Lancastet 3ntelligencer. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1871 DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET. FOR AUDITOR GRITER&L, OEN. WILLIAM McCANDLESS, OP PHILADELPHIA. FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL, CAPTAIN JAMES. H. COOPER, OF LAWRENCE COITATT A FULL POLL OF THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE WILL SECURE THE ELECTION OF OUR STATE TICKET BY A LARGE MAJORITY. LET EVERY DEMOCRAT REMEMBER THAT, N AND IMP OF RESS T, NEI E GELBORS. TRUTH OF IT UPON THE' MIDS LIIS The Soldier's Ticket. For Auditor-General. OEN. WILLIAM MCCANDLESS For • Surveyor-General. CAPTAIN JAMES H. COOPER For Mayor. COLONEL FREDERICK S. PYFER DETIOCR4TIC COUNTY TICKET [Judge. DAVID G. MILLE FAQ., Lancaster twp Asscmb/y. ANUFL P. 'KELE R treAbub . Maleolm twp N1'11.1.1 A M NPENCE L kt, Srg bor. IiANDEIW niccuumuoti, DruLooro. ABRAM SHANK, ESQ., Luomster elty County Treasurer JOAN S. MANN, Manor Omar!, Cbmmis.rioner IfON, WM. ELL IKAK Eli, Earl. Prison Keeper. EORC/ E DILLER, l'araillso. Prison Inspectors. DR..I. L. SHOBER, East Earl.: lilt, JAS. CIhiIIDIAN, Marlotto. Directors of Me Poor. GEO. F. ULT'/., Hal hibury. JulIN A. 11ItU611, Washington bor. antral/ Audttors.: WASIII•l'(;TON WH ITAN Elk, Fulton JOHN M. MARTIN, Manor. ,County Surt, , yor, ROBERT EVANS, Edon. An Extra Issue In order to give the readers of the INTELLioIiNcER the earliest news of the election, an extra will be mailed to them on Wednesday morn ing. To the Polls: To the Polls!: Democrats of Lancaster county, from all parts of the State we have the most cheering news in relation to the can vass. The prospects are that the vote 01 our party will be more fully polled than It generally is in what ore called "the off-years" in polities—the years when neither Gubernatorial nor Presidential elections occur. It Is impo•tant that the Democratic vote of Lancaster county should be fully polled. This can only be done through the exertions of in dividual Democrats in each election dis trict. To you who read this, our last appeal, we kty Go to Work ! See your neighbors! - Urge them to be at the poll:, early, and to stay there all day ! (live one whole day to your country! Get out your team and let it be used to con vey voters to the polls! Remember that the preliminary battle In the coming Presidential contest will be fought next Tuesday. A full vote on that day will give Pennsylvania to the De mocracy, and.will do much toward de ciding the destiny of the nation. The incentives to action are powerful, and If every Democrat does his duty,,lrglo dolls victory is absolutely certain. The Time fur Action. The time for argument has gone by and the hour for action—prompt, vig. orous. determined action—has arrived. Democrats of Lancaster county you cannot fail to have been fully Impressed with regard to the importance of the is ' sues involved in the present contest, the principles which are to be decided by it, and the influence to be exerted by the result, not only upon the weal of your State, but upon the prospects of change In the National Administration of the Covernment. Being thus im pressed, it is your duly, during the few working hours which intervene be tween this and the day upon which ym will be called upon to deposit your bal lots, to unceasingly labor for the success of your candidates. You have, both upon your State, County, and City tickets, good and true men—men of political and moral integrity, fitted for the respective positions for which they are named, and who, if elected,will en- sure to you a faithful administration of their offices, and that reform in your State, County and Municipal govern ments which Is so much needed at their hands. There Is work for each one of you t Flo. T here k not a single Detnocra however humble, who cannot make h intlllellce felt, If be will exert 4—n t one who caunot control a vote, If he %Ili but ply the proper means to secure it. Let each one go to work at once, if you have not already done co. Labor in your townships and wards, individually and in concert with your Fellow-Demo crats. See that your neighbor is Inter ested, if he Is a Democrat, stimulate hint with the hope of a certaiii triumph. If he ix a Conservative, in reality op. posed to the corruptions and extravu• gances of the State and Federal /*min istrations, point c ut to him the re orms which are sure to result from the suc cess of the Democratic ticket. Plead the bright record of the Democracy in the past,as a guaranty of its sincerity and a pledge of its honesty for the future. If he is a Radical of—the' ultra stamp, wedded to his idols, serve up to him the bitter pill of thievery, defalcations, and official corruptions of which his party has been guilty, and leave him to roll It us a sweet morsel under his tongue, end digest It at leisure. If he 'Hu furelg or, tell him of the Know•Notbing leaven which exists in the Radical ranks, and of the dark-lantern,' midnight meetings and secret oaths which are pledged to his disfranchisement. If a Catholic, in form him of the crusade which is to be preached, and the light which is to be made against his church and religion by such renegades as Arthur P. Devlin, in the interest and with the sanction of the Radical leaders. If a native-born, ask him to remember the glory which has -been achieved under Democratic rule in the long'Years of its brilliant reign, , and arouse his patriotism by depicting the beneficial results which will enure to the county by a return to an old-time, honest administration. Work ! work ! But a few hours of actual time for labor remain to you. Ern ploy them, judiciously, energetically. and with all the might, which you can command. Do it, and a full and com plete victory will reward your efforts. Everything along the line, and in the Democratic camp, wears an auspicious and encouraging look. The camp-fires burn brightly. Every Democrat is bi vouacked for Tuesday's fight ; and from every battlement comes, borne upon the breeze, the cry of "All's well !" We have everything to cheer us, although the Radicals are rallying iu force, and resorting to every sort of strategy to take us by surprise, and secure our de feat. Elated, as we cannot fall to be, by the cheering signs in the political heav , ens,•and by the evidences of weakness, dissensions and desertions which dis tract the Radical camp, we must not permit ourselves to he lulled into too great security, nor abate one iota of that watchfulness and determination which are always necessary to the safety of the lines and camp. Victory is not com plete until the enemy is totally routed, and our banner waves triumphantly from his' captured ramparts. Demo crats, your banner now Is proudly borne in the.very front of your ranks. Upon it is inscribed "Democracy and Re form," and the names of those whom you have selected as your standard bearers. Let each man rally te.its sup ' port and victory will perch upon It. • What is It's Significance. An increased Democratic vote in Lancaster county will be far-reaching in its results, and help to relieve the State from the ten years of its Radical thraldom and misrule. Let every Dem ocrat make the success of the State ticket, as well as of the County and City ticket, a question of personal concern, as affecting his interests alike with the weal of the State and the nation. Let the young Democrats be hunted up and enlisted in the fight. Let the old men be brought into counsel, and let union, harmony, and an increased Democratic vote be synonymous terms in every township of the county. Let it be impressed upon every man's mind that a vote cast for the Democratic ticket Is a rebuke of the monstrous cor ruption of the times; Let it be borne In mind, that every vote cast for the Democratic candidates is a rebuke of the wholesale robbery at Harrisburg by prominent Radical offi cials ; That a vote cast for the Democratic ticket is a rebuke of the Radical Inter nal Revenue Collectors, who have stolen twenty million dollars of the people's money , --not one of whom has been made to disgorge or been brought to punishment; That every ballot you secure for the Democratic ticket is a rebuke of a cor- rupt Congress, that has stolen the pub lic lands from the people and bestowed them upon soulless corporations, for which Radical leaders have lined their pockets with thousands of dollars In the shape of bribes ; That when you cast your vote for the Democratic State ticket, you signally condemn that miserable nepotism which gives the public patronage into the hands of the President's impecunious relations, and makes his family the re cipients of official positions so long as there is one found unprovided for ; That the success of .the Democratic ticket will be taken and felt as a signal condemnation of the Radical Congress, which year after year, piles higher and higher the