ISmitatj diitrifait.
H. S. MASSER,
E. WlLVERT.
Editors.
SUNBURY. AUGUST 6, 1875.
Republican State Ticket.
FOR GOVERNOR :
(if.S. JOHN F. IIARTUANFT,
Of Montgomery County,
rOB STATE TREASCKER :
HON. HEXRY BAWLE,
Of Erie.
Rcttbucas CorsTT Cokventio. The Re
publican Totem of Northumberland county re
requested to meet in each clecfum dictrict at the
several placet where delegate election hare
heretofore been lielS. on Saturdiis", the 4th day
of September next, between the hour or 1 and
8 o'clock p. in., for the purpose of decline dele
gates to the Republican Couuly Convention to
be held at the Court House, In the borough of
Banbury, on Monday, Sept. Clh, 1875, at 10
o'clock a. in., for the purpose of nominating
tleket to be presented to the voter of the county
at the ensuing election. Ecli district polling
I wo buudred Republican votes, or les, at the
last general election for State officers, will be en
titled lo two delegates; each district polling
over two hundred vote, and not exceeding three
hundred, three delegate ; aud each district poll
ing over three hundred voles shall be entitled to
four delegates.
Under the above rule the different districts
will be entitled to the following representation
iu the Convention :
Del. Del.
Suiihury, E. W 3 Shaniokiu twp S
W. W
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S HU Cnrmcl lwp... 2
2 Snydcrtown 2
2 Jackson 2
.North'd
Milton, X. W .,
8 W
Wattonu-iwn 2 Cameron 2
McEwensville. - 2 Jordan .. 2
Turbutvllle.......
Turbut
Delaware.-...
2 CpperMahanoy
, 2 Washington 2
,... 2 Lower Mahanoy -3
2 Little Mahanoy 2
2 7.crbe 2
.t 2 Riverside 2
........ 2 Ml. Cartucl bor 3
2 Shamokin, E. W -4
. 2 Shamokin, W. W 8
the Standing Committee.
L WILYERT, Chairman.
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D THE CONSTITC
In looking over
zcd at thenum
lio are .. - titers. The
rvo the people 4. rofi table
jce, is greatly on the increase,
jading the announcements, it is as
ing to Cud so many beta? urged to
position by their numerous friends,
.here are but few boaest enough to state
that they want the office, and modesty,
perhaps, on their part, keep their own
wUhes concealed, and their announcement
"card" is made to read, "that bis friends
want the office for him, and that he has
reluctantly consented to sacrifice all his
other business to gratify them." Wc do not,
however, see any of these patriots come out
in a "card," at any other time, announc
ing that they are willing to sacrifice their
business to gratify their friends in any
other respect. In this county tliere are
fifty-two candidates, and only nine officers
to be elected, which will leave a surplus of
forty-three, who will be made sorry that
they cannot serve their friends. Other
counties are similarly situated. All these
men are patriots. Indeed, it is a singular
fact, that when a man fails in almost any
other butinefts, he turns his attention to
patriotism. It is supposed, that in politics,
if a man is a patriot, it does not matter
that be is not com pe tent for the position
be seeks. If he loves office and is willing
to sacrifice the last of bis own, and his
wife's relatives in a war for the country,
his patriotism is established, and his status
politically is secured. These aspirants
are, generally, of this quality. They are
ready to sacrifice their private business to
gratify their friends who are so anxious
they should he made Sheriff, Prolhonotary,
Register, or any other officer. Some claim
to have been c-oloueis, majors, captains,
and others, that they have faithfully labor
ed for the gd of the party, for a long
period, without any remuneration, and
believed firmly iu the principles of the par
ty. Hut few, however, judge of their own
fitness for these positions, nor do they con
sult with their friends, whether their abili
ty would watrraot them to fill the posi
tion asked for. We generally Cnd that
at least one half who allege to have been
urged for office by their friends, are incom
petent, and the public are the sufferers by
their mismanagement. Many make it an
object to secure the office by holding out
inducements, without, probably, Xhe knowl-;
edge of the law on the subject, which it
will be well enough for them to study.
In article 7, section 1, of the constitution,
under the head of "Oath of Office," is the
following clause ;
"That I have not paid or contributed,
or promised to pay or contribute, either
directly or indirectly, any money or other
valuable thing to procure y nomination
or election, except for necessary and pro
per expenses expressly authorized by law ;
that I have not knowingly violated any
election law ot this Commonwealth, or pro
cured it to be done by others in my be
half," &c.
Here is an oath designed to cover a very
large space of political actions, and it is
therefore well enough for those who are
seeking the favor of delegates, or laying
"the ropes" to elect such functionaries,
to keep its obligations well in view. A
candidate for an office ha no right to pro
mise a delegate whom he desires lo vote
for his nomination anything except fidelity
to the trust he seeks. This covers the
whole point, and on this the canvass for
nomination must rest. After that the ne
cessary expense of an election cousists of
printing and traveling, the distribution of
information, and for the holding of meet
ings ; but they cannot pay for votes or in
fluence. Such a disbursement at once dis
qualifies a man for the office to which he
may be elected. If his frieuds do it for
him, with his knowledge, it is the same
the same either in procuring his nomina
tion or election.
We give these facts for the benefit of the
patriots who are now seeking, or whose
friends are urging them to accept responsi
ble public trusts. It is their interest to
study the law on the subject, as it is plain.
The late rains seems to have visited
nearly all parts of the country. The rain
fall at Marietta, Ohio, during Sunday night,
was three inches. The Ohio river and its
tributaries and the Middle Mississippi have
risen rapidly, and the streams in West
Virginia are also swollen. Additional
damage to the crops, railroads and other
property is rejiorted from Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Missouri and Iowa. The heavy
rainfall has been accompanied by a remark
able fall of temperature in the Ohio and
Mississippi Valleys as well as ou the At
lantic Coast. "Dangerous floods" were
predicted by the Signal Service Bureau for
the Ohio river region on Tuesday.
