_ltz4ford *lortet E.. O. goOrmign, Towanda, Pa., Sept. 23, iBBO. °publican National Ticket. FOE PRESIDENT, General JARS 313 A• GARTIELD, OF OHIO FOR VICE-PRESIDENT," General MUTER AIMM, OP NEW-YORK Er= F.duin IS - . Henson. — : {Charles B. Fornev 2 ' • li-tiry V. Oliver, Jr.,. Iliathanp. Elsbree, i .1 Mu L.,Laivion, ' Andrew Stout, 1 E,lo - in H. Fitler, .. . .George M. grade, H. Hall Stanton„- • • Oiti ‘ll eorge ./ITlestllng, .1 ones DuloOn. TitliMael Behan; 1 1 .. 4.,!urge. de B. •Kelm, -. {Walter V. Ames, , ••-•4 liavld P. Houston, ' •_. John P. TeagardeM Vorgan It. Wills, - - !Nelson P. Seed, 'V Ii :Dry S. Eckert,- - i A ugtistus E. W. Painter, .1. On M. , ktchnian,. , IThotuas McKennati, 1 -,...147 S. Moyer, . iJames T. Maifett,, J. ;gar Picchot, .- . - George W. Delamate J.: on 3tltc hell, . Calvin 'W. OLUSILanT teurad F. Stiliidel, - , . . Republycan State Ticket. JUDGE OF SCrIiE3F. COURT, Hon: HENRY GEM, Northampton. AUDITOR GEYBRAL. , Hon. JOBS A. LEMON, Blair County. REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET, f._ PRESIDENT JUDGE, - .,. '2 110N. PAUL, D. MORROV. COtGBESS, C(IL. EDWARO OVERTON, (Subject tidecisicin of Conference.) sENATott, , • HoN. w-ILLIAItor. DAVIES, (Subject to decision of Conference.) REPRESENTATIVES, • 'JOSEPH H. MARSH, PIKE, ELISHA L. HILLIS, TowANDA, L. D. TA ZIPDR, GRANVILLE. . DISTRICT ATTORNEY, . A. C. _FANNING, TROY. COUNTY SURVEYOR, T. A. SEWARD, •SMITEIFIELD. ThEitepublieans of Berks county,' have declared for Mr. Guoary for,United States _ Senator. - THE Pemocrats furnished the,money.,„ and the Greenbackers the votes Tfoi the - Maine election. - THE Democratic plan is to claim,a great! Victory until the returns come its andi, then to cry Fraud ! .TnEDemocratic *tory in Maine and Vie Fl A NCOOi boom; Where are thor ? Echo ililswers, where: ' THE ao l , e vote in Maine, and the sub,- .z , 4liient fall in snicks, has opened the eyes of . business men to the danger of Democratic in4atioi l i victories. "STATE'S EIGHTS:" as illustrathd by the solid s - olith—the right of white Democrats to 'prevent colored Itepublicang and aby, ktai.e-from voting, or to count. them tut \Olen tl.ey do.. Tut , . 'following is a correct definition , : ;411 independent paper is one which I,rfrits leading 'editorials faior of _the I)emocats, and small squibs in favqr of the Republicans." ote but a Democrat would have the heck to crow over a victory such as was ::Loot l ileed in Mainp last week. Why,. ti-,ere was not a pr4ence. of Democratic trganization, and Pi l iltiTED is a Green n•ack-Repiiblican. The Democracy was "sitnply•t•walrowed up by the soft-monEll• . . advocate.% i • . Tin- Ireadj6sters and Democrats in ir e inia . make blow progress in Bottling their differences. • MAHONE simply insists hat his ticket, must, stand, and claims that he can elect it. All kinds of proposals ::re made, 04 to be rejected. There is little hope "justiLridle- of a compromise bC , ing effected. Tut: difficulty in the Twenty§ixth Con ressional District has been amicably set tled by the three :irbitrators, selected in accordance with the redommendation of the Stat'e Committee. They unanimously agreed - upon S. H. MILLER, o 1 Mercer, LfterWhich the other contestant pledged I.ittu,klf to tike the stump for MILLER. 2-t• • tris4,:e.nerally conceded that BAnNules . "mules'', helped the fusionists in Maine, Lot we I.2ad no idea that votes were so ex perusive in that state, until . we read in the Owego G,izette that "the result, however a Democratic majority . of about $l,OOO 'totes." This is a candid admission, thOugh the price is probably exaggerated. Tut: I)emocrats and Greenbaiiiiters of Elmira 4ttarreleti a liple too soon over the premature reportV'Of a victory in Maine. The exhibition (II wrangling be - etAines ti n t more ridiculous as the Repub lait triumph becomes • certain. The f;rectibackers, it seems, remained masters of the situation, and the DemocratArtere f , , reed to retire, leaving thei comrades of the soft-money persuasion o celebrate a victory which never happen, d. THE leading' oontijbuilons from the South to the reventieffr)f..the government re from whisky and tolfr . o. Connect withlthe whisky buiiness is illicit dis tlit:ngThrtnoonshining. breaking up this business more arrests were made in slugle ,: 4 outhern Status, than in' all the "North.' And , the murders committed on United-States revenue officials were at Yet the average contribution • of the South to 'the national revenue is nine cents on the dollar.tf Does South Div Should 'st ru_e 1 9 IN the graduals let down frOm that roseate hopes, the Democracy hotrl fraud ;• as regards Maine; air though their opera tions in that' State . were pureness itself. IT:tying used, the report lihat the Republi cans were, spending. mo ley, as a cover to eleir owit operations, they have new been e.)rnerici and shout fraud. Do they for trot Gm: rEt.ov and his deal? And is it not ' rather cheeky. to call fraud,- in tlie light of past events? quietness and modesty t e „ ill better suit them now. Their m ney il.: iioniiiira nothing gained, and sitea is • „now becoming. ;:, ..1 l'Onit BARNUM evidently got bewildered, about the Maine election. In his silly address to the Democracy he says : "The List evidence of the'fraud proposed to be perpetrated is the , fact - that :while the Fission ticket show laigei:gains all over the State in Republican: pities and Gann -IYes, the Republican Fin is claimed in Democratic counties.?' t l That is, where the Republicans controlled the ballot boxes, they allowed Dmpocratic gains, where the Democrats :cotitrelleti the bal lot-boxes the Republicans perPetrated frauds BARNUM. should try again.. • Tn Argus in its report of the proceedt ings of the Democratic County Conven tion, says that Col. Satrru in his speech paid . " particular attention to Hon. GAMMA A. Onow, whom he oonvict4 of gross political inconsistency and systematic trimming." Well, the Colonel' knows what, ho talks about 4 and is thor oughly competent from long eaperiance to pass .a correct judgment upon such matters. • lituait A. BEEnk has sold his interest in . tlie' Owego, Gazette, to LisßoT W. Krromatv . , who has been associated with him for the last ten years, and retires from the post he has occupied for the past thirty-five years. Mr. BuElu has served his party faithfully and well, has experi enced the usual vlcissitudea attendant upon the publication of a political news paper, but be carries with Lim in his re tirement the good-wishes of thole who Lave.known him during his long