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STATE•
HOE GOVEUNOR :
JOHN W. GEARY.
=DOE OF Sr ETUVATS COURT:
HENB Y iF WILLIAMS.
COUNTY:
ASSOCIATE JUDGE DIEMEN? COUST.
- JOHN M. lIIRKPATRICK,
ASSISTANT LAW JUDGE, COMXON PLEAS.
TRED , K. H. COLLIER.
STAY; Sicre. , THOMAS HOWARD.
isantata—MlLES S. HUMPHREYS.
"ALEXAN USX MILLAR,
JOSErti WALToN.
• . - JAMES TAYLOR,
JOHNW HITE,
H. KERR.
BEEZEDIT HUGH B. FLEMING.
T.szestraza - 10 8 . F. DENNISTON. -
OLSEN OP Cotrlyrs — JOSEPH. BROWNE.
Ea:comma — ['SOMAS H. HURTER.
COmlussrozrzE—'3llAUNCEY B. BOSTWICE
BzotsrEs—JOSEPH H. GRAY.
CLERK Oarnixs , Cotorr— &LEX. BILANDS
Dinscrou OP PODS—ARDIEL MCCLURE•
Ws Psi= on the inside pages of
_:::this 'morning's- Wax:La's—Second Page:
Poetry, : :"The Two Ways," Ephemeris,
i The infant of , the Period, and Other ln
.
teresting Miscellany. Third and Sixth
pages: Finance and Trade, - Markets,
Import', Biver Nem. Seventh page: The
American Argonauts, Botigh and Ttimble
.Fighy Poisoned by Hair Die GlioPings.
PETnotatim at Antwerp, 53,1E'
S. loNtll3 at Frankfort, 891
GOLD closed hi .New York on Saturday
at 181411j2. •
Tlis Reading Dapate4 now issues a
weekly aS -well as a daily issue. 4-jOur
nal so well edited_ merits entire success.
THEY news, in the. District of Colum-
Ns, that the seat-of the National Govern
ment cannot •be changed' except by an
arnentinient to the' Federal Constitution.
Of course, they breathe easier. '
• . TUB remarks of Secretary FLETCHER,
Tennessee, on the qnestion of repridia-
. .
of 'the new bonas of that S tate,
. have
the right ring, and will prove wholesome
- xeading to onr Democratic Pendletonian
friends: •
THE London Times of the 18th declares
that the latest:Byron scandal, as detailed
~.by an :eminent American authoress, as
‘'efitliety without fOundation,and a baser
slander." Mrs. Btowe's first paper was a
remarkable one, but her second, in which
• -the will join issue with a world of critics,
• will be even more interesting.
•
AT. THE il"tEltitllC, of the business men
of Erie, Lin% lite of tie. Dispatch,
has intresilgated the manufacture of iron '
inliontour county and the- Lehigh Val !
His report showif*at Erie has "the
ad ttige of from six , to ten dollars per
• - ton in'lhe cost of manufacture of mill
and foundry iron, to say nothing of their
,superior advantaga for 'handling and
Shipping." Now; it remains •ti.) be seen
what Erie is going to do about it.
A sruraMt journal announces the sac
. .
cessfat production of a steel of good
quality rrom a second•class iron ata single,
oPeration. ' The effect was produced in a
reverberatory furnace, lasted about one
hour and a half and was', accomplished
with as much lWlity as pufldling. The
process not described, but ! is declared
toadmit'Of converting from three to five
toned metal, by only - one operation, into
steel ingots ready for the workshop, and
With - an unexpected economy.
' .4.5 CI3BAN, riEvra from Cuban sources, is
'gaits flattering for the, Insurgents, and
betokens an eary establishment of hide
pendenCe liytite saucy isla . nd. Unfortn.
-4 nately,' `:liotiever,- 'Cabin news• from
Spanish sources each , rivets tighter
the chainy, and :. , makes . ;. the revolution
nigh `an' 'ea'd from stieer„ exhaustion.
Which to believe we know not, but It is
safe to say that datelligence from either
J aide:gets
_as far wide of "the truth as poach.
~::'-: ..ble;in - .order to befog -the 'general• reader
;'.and:csuseliim to misdirect his sympathy.
Wnrorxv with very decided eatisfac•
lion to the _great reduction made on the
State debt, since the induction of Gov.
