y v Dunbar j mtricaiu M. B. HASSER E. WILTERT. Editors. SUXBUEY, OCTOBER 1, 1875. Republican Stat TleVet. rOR GOVERNOR : GEN. JOHN F. HARTRANFT, Of Montgomery County, FOB STATS TRK18CBEB : RON. HENRY KAWLE, Of Erie. REPUBLICAN COUSTY TICKET. FOB BHKRrFF, J. H. ADAMS, of Shamokin. FOS FKOTHONOTIRr, LLOTD T. ROHRBACn, of Sunbnry. TOK TBSA8UKEB, IT. J. REN N, of Zerbe twp. FOB COMMI8MOSEOS, J. O. DURHAM, of Delaware twp, II. E. MAL1CK, of Lower Augusta twp. FOR AUDITORS, J. E. MUENCTI, of ShamoUn twp, - SAMUEL McNINClI of Chillisqunque twp. FOB COBONER, URIAH SOBER, of Sbamokta. Election, Tuesday, Xovember 2nd. GOV. IIABTRFT AJIO(J THE MIXERN. Got. Hartranft paid a visit to the min ing districts of Luzerne county last week, and was very enthusiastically welcomed by the miners and other citizens. A cor respondent of the Philadelphia Press gives the following account of the Governor's re ception at different points : The visit of Governor ITarlranft io the coai regions has been attended with auch cordial demonstrations on the part of the people as to pror beyond a doubt the sat isfaction of the masses In bis Administra tion. To be sure, a Governor does not visit thi mountain region every day. An occurrence of such moment is calculated to stimulate the curiosity of the public, and may have caused, in part, the rush of visi tors to the Central Hotel Friday evening, but it was apparent to an observer at the reception that it was not curiosity alone that brought out the crowd, but admira tion for the man.. Men of all shades of political opinions were there, and the gen eral desire for a personal introduction indi cated an absence of all partisan feeling, but rather the presence of sentiments that ex ist only where the official, by reason of his temperate course, personal virtues, and impartial execution of the laws, disarms all opposition, and forces words of com mendation from the strongest adherents of rival candidates. The firm policy pur sued by Governor Hartranft during the troubles in the coal regions list spring seems to have strengthened his position and commanded the respect of all classes. The demonstration at Upper Lehigh was very significant. The Governor arrived there at noon, and the miners, coming out of the mines for dinner, paid their respects to his Excellency. Dirty and all blackened with coal as they were, these laboring men crowded to the hotel and insisted on the freeman's right of shaking hands with the Governor. The latter is said to have en joyed the enterview, although the close of the ceremony left him with a hand as sooty in appearance as that of the dirtiest minor in the crowd ; but then I will guarantee he had none but hearty shakes, such as come from honest men who are not disposed to betray with a Judas kiss. The whole trip from Upper Lehigh was attended with de monstrations of the most gratifying char acter. There had bei-n no effort to arouse any enthusiasm and the visit of the Gover nor being known to but few until within a ft-w hur of his arrival, the ovation was sxujtaTieous and without premeditation. Frid iv t-wniii the Governor was the re cipient of a -rcnitdo, and in response to calis fr a n;-v?.-h too': occasion to express gr ilifioati .r. tviih visit and the reccp li tn given him. referring als to the pica mv Of i..r:ti z -ny friends who had accoiinJ iiiru iu :i.e campaignof the late war. While tl." coal regions are re cognized a -nun-ratio strongholds, and the o-miinatiou of Judse Pershing, of Schuylkill, was made with the expectation of weakening the lfcepublican vote on the claims made for his being a workingman's candidate, still I believe that next Novem ber will not see a diminution of the Repub lican vote iu the county, but rather predict as hearty a support for Hartranft as at the last Gubernatorial election. The All-Day City Item, of Philadelphia 6ays : "The citizens of Pennsylvania will be glad to hear that the prospect brightens daily for the nomination of Mr. Packer as Pre?idestial candidate of the Republican patty. The organization will honor itself if it honors him." We clip the above, and while we lay no special claims to naming presidents yet we do bslieve that the Republican party could select no man that would so entirely meet with the endorsement of the masses as JohnB. Packer. If Pennsylvania is de batable ground let thejational Republican Convention uominaic him for the Presi dency and najBin in the Stale will qucs the r-ftllt in the old Keyetone. Thi9 jfvpularTTy is not evanescent, dui Deing 'Tuilt on a substantial basis is steadily growing uulil to-day few men are so much beloved and trusted by the people irrespec tive of party a Mr. Tacke r. He has stead ily developed until his reputation has spread beyond his district and become national. Ia view of the fact that Pennsylvania should receive recogaition as one of the leading states in the Union her representa tives should present the name of John R. Packer to the next Republican National Convention and accompany the presenta tion with the assurance that Pennsylvania will respond with such an outbreak of en thusiasm that will ensure victory to the party throughout the nation in '70. Lloomsbvrg Republican-. Sever did the Republican utter more truthful words than the above. The Iiemorratic shysters who have forced Lliemaclvca Into the chief places of te Order are demagogues of the meanest 'mrt, and have joined the organization ly to promote their own selflsh and am bitions purposes. That they will try to turn the machinery of the Order to their own base political uses cannot be denied ; but their are Republicans enough In It to