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THURSDAY, JULY • 22, 1869.
UNION REPUBLICAN TICKET.
STATE.
FOR GOVERNOR:
JOHN W. GEAR Y.-
JUDGE OF SUPREME. COURT:
:HENRY W. WILLIA ALS.
COUNTY.
ASSOCIATIi JUDGE DISTRICT COURT,
JOHN M. KIRKPATRICK,
ASSISTANT LAW JUDGE, COMXON PLEAS.
FRED'S. H. COLLIER.
STATZ SIMATY.
THOMAS HOWLED
Asszanimr,
MILES 8. HUMPHREY%
ALEXANDER MILLAR,
JOSEPH WA.LTUN,
JAMES TAYLOR.
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CLERK or c ots,
JOSEPH BROWNE.
RECORDER,
THOMAS H. HUNTER
COMMISSIONIra,
CHAUBBBY B. BO6TWICK
REGISTER. -
JOSEPH H. OKAY.
CLERK OF ORPHANS' COURT,
ALEXANDER HILANDS•
DIRECTOR OF room.
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$4l morning's GazETTE—Second page :
Postm, Ephemeris, Miscellaneous. Third
and Sixth pages: linancial, Commercial,
Mercantile and River News, Markets, Im
ports. Seventh page: Washington Items,
General Reading Matter.
Pzynonzura at Antwerp, 501.
r. 8. BONDS at Frankfort, 8711@88
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GoLD closedin New York on yesterday
at, DM.
A. STATE`COIIVeIItiOn of county, city
and borough school superintendents met
at Harrisburg, yesterday.
ECCLESIASTICAL COURT proceed
ings in Chicago. published on our first
page, will be found very interesting read
ing matter. The principle involved is a
very important one and• will especially
interest our Episcopal friends.
WE ASE 12IDEBTED to Dr. WILLIAM
Itrosorr, of Erie, Pa., for well preserved
copies of the Pittsburgh GAZETTE of 1813
and of the Erie Gazette of 1824. As
relics of old times they are very valuable
and the donor has our heartiest thanks for.
the esteemed gift.
' THE publication of 'the income tax lists
in the city and contiguous districts of
New'York has had•the. effect to stimulate
a remarkable tenderness of conscience
among citizens, thousands of whom are
coming forward to add to theivreturns,
argely to the benefit of the Treasury.
THE NOMINATION of Mr. PACKER for
Governor inspires no enthusiasm even in
the Eleventh *Congressional District, in
which he resides, and which he formerly
represented in Congress. Indeed, as yet
the Democrats of that district have given
signs of life whatever, thepresent sea
son. Having overwhelming majorities
in all of the five counties, and no local
dissensione, except in one'of the counties
that betoken a schism on local candidates,
there is nothing in the aspects of the can
vass to infuse into them so much as their
accustomed zeal and energy.
- Wn WERE GLAD to meet at Uniontown,
on. Monday last, our venerable friend Dr.
Howl Cemessax, just returned from
Euroe, whither he had gone as a delegate
from ithiPresbyterian General Assembly
—aceompanied by. his son, Dr. Hui3n
. Fititarces Camreer.L. whose melancholy
death, at Belfast, we recently announced.
The Doctor, notwithstanding his long
jouritey and its afflicting incidents, has
enjoyed fine health, and looks quite vig.
orous end strong. He had a moat cordial
greeting from the citizens of Uniontown,
to whom he has endeared himself by a
long, blameless and useful life.
THE hiss Calmat BILL' has been
virtually postponed fora short period by
the obstinacy of. the House of Lords, in
refusing to restore its original preamble.
It is better perhaps thateaction is delayed,
as the English politicians and people are
_
too heated on the question to act with that
wisdom ! prudence and eVenly justice
which- a measure of reform of so much
,importance demands in its consideration.
\The crisis is reached, and When It shall
6ve Piesed, a new Irish Cliurch bill will
=meet with little or no opposition. in its
passage. The people have made their
voices heard for the reform, and can
afford to be patient for a while since its
Coming is inevitable. IT',
THE NOMINATION of Mr. PERSHING for
Supreme Judge of the State does not
striae the Democrats of the State favor
ably. The fact is he is almost wholly
unknown. While ia his Immediate
neighborhood he is known to possess an
exemplary character and fair professional
standing as a county practitioner, the
people of the State, and even the lawyers
thereof, are not familiar with his name.
