Eijc Scffcrsonian. THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1872. LUTHERAN CHUECH. Liturgical Services next Sunday. Mokxixu, 10J, - - - Evekiso, 7J Mokmxo'Sekaios: The blessedness of I (.uven. JJyekiko Sermon: Our Saviour, legacy. G. VT. MARRIOTT, D. D., IVtor. jjy- Ol'R neighbor, of the Monroe Demo trt't, does not appear to be well posted in the rule.-- and precedents, which govern Congres sional nominations in this district. In his Ja.-t week's say, concerning tho demands of his several Democratic co temporaries of Northampton and Carbon, lie claims that both the right to the candidate, and to the selection of the man, belongs to Monroe Co. This however, is not in accordance with either the rules or usages of Democracy here abouts, and we propose, by the writing up of a small portion of tho unwritten history of his party, to open his eyes to the facts of the matter. The rules, and apportionment of delegates, which now govern the Democracy of this district, were adopted some twenty-five or thirty-years ago, when the late Gov. Reeder was the honored Commander-in-Chief of all the Democratic forces along this whole line. The Governor was a member of the confer ence at which they were adopted, and, dur ing their consideration distinctly enunciated the doctrine that, " though the candidate 4 "would be conceded to the county, in its 4 'regular order, entitled to it,' the rest of the x unties reserved the right to say who that "'candidate should be, whereby they could ''protect themselves from having obnoxious 4 'men thrust upon them." There was some kicking against this doctrine, and Wayne county was particularly vicious over it. But the ductriue prevailed, nevertheless, and was accounted good, wholesome, Democratic doc trine, particularly by old Mother Northamp ton, and her dutiful daughter, gallant little Monroe. This closes the first chapter, and sis its incidents transpired at a Democratic Conference, held in this borough, we pre sume they are fresh in the memory of older leading Democrats. Aguiu : Some sixteen years ago, a Demo cratic Congressional Conference was held at the Court House in this Borough, and under the samo rules and apportionment governing, ni;d v iiich continue to govern, the.Dcmocracy in making Congressional nominations, the candidate, in due order, was conceded' to 'Vayne county; and in accordance with her supposed right Wayne presented, as her rnaiiim.ms choice, Ilowkin B. Beardslee, then Editor and proprietor of the Wayne county Herald. Mr. B. was a Demo- r.it without fear and without reproach, :;Iv. ;! s swallowing the ticket aud principles siiH.l acts of his party without a squirm, and iing the nnanim'jus choice of Wayne Co., M. uld Lave been nominated by acclamation. But n.'t so. The conferees of no less a r-onntv than "gallant little Monroe." which in -v blats so loudly for her rights, conceived ilu-y 'Vraclt a very large mice" a something which rendered 31 r. Beardslee obnoxious to They conceded the candidate to Wayne, but tet about putting Gov. Iteeder's doctrine in practice, by insisting upon tbeir rig'.it to say who the man should be. Upou i he presentation of 31r. Beardslee's name, then fore, by the Wayne conferees, 31 r. Wm. O vet field, a then political war horse here aL 'lit.--, but now, we trust, at rest with the Aug J, presented the name of Wm. II. Dim inick and, somebody else, the name of Frederick 31. Crane, both of Wayne. Upon hearing the announcement of his name, Mr. Crane at once percmptorally de clined the honor intended. And gave as his 'reasons, the fact that 3Ir. Beardslee, 3Ir. DiuMijiek and himself had been solicitors, K fure the ieople of his county, for the con ferees of Wayne : that previous to the elec tion of delegates, by whom the Conferees we.c to be appoluted, they had met together in consultation, and that the result of the consultation was a solemn pledge, given by cadi to the other, that whichever of them reached the county Convention with a major ity of the delegates in his favor, he was to be the unanimous choice of Wayne for the Con gressional nomination; that, after a warm, and stoutly contested