Zltt pontrog Alemotrat.
2. B. HANELF e :i, EDITWt.
IZIDWEROSIC. PENNIA :
WEDNEBII.I V. AUGUST 30. 1871.
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.
FOR AUDITOR GENERAL,
GEN: WILLIAM WCANbLESS,
ME=l
FOR SURVEYOR OF-NER A
CAPT. J A3IES H. COOPER;
OF LAW.II=CX COUNTY.
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.
FOXL SENATOR.
REUBEN T. STEPIIENS—Breat Bend.
[Subject to decision of Conference.]
ron REPRESENTATIVE.
DANIEL BREWSTER—Montrose.
Pon DISMICT ATTOILSEY.
GEORGE P. LlTTLE—z3iontrcrse.
on COUNTY TREASCIII3/1.
GEORGE. R McCOLLLT3I—New Milford.
POE ASSOCIATE nrpovi.
HENRY J. WEBB-3lontrose.
GAYLORD CURTlS—Susquettnnna Depot
FOR com - missioNen.
FREDERICK TAGGERT—Midilletowtt
FOR COUNTY AUDITOR.
L. C. 8311T1I—Bridgewater.
THE CONTEST IS OPEN.
For lack of time we omitted to allude
to the action of the Convention which
met last week, and the ticket which it
nominated. It is unnecessary for us to
make any extended comment upon the
men who have been disignated to lead the
Democratic party of this County, as they
are, or the most of them, so well known
throughout the County that no doubt is
left in the mind of any one of their
honesty, fitness, and competaucy to fill
the various offices for which they have
been named, and also, that tl.ey are true
representatives of our partly aod its noble
principles, and we believe atilt times past
that the October election 'will find every
Democratic 'vote recorded in their Y , sup
port.
Never was there a greater truth uttered,
than when it was said that "Right must
finally prevail." The "bow of promise"
is now clearly seen in the political heavens
which inspires us with the hope that the
flood of fraud and corruption which has
threateried the destruction of republican
institutions is about to be swept from
the national horizon, and that the blood
bought liberties" of the people under an
impartial and honest administration of
the Constitution and the laws are again
to shine forth in all their former fkmo
erotic purety. It is in the power of those
who hold the ballot to continue the
one or bring about the other, aid the
lily home to every votet: 'Ma will vote
do?
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It is unnecessary for us to ask the above
question 'to those who have battled for the
right through years of persecution that
are past, for he who is established upon
truth and right cannot change, but we
present it to those who hare given their
support at the ballot box to place in pow
er the present horde of corrupt officials.
We hoist a ticket at the head of onr col
umns, both State and County, composed of
a class of men whose public acts and private
honor are alike untarnished, hence there
is no excese for any.r4an to vote againA
it, but by doing so he- wilfully and iu the
light of- knowledge declares in favor of
the most infamous corruption, and
thoroughly organized and high handed
national robbery that ever cursed any
Country.
Do you want more proof than is being
developed every day, almost, of their de
falcations, frauds, and whole sale plunder
ing of the people's money, wrenched from
them by a most ruinons—sfstem of taxa
tion and financial policy ? Are you satis
fied with the condition of your priceless
liberties as freemen, which are iu the
hands of a Military satrap and subject to
his will, who can over-ride the most
sacred and inalienable right of an Ameri
can citizen, freedom at the ballot box, by
military coercion ? Are you satisfied that
your civil freedom shall continue in the
hands of a mercenary, of ceseeking Presi
dent, who has a tyrannical power vested
in him, equal to that of the most un
limited despot, who can for his own ag
grandizement, over-ride the civil courts,
and-wield his military sceptre over their
rains, and by suspending the writ of
habeas corpus, ;loom each and every op
ponent to the perils of a drumhead court
martial or a political bastile ? That ho
has these powers no one will deny, and
that he will use them, has been but too
clearly demdnstriited both in our own
State and that of New York at our last
election. Do you wish longer to beground
down by enormous taxation, a major part
of which if not stolen by base defaulters,
goes to feed a ravenous horde of petty
officials, and furnishes a corruption fund
which is used to demoralize the people,
manipulate conventions and bribe legis
lators to make laws for the further:Zince pf
their diabolical schemes ? Are you not
satisfied with the terrible and costly ex
periment of Radical rule for the last few
years, and do you not long for a return to
hone and constitutional liberty ? Let
your and your action at the polls in
October decide. Then and there declare
either for or against the present misrule
'of our once prosperous nation. It is not
too late to mend. affairs at this time but
let the present condition of things continue
long, with suck rapid and unmistakable
strides towards centralization in the future
as have been made in the : past, and the
doom of repnblieinklustitutions is, sealed.
The ways are belore - you, choose befieen
them.
t A Full Poll of the Democratic Vote.ol
fo- will Secure the Election of Our State
G Ticket by a Large Majority.
tiir Let Every Democrat Remember that,JEl
grand impress the Truth of it Upon the .
rir Minds of HiiNeighbora I! - 4E3
saecoosmia.ea,.
STATE TREASURY ROBBED
• A HMS RENO OP COMEX OYPICLM.
"ISsarea,g , 'is 3:11.46.1.c1uci,
TRIM WILL NOT DISGORGE.
In 1867 a ring of officials obtained au;
thority from the legislature for the ap
pointment of a special agent to collect
DISALLOWED iND SUSPENDED claims due
the State from the General Government.
