She effcrsonian.
IIUSSDAY, JULY 18, 1872.
LUTHERAN CHURCH.
Litiirg'cal Services next Sunday.
Mousing, 10, - - - Evexixg, 7J.
M:.NiKf; Skumon: He nnist increase, but
I mu-.t decrease.
I. kxing Sermon : Prepare for death.
G. W. MAHRIOTT, D. D., Tastor.
JC-c"TilK days of glorification have come
toMhe bolters from Republicanism. The
K-iuoeralie leaders at Baltimore, with but
few r-liiIit grimaces, swallowed Horace,
white hat and all ; and the little toads of
Democracy, all over the country, are rejoic
ing over the fact, that, for ouce, they are to
1-e permitted to vote for an "honest" man;
that, even at the expense of all their former
protestations cf love for the party and its
principles, they arc compelled, to gain even
a show of possibility of securing a hold upon
t he spoils of office, to bend their knees to the
most unrelenting opponent they have met
w iih since parties were formed in this coun
try. The .situation is just now cheering to
the bolters; and Democrats arc happy because
ofilaswcll But, thanks be to the virtue
of the masses of the people, Kepublicans as
well as Democrats, the cause for rejoic'iDg is
not destined tcr last, or to progress to a suo
ocssful end.
All the Republicans have not bolted, nor
can all the Democrats be lashed into the sup
port of Horace Grecly. Before the conven
tion at Baltimore met, the points, as to
whether no nomination, mere approval, or
downright nomination of Grecly and Brown,
with the Cincinnati platform attached, were
ihe Kilter poliey, were thoroughly discussed.
Tiie dangers of the two former were plainly
K.-t forth, and the latter settled upon as the
only means by which the leaders could secure
authority to use the lash. But even fu
Hedged nomination of such men proves too
sieve-like to hold water. Thou.ands
Demoerals, all over the couutry, refuse to be
whipped in, and many thousands of these
declare they prefer voting for Grant, whose
ii.'ile' edeiil's they know to be Democratic, and
vhse Presidouital acts they know to be based
on the principles they have always suppor
ted, to voting for Grecly, whose every move
save when political agrandisement was the
o! was made with a view of destroyin
their party and shoving their principles into
the depths of oblivion.
Even in our own county of Monroe will this
llting of Democrat's from the suicidal pol
jey of the Democratic leaders prove to be the
cn e. The Democracy of Monroe arc not so
ignorant that they do not know the differ
nice Kfwecn the principles of the man w ho
denounced them as the sojourners with rattle
f t. nkes and wild beasts, and hurled at their
heads the infamous charge, that they were
the possessors often gallons of Whiskey to
:!! spelling Book, and the principles whicl
iii th" days of genuine Jackson Democracy
so did much towards brincing our nation irom
it youth to glorious lull mauhood. They
know this and they remember it, and hence
do t.'ot hesitate to give free vent to the indig
nation they feel at the manner in which they
have been sold, and in most emphatic d n's
dv-':;re that they will not bind tho bargain
villi (heir votes.
