Mr. Evans teas ap pointed 'Special Agent of Governor Cleary' I'm. the 'collection' of claims. The lugging in of this item to excuse and cover the de falcation of Mr. Evans and the dereliction of the Governor in permitting it to go on unchecked, is thus shown to be a transpar ent fraud upon the State Treasury. But this is not all. In his report of claims col lected on which Mr. "Agent" Evans keeps back from the State Treasury more than sixty thousand dollars additional to the above, he has an Beni of $1,089,115.82. This large amount which Mr. Evans claims to have "collected"since 1867,is made up as fol lows: (Mr. Evans gives only gross ainoun ts, we give the items:) First, the sent above noted as paid to the State in 1862 Second, this amount paid tho State September 19, 18111 Third, this amount paid May, 1867 78,516 SO Less this amount paid Nov. I Lumping aggregate as in Evans' report $1,089,115 82 Here again the records, which, fortu nately for the cause of honesty, will turn up, although forgotten by those engaged in .fabricating claims to cover up delin quencies, expose the attempted fraud. The n r,t, of these items we have already dispos ed of. The second (606,000), which Mr. Evans cunningly covers up in the above gn Liss sum, although twat sum is composed Lif four payments, made at, four separate dates, from two to four yearsapart, was ac tually paid by the Treasury Department, in a warrant dated September 19, 1861 ! This is shown by Secretary Boutwell's official certificate, and a corresponding sum is acknowledged as having been re ceived by our State, in the State Tresurer's Report, for 18621 The third item is the only one in the above list which Mr. " Agent" Evans really did collect, and up on this it is possible that he may have a claim for '87,8111 00, under the extraordinary agreement made with him by Governor Geary. Bat the little item of $!1l2 50 tells the tale of fabrication of accounts as ctlec wally as the millions do. This sum was really paid in November, 1865, but in tine general "lump" it was evidently at first included, then deducted and entered as a sepal ate item—trod then, finally, in the " hurry " and " confusion'' again deducted as any one can see . who analyzes the official figures. Here this aspect of the case closes for the present, thougu there is a great deal more yet to be told. Mr. Evans, as Agent of tine State of Pennsylvania, received from tine United States two hundred and ninety-nine thousand dollars, some of it more than four years ago, and the rest of it from one to three years ago, which he has never paid over to the State to this day; nor did be ever officially' report the receipt of it uutil his defalcation was the subject of common rumor. lie and his apologists have now got up a case by which he claims to retain this public money, upon the bald and shameless pretext, that it is due to him in "comniiBsionB." As to this pretext, we have shown that he has no claim whatever to tit least one hundred and ninety-one thousand dollars of the public inoney,which he has pocketed. As to the remainder, the State Treasurer and the Auditor-General are reported to have taken tine very proper ground, that they Will not "bargain" with Mr. Evans, or compound the default, until he has paid into the State Treasury the whole of the money which ought to have been there from one to four sears ago. This is the least they can do. If Mr. Evans had not powerful friends at his back he would very likely be the subject of touch severer Queen Victoria, it appears, has thought better of her determination—as announced by Mr. Gladstone—to forego her visit to Scotland on account of the condition of the public business. Her Majesty- is reported at Balmoral, and we shall next hear of the unlucky Premier being obliged to post off to the Highlands in order to obtain the royal sign manual. If it be true that roy alty is now only a ceremony in Great Britain, it is sometimes found an 13xpen sive and inconvenient one.—X. Y. TribiLlte. It has not even been reported that President Grant intends to abridge his stay at Long Branch, or to forego his visits to various rich men at a distance from Washington, as great as Scotland is from Landon. We have already heard of Cabinet ministers being forced to take a long railroad ride in order to talk with the Chief Executive of the United States, and every bigamy pardon, order or other document which Grant is re quired to sign, has to be forwarded to Long Branch by a special messenger, at an expense of from seventy-five to a hundred and fifty dollars. The present incumbent has made the Bresffiential office almost us costly as royalty in Eng land, when we sum up the amount the people pay to support him and the long lists of his office-holding relations. 'll I; New York Sun says the sickness of the President's colt, about whose sore tail the whole office-holding world was so greatly exercised, was due, we learn, to the circumscribed quarters devoted to the Preside') tial stable. To guard against such misfortune in future, Grant is erecting a new palatial structure adjoin ing the State Department on Seven teenth street for the royal stud. This edifice is to be sixty by eighty feet, and three stories high. It is to be built of pressed brick with brown-stone trim mings, while the interior will be of hard wood, (died, and finished in imperial style. The basement floor is destined for the Presidential dairy stock, the first floor for fifteen horses and equipages to match, and the upper stories for proven der and residences for the liveried ser vants. The cost of this imposing stable will be defrayed, not from the Presiden tial privy purse, but from the appropri ation for the erection of the new State Department. $105,651 46 136,846 00 137,822 59 212,167 57 298,753 08 AT New Orleans, frauds have been discovered iu the "substitution of ju rors" which, it is believed, will lead to many new trials. A jury broker, named P J. Hussey, has been sentenced to ten days' imprisonment and $.5 . 