Ramada 2ntellfgnicer.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15,1871
The Elections—The Effect.
The result of Tuesday's polllbg, in
nine different States, although we could
have wished it different, in many re
spects, cannot be regarded as either a
condemnation of the Democratic party
or its principles, nor as an endorsement
of Grant or his administration. In the
West the Democracy have made large
gains—all they expected, for there were
no hopes for a triumph in overwhelm
ingly strong Radical States. In the
two Virgi nias Democratic Conservatives
have signally triumphed, while in
Maryland, with the new Radical negro
element against them, the State and
Legislative tickets have overwhelming
majorities. In New Jersey we elect a
Democratic Governor, and gain the as
surance that the State will cast its elec
toral vote for a Democratic President
In '72.
The only State in which :the general
result has been atrainst the Democracy,
is New York, and there we have only
sustained a nominal defeat. By no
means can the result be claimed as a
triumph for the Grant Radicals. They
contributed nothing towards it, while
the Democrats, by their action at
Rochester, In boldly denouncing and
cutting louse from the. Tammany cor
ruptionist.s, paved the way for the hearty
second which has been accorded their
action by the people. The result is
simply an anti-Tammany and anti-Cor
ruptionist triumph, to which Democrats
contributed more effectively than the
'Murphy Radicals. It is a revolution in
the State, which only precedes the Na
tional revolution which is to crown Con
servative ellbrt in the next Presiden
tial contest. It is not a party defeat
or a party victory; it 14 simply a general
revolt of the people against fraud, cor
ruption, and official dishonesty ; and is
as much a condemnation of the pilfer
logs of Grunt's officials, mid of his pres
ent-taking, bribe-receiving characteris
tics, us it is of Tammany and Tom Mur
phy. Since the advent of Grant, with
the nepotism Which has characterized
his administration ; his itching palm
for the gifts of friends which served as
a better reminder to hint, than even the
wily whisperings of lago to Brabantio,
" Put money in thy purse;" the be
stowal of official place upon incompe
tent partisans, and their retention after
exposure of their Offerings—never has
there been such wholesale and unblush
ing corruption in every department of
government. Every day brings some
new development of Radical ruscalilies.
The journals are full of of them, 111111 the
heart sickens at their lore recital:
It is In condemnation of these enor
mities, the peregrinating, bribe-taking
eorruptikmist, nod klkdisik Radical bead
of the government which Ilc disgraces,
alike with the frauds °lT:mummy, that
this verdict has been rendered. It is
Tammany's turn now it will be rant's
The 103 al Party Off.
The President, tleneral Sherman,
Colonel Audenried, Lieutenant Fred.
Drant, and a score of attendants, lefli
Washinglift, yesterday, Mr New York,
front which port the Wabash is to sail
to-day. The royal Marty are said to be
in high spirits, especially Prince Fred,
who sees in the New York election re
sults a most potent hacking to his suit
for'the hand of the young Princess of
Duelph. Ills hoinence, the President,
is peculiarly elated in view of this visit
of the royal scion, as it puts another
feather in tlie bulimia! (sip, and re
moves him still further from the nofOr
innate plebeian 111001111gS WhiCh SO
much tended to hamper the patrician
hankerings of• his earlier youth. A
score or more of Tout ',Murphy's free
importations 0r 1 lavanas are added to
the royal daily consumption, while
visions of perpetual royal purple and
imperial magnificence art! woven unit
the curling smoke.
There is one thing to be regretted in
the departure of the Prince at the pres
ent juncture, and that is Dud the.l ;rand
!hike Alexis has not arrived, so that
the two heirslirei,uniptive of imperial
thrones, might shake paws and con
gratulate each other upon Ilse greatness
their royal pa's.
Fred, it is said, insisted upon taking
out Dexter, to astonish the royal turf
men of England, but Bonner refused to
present him to (ImM—the only thing
which has ever been refused him, when
asked for--which is likely to wipe out
the name of the great publisher from
the list of Presidential friends. To make
amends for this, the Prince goes with a
splendid out-lit, and with a box of his
royal father's,favorite cigars for '
who is about as vigorous and useless a
pulrer as the despot of the White }louse.
What a palpably practical, as well as
adishable joke, it would be, if the royal
father should go aborad to see the
Prince oil,l 4 nd the vessel set Hail and
make too great head.way for a speedy
or safe return. Ile might take it into
his maudlin royal head to take a turn
by way of San I Mining°, to see his curly
headed friend Baez; and, who knows
but, if once in that portion of his covet
ed domintons, he might not be so fas
cinated with the magniticent palaces
and the regal pomp of this island re
treat, anti which he can have for the
asking, that both he and Fred, and
the whole royal household, not except
ing old Jessie, Corbin and the minor
hangers-on to the teats of °Metal pap,
would pull up strikes at Washington,
and transfer the White 1 louse Cabinet
meetings and reeeptions to the palaces
in which old lien Wade and the San
1 )oiningo COMMISSiOIIers were so royal
ly lodged. There is no telling what
whims may seize royally, and least of
all, the imperial (leant.
The Milk In the Cocoa-nut
l'he late elections in Alabama dis
closed the existence of a secret Radical
Military organization in that. Stale,call
ed the "National lluards." These men,
whites and negroes, are bound together
by an oath, and are to operate with the
ballot as well as the bplonet. 'rimy did
Em operate recently, and defeated several
Candidates for the Legislature, who had
spoken in opposition to the society or
association. Would it not be -well Mr
the Ku-Klux - Committee to. examine
into the aims, purposes and doings or
this oath-bound, military association?
They are quite :1,1 dangerous at the Ku-
Klux bodies. But they favor the re
nomination of (letters! (irant, and that
will insure them front all molestation.
It Makes All the Difference Yoe know.
The Governor of Texas has auda
ciously refused to give a certificate to
three or four Democratic Congressmen
who have just been elected, which pro
ceedings, from a Radical stand-point, is
all correct; but it makes a decided dif
ference, you know, when a like course
is made to aired the political interests
of the Radical party. The withholding
of a certilicale from Weakley was rank
treason; a refusal to give them to three
Democratic Congressmen, a righteous
and loyal act!
Could Grant Emulate IL?
They manage some things abroad with
a better grace than we have attained
here. Mr. Gladstone has selected from
his hitter political opponents such men
S.B Mr. Russell Gurney and Sir Stafford
Northeote to represent the nation
abroad. Now President Thlers names
his old rival M. Guizot to the most im
portant foreign mission in his gift. Can
any of our readers Imagine President
Grant nominabin g to the Senate Senator
ti.'rank P. Blair or Horatio Seymour for
an important and honorable political
office such as it would honor them to ac
cept, and to which they would lend the
dignity of their character and their Icing
experiencesof men and opinions?
An Endorsing Policy.
The Harrisburg Patriot indulges in A
very sensible strain of comment upon
the suggestion of General Frank Blair
and the St. Louis Republican, that the
Democratic party make no nomination
for 1872, but support a candidate to be
named by Republicans opposed to the
re-election of Grant. We adopt the idea
and the language Of the Patriot when it
says that without at present intending
to assent to or dissent from the policy
suggested,' t unhesitatingly believes that
no nomination against Grant can be car
ried at the election which fails to receive
the• formal endorsement of the Demo
cratic National Convention; If the can
didate who is to receive the support of
the elements opposed to the re-election
of 'Grant Is to be one whose ante
cedents are not Democratic, the en
dorsement of his candidacy by the
Democratic National Convention will
be Indispensably essential to his success.
Lacking such endorsement, he could
not legitimately claim the support of
the Democratic organization, but would
be obliged to rely upon his platform of
principles and personal character to se-.
cure him the votes of the Democrats,
who by the silence of their National
Convention would bc given a choice be
tween the several candidates totally
unbiased and unrestrained by party ob
ligations. While Democrats generally
would prefer any " Republican "
statesman of liberal views to Grant,
and while the mass of them, in
the absence of a regular Democratic
nominee, would
,undoubtedly cast their
ballots for a candidate brought forward
in accordance with the suggestion of the
Republican, there is danger, In the
event of a Democratic National Conven
tion failing to name a candidate, that an
irregular movement would be made for
the nomination of a Democrat, which
would have the effect of bringing Into
the field a guerilla organization which
instead of inflicting injury on the com
mon enemy, would only distract and
damage the ranks of the liberal De
mocracy. Therefore, even if the cor
rectness of the Republican's suggestion
that the candidate who is to defeat
Grant lutist be a liberal of " Republi
can" antecedents, is conceded, it would
be folly, hr our judgment, to place that
candidate before the people without the
endorsement or recommendation of the
Democratic National Convention, the
authority duly accredited by the Demo
cratic party of the country to speak and
act In its behalf.
In 1.964, General George B. MTh..llan
was first nominated by the " National
Union Party " (the Bell and Everett or
ganization) and wan afterward adopted
by the Democratic National Convention.