it is true that the mere partizans of the
party the men who are held to it only by
the cohesive power of that public plunder
which they-hopc to reach by it profess to
rejoice over the coalition which has resulted
in the selling cut of the Democracy and its
f rineiplcs, that the ambition of life long op
ponents may be gratified, and their hates
pandered to. These will, doubtless, support
the Ticket formed at Baltimore. It is also
tiue that the Monroe Democrat will give the
j'.ciiou at Baltimore its unqualified approva
and support, and so work itself up, as the
campaign progresses, that its Editor will
lead himself to believe that Grecly and
Brown were life long Democrats, and gen
uine partisan models in that sense. It is
also true that the men who want to go to
Congress and the Legislature, and fill the
county offices, from. Sheriff all the way down to
Jury Commissioner, will yell hozannas over
the nomination of Grcely and Brown, declare
the death and burial of past issues, and start
out oti the new departure with exceeding
great joy, happy in the belief that they are
marching straight forward to tho goal of
their ambition. The rank and file of the
party the men whose votes count, and have
always heretofore counted infilling ourofficcB
with euch political hucksters and dema
gogues however, are not in this move, and,
if emphatic declarations can bo taken as the
criterian to judge from, never will be in it
Many of them may go the polls and vote,
because they want to "stick to the ticket," as
their fathers didj before them, but their
hearts will not go with their votes. Many
more will stay at home, aud in their work
shops, fields and barns mourn the folly which
destroyed the party of their hopes. Jany
more, urged on by the virtue which controls
true mauhood, will go to the polls, and by
voting for Grant and Wilson, put the seal of
condemnation upon the demagogues and
shysters who have so basely betrayed them,
knowing full well that they do less violence
to their principles by so voting than by sup
iorting the action of the leaders at Balti
more. Why, even many of the local leaders,
hereabouts, are in tribulation over the result,
and swallow the ticket much as they would
swallow a dose of calomel and jalop, or any
other nauseating drug.
From no point from which we can view the
situation, can we son any reason to fear for
the Ldo of the ticket farmed at Philadelphia.
Grant and WiLca arc too deeply seated in
vliC hearts of the ieople, for valuable servi-
j rendered, to be ousted by a mere guh of
ambition on the part of bolting aspirants ;
and it needs but work and watchful care, to
render their inauguration into the positions
for which they arc nominated, as certain as
that the season come and go.
S5We have received, lately, several
numbers of a new and very sprightly Daily
published at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and called
The Wilkes-Barre Daily. If inerrit, real
and bonaf.de, deserves success . then, must
this new candidate for public favor become a
pai'ing investment to its enterprising pub
lisher. The paper has Democratic leanings,
which is about the only bad feature wo sec
about it. II. B. Beardslee. Esq., formerly
of the Wayne county Herald, is the Editor
and proprietor of the "Daily."
COXGRESS !
Wc of course take no part or lot in the
Democratic contest now going on iu this Dis
trict for the succession in Congress, but wc
have been surprised at the unjust, abusive,
and violent language applied to one of our
most worthy and respected citizens, the Hon.
Charlton Burnett, by the Carbon Democrat
of last week. Wo would say to said Demo
crat that if it expects to defeat General Bur
nett's nomination in this County for Con
gress it must change its tasties, as that gen
tleman is too strongly entrenched in public
esteem in this section, to bo damaged by
wholesale falsehood and scurrility from one
who knows not whereof he affirms. Will our
neighbor next try the truth, and if that don't
bring down his game conclude to let it stand
on its merits ?
Tim rcnnNylvanla Reserves o
Receive llounty.
Washington, July 12. In the matter of
the decision of the Second Auditor, Hon. E.
B. French refused to allow the claims of the
members of the regiments of the Pennsyl
vania Reserves for the $100 bounty, under
the provisions of the act of Congrsssof April
22, 1872, stating that the act referred to ap
plied only to men who were enrolled in the
United Suites service prior to July 22, 1SG1.
An appeal was made froiu this decision to
the Second Controller, Hon. J. M. Brod
head, who, on a careful examination into
the facts, reversed the decision of the Second
Auditor, and has decided that, as the regi
ments of the Pennsylvania Reserves were
enlisted in the State service prior to July 22,
1861, and were mustered into the United
States service prior to August 6, 1861,
bounty will be allowed and paid to men cn-
litiug in the Pennsylvania Reserve rcgi
ments.
CSf The declination of further Congres
sional honors, by Mr. Congressman Storm,
has led to quite a complication, and promises
quite a muddle in the Dcmocratio ranks.