canvass, 3Ir. Beards lee came before the Convention with a majority of delegates, that his conferees were unanimously chosen, and that he, Mr. Crane, cculd not and would not accept a nomina tion, in face of his solemn pledge so conscien tiously made. . . . - 3Ir. Dimmick did not display the same magnanimity or truthfulness. He did not withdraw his name, as it was agreed between hi:n-;elf and his 3Ionroe county friends that he should not, but stammered out a declara tion, that though the pledge part of 3Ir. Crane's t.tory was true, he, 3Ir. D., and 3Ir. Beardslee had a private understanding that if 31 r. B., could not be ncmiuated, he 3Ir. Dimmiek, was his first choice, and he would raise no objection to his nomination. The audacity of this declaration, which he pro nounced untrue in toto, so disconcerted 3Ir. Beardslee, that he could not recover suffi cient wit to enable 1dm to brand it as he de clared it deserved. The manoeuvring in Conference, on the part of the 3Ionroe men then began, and it soon became apparent that Messrs. Ilooli han, Gammel and Greer, Mr. Beardslee's Conferees, were too inexperienced to cope with the old stagers from the the lower counties, and that, inconsequence, Wayne county was to be overslaughed in hrr choice. But a ballot or two decided the a.atter, and 3Ir. Wm. II. Dim mock, the L-p'ruut who carried the least number, of delegates into her county Convention, was de clared by Monroe county to be the choice of Wayne for Congress, Wayne all the time voting for 3Ir. Beardslee. Tins is. History aud it establishes, beyond a preadventure, four facts. 1st, That it is cardinally Democratic, by the act of 3Ionroe Democracy to concede the nomination to the county to which it belongs. 2d, That it i3 rendered equally, cardinally Democratic, by the act of 3Ionroe county, for the rest of the counties to eayjwho-the nominee shall be. 3rd, That for the legitimate exercise of this latter principles the Democracy of gallant little 3Iouroc established a safe precedent. 4th, That if our aspiring Democratic friends, hereabouts, have the tables nicely turned upon them, by a combination among the rest of the Counties, at the Conference to be held at" llonesdale this fall,' they can have no good grounds to find fault, as such doing would be sanctioned by the act of gal lant little Monroe in the case of Wayne coun ty, and the Conferees of the rest of the Coun ties would be but following in the line of safe precedent established by-hcr. f - ; : - As we said last week, it is not our fight, nor can it possibly be our funeral, but' we could not avoid putting an oar in the pool, though we have no desire to cause a ripple to disturb the calm waters of ! Democracy hereabouts. - We speak only that our pleas ant neighbor, across the away, may have the facts before him, and thus be enabled to avoid the danger of innocently, because ig horantly, working himself into a passion a bout nothing. We have done. . AX ITEM FOR IIEFOI13IERS. ; From an official letter sent by the Secre tary of the Treasury to a banking house in Europe we learn that the per cent, of losses to the Government in the collection of inter nal revenue since 3Iarch 3," 1869, has been less than one-fiftieth of one per cent, of the amount collected, or less than two dollars in ten thousand dollars. ' ' . ' In the collection of the customs for the same time the loss has been $2S,000. out of $553,000,000, or the one two-hundredth part of one per cent, or something less than live dollars in every one hundred thousand. The loss to depositors through our national banking sj'stcm has been the one hundred and eighty-sixth part of one percent, equiv lent to five dollars and three-eighths of a dollar in every one hundred thousand. The money entries on the books of the United States Treasurer, covering time from June 30, 1861, to January 9, 1872, show the handsome sum of fifty-five thousand millions dollars, but of this vast amount the loss has been about fifty-five thousand dollars, or less than one ten-thousandth part of one per cent., or less than one dollars in one mil lion of money transactions. How is this for reform ? Could honest Horace improve the service or make it more honest? Could his friend and right-hand supporter in Tammany, Bill Tweed, show a better financial exhibt if he had the finger ing of public funds? 