Lancaster Sntelligencrr.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1871.
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.
['FOR AUDITOR GENERAL,
GEN. WILLIAM McCANDLESS,
OF PHILADELPHIA•
FOR SERVEYOR GENERAL,
CAPTAIN JAMES H. COOPER,
or LAWS}7cn COlize/Y
A'FULL POLL OF THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE
WILL SECURE TILE ELECTION OF OUR STATE
TICKET BY A LARGE MAJORITY.
LET EVERY DEMOCRAT REMEMBER THAT,
AN
ND S D IM OF HIS NEIGHBOR&PRESS THE TRUTH UF IT UPON THE
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The Soldier's Ticket
For Auditor-General.
GEN. WILLIAM McCAICDLESS
For. Surveyor-General.
CAPTAIN JAMES H. COOPER
For Mayor.
COLONEL FREDERICK S. PYFER
DESIOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET
DAVID G. ZSIILEMA.N, Exca., Laucanter twp
,Asambly.
F.MANUEL P. KELLER, Manheirn twp
W I LLI AM SPEl , lLlER,Stratiburg bor.
SANDEELS McCULLOUGH., Drumore.
ABRAM SHANK, ESQ., Lancaster city'
County Treasurer
.1011 N S. MANN, Manor.
Owinty Commission ,
1101.4. W ELLMAKER, Earl.
Prison Kerper
G EGEGE 1)1 L LER, l'arad
PrHon inverter,
DR. .1. L. SHOBER., East, Earl. - -
DR. JAS. CIjr3HMAN, Marietta.
Director., of' the Po or.
(;ED. SH LILT?, Salisbury.
JOHN A. - BRUSH, WiLsitington
Oninty Auditors,
WASH INHTIIN WHITAK ER, ' , ult..
JOHN N. MARTIN, Muuor.
Own( y Sart,2.”, -
ROBERT EVANS, Eticu.
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A Full Vote Is Victory
A full poll of the Democratic vote on
next Tuesday will ensure the election
of McCandless and Cooper, and decide
the Presidential contest of nest year in
advance. Remember that and see that
there are no laggards in the Democratic
ran ks.
Come for the Tickets
Some one from each district must
come to tancaster for the Demociatic
Slate and County Tickets this week.
They will he ready for delivery on Fri
day. This is a matter which must be
attended to w'ilhoul fait. They cannot
he forwarded. The time is too short
for that. To you who read this we say,
Sic that some responsible, person is .seal
for (he tif:1:( BE SURE TII.VI"TIIIS IS
DONE!
Do Not scratch the Legislative Ticket.
We understand that Dr. lialchell is
begging votes from Democrats. We can
not conceive how any Democrat could
listen to such a proposition without feel
ing insulted. Let every one vote the
ticket as it stands, without a scratch
upon it. We repeat that there is good
reason to believe that Gatchell can be
defeated by a :Demo . crat. We may do
still better, but that would be a notable
triumph in itself.
The County Convention
The Democratic County Convention
was in all respects one of the finest as
semblages of the kind we ever saw gath
ered in this county. Short as the notice
was," th e n terri lied" se n tthei r best men
to represent them, and there was a fire
and an enthusiasm pervading the body
which showed how strong, in the hearts
of the people, is that love and reverence
for principle which has enabled the
Democratic party to survive every po
litical disaster. It is stronger to-day
than ever before, and like a veteran
army it is marching forward to victory
Our County Ticket
The Democrats of Lancaster county
have reason to be proud of their county
ticket. From top to bottom it is an ex
cillent 0110, and presents the most
marked and creditable contrast to that
set up by the managers of the corrup
rings which control the Republicai
party.
David G. E-ilileman, Esq., the 'mini
nee for Pre'sitleut Judge ie a lawyer o
line attainment anti large experic , neew
the bar. In ability, integrity and ea,
of mind he is admirably fitted to fill th
responsible position for which he ha.
been maned. I f the people of Lancaste
county want an able and impartia
udge let them elect David 11, Eshle
inam
For Assembly the Democrats have
nominated three men who are not only
far above reproach, but who etand so
high in the county RS to command the
respect and esteem of all men, without
respect to party. In Emanuel P. Kel
ler, Win. Spencer, and Sanders McCul
lough the people of Lancaster county
will recognize at a glance three men of
whom nothing but what is good and
honorable can be said. They are al
111011 of ability, all men of perfect hou
esty, all men who would do credit ti
the county in the Legislature of Penn
sylvania. Let every conscientious eiti
zen who really desires to secure reforn
vote for these good and true men, and
by so doing, a great reproach and a stig-
Illa of disgrace will be removed from
the political reputation of Lancaster
Abram Shank, the candidate for Dis
trict Attorney, is a lawyer who stands
high at the bar, a man of perfect in
tegrity, a good speaker, and in all re
spects qualified to discharge the duties
of the office in a proper manner. We
bespeak for hi in the united of
all who are opposed to the corrupt rings
which made up a pool to nominate his
opponent.
The candidate fur County Treasurer
is one who combines within himself the
very qualities which such an officer
should possess. lie is a man of
intelli
gence and of the strictest integrity. If
the people of Lancaster county wa
rebuke the thieving Ring which exacted
a heavy tribute from, the Republican
candidate for County Treasurer, let
them elect John S. Mann.
- We do not need to say one word in
praise of Hon. William Elhooker, who
has been put forward as a candidate
for County Commissioner. He is known
all over Lancaster county, and - known
to be one of the best men within her
borders. If it be admitted that the Re
publican candidate for this office is a
good man, it must be granted that his
opponent is fully his equal in every
respect.
George Diller,the candidate for Prison
Keeper, is one of the most worthy and
respected citizens of the county. Should
lie be elected the people would be grati
fied by seeing those reforms introduced
into the management of the county
prison which are imperatively demand
ed.
We have not space to-day to remark
particularly upon the character and
qualifications of the candidates fo
minor offices, which are neverthe
less of great importance to the pso
pie of the county. The men named 'are
among the very best and most t(right
in the county. Their fellow-e tizens
know their sterling worth, and there is
not a man among them who is not well
fitted for the position for which he has
been named. Again, we say, the Demo-
cracy have abundant reason to be proud
of the contrast which is presented by•
their ticket, when contrasted with that
which the Ringmasters of the Republi-
can party have foisted upon that organ•
ization by the basest frauds and the
most unblushing rascality.
THE LANCASTER WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1871.
Go to Work!
Democrats remember that but six
more days of work remain for you be
tween this and the election. Shall they
be employed in your best efforts for the
success of the Democratic ticket, and
...iereby a most Important step gained
in the great Presidential canvass of '72,
or will you employ the interval in idle
ness and indifference toward the prin
ciples which you profess to cherish?—
It is not simply a practical-exercise of
your party fealty which is,demanded of
you ; it is not that excited and boister
ous declaration of your devotion to par-
tisan principle, which is too often at
tendant upon political canvasses, that
is required—it is the quiet, vigorous,
determined work of men who are deeply
imbued with the importance of the is
sues involved, and which means vic
tory, that you are expected to perform.
Of the ten remaining days, will you not
devote a portion to your State—to your
County? See your neighbor, and talk
with him—not excitedly, or in bad
humor, but with that sober earnestness,
which bespeaks your sincerity, and
which, even if it fail to convince, must
command respect. If there are any
doubtful, confirm them. If there are
any wavering, strengthen them. If
there are those who take issue with you
as to the correctness of Democratic prin
ciples, meet them with the strong
weapons of argument and truth ; show
them the reckless extravagances and cor
ruptions of the Republican party, which,
i❑ the ten years of its reign, has well
nigh engulphed the country in financial
ruin and national disgrace, then refer
them to the bright record of the Detno-
cratie party—the only national party—
which, throughout a period of almost
eighty years of uninterrupted rule,
achieved for us the proud reputation
which we bore, as the only ttue Re
publie—Ahe grandest natitmal govern
ment upon the earth.