0 fine; and Henry Jones, for falsely personating another man as juror, has been sentenced to ten days' imprisonmentand $lOO fine. This is the very latest specimen of Radi cal rascality which we have been called upon to notice, and it is a remaikable instance of the genius for fraudulent transactions which distinguishes the Party. 15921,240 7 9 R. D. Fletcher, Democrat, was on Tuesday elected City Auditor of Titus ville by 141 majority. Mr. John A. Brown, has made the munificent donation of $300,000 to the Presbyterian Hospltal,.ln West Phila delphia. • Ella Wagner, daughter of Mr. George Wagner, of Chapmanville, Pa., • was drowned by falling into an old stone quarry which was filled with water, while blackberrying recently. She P. as 12 years old. The death of the Rev: Dr. T. V. Moore, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Nashville, Tenn., is announced as hav ing occurred on the Rh Inst. He was a native of Newville, Pa., and was for several years pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Greencastle, Pa. Mr Daniel Barrow, residing near Sager's Bridge, on the Wilmington & Reading Railroad, had a daughter of five years old burned to death on Satur day last. During the absence of her parents she poured coal-oil on the stove, which set lire to her clothes. A sad accident occurred at Isabella Station, on the Wilmington and Read ing Railroad, on Friday last. A brake man, named Ed. Bennett, attempted to jump upon a train while in motion, when he fell with one leg upon the track which was so mangled that amputation was necessary below the knee. Mr. Bennett is a resident of Coatesville. On Thursday, a young man named Charles Schoedler, aged about IV years, was killed in Clymer'squarry, near Bow er's Station, on the East Penna. Rail road. A blast was made, and one of the stoves struck the young man on the head, crushing in his skull, from the effects of which he died in a few min utes. A number of gentlemen of Reading are making preparations to get up a tub race on the :telt uylk ill river. Premiums will be awarded,' but none but good swimmers will be allowed to enter into the contest. The race will be across the river, below the Lancaster bridge, and return. This race will create an im mense amount of amusement, and will undoubtedly meet with universal favor. On Wednesday last, Jesse Myers, re siding iu Robeson township, Berke county, was thrown from his wagon and run over, front the effects of which he died in about four hours thereafter. He was talking at the time of the accident to Dr. Heckle, when his horse became restive and he struck him with a whip, which caused the animal tostart sudden ly and threw him from the vehicle. The deceased is well-known in Read ing, and leaves a large family to mourn his loss. On Sunday morning last, two men were found lying on and near the track of the Reading Railroad, below Port Kennedy. 01:e was dead and the other sound asleep, with his head resting on the legs of the corpse, which he was us ing for a pillow. The head of the de ceased, who proved to be Daniel Hill, a steward for the Schuylkill Navigation Company, was crushed in a shocking manlier by a coal train that had passed over it during the night. Both men had laid down in this position while in a state of intoxication. The comrade of Hill knew nothing about the death of his associate until awakemd by the par ties making the discov,..:ry, 13:1=ENE2 Paper Lable.cloths will be the next nov elty. Paris white i now made of marble chips. 51,304,711 43 A Chicago roan possesses the first greenback printed. 606,000 00 On the Pacific coast one-half of the people are Roman Catholics. Two-thirds of the women in lunatic asylums are wives of farmers. A New Orleans policeman arrested a ,man for "looking scornfully at him. James Hunt, of South Boston, fell dead from heart disease, on Tuesday, while running a foot race at a pie-nic. The six Francis brothers, of Duluth, weigh 1,700 pounds, and none of them were ever sick a day. The Russian fleet, bearing the [.rand Duke Alexis to America, sailed from Cronstadt Sunday, for New York. An Oshkosh preacher sat down on a hornet's nest, which some bail boys had secreted under the pulpit cushion. lie got up again. Duluth has been fixed upon as the lake terminus of the Northern Pacific Rail road. Trains will be running to Red river within seven days. The postage to Germany is to be re duced October Ist, for prepaid letters, from 10 to 7 cents per half-ounce. Post age on other mutter remains unchanged. The Sreretary of the Treasury has au thorized the pat meat of the September interest, without rebate on Tuesday next. Two young men, named low, were arrested last Saturday. at Abingdon, I ud., charged with having murdered a man named Tibbit, in 1614. A terrible storm visited Savannah and its neighborhood on Friday, doing great damage to the railways, and also to the crops. The Japanese Government has adopt ed a new system of gold and silver coin age, to correspond with the American. The unit will be the "yen," or dollar. A despatch from White Sulphur Springs, \Vest Virginia, says the (Lrouth in that section is becoming oppressive, and the crops are suffering for want of rain. Richard Taylor, a night watchman at Hunter's Point, Long Island, was "mys teriously shot," and