Eancaster 3nteltigencer. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2i, 1871 The Road to Success We have repeatedly spoken of the means which must be employed by . the Democratic party to ensure success in the Presidential contest 0f1872 ; and we more and more feel that everything de pends upon the ,ability of the Demos.: racy to impress the people of the coun try with the belief that, if entrusted with power, It will inaugurate honesty and economy In all branches of the pub '-lc service. The Tammany Ring frauds did the Democracy Incalculable dam age, and, no doubt, contributed largely to the result of the Pennsylvania and Ohio elections, although they bear about the same proportion to the stu pendous frauds, defalcations, embezzle ments and thefts of the Radical officials, that a single drop of water does to the vast unfathomable ocean. The •New York State Democratic Convention at Rochester did its duty nobly. It turn ed its back upon Tammany, and purged itself of all taints of corruption—conduct iu striking contrast with that of the President, who retains Casey in office at New Orleans and Tom Murphy in New York. It may he somewhat doahtful, whether at present, there is enough of public virtue in the country to make a successful fight against the disciplined armies of corruptionists, but let the good fight be maintained. Let tile Democracy go before the tribunal of the country with clean hands and brave hearts, and around its standard will yet rally enough of true men to save the liberties of the people. As friends of liberty and honesty let it array itself against the patrons of corruption. And as a party, anxious to restore tile Con stitution to its original vigor let It war ` , itliout ceasing against Radicalism, xhich is only "waiting for the disor ders of government to ripen into arbi trary power." Tile Presidency. The Pittsburgh Post has a column. and-a-half article in support of Thomas A. Scott for the Presidency, as the Dem ocratic and Conservative candidate in l'-(72. The Post is an able journal and is entitled to the respect of the Democratic party, for its able advocacy of the prin ciples by which it professes to be gov erned, and the unflinching ,support which it has given to the measures and candidates of the party. We agree with the Post in the general propositions by which it paves its way to the nomination of a candidate, much .ae we are com pelled to differ with it as to the wisdom or policy of its choice. It would not be the part of wisdom, as it observes, for the Democratic party to abandon its organization and permit the Radical party to destroy itself in a war of fac tions In the next Presidential con test. That party has within itself the discordant elements which, sooner or later, must result in open rupture and a disintegration of the organization; and we prefer that this result should be brought about through its own agency, rather than by any aid contributed by Democrats, in refusing to do battle against its iniquities. Nor can Demo crats, as a national party, aid in the election of Horace Greeley, or any other factious Radical lender. He is "too bit ter a partisan, and the exponent of political views antagonistic to the na tional welfare." Our national organi zationmust be maintained. We must lie'discouraged by defeats. Seven tones (lid the spider in the cave where the Scottish Chieftain had taken refuge, defeated and dispirited, essay to fasten its tiny fiber to the wall, ere it succeed cd—the practical lesson of which in spired the warrior with renewed hope and zeal for his , future struggles and eonquests ; and, although the Demo cratic party be defeated seven times seven times, there is a certainty of an evclitual triumph of its time-honored principles. The Post says " Pen nsyl van ia elects the next President. Whoever , receives lo_r twenty-six electoral votes, will re the twenty-one electoral votes of ()Ilia, the thirty-three electoral votes of New York, and well nigh sweep the other States of the Union," and then asks, " can the Democratic party afford to put forward, as their standard-bearer, a man who cannot carry the Keystone Slate With it we respond an em phatic " No." But we are not willing to accept its position that it must be done by bridging the chasm that exists between the Democratic and Republi can parties, in the selection of Thomas Scott as the standard-bearer. We have other good and trite men—avail able, reliable and competent ; and upon whomsoever the choice of the National Democratic Convention may fall, we feel confident that the selection will be Judicious cue, and that all the results .to much desired by the Post, in common with all good Democrats and Conserva tives, will be achieved under his lead. If it be upon the platform df the Post, we shall Interpose no objections—" the Sixteenth Amendment, liberal govern ment, public honesty, and national economy"—for with that as the battle cry, and under the lead of a statesman of enlarged views, unquestioned integ rity, and tried statesmanship, we be lieve that " victor'y will be op the side the right." Will riot Work Both Ways The Radical papers have much to say about Dem obratic dishonesty, and prate loudly about' the punishment of the guilty ; but they have little to say of the shortcomings of their own pally. It is easy enough to apply the knife to frauds and misdemeanors: , of political oppo nents, but not quite so common to per form the same surgical operation when applied to 'subjects of one's own party. The Democratic party, however, made no such distinction at Rochester, while the Republican party did at Syracuse. Regardless of friend or foe, and looking only to the public good, the Democratic party not only denounced tire corrup tions of the New York gevernment, but pronounced those of their own party who were under suspicion as " unwor thy of countenance or toleration," until they could purge themselves of the charges against them, and refused all co operation with them. The Republican pa. fy, on the contrary, regardless of the public welfare, not only indorsed all the raecalities that the Tribune and other leading journals of their own party had been exposing for weeks previously, but actually permitted the parties so ex posed, to control the action of the Con vention and make such nominations as suited them. This is the difference. Brigham has Succumbed The wily Mormon, Brigham Young, evidently knows, or thinks he knows, what he is about. About a month ago Brigham Young gave out that he would not be arrested, and that no Gentile (ouch should profane the Lord's anoint e.l. He has, however, been indicted and arraigned, all the same. He quietly per mitted the profanation, pleaded not guilty, and asked a continuance of the rial proceedings. Precisely as if he was only human, and not a prophet, the court proceeds as usual, and gives Brig ham only the grace it allows to others. The Mormons have started a subscrip tion paper for their President, to aid the poor man on his trial. The money flows in freely. Let Brigham be en couraged. Even If convicted, the pre cedent of Bowen show that bigamy is not an unpardonable crime ; and his followers understand the moat effective key to the Presidential clemency. What has been done on a small scale, they very plausibly suppose, may be done upon a more extensive one. SMALL•I'OX Is on the Increase In Har risburg and vicinity. A number of cases have occurred In Cumberland county, and fears are entertained of Its magesthroughout the valley. THE L.A2q - CASTER, WEEKLY MTELLIG-ENCER, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1871. More Radical Itinaactering RadlCal journals, which have had so much to say about Tammany Frauds, will have sufficient to occupy their at tention in the recent developments of The management of the City Fnanoes of Philadelphia, In addition to the previ ous frauds which were charged upon the Radical officials. City funds, to the amount of $478,000, were loaned to C. T. Yerkes, Jr., & Co., stock brokers on bird street, without any sort of secur ity. This firm failed in the beginning of the week, and the result is the funds of the City Treasury are in deficit to that amount. In the money article of the Ledger, we find the following : This large amount of the City's money had been virtually loaned to Messrs. Yerkes t Co., w•o are large operators in City loans as well as other stocks. On what terms they had the use of so much of the funds of the City without any sort of secu rity it is not important now to consider.