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THURSDAY, AUGUST . Ai 109.
UNION REPUBLICAN TICKET.
STATE.
. wit aovEitwit:
JOHN
sumull OF Sri QOURi
HENRY Ti. IVILLIAMS.
COUNTY.
ASSOCIATE JUDOS DISTRICT corrET,
JOHN IC zuntegrams,
' aiERISTANT LAW JUDGE, COXIIIIDE PLEAS,
PRED , K. Hi COLLIER.
• STATE SENATE.
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THOMAS H0W)523).
• _ ASSEMBLY.
-- - IMES S. HUMPHREYS,
ALEX.ANDER MILLAR.
"__AOsEBIL.W.ALTON.
JelliEs TAYLOR,
-a rNr W !SITE,
;" JOHN IV
BREELTY
• 1pc . i11.134 E!..RBILEEr - - •
rizAsOlOtAi
- JOS. N. DEIINISTON.
' clam or COUIITS.
JOSEPH -BROWNE.
racouozli,
. • THO3iAB H. HONTER.
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CHAUNCEY 33. ito.srvacs..BEQlßSEß. -
_ - ioiera H. GRAY.
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ALEXANDER iiILAIrDS. •
DIRECTOR Or POO%
ABDIEL McCLURE.,
WE 'on' the inside inies *of
this morning's GAzzTTE---Sseond page:
Ephemerin, - European Correspondence,
Miscellaneous, T'ird and ,lath pare:,
leihance and - Trade, Markele, :Imports,
River Xmas; Hemp page : - .. - Blewart's
Home for 'Working People, a, very inter
esting-Artickt, AU Harmonious Pcmocra
ey, Oltpprags
PZTROLBMS st.Aupyirp, 51if.
-V. S. Bozos et FrolAtort,,BBl
. GOLD closed in, Nerar York yeste r iday
it isq@poi.
TEMPERANCE: VVITMOUT -4•LIMG.6'
MENT.
Mr. Is.u.su Dzczail was phibed in nore
ination p3l iterdaTifor tionetrg,ommis
sionertby a convention , of citizens who
declare themselves friends of temperance.
The nominee is_agenileman of the high:
eat repute, whose character and personal
,
qualifications are always certain to com
mand, mon pniper °mutton, ,thennheal
tating confidence of a community in
widcb he has • beers- Icing" known. His
friends, therefore, have to regret only the
more that lus-samir eta - #:14 08 qata_made
use of ' -for Ilierton*Pluithe of a
movementtuip onocait real
goon; and which will be anew:andl not
for .tbstpropudion of temperktour but for
the injury:of the , Republicnn„party in
this county: Ng intelligent friend of this
candidate has the slightest: hope of his
election. Quite as good temperance men
as either he or any of his ostensible sup
porters, wiiadhere to the regularly nom
inated Republkum ticket, !manse they see
in its success the only hope for the defeat
of a pant, widelrnever yet gave, either
directly or, indirectly, any shadow of
countenance to temperance opinions, or
enacted, when in power, the first syllable
of effectik • temperance * legislation.
No Democrat will vote for him,
except.it be for the avowed purpose, not
of aiding the tempersnce cause, but of
breaking down in some manner our Re
publican ascendancy. Every vote that
he gets will be drawn from the Reimbli
can party, and there'd Democratic hope
is in the prospect of such a asetalsm In ottr
ranks, as .may amble them to slip, in a
'third candidate Who, once in offitx, would
do his DemocraticleVel bestto Inaugurate
a jubilee of whisky. That le 'lie Wild
of entertainment to which our temper
ancarfinds nOwlnvite Do they ex
pea the Democracy tiAriatetorldr-Diekey t
Are the opposition pledged not to start a
tiirdialldldaie of tlieir_nin, at-the elev•
tinthtladrts? ;Do they expect theßqubli
ail' or, - Allegheny to, bolt the regular
nerninatlon ? Will Mr. Dickey, if elect
ed, be able to 'amend a law which they
,denouncents ;either "Inefficient" or "pro
ductive •of _incalculable harm?" If
*elected, mist , he not ,administer the law
;tribe finds it? Would not the Republi
c= candidate be under the same neceasi.