'Who will give us an official statemeut of the per cent, of losses in New York under the control of Tweed & Co. There was a light frost in Ulster county, N. Y., on Sunday morning, last . The Ladies Fair, in aid of the Pres- bcterian church last week was a success, and netted some $200. : Our "heated term gave way. on Friday last, and delightful weather, interspersed with refreshing showers, has since prevailed. r A Siotisc was ensrulfed at Srr.anfnn nn 3Ionday through the caving in of the ground near a mining shaft, and two little irirls Luried. i ' , A San Francisco i.arrv has snl.l fiftv tons of baric y for which ho is to receive two cents a pound if Grant is clcctedand noth ing if he is not Fori 3' millions, of young . shad have been hatched and turned loose in the Con necticut river at South Handley. Some have been sent to Western waters. "We are told by physicians that small in fants often suffer terribly, during the hot weather, from want of so simple a thing as a drink of water.' ...Try. the babv with a cud of cold water, and , see how 'eagerly? it i will drink. - ; '-. .'; .-' It has always . been a mystery to Sis why people who think they can always do thinirs better than they are done, don't occasionally take hold and show how to do them. ' I . 1 . All parties, Churches and Sunday schools in want of good Organs, are invited - to call at J. G. Keller's btore, or send for descriptive catalogue. Address ' - f . '' J. Y. SIGAFUS, ' 3Iay9, 1872-tf. - - Stroudsburg, Pa. We learn that Charley Keiscr, has leased Killer's Billiard Saloon, and will conduct it in future. "Diddv" has had exnericnefi in that line, and knows exactly how it should be conducted to draw a paying patronage. The price has been reduced to 15 cents per game, proof positive that "Biddy" knows and means business. . Mr. Win. Stone, of East Stroudsburg, when about quitting work on the Railroad on Thursday evening last, got one of his thumbs caught in the car couplings, and badly maih ed. The case was presented to Dr. Jackson, who after examination, decided amputation of a portion of the thmub to be necessary aud skilfully performed the job. 31 r. S. will be at work again in a few days. WAXTE1I About the middle of July a good general servant 3Iust be a good cook, washer and ironer.' Plenty of work furnished, for the satisfactory, willing, and cheerful doing of which good treatment, good fare, and good pay will be given. Address MRS. PA RET, June 27, 1872-tf Stroundsburg. , "Puffs" Concerning this sort of adver tising we clip the following from the East Boston Advocate. r. . .. . , . f .. "Tt takes money to run a newspaper; as well as any other business, "and no paper succeeds financially that carries on a " dead head system.,' Any mention of the people's affairs they wish to .see in print, is worth paying for, and when printed Is generally as good as any other investment of the same amount." . , . '' f ' "Z TT7 ; ') r "i f- 'Camp Irleotlnjr. A Camp 3Iectmg will be held near Dutotsburg, under the direction of the Delaware Water Gap 31. E. Ch,iu-cl tp .commence 'August the 5tlr and continue at least eight days. Persons wish ing any information concerning' - tents, &c, will correspond with the Pastor. P. S. The Camp Meeting Committee will meet at the Delaware Water Gap 31. E. Church, op Friday July the 5th for tho pur pose of receiving proposals and renting the privileges ; of the gvonud.: The boarding tables, icecream, cake, confectionery and bread stands can be" rented seperately or col lectively. ' II. ' Wood,' Pasto'r, I trr v Delaware Water Gap,' Pa.' Call Tor ti Preachers Meet Ingr ! The Traveling and Local Preachers of the Philadelphia' and adjacent Conference favor able ' to', the organization of a , Preachers Meeting in this part of the State, are res pectfully; requested to meet in Stroudsburg 31. E. Church, on. Monday, July 29th at 2 o'clock r. 1L , . in order to arrange for the above object , Let all the