Lancaster 3ntelligenca.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1871
Oar Party.
The so-called " passive" polity which
has been urged upon the Democratic
party by some of its influential members;
has not met with our approval, nor with
that of the party at large. Its name
sufficiently condemns it ; for it is diffi
cult to imagine how a political party,
which is solely created to act, can be
passive and yet live. But the object
which the adv'ocates of the passive policy
had in view,lis one which every think
ing Democrat must wish to see accom
plished. This object is the union of our
strength with that of those moderate
Republicans who are disgusted with the
nepotism, corruption, imbecility and
lawlessness of the present National Ad
ministration, for the purpose of securing
Its overthrow. There is in the Repub
lican ranks an opposition to the extreme
and 'dominant wing of the party,
which is shaping itself into formida
ble 'proportions; and we are inspired
With a new and a plausible hope for
the destruction of the Grant Dynasty in
1872, if the Democracy wisely improve
the situation. To ensure success we need
the strength which such men as. Senators
Trumbull, Schurz, Tipton, and others
equally sincere and earnest, can give us;
and to secure it we will be ready to make
such concessions as do not occasion any
sacrifice of our principles, or impair the
Integrity and efficiency of our organiza
tion. It is with us, and should be with
all good Democrats, sufficient ground to
cause us to invite the co-operation of
these men, that they have arrayed them
selves against the centralizing tenden
cies of the A dministration--agai net its
official corruptions—against the nepo
tism, bribe-takings, and palpable imbe
cilities of the Government head. In so
far as they seek to enforce purity and
economy in the administration of gov
ernmental affitirs, they cannot fail to en
list the sympathies of all true Demo
crats.
The Democratic party desires the over
t brow of the present administration, and
will zealously labor for its accomplish
ment. It can not be asked, however, in
order to achieve this end, to surrender
either organization, or its participa
tion in the choice of a Presidential plat
form or candidates. The Democratic
party exists to be beaten or to win, but
never to surrender. It is the only his
torical party Ihat is really perennial in
this country,as it is theonly party which,
under our institutions, can always
We desire to see ( rant's adth i istra
lion swept out 9f power ; rut, if in the
coming contest, we are to go before the
American people on the platform of
loaves and fishes only, we do not de
serve success. I f the simple triumph of
party is paramount to the success of
principles, why not go over to the
Radicals at once for this is precisely
the plank on which they swim. Sue.
cess is the one motto WI all their ban
ners, and to achieve that the old land
marks were taken away, just as expedi
ency demanded their removal.
Democratic party cannot be asked to
follow the destructives over all the
other lines they have crossed and are
endeavoring to obliterate; nor, in order
to success, forget that we have a Written
Constitution, and adopt their law of pow
der and bayonet. The written funda
mental law is our platform.
s it has been
boldly discarded by the Radical party;
and his upon this issue and upon those of
ildrenehment and reform,that we would
go into the tight. I f the people of this
country' are already so debauched try
the deluge of lies which has long made
the land a stench in the nostrils of truth
and honor, as to require all parties to
wallow in the same mire, our task may
be a ditlieult one. And yet our duty
remains the same,—the standard of
right knows no compromise; success
is nothing; office is nothing; power is
nothing without truth and justice.
Strong as is our desire for rant's de
feat, we are not prepared to accept a
simple "availability" as our Presiden
t ial candidate in '7'2. We desire a states
man and a gentleman of integrity and
honor. \\'e want a man of brains, cut.
ture.and will. \Ve have long enough
endured the shameand confusion of im
becility iu high places. 'Pie onward
strides of a great empire should be un
der the management of her best and
wisest men. Thus, alone, can endanger
ed liberty be snatched from the grasp of
tyranny ; and the Constitutional rights
of this vast country be secured and per
petuated.
To accomplish this, we invite the aid
of all who will come on board our flag
ship Constitution. We would scorn the
onicer or sailor whir refuses to walk her
planks, unfurl her sails or defend her
bulwarks. We care not what party af
filiations they may have held hitherto,
it, seeing the danger of the old ship,
(hey are willing to help us bring her
out of the breakers, and head her prriw
frcim a lee-shore ; but we want no vol
unteers for prize-money alone. We care
but little who shall take command, so
that he be worthy of the position, with
the far-seeing statemanship which can
safely direct her course, the manly
firmness which will steadily grasp the
helm amid threatened danger, and give
to us the blessings which invariably fol
low in the wake of a prosperous nation
:d voyage. To this end we can safely
bide our time, in full reliance that who
ever may be selected as our standard
bearer, we shall have a leader worthy
1110111'1/Wll and the Nation's choice.
More Impeachment on the Tapls
The Radical scamp, Bowen, of South
Carolina, is likely to get himself into
trouble for going back on his friend
Grant, after the service he did hint in
keeping his carcass out of prison, by a
timely and unrighteous pardon. In the
South Carolina House of Representa
tives, yesterday, the resglutions im
peaching Governor Scott and State
Treasurer Parker, were discussed.--
Ito wil4i said great pressure had been put
upon hint to induce him to withdraw
his charges. He asserted that State
stock In the Greenville and Columbia
Railroad was sold for while $.5
could have been obtained for it front
otber parties, and that I lovernor Scott
had refused to sign the transfer until his
brother-in-law was given $40,000. He
also said that the Agricultural Laud
scrip was reported sold at 724 cents, but
he knew men who paid cents for it.
,Several speakers followed in opposition
to Bowen, one of whom charged him
With perjury, and read a despatch sent
by itdwen, in New York, last summer,
begging Governor Scott to revoke the
authority given Judge Barrett to pro
ceed against Kempton, the financial
agent. The trouble of Bowen is not
'likely to end here. It is now said that
Scott has secured enough voles to ensure
Bowen's expulsion, and that eflbrts will
lie made to expel the bigamous impeach
er. What a happy family!
Cannot Be Deceived
The Senators who are tied to Urant
and all the shortcomings of hie imbecile
administration, having yielded reluct
antly to the demand for investigation
iu to *official abuses, are now endeavor
ing to counteract the impression*pro
duced by this reluctance, by pretending
great zeal In the work of inquiry. The
country will not be deceived by the
tricks of these demagogues, and the ex
posures they may be compelled to make
will be regarded only as evidence of vil
lainies they have left unrevealed.
A North Carolina Judge.
The Committee of the North Carolina
House of Representatives, after investi
gation, declare Judge Logan, of the
Ninth Judicial District of that State, "is
utterly disqualified for the position, that
he is ignorant of the law, and Inefficient
to a degree that amounts to a ,denial of
justice In the courts of his district."
THE LANCASTER WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1871.
A Scrap of lllstory
It might exercise a somewhat salu
tary influence upon Radical leaders and
officials, to occasionally remind them of
"a proverb the Arabs have," that
"Curses, like young chickens, always
come home to roost," of as the Italians
have it, that "Curses are like proces
sions, they return to where they set
out." A little bit of history is recalled
by a cotemporary, which is illustrative
of the fact that other things beside
maledictions take the same course. In
the Spring of 1867 the angry Radical
Congress of that day enacted what is
the "tenure-of-office bill." On March
the 2d, of that year, the acting Presi
dent, Mr. Johnson, returned the bill to
the Senate, whe'reit originated, with his
objections, and notwithstanding those
reasons, it was re-enacted by a constitu
tionalmajority+3s to 11 in theSenate,and
138 to 40 in the House of Representa
tives. That forgotten message lies be
fore us as we write, and we fiud in it a
course of reasoning which has a strange
illustration now-a-days. Speaking of
au unworthy incumbent of that day, the
President said, among other things, that
a case might arise when a public officer
" might grasp at power for his own ag
grandizement and the elevation of his
connexions and relatives to office," and
hence should be removed. He went on
to say that if the power of removal were
virtually vested in the Senate, a 9 it
would be if their consent were needed,
"such a body is more likely to misuse
it than the man whore the united voice
of America calls to the Presidential
chair." This was denounced not merely
as heresy, but as the utterance of frantic
and distorted intelligence. Less than
five years have elapsed:and now we find
an accredited Republican organ, such as
is eminently the New York Evening
Punt, denouncing the tenure-of-office act
as the most pernicious of all legislation,
and, as Mr. Johnson foretold, tending
directly to the demoralization and deg
radation of the Senate.
The Radical Stay laving Way.
The only reliance of the Radical party
in the South—the tegroes—are rapidly
discovering the shallowness and rascali
ties of their professed friends, and are
daily denouncing and deserting them.
One of the most prominent of the color
ed leaders of the Republican party in
Alabama, Mr. George W. ('ox, of Mont
gomery, has published a card in which
he assails in severe terms the abuses
which have been perpetrated in that
State under the name of Republican
ism. Ile says that he loves the princi
ples the party assumes to replesent, but
that in Alabama the people of his race
have elected - men to °nice who would
rob their wives and children of the last
blanket they have to she]) on, and then
be ready to murder every colored man
who will not support the party ticket.
