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Lake, i7;e R0T!(712C6 Irqeki;igGrJaiim Brown' _Dying Spreel,, and - og:,:r flue:es/A:n:7 Mi.!. ,:erany, AM'a.3677157112. MMEll==lll f)Erao.tErmi: sl Latlvcr;.±, U. S. BOND' st Fraillzlort, S Ck:LD closed. in New York yester,l,ls, Dior. Jouii BELL, of Tennessee ; died -At :his borne yesterday. REGISTIZATIOTT of Venango coun ty foots up 9115, e;-- - ceetling the Presiden :ial - rote last year G 12.• L PuocLimwrioti: from General Canby anuounces the results of the Virginia eleLlr . .on. Governor Walker is to be in st.•;.':.4.A on the 21st, and the new Legisla tut will meet Oct. sth. --.7:urtorTAN Ilt3ricr.inoN has been very large during the two months past. Over forty ships have sailed from Liverpool sloce, for car portsl, among their passen ger.: were a large number of puddlers from the "black country", with spinners f.‘.,.m?. factory operatives from Prezton. German-exodus is equally extensive, much larger share of this than hereto for being directed to our southern ports. Ir surounn not be forgotten that all city, - ward, borough and township officers are to be elected at the fall elections. None of these offices can, under the law, filled next spring. All offices which expire next spring must be provided for in the corning October. But little time remains to make the needful nom irte".ions, and our friends, in town or country, should a once take due order for setting their tickets in the field. 7.1:s opposition in - Ohio are again at their I ob.l7,ame. A majority in the nest Legisla ture world be worth far more to the party than the mere election of the State of. ficera. We learn that they are concen trating their efforts upon the close and , "doubtful counties, colonizing largely from other counties where their majorities are large, and keeping an eye single upon the purpose of securing the largest num ber of legislative districts. The Buckeye 'Republicans should attend to this matter beibre it is too late. J..;TENTA:TioN AM) MEAMi F.)4. S. W hear, from Manch Chunk, that the ;s generally conceded there that Mr. Aso Packer did endow Lehigh University 7-7Stil a large pecuniary gift. We have also the true explanation of the milk in that cocoa-nut, at* the matter is understood by those who best knOw him and the facts in the case. This Lehigh University is AO institution for the exclusive benefit of such families of affluence as can afford to pay about 000 per year for the education of a EOM It costs at least that sum an. malty to get the benefits of that excel lent institution of learning. While Judge Pacter was found willing to attest in this splendid style his interest in the education of the children of the . _ wealthy, he has positiv_ely repu -7 dieted his obligations as a citizen to con tribute to the -school-fund for the educa tion of the poor children of his county. Sued for his taxes in '67_,by the,_Demo• cretin County Commissioners, Poor Di. rectors, Borough Council and School -Directors, he paid for that one year, and has Dot paid a dollar there since. If he had bestowed a little less upon his uni xmityoutd a little more upon tire schoola GM of the people, he would have better illus trated a poor lash's Idea of Democracy. W HERE THE FAULT LIES. It is said that • they are disputing, at §cranton, upon the proper responsibility for the present imperfections in the ven tilation and mansgement of coal mines. Fault is found with the miners for their readiness to work in collieries where life is manifestly unsafe. Little know these carping critics of the necessities which too often drive husb,ands and'parents into the jaws of death, seeliinz. limed tor their families dependent upon the avails of their daily labor! As little do they reflect upon th:3 plain duty of government to proVide, as it does, for the public safety, in numberless ways, against the cupidity or