mortally wounded by his employer, Henry Denning, ou Tuesday night. An affray occurred on a boat on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, near Washington, tiaturday, during which one man knocked another overboard, the latter being drowned. General McCook, Democratic candi date for Governor of Ohio, has ibeen so prostrated by his labors as to be com pelled to abandon any further speech• making until he recovers his health. The pension bureau issued 220 pension certificates on Friday, the largest num ber ever issued in one day. They were as follows: War of 1812, 92; invalids, 91 ; widows, 37. At Washington, Ohio, on Thursday, a lunatic named Barry, confined in the Infirmary, broke loose, and killed two other inmates, a woman named Agnes Kimball and a man named Ritchie. Very warm weather is reported in California. At San Fernandina on Tuesday, the thermometer marked 112 degrees. At San Diego, the same day, a heavy shower fell, " which is some thing unprecedented." During a storm on Bayou Rapids, La., on the 7th inst., two strangers sought shelter in a tree, and were killed by lightning. Papers found upon them led to the belief that they were Canadians, named Buck and Shook. Dr. Carl Groaner has been committed to jail in Louisville,without baii,on the charge of killing his wife by cruel treat ment, the preliminary examination showing sufficient evidence of guilt to warrant a trial. A well, at Avon, New York, caved in on Saturday morniny, busing John Donnelly twenty-tiveTeet underground. Work at once begin at digging !inn out, and, after laboring all day, he was res cued alive and wlt II but slight injuries. In Cincinnati the excitement among the Germans about the Sunday law is said to be increasing. Three Germans, who resisted and maltreated a police man, who arrested one of them fur sell ing beer on Sunday, have just been fined $ , 30 each. Thomas J. Dunbar, a Boston liquor dealer, refused to pay his taxes under the state laws in money, but tendered liquor in payment. The Treasurer re fused to accept this, and, the matter get ting into court, Dunbar had to pay the tax in currency. The Comptroller of the Currency, on Friday, issued a circular, stating that all exchanges of bonds held as security for the circulation of National banks for other United States bonds,except for the new 5 per cent. bonds, will be suspend ed from date until further notice. .; The Secretary of the Navy has order ea the ships Delaware and Albany to be located temporarily at Quarantine, New York, for the detention of persons ar riving from abroad, who may have been exposed to cholera. This is done at the r quest of the New York health author ities. The Millerites have ciphered out this time that according to the prophecies of Daniel, the world will come to an end and we shall have the second advent' about the 3d of September. Consequent ly among the faithful believers in this calculation Wamsutta cotton for ascen sion gowns is in great request. The Cloverdale stage was attacked by robbers, in Sonora county, California, on Wednesday night. There were four or five highwaymen, while the passen gers numbered ten men and four women. Some of the passengers filed upon the robbers, and the fire being returned, T. H. Benton, a merchant of Mendocino county, California, was killed, and Lieutenant B. S. Chairman, agent forJ. Friedlander, of San Francisco, mortally wounded. The robbers escaped with out getting any plunder. Light-Hones Special Correspondence of the Intelllgencer.l PARItESIIIIRO, Aug. 12th, 1871. Gentlemen:—A good many long yarns have been spun about the antiquity of the light-house system, but they contain very little that can be relied upon as accurate and truthful. The poet Homer, (who flour ished about 907 B. C.,) in speaking of the shield of Achilles, has beautifully described the flash of a beacon-light in some solitary place, as seen by seamen leaving their friends, in lines which contain ample proof of the existence of such a provision for the safety of the mariner, during his time. About three hundred years, before the Christian era, Chases, the disciple of Ly sippus, constructed the celebrated brazen statue, called the Colossus of Rhodes. It was of such dimensions as to allow vessels to sail into the harbor between its legs, which spanned the entrance. There is con• siderable probability in the idea that this figure served the purposes of alight house ; but there is no passage in any ancient writ er where this use of the Colossus is express ly mentioned. Many inconsistencies occur in the account of this fabric by early writers, who, in describing the distant objects which could be seen from it, appear to have forgotten the corresponding height which they must thus assign to the figure. The statue was partly demolished by au earth quake, about eighty years after its comple tion; and so late as the year 672 of our era, the brass of which it was composed was sold by the Saracens toa Jewish merchant of Edessa, for a sum, it is said, equal to $lOO,OOO. The first light-house of modern days that merits attention, is the Tot e • do ('or• duos, which, in point of architectural grandeur, is unquestionably the noblest edifice of the kind in the world. It is situ ated on an extensive reef at the mouth of the river Garonne, and serves as a guide to the shipping of Bordeaux and the Languo doe Canal, and, indeed, of all that part of the Bay of Biscay. It was founded in the year 1504, but was not completed till 1610, under Henri IV. It is minus, lv described in Belidor's Architeeture Hydroutigne. The building is 167 feet in height, and consists of a pile of masonry, forming