If the tt. Louis Republican will moth iy
its suggestion, so as to conform it to the
policy which obtained in the nomina
tion of General M'Clellam it will Hot
only have a good Democratic precedent
to fall back upoit, but in all probability
a good Democratic President to look up
to after 1672.
Let the liberal or anti-Grant "Repub
licans" organize in the several States,
elect delegates to a National Conven
tion, and thus enable the Democracy to
estimate their strength, or rather to un
derstand whether or not they are leaders
who have a following. If they fail to
organize and hold a convention, how
are they to present the people a can
didate, especially if the Democracy
are not to nominate? if the anti-Grant
Republieans of a considerable number
of the States organize and place before
the people a candidate for President, on
a platform favoring universal amnesty,
the decentralization of political power,
civil service reform, reduction of taxa
tion, and a sound currency, the Dem
ocratic National Convention will
hardly be so pig-headed or unpa
triotic an to g i ve the movement the
void shoulder. But if those Repub
licans who desire the defeat of Grant,
and yet are 'lot quite prepared to vote
1i . an old-line Democrat, :ire so weak
in number or so inefficient as political
organizers, as to fail in elliwting a re
spectable national organization, they
cannot expect the Democratic party to
give their claims to recognition any ser
ous consideration. Before we are will
ing to concede them the leadership in
the coming battle, we must know
whom beside ourselves I licy are able to
lead.
Sir Roderick Murchison
The English papers announce the
death, at a very advanced age, of this
imtinent Deographer and Geologist. Ile
had, for many years pant, been President
of the Royal (teographical Society 01
( treat Britain. lii tbis position he has
contributed much to enlarge the boun
daries of Geographical Science; and
teological Science is largely indebted to
his clear intellect 11.1111 varied learning in
the physical sciences, and laborious in
vestigation of the rock formations of
many parts of Europe, for the rapid
'strides it has made during the last half
century.
Of the live great European divisions of
Palaeozoic time, the Cambrian, Silurian,
Devonian, Carboniferous, and Permian
stratifications, the honor belongs to Sir
Roderick Murchison of having named
three of them, The Pertnian, Devonian
and Silurian.
'l•he Permian was thus named by hint
from Perm, a province in Russia, where
this formation occupies a space con
taining an area four times as large as
the State of Pennsylvania, and is dis
tinguished for the great abundance and
variety of its fossils. It is largely de
veloped in the North-eastern counties
of England—Durham, Yorkshire and
Nottingham. It is the latest formation
of the Palaeozoic series.
The Devonian takes its name from
North Devon, in England, where till'
Roderick Mnreltison discovered it to
be a marine fossiliferous strata, and
had been k Ill) W u under the name of
the old red saud•stone, and occupies a
place between the over•-lying coal meas
ures and the underlying Silurian rocks.
This formation is largely developed in
t. he coal-regions of Pennsylvania.
The Silurian underlies the Devonian
or old red sued-stone group. To the
study of this formation Sir Roderick
Murchison gave a number of years of
unremitting study and labor; and while
classifying and studying this formation
in that part of \Vales and contiguous
counties of England, which once con,
stituted the kingdom of the Silures, an
ancient tribe of Britons, he proposed
the name of Silurian for this formation.
His ",S'iltu•ian system," published in
IS:CI, is a complete history and analysis
of this itnportant group of the ancient
life-bearing rocks.
But it is not alone in the sphere of the
rocks of Palaeozoic age that Sir Roder
ick Murchison drew developments so
prolific, to enrich the pages of the Book
of Nature. II e also examined and class
ified with a master mind all the sedi
ments which, "rocked in the cradle of
the rude imperious surgc," have been
deposited upon each other from the
dawn of organized being to the present
time, and to his last moments he felt
the liveliest interest in a science, to the
progress and development of which his
labors had contributed so much.
u the whole range of science there is
none which requires such intimate
varied knowledge, to properly compre
hend its details,as that of Geology. All
the cognate sciences are subordinate to
it. It embraces the whole arcana of na
ture. And the persevering labors of
one man, who hits done so much for its
development, entitles the name of Sir
Roderick Murchison to the lasting grat
itude of all lovers of Geological Science
throughout the civilized world.
Don't Speak Well for France.
It is not a good sign when a govern
ment prohibits the circulation of news
papers among Its soldiers. This is what
the French Minister of War has just
done:'
THE LA ►• CASTER WEEKLY _T__N - T.ELLIGENCER, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15. 1871.
Hound Him On.
As if the encroachments of Grant and
his myrmidons upon the rights of the
people were not sufficiently aggravated;
their utter contempt of Constitutional
authority and precedent not yet suffi
ciently bold and defiant for the further
ance of their unholy ends ; their cru
sade against a people, utterly helpless
and impotent in the simplest effort for
the redress of their wrongs, not yet car
ried to au extent sufficient to gratify
their demoniac thirst for revenge, the
leading Radical journals must needs
hound on the imbecile Executive of a
professed Christian nation to deeds of
still deeper infamy against Christian
brethren of one naticuality and one
household f Among the first to sound
the key-note of the aggravated crusade
which is to be inaugurated, Is the Slate
Journal. After deducing from the re
sult of Tuesday's election the argument
that it is a thorough endorsement of
Grant's whole policy, it says:
"Hence the President nded have no fear
in pursuing a radical polio , against the
disturbers of peace at the South. The men
who continue to defy the national authori
ties, are bankrupt outlaws, determined
never to recognize a power which they
could not destroy. To conquer such wretches
we must exterminate them. of course Gen.
Grant knows what to do, and will du it."
Against the assurance of their own
Radical officials in the South that there
are no Ku• Klux disturbances, except
such as are instigated by scalawag and
carpet-bag incendiaries; against the
protests of their ebony-hued friends,
whose hearts are far whiter than those
of the fiends who would fire them with
hatred ; and despite the assurances of
the local authorities that their power is
sufficient for the preservation of order,
a terrible condition of allitirs is pro
claimed, demanding the intervention of
armed authority and the suspension of
every civil right. It is not enough that
the people of South Carolina should be
first impoverished by the pilferings of
Northern Radicals from her treasury,
their homes desulaled, and general ruin
and beggary the only inheritance left
them ; but the same heartless and dam
nable rule must be extended to Georgia,
Alabama, Mississippi, and to every
other State where the people have dared
the expression of free thought, or had
the temerity to indulge that independ
ent action which characterizes freemen.
If such be tire truthful rendering of the
verdict on Tuesday, God pity the vic
tims who fall under Grant's une•ciless
rule. "Of course, Grant knows what to
do, and he will do it." Aye, will lie;
but, true to your brutal instincts, hound
hint on. Impress upon his stolid mind
the idea that to conquer the people of
the South, they must be exterminated;
and, as Grata may not be sufficiently
embittered to personally conduct the
heartless crusade, let Piegan Phil
Sheridan be employed to head the mil
itary hirelings, and direct the fire
brands of extermination against once
happy homes. lie is adapted to, and
revels in, just such work ; and, with
the sunCtion which is claimed by the
lournoi, he would do it so effectually
that not a fagot should burn upon a
peaceful hearth-stone—not a smile or
cheerful word light up a single hotote
hold—not a tearless eye close in sleep,
nor a single heart pulsate without emo
tions of dread—so that gaunt famine
shall displace plenty, and the bounteous
soil of snotty homes refuse to . yield the
harvests which have enriched them and
contributed so largely to the commerce
,if Lhe nation. Yes, hand the people of
the South over to the jackals of your
party. Let them revel and gloat to
their full bent hi the scenes of misery
which they love. But, in the midst of
the feast, let them not forget that there
is such a thing 11.4 retributive justice,
and that, as the hand-writing upon the
wall struck terror into the cowardly
and guilty soul of Belshazzar, so surely
will the people arise in their offended
majesty and hurl rpmm power the mis
creants who sn rya lessly Irainph. upon
human rights.
The Ordinary lion Wu.
No W that the smoke of the polities]
contests has cleared away, with all the
-bustle and excitement that attended
them, we may all set about composing
ourselves and settling down into our
usual business-routine. Elections are
always accompanied by more or I eSS of
irregularity. They lend to unsettle men's
minds, divert them from their usual
.diannels at thought, and more or less
disti . aut us all. But such diversions, if
not of too frequent occurrence, have a
beneficial tendency. They get us out
of ruts and kinks. They show us that
there is something to be attended to in
lire beside our own immediate private
eoncerns. They enlarge our horizon of
thought and feeling, liberalize our ideas,
develop public spirit, and make us part
and parcel of the great world. Alen
cannot confine themselves within them
selves —cannot bear to be imprisoned in
I ooks and eorners -cannot tie ;Omni
sel ves down to lucre personal and sel
fish aims and objects, without becoming
narrow; minded and hide-bound.
