Lancaster 3ntelligenter..
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1871.
Imperialism to be extended.
Forney's Press, of Monday, says
It is proposed that martial law be next
declared in Georgia. In that State the
Ku-Klux—have been fully as bad as in
South Carolina, and there is need of prompt
and stern measures.
As tliodetails of the enforcement of
the " discretion" vested:in the Presi
dent reach us 4, we become day by day,
more •thorougkly informed what that
dlscrection means, and how It is made to
operate, when put into practice. No one
can read the details which the telegraph
furnishes us—and the worst features are
purposely suppressed—without feeling
the full force and effect of entrusting a
.President-General with the discretion
of suspending at will the writ of habeas
corpus—the declaration of martial law.
Compare these details, divested of their
more horrible features, and the tales of
Cuban refugees and their experience un
der their Captain-General, or the his
tory of Polish exiles or Mendoza's sup
pression of Republicanism. What is
there wanting to make the comparison
perfect? Nothing save blood. And
how soon may we not expect this? Is
not the machinery ready? Has any
autocrat ever possessed greater power,
be he Czar, Emperor, or Doge? There
is an artful variation in form, it is true.
The ukase of Ulysses bears no autocratic
menace. The decree is not calculated
to strike terror and consternation.—
There is no positive command to this
minion or that satrap of the royal pur
ple to exile, incarcerate and slay. The
form Is more simple, less alarming,
but none the less effective in prac
tice. The edict only declares that the
writ of habeas corpus has been suspend•
ed as to arrests made by a Marshal of the
United States. And who is the Mar
shal of the United States ? A creature
whose mission is to execute the will of
him who invests him with power. A
thousand bayonets attend to execute the
mandate. ' This Is all that appears; yet
it Is despotism wearing the garb of Re
publlcanism ; it is the despotism of mar
tial law declared in the name of repot).
licanism, and ostensibly to make Re•
publicans loyal to a republic I—but is
despotism nevertheless, a despotism as
effective as Ctesar's. It does not wear
the official form of royalty, but In an
official execution, artfully controlled.
It is to this that the Press, and the
government which it supports, would
subject Georgia, and every other State
where there can be fpnad the least
disposition to thwart tlie ambitious
schemes of Grant, and to oppose the
corruptions of such unprincipled scamps
as Bullock. Pretexts in abundance will
be found fur the exercise of this " dis
cretion " granted by Congress to the
President. To the Marshals, under
special instructions, is entrusted its
practical operation. An inquisition is
held—individuals are designated—swift
witnesses abound at two dollars a day—
a form of )aw Is observed—the nominal
civil officer marches at the head of a
military force, and at midnight sur
rounds the house of the victim. Led
under the guard of a column of bayo
nets, before morning the prisoner is
turned over to another guard. No civil
process for Investigation is permitted—
no communication with, nor confront
ing of witnesses allowed. The people
become alarmed—no one feels safe—
crops stand in the fields—business is
neglected, and citizens flee involuntary
exile. This is the first act—what comes
next? Georgia must be bumbled, be
cause she is becoming thoroughly Dem
ocratic. Other States will share the
like fate, if the President does not take
alarm, as he has upon the protestations
cf a negro official in South Carolina,
and withdrawn his proclamation from
the whole South, declaring that 'the
whole action was a ' mistaken' as he did
with reference to Marion county.
Unmeaning Words•-Shallow Ceremonies
Radical papers claim that the utter
ance of Grant, •' Let us have peace,"
has been practically realized; and yet,
iu the same breath, they tell us that
several States are in armed rebellion,
and that it is absolutely necessary for
the maintenance of order, that they
should be placed under martial law, the
writ of habeas corpus suspended, and
women and children left to the tender
mercies of the bayonet ! In the various
churches of 'the land, we hear the sol
emn Invocation, Sabbath after Sabbath
" God bless the President of the United
States! " while the lips which utter the
words,were they inspired by the prompt
logs of a Christian heart and the teach
ings of the Christian faith, would still
more earnestly ejaculate, " God be mer
ciful to him a sinner! " Bless him for
what? For power usurped and admin
istered with the recklessness of a tyrant?
For a government disgraced by peculat
ing efficials ? For millions squandered,
and for the. burthens of unequaled tax
ation and au overwhelming National
debt? For entailing on the country
those blessings which we were wont to
enjoy—peace, plenty, and happiness?
" God bless the President!" How many
hearts, torn and bleeding, in South Car
olina, can respond " Amen ?" Will it
come from the hundreds who are con
lined in jails, arrested without authori
ty, detained without warrant of law, de
nied trial as citizens, and condemned
without a hearing? Will that Prayer,
which should honestly arise from every
fatMly altar, ascend from the desolated
hearth-stones of the victims of his Merci
less bayonet rule? A plea for mercy
may be sent up—but, for a blessing, nev
er, until the hardened, despotic rule,
and selfish, unprincipled will, give
place to the attributes of a true Christian
ruder, and that consideration for the
rights of the people which should char
acterize the Republican gentleman.
" Let us have peace," we can all ex
claim, and heartily join in the balance
of the prayer, which mks the Almighty
to direct and influence our Chief Magis
trate, so that his administration of attain ,
may be wise and beneficent, the coun•
try prosperous, and the Kingdom
Heaven advanced upon earth.
Like against Like
The Cleveland Plainclealer, upon the
principle, we presume, of lighting the
devil with fire, suggests that since some
Democratic journals have announced
the name of Thomas A. Scott, of the
Pennsylvania Central Railroad, as a
Democratic candidate for President, that
the Republicans knock Grant on the
head, and place in nomination as the
banner-bearer for the Presidency, the
Hon. James F. Joy, of Detroit, Michi
gan, the President of half-a-dozen rail.
roads of the West. He is recognized as
an honest man, an able lawyer, and the
great railroad man of the West. If the
contest is to be between railroad ofti
vials, without reference to politics, let
the Republicans put up a Western rail
road man againt an Eastern railroad
monarch, and may the d-1 take the
hindmost I
Governor Palmer and the Murderers or
Thomas W. (roswenor at Chicago
We give elsewhere the text of Gover
nor Pahner's letter to the Attorney-Gen
eral of Illinois, detailing the circum
stances attendant upon the death of
Thos. W. Grosvenor, and recommend
tng the indictment of Lieutenant-Gen
.eral Sheridan and othersimplicated In
the killing. Saturday's telegrams cle
ated that such action had been recom
mended by t h e Governor. Governor
Palmer Is a Republican, is a sound law
yer, and while he is not likely to be mis
taken in his opinions of the law which
Influences his action, he will unhesita
tingly pursue what he conceives to be
his duty. We heartily commend his
action, and call the attention of the
reader to the reasons adduced for this
%course.
What the People Demand.
The honest, thinking men of all par
ties have but one common demand in
the present political exigencies of the
country, and that is such a reform in
the administration of the affairs of our
government as will secure retrench
ment and reform. Honest men of the
dominant party admit the corruption,
dishonesty and extravagance which
characterize their leaders and officials:
yet, while admitting this, and express
ing a hope that a reform may be effected,
such as the oppressed industries of all
kinds demand, many of them do not
seem to be ready to sever their affilia
tions, either to change to the parts, of
the opposition, or to co-operate with
the conservative portion of their own
party in their efforts to dislodge corrupt
officials from power.
The Democratic party believe that
there can be no reform—that the desired
change cannot come—while the coun
try is under the rule of the Radical
party. They feel an abiding faith In the
Democratic organization, matured by
long experience, and with a record for
honesty won by long years of direction
of governmental affairs. This record,
they believe, furnishes to the people
the best assurance, as well as the most
rational hope of reform; and they have
an abiding faith in an eventual restora
tion of the Democratic party to power
in the government.
While the conservative, honest por
tion of the Republican party admit the
corruptions which exist in the conduct
of our national affairs, and the necessity
for reform, their party affiliations are 80
strong, and their dislike of change so
great, that they are Inclined to believe
—at least to hope—that the needed re
trenchments can be made within' and by
their own political organization. It is
this class which must be won over to the
assistance of the Democratic party in its
labors toward this desired end. The
continuance of the Radicals in their
recklessness and extravagance, despite
the repeated protests of the people, must,
in time convince the conservative por
tion of the party that there is nothing to
hope for from them, so long as they are
continued In power, and can batten up
on the spoils of office , or enrich them
selves by the most reckless bestowal of
favors.
The Democratic party has taken the
initiative in the way of dealing with
corruptionists in its ranks, while the
Radical party surrenders to its own
scoundrels, and those who were loudest
to denounce are the first to capitulate.
