NEWS ?BOY ALL NATION& _
inundEss Isabella of Portugal is demL
FRANCE. intends making a emmner*ll
treaty with the_United-States ,
BEng ninumrcw of the Germain Im
perial. Chancery has resigned.
Dom Pinno has satisfied his curiosity
on the Pacific coast and • bas returned
cast." ' '
CEIANDLte & Brothers' Machine shops
at Wadsworth, Ohio, Were burned , - on
Saturday. Loss it.30,0()9.
Two thousand additional soldiers em
barkid from Spain for Cuba April 27.
_More are to follow.
• Two women and one colored man Were
t leeted to office at the recent municipal
election, in Newport, B. I.
IT appears that there is now less than a
dozen Ku Klux prisoners confined in the
penitentiary at Albany.
;Tirr. investigation into the naval affairs
at l'hildelphia are still going on but are
conducted' with the strictest secresy.
4 TWENTY FOUR pound • baby was re
cently born in Pittsburgh. 'lts mother,
weighed hilt one hundred and twenty.
THE Prince of Wales and Prince Ar
thur arrived in Madrid, recently, and
were received by the Grandees of Spain.
TIrE Hungarian Ministers will neither
ccept nor' refuse the compromise, but de
icaud further concessions from Austria.
AS
,extension of the legislative session
until the 9th of May is now talked of as a
necessity to put the appropriation bills in
:.!rape.
TUE agitation in favor of .amnesty is
creating s much feeling that the French
f.;overnment, contemplates repressive
leastires.
TELEon'Arniccommunication with Aus
tralia is interrupted, in consequence of
he breakage of the cable between Java
Australia.- •
TILE reports of riot's in the island of
Ilarbadoe have been exaggerated. In
cendiarisM has been rife, - but not to an
unusual
_extent.
- 15 . ..uke 11. FROTHiNGNSAM, formerly
chief clerk in the stamp_department of
the Boston post office; has been convicted
of stealing ~ , '2, 800.
TILE SvViss . Federal Council have ap
proved the establishment of the episco
pate of thd Christian Catholic Church of
:3witzerland.
TILE C.9IISUS . Of the Indians at the Red
'fond agency shows as follows: Sioux,
" Cheyenne,,2,l73 ;' Arrapahoe, 1,-
•;'7o;:total, 13,027.
Trrot - sm.6s of Indians on the plains are
nn the Verge of starvation in consequence
'1 the failure of Congress to pass the sup
ply pppropriation
• TUE organizers_of an amnesty meeting
• ih Paris, recently, are to be prosecuted
because of the intlamniatory speeches de
livered at the gathering.
Ex-01;0...N Is.tr.ELLA haS-wilieten a let,-
' ter to the Pope, offering to intervenewith
, •her son, King Alfonso, in conneetiontvith
. the religions question.
THE English have just launched a double
turreted steamship called the Inflexible,
which is supposed tb be the most formid
able war ship afloat.h
THERE was a 'sudden and sharp decline
in the price of pork and lard in• the New
• York, market last 'week. Pork is fifty
c...mts per barrel lower.
- TILE Arkansas lepublican convention
• which assembled April 27;.did not nothi
nate a State ticket. It,declared for Mor
todfor President.
Dom PtDno dodged all the. New York
reporters And banquetters, , " done" the
city, and was on his way to:California, all .
ini'forty-eight hours.
) 1 - Ttitt National 'Committee of Liberal
Republicans is called to meet in Ncw
• York Mity Bth,.
to take action in reference
• to the Nhtiontil Convention.
DAXIEL WEnsTElt's plough,• made on'.
his farm at Franklin,. N. H., under his
supervision, and partly by himself, is to
be sent to the Centennial
, : rItCSSIA has now, according to the last
census, 2:3,700,000 inhabitants; an increase
of 1,100,000 since 1871. At Berlin the in
crease amounts to 17 per cent.
A PARIS telegram states that the Bourse
was convulsed at the close Tuesday by
the news that 7,000 Monteneirids had i
joined the insurgents in furkey. *-, I
Tit Pacific Mail steamer Great Repub
lic
•
arrived . San' Francisco yesterday
from Hong Kali*, via Yokohama, with
over one thopsand coolies on board.
A PITTSUURGII cutlery manufactory
says the Georgia and 'Alabama ore is as
valuable for making cutlery as the Swed
ish ore, hitherto exclusively used.-
LONGFELLOW,iS tallave a chair made
-from,
,part of the wood of the chestnut
tree celebrated in his "Village Black
smith,'' whieli has just been Cut down:
IT is . stated that among the inmates of
an insane' asilum. in Montreal is Louis
lied, President of the Republic of Winni
peg during the insurrection of 1870. '•
.T. 'A.,Titerrsox. young
man, com
mitted suicide in WashtngFon on 'Wed
nesday by sWallovriug tincture•of aconite.
Ale had been greatly depressed in spirits.
• GOLDSMITH MAID" is no* on her way
east from California, in , charge. of _Budd
Noble. She, is nineteen years : old, and
• lier career.on -the turf is believed to be
. ended. . - ,
TItERE are no late reports of: outrages
Ameriean citizens On the Rio Grande.
' : The latest advices to the War Depart
- inent represent affairs in a-better condi
, thin.
.I'llE repreSentatives of the great pow
exs have 'counselled the-Porte to under
take nothing against Montenegro,- prom
ising united et - Torts for the paCification of
the insurgents. , •
ONE hundred and fifty thousand Chi
; nanien on the Pacific coast, including 30,-
030 in San Francisco, send home to China
even Year $3O each in coin. 'or $1,500,-
-, 000 of money;: •
A NEW ORLEANS grand jury has found
a true liillogainst J. F.. Barrett, jr., for
attempting-tir bribe state officers. In de
-
fink o 4 bail Barrett was sent;to the par-
iuh 'prisbu.
LADY DutFEnts will 'assist at the
launching nekt..Week - of the schooner
hearing her name, with which the Royal
' ranadian 17acht club has challenged for
the Queen's cup. • -
-THERE' . is now no apprehension of a
general Indian war—so•Kty advices from
()Mahn. That tfirasbing given Crazy i
I lorse injected more paZitic thoughts into
the cranium Of " :
•
FRANK 3L.PAIXLEY, -Eugene Cassellly
and Mark L. -McDonald, of Chamber
Of Commerce. San 'Francisco, hue been
appointed delegates to preseilt the Chi
,:k2Se question to Congress . . -
'fits house bill fora total repeal of the
:bankrupt law has a pt>or - show iu the sen
ate, the general sentiment seeming to be
in , ,favor of attending, and not -repealing,
;the preset - it law.' i -
THEPatmnin Railroad Company have
attached the 'stores %Of the Pacific Mail
steamship City of Panama, and will pro
ceed in• the • same Manlier against the
stores of other steamers of the line.
THE investigation of the Mary Merritt
case, like all others with which Secretary
llristow's name has been mentioned, fails
to show any personal ,or official miscon
duct on the part Of that gentleman.
