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FRIDAY, AUGUST RI, 1869.
UNION REPUBLICAN TICKET.
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FOR 'GOVERNOR :
JOHN W. (TEARY.
JUDGE OF St FEMME coma':
HENRY W. WILI4AMS.
COUNTY.
- ASSOCIATE JCDOL DISTRICT COURT. •
JOHN M. KIRKPATRICK,
IRS £TAFT LAW jIIDGR, COIIMON PLEAS,
FRED'S. H. COLLIER.
STATE SKNArx—THOMAS HOWARD.
,ILEEEMELY —HE S.
AL T E X A N DEAL XILLAS,
JOSEPH WALTON,
JAMES TAYLOR.
D. N. WHITE,
JOHN H. KERR.
&war, HUGH B. FLEMING.
TineAstrßEE - 103. F. DENNISTON.
Cmuut or. Couras—l GSEPH BROWNE.
Rr.cortor.a- - MMUS H. HUNTER.
Coaraissioirra — ,HAUNCEY B. BOSTWICK
Rueuvrza—JOSEPH H. GRAY.
CLERK ORPHANS , Comm— kLEX.. BILANDS
Dumnorda OF Poon—ABDIEL MCCLURE.
WS Piarr on the inside pages of
this morning's asarm—Second Page:
remisyleania and Ohio News, and Mis.
ediansous New Matter. Third and Sixth
pages: Finance and Trade; Pittsburgh
Petro/cum and Produce Markets, Markets ,
by Telegraph, New York Money Market,'
Imports- by Railroad and River News.
Beoenth page : Miecellaneous Matter.
PwraoLaini at Antwerp, 541 r.
B. BONDS at Frankfort, 85k.
(tow closed in New York yesterday
at 1.32-1@133..
A Nesavtun LETTER says that the
Conservatives of the State have no dispo
sition or purpose to Interfere . with colored
suffrage. We shall see about that !
SOME of our very sanguine Republidan
eotemporaries have been felicitating their
readers upon the, fact that tiventy-tWO or
even twenty-three States have ¶lready
ratified the X - Vth Article. Official records
at Washington show that brit twelve
States have certified their affirmative itc
tion. Six other States have ratified, but
no notice thereof has been sent to the
Secretary of State.
NATuneuzzo citizens of the United
States who return to their native country,
with the evident intedt to remain there,
or who accept offices there, inconsistent
with citizenship here, or who otherwise
conceal, for a length of time, the fact• of
their American naturalization, or evince
in any way a disposition to abandon the
•rights acquired here, may thus so far re
sume their original ellegiancs as to ab
solve our Governdient from any obliga
,tion to protect them as American citizens
abroad. • •
Ma J. E. Inoznsom, the nominee of
the Prohibitory Temperance Convention,
, .
of Ohio, for Governor, has declined the
proffered honor. Although a temperance
znan,he is also'an anti.slavery man, and
regards the xyth Article as of more in
,
trim& importance than any other issue
now before the people. He writes:
"Believing that the maintenance o an
Independent Temperance ticket at the
'coming election will hazard the success
of this important measure, which I look
to as the ,fi.coup de grace" of American
slavery, I feet , bound to give my vote
and what , influence I have, for the Re
-publican ticket at this fall's election."
Tax new time-schedules for fastrailway
trains from New York to Chicago, by the
rival routes, go into effect next Week.
With an average speed of thirtymiles per
hour, including all stops, the route via
Pittsburgh. will require but twenty-seven.
hours, or three hours less than any of its
rivals. Tills rate of speed is-entirely
practicable, and may be, if desired, accel
erated-still more, without materially in ;
creasing the peril. , for passengers. It is
the railway owners who pay the diffe
\ •
ence between" twenty-five and thirty-tive
tales per houri.in the increased expense
of the service, the wear and tear of equip
ments end superstructure being at least
doubled at the higher rate of speed. As
for the safety of passengers, it may be
well to remember that over atleast severr
eights of this entire route a speed of forty
miles per hour would be quite within the
limits of prudence.