In New York State, they Democratic
press and orators, not only denounce
the frauds of Tammany, but are the
only ones to call for punishment of the
offenders. The Radicals take the guilty
of their party to their bosoms, and
kiss their sores till they glisten like
diamonds." It is this course which will
inspire the people with distrust of the
one, and confidence in the other, and
array around the Democratic standard
that strength which enabled it to tri
umph in so many contests in the past,
and to achieve for Democratic rule so
proud a record for honesty in its admlu
[ration of public affairs.
Reform, all admit, is needed ; but it
can never be brought about without a
change in our officials, from the Execu
tive to his most obsequious tool and cor
rupt subordinate. Under Democratic
sway, it can be achieved, and the sober,
calm reflection of the people will in
duce them to lend their influence in re
storing once more that only national
party to place and power.
Won't Believe Hie own Friends!
Among the counties in South -Caro
lina placed under martial law by Grant
is one-named Marion. Immediately ou
the issuance of the proclamation, the
following letter was written:
QFFICE OF LAND COMMISSIONER, 1
COLUMBIA, S. C., Oct. 17.
Iron. D. T. Corbin, United States District-
Attorney, South Carolina:
DEAR slit: My attention has been called
to the proclamation of the President calling
on the Ku-Klux in certain counties to sur
render, dm., and among them the County
of Marion appears. This may be a typo
graphical error: if not I desire that you
have this changed if possible, as it is but
Just and fair to the people of Marion, as no
Ku-Klux outrages have ever been com
milted in the county.
Hoping that you will give the matter
your earnest and prompt attention, I am
respectfully, ,Cc.,
- _
H. E. HAYNE,
Senator from Marion County
This Senator is a genuine negro, en
gaged in the swindling organization
known us the Land Commission; but
as yet not the slightest attention has
been given to his denial of any disturb
ance in his county. Though his black
friend says "no Ku-Klux outrages have
ever been committed in the county."
Grant and the men who are founding
him and his servile retainers on, think
they know better, and still insist that
there are armed insurrectionary bodies
there, too strong for the civil law.
Appeals Better Than Threat
The absurd pretebtions set up by the"
Radical press that a warrant for an elec
tion to fill the yacancy in the Senate by
the death of Mr. Connell, could be is
sued before the convening of the Legis
lature, has now been abandoned by the
leading Journals, as has also the still
more absurd plea that an extra session
should be called by Gov. Geary. The
Philadelphia Press says :
It is now oonceded that neither Mr.
Brodhead, elected Speaker of the Senate
by the Democrats at the close of the last
session, nor any one else, has authority to
issue a writ for a special election in the
Fourth districtAmfore that body convenes.
It further adds a Word in the way of
soft solder, which It hopes to make more
effective with Democrats than bluster:
The Democrats, who know that the Re
publicans have a majority, have thus pre
'enter' to them an opportunity to rise for
once above their party interests and con
cede the organization to the Republicans
at the beginning of the session.
Another Vacancy
The death of Gen. Stanton, the Audi
tor-General elect,wl II occasion a vacancy,
which will be filled by OA appointment
of a successor of Gen. Hartranft by the
Governor. The Harrisburg Patriot
says: " The act of Assembly of April 9,
1850, provides that "in cogently vacancy
should occur in either of said offices
[Auditor-General and Surveyor-Gene
ral] by death, resignation, or otherwise,
the same shall be filled by appointment
of the Governor; and the person so
appointed shall continue in office until
the end of the term for which his prede
cessor was elected." This would seem
to imply that Governor Geary has the
power to appoint an Auditor-General for
the full term of three years from the
first Tuesday of May next. But the
Legislature may repeal this clause of the
act of April 9, 1850, and order a new
election. ,Jt is evident that new diffi
culties thaten to embarrass our State
politics.
Wellington it. KuL
Simultaneous with the announcement
of the death of Auditor-General elect
Stanton, comes the message that Gen.
Wellington H. Ent, Democratic candi
date for Surveyor-General In 1868, is no
more. Gen. Ent was a son of Peter Ent,
of Columbia, a gentleman favorably
known in political circles. When the
war broke out Mr. Ent was commis
sioned as Captain of Company A, of the
Sixth Regiment of Reserves. He soon
distinguished himself for coolness and
bravery, and on the 21st of September,
1802, he was promoted to Major l ; on May
1,1883, to Lieut-C_lolonel ; on Suly 1, 1803,
to Colonel ; and on Naz4l2 16, 1865, was
breveted BrigatilernGeneral. A t.the bat
tle of Bethesda Church, May 20, 1804,
he received a wound whilst leading his:
command. in 1868 he was nominated
as the Democratic candidate for Sur
veyor-General, and received the largest
vote that was ever given for any Demo
cratic candidate.
THE Hon. G. A. Grow, of this State,
has been elected President of the Hous
ton and Great Northern 'Railroad of
Texas. This road is owned by Messrs.
Astor, Moses Taylor, W. E. Dodge, W.
Phelps, and a number of our other capi
talists.
THE LANCASTER WEEKLY INTELLIGENOER, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8. 1871.
Cadet Grant, son of Ulysses, and a
government officer, paid out of govern
ment funds, is to accompany Gen. Sher
man to Europe. The only son•-of a
President who visited Europe during
his father's official term was John Van
Buren—Prince John, as he was wont to
be called. But there was this difference
in the case: Prince Fred goes out in a
government vessel, his expenses paid
out of the public treasury, and with the
highest military official in the land as
his chaperon. Prince John went'as a
private citizen, at his own expense, and
under no great man's protection, for he
had the education and breeding of a
gentleman, which would glace any
court, even the proudest of Europe. He
knew how to "paddle his own canoe,"
and, although received as the son of the
President of the United States, he was
cherished.in the highest social circles for
his polish, his genial wit and thorough
acquirements. At that time the opposi
tion party made a terrible outcry against
what they were pleased to term a depart
ure from Republican usage, and the
visit of Prince John was even sought to
be turned against the father and his ad
ministration. To utter one word now
against Prince Fred's visit in a man-of
war, under direction of Departments,
and as companion of our only General
is deemed disloyalty. England sent us
the Prince of Wales, and Russia is to
astonish us by a visit of the Grand
Duke. Why shall not the United States
return the compliment by exhibiting
a scion of the royal house of Grant?
"Wales" came attended like a child
tied to the apron strings of his nurse,
and surrounded by royal personages and
trappings. Alexis "Is accompanied
by a fleet; and why should not "Fred
have at leak a man-of-war and a mili
tary hero as a specimen of Republican
simplicity to give preBtige to his visit,
and astonish the gaze of European roy
alty?
Whether Prince Fred will be as for
tunate •In his court reception as was
Prince John, remains to be seen. Vic
toria was then a maiden Queen ; and
although her heart may have been
Prince Albert's, her hand wag free.
Rumor, idle It is true, represented
Prince John as an aspirant for the pos
session of both. He was, however, un
successful, although right gallantly
could be woo. Prince Fred may not
either woo or wed a Queen, but there is
a daughter of England's royal house
hold to whom he may pay successful
oourt. Indeed, the same garrulous and
unreliable madame has connected the
royal house of Grant as intriguing with
that of Guelph, through Minister
Schenck, for an alliance between Prince
Fred and the English Princess. The
only difficulty in the way was that of
equalizing. the fortunes of the two royal
sprigs. The Queen wanted something
" thrown in," to which Grant magnan
mously responded, " Throw in
Schenck." Whether matters were ad
justed upon that basis we are unable to
say. He has even one advantage over
" Lorn," for although he is a Marquis,
" Fred " is a Prince of the blood, and
need abandon his wife upon no state
occasion, while he is excluded from
participation in court pageants. The
same idle gossip, too, had it that Prince
John had been honored by a kiss from
the royal lips. Madame rumor may
perform the same service for Prince
Fred, even If he should fall in winning
both the affections and bend of the
young Princess.
Time has in store for us many a deli
cious morcovi, and we shall strive to ac
commodate the tastes of our readers to
the fullest extent of our ability and the
capacity of our columns.
Grant Wants to Abandon Seneca
Contrary to all precedent which Grant
has furnished with regard to the doc
trine of mcum cl (num, is his offer to dis
pose of his interest of 240 shares i u the
Seneca Stone Quarry. The par value is
$lOO per share, and the stuck isone of the
best, If not the very best, paying invest
ments now open to capitalists. Grant
has been so long accustomed to charac
terize everything within his clutches, as
" mine," and to baud over to all his
friendly donors the empty salver as
"thine," that we are at a-loss to acceunt
for this strange abandonment of his
greed. Perhaps the Democratic shot
poured into the palpable iniquities of the
Seneca ring may have made the certifi
cates of stock too unpleasantly hot for
his capacious pockets. Nothing else
could Induce him to abandon anything
which pays, unless by doing so he could
still more profitably pander to his in
satiate thirst for wealth.
