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OUR temperance people have made
another advance UJHJU the outposts of
the enemy. They held a convention
at Harrisburg last week, and after the
usual discussion of the evils of iutcm
'perance and the insufficiency of our
laws to control it, propose that the
temperance people " shall continue to j
respectfully ask the legislature to
change the policy of the State on the
liquor question from that of license
and regulation to that of prohibiting
by adequate laws the manufacture and
sale of intoxicating liquors for public
drinking purposes; ami shall continue
the demand until the wish of the
people becomes permanently reflected
from the statute book." They formu
late a hill to be submitted to the
Legislature, which deiiucs ale, jwrter,
cider, beer, and all wines and cordials,
containing alcohol, to be intoxicating
liquors within the meaning of the act,
aud their sale or manufacture for sale,
as well as distilled spirits, prohibited
under heavy penalties, and makes the
vender responsible for the acts of au
intoxicated man. It is also proposed
that the people, male and female, over
the age of twenty-one years, shall bo
clothed with legal power in counties,
town.-hi|w, cities, boroughs and wards,
to accept or reject, by vote, the traffic
therein. ■
The measures proposed by this con
vention are formidable and aggressive,
hut gather no strength from the local
option principle adopted, except it l>e
for the mere purpose of ascertaining
the wishes of the people, which is prop
er to be tested by public meetings or
petitions to the Legislature. It needs
no act of assembly for that purpose.
There is such a thing as doing too
much.
DEATH OF Biaiioi* AMES. —The
death of this venerable Methodist di
vine took place at Baltimore on Fri
day morning last after a protracted ill
ness from diabetes and pulmonary
troubles. He entered the ministry in
1830, and was elected Bishop in 18.V2
and throughout his ministerial life,
was very energetic ami efficient in the
discharge of duty. He traveled all
over the country aud was probably
one of the best known men in the
church. He was in the seventy-fourth
year of his age.
THE infamous partisan, Judge
Bond, of the Uuitcd Slates Court,
commenced a session in South Caro-t
lina with a packed jury under the test'
oath, has abandoned the trials and ad
journed the Court. The test oath
question has been so thoroughly venti
lated and its effects so clearly portray
ed since discussion commenced at the
extra session, that the Republicans
could afford not to allow this Court to
proceed with the practical illustration
which the proceedings afforded. They
have called a halt
CoKKMlto tried bis great effort last
week, in a rehash of the arguments of
other stalwart speakers, and a general
ill-natured scold of the Democrats.
Nobody hurt. The New York Sena
tor has the ability to rise to the dig
nity of a statesman, but his violent
partisan feeling and bad temper al
ways defeats the attempt to utilise it
The "best effort," is therefore still Strug-
I gling for development.
AN ACT to secure to operatives and labor
ers engaged in und about coal mines and
manufactories of iron and steel, the pay
ment of their wages at regular intervals
and in lawful money of the United Slates.
SUCTION 1. lie it enacted by the Senate
anil Haute a J llepreteniative s of the (\an
monuralth ojf Pennsylvania in (leneral Ae
ttmbly met, and it it hereby enacted by
authority aj the tame, That from and after
the first day of September, ono thousand
eight hundred and seventy-nine, all per
sons, firms, companies, corporations or as
sociation in this Commonwealth, engaged
in mining coal or mining and manufactur
ing it, or manufacturing iron or steel, or
both, employing ten or more hands, shall
pay their employes as provided in this act.
SEC. 2. All persons, Arms, companies,
cor[Kirations or associations, engage,! in
the business aforesaid, shall settle witli
their employees at least once in each
month, but the employees shall have the
privilege to give orders for money or
merchandise on his employers for such
amounts as he may have earned and have
to his credit from time to time during the
month, and pay them the amounts duo |
them for their work or services in lawful
money of the United !Suts, or the cash I
order as described and required in section j
throe of this act.