Governor Geary at once appointed G. 0
Evans to do the work.
Withfnn forty days he received 81,383,-
000 that belonged to'-the State. If he
could accomplish this so easily, why could
not the State Treasurer do the same ? ,
At subsequent dates he received other
sums, until the whole amounted to nearly
$3,000,000.
This money was paid mainly by drafts
payable to the order of John • W. Geary
Governor.
Of this vast sum a $3G3,523.85 has nev
er reached the treasury of the State, and is
now in .the possession of George 0. Evans
and the corrupt ring of State officials
who run the Government and administer
the finances of the State, and other prom
inent Republican politicians.
The project was framed by the men who
control the republican party of Pennsyl-
vanta.
They are the men who have robbed the
treasury and the people.
Why did they not expose this embezzle
meta long since?
Why did the treasury officials fail to
collect this money for nearly four years?
Why do they neglect Now to proecute
the offenders if they are not their accom
plices ?
Why do they seeklo remove from his
office the man who has exposed the fraud?
Why arhey so anxious to elect an au
ditor gaeral who will be their own
creature ?
Let the candid Republican read the
facts as shown up by the Philadelphia
" Bulletin," a Republican paper, and de
termine for himself the truth or falsity of
the charges* ire make.
The Ruling Passions Strong in Death.
-The Radical politicians of Ohio, read
ing the band-writing on the wall to the
ei r gi l gt4,Weri A NlVElN
very silly story to the effect that he is in
sace. It is needless to say that there is
not one word of truth in the report—that
it was circulated for the sole purpose of
injuring a brave soldier and the cause he
represen to
A leading physician of Pittsburg, who is
himself a Radical, and who Was with
General McCook on Monday last and also
on Tuesday morning, says that he is
ashamed of his party for circulating such
falsehoOfis. The General has exerted
himselrtoo =eh in the canvass during
is e past thtee weeks and that he is
threatened with paralysis in consequence.
With care and quietness, it is hoped he
will again be able to take the stump in
two weeks. He will remain for the pres
ent at his home in Steubenville, and in
the meantime, General George W.
.Mor
gan and General Thomas Ewing will fill
the General's appointments. So much
for one of the most heartless lies ever in
vented, which will return only to plague
its inventors.
—When Radical office-holders are rob
bing the State .Treasury of thousands, is
it not high time that a check should be
put upon them by electing a Democratic
Auditor General to settle their accounts
and see that no, improper ones are paid ?
There is a reported deficit unaccoun
ted for, inthe Post Office Department, of
nineteen millions of dollars! Verily the
people pay dearly for the services of Rad
ical thieves!
—One of Gov. Geary's State ag,ents to
collect war claims, Geo. 0. Evans, is a de
faulter to the amount of *363.523. 34!
Verily the people pay dearly for Radical
agents!
United States Treasurer Spinner
fails to account for Treasury warrants
drawn by him to the amount of over
throe MilliOUß of dollars I The dates of
the respective warrants and amounts of
each are given. Where is the money ?
Verily the people pay dearly far Radical
rule !
Secretary Bontwell hatt''spent about
a million of dollars in trying to sell four
hundred millions of Government bonds
and has utterly failed! So mnoh for the
boasted government credit under Grant's
Radical administration.
The New York Ifereury calls for an
examination of the books of the Treas
ury Department. It sayS:
The people are not allowed to know
anything about the disposition of the
revenue of the country, amounting to
over 8400,000,000, beyond Each facts as
the officers of the Treasury ma? vouch
laafe toigive. Let the books of the Treas
ury Department be examined at once,
that the people may know what hair been
done with their money. Federal thieves
have been employed ip the greenback bn
irean for years, and they have become
wealthy on moderate salaries , Let the
zeid of corruptiou be cleansed at any Mt.
Radical Rascality.
Within the last.monthstays the West
chester Jefersonian an unusual number
of Radical thefts have come to light.
First we bad the expose Made by Secreta
ry Boutwell of the defaulting Internal
Revenue. Collectors ; next-the "big steal"
of l'ostruaster General Cresswell; next
the exposure of Boatwell's thefts by his
conscience keeper,,detective wood,of the
Treasury departthent f and as the most
bare faced and .unblushing fraud of
George 0, Evans, State agent for tile col
lection of the Pennsylvania War Claims.
We venture to say tnat no government on
the face of the earth, no matterhow corrupt
can make such an exhibit of fraud and
rascality equal to that made in this coun
try within the past month. Of bourse
the effort will be made to cover up these
robberies lest it might injure the pros
pects of the " God and morality" party.
The Evan's fraud however is so bold and
patent that it is found impossible to shield
him and his accomplices entirely, and so
with the view of making a virtue of ne
cessity none of the radical papers, with
the exception of The Press and Harris
burg Stale Guard, attempt to defend him,
but by denouncing him hope to draw pub
lic attention from the greater and more
hellions crimes of the Federal officials.
One phase of the Evans fraud they wish
and intend if possible never to expose,
and that it the names of his accomplices,
lest some of those high iu authority
might be implicated.
