H. B. MASSES. C W1LVEKT. Editers. SUNBURY, JULY 30, 1875. Republican State Ticket. TOR OOVEKXOR : GEN. JOHN F. HARTRANFT, Of Montgomery County, TOR STATS TRKASIKER : HON. HENRY RAWLE, Of Eric. Standing Committee Meeting. A meeting of the Northumberland Connty Re publican Standing Committee will be held in the Arbitration Room, in the Court House, Sunbury, on Monday, August 2d, at 10 o'clock A. M. The members are requested to be present. EM'L WILVERT, Chairman. M. B. Pbicttlt, Sec'y. TnK Democratic ring in Maryland has so throughly absorbed control of the party affairs in that state that their is a generally expressed desire for an independent move ment in opposition to the ticket recently nominated. Tbe Baltimore American says there are a great many Democrats who are already poing into Buch a move ment. Without solicitation, and entirely of their own motion, they insist that a non-partisan reform ticket should be placed in the field, and they guaranU to work and vote for it. They are the opposite of insignificant in numbers and influence, and they are anxious to go into the fight as a matter of principle, while their con Cdence in the result is really sanguine. Their is a genuine and enthusiastic revolt upon the part of men who are nothing but Demo crats against the ring and tbe ring ticket, and the intention of breaking down the system of fraud and corruption which tbey represent, and no mere abuse or call ing of hard times will turn them from their purpose. They will be beard and felt be tween now and the day of election, and a full and fair discission of the situation is pre cisely that which they are the most de siriousof. There are a multitude- of vo ters in Maryland wbo are not to be-Winded by platforms and candidates to, the evils which are involved in the coatiauance of ring rule Gov. Kellogg, of Louisiana, whom the White League first attempted to assas sinate, and failing in that, sought by revo lution, to overturn tbe whole State govern ment and thus get rid of him, is not con tent with a quiet performance of bis du ties and the gradual reduction of the State debt, but is engaged in tbe good work of investigating the corruption of the Audi tor's office. He recently appointed experts to examiue the affairs of that office, and has just addressed a letter to tbe Attorney General with a brief statement of the result of that examination. He says : The investigations that have taken place before the civil and criminal courts, and tbe investigation and report of the State examiners, disclose gross culpability on the part of other persons, whose acts have in jured the State and have cast discredit on the government for years. I especially call your attention to the record in this respect, and request that you will imme diately take prompt measures to bring to justice all those who have been guilty of defrauding the Slate, as disclosed by these inquiries. TUB Republican mas meeting, tbe open ing gun of the Republican campaign in this State, vu held at the Tark Opera i n I. --t " CVCUIUJJ. The house was densely crowded with peo ple, and the speeches were all enthusiasti cally received. Eloquent addresses were delivered by ex-Seuator John Scott, Hon. C. S. Wolf, Gen. Harry XL Iloyt, Chair man of the Republican State Committee, and others. Tbe greatest enthusiasm pre vailed, and the highest con Cdence was ex pressed on all sides on the result of the coiuiug campaign. We often hear Thomas Jefferson spoken of as "the father of Democracy.' This is true in one sense and false in the other. Jefferson's parly up to 1816 was known as the Republican party. It was so called by Jefferson, known as such among its follow ers, and was so styled in all the party calls published during that period. Therefor, correctly speaking, Jefferson was the fath er of the Republican parly. The term Dem ocracy was fixed upon Jefferson's party by its opponents in order to create odium against it. After Jefferson's time it be came a popular name with tbe party and was finally adopted by it. There is a growing disregard for party ties throughout the country, which renders the nomination of the very best men in cither organization necessary to success. The Venango Sjxctator saye on this sub ject: 'When ArlemusWard married Bet sy Jane, because, as be said, 'our mothers were friends, and used to bile soap tooth er and abuse the neighbors,' his cho'c: of a wife showed the same wisdom that a man shows who saddles his party with an im proper candidate on the ground of person al friendship or because he has been im portuned so much that he votes for a man just to get rid of him.' The final survey for the Lehigh aud Eastern railroad is now being made, and the work of grading will shortly be com menced. The new road will run from Har.leton, in this State, to about one mile east of Port Jervis, New York, where it will connect with the Erie, The distance of the new route is ninety-eight and one half miles, and runs from Ilazlelon over the Pocono mountains, crossing the Dele ware, Lackawanna and Western railroad west of Stroudsburg, thence passing up the Delaware valley to Port Jervis. A Washington dispatch says that the re cent statements in newspapers to the effect that the President had on the 28th of June last addressed a letter to Secretary Delano asking for his resignation and that Mr. Delano had visited Long Branch and be sought the President to retain him in the cabinet, are without any foundation what ever. No such letter was ever written by the President; ueithcr has Mr. Delano been to Long Branch this season. Lady Franklin, widow of Sir John Franklin, died on the 18th inst., in Lon don. She was the daughter of John Griffin was born about 1800, and was married to Sir John Franklin in 1828, being his second wife. Since the death of her husband in the polar regions In 1847, she has distin guished herself by faith that he was alive and would return, and by her great efforts to aid him. A South African gold digger, who must be the veritable possessor of fortunes' cap, recently found a mass of nearly pure gold actually weighing forty-two pounds. It is a curious fact that Boston exported 31,210,934 worth ofiron and f 22,298 worth of steel last year, to Philadelphia's $905. 