Tnn United States Centennial commis
sioners have appointed a committee to con_
f, with the , railroad companies with a
view of securing a further reduction in
pas;enger fares, for persons viSiting phil
a ti ciphil. r
• A. Tutor:ClA editor, whose 'paper 'has
ju.'t snspcutied, says that he entered ',the
ti( lof journalism under the impression
',hat sere . were `‘millions in it.' "And
I\4
tki there are," he continues, "butthey re
maul in it yet:" 1
W.AvrE• ANtinlErt, the'. little 'girl Whom
(: , .ucen Victoria spoke to at the London
Iluspital, bemuse she thought t she would
.-
;:et well if the Queen would ()lilygo. and
Nitalc to her, has been ,discharged from
the institution perfectly , cured of her
wour.ds—Retious burns.
WlioslsEtt., while Shaving him
'self in Coaldale at ten o'clock Saturday
night, was shot at through a window, the
ball entering his head back of the right
car. No hopes for his recorer', and no
clue yet .obtained whO the guilty party
4-9uld be. ,
ATTORNEY GENERAL Pierre nt is
ut to move for the appointment of a
~
receiver to tike posnession of the Hot
. I;piings reservation in Arkansas for the
.government, Threats having been made
agl:inst, persOnsiwbo.rnayattempt to take
ii'probable that troops will
W ,. stiit to the. Hot Springs to ogforee the
Of 410 court,
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Towanda, Pa., Ththour, Way 4. UM
SErIIIILICAN - NATIONAt 'CONVEX.
11031.
. .
The next Union Republican National Contention
for the notuluatloa of candidates for President and
'Tice President of the enitetiStates„ will beheld in
the city of Cincinnati, on Wedneida,y, the 14th day
of June,liffe, at It! o'clock noon, and will considef
delegate's from each State equal to twice the num
ber of its Senators and Representatives In Congress,
and of ti-o Delegates from each organized Terri
tory and the District of Columbia.
In caning the convention for the election of dele.
gates, the committees of the Several StaMsrate rec.
man:tended to Invite all Republican electors, and
other voters, withocit regard to past Political digft4.
e neva or previous, party difficulties, wbo aro dppcsted
to reviving sectional Issues, and desire to promote
friendly feeling and permanent harmony through
out the country by maintaining and enforcing ail
the constitutional rights of every citizen, Including
the full and free exercise of the right of suffrage
without intimidation and without fraud; who are
In favor Of. the continued prosecution and punish
latent of itll official dishonesty, and of an economi
cal administration of the Government i y honest
falthfeand capable °dicers,. who are In favor of
making Such reforms in government as experience
may from time to time suggest; who are opposed
to impairing the credit of the nation by depreciat
ing any of its obligations, and in favor of sustaining
In every:way the national faith and Snancial honk,
wholhold that the common school system Is the
nursery y American liberty, and should be main
taineti absolutely free from seetarlin control; who
believe that for the promotion of these ends the di
rection of the Government should continue to be
confidedto those ,who adhere to the prlnciples'of
1776, support theM as incorporated in the constitu
tion andllaws, and who are In favor of recognizing
and strengthening the fundamental principle of
national mitty In this Centennial Anniversary of
the Retiblie.
EDWIN D. MORGAN.
Chairman Republican National Committee.
WILLIAM E. CHANDLER, Secretary.
DELEGATES TO THE CINCINi‘ATI
CONVENTION.
The folloo - ingnamed gentlemen were selected by
the Republican Convention to - represent Pennsyl
vania in the Cincinnati Conyention, with two alter
nates frOnt each 'District :
i EL ECTOC S-AT-L A RGE.
Benj. H, Brewster, Phila. J. 11. Chalfant, AlPg•y.
CONGRESSIONAL ELECTORS.
Dfxt.: 'Dist. •
1. John Welsh. 15. 3111 es L. Tracy.
2. Henry Dission. 16. S. W. Starkweather.
3. C....S.:Hoffman.
4. Chailes T. Jones. 18. J. S. Lyons.
5. Edwin H. Filler. 19. Win. 111 y.
6. Benjamin Smith. 20. Win. Cameron.
7. J• W. Bernard. 21. J. B. Donnelly.
8. Jaeoh Knobh. .22. Daillel O'Neil.
9. John'B. Warfel. 23. Win. Neel,.
10. Joseith Thomas. 24. Andrew 11. Berger.
11. Ark) Pardee. 23. S. 31. Jackson.
I:. Lewis Pugh. 26. James Westerman.
13. E. S.'Silliman. ' V. W. W. Wilber..
14. Win. Calder.
The alternates from this District are: A. STE
PHENS, Saslaehanna county, and ROBEHT SMITH,
Wayne county.
The foilowlngnametgentlemen were. placed on
the elect Oral tlekct :
ALTZJINATES-AS-LARGE.
.1. Don Cameron, Henry M. Hoyt,
Wm. IL Leeds- Robert W. Mackey,
it EI'IIESENTaTiVE DELEGATES.
•
Dixt. - phrt. • ,
1. Henry II: Bingham, 'l5. 3. E. Carmalt,
Wm. J. Pollock. - W. T.; Davies.
2. John L. 11111. - 16. John It. Bowen, ..
Morton .111e3tichaol. L. Rogers.
3. George W. Fairman, 17. John Cessna,
'3l. Hall Stanton,' . Edward Scull.
I, Wm. B. Mann, 18. J. M. Stewart,
W. U. - Hemble. - John Whiter,
5. J. 31..11:cram, 19. Charles If. Mullin,
James Johnston. Edward .McPherson,
6. Henry T. Darlington, 20. John B. Linn,
Alan Wood, Jr., J. 11. 3lnnay.
7. Geo. E. Darlington, 21. I). S. Atkinson,
.1. Smith Fathey. '3 IL Donnelly.
S. W. S. - 31c3Ianus, 22. C. L. Magee.
E. E. Griesemer.; • IL H. Hampton.
9. 0, J. Dickey. 2.3. 11. W. oth - er, Jr.,
Henry S. I.:bens. ' 3. A. Chambers.
10. 11. JAI - feeder. 24. 31. S. 49Inay,
E. D. IVonng.l W. S. Moore.
11. Charles Albright, ; 25. R. Eulogson,
D. A-Beekley. I Simon Truby. .
12. E. N. ;Willard, ; G. 1.. G. Linn,
Henry W. Palmer. ' , .IL C. 8i05.%
13. I.ln Bartholomew, 27. Thomas M. Walker.
. Daniel E. Miller. - 3. H. Osman.
14. Samuel F. Davis,
J. Ir. Grovo. •
I • WE-publish on our first page to_
I day the able and manly 'speech of
lion. ;Lis. G. I?LAIItiE, made in reply
to the wicked slanders circulated
about him. The defense is fortifi
ed by written proof of his innocence.
It is difficult to imagine - how any
lie can be more thoroughly disproved
than this one s has been. It is true
that probably no man of sense who
knows anything of Mr. -BLAINE'S ca
reer ever believed the insinuations
against him had the slightest fonnda- .
dation in fact: Even his bitterest
enemies will concede that he is not
a political dUnce; but it is hard to
see how he could have been guilty of
the acts charged unless he had been
one. . His long and unblemished .
public life was, with sensible and
candid men ,
-a further reason for
believing , the charge false. But,
aside frOm all this; Mr. BLAINE is
fortunate in being
. able to 'establish
their falsity so • conclusiVely. His
remarks will repay perusal.