burdens of taxation upon an already over-burdened and Impoverish• ed people; That every Democratic freeman's bal lot is a rebuke tc the grasping, selfish greed of the Chief Magistrate of the na tion, which disposes of the highest and most lucrative offices to the shoddy bee Ind speculative sharks who pave their way to official favor by means of pres •uts and bribes; That It Is a rebuke of the debauched Congress which has created the Presi dent p military dictator, and made the rights and liberties of the people sub servient to his individual and despotic That It Is a rebuke ofthe grasping, con rupt monopolies which have been created by a subsidized Niitional Legislature ; That it is a rebuke of .the infamous bayonet election law, by which Uatlin guns and other cowardly missiles are made the instruments for controlling the popular will, and fur foisting upon the country a government and rulers whom the honest sentiment of the per)• ple condemn ; That it is a rebuke of the wholesale corruption which characterizes the Car pet-bag rule of the South, and of the still Lncre infamous Ku-Klux Dili' which is designed to fetter, humiliate and dis grace a people already driven to desper ation and despair by the unrighteous persecutions to which they have been subjected ; That it is a rebuke of President Grant for the free use which he has made, and is still further prepared to make, of the bayonet in the hands of his military sa_ traps, for the purpose of retaining his relatives in office and paving the way to his own re•electlon. . That it Is a rebuke of extravagance everywhere; and that once the Democ racy are crowned with success, the bless ing of national peace and prosperity will flow with the richness and sweetness o milk and honey throughout the land Let it be borne in mind, that a tri umph in Pennsylvania presages a Na tional triumph in the Presidential can vass of 1573; and let every Democrat be stimulated to activity and renewed zeal by the hope of once more seeing our old Commonwealth take her proud position, not only as the Keystone of the National Arch, but as the bane 01 that noble Democratic pyramid of States which gave her such proud position in She days of Jackson, Snyder, Shultz and Wolf. Remember that the ballot Is the mos potdnt weapon In a freeman's band one which - "Executes a freetnan's will, • As lightning do. s t he will tit Uhl," Exercise the privilege vouchsafed you as becomes a freeman. Cast your vote for the party of progress the party. of reform, and the only 011)w h iCh can 110111 t to a national reeori , which Is identified with, and inseparable from, the country's history, ac u guaranty of its sincerity and a pledge of its faith. Do this, Democrats, and all will be well: 6EitmANS, Irishmen, Welshmen, re member that the Radical party of to day grew out of the grave of Know Nothingism, and is but another name for the same old snake, which was scotched, but not„it tiled. The same pro scriptive party exists to-day, which re cruited its members in the darkness of night, holding its dark-lantern meet hip In nine-kilns, barns, under hay stacks and in fence-corners, with n other object than a crusade against for eigners and Catholics. The oath which Know-Nothings took then was to be kept through life, sacred and inviolable! Foreign-bor`o citizens, can you vote for men who are pledged to such proscrip tive principles '."l' he Know-Nothing party and the Black Republican party are the same. Their leaders, their news papers and the great mass of the party are the same who urged on the warfare against every man of foreign birth ; and they would, to-day, disfranchise every foreigner and Catholic, if they had the power. Will you, by your votes, give them that power? Decide that import ant question on Tuesday next. VOTERS of Pennsylvania, do not for get that fifth-five millions have been taken from the people of your State by the Radical party during the last ten years, of which sum only about seven millions have been paid on the State debt. Do you ask where the other forty eight millions have gone? We answer, in reckless extravagance of the adminis tration of the Government, and to satis fy the corrupt demands of Radical offi cials. Elect McCandless to the office of Auditor-General, and these corruptions will be exposed, and properly redressed. Bear this lb mind on Tuesday next. WHAT is done with the money ? The receipts from internal revenue taxes, from July 1, 1865, to June 30, 1669 $100,000,000; receipts for the year end ing June 30, IS7O, $185,000,000, or an in crease of $25,000,000. That is the way the Radicals have reduced the taxes.— Can the Radical journals inform people what has become of the money? Tin.: defaulters are not yet all found out. An additional'Hadical defalcation has turned up in the person of another army paymaster, who has cheated the government out of a large sum of money. His name Is withheld for the present. The accounts of paymasters are being overhauled, and it is not known how many more defaulters may be found. BEAR It In mind, voters of Lancaster, that every vote you cast for the Radical ticket, endorses the infamous San Do- Mingo job, by which millions of dollars are to be taken from the pockets of the people for,the purchase of a worthless and desolate island, Inhabited by Igno rant and indolent pogrom Concealment and Falsehood,lts Weapons. The Express in its vain effort to de feat Col. Pyfer reprints a lot of stuff which it manufactured for its columns in 1861, at a time -when it was as ma lignantly disposed to defame Col. Pyfer, I the Chairman of the Democmtie County I Committee, as it is now when be Is the Democratic candidate for Mayor. The Express can scarcely_ever tell the truth when it is perfectly unblased,and never thinks of doing so when it has an ob ject to serve by perverting it. As evi dence of its chronic love of falsehood, we need only point to the brazen effrontery with which it stated a few days ago that Col. Pyfer had never starved in a rebel prison, when everybody knows that he was confined In Libby Prison for nearly eight months; and that statement it has not yet corrected in its column 3 If it has the impudence to suppose that any one will believe what it said, or what it reported others to have said of Col. Pyfer in 1861, when he was the leader of its political opponents, it con fides too far in the credulity of its read ers. They have learned long ere this to largely discount the statemen is which appear in its columns. Its malignity and unfairness arc strikingly exhibited in its stopping the re-publication of its garbled report of the proceedings in Council, just when It comes to the re port of the committee which was ap pointed to settle the dispute between the City Solicitor and Councils. It did not want to publish what that commit tee did, because it reported that it had allowed a part of Colonel Pyfer's claim, and that he was willing to pay the bal ance of $95 which they thought was due. And It has not yet told its readers 'hat he did pay that balance. It can make no capital by stating the simple truth, that the disputed account between the Solicitor and the City, was amica bly settled by each party surrendering' a portion of their claim, and that Col. Pyfer paid the small balance of $95 agreed upon. Thus does it conceal the payments and ludicrously strive to cor roborate Its present falsehoods by its other falsehoods of ten years ago. It then put remarks in the mouths of members of Council which they never uttered, and misrepresented In that way, no one more than that estimable man, Godfried Zahtn, now deceased, who was for many years before his death the warm friend of Colonel l'y fer, and his ardent advocate when he was a candidate two years ago, for the nomination for Mayor; he afterwards expressed to us and others his deep re gret that the Colonel did not get the nomination, and that he was thus de- prlved of the opportunity of voting for him fur an office which he felt sure he would fill to his own credit, and to the great advantage of the city. The editor of the Express who owns that he himself manufactured his pre tended report of Council proceedings in ISGI, had at that time not very long been graduated from the State Peniten tiary, where he had been incarcerated for a lengthened terni for forgery and cheating a poor washer-woman out of her hard earnings, which we have never yet heard that she has received from him, and it rejoiced his wretched soul, then, as now, to bespatter his fellow citizens with his slime, and to strive to draw them down to his own level. ONE fact, mentioned by Hon, George Sanderson, last evening, is worth pon dering by the tax-payers of Lancaster. He showed that the Increased debt of the city, fastened upon it by the Radi cal city administration, in its reckless expenditures, would have to be paid, indirectly, by the laboring masses, who are necessarily tenants, and not by the wealthy real estate owner. Increased taxation of property is met by increased rents, which must be paid by men of moderate means, the mechanics and workingmen of the city. You, tenants, who are groaning beneath heavy rents, bear this fact in mind—that you owe this onerous load to the extravagance and reckless use of the funds of the city by the present municipal authorities.