GRANT seems determined to give to
every State a Republican form of Gov
ernment, according to his interpretation
of the, Constitution. Some States ap
parently strive to defeat these good in
tentions; for some of them will, despite
all his exertions to the contrary, go Dem
ocratic, and the more he wins them
back the more stiff-necked they become.
But shoddyand•shellac patriots may
sweetly sleep, assured that nothing iu
the power of the Federal government
will be left undone by him to insure his
re-election. And it is nog' announced
that the punishment of martial law, so
recently applied to South Carolina, Is
to be extended to Alabama, Mississippi,
and, probably, Texas, atter which West
Virginia, Maryland,the Old Dominion,
and even New York and New Jersey,
will be placed under his peculiar guar
dianship.
A Rich held for Radical Niferinga
The astounding rumor reaches the
authorities at Washington that there
has been an over-Issue of 516,000,000 In
South Carolina bonds. Can it be that
the martial-law business In that State is
connected with thiscondition of affairs?
To oust the present State government
by the bayonet, and to take unto itself
the manipulation of the finances certain
under such developments to offer a rich
margin of speculation, would be a lu.
crative operation for the White House
"military ring." Martial law carries
with it, of course, the administration of
the finances as well as any other power
of State.
FJtti SHERIDAN, of Piegan fame, has
not only disgusted the people of Chi
cago, but haS parried his usurpations
with such a high hand, that he is to be
indicted, In connection with other of
his officers, for unwarranted outrages,
and for the murder of the District At
torney, growing out of them, and under
Sheridan's direct orders. Democrats
didn't dolt—lt is to be done upon the
recommendation of Gov. Palmer, the
Republican Ucweruor of Illinois.
ONE gratifying thought, in connec
tion with the rejoicing attendant upon
the overthrow of Tammany and the pu
rification of the local government of
New York under the Democracy, is that
It will not end there. It will not result
in the 9 mere overthrow of Tammany,
but lead public opinion—now that It Is
fully on the scent after official corrup
tion—to try the far more prolific hunt
ing ground of the Radical administra
tion of Grant.
A Shallow Excuse.
The telegraph wires are bearing the
absurd excuse for Grant's mistake with
reference to h Is Sou th Carolina proclama
tion, which was all owing to Attorney-
General Akerman's miserable chirogra
phy. It Is said the copying clerk was una
bleto read the writing of Akerman, and
inserted gagop Instead of Union. A
likely story, ,sod 'o,ne .that may do to
tell to the marline.
"Saturgay riew•Yarker,"
We have received a copy of this beau
tifully-printed and ably-conducted Jour
nal, published by Matti & Co., Harlem
Bank Building, corner '3d avenue and
124th street. It is devoted to news, the
fashions, music, the drama, and gener
al intelligence, and served at five cents
a number.
Royal Vlaltors
Not Yet Too Late.
Had Grant's Ku-Klux proclamation,
with all its attendant enormities and
despotic villainies been made public one
week prior to the elections in Pennsyl
vania, Ohio, and .elsewhere, afar dif
ferent result would have been chroni
cled. The workings of this infamous
edict of the power-usurping Chief-Mag
,istrate in South Carolina, and the devel
'opments which are being daily made,
are exciting the indignation of all hon
est men, and causing even Republicans
to pause and seriously ponder the ques
tion, into what terrible condition of af
fairs are we drifting? It is doubtful
whether any occurrence In our history
has excited a greater degree of interest
or comment. Even the Chicago tires;
the devastations in Minnesota and Wis
consin ; the incendiary operations
throughout the land, and the epidemics
which are carrying upon their wings
desolation and death, have become sec
ondary topics, and furnish see rce a tithe
of matter for sober thought and reflec
tion, as do the military operations of
Grant's scalawag Attorney-General and
his pliant satraps. The ruined city of
Chicago can be restored, and the timely
sympathy and aid bestowed upon the
sufferers heal all save the wounds of
death. The forests of the West can be
replanted and made to flourish as be
fore. Capital, of which we possess an
abundance, can right all the wrong
which the tire-fiend has accomplished.
The only aid It needs is time. But, the
liberties of a people once lost, may never
be regained ; rights trampled upon, and
tamely submitted to, lose their power to
command respe6t, and one step taken
by a despot, unchecked, in the assump
tion of unholy authority, rarely retro
grades, except at the sacrifice of life and
treasures
It is fitting that these usurpations of
Grant should become the subject for
deep thought. We are on the very
verge of despotism and anarchy, if
nothing worse. Innovation after inno
vation Is being made upon Constitu
tional guarantees. The civil power is
made subservient to the military in
time of peace, and upon the most flim
sy and unwarranted pretexts. The
plea of insubordination which does not
exist is made to cover the most wicked
and unprecedented outrages upon a
free people who are powerless to resist
them ; and the alternative is plainly
presented to the people of the North of
a timely check to the military usurpa
tions of Grant, or a like fate with that
of the people of the South meted out to
them.
The people of the North arc beginning
to think; the Conservative element of
the Republican party see the tendency
of these wrongs to absolutism, and will
hereafter act in concert with the Dem
ocrats In bringing the Government
back to its ancient moorings. West
Virginia has spoken. New York,
Maryland, Virginia and other States
will record their protest against Grant
and his myrmidons ; and thus the way
will be paved for his overthrow in 1572.
There is such a thing as a point beyond
endurance, as it was the last feather
which broke the camel's back; and
thus Grant will find it.
Selfishness Supreme
Grant accepts everything tendered
him, no matter what the value; and as
offices cost him nothing for the bestow
al, those little favors are granted in pro
portion to the value of the gift. When
young Saruivel Weller, about to lift a
mug of ale to his lips, paused, as his
father entered, and handed it to him,
the thirsty old gentleman drained the
mug to the bottom ; whereupon the
young hopeful remarked, epigramati
cally, "Powers of suction is great.''
What Mr. Weller was In the way of ale
absorption, Grant is, in the line of the
more substantial articles. Although he
takes, he never gives anything which
will subtract from his net gains, and his
ingratitude is such that he would sacri
fice his most munificent friend to shield
himself from exposure, or to gratify his
ambitious ends. Murphy was one of
these. His pecadilloes have been ex
posed so thoroughly that his very name
stinks in the nostrils of honest men.—
Grant placed him in position to perpe•
trite his frauds, and even lent them his
sanction so long as there was political
or personal capital to be made out of
them; but when corruption cropped out
too strongly, he turned his back ou his
friend of the Long Branch cottage, and
will compel his removal, even though
it bs smooth-coated by a "resignation."
Yet he will cling to the ''cottage by the
sea," and reg)xle himself with Murphy's
free importation of Havana regalias.—
Mayor Bowen, of Washington,, is an
other striking illustration of Grant's in
gratitude. In consideration of monies
contributed by Bowen, the offices of the
District were filled at his dictation.
This infamy continued, until the people
of the city of Washington rose in their
wrath at the Bowen ring, which was
sucking its life-blood, and threw them
out of power. Grant then forsook hls
pal, as he has Murphy, yet, while he
gives him the cold-shoulder, h@ holds
on to the contributions of Bowen,
which, together with his other presents
and bribe-takings for official promotion,
have made him a millionaire. Truly, as
Sam. Weller would exclaim, ''The
powers of suction is great."
THERE is a pitiable howl set up by
some of the more ultra Radical journals
over the very plausible inference, that
the Speaker of the Senate will not order
an election to fill the vacancy occasion
ed by the death of Mr. Connell, until he
can be properly notified of the vacancy
upon the meeting of the Legislature.
They forget prectdents, a 4 they seek,
unblushingly, to ignore them, of their
own settings, and there is some absurd
palaver indulged in by them as to the
interference of Gov. Geary, in issuing
his proclamation for an election. We
do not believe Gov. Geary can be in
duced to do anything so foolish, and so
palpably transcending his official au
thority. To obviate any difficulty in
the way of securing control of the Sen
ate organization, for which they labor
ed so zealously and spent so much
money, I has been proposed to take the
unprecedented step of having the Gov
ernor call an extra session of the Legis
lature, when the returns should be de
livered to the Speaker of the Senate by
the Secretary of the Commonwealth,
thus allowing no escape to Mr. Broad
head from issuing his warrant for an
election, although there is an admis
sion that he has not the authority to do
so until officially notified. Think of it!
they would incur the expense of calling
an extra session of the Legislature but
a few weeks prior to the regular meet
ing, simply to obtain by dishonest strat
egy what they can do ultimately in
a Constitutional and legal manner.
Will Gov. Geary lend himself to the
perpetration of either of these insane
and unprecedented wrongs? We opine
not.
Tilton on Grant
The C/ olden „Age is of the strictest Rad
ical school, but It justly appreciates the
present labors of our military President.
It says:
"He is bent on securing his re,nomlna •
tion Day and night he toils to this end.