Labor, Democrats, labor! Volt mve
it to your country, to your neighbor and
yourself. Work, in every little nook,
precinct and city. However humble
your position, your BIMIIS or influence
work. A single pebble thrown into LL
stream will cause circle after circle t(
spread and widen, until a vast portion
of the surface isembraced within its in
illlerlCe. IL is the single drop whie
contributes to the aggregate which ful
nishes the refreshing shower, and
may he that the 0/2C MO: which you ea
win over to the Democracy will carry
ward, that ward a county, the county ,
State, and the great Keystone cioar
the destinies of the nation.
WHILE the people are demanding a
lorough investigation of the defaka
on of (ieorge 0. Evans, and clamoring
or the just punisment of his guilt, the
Republican press of the State are either
silent, or attempt to smooth over his
crime, while the embezzler himself is
enjoying life in a border State, in close
proximity to the Canadian line! We
hear so much about the skillful admin.
istration of the finances by Administra
tion officials, that we are apt to take an
oft-told story as. , the truth ; a mail may
pass through the world by a parade o
his " character" and " honesty," bu
when he is at last caught picking a pock
et, how palpable is the falsehood of hi
is:mined integrity. It is an easy mat
er for a subsidized press or place-hunt
ng politicians to defend the ollicia
corruptions of their partisans; but when
we present to the country the most pal
pable frauds, the people will demand It
know why there have been no immedi
ate steps taken for the punishment
the guilty. And they will not fail I'
see through the flimsy pretexts for de
lay, and the silence of the entire Radi
cal press in regard to that full investi
gallon and punishment which is de
inanded by the law. Remember, voter.
of Pennsylvania, that (;eorge 0. Evan.
as been proven a defatilter, and that
lierough exposure has been prevente
,y Radical officials for fear of the dant
ging effects which it might have upcm
he prospects of their party in the ap
,roaching election. The people of
'ennsylvania know that the reason he
las been permitted to evade an arres
s, that an exposure of his frauds woul,
nvolve many of the leading Radiea
leials themselves, as well as other
,rominent leaders of the party. If he
s innocent do not let him skulk ou the
borders of a neighboring province for
'efuge, but, like a Wall, demand a trial
aid prove himself innocent; but, if
•silty, as his actions and the silence of
lie Radical press prove him to be, le
dm be arraigned, condemned and pun
:Med.
Since the above was written, we
that Evans has been arrested in New
York by the chief of police of Harris
burg, Charles A. Wilhelm. The coun
sel for the prisoner made application for
a writ of habrm corpus, which was
granted. Further than this, nothing is
known.
I i Itutler has been defeated in
;übernatorial aspirations, he has ye
tehieved a triumph—attributable to hi
recklessness and impudence—a triumph
over himself, in taking his defeat with
an assumption of good grace after hie
hitter and determined canvass. The
result was a fitting rebuke to this bolt
and reckless politician, but lie has tilt
audacity and shrewdness to turn it
his own benefit, in declaring that he i.
bound as a RUM of honor, to labor to.
the nomin,ce. llis game is always at
open one ; but with a good deal of back
bone and no lack of brains, he yet in
spires distrust. He is the type of the
politician as distinguished from the
statesman, and just suited to the emer
gencies of Radicalism. What new rob .
he will turn up in next, remains to be
seen. It may be as the rival of Grant
for the PresidenCy. or as a suppliant for
the 17. S. Senatorship or some Cabinet
or foreign mission, as a recompense for
his :ready acquiescence in defeat.—
Whether successftil in his vaulting am
bitions, or snubbed and defeated, as he
haS been, he will still be the subservient
tool of his party, willing to accept any
official crumb to satisfy his insatiate
Cock Batelleli Can Bo Beaten.
Dr. Gatehell seemed to be only slig
ly relieved from apprehensions of defeat
by the action of the Democratic County
Convention. He declares that he would
rather be beaten by a Democrat than by
what he styles "a renegade ;Republi-
can." If the Democracy of Lancaster
county do their whole duty this corrupt
rooster and pincher can be accommoda
ted. He can be' beaten, and beaten by a
Democrat. Let that inspire the De
mocracy to put forth every effort. Send
ing an honest Democrat to Harrisburg
iu the place of this champion of the
pasters and folders would be a glorious
triumph.
No Township Elections this Fal
There will be no election for Town
ship Officers held this Fall. The act of
April 17, 1869, which provided for the
election in October, was repealed by
the act of June 28, 1871, which provides
that Township Officers elected last Fall
shall hold over until the third Friday
in March, at which time township elec
tions will be held. This does not apply
to Lancaster city, in which the elec
tion for Assessors, acc., will take place
at the same time with the State and
Municipal elections.
THE Radical candidate for Mayor is
not only a remorsless Shylock in his
banking operations, but he grinds the
face, of the working men whenever he
has an opportunity. When he took
charge of the Locomotive Works he at
once reduced the wages of the employ
ees twenty
,per cent. He did not care
what hardships they might suffer. All
he thought of was making money out
of their poorly requited toil, and adding
to his accumulated stores the amount
ho filched from the wages of mechanics.
An Honorable and an Upright ran.
The Express, in aCcordfice with its
habitual mode of warfare, seeks to.:in
jure our gallant candidate for Mayor in
the estimation of his fellow-citizens
whose suffrages he is now soliciting, by
meanly insinuating charges against his
fair fame which it has not the boldness
to incur the responsibility of plainly
stating. It insinuates, in round-about
language, that the conduct of Col. Py
fer as City Solicitor, an office which he
held ten or twelve years agc, was dis
creditable to himself and to the party
which elected him ; and that it was
such that the INTELLIGENCER fears to
defend it. We broadly deny it; and
assert that there was nothing in the
conduct of Frederick S. Pyfer as ;City
Solicitor, as there has been nothing in
his conduct before or since, which was
not perfectly honest, upright and fair.
If the Expresv knows aught to the con
trary or any thing to his prejudice in
any relation of life, whether public or
private, we call upon It to state what it
knows in clear tern 4; instead of covert
ly insinuating it, so that we may meet
its accusation and brand the falsehood
which we are sure it must contain.—
We call upon it to earnestly strive to
do what we know will be a very diffi
cult task fur it to ;set itself ; and
that is, to endeavor to put itself for just
this once,in the position of a respectable
newspaper and to conduct itself as one.
No decent paper, as no decent man,
seeks to stab the reputation of a fellow
citizen in thedark, but if it has anything
to say of him which should be said, it
states it openly and frankly with a due
sense of the responsibility it is assuming
and a readiness to meet it; it never
seeks to- do the injury and avoid its
accountability therefor. We therefore
demand that the Expiss shall make
what charges it Mis to make against Col.
l'yfer in clear and unmistakable lan
guage, or that to continue to be regard
ed as u disreputable journal.
We have known eol.Pyfer intimately
from his boyhood to the present hour,
and we know in all that time he has
been, and has never, for one moment,
ceased to be an honorable and au up
right num. In every position which he
hay ever filled, as school-teacher in
.lanor township, as Chairman of the
'emocratie County Committee, us So
licitor of the City of Lancaster, asa pri
sate and an officer in the army, as See
retary of the School Board of Lancaster
city, as a lawyer, anti as a citizen, he
s ever been capable, honest, al
courageous in the performance of his
duties ; and we defy any man to show
the contrary or convince his fellow-cit-
zens,who know his record and his daily
ife, that he is or, ever has been capable
d' doing anything discreditable to
hem or to himself. 'They are proud
)f him as a fellow-citizen ; they are
proud of him as a noble and ingenu
ous loan ; and they are proud of him as
a brave and chivalrous soldier. We
fear no comparison between his record
and that of his competitor for office
for as a citizen his life, to say the very
least, has been as pure and as honorable,
and he has a brilliant record as a soldier,
which his opponent has not. While
Mr. Reed was laying up wealth for him
self by getting 25 per cent, for the use
of money during the shoddy times of
the war and by selling United States
5.20 bonds for a commision, Col.