brethren ;be pre sent ; !.;:- . J.. Pastorfield, F. 31,- Brady', - : R. C. Wood, ' E. L..IMartin, . . D. Young, ' T. Johnson, : ; G. W. F. Graff. - " ' Go to Simon Fried's for boots and shoes. . .' Indiana has twenty five thousand Ma sons. ... . Go to Ruster's if you wish to purchase a new stjde Hat. His stock is complete. Stokes is said to have spent 37500 on his trial. . Go to Simon Fried's for trunks and valiccs. A red kind of wood is current in Angola as coin. Every thing at Rusters is warranted to be us recommeuded or no sale. In 3IichigaD, last winter, they cut 2, olU.UUU.UUU feet of lumber. - Go to Simon Fried's for a nice fitting suit Texas watermelons, when scooped out, are large enough to bathe babies in. In ready made clothing, whether in city or country, Ruster's stock cannot be beaten. Raw eggs are; to be a cure for dys pepsia. If you want to see the latest style of spring goods, go to Simon Fried's. m f m Easton was laid out in 1750. Incor. porated into a borough in 1789. :.. Prices at Rusters are in accordance with the times, low, low down. No excuse for idleness now, farmers want all the hands tbey can get. It costs Pennsylvania at least a million ol dollars lor hre risks every season. Indiana rejoices fin an unusually heavy poiaio crop. The . wool crop in 3Jaine is estimated to be a lull average one. - - . Tlierc is no charge for showing goods at Rusters, neither are there cross looks if you do not buy.-.- :-': .: v.- , t 3Iore people have been killed bv licht niog in England this summer, than has ever been known before, j . . Layfayette College,' in Easton, . was chartered in 182G. The. present build ing was erected io 1833. It is said that a . few drnna of ponl nil applied to parls fstung by, bees, wasps or noruets, wiiiwiu give instant relief. ..... The thickest coal trata in Texas arc at lirazos, and range from ten to twenty.fivc feet. , .The New York Seventh Regiment spent $100,000 during its six days' encampment at Saratoga. ... , . ; , ',, : i - , The gold and silver coinage of 1871 was 524,070,324, and the exports of gold and silver S2G,233,912. , , , . . '! ' f Fifty millions of paper collars and suffs are made annually in Trov. N. Y.. and seventeen thousand people are eniploped in tioiD2 it A Chattanooga, Tenn., paper says that that city is making strides towards civiliz ation: Pickpockets flouris, horses are ill treated, aud the children get blind druuk. ' . England is willing to pay us a little less than half of what we claim as dam ages for the work of tho rebel cruiseres. It has become quite common now to close fashionable churches July and August. How nice it would be if the devil would take a vacation during the hot months. A Western man at a "prayer meeting" paid, somewhat enviously : "Rrother Dawson can eing better than I can, but by the grace of Heaven I can fiddle his shirt off." Deaths in Philadelphia last week, 587, ofwboui,415 were children. Deaths in New York, UG1. People are throwniug to the couutry. TIie undersigned begs leave to inform the Citizens of 3Ionroe county and vicinity, that he.lias disposed of his entire interest in the Keal Estate business, to his. late partner, Wilson Peirson, for whom he solicits a con tinuance of the patronage so liberally bestow ed on him heretofore. ' " dec 14,;7L-tf.. GEQ. L'.WALKEPi. ... Tlie undersigued beg leave to inform the citizens of Auonroe county and vicinity, that they have enterad into co-partnership,, for the puTiiake of buying andselling ' ; i - HEAL ESTATE, as successors to the late firm of Geo. L. Walker .