THE Senate passed the bill adinit
ting New Mexico as a State, and the
House committee has just reported
it with a . favorable recommendation.
This is a mistake. New Mexico has
not one single element to entitle it
to admission, The census shows
that it has not the population requir
ed ; and' that which it has is mainly
Mexican greasers, mule drivers, gam
blers, thieves expatriated from the
States for their crimes, and half
breeds. It is doubtful if there are
in the whole Territory three men
with sufficient integrity and patriot 7
ism to make tolerable members of
the present Pennsylvania Rouse of
Representatives, to say nothing of
furnishing the nation with two Sen-
_ . .
i
i ators an cl a member of Congress.
1
A There Can be no good reason for
giving Ito the, few thousands scatter
ed:over a wide eitpanse 'of Territory
1 a State form of government. They
do not need it, and the probabilities
lare that they do not want it, except,
1. perhaps, for the purpose of _baying a
more valuable political machine with
which to tickle the cupidity of mod-.
ern statesmen who would make
_it a
stepping-stone up which they might
mount into national prominence.
I There will be time enough within
the next quarter of a century for the
admission of this . new "star."
IT is a pity for the admirers of the
new constitilionhat the Legislature
did not adjourn i month ago! Un
der its provisions public virtue was
to prevail beyond the power of pre
iention. " Somebody blundered."
Tth acres were burned over by
the recent fire at Williamsport.
Eight_ million feet of lumber was
destroyed, involving a loss of $125,-
000.
Tez police force of Columb6, 0,
- will be 4isbatided because of the fail.
vare . of 14 - City- Col:1061s to proilde
Apr the pittlent of gig ibytto, • "•
"az early wrriraurze =Lam.
The heavy weighCto be moved ont
L. Oct. roads-to , PrOtteritrAndrrne
ticikeist ,, pajneit'otibtAlieoriS,
Country, Is thelfankft a sr",
ixt,enflitd inflnitiectaltkikiotilenitfiVjt
#plitMts fee*
pre it; with many, no doubt, it, is
tinaginary, and with others real. The
Spec' illative times that have existed
ftio doubt has accumulated More or
less of debt of doubtful character,
Stud they ittar the effect of resunp-
Oen ,• but to the sound institutions
(snch as 'the banks in this county)
end the large ones at the commercial
c:entres, the activity and increased
volume of business that would be
the result of getting back to a sound
en rrency without speculation, would
More than compensate for the cost
old resumption. Some of the sound
ec!untry banks, possibly, that now
tiSke 15 to .20 per cent.; might have
be content with from 10 to 15 per
cent., which should be satisfactory,
Slid would be much safer than taking
the risk of fictitious values caused
ley inflation, which can no longer
sustain prices, as it reacts and _de
stroys them for want of ' demand.
;Those that have real skeletons will
1. le better oft to brink them to the
Itght and do the best they can, with
ent waiting to have them become of
no vslie. Congress passed a resolu
tion directing the Comptroller of the
Ourrenoy to furnish a list of the
Stockholders of all banks, that they
Might know how many they had in
their midst ; but it has not shown it
self to the public and has strangely
geue out of sight, and like many of
the investigations of this Congress,
a:ie all noise and no benefit to any
one, and is defeating the legislation
required for 'the relief of, the country.
There are others who have large
schemes on_ hand that make them
s'eles think it will be less dif fi cult to
bfing, them about with depreciated
currency'; but it is a mistake. Set
tlement day has come, and the
dstion has progressed to such an ex
tent that it must be finished. Like a
cistern, filled with bad water, it never
*lli be good again until , cleaned to
the bottom ; and the pckre, healthy
growth of business based Upon a sure
Measure of values that is not one
thing to-day and - another to-morrow.
IL' W. AINORD.
.4.0 the country is demanding. that
wpshalL not be kept in this unsettled
state to foster any particular inter
est. .
when it is doubtful whether it is
.an advantage to that business.
•
:Now that the silver coin has come
into use again, the rascals of the
country may be expected to exercise
'tiOr ingenuity in mutilating the
'coin by • various. processes resorted
tea by these gentry to replenish their
ezehequer. These processes are
known as clipping, filing, splitting,
aid " sweating," the latter being the
deterioration Of the coin by acids.
These methods of " raising the wind "
are almost as old as the hills. In
England, during the reign of William
Ind Mary, a great historian informs
OS ;there was hardly an entire silver
piece to be seen, owing to the general
mutilation of the coin by the process-
I es= named. It is said that in China,
Where labor is .very cheap, a China
mitti will sit all day industriously
clinking together a number of gold
pieces in a leather, bag, and con
siders himself well paid for his day's
Inbar by the gold dust whichadheres
to' the bag, and which is;produced
bi the constant striking and grind
ing of the pieces against_ each other.
\,.h 'precautions will protect the gov
ertuhent and the pe4le from the
(*rations of these leeches of society,l
the counterfeiters, clipperi and sweat-
er4,it seems. Not content with pro-
&Icing :counterfeit notes and coins,
the.V attack the genuine articles, and
lid inutilation deprive each one which
p.osses thorough their hands of a
I trilling portion of their value. These
I frOginents, when put together, are of
suppent value to pay the. villains
foi:their time and trouble. When
greenbacks and national bank notes
wefe'first introduced, they were, sub
jected to, such mutilation, artistically
d(:(tie, as resulted in the production
of,nine notes out of eight, or in that
pro - portion. Thus was the process
of clipping practiced even upon the
bank- notes, to the annoyance and
lois of the people at large.-. And as
we have said' before, no measure of
preenution will protect the govern
ment:and the public against the dep
redblions of these leeches. All that
can be done is to punish severely the
few' who are detected in these nefari
out( Practices.
Tea way in which the attempts to
fasten charges of wrong-doing on
President GRANT terminate is inns
' traced by the following headings
I •
ihie4 appeared on successive days
J in the New York-- Tribune.. The Worst
of it is that, while the "independent"
papers that first promulgate the slan
dem - . eventually. contradict them, a
largC:proportion of the Democratic
papers eagerly seize upon and pub
lish the false reports, under flaming
head tines, but never contradict them
whep ; they discover their falsity:
"Gib; GRANT FINALLY iNcti.PATER—
Thirty Thousand Dollars of Public
Money Spent for tlection Purposes."
The following day, there having.
been -partial explanations made be
fore: the: investigating committee in
Shethe Tribune came
r Sec
doww considerably, and.its dispatch-
Toretary Chaadley,
es oil-the subject were headed thus 1 On the same day, March 13th, a
"Gm Gnsxr E.xeruwrEo—No Corrupt i letter was addressed by - Secretary
atten
use,:of Public Moneys—Mr. Williams - Chandler to Cl emen t s, calling ,
F.iplains More Fully--The $32,000 Sent Lion to the charges as presened in
to: Sim. York- paid but for a Lawful he letter 'Of the President's Secre-,
PuA Full Investigation to be retary, and demanding an immediate
3lae."