The chief energy of hia administration, en
far as it has energy, is directed toward the
accomplishment of this high ambition. Lo
cal officers are appointed or removed se
cording as they favor or disfavor the Pres
ident's plan of perpetuating himself in
power. The Federal Government is run
like a monstrous machine whose fires are
fed and whose wheels are turned mainly
for the sake of keeping its chief engineer
in place. What other policy is the Presi
dent pursuing save the policy of a re-nom
inationt He la "lighting it out on this
line.' "
THE Radical papers are quoting Carl
Schurz' opinion of the Democratic
party, as expre3eed some time ago. Had
they not as well tell us what the opin
ion of Wa t t gentleman now is of Grant
and his adminiStratiop ? If he Is good
authority in the one case, certainly
ought to be In the other—and that au
thority is that no President or govern
ment was ever so corrupt and incompe
tent as that which now curses the coun
try. Tote fair, gentlemen.
Schenck on Grant
We have had Stanton's dying opin
ions of Grant; we have had those of
the philosopher Greeley, of Ben Butler
and scores of others of the Radical
leaders; yet despite their mean and just
opinion of our dottish President, they
all succumb to his power and support
his ambitious and reckless pretensions.
The last tribute, of this peculiar stamp,
we have from Gen. Robert Schenck, of
Ohio, Minister to Engbind, and the de
feated candidate for Congress in a dis
trict which he claimed to carry in his
breeches pocket.
A correspondent of the Buffalo Cour
ier writes :
I have many times met and conversed
freely with Gen. Schenck, our present
Minister to the Court of St. James, one of
the very ablest and shrewdest of Republi
can partisans; although not much of a pol
itician, being too bold and defiant in his
nature to stoop to the ordinary wiles and
duplicity of such men as Schuyler Colfax
—men who simply float upon the tide of
agitated political waters like bubbles, with
out force or originality to direct their
course. And, speaking of Colfax, I am
reminded of an incident which occurred
at Washington, in December, 1866, at
the house of a member of Congress, and
in presence of several other members,
among whom was General Schenck.—
A new Southern member (Republican,)
asked Gen. Schenck what kind of a man
Mr. Colfax was. Mr. Schenck replied:
Mr. Colfax Is a very clever man, of line
manners, very much of a gentleman, and
a man or talent." "But," says the new
member, "What is the character of his
talent? What is he particularly remarka•
ble for?" Mr. Schenck answered, that he
could better reply to that question by an
illustration. "We will suppose," said
Schenck, "that Schuyler Collar had a
package of rare seeds from the Patent Of
fice, and only one package. Colfax would
distribute that one package of seeds among
a greater number of his constituents, and
give more perfect satisfaction, than any
other member in Congress.
During the same interview, and before
the advent of others, when only the host,
Gen. Schenck and myself were present„in
diacusaing Gen. Grant, Gen. Schenck
substance said that, as chairman of the mil
itary committee, he had been rowed into
intimate ofliciai relations with Gen. Grant,
then commander-in-chief, and he expressed
for Grant the utmost contempt. Among
other incidents he related that, while fram
ing the bill for the re organization of the
army, and fixing the pay of the different
grades, he visited Grant to get certain in
formation, and among other things inquired
the amount of his (Grant's) monthly com
pensation In reply, Gen. Grant stated
that he did not know, and referred him to
a staff °freer, who gave him a false state
ment on the subject.
Gen, Schenek also stated that, after the
elections of 1366, which generally resulted
in the success of the Congressional party
over the policy of Andrew Johnson, Gen.
Grant sent for him (Schenck,) and declared
himself in favor of the policy of Congress
Gen. Schenck replied : "If you are so it is
a new thing with you, and only brought
about by the result of the late elections ;
heretofore you have been against us, and
with Andrew Johnson." In answer, Gen.
Grant said he was "only a soldier, and
had never taken any interest in public
questions."
Gen. Schenck summed up Gen. Grant
by saying that " he never in his life bad
rust with any person who had had the ad
vantage of association with well-formed
people who was so grossly ignorant upon
every subject that an ordinarily-intelligent
citizen ought to understand, as General
Grant;" and that "morally and intellect
ually he was below any man whom he had
ever known in public life ;" that "Grant's
ruling passions were envy, hatred and ava
rice; that he would never forget any per
son who spoke slightingly of himself, or
who praised a rival, unless the offender
would minister to his most ignoble pas
sion (avarice) by a`preseut; that he (Grant)
would accept any present from any per
son, from a ten• penny nail to a hundred
thousand dollars, and that a valuable pre
sent would influence him in the discharge
of the moat important public duties ;" and
finally, that " Grant sought the Presidency
fer the money that he could make out of
the position, and to attain it was ready to
avow any class of opinions dictated to him
by his politic,tl trainers."
In my next communication, I propose
show by incidents in the career of Gen.
Grant, (facts that cannot be denied,) that
Gen. Schenck's estimate of Gen. Grant
was correct. X.
THE Radical papers are quoting the
St. Louis _Republican's opinion as to the
position of the Democratic party, and to
show that the chances are hopeless in
the Presidential contest of '72. There
is deception in this. The licpublican is
not a Democratic journal, any more
than the N. Y. Herald is. It has de
nounced Grant and his administration,
supports Gratz Brown and Carl Schurz,
anti-administration Republicans, and
in some instances Las sustained Demo
cratic measures and men. But when it
undertakes to speak for the Democratic
party in terms disparaging to its pros
pects, or to give advice looking to the
abandonment of its organization, it is
without the pale of its province, and its
utterances are without forceorau thority.
Liberality or Lancaster County
The large donations for the sufferers
of Chicago and the West, recall the
liberal subscriptions of our noble coun
ty in a former age, when Lancaster was
yet a borough. According to the "min
utes" of the Yellow-fever Committee
at Philadelphia, in 1793, Lancaster
county sent in the following sums :
Cocalico, $10; Leacock, $BO 30, and a sec
ond sum or $O2 04; Chestnut Level, $86.67;
R Coleman, $80; Earl, $65; Muddy Creek,
$50,60; Lancaster borough, $588.70; Cones
toga, $25 33; Little Britain, $01.97 ; Done
gal, $41.75; New Holland, $18.35; Salis
bury, s62—making $1205.77. In addition
to these sums, the county sent' .36 barrels
of flour.
How does the present record of Lan
caster county for liberality compare
with that which it made in 1793?
Death of Audltor-generahElectStanton
NEW BRIMSTON, November 6.—Colonel
David Stanton, Auditor-General-elect of
this State, died suddenly athis residence, in
this place, at ten minutes past one this
morning He had been suffering for a day
or two with herpes" in the face, causing
him much pain, and about seven o'clock
last evening he infected a small quantity of
morphine into his arm for tho purpose of
quieting the pain, which had become very
severe, and by this he was much relieved.
Sleep ensued, from which his wife found it
impossible to arouse him. Dra. Jackson,
McKenney, Winans and Reed were sum
moned, and used every effort to bring about
a reaction without permanent effect. It is
the opinion of the physicians that in mak
ing the injection of morphine he punctured
a blood-vessel which, owing to the peculiar
state of his system, was the Immediate
cause 01 his death. lie was forty-two
years of age.
Relearie or Georwe 0. Evanoi
Mr. George o.lilvans, who had been M-
O treerated in the Duup(tln• County Prison
for some weeks past, op the charge of eni
hezzlement, was released on Monday after
noon, acceptable bail having been offered
before the Prothonotary, Mr. Niesley The
sureties are Dr. Paine, Darius Balzer and
William Morgan, of Philadelphia, and Dr.
Jacob Shope, of Hurnmelstown, Dauphin
county. Dr. Paine stated under oath that
he was worth $lOO,OOO clear of debt. Mr.
Baker Ets2Co,ooo, Mr. Morgan, $75,000, and
Dr. Shope, e20,0u0. Messrs. Hall and Briggs,
the defender Cs counsel, and Hon. Wayne
M'\'eagh, for the State Treasurer and Aud
itor-General, were present (as was also Mr.
Markey) while the above tamed gentle
men were being qualified Attorney-Gen
eral Brewster, who arrived home from
Philadelphia in the afternoon, accepted the
bond.
The Centennial Anniversary
Senator Scott, Morton McMichael and
ex Congressman I). J. Morrell have had
an interview with the President, relative to
the proposed Centennial Anniversary.
They urged him, it is t fated, to recom mend
in his message that Congress enaot liberal
legislation to carry It into effect. The bill
passed at the last session provides that the
General Government shall not be liable for
any expenses of the celebration. An effort
will be made next Winter to change this,
so as to get an appropriation of five hun
dred thousand dollars.