— There were reports on the street, yester day, that other parties, operating largely in stock securities, were using the money of the City Treasury iu the same way and probably on like terms as Yerkes di Co. used them. But in that way, or in any way, the thing is too manifestly illegal, as well as dishonest towards the City and the City's creditors, for argument. What we desire to call attention to just now is this bad management and unwarranted use of the public moneys, not only by - the officers of the City, but by the custodians of the funds of the Commonwealth; for both use them and profit from them much in the same way. This large amount of money was lying in the hands of these speculating bank ers, drawing no Interest for the City,al though no doubt the City officials who placed it there, had their profit fn so doing, while at the same time the Age says that over $4,000,000 in City war rants are now being hawked about the streets, drafts at sight upon the Treas ury for services actually rendered, for which no provision has been made, and the redemption of which, at any early period, is extremely uncertain. But the public loss by this failure does not stop here. By the bankruptcy of Terkel k Co., the State Treasury comes in for a loss ranging from $120,000 to $lBO,OOO. The Ledger says that this money of the people of the State was loaned to this speculating stock-firm 'without collateral or security of any kind, the State officials loaning it to them unlawfully and criminally putting the price paid for its use in their own pockets. The item of the Common wealth's loss, it is said, will be made up by the officials and the securities on their bonds. This may save the State pecuniary loss, but how is reparation to be made for the outraged honor and dig. nity of the Commonwealth? Mr. Mackey, the State Treasurer, who has thus been shown to have been risk ing the moneys of the people by placing them in the custody of these specula tors for his own profit, has been especi ally active lately in denouncing George 0. Evans, for charging the State an ex horbitant percentage fur collecting its moneys from the General Government. Mr. Mackey does not seem to be in a very strong position to be casting stones at other State robbers. To What Are We Drifting? If the people of the - United States tamely submit to the ukase of Ulysses the First, Despot of America, they are as arrant a set of cowards as ever dis graced the earth. The Ku Klux pro clamation with regard to South Caro lina is a fraud, and the grounds which are sought to justify its issuance the merest specious pretext for the exer cise of qrannical power for politi cal ends. What has been done with re gard to South Carolina, it is the boast of the Philadelphia Picas, and other Rad ical sheets, will be done to Georgia; and what he dare do to them he has full power to du to the citizens of any other State. Congress has, by one crowning act of despotisM, broken down all the safeguards and constitutional barriers which had been erected by the wisdom and patriotism of our fore fathers, anil clothed the man who now disgraces the Executive Chair of the Nation with unlimited power over the lives, liberties and property of the peo ple. How he is using this power let the recent proclamation against South Car olina show. In a time of pround peace and quiet, large masses of t e people are robbed of all their rights as citizens, denied all redress from the laws, and placed in the hands and at the mercy of a mob of negroes and hirelings, worse even than the negroes themselves. This is what Radicalism would do for Pennsylvania, or any other State, whose people dared oppose the behests of Rad ical partisans. The Fire and Storm Fiends Seem to be holding high revel, just at present, in all sections of the globe. The angel of Death, apparently, rides upon the blast. sparing neither section nor people, with his desolating breath. The horrors of Chicago mid those of Michigan and Wisconsin, tlnd a repeti tion in Canada, and citlesof the country, near and reunite, are both visited by the incendiaries' torch and the tornado's destruction. News of our own terrible disasters hail scarce been borne across the cable, and the noble response to our appeals for aid - accorded, era the wires dash back intelligence of a terrible con flagration in Russia, with eight hun dred‘buildings destroyed by incendiaries in the town of Bogooslay. Accompany ing this Is the frightful loss by floods in China, with accounts of three thousand persons who perished in the waves; aud, equally appalling, the fearful rav ages of the cholera in Constantinople, go to swell the terrible and l.eart-sick• ening list of death it'd disasters. Tfuly, the avenging angel, with his ink-horn, is abroad, and leaves his mark of desolation in almost every laud. Is the scourge a rebuke for our sins? is n question we may well ponder. The Radical Remedy Government usurpations are becom ing fearfully prevalent. The sword has become in this country, under Radical government and a military ruler, the remedy for everything. The public mind is becoming rapidly habituated to it, and the present generation may wit ness, what was long since foretold, the lapse of our government into a military despotisth. Other great military men, when elevated to the Presidency, sunk the soldier in the civilian. The sword was laid aside and state-craft was relied upon to solve every difficulty ; btit Grant has never relinquished the sword —all the faith he has and all his ideas are centered in it. The limited educa tion he received was a military educa tion ; his reputation was made by the sword, and all that he has was conquer ed by it. His only idea of government is force. Under his administration we are all being rapidly educated into a re liance upon military force. The Presi dency was reached by Grant by means of the sword, and he is determined to keep it by the sword. GRANT is something of a wag, as well as eloquent orator. In his speech to the Canadian portion of his audience at the railroad jubilee at Vauceborough on Thursday, the President promised to visit them after the next election. The President said lie " was sorry that the latter could not gratify their desire to visit them at this time, but that they would excuse him if he would come after the next election." [Cheers.] As he has already refused an invitation to visit Canada, assigning as a reason that it is not proper for a President to go out of the country during his term of office he has unquestionably made up his mind that all's up. IT is now estimated that the city of Chicago has suffered a loss of not less than twenty nor more than twenty-five per cent. on her total assets, real and personal. Her most shrewd business men express it as their conviction that five years hence, at most, the exhibit of population, wealth, commerce, and manufactures will be even greater than a month ago; an opinion In which we fully concur. A Small Select Council The action of the Radical majority of Select Council in refusing to allow Mr. Shimp, the Democratic member elected from the 3d Ward, to be sworn in, is a striking illustration of the superlatively small and mean conduct which Radical partizans, elevated from the slums of the street into positions of brief responsibil ity, can be guilty of. Mr. Shimp pre sented his credentials in proper shape and, according to:the usage of all legisla tive bodies, was clearly entitled to be sworn into office upon the prima-facie showing of his right thereto exhibited in his papers ; his opponent could after wards contest his right to his seat and could cause him to vacate it, if he was not properly elected. But Mr. Slump's right to his seat can not be justly con tested ; and the reason assigned for ffis puting it could only have been con cocted by Radical malevolence, reduced to the direst straits in its vain effort to keep that control of the Councils of which they know in another year they will be deprived. It is alleged that Mr. Shimp is not eligible; because, although he has been for several years a resident of Lancaster, he has not been one year a resident of the 3d Ward. The City Charter requires that the members of Select Council " shall have the same qualifications as are required. by the Constitution of this ComMonwealth for members of the Senate." Under the Constitution of Pennsylvania, a State Senator must be twenty-five years old, "have been a citizen and in habitant of the State four years next before his election and the last year thereof an inhabitant of the district for which he shall be chosen." I Mr. Shimp has all these qualifications and therefore having "the seine qualifi cations" as a State Senator, lie is eligi ' ble to the Select Council. It is alleged byhis opponents, however, that he must have an additional qualification beyond that required of a State Senator and that he must not only have resided in this Senatorial District, but also in the 3d Ward for the year previous to his elec tion ; a forced construction of the law, which will not be apt to find favor in eyes unblinded by partisan malig nity. It is a construction morever op posed to all precedent. It has been a common thing for members of Select and Common Council to be elected who have not been one year resident of their wards. Mr. Wehrly, in Select Council, yesterday, said that this had been,tte case with him when he was first