SEC. 8. That it shall not be lawful for \
any person, Ilrm company, corporation or i
association, their clerk, agent, officer or J
servant, in tilts Stule, to issue for payment j
of labor any order or other paper whatso
ever, unless the same purports to be re- j
deemable for its face value in lawful money j
of the United Stali-s, hearing interest at
legal rate, made payable to employe or 1
bearer, and redeemable within a period of
thirty days by the person, firm, company,
corporation or association giving, making
or issuing the same; and any person, firm,
company,corporation or association engag
ed in the business aforesaid, their clerk,
agents, officers c,r servants, who shall issue
for payment of lal*>r any paper or order
other than the one herein specified, in vio
lation of this section, he, she or they thull
be guilty of n misdemeanor, and u|x>n con
viction shall be fined in any sum not ex- J
cecding (Bo hundred dollars, in the discrc- j
lion of the court.
SEC. •!. That from and after the passage
of this act it shall be unlawful for any j
person, firm, company, corporation or asso
ciation engaged in mining or manufaclur- :
ing a- aforesaid, and who shall likewise be
engaged or interested, directly or indirect
ly, in merchandising, as owner or in the
per centum of profit obtained from the sale
of any such merchandise, to knowingly
and wilfully sell to any employe any mer
chandise whatever for a higher price than
the same article is selling and can lei pur- i
chased in the same community from other ,
pefsons engaged in selling like good. ; and
any person or member of any firm, com
pany, corporation or association, his or
their clerk, agent or servant, who shall
violate this section of this a<-t shall bo
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and for
each otrense, upon conviction, shall l fined
in anv sum not exceeding five hundred
dollars or undergo an imprisonment in the
county jail for a period not exceeding six
months, or both or either, in the discretion
of the court.
SEC. 6. That if any person, firm, com
pany or association, shall refuse or NEGLECT
U> pay any of their said employes at the
intervals of time at aforesaid, or shall neg
lect or refuse to redeem any of the cash
orders herein provided for within the time
Specified, if presented, and suit should be I
brought for the amount overdue or unpaid,
judgment for the amount of said claim
proven to be due and unpaid, and a |X>tial- I
ty of five per centum of such amount ad- '
ditional for each and every month's delay
shall b- rendered in favor of the plaintiff
in such action Provide,!, That nothing in
this act shall interfere with any previous !
contract between the employers and em
ployos.
Msc. FL. Ail laws or parts of laws incon
sistent with the provisions of this act be ,
.and the same are hereby riqicaled.
Senator Alexander offer
ed the following amendment, which
was not agreed to, atul the hill pamcd: \
"That every corporation, co-partnership, !
firm or individual doing any business with- j
in this Commonwealth in which laborers
are employed shall par their labors or em- !
ployes at stated periods in money or mo- !
chandise or other commodity, as may be
agreed upon between tho parlies at iho
time of tho contract of hiring and in ac- I
cordance with the terms thereof, and it
•hall be unlawful for any corporation, co- i
partnership, firm or individual, doing busi- \
ne* a< aforesaid, t knowingly and will- \
full? charge their employes more or a
greater price for any article of mnrcban- j
disc furnished than that at which the same ■
article and quality of merchandise is sold
at for cash in the same town or neighbor- j
hood by other merchants or others trading
in such articles. That it shall he unlawful
( for any retail merchant doing business in
this Commonwealth to receive any order
that may be drawn upon him for the pay- !
ment of labor at less than its face x alue,
or to discount the same, or to furnish store
goods or merchandise therefor, charging a
greater or higher price for the same than
he would sell the same quality of goods at
for cash, or thXn the samo quality of goods
,or merchandise can bo purchased at for
cash in the same town or neighborhood.
That any person violating any of the pro
visions of this act shall be guilty of a mis
demeanor, and upon conviction thereof
shall pay a fine of not lees than ten dollars
or more than fifty dollars for each ofTense,
and shall refund to the party whom such
goods or merchandise shall have been sold
the difference between tho price charged
and the cash price thereof."