Pyler was incurring privation, sick
ness and imprisonment in the ser
vice of his country. He is poor
and his adversary is rich; but unless
poverty is a thing to be ashamed of,
surely he has nothing to fear iu the com
, mrisou of his life with that of Mr. Reed.
A PROFITA BLE lesson might be learn
ql by Radical politicians,who so loudly
❑ate about Tannnany rands, from the
. ermon preached on Sunday last by
leery Ward Beecher. These alleged
muds was his theme; and he told his
. ww holders -very frankly, that no polit-
cal capital could be made out of these
disclosures, as they were simply an ev
idence of the financial dishonesty of the
times, which is as manifest in Wash
ington as in New York, mid is as true
of commercial as political circles; and
that when the President of the United
states uses his high office to put money
in his own and friends' pockets by or
dering the public motley to he paid fur
materials of which he is part owner,
the measure of our national shame is
full to the very brim. Mr. Beecher,
with statesmanlike instinct, rises above
the Radical politician, and realizes that
if official unfaithfulness is a reason for
depriving the Democratic party of pow
er in a State the same argument can be
used with ten•fold more effect against
Republican domination In the nation.
PENNSYLVANIA in to be the battle
ground of the Presidential canvass of
The Radicals proclaim it. and feel
its significant truth—hence all their
desperate etlbrts to achieve a triumph
for their State ticket on Tuesday next.
With their defeat, [key signify a ready
abandonment of I'resideutial•success.
The Old Keystone is emphatically
Democratic. It has been so iu the past,
and can be made so in the future, if you,
Democrats, will but put your shoulders
to the wheel, anti roll up your • united
strength at the polls. Will you do it?
A restoration of the old, time-honored
party, is a boon worth laboring for. We
need Democratic hands at the helm of
both state and National governments,
and we must have it, ere the country is
restored to prosperity and peace.
Two thousand millions of acres of the
public land have been given away,
while one hundred millions of dollars,
which Mr. Bout well has permitted to
lie idle in the Treasury, could have built
the Pacific Railroad and a ship canal to
the South Atlantic, by which Western
products could have reached the South
ern and Eastern seaboards and good
markets. But that was not Radical pol
icy. It would have prevented Radical
Congressmen and the favorites of the
party from amassing the colossal for
tunes which they have by the letting of
jobs in the construction of the road.—
This is Radical management of the
finances.
Ti E Y. Tribune copies some dozen
articles
,from the Republican press of
the country, in denunciation of the
Murphy-Coukling wing and the .dis
graceful proceedings of the Syracuse
Convention, and yet accepts the situa
tion and goes for the ticket, the Grant
endorsement and all. If half that is
said of the Radical Conventlou,!and the
successful wing be true, no decent man
could think of supporting the ticket put
in nomination. But Radicals shut their
eyes, and bolt it, just as they would a
dose of salts or a nausqous bolus. May it
scour them as effectually, for they need
both political and moral purging.
antocitATs, you have but Si% days
more in which to work ; but in those
six days much can be done. Let them
not be unemployed. In your wards, in
your social meetings--everywhere -- have
an eye to the success of your ticket. Do
not wait until election day to do it. True,
you can do much then ; but labor per
formed now will leave the less for you
to do on that day. Don't be chary of
your words, your arguments, or your ac
tions. Every eilbrt that you can put
forth is needed and demanded of you.
Do not withhold it, and a glorious tri
umph will reward you.
THE Radicals despair of carrying
Ohio, and almost concede the election
of a Democratic. Legislature and the
choice of aspemocrat in the next United
States Sense. Senator Sherman has
telegraphed to Washington dethanding
that all the clerks from that State in
the several Departments be sent home
to labor and vote. Qyant, Boutwell,
Delano, and Robeson, of the Cabinet,
have been sent there as Radical mia.
sionaries, but the Buckeyes don't seem
to appreciate them.
The Bich Banker's Weapon against the
Brave Soldier.
Nothing more clearly indicates the
impregnable position of Col. Pyfer as a
candidate for the Mayoralty,than do the
absard shifts to which his enemies are
compelled to resort in their brainless ef
forts to defeat him. They find his char
acter, both as a man and as a soldier, to
be perfectly unassailable ; they find that
the Democracy of the city are enthusi
astically devoted to him, and are proud
to have him as their leader. The Re
publicans, on the other hand, are not
proud of their candidate ; how could
they indeed be, when comparing his
record during the darkest hours of his
country's history—a Shylock broker
busily engaged in laying up 'wealth for
himself by the most unblushing usury,
battening upon:the nation's distress aril
demanding two or three dollars for one,
in trading its notes for his gold—with
that of Col. Pyfer, who in those hours
was bravely fighting to restore the
Union, which such stay-at-home lip
patriots as his competitor loudly prated
of their love for, while secretly hoping
that the war would last forever, so that
the hard-earned money which was
wrung from the patriotism of the peo
ple might continue to flow into the cof
fers of contractors and money-lenders.
Rendered desperate by his apprecia
tion of the commanding position of Col.
Pyfer, and knowing full well that he
cannot be truthfully assailed so as to
lower him in the estimation of his fel
low citizens, the money-changer has
boldly discarded truth as a weapon, and
has engaged the Express to lie for him
with au effrontery which is extraordi
nary for even that unscrupulous sheet.
Truth is always a great stranger to its
columns, but its editor is generally
sharp enough to cover his falsehoods
with some veil of plausibility however
slight. It is but another illustration
therefore of the manner in which malice
blinds those who are envenomed by it,
that we find this penitentiary graduate
rashly publishing a statement in which
he denies that Col. Pyfer ever languish
ed in a rebel prison, when everybody
about town knows perfectly well that
he in company with Col. Miles Mifia
large portion of the 77th Regiment,
V., laid in Libby prison for a period of
seven or eight weary months, during
the most inclement seasons of the year,
and that Col. Pyfer for two months of
that time was very dangerously ill.
And it is equally notorious that since
that time he has been in an exceedingly
delicate state of health. The Express
has, in the face of these facts,the audacity
to print the following :
"Whoever knew, or suspected that Col.
Pyfer was a disabled man, entitled to a
pension? Lie was never wounded in battle,
never starved in a rebel prison, and, since
his return from the army he has never lost
a day's time from his business as a lawyer."
"100 disablement or injury to his ,health
that be received in the service has disqual
ified him for earning a living in his profes
sion to the extent of the value of'a dollar."
Col. Pyfer, at the commencement of
the war being a private in the old Jack
son Rifle Company, went with it into
the three months service; returning
home at the end of the term, he at once
raised a company for the three years ser
vice, of which he was commissioned
Captain, and with it joined the 77th
Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers,
and went at once into service in the
West. From November, IStil, to Sep
tember, 15133, he was never absent one
day from his command. He rose to the
rank of Lieut.-Colonel, and even the
Erpress, wonderful to say, is compelled
to admit that he made a record as a
brave and gallant soldier. That fact, it
conceived, was too notorious for even its
brazen effrontery to deny. In Septem
ber,lBo3, Col. Pyfer with a large portion
of his regiment was captured at the dis
astrous battle of Chickamauga, acid was
immured within the walls of Libby
Prison until the end of March, 1564..
While lying there, the damp and cold
of the prison brought upon him a severe
attack of pleuro-pueumonia, and for
two months, his life was despaired of.
He is still suffering, as everybody—the
Express included—well knows, and up
to a year ago, was frequently confined
to his house and utterly incapacitated
for business for weeks and months at a
time. Within the last year his health,
we are glad to hear him say, has been
improving.
In its insane desire to injure Colonel
l'yfer. the E.f-prf,fB prints in italics—as
though it was charging him with a
heinous crime,—the fact that the Colo
nel is receiving from the Government
a pension hf $3O a month for disability
incurred in the service. It is so blinded
by passion that it fails to perceive that
what it intends shall injure hint, is in
reality calculated to gain for him the
sympathy of the community. The fact
that the Colonel is entitled to a pension
is conclusive evidence that he has suf
fered in the service of his country, and
none can be induced to think that what
he is receiving is at all an adequate com
pensation for the injury done him by
the terrible lung disease, from which
he has been suffering. His fellow-citi
zens know full well that the statement
of tne Express, that Colonel Pyfer has
not been incapacitated by the injury to
his lungs from the practice of his pro
fession for a single day, is a bald and
base falsehood ; they know that he is
and has been au invalid, and that in the
practice of his profession as a lawyer,
because of the much speaking it requires
a weakness of the lungs is a very serious
impediment.