ty ? And would not either of them, in
office, ,be atnenable
„to the commonwealth
and to the people for any misconduct or
abuse ? L
Oar temperance friends have simply
mistaken their remedy. , It iavaecording
w their own showings ,tempoiance
l,tore, end not A tetriPertaCe Commission
er, {list they went. Why don't they ad
dreit .thntleelves to the fountain•head
It tin entlitlisionere have a latitude of
Aeotetkit 01011 luiptoPerly tieteheA, ,
OTC' 1ail; .lreleatti4:' *mild' ',Wilke
.‘" PITYSBL:Rgg. GAZ , p. 4-k
minority of the board and could accom-..
plish none 'of the aims=' of his
friend& If r the Board illegally as
stimes a latitude - which , does not
belong to them, there is another remedy
for that; public opinion can reach them
and the law will punish them. But it is
simply absurd to suppose that -Kr. Dics-
ET or Mr. BosTwics, or any other Com.
missioner, can do any more than_ to ad
, minister faithfully the law as he finds it.
And when it comes to that, we prefer - to
support the regular nominee of our Re
publican friends.
If yesterday's Convention had takes
the wiser course, and inaugurated a judi
dons agitation for the, amendment of an
"inefficient" or, harmful law, it would
have been a pleasure to us to pledge to
theme our hearty - co-operaron in their
work. Since they have taken hold of
this business by the wrong end, propos
ing either to amend or nullify existing
laws in the Commissioners' room, we
must decline any part with them. Let
us wait and see what the Democracy will
do for them! t
A TRIPLE ALLIARLE.
We alluded yesterday to the remarka
ble declarations of the New York Dentoc
racy, in whibh our claims upon England,
growing out of thedepredations of Anglo
rebel privateers, like the Alabama and
her consorts, upon• Amiticlin commerce,
were held to be of less national _impor
tance than the protection of our , Irish-
American Fenians from such penalties as
they, incur in the violation of English
laws. We now have the text of the res
olution, which was adopted at a large and
enthusiastic meeting of the Tammany
Democracy, on Monday night, as fol
lows: -
Resolved, That thia question of British
rejection of the claims of Irish-American
citizens presents an international ques
tion between this country - and Britain
superior to those,arlsing out of the con
filet between the two countries on the
belligerent rights, of the North and
South, commonly called the Alabama
There is no mistake las to the purport
of this resolutiou: = Its)animus abundant
ly eustains the criticisms which we bised
upon the telegraphic report. Let us all
be thankful for the franknesswhich thus
tardily avows the sincere Democratic
judgment upon the policy of England to
ward this Union during its four critical
years of domestic war.
It is not in the Democratic breast to
quarrel with an Anglo-rebel alliance
which was aimed at a purely Democratic
object—the destruction of a Republican
Union. It was in effect a triple Alliance
for that end, comprehending ournorthern
Democracy, the English aristocracy and
the southern rebels. Each. party to the
league accomplished as much as lay in its
way, and according to its proper ability
and audacity. Our northern Copperhead.
ism, which adopted Vallandightun as its
representative type, which welcomed him
with profuse kospitalities at- Mauch
Chunk, and - which - endorsed his
treason with the , approval of its
Convention at Harrisburg, did all its
leaders dared to do 'Within our own loyal
lines, to paralyze the efforts of a free
people fighting to the death for the abso
lute freidtilivof the Republic. England
and France manifested an, equal hate for
, ,
that Republic by the effective exhibition
of their iebel sympathies in every con.
cell/able mode shott of-an-open participa
tion in thehliostilitieti. 'Of =course,' the
rebels, as the third' party to -this league,
were able to offer to us an armed opposi
tion, which old not have/ survived a
single twelve:month except with the
moral and snb.stantiat sppport of Aye two
other parties. '
The war is ended, bit our = Democracy
I are not going back on their friends.
