U padford Nepottet E. O. 000nalcil, EDITOR. Towanda, Pa., Thursday, July 31, 1879 FOR ETATS, TREABI7RIR, ' HON. SAMUEL BUTLER; OF CHESTER COUNTY. TI i.nsx refuses to open his bar'l for the use and benefit of the Pennsylvania Dem• ocrajz. Tlie prospect;of dividends is too poor to justify the investment. Tun prospects for another Indian war are very cheerful. In fact latest accounts would seem to indicate that it had alrea dy commenced. We suppose that these outbreaks will occur periodically so long as the nobly red:rnan's untutored mind is bent on scalps ixnd outrages, and the ~front iersman, and the contractor can reap a harvest Of profits. THE f 'Dewing testimony from the Phil , adelfibia-Retord is graceful, if ittspnusn -lal and unexpected : "Mr. SAMUEL Brrr 7.En, of Chester the Republican nominee for State Treasurer, is ,a gentleman of ex -et:tient personal character, and one who is not connected with any cliquv. The Re publicans have done a good thing in nam ing him for the position." Du. Ls MovNE, of Washington Coun ty, who has become notorious for his views on cremation, and his practical ef forts to introduce that plan of disposing of the dead into genCral practice, has dis inherited his son because the latter pre ferred to have his dead d:i•iid buried in stead of birrned, and has g ivto the inheri tance of his son to Washington and Jef ferson College. THE Ohio Democratic State Committee are said to be without funds, and cannot hire or pay speakers. TtLDEN must eome to their relief. By the way, what is the .reason that Ohio is so very •poor about election time? There is not much dif ference alto parties, for every cats ciss 'comes from that State, the cry for help. Isn't it about d i me the politicians of Ohio learned . to rely upon their own resources? Tit. New York Tribune says very sen sibly "The Pennsylvania Republicans do themselves credit by steadily advancing the Hon. GALL:pIIA A. Gnow to the posi- I Lien of deader`. His bold stand for:hon est money last year, when many members of his party were wavering, has 'bad a oreat deal to do•with big advancement. _r He placed the party on the right road then, and its strength and assurance of victory to-day are due mainly to his saga cious leadership at that time." .Toth H. GRANT has been named as the Bradford member of the Republicaia . State Committee, and a better selection could not have been - made—for he is a live Re publican, and will look after the interests of the party with zeal and fidelity. If all the members of the State Committee are made of the same material, the flower of the party in the State will meet when it has a session. : F. C. Iloffrok, bf West Chester, is the Chairman of the Commit tee, with SAMUEL' F. BARR, s of Harris burg, -and Cunt& L. • 31AuE.F., of Pitts burgh, as Secretaries. • 1 Tuft trial of Colonel Marcum, in Ken tucky, has resulted 'in his conviction, and be is sentenced to imprisonment for 'life. 'Though he richly deserved hanging, yet even this vindieation of justice is smiefliing in a State .where human life is held so cheaply, and violence and lawless ness have gOne unrebuked. His assassi nation of Judge ELLIOTT, because he did not agree v.itlf the,Judge as . to the pro priety of judicial decision, was one of the . , st unprovoked and cold-blooded crimes iNT the day, and Might startle even Km -I . m ;:y compunity. 111 4 1:, l l ittow presided over the Republi ' can • State Conventiotr with ability and gra4e, and was enthusiastically and cor dially greettll by the members of that body. The reception given hitt is an ev detice of the estimation in which he is held throughout the State, and a:deserved recognition of his abilities, his valuable public services, and his efficientlabors in the Republican cause. He has had , the honor on several occasions, to strike, the key -note of the canvass, find to boldly ut ter doctrines which the party has -accept ed, and the peopl endorsed by their ver dict at the prills. . . OcEA:: Grove has enjoyed the enviable reputation of being a place frequented by good people,, and where temperance held undisputed and undoubted sway. But the pleasant illusion is now dissipated, as Mrs. l i y:Tnitor, -one of the membirs of the AVOinen's National Christian Teinperance Union, openly declares that though there are no bars or drinking places at that sea side resort; yet the demon alcohol is con cealed in the trunks and satchels of the visitors,and that , intemperance thus pre vails, despite the local rules and 4social frowns which would prevent the spread of tbe curse. The trail of the serpent is everywhere. , BEN delights in riising the 01.1 ick generally. liothing suits him better than - a - row, in which he can hurl the bricks with which he is always loaded. And then his great ambition is - to be Governor of ' Massachusetts, a laudable ambition ; but one which the intelligent voters of the Bay State will not recognize top! gratify. Not discouraged by previous unsuccessful efforts. • the . General an noiiii,:jes himself as a candidate, and.a Chnventhin of his friends is to meet on the f!cl day of September next, to .place him formally in the field. If ready wit And unscrupulous audacity could ensur success, he would be elected, to the eyer lasting disgrace of the people of Massa chusetts. • . THE Goiernor of the State of Now York said to the Governor of the State of Pennsylvania, that be would be pleased tyltave PETER 11Enure come .into . the Sate of New York, and explain to cer tain citizens of Elmira some transactions Whieh looked a little dqbious. as - to their stra4,lliforwardness. Governor HOST an swered that HERvic might be escorted over the line into Governor Rotussores dominions-but IlErne'shealth won't permit him to make the trip-L -at leaSt such is a reasonable presumption, as the, parties with the requisition haVe - not been able to discover his whereabouts, and it is supposed that he is traveling for the ben etlt of his health. - ',The indictment agai . nst was for ob taining rivatey under false pretenses at Elmira, and stay found last fall. It 'was obtained upon thetpth of JOHN' AitiioT, of ! the Chemung Canal Bank. Iliztanc returned home some time ago, .after•a pri:plonged absenee, and it is understood agreed to compromise the Elmira matter. Pailin ; :, , to keep hig word, the reguisitioa was asked for and 4zranted. A sr urgisa illustration of the wisdom and safety of the National Banking Sys tem is shown in the recent closing of the First National Bank of Butler, Pa., which was a bank of $lOO,OOO capital and '590,000 circulation. The Bank Examiner 'discovered that the law had been violated, and the capital impaired, and he immedi ately closed the Bank. Of coarse‘ - the notes are All over the country, yet not oneplollar will be lost to the note-holders. Under the old system e the loss would have fallen upon the public. Now the notes . will pmai current, until ,they are redeem: ed by the agents of 'the government While the National Banks , may have ens joyed unusual privileges, yet the people have been thoroughly protected from the losses which were so common under the system of State Banks, sod are more than compensated for any 'favors which rualr have been granted the National Banks. , THE STATE CONVENTION. The Republican State Convention at Harriiburg, was a harmonious and enthusiastic meeting of the Republi caii leaders of Pennsylvania. The convention was presided over by Hon. 6,64.ustiA A. Gitow, who, in his able' speech, summed , up the issues at stake in the coming politi cal campaign clearly, forcibly and eloquently. The nomination of Hon. SAMUEL BUTLER., of Chester county,. for State Treasurer, which was pre dieted in these columns several weeks ago, is one of the best made in this State for many years. He is a gen tleman of unimpeachable integrity; whose high character, -ability and