True, he served some years , ago, in the
State Senate, for a , full term, and faith
fully enough, but not with a degree of
ability to leave a permanent impression ,
upon the popular recollection. He will
be likely to fall scmewhat behind Mr.
PecxEn's aggregate vote.
To MOST PEOPLE the mere existence, in
this country, of a journal with the avowed
purposes of the Imperialist, has been a
mystery, and how enough people could
be found, in so thoroughly established a
republic, to support such a paper has been
an unsolved 'problem. The Imierialist
has itself let the cat out of the bag, and
revealed• the fact that it is one of the last
efforts of the Southern rebels. In a re
cent number of that paper a promise is
made to pay the Southern war-debt, as
soon as an empire is established. The
press is powerful, but in this instance can
hardly do more towards fulfilling the
wishes of , Southern monarchists, than
did Gen. Lica with the grand army be
hind him.
THE. , STRIKE of the anthracite coal
miners, whatever it may have done for
those immediately concerned in it, has
operated most injuriously for a much
larger number of laborers. The helpers
are necessarily idle, while the miners re
fuse to work, though they do not want to
be. A large number of railroad hands
are doing nothing, or next to nothing,
because the usual quantity of- coal is not
going forward. On the canals leading
from the mines, the boatmen are suffer
ing a severe loss. None of them 'are
managing.to Make expense% and the sea
son is now so far advanced that they can
not possibly get to Its close' in a way to
save themselves whole. 'Many of them
have abandoned their contracts, and
gone, with their teams, in pursuit of
other employments.
Tun Crioor nee. has certainly made its
appearance in the metropolitan cities. If
the terrible epidemic sweeps over the
country it will find no more welcome
abiding place than Pittsburgh. We
do not invite any needless alarm, but
would earnestly urge' our friends to act
now as if the cholera were really here,
and to take such sanitary precautions as
prudence dictates, to preserve the individ
ual and public health. Those officers
charged especially with the enforcement
of- city ordinances looking toward the
abatement of nuisances calculated to jeop
ardize the health of the people should be
more than ever watchful and active in the
discharge of their duties. Whether there
is daneer of &mien by cholera or not it Is
as wise to be t cautious as to be careless,
and a general sanitary reform will coat
little in comparison to the good which
will result therefrom.
Tan completion of the second Atlantic
Cable promises to result in the organize.
tion of another Press Association for the
collection and dissemination of news.
Indeed that result Is certain, if the two
cables shall remain under separate con
trol, Should the present "understand
ing," between the old Association' the
companies owning the English cable and
the Western Union Telegraph be con
tinned, the new Atlantic line must be
supplanted by connection With independ
ent land-lines, on this continent. It is,
however, more likely that the Western
Union will see their interest in cutting
loose from the present arrangement, of
fering equal facilities to any and all news
associations whiamay come into exist
ence. It Is understood that-a movement
is on foot for another combination which
will supply news at largely reduced rates.
The French cable will be received on this
coast, in submission to such provisions as
Congress may hereafter make.
A CARD from J. B. RIITAN, Esq., in
forms the readers of the Beaver .4irgas
that he has "challenged sn investigation,
which will be accorded by, the Washing
ton county Executive Committee, or will
transpire in a Court of Law. It will be
public, rigid and thorough, and will es
tablish the utter falsity of the charges so
assiduously circulated there and'in Wash
ington county during the past few
weeks."
The .A.rylus Is also '"requested to state ..
that:—
The report that one of the -.Conferees
from Washington county had left for the
West immediately after the Senatorial
nomination was made, is utterly false.
He is, at his home in Nyashington county,
and Utterly denies the stories circulated
in reference to him, and states he is
ready to answer in any way and -at any
time. All the Washington comity Con
ferees are at home and have bean in
Washington since the nomination.
In the latter statement the Washington
Reporter agrees. It announces, mon%
over, that Mr. RIITA2I has arranged for a
full investigation to be at once made
as follows : "Three men shall be dui&
nated to act is onjunctlon with the
Chairman of the County Committee; that
this Committee shall visit Pittsburgh the
present week to meet a corresponding
Committee from Beaver to investigate the
PITTSBURGH GAZETTE THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1869,
entire action of the Conference. Mr.