— Vote for Col. Pyfer, and thus take one step toward redressing your wrongs. Sirourd) George K. Reed be elected Mayor, the Gas Company of which he is the President and Manager,would be in the delightful position of being both buyer and seller In its dealings with the City of Lancaster, which is its chief cus tomer. It would no doubt sell a quantity of gas satisfactory to it, at a price satis factory to It, during the time its Manager would be Mayor. . There will be one consolation In it, however, to the citizens of the Inside wards, even If they have to pay dear for their whistle, they will be apt to have gas-light all night long Irrespective of the phases of the Inconstant moon ; but the poor peo ple on the outskirts where oil lamps pre vail, will grope their way lu darkness, for the less oil that is burned, the more of the appropriation will be hift for gas. " Up, Guards, and at them'V" Is the expression:attributed to England's great warrior, the Duke of Wellington, at the battle Of Waterloo. This seemed to be the spirited sentiment of the Democrat ic masses who met, last evening, in the Eighth Ward ; and it is that spirit which wilt carry the works of the Rad ical enemy on Tuesday next. Let the ral lying cry be " Pyfer and City Retrench ment," and the stimulating charge— " Up, Guards, and at them !" and worse than a Waterloo defeat of the Radical ticket will be ensured. LET it be remembered that Col. Pyfer will act the part of Mayor in person and not by proxy. lie will have no Recorder's Court, no substitute to at tend to the ordinary duties of the office. He does not seek the office as a sort of appendage to his other occupations, and will not be content to enjoy: the title and to draw the salary. He will be a responsible, competent, honest, intelli gent'and impartial Mayor. He will be Mayor himself and not a mere figure head to the city government. GATLIN guns and the military satraps are to rule the country. Grant has ap proved the use of the military in New Orleans, to break up the auti-Adminis- Aration Convention, by retaining his brothel-in-law, Casey, and his appoin tees in ofllce,•and dismissing those who disapproved it. RemeMber, Democrats, that every vote for the Republican tick et on Tuesday next, is a vote to sustain Giant's policy of military despotism. VOTERS of Lancaster, remember, that every one of you who votes the Radical State ticket, votes four hundred mil lions of dollars per annum out of the pockets of the people of the United Statesla 'great portion of which goes into the greedy maws of such men as Hodge and Evans,and those who are implicated with them in crime. REMEMBER, that over twelve hundred millions of dollars have been collected from the people of the United States by the Grant administration, and of this vast sum Secretary Boutwell claims to have paid but $217,000,000 on the public debt. The remaining $950,000,000 were absorbed in defraying the exhorbitant expenses of the Radical government. LET every voter remember that the Radical City Government has purposely concealed the extent of its expendi tures. If you want to know how much the deli of Lancaster city has been in creased within the last two years, you must vote for Colonel Pyfer and for Democratic Councilmen. . DEMOCRATS, rally for your State, County, and City Ticket—the whole ticket, and nothing but the ticket. In union there is strengthin division and apathy, nothing but defeat. EVERY vote cast for the Democratic ticket is a rebuke of the corrupt Radical Congress which has stolen the public lands from the people. Col. Pyfer as City Solicitor The Express responds to our call upon It to state in plain terms what it referred to in its insinuation against the conduct of Fred. S. Pyfer as City Solicitor, by declaring " that he had retained a cer tain amount of the outstanding taxes collected by him as Solicitor," and in stead of " honestly admitting the de falcation, attempted to conceal it by trumping up an outrageous bill for special services rendered." It does not mention the amount of money so al leged to have been retained, perhaps, because it did not think the size of the figures would add weight to its charge. The simple facts of this matter are as follows : On going out of office as City Solicitor, ten or twelve years ago, Col. Pyfer had in his hands a balance of moneys collected by him for the city, amounting to $149 ; he presented a state ment thereof to the Finance Committee, as likewise his bill for one quarter's salary and for extra services rendered and commissions on moneys collected by him, amounting altogether to the sum of $152.50. The Finance Com mittee declined to allow the charges for extra services and commissions, and Col. Pyfer, believing that they were fair and sanctioned by usage, claimed them as proper. The Finance Committee presented the matter to Councils for their instructions, and a committee was appointed to arrange it. That commit tee reported that they had allowed a part of Col. Py fees claim, and that a bal k ance of $95 appeared to be due, which he was willing to pay. The report of the 'committee was accepted, and Col. Pyfer paid the $ll5 ; there this matter ended, and he afterwards satisfactorily closed up the unfinished business of his office. Col. Pyfer was at this time the Chair man of the Democratic County Com mittee and it is quite possible that there was strong enough feeling of political hostility towards him on the part of some Radicals to make them willing to injure him. That influence, probably, caused his enemies to abuse him then, as it causes them to malign him now.— But the bill rendered, by Colonel Pyfer for extra services and commis sions was a fair and legitimate one and was sanctioned by the prior and subse• quent practice of the City . Solicitors.— The salary at that time attached to the office was but fifty dollars, and It is now but one hundred dollars. It is con sidered by the Solicitors of the city to be little else than a retaining fee for their services to the city and to cover nothing but the customary retaining fees in suits In which the city is con cerned, and such ordinary legal advice as the officers of the city may desire to be given them. For other than ordinary services, ex- tra charges are habitually made and commissions on the collections of mon eys for the city are invariably charged. The bill presented by Col. Pyfer was the only one presented by him for extra ser vices during his term of office; whereas City Solicitors before and since then have made from $3OO to $7OO per annum out of the office. The reports of the Finance Committee for the past twelve or fifteen years, with scarcely an exception, show credits taken fur moneys paid as com pensation to the Solicitors of the city outside of their salaries. It has even been customary for several years past for the Solicitors to receive from the County Treasurer the proportion of the Road and Bridge Fund which is yearly assigned by the Commissioners to the city, amounting to several thousand dollars, and to charge their commission for such collection ; except this year, when the Chairman of the Finance Committee himself collected the amount due from the county. We have git.7en a plain statement, in their full length and breadth.of the facts upon which is based the charge made against Col. Pyfer's conduct as City So licitor; and we are quite willing that his fellow-citizens shall judge between him and his defamers as to how far he has been guilty of what the ExprcA , calls " malfeasance in office." THE Radical party, everywhere, rely upon the free use of money to carry the elections. Having possession of the of fices and all the avenues to the treasury, they are determined to make free use of this advantage to gain their end. It is by this means, alone, that they hope to maintain their ascendency. A corres pondent of the New York Tritune, whom the editor vouches for, says that a year ago Mr. Thomas Murphy levied a tax on the salaries of the Custom House clerks, and collected from $30,- 000 to $40,000 for political purposes.