popularity at once cowmandcd for him a hearty support upon the an. nouncement of his candicy. , In nominating him neither th one fac tion nor the other has won, fdr-ke is - as well liked by the one as the other. Indeed, it may be said now with en tire truthfulneai-that there is but one faction in the Republican party to day. There are independent men in it who will speak their minds upon occasion, but the platform adopted is one upon which the entire party can unite. There is no division of sentiment amtsng Republicans, now. All are in favor of standing by re sumption, of thwarting every effort to foist fresh issues of irredeemable paper or depreciated coin upon the mountry, and unalterably opposed to any tampering with the monetary system which the party has estab lished, and which is bringing safety, stability and prosperity to the peo ple. And upon the questions raised by the extra session, whether the National Government has or has not the authority to - control the election of the members of. the National Con gress ; whether the results of the war shall be overturned by the men late ly-in rebellion ; whether the South shall win, by its control of the Demo cratic caucus, what it failed to win on the battle field between 1861 and 1865. Upon these questions the party is in thorough accord, and is animated by the same spirit that gave it the' courage to fight nullifica tion and treason when they ripened into ak open rebellion which shook the Republic to its centre, the tri umph of the Union arms alone de termining whether free institutions were to live or die. The Republican leaders have plainly, forcibly and fairly prevented the issues in the ad mirable platform adopted at Harris burg. The convention was unan imous, but ilot more so than the great Republican party which it represehted, and the triumph which surely awaits it in - November will show .that Pennsylvania is as loyal to-day as it ever was, and that the enemies of free and honest elections, of free speech, of- equal rights, and of national integrity, can never per manently control its destinies. SECRETARY SHERMAN, in one of his late speecheiP in the State of Maine took occasion to call the at tention of his hearers to the dangers which threatened the country from what he called the "Southern ques tion." His warning should be heed ed by every, honest and intelligent voter. After detailing the good re sults which had flowed from resump tion Mr. STIERMAN told his hearers that are qbestions of the mediate future thataise above money and bonds, above prOperty and profit. There is the safety and supremacy of the National Government, whichis again called into dispute by the very men who waged the war against us for four years for doctrines which preceded civil, war, the very doc— trine of State rights which lei to war and caused the loss of blood and treasure to an etent for which there is no parallel. ;They are again coming up for discussion and deci sion. The solid South . is made solid by terror and Violence. The four or five millions of human beings we e z niancipated are now held in such ':error and violence that they are practically deprived of the' elective frant;hise. All that the solid South wants is a few people in the North on any kind of an issue to act with them, and then, through their caucus, they can rule and govern this country as they tried to through a civil war. The important question of the future was the question of Southern domi nation. The Secretary displays his usual astuteness in the warning he so emphatically and earnestly utters. The great question of the day truly is the Southern question. Whether the leaders in the late Rebellion shall be allowed to take full control of all branches of the government, and thus achieve peaceably what they failed to establish `by the sword, or whether the men and the party which preserved the Union, shall continue to be trusted with the welfare of the country. To rale the nation, the South re quires a certain amouintiaf support from the North, and it is a lament able fact. that she, has been able in all - the put, to offer .such induce ments for sycophancy and dough make- 'such appeals tathe gaibitiou still seleshness of &certain chute of NOrthem ,men, as to keep them itt. the party organization. The mOst'powerful lever the South has, employed to effect its purposes has been the Caucus, as used in Congress, Which has controlled the minority of the Democratic party, andca.used the indorsethent of schemes which were obnoxious even to a-Northern Demo crat. This rule of King caucus makes the South potent in Congress, as the Democratic majority is large ly made up of Confederate brigadiers, and the conservntive and moderate members are_bullied and dictated to, by the unrepentant rebels. The voters of the North should bear this fact in mind, that when they:send a Democratic member of Congress it is only one added to the strength of the South, as tho North ern Democrats are ruled by the Southern majority in the party and must obey the inexorable decrees of the caucus. For - all practical pur poses a Confederate brigadier.' would as justly represent Northern senti ment as a Northern. Demociiit who blindly - carries out the decisions of a caucus largely composed of Southern men. THE Legislature at the last session passed a new Tramp law which is to go into operation on the 15th day of next month, and which is likely to give a considerable amount - of work to magistrates, constables, prosecut. ing attorneys, courts and jailors. The material portion of the law is that which defines what is a tramp in Pennsylvania, and What is to be done with him. .The language of the Act is.as follows •" That any person going about from place to place begging, asking or subsist. . ing upon charity ; and for the purpose of acquiring money or a living, and who shall have no fixed place or residence or lawful occupation in the county or City in which he shalt be arrested, shall be taken' and deemed to be a tramp and guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be sentenced to undergo an imprisonment by separate and solitary confinement at labor ;or in the county jail or work-house for not more than twelve months, in the dis .,cretion of the courts." The succeeding portion of the ,same section provides that if a man can prove that he is not a tramp, he shall mot be punished. If he can establish that " he does not make a practice of going about begging or subsisting upon alma in the manner aforesaid for the purpose aforesaid, and in the manner set forth," it shall be sufficient foi his acquittal and dis charge. The second section is much more severe, and is intended to curb outrages which have become very common, especially in the country, during the continuance of the tramp nuisante. — This section is of sal cient importance to print entire. It is as follows: • "Any tramp who shall enter any dwell ing house against the will or without the permission of the owner or occupant there of, or shall kindle any fire in the high way or on the land of anothe without the owner's consent, or shall be found carrying any firearms.or other dangerous weapon with intent unlawfully to do in jury to or intimidate any other person 7-- which intent may be inferred by the jury trying the case from the - facts that the defendant is a tramp and so armed--or shall do or threaten to do any injury,not amounting to a felony to any person or to the real_ or personal estate of another, shall, upon conviction, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be sentenced to undergo an imprisonment by separate or solitary confinement 'at laber for a period not exceeding three years." Succeeding sections declare that any act of beggary or v,agrancy is print 4 facie evidence that the per son committing it is a tramp; that any pkrson may arrest .a tramp and take hitfi