With the view of throwing what light
we can upon this branch of the subject
we wish to make a plain statement of a
few facts. It is admitted by all that ,the
joint resolution authorizing the appoint
ment of the agent was loosely drawn if
not drawn with intent to assist in the
commission of the fraud. The resolution
was introduced in the Legislature by Sen
ator Connell and fathered in the House
by Elisha W. Davis, both " trooly loll,"
and both from Philadelphia. Now was
either or both of these men implicated
in the fraud—wilt they answer?
The vote in the Senate and i liouse we
are unable to give. Toe Joint resolution
was approved by Gov. Geary on March
22d,1867, and on the same day he ap
pointed George 0. Evans State Agent to
collect the Pennsylvania War Claims.
Mr. Evans, notwithstanding he had the
handling of immense sums of money, has
never made any report of whether or how
be performed his responsibilities, nor was
never called upon for any by either the
Governor, Auditor General, or State
Treasury, until after his eyposure; when
otir bullet riddled Governor hastens to
approve his course by saying that he con
sidered Mr. Evans " a most satisfactory
agent." Does it not look as though Geary
was in the ring? Ifow does the auditor
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conneC ion with flits niiifier. The 1" /r
-ainy Telegraph of Tuesday last says:
"The State Treasurer and Auditor
General had full control of the matter for
five years past, having Evans tinder their
particular charge. As accounting officers
they knew every cent of vouchers Evans
had in his possession from time to time.
having all pass through their bands, and
it was their duty to call him to account
from time to 'time on any routine or
schedule they might fir, and if they hare
not done so, and reported annually to the
Legislature the disposition of every cent,
they have not performed their duties."
Are the skirts_of the Attorney General
clear? We fear not. Ile has permitted
Evans to be at large for the past two
weeks, parading the streets of Harrisburg
and Philadelphia, as though an innocent
and unoffending citizen, instead of arrest
ing him for embezzlement. His Deputy
Attorney General, who ferreted oat this
grand piece of rascality,• refusing to re
sign has been discharged.
Does not these facts all point to Geary,
Ilartranft, Mackey - and Brewster as the
accomplices of Evans?
But we will be greatly surprised if the
whole affair is not smothered up, lest "the
party of great moral ideas" might suffer
damage. If however, this whole matter
and all concerned in it are-not fully and
thoroughly exposed and punished, the
people of the Commonwealth will hold
that party responsible who placed in posi
tions of honor, trust and profit, men unfit
and unworthy of the slightest confidence
or regard.
Upon the Republican party must rest
the odium of the Evans "Steal" until
they expose and bring to justice every ras
cal concerned in it.
More Railway Slaughter.
Death rode the rail on Saturday, and
reaped a rich harvest. No less than three
accidents occurred on that date, two of
which were accompanied with loss of life.
The most serious affair took place on the
Eastern Railroad of Massachusetts, by
wnich twenty-five persons were killed and
forty wounded. Fire was added to the
horrors of the scene, and a score of the
victims were roasted to death. A couple
of trains collided upon the Philadelphia
Railroad the same day, near Westport,
killing five persons. A gentleman wa
badly injured on Saturday afternoon, by
the canon the Schuylkill and Susgnehan
na 'Railroad, running over a cow. The
occurrance on the Maifsachusetts road
seems to have proceeded from sheer care
lessness, as an express tram ran into an
accommodation train while the latter was
standing still. Such occurrences should
always be made the subject of examina
tion, and theguilty parties punished in a
severe manner. A few engineers and con
duotors hanged would have a most salutary
effectenpon railroad management in this
country.
Gold on Saturday was inactive, with
a slight accession of stiffness, opening at
11211.; going up to 112}; later In the day
falling to 1121, but dosing finally at
1121, the same as heretofore noted. Ster
ling caliange 123 a Int
The Bolters from the Temperance
Convention,
The editor of the It'eystoge Guod
lar ways for the intruacidate Joshua
Owens,the Combee and
fur certain reimblietui newspaper in a
lively style.: A day or two after the ad
jouriernent of the State temperance con
vention the following item appeared iu
the Harrisburg stalc,fuerind:.
" limbers of the Democratic State
Central Committee, it is said,. were in
Harrisburg on 'Wednesday, engineering
the proceedings of tht temperance con
vention. We do not know this to be true,
but give it as a charackristic"part of the
democratic intrigues to insure the defeat
of the republican patty. Temperance
men who are republican; will appreciate
this statement."
To which the Good Tonplar replies w 3
Follows:
That editor keeps on the safe side of
this story, by saying "le does not know
this to be true." But, Le kusms that it
is a lie, manufactured by himself; and
he doubtless knows, to), that the only
" State Central Comniittee" influence
that appeared in Harrisburg on that oo
casion, was the appearance of a republi
can party delegation of curbstone mem
bers of the convention, who came in the
interest of their party, and made them
selves extremely ridiculous by first trying
to get into the convention which they
could not do, and second, by publishing a
card seceding from aconventton of which
they were not members.
It seems to us that the bogus bolters
and their radical editorial backers get de
cidedly the worst of it in the controversy
which is now going on.—Lemcastcr
In(c•!-
llgcncer.
Telling the Truth About the Evans
The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, a
staunch Republican journal, comments
thus upon the Evans case:
" The exposition of the defalcation of
the " Special Agent of Governor Geary,"
as he is called, to which we hare devoted
so large a portion of our attention during
this week, has excited surprise and indig
nation throughout the State. - It is not
only that we have unearthed what we
think the law will call the embezzlement
of Three llnndred Thousand Dollars of
the State's funds. That would be bad
enough. ltut in doing this, we have must
unexpectedly developed a very singular
disposition on the part of the highest of
ficials of the State to excuse and shield
the accused agent, instead of adopting
promptest and stearnest,mensures to pro
tect the State and punish the offender.