Their. cordial inderstanding remains un-
impaired, with all that is left of - the
Southern rebellion. And their only com
plaint against England is because the
latter has seen fit to imprison or hang a
handful of American Democrats whose
incautious sympathies for an Irish rebel-
lion have drawn them within the reach of
her power. Oar Democracy feel no con
cern, whatever, for the hundreds of
millions of dollars bf American commerce
either destroyed or banished from the
seas by English connivance with
rebel piracy. They sneer at the sug
gestion or any national reclaraations for
the-many 'thousands of patriot lives which
were sacrificed to counteract English
sympathies for our traitors. One 'Fenian
imprisoned or hung for his gullt, as a
pirate against English law, is,worth more
to the Democratic -. Valuation than all the
Amer , ican,bloorVihst,7nt poured out on
the deelis - d 'kearilige . , or on a hun
dred' Southern fiats.= That is the
Democratie doctrine for fo.day t and it is
entirely consistent With all the Democ
racy of the past tine years. •
Of course, Mr. Asa—Pecs= and his
friends •in Pennsy/vanla adhere to this
reading of the' Democratic toots. When
he, hobnobbed with Yallandigharn, in
1862, at his elegant ,residence ; in pinch
dbuni, there can be no. doubt that . this
excellent pair of. Democrats fahcitated
each other upon the flattering prospect of
a rebellion successful by the aid of British
sympathies. It is not to be expected
that either,of them could now support,
with any cordiality, the reclamatione of
the Republic for the damages in which
those sympathies culminated. Mr.
Packer is too good a Democrat not to
eusloqie ,thri doctylne,:of. the Tammany
resolution. He stands therefore,, before
the' people of kimpeylesstia, iledged
akiainatUke- 4i:dominant of tha'Alahama
c101a44,40: least until all thelsoiordai
matters are ,chsposed of. - •
very nice ground for the Itlititc*i lib
candidate to stand upon ; • especiall' y
when we consider that the Fenian rikt
ter is only a pemocratic dodge forithe
purpose of giving an easy go-by to the
Alabama claims altogether I '
MR, , PACKER AND THE NEW YORK
COMPANIER.
The individuals and corporations en
gaged in mining and transporting coal in
the anthracite counties of this Common
wealth, are divisible into two claase' s•-•
those belonging to New York, andthose'
belonging to' Pentsylvania: It; may
further be said that in fields oci4opied
ia 7
mainly by New York operators' railnl
way and canal companies carry o their:
own coal, mined on their own ds or
i
i p
obtained by purchase, while in th. fi ids
held mostly by Pennsylvania o re.
the transportation elampanies are sr, x
elusively, leaving the mining of , d .
trafficing therein tO private indi id als
and firms. There ire exceptions to is
statement, but on the whole it embodies
a substantially accurate -description of the
case. Of course, the New York 'compa
nies are in this - State under the senction
of oar Olen laws; for they couldbe here
in no other way. Erinctloa was obtained
by buying up old chartrs, whisili were
lying dormant; to which legal objections
cannot be raised, though the charters
thus obtained, contain provhdons" which
ought never to have been granted, and
would now be deemed altogether baud
mhunble, as will be made to appear be
low. These provisions operate injurious
ly to the great-body of our own citizens
who are embarked in anthracite coal ope
rations and , to the Commonwealth itself;
as a government.
In the first place, consider tlie evils in
flicted upon our own citizens, letting. Lu
zenrie county furnish the facts upon which
judgment may be based. Here are iev
eral powerful New' York corporations,
owning cantata and railroads, with the
rights to own coal lands, and to mine and
traffic in coal. Organized under charters
granted many years ago, before it was
understood at how low charges freights
could actually be moved by the means
proposed, they are authorized 'to exact
such rates , per ton as serve to exclude all
business but their own from their respec
tive lines; and this they do, with inflexi
bility and certainty.
What follows? Why, this: that these
foreign corporations are practically 'ena
bled to Bathe price of coal in that county
to suit themselves. As they will not
carry it to market for individual operators
except at ruinous charges, those operators
must sell the product of their mines to
the companies at such rates as they are
pleased to pay, or quit the busineas.
Fixing the rates at barely sufficient to
discharge the cost of mining and to yield
a small margin of profit to the individual
owners, the companies take the coal and
realize large gains beyond fair charges as
common carriers. The result is inevita
ble; the companies abound in wealth, but
the individual operators are kept compar
atively poor. 'Many of them have been
hopelessly bankrupted.
But this is net all. The power of these
companies to carry no coal to market but
their own, involves the power, perhaps
not exelnalvely; but in a large degree, to
fix the price of coal lands. Pieces there
are, and must beat which these corps:lm
i
tions *come , into competition with each
other as buyer s .. of coal tracts, and
competition necessarily sends up pri
not simply at those points but general
throughout the country; so that the ell
hancenent, hiking a period of twenty
years, has big* very considerable; tin*-
.
thelesa, these Wads are still held greatly
below thelrintrinsic value, and must ever
be;rintil either 'the existing companies
shall be redueed,'as was the original de
tain, to the position of common carriers,
or new companies shall be created which
shall be such aid nothing more.