career; without distinction of party. Sonic of the .Republican jou• pals are publishing and commenting upon w:.at 'purports to be a threat made by Colonel PIOLLET, which is amongst the items of interest on our outside, Wherein he threat ens dire consequences should Philadel phia give her usual majoyfty this year. We don't believe the Colonel ever said it; It dou't sound a bit • like his kind of talk. And then the Colonel is one of the most peeeeable of men, accustomed to 'Ling defeated :at the polls, and ° always a6uiese'ing with meekness , and good grace in the decision of the majority. Fr has been the habit of the Democracy to ridicule the report tbaethe South really intends to press c'aims on the National tresury, in the event of gaining power. Cari , ful search bas been made into bills introduced into .Congress - or passed, mak ing app . i.opriations to 'be used evclusively at-the South. The ascertained aggregale thus far is 51,390,070,313. Even this vast amount does not include,' ills provic* ing Or railroad franchises and other mat-- ters,hhe cost of which cannot be definite, ly ascertained. This is the entertainment to whleh the South invites the North—the payment of these vast amounts. Air Elmira the Greenbackers and Demo. crats aft r rinpted to "fuse, " . in a celebration over the- supposed -victory in Maine. They 'couldn',t \ agree exactly as to whom the victory belonged, and quarrel ed and separated: . And . now Mr. LEE CRANDALL, the ,Secretary of the National Greenback Committee has become indig nant at the presumption of the Democrats in claiming 'it as a Democratic "victory, and has addressed a letter- to "Hon. WIL LIAM A. WAI,,LACE, (7haiturin of the Democratic Committee." The • irony of 1, is epistle is eximisite. tie says : OKA U skit t l u 4w11411' of the National greetubaCk party irnuil itte.tio eXrPF, roygratilleatlOD at tile tli.oliei•ed sad tnagtorilimom, art 4 ' l the litediee.,l:l4 - y of MI, city fti relehrOlng the vtetory tihlrh Our tlarly • gained over the hard-money ollgurelly In the State of Main.. awl to toy that It shall 14.4 - ever reinatit el graved epee our memories !,11.11 then et grarions acts of tlw gallant bu' Tr t lrlpg lientorratit p.yrzy • l l e t'.}: CRANDALL, tievretary Sallow,' Co ince . Pem oe:rats ol Pliradtlybih . had a r ,titication meeting in. PhiladelphiaSat urday'night, in which thei paraded the Hancock Veteran Assoeidtion, composed ostensibly of soldiers who "fit in the re bellion"—which side they' were on it is dOt for us to say, and it is but little mat ter, as they were few in numbers. They were in marked contrast with the veterans who filled Broad street on Monday, carry ing their battle scarred flags, and proudly bearing aloft their transparencies, deplar ing:4•We'vote as we shot." This display 'ief union soldiers in a Democratic celebra. !Cott, brought to our mind the only other occasion when we saw the boys in blue in a democratic procession. It happened thus : Being in 41filadulphia during the late unpleasantness, (excuse us:for allud: ing.4l, it.) we saw marching down the street a body of prisoners, gaarded'by s:. troops. The captives were carrying satchels and carpet-bags, and were evi dently on their way to some Flue of con finement. Curious to know who they were, we ventured toiask a sergeant who brought up the rear', if his prisoners were Rebels. Ileianswered very promptly and emphatically; "No, they are a d—d sight worse ! They're Copperheads." They were our neighbors from Columbia county, implicated in the Fishing Creek conspiracy,: who were on their way to Fort Delaware. Then the union soldiers ;were obliged to stand • guard over our Dernociatic friends. Now the Democracy parade the 'boys in, blue, to deceive the country. TUE MAINE ELECTION Full returns from the State election in Maine point to the election of DAVIS, the Republican candidate for Governor ; three of the five Congress men, and a majority. Of the Legisla ture. Uniler grdinary circumstances, compared witfi\the vote of the past few years, this would have been re garded throughout the country as a signal triumph for the Republican party. Its influence is les.sened from the fact that the RepublicanWOrkers, after a full and accurate canvass of the State had given assniance that they would succeed by a majority of ' 1 several thousands. -That- the result was a close vote, so close indeed as • to give the Fusionists a' claim for success; was a-matter of diiappoint meat to the over-confident. But really the result of the Maine election should inspire the Republitlan party with confidence, at the': same time it reveals to them the pectiliar methods by means of which the Democratic leaders hoped to capture' the Presi dency. The fact is established, with the certainty of absolute proof, that the Democrats deliberately atle:upt ed to purchase Maine, and failed be cause they did not go- far enough. It was the same in its general outcome ; as the THIPEN• campaign of 1876: It was conducted by the same man as was partly concerned in that, and failed• in precisely the same way. The• result the moral influence, which the Denti f :tcrats expected to control, will;n6w be strongly Repub lican. Maine, therefore, represents a more brilliant victory than was originally anticipated.. b it has absorbed tbe, money of the Democracy and done them no good. It , has gone Reprbli. can in all its officials from Governor down. The return's are in from even the Aroostook region, and where Democratic gains were feared Repub.. lican gains have been inade. These arelmflinipnt, as 'near beard from, to ' elect DAVIS by a plurality. There are hopes that as the returns are fully reeeived he will be elected by an abiolute majority over all com petitors. i ßuteven admitting that a Purality. only is secured, the' new 'amendment . to the constitution canna that to elect. Or, if its constitution ality is disputed, the Legislature is Republican in . both branches, anti Will elect DAVIS. Thus in any event we have the Governor; and the . early shouts of the Remocraerz were de , eidely ) , premature.