nil'. essuess of individuals or of cot•porations, and • against the .11 - 441 411: tO reeklas3 :atilt:en:nee or ignorance tiv.) itself is constantly lity. In neilecting to surround the :: , ierground labor of the Commonwealth - • , .1 - .11 the safe-Friar :1s wilich public duty :eqUires, on: Legislaturl , has ignored one ple,i , ,est of their first obligations. :nal:or no Clarence -,, - :;ether, or not, miLers nra, - ; 11::cc11•2 . ;s of their per safety. It is the Insiness of au yto restrain hccilessness with 11.r.ry li nit ne .7.3 to enfor c.e a mition upon employers. Tressly for .1 - ach rzes that gOv':l2l. 2 - r; )i, ~_-_„ -L-IL:14)1711 ACY 11r."i71)t-l3t (7.ll(liiN: - .*. The spirit, of :... genuine democracy 1 7i'lthrully Reeks the *realest good of the 1 lad avoids need!ess in-_ ~ u p to the late' ,2sts cf those few v:ho g1—•.:137 e7:periar e some clegr:::e of in dividual loss from the applicatim of _that democratic r?i , lciple. "When a Demo cratic 'Senator 2rom Luzerne, in the last Legislature, v..ith the aid of an uttbroken vote from alt the other Senators of his 4 - ‘. , at in their seats, sue -..,atirg the legal enact 1f.., ievised and compreh en the reenlatio i n of mines 7 .of.life therein, the • I • IN li I C AND 3 - uP.I;. party then `•re' cecdc•:i in de i:_cnt. of a well syst;:la 5 r Intl the pr:.4, quavdort Lizlli --did he a - id li l' le: ..., • "l. situ-:_ 1 - 3: -, .7. - atl,c.:l , f , 13y w Tul doomsday, against a wearure of wh:en he knew only enough to know that Its operation would cost the coinpaniessome thing and the oberatives nothing; he might have irotesteci all summer—until the Avondale holo l caust would have con founded his tonigne—against such "rough I treatment" for the corporations as would j have raved :his terrlble slaughter, and he would have ben blessed with never a word of appreivM from the people of Lu zeros, to who that kind of "treatment" would have beet jt , stly acceptable. The miners of his istrict would have, been thankful for such a law us that which he opposed--and' this ho must have known. Probably not one citizen of the Luzerne district now reels keener regrets for the failure of that legislation than does Bina tor Turner. Unnappily, his regrets will not avail to reanimate this small army of the dead whose lives the proposed law would hive saved. This is a very proper occasion for the Democratic masses, in the mining coun ties, to ponder upon the proper explana tion of the fact that every vote, cast for a bill whlCh would have subjected this Av ondale Mine to a seasonable inspection, -was given by the Senators of one party, while every Senator present, of the other party, voted against it. These facts are too striking to be overlooked just now— especially in the A.vcrulale neighborhood. ISE 0i)V1011°, one b ' 1111 ,Lly of the! fe C i f filee °Jere 2mpievcd? 1 -.1: !.lived THE RIGHTS OF NAVIGATION. The public.spirited gentlemen attend ing tin. Commercial Cronvention„at Keo kuk, have done wisely to confine their deliberations to topics upon which they could rely on the hearty accord of their constituents, the business men of the great valley- an its tributaries. The question of a tariff was not one of these. The day has not yet come when that has ceased to be a political issue, and its discussion at Keokuk would have fatally embaraesed a nonpartizan Con vention. The meeting presents a well•considered and comprehensive plan for the regula tion of bridge-construction over the navi gable streams. No hnpracticable or un necessary restrictions are proposed for the railways; indeed the navigation interest carries concession to the utmost point of safety in the Keokuk programme. But a single span of four hundred feet is de manded for the bridges 'over the Ohio, all the other spans being one hundred feet less. . Other details of the measure pro vide for points of less importance, but