Mr. Cox says that if Republicanism
means robbery, and that a man cannot
vote as he wishes unless at the risk of
his life, he desires to leave the party.—
The KU-Klux Congressional (
‘'onimittee
would find a fruitful lield for the exer
cise of their energies in an honest in
vestigation of the widespread system of
intimidation practised iu the South on
colored voters by the secret negro socie
ties which exist throughout the reconi
stringed States.
Let the Tax-Pajers Remember It
When charges of fraud were , made
against prominent Democratic officials
of New York City, the leading Demo
crats of the City and State, and all the
prominent journals of the party at once
demanded the most prompt and thor
ough investigation. Such Democrats as
Charles O'Conor and Samuel .1. Til
den took the lead in the matter, and
were the most earnest and persistent in
the work of ferreting out the frauds and
punishing the offenders. But how is it
with Radicals? While everybody ad
mits that fraud and corruption abound
to an unparalleled extent in rational af
fairs, a proposition made in the Senate
to investigate and expose them with a
view both to correct the evil and punish
the guilty, is strenuously opposed and
voted down by the supporters of Grant.
Let the people—the tax-payers who stif
fer by these frauds, think of this. Let
them mark the difference between the
two parties in this respect.
Death of Postmaster Hager
The community were pained to hear
of the death, on Friday morning last,
of Henry W. Hager, the Postmaster of
this City, and the junior member of the
dry-goods firm of Hager Bros. Mr.
Hager had been confined to his room
for some two or three weeks past, his
symptoms being thoSe of typhoid fever.
It was not until Thursday, however
that any serious apprehension was felt
of a fatal termination of his illness.—
Then ulceration of the bowels set in,
and Ids case became desperate.
Mr Hager was a very courteous and
efficient officer and was held in high
esteem by thenleople of this City,
aniong whom his entire life has been
passed. He had many warm friends,
and we think few enemies. His age
was about 38 years. He has died in the
flower of his life, and has left a fragrant
memory behind him.
Record of a'Democratic Uovcrnor
Governor Haight, the retiring Execu
tive of California, cent his last message
to the Legislature the other day. It is
an able and satisfactory official paper.
The Governor calls attention to the fact,
that during his administration the State
debt has been reduced from $5,16-1,000 to
;3,46_,000; that the schools are in a most
flourishing condition ; and that prosper
ity and economy have distinguished the
four years of Democratic rule. He rec
ommends a change in the land laws of
the State, on the ground that they now
facilitate the acquisition of large tracts
of land by corporations; and advises
that a Constitutional Convention be
held to remodel the judicial system and
the system of taxation.
A Home-Thrust
Some of the severest blows which the
Radicals are now justly receiving are
dealt by the members of that party.—
The I termantown Telegraph does it in
truthful style, when it asserts that "no
less than three treasurers of Philadel
phitchave been defaulters in office, and
not one of them was a Democrat. This,
is a fact that some of our Republican
friends would do well to ponder over.—
The party claims to be moral and up
right, and to have an especial horror of
dishonesty in office. And yet here
stands this ugly fact."
Death of P. Martin ileltler
P. Martin Heltler died at his resi
dence at Ephrata, this county, at 2
o'clock Thursday morning last. He had
been in ill health for some time. He
was a graduate of Yale College and a
member of the bar and was well known
throughout the county, having partici
pated actively iu its politics on the
Democratic side. The proceedings of
the meeting of 'Ole Lancaster bar rel
ative to his detith il kill be found in an
other column.
A Significant Suggestion
An exchange says that iu view of the
sudden accession of popularity and loyal
devotion tothe Prince of Wales, Admin
istration journals are wondering if it
would not be advisable fol. Grant to
somehow take the enteric. fever. He
takes so many things, and, takes things
so easy, that we think the thing might
be managed very well.
An Insult to the State
An exchange says : " It is an insult
to the people of Mississippi that Ames
should register his name at Washington
as ' a Mississippi Senator.' He doesn't
own a foot of land in" the State nor pay
a single gollar of taxes. lie once resid
ed a few months at Vicksburg as an
army officer, but on return there he even
refused to pay his poll-tax."
The Financial Condition of Philadelphia.
The independent press of Philadel
phia seems to be alive to the perilous
condtion to which Radicalism has
brought the interests of the city. The
Philadelphia Ledger thus rehearses the
exposures of the last two months :
" It is now two months sing the defalca
tion which showed that the cash account
of the ally was short 8300,000; that the loan
account was short $145,000, and that the
Sinking Fund account had suffered to the
extent of s33,ooo—making a total deficit of
$178,000. Of this total, the aunt of $lOO,OOO
has since been recovered. Spon after the
defalcation became known, discoveries
were made which confirmed suspicions
that have prevailed among. Well-informed
people for many years. Amongst the de
velopments were these: The public mo
neys had been loaned in large amounts
to a private person, or persons, for spec
ulative purposes. This was contrary to
right, contrary to official obligation, and
contrary to law, even if the loans had been
guarded as all prudent business men pro
tect transactions of that kind. But it is
among the developments that these large
amounts were loaned, without security or
protection to the city of any kind. These
large sums of city moneys were also loaned
without compensation to the city in the
form of interest to be paid into the Treas
ury. It also became apparent that the city
moneys could be checked out, and handed
over to private persons, by a subordinate
in the City Treasury, with no check upon
that subordinate but his own will or
pleasure. It further became known
that the periodical "verifications of
the cash account " by a Committee
of Councils, were so managed in the
City Treasury that all this loose handling
and unlawful and wrongful use of the pub
lic moneys was covered up. Similar de
velopments came to light concerning the
handling of the city loans in the City Treas
ury. Large amounts of these securities
were placed at the disposal of a private
person to sell at discretion, and for which
there was a sort of ' matter of form' settle-
ment at the close of each month, which
settlement might be, and sometimes
unsettled the next day after the 'verifica
tion.' No security for the return of either
the loans or the proceeds was exacted in
this case either. The public moneys in this
case also were used for private purposeswitb
out compewation to the city, and at great
risk, as events finally proved. There were
other developments, but the recital of the
foregoing will suitice for the present pur
pose. In addition there is reason to believe
that, with a view to private profit, the loans
sold on account of the city were sold at a
high price and accounted for at a low one;
and that loans bought on account of the
city were bought at a low rate and ac
counted for at a higher one; and it is cer
tain, that whilst luaus may have been sold
early in the month, and carried interest
against the city from the day of sale, the
proceeds of such sale did not get into the
Treasury until the last day of the month,
and not always then."
While the elections of last fall were
going on the Radical politicians of Phil
adelphia, who constituted an organized
band of plunderers, were loud in their
denunciations of the Tammany frauds.
They professed to lie virtuously indig
nant at the doings of Tweed tk.; Co. while
they were engaged in rascali ties of a
character equally as reprehensible, and
Republican voters were foolish and dolt
ish enough to put into office men of
notoriously bail reputatiotc , . The elec
tion was scarcely over until the rotten
ness of municipal affairs under Radical
inanagement began to be uncovered,
and one exposure has followed fast upon
he heels of another, until no Philadel-
phia Republican dare point a linger at
a Tammany thief. The Yankee city is
int a bit better than C;otham
Democracy of New York repudiated
Tammany Ring--the Radieal Ring still
rules and plunders Philath
A Pure Administration
In the Senate debate on Mr. Trum
bull's resolution, the defenders of (Irani
asserted that this administration is the
purest that ever existed, in reply to
which Mr. Trumbull said:
Well, if there is anyivhere iu the world a
worse civil service than that of the United
States, I pray to lied to deliver that people
from it. (Laughter.) 1 feel less disposed
than ever to submit my Republicanism to
the test of the Senates' from Indiana, for
his declaration that we have the best civil
service in the world. My Republican iem
is not partisan, I istre nothing for it ex
cept as a party of great principles, and if it
ever enures to be used as a me r e for r, vul
Wail iiti4jUdieN, the honest people Of the
country will overwhelm us, as they ought
to.
It is notorious that the Rafircal party
has become but a cover for fraud and
corruption. It originated in fraud; it
was born in sin and iniquity, and has
been growing more wicked and corrupt
since the day of its birth. Even in its
first years of rule, some of its most in
fluential leaders declared that dishonest
officials stole more than half of the rev
enue of the government ; and these
thieves and robbers, under the protec
tion afforded them, have multiplied iu
number and increased in boldness, dex
terity and wickedness to such a degree
that fraud and thieving have become
the rule of officials, and honesty a rare
exception. The great aim arid end of
Radical labor is to cover up, defend and
whitewash the knaveries and corrup
tion which so alarmingly abound. It is
literally true that the Radical party has
become a cover for frauds and iniquities
and there is now a determination on the
part of the honest men of all political
opinions, to unite for its overthrow.