before ,a magistrate, who may discharge or commit him ac cording to the eviddnce: There are some wise examples placed in the fifth section, They are as follows: "This Act shall not apply to any female or minor under the age of six teen years, or to any blind, deaf' or dumb person; nor shall it be applicable to any maimed or cripled person who is unable to perform manual labor." The suggestion that no female, whether girl or woman,.shall be con sider( , tramt<is creditable to the gallm (Abe Pennsylvania Legis latun declaration that no mina age of sixteen shall be lj .4, prosecution as a tramp is merciful ; while the declaration that the blind, the deaf, the dumb, the .maimed, and the crippled, shall mot be liable to prosecution as tramps, Must have a tendency to elevate those classes of unfortunates to the dignity of beggars according to law. ALL United Stites -pensioners will be. interested to know that = their us ual biennial examination has been abolished by the act of COLgress, June ' 21, 1879. Heretoforl they were required to appear before a Cnited States examining surgeon once every two years foF examina tion as to their present disability. Their next examination, would have been due September ,4th, and every two years afterwards. But all such examinations are now abolished— Congress, holding that it a pensioner has been disabled by wounds or dis ease since 1865, or the close of the war, he is not likely to get any. bet. ter hereafter as he grows older. Any pensioned soldier who now wears a truss and wishes the same renewed on the account of the old one being worn out, can procure a truss upon application to • the examin ing surgeon of the department for eensions of the United States army. The government has wisely decided that - the st(ffering is entitled to this attention.] ALEXANDEH H. STEPHENS made his annual speech to the Georgia Legislature the other day, and sol emnly declared that the dearest wish of his heart was to see Georgia pros perous and happy. He evidently don't care anything for the rest of the country. LE ran naLazzatiA: Putessmirmailw,v 51575. The average city resident. torPoots to assn thellotlovenoit. m a k the civ ic goring ,tlt , Months of j u ir e nit Awist,liut* is&jejr the pure air of the nountir, or tbelnvlgarating breez es at,semenea l sidi ilace of retort. This Custom, which indeed Is al noit & necessity. lists contributed largely to the multiplica tion of Such places within sight of the ocean, suid has built up quite( a number of towns on the sandy beaches Of New Jersey. The present season Las not been favorable for the business prosperity of the watering places 'as the heat has sot been continuously • excessive. Still the railroads to the ma-shore are Cs trying a goxl many plasm:mom and the hotels and boarding houses' are doing a moderate business. What a slaughter of the innocents I One hundred and four deaths from cholera in fantnm were reported in this city last week. The sudden armies of the weath er greatly inorease the TmOrtality from the disease, though in some localities it is a wonder that any children live in the midst of so much uncleanliness and foul air. It can hardly he called the survival of the fittest, either. The Pennsylvania Beilrold Company has issued an order directing that all pas. sengers as they arrive at their destination shall make their exit from the front end of the car, and enter from the rear. The intention is to prevent cote . usion and ens ble trains to get away from the stations quicker than they do now. It is further ordered that the passengers must remain seated until the train .;Dines to a full stop. The crew of the brig Shasta who were down with yellow - fever at - the= - Lazaretto, are all in a fair way of recovery. The whelesale prices of quinine have advanced fifteen cents per ounce since Congress placed the articcle on the free list. This is explained by the fact that the manufacture wouldhe suspended here and foreign manufacturers at once ad iranced the price. It is not clear to the Common understanding why the manufac• turers here should suspend operation, if the price is not lessened by the removal of the duty. Probably the consumer will never realize from the price paid for the article that Codgress has legislated upon the natter. The India elephant "Jennie," which has been in training for the past six weeks at the Zoological Gardens, is nowporfect ly tractable, and is carrying passengers around the garden. The elephant stands seven feet two inches high, weighs 4,000 pounds, and is seventeen years old. It was feared for a time that she would die, as did the African elephant, from the ef fects of stones, etc., given them on the Fourth of July, but a small dose of medi cine—two and one-half- gallons of oil— probably saved her-life. She now starts from a grove of treesin the Southern end of the Garden, where a stand hati been placed to enable the passengers to get in to the howdah on her back, and make a circuitrof the lake, bringing the passen gers tack to the starting point. She is veryjdocile, and obeys , every work spoken to her 'by Mr. Pendergast, the keeper. The howdah is firmly fastened to her back with a number ofheavy straps, and is covered with red cambric curtains. It will seat six adulti or eight children cern fortably. The imports from foreign ports at Phil adelphia during June amounted to $3,- 111,809, compared with $2,232,885 during June of last year. Of this amount $413,- 815 wore free goods and three-fifths came into port into American vessels. The chief impo4s were $1,010,000 of sugar and molars, $189,628 of tin plates, $202,603 of crude India rubber, $102,509 of chemicals, and $117,230 fancy goods. The State Agricultural Society is now arranging the details of the State Fair, which will be opened on the Bth of Sep tember at the Permanent Exhibition buildings: The number of exhibitors throughout the country .and Canada wino have already applied for spaCe for exhib its fully justifies the management in their predictions of its being the largest State fair ever held. The headquarters of the Republican State Committee, for the present, will be at West Chester, the residence of the Chairman. An early organization will be effected, and the ball set rolling in such a matter as to ensure the triumph of the Republican candidate. It is only a ques tion as to the size of the majority. The dronth in this vicinity has been ex cessive, and the rain of Saturday was very welcome, relieving the apprehensions of those who were prophesying au extended dry time. On Friday night two roughs named George Mason and Henry Lomas, attack ed an old man named Charles W. Colvin, a Bradford County drover, under the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge,. at Thirti eth and Market streets, knocked. him down and attempted to rob him. His cries brought private watchman to the scene, who p+sued the highwaymen and effected their capture. Ono of them was 'wearing Colvin's hat when taken into cus t.