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OLUME XXITIO, 114
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TIMBEIL,
Mrs. giowe Asigeor," lifewitif it»
It ih a thinsiand that Harriet should
Lave doiie juSt'wluitsbe bashas. She 10: 1 4 - told
24ltitY, tale, IF9llght q'sra. from EN141241
t he bas udt 4f, well of
;ixißkward with the Rio , Ate'has,,dritped it,
mssiduously and ,theatrically,Around the
foullms‘e which forms•'fith. diseovery. Miss
.Braddon henfelfponi# not hive glOated,inore
over the thing. Theseandal is made out with
. _
/Gasiceirs Sad story of brother Branwell, ni `tile'
Life of 31 -ho VrOarg,win made out ; that story,
- er at e , ; .37 . eas ug • I torn • e uxury
It bad cuu#ed to ite narratrem, Area diePros;ed,
and xs, Gatikell had to wade ; through veey
t 9 get fairly. out of it; we hope,
for the credit of American lettera, that no ;
lituniliatingXeetintation Is Itkid 41 tliefitnte
'for Mu. Stowe; zol ',:„ ,
_ .
thistiTdillOus matron had taken, better
advice, or had•been naturally gifted with poor
Jo dame** tam native '.'ttense :or ,!'..what's
floc)," hoW wOuld alie have droplied ',her:Wi
den?, Would she have.melded?:'Would she
have gulped t-."' into %, shining„, seAsation
article, worth a goOd price to the proprietors
of the principst literary magazine? Would
the sad secret haVe appeared as the principal
eardz o in , the • month's , issue,' ' ; advertised,
developed, crowding out one; of the
standard - features, of the periodiCal (the
Book-llevievr)?, . Would it haVe appeared
precursively in this and that Western news
paper, frinn advance
..'proofs privately , fur
nished ?—(ir, would it have been uttered plain,
sad and stark? Would the signatures of our
gravest and wisest, men of letters have attested
theirassistance,coadintors'hip,examinarionaiid
convincement? 'Would every date Iwo been
Verified, to take the place of this mass ,of inac
curacies Would every proof have been pub
lished, instead of this vague Unsupported
rmator from the grave? And then - would -the
testimony have appeared, in unadorned dece=
rum, over the name of the; . witties.s, in some
retired but not toilsome place among the'public
tiewo;:agetteies? Twcaty lines, over a .migna
tare, in the ,Set - th fa more ex
clusive organ of the same publishers who are
entrusted with the
,affair), or a note to the Ara
mintrOaseti, would have told
all there, %vas' to„ - mid Harriet's tier:sena]
dignity would ~ h ave oretrained unbteathed
upon. That is the in Whielt a better':
advised or more punctilious newtt-bearer may
be supposed ta.basfe acted,
The ,public are not going to let their great,
mad singer sink undefended into greater-polo
y I,l"inieS had' beeit indeed ' fastened
wort his charact,er i too ; securely, for popular
opinion (always given to a kindly, instinct of
deiticatlim) to pass them: over ; ; th‘e had been
admitted, and had- entered , Into the popular
eonception of the man. lie was not toyed be
eanse he was a teacher :
"He tatVht us'little ; but °arson) • -
Had felt hintriike the thuuder's roll."
The pa.ssion, the tragedy, of theßyionle verse,
and not its theories, were what kept it alive
till now, in the clatnor of hew voices and the
perspectivb of distances And even that ener
getic influente, based as it was upon the deep
est agitation of the heart, was becoming dull,
by Byron's own fault,thanks to the obstinately
factitious, stilted, fustian character of the
ideal he meant to force upon literature—his
Manfred, his Harold, 'bis Lara. The last
half of the century cannot be called By
ronic:
4 ' What boots it now, that Byron bore,
With haughty pain that marked the smart, '
From England to the Xtolian shore,
pageantet his bleeding heart,
That tlisiusands Cortnted every groan
— Atid - EurOpt - mule:his woe her - own?"
lirkw far was Byron- knitted to the popular
afti tin in 18L8,—then P.Byrint, ;dug "e
geared" ',The half -amused stnile •-With which
that book was greetettifiCs Fy yet expired.
The GMcbiolEntslied raw: n. 211 to:the-footlights
with a well-preserved intensity.-of.-Byronic
feeling, assuming that her audience stillturned,
down its eollars and 'declaimed in private to
imaginary eagles among imaginary Alps. The
sympathy expected by the Countess, or Mar
thiones.s, MILS not forthcoming. Men won
dered, as they contemplated her delineation
of the irresistible creature, if they had ever
in'their lives "gushed" about.Byronasshe was
snishingi - And 31m. Stowe', might weillave
been content to leave the - Cule.cioli's allusions
to Lady Byron unchallenged. A slight, a 1,-eri
slight concession made to . the jealousy of the
successful woman(and the jealousy of success
is keener than the jealousy of disappointment)
and' Lady Byron remained in people's
thoughts precisely where she had been. She
remained the faultles.s, -virtuous, cool, incom
,patible umullied by a , shadow of blame,
who had missed, thrOugh" iiattire's'faidt and
not her o‘vni;theTgoniefitotts ehande of
tracting andreclainaing the *fist iincoinmon
man of the time. When , accusations, but not
the right stausitions; Wore flyibg thick as hail
in English society upon his Lordship's de
parture, Lady Byron missed a hundred
chances of saying: 'east, is not
true":" - The silence historical, admitted
equally by Guiecioli and-Mrs. Stowe; the latter
has no wa , y-of, e?r-plaining down cantanker
-sins z
Why did Lady Byron ever speak? Mrs
13towe explains that it‘,was, On aCeount, of a
.cheap popular edition of Byron in 1858; under
these circumstances some of Lady Byron's
ltit"nde at. 0: tineltilOn
tvhether she had not a raipmtsibiiity to societV for
.the truth; her^meens of ffilfilling,tbis' 'obit
lion, then, was surelithenOst extraordinary
ever taken -by a-sane-person—She. 1 ts4tha
cheap edition;with ^ influences, Speem;i;
but she goes and' Whispers,ber: Sedret,,as'it
were, to the ieeds, leaving.it to. the' discretion
of, circumstances whether for not at some • dla•
taut day, the' seeret; 111;4 0409 she 604d;vot.