thwart their plann, and the good sense of the cleai-headed men who really have the tbjta of the organization at heart will be K-rciHcri to save it from the profanation io which 1'iolletand his crew would sub ject . A lii-ndy there arc indications that j l 0 through his neheuies, and it is not j iujroble tint they wilt invite him to j ri-Kign his f lace the lecturer of the ; The Catholic Hiurr-h at Tcmoct, la Schuylkill oounly. wa destroyed f-n Vu-: wiiT-vernu'' by an incendiary fire. The Pennsylvania Railroad Coh pany as a Political Power in our State. Is it not about time that the peo ple of this commonwealth should teach the Pennsylvania Railroad Company that It must keep its hands out of our politics ? That company has for years been exercis ing an undue influence on our legislature and in the selection of our officials. .It solected John Scott, a Republican, and Wm. A. Wallace, a Democrat, to the U. S. Senate, and its present design is to have the Governor of the State in the person of Cyrus L. Pershing. Mr. Pershing was the Company's attorney in Cambria county, and when in the Legislature was the Com pany's representative, instead of the peo ple's just as he would be the Company's Governor, instead of the Governor for the people. The Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany through Col McClure, who has long furnished much of the brains for the Com pany's political manipulations, brought about Pershing's nomination at Erie. To show this, it is only necessary to read this despatch to the Erie convention, and re member how quickly the intimations in it were acted upon : Philadelphia, Sept. 9, 1875. "If the Democrats have any sense, they will nominate Pershing. His action yes terday would make him invincible. , M'Clure." That the Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany knows its man is shown by Per shing's fidelity to the interests of the com pany when in the Legislature a fidelity that made hira forget his duty to the peo ple. In 1SG3 he voted against the passage of the act to prohibit corporations paying their employees in orders upon stores. (See House Journal, pages 70G-797.) In 1803, he voted for the passage of a law to make employees of Railroad coni pames(instead of the companies themselves) responsible for accidents. (See House Journal, pages C19-620.) In 1862, he voted against repealing the Act releasing the Pennsylvania Railroad Company from payment of tonnage tax. (See House Journal, page 558.) Iu 18G2, he voted for the Act giving the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad Company power to construct branches without limit or restriction. (See House Journal, pnge 582.) When the question of such yilal impor tance to the tax-payers of Pennsylvania as the abolition of all State tax on the farms and homes of our people, and the taxation of corporations in their stead, was voted on in 1800, Cyrus L. Pershing, true to his subserviency to the corporations, dodged the vote, and failed to place himself on the record on the side of the people. Is this the kind of a man the people want for the Governor? Remember all we have staled in regard to him is taken from the records of the State, and can't be denied. Lebrnon Conner. The Republican Tarty and the Mate Finance. The Republican party came into power in Pennsylvania in 1801. The debt of the State at that time was S37,9G4,G02 02. Of this amount $20,102,274 40 was overdua, and the holders were clamorous for pay menL A considerable portion of debt was for interest, which, the State being unable to pay when due, had funded. To the cre ditors the answer of the State had been that she was without funds to pay, and they were remediless. It is true that un der Governor Bigler a proposition was made to compound our overdue indebted ness by giving new bonds, but the creditors declined any new obligation of a debtor that had given so little evideucc of its in tegrity. With this effort ceased all attempt to take care of our maturing obligations or relieve our credit. Such was the condi tion of our fiu a dcc-s and crmiu u teoi, wMfcn the rebellion, with the enormous sue rifices required for its suppression, rose in the. face of the young party just installed in place, and we were called upon to raise $3,000,000 to equip the defeuders of our firesides. No one wanted our loan Tim English, already heavily our creditors, mindful of our continued default, and sym pathizing with the South, refused to leud us a dollar. Our own citizens were p pealed to iudividually witho 'e results. Finally, bv a united action of our banks, the loan wa ubsenbed, as a matter of pa triotic duty, not of profit. Such was Penn sylvania credit in 1801. Lookiug to-day over the stock list where our securities are quoted at from ten to fifteen per cent premium, some of us re member the days when the Democracy had dragged us so far in the mire of dishon or that the strongest comparison which could be made of a discredited government was to liken her her to Pennsylvania, and when our Stale Loan was selling at from thirty cents to seventy-five cents on the dollar. With this starting point. What has the Republican rule of fourteen years given us? We have been subjected during that period to the extraordinary expenses of the war. We had to raise and equip an army, to support and educate the children of our soldiers who died in our defense, and to contribute our shaio to the direct tax levied by the General Government all in addi tion to what the Democratic party had been- called upon in previous years to pro vide for. We paid during the last fourteen years for extraordinary expenses