°4l3'; • On WASHINGTON LETTER. WAIWINGTON. I). C., July U. 1879 Since the adjournment of Congress and the dispersion of, its members, there has been nothing transpiring to interest and still less to amuse .' It is true the variety e howe, with their bespangled heroes, clowns, columbines and harlequins, still continue to cater to the tastes of the amusement-loving public, but with all their resplendant scenes and ;rand auxil iaries of red tire and sheet-iron thunder, they are in no way to be compared to the great Congresssionalmhow which has just ;closed. In theleft wing of the Capitol there has all winter long been camped, an army of Confederate "Brigadiers, who, intoxicated with their new field of power, have not only attempted to destroy all protection of the ballot, to dragoon and bull-doze the President into the endorsement of their plundering and obnoxious schemes, but have sacceeded most admirably in turning our National legislation into a farce. It is true that the arena was not sprinkledrwith saw-dust, nor did the per formers come forth in spangled tights, yet the crack of the ring -master's whip could be daily beard, and the stale jokes and witticisms of the Confederate majori ty placed it, so far ad dignity and its value to the country was coneo on the same level as any other mg show of the land. With not a redeeming feature, save its resolution. of adjournment, the past session, if it maybe called such, may be summed up as having- been not only the longest and the tnost expensirob4ut the . most disgraceful' one that has ever been inflicted on the. American people. In their grand march for absolute control, month after month was wasted, a great amount of the people's money expended, the interests of the country disregarded, every law and every'oarrier placed iu the defence of the free suffrage of the people sought to be torn down, giving ample demonstration of the fact that the Union loving people of the country (=not yet afford to surrender the reins ofAovern ment,\nnleas they desire to see neepleted treasury, arithaitt*tit recklearianisglititli* m ' • ThOcCtiiii (4 of Repubthin:*oo7iii -_thiONA•l pretty, jot:at:evident* laa',lt(*iritka4* mocraest regiad tin-civil ati toes *tern which so many of our politica *ins have advocated with so much Wacky' as being such a good thing.. First . in one wing " of Capitol endtbetrin thirteen from the Okirk down, to the coal heavers in the crypt, there haribeerraclean sweep, not a vesthge of anything of w Ilersblicon character has been left. The maimed and mutilated Soldieis Who viva - theirantra and legs as a legacy to the.country, prod over whom was spread so much sympas thetic gush, were made to gather up their crutches and walk: NotwithstSndiag the preambles, resolutions and protestations of good -will so freely and so Prettily ex )pressed, when the Proper time came King 'Caucus, with unrelenting hand; demanded that they must travel. There was, doubt. less. some feeling lingering' in the Qin federate ailed of the consistency and tbe eternsr fitness of things, and consequently they did not want to present to public the anomaly of a 'Union soldier being on guard at a Confederate camp. But:with this example and reiteration of the old doctrine " tbetr i to the victor belong the spoils," in Firma of the depart ments of the Government the civil service theory is still adhered tr'N'and the'estab lishment of an aristocracy of education is still evidently a- popular idea. _ In aerie quarters competitive extitirinaticins for place are still in favor, and the display of a little• learning is better capital than al legiance to party or to principle. But the precious bantling which has been so long nod so tenderly cared for, and which during the past few years has been so kindly petted and praised by the Democracy, now finds no favor in their eyes.. When the tables are turned a little in their favor and .a little of the public patr'onage fulls to their bands, civil ser vice then becomes a horse of another col or, and 'all of their professed lirve melts into thin air. They_propose to imblazon no such creed on theirlanners ; they pro. pose to put no enemies in their camp ; in short, they propose orgy to feed rind foster those who are in full vinpathy and com munion with then', 1410 humbly bow to the same idol and devotedly worship. at the same shrine. How much the Repub lican party will profit : by the example re mains to be seen. At the present time a good deal of feeling „appears to be mani fested over the fact of political m f atentities, non-voting partite and rebel sympathizers obtaining place to the exclusion of those who have alwayp stood manfully for the ' right and have always been - foundw i t r iling th to share e burden of the battle. bile there is doubtless too much of thriehind of work, for which our Senators andfflep resentatives are responsible and no the Administration, there is at the sam4 time a good deal of exaggeration on thefother hand, gotten up by a certain class o bum mers and camp followers who are always found blowing their horns loudly in their own praise. _ But since the offers of peace and reconciliatiOn so generously extended have been as defiantly refused, perhaps a little more tightening of the reins slid the infusion of a little more discipline into the ranks of the party might be of beneficial result. How much in this way the pres ent agitation of the subject willitecom plish remains, of course, to be seen. We very much fear, however, that it will end 'like the devil shearing the hog—in more cry than wool. The question as to who will be thc; next Presidential candidate of the Republican party is just now being much discussed; Conspicuous among' those mentioned ant the names of Grant, Sherman, Blaine and Conkling. Each of 'these parties appear to have many admirers, who discuss their probabilities of success with widely dif fering views and from widely different standpoints. 'Unless it should happen that during the time intervening between this and the nomination the selection should fall upon the dark borne, one of the four named will doubtless be the choice of the convention ; and which one of the four is.the most popular with the people and would be the most likely to succeed, is the question which appears now to be agitating the brains of our po litical savans—Grunt with his reputation, Sherman-with hill unequaled shrewdnesb, , Blaine with his brilliancy, or Conkliti with his genius? The Indications at present evidently are that Grant is ahead, but the false step of raising his name too soon may deStroy his present great favor sufficiently to cruse him to lose the nom ination. But the great enthusiasm which appears everywhere to meet his name is unmistakable in its meaning. That he is in the hearts of the people there seems to be but little question, and should he be the choice of the nominating convention there would be little doubt as to the re sult. M. REPICIILICAN STATE COXYENTION H AIM] spun°, 23.—The Republican State Convention met this morning in. the Hall of the House of Representatives, and was ,called to order by Mr. Quay, Chairman of the State Committee. There was a full attendance of delegates. ' Lucius Rogers was temporary secretary. TEMPORARY ORGANIZATION. Senator Davies nominated Louis W. Hill, of Harrisburg, for tempo rary chairman, and he was elected by acclamation. Mr. Hall, on taking the chair, said : - Until very recently we supposed the past labors, sacrifices and triumphs of the people bad permanently secured the per petuity, the honor, the liberties and the constitutional rights of every citizen of the Republic in fact as well as in law. We helieved the National Union bad been restored that the heretical doctrines of secession and nullification had been van quisbpd ; that resumption was an accom plished fact, and that an era of peace and good-will was at band. Alas, that these fond hopes should ever be blighted or im periled ! But no sooner hi our old adver sary, the Democratic party, permitted to become a power in the land, than the ban ner of State rights (which they construe to be State sovereignty) is again unfurled; the constitutionatrights of the nation are assailed, and the individual rights and liberties of the citizen are trampled under foot in unlawful and criminal efforts to create and perpetuate a "solid South." The same men and the same party who from 1861 to 1863, in advocacy of the same dangerous and revolutionary principles, precipitated upon us a causeless and bloody war, are endeavoring through the present Congress to regain the came they lost in the field. -A thousand thanks to the gallant Republicans in Congress who stood as a wall of adamant against all the rampant