Rtriex pledges himself that in case the
use of any improper means is proved
against him, or if the Conference think
that his candidacy will endanger the
ticket, he' will promptly withdraw."
This course is satisfactory to the Repub
licans of Washington county, and a party
meeting of the voters will be held'in the
Court House there this afternoon to select
the three delegates to represent their in
terests in the investigation.
NO MORE CONSERVATISM
It Is gratifying to hear from Washing
ton that neither tlie President nor Messrs.
BOUT WELL, HOAR or CEESSWELL, sym
pathize with the Conservative movement
in Mississippi. We are also assured that
the President has plainly advised his
brother-in-law, Judge DEIST, against per,
milting his name to be used as the Con
servative candidate. Should these state
ments remain uncontradicted, "the fact
will serve to quiet some certain uneasy
apprehensions which many thoughtful
Republicans have entertained of late.
The fact is established that no Repub-
lican paper in Mississippi supports either
DENT or the Conservative movement,
while every Democratic journal is for it,
multiplying in every Issue, their uniform ,
declarations that President GRANT is in
sympathy with them. The Jackson
Clarion is a leading print of that sort. It
asserts "on undoubted authority" that the
President "will preserve an attitude of
neutrality between the liberal Republican
and ultra Radical candidates in 3lississip;
pi and Texas." Again, the Clarion says:
"We are rejoiced by assurances to Ma
jor Wofford, both from the President and
Gen, Sherman, that the District Com
mander will be required to discontinue
his partisan proceedings and to show fair
play. • To secure impartiality, Gen. Sher
man will order the military officer who
conducted the Virginia election, and
against whom no complaint of partiality
is alleged, to perform the same duty in
Mississippi."
These statements are very direct and of
quite too ,ouch importance to be disregard
ed. It is difficult to believe that they
could be made except upon authority
more or less plausible. Yet are we will
ing to credit them as little as we have ac
cepted the truth of similar intimations as
to the Administration policy in Virginia.
It is easy to imagine that Gen. Bnarinte4
regards radical Republicanism with a feel 7
ing of at least indifference, but we
disinclined to attribute to the President a
policy, or even sentiment, so decidedly
at ,variance with the just expectations of
the Republican masses to whom his elec
tion was due, and•to whom alone the
President must/look for an effective and
cordial support tolls Administration.
We the more readily, therefore, rely
upon the later advices from Washington,
first alluded to above, which assure us
that Gen. GRANT and the leading mem.
berseof his babinet appreciate the situa
tion and' the true direction of their' own
political duty. We have all had enough,
in Virginia, of, conservative "Republi
canism.
THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF
About this time of the year, many men
are called upon to perform a duty, the
effects of which will be felt, by the future
America, years, perhaps generations,
from this time. Before the first of Sep
tember very many parents will be obliged
to find 'schools and teachers for their
children. There are few more important
duties than this in life. The whole
course and character of many a man's
life has been changed completely by the
teacners of hia youth, and parents are too
often careless in this matter, often seem
ing to suppose that if they send their chil
dren to the most expensive schools, they
are doing the whole of a parent's daty.
But men, the least calculated for the po
sitions they fill, often value themselves
the highest, and the world as often ac
cepts, without investigatioi, that valua
tion as the true one. Thus, the fact that
a man has for years filled some situation
with apparent acceptability, is no proof
that he is at all capable of filling it proper
ly. A•careful man,will rigidly examine
the antecedents of a teacher, before he
submits his eon's body and soul to his
care.
We have known an instance where,
for near a score of years, a man has been
at the head bf a well.filled school, pro
fessing to prepare lads for college and all
that time knowing so little of hblusinvss
that he was obliged to use "keys" and
"interlinears" for the simplest mathemat.
ical and Latin books. None of his pu
pils but the exceptionally brilliant ones
'ever succeeded In entering college from
his school, but that alight fact passed un
noticed We nave" known an instance
where a villainous fellow conducted a
school for 'many years, corrupting many
of the lads, carelessly intrusted to him,
both physically and mentally, and so
fearfully sullying,the young and immor
tal spirits which came beneath his influ
ence, that nothin,g short of a miracle
could ever wash..them clean- Yet this
creature, too horrible to be called a man,
went on his evil way undetected for
years. In each of these cases the teacher
was plausible and attractive in his
manure, exercising a fascination over
his boys which made than plead with
their parents at each recurring session, to
allow them to return to the schools which ,
they found so Pleasant.