& Co., and 'respectfully f solict. the continuance of the patronage extended to the former firm. --- WILSON - PEIRSON, dec. 14, '71-tf.l . THUS. STILL3IAN, Co to Simon collars. Fried's for neck tics and .The Greenburg Herald says : "It has rained more or less everp day for the last week,' which prevented our farmers from petting their wheat all cut last week. llad it been dry dry we think there would uoj have been a hundred acres in West moreland county, uncut on last Saturday. As it is the most of it js already in shock. Thehay crop is . going'td be an average one. The oats by far .he heaviest we have had for years. Corn'is now coming out in tassel and looks very fine." , ; 1 Risler has the finest display' of Goods eycr brought to Stroudsburg.' t . The annual' meeting of the Pcnnsyl vania Dtato- 1 eac tiers 1 Association, - at Stat Teachers' Philadelphia on the 20th, 21st - and 22d of August; promises to be an occasion o more than usual interest. ' The local com mittees are making arrangements' for grand convention -'of educators, ' not only f rom Pennsylvania, but other States and foreign countries, and have issued 2,300 invitations to " distinguished :" friends o education, both male and female, at home aid abroad.? The session of the. Associa tion will be held at the Academy of 31usic Arrangements have been made for a ful orchestra lor the morning sessions, and for. the evening entertainments by pro fessional and amateur soloists and chourses societies and maennerchors. There wil be a grand excursion from Philadelphia to Long iiranch on the 2dd of August the arrangements for which have been made by the local societies. - Go to Simon Fried's for shirts, and Um brellas. - The United States import three or four million cocoa-outs every year. This num ber is large when compared with the trade twenty years back ; but it gives us little idea of the luxurious growth of this fruit in intertropical climes.. .There are said to.be two hundred and eighty miles o cocoa-nut trees looz the coast of Brazil 3Ialabar besides Bupplyiog home demands exports four hundred million cocoa nuts annually, besides an equal .value of cop periia, vt orieu aerneis : ana mere are seven million cocoa-nut trees in Tra vaneore.- as lor ourselves, e import these nuts almost wholly for eating, as a pleasant fruit, and givt . from twenty to eighteen shillings per hundred for them they come moetly from the West Indies and Guiana.. The milky liquid contained withiD the not is also pltasant to the taste The oil expressed from the nut is, sever thless, becoming more important than the Iruit as an edible. Lven the Fiji Island crs, occupying a liny spot in the great i acihc, manage to press out several hun ,1. ... area ions oi oil Irom their nuts, and to export it in Australian trading ships. Andrew Stewart, just ' deceased at Unioutown, Fayette county, was born therein .17U2, admitted to the bar in 1815; served three years in the Lesisla ture, and was United States District At torncy for western Pennsylvania, nnder President 3Ionroe. He was 'first elected to Con gress as a Democrat in 1820,' and re-elected until 1829, omitting one term ; was returned for the next two. and acain lor two alter 1843 sixteen years of Con gressional service in twenty-seven. Af ter 1828 31r. Stewart was elected as a tariff man and follower of Clay, as well as on account ol his personal pontilantv aud ability.- Joining the ''Republican pdrty iuc uuwci, auu sustaining ,n vigorous ly, he was re nominated :-for Congress in 1870 from the Twenty-first Covode's district but defeated by a sniall majori ty. He was a man of shrewd "intellect, great activity and encgry, interested io manufactures and agriculture, 'and pos. Here are two stories pertaining to America's most ' famous horse.'Loofel- low which we find floating about the country atneng our exchanges :' iominoaore vanaeroiu navine won ten thousand dollars on Loncfellow " at tne race at L.ong Jiranch last week, did the 'handsome to old John Harper on Tuesday. ;He sent "Longfellow'" to Sara toga m a patent horso stable car. free of all expense, a nice compliment to "Lonsr fellow" as well as his owner. " The 6table car is a model . institutation. The sides are padded and the floor so arranged that no accident can happep to the horse. Car fitted up with all kinds of iinprovenients to maltA ihn Irin ,-imf,-irtofla n. . ) I moves. An interesting story is told of 31r. Harper, 'the' owner of Longfellow. and his white rider, before the race at long Rranch. The old man observed somcthin'r mysterious, but said nothing He telegraphed to Kentucky fur a color ed boy who had driven1 Longfellow be fore, to bo sent immediately to Long Rranch.. He arrived but not a word was