,reply. On the 20th, a week having
Tlie next day bottom facts were I paised without reply, the President
touched, and the Tribune turned directed Secretaiy Chandler to send a
fieriely upon the Democrats under
. new name for the office pension
•
thiklieading: agent at Maeon,
•
"Tint' LATEST DEMOCRATIC BLUNDER— .
to
FD:hiroTrarlt ;ratio r e,thi , t4mti,...7.o: c ozud:ictiq,
ween....nt :tot e 70:: ,. vf .
: t,a demi last :
Grant—lt only Serves to RecaU the, aet of: another great . light of th e
s l 9
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I;M=MI
WAIBLNCITON*4IIIIAIn..
- •
The attacks on c.::the,
,depatdentAnkDe 't are
- alairosCerikce , -made
mil -
'd , :i - "The_3*a d= ful
intiollteCtigattitt t* - P .tL are
no l Sm#: malicious and fiendish / than
the assaults upon tharsterecutive t
and history will - -place-the -two •-dis
.tinguished Chieftains side by,, Ade,
A favOrite charge against \VASE!.
/NGTON was that be desired to become
king, just I* - 3'be4n iwrsisz
tently accused of Ciesarism and -a
desire to continue to fill the -Presi
dency.. The Presit, referring to this
assault against him who .
made us a nation and him.who saved
the nation, says:
There is a . curions-resemblande be
tween Grant and Washington in one
respect, at least. Grant •was: charg-
ed with 'an earnest desire to 'be'
elected the third.time, and Washing
ton was accused of a desire to be
king. In 1793. John Adams wrote
to' . Jefferson :from this city, • that
" Ten thousand people bathe streets
of Philadelphia,
day after - day,'
threaten to drag Washington out, of
his house and effect revolution 'in
the govenament,ior compel it to' de
dare war in-favorof the French rev
olution against - England:" There
was a burlesque poem in which
Washington wss represented as being
brought to the guillotine. General
Knox-, his Secretary of War, remind.'
ed him of this pasquinade, when
Washington lost his .self-control.
"Bursting into speech," says Parton
in his "Life of Jefferson," page 489,
" Washington defied any one-to pro
duce a single,
_act of his since he - had
been in the overnment which was
not done from the purest motives.
He declared that he had never re
pented but once 'of having slipped
the moment of resigning his (ace,
and that was every moment
,since.
''By God !' he exelanned, using the
familiar oath of the period„ would
rather be in my grave. than in my
present situation ! I 'would rather
be on my farm..than be made -emper
or of the world ; and yet they. -are
, charging me with wanting to be a
king! That rascal, Prefieau' (the
opposition editor and the supposed
organ of Jefferson), he continued,
'sent me' three of -his .papers every
day, as if Li [Washington] would be
come their distributor!'" We do
not hear' that General Grant lost
much of his temper while the Fre
neaus of the day were charging 'him
with managing.for a third term, but,
perhaps, if the facts could be known,
he felt as restive under the imputa-.
tion as the -first President himself
-when his enemies declared that he
'was contriving to be the king of an
American Empire.
STATE TREASURER RAWLE took .
possession . of the Treasury Depart
meat on Monday last. It will be in
teresting to those parties who have
been crying corruption and defalca
tion:in connection. With the manage
ment of the State funds, to know
that Mr. MACKEY paid over in cash
every cent' charged to him on the
Auditor'General's books, thus effect
ually refuting all the base slanders
instigated against him by his politi
cal enemies. No official in this State
ever retired with a better record
than the -late State Treasurer. •
The I"hilaclelphia Timer, always
i ready 'td censure a political foe if
there is the slightest ground for
finding fault, pays . Mr., I NIACKEY this
deserved compliment: •
" Robert W. Mackey retires from
the control of the finances of the
State, after* six years of service in
that fine. In 1869 he was chOsen by
the Legislature, after a spirited con-
Pest, over General W. W. Irwin, who
I was in his
.first year's commission.
In .1870 General Irwin avenged the
defeat of 1869, by bolting against the
caucus and effecting his election over,
Mackey a combination between
disaffected Itepublieans with the sol
id Democratic vote. In . 1871, and
I again in 1872, Mackey Was elected
without a serious contest. By an
oversight in the legislative amend
ment of the constitution relative to
thej election of State Treasurer,
Mackey held over for ,a year uilder ,
his old commission, and in Xhe ofl
1873 he was chosen by popular vote
for the term of two years *from May,
1874.' That he is one of the most cc
complished financiers 'of the State is
admitted by friends' and foes ; • that
he maintained the integrity' of the
public funds received by him for the
Commonwealth, even in the face of
disasters in his' depositories, none
but partisan bigots have denied, and I
that* he devised financial measures
with consummate skill and ever ex-
'hibited gratifying results of his ad
ministration; is but the truth of his
tory."
THE chate that President GRANT
had permitted his cousin; a Mrs.
BOGGS, to sell official positions is
most effectually and satisfactorily
answered and refuted in this associ
-ated press dispatch
Secretary Chandler has been be
fore one of the investigating commit
tees and produced the papers in the
Boggsicase, or rather the case of the
pension agent, Cleinents, at Macon
City, Mo. There was a threatening
letter from Ebert, written on the Ilth
of March, received lix ! 'Mrs. Boggs
the same day,„ and for Warded to the
President with an endorsement by
her evidently intended to call the
Piesident's attention strongly to the
fact that Ebert was on an expedition
for bl 4 ScitLmailing. This letter was
apparently received on the lath of
that month. The following letter
was written by the President's direc
tion: •
Ertel TIVE 3i/iT1310:,
WasiliiraTos. March 13. 1676
DEAR Fatbet diners tin to
say that It bas Just come to his puttee that tbe pen
sion agent at Macon. Ito., has been paying a poi ,
tiun of his salary to some one retulericg no service
In his emee on the supposition 'that be holds two
office through that IM:teener. 1V lli you . bare him
SiOtilled most putdtively that 11 latch is the ease, or
after this he pays,anyone anythibg except toriegiti
mate 'Retires', ii old be regarded as good grounds
for Ills removal.
C. S. GRANT, Ju.
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whiCh he said : ,• . ' geous calumny intensified liy-404ex0.
i the
1 . ; petted calumny, stung him • •tig
" f II never despair of America •
believe sheTWill-nof tatter: ',. As A l io' gnicircdeclires - li
that - therstilest- -
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•letisfin'of - integrity ha. been- -taught`{ derit.melaiined bitterly againstl'ithe
us, o also we need a nobler p i tr i a . [responsibilities and betrayals Of his
ism ,' Wethink - too much oVoursel. M i t ita it aa d : ahaa ' e4 u, tia-Aaleao: o
Yes ild-• riot criongb ,of our 'ciintry.
passion; 4nusual ,to' .h 1 cOnipl4ccut;
ter. . - As•we look now at the assiiritS
and altogether exceptionable-4480
this lesson than during the Centers- -
The e - is no' - better . time . - to enforce
upon Ulysses S. Grant, the . fifteCnth
nial year. Men dead te.patriotism '
snot be alive to honor, nor ear l:President of the United 'StateS t We'
an .