— Every clerk, to the number of one thou sand or upwards, puld one-fourth of his monthly salary Into the fund. Not one dared refuse, for fear of removal. In Philadelphia the same screws are being applied to the Federal employees. The rate of assessment is three per cent., and If the money is not promptly paid, a resignation or removal is expected. The Tribunc publishes and vouches for the truth of the statements with regard to Murphy, whom it has denounced for thegrossest frauds, and yet supports him and his faction, after having been un ceremoniously snubbed and kicked out of the Syracuse Convention. And yet, when Democrats charge upon Radicals dishonesty In the administration of the government, and the employment of ho moot reckless and dishonest Means to secure success, they are met with brazen-faced, indignant denial. Out of their owu mouths they stand condemn ed.; and we must take for truth the ehargesand exposures which they make, even though It be the result of family quarrels, for there is a significant truth In the homely adage—" When rogues fall out, honest men get their dues." GEoko E K. Itl 0n was the father of the Water Street Railroad project. Ile favored the scheme because he wanted to lessen the cost of carrying cool to the Gas Works. The people of the city would never hale been benefitted to the extent of a penny it the project had been put through. With his peculiar facility for turning every source of reve nue into his own pocket, Mr. Reed wonld have made profit for himself out of the Water Street Railroad, and there would have been no reduction in the price of gas. if he should be elected Mayor, the Water Street Railroad will be laid within six months, provided there is a Republican majority in Coun cils. Do Not Scratch the Legislative Ticket. We understand that Dr. Gatchell is begging votes from Democrats. \Ve 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 Democrat. \Ve may do still better, but that would be a notable triumph in itself. FOR three days past the Radical City Regulator and a corps of assistants have been engaged lu deciding, with the aid of theodolites and other scientific instru ments, what shall be the grade of a six ty-foot pavement in front of" Senator" Johnny Martin's hotel on North Prince street. The cost to the city has been between fifty and sixty dollars, more than one-half of whicn has gone into the till of Johnny's bar. That is theway the money wrung from the tax-payers of Lancaster city goes under a Radical ad ministratiop. THE city is so deeply submerged in debt that the Radical Finance Commit tee dare not publish their report until after the election. The Treasurer's re port up to the close of the fiscal year on June Ist last, was long ago made out by that officer and handed to the Finance Committee, but they are afraid to pub lish it. The total amount of the city debt is fearful and exceeds $300,000, but how much nobody knows.l How Radicals Repair Streets—A Nat For Tax-payers to Crack. At the regular meeting in August, Mr. C. A. Bitner, an extreme Republi can member of Common Council, laid before that body a communication 'in reference to the action of the Street Committee, of which he is a member. In that communication he boldly charged that a majority of the Commit tee had put the City of Lancaster to great and unnecessary expense in doing work on the streets and furnishing ma- terial in such a way as to make it cost fully twice as much as ought to have been paid. He went into particulars and instanced the paving of gutters, the breaking of stone and other work which had been paid for at the most exorbitant prices. He backed up his allegation in regard to the extravagance exhibited In the furnishing of material by figures which showed conclusively that broken stone of proper size had been offered to the Street Committee for fifty cents a perch, measured upon the ground, when the Committee was paying out of the unds of the City $ and $2.50 per perch for similar material. Mr. Bitner is a man whose word no one will pretend to doubt, and the allegations Which he made against his associates were never denied. They stand to-day as a damning proof of the corruption which has pre vailed In the government of this City since the Radicals obtained complete control of It. A spicy debate followed the presenta tion of the communication of Mr. Bit ner. Mr. John W. Jackson declared that the existence of such a state of things was truly deplorable, and Mr. Pearsol, one of the virtuous editors of the ExprcBB, who has been rewarded for his honesty by being beaten at the nom inating Convention of hie party, spoke from the chair, which he temporarily occupied, in denunciation a the course which the Street Committee had pur- sued. He also stated that he knew of an instance in which a man with a cart lu the employ of the City had been en gaged in hauling ashes for private par- , ties with the team for which the City paid and while he was in the employ of the city. It was also stated during the debate by Mr. Price, and the statement was not denied, that the work done on the streets at the extravagant rates al luded to had been nearly all done on squares and crossings in front of and near to properties owned by members of the Street Committee ; that the work so done had not been authorized by Councils ; that work ordered to be done had been ,utterly neglected, and that, out of $(1;600 spent upon the streets since the last report of the Committee, all but $5OO had been spent upon unauthor ized jobs, for the benefit of properties belonging to members of the Street Committee. At this meeting Mr. Price offered a resolution providing for the appoint ment of a Joint Committee to investi gate the action of the Street Committee. It passed Common Council, but, when it went into the Select branch, it was defeated by Republican votes—and, when Mr. Morton desired to have a call of the ayes and noes on the questlon, Mr. Evans, the President of that body, who has been furnishing stone to the city, and who is now having a road made at the expense of the city for his Private use and benefit, decided that the call came too late. This was a'deliber ate attempt to stifle investigation, and it delayed action for one month. 1 At the September meeting of Coun- cils, Mr. Price endeavored to meet the emergency by securing the appoint ment of a committee composed exclu sively of members of Common Council. He succeeded in getting his motion through, and a committee was ap pointed. That committee should have reported at the meeting of Councils, which was held on Wednesday evening last, but only five Republican members put in an appearance, and there is good reason for believing that they purposely ab sented themselves •so as to leave the Common Council without a quorum, and to prevent the presentation of a re port, which, if truthful in its statements must have proved very damaging on the eve of the election. We ask the tax-payers to look at the facts which we have set forth, and beg them to remember that they are all de rived from Radical resources. And, let it also be borne In mind that George K. Reed, as President of Common Council, appointed one-half the members of the Street Committee, and that he never made the slightest effort to check them in their rascalitles. Is such a man fit to be made Mayor? Would the Interests of the city be safe In his hands? WHILE .the contest for nomination was going on Dr. Gatchell subscribed ten dollars toward the building of a Methodist Church In Millersville.— Mince he got the nomination he has re fused to pay his subscription, alleging as an excuse that the pastor "went back on him" at the primary election, How any minister of the gospel, or any other man who makes the slightest pretension to morality or respectability, can vote for a convicted legislative thief like thitchell is something we cannot com prehend. We presume the Methodist Church at Millersville can get along without Dr. Ciatchell's ten dollars, but the Doctor cannot be elected If the re ligious and moral people of Lancaster county do their duty. They must vote for him, If they vote for him at all, with the consciousness that they are helping to send a man to Harrisburg who openly boasts that he will use every opportunity to make money in a corrupt way. They cannot shirk that grave responsibility. Du the hardworking voters—the lax ridden people of the country—ever stop to consider the extent to which they are swindled? They are taxed more than they ever were before—more than any people upon the globe—And yet a Radi cal Congress-has given away enough of the public lands to make four States as large . as Pennsylvania to railroad mo nopolies. Every acre of this land was free to actual settlers—now every foot of it has to be paid for by the citizen who would settle upon it—all to swell the wealth-of railroad companies; and S'et these corporations did not pay one cent —except what they paid to corrupt the representatives of the people—for their possession. Voters, remember this on Tuesday next, and place your seal of condemnation upon the Radical leaders by whom this wrong has been inflicted upon you and the country. TilE telegraph informs us that large numbers of government clerks are leav ing Washington to vote in Pennsylva nia and Ohio. Not one of them should be allowed to deposit a ballot without being made to swear that he has not voted in Washington. At the muni cipal election held there last Spring all the clerks were ordered to turn out and vote. Let all who come back for the purpose of voting be subjected to a rigid examination under oath. Many of them can not vot3 without perjuring them selves if their votes are challenged. Cock Gatchell Can Be Beaten Dr. Gatchell seemed to be only slight ly relieved from apprehensions of defeat by the action of the Democratic County Convention. 