DR. J. K. BARNES, Burgeon Gen
eral of the army in a letter under
date of ldtb ult., addressed to the
Philadelphia Pre**, states he wan the
physician in constant attendance of
Edwin L. Ktaulon, late Secretary of
war. That the story circulated some
time ago and recently revived, that
Mr. Stanton committer] suicide is
wholly untrue; —"that there is not
any foundation whatever for the re
port that Mr. Stanton died from any
other than natural causes."
A CRA7.T man named Gray attempt
ed to aesaminate Edwin Booth in the
Chicago theatre, last week. He fired
two shots at the great actor while upon
the stage, and was in the act of firing the
third when arretted. He would give
no reason for his attempt on the life of
Mr. Booth.
[G>nclu<lr<l/rum &<l j>ngt."\
whatever to <lo with it. It wan un
amendment relating to suocesaioti on ii
money hill For the support of tho Army
ami tho Navy. Tho Lords resisted it
for a time, but finally gave way. Thin
in in fact tho law of the realm today.
The Common* arc absolutely muster* of
every auhject of thin kimi. In their
character a* the representative* of thos
people they have enforce'l thin and oth
er great right* at the expense even of
tho blood of kings and the forfeiture ol
their throne*. The safety of the civil
liberties of the people in above all price.
No leaner motive nhnuld caune or ever
has canned theui to nae thin great power,
nor should nor doen any leaner one
prompt un to tine it now.
Hut it in asserted that thin in revolu
tionary and coercive. The first answer
to this argument upon thin auhject in
that we have no right to assume in re
gard to this hill that any feature of thin
hill will meet disapproval anywhere.
Why should such an assertion lx- made ?
Coercion is not asserted in the bill it
self; it is not asserted by the commit
tee ; and wiiy should the legislative
branch of the (iovernmerit, the imme
diate representatives of the people and
of the States, he charged with coercion
and told that their measures are revolu
tionary ?
Tho practice of twenty years upon ap
propriation bills and the precedents
that I have cited demonstrate that thin
is not a revolutionary measure, hut licit
the proci-.-e.es nre constitutional methods
and in accordance witii precedent. It
in said we deny supplies to Coerce agree
menl with un. There i* no such threat
in this hill. We grant supplies, hut we
connect tho grant with a pioviion that
the troops wiio nre to he supplied shall
obey tho laws that we enact. According
to thin argument our sole power in to
vote supplies and to tax the people for
those supplies, hut we uie denied the
power to say how the Arnty shall he
used. We are denied any control as to
what shall he done with the money we
vote, or if we seek to do so we are accus
ed ol being coerfive and revolutionary.
The argument is that we deny supplies
anil threaten coercion.
Sir, let un look at this subject. Con
gress has three branches. lvsch ono is
independent in iU sphere, fault branch
of Congress has a negative on the other,
and that fact is a vital fact in the pros
efvation of the liberties of this people.
The Knglish system of separate branches
in our system, and it is vital in it that
the Senate shall have an absolute nega
live upon the proceedings of the House,
and the House shall hare an absolute
negative upon the proceedings of the
Senate. Hut because the Senate refuses
to pass a hill that has matter in it that
the Senate will not agree to when it
comes from tho House, and refuse* to
pass a bill because of that matter, i* the
Senate revolutionary 7 DH-.S that fol
low ? It is the plainest proposition HI
the world that this it a constitutional
right and invaluable as a check. It
cannot he dispensed with as a part of
the governmental theory of this coun
try that each House is to have an abso
lute negative ujon the other. And the
negative of the Hxecutive is a check
upon the legislative branch, limited by
the two-third* provision.
Tho exercise by either House of its
right to refuse to pass a hill because of
denied matter in the hill is the exercise
of a plain, clear, constitutional light.