then control ) sbOuld • reaoly the world. That
womanly confab, the 4onfidence of the'dreamer !
to the reeds; Was Unacciptnpanied tiyanYthing
so vulgar, as proof. • . t . , , ,
And Mrs. Stowe waits awhile, and .ihen,
w b e r t .shoth4dcs she has a chance otreturning
to the Guiecioli as good as she g!ves, she tells
it all, vituperatively,. Inxuripislyi with all the
luxury of a saint gettingilio.efiance to liaste'a
good fat sinner.
The reNvlntion,not to put
,too fine amoint of
ft, ciinirirotnises Byron with half-sistek; the'
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wife of Col Leigh And all that lktri. , *ewe
can Say that, this 'crime -- 4*eovered,':"/2141'
Byron was not bound to itnyspeelei of coy iiio-
sion, 7 neither to Jive - with, her. lord; iarf, to
speak out when people told lies sheet hiin,upr
any sort of 'friendlinesS. But this, it I sleiniie
US, i 8 Vekildit - tte question,o.3icEl'Xittli34o7ion
iiiii choose to live with ; her husbandpaud see
.what she could 4o with him ;"she'livect a. Year
:with hint—two years; says , the torgetfnl - Mrs.
Stowe. She Jived with hini,her eyes 'qien,anti
(tiled 40 reclaim' him; his' si.a, declares 'the
-4 14 14 5*00'.....ver 6 _ - tar3 l loiet- - I*Wijit'7vite
huttiaj./tyrott settles Oat', kind of 'Criticism
'bY'At'e6/4.lng him, as he is, living, trittl-disPDA with ,him
the
14a.ss,e ,an •• en envying:.,
dog that remains basking at his door., The
Proldem'is is, the sad, old a little. coin
plicebed; u noble, tuneful, uniquely 'glorious
nature gone all astray;. religion , essaying; the
splendid task of reclaiming it; religion Utterly .
;routed.; "Anybody,' sari Fletcher, the : imlet,
"could d'o anything With Any. Lord; except my
Lady!' This"hiperfect adaptive power; since
She smile heradaptive Power, is What placei
Lady 121Yron's itery among thes:West in the
painful categer7 . of heatren's taskii, spoiled
through the imper fection of the instrument. •
The statement, of Hrs. Stowe * , es now ap
pears, thanks to the happy memory of the
Tribune, is not even new; thinly disguised; it
was communicated in Temple \ Bar for last
June. in the following comments surrounded
by ntuubera of hints about husbands' or wives'
duty to incestuous partnen;) upon Lady
Byron'f4 excuse -for refusing reConciliation:
"The wife could not, without guilt, return
to hint. * When. Dr. Lushmgton (Lady
B.'s advisery declares reameillation to be impossi
ble, and that if attempted he could take no part in
the attempt profasionally or otherwise, he must be
understood to mean that Vuty both to God and
mon' forbade - Lady Byron to , return to' her hus
band." • ,
3lns. 'Stowe's gift to literary, history is
destined to a terrible scrutiny from .ByrOn's
countrymen when they know of it; in ;vhich
season; with little.sympathy from her own
countrymen to support her, we shall riot envy
Mrs Stowe. Her manifest *ant of the critical
spirit, her inattention to easy facts—the New
York papers have been mercilessly expesing
her inaccUrachth-Lhave the effect of under
mining even the popular '4.rier in her Story.;
hoivw ill it stand,: when, it has to take up the
isidignant.challenge of a proud and powerful
farrilly, interested by every motive in clearing
its• skirts irk= shame'? If truth is true, it
ought ,to look seemly -and strong, and not
show a surface eaten into holes hy all sorts of
minor but irritating falsities.
• The Byron scandal lies like a cuckoo in the
magazine,, and it is hard to see anything else.
But the mnriVer shows variety- and powerful
editorship; Mr. Parton is up again 'with his
W4pshington exposures;there is'a rather pretty
Pastoral novelette talipd Jacob jour
ney, a sort of taoon-hoax,"• not. very de
ceptive, called " Was. Reichentiach Bight?"
and an able criticism of Confucius. The best
poem is a delicate chirp from Mr. 'W. D.
Howells in answer to the cricket, which, after
the. dirt through. which Madame Sto;ire has
dragged us; we shall treat ourselves by repeat
:
THE FIRST cnzorET
,
Ab me! is it then true that the year has waxed
unto waning, ...,
lind
An that so
noon
mtin
remain
nothing, but
lame and decay— . • ,
Earliest cricket, that out of the midsummer
complaining, .
---- All the -faint-summer-in- me,takest -with
subtle , Allsurtay?
Though thou blingest no dream,of frost to the
flowers that slumber,
Though no tree for its leaves, doomed or thy
voice, maketh moan;
- IVitli the nueonsc.ions earth's boded evil-MY
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!;acid theta dust ctunber,
y
And itt tlie 1. -- ar's lostyouth inakst .me still
lose my own.