They have indicted so many pcrsoux at
Milwaukee for complicity in the whisky
frauds that one begius to wonder if there is
anybody left in that city not under indict
ment After they had secured the present
collector and his deputy aud some others,
they captured an cx-collector and his de
puty, and made a magnificent haul of
gaugers and storekeepers, to say nothing of
ihw distillers.
Benjamin Bannan, Esq., of Pottsville,
one of the oldest editors in Pennsylvania,
died at his residence on Saturday last, in
the sixty-ninth year of his age. He was
the son of a farmer, and was born in Union
township, Berks county, in 1807. He pos
sessed great force of character and excel
lent ability, lie established the Jtners1
Journal in 1S27, and succeeded only by his
indomitable courage in sustaining it until
the place grew up and prospered. His
journal was the organ of the Schuylkill
coal region, and was always looked lo for
solid statistics of this great Industry. The
deceased continued at the head of the pa
per, also adding a daily issue, until two or
three years ago, when ho retired from all
busiuess concerns, with a handsome com
petency, to his tine residence in the vicini
ty, where he spent his leisure mostly in
horticultureal pursuit. His health having
somewhat declined, he visited Bedford
Springs some weeks ago, and fouud relief,
but it was only temporary ; and on return
ing to his home the disease developed itself
greatly and speedily led to his death. He
was -one of the oldest, best-known and most
respected editors in the Slate.
Saratoga. We received a few days
since, a letter from an old frieud, F. C.
Arms, Esq., formerly a resident of this
place, now rusticating at Saratoga
Springs, for the beneGt of his health. The
letter is a private ono, but as it contains
matters of interest in regard to this fash
ionable and extravagant watering place,
we publish the following extract What
ever reasons others may have to complain
of hard times, surely the citizens of Sarato
ga have none. With one hundred thous
and dollars per day expended by strangers
alone, they ought to be revelling in green
backs. It is no wonder that John Morrissey
the great gambler, prize fighter and leader
of the Democracy in New York, is coining
money in his splendid establishment at
this place :
"I find great changes and improvements
since I was here 14 years ago, in ucw and
magnificent hotels, private mansions, new
ly discovered springs, &c, &c. This is
considered the height of the season, and
the crowd, augmented last week by the
races, is immense. One of the three large
hotels, the Grand Union, built and owned
by A. T. Stewart, has 300 or 400 of ita
guests rooming outside, and one day last
week fed 1,800. A recent census of the
visitors made the number over 20,000, and
it is estimated that their average expendi
ture is not less than S100.000 per diem, or
3,000,000 per month I Fortunate Sarato
ga! with her wonderful variety of springs
charged with carbonate and bicarbonate
of Soda, lime and magnesia, carbonic acid,
gas, &c., &c. Some of the recently discov
ered springs two miles from town, towards
Balstou, are artesian and in one the water
rises through 300 feet of tubing and then
spouts 30 or 40 feet above tho surface.
This water, at the bottling house, is drawn
for the visitors from a fountain like soda
water, except that nature furnishes the
laboratory of its manufacture, and it has
doublo the quantity of gas and mineral
properties of either the old "Congress,"
or the new "Hathorn." "
Another Cure For Hydrophobia.
In the case of the fact that the best medi
cal practitioners regard hydrophobia as in
curable, there are no lack of remedies
among the people. The following is the
latest, furnished by a correspondent of the
Westchester Bqmllican :
Medical science seems vainly to have ex
hausted its skill in search of a cure for the
bite of a mad dog. The following is Mrs.
Goodman's celebrated remedy, which has
been unfailing iu every case where taken
before the occurrence of spasms. It con
sists of three doses of elecampane root pre
pared and taken in the following manner :
For the first dose take one aud a half
ounces of cither the dried or green root ; if
the greeu root is used grate it as you would
horse radish ; if the dry root grind it in a
coffee or spice mill ; mix it in a pintof milk
fresh from the cow, and boil it down to
half a pint- Take this early iu the morn
ing upon an empty stomach and eat noth
ing until after four o,clock in the afternoon.
Forty -eight hours after this take two
ounces of the root prepared iu the oatne
way, boiling it down to half a pint as be
fore aud taken the same as the first.
Again in forty-eight hours take another
dose iu the same quantity as the last
This will make in all five and a half ounces
of the root and three pints of milk. The
directions are to be closely observed, using
milk fresh from the cow, boiling each dose
down to a half-pint, taking the whole dose
at once upou an empty stomach ; fasting
until four o'clock, taking the dose every
other day ; for the first dose taking one and
a half ounces of the root aud for each of
the other doses two ounces. The green
root is preferable. It is exceedingly nause
ous dose to prepare or tike, but it is a cer
tain cure if taken in time, either for hy
drophobia or snake bite. The gentleman
ho gave us the recipe paid twenty-five
dollars for it several years since and was
cured by it Since then he has prescribed
it in a number of cases with certain effect.
In one case two men were bitten by the
same dog. One took the remedy and is
living to-day ; the other refused to take it
and died in most terrible agony.
Beecher's $100,000 Salary. It now
appears that Plymouth church is expe
riencing a great deal of difficulty in procur
ing tho 100,000 which were voted-to Mr.
Beecher for his salary for the present year.
It was easy to vote the sum, but the breth
ren find it hard to take the money out of
their pockets. Up to a few days ago only
S30.000 of it had been paid over, aud there
seemed lo be a pervading dilatoriness to
plank down. Meantime Beecher, with a
bodyguard of thirty of his chosen, depart
ed for the White Mountains.
In the meanwhile no efforts have been
made to aid Mrs. Tilloti, who, if Beecher
is not guilty, is alno innocent and probably
the greatest sufferer of the two. The mem
bers of Plymouth church should bear in
mind that "what is sauce for the gander is
saur for the goose."
Every dollar of debt due from the State
of Pennsylvania to its Loud holders can now
be presented to the Treasurer and it will he
redeemed. The outstanding over-due
bonds on the first of August amounted to
$434,850. The Commissioners of the sink
ing Fund have passed a resolution to noti
fy the holders of these bonds that the in
terest will cease after ninety days. The
New York World is particularly interested
at the present time about the Pennsylva
nia finances. The State Treasurer of New
York, whom the World commends, has a
balance on hand of over $4,000,000. Will
it please say whether all the debt due the
bondholders of that State has been paid ?