The Andfloc-General Vacancy
It is now claimed that the Governor can
appoint an Auditor-General for the lull
term of three years. This will be good
news for Evans, and all who shared his
plunder. But the Act of Assembly says
the person appointed by the Governor
"shall continue in office until the end of
the term for which his predecessor was
elected.' Now, Mr. Stanton has not been
In race at ell. He cap scarcqy be called
the "predecessor " of the neyt offidial.
The case does pot seem to be covered by
this act.—A pc.
The Forest Fires In the. West
The report that In the vicinity of Sagi
naw, Michigan, "immenee forests have
been burned into coal and ashes," is denied
by the journale of that region. It is stated
that much of the pine will make good tim
ber, even if out a year hence, and that the
owners of timber land are preparing to
saw as much as possible this Winter. The
prairie fires, however, were a terrible re
ality.
What's the Vie T
The Washington Patriot wants to know,
now that gold Is only used as an article of
merchandise, what is the use of incurring
the expense of coining it? Would it not be
as weil to close the United States Mint, and
save the naillibna 'expended in coinlnggold
and silver, or restrict its functions to the
production of our beautiful copper and
nickel coins?
State Items.
There are thirty prisoners In the Ve
nango county Jail.
Two cases of small-pox are reported In
Wheatland, Mercer county.
The outside finish is being put on the
Insane Asylum at Danville.
The fine new stone jail at Hollidays
burg has' been completed.
The Sunbury and Lewistown Rail
road wall finished last week.
A new penny daily Is being talked o
In Allegheny.
Small-pox is decreasing in Philadel
phia.
• An attempt was made to burn the
post-office at Easton.
Small-pox has appeared in Bethle
hem.
Mad dogs have made their appear
ance at Slatington.
Horse-thieves are said to be operating
in Tioga c ufty.
The Tem} er tnce (?) ticket didn't get
a vote in Dion our.
The brick.wo . k of the new passenger
station In Sat. bury is going up.
The Lehigh county Jail contains but
14 prisoners at the present time.
An excursion train on the Central R.
R. of N. J. ran 74 miles in 79 minutes.
In Coatesville they are discussing the
question of a compulsory school law.
The P.R.R.Co., have a spy at Parkes
burg, smelling after their employees
Theodore Tilton is announced to lec
ture in Altoona, November 15th.
A new bridge is being built acrqss the
Clarion river at Ridgeway, Elk county.
Mrs. Mary A. Grier, of Pottstown, has
preserved the almanacs for 40 years past.
A Pennsylvania firm has just shipped
forty-one cases of school slates to Japan.
A farmer in Lehigh county sold re
cently $2,600 in gold and $7OO in silver.
Art open tern peranee society is organ
ized at Coatesville in opposition to the
present secret organization.
Williamsport is to have a large glue
manufactory near the mouth of Lycom
lug creek.
The Harrisburg Car Company's shops
are turning out between Live and six
cars per day.
Wilson's saw mill, at Highspire, Dau
phin county, was burnt(' on October 31.
Loss, $15,000.
The business on the Colebrookdale
Railroad, running from Pottstown to
Mt. Pleasant, is increasing rapidly.
The Thomas Iron Company has con
tributed $5OO toward the bulrerers of the
Northwest.
The Butchers' Ball at Harrisburg, on
the 26th last., was the gayest ball ever
given in Harrisburg.
The late Senator Connell was born in
Greene county, and commenced active
life as a merchant in Pittsburgh.
The engineers of the proposed Berks
County Railroad have nearly completed
their survey.
The list of candidates for the next
Mayor of Chester has already been pub
lished. It looks like the letter-list.
During the past month Mr. Samuel
Troy, Sr., of Union township, Clearfield
county, has killed three full-grown
wolves.
The building mania has broken n
with greater violence than ever in Oil
City. ➢Zany handsome edifices are now
being erected.
Music has been established as a regu
lar branch of instruction in the Union
schools of Mercer, Greenville and Sha
ron.
TLe mountains between Huntingdon
and Warm Springs have been on fire
recently, and much valuable property
destroyed.
A large number of deer have already
been Itillld in Monroe county this sea
son. Game is said to be very abundant
there this year.
The Pittsburgh and Erie Canal,which
was sold at Sheriff's sale in Mercer, on
Thursday of last week, was bid in by S.
R. Mason at $3,100.
A purse of over $3OO has been pre
sented to the managers of the Licht
may ck Habelmann Opera Company by
the Germans of Scranton.
Bellefonte is a rustic sort of a town.
When the cars stop there, half the young
men of the village turn out to witness
the sight.
The edi4or of the Jersey Shore Herald
has been presented with a stock con
taining eighteen distinct, well-formed
cabbage heads.
Mrs. G. D. Coleman, of Lebanon, has
had erected at her own expense a church
about a mile from Lebanon, which cost
$25,000.
John Helder, of Chester county, voted
at the same window for the 70th time
at the late election. He is 92 years of
age.
At the next session of the Legislature
a charter fora new Fire Insurance Com•
puny, to be located in Easton, will be
asked for.
The people of Milleretown, Lehigh
county, are about taking such steps as
will secure the location of a furnace in
their borough.
John L. Stiles, son of Hon. John D.
Stiles, of Allentown, has been dismissed
as a cadet from West Point, by order of
the Secretary of War, for "hazing."
A young man, working in Peters'
Mill, in Aston township, Delaware Co.,
on Friday last shot himself in the hand
while reloading and capping a Derring
er pistol.
Two canvass-hack ducks were shot at
Limerick Station, on the line of the
Reading Railroad, one day last week.
They were the first seen In that neigh
borhood for many years.
The stock of the Allentown Passenger
Railway was worth originally sloo.
Forty shares were sold the other day at
$3.50 per share. This shows that all
railways don't pay.
Win. Skelton, of Cambridge, Craw
ford county, was shot and killed at
Kelly's Mills, a few days ago, by a young
man who was firing at a mark. The
sad occurrence was entirely accidental.
Henry Ward, indicted for the mur
der of Wesley Eugene Shader at To
wanda in February last, will be tried at
Tunkhannock, Wyoming county, next
week.
The Coroner of Pittsburgh rejoices in
having held two hundred and eight in
quests in one year, which proves that
what is one man's meat Is another
man's poison."
John P. Rickett died In Pytuatuning
township, Mercer county, on the 9th
ult., aged 05 years. He has been a resi
dent of the neighborhood where he died
since MK
A three.yea old daughter of Mr. 0.
H. Weaver, of Paradise, Clearfield co.,
was burned to death on the 19th ult.,
while playing with a coal-nil lamp left,
within her reach.
The Titusville Courier says: Colonel
Tom Scott runs thirty• ii ne rail roads.—
If this don't prove that lie can run the
Presidential olllce, aud thus run Grant
off the track, then " may we, never
cease to love" free railroad passes.
Clearfield amity folks have organ Iged
an anti-horse-stealrig society. It Is reg
ularly incorporated, and the members
think it will effectually lock every sta
ble-door in the county against horse
thieves.
Two convicts escaped from the Media,
Delaware county, jail last week, and
have not been captured. One, George
Ellis, was put in for robbing the Chester
Post Office, and the other, named Aus
tin, for stealing a horse,
At the Reading Cotton Mill are said
to be the three largest locomotive boil
ern ever constructed in this country.—
They are 64 inches in diameter, each
containing 201 flues, 13 feet long. In
cluding the tire-box they are 24i feet in
length.
Joseph Wells, of Delaware county, Is
building a bridge for the Commission
ers of Delaware on the Brandywine,
near Joseph's Mill. It was raised on
Saturday last, is 160-feetspan, and when
completed will be one of the best on the
creek.
The Executive Committee of the
Pennsylvania State Sabbath School As
sociation suggests, " that at least one of
the four Sundays in November be set
apart, In which to gather collections for
the relief of the sufferers by the late
tires In the West and Northwest."
Two hundred tons of Wilkesbarre
coal, large egg size, have been stored
away in the vaults of the State Capitol,
at Harrisburg, for heating that institu
tion the coming Winter. What amount
Is needed for the purpose of creating
" heated discussions " is not stated.
4 man was killed, about three miles
abOve ploody nun, fp Iletiford county,
ou last Thgraday, supposed to halie beep
a Uerrilarl " traltip." iasupposed tp
have been killed with a fence rail In the
bands of some one who desired his
money, as when found his pockets are
said to have been cut out, There is no
clue to the murderer.
Schuylkill county claims to have the
great American Traveller. According
to the Pottsville Standard, stage-driver
Gager, now driving on the route be
tween Pottsville and Minersville, has
held the ribbons for twenty-three years,
and during that time he has travelled
over 148,830 miles. These miles, stretch
ed out continuously, would have car
ried Mr. Gager nearly six times around
the world.
Gleamlnas.
The Tennessee river has risen.
Wood is scarce at' Washington.
The racer Lexington is 21 and blind.