occasion ed by the war ; Education and support of Sol diers' Orphans $3,077,000 Direct U. S. Tax, 1,900,000 For Rebel depredations in bor der counties, 900,000 Military expenses, 1,600,000 Total, $8,377,000 An amouut more than sufficient to pay the ordinary experts of carrying on the State Government for two years. Rut for these extraordinary necessities the public debt would have been less by that than its pre sent amount ; and the reduction during the fourteen years of Republican rule would have exhibited a total of twenty-two and a-half instead of fourteen millions. And this was done without stinting uecessary appropriations. The reports of the Audi tor Geucral show that our State charities were maintained, during these years, with a liberality never before equalled, and that, while the appropriations for Common Schools during the seven years previous to 1BG1, amounted in all to 1,215,020 or an average of 175,575 per annum, they have amounted during the last fourteen years to the sum of $0,577,190, an average of $170, 000 per annum, or 2 times the amount of the average annual appropriation under Democrat rule. This amount of $0,577, 190) does not include the sum of $3,977,000 expended during the same term for the education of Soldiers' Orphans. Xor were these results accomplished by taxing the labor of the Commonwealth. Though the Democratic party had always pretended a concern for the welfare of the laboring man, it never made an effort to relieve him from taxation. On the other hand, while assuming an inveterate hostili ty to corporate projterty, they permitted it logo fre or nearly free. l was in fact entirely ,rc!;eyei of Jocul fat. Bud paid but about of one per cent, of State tax, while real estate was permitted to bear all local taxation and the same State tax as corpor ations. The Republican party accom plished its financial successes by apportion ing taxes equitably among all classes of pro perty by an honest collection of the reve nue, aad by restricting expenditures rigid ly within the limitations of the Constitu tion. By an inflexible adherence to these priciples in 1800 they found themselves in condition to reduce taxation, and selected as the object of the reduction the overbur dened real estate of the Commonwealth. The proposition for its relief was at war with all Democratic Vleas of finanee, and aroused in that party in the Legislature a determination to defeat the measure. But a resolute Republican majority forced it through Senate and House and a Republi can Governor promptly gavt it his signa ture. The amouut saved sinee that time to the land owners of Vae Stale has exceed ed eleven millions of dollars. The gam to each county may be ascertained by a com parison of its annual statements of expenditures, published in the county newspapers since 18uG, with the state ments of previous years. It is a fact cf which we have reason to be proud that ours is the only State Government tint does not tax its real estate for its support. Xor axe other interests unduly taxed that real estate may escape. In New York and New Jersey capital is taxed as a whole far more heavily that in Pennsylvania, We differ from them in this, that we have adopted a system whereby revenues are collected without expense, whilst our neighbors raaiutain an army of officehold ers for their collection, by whom the gross levy is shorn of its proportions before it reaches the State Treasury, In addition to what we have already stated the Republican party took up our entire overdue indebtedness, paid every creditor his claim and placed our debt in a position for systematic redemption. The funds for this purpose were raised by plac ing upon the market a currency loan (the Democratic party, and notably its present candidate for Governor having claimed that the overdue indebtedness was payable principle and interest, in gold), which was given out to the highest bidder upon due and public notice. The improvement wrought in our credit by six years of Re publican administration is fittingly illus trated by the fact that of twenty-three mil lions of the overdue indebtedness eighteen millions were held iu foreign countries, while of the new loan twenty millions were purchased by residents of Pennsylvania, and to day the debt of this Slate is far more largely held by her own citizens than that of any State of the Union. The debt of the Commonwealth January 1, 1801, was as follows : Gyerdue, 320,102,274 4G 77,900 00 1,021,693 05 181,200 00 2,930.274 32 1,563.435 70 2.310,773 78 1,774.538 55 4,000,000 00 428.000 00 400.000 00 8(50.000 00 404,507 30 37,904,002 02 Falling due in 1SG1 Falling due in 1802, Falling due in 1803, Falling due in 1804, Falling due in 1805, Falling due in 180S, Falling due in 1870, Falling due in 1877, Falling due iu 1878, Falling due in 1S79, Falling due in 1882, Other lorns, Total, Total debt, De cember 1st, 1874, was 24,508,035 37 Reduction in 1875, 1,200,000 00 23,358,635 37 Reduction under Republican Rule, 14,595,9GG C5 The distinguishing features of the admin istration of our finauces under Democratic and under Republican rule may be con trasted as follows ; Under TJemocratlc rule 1. Default in the payment of interest upon our loan. A habitual funding of our interest by the issue of new bonds, thus compounding it. 2. Default in the payment of the princi pal '.four debt, ul maturity to tlie amount of $20,102,274 00. 3. A deficiency of revenue to meet ex penses amounting to $9,000,000. 4. Less than one-half enough appropria. ted to the support of our common schools to keep them open three months annually. 5. An annual tax upon real estate of $1,300,000 00. 