The evils resulting to the Common
wealth are naturally suggested by what
has already been said. These foreign
corporations having in their own bands
the merchandising of the coal they han
dle, make the lion's share of the profits.
These profits accrue out of the State, and
remain there. They do not come back
into the pockets of our own people, but
are-divided among the stockholders of
these - Corporationa resident in other States.
Whoever, will compare' the income re-
turns made to federal assessors ever since
the internal, revenue system existed, in
coulee' Of Luzerne and . l3chnylkill re-
sjeotivelY,catinot ,fail ,ot - :being _deeply
impresiettwith the scrape antrimportance
of what we are• here urging. The only
large incomes returned is Luzerne have
been in those parts of Luzern° where the
New York companies 'are not, while in
Schuylkill the large incomes have been
altogether • beyond precedent else
where in numbers and amounts.
It makes differences to the State whether
the - wealth realized from the coal dug out
oflts bowels is returned to it or deitribri
ted'to people living outside its borders.
Wealth thus derived, and brought back
into the State, is liable to taxation here
and so helps to defray the common bur
den. It Is used in various ways to de
velop and beautify town and country. In
the hands of . liberal-mlnded men it is
given to promote religious, moral and
educational ends, which are of the high
est value to
p e,grandeur and dignity of
the State , and .of genuine - util it y to . our
people, We could point to significantin
stances, not a few, illustrating , this state
meat, , ;fasf s lir.: Au PACIDO4 tie Dai
wattle candidate for Governor, by reason
AY, AUGUST
ly PUB
‘4,luti
done mocksingle-handed for these inter-_
eats among" us, With profits drawn from
coal business,' than all the Ne* York
Companies put together; and be is by no
means the ,most conspicuous example of
his class.
Moreover, the New York companies
have steadily. avoided their fair propor
lion of the burdens of taxation. Even
under the laws, passed during the last
Ile* years to...recitify. , this mischief, which
these :vompanies.; have strenuously, re
'elated, and Wlliell„thetuPreme Court has
,
, iitridired a' point." quite recently, to sus
.
tale. they axe contributing much less Bum
they ought t o: the replenishment of the
Rtate Treasury. „' '
In order to a foil aomprehension of the
case, another view, must be elucidated.
These New Fork companies have shOrter'
linea bet*dentheir, mines and the city,of•
New York than those held -by the compa
nlea belonging strictly in'. Pennifylvania.
Coal. sent over the latter lines has to make
a wide'. detour, and hence can be laid
doin on the dock or on ship-board at the
North River only at a materisily larger
'outlay Iliad' coal sent over the fOrmer
lines.
~It. would .be . abeird to attriiinte
this. geographical - advantage as a fault
, ,
to the New York companies , hut. the
manner in which they.hitve:uniformly
pressed this advantage is another matter,
and must "be taken into the account.
Their policy fox three years past haa been
to depress the price of coal so greatly, as
to break up the Pennsylvania operators;
rates which would aford them some pro
fit entailing a ruinous loss upon their
competitors. If the upshot of this pol
icy was to furnish coal at uniformly low
rates, consumers abroad might well be
satisfied, 'but, whatever professions in
that regard may be put forward, the fact
is not so, but far otherwise. A. breaking
up of the Pennsylvania operators for a
single year would necessarily send coal
up to high figures; and these excessive
rates would indemnify the companies
abundantly for three or four years of
low prices. Whoever has had occasion
to watch the coal trade closely throtigh a
series of years comprehends the accuracy
and force of this delineation.
The anthracite coal interest of Penn
sylvania is a very large one, and the gen
eral welfare of our people is closely iden
tified with it; much more 'closely than
will appear to superficial observation.