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iswerest,ithowtha.twhen nights of Decem
ber are blackest and bleakest,--
--And when tho fervid grate-feignsme a-May
- in nay room,
- A - n - d - b - y - iilyheriithSfonegay, as now sad in pay
garden, thou creak — esi,—
Thou wilt again give me all,—dew and
fragrance and bloom ?
Nay, little poet! full many a cricket I have
that itOwilling,
If 1 but take him down out of his place on
niY shelf, -
Mc blither lays to sing than the blithest
known to thy
Full of the rapture of life, 319 morn, hope,
and—himself: ,
Leaving me only tilt. sadder;' for never one of
my singers
Lures back the bee to his feast, calls' back
the bird to his tree.
Hast thou no, art can make , me believe, while
the surthuer yet ling,ers, ,
Better than bloom that has been red leaf and
sere that must be?
Berne additional magazine -notices will he
found on the second page of this paper.
THAT BOAT BALE.
" English Abuse ocAmericins.
The London correspondent of the Boston
Post writes.; ' '
Our papers continue their reports and criti
cisms of„the doings of your Harvard men to
the extent of from a ‘; quarter to half a column
or more daily. • I can add xery little to their,
details, so minutely is everything chronicled;
except that there is an old impression abroad
that they are''playing: possum'? in their nrac
lice—by no means doing their best, and allow
ing it to be supposed that they will be beaten
easily,-.and, intend : to astonish us bye-aud
bye. All kinds of 'faulta are alleged against,.
them, know not with what truth; and A
menli;jealims letter' r two; about. their order
ing an English' boat for the race haS or have
appeared in the newspapers.' They, have, it
seems,. altered-Aheir 'style of , rowing from
Tyne ,:to .:Thataes - fashion. ,‘Their new 'boat
, ;very handsome and • shapeable , craft,
44 - ;:',.feer,„6 `inches , long, or - just .4. feet.
6 inchek:lesa_ltlien. their own '
, canoe -like;
American built Cedar, and ;,2 ' feet'; loner
there 'the/ London boat, 'in wbich; , during
the" week they have 'practising. Ap;'
pareetlyrshe is a lighter and handier boat than
either of the two they. have been using onlhe
Thames' but ; they,have another building; . by,
Elliott ,the American, -who ,carrie over i with
them, it is nePieStion ae 'Yet which they will
Ultimately adopt." The Oxford men 'intend
coming down the riVer towards the end nf neat
week; ()rifle beginning oftlae week after. Then' •
we shall probably get the day fixed; at pres
ent it is conjectured ;for' the '26th tor. ;earlier
Boueicault has availed himself <of t the interest
ex ot e 4 lwthe impending contest,_to bring out
a new sensation drama, entitled ,row/pur l :the
plot of which hinges on an' 'Oxford and 0tt047,
bridge beat race, and the • cipporttitie Wining
ub of the u strolreade'in , 'n..Me''?t,'o 'liteeizrolhe '
victory to "dark' blue:". The'ltabe titr"repre»‘
sented, and I heat' great: things!)of it; ttbut I.;
have not, as yet, been to see it., ,
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PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21,;1869.
. , FloagisnrScholionita California.
San Francisco is having a first-class sensor.
tion in the treatment of the school children.
The Chronicle newspaper having made certain
charges of cruelty against the teachers ' and
'the charges-having been-denied; prepesed - an
investigation, and the proposal was accepted.
The Chairman ofthe School Committee, the,
Chairman of the Board of Education, the re
porter and the t teachers '' had the
scholars, before' them,. • and elicited'
facts parallel only at Andersonville. Litt •
girls ei
_ld years old . were gag ed wit,
at; • • r.,-peil
uponthe limit, gagged for wh 'tering,t., , agged
ler playing, in fact gagged for any and all of
.. • • , and. the gag-was a--large--rileee-'of-so
leather Whichrprevimted 'breathing through
the mouth„ left the marks, of,ita hard strings
on the tender little., heads, -Made the little
bodies ;;,sick, and, ,as if it' were not
alone sufficiently distressing, - the cul
prit? bands were tied behind them,
they wore placed in a corner, whipped if they
moved or cried, or even refused to breatha
'when breathing Was out of the question. ' It
was a lady- teacher who subjected dhildren
eight, nine and eleven years of age to this in
human disciplinemnd during the iirrestigation
she is 'represented .as quite caha and un
attashed. The stories seem incredible:---In
-credible, also, one would think that a womaifil
heart could find it possible to approve such
treatment. But perhaps She had lier worries,
poor, woman, her nerves' or blues or ROMe
t.hing. It wouldn't haveheen a bad idea,how
ever, to have gagged her for a quarter of an
hour • she could afterward apply the penalty
more discriminatingly
DISM3TER.