schemes of nullification, and a thousand more to that inflexible patriot President. the bulwork of constitutional rights. Having often imperilled his life for the Government like a true soldier and patriot, lie stands firm and proposed "to fight it out on this line "- to the end.; The Republican party and the patriotic people of the nation have suffered and sacrificed too much in the recent conflicts 1* the liberties, and rights of man to abandon the contest until the legitimate fruits are all gathered and secured beyond peradven ture. After the adoption of a resolution providing, or the reference of all -Actions to the Committee_oa 1 • latforni without delbatapitOcol4 r e tad %- o,..Uniog, ssnt e folLWl4gimold- I l ii 4 A lll6 ' 44l e liik, thl *din* ` t irld# *tide ' - ed , ll i ' ! ileolviikTasit, *view oieuie ikiv•toi - *mei atAitios Np_no ir sonnation Am :thri Buisi Mb dui INK Housiime emptiatleallyfeaftlitie taarisit WC the platform adopted by the Ritpubliesn Stale Convention at Lancaster lit-48 7 / 1 ,- 'gild which was readopted by the Republican State Convention at Harrisbuyg . in 1870, whkb deiiiiiiidir"Renerfflieain officio ; men with bales enough to know dishon esty when they see it, and conrage.enough to fight it.wherever they find ft." J; Theo4liideolareat Mr.Volfiorit of order ' and refused to entertain his appealirem the decision. Mr. Wolib" persistently inslated that, be bad a right to demand the reading of the' resolutions and Sena toi' Cooper, of Delaware4nd Repre sentative Barret, of Lackawanna, took. the same . view. . There wag considerable commotion during'the discussion, and order was restored through' Senator Cooper, who moved that the reg u lation be received, which was done. Mr. Mapes, Of Venarigo, offered a resolution, which. he instAted should be read... The Chairman ruled the gentleman out of order, and further disorder was preiented by Mr. Quay making a motion, which was-adopted, that the persons to constitute the Committee on Resolutions be named. PERMANENT ORGANIZATION. General Lilly, Chairman of the Committee on Organization. present". ed the name of Galushs A. Grow for permanent Chairman, snd that gcn. tleman was nominated by acclaim tioh. Mr. Grow, upon taking the chair, addressed the convention - as follows: GENTLEMILN OP VIE CONVENVON : Ac cept my thanks for the honor conferred by the vote just announced. I congratu late yori, and the Republican party may well congratulate the country, 'on the fa 'vorable auspices of the times. Resump tion of specie payments brings with it revived industries, and in place of the calamities foreboded by the prophets of evil there comes employment for idle la bor, with still greater encouragement and brighter hopes for the future.. What the teachers of a new political economy de clared a year ago to be a physical impos- . sibility is to-day an accomplished fact. The Democratic party, faithful to its rec ord for constancy, repudiates, as usual, the platfonn of its host convention. So " the Democratic party, as a whole," now believes, for this year at least, that labor is entitled to•receive for its toil something better than a promise of uncertain fulfill ment in an indefinite future. There are certain great laws of trade and commerce which the rantings of political demagogues arid.time-servers cannot change, of which the most essential, in order to secure suc cessful and staple industries in all times of peace, is that the money used in .the transaction of business should itself be a real value, or, for convenience, a repre sentative, convertible, at the will of the bolder, into real value, and that the stand ard of that real value should be recognized as of the same value by all who deal in it, or in the commodities for which it is ez changed4 Otherwise somebody must of necessity be the loser by its use. A de preciated or worthless currency is a rep resentative of the destruction of value ; of loss, not gain. The laborer who receives a real dollar for his day's work holds in it the representative of the value oia day's 'Work. But if he receives a worthless dol lar it represents loss to the amount of the value of a day's work ; so of depreciated money of all kinds to the extent of the depreciation. The loss by a defective standard of value, like worthless money, falls in the end most heavily upon those who earn their daily bread by their daily toil. While the question of currency and kin dred measures, which affect most directly the industrial interests of the country, are still unsettled in its legislation, a new po litical organization is forced upon the country in the attempt to revive some of the old theories of nullification and seces sion, and thus the people are called upon to settle at the ballot-box and in the forum questions which everybody bad a right to suppose were dually settled in the field. Is there to be no end to controversy ? Is nothing ever to be regarded as finally set tled ? Did the ballot-box in eighteen hun dred and sixty, after fifty years of heated discussion, settle nothing? Did the sword in one of the most gigantic wars of history settle nothing, unless it be to clothe the 'vanquished with power and authority to make their own terms of surrender and to fix the conditions upon which the victors may enjoy the governthent saved by their valor? The logic of all wars, especially of civil wars, if they have any logic at all, is that the victors at the close of the con test have the right to fix the terms of sur render for the vanquished and to settle the policy of administration which they believe will best promote the welfare of The country. And the vanquished have certainly no cause of complaint if the pol icy so fixed Applies, as in our case. to the victors themselves the same as to the van quished. Unless the sword in fonryears of bloody conflict settled forever that this is a nation, and that nullification or seoes sion in any form is not to be resorted to by any portion of the American people as a remedy for political ills, then, indeed, was it a useless massacre of brave men. There are only two constitutional meth ods by which laws once enacted can be rendered inoperative : "the one by repeal, the other by the proper court declaring them void. So long as they remain valid enactments, the claim that either law maker, citizeia. or State can rightfully nul lify them by withholding support, is but a revival of the old doctrine of South Car olina nullification. • While a - law remains a valid enactment, it is as much a disre gard of duty and constitutional obligation for the law-maker to refuse the necessary appropriations of money to make it effec tive, as it is ter the priiate citizen to dis obey it. The act in both cases is the same, and differs only in the remedy. In the case of the private citizen, the remedy is in the courts ; and in the case of the law maker it is in the ballot-box, uy the repu diation at the lions of- a faithless public servant and of the party that sustains his acts. The advent of the Democratic par ty' to power in one branch of Congress, after sixteen yeais' exclusion, was signal ized by their refusing all appropriations of money for the support of the army. 1 And as soon as they have a majority in both branches of Congress it it is claimed that the law-makers may of right refuse to apply the money collected from the people to the anpport of their government, on the plea that certain laws are unwise, if not unconstitutional. This is a mode of repealing laws not provided for in the Constitution, and is revolutionary and de stnictive of all forms of government. This party begins in power in 1879 just where it ended in 1861. It ended then in an opposition to the army and a .refusal to acquiesce in the costitutional forms of the government. It comes back to legis lative power, and begins by refusing the necessary