This interest is brought prominently un
der consideration this year, not only by
events which are transpiring in the
counties which - it occupies, but' likewise
by the nomination of Mr. Asa PACKER
as the Democratic candidate for Gover
nor. Ile has been long a resident of the
anthracite region; has made an immense
fortune in the appreciation of coal lands
and in enterprises connected therewith;
and
, ; is still ' deeply concerned in
the coal trade. He ' is identified,
not in all respects, though in many
ways, with the New York companies, op.
crating chiefly in Luzerne county. He is
the principal stock-holder in one railway
line; running out of Luzerne, by way of
Carbon and Northampton counties, to
New York. We shall nc,t attempt to
conceal that this enterprise is a valuable
one, and that it affords facilities to his
own county as well as Luzeme. The
point raised is apart from ,this. -1. In the
strangle going on in the anthracite re
gion his Interests are identified with the
New York companies; and where a man's
interests are, there he will be found, in
whatever, position of public influence he
may be placed. ,
If this struggle did not exist, or if it '
`was to tie brought to ' a close during the
current season, there would -be no sense
in starting this objectionito the election
of Mr. PAO= as Governor. But this
struggle is destined to last for some years
at least. It will' find its way into the
Legislature, in divers forms, and into the
Executive Chamber. It is, consequently,
' in the special interests of a large Propor
tion of the population of the State, and
in thegeneral interests of the Treasury
of the COmmonwealth, that Mr. PACKER
be not elected to the Governorship.
Whatever may be said of his honesty—
and we are ready to admit all that may
be urged in his behalf—he is liable, the
same 'as other people, to be swayed un
consciously by his own private concerns
and by his identification with certain
prominent enterprises:hen consider
ations furnish abundant r aeons why he
should =
not have been tinted, and
why, being .nominated, h Should not be
chosen. • f' '
Doubtlesi, the companies whose inter
eats. are analogous to his wn, will to 4.
defhim'an active support„ but it is just
as clear that all the corporaddits Whom
interests run the other way, will be against
him. This Is a form of conflict which is
not wholesome, but unavoidable under
such cirentitstancea as those that now ex
ist. Mr. PACKER and his supporters are
answerable for it, and they alone. We
entertain not the slightest doubt but the
people of ,Pennsylvania will settle it, not
to please Now York or its citizens, but to
snit themselves and promote their own
welfare. , , I .
TEE 016veland Heald says
Parties ender the direction of the Erie
road, are now engaged in trarveving a line
from Seville, in Medina . county, on She
Atlantic and Oreit Western Road to To--
lede; thus, making' a complete broad
gauge road to Ne Anik
A..
i 4.
call: for. a' continental rat -
road conventitai,le held at. Oswego,
N.Y., on the lit% of October , will. be
issued In a few days.' It is ezredred - ell
the-principal rallroade onthe il. fro m
the Pacitlo inset to+ Nays 1500110 . " 7 " 1 -; i' ,7
reproidated.
w a itatilmn items.
The Cuban revolutionary emissaries to
this ctiuntry are according to their own
statements, in hope that the United States
will some time, and at no very distant
day, give _them substantial assistance.
Mr. Lanus, a few days ago expressed the
opinion that he expected to have some
important information after the presenta
tion of Minister Sickles to the authorities
at-Madrid. The supposition that bellig:
erent rights will be conceded them is not
generally,eredited, and thej purbhase
position of the island appears to rest on
no better foundation than rumor.
The statement telegraphed from Mere
that several prominent Congressmen in--
tended
tended to bring forward bills at the next
session of Congress to deduct the income
tax from foreign holders of our bonds
when coupons are presented for pay
ment at the Treasury, is regarded as a
- stock jobbing canard, designed to "bear"
the market for Government securities, by
causing distrust in Europe among bond
holders; who are expected to send them
back. in large quantities for sale here.
Neither bonds nor Coupons can be taxed
in this way, and the statement is as fool
ish as it hl unjust.
The excitement which has existed here
on the Dent Mississippi question for some
days has entirely subsided, and all par
ties_ have settled down with ,the convic
tion that while the President will not take
sides in the contest his sympathies . are
with his brother-in-law v and that Judge
Dent will be elected• Governor of Missis
sippi by s large majority. A private let
ter written by . General Sherman discloses
the fact that the • General sympathizes
with the Conservative ll4oublicans of
Mississippi, which at the same. tinl9 de
clares that the only effort / of himself and
his officers will be to preserve the peace
and insures fair election without• taking
sides with either party.