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, in the place of this champion of the piasters and folders would be a glorious triumph. The Pensioned Soldier& The organ of the Radical caddidate for. Mayor, got itself into a hornet's nest when it attempted to make capital against Colonel Pyfer, out of the fact that he was drawing apension from the Government, for injury received in the service. One of its correspondents very pertinently asks it how it happens that It is a high crime and misdemeanor in Col. Pyfer to draw a pension, when it is perfectly right and proper for several Radical friends of the Express, residing in this city, to do the same thing. We have not published the names of these gentlemen in the INTELLIGENCER, be cause we did not think it proper to drag them unnecessarily into this controver sy, and parade their wounds before the public; they are richly entitled to the pensions they receive, and none the less because they are industriously and hon orably pursuing their daily avocations, and have enjoyed offices conferred by their party, for which they were spe cially championed by the Express. That paper attempts to wriggle out of the im putation upon its Radical friends, con tained in its attack upon Col. Pyfer, by elaborately stating the difference be tween their cases and his ; the sum and substance of its explanation being that he gets,—owing to his superior rank in the service,—twice as large a pension as they do. It will strike every one but the author of this brilliant explanation, that it scarcely relieves the pensioned friends of the Eaprans from the ef fect of its original charge; which was that the soldier who draws a pension while he is still able to follow his busi ness commits "a fraud upon the govern ment of which no honest or honorable man would be guilty." The Express will not be able to excite the public mind against the pensioned soldiers of the government, who so Just ly deserve every dollar they receive, by Its broad allegations against them of fraud and perjury. The people know these charges to be false and malicious. They will not believe that In Col. Pyfer's case, Col. Rose, now Major In the regu lar army, who was Col. Pyfer's superior officer, swore falsely as to the time and theclrcumstancesattending Col. Pyfer's disability, and as to its being received In the line of his duty as a soldier; nor that Surgeon 'McCandless, of the 77th Regiment, perjured himself in his testi mony to the same effect ; and that two other witnesses swore falsely to the gen eral facts. Neither will they believe that the reputable examining surgeons of the county, Drs. Levergood, Black wood and Clinger, have been guilty of perjury In attesting Col. Pyfer's disa bility ; nor that Dr. Oliver, who was sent here by the Pension Office to ex amine a number of cases, committed the same crime. The envenomed shafts of the ExpreBs have missed their mark, and its atro cious calumnies will recoil to its own detriment and that of its candidate.— There never surely was a more mean and despicable attack made upon a gal lant body of meu than has been this charge of perjury and fraud brdught against the pensioned :soldiers by the organ of the stay-at-home money changer, who is_the Radical candidate for Mayor. Democracy es. Radicalism The old Whig party was wont to boast that it was the silk-stocking party —the party embodying all the decency, all the intelligence, and all the wealth of the country ; and the Democrats were sneered at as rowdies, as the mud sills of society, and as the social off scourings of the body politic. True the Democratic party has always been composed of the honest, working mass es—of men whose only wealth consisted in the hard earnings of their daily toil —in great part of our adopted citizens, who, experiencing the crushing effects of despotism and of aristocracy and wealth at home, naturally identify themselves with the Democratic party in the land of their adoption. But as it Is the party which embodies the prin ciples of the masses, so it is the party of progress ; and it Is every (lay demon strating that intelligence and order are not exclusively confined to,the Itepub- lican ranks. The Democratic aud Rad ical parties have changed positions in that respect—the former has become the party of order, the latter of rowdyism and disorder, the moving impulses to which are intelligence and morality on theone hand, and a disregard of decency or morality on the other. We need no better illustration of this than the proceedings of the two Con ventions in the State of New York. That of the Radicals at Syracuse was characterized by rowdyism, disorder, the language of the brothel and the ac tions of the mob. The Democratic Con vention at Rochester, composed of equally discordant elements, was har monious in Its action, reconciling all minor differences as gentlemen and pa triots should—merging all local dis putes in the more absorbing ones of State and National measures, and making the success of their ticket par amount to the conflicting claims of ward or city delegations. This action on the part of the New York Democracy, and the noble etaud which they have taken In regard to the Tammany frauds, is the surest guaranty or their success in the approaching campaign. Another Base Charge against the Soldier. There is a growing intensity of feel ing among the soldiers and their friends at the base attack which has been made by the Erprcm, the organ of the little shaver who is the Radical_ candidate for Mayor, upon those soldiers who have been physically injured In the service of their country, and whom a grateful nation has sought in a measure to com pensate, by awarding them pjnsions. This feeling will not be modified by the latest insult which is heaped upon them by this malignant sheet, which, in its issue of yesterday, broadly charges that many of them have been guilty of per jury, in making the affidavits upon which they received their pensions.— This charge involves not only the sol dier, but the witnesses who testified to the time, place and circumstances of the injury which he received. This reckless charge, wholly without founda tion, as its authors know it to be, will surely recoil lu hurt the interests of the candidate whom it was Intended to serve. It is but another of the false and malicious accusations which the fi'rpress is now grinding out by contract, at so much for so many per diem. It will tend still farther - to ccnviuce the few who still need convincing, of the wholly unreliable nature of the statements that appear in that unscrupulous sheet, which seems to have bargained to freely bear false witness against its neighbor, but not to have stipulated that its false hoods should bear even a semblance of plausibility. Its statements that Col. Pyfer was in default to the city, that he never was confined in a rebel prison,and that the soldiers get their pensions by perjury, are sample bricks of the bald falsehoods with which it is now daily regaling its incredulous readers. Os last Sunday morning, as two Re publicans were walking by the Moravi an church in this city, the organ dis coursed sweet music.