6. Impaired credit our loan selling far below par. Under Republican'rule 1. Our overdue loan paid off. 2. Punctual payment of all our obliga tions, principal and interest, at maturity, from the current receipts of our revenue. 4. The United States direct tax upon our citizens assumed and paid from the Treasury. 4. The children of our fallen heroes sup ported and educated. 5. Our public school system defended from insidious attack and placed upon a most liberal foundation. C. The tax upon real estate abolished. 7. The principal of the public debt re duced fourteen millions of dollars. The Republican party has paid : For Military expenses during the war, $1,600,000 Direct U. S. Tax, 1,900,000 For support of soldiers' or phans, 3,077,000 Fer Chambersburg and the raided borders, 900,000 For reduction of the Slate debt, 14,000,000 For maintenance of public schools in excess of what was paid in the same time under Democratic rule, 4,000,000 $20,377,000 And since 1800 has saved to the lund-holders of the State by repeal of real es tate tax. 11,000,000 Total, Against which $37,377,000 Democratic rule can show nothing. By their fruits let the contending par ties be judged. ----- The Odd Fellows. The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of the United Slates met last week in Indianapolis, Grand Sire Dur ham, of Kentucky, presiding. Represen tative were present from all the Grand Lodge in the United Slates and from Can ada and the Sand which Islands. The re port of the Grand Sire showed that lodges were teing instituted "at all important points in the republic of Switzerland ;" that a Grand Lodge and five subordinate lodges have been established in Perue and Chili, and that the Order is rapidly increas ing in the Sandwich Islands and in Aus tralia. R. II. Morrison, of Michigan, has appointed special deputy to establish the Order in Great Britain. The Grand Secre tary's report showed that the number of Grand Encamppienls and Lodges report ing was 48 ; Subordinate Encampment, 1630 ; Subordinate Lodges, 5987 ; Lodge members, 438,701 ; Encampment mem bers, 83,445. In the afternoon, the Grand I)dgo was formally received at the Academy of Music, where addresses of welcome where made by Governor Hen drisks, Mayor Caven, Senator Morton and eT-Vice President Colfav. The Grangers. There can be no doubt that the Democratic politicians of this State seized hold of the Granger move ment, when it first began, and have been laboring ever since to control it in the in terest of their party. They have, by their usual trickery and chicanery, managed to worm themselves into the chief offices of the Order, aud their hope now is that the members will follow the lead of the officers. In this they will find themselves mistak en. The first principle of the Order is that it is not political, and must uot be used for political purposes. Its members are perfectly free, so far as their society obliga tions go, to vote as they please ; and expe rience has sho wn that wherever an attempt has been made to use their Order, politi cally, they have resented it as an affront, and voted against their own brethern who assumed to profit politically by their con ncclion with them. An instance of this was given in Brad ford county last year, where there are fifty Grangers. The Republicans of that coun ty were tempted into nominating several Grangers upon their county ticket; and the object of doing 83 was so plain that the Grangers, almost en nicue, voted against a ticket which seemed to imply that they could be used for the benefit of any party that would tako up its men for office. The future prosperity of the Grange de Vends upon its maintenance of an attitude political neutrality. If it once becomes an established fact that the Order is a mere political machiue, it will instantly become odious, and its usefulness will be forever thereafter destroyed. A Few Votes from the Legislative Record of Cyrcs L. Pfrshino, Dem ocratic Candidate for Governor. it is cimrr.ea mat jut. rersing gave a cordial support to the government in the late war. Read the following, and ask yourself if they were the voles of a loyal and patriotic man ? Voted for Resolution declaring- the Emancipation Proclaration unconstitution al, and the President's acts arbitrary. See Journal House of Representatives of Penn sylvania, 1803, page 887. Voted azainst ratifying the amendment to the Constitution, abolishing Slaver. See Legislative Record, 1804, page 918. Noted against the passage of Act of Aug. 25, 1804, (P. L. page 990.) giving the soldier the right to vote. Ste Legislative Record. 1804, page 1330. Opposed the passage of Act of May 3d, 1804, (P. L. page 732.) providing of the payment of the interest on the State debt in legal tendor notes, instead of specie. He also took the position that the United States Legal Tender Act is unconstitutional. Sec his remarks on tltis subject, in Legislative Record for 1804, page 140, Ac, The significance of this opposition con sisted in the fact that gold at that date commaoded a premium of nearly 100 per cent. It is alleged that Mr. Pershing is the friend of the Working Man. Let men who toil for bread, examine the fo.lowing votes, and determine for themselves whethar thesD are in the interest of the laboring classes. Voted against passage of Act to prohibit corporations paying their employees in orders upon stores. See Jlonse Journnl, 1803, pak.es 790-797 Voted for passage of Act to make emply ees of Railroad compaies responsible for accidents. See House Journal, lSGS.jages 019 620. The three following votes funhtr illu strate the attitude