7 lie Corn Crop of the West
Fears were at one time entertained
that, with the large destruction of grain
in Chicago .and other portions of the
West, as well as the reported deficit in
Europe, that there would be a scarcity
of breadstuln in this country, with
prices that would seriously operate
against the poorer (dames. 'Western pa
tiers, however, inform us that the corn
crop of the \Vest, the present season,
has proved the best harvested for years.
In many portions of Indiana, lowa,
Missouri, Nebraska and Minnesota corn
is offered in the cribs at front ten to tif
teen cents a bushel. In Illinois and
Kentucky the yield has been beyond
all precedent. The wheat crop has also
been very large. In Europe, on the
contrary,. there appears to nave been a
heavy deficit in the grain harvests in
nearly all countries. In England the
general falling MY has been variously es
timated at from fifteen to twenty per
cent. ; while in Hungary, the Danubian
Principalities, portions of Austria, and
in Southern Russia—all countries that
have usually exported large quantities
of grain. - there bits been a great decreas
from the average production. The rav
ages of the potato rot and the cattle dis
ease in Great Britain will increase the
demand for grain and animal food, and
the United States will be able to supply
both in any quantity at reasonable
prices, as cheap bacon and pork, articles
extensively consumed everywhere, are
the natural consequence of cheap corn.
Don't Give Credit
The Radical journals, everywhere,
in their jubilee over the election results
in New York, claim it as a " Republi
can victory." In response to which the
_Herald asks, " What will it amount to
It will be another jubilee for the Re
publicans while the "Reformers" will
be laid out in the cold and a general
stampede made for restoration to the
DeMocratic fold." No credit is given
to the honest men who igtiored party
ties and assisted in redeeming the State
from Tammany frauds; the Radicals
think it is all to be attributed to the
popularity of Grant, while the truth is,
he was scarcely thought of in the fight.
Another Presidential Candidate.
The Trenton Gazette (Rep.,) thinks
that the astouishing success Of Hon. Joe
Parker, of New Jersey, in an election
which, on the rest of the ticket, gave a
large adverse majority, places that gen
tleman at the very head and front of the
Democratic politicians of the country as
an available Presidentiarcondidate next
year. He possesses a prestige of success,
which all the other profilinent aspirants
for the empty but fascinating honor of a
Presidential nomination lack. And this
prestige is an indispensable prerequisite
in a candidate• It would not greatly
surprise us if Mr. Parker should head
the Democratic National ticket next
year.
The Last Badteal President.
In political matters, the New York
Herald is something of a prophet, and
can, akt a general thing, read the horo
scope of parties with almost unerring'
accuracy. Even with the result of the
New York elections, and the damper
which they are supposed to throw upon
Democratic prospects, it predicts that
Grant will be the last Republican Pres
ident, Wendell Phillips, one of the
sages of the ultra Radical school, says,
that the Republican party has fulfilled
its purposes—is rapidly falling topleces,
and that It must die. Both Phillips and
the Herald may be regarded as genuine
prophets, because they are free from po
litical obligations and party ties. In the
last Presidential contest it was asserted
that the Republican party must suc
ceed, because in the great philosophical
course of aflitlrs It had not fulfilled its
destiny. Yet it must be asserted, in the
face of this proposition, that many par
ties are known in history to have suc
ceeded in holding office during a period,
and to have gone out of power with op
probrium and universal detestation and
contempt. Such will be the fate of the
Republican party. tirant\is its only
embodiment, and he has preserved his
claims to a re-nomination only by Sa
crificing the best men and the purpose
of his party. lie cut down Penton;
he insulted Greeley; he choked Sum
ner; he outraged every sense of party
decency and of national statesmanship.
And Greeley says of him what is true,
that he only carried the State of New
York by stepping into the furrow of a
sentiment and spending the Customs
money. We do not believe that he Ln s
thereby gained a re-election.
Front the look-out the New York
Leader drms s much to encourage, tool
thinks that at no time during the past
ten years could the Democratic party
look forward inure happily or hopeful
ly. It is a party which profits by local
defeats. I lad the Republican party been
defeated in the recent New York elec
tion, it could not have existed for one
year in the nation. But the Democratic
party is alive and pro s pering. This
Tammany defeat does not materially in
jure Democratic prospects. Indeed, we
see this in New Jersey, which will go
Democratic in the National election.
The greatest political aspiration every
where seems to be that there memt be a
great National Democratic party. It is
coming. All talks of new departures,
of accepting situations, of laying along
side the Republican craft and going into
harbor a little ahead of her, are but
shadows of the policy of the National
Democratic party that is forming.
The Republican party, then, as organ
ized, will die in bed of consumption.—
Its head, Seward, is gone. Its heart,
Chase, is gone. Its right hand, Fel I ton,
is gone. Its left hand, llreeley, is gone,
Its pulse, Schurz, is gone. Its purpose,
Sumner, is gone. Its old boots and
spurs, Murphy and Chant, remain. In
its place is a purpose of exacting money
from panel-house secrets. When Mur
phy tells the secret in some day's anger,
the party will (lie.
The National Democratic party is or
ganizing its purpose and its power. As
yet we see only its dawningAight. Very
soon we shall see brighter its beams. A
little later its full rays will spread over
holiest purpose and powerful organiza
tion, and the glory of our government
shall be as noon-day.
Out of Ills Own 'Mouth Ile Slangs con
victed
IL is sometimes it dangerous thing for
a Mall to Nit hilnnelf 1111011 the record—
especially a not over-shrewd :mil un
principled politician. A mau l s words
may sometimes be paraded against him,
to his complete discomfiture. Such is
the predicament of Useless Grant. In
ISiftl, when a serious dist urbance threat
ened Baltimore, President Johnson was
requested to send United States troops
there in order to preserve order, and
General Canby was directed to proceed
to Baltimore and report upon the con
dition of :drafts. General Grant, the
Commander-in-Chief, was consulted by
the President, and directed to make re
port on the subject, which he did on the
:2-Ith of October of that year. After de
tailing the circumstances of the case,
Ile proceeded to discuss the question as
to the propriety or using the military
forces in the local :drafts of a Slate, and
added:.
'rho conviction is forced on my mind that
no reason now exists fill giving or promi,
ing the military aid 01' the Government to
support the lairs of :Maryland. The ten
dency olgiving such aid or promise would
be to produce the very result intended to
be averted. So far there seems to be mere
ly a very bitter contest fur political 8,0010
deney in the State. Military interference
would be interpreted as giving aid to one
of the fauthins, 110 matter how pure the in
tentions, or how guarded and just the in
structions. JI is It contingo:nry hope' never
10 See arise ill 111iS COllllll7l While I orrnpy
the positioi of (;eneral-10-I'hiti of Ole
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rill of an dee( iOn to peeSel•Ve the pert,. If
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lifealUti Of Calling OW foreeS 10 MITI,.
This, observes the Washington Pa
(riot was live years ago ; the writer was
then Commander in -Chief, and is now
President. lie (lid not expect that in
five years the nation would be e central•
iced like Russia or France, and dreams
of empire had not d,zzled and bewilder
ed him. It wits then believed by every
one that a State should be permitted to
protect the peace of its own citizens;
that if any attempt were made by the
Federal Government to control the
of of local government, it would
be met with force, and the authors
of the treason be hurled front power,
tried, convicted, and punished ; that
the unauthorized use of the army is a
crime; that the military force, illegally
employed, is a mob, :Ind its commander •
leading it, a criminal. Now, without
the faintest shadow or insurrection or
rebellion in the State of South Carolina
--no effort to obstruct. the Government,
or ,/,nio/ ‘,f /h. /iluiling forcr of
int/ lows, or he'
. ft,rms of I shrldishcd
govcrilmriti i,e the blot:—Wi th the whole
State machinery in full operation—no
one questioning ifs legitimacy—execu
tive, judicial, and ministerial officers in
the regular :Lod peaceable discharge of
their duties—without the solicitation or
4:onscol of the Executive or the Legisla
ture, the Federal army is hurled upon
this defenceless Stale, and the dragon
nades of Louis X IV. reproduced in
what is still called, by courtesy, "our
Republici"
Republicans Bought It ith Tweed's Steal
lugs.
IL has transpired what became of a
portion, at least, of the money fur which
an action is commenced against William
AL Tweed. Judge Noah Davis, United
Slates District-Attorney, states that he
has received information entirely satis
factory to his mind that" the New York
charter was voted for by the Republicans
pursuant to a caucus resolution of both
branches of the Legislature, bot that the
entire body of R,publicalLi teCtC corrupt
ed by immense:ims of money brought
by Tweed from New York, for which
identical money an action had been com
menced against him!" The Judge's
authority was no less a person than A.
D. Barber.
THERE is a saying that "it pays to he
honest." Grant's officials don't think
so, and a large number of our own
State officers have been making experi
ments upon a very different basis. There
IS another homely piece of advice upon
which Grant practises, and which he
has made pay--" Get all you can, and
keep all you get," from a Long Branch
cottage to a terrier-pup.