eke&ed. Yet this objection has never heretofore been taken. Mr. (4. M. %Am was this year elected to Com mon Council from the Fifth Ward, although he has not lived in that Ward for a year past. The qualifications of a Common Councilman are the same as those of a member of the House of Rep resentatives of the State, of whom it is likewise required that he shall have lived for' the year previous to his elec tion in the Representative district from which he has been chosen. The Democ racy in Common Councils were too de cent to revenge themselves on Mr. Zahru for the action of Select Council toward Mr. Shimp, and permitted him to be sworn into an office to which they believed he had been fairly elected by a majority of the la c,ple of his Ward; which shows the difference between the parties and how easy it is for some men to be honorable gentlemen and how difficult for others to be anything else but graceless knaves. How nirich there is in the way one is educated ! The Law Vindicated The trial of Botts, at N!ewark, N. for the murder of " Pet " Halstead, has resulted in a verdict of " guilty of mur der in the first degree." The circum sailices attending the Murder, before and since the trial, excited considerable interest, and were freely commented on. It was thought that an acquittal would be the result by the friends of the ac cused. Murder is becoming too fre quent., and the punishment too rare for a healthy condition of society. It is full time that the bravo and the aveng er of his real or imaginary wrong should be taught that ours is a civilized age. The knife and the pistol are too com monly the adjusters of personal quar rels, and solely because of the prescrip tive inimunity accorded a class of des peradoes, which, it is to be hoped, will soon have passed away forever.. If the man who takes human life unjustifia bly, be his social statue low or high, is held for impartial trial by a jury of his peers, drawn with a single eye to the vindication of justice, murderous as saults, open or stealthy, will cease. Otherwise, even the most inoffensive will have to carry his pistol and knife to defend his life alike against the asses short in broad-cloth, who vindicates character by shooting doivn without warning, and the thug who takes life from a tiger-like thirst for blood, and an assured sense, from years of immu nity, of the corruption or indifference of the officers of the law. A New Name for an Ola Crime The -Radicals have added a new name —a peculiar nomenclature by wnich they varnish over their peculations and other short-comings. " Mystified " is the word. The stealings of $500,000 is called an " irregularity ;" if $1,000,000 disappears it is termed an " appropria tion ;" but, If several m Whiffs are taken the Federal officer's accounts are " mys tified," and that is the end of. it. No body can tell where the funds have gone to. Fraudulent bonds are issued; Trea sury notes are stolen ; Internal Revenue receipts are pocketed ; Post-offices are plundered and Custom-Houses pilfered. When an investigation ispressed,the an swer is, " The accounts are much mys tified, and it is impossible for us to ar aive at the result." All these mystifiers " Hurrah for Grant." Judging from the pile Grant himself has secured, he is a very successful "mystifier," and stands at the head of the list of officials who pride themselves upon the old maxim, of somewhat doubtful morali ty. that there is a virtue in stealing, but a crime to be found out. ConslNtent llorace Dr. Greeley, the newly college-dub bed, the philosopher and farmer of Cha paqua, furnishes to the world some nota ble examples of consistency. He is the one-term candidate for the Presidency, yet, with all his contempt for Grant and his qualifications, is every day aiding his re-election. He advises his friends who were ignominiously kicked out of the Syracuse Convention, to hold their tongues, follow the lead of Conkling —who superintended the kicking—elect the Federal office-holders ticket, and secure the State next year for Grant's re-election. Such is the consistency of the "one-term" candidate. Oh! Horace, Horace ! CAPTAIN COOPER, the Democratic candidate for Surveyor-General, polled 7,000 votes less, in Allegheny county, than General McCandless. The reason of this difference is thus explained by the Pittsburgh Post : "The German Reform party adopted General McCan dless as their candidate for Auditor- General, and Robert B. Beath, the Rad ical candidate for Surveyor-General.— The same explanation applies to Stan ton, who polls several thousand votes less than Beath. Captain Cooper re ceived the full Democratic vote in the county." Dow Disease is Brought New York Is excited upon the subject of rags. Several vessels have lately ar rived from European ports with this merchandise as part of their cargoes, and it is suspected that, in some instan ces, cholera and other infectious dis eases lurk in the unsavory bales. The consignees protested against the deten tion of their goods at Quarantine, but the health authorities have very prop erly decided that no cargoes of rage from countries where cholera prevails shall be landed without disinfection. The Police Force. The Lancaster Radicals die hard.— Beaten in the.late City Election by an overwhelming majority of the people, who rendered of them the verdict, "You have been tried in the conduct of our affairs and have been found wanUng," they seem determined to throw every possible embarrassment in the way of the Democratic administration, which has been called into power. The City Charter limits the number of the Police men to thirteen, and makes it the duty of the Mayor to nominate to the Select Council all the Constables elected in the nine Wards for confirmation as Po licemen. The present Police Force, of whom only three have been elected as Constables, must necessarily therefore go out of office, to make room for the appointment of the elected Constables. The Mayor therefore notified the Select Council, immediately after he had been sworn into office yesterday, of the removal of the Policemen, and ex pected that his communication would have been at once approved, as a matter of course, and as similar communica tions of his predecessors have always hitherto been approved. Instead of this, however, the Council referred the mat ter to a Select Committee, to report at an indefinite future time, indicating an evident disposition to defeat the provis ion of the law, which gives to the elect ed Constables a right to he appointed as Policemen. The terms of service of the members of the old Police Force having expired by operation of the law, the Mayor has fulfilled the duty imposed upon him by the Charter, and has ap pointed a body of Policemen, including in his appointments all the nine newly elected Constables of both political parties. It will be recollected that there was not a single Democrat on the late Police force, the Council having rejected the nominations of all the Democratic Con stables who were elected a year ago. They will be again given an opportunity of saying whether the fact that a man is a Democrat disqualifies him from ser vice,as a Policeman ; and we apprehend that with a Democratic Mayor in office they will not be so ready to say yea, as they were a year ago. A llolhoi Mockery " Let us have peace," exclaims Ulys ses, the despot, and to-day the sabre clatters and the bayonet glitters in South Carolina, and military satraps threaten the people and overawe the officials.— The Executive, himself a Radical parti san of the President, is deposed in a por tion of the State, and the Judges, also of his own political ilk, are driven from the bench. They do not carry out Grant's imperial behests readily enough, and the bayonet was called into requisi tion. It did not matter that the condi tion of affairs was satisfactory to the peo ple—their wishes were not to be con sulted. Our military President consti tutes himself the judge as to what is proper for the people of a State. Gov. Scott and the Legislature of South Caro lina averred that everything was peace ful, and that the State authorities were adequate to the maintenance of order; but under the new dispensation they are saved the trouble of conducting the af fairs of government by the intervention. of the Commander-in-Chief. There is a total overthrow of the civil government, and a worse condition of all'airs is threat ened. It is no wonder that this high handed outrage startles the country like a clap of thunder in a clear sky. The functions of the State Executive are usurped by the President; the Radical judiciary is thrust aside for the provost marshal, and a drum-head court-mar tial is substituted for a trial by jury.