GE..enir into'office. Bat the work has not
ended, In another column our readers
will observe an advertement of the
f.t State Sinking Fund Commisdoners
an
Bouncing that sealed bids will be received
pto Obtober 1541869, for the redenip
ition of Grit . littrimoN Dona itts of the
State Wait mature. Is this not flat
"ieritig to the present adminhiiration of
the Waite - of the 'Commonwealth 4 Do'
'the people 'wait a change from the ' close_
;economy - .and. , marked honesty which
Re,. „ -- 4.A.f,gliViCanik
the Present Adminla.
ization, to the plunderinipolicy and reck
less extravagance in all departMents of
the State Government which will follow
the election of Mr. PACKER as Governor?
THE recent meeting of the iron trade in
this city had no ether positivelesult than
an agreement for fi trifling advance in the
card : rates for their product, with some
special concessions to the Cleveland and
Cincinnati dealers. The eastern trade of
our iron masters was not touched upon—
a matter of muchimportance, since Pitts
burgh iron is at present competing suc
cessfully in the New York Market. An
adjourned meeting will be held at an
early day, to dispose of other, questions
of an interesting character.
Tan Cincinnati press is devoted of late
to personal controversies, in which plain
speaking characterizes all the parties.
Fortunately, it is only printer's ink
which is shed, or is likely to be, although
the wordy warfare is terrible. For ex
ample, ,tli# editor of the Enquirer, having
been denounced as "a pestiferous little
orangeman" by his big neighbor of the
Commercial, retorts by denouncing the
latter by name as a liar and a coward. If
everybody did not know that the quarrel
will end where it has begun, in the news
' papers,we should deem it our duty to
suggest, as an indispensable condition
of the duello, that the exact dimensions
of the little man be chalked out on the ex
panded front of his antagonist, with the
understanding that no shots hitting out
side of that line should count. On that
condition, the public are entirely willing
that a meeting should take place—the
sooner the better.
• TUE INTERNATIONAL AQUATIC CON
TEST, between the Oxfird crew, of Eng
land, and the Harvard, of America,
which takes place this week, commences
to excite considerable interest; and dis
guise it at we may a natural anxiety has'
taken possession of the public as to / th e
result. Oar prejudices are with/ the
American boys, who have crossed the
ocean, with true Yankee grit, to measure
oars with the acknowledged
, champions
of the world in aquatic matt ers: If'they ,
prove successful their praises wi:l be sung
all over the universe, for they will_have
accomplished a feat worth recording; but
if they are unsuccessful, and are laid out
cold by the tough and bottomed Britons,
they will not be disgraced in any manner.
The fear may well be entertained that
they will not be accorded a fair race by
our cousins, as the weight of preludice
against the plucky Jonathons, who have
traveled so far out of their way to beard
the . acq'iatic John Bulls in their own
waters, must be great, and it : would be
strange should no obstacle intervene to
prevent a square and manly contest.
The feeling in this country is manifesting
itselnin no generous manner, as is
evidenced in the insulting caricatures of
the Oxford srew which appear in our
shop windows, and if our people so far
forget proprieties, how- can we _expect
more from our friends over the water, who
partake of the immediate excitement of the
occasion and tenaciously cling to the
fortunes of their own athletes. We will
rejoice, no matter which aide may be vk,-
torious, provided good feeling may pre
vail and English hospitality and generos
ity may be in no wise .violated, for inter
national fellowship, even in sporting mat-
tars, is a desirable consequence expected
to follow the Olympian contest so
anxioutly awaited. -
THE Toledo and Wabash Railway has
been consolidated with the Michigan
Southern and Lake Shore lines, the en
tire combination now representing an
aggregate capital of about ninety mil
lions of dollars. This checkmates the
Erie proposition for a broad-gauge con
nection from Akron to Toledo, and
leaves to that company no access tot Ch
icago, except by buLding a new line of
quite three hundred miles in length. Thus
practically shut out from the main west
..
ern connections, the Erie seems tb have
transferred its strategy Wthe East, di
recting its attention to the control of the
New England business.
The Lancaster Courier states that parties
•
who are interested in a direct Southern
rail Way connection for Eastern and Cen
tral Ohio, met, on the 6th, at Columbus.
- President •Je welt, of the Little Miami
road, "who was authorized to,act for the
Pennsylvania Railroad," was present.
Mr. Jewett said :
"The Pennsylvania Central Railroad
has bad in contemplation for some time
the forming of a junction with the Smith
'era railroads at Maysville, Ky., and; had
determined to build a road having its
southern terminus at that city, connecting
at some point with the Pan Randle , road.
As to the line upon which the road will
be located, that will be determined by
circumstances. The point which we
would desire is a terminus will be de
termined in a measure` by a suit pending.
