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. Editors and PreprieWrs:'
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GAZETTE 81111.6016, NO 81 AND 86 FIFTH B'[.'
OFFICIAL PAPER
Of Pittsburgh, Allegheny and dile.,
ghoul- County."
Oerma—Datly. I Sant- Weattr. • Weekly,'
ne year...o4t , One yenr.112.50 BMglecopy..ol,so
. One month . 151Btx mos.. 1.50 ISooples,eltch 1.25
Dr the week 15'Three mos 75 10 •• • 1.15
Womearrletri Intdone to Agent
• JtliY 2, 1869
lON REPUBLICAN TICE:ET.
:BTAT.g . TICHWIT:
• COVER! OR, '
JOHN NV. GEARY.
SIIPMKE JUDGE,
HENRY W. NSTILLIAMS.I
r COFNTY
. .
'ASSOCIATE MIME DISTRICT COURT,
JOHN M. EDIKPATRICK,
* ASSISTANT LAW JUDGE; COMMON PLEAS,
FRED , E. H. COLLIER. •
STATE SENATE.'
THOMAS HOWARD.
ASSEMBLY.,.
- • MILES S. litiMPlrai,Yl3. ,
AT.EXANDER MILLAR;
JOSEPH WALTON,
JAMES TAYLOH‹•
D. N. WHITE,
. • 'JOHN H. KERB:: - •
S. FLEMING
--JOS. F. DENNIEITON;
CLICPS.OI. comm. -
JOSEPH pRowITE. •
BIZOODER,'
_THOMAS H. BUNTER.
• comarassioanut,
CHAUNCEY B. BOSTWICK I ;
EIGISTER.
.. - -.4OBEPH,H. GRAY.
CLPAK OP OOPEUNS. CODST.
ALEXANDER HIT.ANDS..
DIRRCTOR OF POOR.
:ABDIEL Mc01,13113.
--Pdor the 'mile
4 on s pages o f
this morning's GezrrrE--Seeond Inge :
Poetry;‘Pennsyleanta and West , Virginia
Needs and News Clippings. Third arid
.
e - oflitth pages: .Finanmaj and Commercsal,
Produr,e and Petroleum Marpts, ,Afarke.4B
by Telegraph, Imports and :River News.
tkivnth page: The Jesuits, Paris Riots,
Miscellaneous' Irma. \ •
V. S. Borma at Fratikfort:B6aB6i.
..Thrntiaamoo Antwerp, 49if,
• Gout closed 'New Mirk yesterday
i X 8013? . i -
'Tgek' card "o Ron. B. ''.W •MACFN
Treasurer of the .Commonwealth, in • an
-other coltumr t , will attract the public at.
tendon, :which it merits.
, GOV)34iNOR GEARY has issued an order
'for thireftecutioi4 on Wednesdiy, the 11th
of Amust, of Charles 075,e, one of the .
• B r oadhead maiderers, at Stroudsburg,
_Monroe county. • / ' '
Tiics M. E. Church South includes
thirtq Conierences, r nine Bishops, ninety
three regular 10achere, and over four'
thousand loc!A•VreaChere, with 472,4E14
white and 54,172-colored Members. T
white mernbirslato has denreased 31,112,
and the cobired showkan increase of 22,-
087, during the.past year. , •
GOSSTP among the New York jciurnal.
Its report that the Times :is to abandon
the'reeerve line•upon which it has been
• long`Conducted; by its founder, the lath
"Ithawinui, becoming hereafter "a
fearleez; ti : dvanced, TieOblican" paper.
It is also rumored that Mr. S. R' Yomict,
j• _late of the TrOunsh takes, the editorial
charge of Wilkes' Spirit of the Tones;
Tai Philadelphia Demimetlitive re .
nominated four of their Menibemin, the
Legbdatgre,viz: Messrs. Soattess,D*Ey,
'Rim= and. MuLtars. The two-last
named have Democratic competitors, the
Convention having split Doye under
stand-the Pittsburgh Post . to claim that
theserenondnees are exenipituy maim*.
lions of Legislative integri?
■
1z Newqorli, writemwho _claim to be
puthorities OrTJtle'..sttbject: predict that
cholera Will prevail during the present
Bummer.. TheEe prOphecies are based
..upon - certain,meteorological conditions
• Which Invariably ptec e do the approach . of
• r tbatL diseaSe. - Fortunately, ' Clem B. F.
.Btrim• when in command at New
Orleuns, established the fact that the must
malignant epidemics ..feazugLEWe
itesY treatment.: Cleanliness is an almost
absolute prevention. .
lained,
as .;y et -tleexP the
cause,
was eat frorfa
roe eons
eh Cable
yesterday,
:the newzastern,Yrenle-ndl:iecowlvissm- teed thaniut.