- They may now shout In:the other direction. " Ile laughs Wilt who laughs last," is the old French proverb. And in the Present case the Republicans laugh last over Maine. Besides Maine - has developed Demoeratic t`ctics. It is now known that despfti their cry of poverty, money is to -Ilargely used, and against this due; preparations can be made. Maine turns out well, after all, for the Republican cause. Another effect of this chill from the Pine 1 ree State will be do awaken the Republicans from - the condition of over-confidence ' into which they had fallen. Because there was unan imity in one ranks, and te strong and abiding feeling in the jUstice of 'our cause, there• was great danger of that inaction arisihg from a belief in sue cess which is the greatest danger that can possibly threaten a political party in such an important contest. Republicans will now awaken to the fact that the battle is not yet ended. That increasing vigilance and active exertion is still 'required. The foe is desperate and unscrupulous, and de - - templed to win if money can corrupt 1 c or fraud Avail'. et the word be pass ed along the Ira ks', that every voter is expected to reflorible his exertions, and not relax his efforts to save the government from passing to the con trol of the "So id SoUth," until the polls close on - ttlp Second of Noveut t. ber. SENATOR coximmlive GREAT 4PEEcir. Senator Cox KLING addressed the Republicans of New York City on Friday evening last, in the: Academy of Music. The building ?gas'not large enough to hold one-tenth of the per sons anxious to listen t o o the distin guished speaker. Hon. }Column./ Dm presided, and a characteristic letter was, read from Gen. GRANT, showing t his devotion to 'the princi ples of the Republican party, 'and his anxiety tor the success of its can didates. The speech of Senator COALING was emphatically the greatest effort of his life. It was a powerful and , convincing argument for the perpetuation of the Republi-, can party in power, showing the dangerous tendencies of Democratic intentions. We shall publish next week the ' salient points of the speech that the readers of the ,REPORTER may enjoy the pleasure and profit of reading what the able orator has to say about the, past political history of the country, the present situation and the probable future. MAINE. The latest intelligence from the Maine election, up to this, Wednesday, morn ing, is, that the vote on Governor is very close, and that it will require the official count to decide the ( result. The Repub licans' elect three menThenf of Congress, and have a large majority in both branch es of the State Legislature. PHILADELPHIA LETTER PHILADLLPHIA, September 20. 18E0 The Veterans' Club of this city, (com posed of soldiers and sailors who served in the armies and navies of the .Union), paraded Wednesday night, and made an imposing diiiplay. The procession was divided into four divisions, and owing to the great numbers) of veterans in line, was somewhat tardy in moving. The scene on the march down was one of great beauty. Many of the fashionable re: idences on Broad. street were illumina ted, while their windows and balconies were crowded with spectators. The com mander-in-chief, Major-General Hart ranft, with his staff, as'well as the divis ion commanders and orderlies, were mounted upon spirited chargers. At all points on the route the enthusiasm was immense, the veterans from Hancock's home receiving' general attention from the crowds. The procession was led off by the Veterans' Club of Philadelphia, with a fine band and a batch af. battle scarred colors. The clubs of the different wards then followed in numerical order. Each division was headed by a brass band, and a transparency containing the following wocdi "We will: rote , as we fought," and`the figure of in army corps badge, The clubs marched to the music of the,fife and drum corps, of which there was an almost endless number in line. Nearly'r every man bore a torch, which rendered . the pageant as a night specta cle all the more:inspiriting and beautiful. Thenrimary eleptiOns we• held in this city oti Ttiesdarevening, and' the nomi nating conventions Wednesday and T . hursiay. On the first day were selected Congrossmen. State Senators and mem bers of the Legislature. The present 'members were all re-nominal ed without opposition. In tbeFirst District, Benja min L. Berry is the Republican candidate against the renowned Sam Randall. In the Senatorial Convention, George Hari 7 dy Smith pc the First, and John C. Gra dy, of the Seventh, were re-nominated by cclamation. in the Fifth District there was a hotly contested battle. John E. Reyburn, the preient &natai was antag oniied by William Bunn, and the resale foe some time was doubtful. Reyburn hdwever secured a majority of ,the com. 8. matte on contested seats, arid when the controversy as to seats was decided, and the vote was taken, he Bad a marjority of the Convention, and was declared nom inated. The Third District has been rep resented by John Eamon, an excellent man of untarnished reputation. Until within a few days hi,' re-nomination seem ed 'Pertain, but the ruling powers decreed otherwise, and he was badly beaten in the Convention by Harry M. Quick, who is said- to be a wortby man and a good Republitui. The Legislative tickets are as usual of the good, bad, and Indifferent. Perhaps the average is better than 'that of any previnns year. The City and Count (Nu:mentions int!, teld Frill* and the et that bid tmen rhtually igreed upon Irani throngslrith. out a jar.. The mithmtittg were. hanuonions In „Betio% *S . ' called mi as delegates the NON. &moots of the ergeeleetiee• TO ticket famed se for Notemberis : Judge. of the of COMMOn neigh Thomas Flalettarl Markt Attamay, Oec c& Graham, Esq.; City Controller; Joel Cool; Coro- ter, William - B.i annoy ? M. D.; Clerk of the Quarter *salons, William E. Little ton, Esq. The prognosticationgor squab bling and. bad feeling to be engendered by the action of the canventions has proved false.. There is less than the usu. al amount of bitterness and bad blood, and the Republican party, with au me:- ce_ptionable city ticket, is now ready for the frarand will enter into the campaign with entire unanimity, and with a deter mination and vigor which ensures a ma jority of at least 20,000 in November. The Sub-Committe on Public Meetings of the Union League Campaign Commit tee, has resolved to bold .a great;masA meeting in frclnt of the League bnilding; on Saturday, September 25th.. . An invita tion was extended to 'all the Republican clubs and organizations of the city to at tend, and it was also resolved to -invite denatco James G. Blaine and other emi nent speakers to address the Meetimec Arrangements are , in progress to make be demonstrationi•`a grand one. It is unquestionably a fact, and is con , ceded by leading phyiticians, thatat least twenty-three per cent. of the daitb-rate in cities is due to the miserably imperfect sanitary regulationslif the water closet, qui