Governor Geary has undoubtedly con
nived at the irregularities of his agent,
for years past. The discovery of his se
cret agreement with hint bars all plea of
ignorance of his malfeasance. The desire
to drive Deputy Attorney General Mc-
Clure from his office, as a punishment for
exposing the fraud, and the declaration
that he is entirely satisfied with the agent's
conduct, are among the unanswerable
profs that Governor Geary has preferred
to shield Mr. Evans, rather than to pro
tect the interests of the State.
Why Governor Geary shon4 have
stood between his special agent and ex
posure, needs to be explained. Mr. Evans
has kept three hundred and twenty thqus
.
the money has been, in some way, spent. j
We were led, at first, to hope that the
bulk of it was within reach of legal pro
cess of recovery. But we fear now, that j
this is not the case. But where is it? Mr.
Evans can tell if he will; and if an hon
est use has been made of it, there enu be
no object in concealing it. We shall ac- ;
cuss nu one of sharing in these spoils un
til we get the proof. But when we do I
get it, we mean that the public shall have
Attorney-General Brewster has not
moved with very groat rapidity fa follow
ing up this important case. NEaking till
allowances for the deliberate processes of
the law, it is hard to understand why the
Special Agent is not already under arrest.
Wo take it for granted, that the Attorney.
General will do his duty, after a while;
but, considering the promptness of the
financial officers Of the Government, the
public natural) Tooke for a similar activ
ity in the law department.
Married Women in Long Branch.
Oliva, the gushing correspondent
the Philadelphia Preß•,.gices the follow
ing sketch of a certain class of married
women at Long Branch :
- All gatherings at Long Branch, wheth
er they take place in the water, on the
lawn, or in the large parlors, remind the
observer of a woman suffrage convention.
According to a physical necessity, women
must have matters all their own way.
Whilst men are at home toiling at their
self-appointed tasks, women are here
spending money as though it were water.
Iu the Orient a woman must hide her
face, and keep herself sacred for the man
who furnishes everything to make life
just what it is in the highest ranks of the
East. According to this custom there
must be some secure return for the ven
turesome outlay. In the Occident women
are rulers and men ale slaves, thanks to
the progress of the nineteenth century. A
married woman of the fashionable kind at
Long Branch has arrived at that point
where there is nothing more that, can be
expected or desired. She has a suite of
rooms set apart for ler exclusive use. She
has servants who Mao neither eyes nor
ears. She has a carriage lined with satin
as luxurious us eider-clown which comes
and goes by a wave of her jeweled hand.
She bus a professional bather to take her
into the briny fluid, who knows how to
manage, so that even the Atlantic shall
not visit her Cheek to roughly. She has
usually a very young man attached to her
by invisible reins, after the dramatic
manner of Aunt Trotwood i and Mr. Dick.
This innocent creature fills the measure
of her vanity when nothing better has
been gathered. for the slaughter. The
most desperate flirtations are seething and
bubbling whilst the husband is growing
bald with hard thinking in Wall street.
If this woman' with any progeny
she has a nurse or governess for every
child, whilst a French maid waits at her
elbow to comb and adjust her false hair,
to powder, pencil, and paint, to unhook,
unlace or untie. Why, Queen Elizabeth
wos denied more than half the luxuries
this American princess enjoys. What re.
turn to the world does this woman make
for all she takes out of it? Her mental
organization is us false as her physical,
and yet New York sends scores of just
such women to all the' fashionable resorts
in the country. Can women be said to be
enslaved whenwe have such pictures be
fore our eyes? If such are in bondage, it
is only the God who created them can
unseal their eyes, notwithstanding Mrs.
Cady Stanton and Parson Beecher.
Fire at Williamsport —Loss $225,000. 1
On l. 4 unday evening last a fire brake.
out in Eagle stable, in the alley in the,i
rear - of Captain Else'illutelyin Williamt
sport, and, a high wind pie ailing, forty.;
six buildings were. destroyed berureT thi,
flames could be extinguished. AMong.;
the structures burned are IMebler's hall;
Vares' brick row, the residence of ex-
Gu \ ernor Pucker, William Vanderbilt's ,
fine dwelling and the new Methodist
dwell. The latter building was just
completed—the bell having heen put in
its place Just Saturday.
.The 105,.w ill i
reach $.4'.!25,000. with an insurance of
about $135,000. The fire is supposed to
have been the work of an incendiary.
The line residence of the late Governor
Packer, ant occupied by his widow, was
completely destroyed. - Very little furni
ture was saved. The library of the gov
ernor, which was a line one, embracing
many rare and valuable books, was entire
ly consumed. The collection of coins had
been removed sonic time since.
gond Otttellig cwt.