This the leaders of the party see, and
are making the insist desperate shifts to
avert the threatened blow.
Begin at the Capital
Democratic papers th mug hou t the
country are urging the Democratic and
Conservative members o f Congress to
have a committee appointed of efficient,
honest men to examine the condition of
the Federal (Mvernment at Washington
City, and report the same to the country.
It is no use to disguise the fact that there
is something " rotten in Denmark." The
defalcations that come to light, the gen
eral uneasiness and idarm, and the ner
vousness of certain Federal officials,
point unmistakably to corruption. Let
there be a thorough examination, a gen
eral overhauling of accounts, and there
will be exhibited to the world, as we be
lieve, the most wholesale and wicked
corruption and robbery that ever were
known in the annals of history. By the
aide of these public crimes, the corrup
tion of Tammany Hall would pale into
insignifidunre.
A Specimen Ratilen' Reformer
Senator Stewart is a member of the
packed committee of the Senate to show
the country how not to investigate
frauds, and it may, therefore, be iuter
eating to expose a piece of sharp practice
on his part, in connection with the Em
ma mine. It seems that Stewart's com
pany made a show of negotiating with
other claimants to the mine, and created
the impression that they would submit
it by argument to the Secretary of the
Interior. In the meantime Stewart
managed quietly to get a patent to the
tract in question, and had been in Eu
rope with it a month before the oppos
ingclaimant knew of thissharp practice.
This is probably an ewidenceof Stewart's
fitness for a committee man.
One of Grant's Reformers
Grant's Senatorial retainers con
stitute a class of as inconsistent and
hypocritical advocates of reform, as
could well be hunted up. The Omaha
Tribune, a full supporter of the Grant
Administration says: "Senator Har
lan, we regret to say, seems placed by
certain facts which have recently come
to light iu a very unpleasant position
in connection with the Wright Indian
frauds. The government is very reti
cent touching the facts of the case, and
maintains a steady reserve. God save
the country when U. S. Senators become
partners iu filching from the Govern
ment and wronging the people."
Janus-faced Policy of Grant
In alluding to the efforts of the ad
ministration friends of Grant to stifle
investigation into the alleged frauds of
the government, the Age says, " when
Huget wished to be made a Colonel and
Noble at the same time, Richelieu's re
ply to Joseph was, " we'll promise it;
and see tife King withholds." That is
the Grant policy at the present time.—
The people demand investigation, re
form in all departments of the public
!service. General Grant promises it in
his message, but sees that the Senate
withholds, His message was a cheat, a
fraud. The action of the Senate proves
it."
Callender and Corbin
The ;New York Tribune, like Ban
quo's ghost, will not be down at the bid
ding of all the guilty Macbeths of the
Grant stamp, but will, even when least
looked for put in an appearance against
their guilty deeds. There is, says the
Washington Patriot, a little New Jer
sey locality, of which Newark may be
said to be the centre, which is fertile of
others than Frelingbuysens. A neigh
borhood which is limited by a right line
of about four miles, has at its outer
edges Corbin at one end and Callender
at the other: Elizabeth claims Corbin,
and in Newark nestles Callender. It is
needless to say a word about the un
punished hero of " Black Friday." He
is still dose in the confidence of the
Executive ; his carriage 'companion ;
his cherished chum. The Newark
friend figures in another part ; and lest,
our motives may be misconstrued, we
choose to let indignant Republicanism
tell the tale. The Tribune thus de
scribes the doings of East Jersey:
Mr. Callender held a very responsible
and honorable public trust. Teo thousand
competent and trustwofithy men would
gladly have accepted it. The fortunes of
thousands depended on his fidelity. Yet,
instead of vigilantly guarding the import•
ant interests whereof he was the custodian,
he basely betrayed them for private gain.
The shepherd's dog conspired with the
wolves to make a joint raid on the dock.
The bank examiner scrutinized several
banks, found them in a precarious condi
tion, and practised on the tears and the need
of trembling presidents and cashiers to
make them minister to his avarice. In ef
fect, if not in so many words, he said to
them : " I ought to report you in a had
way, and so break you; but give me $3,000
to $75,000 each out of your !Wan ty means,
without security or interest, and I will tell
the world that you tire solvent, when I know
you are not." If this is not a crime by stat
ute, it certainly should be.
How many Calleuders still remain in
office? We want this point settled by a
searching investigation, not controlled by
Callenders nor by their backers.
The same paper adds on a kindred theme :
A prominent Government official, whose
opinions on the late doings in the Senate
are quoted in our Washington despatch,
hits the nail on the head. It is very true
that the over-zealous Administration Sena
tors have injured the cause which they
were in such haste to serve • they wounded
the Administration while they were
insiat
iug upon their special call to defend it. But
it is also true that this suicidal action has
had the effect to injure the party while it
drags down the Executive. The President
may well pray liar deliverence from such
dangerous friends.
In alluding to this matter, the Phila
delphia Evening Bull, lin says :
It is probable that a collapse of the F, of
National Bank or this city would not h,Vf•
occurred but for Ilie (.01.11.1a of the Bank.
Examiner, Callender. By his advice and
with his sanction, a system of false pre
tences was carried on ; notes of hand were
treated as cash, and among them notes of
his own for money borrowed from the
bank! He had carried on the samu system
iu the banks that lately failed in New York,
and this was made the subject of a formal
complaint by the Clearing-I louse, which
requested the Comptroller of the Currency
to removehim. Ifa proper person had held
the office of Examiner, he would not have
used his office to procure accomodations at
the bank, um- would he have consented to
cover up the drregularities that are now
known to have existed in its nettle of doing
business. There ought to be some punish
ment for offenders like Callender, noire se
vere than mere removal from office.
Not Smooth Sailing.
The idea so jubilantly entertained l
Grant, a short time since, that he had
nothing to'do but walk over the course
for a second Presidential term unop
posed, is rapidly giving way to plau,i
ble dread and doubt. The Washington
correspondent of the New York 'Pt I
lame says:
"There seems to be an undercurrent of
feeling, not yet publicly expressed, yet ad
mitted in the private conversation cd many
of the supporters of tile Administration,
and advocates of Gen. rants renomina
tion, that they may not have as clear sail
ing as they have anticipated for their can
didate through the National Convention
nest Spring. Many of these men coining
fresh from constituencies are forced to ad
mit thar, while as yet there lots 1;cell 110
very outspoken opposition to ; len. Grant's
renomination, among the masses, there is
discovered in private (4,llversation, a wide
spread feeling that he is not the very bust
man in the country to he President for an
other term."
That "undercurrent" is finding ex
pression more freely and publicly every
day, and the discussion in the Senate on
the frauds and corruption of the Grant
administration is increasing the already
" wide-spread feeling" referred to.
A Bitter Pill
Another of the bitter pills the Radi
cals are compelled to swallow recently,
is that, after the exciting debate in the
Senate upon Mr. Trumbull's resolution
for retrenchment and reform, they find
that it is almost an exact copy or the
resolution organizing the Retrenchment
Committee auttarized during the ad
ministration of Andrew Johnson, and
that there was no previous understand
ing upon the subjeot between Senator
Trumbull and any other Senator. I t ap
pears that on the evening Congress re
assembled the idea of re-organizing the
Retrenchment Committee occurred to
Senator Trumbull, and he, without con
sultation with any other Senator, drew
up the resolution, which, as before stated,
varies but little front the former as pub
lished in the (ilobc. tie disclaimed any
such significance as attached to it by
Senators Con k ling, Morton, and Sher
man, as an anti-Administration meas
ure. Truly, "the wicked dee when 110
man pursueth."
Albert E. Carpenter
We copy from the Lanca,f, r Bar the
following obituary notice of our de
ceased friend, as ft just tribute to his
worth :
Mr. Carpenter was horn in 1 , 10. A Ber
passing through the Iligh School of Lan
,,aster he entered the Sophomore ('la,, in
Franklin and Marshall College, in the Fall
,if 1657, and graduated in good standing in
his class is 1001. Ile Was admitted to the
Bar, (January 2.1!.,1, 1007. Ile was married
soon after, but after a few Java of wedde
happiness his wife and ,11i1,1 died vic
tims of that fell-destrover, consumption,
which finally claimed hint as another.—
Mr. Carpenter was a young man of quiet
retiring manners, and yet in the "MOMI
eij•.le he was a general favorite on account
of his winning ways, and genial, cheerful
disposition. As 50,,, dutiful and devoted,
he was a 1111.101, as it [Maher, illit'fait'llate
and kind, he was referred 1,, as an ',ale
pie too seldom follow 401. Fngaged with
his father in a large scrivening and survey
ing business, in addition to a growing legal
practice, he VMS characterized by a strict
adherence to his word, and unswerving
honesty.
le was, indeed, a tnode) character---wiih
out bigotry, fanaticism, or proscription or
opinion's sake, he was an exemplary and
unpretending ehristian gentleman. 110
was as pure-hearted as a W./1111111, slut as
clean-tongued ns ho iyas pure hearted—he
was a type of young men, too rare in the
community to be spared without. keen re
gret, and society has lost one to whom peo
ple instinctively look up, and the profession
a gentleman of - high honor, whose virtues
and sterling worth time would have crown
ed with rich rewards.