tAR consequent Ivitiation of the at nicisigirn by the sobtle and deadly sewer gases. Volumes alm ost have been writ ten on this most important subject and miliggestiona and inventions without num her have been nillde; apparently, to no purpose. At tlie State Fair, in space NO 55, southeast 4 the grea t[organ,, Colonel A. Edwardd, Of No. 1l North Seven teenth street, (formerly of Towanda), exhibits an invention which is undoubted- . ly destined to; work a revolution in, the building of the death-breeding closets and wash-stands. It is a closet that ren ders the escape of sewer gas an utter im possibility. Although this may seem a bold utterance, a single inspection will convince the most skeptical that it is a demonstrable fact and worthy of thor- . ough investigation. Samuel Bradford Fates, a prominent merchant of this city, who was stricken. - -with paralysis at his residence on Vine street, near Franklin, a few clays ago, died yesterday, aged seventy-two . years. Ile was linring life a director of the Aca demy of Fine Arts, Treasurer of the Vol iinteer Refieshment Saloon, a Councillor of the Ldyal Legion and a member Of the Grand Army,of the Republic. Thirty-six liOrses for the Herdic Trans portation Company have' been placed in the stables recently purchased by the company. Large stables are building at Broad. and Cherry streets, with stalls for a hundred horses. ' Work on die coaches is progressing rapidly, but the company will not begin operations until October. Sixty coaches are now in the company's paint shops and are finishing at the rate of ten a, week. The coaches will first run ou Broad street and then on the principal intersecting streets. Most of the coach es on Broad street will not go beyond the Punch Bowl, but a few will' carry passen gers to,Germantown. The car trackg4ill not be used because the company' refers to run the coaches ori the stones, where no obstacles in the way of over-loaded cars or broken-down wagons can be en countered. The run on Broad street,. be tween Norris and Chestnut, will be made in less than twenty minutes. When a - test of speed was made a few days ago the coach passed three street-cars during a trip from Green street to Market. IU the United States District Court, on Tuesday!, Judge Butler_ . declared the bail of "Dr:" John Buchanan Iforfeited. 110 stated further, that a Tull investigation of the transaction might beexPected, and those concerned in deceiilng the Court should. be punished. A very singular but authentic' state ment has been made that there about eighty acres of nnimprov.ed land in the . Twenty-seventh Ward, Philadelphia, Tor which no warrant has ever been issued and which is noir occupied by squatters. Mrs. Lydia P. Palmer claims abont thir ty acres of this, and- the title has been put in her family for upwards of ninety five years, but, from the lapse of time, time, -the, title vests in the occapants, provid'ed they pay twenty cents per acre for it, which is the legal sum fixed. They then- have the first right of purchase against all others.. About thirty members of the Aztec Club, an organization composed of offi cers of the United States army, who serv ed in the war„ with Mexico, held their an nual meeting in thin city, on Tuesday. Al the close of the meeting the Club was entertained by General Robert Patterson. It was a most agreable re-union of coin rades of past-tritr,mphs, and the gathering at the General's hospitable board Was an event in the history of the organization. The year 1882 will complete the second century since.the founding of our Com monwealth by William Penn, and to se cure a proper celebration of the event, a society Las been recently organized in this city under the title of the Bi-Centen nial Association of Pennsylvania. Meet ings of the Association . are held every few Weeks, which are well attended, and in which much interest-is manifested by the members. Joseph Tapson,' SecretarY of the Me tropolitan and Provident Savings Back, of London, England, an old and trusted official of the company, having become a defaulteriO.the amount of $50,000, - tied with hisrwif° to this country, and amved in this city on Thursday last He was followeithy, shrewd detectives, arrested on Sunday evening last while on a fish to his wife, and sifter a hearing he was band ed over to the London officers to be re turned. •. One of the passenger cars of the Union line, while crossing the track of the Phil adelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Rail4Trartat Washington street, near the on Wednesday last, was struck by a :locomotive. The *bock was so gleat that - 'the car,was lifted from the rails and ihrown on a platform ear standing along side, and finally into the street, in a bad ly' damaged condition. The horse was killed and the driver bad his left arm broken and one of his legs lacerated. The car was crowded with people, seven of whom sustained comparatively slight in juries, with the exception of a \ lady who bad the fingers of her left band cut off. Letitia cuttage, a very modest building in Letitia direct, _which opens south from Market street, between Second and Third, is known to antiquarians of Phila delphia, as thi building erected by dire ct tion of William Penn, very early in the settlement. of Philadelphia, by Deputy Governor Markham, in compliance with Peuies orders Build we - a house in the middle of the town which frosteth on the harbor." It did in those days,' and the lot was reserved for Penn's favorite daughter. Its erectionn isplaied at about 1883. In course of time the Mule t =Wow was surramaied byfuthatiAess pretentioas itructures, the hievit*tiref suit of - *egress. It still +tab* aWd modern vandalism imam desiOsa *item it not tbat a JO !hi fait Associatkm had resolved on perpitiation. ThwWigh the medium of tea paiies ,and other , en tertainments. most pniseworthY, in this instance Aleut; enough money has been Bemired to defray the expense of its nxwal to a - desirable location in Fair mount Park, and the lienerable buildinfr will be carefully takenfdown and re-erect- ed there. General farm prod ee' is reported as scarce. This has rxerapelled the Phusuel- I phis-merchants to se nut immers to scour the country . New York is steadily encroaching ! upon th 4 son of this City's supply, which hat the tendency to directly influence prices, while Western produce don't reach usi any more for the reason that the local cousumption has so likely increased as to, require it all. It is said that some of the parties who united with the Produce Exchange to prosecute the dealers in oleomargarine are now selling it openly., Sales of " the stuff are increasing at a rapid rate, the largest customers being hotels and restau rants. Lower grades of butter for shipping' purposes have not been so scarce since the war, and there is nothing in the mar ket under twelve to sixteen.cents that de serves the name.