So that It Is not from the pupils them
selves, nor yet from their parents, that
men should seek information. . Personal
examination should be iNtde, of the sys
tem and course of atgak** l their results,
and if the school iutie:bilett Ding In exist
ence,..none can give such valuable' infor-
PARENTS.
oration as those persons whu, having once
been pupils there, have since grown up
to an age from which they can look back
upon the old school and its masters with
unprejudiced eyes. ‘. These men may feel
a delicacy about doing an injury to a
former teacher, or may have old grudges
to satisfy against them, but the parent
should ask them to state the facts upon
such points as he may desire to investi
gate, and then weigh them himself. We
do not believe that there are many cases
so bad as the two we have cited, but there
may be some, even flow, and the ilk is
frightful enough to make it well worth
any father's while, to make thorough in
vestigation into both the educational and
the moral qualifications of the instritctor,
before making his final selection 'of the
men to whom he shall entrust such serious
responsibilities.
GEN. CANBY'S order requiring the iron
clad oath from the members elect of the
Virginia Legislature' has fallen like a
monstrous bomb shell in the Conservative
ranks. How it has been welcomed we
may judge of from the following para
graph quoted from the Louisville Journal :
We presume that not one in ten of the
persons elected to the Legislature of Vir
ginia by the Conservatives can take the
iron-clad oath. If a quorum can take at,
and if enough to constitute a quorum
shall actually take it, that quorum, we
have no doubt, will contain a majority of
ultra Radicals, who will ratify the 15th
amendment and elect two ultra Radicals
to the United States Senate. But if, for
the want of a quorum, seats shall be de-
Clared vacant and new elections ordered,
the Conservatives, it is probable, bending
a little to avoid being broken, will nomi
nate and elect candidates who can take
the oath, and who yet will cast all their
votes and shape all their actions in favor
of national and State conservatism.
Tar. Pennsylvania Demoeracy may
learn something, if they will attentively
consider the drift of the annexed para
graph from the. Louisville Journal:
"There is a certainty that the elections
of the coining fall will be the last that
will ever take place in Kentucky with
negro suffrage excluded. -This is a fact
that we had better look square in the
face, much as we may loathe its visage.
Everybody knows that, immediately at.
ter: the reassembling of Congress, the
Fifteenth Amendment will be declared
to have been ratified by the requisite
number of States and be part of the Con
stitution; and then all the negroes of this
State will be voters, and nothing can ex
clude them from the polls - except suc
cessful war against the United States,
and that, whether it would be righteous
or unrighteous, will not be attempted. "
A WASEITIV2TON dispatch to a western
Democratic journal says:
Prominent Radicals think that cause
exists for the most careful watching of
the movements of the President in po
litical matters during the fall campaign.
The extremists do not hesitate to avow
their belief that the very palpable conser
vatism of two or three members of the
Cabinet will have such influence over the
President as -to cause him to submit
measures to the next session of Congress
which cannot be recognized as according
with the esential principles of the Radic
al party. This uneasiness as to keeping
the President in their power. will, it is
said, induce a formidable movement to-'
wardsffecting a change in the Cabinet
when Congress assembles.
CLIPPINGS.
A Cameo° woman &tempted to com
mit suicide because her husband wouldn'
take her to the museum.
Tag people of Oregon are again talking
about the separation of the Eastern and
Western portions.of the State.
A'PEEEcE fanatic actually nailed two
feet and one of his hands to a cross which
he hied made out of old rafters.
TEE Massachusetts State Prison now
Contains 594 convicts, a larger number
than were ever before within its walls.
AurrEu passes cards with the address
on one side and a communication on the
other through the mails for one cent each.
Tae strike among the potters in Tren
ton N. J., still continues, and there isno
Immediatel prospect of an adjustment of
the difficulty.