- One of them stop ped and called upon the other to halt a moment. "No," said he, "I do not want to hear a note of that instrument." " Why not ?" said his friend. " Be cause George K. Reed cheated me out of the seemingly liberal sum he subscribed toward paying for it," was the prompt reply. This Is one Republican vote lost to the Republican candidate for Mayor for sure—and there are lots more of the same sort. Atlantic Coast Oysters are now being planted in Oregon. Well-trained monkeys are In demand by lazy organ !Tinders. THE mean and _malignant attacks which the Expres . has been making upon Col. Pyfer, haVe aroused Indigna tion in the breasts of every soldier who has read them. We publish elsewhere a letter from Captain Stern, who com manded Company G. of the 77th. It shows how a Republican soldier felt af er reading the Express. What an Army Comrade Nays of Colonel The following letter from Captain Henry Stern, a Pennsylvania Republican, who commanded Company U, of the 77th R.gi ment, shows how the villainous course of the Express is regarded by soldiers: GIRARD HOUSE, Philadelphia, Oct. 3, 1871. To the Editor of the Intelligeneer : SIR: By chance I noticed to-day in the Lancaster Express an article on Col. Pyfer and the Mayoralty of your city. Let me give you a few facts which the editor of the Express does not appear to know. On the 7th, of April, 1862, the second day of the ••Battle of eihiloh," Col. (then Captain) Pyfer went into action in command of his Company, though the surgeon had declared him unfit for duty two days be fore. Col. Pyfer kept upon the march and went into battle, so as not to have the name that he had gone back while a battle was expected. Scarcely able to stand and attacked by fever, nothing but his moral courage carried him through. When the right of the regiment turned on that day,it was Col. Pyfer who acted most nobly and prevented the same catastrophe on the loft. I was near him at that time and saw it. If you want any more witnesses, here they are : Col.. now Major Hose, of the Regular army and Col. Robinson, now re• siding at Pittsburgh, and Major Bradford, residing in St. Joseph, Mo. The editor of the Express falsely asserts that Col. Pyfer never starved In prison. It is true. Had he then been starved, he would not have been living to-day, but does the editor of the Exprens know what Col. Pyfor suffered in Libby prison? I suppose not; for if he did, he would not broadly make such an assertion. Let him ask Col. Rose who engineered the tunnel, Col. Robinson of Pittsburgh, and Lieut. Kreps, of the same place, what Col. Pyfer suffered, and then make a true statement. The .Express appears grieved, and sorely too, about the pension Col. Pyfer Is draw ing. Ten times that amount will not com pensate him for the loss of his health. I have never agreed with Col. Pyfer in poli tics, nor have any of the gentlemen named above; but, I consider it due to Col. Pyfer, to tell the truth, and to tell your commit nity, that all his old comrades have the highest regard for him. As to the assertion ' that Col. Pyfer does not belong to any army organization, is simply absurd, for he be longs to the Re-union Association of his old Regiment, the 77th Pennsylvania; and thousands of others besides Col. Pyfer have not joined the Grand Army 01 the Republic, though they are Republicans. I have nothing to say, either pro or con in your election, for it does not concern me; and, as I may not be enabled to curry on the controversy, because I may never again see a Lancaster paper, I beg to refer to the gentlemen above named to corrobo• rate my statement. Very respectfully, if nNRY STEmI, Late Capt. Co. G., 77th P. V., now residing a No.lo Second street, Louisville, ICy. WE publish below a communication trom a Union soldier who suffered at Belle Isle. It is but one of many in stances going to show the want of sym pathy between poor soldiers and rich bankers: MESSRS. EDITORS: . . I never voted for a Democrat in my lire, but I intend to do so on the 10th. I served four years In the army, and can never dis card a soldier (disabled or not disabled) for a man who staid at home, living at his ease and growing rich while his country needed his services in the field. Had the keen bli. can party nominated a soldier for Mayor (and there Is no scarcity of them who would be competent to till the office) I should have given him the preference. When an office is to be filled my motto is, and al ways shall be, "Republican soldiers first, and next soldiers." I shall vote for Colonel F. S. Pyfer in preference to George K. Reed,or any other stay-at home candidate. BELT. ISLE. The City Finances There appeared in the Express of Wed nesday an article, the object of which was to show that the administration of the city finances during the past two years has been economical, and that the debt of the city has not been unreason ably increased during Mayor Atlee's term of office. The facts will not sup port the assertion. We assert and can prove that Mayor Atlee's administra tion has been an extravagant one, and that in his term of office the city debt has been unnecessarily increased. By the report of city finances, published In 1800, just as Mayor Sanderson's term was expiring, it appeared that our debt was as follows: Funded Debt...... .. Temporary Luaus Less Sinking Fund \ ot Dobt The City Treasurer some time ago pre pared his statement of the City Finances for the past year, and handed it to the Finance Committee for publication. Although the organic law of the City requires these gentlemen to publish this statement, they have thus far, for some reason best known to themselves, refus ed to allow it to go into the printer's hands. Probably, they are afraid. But the Express admits that they have borrowed eleven thousand dollars to pay for the Improvethents at the Water Works, and this on temporary loan. As the city is now by law allowed to raise the funded debt to $383,000, this limit must long ago have been reached, or there would have been no need to bor row on temporary loan for this purpose. The debt then stands as follows: Funded debt $385.000 00 Temporary loan (see Exprars) Less Sluking Fund Net debt at close of Mayor At lee's administration $331,77,9 9 Net debt at close of Mayor San derson's administration Showing an increase or $37,5e3 72 As the Finance Committe has not published a report this year, we can only ascertain the amount of the Sink ing Fund, by adding to its amount at the close of Sanderson's administration, the amount by which the Express says it has been increased in Atlee's term, viz, 55,470. We believe the debt to be much greater than we have stated above, but as the city authorities wil fully decline to make the published statements required by law, we have charged them with only the amounts which they admit and which they can not deny. An increase of $37,063.72. What have we to show for it? A Geyelin wheel, the contract price of which was, we be lieve, not quite $lO,OOO. What Is there to show for the rest? We may have a few nicely gravelled squares, gotten up for pet Councilmen, or some new cross ings for their particular friends, but as for any benefit to the whole city is con cerned, it might as well have been thrown into the sea. George K. Reed was President of the Common Council during the whole of Mayor Atlee's term, and aided and abetted all Radical extravagance to the full extent of his power. Should he be unfortunately elected Mayor, we shall be very happy if, at the end of his term, our city debt is not in creased by at least $lOO,OOO. DOES not thd Express know that there are several men in this city who were officers in the army, and who receive pensions to-day, though in far better physical condition than Col. Pyfer? Does it not know that it has successfully urged the claims of at least three of these men for office ? If it knows these things, what excuse can It give for as sailing Col. Pyfer as it does ? Does It intend to attack all officers and soldiers who receive pensions without being ut terly disabled physically? If that be done, a large class okthose who now re ceive some comPenEition for services rendered to the government will be stricken from the roll of pensioners.— We are sure a grateful people would ask nothing of the sort. They are willing to pay to disabled soldiers the little pit tances granted to them, so long as the Examining Surgeons certify to the fact that they are entitled to such relief. The Express will make no votes for its candidate by assaults upon soldiers who risked their lives in defence of the Union, and who have become entitled to pensions through wounds received,or disease contracted in the service.; - State Items. Lebanon wants more capital invested in manufactories. Germantown offers $250 reward for the arrest of the vitriol-throwers. Harrisburg has an income this year of $l,BOO from dog-tax alone. The little town of Tyrone continues to improve rapidly. =The tavern-keepers of Germantown are holding a series of not very karma- pious conventions Subscription books are open for the erection of a soldier's monument at Germantown. The milk, trade in 'Chester county is said to be larger now than ever before at this season of the year. Two little girls, residing in Chester county, died within the past week from jumping the rope. Adalbert McWilliams, a printer, died n Harrisburg on Monday. He had been In failing health for some time. The Knights of Pythias, of Meyertown , are making great preparations fur a grand parade ou Saturday next. The Treasurer's defalcation in the Philadelphia Mint. is said to eclipse the Evans affair In enormous rascality. A convention of freight agents of the Eastern and New Jersey Railroads is in session at Reading. The Reading Railroad Company has advanced its tolls 15 cents per ton. It ook effect on the tat twit The Philadelphia clergy has set apart the 17th day of October as a day of prayer lu the interest of the temperance cause. The East Pennsylvania Ciassis of the Reformed Church met In special session at Bethlehem on last Tuesday afternoon. The Cottage Building Association of Bristol recently sold two loans of $2OO at a premium of $35 each. In a scuffle at Newtown, on Thurs. day, a colored citizen, called Henry Washington, had one of his an it bad ly broken. A gang of tramping Diggers—male and female, old and young—have fur a week or more been sojourning In Allen town. The Perseverance Fire Company of Bethlehem will celebrate the 13th of October by a parade, and in the evening will give a grand ball. Joseph Pugh, employed on the Phi Pa. and Norristown Ralhoed was severely injured on Wednesday,MConshohock en by being caught between two curs. 