Ilnrrixlurij Telegraph.
Bkechkr to br tried again. The
Beecher case to be tried over again. On
Monday afternoon, Mr. Morris, counsel for
Theodore Tilton, notified Messrs. Shear
man and Sterling, attorneys for Henry
Ward Beecher, to answer in a new trial on
the first Monday in September. Mr. Mor
ris says his side has new evidence, aud that
the case can be tiied in ten days, but in
Tracy's opinion, it will "last much longer."
l-From the Harrisburg Telegraph of Aug. 2.
Ntate Financial Affair.
The following is a general press dispatch,
in reference to the State finances, published
iu this morning's papers :
Harrisburg, Pa., Aug. 2.
The Commissioners of the Sinking Fund
met here to-day, iu conformity with law.
The Stale Treasurer submitted a statement
showing the balance in the Sinking Fund
to be 433,533 08. Whereupon the follow
ing was offered by Secretary Quay, and un
animously adopted :
"Resolved, That the State Treasurer be
directed to notify the Farmers' and Me
chanics' National Bank of Philadelphia
that the Commissioners of the Siuking Fund
are prepared to redeem upon presentation
the balance of the five-ten loan of the Com
monwealth, amounting to S434.850 ; and
further, that the State Treasurer be direct
ed to notify the holders of the Chombers
burg certificates issued under the act of
May 27, 1871, to present the same for pay
mcut forthwith at the Treasury, and that
interest be stopped upon all tho indebted
ness above mentioned on the first day of
November next."
The amount of loan thus called for is as
follows : Five-ten loan, act of February
2, 1807, 434,850; Chambersburg certifi
cates, act May 27, 1871, 73,108 20. To
tal, $508,018 20. Exceeding by 72,485 IS
the present available balance in the Sink
ing Fund. The redemption of loans for
the present fiscal year will exceed fourteen
hundred thousand dollars, and exhaust all
the loan of the Commonwealth now due, 'or
which can be reached at the option of the
State by the present Board of Commission
ers. Before the adjournment of the board
Mr. Mackcy voluntarily submitted a detail
ed statement of the condition of the Trea
sury, with a list of depositaries of the
State funds, including the sinking fund,
supported by proper vouchers, with a re
quest that the board should examine and
verify it, which was done.
THE CLOG IN THE SINKING FUND.
The State Treasurer, Auditor General
and Secretary of the Commonwealth, com
posing the Board of Commissioners of the
Sinking Fund, met yesterday at the capitol,
and having in conformity with law applied
the entire balance in the Sinking Fund
lo the payment of the public debt," trans
scended the requirements of the law by
calling in and stopping interest, after the
first day of November next, upon the sum
of 75,000 of State indebtedness, for the re
demption of which the Sinking Fund was
not in immediate condition, relying pro
bably upon the receipts of the next two
mouths to provide for its payment
The debt thus called for redemption,
amounting to 9503,018 20, includes all the
indebtedness of the Commonwealth which
has matured, or will mature, before 1877.
The Sinking Fund Commission is thus
brought to a dead halt in its operations.
The Commissioners cannot go into open
market to purchase the State Loan at a
premium nor can they stop interest upon
any portion of it until it becomes due in
1877. Until legislation is had to provide
for the difficulty the Commission is power
less ; aud in the meantime what is to be
come of the Democratic clamor over the
mismanagement of the Sinking Fund ?
How can it be' mismanaged when it cannot
be managed at all ?
With three months yet intervening pre
vious to the Gubernatorial election, this ac
tion of the Commissioners, virtually taking
the Sinking Fund question out of the can
vass, is unjustifiable and intolerable, aud
upon the part of Auditor General Temple
6imply inexplicable. He will be called to
answer at the bar of his party for this ill
advised destruction of half its stock in
trade for the present campaign.
Formerly the Commission was empower
ed to purchase the loan of the State at its
current price in oien market, but the
practice was believed to enure rather to
the profit of the Treasurer lhau of the
Commonwealth ; and the enabling statute
was accordingly repealed. Its re-enactment
would seem necessary to prevent a
glut in the Sinking Fund, unless the Leg
islature shall sec proper, relieving the State
Treasurer aud his sureties, to loan out the
public funds to the highest bidders.
The State loan is held at a premium of
from 4 to 9 per cent and is ne ver present
ed for payment until the holders are forced
to come in by the stoppago of the interest
upon their bonds.
Appcpded is a schedule of the loan of the
State, for which no provision has yet been
made, showing the amount and date of
maturity of each :
Act May 4, 1852, due August 1,
1877, 3,207,500
Act April 10, 184J, due April 10,
1879, 400,000
Act April 19, 1853, due August
1, 1878, 273,000
Act April 2, 1S52, due July 1,
1882, 482,000
Act February 2, 1W7, due Feb
ruary 1, 1877, 7.9S0.950
tAct February 2, 1S07, due Feb
ruary 1, 1SK2. 9,995.800
Act April 3, 1872, due April 3,
1922, 500,000
22,899,250
Due in 1882, payable at the option of
the State after February 1, 1877.
tDue in 1892, payable at the option of
the State after Febuary 1, 1882.
Drunkenness. A correspondent of the
Philadelphia 77hm thus discourses on
drunkenue6s, which it truly designates as
a crime, as it certainly is against society.
''Drunkenness is a crime and should be so
treated. Society has a right to protection
against threatened danger. A drunken
man should be arrested wherever found
and punished for being diunk, without
waitiug until he shall have done mischief.
It would be a wholesome practice if every
man found drunk should be imprisoned
one month for the first offence, two months
for the second, aud so increasing the period
of confinement for every repetition of the
offense. Iu addition to that, the dealer
who sold the liquor should be compelled to
pay the drunkard's board while in prison,
and when there is need for it to support his
family during the same period. Such a
law faithfully enforced would put an end
to three-fourths of tho drunkenness which
now so widely prevails, and it would be an
effectual restraint upou the drinking cus
toms of the day, as no man could feel sure
of Ins personal liberty after having once
put to his lips the intoxicating cup."