.Tuz Gaspe (Canadian) salmon and cod
fisheries are unusually successful this
year. The salmon are more plentiful
than for the last quarter of a century.
AT many of the watering•place hotels
the waiters are not paid any salary, the
fees they receive being considered suffi
cient compensation for their services.
Tan= was considerable excitement in
Philadelphia lately over a rumor that an
agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, sent
to Europe for that purpose, had suc
ceeded in purchasing sufficient bonds of
the Reading road,to give the Pennsyl
vania road a controlling interest in it.
The officers of the Reading Company
deny the truth of the story.
AN unsuccessful atte pt was made last
Thursday morning to rob the county
treasury at New Phila. elphia. As Wm.
Campbell, of the stage int', was awaking
passengers for the .. • rning coach, in
passing the treasury h. heard pounding
within,and suspecting all was not right
soughassistance and' . eturned, but the
robbers. becoming Irl:htened had fled.
On examination it sp. . red that they had
dug out the bricks aro , d the outer door
of the -vault and brok off the moulding
sufficiently to get the door open. The
safe inside the vault, containing about
$lO,OOO of the people'• money, had not
been disturbed. I ;
A SINGULAR INOIDRNT.-.AU inStia
tsious German of Milwaukee, had by
dint and bard labor and economy, saved .
$5OO. For safe keeping he put .it in an
old stocking and stowed it away behind
a rafter in hie house.: Some days after,
the poor German was in .despair to find
the mice had made a nest 'of it. He gather
ed the fregments, and they made a peck
measure heaping full of scraps of paper,
stocking, wood, nut shells, &c., and
what to do he did not know. A friend
advised him to send the whole mass to
the Treasury Department at Washington,
and he did so. This was several weeks
ago, and not a word did the old man
hear of the money until last Saturday,
when he received a draft for $250 from
the Treasury Department, and a letter
stating that so much only had been saved
out of the $500.. Two girls in the Depart.
ment were at work seventeen days sort.
lag, picking, pasting, and . finally sne.
needed in getting- $2450 so that'll could be
recognized.
UNIONTOWN, PA:
CCorrespondenceof the Pittsburgh Gazette.]
UNIONTOWN, July 19, 1869. •
I came down this morning from my
eyrie on the mountain, to take' the one
o'clock P. K. train for Pittsburgh, but
learned here that a small bridge near Fay
ette Station, on the Uniontown branch,
east of Connellsville, wascarried away by
the stream, swollen by the rains of Sun
day'and Sunday night. Indeed the rains
have been heavy and almost continuous
for several days. So I am obliged to
await the coming train, uncertain, as yet,
when I can make my way homeward.
The storm seems to be over to-day.
Shower after shower, inquick succession,
has visited my temporary home on the
mountain for the week past; the wind,
until to-day, continuing from the south
west, but at this writing its course is ex
actly reversed, leaving the clouds behind,
so that the sun again rules the day.
Here, in this beautiful and flourishing
Shiretown of Fayette, nestling at the foot
of the mountain, I find the heat as unen
durable as that of Pittsburgh, from which
I have sought to escape. I have spent a
week at Snyder's "Summit House," on
the very crest of the great ridge, at the
point traversed by the . National Turn
pike, six miles east of this place. Few,
if any, spots on the continent east
of the Rocky or Nevada Mountains
present a finer combination of natural
beauties than this summit. The spot itself
was selected by the road engineer as the
lowest depression of the mountain crest.
There are therefore at short distances va
rious peaks and knobs of superior eleva
tion. Prominent among them are "Pine
En.lb," and the classic peak known as
"Dunbar's Camp," which comprises also
the grave of Jummonville. There is the
"Washington Spring," where the Fath
er of his country, when quite young, and
before the country was born to him,
slaked his thirst and rested his limbs, on
his retreat with Braddock"s army after
the catastrophe of the 9th of July, one
hundred and fourteen years ago. From
the Summit House it is but a few miles
ride or walk to Fort Necessity, Brad
dock's grave, and other notable spots.
