she pontroot gentotrat.
E. R. lIAWLSA, EDITOR.
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Itrowirsoss. Purorki 1
WEDNESDAY. NOV. SS, 1879.
Nell IPresldeultd Election.
In the light of the returns of the eke
tions, taking the States that have gone
against the administration within the last
year, there will be a clear majority for the
Democrats in the next Electoral College.
1£ the number of members in that body
were to be determined by the present rep
resentation in Congress, the next College
would consist of 317 members ; necessa
ry to a choice, 159. The States which the
recent elections have given to the Demo
crats are—
States.
Alabama
Arkansas
California
Connecticut
Delaware
Georgia
Indiana
Kentucky
Maryland
Missouri
New York
Oregon.
Pennsylvania ..
Tennessee.
North Carolina
Virginia
West Virginia..
No States are counted here in the Dem
ocratic column except those which have
voted against the administration.
The Democratic party will enter the
next Presidential contest under quite dif
ferent auspices from those which attend
ed it in the elections of 1864 and 1868.
Harmony, moderation, and the choice of
a good candidate alone are needed. Ad
monished by the lessons of the past, there
will be no repetition of the defeat in 1868.
A Dark Picture.
From the result of the late election the
one great object for which the blood and
treasure of the nation have been expended
under the present party in power crops
tent, in the clear demonstration that ne
gro equality alone has saved the utter de
feat of the Radical party, at this time,
and that all the sympathy of the corrupt
leaders of that party has been hypocriti
cally expended for the sole purpose of en
abling them to hold their death-like grip
upon the nation.
In proof of this fact we have only to
look at the elections during the year 1870
to find that nowhere has Radicalism suc
ceeded except by the overpowering accre
tion of their negro allies, and that to-day
the descendants of the noble pioneers of
the nation, the Cancassian race, have set
the mark of Cain upon the corrupt lead
ers of their party, at the ballot box, and
forever stamped them as the murderers of
their priceless liberties as white men, and
convicted them of proving traitors to our
national prosperity for the merest mercen
ary motives and the greed of power. We
ask the sons of the Revolutionary Fath
ers to look at the "dark" picture which
Radicalism has made for itself.
The State of South Carolina, which
carries the palm for Radical triumph,
sends to our national capital three negro
Congressmen, has a negro lieutenant gov
ernor, a negro justice 4 3 1. the Supreme
Court. Eleven out of thirtt-one State Sen
ators are negroes, and eighty out of one
hundred and twenty-four representatives.
In the Alabama Legislature fifteen out
of thirty-five Radicals are negroes, not- ,
withstanding the State is Democratic.
Thus it is in every section of the Uni
ted States where any victory has attended
them at all, it is wholly traceable to the
aid they have received from the negro
vote, accompanied by their partisan legis
lation. Will it not be a glorious triumph
for Radicalism to know that the 42d
Congress will contain sir or eight Congo
negroes to aid in making laws for the
government of this nation ?
Negroes elected from the devasta'ed
South, where we were told that five years
ago they could not read or write, but
were driven to their lalor like :feasts of
the field, and yet to-day they are foisted
by Radical power into the seats of our
Websters, - Clays and Adams', in a Radical
polluted Congress. The-vengeance of an
outraged people must come in 1872.
Itlibt of Government.
The. Democratic doctrines for this and
all campaigns are concisely set forth in
the following texts from ths fathers of
the Republic:
Ist. "A wise and frugal government
which shall restrain men from injuring
one another, which shall leave them oth
erwise free to regulate their own pursuits
and impTovement, and shall not take from
the month of labor the bread it, has earn
ed."
2d. a Equal and exact justice to all
men."
3d. U The 'support of the State Govern
ments in all their rights as the most com
petent administrations for our domestic
concerns."
4th. "The supremacy of the civil over
the military authority."
sth "Economy in public expenses, that
labor may be lightly burdened." •
6th, "The diffusion of information and
the arraignment of aU abuses at thebar of
public' reason." -
7th, "Thereon) no necessary evili in
governinent. its evils exist' only in its
abuses. If_ it would confine limit to equal
protection, aud i o bonen doesito rains,
shower.its favors alike on the high and
the low. the r ic hi and the poor, it would
be an nmpialified blessing."
All these Doctrines or Principles, it
will be seen, are against the Centralised
Government to which, under a Radical
Administration, the • nation is drifting.
De
!ntralized Government was a failure
when attempted under the Colonies, and
a greater failure, if possible. under the
Confederation. If the Government would
not, and could not, stand the, pres
sure of Centralization of the 13 drignal
States, surely it will break in pieces of its
own force if the attempt is made upon
nearly three times 13 States, and with a
dozen new States soon to ask for admis
sion into the Union.
. 4 AU Rlght"—agalln.
Democrats and " Revenue Reformers,"
the latter an off-shoot from the Radical
party, having a majority of 30 in the house,
the organization with the most import
ant committees of that body on the 4th of
March next will probably astonish neigh
bor Frazier. Snugly ensconced in his
stone house out of town,•he seems not to
have heard that such men as Senator
Trumbull, John A. Logan, Carl Schurz,
Cullen Bryant, Sumner, Sprague, the ed
iior of the Chicago Tribune, and a host
of others who were leading Radicals, are
running a new party called " Revenue Re
form." Trim your sails to the Western
breeze, Mr. Frazier—it blows pretty
strong.
Elector&
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Additional Election Bettina.