which experience forbids to be over .ooked. Taken altogether, the bill now recqm mended presents a fair basis for an ami cable and, just compromise on this bridge question. If it be properly presented at Washington next winter, and adequately supported, on the floors and in the lobbies of Congress, there 'would be little difficulty in securing its passage., The Keokuk Convention must have some influence in consolidating the navigation interests of the West, for greater efficiency with Congress and with the public, we presume that action was had, l before the meeting dissolved, to se cure ‘a united and vigorous support of its recommendations.. It may be too late to undo the existing mischiefs, but not to gtiard atainst their multiplication for the Lure. ITTSBURGR GAZEITE,: SATURDAY, SEPTEMB HENRY W. WILLIAMS. Two years have elapsed since the.an flexed declaration was made, by leading business men of this city, of their confi dence in the personal and profeSsional qualifications of the Republican candi date of that year fur the Supreme Bench. In the ensuing October, he had a majority of the legal vote of the Commonwealth, but was counted out by Democratic frauds upon the poll. Subsequently raised to ; that bench by Executive appointment, he awaits a popular re-election now. His judicial career, .for nearly a twelvemonth since he became a member of the Court has subjected those qualifications, of which his neighbors spoke so kindly in 1567, to the critical scrutiny of the pro, fession throughout the State, and the gentlemen who signed the address_ have the-, pleasure of recognizing the universal approbation by which their friendly judg ment has been so conclusively sustained. The vote of Alleghany next month will show that a distinguished public .servant has gained still greater'strength by trial. Perrsiatnoir, September 2d, ISO 7. • 2'e, the Merchants and Business Men of Eastcrn Pennsylvania: The undersigned, repronnt:ng v rions branches of entorpriF.e, iu Pitt , _;- burgh, beg leave to press the claims of Hen. Henry W. Williams, ea - Alt:ate for Um Sniu,ae-e Judgeship, upou your notice. Matte Wil:iams has sat upon Ihe mete el Cur Dr , :rict Court for nearly .cep years. The eases whi , tda have hetore hint have beo:t as various and inlricAte as are the exigencies wnicir give rise to dispute in a Cl`ll l . I'D of traO so iargaly interested in Mining, manu facturing mercantile, and marine pur suits. xis dei_dsiens NUT. Leon rteapted IV Siepteine _Neel< a,t , tit,: law, Mad have commamled more gem•ral satisfaa• lion among business men than those of any otter judge in the State. His van:- od judicial experience, his extensive legal. acquirements, his sterling integrity, and his . great ly qualify him Par the h:gl.3 noE.4ition of the Supreme Court. Judge li ,l!iina recer eou;:leatnee ,l or favored - the repndi 7fL,7t of coun!y, 'Slate of 71aio;:ul * * E 'We earnestly urge you, therefor:, not on:v to vote for but to throw the whole Nveight of your ihtinence in .favor of the Hon. Henry W. and' help 113 elect him by a majority so emphatic as docide . .lhnt hencerorlii the national credit shall be Sustained, jrislica vindica ted, and the lights of citizens fairly and ',carless : ly luaintaincd. • -•rin tie r. - lasi ,- ,•F. ~-,.‘..!.;1., .. . C.:0w1 . , .11, A. l'allnestOck'sSon P. , ..1..r0t Dt.: .4.._0., A: C,.., . .1.'r..!:.:, .4. `3,•ris'. .4pAuv.. CllA:f.int . 1 / 4 Co.. 1 17,11. !;......n. , y, ,1.: - . Cu.. ..N. , .,1tr,u11. Cook .4 1 11 •• z l, :zni.ll!. .t...; :IL,. - r Akr.,,,1. i'clrn A Co., .1,1:n :-.,,.... - •T:on,i, Mar I. P. .r!....Na A C,. , l'. 11. Nt..vin . 1 / 4 . 1.' , .., ca., mcc,,,nl., ..; ~, ,'.... .Inmvs MoAul.y. J. Iltro. 