The exercise of this right by tho Hen ale
is by no means revolution. A President
has the right to veto a hill. It is by no
means revolutionary that ho should
veto a hill ; yet he undertakes by tho
exercise of his qualified negative to re
quire us to do what he wishes. That is
a part of his clear right ; it belongs to
him under.constitutional authority, and
I would be the last to attempt to take
it away from him. It is vital here as it
is in the legislative branch. Hut when
the Kxecutive vetoes a hill and we pass
the hill by two thirds, we are practically
coercing the Kxecutive. That is tho in
evitable conclusion, hut this is constitu
lional coercion The Kxecutive, in pur
suance of In* qualified negative given to
him by the Constitution, returns us the
bill with his objections, and twevthird*
of the legislative branches pass the hill
over his veto. W* are coercing the ex
ecutive power, hut are we revolutionary 7
We are exercising the legislative power
of this Kepublic, and it is neither revo
lutionary nor coercive.
Hut suppose the hill cornea hero and
we have not the necessary two-thirds to
pass it over liia veto, what follows 7 We
undertake to pass the bill, we put it
upon reconsideration in accordance with
the Constitution and it fails for want of
two-thirds, what then 7 Are we to be
coerced in regard to legislative right 7
Are we to say that we must pass the
bill in the form he wishes because the
Kxecutive has vetoed it 7 The right of
non action, the right to decline to act
under such circumstances, is as much
the right of this House and of the other
House and of the two Houses acting in
their legislative capacity as is the right
of the President to veto a bill. We may
decline to act and go no further; we
need not initiate the legislation anew.
If we owu!d be compelled to do this,
then the independence of each branch
"<nd the independence of the legislative
power is absolutely gone, and you have
no longer a majority rule for the Presi
dent, and the minority can coerce legis
lation and thus the minority become
the majority, and with an unscrupulous
Kxecutive cohering the power of the
minority patronage and place you have
your Government revolutionised by
with the minority usurping and con
trolling the power ol the majority, in
which, under our system, it is vested by
the Constitution and the laws. This is
the inevitable result. There is no such
power anywhere. It belong* to the
legislative branch to aet or to decline to
act. When it does decline to act, it i*
exercising a plain, dear, constitutional
right, and it must act, as must the Kx
ecutive act, in full view of its responsi
bilities to the people. That is where
the responsibility come* at last. The
power to do this is with us, but we must
act in the view that it is ultimately to
be judged of by the last tribunal in this
country, the tribunal of the people, and
if we are not standing by doctrines and
measures which the people will approve,
if we are not maintaing the rigtils and
the liberties and the ancient freedom of
this people, they wilt not sustain us, and
they ought not j but If, on the contrary,
wo decline to act, in obedience to our
clear constitutional right, in defense of
tlio rights ami liberties and privileges of
a free people, tliey will suMtain us, ami
thi* Congress will write upon the history
of this people HII ineffaceable record
that their representatives in the Forty
sixth Congress were true to tho liberties
of the American people.
■Sir, each must be responsible for its
conclusions and its actions to the poo
pie themselves, and each must act in
I full view of that ultimate. tribunal.
| Tho power of the legislaiive branch to
I raise armies and vote supplies is to be
exercised as that legislative brunch
'judges wise. There is no power to
control, to direct, or to coerce ft. If the
Kxecutive differs, his negative controls
unless two-thirds overrule it. If not,
the hill fullH, but his negative docs not
compel us to net.
Kir, this mode of coercion never was
intended to lie used upon the legisls
| tivo branch. There is nothing in the
MTonstitution or in the history of this
1 people that can he construed to mean
I that the legislative branch shall act at
i the dictation of the Kxecutive ; it is
not found in our system anywhere, and
it cannot be cited to deter us from that
which is a plain, clear duty.
The independence of tiio legislative
branch and the rights of the people are
1 often to he preserved best by this de
fensive power of nnn aetlon. The Sen
ator Irom Maine read from Mr. f'lay.