said, and the white driver was dress ed for the contest with Harry Dastett. Then the old man told him that h thought that the colored boy could ride better that day than he. The colored boy was dressed in a moment, mounted upon Longfellow and woo the race. And now comes the conclusion: Tho white boy was seen by 31 r. Harper to have a roll of money, showing that he had been tampered with. A friend who-had been troubled with rats informs a friend that he greased a thirty foot board filled it full of fish hooks, ect it up at an angle of forty fite degrees, and put an old cheese at the." top. ;Ti.e rats went up, slid backhand 'he cabght thirty of'em the firs-t night. -A t -'-; . ' J -1- ' : ' Child Missing. -..The following we clip from the Bethle hem Progress: On Monday, July 1st. a young stn oflr. 3Iichael;0'Sullivan, living onFifth street,1 between Locust and Pine streets, aged about 8 years, dis appeaerd from home without any appar ent cause, and up to date has not been heard from. The afflicted parents have been making inqoiries in all directions, but have received no tidings of the little one... It is supposed that the lad might have found his way to the canal and re ceived employment on a cabin of a canal boat. Inquires have been also made at several locks along the canal, but no in formation received. . - Exchanges, city and county papers will confer a favor by publishing this account, .-as it may lead to discover the whereabouts of - the tills- sing one. .' The following - description of the missing lad may prove of -some ber vice Johnny O'Snllivan, aged 8 years, jet black eyes, dark complexion, brown hair, - medium bight, had on a hickory check shirt, and wore a pair of light tweed pantaloons. Exchanges please copy. - - ? 'gome Snake. ; :, 4 ' As 3Ir George Koadle was crossing the mountain Irom aJocum, about one and one half milts from the Three-Cor nered Pond, and a little to the left of the road, he discovered a large snake coiled around a young hickory tree, i tail up.' lie gradually apprOaohed '.his soakeship and discovered that a cow wan lying at the foot of the tree.' To his surprise he was merely milking the cow as a' babe would Suckle the breast of its mother. '3Iri Kandle, after satisfying himelf that it was a mutual understanding be tween the cow and the suake, procured. large club and destroyed the snake'.' The cow bellowed as' though she had lost' a calf. . It was . a monster black snake of the blue racer species. 3Ieasuriog seven teen feet, four inches in length, and twen ty-three and one quarter inches in cir cumference. 31r. Knadle'intends " stuf fing bis trophy aud presenting it to Jake Berry on his opening night. -Wilkes Barrc Daily. New Fifty Cents Counterfeits. In Peterson's Countertit Detector for July is the following description of, the new counterfeit half dollar notes, exteu sively circulated : The head of Stanton, the beard harsh and stiff, the back ground on the right of the head irregular and scratchy. Under some of the Utters of the words ''fractional .currency" are fivt lines in the ruled shade to the letters, and but four in the genuine. In , the words ."United States" the blank space between tke body of the Iatters and. the ruled shades are irregular,, and geuerally nar rower than the genuine, which are of uniform width. On the back of the counterfeit the hair lines forming the turn at the top and bottom of the italic letters are heavy; on the genuine they are liht and delicate. .The red seal also differs materially . from the. genuine.in the form of the letters ; the dots on the shields, the shades to the letters, which are . irregular and on both sides of tht letters, tand the ruled lines formiog the back ground to the shield,' The, fibre, paper on .which the genuise notes are printed has beeu imitated by scratchy linas. engraved on the counfeit plate. On examination with a glass it will be seen that the entire work differs from the genuine, ,r The Archives of the Ex-Confederacy-Ex- nnmmg oi Unpleasant Documents. '..Washington, July 19. Colonel John T. Picketti former! v Confederate States Diplomatic Agent near the Covcrnmcut of Me