THE RACE TO-DAY.
whatever may have been the feelings
of apathy, , heretofore, in regard to the
Harvard and Oxfoid boat race, we think
they must give place today to a genuine
Combination of interest and curiosity as
0 - the result. , To-day at five we shall
probably have the Raws of the race in
a late edition of the evening papers, pos
sibly as.arly as three o'clock. Betting
his been. done here and elsewhere on the
lo a question that has been
so violably disentsed by the English
'-'l--iourahlt: 113 ,W4Vbll only our first im
4.it, 4t9 ,
:piessions to depend upon, and there can
really be said to be a no odds. It may be as
well here to recall a few of the facts in
connection with this contest.
For some time the Oxford University
crew has been the champion college crew
of England, and , year after year the plucky
Cambridge crew has entered the contest
only to be defeated. In this country the
Harvard crew has held a similar position,
almost every year triumphing over Yale
at the Worcester races. Such being the
case it is scarcely to be wondered at that,
in this age of Champions, a race between
the two victorious colleges should have
been proposed, but there was one great
difficulty besides' the distance to be over
come, and that was the total difference in
styles, the Englishmen rowing with cox
swains and the Americans without.
Nearly eighteen months ago the contro
versy on this point threiitened to frustrate
completely the proposition, but the Amer-
icans were so desirous of measuring oars
and testing muscles with the vaunted
islanders that they yielded this point,
and - when they began to yield
they seemed to have no definite
idea as to when they ought to stop•
They have gone three thousand miles
away from home, they have not been al
lowed to choose upon any particular Eng
lish water, but were forced to accept that
course which, in all England, is the best
known to English oarsmen. As soon as
their arrived and long before they had re
coVered from the prostrating effects of
their voyage they were urged to appoint
a day upon which the race would posi.
tivelyllke place, no matter whether the
weather should be bright or rainy and
foggy, such as Englishmen only can de
light in. All these points the Americans
hate yielded in their anxiety to have a
race, but if, under so many disadvan
tages and surrounded by so many novel
tiek, they should win, j ast so
much more glorious will be the victory
and so much more ignominious the defeat
of their hospitable but very ungenerous
opponents.
The Americans took a boat over with
them which at first they considered unfit
for the Englsh waters, and which was
unmercifully ridiculed by the English
press: After testing one or two English
boats, they have at length decided to row
the American boat in the race, so, as they
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have adhered to their style of rowing,
steadily refusing English instruction, we
may believe that, barring the coxswain,
contest will be really international,
pitting the American boys and the Amer.-
ican system against those of England.
Many of the British noblemen and gen.
try have been behaving so disgracefallY
recently that we might be pardoned if we
doubt that fairness will be shown to the
strangers to-day, but our honest opinion
is that the whole affair will be managed
by honorable men in an honorable man
ner. If it is not, ours will not be the
disgrace, though we might be disappointed
at the result.
The idea of friendly international con
tests is, we think, a new one—at least we
do not remember to have heard that the
youths of Egypt ever met those of Assy
ria in any but mortal combat. The pu
pils of the Grecian philosophers were
not in the habit of pulling races with the
young disciples of Zoroaster, nor did the
edticatedyoung Carthagenians ever, to our
knowledge, meet in friendly contest, with
the scholar-manned triremes of Rome.
Evert the Chinese do not claim the honor
of originating this practice, and we think
we can clainkit as a product of the Nine
teenth Century, unless we might have to
except the tournaments of the middle
ages, which were, however, mere person
al combats between cosmopolitits. Of
all the contests for "championship,"
which have • crowded the past decade .
this one most thorough:3r claims our sym
pathy and demands our interest. Here
is no giant rowdy endeavoring with his
fists to beat an infamous renown from
the head of an Englishman. No "little
engine," whose inability to keep parallel
with his oponent was proverbial, but we
have instead a set of plucky, wiry young
men; educated and thoroughly American,
and as such we wish them glory and tri
umph` a safe voyage home, and sin
cerely Wpe they may not bo spoiled after
they get here..
TEE EQUAL RIGHTS OF LABOR.
The National Labor. Congress, lately
sitting at Philadelphia, pronounced its
judgment very clearly on one of the
dead issues of the Democracy. All dis
tinctions of race or color were completely
Aisowned. Colored delegates participated
in= the proceedings, and took a leadiag
part, on the floor and in the Committees.
No discrimination is' recognized in the
platform of principles finally enunciated.
Nothing is expressly said about the suf.
frage; but what was said was broad
enough to cover that part of the ground.