- The reason for this condition of things of affairs is that the butter is bought up for exportation. The fall trade has set in strongly, and bop customers and orders are as plenti fur as blackbirds in corn-planting time. The hotel registers are .burdened daily with arrivalg• of country merchants, and the reports show a large increase over thig timeiait year. The new Filbert street elevated rail road bridge now complety spanal the Schuylkill and is rapidly approaching completion. The vrodnpe commission business is more largeli conducted on a cash basis than efer before, and the profits eons& quently the more certain. • The number of vessels coming- to this port for cargoes seematj:; be considerably less this year than last. Up to this date the number is sixty less. If one-half of the charges made by the emigrants from Europe to this country, on the Cunard line of steamships, are cor rect—and,really they are authenticated so far as correlative testimony .goes—it simply proves that they should, when crossing the Atlantic, seek another line. Twenty years ago steerage passengers, in the eyes of some of. the commanders of vessels in which they embarked, . rated but little higher than animals. Their meals, where the ship contrae. tee to sup ply them; we r e not furnished at the prop er time, were scant, and oftentimes en tirely insufficient. If a certain charge is exacted for the conveyance of passengers, they have certain rights which are too often disregarded. It is to the credit of Philadelphia and the State, that the American line of steamers to Europe has; from its inception, been actuated by more honorable motivel. Those whO embark upon any of the fine vessels of this line, whether pOor or rich, are cared for. :AB persons having friends abroad expecting to come , to this "land of the free," should advise them tole cert4ln to engage pass age on the ArneriCat Line, from Liver pool, or the Red Star Line from Antwerp. Personal C•biervation enables the writer hereof. to testify to the excellent care taken of the steerage passengers on these lines, and the satisfying accounts they give of their treatment and the accommo dations and food provided for them. The second week of the State Fair was a great success. The daily attendance averaged about 20,000. The exhibits re tained their attractiveness remarkably well, and when the premium ribbons were tacked upon the :tails of the live stock, the attention of visitor s was...celled to the animals in an unusual degree 4 The fact that a cock or horse, or pig or rooster took a first premium, gave it a prominence in the eyes of the spectators which its less fortunate competitors for the premiums do not possess. The growlings amongst the (Vsgruntled and unsuccessffil cam pet it ore;°Was "pretty much the sane as heard at your' , County Fairs, every year. It's hard to make an exhibitor believe or ac knOwledge that anything could he superi orlo the thing be exhibits. IThe disap pointtnent is often severe, .and loud com plaints are heard, with frequent charges of "rings," &c. The judges have a thank less task. but .it ie . , fair to presume that theirsivards are made fairly , and honestly, to the best of their judgment. The State -Fair closed on Siturday„but the International Show of Sheep, Wool. and Products, which opens to-day, will really prolong the affair far a week long er. All the fine breeds known to the country will be represented. ' Sheep and wool will come from ail parts of the United States and Canada, grid there are some exhibits from Europe. Commis sioner LeDuc, of the United States Agri- 1 cultural Bureau, will, be on hand to take part_ in the wool theta. On Wednesday the representations of :the great Sheep. raising , and wool-groWing industry will bold kconvention in the Exhibition Build ing, to deliberate over. certain measures with reference to _the future orthe trade. The Keystone Club celebrated by a banquet, at the Girard House, on Friday evening, the ninety-third - anniversary of the adoption of the Federal Constitution. Amongst the prominent features of the gathering was the "Hancock Veterans." Now, when the Veterans filed into the halls of the Girard House they were ten in number, and they looked and acted as if they were ashamed of the company they were in. They evidently didn't think that they voted as they shot. - STRAY PARAGRAPHS Iroa red !Steel. The secretary of the Iron and Steel AssOciation reports G97, 1 -plast furnaces in the United States, with an sitnua capacity of 6,500.000 tons of pig iron ; 382 rolling mills, with an amnia' capacity of 4,000,000 tons, thecapacity of the rail mills being 2,150,000 tons; 11 Bessemer steel works, with an annual capacity of 4750,000 tons, besides 11,880 miscel laneous works. In manufactured iron there is a good general demand, and this demand is reported to be on the iperease) Our manfacturing indus tries of all kinds which work op Manufactured iron and steel are, without any exception that we know of, all busy and running on full time with a full complement, of hands. The consumption, therefore, of manu factured iron is"necessarily large, and the sales made by our jobbers ate reported to be on a most satisfac tory scale. Bar iron has been in bet ter demand, but the,rate remains the same as previously reported.. Steel is steady throughout and firm at for mer rates. Ouri rolling mills are all busy, and have large orders on hand for steel rails, which they are filling as fest as possible. "They have orders to fill which will require them to time timshek work fdl me for mon ths all points East Ind West the same condition of things is repo rWi The mills in Philadelphia, atTitiabnig, and; indeed, thiougitollt - 'Penzwftw nit; at St. Um's andelsewhere, are Ml of work.. With such a condition of things is otlistenci it'onght not, to be necessary to admince prim to - a : point which will lead us to make fur ther importations 'from England. Her gold "ought to be more valuable to us, in exchange for products of the soil and of our workshops; than bar steel rails. Let charity for our working men begin and stay at home. Niue Zaplselin,. Porrsvms, Sept. 16.