xico, publihes a ptateuient showiu" his agency ;u sMe uf the Confederate archives to this soverutneut. the obtained being So,00'J ihey were stored in four trunks, and duly delivered at the Lxecutivo 3Iausiou the 3d of this month. The documents consist of the entire archives of the State Department of the Confederate . States. without the abstraction of a single piece .The secret service voucher?, by which many persons ot little note .this side of the lines, might have been compromised. did not leave Richmond with those more public papers, ; but were fathfully und honorably, destroyed by 3Ir. . Bcuiamiu the dav of the evacuation. 'There is," Colonel, Pickett says, '-but one paper the perual of which gave me any pain the, report, of, Hou. Jacob Thompson's report of the operations on the frontier. !tc., .the. existence of .which was unknown tome u o I ill the coverment officer, with whom I lately went to Canada lor the documents, found it. . Ihe publication of his reoort. Pickett aaus, will doubtless cause him. with Jef frrson Davis and 3, P. Benjamin, to fuel uncomfortable for a little while, but, as I expect to go to neither wheu I die, my sympathy ahall not be of a heart rending character, especially as they have all treat ed me badly enough in my time ; and hero 1 must be suHered, as one still faithful to the ;Lost. Cause,' - to say that I wholly repudiate the policy of attempting to burn Northern cities during the war, especially ueuiucruuc cuics, auj mat i always in uignantly deuied tho allegation until seeing Thompson's report. So let those threo worthies wince, uot the noble neo pie whose cause they butchered. These uow famous archives have uo political Eiguiflsance whatsoever. Historically and fiuancully they are valuable. I dare sav all good citizens and taxpayers are in terested lu them. In the Utter asnect they may save money to the Common wealth by defeating the claims of those who threw up their cms for Jeff. Davis, aud shouted 'Death to i!io Yankees' dur ing the war, and now they onie up here with their claims, uud perjure their souls by swearing that they wore always 'Trooly oil. 1 have no sypathy with such The conqueror stripped mo of every dollar." re Contest. ice j. iiisourg iispaicn gives us the following historical resume cf facts coo. nected with the disgraceful ms'ans resort, ed to by 'Senator Buckalew to secure the renegade 31'Clure a sent in the gta Senate: While the .Democrats, aided by ooel Forney, are systematically dsnmm n' mg ueneral llartranlt and pranrnri Buckalew as an honest man, it is t i .. r t - i , . Mr. oper to uuueu oue art ui recora uuri3r tft past session of the Legiidaturc Pottsville 31 iners' Journal, one of le" best Republican journals in the Sta re calls especial attention to lhc actio? 'of' 31r. Buckalew in the 31'C!ure dray cop test, which is deserving tl,e,serious con sideration of every voter in the Coajmon wealth,'" who' thiuks of. fuppoitiu' the Democratic candidate. . . The committee appointed to iovestl gate M'Clure's claims to a peat in Legislature, from the Fourth Senatorial district, was composed of three Rapab'i, cans and four Democrat?, Buckalew be ing the chairman.1 .TS save expense to the State, the" comnditeewas iustructed to pit in Philadelphia and take' totimofiy .This ihey did, JiavingJ secured a-rouui at the Washington house. The report pub lished shows that they vdid nor ?it,:iuc!ud ' ing all th sessions, more than five con tinuous da js.'-' The JouriialSays that the members .'fhad free .tickets by rail to travel backwards - and forwards," so that there was uo expense itteuding their jnurneyings to Philadelphia and Lack to Harrisburg. Their board and liquor billi were paid by the State, George J. Holton the proprietor of the Washington house presenting a - bill for 5-,30-l 35, which was ordered paidf being at the rate, of $342 for each member during the firr days, which is better than being a uieni ber of Co ogres. : t ;, v . . , As Senators they receive 51,000 .:dary. One would .naturally suppose that a. i Ley were acting in their Senatorial capaci y as members of this committee, that they considered themselves, autp'y remuner ated for their services. 