Says the N. Y Times: •
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The Democratic opposition to negro
enfranchisement rests upon the alleged
unfitness of the \ colored ;maple for the
highest duties of citizenship, and upon
some supposed antagonism of interest
and feeling
On both pain a the trades' delegates
betwie t n t white and black la
bor.
have advanced tot e ground held by the
Republican party. For, having accorded
to colored delegates the right to discuss
and' to assist in deter !fling rwropositions
c l
i
which are o ff ered as h e,
d basis of legisla
on, there can be fro this quarter no
further objection to colored suffrano.
The race which Is qualified to take an
active part in a Laborngress at Phila
delphia cannot be deni d the privilege
it
of voting for represent& vas to sit in the
larger Uongresa at Washington. The
workingmen of •the country therefore
separate themselves fro .. the Democratic
party, and silently non • .. e the justice
gir the
_Republican_ steaum , for iteequalt
lieig 11,0itil, POlittdal NM %111. . ; „..-
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PrrTSBURGII GAZETTE : FRIDAY,
THE EWIJALIZATION OF TAXES.
In accordance with the Act of Assembly
authorizing the Auditor and Treasurer of
State to compound with such counties as
were delinquent for the assessed State
taxes of 1866, '67 and '6B, that composi
tion was duly made last year. Of these
counties, Allegheny was one. Her as
certained tax under this compromise was,
for the present year, $18,890.18. This
sum was carried into our county dupli
cate in February last, - as required by law.
And it has been duly collected and paid
; i3
0 ' er. So far, well! .
The public have very lately been ad
v ed that an additional assessment has
been made by the State Revenue Board,
Upon personal pioperty, in this county for
the current year, to the amount
of about $29,000. Upon this, one
city journal remarking that "on what
1
these figures are predicated, no in
formation is afforded," proceedi to
warn the, tax-payed • that a sharp
increaise in the State taxation is in store
for them. The figures, the complaint. of
a lack of information, and the warning
from that journal are forthwith copied by
another partizan newspaper, with the ad
dition of its, usual invidious reflections
upon Republican management of the pub
lic finances.
A very little familiarity with • the laws
of the Commonwealth would have en
lightened either of these unfriendly
prints, with the information showing ex
actly "on what these figures were predi
cated." . _ . ..
Under the Act of Assembly of April,
1844, a Board of Revenue Commission
ers sits at Harrisburg every three years,
for equalizing the amounts of- taxes in
the different counties of the Common
wealth. That Board met this year.
Its duties were altogether independent of
any special, action which had been taken,
as above stated4.to compound for certain
delinquent taxes. The Board pro
ceeded, as the ' law requires,.., to
"adjust and equalize the valuations
of the several counties." It was found
that Allegheny, Schuylkill and a number
ofother counties were valued very much
too low. For example, this county had
reported a valuation. only about double
that of the small agricultural county of
Beaver and very decidedly below the re
turns from Berke and other counties,
which are certainly not as wealthy! as
Allegheny. The Board of qualization,
doing their sworn duty, and acting upon
the information before the \ , advanced
.the Allegheny valuation of personal
priperty to about $12,000,000. That of
Lancaster - .county is $9,006,000. The
Board went through the State,
county by county, raising some
valuations, diminishing others and
leaving still more unchanged. Its
fiatires were returned to the State
,;.
Trelisurer, and: by hint to the County
Commissioners, after the duplicates were
sera out in February. The' 29,000 for
which Allegheny is athlition4ly liable is
the proper tax upon her eqiitilized and
increased valuation pursr ant to the law
of 1844. That law has been in operation
for twenty-five years, and - no less than
eight Boards of Equalization have sat un
der its provisions. Thy preizient action needs
the sanction of no additional legislation.
Allegheny has simply been called upon
to bear her just share of the burdens of
the Commonvrealth, to which end her
plainly insufficient valuations have been
fairly equalized, up to what they should
be as compared with thoof other coun
ties. Her citizens are both able and will
ing to pay their fair proportion of the
public expenses, and ask no unfair ad
vantage over the other counties of the
Commonwealth. .