of Mr. Pershiny in the great contest between the corporations and the eopl. 7e icon not with Utsixople. Voted against repealing the Act of 7th Math, 1861, releasing the Pennsylvania Railroad Company from payment of ton nage tax. Ste House Journal, 1802, page 55S. Voted for the passage of an Act, giving the Philadulphia& Erie Railroad Company power to contract branches without limit or restriction. Set house Journal, 1800, page 583. Voted for the Repeal of the Charter of me l'lMttiuiri'li X Connellsville hailrond Coiupanyed. -See Legislative Record, 1804, paee 800 The following is of interest to every farmer and lot owner in Pennsylvania : Under. Democratic rule in Pennjlva ri. tiitr fariuris and House-holders paid $1,500,000 a year, of State tax, and the great corporations almost escaped taxation on their vast wealth. In 1800, the Repub lican party urged the repeal of all State tax on the farms and homes of our peoi.le, and the taxation of corporations in Umir toH Ctrus L. PERSHING "DODGED" the vole. ee iauiiitire Record, 1806, paze 231. The crowning impeachment of Mr. Per shing's claims to broad or decent States manship, is founded on the vote following. especially directed against a class of our citizens who were then helpless, and flee ing to our borders from their enraged op pressors. Voted for Bill to prohibit Negroes com ing into the Stale to make it their tem porary or permanent residence. See House Journal, page 510 and 547. A Terrible tragedy occurred at Ross ville, Pa., recently. A young gentleman and lady got married, contrary to the wishes of the father of the girl, who after reading the farewell letter his daughter left beh ind her, followed the newly married couple to the hotel where they were eating their weddiug dinner iu company with a few friends. The frenzied father attacked his daughter's husband fiercely with a knife. The latter, in or order to frighten the old man, and protect his own life, drew a revolver: The bride sprang between her husband and father just as the pis tol was accidently discharged, and, receiv ing a bullet in the brain, dropped dead upon the floor. The horrified husband sank upon his kness beside the form of the woman he loved so well, and called upon her in agonizing accents to look upon him. Finding, after a few seconds, that the spark of life had been extinguished in the form of his bride of an hour, the heart broken husband rose to his feet, and before those staudicg about the little group, awe stricken and terrified, realized his intention, he had sent a bullet into his own brain and his lifeless form fell beside that of bis dead wife. The father was so terrible shocked that he had to be led from the scene like a child. He was soon brought- to, however, by being arrested and placed under $2,000 bail to await the action of the grand jury. One of the encouraging signs of the times in Pennsylvania is the fact that, iu the counties where the Republicans were last year divided by local quarrels, there is now no indication of distraction. Delawrc county, which last year elected two Demo crats to the Legislature through a Repub lican split, in this year united upon one ticket, aud promises to give 1,800 majority for the State ticket. The same spirit rules in Lancaster, Crawford, Bradford and olher counties that have been distracted heretofore, and there is not now a single conty in the State iu which harmony does not prevail in the Rcpulican ranks. A good many rascals have been dicov ered in office under the Republican admin istration of public affairs, and been put out. As soon as they are out of office they join the Democratic party, become "refor mers," and industriously labor for another opportunity to steal. We desire to see the Republican party rid of all such cattle, and wish them a happy time of it with their new and congenial friends. GENERAL. NEWS ITEMS. They cure chicken cholera in Georgia by smoking the birds with pine tops, tar and feathers. A number of cattle have betn killed in Nicollet county, Minn., by getting into the sorghum fields. The coal trade is threatened with an un profitable wrangle between the great pro ducers, owing to a threatened overstocked market. The Fall River factorici will start up again next Monday, paying the wages of fered to the operatives befjre the late fool ish "vacation." The next gain of the population of Cali fornia by immigration during the first eight months of the present year is esti mated at eighty thousand- AnOhio congregation recently had their preacher on trial for merely saying "darn it to Texas" when he stumped his toe aud went heels over head into the mud. The order of Odd Fillowa in this coun try now embraces nearly half a million members, and last year expended $1,371, 314 tor the relief of beseficiaries. The govermcnt has accumulated bo large an imount of gold in California that it has been found necessary to transfer some of it east. Arrangements are now being made for tlat purpose. In Warwick county, Indiania, they ad mit widows to the fair grounds free of charge. By this itraiion of widows stock in that couuty.the value of an ordinary husband's life has depreciated fifty per cent. Alexauder II. Car of all the Ilussias, has auother granrson, the child of the Grand Duke Vladiuir. This latest scion of royalty is to Je. called His Imperial Highness, The Missouri Talley Poultry and Pet Stock Associatioi are making great pre parations to shov the vistors to the Cen tennial exhibition what the Missouri Val ley can do in fhe way of fine poultry, Kansas ac'ds silk-worm to her other ex portation. A few day ago two boxes of eggs worth at least $3,000 were shipped to France. The Liverpool emigration returns for August show a reduction of 0,124, while the total diminution in the year amounts to no less than 20,870. Topers are looking forward with the liveliest interest to the eclipse of to-mor row, which serves as an excuse for turning the bottoms of glasses upwards. Xne people ol tne JoloraUo alley in Texas are goiDg largely into the sugar growing business. Land and climate arc ! both admirably adapted to the purpose. The September report of the Department of Agriculture says of the corn crop: "Could it be thoroughly ripened its aggre gate would exceed any previous crop." It is estimated that the people of York have spent over $25,000 for excursions, fairs and picnics this summer. Rich silver and gold discoveries ou tin; north shore of Lake Superior are reported, the estimated yield of the ore being from $3,500 to $5,000 a ton. The value of foreign imports at Phila delphia in August was $1,714,010, of which amouut $1,148,640 came in American ves sels, aud 505,470 in foreign. A nortorious horse thief, named Jacob Crawford, otherwise known as Jack Saund ers, died in the Eastern Penitentiary some days since. He was from Wyoming county. E(k shoolinz is one of the amusements in Colorado. The steaks are nice, and the hide makes excellent buckskin. An ordin ary specimen weighs, dressed, from 800 to 1,200 pounds. Senator Morlion addressed a very large Republican meeting in Pittsburg last Fri day uiut. The hall in which he spoke was packed, and hundreds wem uuablu to gain admittance. f Jos. Sullivan, a little boy in New York, was lost two weeks ago, and nothiog has since been heard of him. It is thought he was w.dnappod. His parents, naturally, are almost distracted The decision of an Englisn co,.. n,ates the a-ronaut responsible for damages to crops, fences, etc., occasioned by his bal loon, or by the crowd, when it alights. The recent storm on the Gulf of Mexico destroyed the town of Indianola, and many of the lives of the residents of that place. A correspondent from there says "dead bodies are strewed for twenty miles along the bay." There is still trouble nt Fall River, Mass., between the "strikers" and those who are willing to go to work in the mills. Several of the mills have started with those who have withdrawn from the union. The militia are out to preserve the peace. Piolet went to the Erie couventiou boast ing to his Detnocrtic friends there that he could controld the Granger vote, and bar tering that voto for a place on the ticket. We shal be disappointed in the intelligence of Granger it they can be Bold and deliver ed by this political adventurer. The Republican Stales and Territories already carried this year are New Hamp shire. Maine, Rbode Island, Michigau, North Carolina,Colorado and New Mexico, and this is a much better record than we were able to present at this time last year. The Reading Times says that there are numbers of Dcmociats in that city who will uot vote at the coming election. They are so utterly disgusted with their party, with Pershing and Piollct, Bill McMulIeo and back-pay Speer, that they will stay at home and sulk. All over the country, while Democrats are quarreling over the fiuancial and other issues the Republicans are consolidating and preparing to present an unboken front to the enemy. Remember that appearances are often deceiving. Many a pale, thin young lady will eat more corned beef than a blacksmith. Because you find her playing the piano in the parlor, it is no sign that her mother is not at the corner grocery running in debt for a peck of potatoes. A pewter tea-set, formerly the property of (ien. Burgoyn, and marked with his name, is now in possession of a family at Ganscvoort, N. Y., where it has been for nearly a century. It was found near the battle-field of Saratoga, in a hollow Btump. The costliest dog in England belo ngs to one A. S. Fivas, who wants fifty thousand dollars for it. The name of the beast is Gamby, and if some person were to throw it a button one of these dark nights the happiuess of Fivas would be completely wrecked. Two hundred and eighty thousand three hundred nud forty-five dollars in specie exported from New York last week. The banks of California and Nevada are expected to reoppn on Monday next. Traue Reviving. The N. Y. Herald of Monday, says : "The inquiries thus make within a few days show an extremely satisfactory condition of trade. The fall business doing by the wholesale dry goods merchants ia unexpected largo. Several of the leading houses express their surprise at its extent, and say that trade has not been so good for five years past. But it is not only that there is a livelier demand and that buyers are more numerous. The retail dry goods trade seems also to be uncommonly aciive just now, and it has the same characteristic features of the wholesale trade caution iu buyers : cash payments ; careful selection purchasers. There are, in fact; not only here and iu the peculiar features of the fall business. but all over the country, evidences that we are recovering, if not rapidly, yet soundly. from the commercial and industrial pros tration which began in 1873 , and that but one thing such a continued derangement of the currency as Gov. Allen and Gen Butler, Mr. Pendleton and Mr. Wendell Phillips, Gen. Carey and Mr. W. D. Kel ley threaten ua with can prevent a gener el reuewal of prosperity next year. Telegraphic News. I. O. O. F. Proceeding of the Grand Lodge ot t be I ni tea MuUs. Indianapolis, September 24. The ses-1 siou of the Grand Lodge I. O. O. F. today was largely taken up with routine