Memphis wants 750,000 balesof cotton.
Texas is mourning over a scarcity of
hogs.
Thirty Hindoce are studying law in
London.
Rhod 3 Island is the champion State
for mutton.
Candle, N. H., has just paid $6OO for
a new hearse.
The shoe trade in Massachusetts is
brisk.
The water is very low in the Hudson
river.
Fort Wayne, Intl., rejoices in a female
barber.
Rangely, Me., Las had twelve inches
of snow.
Newport, R. 1., has had four cases of
small-pox.
Mexico is enjoying her semi-annual
revolution.
Elizabeth, N. J., is to have a new City
Directory.
The people of Cardlngton, Ohio, want
a female Mayor.
Pilots on the Arkansas river receive
S2OO a month.
Cook county, 111., wants to issue one
million in bonds.
A new temperance paper has been
started in Hartford.
Anthracite coal has been found in
Northern Minnesota.
There are sixty students in the Syra
cuse University.
California has produced a twenty
four pound turnip.
The Maine marble quarries employ
four thousand men.
Twenty-two deaths a day is the aver
age in Cincinnati.
Wild pigeons are caught in a net at
Knoxville, Tenn.
A Wisconsin.) ustice of the peace grant
ed himself a divorce.
The Mormons are making love to
their first wives.
Last season's ice crop is yet in store
along the Kennebec.
lowa's buckwheat-cake facilities are
the greatest on record.
The Mississippi is on a rise for the
first time since the fall began.
Many delicate women were crazed by
the Chicago conflagration.
The insurrection in Algeria is said to
be entirely suppressed.
There are one hundred and one stu
dents in Trinity College.
The lowa State Asylum for the blind
has ninety inmates.
Redding, Conn., sent two strings of
red peppers to Chicago.
Mineral paint has been discovered in
Appanoose county, lowa.
Bridgeport, Conn., has "uteri $lO,OOO
for a fire-alarm telegraph.
Fair Haven, Conn., exports five thous
and gallons of oysters daily.
The available police-force of Spring.
field, Mass., is only six men.
The reconstruction of the Vendome
column commenced last week.
The working parties of the Northern
Pacific Road have entered Dakota.
San Francisco loses three millions
and a half by the Chicago fire.
Four pairs of twins have been born In
Richmond within the last fortnight.
"Paradise Lost" has been puolislied
in Hebrew blank verse in Austria.
Mariposa stock is worth three and a
half cents ou the dollar of par value.
There are eight pin factories iu the
United States, whose annual production
is 6,720,000,000 pins.
Twelve millions of pounds of wool
have been exported from California dur
ing the past nice months.
The next Legislature of Virginia
elects about one hundred county judges,
who hold office for six years.
Seventeen fires occurred in Louis
ville' Ky., last month, with an aggre
gate loss of over $6,275.
Our postal arrangements with France
are more unfavorable than those with
any other European country.
The mining districts of Eastern Ne
vada are now in telegraphic communi
cation with San Francisco.
There have been 14,260,327 pounds of
tea transported over the Union Pacific
Railway so far this year.
Senator Carpenter estimates the num
ber of lives lost by the Wisconsin fires at
from 1,200 to 1,800.
The Apaches made a raid recently on
the settlement of Kirkland, Arizona,
but were repulsed by the settlers.
Boston consumes seventy gallons of
water per day for every man, woman
and child in the city.
Cincinnati proposes to use the waste
water from the Davidson fountain for a
public bath-house.
George W. Griffen, of Kentucky, has
been appointed U. S. Consul at Copen
hagen.
A Baltimore divine boasts that he was
instrumental In converting seventeen
thousand children last year.
Since September 18th there have been
one hundred and fifty cases of yellow
fever at Vicksburg.
An onion bed of ten acres in lowa
yielded its owner the sum of $2,72.6 this
year. Hence these tears.
Egypt is making such progress that
It is proposed to use the pyramids for
weather signal service stations.
The steamer America left San Fran
cisco for China on Friday. carrying sev
en hundred returning Chinese.
The bark Edith and Rose has arrived
at Fortress Monroe, to take 200 colored
people as cclonlsts to Liberia.
The Bolivian Congress havingrejected
the bill providing for a Federal consti
tution, n ministerial crisis has taken
place.
The Enterprise Insurance Company,
of Philadelphia, has suspended in con
sequence of Chicago losses, and will be
forced to go into liquidation.
General Spinner will publish, In his
annual report, a vindication of himself
against the charges made against him
during his absence in Europe.
Commissioner Leggett has extended
the patent of Richard M. Hoe for his
mode of operating the fly-fans of print
ing-presses.
The authorities or Harvard College
have refused theapplication of a Nashua
lady, who desired to attend the law
school.
The President's visit t) Boston cost
that city $l7O for gloves and hats,
$2,316 70 for " entertainments," and
$1,160 50 for horse hire.
A single shoe-manufactory at Ep
ping, N. H., has turned out 110,1eN)
pairs of slippers in the past six months,
of thirty live different styles.
Cordoza, colored Secretary of State of
South Carolina, has resigned, to become
Professor in the Howard University at
Washington.
The Mormon Bishop Aaron Johnson
arrested a short time since at' Spring
ville by a United States alarshnl for
murder, was released by Judge Strick
land itt Provo City, on $lO,llOO buff
Chillicothe, Ohio, was spared a visita
tion of the woman suffragists because it
had the small-pox. The heretofore
dreaded disease is now looked upon in
the light of a blessing.
The United States Grand Jury of Cin
cinnati, Indicted Benjamin F.Davidson,
an army contractor. fur making and pre
senting fraudulent vouchers for forage
athounting to $70,000.
Victor 0. Powell, the clerk in the
Second Auditor's office at Washington,
charged with complicity with Wm. B.
Stokes in conspiracy to defraud the Gov
ernment, has been released in $lO,OOO
bait.
The President has issued a proclama
tion, restoring the privilege of the ha
beas corpus in Marion county, S. C., and
warning the Ku-Klux of Union county,
in the same State, to disperse within
five days.
Charles H. Ward, of the late banking
firm of Mellen, Ward & Co., of Boston,
sentenced to three years' imprisonment
in June, 1870, for embezzling govern
ment funds, was, to-day, released on a
pardon from President Grant.
The revised edition of the Bible In
Chinese, which has for some time been
preparing at Pekin, is now nearly ready,
and will soon be Issued from the Amer
ican Mission press, within the walls of
the Capital.
Queen Victoria has made prevision
for any failure in the direct succession
to the throne by contributing 600
Igineas to the Earlswood Asylum for
diots, for which eurn she is entitled to
eve any of her family taken care of.
When an o; refuses to puli s in Colum
bus, Oa. ' some inventive' genius catches
a cat and susnds it by tie tail over
the back of t he obstinate orqte• The
claws are a sufficient incentive to busi
ness. The students of Columbus call
this " ox-hazing."
Professor Henry says that the obser
vations of the Smithsonian Institute,
which extend over a period of twenty
years, have as yet failed to confirm the
popular belief, that the removal of the
forest and the cultivation of the soil tend
to diminish the amount of rainfall.
[For the Intelllgencerd
The New Coofllet—oColonlentlon of
hieceoes.
The following communication from the
pen of a gentleman, resident of South Car
olina, contains abundant food'for thought,
and many valuable suggestions with refer
ence to a question which affects deeply,
not only the people of the South, but the
social and political Interests of those of the
North :
Messrs. Editors:—lt the existence of
African slavery in the United States gene
rated "an irrepressible conflict," and that
disagreement ended in a long and bloody
civil war, the consequent emancipation of
it has engendered another irrepressible
conflict—one between races, which In the
present and probable condition of this
country will eventuate In results equally
general and disastrous. Those who know
the actual state of affairs at the South, and
those who observe toe other of o 4 that
strife, In the inzreasing corruptions' and
arbitrary assumptions of the day, and
everywhere in Federal, State and Munici
pal concerns, both feel and perceive that a
continued or a new revolution is pending.
What will be the fate of the negroes in the
United States Is a momentous question,the
solution of which is not only vital to the
colored people, but to the American whites;
and it cannot he evaded nor postponed—it
must be met. Without adverting at pres
ent to their miscegenation—its possibility
or Improbability, or its probable evil and
disgusting consequences,—the existent, in•
evitable and growing antagonism between
them, the festering of which already causes
a dangerously feverish anxiety on all sides
at the South, a sympathetic disturbance
throughout the Union, and 'an irregular
action of Federal and State Governments,
will, sooner or later, precipitate A Istiw
corridc-r, of an incongruous and fearful
character in America. Upon its nature,
extent and results the experience of histo
ry will throw but a hazy light.