This added assessment of $29,000 is not
likely to be collected and paid over until
next year. But, whether paid then or
now, the fact that it stands as a legal
claim upon the tax -payers of Allegheny,
does not warrant any misunderstanding of ,
the proper operations of a law which has
been the settled policy of the State for
twentylive . years, or 'any partizan mis
representation of those officials who have
been doing only their sworn and regular
duty. , The facts do warrant anotho con
clusion—which is this: if the Assessors of
Allegheny county are hereafter careful
not to undervalue the personal wealth of
our people, there will be no legal occasion
in the future for the,correction of a mar&
fist injustice toward other counties of the
Commonwealth. ' ,
The Lake Shore Railway consolidation.
The Cleveland Herald says: It is now
reported that the late consolidation be
tween the Lake Shore lino and the
Wabash line is really in the interest of
the Erie line, the great rival of the New
York Central. The Buffalo Advertiser
says that the last consolidation was
brought about by the Erie interests; that
bp such arrangement the Erie line pro
poses to lay a third rail from Buffalo to
New York, to correspond with the gauge
of the Lake Shore line; that thQ Erie in
terest agrees not to extend the broad
gauge beyond Cleveland, abandoning all
broad gauge projects west of Cleveland.
In consideration therefor the Lake Shore
line are to maintain strict neutrality at
Bullalo between the New York Central
and the Erie, and the Erie manatterp
agree to deliver and receive at'Buffalb
seventy-five per cent. f through freight
and twenty-five pert. at Cleveland.
Whether this last tiratigement is by and
with the consent of Vanderbilt does not
appear on the suriace. There have been
some features lately that look SS if Van
derbilt has been the controlling spirit in
the Lake Shore consolidation. if he has
Veen left Cut of the reckoning, it is prob.
able beitlll ske some new move.
Tim Chicago, Rock Island & Pattie
Railroad has made arrangements to for.
Isiah tatty dittkchetsto Callfortla,
ten, It Maw
GUST 27,- 1869.
TUE PARK
Any one who will take a drive out the
Perrysville plank road will see how much
a driving park is wanted by our people.
I am told from seventy-five to a him•
dred buggies and carriages go out that
road every afternoon. A few evenings
ago I met twenty-seven, in half an hour's
drive, coming in three miles ; as a great
manygo out Butchers' Run, I must have
missed Anita a number.
Had we a park, I think it would iloe
safe to say three hundred carriages and
buggies would-be in it every-41a. The
difficulty we have in selecting a place is
the strong *mire of individuals in getting
it as near ma possible their ow home.
Now, a City Park is 'not to be ade for
'r
the people of Allegheny nor for he
l
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i
ple of Post Liberty, yet the real ents of
this latter place think it very un easona
ble that any one should object to he pur
chase of the Milking' estate.
If we get a park let it be for the
benefit of as many as possible, and let it ,
be gotten at the least possible expense
that will accomplish the object. I have
a thought of my own on this subject
which I will express; if any one has a
better suggestion, I am willing to yield.
Ist. I deem it all important that we get
access to the park by some good driye, by
which we can avoid the cobble:Ones.
To accomplish this, I propose the selec
tion of the farm back a of Oakland, with ac
cess on Forbes street. on Nicholson
pavement of about two miles.
The entrance to the park can be made,
on a street just back of Charles Clarke,
Esq., where about twenty or thirty acres
of ground might be purchased of the
woodland,. occupied by soldiers daring
the war. ' )
to a street
The road can be run along
that now gives access to the 'ravine and
passes down by Van Voorhis' Oakland
race track. Entering this ravine, you
can go down to near the Monongahela
ravine. Then turn to the left and the
ravine will take ' you out in the direc
tion of IVilkinsbUrg. This ravine
could be followed in such a
way as to make the drive almost
level. The ravine is wide enough to
'hake in it a road fifty to one hundred feet,
or even more; the sides of the hills cov
ered with beautiful trees, so tha without
any planting we could at one make a
Parkmore beautiful than any 1 Fel place
can be made in years. The w/tter of the
little run could be thrown into one or
more lakes, and with the expense of but
making a summer road, costing but fifty
or sixty thousand dollars, we could have
a Park more beautiful than in one square
location that would cost half a million.
I would not ask that the width of this
Park should be over two hundred yards;
indeed it•would be only a strip of five to
eight miles long. It should not cost any
for the elevation of the property
through which it would pass would be
three times the value of the ground taken.