The official from Kentucky settles the
ono doubtful district in favor of the De
mocracy, thereby assuring an unbroken
Democratic delegration of nine represen
tatives in Congress from that State, and a
popular majority of over 30,000, not
withstanding the accession of 30,000 ne
gro voters to the Radicals.
Gratz Brown, anti-Grant candidate for
Governor, is elected over Mr. Clurg, the
Grant-Radical-Proscriptionist candidate,
by 35,000 majority, the Democrats carry
both members of the Legislature, and
together with the Revenue Reformers,
elect eight of the nine Cengressmon.
This victory is all the more important as
it re-enfranchises 70,000 white voters who
were put under the ban of Radical dis
franchisement for taking sides or sym
pathising with the South during the re
bellion, thus permanently establishing the
Democratic ascendancy in the State.
Grant tried his military experiment in
Maryland, as in New York, and Radier.l
- is routed "horse, foot and dragoons,"
the Democrats carrying every Congres
.4onal District in the State.
TiloYroommtY, November 15.—The
success of the Democratic State ticket is
generally conceded by from three to five
thousand majority. The House will stand
sixty-five Democrats to thirty-five Radi
cals, about-fifteen of the latter being col
ored. The last House was about eight
three Radicals to seventeen Democrats.
The Senate held over. That body stands
thirty-one Radicals to two Democrats.
It is doubtful which party has the ma
jority on joint ballot.
Grunt In Trouble.
Our Washington correspondent gives
two little items from the current political
gossip of the capital, which appear quite
credible, and are certainly interesting.
The first is that Senator Wilson has
deemed it necessary to put the President
on his guard against the influence of Ben
Butler, particularly in the matter of the
war policy that worthy is credited with
seeking to 'foist upon the administration
in the matter of the Alabama and the
fishery claims. That the country would
\not tolerate any wanton hostilities with
England is reported as the gist of the Sen
ator's advice, but it does not appear that.
the advice was very kindly taken.
The second item, likewise referring to
the occupant of the White House, con
sists in a curious story that President
Grant's wrath has been recently rekind
led against Mr. Motley by statements that
the minister had informed divers magn
ates of England that the present Chief
Magisprate of the United States was the
creature of an accident, and in one word,
a small man. Whether the truth pinches
1 or the idea that he is belittled before Eng
lish nobility is intolerable, Gen. Grant is
hardly able to smoke off the imputation.
—World.
IF" Biographers and newspaper obitu
ary writers have united in ascribing to
Gen. Robert E. Lee the best qualities of
heart and mind. A Cincinnati paper re
lates the following anecdote of the de
ceased, which does him honor: "One
day last antrum the writer saw Gen Lee
standing in his gate talking pleasantly to
an humbly-clad man, who seemed very
much pleased at the cordial courtesy of
the great chieftain, and turned ,of evi
dently delighted, as we came up. After
exchanging salutations, the General said,
pointing to the retreating form, 'That is
one of our old soldiers, who is in news-
Bitola! circumstances.' I took it for grant
ed that it was some veteran Confederate,
when the noble-hearted chieftain quietly
added. "He fought on the other side,
but we mustoot thiuk-of that." I after
wards ascertained—not from Gen. Lee,
for he never alluded to his charities—that
he had not only spoken kindly to this
'old soldier' who had 'fought on the other
side,' but had sent him on his way rejoic
ing in a liberal contribution to his neces
sities."•
nrCan nobody furnish our friends
with a recipe forlolding States after they
are made over on the strictest party plan?
Hero is West Virginia, cut out of the
side of the old Dominion for the express
purpose of being Radical in seeula mut
orumi gone Democratic by wholesale;
and hard upon its heels Nevada,- lugged
into the Union for the same purpose, goes
the same way. Then Missouri, made ov
er after the most approved pattern of
disfranchisement Drake could possibly
excogitate, "flops," following Tennessee,
also made over, "flopped;" and finally
here are once thoroughly reconstructed
North Carolina, Florida and Arkansas,
now as bad as ever, with Texas and Geor
gia champing on the bit to do, likewise.
Otir friends can make and remake, but
cannot bold.— World.
KENTUCKY.
MISSOURI.
MARYLAND
ALABAMA.
Enemies.
Senator Carl Schurz is to be read out
of the Republican party; his name is to
be stricken from tho important committees
in, the Senate; in short, he is to be ignored
by the party,:one of whose representatives
he declare himself to be. The Republi
can party is the best judge of its own af
fairs, and it knows, or at least should
know, whether, at a time when the or
ganization is only that in name, when it
is divided by feuds and jealousies of all
sorts, it can afford to put men of the
strength of Carl Schurz upon the benches
of the opposition. Sumner, Fenton,
Trumbull, and others of like calibre are
there already; will it be wise to force
Schurz to keep them company?
The latter's offense is, that during the
late Guberuatknal contest in Missouri he
was mainly ins mental in securing the
election of Gratz Brown over McClurg.
At least, he threw his influence in favor
of the former, while the administration
was equally demonstrative in support of
the latter. The political opponents of
Senator Schurz have endeavored to mis
represent the issues of the Missouri can
vass, and to prove that he betrayed his
party. The real issues of that contest
were three only, and they were simple
enough for any one to understand. They
were :
First, Internal Revenue Reform.
Second, A Universal Amnesty for po
ical offenders.
Third, Civil Service Reform.