Several of the journals of that party have al
ready, and most emphatically expressed
themselves in tho matter. The Monroe
Democrat, conceiving, no doubt, discretion
to be the better wisdom, if not valor, has
sung dumb as a church mouse. The Mauch
Chunk Democrat gently insinuates its sur
prize at Mr. Storm's course, and hints that a
Carbon county man could possibly be found
to take the posish." The Carbon Demo
crat bustles up over the declination, wade,
into Gen. Burnett's affections muchly and
roughly, and insists that the successor must
come from some other county than Mouroe,
without a qualification. The Easton Argus
joins the Carbon Democrat in its notions, and
goes for a Monroe county man, as successor,
in no event The Easton Sentinel wants to
know "what's up," thinks the Carbon Demo
cracy overburdened with williug, self sacrific
ing statesmen, and suites that if Monroe
wants the successor, site must come with a
united delegation to the Conference. The
Wayne county Hcrall copies the Carbon
Democrat 's article, without comment, but
doubtless, as Patrick, would say, keeps up a
"divil" of a thinking. As we said before, the
Monroe Democrat says nothing, and, we
having no oar in that boat, stultify ourself
with the declaration that we don't care "a
continental" which whips, so that we are
permitted to look on and see the fun. It is
neither our fight, nor can it possibly prove
to be our funeral.
P. S. Since the above was in type the
Jonroe Democrat is at hand for this week,
and, we are pleased to see that it has mana
ged to gather backbone enough to speak
right out in meeting. It tell just exactly
what it wants those interfering outside jour
nals to understand, and advises with a gusto
ar beyound its want. The great beauty of
the article lies in the many ear marks with
which it is adorned, and which renders its
paternity by no means a matter of guess
work. Of course we call back all we said
about discussion, wisdom, valor, &c.
Our Neighbors.
lo iNowart a moat astonishing erect
occurred oo Friday morning oo the pre mi
see of F. McCormick. A terrible thun
der storm was raging. About 5 o'clock
a colored woman employed next door
visited Mr. McCormick'a well for a pail
of water, which she obtained. After hav
ing taken it to the house, she returned
for the second pail. Iu the interval two
claps of thunder, following each other
in rapid succession, occurred. When she
reached the well the second time it was
perfectly dry, and one of the buckets n
deeply imbedded in the earth as to be
erleetly immovable, beini: covered with
several feet of earth. The colored woman
said the lightning had struck the well.
i if. - '
Dorcu a noie ttrough the bottom and let
the water out. A si
lowever, was sufficient to convince anv
person that the disturbing element had
not come from above, but that there had
been an actual upheaval of the earth
sufficient to divert the flow of water. Not
a stone was displaced, and there was no
indication whatever of any 6hock except
at the bottom of the well, which is very
deep, built long years ago in the old-
fashioned substautilal style, and which
has never been known to cease its supply
in the dryest seasons.
Monday and Tuesday, were days worthy
to be rauked among those of the wet, wetter,
wettest On Monday evening the rain
literally poured down, but we dont know
that any body was hurt by it
Tills place is troubled with a young
courtists who courts all day,- all night, all
week, and Sunday included. Wc should say
that this is rather savagaroUs. Do you know
him.
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Camp Meeting. The Committee will
dispose of Boarding tents and Restaurants,
to the highest bidder, on the Camp Ground
next Saturday. 29th inst,, at 2 o'clock in the
afternoon.
. PKTEaS. Edixoer, "" Amos Rouse,
Jacob Ed ingek.
All parties, Churches and Sunday schools
in want of good Organs, are invited to call
at J. G. Keller's store, or scud for descriptive
catalogue. Address
J. Y. SIGAFUS,
May 9, lS72-tf. Stroudsburg, Pa.
WASTED. About the middle of July
good general servant Must be a good
cook, washer and ironer. Plenty of work
furnished, for the satisfactory, willing, and
chcerf ul doing of which good treatment,
good fare, and good pay will be given.
Address MRS. PABET,
June 27, lS72-tf J Strouudsburg.
.
Tli c Steamer Pocono was out for prac
tice on Saturday and worked admirable
Like pure wine she improves with ago and
use, aud at each practising proves more and
more of a treasure. The Clapp tc Jones
Manufacturing Compaq7 of Hudson, N. Y.
certainly performed wonders when they built
her.