successive galleries,enriched with pilasters and friezes, and rising above each other with gradually diminished diameters. Those galleries aro surmounted by a conical tower, which ter minates in the lantern. Round the base is a wall of circnmvallation, 131 feet in di ameter, in which the light , keeper's apart ments are formed, somewhat iu the style of casemates. This wall is an out-work of de fence, and receives the chief shock of the waves. The tower itselleontains a chapel, and various apartments; and the ascent is by a spacious staircase. The first light exhibited in the Tour de Corduan was obtained by burning billets of oak wood in a channel . at the top of the tower ; and the use of coal in stead of wood, was the first improvement which the light received. A rude intlec tor, in the form of art invented cone, was afterwards added, to prevent the loss 01 light which escaped upwards. About the year 170 e, M. Lenoir was employed to sub stitute paraboloidal reflectors and lamps; and in 1022, the light received it, last iin erne( meet, by the introduction of the di optric instruments of Augustine Freenel, the celebrated Freneh Academieian. The catoptric system of lights, which preceded and gave place to the dioptric, consisted at paraboloidal mirrors, whi c h sent out the light by reflection. Mr. Teulere, a member of the Royal Corps of Engineers of brit ges and roads in France, is considered the first who hinted at the advantages of this sys tem; and who, in a memoir, dated Juke 26, 1703, is said to nave proposed their cam bination with Amami lamps, ranged on a revolving frame, for the Curti uan light house. Whatever foundation there may be for the claim of M. Teulere, under the di rections of the Chevalier Bordo; and to him is generally awarded the merit of having conceived the idea of applying par aboloidal mirrors to light-houses. The dioptric system is one by which the light is refracted: and as the light-house at Cape May is constructed upon this prin ciple, I shall notice the apparatus itself at a later stage of this letter, and devote my present attention to the light-house build ing. And here let rue meution that lam indebted to Alan Stevenson, L. L. it., of Edinburgh, and Downs E. Foster, bead keeper of the Cape May light-house for all that I have written and may write in my endeavor to throw light—rcfrart it, per haps I had better say—upon a subject but little understood by most of your readers. The former has written an interesting book on the subject, while the latter is so in lore with the system and his particular portion of it, that he is himself an open book out of which you can gather a most Interesting and lucid history. The building stands on shore some distance from the beach, about ft miles below the Atlantic llotel, and a short distance from the steamboat landing It was finished in 1639, and was lit-up for the first time in October of that, year. It is circular in form with two distinct walls, an Inner and an outer, of the best quality of - brick, laid in Homan cement, and is a model of master workmanship. At the base it is 27 feet 6 inches in diame ter, and tapers gradually until the lantern is reached, where its inner diameter is only 12 feet. The wall at the bottom is ti feet 6 inches thick, and at the lantern only IS in ches, and contains 600,060 bricks. The light is 150 feet front the ground, and is reached by a circular iron stairway divided h.to nights of steps-6 long and 2 short ones— numbering in all 217 steps. At the lop of these steps we stand amazed at the result of Luau's genius. Nothing can be more beau tiful than an entire dioptric apparatus for a fixed light of the first order. It consists 01 three belts, each having 16 upright sections. The central belt is composed of refractors, forming a hollow cylinder 6 feet in diameter and 30 inches high. Fresnal, by the most careful calculations and experiments, has divided this belt into centre lens and concentric annular bands, about the thickness of buggy-felloes, and just arranged one on top of the other. The centre disc is about 11 inches in diameter. The lower belt Is made up off, triangular rings of glass, ranged in a cylindrical form, and the upper belt might be more properly termed a crown of 13 rings of glass,forming by their union a hollow dome of polished glass, 10 feet high and six feet in diameter. There are 5011 separa e pieces of glass, each one of which does its share towards gather ing all the light of the hoop and retracting it towards one point, wL nee it goes out over the troubled waters of the ocean fur more than twenty miles in one great flash, to warn and guide the sailor. This frame of polished glass revolves upon noiseless wheels, and is operated by click-work, which Las to be wound up every hour and a half. It makes one revolution in eight minutes, and as there are 1 , 1 sections, each one of which emits a flash, the intervals in the flashes are just a half a minute each. The speed of the cl•ck work is regolaosl by a governor. The lamp has four circular wicks. the largest of which is .1 inches in diameter, and each supplied by a separate pipe. Lard-ell is supplied to these burners from a reservoir holding 13 gallons, by h - draulic pressure, which pressure is regula• ted by a gauge. The burlier is changed every night at 12 o'clock owing to the in crustation of the wick. On the longest nights nearly three gallons of oil are con sumed, and on the shortest over one gallon. The regulations of toe light house board require the lamp to be lighted at sunset and extinguished at sunrise. I shall never forget my last visit to that wonderful dome of glass. We