Lariats= 3ntelligencet.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29,1871
• 'Epoch of the Press.
We were forcibly struck by the re
marks of a cotempomry, in alluding to
the newspaper press as first and fore
most in manufacturing and controlling
public opinion, and as the most valuable
aid In all Individual and other enter
prises. Although this influence was
given a local application; it has a gen
eral significance which cannot fail to be
felt In all sections, and in every political
movement. The press of to-day Is not
what it was but a few years ago. Then
a circulation of a 'city of two or three
thousand was considered very large,
and the papers were mainly devoted to
commercfal and shipping intelligence,
and evinced but a limited influence, so-
dally or politically. The change is
wonderful. Now a paper with 100,000
subscribers is no rarity, and there are
now a hundied papers to one then.—
With competition has come vast im
provement in the matter and the ar
rangement. 'A paper now gives daily
more than was given in a week, and the
variety of information embraces every
topic which can by any means come
within the compass of man's thought.
Darwin is better known through the
criticisms of the press than through the
medium of his own books, and an au
thor never springs to fame but he is in
debted to the press for his elevation.—
The Pacific poet, Bret Harte, and hun
dreds of others, owe more to the papers
than to their own genius, for in this
hurrying world genius may very easily
be passed by, but the press is never neg
lected.
The remark is a truthful one, that the
press makes and unmakes politicians.
It is used and abused by them ; and al
though they try to escape from a just
recognition of its legitimate influence,'
they - are unable.to do so. They might
as well try to escape from the Influence
of the sun. There is not a man who can
aspire to office, with - any hope of success.
without its aid and if he is strongly and
energetically opposed, his chances of
success are small. It is the power and
influence of the press that will make
the next President. (Iran t is trusting
to his officials and armed cohorts—to
Custom-House Rings, and the swarm
of toadies who do his bidding, but he
is counting without his host. His first
election to the Presidency was on the
title of military glory—this time be
must succeed or be defeated on his own
merits. The press know him now, and
are letting the people know him.—
They did not know him as he is, during
his first campaign, anti the more they
become acquainted with his trite worth
the less favorably are they impressed.
) 1 De9leable - Class.
And one of the most pitiable, too, is
the carpet-bagger. "Lo, the poor In
dian," or the "heathen Chinee, with his
tricks that are vain, and his smile which
is childlike and bland," Is not an object
of half the commiseration, mingled with
contempt, which is. to-day, inspired by
that peculiar curse of Southern localities
-the carpet-bagger. Instead of the
justly-entertained bitterness of hate felt
toward (bent by the people of the South,
there is an irresistibly growing procliv
ity toward trying to do something for
them, for they scent to be abandoned by
all their former friends. Southern jour
nals, even put forth a plea ot e mercy for
Item, for they assert that they cannot
bear to see a strange dog pursued by all
be boys of the village, with a tin kettle
Lied to his tail, while every little cur of
its own kind rushes after hint from
gates and alleys, and adding, by their
noisy clamor, to his demoralization and
terror. There is a point beyond which
even disgust and hatred for a thorough
ly odious object seem to refuse to go, and
:it %V MI nature, in mercy, seems to have
planted some compensating principle of
sympathy and compassion.
The race of the carpet-bagger is run.
two Radical friends have turned
upon them, and even the negroes begin
to kick and spurn them. I [orate Gree
ley first aimed a broadside against them,
and characterized them, amid all their
lofty pretensions to patriotism and piety,
as more given top, than pr,ive r—des
'glutting them in plain terms as "thi, yrs
and robb,rs," Holden, with the in
stincts of a jackal over their approach
ing dissolution, has turned upon their .
trail, and added the fatal omen of the
scavenger's presence among the com
pany of their pursuers. Joining in this'
ungrateful hunt of the President's or
gan, presided over by an impeached
scalawag Executive, other Radical jour
nals tire across the track of the panting
and bewildered varmint, as he makes
his last desperate endeavor to reach
some hospitable stream where he may
dive and elude his tormentors.
Poor, miserable carpet-bagger. your
days are numbered.
More About Schenck
The Harrisburg Patriot of this morn
ing, says that rumors are already in cir
culation at Washington, that lion.
Robert C. Schmuck, United States Min
ister to England, has been recalled, and
that Secretary Fish is to succeed him.
Whether true or false these reports are
indications of the feeling that has been
produced by Mr. Schenck's appearance
in a London newspaper us a director in
a fancy stock company. But his sud
den removal without opportunity for
explanation would show strong per.
sonal animosity on the part of the Pres
ident. Sonic time ago Mr. Schenck was
quoted as having frankly expressed a
very depreciative opinion of Grant,
which that functionary would not be
apt to forgive, but would watch for the
lirst opportunity to resent. Certainly,
lie would be recalled froin no sense of
wounded dignity on the part of a Presi
dent who has speculated iu the very
highest offices in his gift.
Philadelphia to hale the Grand Duke.
(lor Philadelphia neighbors have been
nutde supremely happy in the accept
nice of the Grand Dike Alexis of the
ittvitation to visit their city, and accept
of its hospitalities. ' The Committee
waited upon him at his rooms in New
York, on Saturday. Gen. Meade was
the spokesman of the Committee, and
the Grand Duke was exceedingly
gracious in his reception and reply.
Monday next, December 4th, is the day
fixed upon for his visit.. His visit is to
be connued to one day. Boston is to
have him on Thursday following.
The Latest Absurdity
The most recent cal of absurdity, lu
connection with Presidential nomina
tions, is that furnished by the Wilkes
barre Democrat, to the effect that it is
now reported for a change, or for some
other purpose, that Col. Thos. A. Scott,
will decline at a proper time to be con
sidered a candidate for the Presidency,
by reason of his extensive railroad in
terests, and throw his influence for
Speaker Blaine, of Maine, who is a na
'tive of Pennsylvania, owns large coal
and iron interests in this State, and
favors high tariflef. -
A writ of sequestration has been is
esued against Marcer, the defaulting
Philadelphia City Treasurer, and he
taken into custody. A writ of quo war
rcinto has also been issued against those
of Mhreer's securities who are members
of the Councils, requiring them to sh )w
cause why they have not forfeited their
rights . to sit as Councilmen by becom
ingseeurities—such being forbidden by
law.
The ad interint Governor of Georgia,
Conly, will not be permitted to occupy
his seat as long as he supposed, when lie
vetoed the legislative bill providing for
the election of a Governor to supply the
vacancy occasioned by the resignation
of the Radical thief Bullock. The Leg
islature has passed the bill over the veto.
Our Crlmlial Court
The editor of the Express appears to be
in a particularly irascible state of mind,
this week, the special objects of his ire
seeming to be the administrators of jus
tice in this good county of Lancaster.—
The Judges, the Grand Jury, and the
members of the bar fail to find favor in
the eyes of our highly moral and incor
ruptible neighbor. Whether or no the
parties accused are as blameworthy as
the Express declares them to be, it is at
least certain that its animadversion is a
marked case of Satan reproving sin.—
Reproof from it Is valueless, because itis
itself evil and corrupt; it is not in a po
sition to cast stones at Its neighbors.
Criminals notoriously do not have a
good opinion of the law; and the fact
that the Express has this week been in
dicted for libel, furnishes the latest rea
son for its restiveness.
Fault is found with the Grand Jury
for ignoring an indictment for assault
and battery, after witnesses had posi
tively sworn before it to the commission
of the offence. It Is the duty of a Grand
Jury to thoroughly satisfy itself from
the , evidence before it, that an offence
has been committed, and when it is so
satisfied, to find the indictment to be a
true bill. The late Grand
: Jury iu the
case referred to must have been satis
fied, from the evidence produced, that
no offence had been committed, or else
that it was of such a trivial nature that
it could with propriety be deemed to be
worthy only of summary dismissal;
otherwise it would have been its duty to
have found a true bill, and its not doing
so would have been very wrong. Cer
tain witnesses before the Grand Jury
have made statements of the testimony
given by them,which would seem to in
dicate the commission of the offence
charged, but what the Grand Jury
men themselves understood the testi
mony to be we have no means of
knowing, other than their findings ; as
it is a punishable offence forany of them
to reveal the evidence presented to
Grand Juries are invested with very
large discretion; the Court has no con
trol over them ; their decisions are not
reviewable ; their findings are between
themssfees mill their conscience.
Doubtless, they often err in their de
cisions, although honestly inclined to
do right; and it may be that it some
times occurs that they are influenced by
corrupt motives. If this is so, it is an
occurrence of late years, and it is the
natural fruit of the contempt of law,
and the universal corruption which is
the out-growth of our tell years Of Rad
ical government.
We decline to believe the libellous
charge of the Express, that the
present fraud Jury has returned a
finding which the majority of its mem
bers did not honestly believe—although
they may have been mistaken in their
belief—to be just. In their report it
will be seen that they insist that their
official action has been conscientious
and proper. We are personally ac-
quainted with a number of the gentle
men on the jury and know them to be
honorable and upright men.