'The Gratz-Brown party in asking for
lower taxes, a reduction of officials and
expenses in the Internal Revenue Bureau,
only asked that which the whole country
dentend&
In working for the enfranchisement of
all participants in the late Rebellion, it
simply recognized the fact that the war
had been over for a good many years, and
that the issue on which it was begun end
ed with triumph of the Union arms. To
give those who are taxed representation
is only statesmanship, and to restore on a
basis of amity the South is only wisdom.
That reform is needed in the civil ser
vice no one disputes, except the politicians
who are likely to be affected by its con
summation.
No better exposition of the real position
of Senator Scharr in the Missouri contest
can be given than is supplied by a speech
made by the newly elected Governor a
few days before the election was held.
He said :
"Fellow Citizens, Republicans, Demo
crats, Conservatives, Old line Whigs :
I address myself to all of you, because in
this canvass I have spoken to the people
of Missouri, without distinction of party,
in behalf of a common freedom equally
from political disablities applied to per
sons, and from the more subtle slaveries
of property, in the guise of taxation. In
making this canvass I have been assailed
by all the combined weight of a national
and State administration. The edict has
gone forth to the officeholders that their
heads would be in the barrel before the
moonlight if they dared to say their souls
were their own, and vote as freemen. The
levy of black mail on their slender salaries
has been ruthlessly carried on. Let me
say, then, that if this fight should go with
us, I shall claim all over the nation that
it is the verdict of a free people, that
power shall come from beneath and not
descend from above ; that the civil service
shall be purged of the partisanship that
breeds measureless corruption, and be
used no longer as a machine to elect to
office men whom the people do not want;
and that before God we will rewrite
Declaration of Independence, and declare
not merely that every man is horn free
and equal, but that every man shall live
and die free and equal in this our Re
public
money.
How can money compensate for the
disasters of the Democracy? Betrayed by
its own friends, and what is the meanest
feature of the mean transaction, by the
very men who have been pampered, and
fed and clothed, by a generous and con
fiding party. The men who have time
and time again been set aside and defeat
ed in their honest efforts for nominations,
were true to the ticket. Some of them
who have grown rich out of the party, in
dependent, they, like Arnold, went over
to the enemy. Is there any language too
severe in reprobation of the Conduct of
such men ? Were they not content with
the emoluments they had received through
the generosity of their party ? Must they
stab the very men who gave them polace ?
Who lifted them out of poverty,.and pro
vided them with wealth ? What return is
this? It was the warmed viper that stung
his benefactor ! It was Judas who be
trayed his master with a kiss!
Let those men who have sold their par
ty and barterel away its power, remember
that there wiil be a day of reckoning.
Let them also remember, that the same
men who seduced them from their party
allegiance, and who paid them the thirty
pieces of silver for their treason, now de
spise them as much as they whom for a
price they sold. The ingratitude they
have shown to their noble, but betrayed
party, cries aloud against them. Their
brethren whom they wickedly sold mast
inwandly curse them.—Luzerne Union.
Not Forty INlillons.
The indications are that the population
of the United States. will rather fall short
of the 40,000,000 at which it has been
genendly estimated under the census of
1870. In twenty-nine of the thirty-eight
States the increase is less than 6,000,000,
which would bring our population up to
between 36,000,000 and 37,000,000. The
remaining nine States will all, save New
York, give but, a small increase. The
chances are that we shall have about the
amount above stated, or just about that of
France, or of Prussia and her German de
pendencies. Had it not been fur the war
we should have had 42,000,000 or 43,000,-
4000 of people.
Revenue Relbrm.
The Chicago Tribune, the leading Re
publican paper in the West, breaks
ground boldy in favor of a union of Free
Trade Republicans and Democrats in the
next Congress, as well as in future politi
cal campai,,,ans. finch a coalition, accord
ing to the World's classification will give
thirty-three majority in the New House
of Representatives against the Radical
Protectionists.
A YEHuge Burnt.
SYRACUSE, N. Y, Nov. 20.—About 1
o'clock this mornings fire broke out in
the village of Baldesneville; twelve miles
north or this city. Almost the 'entire
southern portion of the village is .report
ed destroyed. Among the - structures
burned are several large flour mills. Lose
about $lOO,OOO.
reresu
Dreux has been occupied by the French
cures.
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Gibraltar is being reprovisioned.
Russia thinks. that England will not
Light
English diplomats regard war as inevi
table.
Troche's sorties before Paris has been
very suce.essfol.
Russian journals maintain that the
country is ready for war.
All the papers orLondon speak of the
Russian demand as insolent.
Tkiere is groat activity is preparing the
armament of Great Britain.
The peace party of the. English Cabi
net find no favor with the people.
England , claims that she will stand
firm, and not alone, to her treaty engage
ments.
All the great Powers of Europe are said
to be ready to reconsider the Paris Treaty
of 1856.
Dijon has been reoccupied by the Prus
sians in heavy force.
The Prussians are forcing the French
peasantry into their service.
A plot is said to have been discovered
against the life of Prim.
The Prussians are sending more artil
lery forward to Paris.
A new loan is contemplated by the
Government of Tours.
The attitude of England toward Russia
is growing decidedly warlike.
The forces of both contestants are con
centrating around Tou ry.
Russia's repudiation of the Paris Treaty
causes great excitement throughout Eu-
rope.
Matters are growing more warlike over
the position recently assumed by Russia.
Serious outbreaks have resulted from
the military precautions of the Madrid
Government.
Von Der 'fames horses, carriages and
his nephew have been captured by the
French.
Bismark claims that Prussia has not
joined Russia in the abrogation of the
I'aris Treaty.