cohld see the ocean illuminated by the silvery moon, which was aim ply reflected light from God's light-house, and all the while Mr. Foster and I were sandwiching our con versation on dioptrics with little items of theology, which made the evening pass so pleasantly, that half-past ten found me unprepared to go, and reminded me that I had before me a very long walk up the lonely beach. God said, " Let there be light, and there was light," and is light. And it performs a great amount of work whether men are waking or Bleeping; but the wonderful Frenchman's mind seizes this law and drives it. We have it in our dwelling, and Fresnel takes a little lamp, hardly large enough for a parlor, and sends its light out in one great flash like the molted mass from a smelting furnace. I promised to tell you something about Long Branch, and I ought to take you to a watering-place after being so very dry, but I have made such a long branch off on di optrles and light, that I must leave you in darkness as far as that delectable place is concerned. I dislike long speeches, long sermons and long letters, but I could not stop until I was through, could I? And now that I am through I will round this sentence with a period, and subscribe my self Yours truly, . The Evans Embezzlement. A rather loud and prematurecall has been ,made on the public to admire the prompt ness with which Auditor-General Hart ranft and State Treasurer Mackey have acted:uponithe case of Evansthaembezzler. There is not the slightest necessity for go log off into hasty compliment of these officials until they have done something practical in the premises to merit proper approbation The bottom of this detalca non has not been probed. The enor mous embezzlement of Evans is hilly re vealed, but he walks abroad a freeman, and mocks at his accusers and victims, under the shield of his official protection. His associates have not been discovered, though well-grounded suspicion points at them. Not one dollar of the defalcation has been returned to the treasury, and wo may as well confess that the prospects are not flattering. \'hat, indeed, have Messrs. Mackey and Hartranft done that our commendations should be so suddenly invoked in their behalf? With the discovery of the embez zlement of Evans they bare no more con cern than two bumps on a log. For them these depredations might have continued to the close of Governor Geurv's term, and further without discovery. They seem to have been in blind ignorance of the move memento or even of the existence of this spe cial agent. The agreement under Which Evans bound himself to make semi-annual ' reports to the State Treasurer of the amounts collected was In the possession of the State department. and its existence Was unknown to that official. It is quite true that Messrs. llartranft and Mackey were exceedingly prompt it writ ing a polite note, requesting Evans, the embezzler, to pay into the Treasury the amount that be had stolen. But Evans, with a promptness and politeness which are entitled to an equal degree ofpublic approbation, has made reply that he re gards their demand as "most extraordi nary." They seem to so regard the matter themselves, for they have gone .tr, leaving Evans, the embezzler, master of the field with the stolen t;‘ , '_fttl,o4tllfl in his pockets and in those of his contederatei. Attorney- General Brewster is absent, too, as is gen erally the ease with that official. 'rho pube lie need expect nothing from him, for he has already assumed the position of pro tector of Evans in removing John A. Mt-- (lure, Esq., his assistant, tar the offense of unearthing these frauds. This, then, is the situation. With the embezzlement of Evans made manifest tie the world by official reports and his own published confession, he is liable to set. the laws of the Commonwealth at donative, and mock at her accounting. officers. While one portion of the State Government mani fests a feeble purpose to recover the funds that have linen embezzled, the thiel is sale under the protection of the Executive and the Attorney-t feneral. IVe call im the peoph, or 13, , ,,u5yi van in to witness the shameful spectacle. An eill• hezzlement of 1110 111111103 i , l tine Ctllllllloll - has been carried on for lour scan. rlll.l 1111101111 C of the peculation exceeds a quarter 01 . 5 million dollars. linticial Main inents Provo the (Thin , . The report of Er- Otis himself' confesses it. bet ho stalks abroad and snaps his ringers at lilo 1/001111.1 ul Pennsylvania. The tankful official who lidluwed - up the trill•k , Or OW lintel, and ox- FI , IISOIIIIIIII, has been I'ollloood for his ',MIS. Nothing more strongly mat Ps the 1111.1, tlegl,lll/11.1011111111 corruption of °Mond lite than this transaction. Instead of prompt 111e1,111,, to 1,1 . 1114 EVIIII,I to j11:11.1e0, the Executive of the Commonwealth takes the criminal under his protection, defends hint, mid makes 11111111011 I.lllllNe ,1111 111111. Vet we are asked to pause and admire the promptness of the 1/1111'1111S Or P. l llll , ylV/111111. —.lltirrtSbUr7 Tel!lug Ilse Tnttlt About tile Evnn• CH", The Philadelphia /icon lted le P, o, Itatai blican ctaa moats LIMY 1111011 the, Evans vast , : The expomition nd tho dvialeatiml of the, ";! , peeial Agent of Governor Geary," as he is called. which we have devoted Si) IaLLLe purtion t flour attention during this week hits excited surprise and indignation throughout the State. It is not ou ly that we have unearthed what WO think the law will call the etuhei.zleinent sit Three Hun dred Thousand I aillarsoltheState's hinds. l'hat would lie had enough. But in doing this, we have most unex