The E.iprca assails Judge Long for
not dismissing the Grand Jury and
sending to jail the members of the bar;
a speedy way of dissolving a criminal
court which could only have secured
the enthusiastic approval of men who
frequently find themselves in the crimi
nal dock. Judge Long has made a most
honorable record for himself as a Judge
during his twenty years of service, and
has amply merited the euloglum which
the (brand Jury has pronounced upon
him. He is an able lawyer and an hon
est and courteous gentleman. The edi
tors of the Express are unworthy to
loose his shoe-strings; and the people
know it.
The - Movements of the lirund Duke.
We shall, in cOnnnon with all journal
ists, be kept continually on the qui rice,
to furnish anything like even a synop
sis of the Russian Prince's movements.
From Wash ington , on Friday, the (brand
(uke, with suite, visited Annapolis,
where they arrived on a special train.—
They were received at the Academy
with a salute of twenty-one guns, and
the Prince was int rod uced to Commodore
Worden by secretary Itobeson. A bat
talion of cadet midshipmen went
through their drill in presence of the
Grand lltike,)saluting him as they
marched paf After the tiring of auoth
' er salute of..4wenty-one guns everything
of interest in the various departments
was inspected. The party then sat down
to a collation in the parlors of the Com
modore, when toasts and speeches were
interchanged. Early in the afternoon
the distinguished visitors took the train
for New York, where they arrived that
The rumor of the dismissal of Minister
Catacazy having proved correct, it is
said that the management of the Russian
Legation, at Washington, passed yes
terday to ( ienenil (orlolf, who is accept
able to the President and Secretary of
State. Mr, Catacazy will wait upon the
brand Duke during the latter's tour in
this country, and return to Russia on
its close.
They have had another test case of
mixed schools in I larrisburg. A negro
named Turner Cooper applied to one of
the Directors of the Eighth Ward to
have his child admitted to the Spring
dale School, which is composed exclu
sively of white children. Cooper claims
that on er the Fifteenth Amendment
to the Constitution of the United States,
the School-Board have no right to shut
the doors on colored applicants, al-
though separate schools may have been
provided for thew, and to test the mat
ter he proposed to institute prosecution
against the School-Board of Harrisburg,
whose members by unanimous vote (six
Democrats and eleven Republicans) on
Monday night decided to stand by Mr.
Haehnlem in the course he had pursued
in refusing a permit to Cooper's boy to
enter the school.
The election of tiovernor Parker, in
New Jersey, although there is a Repub
lican Legislature, is not an empty Dem
ocratic triumph. He will have the ap
pointment of a Chancellor to succeed
Mr. Zabriskie, of Jersey City, Republi
can ; a Clerk of the Supreme Court, in
November, 1872, to succeed Mr. Smith,
of Salem, Republican ; four Judges of
the Supreme Court to succeed Mr.
Bedle, Democrat, and Messrs. Depoe,
Woodhull and Dalrymple, Republi
cans ; three Judges of the Court of Er
rors to succeed Messrs. Kennedy, Ogden
and Olden, Republicans ; besides Coun
ty Prosecutors to succeed Republicans,
in 'Monmouth, Somerset, Middlesex,
Essex and Ocean counties, and 'Demo
crats in Sussex, Hudson, Camden and
Gloucester.
The death of Lieutenant-Governor
Dunn leaves the Wa'rmouth, or anti-
Grant faction in that State, in full po
litical ascendancy. Warmouth is a na
tive of Illinois. went to the state a poor
man after the war, turned politician,
was elected ribvernor, and amassed a
fortune. He is a full-fledged carpet
bagger, and his only redeeming trait is
his opposition to Grant's bayonet rule,
and Casey's interference in Conventions
by means of Gatlin guns. Dunn was a
negro—a fair type of his race—ignorant,
prejudiced, and unprincipled, and wield
ed the power which he possessed to the
full scope of its official bent. 'The coun
try can be bettered but little by the tri
umph of either faction.
Regulators for the puoishment of ne
gro chicken thieves and more danger
ous desperadoes in South Carolina, even
where headed by Republican citizens,
are regarded as 'making assaults against
the Republic, and to be put down even
at the cost of law and liberty ; masquer
ading mobs In California and Indiana,
that hang and burn and shoot and rav
age the innocent and guilty promiscu
ously, are only the hasty indignation of
a justly angered people.
Prohibition vs. Local Option.
A vigorous.contest is being waged
just now within the ranks of the Cold
Water Army upon the subject of
siprohi
bition. The more adical among the
Temperance men i aist upon complete
prohibition of the eof all intoxicating
beverages, whileihe more moderate fa
vor the passage of a local-option law by
our State Legislature. The Keystone
Good Templar, in speaking for the Or
der, says that its members " hold that
dram-selling is a sin and a crime, and
that it shciuld be absolutely prohibited
by positive law," and it defines the po
sition. of the Local Optionists by declar
ing that " they treat dram-selling as a
sin and a crime only in certain wards
or districts, if a majority of the people
say so by their votes." It seems to us
that the Radicals occupy the more log
ical position. If it be a sin and a crime
to sell liquors, wines or beer, then ought
the whole business to be placed beyond
the pale of legal sanction.
A local-option law was pushed through
the lower branch of our State Legisla
ture last Winter. It provided that each
ward and township in the State should
decide, by a vote, whether any license to
sell liquor should be zranted within its
limits, or not. We opposed the passage
of such a law then, and gave our reasons
for so doing. It would not lessen the
evils of intemperance. Not half the
townships in the rural districts would
vote in favor of prohibition, and the re
sult in cities would be seen in the clos-
ing of establishments where the better
class of liquors are sold,aud the increas
ed use of the most deleterious beverages
If a local-option law should be passed
at the coining session of the Legislature,
and the chances are that some such ac
tion will be taken, we hope the mem
bers will have sutll2ient good sense to
apply it to counties and cities, and not
to wards or townships. If the people of
Lancaster county should vote to abolish
the licensing of taverns throughout its
extent, an experience of a year or two
would show whether any good result
can come from an attempt to control the
appetite by legal restrictions. A law
which should close the taverns in some
qstrict3 and leave them open in others,
would only intensify and increase the
evils it was Intended to remedy.
Who Will Be the Democratic Candidate?
It would be strange—and yet not so
very strange—Bays the Utica Observer,
if none of the President-snaking news
papers should hit upon the name of the
next Democratic candidate. In 1843 no
body guessed that James K. Polk would
be John Tyler's successor in the White
House. In '47, the people were few and
far between that fancied, after Polk,
Zachary Taylor was coming. In 1831,
Franklin Pierre was not counted
amongst the possible Presidents. In
185.5, James Buchanan walt our Miiiister
at the court of St. James, and the Pres
ident-makers scratched his name off
their books. In 1879, Abraham Lincoln
was conducting a lazy law practice at
Springfield, 111., and the Seward and
Chase factions in the Republican party
never mentioned him as a formidable
rival of their respective favorite. In
186:;, nobody knew or suspected that
Andrew Johnson would take Illtunlin's
place, and eventually succeed to Lin
coln's. In i 417, when Johnson and
(Inuit were haul-in-glore, Brant was
not locked upon as a possible Radical
candidate. All of which gdes to show
that prophecy is one of the lost arts, and
that the month of November, 1871, will
be a safer time than the mouth of No
vember, Is7l, to publislt the name of the
next President of the United States.
6rant Becominz Alarmed
Washington advices represent the
President as already becoming alarmed
at the formidable combinations against
notwitlnitatuling his exultant tone
immediately after the result of the re
cent elections were made known. The
World's correspondent says, a private
consultation is held with one or two of
the Cabinet officers, or other prominent
Radical politicians, almost every day,
which is supposed to have reference to
the pending campaign. several " con•
tidential " Department clerks ( paid by
the people of course,) are kept constant
ly employed compiling the spirit of the
press of the country, so that a " back
tire," as they call it, may be set wherever
it is necessary. The great etlbrt now Is
' to reconcile the disairected Conservative
Republicans. The last Blue Book is
being diligently plied for official open
ings for some of the leading ones, and
the next Congre,is will be pressed hard
for the creation of lIVNV offices for such of
them as " must he conciliated," and can
not otherwise be provided for. The old
story over again, that the whole ma
chinery of the government Is to be used
fur the perpetuation, at all hazards, of
the present administration. Even the
reports of Secretaries are being shaped
in a manner to mislead the public, and
bid for the next term of office, so look
out for any amount of special pleading
and sophistry.
The opposition to Grant is spreading
and growing with wonderful rapidity.