The Duke of Aosta has been elected
King of Spain by the Cortes, the vote
standing 191 :against 120.
The English Cabinet claims to be in no
way deterred by the prospects of a collis
ion with Prussia.
Englund, Turkey, Austria and Italy
have agreed to preserve a common atti
tude toward Russia.
England is putting her navy on a de
cidedly war footing in view of a crisis on
the Eastern question.
A clash is expected to occur between
the Royalists and Republicans of Spain
over the throne question.
A treaty for the admission of Hesse-
Darmstadt into the North German Con
fedcrAtion has been signed. •
In the event of a declaration of war,
Egypt, Servia and Roumania will unite
against Turkey for their independence.
The Prussian barque "Hermann Helbe
manna" was blown up by a French frig
ate off the coast of Ireland on Wednes
day.
Minister McVeagh letters from Rome
state, has bad an attack of softening o
the brain, and is coming home. He wil
resign.
The Prussians have burned the railwa
stations and several other buildings at
Nemours, in the Department of the seine
et Marne.
The latest news from the scat of war
makes it appear that a change is about to
take place in the tide of affairs, and that
gru•st v.is.t.vey io Ctc,ll tArbr guinca by U.
French.
A report reached London yesterday
morning that the German steamers
-Hansa" and "Leigzig" had been cap
tured, but it subsequently turned out to
be erroneous.
Intense excitement exists in the gov
ernment circles of England over thecom
plications growing oat of Russia's at•
tempt to secure the revision of the Paris
Treaty.
Samuel Adams on 1111111tnry Rule.
The following sound words were writ
ten, not as one might snppose, at New
York in 1870, but ut Boston in 1758. It
was one Samuel Adams who wrote then
" No one can pretend to say that the
peace and order of the community is so
secure with soldiers quartered in the body
of a city as without them. Besides, where
military power is introduced military
maxims are propagated and adopted,
which are incontistent with and must
soon eradicate every idea of civil govern
ment. Do we not already find some per
sons weak enough to believe that an offi
cer is bound to obey the order of his su
perior, though it be even against the law?
And let any one consider whether this
ddctrine does not lead directly even to the
setting up that officer, whoever be may
be, as a tyrant."
How applicable these words of a revo
lutionary patriot, against the rule of
British red coats, to the rule of Grant's
troops now !
. Igir A very singular divorce case has
been broaght before the New York super
ior court, showing among other things,
the amount of villany that may be con
sumated under our divorce laws if the
parties to it agree among themselves. In
1868 Albert Peck, a New York business
man, married Mra. Matilda; S. Wilson, a
widow living in Washington. The moth
er of Peck is wealthy, antr•Peek wished
her to give him money with which to en
large his business. Shd had taken a dis
like to his wife, and accordingly promised
830,000 if he would get a divorce from
her. Peck told Mrs. Peck all about it,
and proposed that she help get the di
vorce, promising to re-marry her after the
money had been secured. It is asserted
by Peck that she consented to the ar
rangement; at all events she made no se
rious effort to prevent the obtainment of
a divorce. The services of a lawyer who
advertises to •"procure divorces without
publicity" were secured. It became nec
essary, of course, to show that the wife
had been guilty of ailultery, and this was
easily done, the oath of one Pratt, a book
keeper for Peck, being to that effect. The
divorce was then obtained, and likewise
the $30,000 promised by Peck's mother.
Now Peck refuses to re-marry his divorc
ed wife according to agreement, and she,
feeling aggrieved, brings snits to remove
the dsvorce, dechtring that she was never
guilty of adultery:With - I'oft or any oth
er man, and that accordingly the said
Prattr is a perjurer. The parties to the af
fair are evidently first-class deceivers and'
law breakers, and richly deserve punish
ment. No decision has yet been reached.
prisoners recently escaped from
the new jail at Wilkes-Barre.
—Hope springsetebal in the human
breast.
The Next Howe.
" What are these,
That look so unlike the inhabitants of the
earth,
And yet arc on It 4"
If Macbeth was a little astonished at
meeting such uncouth creatures as the
witches on terrafirsta,would it be a wond
er if more than one member of _Congress
of the Caucasian race, should be in a like
fix, at the opening of the National Assem
bly, when they behold, for the first time
in the history of the country, a number
of Africans, as black as the ace of spades,
upon the floor, claiming seats. The re
sult of the Sonth Carolina elections es
tablishes the fact that such will be the
case, and however deplorable it may seem
it must now be looked square in the face.
The Radicals of that State did not desire
this, but wanted the carpet-baggers elect
ed. They endeavored, by such political
contrivances as they had at their com
mand, to cajole the negroes and use them
for their own selfish purposes, but Sambo
rebelled, and in this, at least, exhibited
good sense. He aspired to be 'a man and
a brother,' in earnest, and now he has as
serted the rights which Radicalism pro
cured for him, we shall sep whether or
not his quondam friends will go back on
him. The time has arrived when the ne
groes mean to enforce in practice what
their allies have promised, both political
ly, legally and socially. 'There is a good
time coming.—Exchange.
Involuntary Suicide
A gentleman was nscently found dead
in his bed at a hotel in New York city
with a hole through his body, made by a
pistol ball ; the circumstances, position of
the body, etc., going to show that the
man shot himself while asleep, and there
fore unconscious of what he was doing.