peetedly developed a very singular disposition on the part of the highest official, of the State to excuse anti shield the accused agent, instead it adopting the promptest and sternest WOW, ures to protect tin , State and punish the offender. tovernor Teary has undoubtedly con nived at the irregularities of his agent, for years ',ant. '.I he discovery of his secret agreement with him bars all plea of iginir- Mll.l, Lf his malleasanee. The de,iee to drive Deputy Attorney General McClure from his °dice, as a punishment col' expos ing the fraud, and the declaration that In , is entirely satisfied with the agent's conduct, are among the unansweraido proofs that ifovernor (teary hits 'referred toshiehl r• Evans, rather than to protect the interests tit the State. Why Governor Geary should have stood between his special agent mid exposure, needs to be explained. Mr. Evans has kept three hundred and twenty thousand dollars of public money for several years; awl Lho indications now are that the money bas been, in some way, spent. We were led, at first, to hope that the bulk of it was within reach of legal princess or recovery. Rot wo fear now, that this is not the ease. I ut where is it? Mr. Evans can toll if he will ; and If an honest use has been made of it. there ran be no eliject iu coneealing it. We shall accuse no ono of charting iii these spoils until we got the proof. But when we do get it, we wean that the !midi, shall have it. Attorney-General Brewster has not moved with very great rapidity in follow ing up this important case. Alaking all allowances for the deliberate processes of the law, it is hard to understand why the Special Agent is not already under arrest. We take it tor granted that the Attorney- General will do his duty, after a while; but, considering the promptness of the liniment' officers of the Government, the public, oat orally locks for a similar a,•tivity in the law department. PENNSYLVANIA WAR 1.1.11 MS Action of Messr, llartran ft nod Mackey A i'DIT.R•GENERAT:s ()FFICE, linaais 111 Ito, August 15, 1 , 571 icocgc 11. Evan.N, E.w.— DEAR Silt: F ruin in htrnuttiuu re ceived from official sources, it has come to our knowledge thlt you have in your pos session tho cunt but$11: 1 1,01 1 1.91, collected rout the government of the United States, as Agent of the State of Pennsylvania, up pointed in pursuance Of a joint resolution approved the :22,1 of March, PffiT, which sum you have failed to pay into the State Treasury, as, in our opinion, you are boutid to do.. We, therefore, take this means of notify ing you to pay the aforesaid slim of money, or any other monies belonging to the State your IMS,setisi , Jll, WlOlOlll, further delay; and ill the event of your refusal we will be obliged to pursue such course for the re. covert' of said money /AS the law direeLs, and we may deers most conducive to the public interest. Yours, etc. J. F. IIArtTRANFT, Auditor General H. W. MACKEY, State Treasurer Proposed Meeting - to Adopt. Mensiires to Enforce the t ill legit toil of $2111,000 In the Hand% of Mr. Evans IlAniiisiwitr,, Aug. 19.—Attorney-Gen eral Brewster, Auditor-t;eneral Ilartrantt, and :State Treasurer :d:v•key, will meet here On Monday or Tuesday, and decide what measures to adopt to en toree the collection of 52t11.000 and inter est in the hands of Mr. Evans. he itovernor has instructed the ,kttorney- Itelieral to adopt sloth tilea,ires he derma peer•-eary tot n:brce justice to the :statv, and there it MOO that inn ar rest of Evans 1 . ., rut bezzif.lllProt trill That there is a pots - el - MI ring OMIIIII.t•tell with Evans, iv nn longer 11,11torful, loot I still withhold sallies lest injustice 5i1,3111411. (kale In soul,• parties apparently implicated They have divided the money and have chi.- etched tint to rebind it to lllCSiate. Ellllllollt contuse! have been consulted :tint they tel assured that Evan, cannot be convicted tar einl,e7.4lenient because of the, loot.ellUSS Oti the law, and they have calculated all the von - 4ctitienee,)f hi+ arrost,whi,ll Is new expect- 'l'hr•y coaln.leNtly cx pent him tin lus ac quilled, and as he into uo property and his pond isonly forslo.ooo they expect the bend Si be collected, :Ind there Use farce of the case to end. It is a !Wad, complete, (1/11- apiraVy to defraud the Slate, and :LS such WIII be exposed and punished. Important revelations may be looked fur in II very tiew ER It I ISLE LOMS OF LI VI Me' ere Volcanic k.roplionm---6111 LONDON, August 14 —Batavia papers con tain details ut a terrible calumny which has visited the island of the Taginanda, iu the Malay Archipelago. The volcano of lie Wang broke ont, after a long interval of inactivity. It Was pre ceded tiv a terrible earthquake, which un roofed the dwellings and rent their walis asunder. The eruption was of the most fearful character. :several craters opened around the side of the VlaCart", and run tinned their action at the saute time, the rapidity of the explosion causing a tremendous roar which W. heard all over the neighboring islands. The Outbreak was aCCOMpurlied by a con etission or the sea. A ware forty yards in height issued with lightning speed, and swept all the human beings, housem, cattle and horses nom the surface of the From every crater proceeded flashes of electric lightning and volumes of smoke. Red hot stones, disrupted fragments of rock and currents of mud were thrown with immense force high into the air, and the earth was rent open all around the vol cano. Besides covering the whole surface of the island, the matter thrown out accumulated in some places, forming hills several hun dred feet high. Amid the most terrific ex plosions an island suddenly rose up from the sea. . _ Four hundred and sixteen persons, all Malays, are stated to have perished by the eruption. Nut a single beingteu the island could be saved. Frightful Accident MCCONICELLSBURO, Pa., August 17.