Missouri Liberal Republicans
The Liberal Republicans of A[iseouri
have issued an addresssetting forth their
views of the present aspect of party pol
itics, and calling a flaws Convention to
meet on the 9-011 of January, at the
State Capital. The add ress,is signed by
all the members of the liberal Republi
can State Committee, and is indorsed
by Governor Gratz, Brown, all the State
officers, and the most prominent mew
hers of the State Legislature. This is a
movement in the interest of the passive
policy and is a very formidable one, so
far as regards its anti-Grant tendencies.
Amnesty lit the Senate
It is now thought probable that upon
the re-assembling of Congress, that the
amnesty question will occupy at least a
week in the Senate, notwithstanding
the time already spent upon the Aject.
Senator Schurz will offer an amend
ment to the pending bill, striking out
all after the first clause, which will
make amnesty general. Senator Sum
ner is also confident that his equal
rights proposition will be adopted as all
amendment, and intimates that enough
Republican Senators have already
pledged themselves to vote for it to en
sure Its passage.
Hard Run for Time
The Washington Patriot well asks,
why it is that our President is always in
a hurry on every occasion? In his an
nual he told us he had "hastily submit
ted his views," and now in his civil ser
vice message he tells Congress he has
"not had time to mature any opinion
on the subject." All he wants is as
much "strength" as Congress can give
him.
Louisiana To Be Scourged.
President Grant is determined that
he will not succumb to the Warmouth
faction, and equally determined not to
permit the negro Li,eutenant-Governor
to enjoy his triumph over him and
brother-in-law Casey. He is revenge
ful, and will wreak his spite without
stint or mercy, although thousands of
innocent victims be added to the al
ready teeming list. The Picayunesays :
The President has despatched a military
force to this Stale. For what purpose is
this being done? Our forts and arsenals
are adequately garrisoned, and profound
peace prevails throughout the State. Is it
designed, tinier the pretence of Ku-Klux
outrages, to foist upon the State a reign of
martial law ? or is it the prelude of military
aggressions in the election, and to advance
the interests of a party or a faction? One
or the other of these purposes is in view.
Did it merely affect the interests of either
of the two factions that are now contend
ing for rule in the State, little heed would
be given it. But the vicious influences of
such a policy reach over and beyond this
petty dispute. It affects the planting in
terest, paralyzes commercial enterprise,
I and drives capital from our doors.
The State is just recovering from the
prostration of war. The evil effects of it
she has borne for years. Now when the
dawn of returning prosperity is about dis
pelling the gloom of the past, we are called
upon to sustain anew the bitter fruits
of licentious power, misrule and oppres
sion.
And for what purpose? Disguise the
reason as we may, the object is to give the
Electoral vote of Louisiana to Gen. Grant
for President. In the accomplishment of
this result, the peace-prosperity and well
being of our people are seemingly as noth
ing. There has been no public detnonstra
tion to call for such a measure. It is not
even alleged that there is a secret league
hostile to the peace and good order of so
ciety either in the city or the parishes. For
what purpose then have these soldiers been
sent among us, while the Texas frontier is
crying aloud for delenceagainst the inroads
of savages. But a few weeks ago the Secre
tary of \Var was petitioned to send even a
battalion to assist in guarding the frontiers
from the marauding Indians. To this ap
peal the reply was returned that not a sol
dier could be spared. Not a bayonet could
be sent to protect the helpless frontiers-
Mall from the horntrs of savage warfare;
but any number of soldiers cau be spared
fir military aggression in Louisiana.
This is the was we are to have peace.
A Bomh-Shell In the Radical Camp
The resolution of Garrett Davis, of
Ky., in the IT4inute, directing the Com
mittee on Retrenchment and Investiga
tion to look into the conduct of the
President in receiving gifts and being
connected with Government contracts,
fell into the Radical camp with the ter
rible etrect of some death-dealing mis
sile. " The new-born zeal for investiga
tion to which Mr. Trumbull alluded,
seems to have passed off; and the
Iror(d's correspondent says :
"It is not so ardent to extend to an in
quiry into the conduct of the President.
senator Morton attempted to bluff
Davis by expressing an assumed satisfac
tion that the resolution had been offered ;
but Edmunds, of Vermont, who is more
cool and perhaps knows a great deal about
the allegations set forth iu the resolution,
was not quite so sanguine as to the result
of such an investigation as it proposes.—
Senator Morton knows as much, perhaps,
about the jobs in which the administration
is interestf,l not to speak of its nepotism
and present-taking—as any other man.
The debate on Trumbull's resolution has
undoubtedly taught Min the mistake prop
posing investigation, and he deems it bet
ter policy to accept all suggestions that may
he presented on the subject. Mr. Davis
offered his resolution in good faith and he
will endeavor to call it up to-morrow and
pros it to a vote. There is no branch of
inquiry referred to the investigating com
mittee which will prove so interesting as
this. Even though the resolution may be
adopted it is doubtful if the committee will
obey its commands. The country has been
so bill of charges such as Mr. Davis 'ten
uous in his resolution that it would be well
if the Republicans, who seem to have so
ninon faith in Grant, should give Mtn a
chance to vindicate himself.
Relative Value of Lauds
Governor Walker, of Virginia, in his
very able message, alludes to the great
need of the Slate in the development of
her vast resources, and in the most ur
gent and at tractive terms, invites immi
gration. Following up these timely
suggestions of the Executive,the papers
of the state are bringing all their ener
gies to hear upon the accomplishment
of the ends proposed, and are almost
daily urging the advantages and induce
ments offered to the introduction of
capital and labor. The Fredericksburg
Hrruld. in an article upon the subject,
says:
Corn is selling in Illinois and lowa at
twenty cents a bushel, and in Minnesota,
Kansas, and Nebraska at lower rates.—
other cereals command no Letter prices in
proportion to their value, as wheat sells at
tram fifty cents to a dollar in the States
en umerated,above. Wheat and corn are
the staples of the West anti North West as
well as they are of Maryland and Virginia,
and vet they are worth not half as much in
the Western States in which they are raised
as they are in this State find Maryland.
Why then should hmnigrants go West and
struggle against low prices, when better
markets are afforded nearer the Atlantic
coast, with lands equally- as fertile, and a
ttlimate far superior in every respect?"
The Georgia Election
The election for Governor to till the
unexpired term of the absquatulated
carr-t- bagger Bullock, came off 'Phut s
day. Janice M. Smith was elected with
out opposition, the Republicans taking
no part in the election About iinooo
votes were polled in the Stale, out of
some 200,0110. The acting Governor,
Conley, takes the ground that he is
entitled to continue Governor, and that
the bill authorizing the election is ille
gal. This is the same trick resorted to
in Louisiana in the Presidential elec
tion of I'IGS. The Republicans were
ordered not to vote that it might appear
they wereso intimidated
a giat they could
not. The programme 70 Georgia is
that Conley is to resist the inauguration
of Gov. Smith, proclaim any attempt
thereat as " domestic Niiolence," and
then call on President Grant for troops,
which will, of course, be instantly forth
cutning, as they are already on hand l'or
this emergency.
The New Hampshire Fight
That the Radicals of New Hampshire
are scared at the coming election in that
state is certain. The Exeter Xi ws Let
t, r. Radical, says, if our Conventions are
conducted fairly, there is a'elianta , for
victory, " hut," :olds the. editor, "iin the
tither hand, if they are to be managed
hy men hired and idedged to particular
aspirants; ifpublicopinion is to be man
ufactured by political emissaries and
manipulators; if independent Republi
can voters are to be called upon to cast
a tick+ containing the names of men
whom they despise or of whom they
know nothing, and who misrepresent
the preferences and views tit' the party,
th,n we shall fail, and ought to fail, to
carry the election." It looks as though
you would experience what you say you
ought to.
A Radical Witness
The Chicago Trihm - o', one of the lead
ing and ablest journals of the Radical
school, in speaking of Grant's bestowal
of ollices in consideration of presents, is
"constrained to say that the acceptance
of presents and the appointment of cer
tain of the donors to office, and the ap
pointment of relatives and family con
nections to office, are breeches of public
decorum, and constitute a pernicious
example to the President's subordinate
officers in all ',ranches of the public
service."