The body, it appears, was carefully cov
eted up to the chin, proving that the
pistol must have been fired ander the
sheets, and also from the left hand. No
possible cause for the suicide—if such it
was—could be assigned; and it is suppos
ed that he was under the influence of a
vivid dream. In support of this theory,
a New York paper mentions an instance
where a gentleman came very near killing
his wife one night through a dream in
which he saw himself in the act of shoot-
ing a burglar. He awoke just as he was
about to pull the trigger, and, to his hor
ror found himself standing by the side of
the bed, with the weapon cocked in his
hand, lecelled at the head of his wife.
Had he killed her, but few persona would
have believed the truth of his protata-
lions Af innocence of murder. Instances
similar to this are not, w•e believe, with
out occasional umtion in the annals of
crime, nor yet entirely unknown to ju
risprudence.
The Reformed Order of Odd-Women I
is the title of a society in England, which
is described as a sort of cross between a
burial society and a convivial club, where
every woman is required to enliven the
meeting with her wit and defray expenses
with her money, but any sister who
swears, sings an improper song, or offers
an improper toast, or appears drunk, shall
be fined and otherwise punished.
—The Rochester Chronicle says: "It
is told us, on good authority, that Chris
topher Bush, who lives a mile and a half
from Parma Centre, has not tasted food
in thirty-seveu days: Mr. Bush is eighty
four years of age, and is subject to tits of
derangement. Thirty-seven days ago he
tvrosett to rat, and all efforts to persuade
him to take any kind of food are unavil
ing. For the first few days after he com
menced his remarkable fast he drank
water occasionally, but for the past four
teen days or more he has refused to drank.
—The following is given as a truthful
statement of the subsequent proceedings,
in a Michigan divorce case: "The wife
chopped a good wagon to pieces, entirely
reining it; split open 150 sap-troughs,
and burned up 10,000 shingles which her
husband had made. The latter, not to be
outdone, smashed up a stove and took off
a trunk which the wife claims had money
of hers in it, and she has now got him in
to jail on a charge of larceny, and is mon
arch of all she surveys, which at .present,
isn't much."
—The - importance of the Democratic
victory in New York cannot be overesti
mated. It is the precursor of the over
throw of the Republicans in the nest
Presidential campaign, and proclaims
the elevation to the chair now debased by
Grant to low, partisan purposes, of the.
noble citizen and high-minded and ac
complished Statesman—John T. Iloff
man.—N. Y. Sun.
—lt is not generally known we believe,
that the tax on auctioneer's sales ceased
on the first of 9ctoher, 1870. This will
be tin item of interest to those holding
public sales of personal property, who
have heretofore been obliged to pay a
certain percentage on the amount sold by
the assistant auctioneer, who made the
return to the assessors.
DEEP WATEn.—The deepest sea-sonnd
ing ever made was in the northern ex
tremity of the Bay of Biscay last year,
The depth was two thousand four hund
red and thirty--five fathoms—nearly three
miles. So praticed was the band of the
officer who made the sounding, that the
shock of the arrest of the weight at the
bottom was distinctly preceived by him.
The sinkers on the apparatus used
weight, three hundred and the time occu
pied in the descent was thirty-three min
utes and thirty-five seconds.
—The results of the election and the
overwhelming reaction in, favor of the
Democratic party ate given in the synopsis
of the election. In 1868 eight States
went Republican and siz Democratic.
Against these, in 1870 ten have gone
Democratic and but , two Republican.
—The Bellefonte Watchman says: The
Clearfield fair consisted of a calf, a goose
and a pumkin. We are told that it ruin
ed so hard the first night that the goose
swam off, the calf broke loose and eat up
the pumpkin, and the thief prowling
around stole the calf. And that, ended
the fair. - <.:- -
gChief Justice Chase addresses a
courteous letter to the Hon. Jerentialt 8.
Black upon the recent article published
by him in the Galaxy. - The only impor
tant public matter we find in the letter is
tho following:
"On one other pointl wish - to correct
your information, lest not -mentioning I
may seem to have admitted ita exactitude.
You state that " the Cabinet (Mr. Lill
coin's) voted six to one in favor of sur
rendering Fart Sumter; Mr. Blair being
the only dissentient. I never voted for
the surrender of Fort Sumter. My
grotinds of opposition to its surrender
were not, perhaps, the same, nor sp abso
lute as those of Mr. Blair; but I was
against it, and so voted.
I was in a position to be well informed,
and lam sure you would not, willingly
remain in error. Before all things, Jus
tice."
Subject to this correction, the statement
is contirmed that „M.r._Lipcoln, and the
majority of his Cabinet, were in favor of
snrrenderipg Fort Sumter. Ex-Secretary
Wells declares that a surreptitious effort
to deliver it up to the enemy was made
by Mr. Seward. These *ere the leaders of
the party which - has, with Impudent false
hood, attributed to Mr. Buchanap what
he never would listen to for a moment;
and now it seems it was "the policy" of
the incoming Radical administration.
—Tilt. majority for Hoffman in fifty
five counties .19 34,374. Five counties
have not yet reported the official vote,
but their reported majorities are as fol
lows: Sullivan, 437 for Hoffman; Tioga,
700 for Woodford ; Steuben, 800 for Wood
ford. If the official returns justify these
majorities, Gov. Hoffman's majority in
the State will be 32 352.
Adulterated Wines.
Wine drinkers may prepare themselves
from this tinie forward for the exercise of
all their skill in detecting fictitious com
pounds. The war iu France has desola
ted the principal champagne district.
Military and foraging operations have
been largely. carried on in the vineyard
country. The prices of the foreign wines
have already in some instances doubled.