— The question may 'well be asked, "To what are weidriftine Arthur P. Devlin This pseudo priest, peregrinating lec turer, and common scamp, with whose exploits here and elsewhere our readers are somewhat familiar, has been rather roughly handled at Scranton, where he attempted to lecture on sunday after noon. Ile mounted a box on the corner of a street, as is his wont, and began an abusive tirade against the Catholic Church and priesthood. Two minutes after he commenced a large crowd of men were seen coining down Pennsyl vania Avenue. They had their pockets tilled with stones and a great number were armed with clubs. They listened to the speaker for a few moments.— When he leferred to the Catholics as being thieves, murderers and cut throats, the box on which he stood was kicked from under him and he fell to the pavement. He regained his feel and once more' mounted the box, but was immediately thrown down again. An officer endeavored to protect him ; but was unable to do so. 'llia crowd be came infuriated, and cried loudly to kill hint. The officer tool: him along the avenue, when some one in the crowd threw a stone which struck him on the back of the head, splitting it open. The rowd fol:owed him, hooting and yell lug furiously, until he managed to enter the Wyoming House. From there he was taken by a side door to the Forrest House, where Ile now lies apparently in a dangerous condition. Devlin express ed a determination to renew his lecture, but the mob were as equally determined that he should not. The affair caused great excitement, and was the theme of conversation among all classes. Is It Polley or Compulsion? In one thing, at least, Grant imitates his successor, Andy Johnson. He far surpasses him in his capacity for "swinging round the circle,'• but falls short of Andy in his speech-making qualities. Grant has been peculiarly brief in his acknowledgments of cour tesies offered him by municipal author ities and other bodies. Occasionally, however, he gives his imagination wings and indulges 'in flights of elo quence, as at Bangor, Maine, for in stance, the other day, when be said: "My friends, I had a very pleasant re• ception on my visit to your State and city six years ago, which I have never forgot ten. I am convinced by the memory of the reception I then received that I should have an equally pleasant reception on the present occasion, and I am not disappoint ed. I thank you for your . kindness, and hope to meet you again." Is this style the result of profound policy? Dots lie make such speeches because he wishes to conceal his real purposes and ideas? Or is it because he really has no ideas to declare? Horace Greeley said that "we want a man for President who, when called upon for an expression of his views on political and other subjects of national interest, can give them iu clear, comprehensive lan guage. That's the kind of man," con tinued Dr. Greeley, ''the people want, and that's the kind of man we haven't got now." Radicalism Illustrated Little Rhode Island is intensely Rad ical, as everybody knows. She has just voted on three proposed amendments to her Constitution. First, to remove the real-estate qualification from foreign born citizens; second, to abolieh the registry act; gnd, third, to prohibit the appropriation of money to sectarian schools. All three were iiofeated, the first and second by largr majorities.— The vote on the first was 3,114 votes in favor of, to 0,366 against it. On the sec ond proposition it stood 3,614 for, and 5,883 against. According to the Radical way of thinking, a German or an Irishman in Rhode Island is not good enough to vote unless he is a laud-holder, while in the South they allow negroes to vote with out any qualification whatever—not even the pre-payment of taxes, or the ability to read and write. ON Saturday morning, 13. F. Rich wine, of Lewistown, a carpenter, lu the employ of the Harrisburg Car Com pany, was run over and mortally in jured in front of Bailey's rolling mill. Transparent Hypocrisy The Radical journals send up a howl of affected indignation, and shed a pro fusion of crocodile tears at the refusal of the Return Judges in the Cumber land and Franklin district,' to award the certificate of election to Mr. Weak ley, as Senator. They forget the course pursued by them in the case of Covode, by a Radical Congress, and are as equally unmindful of the precedents which they have set before the country, and the conduct which almost daily characterizes the party where they have the numerical ascendency, or the mili tary and political power. Take, for instance, the Texas election. Not only is the 3,000 majority of the telegraph swelled by the slower but surer mails to 40,000—and every member of Con gress Democratic, and by large majori ties, too—but the attempt to prevent these members elect from going to Washington and taking their seats is one of the features of the Governor, who is upheld by Grant. The telegraph despatches sent North were carefully pruned down, and the people were kept in the dark as to the real facts, which were subsequently published : " A special from Austin says that Lime stone county is declared under martial law, and assessed fifty thousand dollars for bad behavior. Adjutant-General Da vidson takes charge of the military of Grimes The vote of Limestone, Grimes and Bell counties will be thrown out, mak ing the vote between Giddings and Clarke nearly equal. Clarke , will receive the cer tificate of election. State Senator Mills has been heard to say that " Clarke shall gb to t'ongress if there are bayonets enough in the State to send him (here '" Yes, Clarke must go to Congress, if bayonets will effect it; but the people of Pennsylvania must be threatened with another buckshot-war if \Veakley is not admitted to the Senate, no mat ter how much bribery or corruption can be proven against him The Ice Broken There has, at htst, been a conviction of a Mormon leader in Utah, for the crime of polygamy. The ice has thus been broken—a precedent established, which presages the eventual, if not speedy overthrow of the Mormon church and power. The moral elkct of the con viction of Hawkins, a leader of the church, may be materially weakened by the fact that under the Utah law, the first wife is the only party who can institute proceedings against a husband for bigamy or adultery ; and it is to be presumed that the Mormon leaders have their first wives under too com plete a state of subjection to be in much dread, of a demonstration like that made by the wife of Hawkins. It was, also, part of the defense in the late trial that there was no law against polygamy at the time Hawkins took his second wife, and it is possible that an appeal may be made, on this ground, from the Utah Court to the Supreme Court of the United States, as the Mormons have a chance, by a resort to this expedient, of protracting the legal warfare commenc ed against them. Nevertheless a good stout blow has been dealt to Brigham's " peculiar institution," and it must ev idently soon be destroyed by the ad vancing waves of civilization and Chris tianity. Pn.sldennal Eloquence., President Grant reached Portland, Maine, yesterday,on his return from his trip to Bangor. He had a public recep tion in the City Hail, where he made the following speech, which we take from the Philadelphia Press, abound ing, it wilkhe seen, in wit, wisdom and eloquence. His fellow-citizens will par ticularly regret to hear, that if he does not oftener than he has heretofore, he will be quite an old man before he visits Portland many times more. He was in troduced to the people by Mayor Kings bury, and spoke as follows: "1 Lave a vivid recollection of visiting your city six years ago. This is the second time I have been in your city, and am much pleased with your reception here, as well as at other places I have visited in your State. If I do not oftener than I have heretofore, I shall not make many more visits here before I shall Le quite an oldman." Grain at Chicago. The receipts of grain at Chicago for several weeks before the fire, exceeded those fur the same period in any year in the past decade. The receipts were inLreasing at the rate of three-quarters of a million bushels per week, and the warehouses were so nearly full that grain by canal boats was refused storage, the warehouses being under contracts to receive all that came by rail. The consequence was that whilst the indi cations iu Europe are for higher prices for grain, the Chicago market was in a weak condition, simply because operat ors had more stock offered them than they knew what to do with. Fire and Rain A number of our readers will remem ber Prof. Espy, and his lectures and ex periments in support of his theory of the production of rain at will by artificial means. In 1839, after the great and de structive flood in the Juniata at Holli daysburg, the suddenness thereof, as well as Its severity, induced the Profes sor to visit the scene, and a number of experiments were made to show that it was the result, principally, of extensive fires in the mountains. Prof. Gray's theory is the same—that great fires al ways produce heavy rains, and it is re ceiving strong confirmation in recent events. The