Anti• Grant Movement
A Washington despatch to the N. Y .
San says :
The Washington organ of the Deinocracy,
after consultation with several prominent
Democratic leaders, has decided to oppose
any formal nomination by the Democracy
for President and Vice President, provided
thean ti-0 rant Republicans will put a tick
et in the field, and indicates a willingness
to support even Charles Sumner.
The Hero of Two Big Fires.
Piegan Phil seems Incapable of lifting
himself from the filthy slough of tyran
ny and outrage upon, not only decency,
but the common rights of humanity,
into which he has longsinesdescended.
His element seems to be carnage and
bloodshed, and he revels amid buffering
as the Very personification of the angel'
with the ink-horn and fiend of horrors.
Hunting Piegan Indians, and murder
ing their papooses and squaws, or shoot:
ing and hanging without arrest or trial,
to add to the terrible scenes of burning
Chicago, seems to be the only sphere
where he is perfectly at-home. The
iston Argus is terribly, yet justly se
vere upon his military acts of usurpa
tion, and draws a graphic picture of
scenes in which he conspicuously fig
ured. It says:
"It is now little more than seven years
since the Shenandoah Valley was laid
waste. Homes which had sheltered many
generations were mercilessly burned down,
and young and old, tottering grandsirea,
weak women, helpless children, were
turned out into the fields and highways
and left by the inhumanity of man to the
pity or God which, in that hour, seemed
terribly far away. Barns were given to
the flames, fences were destroyed, and
even the implements of agriculture were
gathered into heaps and 'mule bonfires of.
In all the history of the world's wars
there is no record of destruction more ruth
less, or wanton, or wicked than this. It
wall a curse which fell upon the innocent
and helpless—upon those who were past
lighting, or were not old enough to fight or
strong enough—a crusade against maidens
and mothers, old men on orutrhes, and ba
bies in cradles.
The distinguished warrior who led in
this campaign of rapine, who applied the
torch to a thousand homesteads, and set
the overflowing barns of the great valley
smoking and cracking under a peaceful
sky—who snapped the graudsire's stair
with the strong hand and sent the armed
heel crashing through the cradle—was
teneral Philip Sheridan. lie made a clean
job, spoiling everything, even to the very
crops on the earth Over which Ito swept,
and sparing nothittg,—not a roof, tree, a
grain stack, nor a widow's cow.
We recall this little reminiscence of seven
years ago merely by way of directing at
tention to the eminent, good taste of the
Mayor of Chicago, during the recent great
tire, in committing to General Sheridan the
guardianship of the public peace and mak
ing him the almoner or the public charity.
It was as if the keeper ofa cook-shop should
entrust to an aged buzzard of battered beak
—curious only in carrion and keen fin• it—
the sampling and selection of his butcher's
meat. It was giving the supervision of
quarantine to a stuall-pox patient festering
in the eon iluent sores of his ninth day."
Nut Claimed as a Republican Victory.
the New York Tribune has not quite
as much brass as some of the smaller
try Radical journals, and does not con-
Ader the result of the election in New
York as a Republican victory. It says:
In Now York party organizations co
aloseed, and the grand Reform victory wa.
the joint trill m ph of honest Democrats ant!
honest Republicans against the thieves.
This means, what is just the fact, that
honest Democrats and honest Republi
'cans united and voted against Tam
many, headed by Tweed, and the Cus
tom-House thieves headed by Tom Mur
phy, Grant's-friend-and Collector of
Customs. True Democrats do not, and
have no need to feel badly over the re
sult. They have overthrown the cor
rupt " Ring" of the party, which gives
them a better standing before the Conn
try, and a guarantee for success next
year. There has been no falling air in
Democratic strength. Party lines were
ignored by Democrats as well as Repub
licans to defeat the thieves, and all hon
est Republicans voted as readily for Til
den fur the Assembly as honest Demo
crats for Sigel. If the Republicans will
only commence the work of purification
in their party and complete as have the
Democracy, then honest men will in
deed have cause for rejoicing.
The Booth Carolina Bond Ring
While the excitement in South Caro
lina, caused by the doings of the State
Bond Bing, is not in the lent diminish
ed. the terror caused by (lie withdrawal
of public liberties grows even more ap
parent than it was when martial law
was first proclaimed. _Bayonet law was
of course avoided by all who were aide
to leave the proclaimed districts, and a
general exodus of wealth and respecta
bility took place. But many persons
whose business is of a local character
are compelled to remain. The exodus
of the ti rot-named class simply means
the ruin of the otheit: Many failures
will probably be reported before long.
TIT El: I.: was (mite an exciting contest
in the Episcopal Convention of the New
Diocese, at Harrisburg, between the
High and Low Churchmen. The Low
Churchmen carried the day, electing
their Bishop and Standing Committee,
and also securing the Hann, of "Central
Pennsylvanil." for the Diocese. The
High Churchmen advocated the adop
tion of the Si, principle and naming
the Diocese after the city in which the
Bishop is to have his residence. Bev.
Mr. Watson, of this city, made an able
speech in support of this position. We
could 1101 find room in ()or report
for this discussion.
What They Endorse
We have three hundred and lifly sev
en millions of legal-tenders in circula
tion, worth in the market eighty-nine
cents on the dollar. In less than three
years Mr. llontwell has shipped to Eng
land, to buy bonds due in lssl, and
Indeed up in the vaults of the Treasury
over three hundred and eighty-two mil
lions in gold. This Is what the Repub
licans in their State Conventions en
dorse,when they commend the Bout wet I
financial poliry.
Nut Harmonious
The Conferees appointed by the Re
publican Conventions of Bucks and
Northampton counties to elect a Sena_
torial Delegate to the neat State Conven
tion !net at Easton on Friday last. , ffhey
were unable to agree upon a delegate,
each county claiming the appointment,
and finally adjourned to meet, again at
Doylestown on the 231 of DeCcllliwr,
A Presidential Candidate Not Alloned In
Vote!
On Tuesday morning, Mrs. Victoria
(' Woodhull entered GS_' Sixth avenue
and offered her vote, but was told that
the Inspectors could not receive it. :she
111.10 tell the Constitution of the plate,
and cited judicial decisions in proof of
WMllllll'B right to vole, but it was all to
no purpose. Iler vole was rejected,
after which she left muttering and tie:r
oughly disgusted.
!lard on a Man and Brother!
In Texas, the other day, Robert, Lay
ton, a colored juror, was rudely snatch
ed from the jury -box merely because he
had stolen a fifty-dollar trunk. Will
some one lie kind enoagh to inquire,
through the medium of the press, if the
"loyal North" is going to submit to this
sort of thing long
A Fat(tier Il 111% becwo Li l tie ch i hl rdd
lle 1/rlve% Anil,. Inln Their Heath,
A horrible murder was committed near
Osage Mission, Kans:l4, in the night of
November sth. John P. Flanagan, the
perpetrator of the crime, having recently
suffered loss e s, resolved to dispatch hini
selfandfamily, purchased chloroform,
and during the night, administered it to
his wife and his two little girls, aged two
months and two years.
About I A. M., Mrs. Flanagan awoke
from the stupor produce by the chliiroMrin,
and discovered her husband driving nails
into the children's heads. Flying to the
rescue of her babes, she found them. expir
ing from the effect of blows from a hatchet
and nails. She succeeded in disarming
her husband and gave the alarm, and Flan
agan wets taken into custody.
What n Fainter; Off.
In the District of Columbia, which last
year registered 28,528, only 13,873 cab be
found this year. This is a terrible falling
away. The Registration last year was for
a special purpose. The off-falling in whites
is 10,093; In colored 4,592. Can it be pos
sible that the District has been depopulated
to the extent of over one-half? Or. is it
not more probable that the registration of
last year was an unmitigated fraud?
The llettleale couldn't See It.
The people of New York at the recent
election, voted an amendment to the State
Constitution, denying the right to vote at
the pending election to any man who ac
cepted a bribe for his vote, as well as the
man who paid the bribe. The Democrats
were pledged to its support. The Radicals
decided not to take auy action in regard to
the question.
=l=72
Bears are bold and destructive in Mifi
fin county.
Spiritualists are numerous in Dela:
ware county.
The canals.of the State are to be closed
on the 20th inst.
Mad doge have made their appear
ance at Slatington.
Horse-thieves are said to be operating
In Tioga county.
An attempt has been made to burn
the post-ofllce at Easton.
The Philadelphia Odd Fellows con
tributed $16,733 for Chicago. "
The Lehigh county jail contains but
14 prisoners at the present time.
The brick work of the new passenger
station in Sunbury is going up.
A bold thief stole Senator Petriken's
coat at Huntingdon the other day.
All the iron works of Huntingdon
have stopped operations.
Sunbury is to have another steam fire
engine at a cost of $1,200.
There is a woman living in Reading
who Is in the 9ntii year of her age.
Four deaths from small-pox in New
ville, Cumberland county, last week.