These races cannot live harmoniously
together, in actual contact and on equal
terms, under the same system, social, in
dustrial and political. Even if the two lat
ter elements wore reconcilable, the social
relation is a Pandora's box of ills. But the
characters, the faiths, the physical organi
zations and temperaments, the desires and
aspirations, and, above all in force, the in
tcresld of these peoples are now and forever
ineotelpatible; and the exasperations which
have fomented between then, make the
danger Imminent. The "outrages," the
" discontents," the " Union Leagues," and
" Ku Klux Klaus" nt the South, the
" Capital-making " arid "En torcement
Ants" at " Washington City," and the
"negromania " at the North, are but Eno
elllorescences from the germinating seeds
of this conflict.
The whites at the South are sincerely do
airous of peace, quietude, the preservation
of their property and bout OM, the security
of their families, the retention of the Union
And semi uiue Republican Institutions, and
the opening of their section to the immi
gration of their own race, now suffering in
its industry and enterprise from the Lrzi•
ness, ignorance and enmity of the negro
race. These considerations, together wall
the instinct and urgency of sei f-preserva-
Pon, will soon enlarge into their demand
for the removal of the negroes front their
m;dst. This is already apolitical 'Leers., y
On the other hand, the negroes demand
property, homes, a country, and municipal
self-government.
These respective demands cannot be re
conciled in the same locality and under the
same regime. The equally 111811111 attempt
ed to be grafted on we Guvernmerd
is now a cancer that will soon destroy the
bodies-politic at the South as now con
structed ; and the disease, extending, will
convulse and ruin the United States. It is
the true interest of the negroes, 111/11111111(111
is the removal of their live or six millions
out of the North American continent and
its contiguities, is alike impracticable and
unpopular, to have lands and States grant
ed them by the Federal Government, and
they massed and colonized there. This
policy and measure should be adopted, and
it is the only can that will solve the ques•
Lions of the fate ~f the negro and of the
South, and that will preserve peace and our
country.
In view of this imminent subject, it will
not be wise or polite on the part of the
South or the Democratic party, to evaded.,
efforts of the Radical Republican party to
keep up the negro agitation issues; but,
rather, to call the attention of the whole na
tion, while still alive to them, to tiro ulte
rior questions involved, and to the urgent
propriety of so adjusting them as to avert
their dangers. The colored citizens of the
United States are invoked to aria ress them
selves to this matter, and to call upon the
United States Government not to leave
them in their desolate and embarrassed
position, PO unsatisfactory and dangerous
both to themselves and the whites, but to
furnish them regions where they can ob
tain land, and have their separate States
and self-government, subject to the general
dominion and proteetion of this great Re
public.
For this purpose the government would
purchase for and assign them Florida, a
portion of Texas on the Rio Grande above
its mouth, Yucatan, Italics or other tropi
cal regions. This scheme will requiroyears
for its accomplishment, but it m ust be be
gun now and consummated as soon as practi
cable, or there will be "no peace" or 881V11-
Lion for the colored race of this country.
The Republican party must accept this
issue, pro or COIL. I t is strictly a national
one, of enlarged philanthropy and policy,
and their good sense should concur in it.—
At leant it is hero proposed to the Demo
cratic party as apart of their platfortn. The
South should and will concur.
It need not interfere with the proper ad
justment of the revenue and tariff, of all '
financial matters, of the currency and
banking, of the arrangement of the Federal
and State debts, and of the constitutional
institutions of this country. Let us pro
ceed, as true statemanithip and permanent
policy requires, to settle all negro questions
now and forever. Let corruption every
where be put down, and all irritations bo
appeased, in presence of these grave and
vital matters. Let us clear the way for a
Just solution of the true policy of the Uni
ted States, internal and foreign, in its char
acter before tire world as one of the white
civilized nations, and as an enlightened
exemplar of republican Institutions. The
manifold negro Issues cannot longer; be
kept for the sole purpose of subserving
mere temporary party purposes and suc
cess—they are too ponderous and danger
ous for political playthings or partisan
weapons. It were better to incur the
trouble and expense of their lintel adjust
ment as here proposed, titan have another
terrible conflict.
That the United States Government
should constitute itself a Protectorate to
the Hayti and Dominica communities, now
formed and forming on the earth, is an ad
ditional grave question. To institute a
cosmopolitan school of them, embracing
Liberia and Jamaica, with the embryo ne
gro States of this Confederacy, with a view
to the instruction and civilization of the
African race, may be an Utopian scheme
%Shied], for once, might have realization.
But to rear these political fabrics within
the heart of the United States, or, In defi
ance of the " confusion of tongues" ordained
on the plain of shiner, to make thin coun
try the resort and common ground of all
the races and creeds of earth, would not
come within the probable iota/Ilion of the
Caucasian race, and would clharly be a
startling folly, contemptuous of human
reason and Divine dispensation.
Prccoclou• Rogues
Two new candidates for the gallows have
made their bow to the public. The pre
cious pair are a boy and girl, respectively
ten and twelve yearn of age. They stole
$lOO from their parents, wont to Utica, took
rooms at a fashionable hotel, invested in
clothing and Jewelry, and were preparing
to start far New York when, enter angry
'fitments and put all end to that scene.
next heard trout these precocioun juveniles
had forced an entrance Into a hardware
store, ender] beide revolvers, Jack ni yes and
other traps, attempted to do some borne
stealing, had been Caught and sent home.
They were bent on having some k Ind of a
spree, however, so they went into an unoc
cupied house, built a fire in ELSUIVO without
11./gine, stuck their stolen knives In the
tim.r about them and displayed the revoi v
era to the best advantage; then wrapped
therneel yes in a buffalo robe and lay down
for a feat front their exhausting labors.
When taken before the judge they were
found guilty of petty larceny, and are now
aojou ming for the winter at the city's ex
pellee.
Groot'. Ble.ottott.t to the tiOlltO
In South Carolina, United States cavalry
are scouring the counties of Spartanburg
and Union, but find but few people to ar
rest, moat of the white males having fled.
Women and children are doing farm work
and many tine farms are offered for rale.
Influential Republican leaders In the
neighborhood, satisfied that the matter is
pushed too far, are ready to petition the
authorities to come to terms. The country
is receiving Irreparable Injury from the
persecutors.
West Virginia Election
A special to the Age, dated Wheeling,
Nov. 2, says:
In the State Senate three Radicals hold
over and one was elected ; the rest of the
members are Democrats. The House of
Delegates will coexist of forty-five Demo
crate and eleven Republicans. The Con•
atitutional Convention will be compotted of
sixty-nix Democrats and twelve Republi
cans. The,yletory is ootnpleto.
Grant's Precedents Followed
The Pittsburgh Poet states: "That Rad
ical thief Stokes has been interviewed, and
says be only followed the example of Pres
ident Grant. When ho returned home
those who bad received the bounties made
up a present of five thousand dollars as a
reward for his services. This he at first
declined to accept, but finally reconsidered,
and took the money, on the ground, as he
alleges, that be 'saw no harm In spoor ex-
Congressman taking a present, when the
President of the United States had done it
ad often.'"
Another Itigal'or Dexter
t the Old puckey . e track, Cincinnati. on
fridaj. last, ti new rival of pexter appear'.
ed in tbe Mohawk, Jr., wbo scored itis
mile In two minutes and twenty three oec•
onde without skip or break. He is a five•
year old, sired by Long Island Black
Hawk.
Death of Gen. WeManton 11. Ent
BLOOMSBURO, Pa., Nov. s.—General Wel
lington IL Ent died this morning. Funeral
on Tuesday at 1 o'clock.
Gov. Palmer and Gen. Sheridan
CHICAGO, Nov. 4.—Governor Palmer, in
his letter, reviews the evidence before the
Coroner's jury, wherein it was shown that
Mayor; Mason requested Lieutenant-Gen
eral Sheridan to preserve order in the city;
that later he authorized Colonel F. T. Sher
man to raise a regiment of militia; that
several companies were so organized, and
acted under orders issued by Sherman ;
and that the young man Treat was acting
under such orders when ho shot General
Grosvenor, and is guiltless of any legal
offence.
Governor Palmer says, in conclusion. no
one will pretend that the power to raise,
organize, employ, troops, or call organized
militia of the States in service, appertains
to the office of the Lieutenant-General In
the army of the United Suttee. Nor will it
be easy to tied defenders for the opinion.
if it should be expressed, that the Mayor of
a city can either exorcise or impart such
power to another, and I will not with you
discuss the dangerous and deceptive theory
of the necessity or emergency that has been
so often Insistee upon Lo Justify acts of law
less usurpation.
It is answer enough that the Conklin
don of the State has not intrusted to the
Mayors of cities or to military officers, the
delicate duty of determining when its forces
may be called Into service, or its lawn be
suspended. If these Cur atitudons are cor•
rect, I think you will perceive that it is
now the duty of the Governor and A ttorney.