- buo yed.
the ooze,
- end
-ed .
s a
ulk
was diSCOVCI
eireadY
leftt"fault'
the perms—,
_ilia,
either
i°//thi3utret the •
.Party
gain, orworld
merged, un
--itt back
derlt!n- - sus p ected point,
n itiitf ) 1 . the of the first A.
cgs a Eisp,
recovery,
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ajustifies we ' •
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EVE
Otra Republican Administration, in its
four months of office, had discharged
thirty millions:of the National debt, be
sides meeting all other current public, en
, •
gagements.± The opposition. press ; seem
to overlook =this interesting fdct. L The
revenues for' the fiscal year jitst closed
show redeipts exceeding by some sixteen
millions the highest estimate . of CoMmis
sioner WELLS, and about thirty-twO mil
lions more titan 'l3ecretary McCunLoco
anticipated; The actual expenditures are
found to be much reduced below the low
est figures estimated for. r These , reduc
tions; have been aCco-
ed in every de
partment of the naval, military and civil
service. • Thus , the people learn that re
trencUinentana economy were not merely
delusive itepublican promises.
/
TkacriEssrai •
politics are *becoming de
cidedly iiiterestiug.,, The enfrmaChise
me,nt" proposition' g r an strength very
diy, and the election of Swum
1
ence
forth regarded as' a certainty. But now
comes a rumor that his opponent, S TbKES,
meditates not • only a surrender of
the,' adveree > position, but even a
long step in advance of they
TEE wing, "hy• advocating tht
mediate call •of 'a State ConventiOn'foi.,
. . t
such an amendment of the Constitution
r
as shall sweep away all the existing re
atrictions upon Lilo suffraee. In view of
all the pr_essure recently organized antong
his owe - friends to induce his withawal
from the canvass , in deference to theirre
sistible . eurient of popular sentimnt in
Tennessee, Gen. STOKES evidently finds
:
a complete 6hange of his doctrinal bise to
be his only resource. _ But nothing of this
sort--can now avert his inevitable defeat.
Aithough Washington telegrams bssert
the declared sympathies•of OiFederrl.l
l Ad-
Ministration as with, SToxr4 its' event
appointments in Tennessee Lave been
conferred upon supporters of Go: • rnor
Simms. This fact signifies' more than
columns of loose Bohemian rumor.
TLUPLINQ WITH JUSTICE.
A Grand. Jury, under' the laws of this
Commonwea3ih, is not only privileged
but instructed to make inquest and pre
sentment of all offences against the penal
code which shall be within the p ersonal
z
knowledge ofljtirors ,or which/shall be
~brought to its notice- by sworn, testimony
`.through the proper legal channel. I
The, authority of a Grand'Jniy of the
Quarter Sessions—to inqnire into offences
against those sections ot the penal code
(70 and 71 .Thsiclon) / . Which are directed
against the impro'per use of publicmi l ?neys
by the financial 'Officers of cities, coun
ties or the 13tateis wholly clear to any
intelligent citizen,• whAther he be of the
profession or r inot..
The solemn duty of inquests into all
,
offences against , the laws is expressly
committed to the Grand Jury,—a body of
which no Judge of the Quarter SesSions,
or 9i l tiqf other dogr,t, can be a member.
/ Common rumor ; On the streets or in the
public press, may pronerly enough ani
mate t jutembers of the ' rand Jury to
inquest for legal proofs of an offense. al
ieded `to have . been commi tt ed, • and to
present the same to.the Court whensuffi
ciently authenticated by such sworn tes
timony as thejury - may hear, but no! such ..
rumor, in or out of print, is a legal basis
.
for any public presentment whatever by'
the. Jury in the line; of their duty.
If common rumor has, aught ,of truth
in it
s , or aught of,
,honest , concern fOr the
the p.ublic*elfele",- it. Wail& be did east.
eat niatteridthe world for those whO have
bruited it about, to follow the- regular
forms of the law, making information
and specifying the persous available
witnesses' thereupon, for the Grami`ln
quest t hear, and thereupon to return as
true or to ignore the, bill.
Palpably • clear as rare. each and all
of the. 'points'•thus above stated, we
were surpiise,d- •to learn, yeste tay,
that an Allegheny Grand Jury, act
ing avowedly upon the • flimsy basis
of "common = rumor and the pnblic .