Some time ago Auditor General Temple
stated to a correspondent of a Democratic
paper that he would at an early day mako
an examination of the Treasurer's accounts
and if he found anything wrong the public
rhould know it. Well, Mr. Temple has
now examined the accounts, vouchers, safe
and banks ; will he keep his promise ?
Let the public hear from the Democratic
Auditor General. We believe he intends
to be honest ; we are not of the class who
believe that when a man becomes a public
officer he necessarily becomes a rogue.
We also believe he intends to do his duty,
regardless of newspaper clamor. Let him
speak out ; now is his opportunity. llar
rixlurg Telegraph.
The Grand Jury of Lycoming county
have indicted the street railway track in
Williarasport as a nuisaiir-p.
The Oregon Democracy have taken- is
sue with the Ohio Democrats, on mone
tary and other questions. They have also
nominated a son of Jim Lane, of fragrant
memory, for Congress. They seem to have
started out for a vigorous campaign.
Gerdemann's lecture in Philadelphia
on Wednesday night of last week upon the
Catholic Church, of which he was but late
ly a priest, was full of striking facts, al
though many of them were not revelations,
the public has heard of them before. The
following is new and suggestive :
"When I saw the parades on St Pat
rick's day in '73 and '74 I was slauuiug
alongside of Bishop Wood in the second
story of his residence. How delighted he
was with the display of their great num
bers! "That will show the American's
how many voters we have now, aud how
many fighting men wc will command when
the fi:ht commences, and commence it will
on the school question,' he said repeated-
iy."
Who May Vote. It is well to remind
our readers that, under the new Cons titu
tign, every person offering to vote must
show :
1. That he has been a citizen of the
United States at least ono month. This
will cut offall persons naturalized after the
3d day of October in the present year.
2. That he has resided in the Slate a
year, or, if formerly a resident and remov
ed there from, shall have returned six
months preceding the election. This is
the same provision that prevailed in the
old Constitution.
3. That he has resided in the election
district where he offers to vote at least two
months immediately before the election.
4. That he has, within two years and at
least a month before the election, paid a
Slate or county tax assessed nt least two
mouths prior to the election.
Let no man move from one ward or dis
trict immediately before the election und
expect to vote.
Odd Fellows at the Centennial.
A meeting of members of the different
Philadelphia Encampments of the Inde
pendent Order of Odd Fellows was recent
ly held, in view of the Centennial celebra
tion, and of the determination of the order
to participate therein, to form a Battalion
of Encampment members, to be equipped
and uniformed in accordance with the re
gulations of the Grand Lodge of the United
States for public occasions. Encampment
members, who wish to join the battalion,
were requested to hand their names to the
Grand Scribe.
Sea Lions in Fairmount Park. At
a very great expense the Directors of the
Zoological Garden, at Philadelphia, have
procured from the Northern Pacific Ocean
four very fine specimens of the seo lions,
consisting ot two bulls, one cow and calf.
It is an interesting sight to see the latter
in the water or on its mother's back.
These animals are for the present in large
tauks, which have been temporarily con
structed for their accommodation until the
elegant permanent houee for them which
is in contemplation shall be prepared. .
Life at Niagara. The confusions at
the Clinton House, Niagara, where only
newly-married people are accommodated,
are frequent and often ridiculous. One
evening when tho moon was not doing very
well a score of ladies were sitting together
on the balcony chatting and apparently
waiting for something. A young mau ap
peared aud said tremblingly, "Come, dar
ling." All immediately rose and prepared
to go, where only one was wanted. . Things
soon got right, and the ladies who were
still on the balcony said, "How absurd of
a man to call his wife in that way."
The Commissioners of the sinking Fund
met at Harrisburg yesterday. The State
Treasurer showed the balance in the sink
ing fund to be 435, 533.08. Upon receipt
of this information the Commissioner or
dered that the balance of the 5-10 loan,
amounting to 434,850, and the Chambers
burg certificats, issued under the act of
May 27, 1871. amounted to 73,108-20, bo
called in. Treasurer Mackey voluntarily
submitted a detailed statement of the con
dition of the Treasury, which the Commie,
sioners examined and verified.
Heavy storms prevailed on Sunday aud
Monday throughout the upper Ohio valley
the lower lake regiou and from New Eng
land to North Carolina and Tennessee.
The already swollen rivers in Ohio, Mis
souri, I udiana aud Tennessee rose rapidly
in some places overflowing their banks aud
spreading their waters ov er the surround
ing country. Railroads have been sub
merged and washed out, bridges swept
away, and travel in some Hues brought to
a standstill. Crops have suffered terribly,
and the end is not yet.
Europe. On Monday the French Na
tional Assembly passed the great Tunnel
bill. It also passed the bill constituting a
Senate. The rebellion in Herzegovina
against the Turkish Government has as
sumed threatening proportions.
Mr. Moody addressed an audience of
30,000 at Wrexham, Eugland, on Sunday
last Messrs. Moody aud Sankey are
about to return to the Uuited States.
Kentucky Election. The annual
election was held in Kentucky on Monday,
and resulted of course iu the success of the
Conservative or Democratic ticket The
candidate for Governor has a large majori
ty, and the Legislature is nearly entirely
Democratic.
The employing printers and publishers
of Washington and the uuion journeymen
have set an example that might be followed
with profit by labor and capital elsewhere.
The employers declined any longer to be
bound by the rules of the union, aud gave
the journeymen their choice of leaving the
union or seeking work elsewhere. That
was all there was of it Non-uniou men
will take the places of the union men with
out fear of broken heads. This is the way
the intelligent men of an honorable craft
do their striking.
There are now nine cheese factories in
operation in Potter couuty, aud all of them
dain g well. The one in ltoulet was star
ted last, and is probably receiving less
milk than either of the others, and yet it
Is making 300 pounds per day, which at the
rate of 11 cents per pound, is worth 33.