The Express in its rage has forgotten
that, in asserting that Col. Pyfer is
drawing a pension, although in no way
incapacitated, it is bringing a very se
rious charge against two very respecta
ble physicians, who are both strong
Radicals—Drs. Blackwood and Clinger
—the Examining Surgeons of the Gov
ernment, by whom Col. Pyfer and all
other pensioners in the county are ex
amined once every year. It charges
that they have violated their oaths of
office and have given Col. Pyfer a cer
tificate of all incapacit:y which it says
does not exist. How is this ^Does the
Express lie, or have Drs. Blackwood and
Clinger perjured themselves? Assured
ly, every one who knows both parties,
will unhesitatingly declare that the
Express has, as it is prone to do, wil
fully, maliciously and knowingly lied.
And now, what do the public think
of such a paper, and of a candidate who
will authorize such a mode of warfare.
Will it do the money-chaugerany good
Will it profit the rich banker to malign
in this way the poor but gallant soldier,
whose years have been so shortened by
disease contracted in his country's ser
vice that his life has hung upon a thread,
and for years has :been imminent that
dread call of the Almighty which would
fill with the intensest sorroW, the hearts
of his friends and render desolate his
wife and children. We thank God that
he is better now, and we trust
that, the further ravages of the dis
ease_which has so cruelly tried him,
have been stayed. iiboutO his health be
restored, surely none can doubt th4t the
day when the Examining Surgeons
make that announcement to hi'M will
be the happiest day of his life; and that,
to secure it, he would willingly release
a pension of ten times the amount he
receives.
EVERY vote cast for the Democratic
ticket is a rebuke of the Radical Inter
nal Revenue Collectors, who have
stolen twenty millions of the people's
money—not one of whom has been
brought to punishment. Remember,
too, that if the Radicals succeed in elect
ing their State ticket, they will cover
over all the immense swindles of these,
as well as of Evans, the embezzler, and
the entire amount—p63,soo—of his pil
ferings be lost to therpeople of the State.
If the pernocratic 'ticket is elected—
UnCandless and pooper—the whole
pack of thieves concerned to this rob
bery will be exposed and made to dis
gorge the amount to the State.
Radical Subterfuge.
The Greenville Argue, in an article
which is bodily copied as editorial into
the Harrisburg Telegraph, manages to
concentrate more Radical falsehood, for
electioneering purposes, than is usually
found even in journals of the most ultra
ilk. Passing by the gratuitous asser
tion—ridiculous as it is malicious—that
every Democrat is a rebel and Ku-Klux,
we wish simply to subject a few of its
assertions to the test of history. It asks
the people to believe that the Republi
can party has redeemed all the pledges
it made in 1864—that peace has been
made secure—that the States lately in
rebellion have all been restored to their
proper positions, and are now in the en
joyment of free State governments—
that the nation's credit has been sus
tained and the revenues faithfully col
lected and honestly applied. Is this the
ruth? if the rebel States have been
fully restored to the enjoyment of their
sovereign rights, what mean the quar
tering of United States troops in their
midst to prevent the free exercise of the
franchise, and the hordes of Federal of
ficials who interfere with and control
even petty local offices by the force of
Federal bayonets and Gatlin guns? Is
that sovereignty? Is it such an ex
ercise of the elective franchise as Is con
templated by the existence of peaceful
relations? • Or is it not, rather, such a
condition of affairs as exists in revolt
ing provinces, or under the most arbi
trary rule of a tyrant? Peace, forsooth!
There will be no peace until Grant, and
a second instalment of his iniquitous
and imbecile Administration is foisted
upon them at the point of the bayonet;
for it is the Radical determination to
still further invade even the sanctity
and privacy of Southern homes and to
usurp control of the ballot, to humiliate
and degrade, on the one hand, and to
complete the triumph of their unhal
lowed schemes on the other.
Has the nation's credit been sustain-
ed? If so, why the prolonged Legging
of Boutwell and his agents in Europe,
and Lis mendicant supplications at
home, fur the taking of his proposed
loans? Poor revolutionary France, just
emerged froM her Franco-Prussian war,
in which she was subdued, and a fratri
cidal strife at home, :in which she was
well nigh impoverished, had more than
three times the amount asked tendered
for her acceptance; while Spain, even
in worse revolutionary plight, was of-
fered more than five times the sum re
quired for the liquidation of her revolu
tionary debt and the conduct of her
governmental affairs. Have we less of
wealth or less of patriotism at home,
that a deaf ear has been turned to Mr.
Boutwell's entreaties, and his proposed
loans, which should have been taken
at once, dwindled down to an insignifi
cant syndicate? Where were the shod
dyites, who made millions out of the
war by unrighteous contracts and the
most stupendous frauds? Where were
the snobs who so lavishly poured their
presents of money, houses and lands
into the lap of President Grant? Had
they faith in the credit of the Govern
ment? About as much as the capital
i,t.sof Europe, who withheld their funds,
and preferred, rather, an investment iu
the securities offered by impoverished
France and revolutionary Spain.
Have the revenues been faithfully
collected and applied? Let the millions
upon millions which 'have been
stolen by government officials, with
scarce an efffirt at exposure or punish
ment of the offenders, answer. Ten
more years of Radical rule, and the
country will be engulphed in inextri
cable ruin.
Democrats, ponder. these facts, and
let your seal of condemnation be put
upon the Administration and party by
which they were brought about. Re
publicans, Conservative, contrast the
ten 'years of Radical rule with the
eighty years administration of the Gov
ernment by the Democratic party, and
on Tuesday next, calmly, honestly and
dispassionately decide which of the two
parties claiming your votes is the best
fitted to be entrusted with the country's
destinies.
THE Tribune announces that it ac
cepts the ticket nominated at Syracuse,
and " pledges to its support that solid
three-fourths of the entire Republican
vote of the city whose delegates were
insultingly driven from the Covention."
It accepts " the miracle of clumsiness
culled the platform; and bows to the
monstrous State Committee." Poorper
secuted, unfortunate Ureeley, of course
you will—aye, gulp it down, anaconda
like, though unlike the angel's book, IL
be bitter both in the mouth and in the
belly. Your political antecedents, as
well as those of the Tribune, commit
you to such a course, and you can't go
back on it.
But the funniest of all the funny reas
ons which he gives for his ready accept
ance, is that "Sew York fnust be car
ried for honest government and against
the thieves!" And this in the very
teeth of his denunciations of Tom Mur
phy and his government backers as .
thieves, rascals and swindlers—men
against whom the whole artillery of the
Tribunes columns and his own personal
influence have been hurled. Yet, now
he acknowledges their supremacy as
partisan leaders, and manifests a readi
ness to co-operate with them, to labor
for them, and if needs be, sing pfeans of
praise to their virtues and partisan feal
ty. He bids " the new oracles of the
party who strutted their brief hour on
the stage at Syracuse enjoy their fleet
ing triumph," which is a feeble, dying
wail of the great and good Horace Gree
ley, the phisopher of Chapaqua, in
abandonment of hisyresidential hopes,
even for " one term," which was the
hobby upon which he hoped to head
Ulysses, and rid the country of its bribe
taking, horse-jockey Chief Executive.