The one absorbing sentiment seems to
be that the present radical and corrupt
administration , must be defeated at all
hazards. The Washington correspond
ent of the llor/d, says: There are good
Republicans here who would vote for
such Democrats as Chase, or even Hen
dricks or Tilden, before they would see
Grant elected again; nod I venture the
assertion that there is not a Democrat
in the District of Columbia who would
not rather see Horace Greeley President
than ( Iran t, and who would not vote for
the former if he thought it was neces
sary to defeat the latter.
:Sliuister Schenk, our representative
iu England, is aping Grant in his greed.
rhe London Economist charges that he
has become a Director in a new Mining
Company, which it considers incompat
ible with the functions of a Diplomat
ist. The New York ElTnlng Post in-
sists upon Schenk's recall at once ; bu
can Grant consistently do it. He is en
gaged ill similar speculations; and i
the stock has been made a prese
Schenck, as was the "Seneca" to him
he will, no doubt, feel a stronger at
tachment to the doughty General.
We are likely to have overtures of
somewhat practical character from the
Mormon authorities. The ll'orbi's re
porter at Salt Lake has interviewed
George Q. Cannon, Brigham Young's
probable successor. Mr. Cannon un
reservedly expressed his views on the
situation, and gave it as his opinion that
the Mormons would submit to a decree
of Congress giving them Statehood on
condition that while past polygamy and
its fruits should be recognized, the in
stitution is prohibited in future.
Hon. William Pinckney White said:
" What a shame that the talents of the
Evartses, the Curtises, the Pierponts,
should be directed to the punishment
of the robbers of the public treasury iu
New York, while they close their eyes
to the greater crime of the plunderers
of public liberty." The, tingle of ab
stracted silver can arouse them to duty,
while they are dead to the wail of stran
gled liberty.
AloNTuommtv BLAIR's choice for a
Presidential candidate in opposition to
Grant, is Wm. Cullen Bryant. Among
those who endorse the policy proposed
by Mr. Blair, are many prominent Re
publicans, and among the Democrats,
Senators Stockton, Casserly, and others,
are cited as favoring the Missouri
programme.
Radical scamps always have some
loop-hole through which to creep out
of the grasp of justice. It is now said
Governor Scott's defence to the " irreg
ularities" in the matter of the South
Carolina bonds, is that they are worth
less, and not the subject of larceny. The
"loyal" Legislature will repudiate them.
The Tribune on the Times
When the proprietors and editors of
the New York Times, who were loudest
in charges of corruption against Tweed
and the Tammany Ring, were summon
ed before a Jury for the purpose of fur
nishing evidence which would convict
Mayor Hall, they refused to make good
their accusations, and placed themselves
and their journal in the position of a
dumb accuser. The Tribune takes them
to task for the absence of all moral prin
ciple which they have evinced : " They
had called Oakey Hall day after day a
thief. After a while he was arraigned
and the charges were submitted to a
Grand Jury. Every moral obligation,
first to the people who wished justice
done, and eecond to the accused himself,
who courted or pretended to court in
vestigation, demanded that the editor
and proprietor of the Times should place
before that Grand Jury every fact which
could further the ends of justice. It was
their duty to strain every point to estab
lish before that jury, what they nad
openly charged and printed in their
newspaper. They should have sub
pcenaed every reporter employed in col
lecting information ; their spies from
the Controller's office should have been
compelled to tell the little they know ;
and every citizen who had giveh infor
mation in confidence should have been
urged to go before the Grand,Jury. , in
this way only could have been discharg
ed the moral obligations of the men who
said they knew Mayor Hall to be a crim
inal. Butthey refused to answer. When
urged to tell what they knew, they were
dumb. When asked the sources of their
information, they are mute as fish.
When the Jury bcgged that they would
at least indicate from what persons they
might get some light on the case, they
skulked behind a clumsy silence to con
ceal their utter ignorance. (In a piece
of monstrous luck, on the stolen figures
of the rogue and black-mailer O'Brien,
they had assumed the airs of reformers ;
they have used bad language in a loud
voice for several months; but when the
time came for reaping the harvest which
the long discussion had ripened, they
hid their complete incapacity in a sulky
silence. There Is an old proverb which
says, ' If you wear stolen clothes, you
may be stripped in the street,' and this
is what has has happened to the men of
the Times. Never was a cataract of
abuse more suddenly frozen into dumb
ness by the prospect of responsibility."
This is the view taken of the sincerity
of one Radical organ by another, and
the secrets which are disclosed by this
little family quarrel also reveal the rot-
tenness which exists in their own ranks
and which is sought to be covered up
by the brazen face of dumb accusers.
Newspaper Over-sights
Some singular, and yet inoffensive
blunders,will creep into newspaper par
agraphs despite editorial watchfulness.
For instance, that valuable exchange,
the Titusville Courier, in speaking of
the misfortunes of Radical Governors,
mentions Holden, who was impeached
for official shortcomings whilst Govern
or of Nebraska. It was as Governor of
North Carolina, and by a Legislature
composed largely of Republicans, that
he was impeached, and compelled to lice
to Washington, where he became editor
of Grant's administration organ. The
Elmira Cla:( tie, one of the ablest Dem
ocratic journals of the country, falls into
a blunder of thesame character, in speak
ing ofJudge David Davis, as a Presiden
tial candidate of the Conservatives, from
Kentucky. Judge Davis is a resident
of Bloomington, I Wools, and one of the
Judges of the United States Supreme
Court. He was at one time a law-part
ner of Mr. Lincoln ; and it was he who
nominated him for the Presidency in the
National Convention of the Republi
cans, and by the weight of his personal
influence, secured his success. He clung
to the fortunes of Lincoln until the is
suance of his Emancipation Proclama
tion. Since then he has been a passive
Republican, but of decidedly Conserva
ive proclivities. He has been named
n connection with the Presidency, but
neither seeks, nor will he decline a
nomination at the hands of any Conser
vative party. 'rile tictzdt , could scarce
confound Judge Davis, of Illinois, with
Senator Garrett Davis, of Kentucky, an
old-time Whig, and one of the compeers
of Clay and Crittenden.
A New Prousltion
Hon. Daniel W. Voorhees, of Indiana,
has published a letter proposing an im
provement on the new Democratic
movement. It is that the National Ex
ecutive Committee shall call a National
Convention, to meet on a day not later
than the 22d of Feburary next; that
this Convention shall be composed of
delegates chosen by State and District
Conventions, and that it shall agree
upon a definite declaration of princi-
pies upon all matters affecting our po
litical institutions. The declaration
made, the Convention should adjourn
to a day fixed for the nomination of a
Presidential candidate. In the mean
me the people can discuss and approve
or disapprove of what has been done.—
Mr. Voorhees concluues by saying that
it would be the duty of all Democrats to
submit to the decision of the majority,
but those who prefer their own convic
tions could step quietly aside, without
embarrassing others. He argues that
If the Democratic vote can be consoli
dated, inspired with enthusiasm and
brought to the polls, Grant cannot be
re-elected; remarking that it was the
stay-at-home Democratic voters who de
feated their party, the Republican vote
having shown no increase.
The Emma Mine Hu:,loess
The N. V. Sun publishes in full a cor
rect copy of the Emma's and General
Schenek's advertisement, which has
been sown broadcast over England. The
name of Schenck appears as one of the
Directors, as well as one of the Trustees.
Among the Americans connected with
him are Gen. Henry H. I taxter, ex-
President of the N. V. Central Railway;
Trevor Park" Esq., President
of the National Bank, North Benning
ton, Vermont; lion. Wm. N. Stewart,
l'. S. Senator, Nevada; and Warren
Hussey, Esq., President of the National
Bank, l - tall, us resident manager.
A Valuable lon3lderatlou
The New York San prints in foil a
deed of ninety-seven acres of land situ
ate in Cook county, Illinois, from Jo
seph R. Jones and wile to rlysses S.
Brant—consideration •• one dollar."—
The date of the paper is May 22, 15139,
less than three months after (Inuit took
the Presidential chair. Jo.eph R. Jones
is Minister Resident of thelnited States
at the Court of Brussels, one of the most
desirable diplomatic positions abroad.—
He was appointed by tlrant about the
22d of May, ISO. A most remarkable
coincidence.
Electlon-Day a Holiday
The Brooklyn Ecigic thinks that here
after election-day should be made a legal
holiday. Its reasons are: "At present
the professional politicians monopolize
the surroundings of the polls, because
honest private citizens,after voting,have
to go off to work. If we have no busi
ness to attend to on voting day but vot—
ing, we are likely to pay better attention
to it. To make election-day a public
holiday will place the working citizen
on a par with the working politician."
A WESTERN Democratic paper dis
cusses good naturedly the Cincinnati
Enquirer's startling proposal to run
Thomas Scott for President, but advises
it to go slow, inasmuch as the people
are not ready yet to convert the White
House into a railroad depot.