7.V. in iron and ?1.779oftecl THE STATE CAMPAIGN. AdIreN of the Republican Mate Committee. A CAMPAIGN OF UNUSUAL IMPORTANCE CANDIDATES IN EVERY WAY WORTHY OF CONFIDENCE THE REPUBLICAN RALLYING CRY. The Republican Slate committee has is sued tbe following address ; To the Rfjiullicans of Pennsylvania : The political campaign upon which we are entering is one of mora than ordinary importance, and we therefore invoke your hearty co-operation in our efforts to press the claims of the Republican party to pub lic confidence aud support. The success of that party is essential, in our judgment, to the prosperity of the State, to tbe perpetuity of the union, and to the permanence of the principles upon which the government is founded. REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION. The control of the administration of State affairs fell into the Republican hands in 1861, and we point with pride to the re cord of that control. The State debt has been reduced from forty millions to twenty three millions of dollars ; the State taxes upon real estate' and upon the personal pro perty employed in agricultural pursuits have been repealed ; the resources of the State have been developed ; the admiral school system which distinguished our commonwealth, has been fostered aud strengthened ; the orphans of her brave soldiers who fell in the war have been fed, clothed, educated and fitted for active life ; and the varied interests of the people have been protected and encouraged. Under no previous administration has the State been so uniformly prosperous and well cared for ; and the slight experience which people had last winter of one branch of the legislature under Democratic control may well lead them to the conviction that they have everything to lose and nothing to gain by a change in the administration of public affairs. TOE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES. The candidates for State offices present ed by tbe Republican party are in every way worthy of public confidence and of a hearty support. Governor Hartranft, dur ing his six years' service as auditor-gen eral, earned a very nisru character as a public officer, and his nd ministration of the executive department has won the re spect and commendation of all, without distinction of party. Unflinching integri ty, unbending honesty and faithful atten tion to tbe duties of his office, have charac terized his administration throughout, and certainly no governor ever more richly de servyd a re-election. Our candidate for State Treasurer is a new man in public life, but one In whom are combined all the qualifications of a good public officer. His capacity for the place is admitted by all, and Lis business ability is also conceded by his political opponents. Having, therefore, a State ticket strong in all the elements that commend candi dates to public favor, a platform of princi ples which has challenged the admiration of Republicans throughout the country, aud a record of State administration to which we can all look back with pardonable pride, we are justified, as a party, in claiming that we have met our responsibilities, and that we are entitled to a continuance of public confidence. RFPCRLICAN PRINCIPLES. Parties are worthy of support only so long as thev advance wite and natxu,l ; a r. .ic -ure TiDDest and efficient administration of public affair ; and as the Republican party is entitled to the credit of both, it justly lays claim to a verdict of popular approval. There are many matters of detail in which the Republican party differs from the Democratic ; but there is one radical difference which, so long as it exists, will render the existence of the Republican par ty a public necessity. That difference con sists in the fact that the Republican party believes that the United States form a na tion with all the functions of a national sovereignty, while the Democratic party regards the national government as a mere league between tbe States, which are each, in its view, sovereign and independent. Tbe Republicans believe in the indissolu bility of the Union of tbe States, whilst tbe Democratic party believes that the federal government has no power to protect its own existence or prevent anj' State from asserting its idependence. DEMOCRATIC PRACTICES. This is a difference which involves the very life of the government. When the rebellion broke out in 18G1, while James Buchanan was still in office as President, be shrank appalled from the duty of preser ving the union intact, and yielded to the advice of his attorney-general that there was no power in the general government to coerce a State. Had that rebellion oc curred at the beginning, instead of at the close, of his administration, it would have been at once successful. Under the Demo cratic idea of State rights, Mr. Buchauan would have been compelled to let the south ern States go. With the prominence at present given by the Democratic party to its oue distinguish ing doctrine of Slate sovereignty, as oppo sed to that of national sovereignty, the ad vent of that party to power iu the nation would naturally bring with it the danger of a second assertion of the right of States to secede from the uuion. Our previous experience of the inability of the Democra tic party in power to attempt the coercion of a rebellious State should certainly be sufficient to teach the people the danger of entrusting the government to hands too weak or too unwilling to protect it. A REIUOUS DRAWBACK. Should it ever become necessary, here after, to assert the power of the general government to promote the public welfare, in any matter of general concern, as for instance, in preventing local restrictions uHn the free transmutation of persons or iu removing natural obstructions thereto, the democratic doctrine, faithfully adhered to, would prevent that party from legisla ting upon it, congressionall y. The nation al government cannot, in fact, be carried on successfully, nor can the necessities of a people, with interests so great and so grand as those of the American people, be projterly met and provided for by any par ty holding strictly to the idea that gov ernment is but a federal league of separate and independent State sovereignties. ' TUB REPUBLICAN PLATFORM. . The Republican party of the State and the natiou stand now as ever, by the rights of labor as entitled to the protection of the government ; by universal freedom and un iversal education ; by the public school system, with the taxation of all for its sup port, and opposed to any division of the school fund for any purpose whatever ; by tbe common law of the nation which inter dicts a third election to the Presidency ; by a tariff so ad justed ns to be the least bur thensome and most favorable to the inter ests of labor and Industry ; by the financial legislation which secures free banking upon a sound basis ; and provides fora safe and uniform currency, sufficient for the public wants ; by such a revision of the patent as will relieve industry from oppression and secure to the inventor a fairrenumera tiou ; by a faithful execution of the laws, the suppression of lawlessness, and the en forcement of the constititions as it stands ; and by that general policy which will pre serve tho union intact, whether assailed from within or without. TIMELY SUGGESTIONS. We are now eutering upon the closing year of tho first century of American inde pendence ; and it behooves the Republicans of Pennsylvania, who believe heartily not only in the words but in the spirit of the declaration of independence, to show their faith by their works, and rally firmly and unitedly to the support of their principles. We council them, in the view of the inter ests which are at stake, to forget all their past differences ; to organize actively and efficiently ; to present none but good and true men for local offices ; and standing firmly by what tbey believe and know to be right, demonstrate their claim to public confidence. The second century of our national