ONE somewhat singular, as well as
damaging fact, connected with Hodge's
defalcation is, that the Treasury De
partment, nor any one connected with
it, knew anything concerning it, until
the fraud was first made known through
his own conjcsaion .' Day after day, and
mouth after month, Hodge was per
mitted, in the face of the law, to draw
on his own check as much money as he
felt inclined to invest in gold gambling,
without any question -being asked, no
reference being required as to his cash
account, or the returns which he was
required to make to the Treasury, until
nearly half a million dollars had been
squandered. Was there not either crim
inal negligence of official duty or an
unaccountable imbecility in this man
agement of public affairs? Hodge may,
perhaps, receive 'sentence for a short
time in the penitentiary, such as is
usually accorded to persons guilty of
petty larceny. But even this may be
still further lightened, or entirely re
moved by Executive clemency.
The New York Nominations
The following ticket was placed iu
nomination by the Murphy-Conklin
party of Syracase, Yesterday; Secretary
of State, 0. Hilton Scribner ; Attorney-
General, Francis C. BarloW; State En
gineer, W. B. Taylor; Canal Commis
sioner, Alexander Barkley ; Prison In
spector, Thomas Kirkpatrick. The
resolutions approve Grant's policy, dn
nounce the Tammany ring, favor a re
duction of taxation, a moderate tariff,
and a reduction of Canal tolls.
THE Radical candidate for Mayor is a
very affable man just now. He bows
and scrapes as he goes along the streets
and is ready to shake hands with any
poor man whom he meets. A wonder
fully condescending banker is he at
present. When the election is over,
and he is defeated, as he assuredly will
be, he will not know the poor men
upon whom he hss 8E111164 so 'sweetly
during the past week..
Radical Inconsistency
The Radical party is certainly the
embodiment of inconsistency, although
it may, at the same time, be justly styled
the party of good resolutions, which
commodity, being a cheap material, is,
we presume, used exclusively in the in
fernal regions for paving purposes, as a
mouldy adage assures us. Take, for in
stance, Wendell Phillips and Theodore
Tilton, embodiments of the saintly ele
ment, who have abused Grant as a
drunken dolt, and his administration as
a failure, yet who lend both their sup
port and sanction when political lines
are drawn. Then, Horace, the philos
opher, with an amiable yet hopeless
weakness which looks to the "succes
sion," with characteristic disposition,
denounces Grant's grasping, sordid am
bition, and yet declares in the same
breath which proclaims his incompe
tency and utter disregard of all save
self, that his re-election is preferable to
any honest statesman of the Democratic
school. Horace can do this with impu
nity, for it is his consistency. Did he
not " spit" upon the Whig platform of
1848, and yet do vigorous battle for Zech
Taylor? Did he not say " let the Union
Islide," and yet denounce as traitors the
men who took steps for its severance?
—bail Jeff Davis, snub with contempt
the Loyal Leaguers who had the temer
ity to arraign him for the act ?—excori
ate carpet-baggers as the vilest of dis
turbers of the peace of the South—deny
the existence of Ku-Klux, or a condi
tion of society which demanded mints-
ry interference, and yet lend himself
and the columns of his journal, to a
second of Grant's despotic military rule,
and all the infamous policy which has
been proposed by the Loyal Leaguers ?
Butler has repeatedly been the object
of his ridicule and censure, as the noto
rious Bethel failure and the beastly
commander of New Orleans, and yet,
as the Gubernatorial nominee of Radi
cal Massachusetts, Horace and the Tri
bune would both pray and labor for his
election. Murphy has beeu unstintedly
denounced as a thief, defaulter and dis
organizer, and yet, ere the heart-aches
and bickerings of the Syracuse Conven
tion shall have healed, or the conten
tions and abusive breath which pro
duced them is cooled, the Tribune and
the whole factious opposition will be
found cheek-by-jowl, and doing willing
service for the very men whom they
have so unstintedly denounced.
Yes, Radicalism is the essence of con
sistency. Mike Walsh used to :say in
the days of Tammany, that a gathering
of the unterrithed " was a realization of
hell broke loose." A more striking il-
lustration of this brimstone outbreak
has been found iu the Worcester and
Syracuse conventions, where Butler
impiously compared himself to the per
secuted Saviour, and where the Murphy
and Anti•Murphyites engaged in brutal
fights as asecond to the cowardly growl
iugs of the Fenton and Conkling
wings. Like the leopard they cannot
change their spots, nor as the Ethiope
their skin, but, like the snw, invaribly
return to her wallow, or a. the (log to
his vomit.
Tin.: old saying that "like will to
like," is verified in the sympathy ex
isting between Tom Murphy, Collector of
Customs for the port of New York, and
President Grant. The one, as shoddy
ite contractor during the war, stole from
the soldiers and people, and the other
pockets part of the pilferings in the
shape of a Long Branch cottage. Neith
er has a particle of permanent gratitude
—Grant having displaced Grinnell, who
expended $50,000 to secure his election,
and Murphy having thrown irreconcil
able dissensions into the ranks of the
party to whom he owes his wealth and
position. The famous Buck basket of
Falstaff, did not turn out a more un
pleasant-mass of dirty linen than that
which the Radicals are at present en
gaged in washing, as a consequence;
and however difficult it may be to im
part to it the least cleansing, the Mut
phy-Grantites will swear to its purifi
cation; and again don their filthy gar
ments, however disgusting to the Gree
ley-Fenton faction of the Radical camp.
Murphy will still revel in his Custom-
House corruptions, and Grant will con
sole himself at Long Branch, where the
filth and dryness of liolitics are copi
ously moistened with the best of liquors,
and the atmosphere rendered fragrant
with the aroma of Havana cigars, ex
pressly imported by Generous "Tom,"
for the exclusive use of his excellency.
Truly, a fortunate and happy duo, as
well as an honest one!
A SoMI,:WIIAT singular decision has
been given by Judge Magruder, of
Maryland, affirming the right of regis
tration and suffrage of persons convicted
of larceny or other infamous crimes,"
prior to the adoption of the Constitution
of ltin7. The line of argument adopted
is that the Constitutional provision im
poses a punishment for crime ; that it is,
virtually, part of the criminal code of the
State ; that its action must, therefore, be
entirely prospective, and that to give it
a retrospective operation would be to
bring it within the prohibition in the
Constitution of the United States of all
ex post facto laws. From this decision
many prominent legal gentlemen dis
sent, and the question is eliciting con
siderable discussion among legal gentle
men and the pre§s. The decision grew
out of the question whether negroes,
who had been sentenced to the peniten
tiary previous to their enfranchisement,
can be entitled to vote, under the Con
stitutional restrictions, or whether, not
being citizens at the time of their con
viction, they could take their status as
citizens under the Constitution of ISUS.
RAIN or shine, foul or fair
Democrats, turn out on Tuesday next,
and devote one day toward saving the
country from the disgrace and ruin into
which Radicalism is plunging it. Come
prepared to work, in whatever sphere
you may find it to do. Your presence
and influence will be felt—it will stim-
[date your neighbor, whose faith is the
same as your's, and your earnestness
may convince and win over those w h o
have been opposed to you. It is your
duty as a patriot, as a citizen and as
Democrat. Do not shrink from it.
'Pmts skies look bright for the Deinoe
racy in the old Keystone. There are nk
divisions, no dissensions in its ranks
It presents au unbroken front, and ii
every face along the line is read a deter
mination to tfiuMpti on the second
Tuesday of October. This should stim
ulate every man to active, energetic la
bor to secure success beyond all perad
venture. In proportion as our hopes
become elated, Radicals become depress
ed, as is evidenced by the countless
dodges to which they are resorting to
save their sinking fortunes.
THE Radicals boast that the public
credit has been improved. Six years of
peace, with the rapid development of a
rich and prosperous county, would, with
proper management of the finances,
have made our greenbacks gold, and
funded our debt at three or four per
cent. Instead of this being the case, our
currency is depreciated, and we beg al
most in vain for our needed loans to
carry on the Government.
Trip Peruocratic party, ever since the
formation of the Government, hp been
devoted to an honest administration of
public affairs. It made us, as a nation,
all that remains to be proud of; and it
is in the restoration of that party to
power that rests the sole hope of an hon
est and prosperous administration of the
Government. The first step in that di
rection can be taken on Tuesday next.