7, I.l.trt, CAligt.....y .4 C:,.. N. Ilv:Ine, 4: z'cr.7.:. Thowas M. tio,..e. C. G. ilussLy. ___. ~re. ' 1.. Wits:: all the traveling that was done was-over the high roads, by means of public or private horse power, the firth quency and boldnets of highway robber ies wero notorious. _ W 3 have since been in the habit of congratulating ourselves upon the utter decadence of that science, of which Claude Duval and his cotern porcries were the most illustrious pro lessors, since the introduction of steam traveling conveyances. It appears, lii)w -evor, that we have been too confident; highway robberies have been of very frequent occurrence throughout the mid dle and southern counties of the Com- ' monwealth during the past six months, and now that the winter is approaching we are beginning to bear of them taking place in the streets of cities and towns. It is humiliating to discover that a crime prevalent generations since'and suppress ed by our fathers should spring up again in alarming proportions in our own day, and were it not that the country seems to have more than it can do, with oven greater and more heinous crimes, we might hope that some effective means might be devised for suppressing this re• uvenation of an ancient evil. AT LIEGE, in Belgium, thirty thousand Belgian sharp shooters will compete for prizes sometime during the present month. The cable informed us', a day or two ago, that a•British nobleman, who has long interested himself in the volun teer ino - , , emtnt in England, was anxious that a competitive shooting-match should take place between Englishmen and Americans. From these two items we are led to think how do Americans stand as marksmen? We have been in the habit of depending almost altogether upon our immense wildernesses and prai ries t 3 furnish us with all of our sharp shooters,- but, year by year this source dwindles, and the race of woodsmen and trappers is dying out. It might not do any good to hold an international shoot ing-match, but we do think it might be well, in some way, to excite a general in terest in rille.shooting. Excellence in that exercise can do no harm in, a Coun try where every man may be a soldier, and to attain this, it might be well to in augurate something similar to the .vr4l - movements which for years - have been so popular both in Great Britain and Belgium. IN sprrE of tho spread of. Liberty and Liberalism, there are still great countries which know almbst' nothing at all of either one or the other. During the past one hundred years all the civilized world has changed the various governments from Absolutism to positive or cornpaila tive popular. forms, We have seen 1 . Franco, Russia, Italy, Austria, and even far off China and Japan, yielding to t e march of prOgressive ideas and the for e of ciroumstandes, but we see Thibet; a country a quarter as large . us the United States, with six millions of inhabitants , as benighted and exclusive as ever. For an unprotect . ed foreigner to penetrate this land is almost certain death, and even the inhabitants' themselves.. wlp are abject elaves of an arrogant theo cracy, are said not to be aware who their sovereign is, the Grand Lama being sup posed never to die, although he we*. atonally changes his physical tiody. We call attention to this fad for the bettßat MINOR TOPICS. 1: ~ . M , Z b } 'i. L ~ ~'yr ~~ of those ardent missionaries who go abroad, but express at horn: thanks that the millenium is . hand, because Christianity and C tion have, hand in hand, perinea whole world. It is a sad fact, roil still remains, unpermeated, as a l bling•block in the way of the mill of liberty. THE: CE.L.NE... , _zr. seem to havE sorry prospect before them if th• , to this country.! At the best, t: receive but a cold welcome fr. ' white citizsns, and the colored . jmany portions of the country, clared, beforehand, war to the ti toe-nails with the yellow, oblic strangers. And, as if this W already quite sufficient to pr I:wir utter discomforu., we rca. , in en Oregon paper, that the origins posses sors of the soil arc tilled