The Republicans of Bedford county
are moving early in the Gubernatorial
canvass. In mass-meeting they unani
mously instructed their delegates to
vote for the Hon. F, Jordan as their can
didate for Governor of the State.
Grant and utvll-Serrlce Reform.
The ;caw York Evening Post,a staunch
Republican journal, of the Conservative
school has a lengthy article upon this
subject which we should like to give
entire could we spare the space. The
writer starts out with the'remark, that
President Grant has certainly not made
his great reputation as a Civil-Service
Reformer. In that respect he has sadly
disappointed many people who once
had great faith in him, and who are still
endeavoring to retain much of it. This
administration, when it came into pow
er, had three clearly-defined objects to
accomplish—the restoration of our credit,
the settlement of the Alabama claims,
and the reform of the civil service. Of
these, the Civil-Service Reform was the
most important, because character is
more important than financial prosper
ity and position before the world. In
the first two of these objects the gov
ernment has done well; In the last it
has accomplished nothing, or lees than
nothing. The government has con
stantly professed the most advanced and
enlightened views, and has acted pre
cisely like its predecessors. As the very
first step towards reform it accepted that
theory from which all the mischief had
been evoked. The President at once
took this position : " Officers should be
retained during good behavior ; that is,
officers appointed by us. This does not
apply to those appointed by our prede
cessors." What If all incoming admin
istrations should take similar grounds
The writer says that
The position of President Grant, it may
be said, was somewhat anomalous ISrfany
Republicans had been turned out by
Johnson for the reason that they would
not support him. That such men, if they
were deserving,should be re-instated seem
ed just and proper enough. But Mr. Grant
did not stop here. He took the ground
that the fact of any man's being a Demo
crat was a reason for his removal. That
was precisely the g ouud he ought to have
abandoned. It was just the position of
every President since Jackson, only that
none had ever practised it so thoroughly.
No Democrat allover the country was per
mitted to remain. Not even was liberty
of silence" tolerated. office-holders every
where made the most abject and pitiable
exhibition of themselves in their halite to
proclaim their " loyalty." Cautious and
reticent people were looked at askance.
Good Republicans admired those honest,
outspoken Democrats who made clean
breasts of it and witlfout any ado permit
ted themselves to be ejected from the
offices their admirers wanted. All this
baseness owed its existence largely to the
fostering encouragement of the new gov
ernment.
The President had an opportunity sue
as occurs only once in a great while. To
begin with, lie was new and was Andrew
Johnson's successor. Sanguine humanity
believed in him, just as it believes in the
new shoemaker or the new parson. The
good-natured republic was disposed to give
him any length of tether he might ask. If
ever there was a man who might have
thrown aside petty prejudices, it was he :
if ever there was a man who could have af
forded to have a conviction and to adhere
resolutely to it, it was he. Had he taken a
fair stand, had he determined to look at
things only in the light of reason and jus
tice, the people would have been with him,
and the abuse of the partisan press and of
factious politicians would have run off from
hint like water. But he,onthecoutrary,took
the coarsest view of the situation. lie car
ried into attics a bitter personal dislike of
his predecessor. lie revived the unscrupu
lous, dragooning spirit which had met its
first reverse in the acquittal of Andrew
Johnson, the tyranny of party over the in
diyidual, the intolerance of various diver
gences of opinion,' the excommunication
of every man who differed from Thaddeus
Stevens. lie did not perceive that the
'• popular indignation" at the "treachery"
of Fessenden and Trumbull, was superti
cial and spasmodic, was a newspaper made
indignation. lie adopted a very similar
tone "'That a man has held office under
Johnson is presumptive evidence that he
is a Johnson man," he is reported to hare
said, quite taking it for granted that to be
a Johnson man was to be something very
wicked. lied he retained a few upright
Democrat-4 he would have contributed a
ollb , aantial service to reform, and could
have been sustained by the opinion of the
country, though, no doubt, he would have
incurred the bitter reproaches of the disin
terested patriots about the smoking-rooms
of the Washington hotels.
But not only did he turn out Democrats.
For the the first time in the history of the
.country the strong members of the victor
ious party quite devoured the weak ones.
If the applicant had more friends than the
perfectly loyal incumbent he succeeded
him. Things seetn6d to return to their
rude, primal condition, and„ by by Darwin's
principle, the weak party were pushed
aside by the most powerful. The Repub
lican who had two active friends was sleet
ed by the Republican who had three. Be•
fore General Grant's accession, that a man
held an office was a presumption that be
would keep it. The inertia, though liable
to interruption, was one of rest. Under
Grant the inertia became one of motion.
the office holder and the protecting poli
tician have now to each other the relation
of paper and paper-weight. The office
holder is the sheet of paper, and the poli
tician the paper-weight that keeps it in
place. 'Take off the politician, and the
office- holder naturally blows about.
The tieatment received by Minister
Motley and Moses Grinnell is alluded to
in terms far from complimentary to Ilse
President. It says :
"Mr. Motley'sor Mr. Grinuell's personal
feelings may be of very little signifieauce.
But there is not the trouble. President
G rant in demanding that Mr. Motley should
resign, and resign by telegraph, did au un
gentlemanly thing. In the case of Mr.
Grinnell, a most respectable citizen is eject
ed to make room for Mr. Thomas Murphy;
he is contemptuously put into an interior
place, and in turn ejected from that. Now,
is no account at all to be made of the feel
ings of the good old man, who had led an
upright life and who has the respect and
honor of the community around him ?
President Grant's feelings are to be respect
ed, we suppose. If the interests to the public
demand that Mr. T. Murphy must re place
Mr. Grinnell, let Mr. Grinnell go, by all
means. lint, if the only reason for the
change is that Mr. Murphy wants; the
place, or a knot of politicians want it for
him, then what would otherwise be stern
justice and bitty duty becomes vulgarity
and wanton cruelty. Human law protects
the pow est. Any boy whose dog cart is
run down by the chariot of a millionaire,
has the county at his back to see him right
ed He and his cart nobody cares fur.—
But If he were not protected what would
become of the rest of us. The country
that tailed to protect him would be a cruel,
lawless, worthless country. So in that,
kind of injustice the strong may visit upon
the weak, and for which there is no reme
dy, the truth is the same. We do not care
so much, we repeat, for Mr. Motley or Mr.
Grinnell; it is the government that does
such things for which we are sorry and
ashamed, and for the country that looks on
unit permits it.”
False to fiery Pled
I lad the author of the somewhat far
fetched exclamation, " Erailty, thy
name is woman," been as actually fa
miliar with Radical short-comings as
he affected to be in regard to the frail
ties of the daughters of Eve, he would
have varied the utterance, and declared,
"Radicalism is but a synonym for all
that is false and vile." The Radical
party gave the negro the ballot for the
use it expected to make of his vote in
keeping themselves in power. At the
late election in New 1 ork, Fred. Doug
lass was nominated by the Radicals for
the Assembly in the '2,1 District in Mon
roe cotim y, and the official returns show
that over six hundred Radicals in that
District voted for the Denim:lake can
didate who opposed !long lass,w. bile they
voted for Scribner a white Rad ical,who
was running in the same District for
another ollice This District comprises
the City of Buffalo, the most Radical
place in the State. Negro equality is un
popular even there. Douglass has served
the Radicals too faithfully. Had 'he
demanded an office add stolen a hun
dred thousand dollars, he would, no
doubt have been honored by a triumph
ant election.
Grief of the Royal Household.
The condition of the Prince of Wales
is reported as becoming still more criti
cal and alarming, his fever increasing.
The queen, his mother, is constantly at
his bed-side. The turning point must
soon be reached, and either his death or
a change for the better occur. The
greatest anxiety is felt by his relatives,
and all others personally and politically
interested in his fate.
No Internecine Strife
Governor Palmer says that these are
not times of internecine strife, in which
necessity compels the toleration of mil
itary dictation ; and the abuse lavished
upon him for asserting the supremacy of
law, by the entire Republican press,
" only confirms him in the conviction
that the Republican press, in its zeal for
party, has forgotten government."
The New York Radicals are an unhappy
set. Tom Murphy's removal does not
reconcile the factions. The Fentonites
are as much opposed to Arthur as the
other faction was to Murphy. " Let us
have peace."
State Items.
Charity " hops " are the sensation in
Altoona is putting up a small-pox hos
pital. _
Spiritualists are numerous in Delaware
county.
Turkeys sell at ten cents per pound
In Lebanon.
Philadephia is to have seven more fire
engines.
The streets of York borough are being
re-piked.
Second crop of apples were grown In
Greene county this Sear.
Bradford county has u postoffice
named Mittens.
The Towanda jail is being built of
stone from the Barclay mountains.
Elizabethtown is a famous locality for
raising immense stock cattle.
The military companies of Lebanon
will parade ou Thanksgiving Day.
The Methodists of Bucks county are
having immense revivals.