If that is determined in our favor we.will
desire Lancaster as the terminus. If de
cided against us, other interests. be
sides those of the Pennsylvania Road
must be. consulted, and the preferable
point will he Newark or Columbus. In
the selection of a line, length, practica
, bility, facilities•of the country to furnish
' local traffic and pecuniary assistance will
be considered. We shall expect the
communities through which the line
passes to , give the right of way, make the
road bed and build the bridges, excepting
-the - one across the Ohio River. The
building of the Boad is settled upon, and 1
SS soon as the people along a contempla
ed refute secure ' ,
: subscriptions sufficient;
to assure the raising of the amouat neces
eary, we will put , n corps of Engineers''
oa the line and come to a:determination.:
Tizia is in - sub4tnnta what' Piave stated;
tO. the:nther'Co,unnitteei,` *V as much id"
feed authorized; to assure you.'":"°
PrITSBURGE GAZiTTE : :MC!ND'IVT; AiJ Org .- VT/N i l 1869,
ANITURACITE—THE FACTS.
The press, and , especially the journals
of New York and other Eastern cities,
have devoted much attention of late, to
the discussion of the anthracite coal
question, as this has been presented to
them by the strikes among the operatives
and the high prices ruling in the markets
for thiOndispensable 'fuel. The discus
sion has been very minute and extended,
and would have • been exhaustive,' no
doubt, except for one important reason—
that not one of our Eastern coteMpora
ries has exhibited anything like a decent
knowledge of the substantial facts upon
which the merits of these questions must
depend. This ignorance of the true
case has been glaringly manifest with
such journals as the N. Y. Tribune, since
it has assumed to take a leading part in
the discussion, and, apparently, the right
of pronouncing, ez cathedra, a judgment
upon the merits, in' which a general pub
lic concurrence seemed to be regarded by
its writers as al matter of course. Very
nearly in the same degree, its
neighbors, of the Past and the ' Times,
have displayed the same want of ac•
quaintance with the facts, with an equal
readiness to defiver their , opinions, in
condemnation of what they have all. been
pleased to denounce as the repreheusible
combinations of an odious monoioly,
among the coal owners and carriers of
Pennsylvania, to impose unreasonably
low rates of wages upon their miners, and
to maintain extortionate prices for the
main Mel-supply of the seaboard States.
It is fully time that these misrepresenta
tions should be corrected, and that all the
parties to the current controversy should,
be placed before the public in the exact
pcisitions which they really occupy, and
which have been as ignorantly as odious
ly misstated by the journalists who have
written—we know not whether more ab
surdly or recklessly-their daily columns
hpon columns of bosh upon this anthracite
coal question. -We now propose to en
lighten them, and to apprise the general
public of the main facts which are essen
tial to a correct estimate of the merits of
all the parties.
I. Sources of the Coal-Supply. The an
thracite region lies wholly within the
limits of Pennsylvania. Its product is
mined and transported to market—and
here we shall direct our statements to the
New York and New England business,
because those are the leading markets in
importance—by. seven lines of carriage,
some of which are merely transportation
companies, conveying the products of
outside operators, while others of them
own coal-lands, mining as well as trans
porting on their own account. Two of
these avenues to market are through the
Schuylkill valley, two by that of the Le
high, and three of them by different
routes from the Luzerne region. We
specify :
Ist. The Reading Railway, from Potts
ville to Philadelphia. This is exclusively
a transportation company; it, owns no
coal-land, buys no coal, mines none, but
carries the traffic of every customer who
oilers, finding its profits in the sole business
of transportation. This road is tapped by
numerous side or branch roads through
out the upper Schuylkill valley, which
have only a local importance and need not
be enumerated here. The Reading de
livers its coal on the Delaware at Rich
mond, a suburb of Philadelphia, whence
it is shipped by water to all other ports.
2d. The Schuylkill Navigation Compa
ny, a water communication from the same
valley. This is wholly a carrying-com
pany: it neither owns, mines nor deals in
coal onits own account.