It would pass through six or seven
thousand acres of giound; let this gro,und
be assessed ten per cent. and it will gtve
six or seven hundred dollars. If any lone
will but drive over this ground they will
at once see how well it is fitted for the
purpose. If the owners of this ground de
mand a.large price, let them put on their
own valueation; the advance on thereat of
the around will correspond and their own
price can be afforded. I have no property
on this side of the river, but if the city
will but come to the Allegheny side with
a pdrk and select a ravine where I have
property, I will not only give 10 per
cent. of the land, but I will give 25 feet
and feel that I will be profited, for I
know the land will be doubled in value.
The thirty acres I , would suggest buy
ing near Oakland should be laid out for
children's play ground, where children
could be conveniently sent out by the
Oakland cars. i • B.
Latter-Day Democracy In Massachusetts.
I
We quote a few paragraphs from, the
speech of Mr. ApAms, when accepting
the pemocratic nomination for•GoYernor,
on the 24th :
. I t hink that the defeat which we suffer
ed i the election last, fall substantially
settled the two questions of reconstruction
and negro suffrage. Much as we I dislike
that settlement—and no one dislikes it
more thoroughly ,than I do—ther l e is no
way short of revolution by whichwe can
avoid it or overturn it; by which Ise can
help accepting it whether we like itor not.
It is settled for the next four years at least;
and probably (looking to the Constitution
of the United States Senate; which every
man should bear in mind as the practical
and actual Government of the country)
it seems to me impossible that we can ob
tain any change for the next ten years at
least. During that time this absurd policy
of unrestricted, unqualified negro suffrage
at the South will have to be theroughly
tried. Even when its failure is siscertain
ed —even then; I think it probable that in
Massachusetts the moderate men will not
favor any very extended disqualification.
I believe that by that time the white men
of the South will have done—and they
are doing today—just what I urge you to
do to day. They are accepting the situa
tion, taking the problem with all the in
evitable absurdities attending it, and they
are bending it to their own uses, as I
would have the 'Democratic party bend
the situation to their uses. [Cheers.]
But whether that Itssio or not, it seems
to me that the ame forthat debate is past.
Last Fall it was proper "'engage in it,
and it was the duty of eve man to urge
that that terrible crime shoul of ,be in.
dieted upon us. But as recon ktruction
has been forced upon uti—as it as—it
i \
seems to me that We should take it. We
should say it is inevitable. We will bolt'
the matter in the face, and the problen(
now for us la, "things actually stand- as
things are today, (not as we would have
theni,) and what does the public welfare
demiind?" , To act otherwise would be to
be as foolish as would be a general who
should cannonade an empty wood with
the enemy firing away at his 'unprotected
roar. Let such strategists waste their
ammunition on the empty woods and on
the debris of the battle field. [Applause.l
Tun Cathedral of Cologne is rapidly
progressing. The northern tower now
equals in height the 'southern one, and
the chapter house and Sacristy are com
pleted with the exciption of We iron roof
ing; 888,617 thalers, 18 ogre. 6 pf. were
spent on the building last year. The
ancient front gate of the Cathedral is at
length completed and.adonied with 100
statues of white marble and eight mag
nificent ha reliefs of the Savior, the lat
ter executed by Prof. Mohr. The King
of Prussia undaunted by the legendary
objections agillust the completion of this
old Cathedral, Is bravely prirsuing the
work, althodgh It is dedicated to tha Ito-
MaA.Cattio=4 and he tassel( Is
eb oftbelleforauglon•
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Political Items.
George William Curtis thinks that al:
though the Democratic party is no longer
formidable as a party of principles, yet
as an organized conspiracy against the
purity of the ballot‘box it is still much to
be feared.