A Crowded tsiirms Teat Prostrated by
Wind--Intense Mardi Among the Spec-
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[From the Parton (Ohio) Ledger w Ang.l7j ,
Yesterilayfifternoon, about 3 o'clock, :while
Bryant's Menagerie and Circus was tufa
blast,
_'at: the . corner of First and Webster
streets, there came very ; iiuddenly:,n, furious
gale of wind, followed try a heavy 'shower of
rain, Which-for a short time seemed asthough
it would scatter' everything -before. it. The
_performance was about, half over, when -all
at once they-poles inside were lifted from
the 'ground; gu and considera,ble . creaking
was heard' , through: the . entire'can ;
vas,•which spreadgreat -consternation among
the :vast number of pedple gathered under the
pavilion. -It was -evident that the pavilion
would instantly fall unless s great force was
applied outside to hold on to the ropes.. Some
fifty men took hold of the ropes on, the -south
side, and attempted to bold:it from 'blowing
over,' but it was utterly impossible. In another
instant theropes snapped,the centre pole came unfastened, and-With a terrible crash the large
pavilion was dashed .to the ground, upsetting
at the same time two of thewagons :Containing'
'wild animals. At this point several voiceiteried
out "the animals are loose?' This terrific
.ilann, added to the intense excitement caused
by the f.llling of the canvas and breaking of
the scant and screatiiing of women and dill=
drea, made- confusion more confounded, and
the scene one of the wildest disorder and the
greatest danger weever had occasion to wit
ness. The people w ere now . terri fi ed, and
fled everywhere :in . the wildest confusion.
Amid the screams ofat lea:st a thdusand women
and• children who weretrying to .extricate
themselves from beneath the broken.benches,
and crawling out from under the' canvas,
mothers and fathers seized their children and
frantically rushedtheir way out as best 'they
could.. 'Many of the children were pressed
down in the excitement and trampled in the
dirt; some were vttry ranch bruised. Many
men and women fled to„ndiWnt houses and
closed th e doorS behind to escape from being
overtaken by-the wild animals, which they
imagined were in pursuit of them. But two
pi : Troup were , seriously injured—W. H.
- 31itcliellr,•who was Pang across a bench while
'attempting to support a guy, and a little girl,
WhoSe name we did not ascertain, had her
anti broken and received a severe: wound on
the head
WENT POILNT.
The. -Cadets In the Nlonntains4—The New
Enesinpznent.
_
- The Poughkeepsie :Eagle say s : -
"West-Point. proper,- that is, the Parade
G round; eadet's - barracks;=thehrOatl - esplanade
and the trophies of three wars, have no more
charms for the beantles-who
-- andboarding houses,
near that military post; - and all be
-cause- the -- eadets - have - iTabiklfell=gon - e — tu --
their _mountain-- encampment— -:-The order '
to vacate the old camp - ground_eitnmated from
-the Departmerat, - and - - -- was_carried-into -
effect on „,the morning of Tuesday. The---ca
dets were in line in a drizzling rain - storm, in
heav-y, marching order, with the. baud posted
on the right, when the order was given to
march. The band struck up "The girl I left
behind me," and a battalion, consisting of the
first, third and fourth classes, numbering one
hundred and eighty-three;-passed out of the
grounds.
"The location of the new encampment is
one thousand feet above the river, and is
flanked on each side by ponds , of the purest
water, one of which, Round Pond, is used for
• cooking and drinking, while, the other, Long
Pond, two hundred feet directly beneath is
used for bathing.
• "The. camping ground was reached about.
eleven o'clock, when' there began the usual
bustle and confusion incidental • to pitching
tents. Th'e ground is very rough and covered
with stones - and stubble,, the clearing of
which considerably taxed the patience
of the cadets, the majority of whom
were • receiving " their first lesson. 4
in,the rougher ,7 duties of the soldier's life.
Those pessessing inventive genius .found
,splendid field for.the display thereof, and it
required no small amount to economize space
iii six'square feet of ground so as to accommo
`date four human beings, who, when they. re
,polieihavelo lie as close as the Siame.se Twins.
'Space had to be found in the 'tents for mus- '
kets, knapsacks, belts, and other articles, and
there was a • considerable scratching of heads
while looking around for a place. for every
•,thing,they knowing very wellthat everytlung
•% -duld' have to have a - place Vthen, the Inspec
timi oflents' should be in order. The mess ,,
tent tva.sJarniaSS of tinware, cauldrons, boxes
&
ion cooking Utensils, besides a number of
wooden horses, which were to simport some
'planks from, which the' meals • here to be
served: Spme old campaigners got to :work,
anti,aoonliroughkorder out of claos, and by
*nbon,the Soup was boiling, its fragrant odors
pervading the entire. camp.
"Dining the encampment the regular rou
tine of -camp dtities.will be ob.served and the
'only instruction given will be practical engi
neering, • The telegraph corps are engaged in
erecting a wire from the institute to tine camp
ground, which, will be finished to-morrow..
istages",will also prohably,, commence running
if the weather is pleasant. The 'distance from
the `rivek ,miles. The army officers on
(duty at the , encampment -are .Colonel Black,
'coramandaht;),: and Colonel ' ,Colonel
Kent, Captain Clarke,. Lieutenant, Rockwell,
'Lieutenant Sears, and ,- Assistant Surgeon
IWiggan. Any.one wishing to view mountain
scenery, and see Camp life in . all its demils,
can'be fully satisfied by, visiting Camp: Look
;our." '
•
—:Anstria is becoming a very ; tolerant coun
try, At Franzdorf, in that country, a Protos
taut married the other day a Catholic girl. A
..Tew 'was 'the principal' witness of the °ere
mbny; which was, performed by Catholic
OUR WIWLE COUNTRY,
niR NATIONAL LABOR CONGRESS
Athalf-Past eight o'clock the (uuvention
was,'called to order, with ' President C. H.
Liicker iti the chair. • •
The first' business in order Was, the consid2r-,
ation or the resolution on the Cherokee lands.