existence should begin as tbe first one did, by a supreme devotion to Republi can principles to which only a Republican administration in State or nation can be or will be faithful. UNITY, PROGRESS, PROSPERITY. The experience of the past furnishes abundant evidence that the best interests of the neoole demand the continuance of j j the euligbtened and liberal course of the Republican party in its well defined and clearly announced purpose to foster the agricultural, industrial and commercial in terests of the country ; in its policy which has led to a reduction of seventeen millions of the State debt and six hundred millions of the national debt; in its judicious sys tem of internal improvements having for their objects the enlargement of facilities and reductions in the cost of transportation for our inter-state co mmerce : in its firm adherence to an indissoluble uuion and to the unity and sovereignty of the nation ; in its honest and faithful administration of laws ; and in its stem devotion to the prin cioles of truth and progress. Firm in that conviction we confidently present our plat form and candidates for public support, thoroughly assured that in their success will be found the true and only road to na tional unity, national progress and nation al prosperity. By order of the cornmidee. Henry M. Hoyt, Chairman. A. Wilson Norris, Secretary. The traahopper. REMINISCENCES of a sufferer. A gentleman who has just returned from Cherokee county, Kansas, is full with re markable reminiscences of the grasshop pers infesting that vicinity. He will stand around for no hour, relating the hair breadth escapes of the people whom the hoppers have completely over-run, and who are tearing their homes and fleeing from the fearful scourage. Tbe traveler is in dined to think that many of the crimes at tributcd to the James boy, are to be traced to the hardened and dissolute grasshoppers, many of whom, he says, are arming with shot guns and organizing a sort of home guard for offensive and defensive purposes One of his credible stories is to the effect that, a few weeks ago. a woman dug up a panful of dirt in which to plant some dower seed. She put the pan under the stove and went out to see a neighbor. ITrmn her return, after an hour's aliKftiu--slie found seven thousand bushels of grass hoppers generated by the heat, literally eating her out of house and home. They first attacked the green shades on the win dows and then a green painted dust pan. A green Irish servaut girl, asleep in one of the rooms, was the next victim, and not a vestige of her was left. The stove and stovepipe followed, aud then the house was torn down so they could gel at the chimney. Boards, joists, beams, plaster, clothing, nails, hinges, door knobs, plates,, tiuwarc, everything, in fact, the house coutained, was eaten up. aud when she arrived within a mile of the house she saw two of the largest hoppers sitting up on end and play ing mumble-peg with the carving knife, for which should have the cellar. The way the matter leaked out was on a suit brought against the insurance company, which re fused to pay tbe policy, on the ground that the building was not destroyed by fire ; but the court rendered a verdict for the plaintiff, as she had proved that the grass hoppers were generated by the fire in the stove. Leave nicoitli Times. Case of Drowning. Mr. George W. Baker, formerly of Walsontown, has re cently returned from Norfolk, Va., where he has been living for several years. The wife of Mr. Baker was drowned on July 5th, while out in a pleasure boat with several others. Their boat was struck aud sunk by a steamer. Twelve persons in all weie drowned. Mr. Baker was on the boat and made a narrow escape. He en deavored to save his wife but was compell ed to let her go to save himself. The body of Mrs. Baker was recovered after being iu tbe water four days. Her remains were temporarily buried, and will probably be brought to Miltou this fall. Williamsjiort Gazttle and Bulletin. The census returns of Iowa show a rap idly increasing population. While the Hawkeyes are cultivating their big crops of hogs, hominy and potatoes, they don't neglect the babies. Here is a specimen brick or two : E. McCleuahau, of Sigour uey, tbe other day welcomed his twenty fourth bantling. He is only sixty-four years of age, aud says he will be satisfied when he chalks down the quarter-centennial baby. Zachariah Wilbur, of Henry couuty, is the father of twenty children, and he ouly forty-two years of age. Fa ther Johnson, of Tama couuty, last week, at a family reunion, counted forty-seven, all of whom are members of some church. The reported romantic attachment of young Napoleon, who has reached his nine teenth year, for the Princess Beatrice, youngest daughter of Queen Victoria, who is one year younger than himself, will at tract the more interest because of the ap parently insurmountable obstacles in the way of their marriage. If she loves him, and has the spirit of her mother, it will re quire something more than antiquated laws and popular prejudices to keep thera apart. A swimming race took place in the Dela ware, on the 22d inst., starting from Ches ter, between one Coylc, a worker in the ship yard at that place, and the "cham pion" English smimmer, Johnson. When Coyle had swam eight miles, he was about a mile abend, aud he then took a drink from a bottle handed him by "friends" who accompanied him in a boat, and very shortly afterwards he became unconscious, was taken into the boat, and lost the race, lie asserts that he was drugged, and it looks as if he was. . In one of the suburbs of Cincinnati, on Friday night, J. M. Bryson killed his wife and then committed suicide. The Mountain Meadow Maitsaere. In September, 1857, an emigrant train, numbering considerably over a hundred souls, were on their way to California, and when at Beavor Meadow, about 300 miles beyond Salt Lake City, they were set upon and nearly all massacred, by what was supposed to be Indians ; but it was subse quently discovered that the leaders in the massacre were Mormons. Some of these Mormons are now on trial at Beavor, Utah for the murder, and in referring to the trial the N. Y. S'i says : In August, 1857, a large tram ot emi grants on their way to California reached Salt Lake City. It was the finest tram that had ever attempted the overland route. Several elegant carriages were among the vehicles, for the accommodation of ladies of the party, and their were many women aud children in the train. It is said that the finest of these carriages was for years afterwards used by a family of Mormons. Alter laying in tneir supplies in Salt Lake City, this party proceeded to-1 ward California, and that was the last that was known of them for a long time. It was fully a year before any of their friends received tho least intimation of their fate. Three hundred miles from Salt Lake, on the road to Los Angeles, California, is a meadow five miles in length by one in breadth with a very fine spring at one end, affording an excellent camping ground. Here the emigrant party encaropod in or der to recruit their stock before