Removed. Mr. Darius Drchcr, has
temporarily removed his stock of goods to the
room, first door above M. M. Burnett's Tailor
Shop, where he will be pleased to meet his
many customers and friends, during the pro
gress of the improvements making in his
own store room. Darius's stock will
found complete in every particular, and wi
be sold at cost and below cost for want o
room to store his goods. July 1 S-2m
Mr. Darius Drclacr, Ksq, we sec
has commenced making an extensive cn
largement and improvement to his Store
room. The masons are at work at the brie
work, and, we learn it is designed to ad
some 10 feet to the front, and four feet to
the width of the Store. This was demanded
by his largely increasing trade. When com
pleted his Store room will be second to no
other in town.
AH the boarding Houses in this neighbor
hood, are said to be filled to overflowing with
sojourners. Never before in the history o
our section of country has it been so popula
as a summer resort A dozen additiona
boarding houses could readily be filled with
the comers who are turned away for want o
room to accommodate them. The reason for
this growing popularity can readily be found
in our brilliant sunlight, our pure bracing
air, and our total absence from the encroach
ments of epidemics.
A little girl, daughter of Mr. F. II
Schell, of New York, whose family is spend
ing the summer season here, met with
severe, but, we arc pleased to learn, not dan
gerous accident on Jbnday morning last In
company with several other children, she was
playing in Joseph Wallace's barn, when she
fell from the mow down to the basement
floor, a distance of some 1G feet, dislocating
one of her shoulders, breaking a wrist and
otherwise bruising herself. Dr. George. W
Jackson was called to the case, and we are
glad to know that, the little sufferer is get
ting along as well as could be expected.
o
The Kc3'stonc State Xormal
School. WTc have received the Catalogue
of this Institution, the State Normal School,
of the Third District, located at Kutztown,
Berks county, l'a. It gives evidence of the
fact that this school has enjojTcd great pros
perity during the last session, under its new
Principal, llev. A. 11. Home, A. M. The
faculty consists of twelve able instructors
Between three and four hundred students
have been in attendance during the past year,
The terms are $200 a year. Those prepar
ing to teach receive special deductions. The
next term will open on Monday, August 5th,
and continues twenty-two weeks.
A Correspondent, writing from
thcns, curiously contrasts ths mixtures to
be found there of aueient and modern civili
zations. Railroads spin their trains amid
the temples of three thousand years ; steam
ers dash their swells ujon the Pireus, and
the scream of their whistles resounds from
Athos, Pentelicus and Cytheron to Olympus
and the heavens beyond their gods. Dr.
Ayer's world-renowned medicines, those con
summations of modern science, are posted on
the Acropolis, the Parthenon, the Areopagus
and the Thesion, while the modest cards of
Cherry Pectoral, Ayer's Sarsaparilla, Ague
Cure and Pills look from the windows of the
shops in the streets of Athens, where they
are sold. N. Y. Sunday Globe.
Tiie American Odd Fellow for July be
gins the 14th volume of this sterling maga
zine. The new volume opens grandly, be
ing replete with first-class lamily reading and
fraternal intelligence. Among the contents
are : Dick Moon, the Pedlar, a capital story;
The Conservatory at Washington, illustra
ted ; Thoughts on Odd Fellowship; Scientific
and Curious Fats ; Useful information; Hu
mors of the Day; The Patriarchs' Greeting;
Products of Pine Forest", illustrated ; An
Odd Fellow Abroad ; Letter from England :
The Darwin and Agassiz Theories of Man's
Origin treated from a Christian standpoint :
choice poetry and miscellany ; Tidings from
the L raternity everywhere ; Laws of tho or
der; full accounts of the Anniversory Jubi
lee, &e., tc $2.50 a year, including a
superb premium pecture. Published by the
A.O.F. Association, No. 37 Park Row, New
York.