—The horses attached to one of the coaches of the stage line between this point and Chain bersburg, took fright to night, on the top of the mountain, and ran away. The coach overturned about a mile from the summit, killing the driver and seriously injuring two passengers, a lady and gentleman. The vehicle was demolished. GIGANTIC NATIONAL FRAIIIIII The Glreat °echo of Corrnptiop Detective Wood's Card He Tells Whet lle Knows To THE EDITOR OF THR SUN—Sir: 111 an article published in the Washington Republican of August 7, allusion was made to a coutem plated pamphlet, wherein it was proposed to show up specific acts of cor ruption of certain government officials who have the general inanagument. of Hilaire at the National Capital. After further reflec tion on the matter any better judgment has determined that by your permission can give through your columns once or twice it week, epistles to the public of such brev ity and compreftensiveness as shall serve the purpose and lie better understood by the general reader. The fact of my official connection with the Govern anent, familiarity with the per suns implicated, and with the details of much of the semi-official villainy, corrup tion, fraud and favoritism in practice at the nation's Capital, and of my knowledge of the Intriguing, unscrupulous and dis• honest political demag.ignes who now have the control of the Government, warrant the supposition tliat If 1 tun pao,,Nesned 01 the abilities requisite, I:have the Material Nets frown which to give an exhibit which should interest every lover of his country, and ba de, him to demand a change of govern- Meld Offleials. I am aware that such a course will bring, upon me a degree of personal vituperation. I intend to remain iu WaNhinglon, and will not he leoo a Ittpublioan because or this exp,,,, by which 1 desire to ninny the pub lie the style and ,practice of the political demagogues and financial villAna who have been and are desirous of continuing' the eontrosl of nor nation's politie+ and finances 1 shall affix lily mime to all papers emanating from Me, and will re spond only to those who St ill SillitV handa in like manner. 'Xly papers will open, with the establi.-11. mem :uid prop Y, beyteld aurcusslnl 1•1111t1 . 0 xer,y, of the gigantic fraud tlll tine public and government in thedirticte of United State, bonds, relating to . the redemption, exeliange, and interest thereon. I ließVt, to give this subject oo little under stood) such an r'./ . 1,,,.Ne til.lt the 111/111111,1 shall not fail to oiniprelienil the corruption and fraud by NV hivh the people or tile eminent aro swindled to the extent of el . dollars annually. During the progress nithese epistles the potpie 1 shalt exp.° the pisailatim, and iiiisnianagetnent of the pi lilting tle• part ment of the treasury, and also the glar ing truants and f.tvitrit 111 the paper eon - traets of the Secretary of the Treasury, nt the specialty of what is known as uieli lire piglet', and Uri/1111S, ill all Valli,. rich dins el • "pintails in that itartieular Among the many matters I shall expose I intend to give the history of the steamer ;olden ltuln, whirl steamer WILY wrecked, pre rinstitateddy, on the [tour-odor reefs, in the l'ariblovan sea, and about three millions of government treasure was from iilo i.1t1V1,111111,111. Sale on board. Kilowiiig as I do the parties who 1,1111110.10 a the illtla, will show how ono of these pArtitts becalm, intimate svith President ;rant (probably through Pat isnin outiiis tor Indies), and that ultimately this inati's 111111111 Was Ili-W -ally Sell( In the llt ited ICurY Mende for high lieu ul our government at Paris, 1 will shots how mud why said nominatima was rejts•ted, and what high dignitaries have drank ulnnubuulr ut the Frying] wines pi aSeuted bi then[ turd 1.111 . 1•11.1hIlii wtlh ill, Wild`, lit the Mali/IC:1 (1'1:ill-Ill, lilt board nil lill• I ,hall them , parpr4 I'4a• It all ~.avorned, la•liev lag IL in i 0 thy lull ro,l of Inv I." Ullo to untlerslautl 11111 rharactors 111,2.0 a hl. rah mill rill') Ilkotil Ili Wa , littiv,l. , ll. W11.1.1.‘31 I'. \Vl.lll', 1,7 I,tr3 ontio, \ V....l)ingion, A tig. 11. CITIMI=I3 Alt 1 1.1p11rlllu t ll= An atotrtn, nr thu snw illlet- VieWuti 1.110 nlin i tl,ty. 111 regard ti) the n•uumiuuliuu U,an•nrl Grunt r. i:reeley spoke IS 1 4, 11 ,, ws : ..111V1 . 0 11,/ 111/l/111. 111/IL I tn., is Is ve.r, widespri•tid ft•cltlig 11 Tlty j11111:111ellt Iv ',lint I 4.tivial Unlit liam too many onoillins to ruin —timt. hi, , kno. the randulate that can liotdi.cti.d. it i 4 nevi•ssary to liiivP kind I nut lilt quite ready to 4,11:4111, to II" duet candidate should In.. must de u•ruiine that yuca i,a t. 11 ao do lint intik° a nets . diliartikre, lke, lieu crot+ err c. I v du it. 1 shall liantt :ue a•tit le in tio• next ilnitilker of tine e ial.rni on the (1,,,• Terin prilicliitv, kind 31111 van t till I %It'll, MI that htlidl.f.L. I{eptiblieati party," Nr: t ireeley, " ha, IWO!, Split up .0 ut Tex.,, Lotli4laila,Alahatna, and nl her seot ions, h, timviNt, lita,tgetileta, that we aro very hi,- tt) hu heatell, 11,0,1th,tatitlIng WM' Jai l;.