A number of the very best mechanics
have left Pottsville for work in Chicago.
Rev. B. H. Crever, of Bloomsburg, is
interested in founding a Western colony.
The printers of Scranton sent to
their fellow-craftsmen in Chicago.
The new Methodist Church in Har
rieburg is to have a spire 165 feet high
Much uneasioess is felt in the anthra
cite coal regions in anticipation of z
miners' strike.
Rev. fennel Coombe is delivering a
series of lectures on the license system,
In the eastern part of the State.
There are only eight male teachers
employed in the public schools of Dela
ware county.
The rearing and keeping of bees is an
extensive and profitable business in
Crawford county.
Regular passenger trains are now Din
ning over the Sunbury and Lewistown
Railroad.
number of Pottsville's hest.
mechanics contemplate emigrating to
Chicago.
Rev. It. I. t'rever, of Ploontlisurg, is
interested in founding a \\'i,tern
colony.
One tirni in Prno=ylv:uiis Ints
shipped forty-one cases s,losil slates
to Japaii.
There are ten inil ion bushelA of en
at Pittsburgh waiting for he Ohio riv
to ri c e.
Tito lisine,s on the C'olebrookdale
Railroad, running front Pottstown to
I\lt. Pleasant, is increasing rapidly.
Itev. 11. Schick, has been appointed
pastor of St. Jo , ..epli's 'atliolic Church,
at South Easton.
Jatues Ballantync, one of Eadon's
oldest citizens, died on Friday last, at
the advanced age of ST years.
Annie Newman, aged 2 years awl lo
months, died in Chester county a 11w
days since from swallowing a screw.
Williamsport is to have a large glue
manufactory near the mouth of Lycont
ing creek.
The Democials of Reading have au
organization, :mil hold regular meetings
in 'the Keystone building.
Two inmates of the Delaware (amity
poor-house died from small-pox last
week.
Five thousand tons of coal were ship
ped over the Wilmington and ReatlitiL
Railroad, for the month of October.
Hugh E. Steele, Esq., has been elect
ed President of the Conestoga Valle . )
Rail road.
_Reading's cash contributions to Chi
cago and the Northwestern staerers
now amount to .:',. 6 3,ti:n.50.
The Lew railroad between Lewistown
and 81.111bIlry is already over-crowded
with trains.
(ten. James Burns, of Lewistown, i.
said to be the best raiser of swine in tin
State. His stock is superior.
The regular freight and passengei
trains have commenced running from
Lewisburg to Milllinburg.
Col. A. K. M'Clure will deliver a let•
lure in Chambersburg this month, foi
the benefit of the Cornet Iland of tha
place.
A black mare and falling-top buggy
were stolen on Tuesday, :llst ult., In
Norristown. The thief has not been
captured.
Henry 11,rgey's wooh•n mill, hi 'Atari
borough taw ash Ili, :NI taitgoinery (.1)1_1111.3
was te.+troytd I.y lire Oil Sunday nigh
last.
rich Coal lail", at Plyinoulh ar
it bo still further develoifed
year, whirl' will :old 111±W impetus t.
the gt•owth of that thriving, borough.
The Jersey Shore /If raid says that a
shrewd lady at English Centre, c•ont
pares her hie-hand to - :t tallow candle;
lie alway, spatter, and smoke, when
he's put
Six mon were by the plo
slim of a loiter in the shop
of the Pittsburgh, Fort \Vayne and ( 'lt i
cagti Railway l'ompany, Wayne,
on Thursday.
The Ilaptkt State ('oliventital, the
Pennsylvania, EtliaNAtional Soviely and
State Ministerial Union, gill <•arh told
meeting in Oil City next
year.
Win. Skelton, of Cambridge, Craw
ford I,lllliy was shot and killed at Kel
ley's Mills, a few days ago, l,y a young
man who was tiring at a mark. The
sad occurrence was entirely accidental.
Mrs. David Schidler, of Pottstown,
had her infant smothered in her shawl
on Tuesday last. She was out walking
with it, and wrapping it up too care
fully the child smothered.
Davis (lilt, the newly elected Sheriff
of Chester county, will inaugurate his
duties by hanging (leo. Grant, recently
found guilty of linirderilig a Mrs.
Spence, of West Chester.
Mr. John S. Becker, of Alsace town
ship, Berks county, shot a wild-cat last
Saturday, which measured i feet 7
inches from head to tail, and weighed
121 pounds.
.Taines.T.Taylor, post waster of liersey,
l'.lk county, has been arrested and held
to bail in the sine of * , 3,tion to appear at
the ITnited States l'ourt, at Erie, on the
second Monday of January, for opening
letters in his odic• addressed to other
parties.
The Carlisle shoe iilarlisle 1%1.1,
hay been bought out by Neidrich,(ireen
tl• Co., who are now 1111111ing the busi
ness. They work acme 51) hands, and
are nnikintr, at present, about 900 pairs
weekly of women's, misses' and chil
dren's shoes.
The imai,,,,y/ , ay= Ilutl the depot
building, 01 tin- Calawis-a railro:el :LI
Nluney, is nearly enwideb•d. It is
brick, xvith liu rnol, and is sercilly-feet
in 14.1101, :mil cmitairi,4 I h:l;et t, llire,
I=ll
!hillock, of tieorgia, resigned his "like
for the purpose of (wailing iinpea,linient.
But it 1.11411111.1 that under the Coie-titittion ot•
the State his resignation will not afford the
relief he seeks. Article:l, seeliun a, 0f tho
Constitution, declares that 1111 f 11011,0 Of
Itepresentatives has the power to im
peach Vail pe,...1 whit, shall have been
or may be in m11,4, - I'lll, press ,if the
State demands Mat proceedings he emn
inenveti under this ,1 11111 , 1 1 . Even it . they
are not followed by piiiii,hinent, it is con
tended that if the State has any evidence
against 'hillock, (anti who doubts that it
Ims 7) it ought to be given 10 the world
through an impeachment
Tuesday's electron disposes of the young
men who were so keen for running 'Pout
Scott for President. They are ruled off the
course ;before they had fairly got started.
Toni Scott is a great railroad man. Part
of his business has been bribing I.egisla
tures. That is enough. No rerun who ran
been either a briber or a bribe-taker can be
run fir President in ls7'2, unless his party
hanker after the fate which has just over
taken the Tanitnany robbers in New York.
—.V. Y. Run.
Worst or the liana
Speaking of the resignation of (My.
of Georgia, the Nation says :
Ile is one of the worst of thegang whom
the reconstruction process raised into power
at the South, and he will probably endeaV
or to figure in Washington this Winter 1301
a Unionist "martyr." The most entertain
ing part of his farewell letter is that in
which he warns the Iln ion men ()Intestate
that they will slum he eaten up by the
rebels.
" Which nobody can deny !"
Eizt=
The Washington Patriot, of Thursday
says, an order will issue from the War De
partment, probably to-morrow, placing
the Indians of Arizona under the direct
charge of General Schofield, and instruct
ions will be , given to bring thorn all in
upon reservations, and to keep them upon
such reservations. While there they will
be fully protected in, all their rights by this
Government, and if they leave and go upon
the war path they will be punished.
Rumored Defalcation
A special to the Washington Telegraph
from the Philadelphia Press, of Friday
says, "There is a rumor to-night of an
other defalcation—this time in the city
post-office. The story is, that a clerk who
has been living rather fast, has been dis
covered [oho a defaulter in a considerable
amount"
[For the Irttelltgeneerd
Suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus
There is nothing more humiliating in
human nature than the spectacle of a great
and gallant people quietly sinking into an
attitude of indifference to the value of the
blood-bought liberties given to them by a
high spirited ancestry. To say that such
is the ejact condition of the American peo
ple, at the present time, might be going too
far, but appearances look very much as if
such were the case. Who will deny that
we have been for some time in a state of
revolution, bloodless if you please, but not
the less a revolution—rapidly tending to
ward a total change of the hitherto repub
lican character of the government, and to
the concentration of all power into the
hands of one man. Instance the condition
of South Carolina. President Grant, by the
flat of his will suspends the habeas corpus
in about one-third of that State, the direct
effect of which is to substitute the military
for the civil powers—in other words, the
inauguration of martial law, which that
great mat ter, the Duke of Wellington, de
fined as "no law at all."
The difficulty lies In appreciating hor
rors, front which wo are exempt -hence
tho apathy of the Northern mind to the
complaint of the afflicted counties where
martial law prevails. Now let the people
of Lancaster comity place themselves In
the shoes of those of Marion county, South
Carolina, where martial law existed from
the 17th of October to the :td of November,
this present mouth—the; people, made 01,
dicta to the will of a Brigadier•lieneral or
even a Colonel, commanding, (say :000) U.