Mrs. Susan Smiles', widow of the
late John Smiley, died June 10th, aged 91
years. Mrs, Smiley, was probably at the
time of her death the oldest lady in this
county. She was born in Berks county in
1781. Her father, Enoch Morgan was Pay
master in the army during the Revolution.
It used to please Mrs. S. to tell that she was
takeu up out of the Cridle and weighed by
some of tho Officers that stopped at her
Father's Hotel, while they were on their way
home, at the close of the war. Her Father
and his brothers removed to this county in
1797. They were the first Morgans that
settled in this county. It is a little remark
able, although Mrs. S. was the mother of 7
children, four of whom is still living, that
she leaves but one family of six grand child
ren. She was a faithful member of the Pres
bj'terian Church for 41 years, having joined
the Church at Stroudsburg, in 1830, two
years after its organization. Although nearly
blind and deaf for many years, she so let her
light shine that those around her could not
(ail to feel her influence as a Christian. Her
work is done, and now she rests as "one who
wrapped the drapery of his couch about him
and lies down to pleasant dreams."
MISCELLANEOUS?
Montana hasn't got any bees.
The Beasou's wool clip in California will
reach 50,000,000 pounds.
Four hudred new oil wells are drilled
in the oil regions every month.
Richmond, Va.t celebrated the Fourth
this year for the first time since 1860.
A cat was recently sold in Montpclier
Vt., lor forty dollars.
Maine farmers confidently look forward
to an abundant barrest.
The New Hampshire hay crop is esti
mated to be one half larger than last year
A young lady, recently betrothed, says
that "U. U. V." means "call on dad."
It is reckoned that sixty tons of stee
are consumed annually in the manufacture
of pens.
Thirteen tons of strawberries were re
ccntly scot into the London market in
two days.
We send to Great Britain annually
15,000,000 in gold for the single article
ot spool cottn.
An Illinois firm will pickle the product
ot one hundred and nity acres of cucum
bers.
Gold has been discovered in Hoover
Valley, Texas, and workmen are panning
out irom to to 10 a day.
Phillips, Maine, had a snowdrift three
feet deep on the 4th, within four rods o
which npo strawberries were growing.
In the trial of Stokes, the jury being
unable to agree opon the verdict, were
discharged, and Stokes was remanded to
jail.
The California wheat crop this season
it is said, will be enormous. Their sur
plus for exportation will be about ten
million bushels.
A Portland man went into a fhop and
stumbled through "his errand in this
fashion : 4I want some white woman'
long legged cotton stocking hose.'
Four hundred and forty six Mormons
bave arrived in ISew lorkfrom Europe
en route lor fcalt Lake. Six Mormon
missionaries accompanied them across the
ocean.
The physicians of New York report an
aiarming increase ot cancer on the nose
causen by the practice of wearinir eve
glasses that are held on the bridge of the
nose oy a spring.
A constable in Ohio latelr testified in
court as follows : l know nothioc of her
put what l hear the neighbors say ; and,
in my opinion, what a woman savs of
anomer is not worthy of belief
"Where are you jroinsr so fast. Mr.
Smith 7" demanded Mr. Jones. "Home
sir, home ; don't detain me; I have just
1 . mm a
oougnc my wite a new bonnet, and I must
acuver u Deiore the lashion changes.
Five cents is all that is now charged to
send less than $10 of money by Post Of
fice orders. The rates for amounts over
f 10 remain as before. This is in accord
ance with orders issued June 20, 1872.
In removing the bodies from an old
burying ground to the new cemetery in
Le lloy, N. Y.t recently, the remains of a
laay about bO years of age, who had been
buried nearly twenty years, were found
in a complete state of petrifaction, with
me uair periectly preserved.
Minnie's mother consented to the lit
tie one's saying a new prayer all her own.
ana this was her solemn utterance : "O
Lord, bless all the Minnies, and all the
papas, all the Uncle Autburs. Jesus.
l ve Dcen vaccinated, and I guesg it o
ing to work."