THE Radicals have been already de
tected in stealing over $25,000,000 of the
people's money. Democrats—voters of
every honest school—remember this on
Tueaday.
How the Radical Candidate for, Mayor
Made MUM
George K. Reed is rich. During the
war there were many chances for mak
ing money, and the Radical candidate
for Mayor staid at home and took ad
vantage of every opportunity which pre
sented itself. He was not over-scrupu
lous in regard to the means he used to
enrich himself, asa single little incident
will show. Speculating in gold was de
nounced as disloyal, and Thaddeus Ste
yens had a bill passed through Congress
to prevent it; but Mr. Reed's loyalty was
never suffered to stand in the way of
profit, and he speculated freely in gold.
One morning he found himself In pos
session of a large sum, when he
was startled by receiving a special
telegraphic despatch announcing that
gold bad suddenly declined twenty
per cent. Here was a chance
for a smart loss, but Mr. Reed was
sharp enough to save himself. He went
straightway to a respectable merchant
and offered to sell him gold at 1.4191-,
when it was Only worth 1.30 iu Phila
delphia. The merchant bought and
Mr. Reed unloaded himself ; but, in his
greed for gain, he is said to have gone
further and to have made money during
the morning by buying up several lots
of gold at reduced rates,and selling them
at the ruling price of the preceding af
ternoon. These are facts upon which
we have no wish to comment. We pre
sent them to the voters of Lancaster,
and ask them whether the man who
spent his time iu accumulating money
byjsuch means, should be elected over a
brave soldier who periled his life and
sacrificed his health for the Union.
THE masterly speeches of Senator
Carl Schurz have fallen into the Radi
cal lines with the ruinous effect of some
death-dealing missile. The Adminis
tration organs are ceaseless in their
abuse of him, which is evidence of
how deeply they feel their damaging
tendency. The truth is, Carl Schurz
stands, intellectually, head and should
ers above ally other man whom the Re
publicans could boast as a member of
their party, and there is a weight and
significance to his utterances which it
is vain to ignore. Such journals as the
N. Y. Tribune. do not, withhold from him
the metal of praise which is his due;
and while characterizing his speeches
us possessing marked ability, as well as
containing unanswerable arguments
and facts, it attaches to the patriotic
correspondence which has taken place
between him and a number of ex-Rebel
soldiers a peculiar significance and in
tsrest. The Tribune says : " The Sena
tor has been foremost in advocating,
from the }datform and in the Serrate,
Universal Amnesty, and this tribute to
his unselfish patriotism, taken with the
pledges of the ex-Rebels who address
him, may be considered a fair indica
tion of the tone and temper of a large
element in the South. It is a cheering
sign for the future;" and it might have
added, in striking and liberal contrast
with the Administration policy, of un
relenting antipathy to anything per
taining to Southern individuals or the
cultivation of prosperity and peace.
THE Radicals, alMost certain of losing
Pennsylvania, are attempting to ignore
the idea previously advanced by them
selves, that it is the battle-field of the
Presidential contest in '72. Conceding
Pennsylvania and New York to the
Democrats, they argue that Grant could
still be elected, deriving consolation
from the fact that Harrison would have
been elected, even with their loss, by a
vote of 164 against 130, and Pierce,in like
event,by avote of PC to MI. There is but
a sorry crumb of comfort in these prece
dents; and the very fact that the Radi
cal journals and stump orators urge the
absolute necessity of carrying Pennsyl
vania at the October election to ensure
the State in the Presidential election, is
conclusive that they do regard the old
Keystone as the battle-ground, the lose
of which ensures their defeat and the
success of the Democracy.
SEN.vron. Scour thinks Grant's nom
ination as the Presidential candidate is
a foregone conclusion, and that he will
carry u majority of the Southern States,
if the Ku-Klux can be held in subjec
tion. Radical papers represent him as
" favoring firm and decisive dealings
with all disorganizers at the time of the
election, and that the U. S. military
should, if necessary, aid in every etlbrt
to frustrate" the efforts of the opposi
tion. Of course that is the Radical
game—the employment of the military
to prevent a free and honest expression
of the popular will, under the stale plea
of the existence of Ku-Klux organiza
tions. It will require, however, a still
more high-handed usurpation of power
by the Radicals than they have yet
been guilty of, to force Grant down the
throats of the people, either of the North
or South.
A Sixteenth Amendment
Some days ago that sterling Demo
cratic journal, the Pittsburgh Post, con
tained a leading editorial, iu which it
was proposed that a Sixteenth Amend
ment should be added to the Constitu
tion of the United States, repealing the
clause which declares that no citizen of
foreign birth shall be eligible to the
Presidency. Why should it not be
done? Every negro in the land has
been made eligible to the highest office
in the gift of the American people.—
Why not give Carl Schurz an even
chance with Fred Douglass? Why
keep up restrictions upon white men,
when the last barrier between a negro
and the Presidency is removed? We
do not see how any itepublican Con
gressman can consistently vote against
the amendment which the Post pro
poses to add to the Constitution.
MEM
No action having been taken by Con
gressat the last session on the apportion
ment question, the Secretary of the In
terior will, under the laws of ISW and
1862, make the apportionment called for
under the census just taken. The num
ber of representatives will be 241, giving
two each to Illinois and Missouri, and
one each to lowa, Kansas, Michigan,
Minnesota, New J ersey, Texas and Wis.
cousin. New York will lose three, Ohio
and Pennsylvania two each, and Ken
tucky one, while the New England
States will lose six in all. Some two or
three States will probably gain an ad
ditional member for large fractions,
which will require the action of
gress to authorize elections at large
THE Harrisburg Telegraph and the
Harrisburg Stale Journal, the central
organs of the Republican party, are do
ing all they can to kindle anew the
baleful fires of li.now-Nothingism.—
Scarcely a day passes without the ap
pearance in their columns of editorial
articles grossly abusive of the Catholic
Church. All this is done for the express
purpcse of stirring up bad blood and
making political capital out of the big
otry pf narrow-minded people. It is
the basest means of electioneering to
which disreputable demagogues can de
scend.
G RANT is unfortunate in the selection
of his political friends, so far as ante
cedents are concerned. He endorses the
claims of the Rev. Senator Harlan for
re-electiop in lowa, in revenge for which
Allison and Wilson are RbOIA to pub
lish, in .pamphlet form, the speech of
Harlan on Grant after the battle of
Pittsburg Landing, made at the second
session of the Thirty-seventh Congress,
in which the Rev. gentleman de
nounces Grant for stupidity and in
competency, and calls for his removal.
THE Treasury Department, as an in
dorsement of Collector Casey and his
infamous military convention schemes,
by the administration, has removed
some twenty employees at the New Or
leans Custom House, end appointed
others upon Casey's recommendation.
This snubs Gov. \Vermouth and widens
the Radical breach In Louisiana.
• State Items.
Perry county has 140 colored citizens.
Tyrone is becoming one of the most
prosperous boroughs in the State.
Horace Greeley spoke at the Green
ville Fair on Thursday.
The gas wells of Erie are the most pro
lific in the State:
Among the colored population of the
sth ward, York, is included oue Indian.
John Summerland was suffocated In
a well near Shippensburg last week.
The County Fair at Fellefonte com
mences to-day, and continues four days.
During 1870 Titusville erected new
buildings to the value of $2,000,000.
There is a movement on foot to build
a large cotton mill in Scranton, costing
half ix million
A Perry county man owns a colt, six
eeu mouths old, that weighs
_
pounds.
The law requires guide-boards to be
placed at the forks of every road. It is
not obeyed.
The deaths in Philadelphia last week
were ^_69, fourteen of whom died of old
The Bucks County Fair at Newtown,
last week, was not a success, owing to
the bad weather.
There is to be a grand drawing of a
arm, on Thursday next, at the Itead-
The Susquehanna can be easily forded
at a number of places by reason of the
exceedingly low stage of the water.
School-teachers in Westmoreland
county receive from thirty-five to sixty
dollars per mouth.