work, The Grand Lodge hasaccepted an invita- tion to hold its next session at Philadel- phia. The credentials of Representatives Tyler and Styles were reported upon favor- J ably, and they were admitted to seats in the Grand Lodge. It was decided that - after a subordinate lodge had become de- funct for five years, any funds surrendered bv it shall pass into the- Treasury of the Grand Lodge, and the Grand Sire and j Secretary were empowered to take such action in regard to the corporation of the Grand Lodgo of the United States a9 they deemed necessary, A charter waa granted for a Grand .Lodge in .Dakota .territory, provided no expense shall be incurred by the Supreme bodv until ten subordinate lodses are es- tablished A committee wns nnnointed to nsr-P.rtain the condition of the Rebekah degree throughout the national jurindiction and o report at next session. An extra session of the Grand Lodge was held last night, at which Deputy Grand Sire Park, of tho Sandwich Islands, add.cssed the Grand Logde in some gener al remarks, thanking them for courtesies extended, and expressing a wish for their future prosperity, lhe several mem bers of the Grand Lodge were presented with a well-executed imperial photograph of Past Grand Representative Shaffncr the gift of C. R. Morris, of Kentucky. Correspondence. Orit XEW YORK LETTEK. DEMOCRATIC LEADERS BROOKLYN; HOME AGAIN RELIGIOUS BCSINES WEATHER. New York, September 28, 1875. DEMOCRATIC LEADERS. John Morrissey was ignominiously kick ed out of the Democratic Convention at Syracuse, but he has no idea of letting the matter drop with that defeat- He changes the field of battle mere'.y from Syracuse to New York, and that he will do belter here there can be no doubt. I.n the State Con vention he was terribly out of his clement, The farmers, merchants, ana' other decent . . v ,-,i nitm ci.nt t, thot rnnmn inn fr.im the mral ,i;.t.:t. .r.A t .,t. v;,.i thn Bhnrt- , . . , - naireu, nroKen-noseu gamoier, nvt auuir- ing that, prize-fighter as he was an.d gamb - lcr as he was and gambler as be is, he is a better roan, by all odds, than he wh'O op- nosed him. True, he is a nambler. but what better are any of the leading Demo crats of the city ? John Morrissey wants power, and be wants control of patronage that he ma' add the profits of political plunder to the profit s of his faro banks ; but he could not steal more than the leaders who have pre ceded him. if he tried. As between the gambler Morrissey and the other Demo crau aspirants for the control or the city, I should much prefer Morrissey. He has a sort of honcdty, a rough sense of honor, and a great deal of liberality. What he should plunder the city of would not be thrown away in a reckless manner, and the city would get DacK something. lie is the most decent man of the lot. Morreasey and his adherents are making a splendid fight against Kelly and Tammany, and you need not be surprised if they beat them in the city this fall. Tammany has become so dictatorial that the "outs" have become restive. Creamer, a leading anti Tammany man, in a speech Wednesday night, accused Kelly of using thieves and murderers in his interest, and of all sorts of guilt and corruption. Tammany will put a full ticket in the field, and so will the Morressey faction. Now, if the Republi cans only had sense and energy enough to put a proper ticket into the field, and work for it, they could slide in between these warring factions and get possession of the city. But they will not do it. BROOKLYN. Brooklyn is suffering quite as much as New York for want of good government indeed, if any difference, the Democratic ring in that city is the more rapacious of the two. For the year 1875, $3,000,000 was collected for city expenses. This money is all gone, and three months re main to bo provided for. The tax levy next year will have to be not less than $15,000,000, which is seven per cent, ou the valuation. The way the money goes is frightful. In '07 $175,000 was appro priatcd tor tne Wallabout liay improve ment. The next year the commission got $385,000 more, and iu eight years they swelled the expenditure to $1,200,000. The big bridge is another swindle. The cost was originally placed at $3,000,000, but the way money is being expended up on it, it will cost $20,000,000 to finish it. Prospect Park, which was to cost $500, 000, has already reached an expenditure of $10,000,000, and it is not yet half finish ed. Paving has been made the vehicle for very big steals. Nearly a million ot dollars have been paid for paving ou three streets, which an honest contractor would have been glad to have done for $200,000. Is it any wonder that 6,000 houses are standing empty in Brooklyn, and that a man's poyerty is estimated by the amouut of real estate that ho owns ? Teu princi pals, one hundred lieutenants, and about two thousand strikers, have stolen all this money from the taxpayers. And yet there are Republicans who look for reform by an alliance with the men who are, and have been for years, doing this kind of work. nOME AGAIN. The cold weather has brought back to their homes the thousands of families who have seen feasting and flirting at the var-1 ions summer resorts for the pat four months. When it is pleasantly cool here it is very cold on the seashore and up in the mountains, aud there ia precious little fun in flirting on hotel piazzas In over coats and furs. And so back they come from uncomfortable quarters, to which fashion drives them once a year, to their comfortable homes in the city, where they would have been better off all the season. They come back wearied, tired, and sick. Not