Dot nie read what be said in |H|'J, upon
a question of constitutional interpre
tation upon an Army bill, an i*ue be
tween the {'resident and him a* to what
should be put upon that bill in regard
tointemal improvements. Mr. Trimble
bad moved an amendment allowing
troops to bo used to make a road anil
appropriating money for that purpose.
This involved the question of internal
improvements. Mr. t'lav, who was then
Speaker, when the House was in Com
initteo of the Whole, said this:
Mr. C'lsy h<>|-d that this motion would
not IM) itmiti-d on, and, if insisted on,
would not prevail. Tho object in view
# to prco-nt the simple, unmixed propo
sition whether tho Kxecutive h* the |ow<-r
to employ the money of the country in
constructing ros>l- ; if associated with tho
company promised, (the amendment,) it
would make tho n-n-e of the committee
i qui vocal on the ini|e>rtaril question pre
sented by tho motion of M r Trimble. For
that motion, Mr. Clay said, he rn< ant to
vote. It would declare that by a forms]
act that it was competent, by the grants of
power, for Congress to authorise ucb
wort-. Mr. Clav sa'd ho thought ( ongr-•*
had been wanting in its duly in delaying
so long pi logi.laP- on thi* subject. It w*
proper Pi pas* a bill and present it to tho
•'resident, and if he refused P> ranctlon it,
th'-n. Mr. I lay declared, he had no hesita
tion in avowing he should be ready to pro
ceed Pi hostilities with tho President on
this j-'int, and withhold every appropria
tion until he conceded the jmint.
That was in .'anuary, I*l9. Another
argument lias 1-oen made use of in re
gard to the exercise of the negative of
the President, which it seems to me is
without foundation: that is, that he
lias the right to judge nt all times and
under all circumstances ol the character
of tho legislation that he shall veto.
Where this |>ower is used u|>on a bill
that he judge* to be unconstitutional,
or is hasty, unwise, or improper I gisla
tion, then it is very elear that he has
this righl, and he ought to have it. Hut
when in the history of this Government
was ho ever called upon to or did any
President ever veto a repealing statute 7
When, wheie, under what circumstan
ces, in what condition of affairs, did the
President of the United States ever
Veto a bill that repealed a law which
i clothed him with power and took it
from the people 7 When and where did
any President of the United States ever
veto a bill to repeal a law that gave to
him control to send troops to the places
of election with the jower to coerce the
people and take from them their rights7
When and where has the President
ever vetoed a bill giving the people of
thi* country any of their lil>ertie*. or
repealing a statute which took from
them their rights? There are none
such, and the people will never sustain
such action.
The Kxecutive negative practically
refers the question to the people, and
to them we and he must appeal. This
|ower never was intended to be used
to keep a yoke on the people or to
destroy a repealing statute. Ordinari
ly the people austain retoee. Why?
Itecause of the refusal by the Kxecu
tive to accept power wrung from the
people; but suppose you reverse this
and by your repealing statute give to
the Kxecutive more power, which pow
er is wrung from the States and the
j-eople, then there oomes an entirely
different question ; and I tell Senator*
that we can face the ultimate tribunal
of the people in denying supplies to
the Kxecutive power on a bill which
give* bacjf to them a great cardinal
right. In m-h a case we will have the
obi question of kingly prerogative
against popular right; and upon that
iasue we can go to the people with per
| feet confidence and safety.
Hut is it not a strange argument that
the legislative power which controla the
purae, and through that the sword, has
no right to say how troops are to be
used ; that the legislaiive power is not
to have any control over this subject 7
It seem* to me this is a very singular
argument. The purae was given to the
legislative power to control the sword,
and they go together, and the rights
*nd thn liberties of this |>eopl*are to be
taken care of by their immediate repre
sentative* and the representative* of the
States in thi* Chamber as the legislative
power of the country, and when an at
tempt is made to coerce them from an
effort to restore to the people their plain,
clear righta, a new issue is made up,
and one that we can very well place our
selves upon.