The Contemptuous tone of the reply of
Judge Gilmer, of: Virginia, to the over
tures of Judge Jenkins, chairmanof the
Radical Republican pa rty of that State,
for a reconciliation of the difference be
tween the two wings of theparty, attracts
extensive commentin political circles: It
is well known that the President earnest.
endorsed the proposition made by
Jenkins, -which, however, did not origi
nate with the Wells men, but was in
vited by the supporters of Governor-elect
Walker. It is, therefore, evident that
the Walker men succeeded in deceiving
Jenkins by making hid believe that they
would accept his overttties, when in fact
they did not intend to do anything ofthe
kind. It is not improbable that the fu
tura course of the Administration *ill ef
fect a complete transfer of the power of
the two factions, when it maybe ex
pected that Gilmer - and- his friends will
be compelled to make overtures to
Jenkins'. ' •
itASKINGION, PA.
The Country—The Crerollege Com
lawmen/eat—The Senatorial Question.
[Correspondence of the Pittsburgh Gazette.)
• WEDNESDAY, Aug. 4, 18t39.
In order to have a breath of "fresh
country air," so highly recommended as
beneficial to the health of mankind in
general, and citizens of Pittsburgh in
particular, your correspondent
. left the
city at two o'clock P. N. on Saturday of
last week, and arrived in this quiet but
pleasant town about latlf-past eight
o'clock the ;tune evening. — We found the
country-between this point and , the city
delightful, of bourse, as it is in all see ;
%lons at this season of the year, and our
trio here, notwithstanding we were un
der the necessity of travating some three
miles by "walker's line, "
a mode of lo
("emotion to which we have "constitu
tional objections," was quite a pleas
ant one. On arriving at McDonald
Station,. at which point the Wash
ington stage connects — with the
Steubenville accommodation traln,• on
the Paihandle Railroad, we found over
thirty persons ticketed for Canons burgh
and Washington, and transportation burgh
and
half that number. We seemed a
seat on a Saratoga trunk, on the top of a
Concord stage, originally constructed for
the aooommodation of nine pastmgers,
but in and upon which were twenty-fbur,
twelve of the number being ladies. Not
withstanding the extremely "high posi
tion" we occupied among our fellow
voyagers, we had not traveled far until
we felt constrained to •leave them, and
takonassage on "walker's line," in con
sequence of our utter inability to main
tain so "high" a station. • Mr. 13--, - of
Pittsburgh, and Mr. Iffeß---, of lowa,
formerly' of this place, who Warded
seats on the same deck, abandoned them
for the same reason, and in company
we started for Washington on foot.
After proceeding about three miles, we
were overtaken • by Mr. R—, of this
place,with a carriage to which there were
five persons, who kindly offered your cor
respondent a seat, which was readily and
most gratefully aocepted. 1i -
• THE CROPS.
Crops of every description are said to
be excellent. The wheat, of which there
was a very heavy crop, notwithstanding
the unfavorable weather, has been all
harvested and housed without receiving
any injury, and the oats crop, which is
an exceedingly heavy ene, is now being
harvested. The corn generally looks
well and promises a heavy crop. - The
potatoe crop is unusually heavy. and is
already having its effect upon the mar
ket, as we see fine new potatoes selling
here at 60 cents per .bushel. There will
be an abundance of apples and other
fruits throughout the country.
THE comstssozdasarr.
The Commencement exercises .at . Wash
ington and Jefferson College, which is
now located at this place, are new in
Progress here. The exercises'com.y
menced last evening with an addresit
before the Students ' Christian Associa
tion by Samuel Nicoolls, D. D., St. Lords . .
The address was -delivered in the/ First
Presbyterian Church, (Rev. Dr. Brown,
pastor,) which, although a very cape-
Glow balding, was crowded to its ut
most capacity. The address was an able
and. highly interesting one.
The Commencement proper takes place
on Thursday and will doubtlees be large-.
ly attended. There are already a great
many of the ahunni of the two colleges
in the town and many more are expected
to arrive.
The citizens are taking a great interest
in the affairs of the College, and are
laboring for itsadvancement. At 2a,
to-day, the re union of the class of 1844
takes plum, and at •I P. N. the Anniver
sary Address will be delivered,
before
the Washington and Union Literary So
ladies, by Rev. James McCosh, D. D.,
LL. D., of Princeton, New Jersey, after
which the Alumni reunion and, supper
Will take place.
• - THE SENATORIAL QUESTION.