Moved that it lay over until after the election,
'
,Wri
."Gazz of am,Pennsylvania. — b - y — P - e - tit - a4-
shill" made a few remarki ,in regard, to the
...storithrnen_of tilt.Southern-Sta
. C. Svivis offered the 'following:
4700/red; 'that when' this Convention ad
journs; it be to'convene in the city of 'Louis
ville,..Kentacky, on the rith day of Augu.st,
181 Q ,, at 10 o'clock, A. 31.., After several
amendments, it was laid on the table.
of New York„ offered the fol
lowii
- Risolred, That R. 31. Adger, Peter B. Brown,
John H. Thomas, James - Realm and Robert
butler; he appointed a spebial'conunittee to
organize"the colored werkintmieir :of-.Penn
*tsylvania into Labor Unions, with instructions
tto report progress to the President of the In
- ternational Labor Congress, at the next; ses
sion thereof. Agreed to.
mr. Greene, of NOW York, offered the fol
lowing
Resofred, That the Proident , of the Labor
Congress be directed to faille a circular to all
labor organizations here represented, asking
for a contribution of live cents per member;
the money thus collected to be used for the
pnrpose.of paving the President's salary and
defraying such' expenses as may be connected
with said-office.
An amendment was offered that it be re-'
(erred-to the Committf---z , .on Ways and Means,
and they to determine the amount of salary,
and how it shall be raised, The amendment
was voted down. and the resolution agreed.to.
Mr. Myers, of Philadelphia, Chairman of
thee Committee on Co-operation, read the
laming report of that Committee:
To the 'President aial Mentbevs . of the National
Labor Congress: • • -
..Your Committee on Co-operation, having
attended to their duty, beg leave to, report the
following preamble and resolutiAns: .
Whereas, We are of opinionat of all the
Plans devised for the amelioration of the con
dition of the working classes none has proVed
so effective to solve the : problem of human
happiness to so great an extent as that of co
operation.
.„ 'whereas,- Weare happy to learn that
great progress has • been: made in tho
co-operative movement,- . during the .last;
year,as has been demonstrated not. only by the
success' of those which were in existence- pre-:
vion.s to the last session, but also by the 'fact
that several other . ; have been established' in ,
different branches, since the- adjournment of
this.body in New York, among which may be
mentioned that of the Tailors' Co-operative
Union of the city of.NeW York,.and the Jour:
zieymen Printers' Co-operative Establishment
of Philadelphia ; therefore, be it
•
Resolved, That we recommend to the work- •
ingmen And women of the country the impera,-
tive necessity of immediately entering into co--
operation in the different branches of industry,
and thereby secure to themselves. the legiti
mate fruits oftheir labor. ,
Resolved, That we recommend the appoint
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merit of a Comtnittee on CO-Operation. whose
duty itsliall be to'exiimine the different sys-terns now practised, and report" the most
feasible plan at the next session of the Labor
Congress.'
Resolved, That We enjoin it as a duty upon
every.erganization, State and local, holding
a connection With the National Labor Union,
tonssist and entourage the organization of co
operative companies in every branch of. in
dustry;anti to make-use of every opportunity
to educate - the workingmen to the importance
of this subject
(Signed.).
, F. J. 31vEns,
- R. BLISSERT, -
- M. R. WALSH, ._
W31..T. 31cLAtromAN.
After some slight opposition the report was
accepted.
Mr. Cameron, of Illinois, offered the fol
lowing resolution en Coolie labor : ,
Resolved, Thal we are unalterably opposed
to the importation of - a - servile race, for the
sole and only purpose of tampering with the
labor of the American workingmen. _
Resolved, That we demand the abolishment
`of - the - system of contraetialkir nrour - prisons
penitentiaries,-.and - --that-=labor--pe
F formed by convicts shall be . that which will
least conflict with honest-industry--outside-of
- .the prisom, and that the - wareslnamtfactured
-bY the convicts shall not be put-np-on-the.-mar
ket at less than the current market rates.
Resolved, That this Labor Congress would
most respectfully recommend to the working
men of the country that, in case they are
pressed for want of employment, they proceed .
to the public lands and become actual settlers,
believing that if the industry of the country
can be coupled with its natural advantages it,
will result both in 'individual relief and na
tional advantage.
Resolved, That where a workingman is found
capable and available for any office, the prefer
ence should invariably be given to such
person.
*Resolved, That we would • urgently call the
attention of the industrial classes to the sub
ject of tenement houses and improved dwell
ings; believing it to be essential to the Welfare
o 1 the whole community that a reform should
be effected in this respect, as -the 'experience
of the past has proven that vice, pauperism
and crime are the invariable attendants of the
over-crowded and illyv-entilated dwellings of
the poor, and urge upon capitalists of the
coup try attention to, the .blessings to be derived
from investing their means in erecting such
dwellings.
The foregoing was adopted.
A. T. Cavis presented the following resolu
tion, which was adopted: . • ,"
Resolved., That it shall he the duty of the
Committee on Labor Department, with the
co-operation of 'the' President, to cause to - be
a, series •of questions designed' to
gather statistics during the taking- of the
census of 'lB7O, sparing the cost of production
in all departments 01 industry, the cost of
transportation , thereon- to market, classifica
tion •of the nodes of conveyance, the:cost
when put ,upon . the, market, and- the prices
paid by the consumers or at the point of pr.-
port, and press . tlieit adoption upon the Con-_
ress of the United States through the Census;
Tess
'•• - •
Mr. Pratt, of Massachusetts, offered the fol
lowing amendment to the constitution :
'l'llat each local organization _numbering less .