• Iteptlblican maj.trity, ‘vt , l/11,1 , It 111,, candidate. lit Any III•r,11114 drink it, ii IS no t•hall, 14)r thl•tii- that everythltig ha, ht•t•ii pareeleti alte , hg Sllt. The fart is," hal,l th r. tirelt ley, trill, ttildaticholy eln phania, "thar,'l It general feellitg that (hr (;rmit With a new ealliliilate We tilt 'Dank this general ilissati,laviwo. and Wing forces to wir aIJ that rauutq he ralliod under the Eastbailer/. WI. tact. a vary Mega awl Chant speotaide pnrly i . (MI Whigs at the Naith, who hate a Democrat it, they hale a rattlesnake, hilt who can't mid 4.11111. , 111111, the carpet hatters wlu, sli.• running the Southern i;overnments. us n now 111111 clean ticket, slut Chun.+aw d. 111 . 01,111 Will value in Mill Work for 114. have assured we that they si ill. Tiv• Stale ot Virginim elm to carried ty 1111.11 votes, it we Kaye a salistactoryl'llll,l,lW, I know Hut they site 10/ ;Inybolly NVIII.III they believe to be tuanon g. the old waistline that, Is running down there. In North I satins, the (nil ,1111j/I.SPI/110-11air or the, shell, l'en see wl. rice element, and are dreadfully Lt. let agamst hilt they can't go the present Stale SCI it is all through the Swill] and Seuthwest. VV. Inuit 114%4' a Iles , and eltaut 111 . 1 A to ',Weep Ihn.e ...1./•• Lions." Crane, Contempt for Lai. The alarming 'mirage recently Pilllllllli. tll at Now orleans by President. through his brother in•law and his "[her nition licilderr, though excixqliiit: iu 311- daolty and in its hi liberty I, I• 1 ". thing before atteniiii.il in this ininiury, alter all, entirely in harmony with Iht• xt•n end read act ut Grant since his iIII•11111‘,11 10. the Presidency. The predominant eharachiri.tie of adininimtration Irmo the beginning :until now is cmnte 1,1 pt of law. I in 1110 , 11m...1y itlier the inauguration, lien. appointed Adolph° /State, ttl to the ilttllllll,ll 114.10011 it Si•erft tary of the Navy, at the saute time assign ing 1114 Own per..oinLl favorite, Admiril livid 11, l'orter, ht fxrfialli the real datlrn 1110titlit . O. Thle itiVttlVttlt butt, Illiptosittro Wit] usurpatimll. 1 . 110 Prettlllelll.lll44l Ito right whatever Ut intrumt any nav,tl uflicer will, the power and authority of tie...rotary 4,1 this Navy. The act sva,olle4deol.ll,olll4. Fitt' law Upon a great s,,itle; anti it NVlitti itt•rst•Velt•ti in until :%1 r. ItOrto, whirl Sollittnetimill%t•- tlesttt, mild bear it no longer. Another art, notorious tiltitt and Shire, iu which liruut'm ennitein fit for 1., nun been inandestecl, is the api.iniment. of A iiKtis. tins Ford an Assessor or internal Ituvo nue iu lino Kli.tilth District of this eity.-- Von] was the Ititi crony or liellOrlti the having liefln conlievient with tine Grant funnily in Various ways. The 1:ltV requires that every ASsOssiir of Internal Iteientie wont lieu,h the, district here his office ; but liiltlit although he knew at [helm... doll Inn. lived in Brooklyn; allii thrugh lord still liven there, ling is continued in office. Another unblushing outrage Mille 1110 late is Crant's ~.I,,Lenaocu or a Iniluary four! at Um White llouse. The law prep vides that no military officer shall lie ill• latched to the household ior the esitielit, and expressly forbids ally ,inch olli,•er id/ perform the itinctions or any civil 1115•1.• Nevertheless, Prcsident ,rant has trout the lint kept Mann his person Ores sr lour i;eiterals and Colonels, giving this mansion of the Chill Magistrate the sr pearanee of a Indic:try head unartets. also hits iii ruts ed imposture. US Isis!! ill a VlOlatioll officers are sent to t'ongress with messages trolls the Presl dela, 1111i1 in the "Metal Journal 111 wvucll the proveedings nt Congress are published they are spoken of, without their military e.s I's itate 01 the Preen' dent, when all the while it is notorious that they are officers of the artily detail. .1 from their proper duties to swell the court and perform the private behests of tie ruler. !lad Andrew Johnson committed any such violation or law, It cone lotion ill the impeachment trial would have been certain, and the whole country would have acquieseed ill its jilstieo. A Still morn glaring violation of law is G rain's interterence in the civil war in Sall Delliilll4o. Without any all'Aiorily whatevever, he lets directed the el/Ullllll3lli erm I,l * our Iletilllllll vessels in those waters to engage in acts of hostility against one on the parties in that contest ; unU under these orders of his, the armed forces of the United States have become active partici pants in such warfare. Louis Napoleon in the height of his powerwouhl not have stared to commit such an set or tyranny, or Lo manifest such vont:unlit fir the law of his empire. With these things the recent great crime at New Orleans Is simply consistent. It is Of the bailie lietUre. at reveals the Sallie It demonstrates that l'resident iirant knows no law but his own pleasure, and that lie is ready to trample upon every I estrietion imposed by the Constitution and the statutes of the hold, whenever they may stand in the way of selfish or absurd designs which his thoughtless and obsti nate fancy may be led to adopt.—N. Y. Jun. Rape and Murder In Rentucky.l I Loutsvo.Ls:, Aug. 17. On Saturday last a girl aged lu years, daughter of Thomas Bennett, living near Fulton Station, on the Paducah and tiulf Railroad, was missing from her home and search was vainly made for her. A negro who had been working for Bennett since the war, was suspected and art ested, but escaped. Re was how ever, shot and recaptured, and confessed that he had attempted to commit a rape on the child, but not aucceeding, he first choked her to death, and then accomplished ins infamous purpose with the aid 01 a knife, after which he threw her body into a pond. At the last accounts the fiend was in custody, but has, no doubt, been lynched are this.
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