mentioned in the historynf the disastrous
expedition of Gen. Braddock in 1755. It
does not need these classic mementoes to
give attraction to'these mountain resorts;
Nature has spread around in great profu
sion such exhibitions of her vagaries and
her power that her votaries who come
hither when the glorious forests are most
profuse in their emerald garniture, and
her shrubbery charms the eye and re
freshes the senses with Its resplen
dent and fragrant bloomage, will
not be disappointed of any ex
pectation however extravagant. The
country—in the mountains—is but
sparsely settled. There are, however, a
number of fine old families, or their
descendants, to be found here and there
settled all along the mountain range,
among these the venerable Snyder,
whose grand-son keeps the Summit
House, and who is now one of the
County Commissioners, Sebastian Rush,
on the National road, six miles from here,
still living with six sons settled in this
county, all estimable citizens. Of these
sons we found H. C. Rush at the Wash
ington Spring farm, which he has
recently sold to a farmer from Allegheny
county. We were glad tO"find him still at
the spring and to enjoy his hospitality to
the extent of a drink out of the beautiful
and historic spring, and also a welcome
surfeit of rich buttermilk. I fear he may
not find elsewhere a more delightful home
than the one he is about to relinquish.
These mountains are a never ending
wonder. The imagination droops before
the task of estimating the force of the
convulsions -that could cause such vast
upheavals. They suggest the paradoxi
cal idea of both symmetry and distortion.
They present, in the distant horizon, the
right lines of a plane, while they abound
with inexplicable topographical vagaries.
It is much to be regretted that no indi
vidual or company has had the enterprize
to provide at one or more eligible spots,
of which the "Summit" is one and
"Chalkhill" another, a house of large ca
pacity for the reception and entertainment
of some of the thotisands who would
gladly flock hither to escape the prison
Arouse anti 'heat of the cities. Here we
always have cool nights, and are never
without a health-giving and invigorating
air, the more grateful because almost
always in motion. There are various
places where a few persons can be accom
modated. We mention among these
Snyder's "Summit House, " Bunting's
"Stone House," near the ceebrated "Fay
ette Springs." Mr. Wiggins' and John
son's, are private houses, also`near the
Springs, where a few persons are accom•
modated each year, and are severally ex
cellent places to "get in" if you can.
Mr. Wiggins formerly kept the hotel at
the Sonngs, which was unfortunately.
burned down. He is a eenial gentleman,
and a practiced caterer for the public—now
on his fine farm prepared 'for only a few
—the Johnson brothers are •descen
dents of the old Downer family.
They and their aunts, the Misses Dow
ner comprige the household at the old
family brick mansion at Chalkhill. Such
inmates as they will receive are ever sure
of kind treatment and good living. My
own party are the glad guests of this
most estimable family.:
lam eoming down, dear Editors, to
tell all the rest aboutthese cool and love
ly retreats, hoping to lure y.nu . up to
these heights of - summer joy/ Lest I
might not be along to guide you on the
way, let me commend you to the McClel
land House at Uniontown, where you
take the stage for the Mountain. This
house is kept by Mr. Porter, a (vita!
landlord and very obliging- If at Union
town sou want to telegraph to your
friends, you will' find Miss Barclay, the
accomplished young lady operator, very
efficient in the office, very-intelligent and
obliging. I was glad to find such profi
ciency in a female - telegrapher and hope
many others will be found to adorn the of
fice as Miss Barclay does. I regret that I
cannot speak so favorably. of the Post
master at Uniontown. Nearly all the
mountain resorts are nearer to this than
any other postoffice and must depend on
the Postmaster here for a little extra civil
ity in sending by the driver of the mall
coach, or by private opportunity, the mail
matter for visitors to the mountains. The
officer, who I learn was a capital soldier,
I fear makes an indifferent .Postmaster,
at least he fails to conform his practice, in '
the matter) eferred to, to his manifest duty,
and causes much annoyance and vexation
to many visiting strangers, whom, we
take it, it is the duty of the Postmaster to'
serve as well as those of his own town:
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.
—Fitzgerald, the ex-cashier, who was
arrestea for stealing $B,OOO from the Syra
cuse City bank, has been held to bail to
answer the charge. He was subtequent
ly arrested on a charge of embezzling
$30,000 from the same bank. ICis alleg
ed he has been operating in Wall street.