Bear Creek post-ofilce, Luzerne
county, has been discontinued.
The motion for a new trial in the
Ward case was argued yesterday.
The small-pox in the Berks county
poor-house has been checked.
Deer weighing 300 pounds are fre
quently killed in Clearfield county.
There is quite a scarcity of farm labor
ers in Chester county.
Children's prayer-meetings are very
popular in Bradford county.
The Bradford Argus is boasting about
a cabbage head that weighed l 9!. pounds.
A gentleman of Mifflin county claims
to have caught a white squirrel.
Father Hunt, of Luzerne county, is
still hunting the benzine-guzzlers.
General Cameron visited Gettysburg
and portions of the battle-field, last
week.
The potato crop was so large that the
article is a drug in many parts of the
state.
Altoona claims that no deaths have
occurred thus far from small-pox in her
limits.
Over one hundred and twenty-five
buildings have been erected in Bloss
burg since January 1, Is7l.
Col. Byer, of Selinsgrove, annually
donates a ton of coal to a number of
widow ladies in that place.
J. 11. Kase has been appointed Super
i men dent of the Danville, Hazleton and
\Vilkesbarre Railroad.
"Horse Adams" is the euphonious
name of a half crazy negro in Harris
burg.
The hotel keep reof York take pleas
ure in treating their friends to venison
suppers.
The trial of John Kiehl, for the mur
der of his wife, is now in progress at
The people of Coatesville expect to
have their gas works in operation by
Christmas.
Hon. U. Mercur has been nominated
by the Philadelphia City Item for Gov
ernor.
Anti-Horse Tiller Society is an organ
ization non• as common as agricultural
societies.
Joseph Elliott has been elected
President of the Fayette County Agri
cultural Society.
Eleven hundred and twenty-four
.pu
pile are enrolled in the public :-.ehools at
West Chester.
The people of Erie I , ity are in love
with Olive Logan, and are clamoring
for a repetition.
A citizen of Sunbury has presented a
claim of .$.500 for damages sustained by
the Alabama, during the war.
Metzel-soup compliments are the social
exchange of good neighborship of this
season in all parts of the State.
James Hogan, of Lock Haven. was
killed on a log drive at or near Ilene
zette, on the 16th lust.
Dennis Dugon, charged with larceny
before an Erie County Court, plead his
own case, and was acquitted.
Apples weighing one pound and ten
ounces .were grown in South Bend
township, Lebanon county.
Malignant varinloid is something un
known to medical men. Variola is the
technical name for small-pox.
Forty thousand dollars for a ninety
barrel well is the latest quotation from
Parker's Lauding.
John Johnson, formerly proprietor of
the Son Hotel in Bethlehem, died re
cently iu Philadelphia.
Thomas Golden, last week had one of
his limbs cut off by a locomotive on the
Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad.
The term of the chief engineer of the
Reading Fre I) epartment has been re
duced from two to one year.
The Pottstown butchers have reduced
the price of beef-,teak from twenty to
eighteen cents Der pound.
St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church
on Twentieth street below Locust, Phil
adelphia, was consecrated on Sunday.
Wm. Werner, of Nazareth, is about
to establish a museum of natural curi
osity at Allentown.
It is said that tea-leaves placed on a
stove and allowed to burn, so as to
create a smoke, will prevent the spread
of the small-pox.
In Penn's Valley, a Mr. Fulton, sev
enty years old, raptured a large buck
the other day by killing him with a
stone.
The rich coal lands at Plymouth are
to be still further developed in another
year, which will add new impetus to
that thriving borough.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad Com
pany have issued torpedoes to the men
employed on the different trains to be
used for signals in stormy weather.
It is rumored that the Lehigh Valley
Railroad Company has leased the Bel
videre Delaware Railroad from the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
They do the "marriage" business by
wholesale in Bradford county. Eight
couple were recently united by one cer
emony in Towanda.
Thomas Mitchell, receiver of city and
county taxes of Williamsport, is charged
with being a defaulter. He is a son of
Rev. Thomas Mitchell, D. D.
Adam Woolever, Esq., of Lehigh
county, is mentioned in connection with
the Democratic candidacy for Speaker
of the Pennsylvania House of Repre
sentatives.
There are tifteen physicians In Beth
lehem and ;iouth Bethlehem, and not
one could be procured, t Ile other day, to
attend a case of small-pox in the latter
town.
.fames limn, in the Beaver county
court, has been convicted of the murder
of 11Iartiu Darius Grant, the deed hav
ing been committed in New Brighton,
on the 12th of October.
James Abbott, while under the in
fluence of liquor, endeavored to save his
little son, win, had fallen into a stream
near New Hope, Bucks county, last
week, and both were drowned.
:IIrS. C. V. Byers of Poit,town, was
Intl week handed a chuck for sliyinii by
U. F. Iteinert, agent of the Continental
Life Insurance Company of New 1 ork,
iu which her husband Wits hp-WT.I.
A t•ow was killed recently in St.
Ntary la, Chester enmity, which had in
her stotnaell a Mt ornrila, , omr of them
had become cemented tiigetlier and
were well polished.
gain the Philadelphia Peace Society
has niet and resolved that war should be
abolished. In the present state of this
fighting planet it might as well resolve
that all men should lie virtuous.
The Superintendent of Puclilici Schools
In lierks county hay engaged to deliver
a series of lectures throughout that
minty to pupils on familiar historic and
scientific topes.
A mother, in Ilarri.burg, married her
daughter's intended, whereupon the
young lady sought revenge by placing
a puck of tire-crackers under the bridal
couch. It is said there WAS a double ex
plosion.
Hon. George W. Woodward, formerly
Judge of the Supreme Court of this
State, and now representative in Con
gress from the Twelfth District, was
married to Mrs. E. H. McAllister, at
Lexington Ky., last weex.
The coal mine, about which there has
been so much excitement in the neigh-
borhood of Troy, Bradford county,
proves to be a vein of intermingled
coal, and stone and iron pyrites, about
four feet thick.
Francis Lentz was convicted of as
sault and battery, with Intent to kill, at
the Elk county court, recently, and sen
tenced to pay a fine of ten dollars, and
serve an imprisoliment of one year and
four months in the Western peniten
tiary.
The stakes have been set for the
Spruce Creek railroad between Spring
Mills and Oak Hall. A correspondent
of the Centre Hall Reporter gives en
couraging accounts of the progress of
the work in Penn's Valley.
The Committee of City Council ap
pointed to investigate the alleged frauds
on the accounts of the Philadelphia
Treasurer,.cannot proceed for the reason
there is never a quorum present when It
meets. What Committee will investi
gate this barefaced fraud ?
Senator Blair on the Ku-Klux.
Senator Blair has been interviewed by a
reporter of the St. Louis Republican, in
regard to his observations as a member
of the Sub-Ku-Klux Committee, which
has just closed Its investigations in Ala
bama and Mississippi. His statements,
which possess considerable interest em
body the following points:
The testimony of some two hundred wit
nesses was taken. The Radical witnesses
were chiefly negroes, while those of Mr.
Blair were gentlemen of education and
pr minence in society. The evidence taken
at Huntsville, Alabama, showed that there
existed a system of wholesale plundering
carried on through the government, and
the individual acts of negroes, in conse
quence of which the people, in many in
stances, were driven to take the law into
their own hands and protect their property
by inflicting a punishment upon the ne
groes It was not shown in any instance,
that these acts had anything to do with
politics. There are many instances of arson
for plunder or for revenge, and a great
many instances of rape which are instantly
and violently punished. Apart from these
things there is no more violence In the
South than in any other part of the coun
try. The imprisonment of negroes does not
repress the plundering by them. They
don't regard it as a punishment ' • on the
contrary a prison is more comfortable than
their own cabins, and Is no disgrace to be
incarcerated.
In Sumpter, Green and Hale counties
many negroes voted the Democratic ticket,
and these counties have Democratic ma
jorities. The carpet-baggers had left this
region, and the attempt was made to prove
that this was the result of violence and in
timidation. But the effort entirely failed,
as much the same condition of things ex
isted in various sections of Mississippi,
brought about by the plundering of ne
groes. The policy of the State government,
under Governor Alcorn, is very vindictive
in the prosecution of whites. Under the
Ku-Klux act some three hundred indict
ments have been found in the United States
Courts against whites, on very flimsy pre
texts. In a great majority of the cases the
enforcement act is regarded as arbitrary
and illegal, involving a great loss and ex
pense.
In regard to the proclamation of martial
law Mr. Blair said, the people are appre
hensive that,if it becomes necessary to car
ry the;elections,marttal law will be declar
ed by the President. They feel that the
whole thing is a mere trick of a party to
retain power, and they are convinced that
the only way to stop these tidings and re
store peace and harmony in the South is
to accept the Missouri policy, proclaimed
by the St. Louis Republican newspaper,
and vote for some liberal Republican to
defeat Grant, thereby securing a general
amnesty and the repeal of all the Ku-Klux
laws. '[his is the only thing that gives the
Southern people any hope ior the !MUM
He believes that if Grant is re-elected, it
will come near depopulating the Southern
States of white people, as they cannot re
main there in safety under the present
condition of things.