'Mille!mina, the young wife of Bienz Worthington, In Buck I nghain, fell fro(' her ,E . hair, on the '2lst of September, an( eoon after expired. The Democrats of Erie county have nominated Chief Justice Thompson, of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, for the Presidency. Hon. E. Joy Morris is engaged by the Knights of Friendship of Norristown, to lecture on the night of November Ist. Subject—"'Turkey and the East." The farm of Joseph Meese, dee'd., iu Union township, Lebanon county, con taining about till acres, NV LIS Sold last week to Valentine Felder; for $63 per acre. There are in the city of Philadelphia sixty-nine Episcopal Churches. During the past year there has been 2,415 per sons baptized; 1,126 confirmed; num ber of communicants 16,137. The Phom ix Iron Company at Pine nixville have been awarded the contract for building the mammoth iron bridge which is to span the Schuylkill at Fair mount. J. C. DaCosta, Esq., of Pottstown, has resigned the Chief Engineership of the Michigan and Midland Railroad, the principal office of which Is at St. Clair, Michigan. At the late East Pennsylvania Lu theran Synod, it Was reported that dur ing the year four ministers:had been in stalled, three churches dedicated, and four congregations organized. Rumors of the proposed lease of the North Penn to the Lehigh Valley have sent the stock of the former Company up to par. Two years since it sold at $3O a share—par value, $5O. During the Fair last week the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company ran twenty• three extra trains, which were scarcely enough, as every car attached to each train was crowded, The Germans of Allegheny county havb bolted from the Radical party and nominated Gen. McCandless for Audi tor-(leneral, and have made up a mixed Legislative and County ticket. Jerry Dixon,. who has been incarcer ated in I\loyamensing Prison, for about ten years, under sentence of death for murder, died in that Institution on Wednesday morning. Mr. Samuel It. (.tuldin, residing in Amity township, Berlin county, caught a few weeks ago, an opossum with thir teen young ones, which are growing finely and becoming very tame. A colored man named David Lof, re siding in \Vest Chester, died a few days since from lock-Jaw, resulting from an accident received to his hand while coupling cars three weeks ago. Samuel Root, a butcher, residing In North Coventry township, Chester county, while engaged In dressing a calf last week, accidentally cut himself, severing four prominent arteries. The Temperance men of Philadelphia are down on the Radicals. The timid Templar organ Is particularly severe on the Press for what It calls persistent' falsehood, and a refusal to make cor rections. Mrs. J. Peter Wagner, of Catasauqua, dropped dead In her garden at that place on Thursday morning, about 8 o'clock. She was in her usual good health and had visited our Fair the day previous. She was about 54 yea' m of age. Milton Schall, aged 14, son of Mr. J. Schall, hoot and shoemaker, 4344 Main street, Manayuuk, fell front a chestnut tree, near Pencoyd, Lower Merion,about noon on Monday, and. striking his head on a stone, fractured his skull, causing his death within a few hours. James Reed died In Pottsgrove, Northumberland county, on the 21st of September, aged 84 3 ears, 6 months and 27 days. Mr. Reed was postmaster at Pottsgrove for nearly twenty years pre vious to his death. He was, perhaps, the oldest post-office official in the United States. An explosion of sulphur took place , on Monday, at the mines near Potts ville, killins four men, Patrick McMi chael, George Dunlap, Jacob Yost and Thomas Hayes. George Ilene.° was severely wounded, and tile recovery Is doubtful. One miner, whose name is unknown, Is still missing, and no hopes are entertained of recovering him alive. Mr. Elisha Fitch, A resident of East Brandywine township, Chester county, ' went lo work on Friday morning, the 15th all, since which time he hits not been seen or heard of by his anxious rel atives. It Is supposed that be has been foully dealt with. The missing man is five feet eight inches In height, has gray eyes, smooth face, brown hair, cut close, and wore when last seen, a black coat, black cap and blue pants. $345,012 02 0,374 20 $3 6 996 2.8 . 02, - 03 06 $94,193 22 15,000 OU 8100,000 00 08 2 3 00 Cold• Blooded Murder WEST CHESTER, N. Y., Oct- O.—About ft o'clock last night our proverbially quiet town was thrown Into a high state or ex citement by the perpetration of a cold blooded murder. Mrs. Spence, when about enter her house through a door In the rear eud,was tired upon by some unknown fiend concealed on the premises and Instantly killed. When on 'examination It was found that a ball and two buck-shot had passed through her heart. Two person are tinder arrest fur the offence. WEST CHESTER, Oa. rs. Amanda Spence, a colored woman, was murdered last nigbt, eupposod by James Burrell, colored, who was arrested a short distance out of town. About two weeks since Mrs. Spencezaveßurrell SJO note toga changed. Ho did not return the money and she went after him and obtained it. Burrell Moult ed her and tnadetbreats. Last night while otr, closing the back window of her house, she was shot through the breast with an old horse-pistol, and killed instantly. The pistol was found in the yard. From Nan Franchteo SAN FRANCISCO, Oct is supposed that two more 01 the Cape Nevada convicts have been arrested at Los Angelos. Anoth er has been captured at the rock above Sac ramento. it is now certain that Norton and Black or the gang who murdered the es, revs rider, Poor, were lynched by the Ranchemen, and that Jones, another of the gang, was murdered by his companions. Terrible Fire on the Prairie• ST. PAUL, Oct. 6.—The great prairie fire is still raging. It has reached southward to lowa border and east to the Mississippi. Houses, barns and fences were swept away before it. So far only three lives are known to have been lost. Many isolated farm houses have been destroyed. The damage and the suffering caused must be very great. Fire In Wilmington, Delaware WILStINGTON, Del., Oct. 6.—A. fire oc curred in Institute Hall last night while a concert was being given by the Sunday school scholars of the Asbury M. Church. A number wero badly crushed in attempting to reach the door, but none seriously injured. The vote in Dauphin county will not vary much from 10,000. Good hay commands from twenty five to thirty dollars per ton 1n; Harris burg. THE KNELL OF POLYGAMY Arrest of Brigham Young Offences Under the Territorial Leers Mormon °Mends Taught n Severe SALT LAKE CITY, ct.. 2, 1871..—The United States Marshal is beginning to ex ecute the writs based upon Indictments of the Grand Jury. Brigham Young was arrested: to-day, by United States Marshal Patrick. on an in dictment found by the Grind Jury of the Third United States District Court, for lewd and lascivious cohabitation with sixteen different woman, under the statutes of Utah providing against offences against decency and morality. As he was. unwell the United States Marshal accepted his parole to appear helot° Chief Justice McKean to marrow morning to plead to the indictment. The penalty provided by the 'let ritorial law, in case of conviction, is imprisontnent not exceeding ten years and not less than six months, and a tine not more than 0,000 and not less than $lOO, or both, at the dis cretion of the Court. It will thus be seen that M r. Young is to be prosecuted under the laws for arid by the Morti.on Legislature and not under the laws of Congress. Of course he and his peo ple can take no exception to this, and al though there is a great deal of excitement there is no chalice Mr any trouble unions the Mormon leaders incite and begin it. Gov. Woods has taken the neetltul steps to see that the courts are sustained and the laws vindicated, but in case of a Manliest disposition of the Church authorities ample rein forcemenOr of troops will be on the spot for any emergency. Tne general offimals aro completely united, and are thoroughly sustained by the Gentile community. The Supremo Court unanimously affirm ed to-day the decision of Dm Distriet try and Court in the case of Englehreelit vs. Jotter Clinton, LIM A WOrlll3ll or Mu city, and the police. In Mu Alderman's order Englebrechis stock of liquors, valued at about twenty thousand dollars, Wan seized, confiscated and destroyed 'Elio Jury be fore which 1111.11 . 