Southern Fighting lien for Juarez
The New York Sun learns from a
gentleman recently from Southern
Texas, that President Juarez has en
listed fifteen hundred fighting men in
that country and in Arkansas ; that the
men have crossed the Rio Grande, and
are now in active service. Their officers
were formerly in the Confederate army,
and the men are said to be armed with
Winchester rifles. Such a force will be
able to make short work of tLe Mexican
rebels.
Schenck's Explanation
Minister Schenck explains to the
State Department his connection with
the Emma mine, and informs the same
that he has dissolved connection with it,
and will continue disconnected with it
during the remainder of his Minister
ship. Does his repentance at this late
day save the honor of the country?
Will Grant permit him to remain in a
position he has disgraced because he has
repented ?
The Tribune on Conkling
Alluding to the trickey by which the
friends of the Administration attempt
to stifle investigation into alleged frauds
of Grant's officials, the N. Y. Tribune
say's:
The saddest thing about the Reform
movement, which began so magnificently
in this city is the attitude assumed by men
whom we believed to be with us, the mo
ment the reform reaches the confines of
the National Government. in an instant
they change parts, adopt the tactics and
employ the very language of the members
of the Ring. First, like Hall and Tweed,
they resist investigation. Next, like Hall
and Tweed, they propose to have a little
private investigation under their own aus
pices—an appeal to the Chamber of Com
merce. or to a Joiut Committee of Citizens
and Aldermen. And all the while as they
note the groving indignation of the press
and people, they say: "Never mind; it's
merely those snarling newspapers that are
disappointed about something or another.
It will soon blow over."
But it does not blow over Mr. Conkling!
You are learning, sir; but it is as slowly
and reluctantly as Tweed and Hall. You
have found that opposing all investigation
won't do. You have found that investiga
tion, by a committee opposed to it, won't
do. You perhaps found out yesterday that
the pbtty pretense of setting the non-inves
tigating committee to work on the Custom
House deceives nobody. Be assured that
now, as before, the people are in earnest.
Evasions. half-way concessions, quibbler.
and equivocation will not answer the im
perative demand of the hour. This thing
will not blow over.
Triumph of Phonograph)
It is claimed that an expert phouo•
grapher can write foreign words by
sound, of which he does not know the
meaning, and the following seems to
furnish a test example:
Alexis was quite overcome at the Bos
ton Committee's invitation. The
roil Bulletin says: The lirand Duke was
so much affected, that he replied in his
native Russian as follows: "Ord ritold
bustah yuken sormi leg,orf butti tells ile
bloski hi fur Boston. I itvur rumanwiski
anlotzer eitti lainierzredi, avian olekata
kazy wilbi downonye lyken neskeino on a
tallak audio."
lie then glanced at Catacazy, and
closed with what seemed to be a line of
Russian poetry, the last word of which
seemed to be the author's name—
" Asyot antunyotsa Asionl--lb•rzherrin."
Iku•Klux:
Oursprightly neighbor of Di, Interne
has a neat little poem on Ku-kluxery,
with point enough to induce his Black
Republican exchanges to assert that—
er. Muss of WCIS in at r Laterne hubt'n—
a roundabout way of charging him with
tipsiness. We give the first and most
important verse, with a translation :
err Grant, der mist inn Land' hrrurn—
linklitx !
schon,ten Ittalrn hal! Cr 'AU 111111,
K ilk ill
I 'nil knnnnt rr tlann natal W. ilillooll.
rrViol:111111.11 la,1:
Lai 111 Klll,lll‘
rreSidellt 1/leVeS rtaillti the 1/111.1
KiIkIIIX
.01%1,1,1,
I:nklux;
And then he cntnt, \Va,hingum
Fits prnctionat inn to hring ant
Rultinx ! Kultlkix ! tililitx '
A 16,11110,0 a) Ring
The I 'apital has its ring, and a nicre
corrupt no even than that of New
York or Philadelphia. The develop
ments at Washington show that the
Territorial government of the District of
Columbia is run by the Crant Seneca
Sandstone Ring, and that in the man
agement of the allhir they have adopted
the marhinely "Boss" Tweed. It
has in about one year run up IL debt of
$18,0n0,11011, and i'fllllllll,-S its ,perations
on the Tammany scale. The " ring "is
Wade Of of Republic:llc , , ;old the
of course praises it, coil holds it up as a
...E..
hint.. He11..9
(!ub met
lust Friday, 1111 , l'urn
The scarlet fever . 1:110 rat i throughout
the State.
In the town ot• Money they have a
square vaned old Mald's
The Munt•' Creek Railroad will be
completed to Hughesville during this
week.
Turkeys are selling for ten cents per
pound in Lebanon.
Bricklayers are still at work un houses
in Lebanon.
Cases of meamleS Il!lillermis in
Beaver county.
The Bellefonte glass works have re
sinned operations.
A mad dog was shot. at Plio•nixville
last week.
The new bridge over the Clarion at
Ridgway, has been completed.
Erie's wealthiest man, (;eneral Chas.
M. Read, was hurled last week.
About twenty eases cf small-pox are
reported from Lock Haven.
The re-union of the Ninety-Ninth
regiment, P. V., has been abandoned.
A public school for colored children is
to be established in Mechanicsburg,.
The lateral roads being built in Cen
tre county are progressing finely.
Pottsville has constant trouble with
her water pipes, which will goon a bust.
Wayne I\ I'Veigh, of Harrisburg, will
address the 'reacher,' Institute of Leb
anon, this week.
Greenville, Mercer county, has built
a new jail and lined the cells with boiler
iron.
The Doylestown Presbyterian church
is now holding a fair and festival in the
Masonic Hall.
People along the Shamokin railroad
complain of the poor ears which are run
thereon.
All the weekly newspapers in the
rural districts will suspend publication
next week.
Scranton had a lirst-clas,s row on Sun
,lay, iu a saloon where Sunday beer
selling is indulged in.
A Harve de Grace reporter announces
that the Susquehanna river is frozen
over solid.
Over-doses of morphine seem to be a
common cause of death in some parts
of' this State.
A service for deaf Unites is to be held
in the Episcopal church, at York, on
tiunday next.
A chain-gang is about to he intro
duced at Erie for the punishment of in
veterate vagrants.
lierks county has several active as
sociatiotcl for the detection nod prose
cution of horse-thieves.
At Bainbridge, in this Male, recent
ly, a single blast in a iiiiarry threw 111
Idluu tons or limestone.
An immense new turn-table for the
Northern Central Railroad, is tieing
constructed at Wrightsville.
Three cars are being turned out daily
be the Middletown ear works for the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
flit U. Bradderson, of Solebury, who
was stricken with paralysis on the tub
died hist Thursday, aged 7'; years.
A calf was brought forth in (lremn
wich township, Berk , : con recently,nty,
which, at two hour. old, weighed 11. - 1
pounds.
Altoona police arrest young Well for
congregating about church-dons, slid
her Mayor tines them front to to
each.
\I r. Elias icle, rcsid i lig near
Chest Springs, ( 'ain hi in county, lost
five children in live wcelis Iruw i lip
theria.
Mrs. Van Bent:irk, of Williamsport,
proposes to distribute one hundred
loaves of bread 10 the poor ou t'hrist-
Inao day.
In one of our neighboring towns they
have a female barber who will now re
tire from business on account of the ar
rival of a "little shaver."
Hon. F. Watts has been confirmed
Commissioner of Agriculture. Let bin,
now resign his position as President of
the Cumberland Valley Railroad.
George Gates, the individual arrested
for the murder of Edenboro Smith, iu
Cambria county, has been held to an
swer iruthe sum of $3,000.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad Compa
ny have reduced the toll on their road
from Mauch Chunk to New York
twenty-six cents on the ton,
The attempts to get up a panic by cir
culating stories of a strike in the coal--
regions is in the interest of the specula
tors who want to keep up prices.
The firm of Seyfert, McManus & Co.,
of Reading, have just finished two
cranks, each weighing seven tons, and
two connecting rods, each weighing
three tons.
An old German vagrant named 'Cool,'
well known in Centre county, hung
himself in the Bellefonte jail, last week.
" Over the stones, bury his bones ; he's
only a pauper," Sc.
For leaving a switch open, the Read
ing Railroad Company gives its careless
employee two weeks' leave of absence
for the first offence, and discharge pa
pers for the second.
I Mr. Martin Nixon, the eminent paper
maker, who has large and successful
mills at Manayunk, has purchased the
property formerly occupied by Mr. Jc
seph Duckett, deceased.
The deaths in Philadelphia, last
week, numbered 539, an increase of 42
compared with the number for the pre
vious week: The small-pox deaths
numbered 228-1. children, and 100
adults.