Ftts" have ignored, not the slanderous
siellsaliene, bat their own sworn ditt.v in
the premises.: They. hesitate to make the
investigation, although their oaths retinire
it; whey palter about ;their author' al
, y -
thoush this is as clear, as the English lan
guage can express it; they desire the illegal
do•operation of a Judge In the' inliuest
which they have suggested but 4 not
make; they , have exalted , "conunan ru
mor," the scaddalous inventions of an idle
malice into the dignity of evidence; they
have reprehensibly diiregarded all the for
inalities of law; and in spreading sal irre
spiaisible 41114ex : upon the records Of the
Dourt they hive invatituted the aim of
Stuttice quit they might : damn indivtduale
with, trriniattallons4tiollyupsup-
P9 O4 P374M a r & , :Pritendea , elladOw of ,
,
. . ,
This - extraordinary ` conduct 4 the
Grind ,
IX in be explained
,upon. one
or, the other`of bnttwo• hypOthesei; it is
either the NVOrk riralicewhtell' e Peal
to hide Itself from sfl Irma/Nadel° uoer
thalteereai Of thnjuiy.innui,voi. prci.-
, pmes to' iforeigall --and amid* a proper
and -legal inquest of the laza - with_
Ida& their "cotnrnon rumor" hits been
busy. The resultwill show %Ann I
which of these hipethesee is the Uri ;
In the ,meantime, there is nothing
fltd chaTaFteTr .41 th i s"common 's
from the Grand
.Jery-ronm, to sin"'
from the merited , criticisms of %
w4o are iseilpant•that the forms
patica:should be thee - trifled with
sworn body of, its servants.
Mee ti nal
e utheone tu o ,A,,
mu4t,pageed thelienatO of Mane
da.f.aternoon• hu also
:eiTik - B.lJlicfr '0.47.E17. • . ; •.f . ii,JI),AT, ,:j1;_,1.1:.7Z-7'..186°.
THE SUNDAY -Qvßanos.
. . ,
Yesterday the, Con'onercial undertook
to enlighten 'the public as to the present
condition of the law relating to the ob
servance of Sunday. It quoted at some
length from'opinions . eipressed by Chief
Justice Lowniz in 1859, in pronouncing
the decision of the Court in a case that
went up from this county, wherein he,
with others, was charged with violating
Sunday by riding to church in his own
carriage. It also quoted still more largely
fmm opinions uttered by Judge READ,
when pronouncing the deciiion: of the
Court in 1867 in the Street Railway case
which went up from Philadelphia. Thei
opinions expressed by these Judges are not'
clirle, and quoting them ' as such only tends
, mislead citizens whol desire to be ac_,
ately informedi 1 .
What was decided in the case of 1859
was this, and no more, that citizens may
ride to church on Sunday in their own
carriages. What was decided in the case I
of 1867, was this, and no more, that rail
way corporations cannot be restrained by
injunction from running" cars on Sunday,
the true remedy being on the criminal
side of the Courts. I • ..
, ,
The opinions thrown out
,in reathing ,
these decisions were published at length
in ' -,ese columns , When delivered, not / as
law, but as showing; how judicial/ides
_
were being modified by the course of
events, and as showing what might possi
bly be the'ultimate position °idle Supreme
Court But it is manifest that if these
, alter dicta Shall at any time be transmu
ted into law, the statute' of 1794 - and
all other statutes, de ending an dbserv
ance of Sunday,wiirthereby lie absolutely;
repealed. There/Will thenceforward be
no legal obligation resting upcin I any, citi
zen to make an essential distinctfonlbe
tween days./
Bnt, the' Supreme Court, as at present
constituted, and as it l will be constituted
fur sonic years to come; will not be likely
to elevate the opinions of Judges Lowns,
and READ into the dignity and force of
Jaw. Judge LOWRIE delivered his opin
ion ten years ago, and vacated his seat
on the Supreme Bench soon after, butthe
Court has not maple an inch of progress
towards the adoption of his liberal views
of Sunday. Judge READ uttered' his
opinions two years ago, Judges AGNEW
and STRONG pointedly dissenting, even
going so far as to hold that the Court had
equity powers' sufficient to restrain rail
way corporations by injunction from vio- N ,
lating the Sunday laws. Not one - of the
Judges -gave token of sympathy`.; in the li
views enunciated by Judge READ.
..The Court is now composed of Chief
Justice Tuomrson,,and Associate Justices„,
AGNEW, READ, SUARBWOOD and WIL
LIAMS. We cannot be amiss in affirming
that of all these functionaries Judge
Bean would stead alone in giving the
effect of law to his opinions in the cae
of 1867. At the same term of Court in
1867, in a railway calm originating in this
city, the Court reached the same conelu
,
sign as to its equity powers thatit reached
in the Philadelphia case, but 'by an en
tirely different line of argumentation; and
this the Commercial, either on, purpose
or through ignorance, totally conceals.
, Whoever, therefore, ventures to violate
the Sunday laws on, ; the strength
of the opinions paraded by
• our
cotemporary ,and AIX be brOught;•
into court for the offense, must not exped,
that these opinions will deliver him front
the penalties prescribed by the statute of
1794; (r by any other statute.