RELIOIOIIB SERVICES
BAPTIST RET. L B. Nunn, Pastor
Sabhatit Service , . 10) 5 " E. ra, awl p,
Sabbath SLhool 11 m
Pra)er Meeting, Wednesday Evenings
CATIMILIC C Ill' RC11,... lbw. J. SuArrcln'
Sabbath Servicop ',Lund Sulu lay Mt that Mouth
tiabbath School. lamicdtitteiy bactre Mat.s
EPTECOPALA,CiItReII ,I2xl . E. A. Wartntxr.n. Hector
Sabbath Ear lres 10.4 a. nt. end 7..4 p. ni
Stluthly Si hool I/ th
Wuelt.Day Survlceo -Friday, 1 p. tn.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL . .Rev. A. D. At.tx ANDER.
Sabbath 11 , erv1,.... 10.45 a. m. and 1.31 p. to.
Sabbath S hoot Y p. m
Prri3er Meeting, Thurrdaye
10.45 a. m. and Vi p.m
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Proyer Thm,day Evening!.
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Illumines Notices.
—We have some two year old subscribers we
would like to get acquainted with. If you can't
come yourselves 'dense remit by letter, we need
the money and friends both.
—The Susquehanna County Fair, advertised
this week.
--I). I)., & L. Searle Jr , give notice of change
in time of the Montrose & Conklin stages. Sec
—A. P. Stephens gives notice of appoint
ment as as,ignee of henry Ackert. See adver
tidement.
—(lardner'A Business 4 11 bIlege,:•. , :cranton.
vertberl this week.
—Bead inimin.,ks card, B. L. Baldwin, Att o rn
cc and Counselor at law in another colutun.
Senatorial Conferee*.
;tre requeste , l by IL T. Stephens, DeAb
er:ale unminer for State Stmatur, to annonce
appointment of the following named per:(ms as
Senatorial Conferee , : for Su•Aptehanua County
J. 11. I)u,enbury, of Great Bend, E. B. IlitNN
and C. 1.. Brown, Mont ; and J. L. Merri
man of Franklin.
Snakeg.
The Susquehanna Jwirnal says: Wm. Pot
ter, of Harmony, and a company of ("then,
went hunting whortleberri , , , , on Monday,
7th, and not meeting with very grxxl succel.,
turned their attention to snahes., Mr. ['otter, in
passing a ruck on Ilogback lint, heard one aing ;
une of hi rorrpaniom prie 1 up the rock m bile
lie dispatehed the siager. While th 'in; :30 sever
al others ran out, and f9r a few min:(", Ve
longest of a hik h tnuasured over
eight lint, and earth il ,ixtee:t rattle. .
Canal Extension
The Binghamton says that tlie IL.mk
Bottom dam in that city is about to be raixl by
the ' , Her to enable boats to er,,,s the
Su.,amehanna river on the Chenan,go ('anal ex
tension. Work \vas commeneml on 3lumbry.
Aug. 11th, by the eontractoN., 31eN:srs Charles .1.
Deuraw and :Nathan L 0,!tonl. II 10 ID In.
of wood, as• are also the l•ais. It will cost
about $lOOOO or $50160 to complete it, and all
Is expected to be finished this fall. If the dam
is raised it will atiord a water power of great
value to the city of Binghamton.
A Problem Solved
In one of the towns of Sullivan county live.
an old fellow named Lew D., who is blessed
with a larger gilt ot gab, and cursed with an
inordinate love of whisky. Lew likes to talk.
Religion, science, polities, and literature occupy
Lis time and claim his attention when he is
"three-quarters past half-seas over." On one
such occasion Lew was asked the following
question A canon is on a train of cars that
is running at the rate of a mile a minute, the
cannon contains a charge of powder that will
throw the ball from the cannon at the same rate
ot speed, and if a ball be fired from the cannon
in the direction the cars arc going, how far
ahead of the cars will the ball be in one minute?
Lew thought a moment and then said, "the cars
go a mile a minute, and the ball just as last—
By gravey The ball icouldn't get out of Ow
cannon!" Let the students of Philosophy say
how near Lew is rielt
Court Proceedings—second week.
Commonwealth vs. James J. Todd. Indict
ment, bastardy. Clara A. Butterfield, proseeu
tritt. Verdict, guilty. Sentenced to pay a fine
of $lO for threase of the poor Of New Milford
Borough, and Cysts of prosecution, and that be
pay the prosecptrix tOO for her lying-in expens
es, and for the support and maintenance of her
child to this date, and that he glees security in
the sum of' $lOOO to the overseers of the poor of
New Milford Borough, that ha will pay to said
proseentrix one dollar a week till said child ar
rhtes at the age of five years for its support and
maintenance, and front that age to the age of nine
years the sum of :31.23 a week, to be paid quart
erly in advance.
Nathan F. Dickinson vs. Lathrop Township.
Verdict for defendant.
Qalu•y Rynearson vs. James Oow, Replevin,
Verdict, Len cents fur plaintiff.
Commonwealth vs, John Selzer. Indictment,
desertion. Defendant sentenced to,pny ousts of
prosecution, and give security in the sum of
$lOOO to perform the following order It is or
dered that he pay Mary Ann Setzer, fur the sup
port and maintenance of herself and child, the
sum of thirteen dollars each mouth in advance,
the first payment to be made un the first day of
September.