The Reading, all rail, is in use through
out the year; the Navigation Company
suspends, from necessity, all its business
during the season of frost. The two,
companies are entirely distinct in interest,
arrange their freight-tariffs independent
of each other, with entirely diverse
schedules, have. never pomblned upon
common rates, and, in the nature of
things, never will attain such an agree
ment. _ _
3rd. The Lehigh and Susquehanna Ra
way. This is the old Lehigh Navigation
Company, which first owned a canal from
Mauch IChtink to Easton, on the Dela-
Wargi hut which has since constructed an
independent railway, and . makes use of
both ,avenues.. At Easton, it connects
with the Delaware division of the old
State Canal to Philadelphia, having a
perpetual •lease thereof, and by the Morris
Canal, from Philipsburg, opposite Eas
ton, .to Newark Bay.. This Company
has a railway from Easton, up the right
bank of the Lehigh to Mauch Chunk,
and thence across 'the dividing"`ridge to
Wilkeabarre, on the Susquehanna. Un
der its old charter, it had the right to
own coal lands, and mine •and deal in
0%1. But its profits come really from its
transpOrtation business, its own products
being but a very smart proportiOn of its
entire carriage. At Easton, it connects
With the New Jerky Central Railway,
thus finding its way to tide 'at Commu
nipaw.
• 4th. The Lehigh Valley. Railway, from
Easton up the left bank of the Lehigh to
Mauch Chunk and over to Williesbarre.
It is also now pushing up the old tow
path ,of the North Branch Canal,
seeking an outlet. to Central and Western
New York. The new lino has reached
Tunkhannock, beyond which its route is
not yet settled, whether yp,, -the North
Branch -to" Towanda and Walfrley on
the,Erie road, or across the' chdid of the
hend' of. tiOnsquihanna, from
Tunithannock by way of Montrose-to
Bi ng ton, 1 1 121 i is wilolly
cation company, owning, mining or deal
,
ing'fn no coal ' ' on its =own account,
althoiigh several of its leading managers
operate largely in that way.
- 50. The Delaware and Hudson Canal
Company heads the list of the Luzern,
corporations. It owns a railway from
Wilkesbarie,' by way of Scranton and
Carbondale, to Honesdale, and the canal
thence to the Hudson at •Rondout. This
is not a connnoncarrier of coal; the Com
pany' either mines or purchases all' its
coal-freight. We may mention that this
Company has an all rail-route from Hones
dale by Lackawaxen and the Erie to New
York.
_
6th. The Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western Railway. The Eastern Division
of thib road runs from Scranton to the Cen
tral New. Jersey road below Easton. The
Western Division extends'from Scranton
to Great Bend, thence on the Erie to
Binghamton, where it strikes the Syra
cuse road, holding this under lease, and
to Owego where it - connects with Ithaca
and the Cayuga Lake. - - This company
also sends no coal to market but its, own.
7th. ;The Pennsykania Coal Com
pany, from Pittston (above Wilkesbarre
on the Susquehanna,) a railway by way
of Dunmore to Hawley, there intersecting
with the Delaware and Hudson CanaL
Having the right to half the
lockage thence to Rondont, it makes no
use of the privilege; but has built a
branch road from Hawley down to •the
mouth of the Lackawaxen, and thence
by the Erie to tidE, at Piermont. This
company alio sends no, coal to market
but its own.. It is this corporation
which the N. Y Tribune has
_absurdly
confounded with the Pennsyliania Cen
tral Railroad in its recent articles.
To complete this list of coal-carriers
from the,anthracite region, we should add
that the Pennsylvania Central Railroad
has a coal-tonnage of about 500,000 per
year, reaching it over its tributaries at
Harrisburg and below, most of which
goes to Philadelphia. The same Com
pany carries also about 1,500,000 tons of
bituminous coal over its line towards
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Of course
its only coal-interest is in the freights.
11. No Corporate Combinations Possible.
Four of these great companies are whol
ly in the railway interest, one of them
depends solely on water-carriage, and two
of them own both canal and rail-lines.
Three of them own no coal property
whatever, , and one of them has but a
limited interest therein, while the other
three look for their profits mainly to their
operations in that article. It is plain that
a permanent combination among all these
corporations is quite out of the question,
since
-Ist. The transporting-lines have to
depend upon their toils as common-car
riers, while the others rely mainly upon
their merchandising operations.
2nd. Where the companies are mainly
common carriers, their customers, the
private-operators, are too numerous and
of special interests too diverse; to admit of
any satisfactory general arrrangement.
3d. The corporations having the ad
vantage of water-carriage, are able
to cut under the lines for two-thirds
of the year, and cannot 'in reason be ex
pected to make any combinations._
4th. The Luzerne and Lehigh Com
panies, having shorter and cheaper lines
to New York, than those via Philadel
phia, are always able to undersell their
rivals.
stti. The heavy Luzerne companies,
owning their-own- coal, hare habitually
made large monthly sales at auction in
New York, persisting in thus forcing tbe
market against- the remonstrances of all
the operatora in the Schuylkill region.