• for culture. History will not Ju d ge more than ever believelhat he ofight
us by the railroads we :have built,' to have been permitted to take hia
the mountains we have titmieled, or i cou r se, and remain as Weneral Otthe
'
the ;!Pepulation of out cities; . butl•Army:ot the United States, inAnad•
consenting to be the candidai* of
will'ask—;and will be entitled to ask] of
the Republican party irt 1868. • t-'he
-=,what spirit beat in the hearts of
. .Pre, F6 has not hesitated to ttikel4ue
her Citizens? . Were they noble and
worOy of . their birth-right ? 'W ere .with some of the ' personal act.iil of
they.elean-handed and ' high-bearta •General Grant—never with his :Orin.
.gentleteen .?. If we de not protluce ciples. We will not; belittle the!hOttr
these results, America is 'a . failure by recalling them. • ;They belonOito
,
I land I will inevitably be recorded as the great volume of mistakes OM.
Isuell • and therefore I am glad that mitted by all rulers from the ba',gin
! tliis'l year we have other things to ning of civilization:. But we desire
Show. It is something to be able to to place upon record dur honest Ant
;
itho* a gigantic enterprise into
.Which . meat that the General', ni, theluanl of.
no sespieion of a job-has crept. The .the greatest army of modern Oes,
whole country ;is not so hall as v.;re 'clothed with imperial power, literiilly
sometimes fear.. The proof of man's surrounded with temptations, ; *ho
1 capacity to govern himself is a great preserved:. his simple ;,honesty- l'and
truth. toy exhibit; it is a step forward never fora moment strayed heyoll
in the history of mankind. 'The bat- the path of (1,14, i has not at ant pe-,
nod of his civil administratiOn clieen
tle.Of Gettysburg is worth showilw.
There the civil wa r
, reached its • ell guilty 'of the - Mach ; infamy view
ruination e and when these lines broke, charged upon him. Can we fetget
that in the dark hours, when thelles
the World saw that American eivtli,
times of the Republic hung trete illing
zatiOn was saved. All
.men of etil
turel must take heart and courage in the balance, the most uncomPlain
this Ycarin the faith that we mean ing andipeorruptible of all our pirbl le
men, with one exception, was ttk'si
to step the tide .of evil and redeem
lent granite soldier in cominanCok
the national life and' the national
lion r. In the House of Commons
the armies of the Government ?,i4Bo
Rob .rt: Lowe recently declared that
simple in his conduct, so retice4
ti .
in
in th e remant of his life he hoped to
his language, act entirely doznestiOn
see three things placed above the
all his attending-4910 does ntifre.
se
call him ? And whq. can forgetAhe
b a d
mar s of merchandise, r could not reach—the and where
honor
;.
time When all hearts and all . patties
turned to that quiet anti unpreteMlinff
of asoldier,. the. virtue of woman,
leader? .Tempted into the Preshien.
and thei' integrity oft a statseman.
.cy by the solicitations of the lltolli-'
We need to reach the last as we have
lican party, in.lSti, he fought ,the
the first two. The men of all par
battle ;through
,aim won ' it. - 'i A t
ties should insist on one issue—the
refm&rt of the civil service. Th e i e i s that inquient there was no gift lino;
offered 'to him that was not esteeMed
no hope of purity in public life until
this contaminating influence is .re-
too little by the unlversaP gratitilde t
moved from it. 'We think we. area " Shan it be Said that this tilan,
translated into the Presidency bfiiii
degenerated' race, and less in 'virtue
than our fathers. Rut I stood at eager .and earliest popular feeling,
has suddenly become—we will,Vnot
Gettysburg on. another day, and
a`harsher Phrase—but, has .1 . i(1-,
heard the battlefield dedicated by usP.
detily become dishonest ? Shallidie,.,
Everett with all the. graces of rhetor
tod, in this .wild . clamor of scaudal, 1
ie, and when scholarship and elo
this eager hunt against perstinal.:;rep . .
quenee and culture were 'ended, ' a
plain, awkward. Western man arose
ulatiiin, this attempt to destroy
inpitb
and ten minutes spoke words
lie rind private character, rightand
l
which every thoughtful mind knew left—Awn he to be stricken 4 - 4 ?
We will not believe it. Nor letns,
were the true words for Gettysburg,
. aDd _ whici i will last as l ong as t h e forget the Vulgar assaults upon Mika
hani Lincoln, the unuterable eatina-
language in which they were utterer),
. braham Lincoln dedicated not only Hies uponhis poor wife. If ivii do
ettyslourg but the American peo
p e to .the principle that " Govern
eat of the people, by the people, not, let us remember, at theriMe
time, that if Mr. Lincoln hadtiot.,
been protected by the emergen:Ciis-s
for the peop le, must nut perish froni of war, that good man would have
the e4th." That is the duty of the been hurled to his ruin by hiS;pal
educated Irian in this . Centennial umniators—:men who invatled:qiis
louse and home, literally furcedliiin
year and if •it brings a wider cid
tureo nobler sense of honor, and a before the committees of investga
higher regard for the interests of the tion, and, even •in the very agenies
country, it will, in my judgment, be of his great trials, compelled hits to
wholly in the spirit of Yale College." defend himself against his. eneniies.
Surely we are not on the eve oflOat
desparate delioralizatidn, whicri lin
other nations, compels a resor.Oo
despotism, which now 111117-ZICSAIIe
the press nearly all over EuropeantlOn
tinent, which suppresses the freednin
of speech and fetters public asSile.
blies. There is 4 manlier sOrit
among our people ivitich will rei.,ient
these atternpts.to tear down a ptiblie
man in couseluence of the perjirkies
of disappointed enemies. We belipe
that if there is to-day a perftly.
honest man in this country it is
Ulysses E,. Grant, our President;';
I WORKINGMEN'S WAGEfi.
The following is the text Of an net
whiehhas passed .both Houses, and
been I signed by / the Governor, and is
therefore a la,Av:
I In fall cases in. which jUdcrment
1 :,
shall I have been rendered Iby Oliny
1 justice of the peace or aide i rman in
this IcommonWeaith 'for wages of
manual labor;! that before i the de.:
fendant be entitled to an appeal from
the jadgment of the justice or alder
man, 1 he or his agent or attorney
shall Make oath orl affirmation that
the appeal is not intended for the
purpose of delay, but that he believes
that - injustice has been done him.
which affidavit shall be attached to
and set up with the transcript of ap
peals.; And tlie.said defendant shall
lie required to give good and. sulli
cleat 'bail for the payment, of . the
debt , and costs,
to be paid when
finally adjudged to be due the plain
tiff by . the court in all cases for labor.