The Slate "'tar
The policy of the Pennsylvania
cultural Society, is to make choice of a location
for holding its Exhibition, and make an arrange
ment for its second show at the sante point, so
that each portion of the State shall have the
opportunity-of witnessing the progress in Ag
riculture, Horticulture, and Gognato Industries
in its own, and from other portions of our
Commonwealth, In pursuance of this plan,
arootoo Jo, again ,the location fur ;the wining
Fair. To give Exhibitors evity• opportunity
for the display of their productions or articles,
a carefully prepared and largo space of ground
has been enclosed, abundantly, supplied with
water; easy of access to any part of the city tit
Scranton, and surrounding towns; and upon
which has been erected two halls, carefully
protected from the weather, 2ricx:3o feet each ;
()Ile hall 175x45; several spacious tents; 125
„Ilona! staldt,y 4 150 cattle sheds; 50 sheep pens ;
:110 pens 104 wine an amphitheatre with 1,000
;15C411.4, 44:every other arran,gem?ritfoipeunits,
Tort of'ylsicors or exhibitors in every aepart,;,
'meat *tally repre<ented at such ehoti.
piviae:fill—but especially those who have nevi*
tEicen tfte opdrations in a great cokkandirgn t 1
trim to visit Scranton and the State Fair, which
commences .;/11 Tuesday, the 19th day of Sep
tember, IHn. A very considerable exhibition
of recently Imported stock will ha 4atp.aadance.
i
The Montrose Organ.
rtrMOSTi&eclitfai. l
iug to be, ot:gytit-, uniloulitedly it is an Organ.
Organs are generally listruthents of sound.—
This, ono it ft very umyun s Ai ituilrutmenit of sound,
and seldom 4n tune, aria never lit Ifarmony.—
Last year, in commenting upon the Convention
and iu publishing its report, 4, never mentioned
the name of Sainuelyalkonbury as having been
a candidate, This year it does--that's a gain,
decidedly.
The organ lots already indicated the disposi
tion not to support anything for' office In this
s end of the 'county next year. It plainly says
indetsi, that ire have got all we esti eipect.—
Now that is lucky—nobody in Hits part of the
county need to look for office next year. There
is another paper in Montrose, and another party
in the county, which of er party seems inclined
to give this part of the county a fair showing.
They offered Senator to Win. M. Post, Esq., and
have nominated G. Guilts for Amxiate Judge.
The north part of the county may take I,v such
inducements—a new departure, and then, and
oh! then!! Mr. Organ, flow do you do?—
SU.lltehll II MI JO< r
A Man round Dead.
On Thursday last, a man named Melnierney .
was found dead In the field near his house, about
five miles' north-west of Montrose, just within
Forest Luke township, near its eastern line.—
lie had- been missing for a whole day. The ap
pearance of his face and neck. coveted with
blood, which had escaped from a number of
small wounds, somewhat resembling holes made
by shot, and,..the statement of parties in oppo
site direction.q,„that,they had heard the report of
a gun near trust, lotllity, were well calculated to
convey the iiiroression that the man had come
to his death at the hands of some other person.
.1 , well in,y be imagined, the friends and neigh
bor; were not a little excited, and the Coroner
w soon summoned ta make an trvestigation.
EMIMEM
Ills wife te..,tified that he left the house about
eight oleloek in the morning, to bind *nue oats
on a piece of new ground on the bill north of
the house; about 10 tit:kick, she went to take
him a !iinch, but could neither find hint, or get
any answer to her calls. She thought he might
have gone on thrisigh the woods to his father's
MU returning to the house, found his axe and
spind were mis, , inir. and concluded he might
hale gone to bark. So .be had dinner
readiness at noon, and blew the horn. lle
did 11.0. co is then, at night or in the morning.
Between nine and ten o'clock the next morn
ing, one of his younger brothen came, and
~carciiiut. for him, boon found Esnue thirty
or forty rods distant from the house, lying on
his hack with the rake under him, and a trinch
of oak+, with a truid under it, near his feet.
careful examinatl.m of the wound, oil mark,.
about a down In rAtnber, on tho. film and neck,
showed clearly that none I them wen; caused
by ball or shot, bit more probably by fialligs
heavily upon small sharp stulis of brush, ent otl
by Us ciadlc scythe. For a year or two he had
e
couiplaiptal of
oqs
TLS jury w:L, tlll.thlP to determine the pre , L,
rd d.,th, hut couirl come to AO Othr oni
clu,ion but tbat it w:ls " by visitation of
a natural Way, :Mil tioi iiiher:wi,e," and wider
ed
The deceased was temperate, indpstrimis,
highly reveued, 'Khan; known; ahodt thirty
years of age, and leaves a wife and one child to
!lieulZL IJL4 loss. 8
important Revenue Decision.
Th.• following letters from the Internal Rev
enue Department to Collector J. W. Patton, in
talbrerrec to the stamping- of noirs which con
tain the wited,.-xvithout defhleation," are pub
lished for the information of all concerned:
TI/FIAS. Dea-r., upvictt Isvr. RL - vvrr.,
Washiuglim, July 8, 1810. j .
Son:—.T. liastrets, Casillier First National_
Bank of York, Pa., writes urAky date of ;di In
stitut, to this office, inquiring If the clause
"without defalcation," inserted in a prorniesory
note, subjects it to an additional stamp.
lie has been referred to you, and you are
therefore advised that such notes should, in ad
ditiou to thestamp required upon them, as Both,
he stamped as agreements with respect to the
clause or word= quoted.
J. W. DOVOLAKS, Deputy Com.
J. W. Parrox, Collector, Carlisle, Pa.
TREAS. DEM., OFFICE OF INT. REPENVE.