Tho nine factories will average 500 pounds
of cheese daily, which is 4,500 pouuds for
tho county, aud worth, atll cents per
pouud 495 , or 3'4G5 a week.
A novel and difficult feat was performed
in Detroit, last week. It was that of a
man stauding on the head of a common
barrel and turning around for twenty-four
hours without auy intermission. He com
menced his task at 6 o'clock on Friday
evening and completed it at 6 o'clock on
Saturday evening, and was, during the
whole time, watched by two men, who re
lieved each other at entervals of six hours.
Hereafter the Prussion Government will
levy a tax on beer and ou stock operations,
in order to meet a deficit of $5,000,000 in
the annual budget.
Sndden ' Death of Ex-PreNident
Johnson.
" Chattanoooa, July 31.
The death of Andrew Johnson at 2:30
this morning is now confirmed. He de
sired that his winding sheet be the flag of,
his country.
Andrew Johnson was bom September 29,
1808, in Raleigh, North Carolina. Having
lost his father at an early age, and his
family being in indigent circumstances, he
was apprenticed to a tailor ten years of
age, whom he served seven years. During
his apprenticeship he exhibited great anxie
ty to educate himself. A gentleman was
In the habit of reading to the apprentices
from a volume of speeches of British states
men, lo equal whom as a reader was his
first ambition. A journeyman assisted
bini in acquiring a knowledge of the alpha
bet and spelling. By perseverance he soon
learned to read and devoted his spare hours
to the acquisition of knowledge. At tho
close of his apprenticeship he worked in
differeut places for three years, and return
ed to Greenyillc.bis mother's home and mar
ried, and about a year subsequently com
menced business for himself. Under the
instructions of his wife he acquired a bet
ter education. His fir9t office was alder
man of the village, to which he was re
elected twice. Iu 1830 he wa3 chosen
Mayor, which he held three years. In 1835
he was elected to the Legislature, where be
opposed a scheme for internal improve
ments, predicting failure and the entail
ment of a burdensome debt. The measure
being popular he was defeated at the next
election. In 1839 he was again elected,
many of the evils he predicted four years
before having been realized. In 1840 he
served as a presidential elector on the De
mocratic ticket, canvassing the Slate iu
joint meetings with Whig orators. Iu 1841
he was elected to the State Senate. In
1843 he was elected to Congress, where he
served successively for ten years. During
this time he advocated the refunding of the
fine imposed upon Jackson at New Orleans,
the annexation of Texas, the tariff of 1840,
and the homestead hill. In 1S53 lie was
elected Governor of Tennessee, and again
in 1855. Iu 1S57 he was elected to the
United States Senate, and in 18C1 when
the war broke out he was fouud among the
few Democratic Senators and represents
tives from the South on the side of his
country and against secession. He served
out his terra, and in 18G3 he was appointed
by President Lincoln Provisional Governor
of Tennessee. In 18G3 he was nominated
by the Republicans for Vice President and
elected. After the assassination of Lin
coin he became President, and at the com
mencement of bis administration was ex
tremely bitter towards rebels, but in a short
time changed his policy, and in the legisla
tion of Congress with respect to the South
ern Slates sided with the late rebels or
Conservatives. This caused a separation
from his Union friends, and the Democra
tic party adopted his policy. Iu 180S, he
supported Seymour for President, and af
ter the election of President Grant returned
to Tennessee, where he remained until last
winter, when he was again elected to the
United States Senate by the Democrats of
his State. He was the only ex-President
ever elected to that body. He was a man
of warm feelings sincere in his frindships,
houest in his convictions, and unimpeach
able in his iutcgrity. His errors, whatever
they may have been, were of the head, and
not of the heart His love of country was
with him an overpowering passion. His
last request was that his winding sheet
might be the flag of his couutry. Harris
bvrj Telegraph.
l'rorlamatlou by the lrrileiit.
Washington, July 31.
It becomes the painful duty of the Presi
dent to announce to the people of the Uni
ted States the death of Andrew Johnson,
the last survivor of his honored predeces
ors. which occurred in Carter county,
East Tennessee, ttbu a.rly hour this morn
iug. The solemnity of the occassion which
called him to the Presidency, with the var
ied nature and length of his puplic services
will cause him to be long remembered, and
occasion mourning for the death of a dis
tinguished public servant.
As a mark of respect for the memory of
the deceased, it is ordered that the Execu
tive Mansion and the several departments
of the government at Washington be drap-
in mourning until the close of the day de
signated foe his funeral, aud that all public
business be suspended ou that day.
It is further ordered that the War and
Navy Departments cause suitable honors
to be paid on the occasion to the memory
of the illustrious dead.
U. S. GRANT.
By the Presideut :
John L. Cadwalader,
Acting Secretary of State.
A New Lease of Life. The board of
pardons having recommended the respite
of Barney McCue, who was to have been
executed on Monday next, to allow an ap
plication for commutation of sentence
to imprisonment for life to be heard, gives
the unfortunate man a new lease of life for
at least two months more. The respite
was necessary in order to enable his frieuds
to comply with the law iu making applica
tion for the change ot sentence. His case
will now be heard at the September ses
sion of the board. It is probable that the
Governor, if he accepts the recommenda
tion, will recall the warrant for his execu
tion, now in the hands of the sheriff. And
if the board of pardons, after hearing the
application, should fail to grant the request
of the petitioners, anew warrant for bis
execution at some future time will be issued.
Williamsjiort Gazette t Bulletin.
Governor Curtin believes that the
Democrats will nominate William Bigler
governor, and Eli Slifer for treasurer, and
Curtin is in a position to know what the
Democracy will do in this respect. If Big
ler is put on the ticket there is a very
strong probability that the history of Clear
field disloyalty will be pretty fully written
up aud there are some things that
wouldn't stand so very much airing.- Wil
h'amsport Gazette A Bulletin.