with .n especial grudge against the CeleptiellleW comers. Among it:: local items is a noti e of the capture of a Pi-ute, who had been in dulging himself by 'killing a Chinaman tbiulc, that a collection of a few such facts ne,:tiy prihted iu the Chinese end "Pie4:eon' i,ffiguAges: might, if - vridely circulated in their Own country, act,as a wholesome check on the de'6llo o CiiiaaiO CIl to jOLF.:III3y to forein parts. • D l'A r. EITIST OY, r), T'111!01.1 and Lord Deri , y,: Lad ericcee Europoan than any other man 7tairki occupied F ome r,f h: time h, -writing A, diary of his manueript, which but race discovered, is about to be either bodily or in - copious If what we have a right to bo more interLsting and it: than any book of a similar nal has3:evor written. poßsiW unplit,ftz'Ailq in length of ex - perienc , s and la mviodgc of the politics and lent cro, Seward is the American Prot >typo of Lord Palmerston, and it is to ie hoped that, before his long dull xi - set 1 nubile, lif6 closes, he will furnish the World with such a volume as can be e.xp,t , cl from no other source. 6 I=El Tut - new Dauocrri:ic catechism in Tennessee makes - very interesting, r,ud infz lit re is nn extract, from the Mem phis Aral.adwiii, f r viiich its ctlitor, if in Pennsylvtinia, would Le read out of the party : Recognize the rieg,ro's right to vote; cease to abase and `veer at him; treat him as a human being, with a soul in his body, and as susceptible of the sensibil ities, the resentments and frailties of hu manity, and he will at once emulate the magnanimity of, the whites, endeavor to rival them in industry, enterprise anti thrift, cultivate amity, educate his chil dren, acquire homesteads for hi , family, strive to deserve the confidence of his fellow men, and above all, he will never cast his vote to the inj-ury of the white man, who he has learned by kindness is his only friend. 0 - OF the 'Avondale disaster, the Pottsville Journal says: ' This system of ventilation, by means of furnaces at the bottom of the slope, is very generally used in the Lackawanna region, and, until lately in _England, where it was used for ventilating the deep est mines. Had the system of ventilating, now very generally in nsein this country, and which has been adopted in England with success, by means of faus stationed on the surface and near the mouth of the shaft,heen used, the ac2ident, in all hu man probability, would not have occur red; or had egress been afforded by means of air shafts, or otherwise, we would not now be called upon to record this lamen table loss of life. 31ISCELLINE0US. COWPER, the Cleveland bigamist, has been held to bail in Erie, in the sum of $6,500, and has also been sued for $50,- 000 eamages. Mr. ROBERT SELLERS, aged eighty five years, residing in Franklin, Venango county, died suddenly from apoplexy on the oth inst. THE uneasiness in New York c:ly - concerning the water supply is wonder fully exercising the Fire Commissioners and insurance men. CLEVELAND has a breach of promise case. , The parties are Nancy Sloan vs. Wm. Pender g est, he nearly sixt% and she not far from fifty-ars of age. Damages asked, $3,000. - TILE Massachusetti supreme Court has decided that a non-resident bank stock holder is liable to taxation. The clues ' tion involved was the constitutionality of the act under which the tax was assessed. TnE wedding shoes of Cotton Mather's grandmother, with the original publish meat of her marriage pasted on the sole of one of their, are in the ppssession of the descendants of the Winslow family in Duxbury, Mass. PERPETUAL injunctions have been granted against forty.elght at Cleveland, dentists and others in the 11. S.. Court for infringment on the Goodyear patent, and a commissioner appointed to take ac count of damages. Tam application for the pardon of Daniel S. Curtis, imprisoned in Massa chusetts for assault and