It has-been our intention not to partici
pate in the discussion now progressing, of
the Sunday question, but 'a "local" ap.',
peered in these col'innu yesterday through,
misconception of our ins ructions by some
of our Bubordinates, :w ii • would not
have appeared had it passedqer our
observation. Much has, been 'urged,
on both sides, in a way and tein.,,
per not comporting with our 'ideas and
feelings. Perhaps, theological Centro•
versies are necessarily and always more
acrimonious than other disputations, being
condkicted with less reason and more
dogmatism—with less candor and manlier
nese and more violent appeals to passion
and: • 1 / 2 irejudice, than other kinds. If
so, the fact is greatly to be deplored. But
we could not remain silent under an ex
position of the laws wretchedly. Wee, in
fact, and hence calculated •to mislead
Whomsoever should put contidence in it:-
A CARD.
_ Prtreotosow, July 1, 1869.
I .
' orrons 'GszarrE: The Chronicle of
. „.
last evening publishes a paper', emanat,
lug from the present Grand Jury :of our:
Quarter Sessions'; Court, touching certain
"common' rumors"'affecting the' integ
rity,
of our . State, county and city fiscal
officers, and saki the Judges if , theY cannot
summon before them "all those Who have
served as representatives from this comi
ty in the:, General Assembly for the butt
five y," in Order to ascertain whether
34 62 1; 18 itlttnit'in these ruolota-4
eart i
- Willst sdo not ' recognize the. t ght of
; this trib to enter upon such an laves.
Option; )ition the strength of newspaper
articles and anonymous COMMUllicatiCau3,
I desire to state tbuspublicly and prompt.
'ly that, 'strew 'of 'Ate Parties. assailed, I'
am ready now to ;respond to the most
searchingl9;ol4 into any and all of my,
official acts•by any ksitimate and proper
authority...... - _ ;•• „ -
i
Contemptible, nshmations, .
.like those
embodied I lii the presentment of tbe,
Omni J c i t ty, the offspring of hatred, envy
or mall I have hitherto ' forborne to
notice. he present afrords me, a fitting
opportunity - to 'pronounce With, as far as
I amioncerned; unfounded and false.
Ile' rettingthat the: Grand Jury should
have int themselves, perhaps unwitting.
4, -te the . purposes of those who haye
1 party or personal ends to szbserve, , •
1 -
I.em, yours trulykt
time,
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a le
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CITY AND ,SUBITItBAN.
THE SABBATH QITESTIO
Mass Meeting at Lafayette Hall—Resolu
mug—The Mayor Called Upon to Issue
a Proclamation Forbidding the Dem
onstration. . '
Pursudnt to a call published in yester
day morning's GAZETTE inviting a mass
meeting of citizens, irrespective)af party,'
oreed,or nationality,to protest against the
proposed demonstration; by a portion of
the German citizens, on Sunday, July
4th, a: large number of our leadiag
citi
zens assembled` at Lafayette Hall last
evening to discuss the subject. The Hall
was tilled and the meeting was, although
very enthusiastic. quiet and orderly, and
the general tone of the speakers mild arid
conciliatory, with perhaps one or two
exceptions.
Tbenieetingwas organized by calling
Mr. Taalah Dickey to the Chair and the
'election of William M. Horman and the
reporters of the presses Secretaries.
The following named gentlemen were
elected as/Vice Presidents : James Mc-
Knight, Jno. P. Loy, W: R. Murphy,
Jas. Caldwell, Gen. S. Boyan, J. H.
Lippencott and Hugh M. Bole.
At the suggestlen of the Chairman, the
Secretary read the call' . for the meeting.
/Dr. C. King moved that a Committee
of three be appointed to prepare resolu
tions, expressive of the sense . ; of the
meeting.
The resolution' was adopted and the
Chair appointed Dr. Ring, J. H. Lippen
cott and Thos. Ewing, Esq.
Rev. Dr. Howard was called upon 'to
address the meeting during the absence
of the Committee, but declined.
' Rev. Dr. Dogglas was then called upon
and after stating that he had been in
fotined that this was to be a meeting of
the laity and ,that ministers were not
expected to take part in it; declined to
speak. 1 ,"
David. Reed, Esq., was next called upon
and' he likewise declined.
' The'chairman stated that it had been
charged that the clergy and church
blubbers' were overdoing the question;
that the masses had not an, opportunity
of being heard on the subject, and it was
for the purpose of having a free and fall
discussion by the-masses that the meet.
ing had been called.
Mr. Keeler, was next called upori, bat
_excused himself by calling
_upon some
one orthe legal gentlemen present to en
lighten the meeting as to the legalphasei
Of the question. /le desired to know
whether the proposed demonstrition
was in violation of a State law or only a
violation of a, usage or custom of this
particular locality. He thought there
bad beeh some decisions on the question
by the Supreme Court.
)dr. Reed was again called upon, and
again declined to address the meeting.
Ex-Mayor Little was then called upon
fora speech, but with no better success.