support for the army and by making war upon the constitutional forms of the government. Thus the war of ideas goeson. - [Mr. Grow here went into an elabo rate discussion of the constitutional relations of the States, indentifying the doctrine of State rights with slavery, and defending the paramount authority of the Government - of the Union. lie continued :] The statesmanship that regards the local community in which a man is born or in which he chances to live Its wiser and better than any other, is akin to the self-righteousnoss that rejected the Saviour of mankind because he came out of Nazareth. In our political system the doctrine that a local community is para mount to the nation, is the ~child of American slavery, and whatever injustice there might be in other cases of visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon. the children there can. be 'none whatever in this case,. for it has been a Pandora's box of national ills. The threat of leading representatives of the Democratic party to undo all the legislation enacted to save the Union in the night of its peril, with out the consent of those who saved it, and the still more violent and inexcusable threat to withhold, so long as they hare a majority in either branch of Congress, the necessary appropriations . of money for the support of the government of the Union. unless their Particulatirtkolle States' rights are respected, issitin tothe threat made nineteen years tto; stroy the TAW / Mita *hog* 10 .the mode preseribe -10 . 1 the: . should elect a Preillident iFf3ifeki Llnited States not _eptablie to*lii.iilThe who vowed this/ E A/slid the clesh of and the din of beets, thig.:whitever else might perish it shOuld not be the free iii- - stitutions of . their fathers, in the team° spirit vow. to-day, Hannibal-like, at the altar of their country, by the shades of bidf - s million hero- martyrs sleeping in early graves, by the sighs and teats of an equal number of widows 'atitrorphans sitting at disconsolate firesides, by ,the heroic sacrifices of a nation mourning its unreturning brave, that those who wrought all this misery and woe shall not secomplish;in peace what they failed to accomplish' in war: - • THE PLATFOHN. The - following resolutioni were adopt : kesoleid. That the Republican party, Again forced to stand forward for the defence! of; human rlghta, after a Struggle: lasting through generation. And* Itself confronted by the same -foes of Fedend unify, prettiest freedom and. tuitional honor which it has KO of ten Overthrown in; civil contests and-armed conflict. . . Second. That Ire appeal to the Union-loving ppople of Pennsylvania to arrest by their votes the -mad career of the Democratic party, which Insists upon placing the National Government ender the dominion of men who but lately [,ought todestroy it, and who are now plotting toglve triumph to the doctrine they failed to establish In the field, the. establishment of State sovereignty by- the over throw of national supremaey.. Third. We declare our implacable hostility to the repeater the national laws which protect the Purity of the ballot box and secure fair elections. the election of Congressmen and Presiden tial electors being clearly subject to national control; any attempt to throw off that control is simply an effort to establish fraud at national elections. Bonen raga, equal right*, the unity 'of the nation an the supremacy of national Government in all matters place'd by the Constitution under its control can be maintained only by the Betel:diem. party, which alone Is committed to their defence. Fourth. That the Deniocratic party having ,committed itself to breakup the Government by refusing to ' appropriate moneys already collected from the people to sustainthe Government, unitise the ExecuUte sliah sanctien a measure Intended to foster fraud, violence and corruption in the nation al elections, and to impair the - constitutional supremacy of the nation, deserves and invites the signal condemnation of every law-abiding and honest citizen. . Fifth. That we are In favor of the payMent of the national debt in coin, according to the under standing between the Goverpment and tue lender anti of a paper currency, redeemable In coin, e congratulate the country Upon returning nayl. al prosperity, and upon the accompllshment„eler Republican national administention, of ' sac. ceasfui resumption of :specie paymeuts./Our cur rency is restored to its par value, the national credit has been maintained and strengthened, and the burden of the national debt largely reduced. To complete what has been vtfll begun, we de mand that our present Duane' !stein remain Ul6. disturbed. Sixth. That to the•Ypollcy and practice of pre election to home induetri el , and home production, inaugurated and austained by the Republican tarty, we are indebted “or the growth and deeel opment-of our domeatie and foreign commerce, -and for the pros roue Condition and strength of, national finance and that to the. continuance of that. policy mu we look, Ili the future, forassured prosperity peace throughout the country. Seventh./That the firm stand of the President, In vindicating the prerogatives of the coordinate departments of thetlovernment, meets the hearty openers! of the Republican Party of Pennsylvania.. , Mgt.! h. We call on the veteran soldiers of the war for the Union to Join. us in resenting the un- Ju.t etpulsion of their wounded 'comrades from °Mee by the Democratic Congress, and the trans fer of their places to repel soldiers. whose chief recommendation seems to be unrepentant treason and unending hate of the nation. Ninth. That we earnestly 'sympathize with our Southern Republican - brethren, who are now pass ing under the harrow of political persecution. We bid them be of good cheer. Fraud and force can not always triumph, even In a reg.on where fraud arid force fluid a congzuMl bottle. If a solid 'Smith now deprives them of their Just rights, a solid North will not fall in due time to secure them that perfect freedom which Is the birthright and in heritance of every American citizen. Tenth. That, the United States of America is a nation, not a league. Its Constitution, mad all laws made to pursuance .thereof, are the supreme law of the land, anything in the Constitution or laws of • State to the contrary notwithstandleg. Eleventh. That the tribunal establishwi by the Constitutiou to determine whether the laws are made in pursuance thereof is the Supreme Court of the United States. AU laws once enacted—un less repealed by the law-making power or declared void by said Court—neither law-maker, citizen nor State bas a right to nullify. Twelfth. That see pledge ourselves in favor of such legislation as will prevent unlawful and un constitutional discrladostlon of freights by the carrying companies of the coneley. Thirteenth. That the success of the administra tion of the State ender the management of the Republican tarty, the steady rrductlon of the State debt and the enforced compliment of the present Democratic Treasurer, that not one dollar of the public funds had been lost or misplaced daring the the seventeen years of item:drill-an cus tody of the funds, prove that oflicialintegrity and financial skill have been the benefits conferred by our party on the taxpayers of the State,.,and merits the approval of the people of Pennsylvania. Fourteenth. Thrall/a heartily _volume the att. ministration of Governor Hoyt aryl theistalwart attitude of eenatot Cameron and the Republican members of the Ileum of Representatites In re sisting the revolutionary riders so persistently pressed by the Democrats In Congress. .