Those who have United States bonds
of the first aeries, issued under the act
of February 25, 1362, should present
them for payment at any of our banks,
as the interest has been stopped.
The Philadelphia and Reading Rail.
road Company have bought of Messrs.
Kendrick, Dovey & Co., their three col
lieries,the Indian Ridgeat Shenandoah,
the Keystone, at Ashland, and the St.
Clair shaft.
In opening a water course in the Hire
nix Iron Company's mines, at Boyer
town, a few days ago, a vein of ore was
struck, about 16 feet in thickness, which
bids fair to be valuable. The ore is
magnetic and very rich.
Samuel Heffey has been elected Rep
resentative delegate from the Nllttlin
and Juniata District, to the next Repub
lican State Convention, and instructed
to support Hon. John B. Packer for Gov
ernor.
At ; Kane, Pa., on Thursday morning,
the wife and child of Patrick Burns
were found murdered, in a barn] near
their house. An examination proved
that the wife had been strangled, and
the child's skull fractured. Burns has
been arrested on suspicion.
Au organization for social reform has
been formed in Williatusport, the ob
ject of which is tr, improve the condi
tioyof all classes. Williamsport is pe
culiar for vigilance in looking to meet
necessities, and in this instance acts
with judgment.
Taylor's M. E. Church, situated on
the rational road, a mile east of Centre
ville, Washington co.,was destroyed by
fire: on Sunday last. The tire originated
in the roof, from lit is supposed) sparks
from the chimney. The loss is about
53,1)15).
A movement is on foot at Pittsburgh
to slack water the Youghiogheny river
from its mouth at McKeesport to Con
nellsville. A large amount of money
has already been raised. It is said that
the coal-king,William If. Brown, heads
the subscription paper with SlOO,OOO.
Doylestown had a small-pox panic
last Sunday, originating front ti corpse
arriving there front Philadelphia, and
being hurriedly ,buried. The ex ci trident
quickly subsided when it was ascertain
ed that it was a case of typhoid pneumo
nia, and not the first-named disease.
Friday evening last, while ..)Irs. Pe
nina Farabee, wife of Samuel Far.abee,
of Washington county, was getting on
her horse, her foot slipped from the stir
rup, throwing her backward and her
head coming violently in con tact with
stone, the skull was so badly broken
that she died the next morning.
In the case of Father Stack against
Bishop O'Harra, to restrain the Bishop
from removing Stack from his pastor
ate, Judge Gamble has continued the
injunction. This is the first case of the
kind under Catholic canons in America
and limits the power of the l'.ishop over
his priests.
East Wednesday night the dwelling
of Mr. ( ;eorge, in Latrobe, was broken
into and robbed ol some $,lO in money,
silver-ware and other valuables. A
party who pursued the burglars was
dreadfully beaten by the but
others who took up the chase , captured
and brought them back.
The Beaver ..-Ir,m/s says a farmer sold
a fat steer alive to a butcher by the
pounil, agreeing to buy beef from him
at the current retail price for his faint
ly's use. He bought one.quarter at re
tail of the "critter," which he had sold
at wholesale, and discoverd that he
owed the butcher a small balance.
No better evidence of the fact or the
intensely cold weather of Wednesday
night can be given, than the well au
thenticated information received, that
the water in the boiler of a locomotive
on the Pennsylvania Railroad, near
Lewistown, froze up and the wheels
ceased to revolve, slopping the train
uitil as,istauce could be rendered
Three brakesmen on a freight train
on the Western Division of the Penn
sylvania Ilailroad, beyond Altoona,
were frozen to death on Wednesday
night. They were found clinging to
the brakes, their arms through the
wheels. This is one of the most terri
ble eases of suffering and death, as well
as striking devotion to duty, we have
ever had occasion to chronicle.
Howard Borer, about 1G years of age,
son of Edward Borer,living near Doyles
town, was severely injured by being
gored by a bull, a few days ago. He was
struck on the buck of the head by the
animal, and fell to the ground. cutting
a gash in his head. While on the ground
the bull gored his face, the point of the
horn rutting open his lip, and tearing
the roof of his mouth terribly.
John Henry Denig, of York, alias
" Jack Shepherd," who edited and pub
lished a small paper, entitled look Sh,p
herd's Trump( was arrested ,m Monday
last, on complaints of several citizens
Mr libel, and ennainitted to jail in de
fault of the required security. ".Jack,"
it appears, is withal as merry as a crick
et, and is so well-pleased with his new
quarters, that he now spurns the very
idea of leaving them upon ball.
A new counterfeit ..0-cent note has
appehred in Newark, N. ,1.
The Potomac river is again open to
navigation as far as Acquia creek, and
travel to the South is uninterrupted.
An Imperial ukase of the Russian
Government makes the use of the Rus
sian language in the schools of Poland
compulsory.
Wm. F. Purcell, formerly Judge of
the Orphans' Court of the District of
Columbia, died in Washington on Fri
day night.
Hon. E. G. Bradford, newly appoint
ed I. S. District Judge for Delaware,
has received his coinini,sion and been
sworn into office.
A locomotive exploded last Saturday,
on the Hartford and Fishkill Railroad,
killing M. 12 Collins, engineer, and a
fireman named Voight.
The report of the librarian of Con
gress, shows an aggregate of '..;:1n,5•113 vol
umes and 40,00) pamphlets in the libra
ry, on December 1, 1571.
Thestearner Phil Allen was sunk !war
Memphis during a severe gale On Fri
day night. It is thought she cau be
raised.
A Washington despatch announces
the receipt by a recent mail from Lon
don, of the news that Minister Schenck
has withdrawn from the Directorship of
the Emma Mining Company.
Snow " ten feet deep on a level" is re
ported in the Cottonwood M ining•Dis
[Het, " and_it is still snowing."
There have been severe floods in Ne
vada, as well as in California.
At Watsonlown, about Is miles from
Will imnsport, Richard Unlly and wife
were rilli ot•er by the cuts on 'l • htt rsday
evening. I ;all'y was 111,1lltly
anti MN. lialry arriously injured.
A resolution has been introduced in the
City Council of r-lt. Louis, providing for
a Committee of three well-known citi
zens, to examine the qualifications of the
Mayor's - appointees, in the, i Merest of
civil service reform.
A freight train was thrown down an
embank 'bent, a distance of forty feet,
by the breaking of a rail, near Youngs
town, Ohio, on Friday. .1 olin Realty,
hrakesman, was instantly killed, and
the conductor anti several others were
injured.
At Brooklyn, N. Y , the Health Of
ficers report the small-pox "now Wider
colitfOL" Despatches trot
say the disease is decreasing there. The
deaths from sinalbpox in Cincinnati
last week numbered while for sev
eral weeks previous they numbered from
0 1 to
The Grand Duke Alexis arrived at
ButUo on Saturday. He was given a
reception at the Donlo Club Rooms,
ex-President Fillmore making an ad
dress of welcome. Yesterday he attend
ed a grand chloral festival at the, North
Presbyterian Church, in which live
hundred school children participated.
Mr. Catacazy left the Brand Ducal party
at lin HIM, and proceeded to Washington
to joi u his family.
Smiling Colfax
Schuyler Colfax is one of the '•devilish
sly" gentry. A year or so ago he caused
it to be announced that under, no circum
stances would he he a candidate for re-elec
tion to the Vice•l'residency. The other
day he was interviewed and in answer to a
question what he would do if the conven
tion were to renominate him in spite of
himself, the wily Colfax said that that
would be something to be "taken into'con
sideratlon." Evidently Schuyler, whis
pering he'll ne'er consent means to 'sent.
liarkis is
An Old-Time Impeachment
When Martin Van Buren was President
there was an extraordinary agitation and
threats of impeachment, over the report
that somebody in Europe propos( d to make
him a present. Had the present been made
there is no doubt he would have been im
peached. Since that day we have had sev
eral years of Republican rule, and now the
President actually receives presents of
houses, farms, bonds, and pups, and any
person who suggests that there is anything
wrong is called disloyal. Surely we have
made great progress under Radical rule.
(For the Intettlgeneer.]
Mcisrs. Editors:—lt is my intention be
fore I drop the subject, to point out a plan
of re organizing the practical working of
the school system of our City ; but, further
criticism of the present arrangements
seems necessary as a preparatory step.
And, first, let me say that In order to
have good schools, there must be good
teachers; and, making every allowance
for exceptions, a hotly of good teachers
cannot be obtained without paying them
good salaries.
The salaries Lancaster pays her teachers
are shamefully low. The same, narrow,
short-sighted policy that has forced her
children into poor school-houses, has kept
down the salaries of her teachers, as a lib
eral Director once said, "to a bread-and
butter standard." This kind of mistaken
economy takes all the life out of a school
system and withers it up. If good teach
ers continue to labor in the schools, half
paid, it is because local circumstances pre
vent them from getting away.