1W10 WILY tried gave uttnis• ges lu the nature of punitamiont liar 11.111 y forty thousand dollars. I.' tailor territorial statutes to-day, on tip- peal, Judge Ilutr ley rendered a !atilt devlN lot,, holding that. an Alderitien could not exercise the functions (d . a Jtint.ce of the Peace; Ilian the L ity (influence which per inittett the destruction of property without trial wits null and void; that owners' 11 0011,40 IIUON Colliti nut bu collected ; and, finally, that titu verdict uC thefury uud 111. 110ebiltIll of the District. (*mat meet 1.0 nt- tinned. A notivo of iipreal to I.llli U. S. Stipreino Court. \Vas Made, and thu Cast , may be carried up. Tine taronding I.lllvlaln gill buobliged to pay Moro than Yutr UMW, and klMlarm miens and thinlagen Ilir thuir transaviiku.n. The criininal ueWu nl MC cane trill bu triCli In a thin% to ruin force thu garrkon, 1)011g1IIS. 'l • wo companies of infantry ar rived last night and another 1011111'S In night. Still further reinforcements 11) . 0 eXpecttql, Including artillery and eavalry, 11111 i 1111 , ~11. 01111 1 01 lIN.N idle eN a wurllk))aspect. 'f l ier), is certainly a great deal of hail feel ing exhibited and no end of liill.tininatory talk and threui, 'rho ,illation IN clearly not favorable lo the interests of Utah, but I hope it will speedily change for the hot ter. Wild reports that 'save been sent 1 . :a..t are without foundation. The naafi Tribune, under the editorship of :11 r. 1. Sawy or, swings MIL MI Journal Immorrow. Additional 1•nrl lead Innn of the Arrest 4il Itrtmlotoi 10,11ti.-•Miter I ru ne ul• Iteporfed luuud A gallant the Mormon Leader. SALT LAOS CITY, I, ' tAll, 0171. 11rIghain Young wins arrested thin unor ueeu, at four o'clock, upon the indictment or the dirattil Jury, charging him, tinder the Utah statute, with lowdly and licenti ously cohabiting with sixteen 11111 . 1.11 . 111 'ldle arrest was tirade by cited States Nlarslial Patrick, at the reeddence of Young. Owing to the sickness it the ins - Oiler ha WIIIIII,IIi , Ved to remain at Inn lions , . to night inn charge or in deputy autumnal. Ile will ho taken hero], Judge :111 . 1,./111 to Lllorrow. Another company of Fnite l States troy p. arrived here to night in n s riot Itrideo r. IL is reported anti generally , believed Mat indictment/4 have been lound against ham Young, to.day l‘sr 111111,11-I'. Neo York Deomerailo P11i1,• tot. %ro 14 4411 H 11r11,01111,11.4 Proceedlitam— lleket Thin body met at Rodn , ntor 11'v lui>day. coo and harmony ia.evathid, In ntark,l VOILI : itt With 010 . Itailit,ll 0,11%01111mi ill Syracuse, and which 111,,4111404 el , llllill tory it the Clarkson N. Potter, ii Westchester, was t•ilo,elt tcw porary Chairman and the roll of uncon• tested delegates Was called. Chas. ti.Cornel I presented a communication Irian Um Tam many delegation. It sated iliac they did out Wish to embarrass the action of the t en- Lion, but. claimed regularity, and do•inail.l - a searching investigation of the charges of corrupirMi. With a view L., aid the nueceas Lho Dania, retie ticket they waived the right to participate in the delib erations of the Convention. At the same cline they pledged their support to tilt, ticket it would nominate. lice cummuul ea maw received with " trimumilons " applause. Mr. Irewitt,ol K Inas, then inoviai that New York be ,anilltal ni LILL, cell of the roll, and no delegation bolll,olllCli us sat mg trout that locality. This'svas agreed kJ by a vole of UB ayes to 4 mars. A recess was taken until evening, when C. A. Tuner wits chosen permanent President.. The platform adopted cionnnnees Lim Athnin • istration at Washington as false L., Its ledges and Is l'enntltunonal elniganene. recognizes the nanilta Si the war in the . Ilktlll'lpaLloll and enfranchiNument id the .lured race. It views with Indignation Ll., corruption and extravagance, brought to light in the management of the municipal allaire of New York City; regard, 101 worthy of CUIIIILeIIaIICO 111111 toleration all who are responsible therefor, and will look with catedaetien epee their punish merit ; deelariet that the system Whleh made such Immix inevitable wee inaugu rated anti Carried on for MOVerill yew by the Itepublican party, and 1101111111 , k such refortne lu Mu City Charter as shall make further frauds inipreedble. It further tin. clues Lb° tiecesnity of Coll,lillUllolllll 1111bIll • nient to limit muuleipul expenditure anti taxation ; urges the dilly of eorreethht the "centr...if ill provailleg eorruption" In the Federal Government ; appruvoe t tho poi Ink Constlttitional ;mg against lalbory at elections; hives„ tariff or ratootuo only; co:winds , . by eulogit.ing tiovernor llollmari Its the " worthy su'cu.sur of the gi eat Democratic loaders," Clinton, 'l•uutplthrn, Wright, Marcy and Seyiimur, and renew , . '• thy• pledge of fidelity to the great Democratic doctrine "r equal and exact justice to all men of whatever 'rend or nationality, and special favors to bone," '1 he VOlll.lOll alter adopting the resolutions adjourned until this Illortilng. ROCIIE.STER, UeL. s.—The wit , . called 1.0 order at 11 A. M. Several mien. berm of the Herol - 111 delegation Iron' New York city :nude ritilim ha urging their cliiiinm to coats in the l'onvoidliin, lii them Tilden, who said he did not dare to go borne without lifting his voice In trivia el bearing his delegation, lie charged that the action of the Convention yesterday was secretly concocted at midnight and sprung upon tiro Convention. llu spent the silent watches of last night to prevent these gen tlemen from issuing an address stating their grievances. 'the Convention voted to gl ve the delegit thin a hearing, whereupon ()sward Mom rierfer arid A. 11. Lawrence delivered ad dresses. A long letter was also read From Lnarles of New York city, tur• male points or which were all p•kh .11 Tammany corrnipli , Jilimlm. Mr. Tilden, itiso tletioillii•eil Wu Taw- lan) , organization In 1111111.4111, 1 t1 onl', and declared that lin would not Lb', 'all Cute tor any of the notnitittuoilH for All-. - _ 'll,lll bly made by that talonization, and O . that was undemocratic or In egular lie tvuuld resign lily position MS Ch;tlnuau of the State Committee, and retire to the lin or his plundered lellnw•citlzenn. 'l • he list of nominations was then 1•0111111, Led, and the following Coininittu3 was NI . - lOCLOLi BS delegates at large to the SULU , U 011111141,:: S. J. Tilden, of New Tui k; Joseph Wanes, Et ; Ile %Volt, it Wwego; E. P. of Cayuga, and tit., Alagee, ol.Seltuyler. ;:onventi.n own adjourn , d sittejfte. The following is the complete If -iiitatiatie State ticket placed 111 nomination by Lill) Convention. . . Secretary of .`ffille.—Dkirich Seneca. • Cuntolter.—Arellor I'. Nichols, or Erie. ,Ytute l'reasurer.—Wheeler 11. Bristol, • .1' Tioga. ..aaurney (iencral.- plain, of Alleghany. State Engineer and Surr , yar.—V all Canal Co non isNioncr.—Goor go. W. Chap man, of Saratoga. ospeetur f.N(al,' Pri,enx David B. M., Neil at Cayuga. Terrible Ballooning Accident Professor Wilbur, of Paoli, Ind., on Sat urday made arrangements for a balloon ascension. He was to take with him Geo. H. Knapp, an editor. As they were about getting into the balloon the cords snapped, the two men held on to the rori, but when about thirty feet in the air Is app let go. lln sustained no serious injury. Wilbur held on, endeavoring to climb In to the basket. The balloon Ascended very apidly, and at the height of a mile Wilbur let go hishold ; he struck the ground upon his head, making an indentation of eight Inches; he rebounded four feet, and then fell, mashed into an almost indistinguish able mass. To add to the Itorrdr, his wirc and little daughter witnessed the terrible :ene. Latest Foreign News—Fer:Cable ROME, Oct. s.—The Emperor of Brazil and his party, aro expected in this city about the 10th of November. After spend ing some time here, the royal tourists will go to the Suez Canal, to view Lessop's great work. MADRID, Oct. 5.- I —Espartero having de clined to undertake the formation of a cab inet, as requested by the King's telegram, Lagasta advises King Atuadeur to in vite Zorilla to reconstruct the government, and remain at its head. It is not probable that this advice will be followed. Lon 'pox, Oct. 5.—A despatch from Bom bay reports that an insurrection has broken out In the Portuguese settlement. of Goa, west coast of India, but the military force In charge of tile post has been able to quell the disturbance: EMEMO
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