entering upon what was then called the Great Des ert, and here, in the month of September, the massacre took place. According to the commonly accepted story of the slaughter, the emigrants were attacked while encamped, by Indians, who bad been set upon them by Mormons, and by Mormons disguised as Indians, and ten or twelve men were killed before , any one understood that they were in danger. The remainder of the party at once seized their arms, cutrenched themselves behind their wagons, and prepared for a determin ed resistance. For a week, with their women and children lying inthe trenches they had dug, the emigrants tnautained their position, and kept their enemies at bay. Then the Mormons resolved on strategy. The firing by the Indians ceased, and the besieged party, look ing up the meadow, saw a wagon full of white men coming toward thera. These men proved to be John D.Lee and other Mormon dignitaries, who offered to medi tate with the indians. As the Mormons and Indians were known to be on good terms, tbe offer was gladly accepted, aud his associates bad conferred with the at tacking party of savages, it was agreed that the emigrants should surrender their arms and other property, and return by the road they came. The Mormons on their part promised to guard and protect the party until they should reach the set tlements. Having given up their arms, the emi grants left their wagons and stock and started northward on foot. Tbe women and children were in front, the men follow ed, and in tho rear was a guard of forty Mormons. Hardly had this sorrowful pro cession started on its way wben a fire was poured into them from an ambush, follow ed by an attack from the Mormons in the rear, and in a few minutes one hundred aud twenty men, women and children lay slaughtered upon the ground. Seventeen of the youngest children were saved and adopted by Morman families, and it is said that three men escaped immediate death. But one of these was afterward murdered by tbe Indians ; another starved to death, and the third was killed upon the Colorado, though by whom it is not known. The evidence produced in tbe pending trial all goes to show that this account of the massacre is substantially correct Phil ip K. Smith, one of the defendants, who was a Mormon bishop at the time of the massacre, appeared as State's evidence, and gave a full description of the slaughter with all its horrible details ; as well as an account of the deliberations among the Mormon leaders which preceded the butch ery, in which, against his will as he says, he wa ft" o-prticirntc.- Th massa cre was resolved upou by Mortnou, bishops and councillors, Lee aud W. II. Dwrae be ing among the most couspicious iu plan ing and executing the crime. The descrip tion which Smith gives of the slaughter fully confirms all thai has heretofore been reported of its barbarous character. In 1859, Judge Cradlebaugh, a Federal judge appointed by Buchanan, attempted to bring the perpetrators of this horrible crime to justice, but failed. It is doubted whether the preseut trial will result in the conviction of Lee and his associates, etuuo eight of the jurors are Mormons; while it is eaid that some of them are near relatives of persons who are deeply implicated in tlia murders. GKXLRAL EVS ITEMS. Next session of Lewisburg university commences Sept. 8th. Scbultze & Mohr, merchants of London, have failed. Liabilities, 1,500,000. Abel & Co. 's planing mill, at Warren, Ohio, was destroyed by fire on Friday. Loss $14,000. '' The yeilow fever has broken out at Fort Barraucas, Florida. Twenty-nine cases are reported at that post. Mr. Thomas Williams, of Shenandoah, Schuylkill couuty, fell dead on Tuesday eveuiug, 20th inst., while tilling his pipe. The railroads are making active prepa rations for the peach season, which will commence about the last of this week. In the suburbs of Norristowu, on Satur day, Blasius Paslorius shot and, iu all probability, fatally wounded Isaac Ja quetle. The com is growing so tail in the Mis sissippi bottoms this year, that the farm ers talk of building balloons for harvesting purposes. New York is a Democratic city. Its taxas for 1875 are 82 4 on the $100. The amount to le raised is $32,307,72 1 75. This is equal to 532 per capita. Nothing has been heard of Doualduou. Ihe baloonist, who went up from Chicago, about two weeks ago, and he was probably lost iu the lake. C. E. Bailey, a citizen of Sinethpert, Mc- Keen county, committed suicide in that place on the 11th inst., by taking a dose of morphine, Just as tho weather gets hot enough to remind people of of a very bad place. the New York clergymen whirl away to the watering places. Sand of a superior quality having been found near Sheridan, Lebanou county, Pa. a number of gentleman are uow engaged in examining the cost of erecting glass works at that place. Hon. Wayne MacVeagh, of Harrisburg, has been appointed, by the President, oue of the additional members of the Indian investigating committee. Wm. II. Coon, a young married man, shot and killed his wife, in Philadelphia, on Sunday afternoon, while carelessly handling a double -barrel gun. Prussia must be a paradise in one respect It has only one lawyer to each 12,000 in habitants. In this unfortunato country, we have one lawyer to every 879 residents. West Vergiuia is strongly Democratic, consequently has the inflation mania bad ly. A correspondent says that their is no doubt that the people of the State are in favor of more money. Last Sunday morning a heavy storm passed over Lewisburg, and discharged the surplus electricity into the spire of the Re formed church steeple, on Market street, Mifflinburg. The steeple was badly shat tered, and the roof torn until the fluid reached the lightning rod aud passed to the earth. Tramps have been unusually- plenty of late. A man and woman were put into jail, at Lewisburg, on Wednesday on ac count of drunkenness and fighting. After getting released from prison next day the man struck straight for a drug store and purchased a pint of alcohol. He then went to the Cameron House pump, poured a large portion of the alcohol into a tin cup, filled up the cup with water and drank the mixture down. Mr. Keen, of Springfield, declined to al low his daughter to take part in tbe spell match because she heard Bomebody say that knotty would be given out. An exchange thinks that Eve must have been a very unhappy woman. There was no other woman to pass her on the street that she might look around and see how that dress fits in the back. Willie, aged about eleven vears, and a Bon of A. J. Katherman, of MiftTiuburg, 1 was recently burned to death while pour- ing coal oil ou a fire which was kindled to ; burn potato bugs. j Telegraphic News. STEAM AM DEATH. TERRIFIC LOCOMOTIVE BOILER EXPLO SION NEAR PORT JERVIS. Port Jervis, July 24. The most ter rific locomotive boiler explosion ever known ou the Erie railway, occurred ou the Delaware division last night, eight miles west of Port Jervis, resulting in the instant death of three men and the demolition of thousands of dollars worth of property. The locomotive was attached to an