than one hundred members pay an annual tax
of I. Laid over until.next . yeary
Mr, Duck, of Pelinsylvama, offered the fol
lowing: • •
Resolved, That the l'resident be antliorized
to appoint,•between this and the next meeting •
of the Congress, men to deliver addresses upon ,
the,prineiples enunciated, in our platform ;
such as co-operation, : • public lands, • trades
unions, the apprentice laursi,anci other-vwerk
of this Congress AdoPted. • • ;
Mr:Kuhr) of NCW'York; Offered and read
the follOwin_g :• • • • - , • ' •
Resolved,- That the PreSidefit in conjunction •
with. the Executive Committee,bo•required
draft an exact And 01).3MA:ed. : plan t - according to
which all trades' ; unions off a Stato.,have to,
act unitedly j for the purpose. of availing theta-,
selves-of 'all :,praper means for the enforce-'•
nieut Of; au. evl4-11620 'To of . their State,
.Which
shall be binding lei any craft and 'in 'which . '
law. the punislurient for its violation. shall
CITY BULLETIN.
AIXTIII DAirs 11110CEEDING3:
stipulated, the following features of the plan
being proposed: •
1. All trades oniony to endeavor to abolish
piece -work, and to introduce dayes work:
2. The trados' unions of every State ta,cen
tralize themselves.
The State in which the centralization- -• of
the trades' unions has rnade'the greatest pro 7
gross will take the lead by practical actions,
and should be supported materially by the other
States. • r ,
4. As soon as the proper time ha; arrived
labor shall be stopped at, the same time and
simultaneously in all trades of a State,,in order .
4nf9cr e
11irtrztff'ffErld'EtflIA40144Mtrenrals—
"piece-work;" and anal ing it read "that we
abOlish iece work whenever ft _isnractii
hour:This matter, was under, discussion when the
of ten arrived, which had beenappointed
for the electi,on of the officers for the ensuing
year. Messrs. PowerS, of 31assackusetts;
of Illinois; Walls, of Pennsylvania;
Myers, of New York, and Walker,of - Adabatna,
were'appointed tellers, to' conduct the election.
An informal ballot was' taken for President,
and resulted as follows:Ii. Trevellick. •
. . .... 49.
...
H. F. Jessup... . . . .;.. ...
Mr. Cameron.... ... . .. .......
H. H. ;
C. H. Locker: .:
Total - 8l
A motion, to take a formal ballot was agreed
to.
All the candidates were withdrawn .except
Mr. Trevellick and Mr. Jessups, and 'the Con
vention proceeded at once to an election for,
President. The following is the result.: '
Trevellicki ........50.
- Trevellick having received the :largest
number of cotes was declared the President or;
the National Labor Union, fOr :the ensuing
0. D. Daily, of Ohio, moved that Mr. Trevel
lick be declared-the President unanimously.'
Agreed to.
A ballot for last Vice President resulted in
the choice of Mr. A. T. earls..
Mr. Sylvis, candidate for the. second Vice-
Presidency, withdrew his .name in 'favor of.
MissiValibridge. •
The Convention went into an electipn of
second-Vice-President. ' • ' '
_ .
Mr. Kuhn, of NeNV York., , received the ma
jority of the votes :.and was declared second.
Vice-. President.
The Convention then went into a ballot for
Seeretarv.
Mr. vas declared to 'be t 4. Secretary
It was, moved that .'the chairman cast the'
ballot for the present Treasurer, A.W.Plielps,
Agreed to. - • _
Mr. Phelps was dulY elected as Treasurer br
acclamation.
.
It was moved that'Miss
. Lewis, member .of
the Typographical Union -NOW YOrk,
recommended for As.siatant Secretary. . ' '
The objection to it wa.s that .Hiss Leivis was'
not a delegate to the Convention. •
Mr..ltostanan read the report of the Audit:
ing Committee, which was received- and
accepted.. . • :
V m. J: McCarty, of ,Pennsylvania, offered.
the following
Reliolrtd, That a committee of one froth each.
State be appointed to wait upon- the
tures of the several States to recommend the
repeal of all laws injurious to: the working
classes of the respective States, and each •com
mittee report to the next General Congress of
l'C
the atiornd Labor Union 'what are the most.
obnoxious laws in their respective States:,
Agreed to:
. it was moved that theConvention, i cgo into
an installation of officers, and a co imittee
of three be appointed to cOnduct the newly- .
elected officers to their• respective ~ stations.'
Agreed to. • .
Mr. Walsh, 31 r. Sylvis and Mr. Cummings
were appointed as the committe to conduct
the officers to their stations:
Mr. West offered a vote of thanks to the
International Union Congress. — Agreed to
unanimously.
The Committee then conducted the newly,
elected officers to their seats.
Mr. Trevellick then made a speech: '
Mr. Colds also- made some- brief . renuirks
upon the future w0rk113&,...4 2gational-
C. H. Lucker moved to appoint it delegate
to represent the 'Union - at the Inti3rriatiOnal
Congrts,..which is to meet. n- -S witzerland,-i n-
September. This called out some: discussion,
upon which Mr. Hytton, one of , the delegates,
took occasion to make an appealto_the_Con.,
ventiou to stand- by the Democracy of' Ame
rica, as they were • the - friends of the Labor
Union The motion to appoint a delegate
was agreed to.
Mr. Sylvis, of Pennsylvania, moved that A.
C. Cameron be appointed the delegate to the
International Union. Agreed to. •
It was moved that an associate delegate be
sent in company with. A. C. Cameron. Agreed
to..