Washington, April 3, 1.1.
Star--In your letter of the 2.7 th ultimo you
state that you have reason to believe that some
banks do not comply wits the ruling of this of
fice; requiring, an additional Live cent agreement
stamp upon promissot, dotes having the clause
"mtithout 'deini6ttion inserted, nithengle you
had transmitted them a copy of the above
decision ; and you ask instructions as to what
course to pursue to compel a compliance.'
Such cases should be reported to the United
States District Attorney , for prosecution. Very
respectfully, A. PLEAmovros, Corn.
J. W. ParroN, Collector, Carlisle, Pa.
Sevtion 148 of the Internal Revenue Law
impost% a penalty of $5O upoil every person is
suing or accepting a paper of any description,
insufficiently stamped, with Interit to evade the
payment of the stamp tax chargeable thereon,
and such instrument, docuMent, paper, hill, draft,
order or note, is rendered invalid and of no ef
fect.
Appropriate :Nimes.
For a printer's' wife, Em ; a sport's wife,
Bet-ty ; for a ittwyerN wife, Sue ; fur a teamster's
wife, Carrie ; for a fisherman's wife, Net-ty ; for
a shoemaker's wife, Peg 0.; for a carpet man's
wife, Mattie ; for an auctioneer's wife, ;
for a chemist's wife, Alm-Eliza; for an engineer's
ifc, ; fora farmer's wife, GerU..4l:L
The Toy Ago.
When. dot.s the toy ago• really cease?. Look
at the rich mart with his establishment ; what
is is but - bigger bolrof toys? the tin 'coach
grown up big; the horifittsdos3sue rakee; the box
et lilitep and cows deVelaiied anti better made,
able to walk and bleat - and low ; the tre.t.s able
to stand more tionly than those old avenues,
whose trees were all of that one-peaked, shape,
with the green ringlets upon them; the toy ship
grown into a yacht; the box of dinner things,
with the varnished provision immovable upon
them, exchanged Ali theSti grand dinner parties,
a la Ruses; the doll passed into a wife; the baby
nurse Into a nursery ; ah, sad if the command
came to lay by thesoln a bog, and to put them
on a shelf in earth's great euptioartf for our bro
ken toys! Well, I grant you, It would be a
poormay to consider of things, to look at these
only as toys, only as ministers for amusement,
and stays for thd Whim of the hour. Mit ft Li
certain . that they who look not' beyond this
briet life do thus consider them, do thus employ
them. The toy age continues all the life long,
thouglrtho heart gotz.scam—Bantiay oh Hume.
Mr' When yoh have - mini this paper give it to
some of,yinar Radical neighbor; to read. "tot
there be light."
The Female limiter
t A correspondent of the Stroudsburg Jefferso
nion furnishes that - paper with an interesting
- aceonnt of Joseph Lobtiell, well known
in the upper part t tof Wayne county as the " fe
rmalehgnter," who it appears has been for three
years past wandering about in the vicinity of
_Strottilsburgkin company with another woman
—the pair calling. themselves man and wife, and
spending a Lawisiderable portion of their time in
the l'ilonroe county jail on charges of vagrancy.
The authorities finally determined' to get rid of
areal, find the filiseralde couple were taken to
tbe..tesi.ti t enee of the female hunter'sarmts io
Delaware county, N. Y., by the writer of the
courntniottori.ireferred to,tgdthe aged father
was found to be broken down and the mother
insane„and. pa a last resort
t Lobdell and her
wife" were taken to the county poor house at
Delhi, where they were left. After detailing
these facts the correspondent continues as fol
- •
" dnd now! far something - of the history of
thesdi people.' I will give it to you its it was
given to me by the Inhabitants of that section
of country. Of the one who passed as "Joe's"
wife, wken she was here, there seems, to be very
little knbwn, save that she is a daughter of Dan
iel Perry, of South Abbington, Plymouth coun
ty Maseachtmetts. It appears, however, that she ,
ran away Ann home, and Act wandering about
over the country for some time, she finally hunt
ed in Delaware county, N. Y. Here she was
taken in charge by the proper authorities and
placed in the county poor house, where she be-
came acquainaal with ba,bie." Here they re
mained together' for same time, when they ran
away and came to Monroe county, Pa.
Lucy Ann Lanier! alias Joseph Israel Lob
dell was tuanied about twenty-one years ago to
a man by the name of Stater, m Hancock town
ship, Delaware county, N. Y., and after living
with him about three years he ran away and
left her, in consequence, it is said, of their not
living very ago-amble Lowther. About two
years lifter their marriage, Lucy Atm became the
mother of a daughter, whose name is Mary Sl
ater, and who is now nineteen years of age and
is living at Tyler Mil, Wayne county, Pennsyl
vania. After the husband had left, it appttars
that the wife would occasionally dress herself
up in her father's clothes, take a gun and goatelt
into the woodi hunting, and very soon she dress
ed in male attire altogether and assumed the
name of "Joseph Israel," and was known for
sometime as the female hunter of Long Eddy.