S. soldiers stationed in our midst, strang
ers to our customs, feelings and sympa
thies ;_plaeed at their mercy Without any
appeal to the Courts; no trial by jury ; the
hands of the magistrates paralyzed; each
Lieutenant of a squad authorized, or at
least feeling hinisolc empowered to arrest,
whether in the night or day-Ii ate, and
lodge in jail, any 0110-111 all, WOlllllll or
child, regardless of condition, age or sex--
hr may suspect to be guilty or any real or
imaginary uffenee, and smelt supposed
criminal hurried uhf, in spite or the tears,
and supplications of the dear ones at home,
to places they know not where; their own
inquiry and that of friends, as to the (-Anse
of arrest, treated with void mockery. I C
we can picture to our 11011,18 all this, we
may realize to some extent the condition
of the people of that unfortunate seethe'.
To all this the apologist of President I 1 rant
will probably say, the people are at fault
themselves; for why I.lu they harbor Ku-
Klux ; why don't they obey the laws of
their country? To this 1 reply, with what
ever force this may apply to other counties
in that State, the President Ity his procla
mation of November 3.1 admitted that he
was apt in error, so far as Marion comity
was concerned. But look-at the enormity
of the case of a peaceable county, as much
so as our own, subjected to the horrors of
military rule, even for two weeks.
The inquiring mind will instinctively
ask,Bittin where are derived these invasions
of the liberties of the citizen 7 Are the in
stitutions of the county su tame and iutpu•
tent as not to guard fundainentully against
those infractions of civil and political liber
ty? I answer, all these outrages aro clear
violations of the Constitution of the United
States ; but where is the remedy, when the
President and a partisan Congress conspire
to violate it? The only warrant for Bloom.
pension of the habeas euron, is touted-1
mean, of course, outside of the late act of
Congress, which if valid must of necessity
be based on it—in Sec. ii of Art. 1. Under
the head of the powers of Cottyrt,s, and not
those of the President, lie it remembered,
"that the privilege of the writ of habeas
corpus shall not be suspended, unless when
in cases of rebellion or invasion the public
safety may require it."
• There aro but two !Teel ilod eases, in
habeas corpux, t which means the right of
any citizen, when arrested or imprisoned
l'or any reason, by anybody, to be brought
before a Court or Judge, whose duty it is
to inquire into the,-5000 .1 - such arrest or
imprisonment, and if no good ,xtuse be
shown,to discharge, or cotherwise take bail,
or remand the prisoner,) is taken away by
the Constitution, signed by Komi it WASH
INOTON, viz : In case of rebellion, or move
" when the public safety may require
it." It is needless to say that neither Con
gress or the President,or both combined ran
change the right. Why !Menus() it is a
right mucholder than the Constitution itself;
it is a right guaranteed to every English and
American citizen, over since the reign of
King Charles 11, and I hold, that if the
Constitution were silent upon the subject,
the right would still exist in all its vigor.
And had the Constitution taken away, in
stead of affirming it, the result would have
been that merican Revolution, instead
of maintaining and guaranteeing civil lib
erty, would have abridged it.
I will not take the trouble to parade the
11a111(4 of Kent, Story, and the authors of
the Federalist, to show that the SllSpet.ioll
of the writ of //9/•cms rociots, in the ease ad
verled to, is in direct and palpable violation
of the Constitution,that the President swore
to "preserve, protect and rbfC//r/ for any
thing else would bean insult to their memo
rY. But I will appeal with confidence to
every citizen of Lancaster eon nly,who reads
the New York Tribune, filled as its columns
are, and have been, with the most exagge
rated accounts of Ku-Klux outrages, and
ask whether I taking these outrages as true,)
they amount in their judgment to a "re
bellion or inVfl3ioll.," endangering not the •
peace—but '• the publM safety."' lAA them
lake the Constitution it, hand and 10001 to
Section ii of Article I, :in,' place it side by
side with the sum of all the supposed out
rages; take a cominon-sense view, as 1
know they Will, and then ask their con
sciences whether President Crant was right
in suspending the habeas corpms as passed
by the Constitution.
To say that outrages are cononillod in
the region placed beyond the pale of the
law by the usurpations of the Cuustitu Lion,
proves nothing. Doubtless, owing to the
somewhat chaotic condition incident to the
late civil war, mutes may be more numer
ous there than in our own section; but to
stigmatize the art of a set of marauding
adventurers as 'a rebellion 01 . 111.1,15i,11,
jeoparding the public safety—in the lace of
the fact, that all the Courts, both civil and
criminal, State and National aro open, and
all the other civil functionaries in undis
turbed authority- is a perversion 0f terms,
and he who shields his official acts under
such pretex to, is a wilful falsifier, and a
violator of the Constiltili , ,,, of his country.
NI'AsT
From lite Cool Region.,
N,,v. 13, 1‘,71
.11,...,1... Edam's .—The which
a week or two agii nalnied a partial Sllspoll
- have;hr,•n adjusted, :mil nearly'ull the
collieries have resninn.ll again, tlnnigh tho
busint,s i.ht)1111•WIlail11111. ( in (WI lOW
lily the wage, paid, ;tin' ytit Ifni wag!, ih.-
wandf.,l are hole (41., 11101. .11/ 41gillg nut
tl. 1,1,1'11( I.)k•mil. thorn will 110 110
nun
penniou this year.
For the first two in 1 , 72 that is
January alld February, there, %V . ] II nut lie
!well coal shipped. The ahuan uunrths are
generally oeetipied iii repairing, elating
gangway...,
The Heading Railroad Company :lave
purchased ',early all the abandoned t...ab
lands in the comity. When I speak of
abandoned lands I wean that in which the
surfaeo,..al has been taken out, or in other
words what the miners term the first lift.
m these lands the Company will now sink
shafts and go down to the basin. This re
quires a largo 11.111011.1 t or eapital—individ-
xla vannot do it—it almost necessitates
eorporated companies. In a few years all
the If in the coal regions will be work
ed by corporated companies. Mr. (towel!,
President of the Reading road, has return
ed from Europe. and report says, that he
has:brought the necessary funds to develop
the lands which the Company have pur
chased.
On Satti rdAy, throe child ron were killed
between this place and Pottsville, I t appears
that they were sent out to gather coal, and
they went into an old drift and commenced
to knock off Lila of coal and It caved in on
them. Ono of thorn WRN a girl about six
teen years old—there were five of ,them,
but two were not In the drift ; the name of
two of them is Heffner, the name of the
other I did not learn; they had resided in
the county but a short time, some time last
Summer they moved to this county from
Berks county.
On last Thursday night one of the engine
houses at Gorden Plane were burnt. This
may cause a partial suspension of a few
collieries until the house is rebuilt.
We have very fine weather here this Fall,
it Is very favorable to those erecting build
ings. We have had very little rain.
The price of real estate in Pottsville and
the adjoining town has advanced about 50
per cent. during the last year.
SCEIUYLKILL
[Correspondence of the Intelhgeneer.]
CIrAiItLESTON, S. C.
Nov. 4, 1871.
Massrs.l.Alilor:9‘:—Thinkingeome of your
readers may be IntereAted in reading letters
from the South, I will give you a short
sketch of my travels daring the past week.
Leaving Columbia on Monday, I arrived
in Baltimore about 7 p. m. When, meet
ing Mr. E. S. Young, the general agent of
the Northern Central Railway—to whose
energy and ability that road is indebted
for a large portion of its success—l re
mained with him to take a glance at the
Monumental City ; but, as your readers are
all familiar with it, I shall give no descrip
tion. Leaving Baltimore at 4p. m., on
Wednesday, via the Richmond and York
River Railroad's steamer, " Eastern City,"
Captain Kavanaugh, 1 arrived at West
Point next morning; thence by rail to
Richmond, arriving there at 11 a. m.; and
here let me say to all goring to Richmond,
to take this route—you will got a comfort
able night's rest,having all the convenienc
es of a first-class hotel, good table, and en
obliging " wholo smiled " Captain, with
but one change, that from the boat to the
cars. From West Point. to Richmond, the
country looks wild, with lint rew farms
along the Flamini ky. This yon will retail
ly believe, when I tell you that about mid
way, three young Baltimoreans came on
board our train, having killed three deer,
and a large number of wild ducks, all in
the space of a few days.
Inißichmond I had expected to tied rm
old decayed-looking town, made especially
sin by the ravages .1 . the late war, nett in
large 'sullen or the itopulat kin negroes
but, I find instead, a city of tio,ooo inhabi
tant -4, the buildings four and live stories
high, having, granite fronts, with stores
and business places equal to Rail innire and
Philadelphia; business equally Is pros
perous; a courteous, obliging, well-dressed
white population; the ladies in silks and
chignons equal Lu Broadway, New Yiirk.
You see no more negroes here
Baltimore, Mud are about the saline class.