Hardly had the death of Senator An
drew Johnson, of Tennessee, been announ
ced in Nashville, before the friends of Sen
atorial aspirants visited the Capital,
broaching Ihe question of the successor
ship to Governor Porter. Speculations
regarding the successorship are rife. The
names of ex-Goveruor John C. Brown,
Geueral W. B. Bate and ex-Governor Ish
am (J. Harris are mentioned iu connection
with it
Some idea may be formed of the immense
amount of money expended and labor em
ployed on the repairs at the Columbia dam
from the fact thaUlready 44.000 bolts and
twenty-five rafts have been used, and the
works will cost from three lo four hundred
thousand dollars. There is a small army
of men at work 140 working men from
the Columbia side and about a hundred
from the opposite.
CiEKi:KAL XEWS ITEMS.
The steamship Indiana, of the American
line, made the trip across the ocean in the
remarkably short time of eight days, nine
teen hours and thirty eight minutes.
Gen. Picket,. notorious for his participa
tion in the rebellion, died at Norfolk ou
Friday last, in the prime of life aged fifty
years.
Philadelphia!! is the luckv possessor
of a family carriage once the property of
George Washington.
A Pennsylvania man captured a rattle
snake and set about teaching it some
tricks. He was on the high road to success
when they had to bury him.
Since Brooklyn wives have got to sweet
ening their husband's tea with rat poison
the restaurauts of that city have been un
usually well patronised by bald-headed
men.
The Allentowus (Pa.) Herald says :
"Thirty-five years ago a young man pawn
ed a blanket to a Berks county farmer for
five dollars, and took Greeley's advice by
going West He returned last week from
California, worth a cool huudred thousand.
visited the farmer and redeemed that
blanket, which had been carefully put away
at the time it was received."
Children are dying in New York city at
the rate of one hundred per day. At this
rate of mortality the reduction of mortality
of the population of that city is only a
question of time.
Bigler is gaining every day in the race
for the Democratic gubernatorial nomina
tion, and even those Democrats who at the
start rediculed the idea of his caudidature
are now compelled to acknowledge that he
may win.
A thousand Hashes of lightning were
counted in an hour during the great storm
"on the 7th of July at Geneva, Switzerland.
The two men recently burned to death
in Boston were sleeping with seventy-four
others in a room eighty feet by twenty-five.
A San Francisco pugilist, who was
struck a hard blow on his head in a box
ing match, became insane, and died the
next day.
Five or six machiues for the manufac
ture of coal from coal dust are being man
ufactured at the Harrisburg foundry and
"machine works. They will be an imita
tion of that now iu use.
There's a hog in Chester county which
shakes apples off the trees in its owner's
orchard when there happens to be none on
the the ground ready for him. After this,
who will say that four-legged animals do
not reason ?
Out in Indiana the other day two hawks
yoked for a battlo in mid-air, and sunk
their talons so deep into each other that
they fell to the ground, where they were
picked up, still alive but inextricably fas
tened together.
Hugh Pitcairn, formerly supertendent of
the Susquehanna division of the Northern
Central Railroad, recently started for a six
months' tour through Europe.
The Vicksburg Monitor represents a
curious kind of people. It says : "The
people we represent propose to submit to
law, order and justice, not to courts.'
Who is to determine what is law and jus
tice, if not the courts ? Every man for him
self 1
Philadelphia has raised 1,500 for the
sufferers from the great floods in France.
A hoop snake, very rare in this section
was killed in Westmoreland county, last
week.
The Treasury Department has issued a
circular forbidding the importation of cat
tle, sheep and goats from Spain, in conse
quence of the prevalence of the hoof disease
in that couutry,
At the LaPierre house in Philadelphia, on
Saturday evening, the night porter and a
waiter quarreled in the kitchen, when the
latter killed the former by cutting him
with a knife.
Au impudent tramp entered a house
in Delcware county, where a girl was the
only one at home, and showed a disposition
to assail her. She seized a gun shot him in
the legs, which satisfied him
No space in the Centennial buildings
wil! be allotted to citizens of countries
whose governments have not appointed
commissions.
Word comes from Wilkesbarre that the
coal miners propose another strike.
Ground has been broken for the erection
of the government centennial building at
Philadelphia.
A Mr. Lockwood has patented in Europe
a process of condencing beer, by means of
which it may be transported to hot cli
mates. The latest novelty in scientific book
making is a treatise on all the woods or
forest trees of Euroye, illustrated by one
hundred and fifty specimens, sawed in
sections, of the woods themselves,
General E. Kirby Smith is now Chancel
lor of the State University of Nashville,
Tcnn., but thinks of leaving to become
professor of natural history in the univer
sity of the South at Sewanee.
A young man, iu Lancaster sent a dol
lar to a firm in New York who advertised
a receipt to prevent bad dreams. He re
ceived a small slip of paper, on which was
printed, "Don't go to sleep."
The big elephant at the Zoological Gar
den in Fairmount Park (the Empress) is
dead. She is said to be over one hundred
years old.
Since 1870, J. M. Blum has erected one
hundred and nine houses in Lykens, Wi-
coniscoand Wilhanistown, at an aggre
gate cost of 82,273 38. Of this number
sixty-five were built in Lykens. Jere
O'Nqill has erected sixty-two houses in
LykeGS and Wiconisco within two years at
a cost of 00,000.
An attempt was made to murder II. S.
Surdam, merchant, of Dushore, Sullivan
county, on the night of the 20th ult He
was waylaid by three men, who knocked
him down, beat him and threw him into
the creek. Their motive seems to have
been re venge, as Mr. Surdam bad a con
siderable sum of money on his person,
which was not taken. He is in a critical
condition.
Although the Prince of Wales has an
annual income of about 000,000, he is not
able to keep out of debt ; and as it is not
deemed expedient to ask of Parliament an
appropriation to square his accounts, it is
said the appropriation for his journey to
India has been made large enough for
him to hnve 400,000 left to apply to
wiping out the accouuts of his creditors.
It may be a very nice and ornamental
thing to have princes and princesses, and
all that sort of thing, but they are dread
fully expensive.