Mr. Blair stated that unfairness eharac-
terized the action of the Comolittee i
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taking testimony, the majority frequently
reserving witnesses until it was too late tier
him to procure rebutting testimony. They
only had one real Ku• Klux before them, a
man who had joined the Klan in Sump
ter county, Alabama, a while before the
war, and who had cast but one vote since
the war and that fora Radical. The people
do not hope much good to come out of the
action of the Committee, as they do not he
neve their true condition will be reported.
Tho only ray of hope that penetrate, thin
South at present and keeps the people from
complete despondency is their noth in the
success 01 the "passive policy."
Buying Fp the Telegraph
The Radical government are not con
tent with subsidizing the Press of tile
country, as they have attempted to do,
and to a great extent havedone, but the
telegraphic wires are to he made still
more su-servient to the furtherance of
Radical ends in the transmission of
Radical hes. The Philadelphia Ledger,
an independent paper, although rather
leaning to the Republican side, says:
We notice within a day or two a rise at
New York of 3 to 4 per cent. in the price
of Western Union Telegraph stock. This
large advance is attributed by some to the
probability of a dividend of .1 er cent. at
the next dividend period. It may with as
much plausibility be attributed to an effort
that it is said will be made, to put the tele
graphic service of the country upon Con
gress, and, through it, upon the Govern
ment. 'rue project, we believe, Is a
favorite One of the Postmaster-General,
and Sr hat Mr. Creswell officially advises,
the President will be very likely to
second in his message, soot, to lie
laid before Congress. The movement,
however, is not likely to be popular, and
certainly inert with decided and in
fluential opposition. Already, in advance,
the New \ ork ii.'xiires6 says : " We oppose
the whole thing, root and branch, as dan
gerous to the people and the Government.
'Fhe already enormous patronage of the
Government works quite enough of corrup
tion among Federal employees. The Gov
ernment now controls both the purse and
the sword, the postal service and the taxing
power, all that belongs to the war, naval,
Indian, revenue, diplomatic, the Federal
legislative and judicial services Add to
this the system of telegraphing between the
Pacific and the Atlantic, stretching over
every town and hamlet in the land, and the
danger would be increased four-fold. In
the first place, it would cost the Govern
ment millions upon millions to purchase
the franchise owned by others; and when it
became the owner, it could not begin to
manage the system with proper economy—
certainly with nothing like the economy of
private owners. All experience proves this.
I\ - hatever the Government touches, where
there is money, as a rule it corrupts." The
New York Journal of Climooterre, on the
same subject, says: "We aro utterly op
posed to any manipulation by the Govern
went of the business of telegraphic com
munication. The Post-office Department
is a cumbrous, costly machine, badly eon
calved and worse managed We do not
wish,this Circumlocution Office to usurp
any more powers, and put its muddling
hand upon any further means of commu•
nication between the different sections of
the country. It will not be a project to
start an opposition to the existing com
panies, which was the essence of the old
movement, but a huge job to buy out the
existing lines at a fat price, and to make
by such a connection a larger supply of
pudding to lie divided among hungry
office-seekers."
rlynorsis of the President'. 31essotce
The following are given as the impor
tant points of the President's forthcoming
message:
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The reports of all Executive Depart
ments have been laid before the President
by the Secretaries. The President has also
completed, in its prominent points, his an
nual message to Congress, though the doc
ument has not yet been read before the
Cabinet.
It is understood that this will be done on
Tuesday next, when the various subjects
treated upon will be fully discussed. Un
usual care has been taken to prevent a pre
mature exposition of its contents, and the
President has refused even to risk the
printing of it in advance of the delivery of
the document to Congress.
The NI essage, judging from the leading
features, which we have obtained, how
ever, promises to be one of nonsual im
portance, and will prove one of the most
popular that has yet e me iron the pen of
the Chief Magistrate of the nation. .
The mading subjects which will Lie dis
cussed will he of Internal Taxation, the
Tariff, Finances, the \Vashington 't reaty,
the Indians and the distu Halloos
in the South. On the question of Internal
Taxation it is that Lila Message
will recommend the abolition or all inter
nal taxes, except on spirits, malt liquors,
tobacco in every form, and stamps. Con
sidering the satisfactory condition of the
finances it ham been found by careful esti
mates that the current expenses of the
government, inchiding the interest WI tile
national debt, rail be easily filet from the
revenues 11,1111 LE,aaSalll'eati Rid ',Oil taaVe
a surplus for an animal small reduction of
the principal. This is chietly,twing to the
successful administration of the Internal
Revenue Bureau in the collection or the
taxes on the articles retained.
The Tariff will also lie fully treated upon,
but the M es.ago will embrace no specific
receinuntendations as LO the articles upon
which there shall he a reduction or which
shall be placed on the Free list. The teat.
ter of details will be lent to Congress,
though it will be suggested that those
things whii•t, e•an be included in a revision
of the tariff with the least injury to the in
terests of the country should he first emi-
Sidered.
The Finances will be touc•he-d upon ;den
erally, tearing the report of the Secretary of
the Treasury to wake such recount-1011,1a
tions and suggestions as may be [necessary
to carry out the ti naucial policy of the ad
ministration,
'Flie work of the year in the improve
ment of the condition of the peaceful Indiana
and the domestication of those still at large
on the plains will be reviewed. No mate
rial change in the Indian policy will be
recommended. The message will also al
lude but very briefly to the operations of
the Hu-Klux societies in the Southern
States. It will be left to the Attorney
General to report at length the condition of
the question and what measures have been
taken to suppress this insurrectionary
order.
The laborS of the High Joint Commis
sion and the successful conclusion of the
Washington Treaty during the past year
will be a subject of congratulation to Con
gress, with the expression of the belief that
the completion of the duties of the com
missions established by the treaty will har
monize all matters of controversy which
have been so long pending between the
Governments at Washington and London.
This will also lead to some observations
upon the generally satisfactory relations
existing between the United States and the
rest of the world. What further measures
will be taken respecting the recent Cam
paign in the Corea have not yet been de
finitely determined. A strong policy,
however, is indicated, particularly in view
of the uneasiness felt in the empire of Chi
na towards foreigners. The punishment
of the Coreans for the murder of wrecked
American seaman is considered complete.
The future action of the Government will
be prompted by the conduct of the King
and subjects of that country and the gen
eral aspect of affairs in the East.
The necessity of reform in the Civil Per
vice has already been brought before Con
gress in previous messages. Another refer-
ence to the subject may be made. Any
further discussion of the San Domingo
question is yet under advisement. The
message, it is'anderstood, will be as brief
as the subjects discussed will admit, mere
ly calling the prominent points of the De.
partment reports to the special attention of
Congress, leaving the Secretaries to present
the details of matters under their Immedi
ate direction.
The message will be given out the usual
way, a certain number to be furnished to
the press immediately after the departure
of Gen. Porter, the President's Secretary,
from the Executive Mansion to the Capitol.
The Secretary of the Interior's report will
treat, at length, of the Indian question, and
make sundry recommendations, in order
to carry into effect the peace policy of the
President.
Democratic Opinion.
A reporter of the New York I kruld has
been Interviewing floe Hoffman and
Chief Justice Sanford E. Church, at Alba-
lay, New York, on the que.qtion of the fu
ture policy of the Democratic party. The
Governor like most of us, has not yet
made up his mind as to what our policy
should be, but ioclines to think that a fu
sion with the dissatisfied Republican ele
ment may become advisable. Judge
Church on the other hand does not seem
to think there Is much in the coalition idea.
WEIAT GOVERNOR HOFFMAN SAID.
" tiovernor," said I, "what is your opin
ion of what is termed the passive polloy—
I. e., allowing the Republicans opposed to
Grant's administration to nominate a
statesman to whose standard can be rallied
the full Democratic support?"