extra coal train from Honesdale, Jefferson Fuller, engineer. When the train reached the point named above, it was flagged by a train ahead of it and came to a stop. The flagman of the leading train, Joseph Bon nell, jumped on the pilot of the engine he had flagged, for the purpose of riding some distance towards his train. Fuller's train was kept at a stand still for a few minutes, when the signal was given to go ahead. A brakeman who was on the twelfth car was looking at the engineer, and says that as he placed his hand upon the throttle the explosion took place. The fire box was blown out and the locomotive lifted bodily from the track and thrown backwards, lighting on the tender, bottom side up. The air was filled with flying fragments, and for some time heavy pieces of iron fell along the train, demolishing cars and en dangering employees. As soou as possible after the explosion a trainman started on foot to Port Jervis to announce the casualty the headquarters. He was but an hour walking the eight miles, and gave the alarm. Superintend ent Thomas at once ordered a wrecking train to proceed to the scene of disaster, and accompanied it with Dr. Sol. Vanet ten and others. Beneath the ruins were found the bodies of James Stevenson, the fireman, and Jo seph Bonnell, the flagman. The body of the engineer could not be found, and it was not until after midnight that it was discovered in a tree, over one thousand feet away from the locomotive, on the sum mil of a hill, which was seventy feet high ; . ... .,1 from the railroad. His watch hung on the limb by his side stopped at eight o'clock. Every bone in his body was broken, but his face was not injured in the slightest. The three bodies were placed in a car and brought to Fort Jervis as soon as possible. The noise of the explosion was heard five miles away.' Several tclcgiaph poles were broken down and the telegraphic communication cut off for some time. Cooner D. T. Cox, of this place, has sum moned a jury to hold an inquest ou the bodies of the victims of the disaster. All the unfortunate men leave families. Ful ler and Stevenson lived in Honesdale, Pa., aud Bonnell iu Pike county. The latter had made but one or two trips ou the road. Tbe cause of the explosiou is as yet a mat ter of ennjectiua, which the coroues's jury alone can throw light upon. The loss to the company is about twenty thousand dollars. l'OTTSVILLE, July 2U. The case of Mock, the defaulting cashier of tbe Ashland Savings Bank, whose dis appearance about a week ago was reported in the Times, proves, on investigation, to be much worse than was at first supposed. He bad tbe implicit confidence of the bank officials and of the people of Ashland, and waa not only permitted but expected to have all the business of the concern in bis own bands. It is now said thai he abused this con Cdence iu every way. He would discount notes at a high figure, nod return them to the bank at a low figure, putting the differ ence in his pocket ; and would receive de positors books, but making no correspond ing entries on the books of the bank. He was also agent for the Lycoming aud Potls ville Mutual Insurance Companies, aud do frauded the former of $1,000 nd the latter of $700 in premiums collected and not turned over. It is thought that he has been carrying on his swindliug operations for years, and the total amount he has rea lized in this way is estimated at $50,000, The investigation into the bank's affairs is not yet finished, but it is now known that Mock has defrauded it of from $15, 000 to $20,000. The amount of ils liabili ties is $70,000. Its nominal assets are $110,000, but these have been so manipu lated by Mock that they are scarcely worth $70,000, and will require a long time to realize thai. It has suspended business, and will wind up its affairs without at tempting to rvsumu. The excitement among the depositors, which at first was very great, is now subsiding, as they have confidence iu the directors, and readily take their pledge to realize on the bank's assets as speedily as possible and discharge all liabilities remaining, after a reasonable time, out of their private funds. Nothing is kuown of Mock's vrhcrea bouts. He was traced across the country to Georgetown, on the Northern Central Kailway, where he bought a ticket for Wil liamsport, but beyond that point all trace of him is lost. The bank has offered n re ward of $1,000 for his arrest. Jay Cooke's Creditors IissatlIiel. Washington, IX C, July 22, 1875. A large number of the creditors of Jay Cooke & Co. in this city have yet refrained from accepting the meagre dividend of five per cent., declared more than six months ago by the trustees. It is understood thnt ibis course has also been pursued by some of the large creditors in New York and Philadelphia, who are of the opinion that something much better should have been offered them, and are not willing to accept so small a portion when it might be an ob stacle to the legal proceedings which it is contemplated to take. To-day all this class of creditors received through the mails a circular from the Trustee, urging them to signify their acceptance of the divi dend which for the reasons here given they have hitherto declined. The London Times of Saturday contain ed an elaborate article in favor of the cen tennial exhibition. The Failure of Duncan, Sherman Co. New York, July 27. The doors of Duncan, Sherman & Co. were closed at 11:25 o'clock. Ouly iu a general way can the causes of the suspension be ascertained. It is ad milted that the bouse has lost very largely on cotton ; in fact, that is the principal source of loss. Involvements wilh various railroad en terprises, old and new, also entailed losses on the house. Their liabilities are under stood to be between five and 6ix millions. Correspondence. OUR SEW YOICK LETTER. HOME AGAIN DOT WEATUER AND CRIME BLOOD NEORO GAMBLING SPANISH MONTE TWEED HARD TIMES TIIE BOOKSELLERS POLICE HOT. New York, July 27, 1875. home again ! again I Back from the golden Back shores of the Pacific back from the cool breezes of San Francisco, the scorching heat of Sacramento, the stock gamblers and the Chinese, to New York. Am I glad to get back ? Yes and no I With the thermometer standing at 100", I sigh for the delicious coolness of San Francisco; but then when I look out on the great, grand city, the city that is destined to be the first in the world, I am glad to be back j to her. New York has a myriad of faults, but it has also a myriad of virtues, and to j take it by and large I want uo better place , to live iu. Ho wa3 an astute Bostoniau j who said he should always live iu Boston, j for the reason that when he tired of Bos-1 ton he could go to New York. i HOT WEATHER AND CRIME. Is there any connection between hot weather and crime ? Does tbe sun breed contentions and give men a thirst for blood ? It would seem so. Since the heat ed term commenced there has been in New York A CARNIVAL OF BLOOD. Last Sunday a negro quarreled with others over the gambling table and killed three men with a knife before he was se cured. The same day a sou shot bis father, a woman was