• STATE . TREASURES. NOMINNiED. Colonel llooten, of Chester, then nominated Samuel Butler, of Chester, for State Treasurer. Mr. Butler was , nominated by ac clamation. A committee was ap pointed to conduct Mr. Butler to the chair. He accepted the nomination as not so much a compliment to him self as to the county which he repre sents, which is overwhelmingly Re publican. Lie dwelt considerably on the course of the Southern represen tatives in Congress, in view of-which fact, he said the mission of the Re publican party was not ended. A resolution was adopted extolling the, merits of the nominee of the Convention, and after the adoption of the platform the convention ad journed sine die.' A Heavy Storm PH ILA DELPHI.!, J uly 2 7.—D Ming a heavy storm last evening, the roofs of several dwellings and barns in the northwestern part of the city were blown oft; a number of trees uproot ed and several houses flooded. RICHMOND, Va., July . 27.—Copious rains fell hereabouts last night: The long-continued drought is at an end. Reports from various points in the Northern and Southern portions of the State, give similar gratifying news. Pirrsuuna, Pa., July 27.—A severe rain storm passed over this section yesterday, causing considerable dam age to the property in, the surround. ing country. At Irwih's Station, on the Pennsyluania Railroad, the flood was the highest ever known in that vicinity. Houses were flooded, fences and outbuildings washed 'away and on the Sewickley branch road the damage to the track was very heavy. At Petrolia the greatest loss occur ed,, twenty-five or thirty stores and dwellings being washed away. The Karns City and Parker Railroad was damaged to the extent of $lO,OOO, and the telegraph lines blown down in all directions. The total loss will probably be $lOO,OOO. On the B. tV, 0. R. R., at Gaffey station, a culvert was washed out and the truck so damaged that , trains cannot pass. Reports of the same nature are re ceived from the Monongahela valley. No damag e was done in the city. StcormDlsPATi;n.:.--Tne storm yes ter,day, though not so severe in the city or immediate vicinity, was fear ful.in its effects in the surrounding'' villages and country. The principl; damage was in washing streets - and si4sialks. The storm throughout the, lower oil country was very damaging.. The oil towns of Petrolia and Karns City suffered terribly. Seventy-five housei in the former place were swept away and destroy ed, and the line of railroad between Parker and Karns City was submerg ed, 'bridges 'washed out, culverts de stroyed and the road bed ruined in many places. The people of that section, in many instances, barely escaped with their lives. The rain fall up the Monongahela Valley and along the line of the Baltimore and Ohio. Railroad, which skirts the Yougheioglienny, was the heaviest known, fur years. Houses, fences, outbuildings, 'timber and other prop erty were swept away and many of the coal mines flooded. The miners in some of them narrowly escaped drowning. At the Schrader mine near Elizabeth, the men waded through water to their chins. Nearly all the railroad lines centering here. with the exception of the Pennsyl vania Central, report more or less damage and consequent delay of traffic. The only known loss of life iskfar reported, is that of Mrs. Daly, lito was drowned in 'attempting to *Os a creek near Shaners station o .the B. A:. road.. The damage to 'growing crops has been very great, hitit cannot be'estimated. At Irwins itittion the rain -fall is reported as seven inches and the Youghioghenny branch railroad was damaged in several place; the force of the water being_so great as , . to break the steel rails. Railroad peOpie are' - bardit .words sltdireetions, and will have the damage repaired - in' the shortest time possible. • < BitpCIEVILLE, Ont., July S7.—This afteinnon, a terriffic thunder and hail storm passed over here. ' Consider able damage- was done to buildings by lightning, which also struck a tree on the American side of the river, 'under which the wife and child of Geo. Hutton had taked refuge. The, child was instantly killed in the mother's arms and the latter fatally injured. It is reporxed that. a man named La Rocque was also struck and killed on an. island a ,shorkilis tiince up the river. A Mollie Paidoned. HARRISBURG, Pa., July P—Den nis F. Canning, delegate of/the Mol lie Maguire order in No umberland county for years, and sei2tenced to fourteen years imp4swituent in 1875 for conspiracy to / murder in Schuyl kill county. was /pardoned today by Governor Hoyt, in order that he.may I be used as a witness against Mollie Maguires unneeted with murders in the min' g regions. The Common wealt / is largely indebted to Cal ! nin for the conviction of Pat Hes te , Patrick Tully and Peter Mc /Hugh, who were executed at I3loqms burg, Columbia county, over a year ago, fore the murder of Alexander Rea in 1869, and Dennis Donnelly, executed at Pottsville for the murder of Thomas Sanger in 1875. , In the trial of Peter McManus and John O'Neil, under sentence of death in 1 Northumberland county, he also" - gave important testimony. 1 The Yellow Fever. NEW YORK, July 29.—A special to the evening papers from New Or leans to-day says great excitement prevails in this city over what• seems to-day to , be a most imminent proba bility that the yellow fever scourge has begun its ravages again. One case has already been reported to the board of health, and there is reliable information that four more will be reported. Everyone who can leave the city is doing so; and trains for the North are crowded to their ut most capacity. The disease has brok en out in the same neighborhood where it begun last year, the Gordon ,district. From this district;'a dense ly populated one, the•fever originated in the years 1853, 1867 and 1878. G. A. R. Encampment. Eat; Pa., July 28.—The Grand Army of the Republic Encampment met here to-day, - compOsed of .dele gates from nearly all the posts in Pennsylvania.. About 1500 have ar rived, including Gen.- G. L. Brown and staff. Gov. .11oyt 'is expected Thursday.. The following oflicers are quartered in the camp. Generals J. S. Negley, Blakely and harry White. The Philadelphia posts' were enthusiastically received 411 along the road. The Mayor and citizens of Erie received all partieS on. their arrival and conducted them to the hotels, where refreshment were pre 7 pared for them. The camp will be in full. operation to-morrow. Lackawanna Politics SCRANTON Pa., July 29.--The Re publicans of Lackawanna county nominated the following ticket to day: For Judge, Alfred Hand : Sher iff, A. B. Stevens; .Prothonotary„ Henry Sommers ;- Treasurer, Ezra H. Ripple; District Attorney, E. W. Simrell ; Recorder, T. R. Lathrope ; Clerk of the,Courts, W. G. Daniels; Register of Wills, George Farber ; County Commissioner; H. L. Hall stead • Auditors,. A. C. Sisson and W. W. Williams; Coroner, Dr. Dan-, iels ; County Surveyor, Richard] Evans. STATE ITEWS FEMALE tramps abound in Erie county BL AIR county• clips , 200,000 pounds . ,o wool. GOLD is reported to be found in teba on county. THERE is a lack of- labore'rs in Mont gomery county. LANCASTER county supplies the United States with nickel. THE corner stone of the 'tilt county court house was laid on the 16th inst. SEVEN yellow fever eases on a vessel in quarrantine on the Deleware river. • A builder's hardware factory on .a large scale is to be organized at Scranton Tim Greenwood rolling mill at Tama qua has been unable to resume work on account of the scarcity of bands. A Imo potato crop. is promised in Ly cOming county this year: The bugs have done very little damage. EEWARD DAVIS, a miner in the 3falthy shaft near Pittston, Was killed by atall' of top coal Friday. A Two hundred and fifty barrel well has been strut at Kinzua. the 'new oil field a few miles north of Kane. IN 1832, in Sullivan county, which that time was a very wild region, a Ode of - leather wag current at any store for debt. TUE Gazette and Brilleqn reports enough improvements hi progress at Williamsport to