It is said to be a curious fact that whil
foxes, cranes and squirrels are abundant
on the Indiana side of the Ohio river,
they are never seen on the Kentucky fiide :
. w
and strange enough, the gray squirrel, to
oe iouna anywhere on tho Kentucky side,
is rarely or never seen on tho Indiana
shore.
The owner of Goldsmith Maid haaask-
ed Mr. Bonner to trot either Joe Daniels
or Dexter against his mare for from 5 .
000 to 350,000. What answer Mr. Hon
ner will make to this challenge everyone
will be curious to learn, as it is well
known that that gentleman has repeated-
y rciusea similar ones.
An Iowa eow committed suicide th
other day, out of grief over the loss of
ier calf. After following tho butcher's
wagon to the slaughter house and given
vent to a serious of agonitintr moans sh
deliberately made her way to the river,
wadad in beyond her depth and was
drowned. .
Petroleum "Report.
TlTCSVILLK, July 15. The Herald's
monthly petroleum report shows a daily
producticn for June of 18,449 barrels.
Decrease as compared with May, 506
gallons per day. Decrease of stock in
the oil - regian for the month, 20,073
gallons.
A HOT JULY.
The following table shows the tempera
tnre during the first fifteen days of the
month of July for the past five years:
Date. 1SGS. 1SC9. IS70. 1871. 1S72.
1. S3 7'J 9:$ 70 9S
2. 91 SO 72 OS
3. 93 90 97-5 89-5 9S
4. 94 91 7G-5 82 975
5. 94 5 80 84 " 83 91 5
6. SS . 75-5 85 S3 S7
7. 90 80 82 88 80
8. 89 85 825 815 85
9. 88 81 S2-5 90 885
10. S2 87 . 80 885 92
11. 87 92 88 97 975
12. 94 S5 91 84 905
13. 97 . 84 80 89 89 5
14. 90 75 91 87 91-3
15. 93 91 89 905 903
THE STOKES TRIAL. '
The trial of Stokes for the murder ol
Fisk has resulted in nothing, that is, the
jury, failing to agree upon a verdict, was
discharged. We doubt if it would be
possible to convict any asrassin in New
York city who could afford to fee two or
three of the sharp criminal lawyers who
monoplize such cases. No matter how
cruel or cowardly or how well proven
such murder might be the result would
invariable be what it is in the Stokes
caso.
As for the trial, it was, on the side of
the prosecution, a fair and earnest at
tempt to vindicate the integrity of the
law; on the other side it was an unscru
pulous and a successful effort to defeat
justice. It is impossible to read the cvi
dence of some of the witnesses, notably
of the prisoner and the woman Mans
FIELD, and place any confidence in its
truth. Yet it was the element of un
truth introduced into the evidence that
made a disagreement by the jury possible
When the jury was discharged we are
informed the counsel for the prisoner
warmly congratulated one another an-l
shook hands over their triumph. No
one, we presume, wished Stokes to be
hanged, but there could have been no
honest citizen present iu that court room
who did not wih that it might be estab
lished in New York for oucc that there is
still left some little protection for human
life against the red handed slaver. That
there is none ; that a cruel, dastardly
wretch may dash upon his victim and
kill him in cold blood, without, punish
ment was what the counsel for Stokes
congratulated each other upon. Their
triumph was the defeat of justice, and
while, as the hired defenders of criminals,
they may rejoice over another murderer's
escape from the penalty of his crime, as
citizens they must feel that they are little
better than the assassin whom their trick
and chicanery shielded.