The margin of profit is immensely in
creased in the manufacture of spurious
articles, the basis of which is produced by
chemical processes. The most innocent of
the, spurious campounds are California
wines, more or less "decocted," and the
most harmless deception in the trade is
the simple relabelling of California wines,
and putting them up in packages resem
bling the foreign. But the California
wines will not be, it is supposed, sufficient
to supply the market. Even a larger por
tion than at present of the wines and
brandies consumed will be innocent of all
I the hereditary properties of the grape.
The exhilaration of a counterfeit—or the
counterfeit exhilaration—is like all coun
terfeits, much worse than the genuine.—
Ledger,
Scathing Rebuke.
Onrs is nominally a free Republic, bnt
we have only to turn back in English
history 'to the time of Edward 1., in the
13th century, to find the following
among the statutes, which shows there
was more freedom than now
"Forasmuch as election ought to be
free, no man, by force of nrms, nor by
malice, nor menacing, should disturb any
to make free election.'
This is a statute of 600 years ago. Let
President Grant read it and be ashamed
of his milit•rw interference in our elect
ions.
NEAGAZIXE NOTICEf
The December No. of Destortar's Moirrui.v
MAGAZINE, besides giving the words and must'
of 31(111e. Nikion's favorite song (Spring and
Autumn,) and usual display of the only reliable
fashions, useful information, aild other rare
novelties, gives Mme, Dcm2res: S Mammoth
Bulletin Plate of Fashions, priet 30 cents, es a
supplement, all for 25 cents, post free. The
premiums offered by this model Magazine for
yearly subscribers aro unparalleled. Ass
chromo, equal in beauty to a fine oil-painting
size Ifixl3, is given to each subscriber; while .
for a club of two, or a tivo years' subscription,
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Wooing," after Jerome Thompson, being 08 in
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premiums equally desirable. Address W. JEN
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DEMUREST'S Vouso AMERICA, for December,
is sparkling as ever. Provident fathers and
mothers, who wish to cultivate the mental ap
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amusement, will find a rich feast for boys and
girls in each successive issue of Young America.
The December number, besides its usual array
of entertaining stories, engravings, puzzles,
music, poems, etc., has a complete suit of full
size patters for a doll. Extraordinary premiums
are offered to each subscriber, one of which is a
fine $5 chromo; or, for two subscriptions, a fin
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Yearly, $1.50. Address W. JENNINGS Diratouktvr,
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C3MISt
AIIIIINGTON—APPLE—Near Polo. MI Nov. 1,
at the residence of the bride's mother, by Rev.
Robert Proctor, Mr. 11. IL Ilarrington, of
Bridgewater, and Miss Sarah Apple, of the
former place.
EIZZIZVI'MCE3.
Surrn—ln Montrose, Nov. 15,1870, Lonnie, son
of Charles and Nettie Smith.
BrncnAim--In Stevensville, Brad. co., Nov. 16,
of consumption, John B. Birchard, formerly of
Middletown, aged 65 yens, 7 mos.
NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKETS.
Corrected weekly by William Ilodsdon, 231
Fulton St., New York.
Week ending Nov. 20, 1870
. 40042
. 3:5037
. 13@14
. 14013
80032
4.7306.45
2.20g2.30
1.20(41.50
03@1.00
. 51055
NOW
. mato
. 10(014
9®12
2.00@i3.00
o@lo
Butter, pail
" firkin_ _
Cheese, dairy, per lb
• " factory
Eggs, per din
Flour, per barre 1..........
Corn meal,loo lbs.
Wheat, per bushel
Ryo• • • • • • • •
Oats
Corn .....
Hops, crop of 1870........
Beef, sides, per lb
Hogs, ........
Potatoes, Or bbL ..... .
Tallow " .......
D ENTISTRY
MI those In want of false Teeth or other dental work
should call at the alike of the enbserlbers, who are pre
pared to do ell kinds awerk la their line on abort notice,
Particular attention paid to making fill and partial
setts of teeth on gold, Silver, or gamin= plate ; also on
Westm's mat composition; the two latter preferable to
any of th4cheaper imbalances ow used for dental plates.
Teeth of yonngperione regulated, and made regrow in
natural shape.
The amount! , of basing work done by permanently k.
rated and responsible parties, Intuit be apparent to all.
All work warranted. Please , call and elamlne spect
ate= of plate work at our cake, Over Bri.Pra Ca's hard
ware store.
W. W. MUTH A
,111110THEIL
Montrose, Aug,lB, 1869.—tr
vißF;ti gIREL. FIREI—Yoqr housp
may bare- nett. Beek 'rano at once, tuber to the
Lessers.
Swarth. N.Y., • • $9 An oo ,
Manhattan, . 1,000,000 00
North Ateerizint, . . .
. . 825,000 00
Hanover, - • - . . 450.000 00
Girard, Philadelpbia, - 91/0,000 00
Roma" L. . . . . 000,000 00
137 Nwwich, Cron.; chartered V1T.1933,the oldest stock
Co., In Conneettent All of the above are old established.
ant elan Companies, me, and reliable, having been
tried end proven. Look out for little new wild - eat corn.