fires at Chicago was fol lowed by heavy rains, which subdued the flames ; and the frightful flies in Wise nsin and Michigan are also ex tinguished by copious showers—the first fall of rain there for more than two months. lIIUTTANNIA don't rule the wave. She may have a controlling influence in the way of commerce, but she can't outsail us, nor win back the Queen's cup. The Livonia has fairly lust four out of the live races, and the English Yacht's Commodore will have to put back across the Atlantic with his sails in mourning at his defeat. He don't like to "give it up so," and (lies hard. He threatens to dispute the last race, in which the Sappho was victor, and to go it alone, unless the New York club agree to his absurd and illiberal propositions. Well, let him do it, Americans have got the Queen's cup, and they have the skill and pluck to keep it. Is another Column will be found the official vote of Pennsylvania for Gov ernor in 1.969 and Auditor-General and Surveyor-General in IS7I. The returns as published, except from the counties of Allegheny, Beaver and Butler (which we copy from the papers of those coun ties), were yesterday obtained at the office of the Secretary of the Common wealth. The vote on the calling of a Constitutional Convention is also offi cial as far as published, but no returns have been received fro& Butler county. —Harrisburg Patriot. California Etnalons The election which came off on - Wed, nesday, resulted in a Radical triumph. A free ballot was rendered impossible by the action of Federal officials. A suit has been commenced by the Demo crats of Tolland county, to set aside the September election In that county, on the ground that the action of the Fed eral officials at Vallejo rendered a free ballot impossible. The Tax-Payers' and Republican tickets of San Francisco have an average majority of fifteen hun dred, though Delos Lake (Democrat) is probably elected Municipal Judge. CONTRIBUTIONS for the relief of the Chicago sufferers are still being made in England. In London £30,000 has been subscribed ; in Kidderminster, £3,000, and In Manchester, 48,000. Punlgthment Enough The names of the five cadets dismissed from the Naval Academy for " hazing " will not be published, as the dismissal Is considered punishment enough. A young gentleman of Washington is now sick in bed from the effects of "hazing." Re was held tinder a pump for an hour, and thrown nto the river, by these ax-cadets, OFFICIAL VOTE OF PENNSYLVANIA - , 1869. I 1871. 1 . 1871. I 1871. -- - LiovEnNoE. A UD. GEN. ' SUE. GEN. 'CONVENTION ,-------, ,-- Z' '''' ''''' g •i' 9 'g 1 c,_.; K. ...! = g 1 ~,.- 4 g, - 1 - , t. . 5- .. .- . pi ..,- vi 1 1 p COUNTIES. 1 . Pa V .^. ,c 7 T. Vd I c 5 -7' -, .g "v i l g 1 - ' 1 `j '-g 3 1 31 11 1 C a I Ig I 7 I 1: 1 Adams 3009 26221 2491 3035 18 2493 3034 17 3525 1925 Allegheny 13301 17858 14798 11134 43 17619 8500 43 22644 250 Armstrong 3079 3439 3515 3144 3517 3135 6033 39 Beaver 2402 3096 2991 2523 . 1415 3006 2524 131 4324 33 Bedford. ............. ...... 2432 2485 2819 2832 • 26 2826 %22 26 5016 554 Berke 13531 6971 5306 11137 5361' 11124 5269 10903 Blair 2773 3484 3382 2833 360 3382 11332 1 3641 6214 16 Bradford • 3686 6653 5737 3067 56 5750 30691 51 8397 222 Bucks 7061 6505 6902 6343 13 6916 69391 11181 2135 Butler 2994 3250 3092 2885 3089 2889 Cambria 3187 25.39 2294 3029 69 2263 30071 681 46041 196 Cameron 4% 474 389 339 381 ' 390 338 351536 Carbon 2625 1940 1935 2166 71 1920 2168 71 38151 105 Centre 3464 3102 2978 3470 9' 2975 :1170 91 6155 233 Chester • 1 - 6146 8230 7308 4053 153, • 337 44)11 130 9472 2030 Clarion 2831 1785 1443 2511 51 14422512 5 3-1681 12 245 Clearfield 3015 1799 1441, 2744 i 14451 . 2739 , 2.557 10 Clinton 2509 1830 16161 2139 10 1617 2130 1 2891, ,308 Columbia , 3714 1845 1506 3282 691 1507 328)) 661 38351 3.4 Crawford • 4865, 6107 5172 4213 22 5167 42'23 211 52581 IS Cumber1and............4408 3514, 3901, 4368 24 4008 4373, 241 57011 2465 Dauphin 4328 5660 1 53881 4134 303 5-1801 40651 282. 7043' 799 Delaware 2.295 3532 3737 2130 53 3750 21261 471 5787 211 Elk 9 1 63 475 568 ' 967, 1 . 568 9671 11 454 Erie 4338 6498 4284 294)01 62 1 4283 2964, 62 8%41 '276 2.2 Fayette 49 3340 2921 35641 36 2829 3358, :411 2183 205-4 Franklin. .......... ....... 4006 3098' 4406 4011 90, 4406 4012 1111 6388 1574 1060 680; •, i 1114 Fulton .1' 782 1111 1 1730 62 Forest. 203 305 254 215 , 254 217 , 269 I Greene I 2992 1542 1376 28541 16 1 1375 25511 16 , 1433; '2725 Huntingdon , 2368 2525 3140 2350 132 3145 23021 131' 54.531 5 1 2070 4003' 4348 2169 1 Indiana , 4338 2154 1 1 58791 13 Jefferson Juniata 1642, 1254, 1294 1647 36 1 12114 1 16501 1;21 25911 345 Lancaster 8316 13504 . 10740 66451 3531 10767 66351 339, 16820 1 110 Lawrence 141)2 1 3217 2432 12881 401 2214 1496. 351 3325 378 Lebanon ... , 2000, 4027 36453 2381;1 381 31;83 2.384; 38; 4010 101313 Lehigh 1 6133, 4555 44201 5635, 1 4435 51;271 1 51;34; 4020 Luzerne I 90061 86 , 0 9106, 105511 ' 9102 1 10023' 7253, 739 Lycoming 1 4587 1 4053 311861 440i1 1 39;40 4393 ; 71 S2ll l 9 11 Kean 696 880 9031 7511 81 906 748, 8 1 10201. 11 Mercer ........... .......... 3783 45291 40411 32251 1221 4)133 3197, 145, 5419, l•,,st) Mifflin 1702 16401 1716, 179461 442' 1715 17061 621 2766 703 Monroe 2692 . 651)1 7351 2593 . 4' 7301 2556 I 1645 1328 • , 1 • 1 ...,- Montgomery.... ..... ... 8447 73031 6551 1 7315' no' 6137, 7324 P-8, 7000 1, 5-, Montour 1555 1066' 1020 131341 10151 13701 ; 551: 67 Northampton. ....... ... 7440, 4023 3248, 610. 6 3252 1 6096 1 5401' 3754 Northutnberl'd 4)4101 3497 40041 37001 2S 4636 3697 1 281 5.59 i; 150 1 Perry 2408 , 2439 24781 24071 2482 2495 ; 1 31157 593 Philadelphia 468021 51202, 620051 30511 62046 503061 1 167;41 523 Pike I 1054 3151 240' 10131 1 249 1015, 11 540 431 Potter 1 7051 1334 1350 788 1:346 7871 Schuylkill 814011 7002 6503 8159, '217 , 6582 54801 102 7 11 2. 2 f3 ' 2 9 1 200 23 1 Snyder 1315 1 1710 1755, 13111 lii 1749. 13771 0' 1803' 121:3 Somerset 1700 1 8040 3065 1 1877] SI. 30115' 18761 77 1 4809: 14 Sullivan 755 40131 407 7046 3 406 1 7116 3 558' 16 -1 .1,-., „, - , 1 „, . , Susquehanna ...... ....., 2982 1 4066 3555 245, 23, 3361, _438 _I 4431, 483 Tioga 1825 1 4535 31;12 1741 27 1 36151 1741 271 419 3 Union 12071 1788 20131 13321 121 20111 1329' 12 1890 :346 Venaugo 3241 3507 3722 3154 37. :17241 3156 1 :6 1 8059 , 5..17 Warren .. , 1670 2430 2128 11,271 131 21881 1022' 13 • • 45411 30 Washington 4032 44761 4854 48881 ::;61 4857' 4894 28, 62.181 2781; 1 Wayne 1 2715, 22751 2051 2306 , 20 2677 2400 20 44521 0 Westmoreland 6195' 48531 4706 6041; 50 4725 6030 571 68251 3727 Wyoming 1772 1452 1381 ; 1540 32 1355, 1551 25 1 1065! 543 1 York 8326, 5543 57011 71017 221 57031 1 7199' 22 1 11453, 1104 1 Total 12859561290552 283990 2605091 31751237105 1 266735 301213322311 72073 1285950 i 209500 1 1266735 1 1 72073' I . Majority I 4596] 14490' I 20370 • 1 12601581 Danville is building an opera house. Harrisburg is to have a star course of lectures. Ilarrh , burg ha, :thou 5,000 Sunday School scholars. Perry county is building a ii 23,000 poor house. A fine town-hall is being built at South Bethlehem. A mammoth hotel is being erected at Parker's Landing. The Union Co-operative store at _Ha zleton has gone up. A German Lodge of Odd Fellows is to be:established at Allentown. M'Candless was favored with 1,77(3 majority in Columbia county. Sullivan county coal finds a ready sale in York State at $4.59 per ton. Fifty-nine physicians prescri• e for the afflicted of Reading. There are 129 Millers in Reading and only 76 Smiths. The Temperance ticket received only 12 or 13 votes iu I3erks. Norristown has contributed S! , :;-t to the Chicago Relief Fund. The American House in Mechanics burg, was burned' on Friday night. A Germantown family came near suf focating from coal gas the other night. Engineers are now at work surveying and locating the Newtown Railroad. " Gen." Corman, of Huntingdon, was drowned in the river at Lackawanna, on the 13th inst. Dr. R. Christy, of Hollidaysburg, whilst picking grapes, tell MY a chair, breaking his wrist and two ribs. The new co-operation puddle mill at Danville is finished and will go into operation on the Gib of November. In Chester county the vote '•for" the Constitutional Convention was MOW, "against" 0000. Deeds must be recorded within six months after being executed, in order to save trouble. The Jersey Shore tannery, recently destroyed by fire, was insured fur $1,5151 in the Lycotning. Cheney Bittle, the landlord of the Charter house, Media, died last week of consumption. The entire Democratic vote of Hill town township, Bucks county, was cast against the Constitutional Convention. Horatio Teller, Es,l , recently do nated $1 000 to Muhlen berg College at Allentown. The Bloomsburg planing mill, de stroyed by lire during the Summer, has been rebuilt and started again. A Sullivan county hunting party, last week, captured a bear that weighed 3SO pounds when dre4sed. The Democracy