The following table will show how Lan
caster compares with the other principal
towns in the State, in the matter of teach
ers' salaries. The City and Borough Su
perintendents are counted as teachers, and
their salaries included in the estimates.—
The number of teachers is also given ; and
it should be observed that where there is
a large number of male teachers in pro
portion to the size of the place, as in I far
ri-Murg, and Easton, inasmuch Its Motil e
them miNt be employed in lower grade
schools, it red tilt's vvry materially the
ac e rage salaries.
I,uunnor
.
11N
JAI /Mt
'Mt %SU
12 111 r,I Ltl:
Ni 04.
S :At :1 . 1 3, Illi
);1 11X1 IXi
4. 2i 211
NI II I. 31 11
12,2 .21 9'. :Ai 41 :Al
I :0 00 21' -1.1 ..I
p 220 72 pi, .11.tii
11 101 0. .1
Vb 1 - 1; 54 1,1.20 I.
1.11 2.: P.l l
I, 120 3..1 .1 02
1.01 0:1
7 i. :0 22
0
it Pi
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Mem.lvltio
New
Niorristown..
Philadelphia
1'011,o:111e
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York
As the table shows, the average salary of
male teachers in Lancaster iff lower than it
is in any other town in the list, /Mil Head
ing is the only one that doles out a poorer
pittance to her female teachers. I write
these words with a blush of shame. llow
much they mean ! Will we ever be just,
to say nothing of being generous, to the
teachers 44f our 4•llll4lreti 7 Can broad, lib
eral, high.loned citizens grow tip under the
operation of a policy so contracted 7
With leachers so molly paid, ono could
hardly lied: fir good teaching, especially in
the Primary Schools, whore it is most
needed. It is very much more easy to
Mich Algebra or Latin tlranintar than it is
to teach elementary reading or the first
steps in Arithmetic. A boy of sixteen in
the It igh School can itu some 1110101111 - 0 take
care of himself, his hardy system does tint
readily yield to the influences or solved
room quaokery ; it is the trustful hearts
and budding intellects of the little people
in the Primary Schoch that heel I the
watch MI eye, the Wilder care and the skill
ful 111111,11 A. the nia.ster. i , llr Priuutry SCIIOOI,I
in I,all4,lStf'r 11.4 i a emilidele remodelling
in studio's, in methods and in The
mac himetteuthing, the routine of simply
hearing lessons, that too generally °hare,
torizes Doom should be superseded by
methods that will expand the intellect,
form the character and cultivate the taste.
'those who 1110:0 not carefully observed the
matter I.as form no adecitiate conception of
the amount of knowledge a child, six or
eight years 4.1.1, can acquire with positive
benefit to its health, if it 1w taught in a
natural way. WO are starving our chil
dren intellectually, and stultifying them
by cur absent methods of cram
ming, instead of teaching them. t sir Pri
mary Sehools need reform: first, in the
salaries of teachers ; next, in the teachers
themselves ; and, then, will follow the im
provements needed in stud ies and methods.
Said one, whose name has been mentioned
mistakenly, /Of approving the present con
dition of our sclewl-houses, of certain Pri
mary Scleeils, to which his own children
were going at the time, "They are mental
rot-heaps." 'this is strung language -is it
justified by the facts?
And here, as I understand, the Superin
tending Committee of the Board of direc
tors have the matter of amending the course
of study under consideration, let me snug
gest that provision be made for leaching
vocal music in all the selloff's. Many towns
have special teaehers for the purpose. Lan.
caster scarcely teaches it ill bur schools at
all. Let all our children learn to sing„ and
the whale fawn will be the better for It.
Drawing, too, should be taught—begun in
the Primary Seheols and continued in the
higher 0110 s. It is a beautiful us well as
useful art, and ean lie taught in connection
with writing, in the same time writing can
be taught by itself, And, perhaps, more
pressingly needed than either, is a eys
tent of Object Lessonn fur the Printery
Selneds. All learning is simple in its be
ginnings, and the foundation Mr it, laid in
the Primary Schools, should be at broad
tine. 141joet. Lessons such as I 4•untemplate
need 104 text-book. They are given front
the full mind of the teacher, aided by ob
jects, experiments, pictures and rtrawingS,
They are fruits plucked from a thousand
trees by lovinglAnde and brought to feed
the appetites (if - little lines, hungry for
knowledge. No efluef.ttion can bit well be
gun without them. Smoothing in another
article on a plan for the re-organization of
our schools, and I have done.
.1. I'. Wick
Last Thursday, lath Inst., John Market
aged about Mee ty•tw,. years, was ac-.
eidoutly shot and 1,1111,1 tuner Wilcox, this
county, by U. P. while they were
out in the woods Minting. The: farts fur
nished us are as follows: On the evening
prior to the accident, Market had been out
hunting and hail wounded a deer. In the
morning both men started to secure the
prior, and as they wore going through the
WI/Ml,l single tile, Market behind, White's
gun accidentally discharged, striking
Market in the breast, killing him instantly.
White was afraid that folks would think
he had ni nrdered Market, and so to prevent
this he invented the story thst larket
shut himself, home and told it.
Pol. A. I. Wilcoxr.,l hearing the facts in
the rase, proceeded with Or. nartif,y, of
thin plant., who happened to be in W 111,1(
nt he time, t,) the scene 14 . 0111 aceident.
A 1,04 morl ••,, examivatinu was held by
Pr. 1 'limey, when the ball was !Mind
lodged near deceased's back-bone, :and the
bull discovered WILY hntud to correspond
with the one cHed in 'White's gum Justice
.1. li. Parsons 1,11111/41111e11,1 a j ury and he'll
an immcst. The Surd i'l 01 the jury was
that John Market rain., to his death by the
hand of P. P. White. The men were on
good icons, and \larket Int.s been in
White's employ for nearly a year past.•-
t 7/.. 'buoy .1 acecatc,
The New Governor of Georglo
lion, James M. Smith, elected titiverinir
of e morgia on Tuesil.iy last, without op
position. to rill out the unexpired term of
R. I:. Itolloek, fugitive Rom lustier., IS a
native of the Stale, of about middle age, a
lawyer by profession, and a lifetime Dem
ocrat. At the outbreak of tllll War he op
posed secession, but upon the actual clash
of arms " went with his State," served 21.4
a Col(1110 of the 'f'svelftli tieorgia infantry
until disabled at the head of his regiment,
and was then elected to the Conlederate
Congress, holding his seat therein until the
close of the war. Lie then resumed the
praetive of his profession, and has not ap
peared in polities until now. At the time
of his election lie was Speaker of the IiMISO
of Representatives, having been returned
to the Legislature at the election of last
\'inter, when I leorgia was declared linally
reonistrueted.
la the Way of the Slur
The true reason why Akerman bad to
go out of the Cabinet is now given. He
was in the way of the PILO tie Railroad Ring.
They wanted a tool that would serve them
without limit, and so they Look a man from
one of the Pacific States. Some time ago
A k ertnan gave a decision that was contrary
to the interests of the Pacific Railroad Hung,
and from that time he has been marked as
a victim. Rumors of his resignation have
been floating about ever since that event,
and his removal has now been accomplish
ed. Grant has offered a salve for A kerman's
wound, in the shape of a South American
mission, or a Judgeship In Florida or Texas.
Tina was doubtless done to keep A kernialA
from making an exposure of the circum
stances attending his retirement.
All the Work for Wheel Horses.
The gutting elf two Democratic Senators
at the heel of the Committee of Investiga
tion, soya an old teamster to us, reminds
one of the folly of pullirg a heavy load for
several horses, with those in front all balky
and falling back on the wheel-horses. He
suggests that if the load is to be drawn the
wheel-horses must do it, and the balky
ones, or the lame, halt, and blind be turned
over to the shambles, where they belong.
Our Poor House and liloilpital
EDITORS OF INTELLIOENCER.—About
ten days ago, or more, two communica
tions appeared In the columns of-the-..fi
<miner and the Daily EtyrcsB;in refer
ence to our Poor House and
rather I should say, in reference to .. t4e
chief Superintendency of those establlsh':`
ments; anti which, it seemed to me, oon
tained somesuggestions that exhibit a pro
gressive step in the right direction. What
ever may be the character and quality of
the chief garments, worn by those benevo
lent institutions ?lOW, there is nothing more
apparent to disinterested, intelligent, and
thinking anon, than the feet that those gar
ments are growing too small, and there
fore they need larger ones.