—An explo sion of sulphur occurred this morn-, ing at lichaird Heckshar & .Co.'s Kohinoor CoUiery near Shenandoah, by which, Richard Fresize, inside foreman ; John Hargraves, fire bntis, and William Manuels,Denrus Conga!) and John Coogan, miners, were seri ously, and Frank Temple, a miner,• slightly. burned. The men have all been taken out of the mine except John Coogan, who is supposed to be dead. It is stated.that while timbering's gangway one of the men stuck his naked light among the laggini•and igniteda quantity of gas. , Had a Little lamb. Recently a little Chicago girl who had twelve inches of ' flesh and skin burned from her; leg had a piece of lamb's skin grafted upon'tlie vacant spot and growing over.it. The lamb was confined in the box with the child, and as fast as the skin attach ed to the former it was removed from the latter. When the wounded place was covered lamb and child was to be' cut apart. Unfortunately for the success of the operation 'the girl died. ltriat chleago Itailread War entcatin, September 16.—The sen-, sation to-day is the fight between the municipal authorities and the officials of the Western Indiana Railroad, which culminated last evening in a mob of three hundred men and boys tearing up a portion of newly-laid track on the route by which the com pany 'proposed to reach Harrison street. The road had secured an in junction against the city interfering with the track . ..),aying, which was served on. Mayor' Harrison. When the track layers commenced work the police ordered them to .desist, and, upon their 7pefu±ntl to do so; the mob was instigated to its worleby the police. The railroad laborrers we're stoned by the mob, some, re ceiving• severe injuries. A fruitless call was made by the railroad men upon the Governor for the aid of the military, so the work was suspended, and this morning Mayor Harrison and other officials were arrested upon, an attachment for contempt of court, and the case will be heard on Satur , day. be Slopped Ills•Faut. CHARLES LIVINGSTON, who began a fortptwo days' fast. about nine days ago at Brooklyn; was opposed by his wife in the undertaking. Liv ingston paid no heed to her protest ations and she resolved on a more desperate remedy, and Wednesday evening a' rumor that she wasisick with anxiety and had taken to her bed, reached the faster. He still fas ed. At 11 P. M. - a man lan into the ball and breathlessly aielaimed that Mrs. Livingston had committed sui-* cide.' The faster threw his pledges into the wind, ran out of the hall, got a doctor, and hurried txr his home at . No. 358 Atlantic avenue. He found hid wife apparently in convulsions. A cup containing insect powder was handy on a stand near the bed.- The ambulance wash summoned to remove Mrs. Livingston to the hospital, but Livingston said she should not go. Dr. Stuart said that there was,noth ing the matter with Mrs. Livingston, -and that, although she appeared to have taken poison, she probably bad .not done so. Mrs. Livingston grew better 4 ,after her husband said that he woulditay athome. - and it was thought that she will be all right by evening. She was Once a female pedestrian, kriown ?as Mme. Walder. New York Scrublk:iuso. NEW Yenk, Sept. 17.—The Acad emy of Music was crowded to over flowing to-night on \the occasion of the Republican mass meeting, Thous ands went away, being unable to gain admittance. On the stage were lion.- Edwards Pierrepont, judge,Cowan, General Anson McCook, Postmaster James, Colleetor Merritt, General Graham, General . Carr, Hun. Thur low Weed and others. About seven Q'clock Governor Cornell entered the Academy and was escorted to ki pri vate box amid three cheers. Gener al s&rthur accompanied 'Governor , Cornell. Senator Conkling arrived abcet eight o'clock, accompanied by Hamilton Fish, Hon. Lloyd Aspinwall,' Hon. John Jay, ex-Gov. ernor Dennison, of Ohio, and Hon. Levi P. Morton, and as the party advanced upon the stage a simulta neous cheer arose from every patt 4 of , the house. A letter „from General Grant expressing regret at being tin able„to be present was, read. Hon. Hamilton Fish was chosen chairman, and introduced Senator Conkling, who spoke at great length and was heartily cheered. Terrine Explosion. , Fansav\afternoon a terrific'explos ion oceured in a small Wooden build ing near Bridgeport, Conn., used by the Union , Metalic Cartridge Com pany as a fulminating shop. The whole town was shaken' by the shock, and buildings near..the:scene of the explosion bad their windows smash ed and were otherwise' damaged, Five Persons- were at work in the building, and the bodies of four of them have been found. The victims , were/J. Sullivan,. aged 15 years .0 Jam 4 Tobin, aged 17 ; Michael Dempsey, Jr., aged 23; . William Therchinger, aged 45, and Philander Clark, aged 50. Death to the Aloe. SCRANTON,September 18.—:-A miner . named Felix Slavin and, his assist ant, John Dougherty, were killed I last night in Filer's slope, near this city. ,They engaged taking down a " skip," or loose piece of 'coal, .when a huge boulder, known , in the mining parlance as "a black sulphur clod," weighing about three tons, descend ed upon them from the roof, killing. both instantly, and crushing them together inio a shapeless mass. miner named Finerty, working in an adjoining chamber, hid , been In a few minutes before the accident and warned Slavin and Dougherty of their danger, bat they replied that the loose end was only "a little shell," and would not hurt anybody. After the accident it took nearly three hours to release the bodies, which were crushed beyond recogni tion. A peculiar feature brought to A. •. A „ light bz i this ommtrunee , la the iteti , . that _Yin, the miner .luut beelx totally. lindlioniboyboch. - Senittniy any other :calling requirea , * ico* of snort keenssight; yet thlirnnhippt man groped his way-._ibryears amid danger, and training to the shiU his hands and - the eyes of 'MS assiSV ant,Jolied puriloni . mu complainingly._ Sts' conspantosy Dougherty, who shared bis fiste, was also his companion in misery, having been a , MiPple from childhood. He 'was physically - wear and ;decrepit, and in reality was nothing more than the eyes tor Slavin'. skill and brawny Lobarettell; teeter. ' Hon. Lafayette S. Foster, former ly President , of the 'United States Senate' and Acting Vice . Preiiident, died in Norwich, Conn., Sunday morning after a brief illness. Ha, was. born - , at Franklin, that State, Novefhber 22, 1806, and was lineal descendant of ,Captain Miles Stand ish. He was educated at Brown liiiiversity, and after his graduation', i4l 1828, studied law and was