No voluntary assignment for the
benefit of creditors shall operate as
to hinder, delay or prevent for a 1
ldnger period than, thirty days - from
the time of such assignment the col
lection or enfOreement of any of the
claims for wages of labor secured
and protected by the act for the bet
ter pretection of the wages of me
chani4s, miners, laborers andthers,
approVed the 9th day of April 18.2,
t
or its •supplements; and clailnants
may, after the. expiration of thirty
days;' rom date of such assignment,
enfor e the collection of their, claims
in the [ same manner by means of the
same remedies that they might have
done. fad 'no such assignment been
made.l
In SII easel; of voluntary assign
mentslheretofore made and now re
maining I tinsettled, and in which the
assigUee or assignees has or have
more than five months within to set
tle his or their account or aceonnts,
any or ; alt of the claimants protected
•by the provisions of the idoresaid act
or suPplements, may immediately
after the passage of this act, iroceed
to collect such claims just as though
_no such assignment had been Made,
and in ease such assigned property has
'already been sold, and the assignee
or assignees refuse to pay such claim
ants the amout legally due them,
they shall. have the right to compel
•him or to file his.,or their ac
count,; and may , proceed to have said
claims paid by a distribution through
an auditor or auditors according to
law'; provided, however, that
.the
ownerlor owners of sttek , 'aSsig,ned
property; or the assignee or assignees,
or any interested party, may 'pay to
such Claimants the amount :or the'
claims! so protected by said act or its
"supplements, and be subrogated 'to
the ':rights of the cjaitriants to the
extent of such payments.
• ' YE; Y suggestive, is it not ? The
preserit rebel house at Washington
investtgating war' expenditures made
necessary by their own treason.
And that too, just eleven years after
the war ,elosed!
•
JOIN COCULIN, brewer of.:Malv•
noytpinship, Sebuylkilleounty, has
been tried and found guilty of for
t gery & I nd embezzlement,
; `!' , .
~
oenTerag prisoners, e....eaped Awn
1 , V eanie Cii o jail yokterilay - morning,
a 1
1 onlY ope - of WhOM' ' l!i* beeli leilliPt.
ENCOCUAG/N4i EDVC.IsTION..)
. As a fair sample of Democritic,
economy we give the following, clip
ped from the legislative, executive,
and appropriation bill, aioe
ported to the House of Represettn
'tives, March 8, 15 it, " For contin
gent expenses of the Bureau of *(1-
tication, namely: Stationery, m*o
for library, libraiy, current cdt;iea
tional periodicals; cases for . -oflreial
records,- other current publicatiOnS,
completing valuable sets of perindi=
cats and publications in the library,
telegraphing and expressage,* collet
ing statistics, and writing and OM,
,
piling matter for,annual and speeial
reports and: editing and publislitng.
circrilars of information, fuel tititl
lights,'oflie furniture„Contingen4S,
one thousand two hundred , and (en
dollars." p
• 'IL
The CommisSiOner of • EdueitiOn
called for $21400 • fir the prose -
tion of the important worlZ l .intrusted,
to his charge, and the Democratic
:committee, with a high appreciation
of educational advantages, very g - 4* ,
erously gives $1,210---a sin hardly
sufficient' to run a country
through the winter. This cutting-1
down process may enable the de
racy to save the seven millions Wei ,
- I
bOast of, but while they were ri at'Ot
they could have saved More by
fusing to appropriate a dolar . i!nr
Government expenses. ' Then. o'7
stead.of boasting! over a• saViug,4if
seven millions , they.could have hod'
up before the, astonished, peopl4,n
clear saving:. of twenty' '
Economy may be a golden virtue :
, .
when- properly exercised, but wliOn
practiced at the expepsc of pubtic
..r
necessities it ceases to be a vir4fe
and becomes a positive vice.
Tat_ 11 7 0,-/d says,. -since the NOW
York convention, that, r;LDEN is
coming Democratie candidate fOr•tbe
Presidency. The: . Pali-flig says that
the DemOcratic party cannot elect ,fta
candidate if it • looses the Oat,O4r.
.States—Ohio and Indiana. The l'k4
publicans carried Ohio last year arid
will again 'this; and : it is admittO
that hard-Money .T4DEN,eanlot.c#4
rj , soft-money Indiana. Sneh beiijg
the ease, - ;how can num! be elect4T•
Will somebody eiplaia T• T • . ill
CONGRESSIIAN CATE, who atudp4,
the conspieb)us inveStigatoro, obt4tl 7 ;
'eti his seat by virtue ova f.aul ei,413;
the ballot :box ao- at least the gift
pierae:eonrt,
•auct ,eght:to be je:e'ttr good
Jf 1;5;1
isz - ntimilawa
AVILLIAMSPOW,
Ut 10 O'CIOCI
Airy fire was st
lumber distrii
most dangerous
,
hot up rapidly
'lied developed
tttitt a serious
- threatened: By
t
44,
city was illuminated and the light
tWentjr4iiie nilleif
distanL . Mayor Starkweather, after
a hurried consultation with the Chief
and foreman of the fire department,
at once decided .to aik - assistance
.from abroad, end heimuiediatelYtel
egraphed to , Locic ; l4yen, Sunbury
and WatsolittAnt .
~ . .
• The fire was started on the extreme
northwestern coiner. of .the ground
occupied by Ranstead,4..klynn, By
:the timelhe steamers and hose Carts
.arriVedthe'llames had - gained it head ! .
way that could not base been checked
by,- tour times. as many steamers as
our fire department: consists Of. For : ,
a long tune the fire worked upon the
piles ot Jumber belonging to Ilan
stead A: Flynn. Tremenduous but
fruitless efforts were made to stay its
progress at Maynard street; the di
viding line - between Ranstead,
.4k;
Fligin's piling ground and that used
Jyl'Maynard & Co. The flames swept
fiercely 'across Maynard- street and
licked up the huge piles oflumber
in spite of the immense amount of
water that was thrown - upon. them.
Alter yainly striving to confine the
fames to the piles then burning, 'the
firemen took up a position on May
nard - street leading into the new
brlge. Here a space of thirty feet
in between the piles, and it .
1;
was thought by-plaeing boards end
ways against the piles on the lower
side of the street the course jof the
fire might be checked. To this point
4,11 q firemen directed their attention,
and for about twenty minutes Artig
gleil manfully with varying success,
arlfwere then 'compelled to atandon
Mu ir poSition and fly for their lives,
as f the surging billows bounded over
the vacant space and lapped ,up the
piles on-the lower side of the street.
One position after another was taken
only to be! abandoned as the` read lid .
enemy swept forward. After the fire
reached the lumber piles of G. W.
Maynard & Co's. mill it seemed' as if
nothing but ,a want of fuel would suf
fice to check it. A large amount of
lumber on the north side of the rail
road was now in. imminent peril. But
by a providential change in the wind
it was saved. Every hope of cheek
big the fire west of Campbell street
.Was abandoned, and at twelve o'clock
there were acres of, burning lumber.
Fortunately. the wind, which - changed
to the south at twelve o'clock, 'had
not changed-up to one o'clock. Piles
of lumber in every direction appar
ently were on fire.. As it approached
the canal, where the Williainsport
Furniture Company bad a number of
piles of valuable lumber, men went
to work at saving as much- as possi
ble by pitching it into the canal. But
the; time allowed them for this work
was very..briel, and they were com
pelled to retreat without accomplish
ing n great deal. Onward to Camp
bell street the flames swept j and here
there Was nothing for , them to feed
upon, the open space being sufficient
to prevent them leaping to the lum
ber on the east side. At two o'clock
the Lock llaven engine companY ar r
tiVed and at once hurried to the
scene, but were too late 'to render
any assistance, as at that honr the
fire had spent its strength and ' was
under control. At about the same
time_ the Watsontown and Sunbury
fire companies! arrived: It .is esti
mated 9,000,u00 . t0 19,000,600 feet of :
pine lumber were burned. The heav
iest logurs • are Herdic & Maynard,
about 3,000,000 feet; llanstcad & !