The Senatorial - question is still the
subject of mach 'cation to the political
mind In that locality. The adjuitnlent
of the matter, to irhich-you referred edi
torially a - few 'dais &toe, does id e a
pear to as the' . Minds of
many cattle leading "mar , of. thotatul
IS Is emtended lbstillittoutnelttles
MEM
pointed to investigate the matter,-w*.
report was published in the GAZETTE,
have largely exceeded the duties of
their appointment in one respect. and
failed in others. The committee,
.ac
cording to the statement of the dissatis
fied portion of the community, were ap
pointed to investigt•te the charges
of fraud made against Mr. Bu
ten, - and report the result of
that investigation to their respective
County Committees. A meeting of the
County Executive . Committee of this
county was held Saturday, at wash the
action of the Special Committee was en
dorsed and the testimony taken before
'them ordered to be published. For
Isom° reason the testimony has not vet
I been furnished for publication, and it,is
this fact alone that is complained of. The
people, it is contended, should see the
testimony and judge for themselves as
to the correctness of the charges. The
Reporter, in accordance with its promise
at the commencement of the imbroglio,
has hoisted Mr. Rutan's name and will
support him. The affair is a most unfor
tunate one for this county, as the vote is
so close that it requires but a slight dis
affection in the Republican pgty to ena
ble the Democracy to carry it. R.
Dusky Gathering.
Mayor Drum's office was crowded with
a dusky gathering last evening. The
cause of the unusual rallying of the col
ored folks, originated at the select plc- .
nic, held the day previous in Pleasant val
ley Grove, at which Mary Ann Price and
Elizabeth Anderson bad a pngulistic dis-
mission, in reference to the delinquen
cies of Mr. Anderson, who Wit' said is
fonctof female society, particularly that of
Mary Ann. John 'Yaw, another male
admirer of the fasinating Mary,
also became Involved in the affair, and
figured in an assault and batterysnit and
a surety of the peace -ease, which oem
cloned the appearance of .the colored
visitors at the office of law. After some
thina less than Yiienty.five friends of the
various parties had been examined the
cases were compromised, and the sable
attendants departed.
Iron Masters' Convention.
The Ircm Manufacturers of the weig,
and northwest yesterday.heldji conven
tion in this city. Delegates were present
from St. Louis. Chicago, Cincinnati, Cod
umbustand other Cities. The object of
the Convention was to consider the pru
dence and expediency of advancing
prices, inasmuch as it is claimed that the
mills are now operated at a positive lois
to their proprietors. After a full and
free interchange of opinion, the conven
tion resolved to make no advance, but to
continue, at least for the present. to sup
ply their • customers at the prevailing,
Drfoes. - Various causes now combine' to
inake tbe.business unremunerative, but
how to set them aside is a difficult Trot
-lem to. determine. The convention ad
journed to meet against the call of the
chairman.
Fatal Accident.
The Clearfield .Totimat says: We learn
that, on Friday last, a man named Martin
met :frith a fatal: accident on
Whitutare Butwabout four miles above
insonville4 whilst engaged in felling
timber'ae-leat tree,,which lodged
heltYll.lf VOW, another and bent it over
very ,nsuclit. ...Astinr.ledged tree slid off,
the otherspik with such force as
to cause the.toplobteak off and fall upon
the unfopttusatelnarh:breaking his neck
.and ceasing instant death. The deceased
was.an industriansand highly respected
young man. whose sudden death will be
.deeply lamedted by hie many friends.
• .
ONE ", OP- THE - MOST ASTOUNDING
CURES EVER VUOLISHED-AV.
'VENTED 'EI OVER iturrir WIT
,
The remarkable cure of Miss Fisher, of Beaver
county, is one worthy , of more than s. passing
notice, isPeciallY when so nlany Persons are Sof
faring not only _wills diseaies or the eyes, and .
partial or total blindness, but likewLse with other
thrtssic ailments which Dr. Keyser has treated
with each astounding - Success.
• •
The lady' concerned was doomed to perpetnal
blindness, which through Dr. Keyser's skill was
eomp'etely removed, the truth of which has been
vouched for by a sulticlent number of witnesses
to establish the fact beyond all =tit. The sub
joined letter from the young lady's brother. ,
. .
speaks for itself :
De.' INTszn--This is the lit of muses that I
have to the cute of my sister. Mutation* Fisher.
They were all vrilllsg to pot their names
m tonish down .
nd r w he ve ights uh soo u . m o he see e h sh u
the ks to you; shosays 4 .Vinisre one of the great
est men in the world. ithe says If we bad not
come across you sho tielteves bar child would not
be living at this time. We. ail Join to sending
our love and reroectl toyou. • •
P. It IS
. North . Sewickley.