of Erie county have nominated Chief Justice Thompson of the Pennsylvania Supremo Court, for the Presidency. Mr. Jos. Mentzer, of Pottstown, shot a fox on the south Coventry Hills last week, which he claims is the first of the season. The North Philadelphia Presbytery, at a late meeting, took the preliminary measure towards establishing a church of that denomination in Quakertown. Among the horses that will trot at the Wornelsdorf races are " Topsy," "Gray Harry" and "Mustapha." The former Is decidedly the favorite, It is thought that the work of raising the dam, below bunbury, abouteighteen inches, and strengthening it, will be finished before the Winter sets in. Miss Emily C. Blackman, of Mon trose, is now taking steps towards the early publication of her History cf Sus quehanna county. Senator Petriken's little son fell into a cistern, at his home in Huntingdon, one day last week, and came very -near being drowned. The Danville, Hazleton and Wilkes burre Railroad is about completed from Sunbury to a connection with the Le high Valley Railroad. It is understood that the Philadelphia members will urge the name of Senator elect Elisha Davis, t'or Speaker of the Senate. Mrs. Sarah lbAner, died in Lower Providence, ),lontgoinery county, on Wednesday week, in the S7th year of her age. Pittsburgh butchers resist the pay ment of the State mercantile tax, on the ground that they are not "merchants," Forty-live executions have been issued. The Building Loan premiums at Al lentown have been averaging at very good rates recently. Two shares, sold at $47, which is S it per share of $2OO. Somebody says: The brims are the smallest part of dadies head gear just now—their hats resembling a quarter peck measure, with the half-peck part Mr. John Houpt, of Reading, drank a small quantity of vitrul a few days ago, thinking it was water, and has since been unable to swallow either loud or water. Frankl,n B. •Laucks, Esq., a promi nent member of the Berks county bar, died suddenly at his residence at Read ing, on Tuesday night. A Apoplexy. was the cause. A wild cat, measuring four feet four inches, and weighing forty pounds, was killed the other day near Raymelton, Venango county. A rather dangerous customer ou a dark night. Two Berke county gunners shot thir ty-two woodcock and two snipe, near the line of the Wilmington Railroad, in Chester county, a few days ago. It must have been a good day for woodcock. Tamaqua has a police force of one man, and the " force" complains that there is not enough of him to surround and capture at one time for disturbers of the peace. The Lycoming Fire Insurance Com pany loses between $500,000 and 5700,- 000 by the Chicago conflagration, which will require an assessment of twenty per cent. on policy-holders. The Athletic base-ball club of Phila delphia have but one game to win— from the White-stockings—to render them the champions of the United States. Hon. John Greer, once Associate Judge of Erie county, died at his resi dence in North East, last week. He was a gentleman universally respected in the community where he resided. Thaddeuq Switzer, of Farmaugh twp., Juniata county, got his right arm into the machinery, which tore and man gled it in such a shocking manner as to compel amputation at the shoulder. Max Goepp, Esq., a former Easton ian, was a delegate from New York city to the Rochester Democratic Convention last week. Mr G. was among the anti- Tammany delegates. Two young men of South Bethlehem intend devoting the Winter to the con struction of a steamboat to ply on the Lehigh from the old Bethlehem bridge to the island. Joseph McCammon, of Philadelphia, has been appointed Assistant Solici tor of the Court of Claims, in place of Chesley, who has been appointed Solicitor of the Internal Revenue Department. A new Swisser barn, belonging to Ja cob Stager, Lebanon county, was burned on Tuesday night, with a large quantity of hay, &c. The loss was very heavy, and but small insurance. At the recommendation of the Wand Jury, in their report, the Montgomery County Commissioners appropriated the sum of $l5O for the purpose of purchas ing books for the prison library. John M. Carson. the publisher of the Philadelphia Morning Post ; J. Robley Dunglison, of the Sunday Republic, and J. M. McClure, late Assistant Attorney (len e ral of Pennsylvania, are candidates for Clerk of the Senate. Seth and Margaret Pancost, of Spring field township, Delaware county, cele brated their golden weddingon the IRh. Among the many present were the two bridesmaids who officiated at the first ceremony. All that Is wanted to consummate the Pennsylvania Cen trails great lease is the signature of Vincent Bradford, Presi dent of the Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad. This official is now in Eu rope. Mr. Henry Walburn, of Miillinhurg. has a pumpkin vine which yielded the remarkable growth of 277 pounds of pumpkins. '[here were five in num ber, weighing respectively, S 2, rn , 49, 48 and 38 pounds. The Globe, of the 17th inst., says : Thomas G. Williams, of Colke Run, Huntingdon county, the great fox hun ter, killed five wild turkeys one morn ing last week. Mr. W. has killed eigh teen foxes this full. T.' S. Cooper, of Coopersburg, was awarded a premium of Fsso at the State Fair held at Scranton recently, for the best herd of short-horn cattle. At Head ing he took premiums aggregating $l3O, and a special premium of $5O. Mr. Daniel Klapp, a farmer, living near Myerstown, committed suicide on the night of the 3d instant, by hanging himself in his wagon shed. He bought a large farm at a high figure, which is supposed to have caused temporary In sanity. It has been arranged that the tat Regi ment of the National Guards, Pa., of Philadelphia, will be in Norristown on the 11th proximo. It Is expected that this will be the moat magnificent mili tary display ever witnessed at Norris town. A Greensburg lad named ' , rankle Shearer, fell from a wagon on Tuesday morning last, and his head coining In contact with the ground, caused the rupture of an artery, the blood from which overflowed his brain and pro duced death the same night. A lad named Greenwood, from Phil adelphia, while out gunning Der Ox• ford, last week, had one finger shot oft: He was getting over a fence when the trigger caught in a bush or briar and discharged the load, inflicting a severe won n d. A company is talked of amongst the farmers of Montgomery county, for the manufacture of artificial manure, phos phates, ground bone, &c. It is claimed that they can manufaeture it fur them selves at a cost of about one-fourth the price they now pay. Robert Kelly, of Canoe township, In diana county, was blown about fifteen feet into the air, on Thursday last, by the premature explosion of a blast.— Going up and coming down didn't hurt hint a bit, but striking the ground bruised him considerably. Some enterprising bee-hunters in Crawford county lately performed the dillieult feat of cutting off a limb con. taining a colony of bees, at a distance of eighty-six feet front the ground, with not a single limb between it and the ground. A brave boy was hoisted up, and sawed it off, despite the stings. The way-passenger train down,on th e Reading Railroad ran oft the track, be low Spring Mill, about half-past eight o'clock on Tuesday evening, in conse. queues of a misplaced switch. The en gine and five cars were wrecked. The engineer and & firernan jumped and es caped. Nobody was injured. The Horse Fair which was held last week on the Pottstown trotting park was well attended. Great interest was manifested in the trot between Topsy, of Reading, and Gray Harry, of Lancas ter, for a purse of $3OO, which was won by the former In threestraight heats, the best time being 2:38. The Pittsburgh Locomotive Works completed and shipped recently two narrow-gauge locomotives for the Cher okee Railway Company, of Georgia— being the first narrow-gunge locomo tives built West of the Alleghenies for passenger traffic. The locomotives were constructed at a cost of $7,000 each. At a meeting of the State Council of the Pennsylvania Order of United American Mechanics, $l,OOO were ap propriated to the citizens of Chicago, and a resolution was passed that each subordinate Council be requested to such amounts in addition to the above as its treasury may warrant. The Fulton Republican says bears are plentiful in that county, especially on Cove mountain. They come down from the mountain and go into corn-fields in day-time, where they are frequently seen. George FinifT of Todd township, trapped two bears on Cove mountain on last Sunday night. He shot them and brought them to town, where he sold the meat. Not Legal Judge Bryan, a United States Judge, has expressed an opinion that the jury who tried the victims of Radical barbarity at Raleigh, recently, were improperly drawn, and the convintion of the defendants under it was illegal. The jury should be legally drawn—up by the neck for their monstrous verdicts against law, reason and humanity. Gleanings. Gen. Butler is going to farm. Earthquakes are going the rounds. The Michigan apple-crop is immense. Texas complains of a scarcity of hogs. 1,690,553 Germans in the 'United States. A fire•alarm Is to be erected at Taun ton, Mass. Gipsey bands are looking out for Win ter quarters. Tuckerman is doing ..ipplaun'B Jour nal. One of the rarest of gifts--the gift of "Alexia cigarettes" are announced in New York. Secretary Delano has gone into the lecturing business. Bayard Taylor is now out West on a short lecturing tour. Cotton-growing in California is be coming a profitable trade. China is exporting tea at a lively rate to Uncle Sam's dominions. Oregon has one hundred and forty five insane people. Accounts front Corsica represent the Island as tranquil. Big fans are the thing if you follow Paris style. The Grecian bend is said to be coining back again. A Japanese " yen " is equal to a Uni ted States dollar. The Viceroy of Egypt has an income of only $3101)0,00.). A man in Sandusky hail his leg am putated by a lady surgeon. A somnolent Staten Island bridegroom overslept hls marriage hour. A Maryland woman has received a contract for building a railroad. A thirty-year old goose was exhibited at the Berko county fair. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and it is soap that is next to charity. Mr. Miller, of Lafayette, hid., said " humbug," yawned, and died. You can't get blood from a stone, but you can get money from a brick. l'artridges and woodcock are very plenty around Waterbury, Conn. The Congress of Iron Masters adopted the decimal system for selling iron. The Allegheny River has not been so low as it now is since IS3I. Berlin expeetwlnshos a population of 900,0,0 in the new ceurus. flve-year-old girl in Cambridge sent her three dolls to Chicago. All girls in Indiana are rolled Sissy unless they weigh 17.5. lion. W. W. Corcoran, of Washing ton, is threatened with blindness. Mrs Horace Greeley and her daugh ters have exchanged Lunduu• for Paris. Orro❑ Pratt is said to be in the first rani: as successor to Brigham Young. Olive Logan says she has mink $l4, 000 in three years, and saved $3,00u. Gay young men of New York put small red feathers in their hats. Lehigh coal has been advanced cents per ton at the mines. Will there he any quarry-ling among our Public Building Corn 111 into A six-foot Indianian had a four.foot woman arrested for assault and battery. California claims the largest orchard in the world-426 acres and 75,000 trees. A barber is always ready to scrape an acquaintance, and often cuts them, Goose Lake Valley, Cal., yields a crop of crickets this :season, 100 bushels to tire acre. The Baptist denomination in 'Wiscon sin has been prosperous during the past year. It will lake ss. - ,o,o01) to pay for the bridge building across the Mis,issippi at St. Louis A boy who undertook to ride R horse radish is now practising on a saddle of mat tun. The great Southern conundrum just now is, how much cotton will be made this year. The Chaplain of the liansas State Pris on is an old lady of ',evenly, Mrs. Lydia Sexton. - Water i, quoted :ask cents a glass and whiskey at lour iu certain parts of Col orado. The trial of Mrg. Fair is set down for the 2-Ith inst., in the Supreme Court, San Francisco. " You seem to walk more erect than usual, my friend." " Yes, I have been straitened by circumstances." A Des Moines parent offers $7; for it name for his young son, and has rejected three hundred al ready offered. The Sprague Bros., of Rhode Island, are having built a sloo,nno monument on their cemetery lot. Lead ore has been discovered in the Qouthern part of Greenwood county, Kansas. Two young ladies took the $.01) prize for the best bale of cotton, at Little Rock, Arkansas. \Vm. 11. Wash borne has written a letter accepting the Republican 110171i nation as Governor of Massachusetts. An Indiana widow was all arranged in her wedding outiir when her intend ed's wife appeared. Louisville gamins catch rats, pour coal-oil over them, apply a match, and then let them "go off." An Australian quadrlgarrilst, claiming to be a second edition of King David, disturbs Savannah. A. horse I❑ Indiana was given a quart of whisky. It became unmanageable and killed two persons. The Western Association of Nall Man ufacturers has agreed to advance the price twenty-five cents a keg. A district of nine by four miles, In Santa Cruz county, Cal., on the Wat t/Olivine road, was recently swept by lire. Two members of the English Wesley an Conference have given $50,00U to ward the erection of a church In Rome. The special needs of Chicago, the city of cinders are live C's—covert ids, cotree, candles, coal and cash. It costs over $:39,000 a month to sup port the Chicago police, and over $17,000 to support the tire department, Grace Greenwood delivered a lecture in Salt Luke City on Monday evening in behalf of the Chicago sutterers. Lafayette Laboyteux, a prominent liquor merchant of Cincinnati, died sud denly in New Orleans on Wednesday night. 'rlie Persians are still suffering from amine, and pestilence, internal distur iances, and the incursions of warlike reaps. A Mormon bishop of Springfield was arrested on Wednesday us an acces sory, to a murder committed more than a year ZIL;(). A I:eorgia illirf ndin risked life to teal some money WIIS 1.11) di.gusted, lie eft the State, ti oil uk it Confederate Contributions from members of 1.11 legal fraternity are solicited to aid In he formation of a Law Library at ('hi ved. Grant was exposed to the " small pox " at Pittsburgh. Apprehensions a•e expressed that in accordance with his habit, he "took" it. It is reportil that the last lierinan expedition to the North Pole discovered a polar sea, free from ice and swannin with whales. A duel recently took place in Colum bus, Mo., in which four young men were engaged. Three of them were mortally wounded. The average wages for laborers in the Chicago ruins are 61.75 per day; for teams, $4.50 ; for carpenters, $3 to $3 30; bricklayels, $3 to $3 2.5. Vague rumors of the contemplated abdication of the Emperor Francis Jo seph and of the proposed abdication of Queen Victoria assume consistency. Tons of fancy goods were thrown into the streets of Chicago, and many raga muffins were to be seen wearing white kids and gold sleeve-butt. ns. The City Councils of Montreal, on Wednesday night, voted $3U,000 for the Chicago relief fund. This makes Mont real s total contribution about $lOO,OOO. ' Got any smoking-tobacco?" asked an inveterate sponge. "Not a whiff,' was the reply, "just going to buy a se gar." That was very segurstic. A whale was lately captured in the Severn River, England, measuring six teen or seventeen feet is length and weighing about three tons. An exchange says : "Wisconsin girls are good at climbing apple trees." That was what ailed mother Eve, if our Sun day-School teachers are not at fault in their history. "Woman, wake up!" exclaims The Revolution; and an indolent rural edi tor adds: "Yes, and, (.I.—n It, turn out and make a lire, and put the tea-kettle on," John Dixon, the founder of the flour ishing town of Dixon Illinois, is the only survivor of a band of twelve young men, who in 1809, in New York,forined the YourigZlen's Bible Society. A Judge in this State recently charg ed the grand jury that horse-racing at agricultural fairs is illegal and demoral aliziug. It is very evident he Is a very poor judge of a horse-race, if he isn't of law and morals. CHICAGO Humors or the Flre—Reuta and Real Estate. The following; clippings we lake from the Chimp" Republican and the Tribune of Monday: People are not only as cheerful as could be expected under the circumstances, but, with all due regard to the suffering which demands their sympathy, they do not re frain from an occasional pleasantry. In deed, as every one among us has been chastened by affliction, everybody claims the right to indulge in jocose' remarks when occasion suggests them. tine merchant, who found his safe and its contents destroyed, quietly remarked that there was no blame attached to the safe, that it was of chilled Iron, and would have stood, but that the lire had taken the chill all out. A firm of painters on :dailkim street bulletin their removal av 101i0W74. on a signboard erected like a guide board upon the ruins of their old establishment: Moore Goo, House and Sign Painters, removed to 11l Desplalnea street. Capital, $OOO.- 000.30. An editor of a daily paper has received several poetic effusions suggested by the late disaster ; but he declines them all on the ground that it is wasteful to print any thing which requires every lino to begin with a capital. when capital is as seat iv as it is now in Chicago. A bride who entered the holy married state on Tuesday evening determined to do so in a calico dress, in deference to both the proprieties and necessities or thl , ooca siun. But she desired that her tot( rt to dr rhambr.