This practice is for the- moment append
.ed, but will be resumed as soon as the
miners resume work.
6th. The corporations which do an ex.
elusively carrying business' notoriously
recognize a sliding-scale of charges, which
sometimes runs even below actual cost.
This :scale Is arranged according to the
current prices ,of coal in the markets,
rising or falliniiherewith. Its operation
is to depress low prices still lower, and
to enhance still more a rising market. Its
object is to keep the business moving, the
corporations usually, succeeding in
making, on the upward turns, enough to
average their earnings fairly. . This con
sideration alone Is enough to forbid the
idea of a combination with the cbal-deal
ing corporation&
So much for the mistaken notion of the
public, that the high prices are due to a
conspiracy of the great corporate mon
opolies.
As a matter of fact, there has never
been any,understanding, or combination,'
or opening for one for theenhancement of
prices between the Inerchandizlng corpo
rations and the private operators on the
purely carrying lines.
111. The lielattons of the Corporations
to their Operatives—The public journals
have a good deal to say about the "basis."
Very few of them know what they are
talking of. The miners propose certain
conditions as thh basis of an agreement
with their employers. The New York
Tribune seems to regard this basis as sig
nifying that the miners demand a pro
portion of the profits of the business until
it reaches second hands at tide-water. If
that is what . tile mineri ask for, they ought
to have IL But that is not what they
want. They claim one-fifth of all that the
coal sells for atifde, tint with the right to
strike •whenevet that , price sinks to $5.
The latter condition is radically inadmis-
Bible byithe'timiloyers;'and'equally dam=
aging to the public. efrect,-they Pre
pose to shui out foreign competition by
linpost diities t and to exclude domestic amt.
Petition by combining among themselves.
liereLis the only place where monopoly
comes in, —with the miners and not with the
companies. • Often, the miners demand a
basis which they are unwilling to stand
by; they now ask ten per cent. more than
"the basis" calls for.
• Again, the interests of the transporta
tion companies, as common•carners, lies
in having not high but remunerative
prices, with a demand steadily increasing'
with the natural progress of the country.
This is a very good reason for their,oppo-
sition to any such basis.
Anthracite coal deteriorates five per
- _
cent. in marketable value, every time it
is handled, —the loss being in screenings.
Hence the coal-owning corporations ?nake
their contracts early in the year with their
customers, to run through the season, in
tending that these shall absorb the cur
rent deliveries at tide, without stocking
the coal and the loss in re-handling. Early
in '6B, they bargained, in mid-winter, -
coal being low, for their total deliveries•
up to December. In June of that year
came a strike, wages went up, the, price
of coal also, and the corporations lost
heavily. Last winter, coal was again
low; new contracts were again made to
run through the year, followed by the
present strike, and the companies are
again forced to buy at higher rates to fill
their engagements.
Of the three Luzerne companies, only
one, the 'Pennsylvania Coal Company, is
now sending coal to tide-water. When
this strike began, that corporation agreed
with its miners to go on, at wages equiva
lent to any basis which should be ob
tained by the Lehigh and Schuylkill MI
nem' Associations. A fortt4:ht since,
their men became restive; th lutd been
paid $l,OO per ton on ac9ount, waiting
for the end of the strike9l'sewliere to set
tle what the addition ihorad be. But
they had begun to despair of any ad
dition. Whereupon, the Company
agreed to give,
,beside the $l,OO, ten
cents additional/for all July coal, twenty
cents more for / all August coal, and thirty
cents more f r the September product,
,t.con
ditioned / t at there shall be no more
strikes. //it is to be seen whether this ar
rangement or "basis" will hold the mo
nopOlists of the pick and shovel: .
We are quite sure that the three Lu
zerne corporations will never accede to
the "basis" *which their operators are
now claiming. They are prepared, rath
er, Tor a permanent stoppage of work for
years. But they do advise their cus
tomers not to buy at present rates, and
they further offer to contract with them
at $7,50 per ton for January next. This
indicates their faith in an early soluticin
of existing difficulties, upon some friend
ly and satisfactory footing, and their de
sire to meet the public' needs at the earli
est moment' which is compatible with
their own prcifitable continuance in busi
ness.