A New Yorker was yesterday vic
timized by a Baltimore confidence man
in Philadelphia.
Joseph A. Smith, of Fulton, while
out squirrel hunting the other day. shot
a fat bear.
Phcenixville is to have a new and
beautiful park, the ground of which has
already been broken.
Edward Wehrley, of York, was struck
by the express train going north and
badly injured in the hip.
John R.Reynolds.an old citizen of Rey
noldsville, Jefferson county, died on
Tuesday morning.
A few days ago Owen Homer, while
intoxicated, lay down on the railroad
near Youngstown, and was killed.
The ladies of the 2,1 Presbyterian
church in Mercer, cleared S3SO from their
eating on the Fair ground during the
Fair.
The law requires guide boards to be
placed at the forks of every road. ,It is
not obeyed.
Hon. Andrew Stewart, of Uniontown,
has bought an oil-well and several
wells on Cheat river.
The Uniontown and \Vest Vireinia
Railroad is about ready for the ties and
ballast.
Mr. John Pills, sexton of St. Joh I
Episcopal Church, York, died of co
sumption on Thursday last.
Rev. Father Pape, pastor of the Ger
man Catholic Church at York, returned
from his trip to Europe last Monday.
The Democracy of rnion and Snyder
counties have nominated William
Young for Assembly.
The Titusville Hrrald announces live
fresh "strikes" in its vicinity, averaging
nearly MO barn Not' oil per day.
Sufficient stock has been subscribed lo
insure the organization of the Media
and Chester Narrow-Gauge Railroad.
Wni. Wallace, of Pulaski township,
Lawrence county, has discovered on Iris
farm a good vein of mineral paint.
John Ernst, a butcher living in Erie,
committed suicide by cutting his throat
with a butcher-knife, one day last week.
Hay crops were a failure this year in
Montgomery county, and cattle-feeders
are complaining of the scarcity.
The 1). H. W. Railroad is about com
pleted from Sunbury to a con noel Mir
with the Lehigh Valley Railroad.
The Pennsylvania and Delaware Rail
road, it is now said, will certainly be
built. The Superintendent has adver
tised forties for immediate use.
The Lehigh and Schuylkill Episcopal
Convocation will hold its semi-annual
meeting in Trinity Church, Pottsville,
commencing this evening,.
The westward travel is greater than It
has been for a long time. The trains are
so much crowded that frequently stand
ing room is scarcely obtainable.
F. B. Gowen, Esq., President of the
Reading Railroad Company, is expected
to arrive home from Europe the latter
part of the present month.
The work of laying the heavy iron
pipes through the river at Pittston for
the purpose of supplying that place
with pure water, has been finished.
The farmers of Franklin comity are
becoming famous as scientific growers
of superior fruit, and ship large quanti
ties to foreign markets.
The Scranton Times complains that
fashionably dressed women appearupon
the streets of that city in an intoxicated
condition.
The Meadville people are feeling good
over the fact that a locomotive has been
recently built there—the first ever at
tempted at that place.
0. M. Reynolds, of Oil City, had his
hand split from the thumb centre to the
back, while playing base ball at Coch
ranton on last Friday.
Col. L. L. Miuor, for ten years past a
clerk in the General Land olticeat Wash
ington City, has resigned and returned
to his home in Waynesburg.
A man named Jacob Flinahbach has
been missing from York since the day
of the ballcon ascension. Ile has a
family of several children.
The Sheriff of Dauphin county has
ordered the removal of all lisp-baskets,
nets, Sc., for the capture of fish from the
Susquehanna and Juniata rivers.
In the White abortion case, in the
Beaver county Court, the jury failed to
agree, eight being for conviction and
four for acquittal.
A woman in Lawrence county at
tempted to throw boiling Water on a hog,
and instead poured the whole of it upon
a little girl, scalding her severely.
A little boy, near Etnans, Berks coun
ty, went into a lime-kiln, and was found
(lead at the hearth by Mr. Wine, the
owner.
(leo. Hutchinson, of Juniata aounty,
the other day killed sixteen rattlesnakes
and four copperheads iu a log near his
residence.
The Carlisle Volunteer, '2sth, says:
We are pleased to learn that the Fall
term of Dickinson College has opened
under favorable auspices,
Lumber is becoming scarce in Clear
field county, and people there are pay
ing more attention to raising cruys than
felling timber.
Larger quantities of buckwheat were
harvested in the northern part of the
State this than any former year for
many years.
It is claimed that thelteading It. it.has
laid more rail, tln;i4 far, than any other
road in the State. It is compelled to
have immense side-tracks.
The Ticket Agents' Convention is
still in session in Philadelphia, and the
delegates are to partake of a banquet
to-night at the Continental.
Pittsburgh butchers resist the pay
ment of the State mercantile tax, on the
ground that they are not "merchants."
Forty-five executions have been Issued.
The Wilmington and Peach bottom
railroad is strongly talked of, and billies
are entertained that it will be pushed
ahead, as an excellent route for It is fur
nished.
At the argument court last week in
Hollidaysburg, John Meinhart, con
fined to jail on the charge of the murder
of his wife, at Tyrone, was admitted to
bull.
Edmund .1. Balliet, a well-known cit
izen of Allentown, was found sitting
dead in a chair at his residence on Sun
day morning, having died some time
during the night.
On Tuesday last, John Hopper had
one of his arms crushed while inspect
ing cars at the P. & E. shops in Sun
bury. The Doctors think he will not
lose the arm, which is fortunate.
The West Pennsylvania Synod of the
Evangelical Lutheran church has been
in session id Beading since Wednes ,
day last. Its meetings are held in the
First Lutheran Church.
The channel of the Schuylkill, from
Point Breeze to its mouth, has been
deepened about three feet. Congress
having made an appropriation for the
work.
On Friddy afternoon the freldit depot
at Muncy Station on the P &E. rail
road was totally consumed by fire, oc
casioned by sparks from the 1:50 express
train.
A man named Daniel Thomas, a
master blacksmith at Lippet's holler
works, Harrisburg, was killed by fall
ing from an unfinished scaffold a height
of fifty feet.
On Tuesday, Sept. 26th, Fayette coun
ty was eighty-eight years old. The act
making it a county, out of a part of
Westmoreland, was passed Sept. 26th,
1783.
The track-layers on the Catawissa rail
road are now at the river opposite hluney,
Another week will probably see them in
that borough, and the whistle of the
locomotivP will soon awake the echoes o
the village.
Mrs. Clark, au old lady, residing at
Mont Clara, Montgomery county, fell
down some steps, on Friday evening of
last week, resulting in breaking her
collar-bone and bruising her to some ex
tent.
On Friday morning of last week a
stranger fell off the cars near Greens
burg and was killed. He had $6O on
his person and a check for his baggage.
luside his trunk was pasted the name
of Sohn Schw!s.i, Palmyra, Missouri.
Carrie Door, a colored girl of about
ten years of age, was discovered in the
feeder of the Pennsylvania. canal at
Middletown on Tuesday afternoon with
life extinct. It is said that the girl fell
into the water.
The graduation, masonry and bridg
ing was let on Friday last of the South
west Pennsylvania Railway from
Greensburgb to Connellsville, a dis
tance of :24 miles, to be finished in eight
mouths.
Mrs. Lydia Ramsey-, of Washington
county, and grandmother of the sherill
of that, County, who is 9,1 years old, a
few days ago walked to a neighbor's
house, a quarter of a mile distant, and
bark
The milk trade at Pottstown is still
Arger than that of any other station on
he Reading Railroad. Nearly
undred gallons are shipped from there
Philitdellihia daily. Perk imnen
Junction sends the next largest quantity.
Samuel Hellman lia4 wandered from
his home near Milton in an insane con
dition. His friends are alarmed at his
absence. lle is about 40 years of age,
feet 7 or S inches high, dark hair, large
eyes and was respectably dressed when
he left his home.
The Synod of Erie of the Presbyterian
church, consisting of one hundred and
fifty ministers, representing about to
hundred churches, will meet in the Fir,t.