" Well, sir," said he,speak lug slowly, as
though weighing the force of each word,
'the time has come In our history when
we want at the head of the government a
statesman such as we have not had within
my recollection. There are still statesmen
in this country who could rescue the gov-
- - -
ernment from the perils that beset
believe honestly that a very, yes a very
large majority of the people of this country
are opposed to General Grant tilling the
office of Chief Magistrate of the Nation for
another term, and we ought to tiud a
statesman who could defeat him. This ad-
ministration has not [net 'the expectation
of the people. The time ham mine Whet
we want--w hen the inityses demand—grew
His Excellency paused for in moment,
and continued: "'There is a feeling rife
among the people that a union of all honest
men, or those opposed to corruption, that is
desirable and it is, perhaps, advisable to
accomplish the defeat of the present par
ty in power a fusion should be formed
with such a motive, even if sonic be roux
pellet! to sacrifice for a time their feelings
of fealty to party. The Democratic part•
is still a power in the land, and It cannot
forget its principles ; but I say. perhaps it
would be wise and patriotic and desirable,
in the cause of honest government, to make
some sacrifices. I say perhaps, for I have
not yet settled in my mind clearly what
course the Democracy should pursue. Yet
I alp fully impressed with the responslifil
ity that rests upon the people at iho present
crisis in our national affairs, and think that
we should all endeavor to secure economi
cal administration and the correction of
abuses. To accomplish that we must have
a statesman who will dictate a policy to his
Cabinet instead of blindly following such
policy as may be mapped out by his Minis
ters. A President should be such a man,
and until we obtain one of this character
we-need not hope to prosper nor stop de
falcations, the negligence of officials and
the corruption that boldly seats itself in
high places."
The Governor also referred to the nec
essity fur the people of the entire nation
following the example eel by the Demo
! crass and Republicans of New York of ex
tending the reform movement that has
been inangu rated there so successfully, to
the entire nation, and the duty of the press
'to lead in the grand work by educating the
masses in their duties and responsibilities
as citizens who desire honest government
and can rise above the claims of party
merely.
WHAT CIIIEr Ji'sTICH ont'llfill SAT :
"I have not been an advocate of voall
tions. The Democracy of the nation is too
great a power to surrender its principles iu
a scramble for °thee. Its past histor V is
too brilliant to forego its policy for a divi
sion of spoils, and it still lives and will
live for a brilliant future that IlltiNt come
some time." . .
theless a tact, that twittery corruption, pec
ulation and defalcation are the order
under Grant's administration. I do sin-
cerely believe that in this nation there is a
great majority of the people opposed to the
re election of Mr. (Irani.. They are dis
gusted with his statesmanship and the rob
bery that rules under it. But. the Democ
racy is not yet dead. It ha' statesmen left
who can lead It to viclorylf wise contisels
prevail. When the time comes they call
he found, whether we search for them in
the inoileat law olliee, the marts of com
merce or the Hamann'. Yes, we have
statesmen left whose nalmll•.s have never
been mentioned in connection with the
Presidency, who could lead our party to
victory and give the people the relorms
they no much demand. No man call guere
w•ho will be the next President. I see
your journal, the Ilerabl, declares that
Grant cannot be defeated. I do not think
so. There Is a determination on the part
of the thinking, reading people that a
change must come, and it will come. The
infamoun dishonesty of the Federal Ad
ministration affects the pocket' of the peo
ple, and the:great reform movement of Now
York shows that when the people will it
corruption must vacate its seat and fall be
fore the ballots of the voting inillion."
"But, Judge, is it not possible that a
union of all anti-administration men could
be formed, for the public good, from both
parties, as I have indicated'!"
"lt might be accomplished ; but there Is
little enough. There is no hurry."
"'rime enough? If Crain in to be de
feated there is work to be done, and the
(thicker the ball is put in inOtion the surer
will be the success of the movement."
" I do not see it in that light. I i rest revo
lutions of public sentiment have been con
ceived in an hour and executed in a (Verdi.
IVlien the people resolVe to move they
move quickly awl sweep et•erything froin
their path. We have several months VOL
to work. How is it proposed to acisitn•
plish this fusion of parties?"
•• me of the Western papers suggests the
immediate call of a convention of delegates
—ltepublicans and Dernocritt.s opposed to
Graut's reelection-a conference on the basis
of such a union and the selection of such
men as all anti Grant, anti corruption,
mithlirihery and sat presenthalthig Men
can unite upon."
"Something Might po.sibly coin° of it ;
but I tell you sir, we should not talk of
men Low. We should work. It is useless
to discuss the fitness of this man or that
man as a standard bearer. When the limo
comes the right man call 1111 fo u nd, and he
may be found 11l the place least ex pected•"
We are approaching a crisis which will
show whether the renirin movement
started in your city shall sweep like a
wave over the eolith country and
carry down in the wreck the unscrupulous
party, or whether Grant is w rule lor an
other term, and stealing, bribery and de
falcations goon until there will be no longer
a chance to rescue the government and the
Constitution [rein nth, destruction. Oh
what a chance. what a glorious chance is
there for the 111111111 at the present critical
11101W - 11i to Make all immortal name by
boldly attack Ma corruption In high places,
by holding up to the gaze of the people of
this country day alter they, in column after
COI emu, the Hills, the swindles, the bribery,
the defalcations, the intrigues, the en
croachnients upon the Constitution that
had clutraileri4ed the present administra
tion."
Unike the Democratic and Independent
press of the rmlntry in a crusade for OW
I,lll,atioll , if the people and you would se - e
IMO 01 the grandest revolutions in fallaic
nentinient of the age. The people must he
educated in the crimes and shortcomings
of the party in power. We Waal every 111 s
per in the country tilled with sharp, lionu,
ed editorials that the masses earl under
stand. The constant dropping of water
will liani,4l a rock from the pathway of a
rivulet.
That little instrument, the pen, when
above it in a rlenr brain and behind it a pa
triotic heart, can accomplish a greater
work. It can make statesmen honest,
sweep are ay the obstructions to honest and
eonstaidional government. Oh sir, let
the press speak out. Let thkrat show the
great people who road and think and act
upon their teachings the way to honest
government. Let them expose the in
creased taxation, the plundering of the
public money, the utter disregard of the
Constitution, that prevails at Washington,
and my word for it, the people will achieve
the reforms we want. Let the press make
public...minima, and the public sentiment
will hod the statesman. When the time
comes it will enter some office or counting
room, or sanctum, or modest manor, and,
leading hour torth by the hand, install a
statesman or honesty, ability and patriot.
ism as their choice at the Scrhite house.''
•• Yee; there is still hope before us, and
it is in the press. The people are ripe for
a great political revolution, in which the
pross must be in the foreground of the bat
tle, against the corrupt bribe•takern and
peculators who are revelling in all depart
month or the government, and tirant is as
big a devil as any of them, only he takes
his bribes in a less objectionable shape.
Farewell, sir; let us hope for the best."
Radical Nominee fcir Governor
The Philadelphia Post says, "The Gu
bernatorial succession in Pennsylvania is
being agitated by the parties most directly
interested, and already we have more than
an average crop of candidates announced.
The candidates thus far announced are
Generals Hartranft and White, Colonel
Pennypacker, Messrs. G. Dawson Coleman,
Ketchum, Moorehead, Packer, and Fran
cis Jordan, present Secretary of the Com
monwealib. 'The gentlemen In this list
who are must active, are Hartranft. White,
and, perhaps, Ketchum. Mr. Jordan will
have the earnest sup p ort ofGovernorGeary,
and the Executive Department will be ac
tively used this Winter in his interest,—
Whether this support will be of any service
to him is questionable.
General Hartranft is strong with the sol
dier element, and bas added much to his
popularity by his able administration of
the Auditor- kmneraTm office during the last
six years. Gen. Harry White is Senator
front the Indiana and Westmoreland dis
' tract, and is working with determination
and earnestness. Several clubs have been
formed in his interest in this city: Mr
Ketchum, of Luzerne, is well known
throughout the State as a gentleman of
eminent ability and large experience in
public affairs, and wall unquestionably be
a strong man. We have not heard of any
organized movement in his Interest. Mr.
Ketchum was the opponent of Geary for
the nomination in 186 G. James K Moore -
head, of Pittsbut•gh, will be strong in the
west. He is well known as an able repre
sentative in Congress.
During the next three months there will
be considerable mancenvering on the part
of the various candidates and their parti
sans for the advantage of position. Har
risburg, during the coming eesalon of the
Legislature, will be the principal base for
operation, and Legislative favors will be
contended for with a view to this nomina
tion. It is more than probable that com
binations will be made In Harrisburg (ir
ing the session of the Legislature that will
be instrumental in determining the con
test. At the present time Philadelphia is
not very decided for any particular candi
date, but the feeling seems to bepretty
equally divided between Ilartranft, White
and Ketchum.