He had come to, hear and not to be
heard. •
•
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE.
The Committee on Resolutions, at this
'juncture ofthe proceedings made their
appearance, and through Dr. King,
- Chairman of the Committee, submitted'
their report. Dr. King stated 'before
reading the, report, that a majority of the
Committeellad objected to the seventh
and ninth resolutions, but he, as chair-
Amu, favored them, and as he desired to
have them before the - ineeting he would
read them.
•
THE. RESOLUTIONS.
Resolved l. That as American citizens
—willing t h at our fellow-citizens, native
and foreign; shalt think for themselves,,
yet demanding that they shall not;`:tin
der any Pretence, encroach upon , our
sacred rights—we cherish our American'
Sabbath aseaered to us by law. and we
claim the protection .of the civil law.
against any publipperveraion of the day
to a secular holiday. \
2. That the announced and defiant de
termination of, a class among us to'cele-•
brate our National' Anniversary on that,
day, against the lond and earnest protes,
tations of this community, is an insult to.
'the founders of our Republic and a des- ,
ecration of the day they celebrate, no •
Jess than the Sabbath 'day; while it is,
a1i0, , , a shameful inroad tirion our moth
sacred Attierican tillage, , and such an in
troduction of foreign - customs as must
eventually didi ibr foreign 'despotism to
held them in cheek. '
3. That while the whole spirit and al*
of., the projected celebration on Sunday
next is 'most manifest In in violation of
the 'spirit or our Sunday laws, the an
nounced purptee to commit' no overt
transgreatacin is an ignoble attempt' to
violate the spirit of the laws so as to evade
its execution. It is a. set purpose to
trample upon the st4ietity of the day in a
way to escape the tales just penalty.
4. That the published. , programme. of
thlesecular 'celebration, without any pre
tence of ' - religious ceremony or service,
does,-int effect, ciaiM that -our Sunday
can be used for any teenier parade 'or
holiday and , strikes at the Sabbath as a
dal uf quiet worship and of public,rest.
If this Celebrationcan be • allowed, what
have we left!
5. That such a comblnationas is boast
fully advertised,, of filly seven societies CO
be, rtipiesented -in this celebration, is
chargeable' at law with a eimapiraey to
violate the statutes. which secure to us
I t_
the rig tof worship without molestation:
and we ledge ourselves to call for the
strict I vigorous enforcement , of the
law. ' - -
6. That the thronging of our streets by
thousands, avowedly for secular diver/non
and holiday celebration can not possibly
'be "quiet and ordo,ty," but especial
-with bands of music, as advertised. mutt
turn our cite into turmoil, and congre
gate the floating crowd AO as to effectual
ly debar peaceable - citizens from attend
lag their churches and children from at
tending their Babbatkichools, and, must
throw our quiet city into dangerous ex.
°Remind with all the elements of (Star.:
der and riot Molar midst. •
7.. That as American citizens, weloom.
ing.these men of other ands to eqnal
liberties with ourselves, under American
we:zsolemnly warn them that by
such a defiant inovatiott of our most as.
cred and timebonored rights, for which '
our fathers bled, and "Which the tag'.
of his country so emphatically proclaimed
and urged. • they mutt be reg*dad
deliberately declaring War—upon our
stitutions and aiming to ,destroy the
foundations of good order and of'public
morals, and we shall to constrained to
regard:and trest;them.as thapronmotced"
cltesdellottur *Tatty and of our ftbertise;
That as cozens of Pittibirgh aud •
o Pennsylvania, we call upon our public
men to take earnest, ground in defense.
`timid and`:
Sabbath rights, and we warn all
timid and truckling politiclana, whd are
afraid, to speak oukthat they may rather,
be afraid not to speak out, when our sa
cred privileges aa a lawobserving and
Sabbath-keeping people, are thus shame
fully-Set at nought. - -
9. That we would respectfully suggest
to our worthy . Mayor to issue his prod.
lsmation warning this unlawful combi
nation against the execution of their
published programme, as to bands , cit,
muslc, and as?to violation of the public
`"peace of the Sabbath, and in the spirit of,
the City Council, and of the Grand Atm
and of , the publto sentiment, so Waal?
eltPresiledi _to urge their observance of
our National Anniversary along j with
their fellow-citizens on Monday.
Dr. King spoke of some length in fa
vor of the resolutions. He held that th,2 3
proposed demonstration was only another
phase of 'the Sunday beer question, i and
that if These gateways to :hell—the l beer
saloons—had not been closed by law,
there would have . been no demonstra
tion on the Fourth of July.