—The semi-annual Convention' o the
Grand Army of the Republic of f the
State of Ohio, commenced at Sandusky
yesterday morning. The attendance is
large and . harmonious. An address was
delivered by General J. Warren Keifer.
The Convention will continue two days.
—A tax-payer in the Nashville Press
and Times refers to an opinion, which is
fast gaining ground, that the bonds is
sued to ralfroada in Tennessee since the
war were Illegally issued, and it is un
derstood that a railroad official intends
to contest the right of the State to collect
the Interest upon them.
—The tobacco factory, belonging to
Valentine Koen, in Brooklyn, was seized
Tuesday for violation of the revenue
laws. One hundre'd and twenty-five
thousand cigars, two thousand pounds
of leaf tobacco, and a quantity of smok
ing tobacco were turned over to the cus
tody of Marshal
—lt has been reported that the Fenian
Haipine, now impriioned in England,
will soon be ' released. The Govern
ment has not received any late advices
regarding the case, but Secretary Fish
ordered Minister Motley to renew the
effort for his release, which was aband
oned when Reverdy Johnson was reliev
ed.
—The mutiny at Sing Sing prison has
been effectually quelled, and about three
hundred of the prisoners, who had been
placed in close confinement, have been
released and returned to work. The
leaders intended the revolt should be I
universal, having for its object a general•
clearing out of the prison at 'no matter
what sacrifice of life.
—At the annual meeting, of the Grand
Rapids and Indiana Railroad Company
the following were elected Directors:
George IL White, Grand Rapids; James
A. Walters, Israel Kellogg, Kelamoozom
Richard Reed, Jonathan G. Wait, Stur
gis; William S. Boyd, La Grange; Jos.
K. Edgerton, Pliny Hoagland, Fort
Wayne; Mancel Falcott, Chicago. J. K.
Edgerton was elected President.
—The statement that Secretary Fish
has giyen authority to land the French
cable at Duxbury, Mass., is not correct.
The Secretary does not consider that he
has power to grant such authority, as it
belongs exclusively to Congress. The
Secretary simply expressed . the opinion
that with the concessions which the
Cable Company propose to make to the
United States, Congress will probably
not make any objections. ,
—The Detroit citranthorities have de
cided to make no more contracts for
stone paving the present season,
for
which 'a large appropriation has been
voted. This action' is taken in conse
quence of alleged collusion between the
contractors, whereby they propose to
obtain exorbitant prices for the work.
It is stated that all the paving atone at
Sandusky, Medina and other places has
been secured by a erring" of paving con
tractors.
TICKETS from Boston and New York
for Chicago, via Cincinnati, are now sold
over the Baltimore and Ohio route, with
in ten cents of the price charged by the
Lake Shore route. This indicates cheap
er traveling in the immediate future. It
is the beginning of a "cutting" cam
paign.
ONE OF THE MOST ASTOUNDING
LURES EVER PUBLISHED—AT
TESTED trl OVER FIFTY WIT.
NESSEs.
The remarkable cure Of Idles Fleher, of Beaver
eoniaty.ll one worthy of more than a passing
notice. especially when so man; persons are stir
tering not only with diseases of the eyes, and
partial or total blindness, but likewise with other
chronic ailments which DF. Keyser has treated
with such astounding success.
The lady coneerned was claimed to perpetual
blindness, whlch - throagh Dr. Keyser•s skill .wat.
completely removed, the truth of whlchhas been
vouched for by a sufficient number of witnesses
to establish the aa beyond all coin. The sub-
joined letter from the soling Isdyte brother
speaks for Itself
•
DR. KEYSER—This Is the Ilst of flutes that I
have to - the cure of my sister. Christian - a Fisher.
They were alt willing to pat their names down,
and were very much astonished to see that you
brought her sight so soon. My mo her sends her
tha..ks to you: she says "you are one of the great •
eat men in the world." title says if we hart not
come across you she believes her child would not
be Hying at this time. We all join la sending
oar love and respects to you. -
S. P. FISHER,
North Sewickley.
•
We, the undersigned, know of the cure of
Miss Fisher, and bear willing testimony to the .;
fact above stated.
CiIItISTIAN FISHES.
litho • P. E181(16tt, (brother.)
'Ammr. Baeburr.
Taylor ay. nue. Allegheny.