In this connection, it is proper to re.
mind that portion of the public which
accredits these corporations with large
and steady profits upon their operations,
that none of them, prior to '6l, were, in:
fact, maintaining a first-rate financial po
sition. During, and for a year or two
after the t war, they, made more
money. But taking the whole period of
their corporate existence, from the first
up to this time, we are justified in observ.
ing that their average profits have not
equalled ori.inary bank dividends, or
the remuneration usually expected in
other large employments of capital. Per
sons familiar with the history of these
companies will have no difficulty in as:
renting to this statement.
From this review ' of the whole field, it
is clear that there are, and can be, no
combinations among the employing and
transporting corporations; that no monop
oly exists, or can exist, for their control or
restriction of the coal-supply of the coun
try; that the interests of-all the compa
nies demand harmony, permanence, and
a mutual' satisfaction, in their dealings
with the. mining class; that it is
this class alone which persists in
refusing to be governed by the con
tingencies of the current trade,
that the existing high rates for coal are
not due to any mismanagement, or to any
mischievous designs of the companies in
imical to the interests of their consumers;
that as between the corporations and the
miners, the interests of the consumers lay
directly in sustaining the formerj and that,
whatever direction Federal legislation
may take, in the effort to apply some rem-,
edy to existing difficulties in the coal
trade, that legislation will have the ef
feet to go, straight through all Interven
ing interests, down until it reaches, and
that, too, decisively, the operative class
whose monopolizing .comninations are
alone responsible for the present condition
of the market. Raise or lower the tariff,
take it off If you will, and the intelligent
public can readily see whose pockets are
to be affected therebi. It will do no harm
to have this fact understood among all
concerned.
RAIL WAY DISASTERS.
For a considerable period the Erie Rail
way has sustained the bad pre.eminence
offrequent and terrible disasters to trains.
In popular estimation these catastrophes
have been attributed either to the bad;
condition of the track, or to the worth
lessneas-of the rolling stock, or to the in
competency of the management. All
men who have had occaslonto pass over
the road have not failed to - discover that
the track was in excel!ent condition, and
that the coaches were unsurpassed, if not
•unequalled in freshness, durability and'
I 'comfort. The confeslon recently made
by a man in custody in the jail of
Pike, and which was published in
these columns a few days ago, showsthat
three of the worst smashups on the Erie,
including the appalling one at Car's
Rock, were caused by that individual out
of spite, and tends greatly to relieve the
management of the road from censure.
Immediately following the Car's Rock
tragedy the public journals heaped un
measured vituperation on the Erie and its
officers. , The track was said to be worn
out, and the servants of the Company
grosslyjgnorant and careless. The reve
lation now before the public not only ex
onerates the managers of the Erie from
the imputations cast upon them, but in
culcates a lesson of caution in dealing
with railway calamities generally.
What was done by a badman, at Car's
Rock, according to his own confession,
may have been done by other bad men '
on the same road, or on other roads.
Indeed, from what has transpired, not
only in the particular instance to which
reference has been made, but in various
other cases, it is probable that many of
the unexplained railway disasters hap
pened through no fault of the respective
companies, bat through the criminal in
terposition of men intent upon revenge cr
plunder. Hereafter, this cause must be
taken into account in determining the
origin of railway slaughters.
Pendleton and Vattandlgham.
The acceptance of the Democratic
nomination for Governor was a matter of
life or death to George H. Pendleton. He
would have been as dead as a salt mack
erel if he had not accepted. He could not
afford to regard his broken ankle or his
personal comfort, if he proposed to be, in
the politician's sense, a live man. There
is another man who has a solemn hour at
hand in which to choose his destiny. We
refer to Mr. Vallandigham. If he re
mains in the wigwam during. this cam
paign, he will be, on the second Tuesday ,
of October, no matter how the votes may .""
count out, a scalped savage. He has for
a long time been accused by the staunch
est Democrats of the state of cursedness
and selfishness. He announced some
time ago that he would not speak during
this campaign, but he must reconsider
, that conclusion and reach another deter
mination now. If he attends to his pri
vate business he will be called a sorehead.
If he .refuses to speak for Pendleton, he
will be denounced as having a mean, per;
sonal spite towards Ohio's favorite son.
He must become reconciled with Pendle
ton. He would, we are sure, receive Val.
with courtesy and kindness, and creature
comfort. Though all 'this might be as
honey in the mouth df Val., it would be
better in the belly, no doubt; but he must
take his medicine like a man. The pill
may be coated with elaborate sugar, but
it must go down, or there will be- no
health in the patient—Cineinnati Com
mercial, Aulguet 14.
—The Massachusetts Republican Con
vention,
for nominating State officers,
will be held at. Worcester, September
22d.
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