Mr. Ewtng was called upon and ad
dresSed the meeting on the resolutions,
He thought the resolutions needed no
discussion. The entire commtuilty knew
what was meant by an observance of the
Sabbath as contemplated by the laws of
the land and customs of our people. He
thought the better classes of the Ger
mans were opposed to the deinonstratlon,
and hoped that the meeting would be
mild in its tone. •
°Mr. Bole volunteered a few remark;
in the course of,which he offered an ex
cuse for the ministers not taking an ac
tive part in the ;proceedings, as they did
not want to make targets of themselVes
for the "penny-a-liners." He was in favor
of flanking, the Germans if'they could
not be persuaded. He thought the bridge
companies could stop them frotn crossing.
Rev. Mr. Menzell was called upon and
made a briefl but decidedly forcible ad
dress. He represented the better classes
of Germans and did not like to haike his
people mixed up with those who pro
posed to desecrate the Christian Sabbath
by a public demonstration. He said that
the greikt masses of the German popula
tion were opposed to the demonstration,
and he thought the matter had been
projected by one man.
Mr. Reese desired, in behalf of the -
Welsh citizens whom he represented, to
enter a solemn protest against the pro
posed desecration of the Christian 'Sab
bath. 1
Mr. Thomas Douglas, from Ottawa,
made a few remarks in regard to the pro
posed demonstration. He said that the
very men who lied framed the Declara
tion of Independence, the anniversary of
which these men propose to celebrate,
had called upon God to sanction their
work, that God whosaid "six days shalt
thou labor, .t.c."
At the close of Mr. Douglass' remarks
the resolutions were adopted by a unani
mous vote. I
Rev. Mr. Di
Ackerson, in response; to a
call from the Meeting, made a brief but
forcible and argumentative address,
which was received With applause bycthe
audience.
The meeting then adjourned. . .
°. - -Preeentment of the Grand Jury.
The Grand Jury, nowin seaelon, made
the following special prei3entmem yes
terday:
To Hon. .James P. Sterrett, President,
and Hon. Thomas Mellon, Assistant,
and Hon. E.' H." Swim, Associate
Judges of the Court of Quarter Sea.
stone of Allegheny county.
The Grand Inquest of the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania, in and for the
county of. Allegheny, do present:
The ccmmon rumor arid the public
press here and in other parts of the State
have, for several years, .charged that the
sixty-second section of the act known as
-
the penal code, which forbids the loan
ing of public money by any officers of
the State, or of any city or county there
ofond the sixty-third section of the same
act, which forbids the depositing of pub-'
lic, money by any . such officers, for
his own .pecuniary" advantage, have
been systerr.atically violated, and it
has been assertedthat a late member of
the Legislature from this county was
placed in possession of e 25,000 .of the
State funds, by a recent State Treasurer,
from the use of which sum he had netted
$1,500. N-We ask your Honors whether
we have the power to inquire, and true
presentment make, in regard to these
charges, audit we have the power, we
most respectfully ask your Honors to
order subpoenas to be served on -any or
all those who have served as represents.:
tives from this in the General AS
sembly for. the last five 'years. for any or
all officers,,directers and clerks of bank
within this -county, and for city and
county. Treasurers and Controllers, and
for the present State Treasurer, who is a
residerit.of this 'WA commanding and
requiring each of them to appear before
us and make true answers to alt questions
that maybe addressed.to them in regard
to said matters; and we would. respect-
fully request _that the examination be
n t
conducted y mina the judges Of, this
court. .. 1
It is ma nifest that'the.publici mind has.
been, and ili now, greatly alartaed,at the
- Idea of the great spread. of. corruption
- amongst our public officers. andOnder a
Solemn se Se ofour duty as Grand Jurors
we call the attention .of this honorable
Court to th , premises ; and ask its'com
ae! and tance., -
: Wu. fins - RUA:ex, Foreman.
.' Attest: J. M. EINIER&D, Sec'y. .
The Wart stated that thei answer would
beg iven this morning. .
'The Sections rfferred to are the 70th
'and 71Stypiactiem in Pardon's Digest.
Meeting of the Republican County Com
' mlttee. • • •
Pursuant to call the . members of the
'Republican County Committee asaem• .
' • bled in the District Court Itoom Titurs
13lay afternocin, for the purpose of com
►leting the organization. „
After some remarks by the Chairman,
W. S. Purviance, Esq.,
On motion of J. S. Lanibie,: Esq.; the
following additions were &lade to the .
Committee:
i .E.4ll.aKeivey, Esq. Jas. W. Murray,
Hon. Geo. Wilson, John Re man, 1
W.C.Moreland,Pq. 'Henry k .
Eggers.
Josiah Cohed, J. F. )Le ler.
W. H. Barker; Esq., Chas. Goehrin,g,
Capt. Jno. Giltillan, E. G. Krehan,
S. A. Johnson, Esq., Andrew Arent,'
Ang. Ammon,-Esq.; W. B. Geiser.