Wiles sPrifiging op all over the country
and
to make
money: .Call or eetulyour aPPLlcations, and I will sea
ilult."l4 ' frs 4147- - L ealt wita llENßY C. Tinant_.
re& rdtb luta deraagusUiariaceAgent. Otthe W_OW Of
PD. /.444 )fritltttle. • •
atna 1,-181M-il •
The Montrose Detnoorat
?SUSSED of WEDTITSDAT NOSSITS. AT MOSTSIOSS
BasquAlualri. Comm. PA.. ST
an. S. atr:Jilvfocrzazrar,
AT $2 rsa Rasa: a Atmoics—oa $2 A 2 MID 07TILAII
Sates of Adiertlalng.
Thrao-fmnika Intl of apace, or less, make a %mum
One square, 5 weeks or Imo. $l.OO ; 1 mo. $1i0; 3 moo
62.30; ifmo. $4.50; 1 year. $l3, -
Onoolghtkool., 1 mu, $1.00; &mt. $0.00; Imo. SLIM;
1 year. $20.20.
Onaluarter col„ 1 um. $6.50; 3 mo. $13.00;'6 mo. $3O ;
1 year, VD.
Halt column; 1 mb. $1200; 3 mo. $35.00 • (Mr. MON
1 year. $55.00. • •
0120 COICIIM l Lao. $25.00 3 too. 65$ 10; Imo. $Oll.OO
1 year $lOO.OO.
Auditor's Notices, $2 a 0 ; Executors' and Admlnlatm•
tors' Notteen, $3.03: All e Immookftloos of Milted-or
Individual interest, Meta. perline. Obituary Notices, 10
cto per line. Maine and Death Notices
Job 'Printing executed neatly and promptly at
fah pri
Deeds, Mortgagee, Note,. Justices', Constables
School end other blanke for sale.
I)il Ali :ONO) :4411
COUNTY OFFICERS.
President Judge—lion. F. B. Streeter.
Associate Judges—A. Baldwin, R. T. Ashler.
Prothonotary sod Clerk of Courts—J. F. Sheen Akre.
Register, Recorder. de.—Jerome U. Lyons.
l'istrlct Attorney—D. W. Searle.
Trearctrer-13enJarolo Malden.
Sheriff—Wm. T. tioxley.
Deputy Sheriff—M. B. lielme.
Sorcerer—James W. Chapman.
Contmleslot.ers—Semi Shout. J.T T. Ella, Preserved
Weds.
Commissioners' Clerk—Wm. A. Crosemen ,
Jory Commissioners—F. B. Streeter, ea °Pleb, Daniel
Brewster, Wm. A. Crossmou
Aodttors—F. B. chandler, Tracy Hayden, lIIII.Jones.
Coroner—Ur. C. C. Halsey.
OFFICERS OF AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY
Wm. 11. Jessup. President; 11,1d.Jones,Jameegas
son, Vico Presidents; 0p0..A. Jessup, Correaporatiog
Secretary; Ilenry C. Tyler, Recanting Secretary
B. Gere, Treasurer; It. 11. Harrington, A. Reldwln,
U. U. Skinner, Executive Committee. ,
IIIONTRO3E SaMIUDGEWATEU ASYLUM.
litnrwrow.a.—John Trumbull, M.L.Cou,, B. /ADO=
Truwerer —B. Thatcher.
Secretary—Bent. L Baldwin,
Struurd—David Martin
Physician—Dr. J. D. Vali..
BOROUGLI OFFICERS
Borges—C. M. Gera. Connell—W. A. Ctertrooin,
W. W. Watson. A.. 1. Gerritson, Wm. 11. Jeson_p, C.
Crand.dl,.l. F. hhocmaktr, D. Drawstcr,D. F.Austla,
11. A. Dams.
Constable—John C. Howell.
ogh Constable—Charles J. Wldpplo.
School Dlrrctors—Wm. Tl.Josinpa. D. DeWitt, W.
W. Wateon, D.-Thatcber, D. F. Aiutin, C. C. HAlser.
!MIST/MS.
Pret.hyterian—Ticv. Jacob ri. Biller
Evi•oopal—Rev. E A. Warriner.
raptlrt—lter. L. B. Ford.
Methodist -Rey. Sing Elwell.
Catholic—lter. J. F.lattcry.
==!
Warren eh-Tier, No. 100, meets at Maio=le lUD of
Thursday of each month on or before full moon.
Warren Lode•, No. MI A. V. IL, meets at Masonic
11.11 the first Wrdnesday of each month on or Wont
fall moon, and the second Wednesday thereafter.
Montrose Lodge. No. 151. T. 0. of 0. F.. meets at Odd
Fellow. Mall every. Tuesday er ening. •
Bt. John'o Encampment. No. W. meets at Odd Ira.
lowa Mall the Viand 4th Friday each mobth.
lirbecct bevels !.e! e, No.:, meets at Odd Fellows
Hail the lirek aad third Friday mieh month.
llnntrore I.nrige. 1. O. of O. T. meets at Good Temp
lar, Hall every Monday evening.
Good Snmeritit i Teeple of Honor, No. 16 meets at
Good Templars' ['Ali thead Friday of each month.
List of Jurors..
Drawn for Term commencing Nov. 14.:
TtuvEnsk Juttons:--21.1 week.
Auburn—Peter Ace, Thomas Sheridan, Mar
lain Wilcox.
A polacon—Jos. Beebe.
Ararat—Robert H Dunn.
Bridgewater -Lorenzo Beach, Francis Tingla
Brooklyn—James 31 Newton, Chas. F. T eri
go. Hother Reynolds.
Choconut—Michael Behan.
Clitiord—Seward E
Dinmek—Lyman Blakeslee, Sumner Deane,
Austin B Lathrop, Loren Newton, Urbane
Smith, Volney N 011117..