battery, for pull ing the nose of a Mr. Churchill in a rail way car, has been 'Unanimously refused by the Committee on Pardons. AT TILE Union Depot, Cleveland, 0.. a day or two ago, in the handling of bag gage, a revolver fell from a satchel to the floor and was discharged thereby, the -charge taking effect in the ankle of John -Higgins, a brakeman, Inflicting a serious wound. At New Derry, Westmoreland county, on thelLth, Timothy Conner cowhided Elias Huntzberger, who retaliated by ,shooting his assailant in the leg, inflict ing a severe wound. A little boy, six years of age, son of. David Hart, of East Boston, was run over by a horse car Saturday afternoon. When his father arrived at the scene of the disaster, the little sufferer said, ."Don't whip me father, I will never do so again," He died in about an hour. Near -Port Jarvis, on the Erie Rail road, on.the evening of 9th, a locomo tive; exploded, killing the engineer, fire- Aii4 br.eOUWIDA 11; 1869. THE COURTS. never their Quarter Se.ssions--Juece FRIDAY Sept. 10.—The.case,o !ear at S ili za- rnonwealth vs. 1). O'Neil an4l L. W. Rool:, indicted fo - pril ported, was reson;c .1, 1. tla. wealth offered te,Lii‘t.nl'. to prov: , ',hat the defer.dants dle Pittsburgh Daitc /icy attar wldch the case closed on the part - 4 the rros.c cation. A. M. Brown,E.r! then o,rencJ case for the defoic..., proposed to offer in the cnt , re article in the Di:sprach, which contained t idle6edlibeloi.s c;?.::or. • Mr. Swartzweid.ir -Thje .t i, holding that the rev:minder of the wa , nat reiavent testiincny - . The Court overrule'? tiic oiljection and the article wa ,, reqd in ovid3ll'.:`,l. Mr. liamptcu, foT tlfo dc.fen(lants, thell proposed to read tl - e renor: of the proceudiucs to .'cc ire: case, pUbliiinci the 1:h..71) , :trh day prececih . ;:*.no iic lice.th,n.of :h. - . „ . ..1- leg . c.ct a , ch tldtLlitted, uir.ch_•,l) objccAcd !dr. Prctr3. f Ihe defendeuts, in .3,:hle•tc:p±hc ict••:;•::ettt cf •- " ' ' lad the Thibet etum- MEM but a MED ey will m our ones, izi ave de- MEM co•ey ,d re rot • Je for 11C:7. - .0;;T:' 7.g 2.i • 2. il c , CCI ff= n `.2 p , •„ r , • , MC ENE EEL . _ Mr. jutstificati.'n ,;;; : that. I. had. pr.:.-, - .tlF PUblie'?.tV;:l , lished a Mr. Sv ,trt oblection Mr. Stv•trt...tvsl;l2l - 11 timer*" anntint , I.tic trial let n to the .hry Lion the _curt Mr. tirown instru the jury the if ictt:r. I the allez , : libeion.;;;-.!:rrcfi. to the of' i aetiot. between D. O'lti•ti and'.!.."... P. I.: Nri:, et al., they must r.;•. turn .t not gullty. He though the C.;:trt ',alto the matter fro.h the jury and decide that there was n cause for, 'action, Out he would nut. insi.,t upon it. Mr. Swertzwelder held that the Coa.. - t could not so instruct the jury. The in. dictment does not allege that the defend ant charged the pro , ecutor with the com mission of any erirriA) Mr. Hampton then argued tie case at length., and was followed stemlz. welder for the defend, who ma le a most ingoillbus and able argument. Judge Mell , in then deli zs...:ed charge of the court to the jury The hour for adjournment having ar rived, the jury were directed to seal their verdict. if they should agree before, court met.. Court then adjourned. Eari a more -at., and , C .--,, ",i ,- :..i-,,• - • IL 0:.!,-,-,q s r been ME xpeoi, it rurtive taro ti. fit flxcr pt.- MEM LIST FOIL NOND:s.".Y. - No. 160. Commonweal-1 vs. O'Neill et al 414. Commonwealth - vs, Markey. Commonwealrib 73. John An derson. " 45. Commonwealth vs. Hen - 7 Beady. , r 33. Commonwealth vs. P.o bort Earley. " 63. Commonwealth vs. James Mc- Kinna. 41. Commonwealth vs. John Mc. Nervy. " 10. Commonwealth vs. John Jay and D. Ludwig. TRIAL LIST FOR TI:E. ,, DAF• " 305. Commonwealth vs. \. 4,_4•eorge Folmor. " 42. Commonwealth vs. Lorin Kohl. " • 72. Commonwealth vs. John Man ning. " 73. Commonwealth Stewart. " Commonwealth vs. John Key ser