Sir, the veto power never was intend
ed and never kst been used to deprive
the people of free elections or to strike
down any other of the cardinal rights of
a free people. When it is used for such
a purpose we may with Implicit trust
await the verdict of a betrayed and out
raged people. If it be to such a result
in such a cause the American people are
invited, the legislative majority in Con
greea will aid in writing upon the page*
of our history a new and startling proof
of the proud determination of American
freeman to defend and maintain their
own system of free elections.
Bir, we w%re never eelled to a plainer
or more imperative duty, end wo should
tie faithless if wo faltered in its perform
ance. The restoration of the liberties
of the people, of the landmark* of civil
liberty ; the removal of tho burdens
thai havo come to this people from the
changed condition which four years of
civil war brought upon then, ; r,.*to
- to them of the right* that that
changed condition deprived then, of. is
our sole purpose in this bill. Wo have
no other. We should not be true to the
people if we had any other. No depart
ment of this Government ha* the right
to resist our constitutional demand for
tho rejteal of this menace to fr.- govern
ment, which it is, as it stands upon the
statute-book today. .Sir, some writer
! ha* said our liberties are traceable
| through one thousand years' of Knglish
i and American history. They are the
possessions of those who ever advance,
! not by senseless clinging to the present,
: but by holding, repairing, improving,
grasping the good of the present, re
modeling the political fabric when de.
cay is present, and improviug at every
step of essential progress.
Many of tho best changes of Inter
times have been made in ca.tirig a-id
innovations, removing the i/rlm that
time and tyranny have fastened upon
tb<- sturdy base, and in advancing by
I falling back upon original principle*.
J The great charter, the petition of right,
I tiie bill of rights, and the I Vcluration of
Independence contained nothing new in
either. They were but the reinsertion
:of the old, the resuscitation of the
right* of the people. Jn all great pre
liti> al struggles it is not new laws <>r
new principles that prevail and give
i form, force, and coherence to the victo
rious party, but better redress of griev
ance*, more faithful observance of law*,
and a restoration of the rights arid priv
ilege* of the masses which by neglect or
from oppression or inisrtib- have become
lost, obscured, or denied. This great
i right ot free elections has been menaced,
obscured, and denied.
The disputed section of this bill is an
j effort by the legislative power of this
. Congress to return to original principles.
This great right menaced by these
statutes, the control of which never l*-
longed to the Federal Government but
al ways has belonged to the people and
the States, has l*-* n menaced, obscured,
and denied, and the disputed section in
tins bill is simply an eflbrt by tho legis
lative |*iwer of this Congress to return
to original principles; its purpose i* to
restore the military to strict suhordina
tion to the civi. power, to permit a free
system of laws to be based again upon a
free ballot everywhere, and to expunge
from the statute-book a menace to free
institutions.
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Vassar'* Vexation*.
II Lot-EN IST or A MII.LIOXAIKK'A t> A fours*
W ITU A POOR vol S<i MA*.
'I be latest elopement case arises in
Philadelphia, and ha* come to light in
the newspapers, though it ha* been the
talk of the upper circles eier since it
took place—about three weeks ago.
The father of the girl is one of the best
known bu*ines* men in this city. He
i reported to la- worth tJ,i *.(#sl. The
Merchant'* Kxcbange Hank—one of the
few Stat*- banks now in existence —be i
not only President of. but be is virtually
it* owner, but few shares of it* stock
being heid outside of himself. Ho is
well known all over the country as one
of the first and now one of the most ex
tensive manufacturer* of the fertiliser
known a* the superphosphate of lime,
lor the business be ha* a large ware
house on IMawarc avenue, Ix-hiW Cheat
nut street, and very extensive work* on
Cooper'* creek, '"aniden. lie i* also the
owner of what is known a* Moro I'hil
j ips* wharf, a valuable pro|-erty on the
Delaware river. Uj>on the wharf he has
erected a large warehouse, which is
plainly u*ed for the storage of crude
, *ugar. He i* also the proprietor of the
Hotel lAfayette. a six storied structure
erected at the advent of the Centennial
t Hrood and Sanson) street*, across the
way from the Union league Club House.