It is a fact to be gratefully remem
bered by tax-payers. that under the ad
ministration of Guy. Geary, not only has
the State debt been reduced nearly five
millions of dollars, but the tax upon real
estate has been entirely abolished. 'With
Grant in the Presidential chair and Geary
reelected Governor, both the National
and the State debt will no doubt continue
to diminish, as it has done, and the time
will soon arrive when a still lurther re
daction of taxation will be realised. All
that is wanted to effect this mostdesirable
end, la the election to the 'Legislature dig
men who canoe relied upon
. to protect
the Treasury instead of joining in dishon
est schemes to plunder it. -
When the unterrilled Democracy were
returning from Harrisburg to Philadel
phia, after they had nominated 'Asa
Packer for Governor, murderous assault
was made by a gang of them upon a gen
tleman connected with the Pennsylvania
Railroad. They-forced themselves into
a car in which were ladies; knocked him
down, and would have killed him out
right had not a commanding voice arisen
above the noise of the rolling wheels of
the cars, and wild yells of the ruffians:
" What yer ' bout ther? Stop that? Don't
yer know that Packer's only nominqted!
He's not' tested yet. Yer haint forgot Jerry
Eaton, have yer? Geary's Gov'ner yet,
and will hang every one of yell Wait
till Packer's 'lected, and then you can
pitch in!"
The movement for removing. Belmont
from the Democratic National Committee,
and putting Tweed in his place, appears
popular with the _Democracy 'Ol New
York, and is said to be favorably received
elsewhere.
Tile Ezial Avitor.
Recent letters from California convey
the cheering information that the "Avi
tor," the flying ship, which was to make
the air passage from San Francisco to
New York in a week or less, is not a
complete failure, though it has the seri
ous objection to success, that the model
now exhibited will not lift and carry more
than eighty pounds weight. It is pro.
posed, however, to build anew "Avitor"
one hundred and fifty feet long and forty
feet wide, which, theoretically, ought to
carry eight thousand pounds, and, with
favorable winds, to attain a speed of ten
or twelve miles an hour. As this is only
a very good stage-coach rate, it becomes a
question as to the uthity of the "Av!-
tor," even if it is .a succese. Theoreti
cally, too, the new machine is to be safe
from storms, for it would only float in
the wildest hurricane, even 'if it was
driven at the rate of one hundred miles
an hour, just as a boat floats with the tide
or with the current of a river. The
security from all danger, the projectors
say, is that "the aerial ship is wholly in
the air." The same thing has been said
of certain castles in Spain.—New York
Post.
Presentation of a Cane to the Poet
Wilmer.
In spite of the assertions that Barbara
Frietchie was a myth there is the most
positive proof to the contrary, and that
her flag waved defiance all day to the
rebels in Frederick; and it is said
that this was by no means the limit of the
old lady's courage; for she did not hesi
tate to drive the gray coats, by a sum
mary and vigorous use of her cane, from
the piazza when they came there, using at
the same time, language quite expressive
of her appreciation of their real charac
ter. The house in which the old lady
lived has recently been pulled down, as
e l
we have already tated, but the citizens
of the town have procured from the tim
bers a solid oak ne for presentation to
,
'John G. Whittier as a memento of the
heroine whose valor he has celebrated in
that beautiful poein, The cane is plain,
and entirely without ornament, but quite
prized by Mr. Wrttier, to whom it will
be transmitted by Dr. Louis H. Steiner,
of Fredericksburg, formerly Chief In
spector of the Sanitary Commission.
BOSTON.
State Labor Reform Convention.
By Telegrapl;;to thePlLtaburgh Gazette.)
BOsTON, Angia4 26.—ln the State La
bor Reform Convention to-day resolu
tions to the fbllowing effect were adopt
ed: declaring that the cisima of labor
are superior to the claims of any party
orissue now before the people and will
be a paramount consideration in the be
stowal of our votes in the coming State
election in the choice of State officers
and members of the Legislature; that
only by thorough organization can labor
Protect itself against the continually in
creasing encroachment of capital; asking
for labor associations the same chartered
rights and privileges granted to associ
ations of capitalists; demanding the en
actment of statutes making ten hours a
legal day's work in all factories in this
State and the enforcement of the law
againstlhe employment of minors under
ten years of age in the cotton or
woolen factories of Massachusetts:
reaffirming the declaration of the Na
tional Labor Union in favor of tem
perance, education and morality as ne
cessary to success; recommending the
immediate formation of a workingmen's
Political party, to be known as the Labor
Reform Party of Massachusetts, for the
purpose of securing thorough action and
protection for the rights and interesta.of
workingmen and women; announcing
that their motto is equal rights and priv
ileges Dar all in every field of industry,
irrespective of color, sex or birth-place;
declaring'co-operation, industry and ex
change to be the final and permanent so-
Yationotthe long conflict between capital
and labor, and urging the working class.
es throughout the country to take wise
and eareful measures for its early adop
tion..,`Numerttus amendments to the
above resolutions, giving rise to consid
erable debtte, were offered, but rejected.