killed by her husband and the police reports in the morning show ed no less than eigbten assaults with dead ly weapons. Hot weather seems to make rum more effective for evil. Aud speaking of GAMBLINO among negroes, it is wonderful what a hold the passion has upon them. Talk of the Chinese I The negro, that is to nvy the low, uneducated negro, will discouut them. A new game runs with them a most furious course. Just now SPANISH MONTE is the rage. It was brought here from the South, and every negro who gambles at all stays by it as long as he can raise a nickel. It was over a game at Spanish monte that the trouble originated last Suuday. The game is very simple. Tbe dealer deals two cards from tho bottom of the pack, and lays them on the table face upwards, say a ten and a acace tnea the bettin" bezins. The o betters lay their money on whichever card they choose, and when all have bet who want to, tho dealer turua tbe pack face up wards and goes on. The first card he lays next to himself and ;he next the other side of the table, and so on. Suppose you are a negro and have a nickel on the ten. Very good. Now tho first ten decides the fate of that nickel. If it comes on the pile next the dealer he gobbles it if on the other pile, he pays you an equal amount. It is a kind of sy nullified faro. But the darkeys are playing it everywhere, with all the ardor that belongs to lhat most excitable of all the races. boss tweed is slowly working his way toward liberty, and there is a strong probability that a few more months will sec the old vi'lian at large, with his head up as proudly as ever. I. his result is foreshadowed by the recent proceedings before Judge Donohue. I will not weary your readers with dry detail, but suQice it to say that in the suit against him for $(5,000,000, the judge has taken advan tage of every possible legal technicality to stave off procedings agaiust him, aud finally defeat the city. For instance, the judge decided in such a way that to make the city successful, it will have to produce 141 vouchers which were known to have been stolen and destroyed years ago. The books still in existence show all that tbe voucher could, but tbe judge insists upon the destroyed papers. Of course Donohue is a Tammany democrat. It seems hard that a known thief cannot be punished But the affair carries wilh it a moral which I commend to the republicans iu the Slates holding elections this fall, which is don't let the democracy cet their Tweeds into office at all. It is a fearful task to get rid of them when they are once solidly fixed. HARD TI3IES. You of the country may, and doublles do, growl of hard times, but you don't know the meaning of those two terrible words. We know all about it in New York, for ousiness is an eutire stand-still. I Here is uo business lo sneak of. There is a little flurry in the grain market, and the dritik-ing-house are busy, but this is all. There are uo sroods selliuc no real estate beinji transferred, in short, uo nothing. Stagna tion is the rule. Now, in the couutry, where expenses are light, this condition of a flairs can be borne for a time with some degree of patience, but not here. You pay here $12,000 per annum for a store you have your army of salesmau and clerks on hand, and you must keep them, for when trade begins you must have them and this enormous expenditure eats and cats into capital at a fearlul rate. Aud the trouble with us is, that there is no reason to believe that the fall trade will be any better. The merchants see no indications of anything like even a respectable fall seasou. The people do not seem to be buying of the re tailers, and per cousequeuce, their stocks are comparatively heavy. Purchases are beiug made with great caution, and iu the smallest possible quantities. This condi tion of things may be chargeable partially to the hard times, but I have an idea that the trade that New York is uow sufferiug for the want of, she never will get again. Boston is gottiug part of it, Baltimore still more, and Chicago, Toledo, St. Louis, Cin- cinali, Louisville and other inland points are doubling and quadrupling their busi ness. It is possible that New York is ab solutely overgrown, aud that its sceptre has departed. No matter what the caurc, the merchants are as blue as indigo, and are likely to keep so. THE TRADE HOOK SALE is about the only sensation in the city at this time. The publishers and booksellers of tho United States formed an association last year, the object being nn annual fair, where the manufacturers could meet deal ers. This is the first, and it is a pro nounced Buccess. All the publishers are represented, and booksellers are here from almost every city and town in the country. Each publisher has his stand on which he displays samples of his publications. It surprised me to know lhat in that hall were thirty-tveo Uiousand different books, pub lished in this country ! the most of them having been issued within the past two years. What an immense amount of paper and ink must have been consumed, and what an immense amount of thought ex pended to produce this vast mass. The trade is, as in other departments of busi- J ness, very dull. Buyers are cautious and sellers are eager. TnE POLICE are being hauled over tbe coals by the com mittee appointed by the Legislature. Some very curious developments are bt-ing made. The panel-house business came up incident ally, and tvhat a panel-house really is was made known to the legislative Solous. A suite of rooms are fitted up with doors lhat resemble panels-that is the room is papered in panels one panel, however, at the foot of the bed, being a door that slides noise lessly. It takes two persons, a man and a woman, to play the game. Tbe woman goes on the street, and picks up a verdant countryman, who, to make it perfectly safe, ought to be half full of rum, and takes him to her room. He goes to sleep, leaving his clothes on a chair that is placed close to.the concealed door. When once asleep, the man in the next room slides the panel, cap tures the clothes, takes everything of Yalue, and the woman gels up quietly, and makes her exit by the same door. The poor man wakes in the morning to find that he has been plundered, but by whom? Will he go to the police ? Not much. For then the fact would get into the papers that he had been in tbe company of a scarlet woman, and that would'nt sound well in Bald winsville, when it should reach that virtuous village. A variety of interesting facts were devel oped. For instance, it was shown that the detectives were always slower than molasses in winter in pursuit of thieves, until the sufferers had seen them with mouey, and very large mouey too. Then they either t arrest the thief, or let him escape, just as it happens. If the plunderer can put up more money than the plundered, he goes scot free if not, not. The detectives know every thief in the country, and could, if they would, bring every one of them to book ; but they never do it, unless there is more to be made thereby than by any other course. The commission are deter mined to cor rect this evil, and it is to be hoped they