• should be, I( possible, MI. it n o gorgeous scale. Being destitute of a robe dr aim of suitable elegance, She sent out tat several neighbors of her temporary hostess t, borrow such a garment, stipulating that it must lie a line On, So peculiar is the feminine nature, however, that her modest request excited no enthusiasm in her be hint aiming the ladies to whom it came. This is not a Mke. quite a number of persons arm uniting their sorrows by marriage. •Ilia author• ration of wedlock has bowl the only 'bass of labor in which the County l'lork's utlieo has been engaged for sumo days. I•nme twenty enu pies have YVVVi viii lic'msi's since the tiro. Cher firm ',tits it forvibly thus ilia warmly pre,wtl wu have 11.11,V1 , t1 tPll tS: r. From table IV, now hying printed, td the report of the ninth 1.1.1.11,1, the tollost Mg interesting figures relative to the pro Unctions of Agriculture in UM Stunsl l'etinsylvania, lur the consii4 year milling June I, Is7o, ire nittained, There aro I I,• gems of i.prk.ved land, acre., of woodland, and 7:17,77 I arms of other unimproved land. The larms In the State are N'itilled and the farming implements anti machinery at ttlt:t,lisB, The total amount or avagoa 'mid during the year, including value of hoard, tl:1,1:41, • tiii; total entilnated) value of all tarui lino. ductions, including . hellereneills and addi tions to stock, ;31.i:1,946,027 ; ore hard Iwo ducts, $I:208,091; ut nwrk et gardens, SI, SIO,011i; of trials 52.6711.370 ; value of bolo wane factures, Si 503.;54; yid tie et an hi] it's slaughtered or sold it 4 . slaughter, 528,412,- The yid.° of all live stock is $115 . 017,075. 'Phu sh,rk consisted el 41111,339 lases, 14,111111 mules and asses, 700,137 in 11th rows, 30,010 working oxen, 6040iiii other rattle, 1,79-1,:111 sheep, swine. (If the grain products there were bushels spring and 19,350.7:111 bushels win ter wheat., 3,577,611 bushels rye, 3.1,7012.1106 I ushels Indian earn, 30,470,.13 bushels eats, :i2.11,562 bushels barley, 2,3:12,17:1 bushelsbuckwheat. Thor° \veto 1,1 111.1'd tabacco, 11,361,755 pounds of a.as.l, 39,571 bushels lasts arid hearts, 15,m59,3a7 Irish and 131,375 hasheis .s wt is.ta 97,1115 gallons wino, 119,531.1111 pounds hut- ter, 1,1-17).51)9 paands cheesy, 2,515,219 tans hay, 509,1179 bushels of /•1111,,, and fm,ill2. bushels of grass 50/51, 99.1 . 055 pounds of hops, 571 tans laanp, 515,9011 pounds 11. ts, 151;54 bushels Ilan-sued, 1 patina si4k el 1.. mumss, 9 Imgmliemis sorghum slid 1,545,917 pounds of maplo sugar, 11;373 gallons scnrglitiiii, and 11055 giallo,+ marlin, mit lasstis, 1 -7,1133 15,11m15 . lmoswax, 7911,9510 111, Iminey, and 11,111,79 gunlimis nut milk were lialliOn% If the Chicago lire has served to In lug out tIo generous, instincts I,l ' mankind and trade hunitin nature shine resplendent, in the ell ulgent brains of universal 101•1105.• deuce, it has also given occasion hir the manifestation of the of motile of the reptiles, who were uninistakenly lurnisleal with legs to stand upright, instead of tails With It 111011 It/ wriggle through khawaka Eittr-rpri., says that zone or that, place have ¢omu to l'llicagal and otitrthied tree ;Tastes to Now York by rep resenting themselves,. V11 . 1i111 . . , of the lire, and says they should be putlishrd by 1111111 e. Plenty 1/1 better 111011 1.1.V1,1110111. Lao years in the State Prison at Nli,•Mgati City, and these seound rels should Iveitt striped f•lotlit S fur at boast live years. The Lafayette Journal of Saturday, says that: "A worthless fel low 1111 _OW 1.111111 Cl/111111g (11/Wll 11,111 Chicago, night Moore last, was boasting to a gen thulium of this oily, who Wll,lllll 110a1,1, 1111 W he had ph.y ed e,IT 11. 1 .1 11110 14 the l'hicage su itt.rorm, amp obtained it tree pass home." " I can., frum home and forgot lily overcoat, Pio, - said he, " MO 1 just Went up to headquarters aim told them I was fine of the sullerers, am] drew an overcoat. " ' Phis wits a lath• too much for the patlenve °lour friend, and turning upon the scoundrel, bestial, ff then, all I've got to nay is that you ' re Jill - ferns! thief."—/inhanapehs l'esisterefia. EM= A letter front Granville Stuart, publish...) in the St. Loins Thwithin•roi given all niter e.ting atssaint of the munition iit the eight Indian tribes in the Bock y Mountain ••• gion. All it those have thielined in mon - berm and In I . llnructor. The Shoshone', have it reservation in NVlnil River valley and depend on the Indian Department lor a living. They are contentedly learning to farm. The Snakes and Bitionteks are till two reservations in Nltintana. They have sixty-live antes antler 1•111111,1111/11. Till , llatluaulx and Pend ()Hiles are partially 311111111 Se larlll,ll/1 . their nags "l'he Yet. Perces lire 'Vila and well dispose, , and stay on their reservation. Tint Crew. , are In 1110 Ylllll/11,101111 valley, laid one hundred, and twelve acres ender told t. vatlon. The Blackfoot 111111 Piegitims hunt along the Teton river. The 1111111111 N 1/1 Iklolll.ll.llllllne much more contented than heretofore. :Sir. 'Swart thinks 'hat the In • dians have suffered great Itijinoltai and enmity, and that. lit a very shut t time they will be extinct. The Presideht••• 0111111111 Illdig,llllllt The New York 7 rdnunc publishes a h ter l'rom Columbus, which meyye that 1131 late election was riot Intended an an VII.. dorseinent of General tirant. "It Is well known (says the letter) 0131.1ieneral Noyes WILY not the President's choice. Ile waist ed Hen Wade nominated as an endorse moot of his Santo Domingo pulley and fir that very reason the (431 ventpm would not nominate 11131, HMI (31133) 3 man who had no entangling alliances with the White House. The election dm, not, I repeat, furnish any indication of the driftof opiu ion in Ohio en the Presidential question." The President's organ In Waslinigton justly indignant at the pu blivation of 011, disagreeable news, and hints that the letter was written nearer Sew York than Co lumbus ; in other words that It wan forged by Mr. Greeley. 'rho imputation is blot warranted by anything In Mr. Ws history, but it serves to show (lie kind feelings en tertained for the "father of " (110 While house. Mil Waled Pamtisge hlnersp. The Wambington Patnot I.taym A large quantity of post. ditto stamps that were In the safe of the Ch ;Mice at the time of the tire, were received at the Post-I litre Department yesterday. The stamps were in sheets, and laid in packages lletWlling to demon ination, sheets in these pa k ages are Inseparably cemented together, and are badly charred and burned, portions being complexly ;e -duced to ashes no that it is utterly i p,4- ble 1.0 1110,13 than approximate I lie nolo - ber ;ant:yaps In the packages. Thu books containing the stamp accounts were saved, that there is untlb•:eot data, with the mutilated stamps returned, to warrant the issuing Of MK' suunps ill exchange for those reined by the lire. El= The New Yorkers are crazy lu expecta tion of the arrival of the H misian 111.'0 The members of the band of the 9th Regiment have prepared a grand sur prise for the Prince, under the 111111‘11.,1L of Colonel Fisk. un the evening Or tmi ar rival the entire band of Fie members, under the leadership ol Carl Bergmann, and aided by Levy, the cornet player, will assemble under the whitlow of the front 1,10111, occu pied by him at the Clarendon, and serenade hint with music ',rewired especially for the occasion, many oldie airs being taken from Itussian in usie- hooks, no that he will be It, laminar with it too though it emanated from a hand in his own native city. Paris, in tier own misery, is not forget ful of the misery of others. The norm. touching of all the movements for the re lief of Chicago is that of "poor Purim," soil struggling to got on her feet from her late terrible scourges of war, revolution, sieges, bombardments, Incendiary fires and all the horrors of the Commune. how Ninon are the'sufferings of Chicago compared with the calamities of " poor Paris!" and yet she, too, comes to the relief of Chicago.— There is nothing to compare with this in the history of mankind. " Poor Paris " delightful, generous Paris—with all thy faults we cannot help but love thee still. Queen Victorin'o. Health. The British Medical Journal, of the 71.11 instant says " Her Majesty has been suf fering quite recently from a sharp rhea ma • tie attack in the loot and hand, and the brief notices of indisposition in the Court Journal have caused some anxious mis givings ; but we are happy to state upon the best authority that the Queen la doing very well and that; there is no cause for anxiety." The Halstead Murder Trial NEW YORK, October 20.—The trhtl of Betty closed to-day. After a speech front rosecutor Tetsworth and charge to the Jury from Judge )Jepuy, the jury retired about ten o'clock, and shortly before live o'clock returned a verdict of gellty.of mar.. der In the first degree.
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