•
EVGYNY ihicCA.Ksr.
LOCUSA Fisitax, (her neice.)
S. H. Brown. . Philip Friday Rachel Friday,
H. N. Teckle. A. H. Carroll, Wm. Jenkins.
E. W. Leven. Mi, hael Harris, J. A. bleming,
darter, S ism Lemma:, Plaza Hyde,
C.S. isivizieburg EllraLevendor. T. L. Young,
Wm. Alison, ter, A . M. Leven-
J.Levendorfer, J. F. Mitchell. dorfer,
t)ardner. Leyendorfer J. F. Morrison,
A. M. Morison Roht Mauead, n, Mthead,
isstieila Dobbs, N. Funkhuuser. D. Fisher,
G.Fisher (br , r) Lizzie Mahead, Tillie Mali-ad,
T, 31. Mattead, Thos. ktaheatt, Leon Allison.
Mary J.orown, Jane A. Morton J. C. Wellea,
Mary J.Weiler, N. H. Hazen, Mai yH toa
m.ll,lJorton Ezra Hazel). Jennie m. ilson,
C. M. Wtison, eiary E. Wilson Mary Patten,
Jennie Patten, Martha Patten, James Patten, • C
t , adie E.Dobbs, Jenuleß.Dobbs J. W. Dobns,
I. Dobbs. Wm. R. Pence, 4. C. Fisher,
Williamlna Planer, (her mother.)
Deafness, Hard Hearing, Discharges from the
Ear, rayons or the Ear. Catarrh, ozone, Blind
Ayer, lutlauned R. es, and every species ad Sore ?.
Eyes itptL . bars Rupture. Varlococele , Enlarg d
Ltmbset:i ti Veins, Ulcerated Legs and the
various diseases of the skin and hair sucr,essfuliy
treated.
untiIKEYSER, may be eoited every day
Is o'c,ock. at his store. 107Littertv atreat,
and from 1 to Si o'clock at nla mike, No. 120
Penn street.
SUMMER PERILS—HOW TO E.S.
CAPE
.
It will not do to trifle With the health In both',-
_.
weather. Vigor oozes through the skin at every
=
pore, and it is by ohys cal vigor only that nn
'healthy Influences can be heeled anti repelled.
The vital elements are evaporated In perspire-
tion. Intense heat converts a man into a self- ..,
acting pump, and the moisture that is pumped
onto!' him is derived from the well-springs of
life within him. Teen is great need there
lore, that these sources of physical strength ',-
should be In a conlitlon to bear, without danger 5...
or incanv enlence. the evraordinary drain. it
'they are not in sech's condition, the individual '.."-.
becomes languid and low-auirltea. ,4 :
[..-.
The main thing is to keep the digestive appa
ratus
In ROCKI working trim; for If the stomacis. ~.
the purveyor of the system, does its duty thor-,-.
oughly. the I twee, the bowels , the brain, anti the/ ''
,
n.sivous system being duly matured , will be'
likely to do theirs. la view of these facts, it la .' ',...
manifest that a_powerful and wholesome vegeta-
ble tonic like HOUTE'Vritkt , S &STOMACH if LT- : :
TERs us especially required at this enfeehling .
season, It is the most admirable of all correct-
Iv. a and invigorants, and ror this reason It does .
not over•stlmulate the system. 'The proportions .....;
areat, tonic and stimulating components .'.- .
a 3 judiciously graduated. that the / rocess of i'..
invigoratlon and purl Sermon goon simultaneous- ; S';
ly, and no undue, excitement Is created in the ~f , .
circulation or the brads. All unccedlceted stile- '
Wants, however pure, excite the pulse and the Y.
nervous system. Their exhilarating effect is tem
porary, and when It passes off the nhyslcal and
~'
mental. depression they were employed to remove ?
returns !man aggravated rwln. But - this is' not -i '
the case when lffelSTTltitn SITTRItS are ta
ken as , a StOIIILOSIC anti IlerVine.; The medical
herbs, roots and gums with which they are im
pregnated, neutralize the - smelting principle of
tde rye eplrit.whieh forme Mete Os - and which
la ha Itself , the most wholesome of. all the yue^
Lima of alcohol, • , - • •