Their victory is one that is demoraliz
ing in every way. It refutes altogether
the proposition that the law is the per
fection of human wisdom ; that it is iin
partial to blindness ; that it protects life
and property everywhere, and that it
punishes as well as protects. ' Such a
victory is the '-fruitful source of manv
murders, and it is a direct encourage
ment to' other men like Stokes to let
loose their passions and shoot and kil
without fear of the impending penalty
mai justice aecrces tnc murderer ehal
Pay-
Any verdict, no matter what, except
"Not guilty," would have been better
than noDe. A disagreement in this case
where the proofs of guilt were so direct,
makes it impossible that Stokes can ever
be adequately punished. Delay is life
and freedom to him, and delay is what he
wanted and what he has received. The
real verdict, the one that the jury, bv
disagreeinir. has virtually rendered, n'nd
which the people must consider, is ,4No
penalty for murder in New lork."
Pestilential Diseases.
Pestilential diseases cholera, small
pox, typhus, scarletina, and the like
have, it is probable, in the economy of
nature, their office to perform. The
christian supposes that they are dispensa
lions sent opon communities for a re
ui lauivij pmpuse, iu mrn mem away
irom ineir una and incline iheni to re
pentancc. Ihe man of science, on the
other hand regards them as scavengers.
coming to eliminate the defective, and
thus keep op the sanitary standard to a
degree that is consistant with tho laws of
life and the well baiug of the whole.
It is only the isjnorant and the emnirical
who look upon them as accidents.
Ihe question whether a nestilential
urease win visit a particular location, at
.j: -ii ...
a particular period is, in reality, the oues
tion whether at that tisae and plica there
are inose wno are fit subjects of its ac
. i - ...
UTiiy ; porsons of weak constitutions or
broken health, or corrupted blood, or who
are initiated witn the seads of mal.idioa
j ... .. . - .
whieh have not yet developed themselves;
perhaps, also, persons of bad habits, who
expose themselves imprudently orVho
uave insumcieot lood, or live on that
which is unwholesome. It will not do to
say that strictly normal persons never suf
, kUO uuuiuet oi 6ucu wno are ai
tackei is much less than is generally bc-
ieveu.
It will be observed that epidemics are
usually severe, as it is called, in proper
tion to the length of the periods between
their appearance ; also, that tha incursion
of one is very nearly an insurance against
an iovasiou by another. This r,oiTit to
a law which is common to all, to which
physiologist have not given the attention
the subject deserves. It is not impossi
bio that they i.ie simply different hmU
of tho
the same Protean disease. The problem
may be rather curious than useful, and
the knowledge obtained iuy do nothing
toward ridding the world ot these scourge
Ncvertholess knowledge is inimieal to
vain terror, and the more mankind kuow
of the true character of natural phono
mena the less they will be liable to suffer
The mortality in the cily of New York
caused largely by the hot weather, is be
coming frightful. It is now nearly one
thousand a week. On Tuesday 2d inst.six-ty-four
persons died from the efiecfsof the
heat, and on Wednesday thirty-six deaths
from the same cause were reported. Oa
Thursday the deaths from heat rose to
two hundred. It is observed that the
mortality is heaviest among those who
use strong drinks, but nono are exempt.
There were also mauy cases of prostra
tion, which did not result fatally. An
alarming feature of the death reports is
the statement that no less than sixty nine
per cent, of tho whole number week le
fore last were of children under five years
of age. Diarrhoea is very prevalent, and
carried off 257 persons, mostly children.
The hot weather, foul streets, bad ven
tilation, crowded houses, and the use of
uuripe fruits arc the chief causes ol this
fearful mortality.
THE BALTIMORE CONVENTION.-
Horace Greeley Nominated for President
. and B. Gratz Brown Vice President!
The Cincinnati Platform Adopted.
- The Democratic Convention at Bailti
more on Wednesday nominated Horace'
Greeley 'for President, and B, Grata'
Brown for Vice -'President.
Mr. Greeley was nominated on tfie 3mt'
ballot, and ou motion the nomination wsrr
made unanimous.
Following was the vote :
Horace Grecly,
Judgo Black,
Senator Bayard,
W. S. Groesbeck,
Blank,
The Ciuciunati platform . was
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unani-
mously adopted.
The National Committee met in ihe af
ternoon and elected Augustus Schtll a
Chairman, in place of Mr. Belmont, who
has filled the position for a long time.