Under any cireninstanees. Immanity, as
well as economy, at this time, demands
that the admMistrative authorities should
not attain pt to force upon our Hospital ut
lea.st,'ll Salt t!ler and inure contracted gar
ment than it is wearing now. 1 4 mean
nothing iu disparagement of the present
incumbent, who, experience has MIIIINVII, to
be a most worthy, competent, anti intelli
gent officer, but I am apprehensive that in
the exercise of that morbid rotation policy
which mere political fuctionisin suggests,
that some hungry aspirant will be placed
in that office in January next, who may
not possess a shadow of the ability which
characterises the present Incumbent. And
if he even ahJ , which is hardly point tilti--
'wenn:, he must math rally lack the expel
envy -the time, It seems to ine, and not
only to 1110, 1111 t to many others, has cone.,
when a '• progressi,el•hange" ought to
made in the official prograunne of Our asy
lums Mr the poor, afflicted, and Insane.•-
Nothing seems clearer than two plain pro
positions, and these are based upon the
practice of scum of the most successful
establishments of this kind, in the entire
christian world.
~Yirst, the Chief Super
intendent ought to be an experienced
Pliysiciati of great administrative auil hu
manitarian abilities ; and secondly, politi
cal partiz.3iiimiii not •
lair IL liniment
b. considered as n tillatilit•11110I1 or fitness
ter the office. This 'hive, with a wide and
far •ritoli mg V iz.lloll, ought to he looking
tint for a properly yialitied 1,1,111,1111 d not
disqualified men coveting and sifekifig liar
the fq/ice, as an inherent political right -
There nosy be men who covet it, who are
as well qualified m till It, as the present of..
ricer; lint that does not matimly the wattle
of the institution, nor the roamsti hit
, nano its and chat ity.
But even it ouch a itrogressivo doing° an
has been suggested, nhould not be praotic(ll
at the present moment; how ono any prop •
erly qualitled either devote his whole
mind, sold and strength, to the (it
his 011iro, cool 110. with the illtil.plUllietlet•
and t•llicieney that such it position require,4
so 11011 11. is ell the limo ,111,11 . 10114 that, no
matter with \Vital, ability Int may
his ditties, he in at any time subject to re
moval, to satisfy the demands tt c 501110 hun
gry aspirant to the place, as a reward for his
political services 111 his lonely. forty has
nothing tic tia with such 101 ought
not fiir a 1114111101 a. 110 (•411Initit , r0 , 1 in 1•0111111,
Lit/II Willi. It ought neither to he a tpuiliti•
cation, nor a disqualification.
There are many reasons why an inexpert •
towed and liiinuine physician, with the
highest professional qualitivittions, should
be the inciinibent of an office which has et,
much to do with lininan siillering; and
when such a person is found, he ought to
be kept there, al, long ,LS 110 is Willing to re
main; provided, ho latithfnlly ion' °Mails.,
ly discharges the duties of his (dike, (me
of the greatest errors in the poliUral
and economical policies of this ...dry, is
the idea that all offices are creatisl for the
special occupation of ;illy than who t t ..,
sufficient iffilteattat, !tarty turf, hr taw.-
niary 1111,11.1 (I/ hut about. 'l'be•ro
IOUs!. always be mart, or less inefficiency or
defalcation - i foot actual fraud - tinder SII,II
a rule. What man, 4,1' moral fisding, due,
not consider the great frauds and defalca
tions which have lately 'won brought to
light in NOW York, l'hiladelphinand Wash
ington city, as greater ealithiltit,
thatt that ,vitielt overwhelmed Chtrago lu
October last ? Stich iniquities in [Ugh
places produce it moral 11/11sOlION9 ill till
orilinato positions throughout an entire
etuintry, and especially SO, when 01110i111
incumbents are conscious Or file t 111111111.4
tenure by ‘vltit•lt they hold their offices, As
a general thing there+ iv teat much bartering,
for olliee, and this begins Ilrvt with thee
pisepte., whatever the "isinsideralion uu
-
either side way be. If thee people will sell
their virtue, thane for whom tinny vol. will
sell their offices: if the partizan will buy
then., the leepiratils to idllue will bey the
partisan. Thin is un .I..tract view of OW
vu hjnrt, and whether it has a spieled nip'
eat.). in, anything that lets transpired inn
the policies "r this county, or is likaly to
traidepiro in Llio near future+, those both is
endow of must joulgo fler theIIISMVPS,
JUNTICI's.
Situ ll4tullll 4l in it MI I•S% Shtspe
A rempoithible gentleman, or Nett• Jersey,
who lea Sao Domingo on the Iml, %N.M. lit
the Nov.' York Nun ILK l'ollows:
"'rile previous evening I Was informed
by 111 cordo ('oriel, Dominican Secretary of
War, that President. !taw/. Wl.n especially
sanguine of annexation, having received it
letter from e;client' Italie...lt, saying that by
the steamer leaving Now York about
Christmas time, the President would din
pat , l, a Tow Envoy In the person id Com
mander Joseph Bailey, of the I' lilted States
Navy, with power to negotiate now propo
sals I . ol' annexation." Thisitissiuntelor the
absence of all allusion to Sari limningu in
the lute message 01 . I; moral ti rant. lie Is
about running the machine ono new track,
and until the change is made, no
of the matter is iterated politic or desirable.
When 'now proposads for annexation" are
submitted and accepted by Baez, under the
guns of an American man-of-war, then
ti rant can send an extra message to Cori
gross in relation to the matter. 'fluid Is the
game. There is too nitwit money In the
seleime to be abandoned by the " Iting"
which emitrols General timid, and it Will
be pushed in some shape during the pres
ent sescion.—Phitude/phiii dye.
Ohio possesses a rising financier, funned
Bettell, when WOlll4l !Mee beer] a valuable
man for Taininnuy in its days of prosperi
ty, and whose reinark able abilltiem would
now doubtless receive a better appreciation
in Wwiliington than they have obtained in
his own Static. This young man was an
engineer in charge of the ()hie canal, and
lice expenditure of tt:f,l)00 appropriated by
the Legislature tor re-building a lock iea
Tuscarawas county was placed 16 his
hairdo. Willi great promptness he used
the anon of fs,:S:i in patching up the dilapida
loek—the odd $2,96:7, he quietly put Inc
his own pock el, 'rice Ohio Board of Pub
lic NVorks have dispenseu with the servicea
of this gilled yowl,. t :ram's Board of
lA'iorlia nr 111tslcington shoe Id ,11,111..
Mere at one., rw he is evidently just. the
man to alloril them practical miggeratiefoa
i cr the furtherance tit their purpose.
In his fortlivoining
of the l'otintry," Mr. lie Bow Ii xe•n tile
nuut6e•r Or foreigners and their descend
ants in this country at 1,119,662, 111111 of
w Into A InftrieanS,lll.4VOlted from residents
in the eiiiititry in 17)1), at 'cabin
NO, of the I,olPlihtl.nal tahlttS of 1110 ninth
census gives In S91!,111.1 ELM the number of
inhabitants having lain Ilr both parents of
foreign birth, while thu nun her of nireigto
horn is but I'. 1111111-
hr,r, thnligh Maeh nearer than taller natl.
Matt's, IS Ina Ilitni.ta`thi, uccu rate.
The New York Tribu , joilbllStlel.l
or two 111111111,.1 gambling dens in the rut
ol New York, giving the street and 1111111
h,•r of each, which il.mays areas well known
to the police as they are to Its reporters.- -
These places are the resort or twenty-five
hundred prolu,donal gamblers, uppers,
ruliers• in, pals, thieves and 1.11,1111111.0 clller
actors who subsist upon the proceeds car
ried on in these hells r It is the 1/11S1-
110,18 Of this army of scoundrels to prowl
about and lead vielims to their 111.11,114 in
famy, M be robbed and fleeced by the arts
and tricks of the profeasiim. The Tribune
having done all that ought to be required
of the press, now calls upon the authori
ties to tailor,. the Imre and break up those
I aunts uf
Three liliithir“l 111.11 Sixty Heads OM
The Commissioner of Internal Raven lie
has given orders for the revocation of the
appointment "rail surveyors of distilleries,
to take effect from and after the list in
stant. Their duties will hereafter be per
formed by Assistant Assessors._ There are
throe hundred and sixty of these officers
now in the service, slid their dismissal will
be a large saving in the expenses of the
KW:01111H Bureau.
Senatiir Nye says, there is harmony
miming Republicans, except here and there
is" Otto who W(.111,1 be greater than bin
lita,t CT." bat is an elegant phrase. and
very expressive too. Alr. Nye ought to
have a nice little steel collar about his
neck, with the name of hls waster stamped
upon it. There is, we believe a Grant
paper-oil lar just introduces!. Perhaps that
would do.
Effi=X!2l
hpeculatillll3l.l Mound
The English journals, while expressing
lie opinion as to the merits of the case, re
gret the dilliculty into which American
Minister Schenck has fallen, and cite as
precedents cases of other ambassadors, no
tably that of the Duke of Saldanha, who,
while Minister of Portugal to a foreign
power, was permitted to engage in private
speculations.