will succeed. THE WEATHER is fearfully hot, close, damp and muggy. It a most excellent time to get . away into the country. pietro. PUBLIC REPORT OF A POLICE IVs AN. I have not enjoyed cood health for several years past, yet have not ullowcd It to Interfere with my labor. Every one belonging to the la boring class knows the inconvenience of being obliged to labor when the body, from debility, almost refuses to perform its daily task. I never was a believer in dosini; with medicines ; but havinc heard tho Veoetinb spoken of so highly, was determined to try it, and shall never regret that determination. As a tonic (which every one needs at some time) it snrpases anything I ever heard of. It Invigorates the whole system; it is aret cleanser and nunner of tbe blood. There are many of my acquaintances who have taken it, and all unite in praise of its satisfactory effect. Especially anion? tbe agep class of people, it imparts to them the one thing roost needful in old nee nights of calm, sweet repose, thereby strengthening the mind as well as tbe body One aged lady, who has been suffering through life from scrofula, and has become bund from Its effects, having tried many remedies with no favorable result, was induced by friends to try the Vsgetife. After taking a few bottles, she obtained Buch great relief that she expressed a wish for her sight, that sho might be able to took upon the man who bad sent her snch a blessing. Yours respectfully. O. P. n. HODGE, Police Officer, Station 6. Boston, Mass., May t, lbil. HEARTFELT PRAYER. St. Pai l, Aug. 23, 1865. II. K. Stevens, Esq. : Dear Sir I should be wanting in gratitude, if I failed to acknowledge what the V egetine has done for me. 1 was artacked about eleven mouths since with Bronchitis, which settled into Consumption. I had night sweats and fever chills ; was distressed lor breath, and frequently spit blood ; was all emaciated, very weak, and so low that my friends thought in y case hope less. I was advised to muke a trial of the V egetine, which, under the providence of God, has cured me. That he may bless the use of your medi cine to others, as he has to me, and thnt his di vine grace may attend yon, is the heartfelt pray er of yonr admiring, humble servant, BENJAMIN PETT1NGILL. P. S. Mine is but one among the many cares your medicine has effected la this place. B, P. MAKE IT PUBLIC. Socth Bostos, Feb. 9, 1871. B. II. Stevens, Es. Dear Sir I have heard from very many sources of the great success of Veoetine in cases of Scrofula, Rheumatism, Kidney Complaint, Catarrh, and other diseases of kindred nature. I make no hesitation in saying that I know Vege fine to be most reliable remedy for Catarrh and General debility. My wife has been troubled with Catarrh for many years, and at times very badly. She has thoroughly tried euery supposed r-m?dy that we could hear of, and with all this she has for sev eral years been gradually growing worse, and the discharge from the head was excessive and very offensive. She was in this condition when she commenc ed to take Veoetive ; 1 could tee that she was improving on the second bottle. She coutinned taking the Vkgetinr until she hud used from twelve to fifteen bottles. I am now happy in informing you and the public (if yon choose to to mane it public) that she Is eutirclr cured, and Veoetine accomplished the cure after nothing eles would. Hence I feel justified in sayiug that Vecetinb is the most reliable remedy, and would advise all suffering humanity to try it, for I believe it to be a good, honest, vegetable medi cine, aud I shall not hesitate to recommend it. I am, Ac, rpspectfully, L. C. CARD ELL, Store 451 Broadway. Veoetine acts directly upon the cause of these complaints. It invigonik-s and strengthens the whole rysteui, acts upon the secretive organs, allays inflammation, cleanses and eures ulcera tion, cures constipation, and regulates tho bowels. Has Entirely Cured Me. Boston, 'October, 1870. r. Stevens : Dear Sir My daughter, after having a stvere attack of whooping cough, was left iu a feeble state of health. Beiug advised by a friend she tried the Veoetine, aud after using a few bottles was fully restored to health. I have been a great sufferer from Rheumatism I have taken several bottles of the Veoetine for this complaint, aud am happy to say it has en tirely cured me. I have recommended the Ve oetine to others, with the same good results. It lo a great cleanser and purifier of the blood; it is pleasant to take ; and I can cheerfully re commend it. JAMES MOBSE, 3C4 Athens Street. SOLD BT DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS EV- ERYYVIIURE. JulylC,lin. John II. Sell. Joiin M. Schonour. SEM. a scnoorn, Second Street, YVomflsoorf, Pa. FOREIGX AND DOMESTIC LIQUORS WINES, BRANDIES, GINS, Pure Old Kye Whiskey, Apple WuisKEr, Cobdhls, Ac. Alt Liquors sold gaurranteed ns represented. Orders promptly attended to and public pa tronage respectfully solicited. SELL & SCHONOUR. 2d St., Woraelsdorf, Berks Co., Pa. Fb. 27. 1874. ly. ita iubcriiscnurtts. HOPE. '8 O'clock.' HOPE. "Behold I wiU stand befori tht thert upon tht rock irIItyrtb ; and thou thalt tthitt tht rock and thtrt thall torn vo ter out of it that ihe people may drink." Ex. Perhaps at no period of christian history from the days in which Christ astonished tbe multi tude at tbe pool of Betbesda, has such an excite ment prevailed among the sick as is now created by the accidental discovery of a fountain of min eral water which beyond cavil eclipses the whole fraternity of the learned faculty in restoring to original health almost every form of chronic dis ease. Finding it impossible to accommodate the sick, here the proprietors propose to famish the concentrated medicine prepared by simply reduc ing the water by evaporation into a fine powder or Mass, which posesses all the wonderful virtue of the water in a cheap and convenient form. The Mass Is a fine tonic, alterative and absorbent and is especially useful to ladies suffering from irreg ularities and affections peculiar to their sex. It has been universally approved and endorsed by the Medical Profession wherever introduced, both as a diuideratum in their materia, and as the best popular remedy ever offered in the cure of Asth ma. Billions Affections.Brouchitis.Chills.Conghs, Cancer, Asiatic C'Aofera,Crnmp C'holic, Cutaneons Eruptions, Dyspepsia, Consumption, Dropsy, Sore Eyes, General DebiHty, Diarrhoea, Effects of Debanchery,Female weakness, GraveI,Headacue. Heart Disease, Hemorrhages, Kidney diseases, Ulcers,Loss of Appetite, Languor, Liver,discases, Tetter, Mental Depression, Nervous Debility, Neuralgia, Nocturnal Emissions, Night Sweats, Prolapsus Uteri, Sexual weakness, Scrofa!a,Sum nier Complaints, Vencrial diseases, Worms, Whites, and all diseases which derive their origin from the Blood, Liver or Kidneys. Dissolved in water it mnks an excellent wash, gargle and injection, and iiProrporated with fresh lard, permanently cures the most obstinate ease of Piles. The chums of this remedy cannot be over estimated in the core of the diseases mentioned above. The Analysis of the Mass by