Al-out two year* ago Moro i'hili)-*
♦cnt his daughter Minnie to Vas*ar <"ol
lege, the New York female seminary
celebrated for its romantic escapade*
and gymnastic exercise*. Among the
many young ladies tbst she met there.
• lie selected as her Iswtoin friend Mary
llillostcn, the daughter of a New York
t a lesman, residing at No. 479 West
Twenty-second street. Mary llillostcn
was full of praise of her brother, and in
tho course of the strong friendship that
•prang up lietween the two girls. Min
nie Phillips had eternally dinned into
her ears the many accomplishments of
tVilliam llillostcn. During the vsrious
holidays the girl* exchanged visits, the
New V ork tradesman's daughter being
entertained at Mr. Phillips' in this city,
and Minnie Phillips stopping for a time
in New York with her new made friend.
During one of these latter visits Mis*
Phillips became acquainted with Wil
liam Hilloteen, who is said to be rather
handsome and a dashing soft of a fel
low. The usual result fallowed. The
young man proposed, but the cruel
father had grander intention*. The
young girl met her lover In the street
and hied to the railroad depot hotly
pursued. Hoth aets, pursuer* and pur
sued, rode toward New York, but the
young couple skipped off at away sta
tion, and were married by a country
justice. The indignant father of the
girl when he arrived on the ground
found it too late.
This was three weeks ago. Yesterday,
however, the young lady came out of
her father-in-law's and husband's bouse
quietly and steeped into a carriage, ac
companied by her father, and drove to
the steamer and sailed for Kurope, leav
inglh* bridegroom behind.
Philadelphia society is upset by what
they term a mesalliance, and it is
thought that the trip to Kurope is only
to give time and opportunity for divorce
proceedings.
n#qjamin Rush Clark, Republican
Representative from the Fifth district
of lowa, died suddenly at his qusrters
at the National Hotel, in Washington,
Sunday afternoon, after an illaess *f
only a few hoars' duration.
An exchange aays: Ry the bursting
of kerosene lamp* many lives have
been sacrificed and even cities have
been destroyed. A tablespoonful of
•sit in the oil will make It aa nones
plosive M water."
The Principle of 11.
Frro tli* W|jiri|ft/'i) l''*t
II required only eighty bayonets, sent
to the polls in Philadelphia in IMX, to
arouse the entire population of I'cnn
nylvania, irrespective of party, to a lofty %
height of indignation.
'l'bo manly protest of her Kepublgan
governor expressed the unanimous sen
timent of fur people. With one voire
—n clear, earned, ringing utterance—
all the sovereign* of the Keystone State
tnoke out against a repetition of what
they deemed an intuiting interference
j with their local affairs, and ari insolent
j douht of their capacity for self govern
i incut. A tingle bayonet, a solitary sol
j dier under the orders of the Govern
i merit, undertaking to '"protect the hal
i lot-box" in l'hiia'ielplna, would have
excited the tame bitter feeling, and call
-1 ed forth an equally vehement protest.
It is the principle involved in this
question, not the number of troops em
ployed, that arouses opposition.
I he traditions of the Anglo-Saxon race
evolved from the lessons of history, are
all arrayed in implacable hostility to
the interference of the military in civic
concerns. Added to this there is the
; natural feeling of insult and degrada
tion that every honorable man experi
ences when he is subjected to surveil
lance, anil that agitates every communi
ty in this country, when told, by an act
more expressive than word", that they
are incapable of self government with
out the actual presence of brute force
in its highest of expression.
We tin tol l that this sort of talk is
mere sentimentalism ; that the soldier
at the polls harms no one. and that
only the disturber of the public je-ace
need fear.
Well, every great movement that has
checked tyranny and preserved what
there is of freedom in the world has
been equally sentimental.