Presbyterian church, Franklin, Uctober
13th. It is expected that some three
hundred ministerial and lay delegates
will be present.
'lllO statement has been made that the
Southern Pennsylvania ltailroail
puny will shortly begin the construe
thou of ten anthracite blast furnaces in
this city, and that the Philadelphia mid
]tending I:ailropli l'iimpany propose to
ally:ince :1 , 1,0110,0410 on mortgage to help
along the enterprise.
The statement has been made that il•
Southern Pennsylvania Railroad Ono
pany will shortly begin the conslri o et bin
Of tell anthracite blast furnaecs in btead •
ing, and that, the Philadelphia and Read
ing Railroad l'oliipany propose to ail
vanee $1,000,000 on mortgage, to help
along the enterprise.
M. 'l'. Milliken, of Bellefonte, chile
at I Iskilloosa, lolvii, :Wending a meeting
of Friends, Wile ricken with apoplexy
on the road to church on Wednesday,
the nth inst., 111111 died about, three I
:11., of the name illy. Mr. \I. left I .J 1
111111:( !AIL It few days previously, appar
ently in good healtii.
A. new oil strike has heel, made in
Armstrong county. The (veil com
menced throwing, oil and gas in such
quantities that the oil caught lire,
Lail was subsequently ex tinguished, and
for the first twenty-tour hours after wart
flowed nearly two hundred and tiny
barrels of oil, ivitli the rope and tool, in
the well.
The I lollenback coal mines, near
Wilkesbarre caved iu with a terrible
crash on Saturday night last. Thoy
had been iu ao unsafe condition ror
'woo woo, and were übuudourd a feW
lure previoll , to 1)10 raving, thereby
llrcveilling a second Pittston horror.
Six acres fell al once Ma depth or near
ly 1 1 .oii feet, presenting a terrible chasm
ill the surrounding 111111 1. Thousands
of spectators immediately' hacked to the
scene. Nothing more eel imis than the
loss of IL urge 1111:1111 ily and
other mining implement. resulted from
it.
The Demooratm of Newark, N.. 1.,
terday nominated 10...0s 111 1 4.1•Iow for
Mayor.
A man ironed Firlo•y wAs ,lidt dead
another named Shakery,
:Sbnitana, oil Sunday.
Al Newburg, N. Y., yeAci.loy, Ihcei
I)eys, colored, was arrwded oil the
charge of murdering her
Secretary Nail well wa•i
hi Imuse at the Capitol yeBterday w ill.
all attack a i IlueitA.
1.31 . 111/11
111.)Strite :mum, formerly of Springfield,
:\ tiled tot the ttOtli ult.
Tennessee I.egitdal ore nitd 1/lld
wgittlized yesterday. toveroor tion
ter's invssage will itrottaltly Ito stall in
to-day.
The public debt statem2el for
let shows IL lOLA lesSi9V+ll in the Trvo,-
II ry, of. 2,:!,ti0,1iii:',,!):;!) --a decrease ol
during the past mouth.
At Washington, yesterday, Denals
Ihirllon Was acquitted of the minder
.lohn Mcl'arthy, in :\uguel lint. 1):11-
den killed :‘lcl'arthy inn personal quar
rel.
lien. Sheridan's party reached Salmon
river, liansas, on Friday evening . , in U co
days' march from Fort I [ayes. All the
members of the party were in excellent
health.
Stephen \\'. Curtis, Cashier of the
Boston alid New York Express Compa
ny, has hem' arrested tit. Boston on the
charge of embezzling ..-,M,0u0,i1 the Com
pany '8 lauds.
The War Department giant,
three months' leave of absence to .Sre.
ond Lieutenant Frederick D. Grant, in
addition to three months granted Hint
ILA graduate of the Military Academy.
A MARRIAGE h1.01I.E1)
The Bride and .111
the Br'dep., East Aft.leep h.( el.
bilmatlntiher's Interference.
Janie:4 Francis, a young carpenter Pert
Richmond, Staten bland. Is a tine fellow,
but wants backbone. Ile fell iu rice with
Mien Elmira Simpson of West New liri4ll
ton, a pretty maid of 1!.2. Alter a courtship
year, he concluded to marry Ivor ~.,nio—
t4 informing his rapier. He sot do v. n
wedding clay for last Wednesday a vvr e(:
ago. The preparations for the iron
speedily and properly made.
He rented a two-story cottage, surround •
ed by trees and clambering vines, furnish
ed it, supplied it with groceries, wood, and
coal, and finally on the morning of the sp
pointed day took his bride-to -by and lib,
mother there. As the afternoon worearellY
Miss Elmira set a table with wine Mill
cakes, and, that done, proceeded to con,.
plete her wedding toilet.
Meantime a carriage had rolled nip to Ili,
door, and walled to take the pair to the
minister. 'rho bridegroom ain uno)•4)),t1.))) )
bad been carrying coal and wood into thy'
house all the afternoon. At :Liana 5 o'clock,
his labor having boon concluded and hi,
wedding outfit having arrived from
tailoriki, lie told Miss Unlit he wltti,
going to the barber's to get shaved, a n d
would soon be back.
" \Van with supper for me," he said.
Silo said she would. She esited. She
waited leftg. In her white dress and her
bride's veil she waited; but he itallie
Tim fait wits, on hie way to the barber's
his father flirt him, and after sr talk,
persuaded blot to turn aside Irmo the ',tin
which led to the varegined pole, and rein I l e
IA the home of his childhood. That even
ing tine of Miss Elmira's brothers visited
the house of Ole elder Francis. lie seemed
perplexed. Ile impaired llor Mr. Fral,..is.
‘‘t...l am Mr. Franeis," replied the bride
groom's father.
y, kitiow," replied the t tsittir ; but
I mean your son, Mr. Jannis Francis."
„ Why, whin do wen V.311t, of hi.
" Raid 1.110 young visitor, with
some hesitation, "I 3111 itlistil...lllllr3Sllllll
- brother. Your sou W 3.4 to have mar
ried lily shiner this evening. She Is wait
ing for him, we are all waning for him , lint
lie is not tOlll.l 101.1111/."
"1 can toll ou where lie is," said the el
der Francis. - " You go back, young 111311,
and tell the folks that I put Illy alit 1.0 11,1
twit or three hours ago.'
Later in the evening the guests arrived,
and a nu tuber of the you fig couple's friends
soreninitsl the two-story cottage.
The next morning Qin dissintohne.l ini.l,l
roamed through the Vining(' tin search of
her recusant lover. Finding him ash last in
a public place, she put her fist under the
young man's nose. fie retreated, •
Miss Elmira Simpson is now ill posses•
sion of a cottage, rent paid for one loofah,
furnished throughout, and provided with
provision and fuel. Mr. James Francis is
in possession of his bachelorhood. What
it was that influenced him so powerfully
when his father met him on the way to the
barber's, no one knows. The elder Fran
cis be knows it. mid t.hat's enough.—N. F.
El=
Several accidents have occurred recently
on tho Northern Central Railway which ir
report is true, wore the result, of a practice
among flagmen, which is horrible. The
ditty of these officials Is to gosome distance
to the rear of their train flit is detained op
the track, and give warning to any trahrB
that may be coining the same lii Cotten.
It is necessary to remain on soch duly
sometimes for several hours, and in order
to get some rest in this time it Is said they
lay their heads on the track and go to sleep,
waiting for the poise end jar Oahe apprncl) •
in train to wake thorn up. Sonethitc,,
they have lost sleep for several nights MO
consequently theysletip so soundly that tie.).
are unconscious to all that may transpite
aiound them. The train comes thet i deries
along and the unconseltius sloopor Is cittivt
killed or made a cripple toe iitetel
to
sides this, human 11l is reckleaskY Vadat ,
gored. if it Is true that llooveraw. , kookoom
who snake is practice 4..\, w
species of holr-breliw.A ProthwaAw.uk ke* yti
horrible in the exttetttatte4 Atteowi kwyg44,
belle,