Prof. Chas. F. Chandler, Ph. D. of the College of Pharmacy, New York City, proves its perfect adaptation to every form of disease proceeding from the Stom ach, the Liver the Kidneys, and the blood. ANALYSIS: Sufpburic Acid. Alumina, "J Oxide of Iron, Line, Magnesia, Potasa, Soda, As Sulphates. Carbonic Acid, Phosphoric Acid. Silica. Organic Matter. m tSfl'he Mass is harmless and may be used at ill. Being fully aware of the popular prejudice existing against advertised remedies ire offer the Mass under tbe following warrants, via : 1st that tbe medicine shall be what is claimed for it. 2d, All money tent by Registered letters shall reach ns. 3d, All medicines ordered by tbe public snail reach them in good condition and give satisfac tion. 4th, Thai we hold ourselves responsible to forfeit $300, if we violate any of these warrants. Price 12 postage paid by mail, or, three pack ages for 15. Sis packages will be sent by Ex press for $9, or, it will be sent C. O. D. witk re turn charges added, if ordered in lots not less than one half dozen. Address, Alum Mass Company, Alum Wells, P. O. Washington Co, Va. July 50, '7 ly. RULE OS HEIRS. NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY, S3. At an Orphans' Court held at Suubun, in and for said County, on the twenty-second day of March, A. D. 1873, before the Honorable A'm. M. Rockefeller, President, and Joseph 31feely, Esq., his associate, Jodees of said Court Upon the petition of G. W. Zeigler, L.S. vendee of Charles Weaver, oni of tb -v- children of Eliza Weaver, (fe ceased, who was a sister and heir of Charles Eileman, deceased. The Court granted a rule on you : Edward Hileman, Amelia Kiehl, (late Amelia Hileraan,) Harriet Guss, (late Harriet Hilun&n,) Mary Weaver, (now Mary Wright,) louisa. Weaver, (now Louisa Scott,) John Wtaver, Fanny Weaver, (now Fanny Boyer,) and Geo. W. Zeigler, vendee of Charles Weaver, heirs and legal representatives of Charles Hileman, late of said County, deceased, to eome into Conrt on the first Monday of Augnst, A. D. 1875, and ac cept or refuse the Real Estate of said deceased at the valuation or show causa why the same should not be sold according to tbe Act of As sembly in such case made and provided. Witness the Honorable William M. Rockefel ler, President of onr said Conrt, at Sunbury, this 21st day of April, 1875. GEO. B. REDIEN'SNYDER, Deputy Cl'k O. C. Maj23'75.-3t. AFO by Agents. Address, J. S. WALK Kit Erie, P. July 23, 1.".-4w. t9 Proof fumi3lied.Bniiiemick;s !k &imt!ind honorable Willi no Tifli A 13 page circular st Wuu'.ie drees oo postal csnl. Doutda- lay brt write stooce to , a. REED.8TB STSB w vans July 23,-tw. MOKE AGEXTS WASTED. Jlartial Deeds ot Pennsylvania. FIRST EDITION EXHAUSTED Tomprehensive, fit nd honorable. N. A. k TJ. S. Gazette,' Phils. 'The Biogrape"" to be prmised for their scconcv.' "The Prow,' Phila. "Over 11U) fm ; no library complete without it.' 'Sunday Time, phila. 'Yonr account of GettysbnrK is the fluent, fallen, and very beat history of the greatest battle of modern timeo.' CoL 1. P. Nicholson, Phila. 'No soldier should be without it.' Bvt. Maj. Gen. Mindil, Phiia. 'A just tribute to distinguished services.' A. G. Cart in. 'Tu nnest book I have yet seen.' CoL i. . raraons, Har risburg. Your Gettysburg is the. justest yet present ed.' Gen. J. W. ds Pryster, N. Y. Address, T. H. Davis k Co Publishers," 723 Sansom street, Phila. Jnly 23. tw. WHEREVER IT HAS BEEN TRIED has established itself as a perfeot regulator and sore remedy for disorders of the system arising from im proper action of the Liver and Bowels. It ia not a Physic, but, by stimulating the secretive; organs, gently and gradually removes all impurities, and regulates the entire sTstem. It is not a doctored bitters, bat is VEGETABLE TONIC which assists digestion, and thus stimuli tea the appetite for food necessary to invigorate the weakened or inac tive organs, aud gives strength to all the vital forces. It carries its own recommendation, as tbe larg and rapidly increasing sales testify. Price One Dollar bottle. Ask tout druggist for it. Joitssto Hollo wat 4 Co., Phihk, Pa. Wholesale Agfa. Jaly I3,-4w. TT' I TrPT,'n Agenta for the best selling Prize tf AltillL Packages ia the world. Single pack age, with elegant prise, post-paid, 23 cents. For other novelties send stamp. Address, F. P. CLUCK, New Bedford, Mass. July 23, TS. 6w. AUDITOR'S NOTICE. Es.ate of Samuel Eartsher, dee'd. "VTOTICE Is hereby hereby fciven to all per JlM sons interested that the undersigned, Au ditor appointed by tbe conrt to report the facts as to the propriety of granting an order of sale in the estate of Samuel Bartsher, dee'd, will at tend to tbe duties of his appointment at his office, in tbe borough of Snnbory, connty of Northumberland, Penn'a, on Saturday, the 31st day of Jnly, A. D.HS73, at ten o'clock A. M. W. C. PACKER, Auditor. DiToree Notice. In the court of Common Pleas of Northnmr" herland connty. Mary Hefciflnser, by her ne1 Pluries snbpojna friend William T. Fugleman ! for a divorce. vs. f No. 865 Aug. T., William HerettlDger. ; 1S75. To tbe respondent above named. Tou are hereby required to appear at a Court of Common Picas, to be held at Sunbury, for the connty of Northumberland, on the first Monday of August next, to answer the complaint of tbe libellant in the above stated case. S. H. ROTHERMEL, Sheriff. Sheriff's Office, Sunbnry, Jnly 16, 1875. tt. Divorce Notice. William Gonld y ' Pluries subrxena for a dl- vs. vorce. Mary Gould. No. SC4 Auirnst Term, 1S75. j To the respondent above named ; you are here- 1 by required to appear at a court of Common Pleas to be held at Sunbury, for the county of Northumberland, on the first Monday of Au gust next, to answer in the complaint of the libellant in the above stated ease. S. H. ROTHERMEL, Sheriff. Sheriff's Office, Sunbnry, July 18, 1S75. it. Notice to the Heirs and Legal Ite prefientatiTe ofSamuel IIale,late or Lycoming County, Deceased. To Rebecca Tharp, Isaac Hales, Jane Fisher, John W. Hales, Edward Hales Nathan Hales, Henry Watts, John Watts, Wil- liaut Watts, Belinda Lambersoo, Marian LnmberBon, John Lam berson, Hannah Lamberson, and Catharine Witford, TAKE NOTICE that an Inquest will be held on the premises of Samuel Hales, deceased, in Shamokln town .hip, Northumberland connty. Pa., on FRIDAY, the 30th day of JULY, 1875 at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of that day, to value and divide certain real estate of said de ceased, to wit : a certain lot or piece of ground situate in Shamokln township, Northumberland" connty, Pa., bonnded and described as follows :. bounded on the north by lands of Hugh H Teats, ou the east by lands of Hugh H. Teats, on the sooth by lands of Charles E. Alexander and on the west by lands of Amandus Miller, ( containing seven acres more or less, to and f among the heirs and legal representatives of ' said deceased. If the same can be done without prejudice to or spoiling the whole thereof other wise to value and appraise the same according to law, at which time and place yon may attend, if yon think proper. 8. H. ROTHERMEL, Sheirff. Jnly 5$, 1S75. VX.