It was not the tnoney'lhat the men
of 1770 were required to pay for tbo
royal stain)*, but the principle on which
1 the stamp tax was based that proved
their righteous wrath and gave birth to
the lieolarution of Inde|endence. It
was not so much the cruelty of laws
made by the Parliament of England,
as the fact that the colonies had no
voice in that Parliament, that impelled
j our fathers to throw off their allegiance.
Those stern men of the Kevolutien
were "mere sentimentalists," according
to the modern definition of the term.
They cared more forpriririple* than fur
tangible realities. It was the claim of
the right of the King and Parliament
to do certain things, not the things
done, that plunged them into war with
the mother country.
Ihe same sentiment exists to-day.
Time has not impaired its force. It is a
part of the very nature and being of
every manly man of our race.
And the men who have blindly chosen
to array their party in opposition to thia
sentiment will find their leadership de-
I clined, their jxthcy repudiated and their
arts condemned.
( A State Ixmn.
In accordance with the provisions of
a recent act of legislature, an official
call has been issued, inviting proposals
for a State loan of f'J Of 10, Of 10, to be in
dorsed as follows : "Proj>oaals for Penn
sylvania 6 percent, luan, Projsosals for
Pennsylvania 4} percent, loan." Said
pro|u-isaU will be received for the (J.-
(art,fast, which bonds arc registered and
reimbursable in fifteen year* from the
1t day of August. A. Ib 1K79, and par
able m twenty five years, and (searing
interest at the rate of 5 per centum per
annum and 11 per centum semi annual
ly, on the first days of February and
August of each day. The loan will bo
awarded the bidders for the 4{ or ■> per
centum l>onds.nr a part to each, a* may
apfa-ar for the best interest* of tho
Cdmmonwrealth.
1 he tsonds wiij be dated May 15. 1579,
and interest will be paid on August 1,
i IS7'.>, for the two and a-haif months then
due. and thereafter semi annually on
j the first days of February and August. .
No bids for less than par will be con
sidered. The bonds will las issued in
sums of one hundred, five hundred, anil
one thousand dollars, to be free from
state, municipal or local taxea. as tho
act providea.
The proposal* will be received at tho
state treasury department at Harris
burg. until noon. May 15, and must bo
accompanied with a deposit of 5 per
| cent, on the amount bid for, as an evi
dence of the good faith of the bidder.
Aaorxia IXCXKDIBLI NEVADA Sroxr.—
The fossilised remains of a gigantic pre
j historic man ha* been discovered its)
foet beneath the earth's surface in a
| cave recently opened in the Kit (arson
mines near Eurek*. The lower limbs,
head and neck were as those of the
I Cardiff Giant (?) and in some respects
the traces of the human feature were
plainly marked. That they have found
the remains of some prehistoric being is
beyond question. < >ns of the lower ex
tremities was broken off and is now on
exhibition at Jack Perry's saloon, where
it has been examined by numerous peo
ple recently, those posted in the anato
my of the human frama pronouncing it
a wonderful petnfifation, the minor
point* all being j-erfect to nature.—Kw
rtka (Asa.) leader.
Tut Massachusetts papers state that
the migration of Southern negroes has
already perceptibly affected the busi
ness interests of that State, large orders
for the coarse goods used by plantation
hands having been countermanded by
Mississippi and Louisiana dealers. An
advance in sugar and heavy purchases
oTraw cotton are also noted, both caused
by an anticipated decrease of product
this year. The relations of trade be
tween the North and South are ao inti
mate that one section cannot be injured
without the injury being felt by the
other. As a rule, whatever is good for
one section benefits the other, and tic*
esrss.
"Win there cat* In'tbe ark ?" is a
question that is troubling the religious
editor of an exchange. Certainly thoie
were, and tha first thing they ssid after
leaving the ancient craft wes "if there
is Ararat 'rested here we want to gopher
It."
Don't leava your horse stand on tha
street unhitched.