admit tcel to practice in Norwieh in 1831. lie was a member of the State Gen eral Assembly in 1839, 1840, 1846, 1847, 1848 and 1854, serving three terms as Speaker.. He was the Whig candidate for Governor in 1850 Land in 18M, and for United States Senator in 1851, but was. defeated. lie served ns a Republican Sediatiii from, Decembe:;j,-.1855, to Marcb 3, 61. acting as President pro temp Ore and Vice PreSident upon Viee Presi dent Johnson's elevation to. the Presidency. He was elected ,Profes soy of Law at Yale" College in • r 869 and was Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut from 1870 to 181'6. A s a • Democratic candidate - for the Forty-fourth Congress he was defeat. ed in that year by EL H. Stark weather. ' A Fearful Fall Wirtha a "shift" of ten men was ayeending the shaft of the Consolida ted Imperial Mine in Virginia City, Nevada, on Thursday night, the ca ble broke. The men were precipita ted down the shaft, a distance of 300 feet, and 1400 feet of rope was piled -Upon thiim. All 'were ' taken out dead, ex4pt one man, named Frank Smith, who has no internal injuries and marOisibly recover.. The dead are John4lOach, Patrick Murphy, Richard 11. Der, Thomas • Meagher, Matthew tWinnie, Joseph Ilarratrarr, William Corbit, George Farnham and Jeremiah - Sullivan. The cable was. of ." the best English make, four and 'a half inches thick, and bid been in use only three months." It broke at the reel, "and for some inexplica ble cause the safe ties did noteatcb." A libeeklnif Tragedy, The village of Moosic was thrown into a terrible state of excitement on Sunday, by the report that a whole family had been poisoned and that some of the siiile,yers 'were dying. The story unhaply proved to be true, and for a time the entire popula tion of the place devoted their energies to ; aid the victims - of the disaster. ' The facts areas follows: Mr. ;and Mrs. R. Steward Woodard, of.Niit Creek, on Satdrday night visite43lr.. and Mrs. JoSiah Carl, in Moosic. The two ladies are sisters. On Sark day morning Mrs: Carl needed some _lndian meal and sent TJemima;- - PoW, ell, a servant girl, across the stre4 to borrow some from Mri. Carl's Ma ter, Mrs. Tregella. The hoar • was early, and when the girl reached the house,.‘lrs. Tregella. had not yet ris en. . She came doWn stairs, however, in her night dress and admitted the girl, telling her to go into the cellar, where she would: find the 'meal in a bag on swinging, sh elf. ,The girl de scended the stairsi . and obtained the meal. On a table near by, stood a pan containing meal, in 'which had been placed arsenic to kill rats. The girl carelessly took up this pan and poured - its contents. into her. dish. With this deadly mixture the -girl- re turned to Mrs. Carl's, made cakes of it for breakfast and sat down with the; family to eat. The girl of course knew nothing of the arsenic in- the meal. In a few moments every per son at the table, was token violently sick, and suffernd excruciating pains.- Those who. partook of the poisoned. repast, were,. JoSiah earl, Superin.,, tendent of the Spring Brook colliery * , SylVina, his wife, Ernest, their -Son; nine years old; It. Stewart Woolard, despatcher for -toe - D. Co.- - A •at. Mill Creek, Mrs. Woodard and Je mime. Powell, the girl. Antidotes were administered, and everything' possible done to relieve the sufferers,. but all proved unavail ing to save the iivcs of twoof them. Mrs. Carl died at half-past one o'clock in the afternoon, and ten; min utes later her sister, Mrs,. Woodward expired. The girl, Jennie Powell, at last accounts, was: lying in every critical condition, and her recovery is hardly expected. Mr. Cirri, Mr: 'Woodard and the boy, it is thought will survive, though - they werepot - considered out of danger yesterday. •The funerals of Mrs - . Carl and Mrs.. Woodard will take. place on Wed nesday. The bodies will be taken to St. Lawrence ' N. Y,. ; for -interment. Services will be held in -the; church at 3foosic, at. noon on Wednesday, latter which the bodies will be taken to - Scranton on the 1:16 . 'train,- and thence cia. the D. L. & W.. R. R. to St. ,Lawrence; - • • The tragedy has cast a gloom over Mill Creek and Moosic, as in both places - the dead women had many warm friends. Too much' care can not he exercised in using deadly poisons, and it can be seen frOM this sad occurrence that there is great danger in.huving them in the house, even when intended for the best pur poses.—Record, Wilkes Barre, Tetei day. . Play at tree!" say. GRIEN.BAY, Wis., Sept. 21-.=Sixty dwelling houses, thirty barns, the Presbyterian church and several residences, were burned toAtiy. They were among the best in the city: The tire is now under control. The flames only stopped 'when they reached the river. The loss is from $150,000 to $170,000. -•••••••-•}. The Mane grevelbaekers. PORTLAND, Sep. 21.—After the ad journment of the Congress Hall Con *vention this afternoon, the straight .Greenbackers met at the City Hall, Solon Chase pr6siding. A straight ticket for electors was nominated as follows: 'Solon Chase and J. P. Turner, at large; and C. IL - Whidden, J. F. Hilton Thomas G. Bnrdin, G. W. Wooster and E. B. Fry, District Electors. Seventy-five delegates voted. The whole anti-Fusion strength_ was claimed as 140 in the Congress Hall Convention. The Straight. - Green backers adopted the following ; 'Tor the: enlightenment and en- oogrageritent" et. our Grunts* brethren' his - - other' ltatee„ we,-.the Straight Oreeribliaollll of - Maine, de. dire thiA there hi Greenbiek perty tnilfelnei god to the inteM4 of the whole e. The State lesion ad confetti:et in this State MU due wholly to the , eilgenelen of Siete rms. In national lettere we vote with our brethren elsewhere in the Union for Weimer and Charnbert." Dialeiwitris Wised lit Ifitia• llviorpx, Texas, Sept., 2E—The most damaging flood known in this section occurred on the 18th and 19th hots. The Trio, Cabinal and Nieces rivers overflowed, sever* damaging the crops and sweepin i t away fences, houses and stock. Mexican was droined on the Cabitp. 4 4 " 1111 . estrirner earths Ar• Csafferm BELLOONTE, Ps., September 21.--, The Dethocrats of Centre and Clear field Counties have instructed their delegatelkto the District Convention .to vote tor ex-Governor A. G. Curtin !or Congress. This insures his nom libation, as Clinton County has alrea dy instructed for him. -- National Unitarian' Centerente. SARATOGA, Sept. 21.—The Nation-, at Conference of Unitarian and other" Christian Churches. began a biennial session here in the Methodist Church this evening.