No other business of importance was
transacted and the Convention ad.
tourned-
FIE
The Gettysburg \ Convocation.
(By Telestsoh to the Pit Burch Gasette..l
GETTYSBURG, Angust, l 2B.—This fore
noon the localities ocoup by 2nd, 3rd,
oth, and 6th. Corps were ozed. About
twelve hours were devoted tbthis work,
and many disputed points we definitely
settled. A number of the most, promi
nent Generals who participated \in the
battle were present and gavevali*ble
ivformation. The general line of \tie
fifth day's battle, wilt be staked toanor;.
row.
The i 4 marble statuerepresenting
:•Pleuty," was today placed on the
monument, in the soldiers' cemetery_
The remaining corner will be occupied
by_ that, of "Peace." The statue of
wi t r a e an d mE n ,30091 have fbtrOme
.tlme been Istposltlon. - ' _
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SOXNLIBELISM.
Frightral Leap—A Boy Jumps Out or a
Third story Window and Falls to the
Sidewalk.
About two o'clock this morning. Eddie
Clark, aged thirteen years, residing at
the corner of Second avenue and Mar
ket street, jumped from a third story
window, to the sidewalk, and received
injuries whicn will probably prove fatal.
It appears that . he is in the habit of
walking int his sleep and at the time
stated got up out of bed in which he and
an older brother were sleeping and
started toward the window. In getting
out of bed Ire awoke his brother, who,
seeing him in the act of climbing out of
the window; ran and caught him, when .
Eddie turned and told him to let go or
he would kill' hlm. The brother held
him and called for help, when
his uncle, who was sleeping in
an adjoining room, ran to see
what was wrong and instead of
catching Eddie, who was partly out
of the window and struggling to gee
himself from the grasp 4f his brother,
caught the brother and ptilled him back
thus breaking his hold on Eddie who f 11
to the sidewalk. He was immediat ly
taken into the house and two physicia a
sent for. On examination it was fox d
that no bones were broken and he had
received no serious external injurry, but
congestion of the brain set in almost Ina
mediately from which it is feared he will
not recover.
Watch Recovered,
A. telegram from Springfield, Illinois,
was received by Chief . Hague. Wednes
day evening, requesting him to arrest a
negro who ;would arrive in th:s city on
the two o'clock train from the west, hav
ing in his possesion a watch that did not
belong to him, that if he gave up the
watch to release him and if ribt to bold
him in custody. At the appointed time
the negro arrived, and omcer O'liars
arrestted him. He gave np the watch, ,
which he said he had got in an honest
' , trade" from another man, and was per
mi ted to go. He had a ticket for Wash
ington, D. C. The watch is now)
in the
hands of Chief Hague.
Petroleum Prizes.
In the earlier days of the petroleum
mania nothing wass more cemmon
than to hear of fortunate borers, who, in
endeavoring to strike oil, went through
successive strata of the beat Orange coun
ty butter, pure bear grease, adrariantuie
candle stock, wanting only the wicks,
and at last, instead of reaching petro
leum, ended in a subterranean luck
of
the finest olive oil. The latest luck of
this sort has happened in Louisiana. A.
petraleum 'company, which has been bor
ing since April, 1866, has at last struck,
not oil, but, at the depth of four hundred
and forty-five feet, a bed of sulphur, said
to be two hundred and five feet thick, of
which one hundred and five feet are the
purest crystalized sulphur ever discov
ered. A reported analysis by a compe
tent chemist gives ninety-eight and twen
ty-five one hundredths of pure sulphur.
THE schooner Congress picked up, last
week, a dead fin-back whale off Cape
Elizabeth, and next day the whale was
towed inside the breakwater in Portland
Harbor. It is about sixty-five feet long
and will yield thirty or forty barrels of
oil, worth $1,300. Thea whale was un
doubtedly killed by a sword fish, the ab
domen being pierced in a number of
places by the weapon of that beligerant
little fish.