General, and all other officers, to see thud
the laws were en lorced against all parties
concerned in those illegal and dangerous
acts. It is not necessary In determining
upon the line of duty to be adopted to in
quire whether the Mayor of Chicago, Lieu
tenant-General Sheridan, and Frank T.
Sherman, and his associates and aupposed
subordinates, who were the agents by
which his death was produced, in assum
ing the powers they did not possess, and
which cannot be conferred epee (110111,
were influenced by proper or Improper
motives or purposes. They asst mod to
suspend the operations of the Conatitution
and laws of the State, and substitute in
their stead law and military force to be de•
dried and applied by themselves.
They by their lawless acts attacked old
insulted the dignity and authority or the
State, and have by their dangerous
oxnm
ple weakened public confidence in the Con
stitution find laws, and in their attempt to
enforce usurped and lawless authority they
have sacrificed the life of a peaceable citi
zen. Animated by the confidence 1„ brace
ratan ex pressed, and confident in the belief-2
that the State of Illinois, acting through the
proper departments of its government, is
capable Ut protecting its own people and
of enforcing the dignity and authority of
its own laws, I have to request that you, in
conjunction with the State's Attorney of
the Seventh circuit, will bring all the facts
before the (trawl J wry of Cook eounly, iu
order that all poi sons concerned In the un
lawful killing of Thomas W. lirosvemar
may be brought to a speedy trial.
Astounding revelations are made this
morning of the opiTi . l.ltious of Alderman t'.
C. I'. Golden, In the use of the relief I untie,
As Holden is President of the City Council
and a candidate for Mayor on the opposi
tion ticket, addilionul piquancy is given to
the nastier. Imined lately after the lire a
relief society was turmoil, of which Holden
was made Treasurer. The composition of
this society not being satisfactory to the
committees from C11..111114[1, Louisville,
Indianapolis, Si. Louis, and other cities
here, Mayor Mason dissolved it, and di
rected that everything should be turned
over to the old relief society, all institution
under the control of citizens of integrity,
and regularly incorporated. This was wet
satisfactory to some of the Aldermen, and
they refused It reeognition.
It now transpires that Holden, while sot.
ing as Treasurer, sees red at least dlfideo or
the relief I Louis and considerable supplies,
which he refused to give lip w hen reil nisi •
lion was made by the proper authorities. It
is wow alleged that this money is being
used by Golden to secure his vitiation an
Mayor. Very damaging videnee in pro
duced to SU bmiaill lure the charge. Among
other things, Golden caused to besent ti the
regular committee a livery stable bill
amounting to $2-10. Payment lots been re
fused, and the committee gives notice that
no carriages have been needed in the work
of relief. TO w hat purpose tee benevolence
of the country might have been put may
now be seen front Min specimen. Too pa I,
lie may rest assured that the work of relief
is now in good hands, and this man 'olden
will be held to a strict accountability.
Theblicatit at hereof a !tutor bolo Gov
ernorPalmerP to Attorney lteneral Bush
nell, requesting him to present the ruwi,, in
regard to the killing tit:General Thomas IV,
Grosvenor, to the grand jury iitt'ook cone -
ty, has cleated a sensation. Very good
authorities deny the right of the Governor
to initiate such proceedings unless the
United Stat OS Attorney should first refuse
to presentlhe 'natter to the grand jury, Ito t,
on the other hand, Governor Painter is
recognized as a lawyer of ability, and not
likely to wake a mistake.
Tie trotting !mach between timmidsmith
Maid and Lucy, at Suffolk Park, yester
day, tsar won by the tai 1. The latest
mile war trotted in 9.181.
A trotting match will take play° on Tues
day next, at time Ilarrialmurg Park, for it
parse of elm, between Lady m :roma amid
cirecian Bend.
Two other trials of s t wod aro also to, take
place con the latter track In the (tonne, oI a
week, of which we shall give make here
alter.
Among Fatuity Ellsler's suitors in- Om
beauxjours of her prime wae, it is said, the
then Prince Loud s Napoleon liohaparte,
110 W ex- Emperor of France. Ile propos
ed marriage to her in London, but Fanny
having been secretly married to some bualy
else a year or two previously, rejected his
proposals, and thus clumped the penalty 01
being ex- Empresa of France Instead ol ex
queen of the Terpsichorean stage. A sister
jut Fanny Elleler's also a celebrated cianNenne
is the morganatic wife of Prince Albert of
Prussia.
Secretary Delano having telegraphed
Oeneral %Val ker, special Indian agent, wha
was sent a short time since to in vextlgato
the coin ulainle of the Sioux Indiana, to send
to Big White Clay l'or "S wilt Bear," " Fast
Dog," and other complaining chiefs, that
practical officer replica that It ix 111111 . 11 Bas
ler for hint to go to these chiefs than to/Mild
for them hi CMIIO to Mtn, and he has accord
ingly left Cheyenne for that purpose.
For Mil Dory Orkron-Grlndern
Ilere in an item for military orgaibgriod
era : Ono Marcus A litsworth, of Calais, V 1.,
last month, did well hnd truly dig eighty
bushels of potatoes in ono tav, the said
Marcus having but one arts. It Isn't ev
ery man with two arms who can do a bet
ter day's work than this. Now, suppose. in
stead of working to the best of his ability,
Marcus Ainsworth had bought a hand
organ, and planting himself on collie pave
merit, had proceeded to grind "Captain
,links" for a living, to the Indescribable
annoyance ofhts fellow-creatures! Vo say
nu store.
Bankrupt Insurance Cognpaule.
The Attorney-tleneral or 11l inoix ham be
gun proceedings agaloet the following I 11-
eiurance companion of Chicago, namely:
the ChicagoFreemen's, M erchan , Chi
cago Fire, Germania, Slate, Home, and
Mutual Security, upon an official statement
of the State Auditor that the aaaela of the
companlex are ineufllcient to JuNtify their
continuance In bupilnees. The total 0.01.4
of these companies amount to $2,994 000,
while their loseun amount to 1,2-1,300,000.
limn& Frightened
Preeddent Grant in said to have taken frieht
at thu never-ondigig exposures ot Paned
among Lll.l wilitnry illop , ,ifiLilletilei nil the
(Meta - mm.ld. It W. reported In %Vt.!,
Ingum on Tuesday night that wore heavy
frauds, committed by Wit,hington ullicluly
In the Pension 01lice, had been ilineoVeroll.
Nannies and particulars are withheld anal
arrests are !nude.
$♦10,000,000 Gone
Freeman Clark, formerly Coin ptrol ler or
the, CiirreOcy, and now a Republican
member of Congress from Nl,w YYork,puo
- stated Oust 01 Liio fil.100,01.)0,0n0 collect
ed from the people by 14e 'federalollicerii,
only 1450,000 Otk/ had foiled it-, wilyill
Treasury. Ilere in a direct roblipry or I Ili
people of $ 1.-1u,V.0,00U.
Viriginbs Given Ep
Leading Virgitia Radicals now In Wash.
ing ton admit that the Democrats will carry
the election in that State on 'Tuesday next
by a large majority. There is a general
complaint among the Radicals on ho lark or
neccessary whit, support In those sections
where there aro very large proportions or
negro population.
(rent Land Wnstitnirn
It in estimated that during the lent live
centuries more than $2.50,000,000 worth of
land has been washed away from the east
ern coast of England by the encroachments
of the sea. A number of villages and towns
which used to be set down on the old maps
have entirely disappeared.
A correspondent of the Memphis Appeal
wants a new State organized. lie Winkel
It should consist of all the country west of
the Tennessee River In Tennessee and Ken.
Lucky, and embrace that part of Mlaaiaalp•
pi north or the Tallahatchie River.
Topsey Ags c i t Victorlour.
At the Sudolk Tr Ring Park, Philadel
phia, on Maturday, match for 8500 was
trotted between the celebrated black mare
" Topsey," owned by Marcus 13einn, or
Reading, and the bay mare "Susie Kurtz."
"Tommy " was again victorious, winning
the race in throe straight heats—time, 2:351,
2:341, 2:351.
The Ileltlnff Pools
Tho New York World says, the betting
men are laying heavy odds on the Demo
crats carrying the State. In the pools last
night 'Milers was the favorite at odds of 100
to 90, 100 to 87, 10010 85 on Berl Mier. Brady
was Miff) the contest 'for Benstof,
sollltigat the rate of 20 to 20 fot: friction.
. .
Again on the War Path,
Cochlea, with whom Vincent Colyer made
peace at Canada-Alsmoso recently, is 140% ,
on the war.puth. A sharp battle occurred
at Horse-shoe Canyon, Arizona, between
Captain Russell and twenty soldiers, and
Cochise and his braves, the latter main
taizing their position.