General Dodge, of Iowa, who was wan
ted so badly but couldn't be found during
the Credit Mobilier investigation, has been
heard from at last, and is said to be at
Council Bluffs fixing up Belknap for the
United States Senate. tt. Lmris Time.
Telegraphic News.
IROGIti:SS OFTIIK FLOODS.
Cincinnati, August 3. A special dis
patch from Chillicothe says the rains con
tinue and the flood gaius strength. The
canal broke below the city, and swept five
thousand bushels of wheat into the river.
People living in the bottom lands are mov
ing their families, fearing inundation. At
Ironton, the Ohio is raising five inches an
hour, and it is also rising rapidly here,
having already invaded the lower stories
of houses on Water street, and bidding
fair to go as high as ever known before.
A special despatch from New Albany,
Indiana, says trains on the New Albany
and Chicago Railroad were taken off to
day at Gosport. The track is covered by
the flood from the White river a distance
of three miles. A heavy force of men are
at woik trying to prevent the large railroad
bridge from floating away. The White
river at this point is twelve feet higher
than ever known before. Trains south
from Lafayette go no farther than Craw
fordsville, as the track has been washed
out in many places. A special dispatch
from Athens, Ohio, says that at midnight
the river attained the height of eight inch
es over the greatest elevation ever knowu
before. The gas works are flooded, and
the people have to return to candless.
The people of the asylum, across the valley
have built a boat, and ferry provisions
over, all other modes of communication be
ing destroyed. No trains are running on
any of the roadsjand no mails have arrived
since Saturday. In Central Illinois the
storms have done immence damage to the
bridges and railroads. The loss is estima
ted at 1,000,000 ; that of Morgan county
aloue is nearly 250,000.
A TERRIBLE BLOW TO INDIANA.
Lafayette, Ind., August 3. The
flood in the Wabash river is more than a
foot abovc-the high-water marks of 1858,
and several inches higher than ever before
since the settlement of the country. All
the tributaries have been running over
and the low ground is all overflowed,
Great suffering must result to the tenants
on the low land, whose all is swept away.
The destruction of the Wabash and the
Erie Canal between here and Fort Wayne
is complete. It i9 broken in a hundred
places. The canal and river have been on
a level for 48 hours, the water of the river
rushing through the latter, and running
over the banks, from one to the other at
all the low places. This will be a terrible
blow to the people of the State. It is im
possible to estimate accurately the acreage
! submerged.
THE WORST OVER ON THE MIAMI.
Dayton, Ohio, August 3. The Miami
and its tributaries have receded over four
feel and are running out rapidly. The
weather is still dismal and drizzling. The
small grains are all badly damagod. To
bacco is used up, potatoes are rotting, and
a narrow belt of corn is considerably dam
rged. The total damage in Montgomery
county to the crops and other property is
estimated at nan a minion dollars.
Communication by skiffs. .
Louisville, August 3. The New Al
bany and Chicago Railroad is much dam
aged between here and Battle Ground,
The other roads are all right The por
tion of the city located on the west bank
of the Wabash has been cut of for two
days by the high water oveJ flowing the
bridge cud the levees and com rouca tion
has only been kept open by skiffs. The
river has fallen about two and a half inch
es since seven this morning, aud is still
very slowly receding.
ARKANSAS NOW .THREATENED.
Little rock, August 3. The river
commenced rising about dark last night,
and continued to rise for several hours at
the rate of one foot per hour, until this
morning, and has risen slowly all day
Since last nisht the rise reaches over ten
feet It is now nineteen feet.' It is re
ported to be falling above.
DAMAGE IN WEST VIRGINIA.
Wheeling, West Virginia, August 3.
Wheeling Creek was higher yesterday
thau ever before known. The abutments
of the bridge two miles east of this city
were moved over a foot At all points
along Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, be
tween this city and Crafton, there has been
rreat destruction of property and loss of
grain. The town of Farmington is almost
compleatly submerged, the waterbeing on
the first floor of nearly all the houses.
number of heavy landsides on the railroad
and four bridges were carried away on the
Parkersburg branch of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad. The loss in stavee, dress
ed headings, logs, and barrels carried away
from the vicinity of New Martinsville in
this State will amount to over $100,000,
All the low lands in this section are sub
merged.
A Band of Robbers and Murderers.
A correspondent from Titusville, this
State, under date of July 30, writes to the
N. Y. 2'M'l(ne that a band of burglars had
been operating in south-western New York
having robbed a number of farmers ;and it
becoming too hot for them there, they had
come over into Pennsylvania, and are now
at work in the northern part of this State.
The correspondent says :
Their first operation this side of the line
was a murder and robbery. They killed
and threw upon the track of the Lake
Shore and Michagan Southern Railroad,
near Brockton, Mr. John Butler. Soon
after, an unknown man, supposed to be a
New York broktr, was brutallymurdered
and his body placed upon the embankment
of the Dunkirk and Warren Railroad near
the town of Warren. Reports have reach
ed here of burglaries, supposed to have
been committed by the same man, at Con
neautville, Meadville, Linesville, and Ven
ango. The whole country is becoming
alarmed, aud it is understood that unless
the local authorities act more determined
ly, the State authorities of New York and
Peunsy lvania will be called upon by the
people for protection.
Late last night five stories at Randolph,
New York, were broken into and re tied of
their entire couteute. The value of the
property is estimated at 50,000. It is be
lieved that the robbers rendezvous in the
neighborhood os Ellington, aud the people
are preparing au expedition to assault them
in their stroughold. They are apparently
not satisfied with invasions of private
rights, but Ihey have attempted to throw
trains from the Atlantic & Great Western
aud Allegheny Valley Railroads. In one
iustance the attempt was successful. The
railroad mauagcrs, headed by Superindent
David McCargo, of the last mentioned
road, have now employed a number of as
tute and experienced detectives to ferret
out and apprehend tho criminals. Me
Cargo has offored a reward of ?1,000 for
the arrest and conviction of the men who
tore the rail from tho track of his road,
which occasioned the disaster of a day or
two ago, by which a valuable locomotive
and several coaches were wrecked, besides
injuries sustained by several of the passengers.
Correspondence.