Franklin—James C Wheaton.
Friendsy ille—Robert Winters.
Gibson—Wm Tarbox, Henry B. Ellsworth.
Great Bend tp.—Thomas Wright, Addison
Belford—John Leslie.
Harmony— Jcs. 0 Taylor.
J..supDavid Shay.
Jackson—Stephen Tucker.
Lathrop—Wm. J Baker, Cleo. Decker.
Lenox—Dennis onR McNamara.
Montrose--Anthony Beck, Henry C Tyler.
Middletown Lawrence Curley, Newell Bar
num John Jones.
New Milford Imro—Gen. 13 Foot.
New Milford tp—Wm. C Handriek, David
Wellman.
Springville—Warren B Lathrop.
ffipcti I goticrg.
Profevors BllCalSall & Down of the Astaricars
Univarsity, are making innaliellei erns
of Weirs Tumours and Ulcers by their
new discovery, A painless revetment, as
knife, no plasters, no coast&
t
the met ro=
at, 0 erect I el. % dorsi :Si of this
treatment fs, it me
ntos the then :deal aliments of mom=
growths, as that they Shrivel, die and disc.
- - appear and will not return, All those af
flicted can cillthe Professors Buchman & Down,
tralversityt or t2dress, No. 614 Pine Street, Made.
or Getting Married —Essays for young llen,els
the delights to home. and the propriety or Imuroprlety
Gruelling married, with sanitary help for those who
feel unOtted or matrimonial hoPpi nes*, Sent free. In
tattled envelopes. Address, IIOWARD ASSOCIATION
1-ox P., Philadelphia. Ns.
rwr Bloomsburg State Normal School.
and LITRRAIIT & CO.IIIIIrILCIAL bar/Wm.—The Facalty
of this Institution Alm to be very thorough la tbelr In
struction, and to look carefully alter the health, gun
ners and morels of the students.
Apply for Catalogue to HENRY CARVER, A. M.,
Sept. 25-ly Priatipol.
IA Body and Maud Dlaenso.—The stoat
ch and the brain arc too Intimately allied for Um ono to
offer without the other, so that dyspepsia and despond
ncy are inneperable. , It may be add ad, too, that tufts
ion of the stomach is almost invariably accompanied by
natation of the tamper.
The Invigorating and tranquillizing °portion of Has
tetter'a Bitters is most powerfully developed In muses of
indigestion, The first effect of this agreeable tonic in
comforting and encouraging. A mild glow prey:ides the
system, the chronic numainesa in Abe region of the
stomach is lessened, and the nerrleas realness which
enaracterizcs the disease is abated. This improvement
Is not transient. It Isnot succeeded bf the return of the
old symptems with soperadded torte. as Is always the
case when nnmedicated stimutants are given far the
ra.. taint.' Each dose seems toimpart a permanent . s 4
cession of healthful invigoration. But this is not all.
The aperient and antibillious properties of the prepara
tion are scareely secondary In importance to Us mulct
virtues. littera is an overflow of bile the secretion .le
soon brought within proper limits, and if rho Minty em
gun is inert and torpid it Istotted and regulated. The ef•
fret upon the discharging organ is equally salutary, and
in curs of constipation the cathartic action fa put intfn
dent to produce the deshed resell gradnally and without
pain. The Bitters also promote healthy evaporation
from this surface which is particularly desirable at Ibis
season when sodden spells of row. unpleasant weather
are apt to check the natural perspiration and_prodnee
congestion of the liver, coughs, mid colds The boat
safegaud against all diseases is bodily vier. and this '
the great Vegetable Reatorative essentially promotes.
ERIE RAILWAY.
ano mile* under one managenient-BCe =Dee lath
out change of combo.. Broad gouge, double tr.ck roots
to all points west. north-west and southAtest. New
‘nd improved Concha ire run through talthOUt
to Rochester. Buffalo, Dunkirk, eloYclautt, and Cfneta
.
natl.
°nand altar Non day,Jane 18, 1870. Train Willem,
Dingbamtan lathe folluwli34 boars, _
a.m Died Madre's, (Mondays excepted)
tCM
I. nu Night Rxprese. daily.: '
6elo a. m. Usti Train. Sands,. excepted, toe Dada.
and Dunkirk...
3:k3 p. m.ElmimAccommodstion, Sired ay excepted,
sad p. m. Dayllxiirest.trandaye excepted.
1:15 p. m. Express Mali, Sendsys excepted.
4.55 p. m. Wey Freight. tinadays excepted.
1:20 p. lll..Eculgrafrat Tints, daily for Me west.
1=1:1=72
11.3 a. pa. Night Expires, Sundays exeeptet.
731 a. m.Cluclnaati Express, "agendas excepted.
p. m. Day it.qpres,, Sundays exceptt d.
7:D3 a. la. Ace .mmodattan TraM. dIU7 fey duppehazz a .
Men. to. Elmira Mall. Suneart excepted; -
&45 p.m. NcwTorkffialt, Buda; excepted.
10111 p. m. Llgtdateg Dapresa.ustly.
edo a. m. Way Freight, snodaye excepted. •
.BAGGAGE CRECICED Timm.
yortleed and complete" Poekat Time Table^ of
PamwagesTralna on Mla Railway and frapectiwar
lines has recently been publi abed, and CIA be au on as.
plleattonlo the Ticket Agent of the Company.
L. I),lttroirM WM. a. tut%
Gen'l euel sues it"
tuner /Tn.