On motion F.ll. Magee, Esq., it was
iteriolved, That no further additions be
made' to this Committee, except on the
unanimous consent (410 members, and
that'the wimes of ' the perserukproposed
to' be added as members• be presented
to the Committee at least one week •tie.
fore a vete is taketi an admission. ,
.0n motion of Map W.'. Denniston,"ft
'Committee was appointed to secure' it
:suitable room Or the meeting of.the Com.'
mittee, to report:Stets next meetiug. ,,,
.11. W. (diver, Jr.. 001. Andrew - Scott
and J. F. Keeler ~ were appcdnted as 1 the
Comb:tides. r'{ ' ` . :-. • , i
, On motion of N. P. Reed, Coinmittee
'adjourned to meet - at •• the -call, of , the
Chairman? t • • -,, , _ .
Independence Day. • ,
No renionatnnice that can be Mired has
had any. effect towards postponing! the
proposed Gentian Sunday demonstration.
N6r can any Venionktrance..prevanti the
popular
•
clothing nicrchant, Mr. T. Tobias,
et.' No. 18 St: Olalr atreet, from offering
his goods .`clieapek than anyb od y' elk&
,
T. kf Owe when and where to buy to
the best advantage , '
yet he makes It a
4 point to sell only what will bear a critical
test. Just DOW 'he is selling Ittuseheoi..
summer suits, at i11},50 2 • a fact ,which,
oar readers can esitiety. tnemeevea of by.
'visiting him well known atand, No. 13 St.,
Char street, • He is sloping out hieentire,
stock ,or line .clOthing . halt: prim:
.Al hale going to ,build ‘ j all goods . must
be fold in Went?' dap,
mzett
THE COUgI .. ;
Quprter Sessions—Judge Sterrett.
THURSDAY, July I.—ln the ease. of
the Commonwealth vs. Jacob Diersleirif .
inslicted for selling liquor on Sunday,
prefictusly.reported, one of . the jurors
having :been chicovered in conversati
with the - defendant, before Co
on motion of the District rtOrne -4 a
ny'request of defendant's counsel, the
Court ordered'the discharge of the jury.
The first case taken up was the Coal
mOnwealth vs. Margaret Mcßride, in
dicted for selling liquor on Sunday.. The
jury returned a verdict of gollty.,
CoMmonwealth vs, Owen Sullivan, in
•dicted for rescuing a prisoner, Peter
Dressler prosecutor, was next taken np.
-It appears that the prosecutor bad made
an arrest in the Fifteenth II ward, and
while having his prisoner id charge de
fendant made an assault ujlon him and
rescued the prisoner. Verdict of guilty.
Commonwealth vs. Andrew Dougher
ty, indicted for selling liquor without
license. Defendant is a shoemaker, doing
business on Wylie street, and was re
turned by the Ward Constablefor selling
liquor. It was alleged and proven than
his wife had sold a quart of ale to a col
ored boy. , . '
Oyer and Terminer. .
In the Court of Oyer\and Terminer the
Case- of the Commonwealth vs. Henry
Little et al., indicted for burglary, Mrs-
Jones prosecutrix, was taken up. It was
alleged that the defendants had entered
the house of- the prosectitrix, in East
Birmingham, and carried away a quan
tity of whisky and a • revolver, Little '
was arrested and the other two defend
ants escaped. A true bill 'was found
against all the defendants, but the others.
being absent Little was tried alone. The
case was' conducted by H. 11. . McCor
mick, Esq., on the part 'of the Common
wealth, and Mr. McKenna represented
the defendant., Jury out.
Comthoti Pleas—Judge Stqwe
THURSDAY, July 1.-4 n the case of
Mills vs. Kirkpatrick et al., a motion for
a new trial was made by plaintiff's
counsel. A reason filed.
The case of Ferguson 'vs. McNis et
al., acira facias on a meehaniess lien
was taken.up, and is still on trial.
TRIAL LIST FOR FRIDAY.
105. Owens vs. Robb and Herron.
34. Stoney vs. MoOtitcheon.
64. English vs. Carson.
78: Dazell vs. Snyder.
_E Aquatic.
The regatta for the - championship of
Allegheny county, which takea place on
,
the lower Monongahela course, Monday,
July Fifth, promises` to be a splendid
affair. The prizes to be ' awarded by J.
W. Pittock, to the successful contest
ants have arrived, and are now on ethi
bition at Pittock's book store. They con
sist of eight flags, four small regulation
flags of fine silk; trimmed with heavy
bullion. two bine:flags of the same ma
terial, trimmed as above, with the - Word
"Champion" in 'gilt—letters, and, two
Union Jacks,grimmed wit heavy bill:
lon. The winners of the .
font oar race
will receive a champion Ili and - al stand
of American colors; and the second prize
will bo a "Union Jack" and a regulation
flag. The successful competitors in the
single scull race will .receive similar
prizes. There have, been three entries
for the four oar race and five single
sculls. The entries dose this evening,
• ____
THE SYMIPTQNS I F CONSUMPTION.