indif.ate business is on the mend there. - ON Thursday morning alittle bey nam ed Victor Duniont fell into a basin of water adjoining a plaining mill, at Will iamsport and was drowned. " • THE foundry and machine - shop of J. J: Unangst, at Nazareth, Northampton county was destroyed by fire on. Thur sday. Loss, $20,000 ; insurance, $2,000. PEACOCK Furnace, at Lancaster, sends smoke heavenward, as another evidence of increasing prosperity, and the people thereabouts are hearth, rejoiced. A HATTLF.SNAHE measuring four 'feet in length, and having thirteen rattles,was killed Friday last, at Field's station Ly r coming county—and by a waman at that. TUE Tidewater Oil Comp a ny, by the use of stand pipes at Williamsport, are enabled to load a train of thirty-three cars at once, and all in a very few min utes. • Ix is rumored that the Pennsylvania company has iu contemplation doing the express business on all lines under its control, and' throwing off the Adams ex press company. Tomb LEin has a tamo trout in his spring, at Spring Mills, 'near Monttinrs• ville,Lycoming county that has been there for over six years, and will feed 'from his hand• a The fish is a very largo one, being 10 inches in length, ; . JomeßnOitewiri - drbWeed 'hylalling - down the Needed . slops, of. the - Keystone . CoMem - neer Pottsville July 23d., Pat. rick Kelly was t _illed at Thomaston coil- 'tory the day before by a fall of coal. . CriatiNOT G. ClLtliff, of Plymouth, was caught between two cant st the Dodson Colliery on Thursday afternoon and re- . ceived,hdtuies which caused his death - an hour afterwards. • PaILIP Macumixn, aged seventy.eigh years and resident of Reading, a s caught between the,humpers of coo can, '. 7 at Heading Friday . and instant! killed. ' He leaves a wife and daughter / 7 Tuir, driver boys of, till; ultquehanna Coal Company, at Hanti k, have been 3 cm a strike several days 7 1 or an increase of ,• wages. All work at,the minei has been ...--., suspended. Efforyto extend the strike to Wilkesbarre have thus far been unsuc cessful. / . : . . A rum r dlipateh 'from Columbia, ,says tha John Zueh, a boy aged eight years ad bah - legs sec terribly mangled rum r a trainyassing over them at Marietta, . Friday afternoon, that amputation was, necessary. His recovery is doubtful. TLIII9Y men are employed removing the, debrjWcaused by the burning of l i ar: dee Had ? at Easton. The exterior of the :budding! is to be principally of wood and _ stone, t he roof to be of slate and tin. The building Is to be ready for dediCation OCtieiber 21, 1880. ' , - Onnxiis have been issued from the Ad jutant General's - office for the inspection e of the state militia, during the month of November The troops- will assemble by brigades, and if. the men select for an en campment of three days instead of one day's inspection, an - encampment will be held. • *- DURING a thunder storm on Thursday afternoon of last week a number of men took refuge in a barn at Weed's Mill, near Trout run, Lycoming county, when the building was struck .by lightning, James Bastian and David Brosius were killed, and several others were badly hurt. The barn -apparently escaped in jury.• - Tui YoriDdily pews states that a few days since an attempt - was made to ob. struct the track of the Northern Central railroad at a point a little north of York, by placing an iron rail and also a railroad tie on the track. 1 bstrnetions were discovered fortunately, by e wide awake engineer of a passenger train in•time tv prevent a serious - wreck. The fiendish plot to throw, the train off the track is attributed to some rascally tramps who had been . observed loitering about the spot. THE following are some of the evidences of. increasing . prosperity gathered from; the State papers Friday : Six out of nine stacks of Allentown- rolling mills are now going. Business has so increased with the manufacturing - interests of Consho hocken and West Conshohocken that:it is !mpessible to find any one unemployed in -those places. - The Victor Noiseless Slate Company, Slatington, Lehigh county, is "using daily-390 yards of cloth and 180,000 feet of laces for' ornamenting' frathes. The rolling mills at Bethlehem are full of orders, awl working every day and night in the week. The rolling Mills at bem mler has. orders endugh 'on hand to run three years. Monocacy furnace has. been blown in, and the first cast made, yield ing fourteen tons of the best No, -1 iron.- GENERAL YEWS. .I:lE,att. 11. WHEELER , formerly a . prom.. ineni business man of Syracuse; con.: witted suicide by morpbiue Friday morn .iug. ALCFIER & Co., Manufacturers and im porters, of Montreal, have failed f0r4750,- 000, of which. $515,000 is .due the. Con solidated Bunk. • -GENERAL DONALD MCLEOD, a soldier, of Waterloo, died at, his residence, in. Cleveland, Ohio, July 22d, aged 100 years, 6 months and '22 days. • . ' . • WlLLi4ist Illscsa , for_thirty years one of the .official reporters .of the U. S. House of Representatives, died in Waili ingtou .Tt,ly.2;:d. aged 51 years. • CHIEF .ENGINEER EMSONS of the States navy,. was stricken by apoplexy atTortscnouth, N 11., on Thurs day; andis 'completely paralyzed on one side. .1 A ItEATs rainstorm prevailied in Nash ville, Friday afternoon completely clean ing the city. It rained three inches in al bmst as many hourl, flooding streets and .. • I SIXTEENnew cases of yellow fever arid three deaths were [reported in Memphis' anly 23d. Two_ cases of yellow fever,- Memphis `.refugees—were reported in Louisville. RAINS in Northern Virginia Friday have put an end to the unprecedented drought whichlow r prevailed for nearly two months and threatened the total fail ure of the corn crop in large:districts. . THE President - has•.appointed. Charles P. Jam , m•Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of *Columbia, in placeof Justice Humphreys, lately deceased. Mr. James is a native of 'Ohio; but has resid.; ed in the District .for the past fifteen years. •- Tux steamer City of Toronto, plying between Toronto and Niagara and Leiv ikon, ran aground in a fog Friday after noon on the Catrada..shpre, one mile• from the mouth of the Niagara river. The passengers were landed safely in small boats. A FIRE in Emporia, .Kansas, • Friday • morning, - destroyed Clark's .furnitpre store ; Thonikk, Jones,' groceries ; ilul- - mater, harness, and. .the building belong ino CamPbell„ The loss is' sll`,ooo ;• insurance, ,:ft1,500. The fire was cayed by spontaneous combuaion,, • JOHN Hattur.rr, a convict in Sing. Sing, N Y., prison made a fariotis•4sault Fri d. y updn Officer INlaekin with- a knife. H then ran to the north fotindery, pur sued by the officers, where be attacked Keeper Good with a hammer, whereupon Good shot him dead- Mackin's injuries are not La6ribus. • A TELEGRAM to the Chicago Tribune from Fort Peck, Montana, reports that Joseph Lanibert,.a well-known interpre, ter, his wife and font children were kill ed by Sioux, on the 20th inst. .7hree other persons, returning with him from the Yankton camp,:. were killed, 'and a little girl taken captive: - - . Tue - War Department has sent posi . tiyo instructions to Gener.4. Miles, now •iimpaigning in the liorthwfst, to pro-- cced cautiously, and; if possible, avoid conflicts with the Indians. It is under stood that General Sherdian. has been authorized to withdraw Miles' column, or reinforce it, as be may deem proper. PARTKTI,AIts of Lieutenant . Clark's fight on Beaver Creek have been received at Department Headquarters in St. Paul. Two companies and, fifty scouts engaged four . tundred Indians. Several of the - enemy and three of the scouts were kill ed. P. M. Hardman and George E. Stant, - of Campany C. Second Cavalry, were wounded. Scouts report Sitting Bull, With SOOO warriors, on this side of Hie - • • '
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