In Philadelphia, Ne w .York, Buffalo,
Iilmirn, Cincinnati and other cities
throughout the Union salutes were Crcd
in honor of the nominutiuns and ratifica
tion mediums held.
Another Clerical Rogue.
From the Unfa la Courier, July 13.
The particulars of an important arrest
effected by the police of this city, which
we are now at liberty to make public, will
prove very interesting matter to readers
both here and elsewhere. On the 2d in
stant the Kcv. Alexander II. Weir, alias
Sanford, alias II. II. Bruce, &c , fcc, was
arrested at the hutel where he was so
journing by Detectives Battles and Dick
erson, ia accordance with an order of
Superintendent Byrne. The Superin
tendent had been uoliiied of a forgery
committed near Toronto, aud from other
sources had derived information which
made the Bev. Weir an object of suspi
cion. The complainants failed to arrive
from Canada, but papers, blank checks,
drafts, and the like, found on the person
of the prisoner, assured Colonel Byru
that the ministerial individual was up to
dishonest practices, and he quietly detain
ed him in custody to see what could be
fouud out in regard to his operations else
where. A person answering Weir's de
scription had in the mouth of April last
defrauded the Third National Bank of St.
Louis of 2,000 by means of forged dralt.
After a lengthy correspondence with the
authorities of that t city the Superintend
ent established the fact that his prisoner
was the man wanted there, aud Weir was
forwarded to St. Louis in the charge of
Detective Dickerson, Thursday night. The
llev. Alexander Weir is a remarkable
persou. A graduate of the theological
college of Princeton N. J., he .is a reg
ularly licensed Presbyteriau minister, and
at one time he was pastor of a church iu
Philadelphia. He is said to have con
tracted a marriage which caused a num
ber of his most valuable friends to aband
on him. He then fell iuto bad ways, and
finally committed a forgery for which he
was consigned to a Philadolphia prison
for. a term of oue year. When the time
of his penal servitude expired, it appears
that Weir ' made his way to St. Louis,
where he coc;i;ed as a local reporter for
the 'Evening Journal of Commerce. His
Gue attainments made him a valuable ac
quisition to the editorial staff, and outside
his talents and brilliant powers as a con
versationalist, secured him many in
fluential friend without any apparent ef
fort or adroitness on his part. One day
last April he presented a draft ou New
York for S12.260 at the bank above men
tioned to be cashed. The President of
the bank was one cf his admirers, and his
frank, honest way ef explaining the mat
ter left no shadow of doubt with that of
ficer that the draft was genuine. Tha
money, was pid and directly Mr. Weir
disappeared. Three weeks previous to
his arrest. Weir made his appearance ia
this city, in his character of a minister of
the gospal. His object was doubtless to
associate himself with persons of rocan.i
lor the purpose of swindling some oue ot
them, but as a man of genius he relied up
on his own powers of attraction to effect
that object. Unobtrusive and modest in
his mauner, he was soon found out as a
gentleman of extraordinary gifts and fine
culture. He is a proGcieut in nearly all
the languages, ancient and modern,
thoroughly understands the practice of
medicine, and is a rarely agreeable and
intelligent conversationist Society seiz
ed upon him, and for a brief time ho
radiated in the best circles, under a namo
which we withhold that many highly re
spectable citizens may not be subject ta
tho necessity ot making unpleasaut ex
planations. His arrest occasioned the
greatest surprise to those who had held
him in such lofty admiration. Ihe rever
end swiudler is five feet and eleven ia
ches in height, and has light brown hair
aud mustache. His phvsioue is unusual-
y fine, his air beconaiugly suuctimotiious,
and his personnel scrupulously proper
aud neat.
&2r In a conversation with the Pastor of
the Presbyterian Church of this Borough,
we learn that Weir is is not and never was
a minister of the Presbyterian Church ; and
rom vague apprebensioa.
logic Scruinary.