Flynn, sevi.ml million; Thos. Tozier,
1.500,000; Hubbard & Manhey; - '200,- ' !!
IMO; and 2 1 00,000 shingles belonging.']
to an Eltn9,la firm. Then-loss 13 pl'et‘
ty well covered by inqiranee. •
TilE LUSSE I S EY THE. IVILLIAMSF9RT
The latest estimates place the total
loss nt about $125,000. The princi
pal losers are 'Herdic. Maynard
$50,000 ; insdred for! $3`2,5(a).
stead & Flynn, $.^,5,000; insured for
$2:),00(1.. Thomas Tozier, 02,4000;
insured .for $7,000. Hubbard k Man
hey, S`,ooo, insured for $5,00.0. L.
Iloldeß, of Elmira, $300; full• cov
ered by insurance. There is also
loss of about $lO.OOO in damaged
railroad tracks belonging to theCat
awissa railroad and the lumber yard.
A. T. STEWART'S EXECUTOR
By one of the most remarkable tes„
tanientary operations on record,
Judge Hilton has - now,.within-A week
of Mt, Stewart's death, aeguit'ed the
bulk of his property, worth from ten
.to• twenty millions, transferring to
• Mrs. Stewart, as an 'equivalent the
!mg million which was left him
by•the testator for taking care of the
:estate. In the eye of the law, there
fore, we suppose, Mr. Hilton takes
the property, charged with the-duty
of carrying out Mr. - .Stewart'S chari
i ties, whatever 'tlit;yli.igiy been.
Jdg,e Hilton's character As a:public
benkictOr, is therefore of some inter
est, to 'the". publia; 'and' it — maY be
worth,whila. to tqc,lll the fact that
some years ago: there :was . a !jug' in
this city composed of four gentlemen,
named Tweed, - Sweeney, Hall. amt
Coiniolly; .- that` one '-of these, - Peter
B. Sweeney, Was:, lint at the head of
a body called the Park Commission,
and that associated With him was one
Judge Hilton. , ' The new board went
to Work to beneilt the public, They i
lopped or and east ,away the, ! bonghS
-from,the trees in the,.Park ' where .
they, Iyre . most peeesSary;:tbey . al,
lowed meilichie vertisements .
to he witcd otObe:i rockS, and, to
cap the
,eliMax,, the:4f 'Park' Con-'
llo B oo4.l:iai.l l g.,eiiipfqed a skilled:
zocAo, ,- iA by the name-OfiVaterhOns
V-
ms, restor e .0 Eustis 0 .CX
tinet ep s eeiea:of aniMals,.tbey - clisiaS-
IlaWkins,White. judge Hilton: !
,isStiod'ari Order; to Wave the models .
,cartes} dray ana;butied;nnif, to have
the ineuhls:atid
Stroy4'oli . the
,ftre4irid that a pritUrl
Mist s better9UPlOY - his . time
than in w#4.ing . i.e :Over, It' d.iad ani 7 ;
MAW"' 41i.ra4, coridtnl,4 then) ; '
selN*.like ,va p alnd ie . en e
tA§l.tliat Judge .
Hilton will.,de~pte' hits soddenly'
purred wealth to .priV:tte cUterprise:
Prayet'lagainfit his, ail eniPt,ing 'tO tlo
anything:for thi,piairiciVitli it migh t Well lielifTered 'effurehei—Lihii
. 1Va4 . 9 . 0. •
:tiooerat L
-ATEn; • uoglected gold
cloyclOpc,a c01:2440t Cough, Sliorfor FS.
or Ilrezit,ll,,Feilirkgcrcogllt, avid Wasting."'
of Fleslyall . 5 iriptoiliitio °ULNA- ei frolition.
In tkbet-'eleficeit 06' t rim° canto ;rat
produce . . ileyoobitirt i ., e...slievou: of ills
brooolles..QC tbe WlnflOßtrc - sitl 0 4 , P ,
of-tho,PlopiOnomorgauti,,*ecil aft' .
ti 12011W' cOniplittnls, Jaynes Ekprc - :
tOyabt
WM
Ile says the: - article by -Castelar "is
sotind in the few facts Stated, and smartly
written.", had he, put at period there, we
sheuld have been 'wend as an Irhilv lord in
a petato hole; but as "pride goeth before
destruction,". ;Manx.; it :was better tot - to
puttis into that dangerous State of, mind;
and: so he continues the Sentence—" but
will, not stand: tfire.:test of'. analysis and
plant reasoning."l Analysis is ddisa rec
able word which used to occur iu Our old
gratifinar, and Meant, if we remember
correctly, taking a sentetiee all, to pieces
as thu anatomist, dissects the deatiman's
1)64 . litob 14 limb and joint. We hardly
linOW whether to ba• glad that the few
factS stated:were' ."4outnl," or sorry that
they were so few ; in any case. we could
not.sllave hoped to eseape that dreaded
test sis and plain: reasoning"
whieb ofir friend Mei subjected us to.
, .
,•ille mentions sonlefatiners in this Sec;
tiOW who refused forty to liftpeents for
butter twenty months ago, and collie lo
grief. They were never influenced to
so' by us. Oh r adv ice', al ways . has sileen atkl
still;is, to sell our prodacts when, there is
a good market ferthent at a fair price. It
is when the marketS are dull and.i vices
I xfMilow that we ever recenimend farmers
to hold for inyiniproventelit, , and even
then, it was only such :is were able to
' ild Se without borrowing money or getting
lin Qbt at the stores. Perishable articles.
militia be held at all ; butter cannot be
kepi-long 'without turning to grease, but
' we have the!testimony of sacred writ that .
_ f
grain has been i•;afely kept for seven years,
anCivas a beuclit to the country and a
1 - profitable investment to the keeper. i
Our friend estitdates the loss to the pee
-1 pie Of this counity fronrthe use of a: de
preclatfcd currency at $168,000;000 per
•
annum. - Where is it lost? In the Missis
sippi; the great:lakcs; the Erie Canal?
In trade, -what A loses B gains Salaried
men; and newspaper men (until they rah:-
ed their prices),' lost by the 'inflation" of
i-the currency, but. what they lost farmers
.and tilechanies gained. Creditors lost lint
;their.'debtors gained. A country is always
losing money and growing .poor when 'a
lar;,:te , propoi thin of its laberers are finein
.pleyed or wily workit* mt of the time.