1 1 was otherwise; and 'they voted"1 themselves ' hvk m y. DUEl) DOLLARS each out of the State Treasury" They were to "decide on question of ref)rm, and this was one of the ways they took to show their ideas of what reform is. Now. as tie Journal justly remarks, ,:the taking of this S5O0 additional from the treasury was abo!ute stealiug," nothing more, and nothing lers. 3Ir. Buckalew was a' party tol and gave his sanction to this robbery of tie treasury without demurring. If his friends can make any houesfy cut of this nefarious transaction then may any public thief be called au houest man who takes money because he has the op portunity, although it belongs to another. The committee took advantage of their power to help all their frieuds to a pium were prodigal of the State money. The investigation, payment of witnesses, board and whisky bills, carriage hire and all th minor etceteras should uot have exceeded at the furthest S8,t)00 or $U,000,'but the committee footed up the cost to the enor mous sum of X WENT Y SIX THOUSAND -and SIXTY SIX DOLLARS and ELEVEN CENTS ! and this was raid bv the State on the recommcddatiou of C. R. Buckale chairmau of that committee. . ' Now, to most people this hxs the ap pearance or dishonesty, downright ras cality. The facta of the ca?e have never been properly set before, the public, and but few persons have really understood the" plundering process' ; by which tV M'Clure Gray ' committee swindled the State oat nearly $20,000'ovcr and 'abov the sum actually needed to carry out tht. investigation. We have no defence -to make of the Republican members ; t hoy,, were equally guilty with the Democrats let them answer; to . their constituents. It is Mr Buckalew with whom we have to do in this matter. He is' the candidate of the Democratic party for the 'highest office in the gilt of the people ol iWi svlvania, and his admirers are continu -liiy prating about his wonderful honc-.y, his" unimpeachable integrity, hi abhorri-nca of political; corruptionT and his dcire to "inaugurate an econotntc.il admifiislration in political affairs'" in tlie Ci'inmou wealth. As chairman of the 31'Clure connaittee, it was iu his power, aud it wa bis bounden duty to cheek extravagance, and pursue the investigation with the f aiai'est possible expense tto the State, This he did not do, bat connived at it and was a partirfps tcrimi)iisf. ., Is such a inan a pro per persou to elevate to' the GovcrnirV chair of Pennsylvania ? And after under standing., his action in tlm- co:u:ii tee business, will honest people consider him fit to be eutrusted wi;h the interests of the State? . ', ., This Hot Sumnier. ' 1 From the careful report of the weather made by the Friends IntrViynctr tf Philadelphia, we gather some iatcresiiu; . facts about this summer. The meau tcui- perature of the month of June this year 76.28 degrees or about one aud three quarter degrees; higher than that of 'las? f year and about four i and; a ; half degrees above tho average for the eighty threo years. During that loos; period the hih-' est mean temperature ever reached was 77,21 degrees for the mouth of J uue, IS- 70. That was tha hottest summer. ou re cord and 'this mouth will have to he much hotter than it has been to make the uicju . temperature for the two mouths of Juno-, aud July to touch it. . During that summer the Liti'U'jrncr prepared very elaborate tables, aggregat ing the mean" temperature of June and July, commencing with 17P0. The two mouths of 1SG0 were June tt ' 5lDa July, SO 61, giving an aggregate ol 82, unequalled dunug the time uaintu.. 1703 and 1S28 each attaiued to it w ithia the fraction of a degree. So far as June is concerned this year's mean temperature has beeu equalled but four times in eigh ty three years, in 1320, 1S151.1S05 aud, loiu, so wo havrt the satisfaction of kuow- ing, as we eudure the heat, that it u real- ly one of the hottest summer ever known, and if that dou't comfort us now it wiu wheu we come tj talk to our -ruud chili 5 ' Bnckalew and the M'CTn rri i f . . . v Tt rco.
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