At one time she wrote a amall book or pamph
let giving a history of her adventures - over the
mountains of Delaware and - Sullivan counties,
N. Y., and Wa!rrte eounty, PR., in which it ap
peared that she had killed Pam deem, five jbotra,
and any Laminar of smaller gaute.such as rabbits,
squirrels, Sc. bra daughter, as before stated, is
living at Tyler Mil, Wayne county, Pa., and is
employed in the family of Mr. Daniel Fortnam,
and it appears, from information received at
Long Eddy, and also front accounts I saw in
several papers. since, that a young man by the
natne of Keats, 'who is also thing to the same
neighborhood, has been trying for some time
past to accomplish the ruin of this young lady,
but without success, and having become satisfi
e.l that he could not succeed in accomplishing
his object, he commeacell circulating very dam..
aging reports in the neighborhood against Miss
Slater. Mr. Portman, the gentleman in whose
family Miss Slater was employed, knowing the
history of her parentage and knowing that she
Intl no friends who would take any interest in
her welliare, resolvol upon taking the matterin
his own hands and accordingly went to Heat*
and told hint that he must either substantiate
t the reports he haul circa/anal against Miss Slat
er or sustain a suit for slander, and measure,
were at once taken to Wave - him arrested on that
charge. Keats, however, sneeccd.xl on tbeatglet
of the ISO' alt.. with several aesuciates, in ab
ducting her, and after having alba - formed her,
threw her in the Delaware riser, it is supposed
with the intention of drowning her. It waa a
dark and rainy night, and it appears that there
'was a cam! bar in the river where the sari was
thrown in, upon the edge of which her head
rests.! out ol gaiter. , am) in
this-pa:4omi she was found and rescued. Keat9
in ale Mite-I,We pail,
Cheap-Reef
Fur horn: , rime pest the pcopie of Philadelphia
have been eomplainingmf the butchery monopo
ly. through which they were obliged to , pay
twenty-five cents Is pound for beef. There is'
pmr considerable mveiterocra ester the recent at--
rival at that pt,rt of the Acandri Fire Fly, wide
6.40 (emitters ot fresh beef, slaughtered in Rock
port. Tvxa , ,ltliteeweeks.ago,ebieli Is as fl•Lvd►
and sweet as if ju.st killed,
The vetvacr kv a mammoth Mfrigerator, ate
meat belmr, tept cool by a huge ice-box In the'
atter part of the vessel, and a cement of ail'
produced by a lung flirt.' Tire meat is cut up ors
the vessel, which is tying at Shippen _strict
wharf, and is eagerly pnrchaserl by an increasing
crowd of people at flee to Alizen cents a pound—
averaging less than half the price charged by
the city butchers, while the beef is of a superior
quality.
It has been the.custom to bring Gatlin, from
TOMS alive, and to slaughter them•hern,-And
sell the beef at Philadelphia piices. On the trip
the cattle frequently beeismo diseased Om:4dt
fatigue and change of water and climate,. and
tlfh beef was not only unwholesome, bitt Alio
disease was communicated to , 'other cattle,
frequently causing great mortality-.
It is hoped that the new system of shipping
the meat in refrigerator vessels will cordial];
and that cargoes of beef will arrive-at Philadel
phia semi-weekly.
Five hundred pounds of a dainty kind of fizh,
caught in .the Gulf of Mexico, were also
bmught on the Fire Fly, and were as fresh, lism
and sweet as when taken from the water.
Struck by Lightning.
At 9 o'clock on Thursday evening, the, 24th
instant, as the Good Templar's of Cliffon4 , Sus
quehanna county, were drlicatin,g their new
hall, the building Was struck by lightning.. ant
boy, aged 10 years, soh of Thomas Jones,,a4
instantly killed, and William Anthony and Dan,
lei Evans, of 9lbson, Isaac Brees, Samuel Ow,
ens, and Wm. "Tories were seriously injurpd.—
Many others were slightly shocked by the fluid
passing through the crowd,--Serunfon Tit"
An Item For Housekeepers. •.•
The " Grape Culturist," which is pretty gocaA
authority in matters of this • kind, tip
grapes can be kept perfectly plump, sweet arid
fresh, under ground. They should be gathered
hs late In the fall as possible, on a clear 44)7,1%4
laid in a box about eight Inches deep, with e t
layer of grape leaves from the vines at the:
torn, then a layer of fruit, then more leaves,
until the him is full. Let the lid be nailed down
tight, and bury the box deep enough to isciPe
the frost. In the apring Inc grapes will be as
fresh as when picked,
A Useful Table.
To a id farmers in arriving at accuracy in es.
timating the amount of land in differnt fields
under cultivation. The following table is given
by m agrionitural cotempomry:
Five yards wide by 978 yards long contains
one acre.
Ten yards 'lido by 424 yards, long, contains
one acre.
Twenty yants wide ay 313 yards long; ecay..
tnins one acre.
Fortyyard wide by 1.31 - yardl fpnt!thr
ape 4cfe,
. .
Eight.); yards wale by 00% yards long, con
tains ono acre, •
Seventy yards wide by 69 yards long, Ma
tains otter acre.
Twd hundred and twenty feet wido by 100
feat long, contains one acre.
Faur hundred and forty feet wide by 90 fee{
long, contain& ono pert.
Ono buudyed aed ten feet wide by 890 filet
long, colittlins onp acre. & r
Baty feet wide by 726 feet long, contains pie
Ono hundred and twenty feet wide by 863
feet long, contains one arse.
Two hundred and forty feet wide by 18Nieet•
Npg, coutaia4 one acre.