Paleness of the Countenance.
Spitting, or expectoration of pus.
ThIB pus sinks in water.
It is sometimes streaked with blood. •
There Is chilliness or shiverings. and dashes
of hest: • - 1 -
- •
There to a pearly whiteness of the eyes.
The hair of the head falls Off. - .
at times there Is a circumscribed red 'spot on
one or lx:th cheeks: •
There is swelling of the hands and feet.
• There is great debility and emaciation of .the.
is a high colored state of the urine.
With a.depos ft an standing like brick deal.
There is oftentimes a great thirst.
The bldod is hurried through the arteries and
Veins. • ' •
Thepulse is over a hundred. and .eyen as , high
s.aone,hundred and forty a minute.
TheilVelus on the surface of the body are bluer
than usual. and languid.
As the disease progresses the deb!lity increases.
The expectoration becomes more copious.
-.-27.113 . Anger nalls.,are incurvated. '
There is a maranscius and wasting of all the
poweis of lite. '
Thep Is often pain in oneer both lungs.
-There Ls oftendiarrhoes and faintness. -
There is great'sinking of the vital forcee.:
When there are turberries, small north:qi fp
turberculous matter wld be expectorated.
This tuberculaimatter has an offerudvi•oder.".. -
- On an examination with a lung sound; rattling
andlurgling is heard. '
-There is always more or less cough.
Some of these iymptons are slways present in
pulmonary consumption, and nearly or quite all
of them in different stages of the disease.
' No disease of which we have any knowledge is
so common and 80 almost Invariably fatal; yet
this need not be the easel the earlier symptoms
were heeded: Time and again we have called at
' tention to Dr. BETSY:Rod LDN4 CURE, which
. Willits , every, instance_af a recent cough arrest
the p ogress of the disease and hinder , its deiel.
opm.eet, and even after It bas become ;settled will
often care It-and arrest further decay of the
Bold at the great Medicine Store,
St. Clair.
IST LIB
ERTY, STREET, one door from St. Clair. Dr.
Keyser may be consulted at isis,LII3ERTY
srfflearr OFFICE E VERY DAY UNTU 12 . 1
o'clock, and se his resident office, No-,120 Penn
street; final to 4 o'clock. . ' ,
1 THE SEASON OF F..XIL&IIISTION.
- 240 Mather how vigorous by 'tetra* . the system
and the ametilation may be, theY must nevem.
Mir inter blithe °fleas from the depleting effecta
of the' • temperature 'of midsummer, ninths
• strengthened and guts:, ned by wholziome, tenth
•trestothitt.' The extra pressure 'malt the vital - -
tenth must be met and etonitinbaltheed by an ex.
.7svy Yesistcht power: the nnisnal tad rapid eon
bt the animal iialdslig Profuteperspi.
:,rthioifentiet InknothPellistotbr. she Per Met Illitu•
Von and misimthision of the rood taken into the
'etiatiaeh,fromwhieh both the nolde and thesolids
or the bodynra derived.: .otherwisezthe physical
strength deennes; and the mind, spapathbiing
with the machinery through - 44A1 it sets. be.
• comesnepreired and enervated.- 'A EITIIIIILANT
is .herefore absolutely , requlred at this waren;
not a violent one, nabmithed= to produce febrile
excitement, but something , which will' recruit
.ant reinforce the whole organisation . In DroPor•
ti°ll. th° eilr a 4l, nrarr drain to -which the tor.,
.rld heat subj. cts It. r. . • -
This dielderatnin Is supplied in a nalatable and
moat elliment form iu tipsy...DJ REPO STOXACH
ElTTEttB,•which the people of this courorr,after
more - 'the' tern,q).gy., year.* experience. have
eacep.od old eadorsed as ;tie' beat tonic; ittera
iive and aittibillune prepsration vi lab medical
Mt , m step has Yet succeed r d In obtaining from the
strength a.ttliuleg. nearing and "purtfyinippro•
ducts of the vegetable kingdom.: Every Ingre
db•ut or Vita famous compound htur its owa spe
cific YhtUe, scathe restilt orthtlicombination la
Ur mowgenl4l Emir:want. a Mut and rept.
i
latinvmenicine ever "Amin r eed ; Metter se a
Prenuriore or cure of the dig rdePition'comm
la our variable climate. mong these" ma
eutunerarkd dy6perelli.bil 011•0e111.001111tiv Ott,'
fever end ape, nervous dethil.y," and . a • r. all ..
meals proe , adludri tranernet , d 11. Ak.
course of litkiv Eit'it ; BU Xs M the best
possible saltgo _ against AMY. daimon' which
' maims Deraosa of loath elmes. and all ale% dia.
tag the IP/abetting.
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