ThoSlalo Fair is being held here this creek,
thousands are inn attendance from all quar
ters of the State,and the like lots never been
seen. Every hotel and Luau - ding-house IN
over-eresvdmi. Time being too prili lOUs
Wilk Hie, I did not visit the Fair; but left.
for NVilinninglen, N. C., via the Richmond,
Petersburg and Weldon railroad. \Vo pass
Petersburg, which is quite a large locking
place inn area—tine houses being scattered
for a great distinnee —but to judge from
present appearances, one might. suppose
they were erected by the first settlers of
Virginia; but, Petersburg, like Norfolk,
is under Itailical rule—m filch means ne
gro here. They possess no enterprise;
everything about those nevus goes to ;
the Councils take no action in the matter
of improvements. Take fur instance n a
Railroad Company had proposed to roll in
railroad into Norfolk, the Council not only
refused an appropriation, but also refused
the right of way. But the day is dawning
hero. Radical rule has had its sway, un
less the Grant government interfere:l un
der a prelenee Gra K in- K Inn s organiiation.
If left to herself, Virginia prolllisllS 141,000
101. the I , ennooratic nominee in
1072.
From Petersburg to Weldon the emit,
try is level, With a sandy soil, reminding,
one of New Jersey. Most all the buildings
seen train the railroad, are small ono-story
shanties, principally inhabited by tie
groes. I have seen but ono or two, which
I supposed were fartmliouses. I have
seen brick chimneys where inlet, stood
houses, at a Limo who,, peace ILIld happi
ness reigned. There are no halves and the
land must be of the poorest kind. Corn is
planted about three by four feet apart., with
but one grain to the hill, and I have seen
none that exceeds live feet in height. aii
casiiitiallY your plt a a cotton pn[rh, which
like the corn, appears to thrive nu hotter ;
the heads or "bolls - are small, nud "few
and far between." As a grazing estuary,
notwithstanding the boasts of land agents,
is Morally worth nothing. Ilnot kept un
der strict cultivation, it Mill he iiiivered
with young oak and pine in a very few
yoars, which root so Lirnily that no plow
cut' break up tho soil. This is the ease
with much of ri tlio land, which, fur want of
capital since le war,lias been abandoned,
and the sprouting and brush now cover it
by millions, to the heights of front throe I.
six feet. There seems to be a general ;tinnily
in the soil to grow this sptmies of sprout,
vet you seldom lind it iilirre than erne Urn
t 4, I . ollr inches m thiek miss, standing as
Anse 3.4 cane.
After Ni,rlll the
soil is still sand, lilt not sii nim hart ; vego-
Lalian se(alis to thrive Letter; flintier is
heavier and Lai ihJiugv liner. lliw far this
etactemis I nin not able It say; it twill); night
darkness prevented tali trim leaking
farther observations.
Wiltnington, N. is a city of about
13,nne inhabitants, a large majority of timccc
blacks. The Deputy•Hamill,Prison-Seep
or, and nearly all the police are negroes.
It is entirely under Rattiest -as they term
the negrovs-- rule, and is in eonsequence,
like her sister towns, slow in progressing.
There is traffic enough here to make it
I uite a business place. 'fake Gtr institute
the exports during the month of Dctober,
which avers 1,70U,000 feet of Mintier;
1,500,000 shingles; le,Gen barrels turpen
tine; 60,300 barrels rosin, R 11,111,800 barrels
tar and pitch, mostly all coast-wise. Yet,
with all this business, the place is slow
to improve; but few 'new buildings wore
put up this year. The shlmwalks are di
lapidated; the streets macculanci-zed with
saw-dust and shavings. lick makes the
place seem very quiet. You hear the neha!
of wagons recalling over hard pavements,
or the horse-shoes clatter upon a snfid
foundation; but, where there is len saw
dust, a wagon will run full six inches deep
in the dry sand. Nearly every street has
its Bull 11110 of live-oak shade trees, which
are just turning yellow. 'Tito I 'idled Slates
District Court was held here this week,
which brought a good I entity strangers to
town.
Leaving \V MningMn at 7 I, ill., Wlpass
nearly Lite w hole way through an entire
level rounry, intrni cued with innumer
able pine forests, arriving in Charleston at
7 a. In., amidst a spla,hing rain, having
rained hard slime I e'elock this a. in.
osrs. My last NVLse closed on
my arrival in l'harl,odon, N. C., which city
claims al 'J(4,1111,0.11 Lai That,
city is alaw,L t-Lirrolaililt•tl lay watt, mad
lots itiarslat.s, w idyll liaalt(•sit, very .n
-1..11.113., especially to those not itcclimaied.
Al Ine.eut the yellow lover is raging
and the town is almost deserted lay
the white population. Strange to may, the
volt,red p.)plo enjoy the privid ~, or bring
exempt from 1.1. is olaitlonali.. 'flit, stale,
alWills made lay the Board of health as to
the iitiatilmr of deal!s is incorrect. A
prominent doctor in cnnvt•rsation With IL
gentleman said, that the report
up from the mum Lcr nf rurtilicalen
in at t h e health ollice, but that only one I
ten caws, we ru made out.
The priori pal streets in the city urn pn•ed
with round NLA,IIO 11.1111 a 1111111 law of thew
plunked; nearly all are will shaded with
tree, there are MON 'rat lines of street rail
ways which are seemingly doing a paving
business, in fact everything has the appear-
AIM] of being a business place.
city hae lately been rescued from
Radical I brahlom, and barring the fart that
yellow fever prevails here—there in since a
better feeling and more energy displayed.
Hadivalisin is doomed in the South. Yon
!Alma lied a white man Wday, unlosa la
be an oflice-holder, or carpet-bagger, that
,laitits any affiliation with the party ; and
many oft hu negroes al ready diSeilli(ll them.
In conversation With an ox slave, who
came on board our traimand said that before
the war they had plenty to eat and good
clothes to wear, but now it was "root hog,
or die" with them ; that they can make
only front $lO to $l2 per month, without
board, on the plantations, and this only for
about six months; t h at the balmy .° of the
year they have no work at all, and that
they sometimes have nothing to eat for
days. He related this with tears in his eyes;
he was himself, however, well &eased and
claimed to be getting along better than
(hat, 011 account of his . itons, who aesist
him in support of his family.
Grant's soldiers are creating a terrible
state of affairs down hero. In those coun
ties put under martial law, people are leav
ing by acores—leaving their crops ungath
ered and fleeing—they know not them
selves where—for safety. Every newspaper
published here, and every person I con
sulted upon tire matter or K n- Klux, denies
the existence of any such organization.
Now, then, for the Radical authority here.
They say it originated several yearn ago,
uncle the following circumstances: A
white man was murdered by two negroes,
In York count for his money and watch;
(politics bad nothing to do with the case:)'
they were arrested and brought to trial.
The jury were all :negroes, and both mur
derers belonged to the Union League. One
of them was made to turn State's evidence
against a third negro, who joined the two
after the murder was committed. This
third negro did not belong to the League.
lie was convicted and hung. This act
provoked the people hi the neighborhood,
who know the transaction: they disguised
themselves, took the guilty negroes and
lynched them, like they do with horse
thieves anti morderets out West. This
was followed by similar nets of violence
in all cases the persons deserving it. This
is the Radical side of the question, met
caused them no much fright. lty the ad
mission of A ttorney-lieneral A kerinan
himself, no acts of vlulcnca ivory commit
tal shave Mareli last.
(trent 110 W Wes that he has been dotted,
hut does not want to "acknowledge the
corn," so ho and Ak ernaan put their heads
together to devise some plan how to get
out of the scrape. 'Hwy hire secret spies
to work up a conspiracy uttme—to may, the
people in hair a donee COllllOO4 la Sialtil
Carolina are conspiring up "another rebel
lion:' with a view of establishing tin ' its
visible empire." What a reward 1:1":1111
'nest he, to he frightened by the few it hilt.
citizens, of a few rouette ettuotips, in the
trem of smith carol..
-0 any 01111 who bpi ioces
I'ol.o ill the M 1100
VI I
that
Su ath
I.r Hilo' a utun
strolls 11611)4114 "getting up another etwl
altcr the trick and stittering. 1 . 11.
11111'011 lit • the lan , Nvitr? No! Will Ihn
entire South a unit, ‘y...1 .. th all their wvaiih
Lull strength, they tvt•re defeated; 111111 the
nhu plea idiot ‘,1 , 11111 nut wnc uu.11•1
1,1'1h. , kind.
over punJrr on rr
thv lavt Irai
years our oilve t•ohiary has hillch
Irons the pro•ligt, of to,
rights, %%Jolt It 55.1 s lion' pri,h , ;old 11..41
Ihrougholll !host bolo I think 10.1 •
ul,e they w ..ti I a hilt imw pstri)
that has n.1011.t1 ‘l4 t , l * all iihr
!hi, in .10: 111i111, that a Itillilary
Ith 111,V1,- 1.5
I'ollll , 3'lVallia ' , hall Lr iml tinder tuition
lane, 111,1 dint ,11,..,vr i,ht
ch.•so 1,, i.a‘ t. 1.1 pi , •10111l1 1111111,g,
lint! Elinwli 111 1 , 11•1.11 without ,arratit 3,1
itharg,i), kola Own. ut ), ill. Such in 11,
deed dm
it nut ho ,trrii.,l to Pennsylvania? Whim
will the American pi•opli• Ihoir
/ 11111 alraill WI 1111E11 111 i is 10,1.