OUR MEW YORK LETTER.
FAILURES FINANCIAL TROUBLES FORD-
BEECHER MRS. TILTON TROUBLE
AMONG THE DEMOCRACY OBSCENE
LITERATURE THE WEATHER AND BU
SINESS. New York, August 3, 1875.
THE GREAT FAILURES.
Wednesday last the great banking-house
of Duncan, Sherman & Co.. one of the old
est and, supposed to be, soundest in the
city, closed its doors probably forever. Its
liabilities are a long way up into the mil
lions, and its assets a long way down in the
millions. Of course the wildest excitement
prevailed ; it was unexpected in fact no
house in the United States stood better or
was considered safer. What was the mat
ter with them ? Just what is the matter
with all banking houses that fail. Instead
of confining themselves to a legitimate
business they went heavily into stocks,
aud that not being enough to ruin them
they undertook to corner all the cotton in
the world, and not being big enough went
under. The failure produced such a sensa
tion in Wall Street such aa has not been
witnessed there since the Jay Cooke smash.
Old grey-haired men, young clerks, mer
chants, bankers, everybody, were rushing
frantically up and down the street, banks
were besieged for balances, stocks went
down with a run, and for an honr or two
it seemed as though all Wall Street was
crazy. Finally the excitement cooled, and
it was discovered that it wasn't much of a
shower after all. No more failures were
announced that day, and men slept tolera
bly well that night. But the next day the
Commercial Warehouse Company failed
for a million and a half, and the excitement
was renewed, and it is still raging.
What the upshot of it all will be remains
to be seen. Shrewd men are taking in sail
and going as close-reefed as possible.
Another weeding-out, such as occurred
after Jay Cooke's failure, is feared, for the
reason that since 1873 everybody has Teen
doing business at a loss ; but as money haa
been easily to get, any quantity of weak
houses have been able to conceal their
weakness and go on. To such, these heavy
failures that shake the Street are death.
For the moment the strings are tightened,
they can't get the credit they need, and up
they go. - Whether this is the beginning of
such a season or not iemains to be seen.
FORD-BEECHER.
But the failure that makes the most talk
is that ot J. B. Ford & Co., the publishers
of Beecher's books and of his paper
THE CHRISTIAN UNION.
They announce a "suspension," and
hold out a kind of vague promise to resume
insisting the while, that the great scandal
was made public the sale of Beecher's books
dropped to almost nothing, and it haa been
growing worse since. The firm had an im
mense amount of money locked up in the
first volume of "The Life of Christ," and
as tbey could'nt get it out, down they
went
. Everybody connected with this matter
hadlroublff xcept.Beecher. ne is as
serene aa a May morning ; his salary haa
been raised to $100,000 per year ; his fol
lowers accompany him to the .. depot in
droves ; big ovations are being given him,
and all sorts of pleasant things are shower
ed upon him. In the meantime, Mrs. Til
ton is about to open a boarding-house, and
J. B. Ford & Co. fail, nenry Ward ought
to come to the relief of both of them. He
ought to buy all of his books that Ford &
Co. have on hand and give them to Mrs.
Tilton, who could, doubtless, dispose of
them for something. That would let them
both out of the trouble he plunged them
into. But I guess he won't do it Speak
ing of
MRS. TILTON,
something ought to be done for her. If
Beecher is innocent of course she is ; but
for all that the trial has ruined her. She
has never a penny to bless herself with, and
the scandal has barred her from almost
every employment she is fitted for. Theo
dore is even poorer than she, for he had
nothing before the trial, and now he has
the enormous expenses attending that to
stagger under ; so he can't help her if he
would. It seems to me that Plymouth
Church should stand by her in her trouble .
as it has by its pastor. The church is rich,
and to give this helpless woman a moderate
support for herself and children would not
be a serious burden.
IN THE DEMOCRATIC CAMP
there is trouble of a very serious nature.
The ruling powers in Tammany have made
war upon John Morrisey, and have the ex
pugilist, at present writing, fairly down,
though faro John is making a vigorous
effort to get np again. It is said that this
movement Is to pave the way for Tweed to
again take the reins. The old man is con
fident of getting his liberty in a very short
time, and once at liberty he has followers
enough to take possession of Tammany,
and consequently the city. If this happens
what a day of reckoning there will be. All
the Democrats who went back on the Boss
to save themselves at the time the reform
movement commenced, will be held to a
strict account all the shysters now in
office, who, supposing him dead, gave him
the cold shoulder, will be slaughtered with
out mercy, and the Tammany Republicans
who joined in the hue and cry against him,
will wish they had never been born. Tweed
has a long memory and sharp claws. Those
who are in the secrets of political matters
in the city assert, that once let the Boss set
his ponderous foot on the pavements of
New York, a freeman, he can rally a
stronger party to his support than ever.
The lower classes of the Democracy remem
ber his open-banded generosity, and they
love him better than ever, for they consider
him a -martyr.
There will be fun when he comes out of
Ludlow street Jail.
OBSCENE LITERATTJ.
Anthony Comstock, the agent of the
Young Men's Christian Association, is as
vigilant as ever in the work of suppressing
the sale of obscene literature. He made
two arrests yesterday, and clapped two
miserable hounds in jail. But few people
have an idea of the extent to which this
horrible business is carried on. There are
large establishments run by steam eugaged
in printing obscene books there are houses
with large capital employed in importing
them, and in numberless attics small
presses are throwing off thousands each a
day of smut in the form of verses. They
are sold by unpriucipled booksellers on the
sly, and boys on the streets. Mr. Com
stock has undertaken to stop this nefarious
business, and he is at least making an im
pression on it. He has arrested over forty
retailers of filth and a score of manufactur
ers ; and he has compelled the publishers
of the flash papers to be at least decent in
their illustrations and reading matter. He
is doing a good work.
THE WEATHER.
is muggy, damp, hot and miserable. It
rains' every day just as easily as thongh
rain was the regular thing to do.. Of
course no one expects to do business, and
none whatever is being done. New York
is a fearfully sick place just now.
PIETRO.