- There was a large at tendance. The opening,sermon' was by P. W.otarlen, editoi of the iLon. don pail( News, and a; preacher in in the Unitarian Chapel, at Kentish town. The women of the. Unitarian and other liberal Christian Churches, organized a Woman's Auxiliary . Conference here this afternoon. —Cider is/five cents per gallon in Cum berland county. --Snow' fell at Gallagher township, Clinton county, on Tuesday. ---Twenty-two manufactories are hum ming sway at. Beaver Falls. —A stove manufacturer at Spring City his received an order for 1,200 stoves. —Tho Parker glass. works have resum ed worlt: under very favorable auspices. —The Bradford, Borzell i and Kinsui Itaill:mtd to to be completed to Smethport. - - —Henry Boerst was killed by machin ery at North East, Erle county, on Friday. —Dr. Jonathan Moyer. a prominent citlsen of Lock Haven, died on Wednesday. —The fE. tk . G. Brooke Iron works, at Blr4sboro„paid out 1117,2)00 In wages during Au gust. —Five thousand immigrants passed over ibe reansylianla. Railroad for the West last week'. • ' —During an altereation:at Brownsville on Tuesday, Thutuas Sorrel shot aad killed Henry Moffali 4 . part of the Insane Hospital build togs it Warren nril be ready for occupancy this winter. • —The Chester county apple crop is set large that eteu the pigs there are getting a surfeit of them. —Frank Moore, while boarding a mow ing coal train near Pittston on Friday night, was killed. —Quiney.F, Snyder, of Allentown, re ef trig •, fatal injuries en the Lehigh Valley Raliroad on 4alt!rtlaY• 4 1 Sixty-one thousand dollars have been tubs , rlhed toward the erection of the silk odds fit Allentown. ' —The political curbs of Reading trail their torches when pissing under the banners of the opposite party. —Two hundred thousand dollars in sil ver have been received at Pottsville for the piy loent of miners' wages. —The Greenback conferees of. the Eighteenth district have Indorsed lion. It.,llllton Speyr for Congress. =Mr. W. W. Scranton has resigned the position of general mahager of the Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company. —William F. Rupert fell from a win dow it. Brown's Mill, Lebanon county, on Thursday lam, and broke his neck. —William Orr.was at quitted at Potts ville of the murder of James Woods, near.Tama. qua, eas the 21st of last July. Ziegler; of Lancaster, aged 6 years, was bitten several weeki ago by a dog, and is now raving with hydrophobia. —The second Thursday in October is 'Poundere day at Lehigh University, when Senator Bayard will deliver ;he-address: • J. Rockwell, s a brakeman on the Le high Valley Railroad, fell from a ear at Penn Ra ven Junction on Tuesday* and was killed. • —Robert F. Williams was mid dead In heti at his house on Lltnek lin pike, abuve Potts ville, on Saturday. lie was WI years of age. —Paris green failed to kill lilary.Hal lowbuAtt. of Upper Hapover. Montgomery county. who took It as an anthlute tor unrequited love. —A pedler of tinware, named John Esblethan, was found,badly wounded In a stable at Readleg on 33onday: 7. F0ul play is swpeeted. —J. H. Gorman, alias "Black Jack," One ofthe most skitltni_tturglars to Western Penn sylvania, has been safely caged at Johnstown. =The 'lrk - bar. of iron rolled in this country was at Pittsburg -1n 1818. Mr. Samuel C. tewik who assisted In the work, is still living theretl. —The Greenback candidate for State Senator in Blair county I. named Suckling. Quipq an appropriate nante for-a member of the tug-baby party. —The executer of the estate of General' James L. Reynold has sold his 51anitelni farm, to ,Laticaster consisti ig of 103 . acres, 1881.25 per were. —Hugh and ., ,John Cosgrove, while drunk, quarrelled near Lancaster. on Saturday night, and Ina tight that ensued the IStter was badly stabbed. , —The steamboats Mary Ann and Simp son Homer, belonging to Homer Sr Sons, were des troyed by fire at Pittsburg on Saturday,. Lo is, 30, 000; no insurance. —The Lackacianna Iron and Coal Corn ,p%nc`a Fteel works made last week :.Pao tone of In.; Rum exceeding the Mork of the week previous by 113 tons. —Mrs. SarahiShaup committed suicide at stromixharg a few days ago up taking laudanum and prank! acid. - She had. attetnpted suicide twice before, once with a pistol and once by poison -=-John Butler was accidentally shot and killed by Benjamin Tubbs while gunning at Kingston. The young ut-n were warm' freinds, and belonged to two of the best families In King ston. —Dr. Roberts, the torpedo millionaire, .or TttoSv illeyrefwes to abide by the decislon of tho eenferecs apPoloiwt'hy the State committee toad. Just the troubles in the Twenty-sixth I.:ungressloo al district. . • --The store of Thomas Baum, at Tne:k etton. Betio county, was roblwid Friday idea, The ticket °glee of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad ecintiatiy, at the saute place, was broken open and the bate blown to pit cea. — . Elev. John 11. Arent, a priest of the St. Louis Roman Catholic Church, died at'Buttalo, N. y. aged 72, }male. —There were twenty deaths from yel lew fever and (our from smalipox at Havana dur ing the areek.endlng on Ftiday last. —Richard O. Adams, the defaulting postmaster ot Deadwood. D. T., ceps sentenced to tares years Imprisonment and to pay a tine of 10,000. • • 2••-. A :fire on Sundiy morning destroyed istriall Inane in Minneapolis, occupfsd by a alp. pie named Put dy and tits wife, and Lot p *ere burn.' ed W death. La:lolin shot and killed An drew W. Zlitell. a saloon keeper at East St, Looms cti Sunday night because the latter refused to give Mtn there beer when he was drunk'. • ;-The trial of Wesley White; at Water toiva..x. Y., for the murder of Lillian Manchester last October, resulted In a verdict of guilty of Man slaughter to the first degree. Ref coca Lyon. the ." Bearded Woman' s , ' vi hot ravelled many years with Barnom'v, Vorepadgh•s, and other shows. died cm Friday, and on Sunday was burled at Liverpool, near Syr-cuee young inari4ismed Fodgen was kill ed near ; Barterood Bark, on the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, by falling between the ears: Ills body was taken to Bath more, where his family reside. --Henry Ketter, who ottempted_anicide at New York a year ago by taking landantwn, was found dead in his bed on Sunday. Ile was 58 years old, and formerly was general agent at New York for the Hartford Life Insurance Company, —A San Francisco Call reporter visited can3toga on Sunday arid Interviewed' A. C. Vela. nor regarding the alleged extract/