- We, the undersigned ' know or the cure or
•
Miss Tidier, and bear wilhiig testimony to the
fact alwv _ a stated.
CHRISTIAN irrasoni,
Btu° glen sa. (brother.)
• . ANNEX HUADLILY4
Taylor ay. nue. Allegheny. •
ErGENR ISCCAsnrg,
Lout SA FISH ka, Me? neiCe.) . .
S. H. Brown. Philip day Biel(el Friday,
N Tickle, A. 11.- Carroli, ...Wra. Jenkins..
E. W. Leven- Mirhaet Harris, J. A. Rleming,
dnrfer, `B..santtmesz, / kliza Hyde,
C S. uwineburg.BUraLevtndor.T. L. Young, -
wm. far. A. Hf. Leven.
J.Levendorfer, J. F. dorter,
A. Mariner. O. LeVeßdOrter J. F. Monism:,
A. V. MorriFon,Robt Manead, it. Mahead.
isabella Dobbs, N. Fsmthouser. D. Fisher. .
G.Fisber (Orr) Lizzba Matiesd, Malead,
T, 31. Mabead, Thw./ illattead, Leon Minor
Mary J.nrown, Jane 4.ldorton J. C. Writez;
Mary J.Weller. N. H Hazen. 31ary13.1do. ton
)1 Morton ltzra Hazen. Jenute Eton,
C. M.WWi lson, At ary E.Wil on Mary Patten.
Jennie atteti/Martha Patten. James Patten.
Sidle &Dobbs; Jenuien.Dobbs J. W •Dohim.,
1. Dobbs. / Wm. B. Pence. C. Fisher, . •
Williamina Flutter. (bar mother.l
_Deafness. Hard Hearing, Discharges from the
au, Polypus or the it sr, Catarrh, Caen*. Blind
'eyes, Difnuned It. es, and every species of Core
Eyes /and r ars Rupture,_Variococele, Enlarg d
Limbs Broken Veins, Ulcerated Legs and the
vamot s diseases of the skin and hair successfully
tr. ated.
DR. KEYSER, may. be.ecduratted every day
until 12 o , c.ock. tableware. 167 Liberty street.
and from , 1 to 3' o'clock at We ottlee, - No. 1510
HOUSE :TRH BYSTEWL.
Itis a sad thine td count through life only may
alive. 'Yet there are thousands where habitual
condition is one of languor and debility. They
Complain of no specifies Wealth; .they safer no
po,itive pain; Ina they have no relish tor'
tut tur which affords mental or sensuous pleasure
to their more robuet and energetic fellow beings.
Irr nine easesout•el ten this eta - e of lassitude
and torpor arises Mule morbid stomach. Indi
gestion destroys the energy of both min" and
body. When the waste of statue Is not supplied
by a due and reenter @salmi:anon of the food.
every organ Is starved. every /o.llCtral interrup
ted.
• Now. what dces common sense suggest under
these eircomstances of depression? 'The system
needs routing and strengthentng; not merely for
an hour or two. to sink afterwald into a more
p tlable condition - than veer. - tag it assuredly
would do If an ordinary alcoholic* 'mutant were
zee° Ted to.) butredicalls and permenenth - .
, How is tuts darter le ohlat- to -be accom
pliettedr The answer .to tit 8 quad founded
On the Unvarying experiences e.f a quarter of a
coninrY. is easily given. Infuse raw visor into
the d-gestiVe organs ky_st courst of IitToTeST
TEIVei IsTOßlaell Birrisits. .1 . wane,
thne In aembilstering templrary remedies, but
wake the .yrem up by recuperating the: outsize
bead of physical sere. gth and eneigy. tie 'rest
omen upon Which all the other organs depend for
th• it nut tare and support.
By-the tune that a dozen losei - of the treat
vegetable tonlo and lav torant bass been taken.
the leeble frame *of the - dyer...9oewim begin - to
feel itshenign elite . blueness.A be cre
ated. and ' , nut slinethe w to ' , Wrest
whet it entre* k erseved Until the care Is tom.
piste—until healthful blood,at to bathe instersed,
of testis and muscle bone tted neryeggd beide:
geews..thyagghells al eirmilaUos„
OW* erstyyypabninia .with tQ
lieretoare MIR islAlwalusea.
ilose