•
C. H. Lucker was the one chosen:
It 'was then moved a place 'be'. selected for
the next meeting of the Congress. The
leg places were named:
St. Louis, Mo,. ' Cleveland, O.; Louisville,;
liy.; Richmond, Va.; Cincinnati, 0.; Boston,
Mass.; Memphis, Tenn.; Baltimore, Md.;
Omaha, Nebraska; and Detroit, Mich.
After a very lengthy debate the previous
question was called, and finally Cincinnati
was the place fixed upon.
It was moved that the thanks of this Con
vention lie tendered to the proprietor of this
ball, and to the representatives .of the - press
on this floor. Agreed to. - • •
•:After spine unimportautbusiness bad been
transacted the Convention adjourned.
THE DEATH or' Mn. d (nor A. STOItEY,Or
as
ManaNnuk, who h held a position in the c ity
Post-Office for 801110 time past, and been quite,
prominent in the politics of his section,..was
tlie occasion of a meeting of the employes of
the PoSt-officej this morning, at. Which the
resolutions' given \ below were unanimously'
adopted. Mr. A. d: Fredericks presided; and
Mr. J. W. Gibson acted as Secretary. , The
resolutions, which were reported by a com
mittee consisting of Messrs. ilamesitees, Silas
S. Steele, and George W. (Megan, were as.
W/u The Omnipotent, iu His Divine
will ? has called from our midst aibeloVed com
panion; Mr. John A. Storey; ' . . '
.Andivhemas, 'His sudden . demise, tagether
with his many rare and genial qualitieS'otheart
and mind,invest his departure withsentiraents
of peculiar grief;
Remised, That wbile we:Aament-the loss of
a colleague, endeared to us by many social
virtues, and while the departnient loses one of
its most efnployes, we are consoled by
the reflection that he has found a home where,
afilietions cannot Come.
- - -
liesolced,Thar, we deeply sympathize with
thetriad:ray! orphans of our deeenaea Cont 7
raffle in this great calamity: *:
Resolved, That a copy of tiles& resolutions be
sent-tolhe7fitrally"olthe-de-e-eased.
TUE POLICE DEPARTMENT.—High Con
stable Ii G. Clark is. now acting Chief:. of the
Policeyand Lieutenant .John of the
District, is acting Chief of the Detee
tives,', Chiefs Mulholland and Brurein are
v r jing into Ca NVitil the Philadelpiga, City
nnrds
Chl. - Couvoit.4.—The Chainlieis of, Seled
and Coinmon Connell are, noWinniergoing're
pairs and alterations, and the special meeting
F. L. IMMIRRON.Tabitsbo,
eaUed by the Mavot for Monday, fotethe con
slileration of the water question, wilt* hal&
in the Suprerne 1 oiirt roourc,
• ,
,
cyst' ; 3101 :TALerY.---IJAe number of ,
.itliter,-
irients in the city for the week eriding'aZiloon
.
to-day was ;342v-agafOst 2 ';395 - the:l4amc , -, Tan'ted .
last3-ear. Of the ' whoic , niantber IZ3 :were
adults and :219 childre.u--113"being tlnderane
Year,of age; 165 were males; 171 , feluales;11#
boys and 109 girLs. ,
th s e ) number of 'deaths in, tacit , ArardWilil;* ,
First , • MI SIN te,nith.-.,,,,,....,,..,...C......01,9r,;,
IT' Sevent< 4 nnth • '' ,Att
Third ~.... 7 1 Ehtitteenth.4. .- -:"1:.:...,.:3 .Vit It
.Fiftit i iTiceta11ai . ... . ........ . :,..ivA
sixth ' ...... 2:Twonts , fir4 ~%,,
i
Seventh • ...... ......16 Twentr-sedetni - • ' "L'...V ''',
Eighth Twenty-tiff:li ... -,,......... ~... dr: -
liintE .. .... .. ....... ... ....,.:.-...- 7 Twenty -fouttlY '-'• IP
Tenth II TwentYlifelt---.1......-)
Eleventh' ' .: .... . ...12 Twenty - flatle-:-.;‘'....",- -.."--.4f
'Twelfth —... 11 Tvventy-gtir01tb....,....4, A.
Thlittionth . : ... . . .............. .. . . 6 'Trrenty-etu1a6.....
Fourteenth ' ' 91Unhti0nnu.«..,.„...:4...:411.4..15
Fifteenth „,. 16 - ..
The principal ""causes " Of Cibathl: weri.=‘ ,
congestion pf•,thebraill,B; ; cholera , inefauttrari,
55; cholera, znorbus; 8; 'consumption 13Ncon
vulsions, 16; diarrhcea 8; heart' disease, - 8;.:
scarlet fever, 13;,,intianimation ofithe .brazn,
9; infia:mtnation of the -hings, 11; niarasintaii
'46; typhoid fever, 8. and old age, 45 . )1, it ., ; ~- V4:*;
Jntf'Enxr,TO ANIALAI,EI.7—JOiLIILeargr, carter
and contractor, Thirty-sixtb, and, 3F6
brat
streets, was arrested this min
or agent
'of the-Socinty for the "'revel:akin of Oftrelty - tci
Animals, for, working two horses, wlxischluut
sores on the back and Shoulders, .and , weret
otherwise'unilt for work. 'lle •Was , trued" $lO
and costs by Alderman Johnson. • "
..... 2
DON'T RING 'IIIE actink:Clilet
of Police asks ns to request the tirernewne' ttlk`
ring their bells to-morrow morning at 4 ofclocir..
when the fire-alarm bores are to , be rfingaud,:.
the Fire Department is to be caned out for tae
benefit of Captain Shaw, of the Lennie]] FirfY
Departnient. The ringing of tike - lirebells,
is thought, would alarm citizens ittineeemarily.,
Hester, ,bang 11b: '„
AuGusT, 21, 1 . 869.--3 fr. Editor In yOur;
article of i August I.2th, "Sticking.to
are, 'several points wish to notice.'