Leas ing Charleston ley railroad
vannah, 11:14s throtigh:lll.lt ....ttntry all
Lhn way - tin ongli demo pine tore-la, meet
ing hul lew plantations and lait Inns w bite
people. 11.1. rimiltry along here 5e1.1114 to
lie in po,tes,ion of tin) svlio were
congregated iu groups at every station.
Savannah is a very in oily oily of about
10,000 inhalatanta, awl the ill'ii111).1111111.11S-
Mess manners el her citizens remind
much or nor Northes It Hut,. 1 think I am
safe to sad•, that the, is illeto 1et511444....
done here I Ilan in ail the tIMIIS 111.1 rives
0011111i11011 1011,1,11 this and Baltimore.
Tlwy have Nicholson pavetmvlts and .Inert
railways, and the streets are lull Iv ell4shndell
with live eat:. 14:s ern other Neel, has
part: nt the intet.ectien, the x‘aliss beim;
paved with 11.14 4tone. Some of the slim t
have a 1115511 running threngh the
With lien unk on either side, ~1.04 anther
linn of live nal: shade the side 15141 h. to
4 4, 0111 0 ol' these parlos are high markt,. 1111, •
I noticed anteng thrnt 011144.41, is
and Green's.
Thar° /11 - 0 many v.•',•14 In port h.
all parts Inns horn. The 1...,
Jrll, is gpc,4l ‘I•ly hir 1...1.1
A 1'(11111..1.s111yerS1 44444 10 111 11-11.011•
111,snippontlitiviil .414111 10 10. 1114. 4,,., 4..
ThO t , I
'l'hiirmclay last,
Friel, h , syer ..1 11114
city, who studied link iv pndi•..>i, al uudrr
tilalos 11:11,11 . 11, 1001 110 , 4 I
1 • 10111 y 0/1111i11011 to 1014 . 101 . , 100 k lON
lili,, lint ()veiling. The
the sad ail 1110 reftl4:d hattd by
young lady its whom list had 5,114,1,41 it,
th4iitgli it Is, lor•dmils. d h..
that ulhnr nup4.n ndu. iuF Call,' lit, .1..114
existed.
tinting yesterday, it is said that. >1 I.
Feist ,vas laboring under 'Alng mental
exeitenit ill.. In the afterntion he call, d at
the ding store of John .1. tlallitgletr, tai
Nlarl:ot street, near Brainlysv leo bridge,
and proem ed a h11.4011g 114111,1 ii• 1.4
In 4111-114V01111144, 11,4 Wl`oll 1011 111111 Oh, /.11
Block, 111. x‘eils to the tesitll4llVll of 11,1.
ii. Whitely, rosidinf . at. No. lot
Tatnall street_ 'Fevre the
cause of his troubles to and
in the meantime took alit of his pocket
which he was handling
in a very careless 111/1.11114"e. W,
the pistol from him, bill finally returned
it to 'Mr. Prist, who said 114' airman
will; it nailer his pillmv al night. I loth,.
handed r. \loud y two letters to .11.31.1, HI
1.4•1014114•11 141 till, 1'1111114..; lady's reins:ll .If
hint, and the latter gentleman hail pod co •
closed the letters in the envelope., and as
replacing glasses to the 4.11,40 ; lie
liettril the report 4lf the piNtoi.
looking op, hr saw. Llutt \I r. Feist nil shot
himself, the hall entering jest alive the
right eye. lie lived twenty mintiti, after
the shot wee tired. 110 'W11.4 tali ell 11l 111,
114/11114 at No. tun West. Eighth street./. •
This niteming at ten ti'eltick, Cormier
Woodward summoned a jury, and Intl.! .lil
inquest over the Lolly.
Walter Cummins testified that. i1t.c0;,1,1
had been labming under mental 4•,44•1441-
111(.11t by his being
rejetled by a lady ; that. on 14,1111.1. y 1 44 1 3. 4 4 •
rowed a letter front her breaking the
gagement of marriage; saw him on Tiles
(lily morning, at Mr. Itityltrlrs ;
Ileeo/04011 said ho Inch taken sixty drop, of
to induce sleep; Ile was vely
nervous and eNi'll.l.ll; NVIL , IIIL the H1411'1.1111,1
or the day : he gave toe his 650/11111d hllllll
to tithe care of, saying "litho charge of
these; I don't litiow what migha happen. -
Ile tallied and looked wild and unilateral;
he tallied of dying and expressed it thongh
that he would not live long. Ile gave n o ,
his private and business papers, thisigim•
ling what I should do with Mom. Saw hnu
nn Wednesday morning at the office; he
said he hail slept /0/111e, and ,vas, app:auul
ly, very rational, and talked sensibly of
leininess and tither :natters. I returned
his pistol and I: iiile on Timsday evening.
l'pon receiving the pistol, he looked ;11
;aid remarked, " who knows but this may
yet lie my best I: rientl." At the office, 1,11
kVealleStbly, he wrote on two slips of pap,
the amount or motley he a eel /11141 Mai
was olvieg hint, saying that " it
well to have these, in case anything might
happen."
The letters whip!' aro referred to sail,
written by it young lady to whom the un
fortunate young man seems to have been
much attached, and to whom It is said to.
WIN engagesd to Iw married. contain
ed simply a njeclioln or hi. cult, 4 , 111.111•11
ill 110/ . 44.'1H:41 terms. They
,V 1• 1 . 1,
reset In Ilse jury, all iii 111•11
having retired. The writer Is it 3 moo.:
lady of beauty and rentientent, residing
thin city, mill has ninny friends
W., omit any runes, fu,r. 11.11,441124 of obviottv
preprietty, and avill 1144,4,1 y i 44141 Ma it
rded that I hero Isle.~ any engagement of
I arriage.
ll=
Niiv. 11. - th,
nn, rJernr of ( , liver S. Hit!stead,
ever eeu
te.llled thin llll,riling by .ludt;e Uopuo In L„
1111.11g/41 (in I irtltll,l'll Lhee 11 , 111,
lit 111 and 2. Boil,'
moved for a blew trial, be , allstl a i 11 ! ..." has
sitiveitekritiwleilgivil that
A 111, a brief itrgilitterit. Hi° aaaa,-
nwnyly
decided that them 15115
the verdict.
iS Cl/1111 , 131 LIII.II applied 1,, fINI,pIII.II
Lu 1111, rtilittg.,l the is," waN gram -
ed.
Hd+, 'wing askoal it' he hail anything to
•+ay, rolaiial that 1111 113.1 1111 Mlllw 101 l the
trial, and that me, ivitiiewl htmlll
lutely hive.
./iidge Uepne then rrolll/11111.1111 MOIIIOII4I
)1,1:010%.0, W1113r111111,111 It,,ita sank wt.. ItIA
neat thaply :tt.tatattal.
El=
It w•eues probable at Inez that the Duke
will reap li the harbor or New York to-day,
Situ it 110 duce not 6uul. .1110 clipper
A breii, 1;111114 the three ships which 11111.1(0
up 1.1101 tleet tii escort, has positively ap
peared. Iler captain reports having parted
roue pony woh rho other two tweuly•seveu
do}s ago, and thinks that they relay arrive
at :tily moment. 1)r course all the fleet will
rendezvous otiLside, at leant until the flag
ship bearing Alexis appears. ( 11• doe
the Nvetland, we have as yet no news. '
TIM• ltem.ll h. Virginle.
LI Virginia the Conservatives have achiev
ed a brilliant. and almost overwhelming
victory. Their popular majority in tin.
Legislative vote will not, lie less than 30,1111 p
—st ga 11 of uinr i than 211.1X51 user the
groNsional vole or last year. Tlley will
have a two-thirds majority in both liouses
or the Legislature.
• t
ille‘oher Foul Ingx
The ()dotter butch of Radical defaulters
III) as ibilOWSl i Thu 1111111111 fraud, slrio,-
000 ; Stokes pension fritud,soo,ooo; Clerk
in the Second Auditor's 0111ce, $108000;
Collector at Savannah, $30,000; pension
Agent at Washington, $35,000 ; total l.r
October, $113,000. And this woo not agent'
month for delaulterm.
Tweed not Entitled to Ills Sent. k
The Legal Committee of the Democratic
Reform Association, who are directed to.l
investigate and punish election frauds, met;
on Thursday alternoon, and received a very
large number of complaints, sustained in
almost every case by clear affidavits which
testify to almost every kind of fratuten the
election laws, miscounting, substitution of
ballots, repeating, excluding watchers and
stealing boxes.