41 4 our friend ~of The three stars can dis
-envei any ennneetion.biAweell the,suspvp
' iMn .0f business and` the 'depreciated cur
rdney, the ii; there is a, chance far an ar
•gninerit butltbeitiet is, our mining was
The briskest arid; our •iron works roared
he Wittiest safiedour currency was depre
ciated the ti4.l. It was only when bur
currency began to approach par and our
goverifirentbcganVcparing for the re,
tatuiption of specie payments, that Wt .
fifes An our furnaces went out and. the
Coal !bre:ll:era stopped.-- •
'Otir trade with 'forign countries is con
ducted on the specie baSis. Our cotton
find breadstfilla ate exchanged for their
PrOdttcts and the.balance, Whiehever way
- it mho: be, iSpaitt in gold. I we lose any
thing in trade with. foreign countries it is'
,bicataie outrOrelfauts itire . auth a,' match"
r foreignetis arid not is c;trise our mehey
Is imager than theirs. We alWays knew
I - the banks stood ready to furnish theemn-
Itry With eutkOtteykalidtlhak.theY. `paid
:theirZtaxes about as willingly as other peo.
„pie, hut we never unti4stcod
,that the
ceprOtey they furnished Wasany better or
Inas 4epreekded than the government
VelfOCK4f, •
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FAntirnew,
IRTER : Having once re.
runty, I ask the privilege
'ough the columns of your
ma to my I3mdford county
'I answering inquiries, anti
to others a bit of informa.
swest Missouri. ' Granted?
„,oc you.
Spring, they say, is here, but it I had
nckjartatmohouttrinststliatitvwas !rituv
n*t al 0110 ' VW= I a I -
Epro t ~ rk ~ . g p
idly; our- planting is about done. :We
h#:e not had °trim aiwhitelfrpst sip i ce.tbe.
itrit week in April,. it:did-that ditlittc&
juro-vegets,-,coru....that_ d
first is large enough to feud ; gardens are
finniu appearance;f.'::.•':;-.. , A 7= - 1';
The woods zre teething with beaUty.
Tite Cherokee Rose is grand, 'climbing
atifeng the trees. The Trumpet Creeper
'(al:Clinging climber, as they say), with its
trumpet-shaped yellow flowers and pen=
diet pods; the Mandrake. Anemone; ram
si4, StratiberriesandOialishaVc been in
blo;nn over two weeks. The trees are
principally Oak, Hickory, Walnut, iElm,
tiaffafralk (in.nbundance), rln some lOcal-:
Weis Ciabiand=Plrnli. ticeit• are/plenty;.
The Grape is a natural production in pro
'
flagon throughout the timber: Chives,. a•
vegetatable of ollen-time notoriety . (a
fp#ies of tiny onion), can be gathertd in
panfulls ; but to any stranger to thein I
f weuld.sity,/ taste
- before you swallow, its a
poitionons; grass-looking, affair, grews.
among it. PerhaPS the tetipe for telling .
nuiShroons from toadstool's might do ir
thIS instance, , but I would not like tea try
it tjy "taste all yonfind."lf they kill you,
, ot!Ty re toadSbiols; •if yen live,thushrtions.
'' Oattle are cheap. The best of zoi*
cows can be bought (calves at their side)
ferAwenty dollars. It does not cost iamb
toivinter stock.
- Land is cheap and plenty. Prairie 'and
tiniber land can be bdught- 7 .-prairie from
131rii tp:7.'2o, per acre, while good timber
!arid is not near so much. My nearest
neighbor told' hie. : lot :iveek ire wonid sell
' forty acres for'' ;ter Per acre. An unoecu
i pled farm. - ( I X • eighty acres joining, me,
;owed by almin a few miles oil, is now
foOale at very lowitigures.' Forty acres
is hinder prett2,i - ghod fence, and the bal
._
I
and timber, itli iClarge spring of, never
failing water handy. I alit not a land
1 agent. I ant not.paid for telling this: - I
golnto these particulars in,order that any
, .
, one; wishing to-come.to it warmer climate
1 and Cheap land,, now is,the time and here
is the place. . If !any one wishes anyfur
tliO informatinm• 1 Would do, all in .my-
I poWer to give it. ')',ltc . people, are very
kind and hospitable. • , :- - , ••: .
, • tion ore . andlead,is plenty in tracts (or
spats). The lead mines are about three
• miles from here ;
. were .opphed: one Year
;401; and up to February twenty-one car
'loads had 'been shipped, all '.moulded in
.eq That mos. fis gradually a-market ~.•making
forigarden and fat in produce. The town
1 tid out there is fast growing into,a-trad
.ingakwell as mining tow; . One uoirfla
ityitok opt 16,000 pnuui s in one week_;
another took mint 0,000 ',clouds in one
week,—and these -were not.extra weeks,
either. The,resident peolile here do. not
: scent fully to appreciate the - extent: or
value of the agricultural - and mineral re
sources of the country. IlaVing, up to'
the time of the war, been used to depend
on: the traffic in slaves for their support,
they do not seem , to know. how to go
ah'pad and: manage their farms and do
their own, work. • What it wants here is
otirm•active, intelligent, enterprising. in ,
dustrious business men. - The_ stamp of
the , sad havo3i of wtr is ; viSlble ,on all
sides. •In your Northern holies you can
fu in no Writ - of the dcs.ilation ,caused by,
it.lillot, the:tnildus of the eliinate richly
conipensateS any one for any' deprivalions
they Might 'Feel they were enduring., Per
haps when the -"dog days” come we *ill
I think of the summer 0(':2875- spent - in a
cue') region bf 3 ouClcounty; bet we will
get: hi Ilie, shade awl think of our dear
friend L. C.•s lee.ereantioad sea-foam cake,
itnigine we are:there, and visifber in our,
direatos.
Fearing I may:weary your patience, I
will just Mention the , feathered tribe and'
si.lp. , Thet.;eitriet, Haltimore and Oriole
six here all winter ; as does the helm ifol
nide Lduebird, Whippoorwills,- Peev.-pes,
'irfori - tl Iltionn Thrush; Robbins, )loeking
• final, (:00311,g Dove , ; Se. To all of my`
friends I wail say, in the language of the.
German. "LePwn lie erall"—i.,c:, ",Live
and be liappy." l I remain as ever braid
all. want of homes.
Address Pereie, _there, Dadeirille I'. 0.,
Dade county, Missour'. .
•'E. s.—Oakwood Was , the Ormer • name
(if : ny-home.. bat it :was • not ,siiital il. - ... so
wei 7 pliauged it to the, onc:at the heading.
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ift we had ever gradmitcd from a glt,et , S.-
iPX'fehot i, - we kNotOti 11,4 ' 441'ti the V 111 1 .14 4:-
tot* ,that the three startk rise arid - set in
this ItErtin•rEa f' , ending forth their
brilliant scintillations like the lamp of the
light-house. te. - .slroNV -where the breakers
keep the grangees bark. fritm
a.vrkidring on a :dangerous coast. Ti'. the
towiter of that bright, r.i;rimilite dues Ili tt
sorra( most of Lis time m said (Alice, lie
gu St have saint: good friend 'there O)
Live : or else is remarkably , ltteky . ip get
ting his last article printed as soon' as.
written, even if it was necessary to rerimve
j advertisement. ; to make room for it.
A tew men have beerfaible 2 to perforin the
I difllpult feat'of composing an article _and
putting it • into type at one and the same
liorate Gri eley could do it, o'.ll.era
666( . 1rie1i bah done it, and the unkutrwn
clartinant of the tlirSe stars has tried it.
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