First--T have no „
wish to stick to anything'
that will not hear the light of - day:,
Second—You insinuate that the father or
Hester Vaughn's child is a colored coachtrain .
and still living in the family where ,he was
employed at the time of heicliiid's birth.
I can answer` this bY a few artractsdrinirmy 4
notes in Hester Vang.lin'S case. • o
You speak of Hester, Vanghn as my friend.
You, sir, 'could not have paid ine a. higher
compliment. as the servant is not above the
master, our Redeenier counted. among His: I
friends, the oppressea and despisal. t 4
Court news as reported by the Philadelphia
Press, trial of He.ster Vaughn: • :
The following witnesses were r'calledt-for
the prisoner:
testified that .Rester was aservant-,-
girl in his farnil3r, and left him. last Illovember;‘•
her character was good in every respect,
tile was very amiable; .she seerned , natich•,deH ,
pressed two weeks before she left..
Mr: testified that the prisoner.livedr?
with him about one year; he never kneiv any
thipg against, ber character; she WAS perfeeUy
honest and good in every respect.
Jinx Ilth,lB6B.—Mr. and M.rs. •where%
Hester. Vaughn lived about, one year, Calledr
at my house and made the followingstatementa
tit my sister, I toeing away at tine time :
had every reason to . believe that the
flither. of Hester's With' WWI their colon*.
coachman. Ilia: wife said that she': thought.,
lie was the last man any woman would hays.
taken to, and that she never had Seen
thing wrong, about., Hester. Silo was al-treys.'
kind to every one, and particularly the youpg
and anything that was injured_
Jul...r 16th, liktS —Visited the Coron: •• • -
geon. Mentioned to him that a stateinentliadc
been made that tite father of Hester Vaueban's.
ebild was a eolored coachman.
I put the question to the Doctor 'if it - twig.
possible for a man - of - his experience tWlai-de
ceived in regard - to the color of the= 'AIM
Ile said No, it would, have been impossiblefbr"
him to overlook it had it been colored. • -
Octobor 5, 1868.—NVas in thh . 'eell. of Hester
Vaughn to-day. She gave me the following,
written and signed by herself
“The father of my child is
• "limSTER VAIMIIN;" .
Sir, as you have given to your readers one
side of this unportant affair, I-appeal to your
sense oustice to give.them another leaf -
-Hester Vaughn's history. I will here say,
thatHeyter is not the only sufferer by these -
grreat wrongs that have been heaped upon.
She has- paren;grandparents,-arid-yotwg-17,
sisters and brothers.
—An idol tale—a missionary sennon.
—A die-wreeked route—The Erie Railway
--Naturally this is the best season for
hotels.
Froin F iirm mint. • What's , the use of hOr-- -.
ing a turbite when you hayen't got a head?
-Even the corporations find it dilliehlt
"water" their stock ih this dry dine.'
—Watered silks and waterfalls ought to sell',;:
well now.
—Bow ought Chief Engineer Graff to j put'
water in the basin? With adl his might—and, i`
main.:' •
•
—The milkmen are , in anguish the
drouth. A dry hydrant , is their, greatest
--Lashetscheriskoff, the Russian, mavelLst
caught his own name 'between his 'teeth ax 4
died of lockjaw. - ,
•
-It, is said that Porimnouth i N. 11., is to be
the western terminus 'of theprvposed German-
American Atlantic cable.
—Anothpr book bY Evaus, the author.
of "St. Elmo," is readyi'mul this, too; while thd
mercury ia at OU degrees.
—A'' man in New Hampshire narrowly
escaped death by a snow-slide last week.:
Pleasant death surely, in this weather.
,
—"Fire Fly," the play which Lotto bas
been so popular, was' lately produced at Glzw-.
•
—The return of the 3.lexican expedition
introduced a new bug into France, which has:
now , becdme thoroughly domesticated.:
. .
-- , Elise Ho'tiles made a very decided failure; ,•
in California. Her diaperian costume would/
be comfertable,during this weather. • ,
—Con for the season—lf you calculated the ,
- capacity - of - li'airmount - reservoir; why-wank'
it be like a wood nymph? Because it.Tenulki
be a Dry-ad. , • .
—Con for the st , ason—When
get into a hone, why is it like 'this
,wcathin":,.
-Because it's well-ter-ring. The author of the',:
aboveis slowly recovering. • , • •
--The Ledger contains this: •-, •
A GIRL WANTS COOKING OK HODSE 7 .
— ...C1 - crorkeity - or country. .
As the state of tiro weather is favorable to
the first of the wants it,would ha interesting to ,^
know if the girl is yet cooked
—Two:ions:of:grill Wereday er ; two -ago A
gazing with open mtmths a d eyes at the new-.
Masonic Hall The; :writer overhearki. ,
the thllowing: ~ • ,
rirst Lwimat is thaat
bilding? , ; 4 1
second ! ,end thaat's whir. ),r
than Oddfollem are biking a cimingterr
(coucter,y)! •
,j'a• '4t"lkt
t
PRIORT#RES,CENTiI
&lux A. SMITH, M. D.,,
104 South Fortieth street;
Philadelphia
FACTS. AND FANCIES
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