A Strange Speetaelr In a St. Lots 1• Then
ST. I.OltlS, Nov. 21.--A strange merino oc
curred last evening at the Opera House on
the occasion of the reappearance of Mica
Matilda Herron, of or her retirement from
the stage for nearly two years. llnring
the first act there was an entire absence of
anything like connected or Intelligible act
ing. She continually fumbled her long
gray hair, stroked het brow, and throw
herself into ridiculous attitudes. lier
voice was husky, and frequently broke
into a shrill scream. Some of tholitllliellet.,
believing she was intoxicated, were rather
boisterous up to the end of the art, wffen
she ad VItIIONI to the footlights and said :
" You things who behave so much like
blackguards, get out anti leave ladies and
gentlemen bore. yo■ have no behavior.
why then behave yourselres. “
When the curtain roll, Miss !fermi was
called out and spoke as f'ollow•s:
" Ladles and gents— n am glad to come
once more to large-hearted and benevolent
St Louis. I come here, not as I did many
years ago, full of youth and hope and am
bition, but rather as a pauper, to strive to
earn a little to support my gray hair, cud
to receive, it 11.145 i bit,, What 1 have been
robbed of. Por my new start in life I sin
indebted to lien 'lobar, who gave too the
use of his theatre, and in ether trays has
put too oh my legs again. I all, now past
forty years of ago, and hare ton years loft
to :whim . ° utv lost laurels; have genius and
talent th i s-1 know full WO. I. v heart is
in my soul; my soot is with any coil!
don't care a lig tor the world, and I'm just
as happy as n Ilia snit tluwer !"
This over, she daneed the stage,
waging Iter arms.
Attetopt to II d Off Grool
There is a Washington telegram to tho
etitqt that a most important political LIIIIVe
meta is soon m take Hitce among the mit,
tirant rues of the itatlioal party. The cor
respondent writ,. story, as it reached
(no, is abort its tollmvs:
On the 311th of November, Thausgiving
Day, and four (1.3, before
Congress, a convocation will be held, either
in Philadelphia, Baltimore or Ilarretliuriz,
probably the latter place, which will be
composed of lienjxwill F. ism lor, Monileit
of Congress from NI assachusetis ; Carl
Schurz, United States Senator from Nils
tot ri ; M.ll , :varts, of New York ; Jacob
It. l'ox, ex-secretary of the Interior, lit
ihio ; Geo. K. Spencer, I'. S. Senator from
Alabama; Charles A. Dalin, of Now York;
Lyman Trumbull, United States Senator
rroin Illinois; Thu How Weed, Horace
i,reely anti George of Now York :
With 501110 1111115 (1001111 or 1110111 1(t11111 . ,t,
whose names it would not be policy at
present to make public.
Charlos Sumner and Henry
Gutted States Senators from Massachusetts,
will haV(10011S1d111 . 11100 01110 with the Minh
erations, but will 1101 he 111 . 1181(11t uu t 11,
Occasion.
- Thu wain object. of (lie as4emblago will
be to arrange a programme Mr the cumin{;
l'ongres4 to head off lioneral I;ratit, and 11/
Until/ 1110 HtTllbil4,ll.l Wllll are uppoae l to
hie 110111in:101 , M 111 , 1 , 11 soino general plan
operatinns.
The lievilMean horiton I•etolimiq a own
ink 'to run.
A veteran printer, .11)1111 S. preen, 11111
la Ind huwealin, Indiana, 11 few days age.
Ile was in the eighty eighth year of his
ago, and was prolialily the oldest printer in
the mentry. At the ago .r ten yearn
Wan lamight to the 1 toted Staten Iron
I/11111101 I rvlund, by lIIA parents, who hust
led in Lancaster, Pennsylvania Ile re
mained there, nerving, his apprenticeship
in the printing litinentss, until the break -
111glalL (Jr tine scar 01 . lsl2, when he onlimmti
in the Arlin militia, and nerved
until the eessat inn ol• hontilitien. Ilit 1111 , 11
went to Philadelphia, but remained there
only it short time, giting Unitive went to
Vineeimen, and finally retracing hie step,.
In Pittsburgh. 'Flier., lie remained until
IS:I1, when ho again mount West, In Indian
apnlis, and there ivorkell at his trade until
IS:tn. lie then 1111reintsed n tarn), a finny
miles from Indianapolis, and there spent
Iris Summers, working in the Winter al
his trade in town. In !Sr,' he withdrew
from active lino altogether, aunt ever after
lived on his farm. Iteceinly Ins health
rapidly failed, the 11,1111 of age,unl his
death neeurred no the 17th, at the residence
of relatives in lielhuittpolin, Ile leaven no
family, never having been married. In
accordance with Ins at repeated request,
his roimuns were taken to Pittsburgh Ulla
interred.
1111TT:11:1=1
The Prince of Wales, uvrnrdi ng 1., the.
',Mr/ e 'irr:th, of yesterday has beau seized
with a sudden indispoaition, 1101 , 11
cause nn alarm, and even it' it should prove
fatal, it would 1,11.1 no great distress. The
Indeta of the heir to the throne ill Englund
are such, that his sodden taking la would
oxeite no surprise. These habits have rip
parently produced an affection of the brain
which shows itself in extraordinary sleep-
Mess. At porMrinances of serious operas
alla plays, he is constantly seen sleeping
prolonnilly in his box ; only opera bootie,
or undress ballet can keep 111111 awake.-
Americans who witnessed the wonderfully
impressive Passion-Play last Summer, at
t)beraminergati in Bavaria, were treated
also to the sight of the Prinee of Wales,
seated with the Princess and her ladles, and
shaming soundly through it all. Such
drowsiness is ntorlini, and indicates MORI,-
. ing of the Mani, which may terminate
paralysis.
Who H' ll in't lien Politician
The noticeable division of thu n ,
press concerning ex. Collector Murphy's
honesty indicates, In it good (big roe, the
line or division in the party which hits ex
isted from the earlier days of its history to
the present time. It is the old ‘Vend and
Raymond influence on the ono side, and
the Greeley clique on the other. It In dif
ficult to determine which is the more hon
est of the two, but this much is certain,
that between Mein, whether Justly or un
justly, Murphy fares hard. UnuLL and the
nines say Murphy is all right; 'Minx and
the Tribune say he Is all Wrong, and in the
meantime he goes to the wall ; that Is, he
resigns, and is left at sea, to conic up and
catch ut any new bait it he call. Whit
be.a politician ?
While the air Is rife with rumors of
seoundrelism in South Carolina, of swill
riling officials and financial wreck. Meson('
men of that State are qtliedy Sligaged in
developing its resources through mini
gration. Under the atomices of a conven
tion of South Carolina planters, a Laud
and mmigration Association has been or
ganized and a branch established In Now
York. Agencies are also being opened
abroad. 'Phis Is the true policy of the South
and the direction in which Its public men
should work. A people who fold their
hands and brood over misfortune never
win, The relief regaired lay South Csru•
line Inds[ be had (brought a new popula
tion, and the field is one worthy the Inas
cub, missionaries whose presence iv Mt,
earnestly sought to lie secured.
Foreign Ignorance of American Politic.
It is amusing to see how the rOSUIL Of thb
New lurk election is regarded In Europe.
',whin understood it pretty well, rather
exaggerating . the reform victory. But
Reuter, the continental IIoWY agent, knew
no hotter than to send over Europe the
simple an nounooment that " Mr. Tweed
has loch re elected. - The great m u te of
Tweet! Is already as well known 111 Chris
tendom as that and 14 In tour!! the
same color. Accordingly the liberal Jour
nals :of Belgium, Franco and Ilorutany
mourn over this triumph of crime In the
popular verdict, and UM Pari%
Juices venomously in the proof that the
American man is incapable of self-govern.
mon%
A Nod End low, of Nobility
A We 'alter Frain Paris tells a atraliga
story of the derail once and miserable death
in that city of the scion of a noble Seciteli
house. His funeral was a sad OWL Be
hind the humblest of hearses fMlowed
young woman and two little children in
tears. The parish voifin heal covered With
a morsel of red ,loth with nn each
thereon. The deceased was a member
of the Athol family, and died in great pov
erty in one of the city iduitni. Ile was call •
ed Viscount.
lionapartiftl Journalm WarnetL.
The Bonapartist journals of Paris have,
just received a warning by the i lovorument
organ to cease calumniating the President _
The Chief Magistrate is allowed a salary of
000,000 francs a year, and he is charged with
refusing payment in banknotes -insists
upon receiving gold, which he aNirward
sells to touch the premium on that metal,
and so pockets over 2,000 francs a month
snore. Such, brutally stated, is the libel,
and illustrates to what depth of degrada
tion political animosity can descend.
Making the Beet of II
It might naturally be supposed that Ash
bury would go home the least bit grouty,
for he was whipped out of his boots by the
American yachtsmen, BO that his name
will ever be the synonym for nautical fail
ure. And yet the long-bearded Briton
nurses such pleasant memories of Brother
Jonathan that he has christened his new
yacht the Cb/ungbin, in commemoration of
his recent visit to America. Ashuury,
upon the whole, Is a pretty good fellow,
and besides that he is a philosopher.
Paving the Way for Stealing■
In anticipation of an unparalleled era of
Hteal lug and extravagance, the Washington
°Metals aro feeling the popular pulse by
stating that •'the estimates of the Treasury
Department will be somewhat in excess of
last year, on account of new buildings,
,tc. Look out for more robberies.