DR. KEYSER'S BOWEL CURE
DB. ILEYBEE'S BOWEL CURE
Cures Dysentery
DB. KEYSEWS BOWEL CUBE
Cures Bloody Flux.
DR. KEYSER'S BOWEL CURE
Cures Chronic Diarrhea.
D. KEYSER'S BOWEL CURE . •
Cures BIIIOUI Coils.
DR. KEYSER'S BOWEL CU
Cores Cholera Inrantum.
DR. KEYSER , I3 BOWEL. CURE
Cares the worst ease of Bowel Disease.
DR. KEYSER'S BOWEL CUBE '
Cures Cholera. Monte.
DR. HEWER'S BOynli, CURE
Will cure in one or two defies.
DB. KEYSER'S BOWEL CURE •
Ought to be in every family.
DB. GEYSER'S BOWEL CUES
Is a sure care for Griping..
DB. KEYSER'S BOWEL CUBE..
Will not WI In one vise.
DR. KEYSER'S BOWEL CUBE
DR. KEYSER'S BOWEL CUBE
Cures Summer Comp'sint.
DR. KEYSER'S BOWEL CURE •
Wlll cure Watery Datcharges.
HR. KEYSER'S BOWEL CURE
KEYSER'S BOWEL CUBE
Is a valuable medicine.
Dr. KEYSER'S BOWEL CURB
Is a protection statist Cholera.
DR. KEYSER'S BOWEL CURE
Will save hundreds of valuable lives
If early resort is had to it.
DR. KEYSEIP'S BOWEL CURE is one of the,
most -valuable remedies ever discovered fur elk
diseases incident to this season of the /year.
Hundreds of- =Serer, Could - be relieved in less
than a day by a speedy resort to this most valua
ble medicine, particularly trainable, when the
system Is apt to become disordered by the two ,
free use of unripe and crude vegetable,.
Price SO Cents. Sold 'at DR. KEYSER'S
GREAT MEDICINE STORE, 187 Libertv St.,
and by all dragsters..
PAINLESS DIGEsTION.
"No man." says Sir Astiey Cooper, "ought to
know by his sensations that be has a stomach."
In other words, when digesuon is perfect there
1s neitner pain nor uneasiness in use region where
it takes place. Nausea, w cut of appetite. !Mtn-
Imo , . oppression after eating. shooting pains in
the eptgattrum, a flushing is the f...ce at meal
times, and a ferred tongue in the morning, are
among - the direct symptoms of mdurestion.
Constipation. biliousness. bee dsche, nervous
irritabillq. physical weakness and low spirits.
are I,s almost invariable accompaniments All
these indlcsUans of DYSPEPSIA. whether Immo.
elate or secondary, are usually aggravated by hot
weather.
The close of summer is therefore the season '
wit. n the victim of dyspeps i a mo,t urgently nem: a
a tonic and regulating medicine. of courae, !
every "invalid his many advisers. One friend 11
recommends one drug. another another; but in a. ;
multitude of couusel.ors there is not always
safety, The STANDARD RNAINDY or T/IM PRES. I'
LIST AOL NOR INDIGICSTION, In WI lIA swats.. la . '
ktinsTlfaTEit'd liTtiftistCH BETTS:W. Time,
that proves all things. has estaultstied its repu.,l
tan low on an Imptegnab e tonne. Mo.—tat spa tt-11
igneous testimony of millions of intelligent wit- ,
nesses. No acrid oil or acid 0 flies its attends- i
Ong principle: ha tonic constituents are th ey
finest that botanical research has yet discovered; ,
it combines tue properties or a gentle eVarfliallt,'
I a blood cepurent and an anti-bill us medicine,:! ,
with .nvigoratmg quadties of the highest order,,
and is admitted both oy the ..nolle and the pro-
fission to be the sorest prOteetios against ilk'
diseases that are produced or prupagated b,y Ma
trons air or unwholeso.es water. that has ,
ever been used either ,in the United Buttes or
tropical America. '
llu gases ..r conAlpstiost, resalting from man
of muscular tone in the intestines. she erect or
the iling.titi is persesnly marvellous; and with.
out the Aanierons segue:met of mercury. Mrs.
sto•es th Caordered user to a serum toms.
Ilea
, .
Cures Dlarrbea:
Cures Ulceration.
Neves