rested by a season of rest, but wearied by a season of dissipation. They will rest in their own homes a month, to get strength to go through the dissipation of the winter that is before them. But with the return of the fashionables, New York looks once more like New York. The streets are full of pretty women prettily dressed, the Av enue and the Park shine again with hand some equipages, and the long deserted houses up-town are once more opened to admit the light of heaven. The theatres and places of amusement begin to show the effect of the incoming ffood and so do the retail stores. The traders and for that matter everybody else are glad to see them home, for it means a resumption of business, and an end of the regular sum mer stagnation. in the religiocs world, sreat Dreuarations are being made for a vigorous campaign this fall and winter. Beecher will make Plymouth Church un usually lively, that public attention may be taken from his late troubles, Fulton is organizing a terrible raid upon the sinners, because it is his nature to, and the clergy men, and more active laymen, are girding up their loiu3 for a season of active, earnest aggressive warfare. Moody and feankey are to be here to assist, and all the church haye determined to stand behind these now famous evangelizurs, and give them ..... " tne helP possible. I' 3 probable that an enormous building something like Barnum's nippodrome, will be erected for these men, which will be the centre of religious action for the city. That they do a vast good neie tnere can be no doubt. If they can convert the Democratic leaders of the city, it would be a result for which, as iu the old times, they would have been canonized. If they work with as much zeal and effect as they did in England, they will make it possible for the Kepuoucans io carry me cuy next year. I If the rum mills could only be closed, their chances of effecting something would be better. But with thousanus of bars kept up and made a power by thousands ot thieving politicians, the tendency down ward is terrible. However, if Moody and Sankey can stir up the decent men of the cky to an organized movement on the rum shops, they will have accomplished a work that will entitle them to the gratitude of the city for all time to come. They can not but do good, and they cannot commence too soon. BUSINESS still continues fair, and, if anything, is im proving. There are largo numbers of mer chants from all over the country here, and they are buying with tolerable freedom. While it is not the old-time rush, business is so much better than it has been, that everybody feels encouraged. The jobbers look for a still better trade later in the season. INFLATION IN THE CITY. The meetiucr last Thursday night at Cooper institute, to endorse the Demo cratic inflationists of Ohio and Pennsyl vania was a failure. The speeches were dull and heavy, and they did not succeed in interesting the not large audience pres ent. There were more expressions of dis sent than assent, and its only effect was to show that inflation has no adherents here. Tho merchants and business men generally of the citv have too much worry with a I smiling currency, not io uesire aiuiiuui iu I rt J' J gei uacs io gouietuiug uc ,u I It was not a comfortable thing to have .... , 1 J"ul " , . v , , , , , tX. by the fall in gold, particularly when that fall was the work of a lot of speculators in Wall Street, whose action no one could foretell or prevent. They want a currency which is the same to-day as it was yester day, and will be the same to morrow, so that they can calculate with some degree of certainty. And I think they are right. No greater calamity could befall the coun try than the wild speculation that would certainly follow tho increase iu the volume of the carrency that the inflationists of Oluo and Pennsylvania are demanding. THE WEATHER is splendid, and New York is now a de ligh t. The health of the city is good. PlETRO. &ch jDbcrlistincnts. Sheriffs Sale oritcal Estate. Br virtne of a certain writ of alias Fieri Facis, Uttucd out of the Court of Common Pleas of Northumberland comity, and to me ui rected, will be exposed to sale by public vendue or outcry, on TUESDAY, the 10th day of OCTOBER, 1S75, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, on the premises the following property, to wit; All that certain lot or part of a lot of ground with the brick dwelling house, stable and out buildlugs thereon erected, situate on the corner of Front and Centre streets, iu the borough of Milton, County of Northumberland, and State of Pennsylvania, bounded northwardly by part of this lot owned by K. r . Btewarl, eastward! y by Elm street, southwardly by Centre street, and westwardly by Front or Main street, containing iu front on Front street tnirty leet, nna extend ing back that width forty-six feet, and from there bcine thirty-six f?et in width to Elm street ; as the property of S. C. HILL. Seize I, taken ir. execution and to be sold by S. II. ROTHERMEL, Sheriff. Sheriff's office, Sunbnry, October 1, 1873. xoTin:. rrOTICE is hereby given that application will Slate of Pnna., at its section on the first Tues day of November next, at Harrisburir, for the commutation of the sentence ot imviu r.. enoop. now conlined in the tastern Penitentiary of Pennsylvania, upon sentence of the Court of Northumberland count;. Emki.inr Shoo p. October 1, 1S73. Administrator's 6t ice. 4 Estate ot Philip Wertz, late of Lower Angusta township, jeeeased. LETTERS of admiiistration having been eranted to the onrsigned on said estate. All persons indebted thereto are requested to make immediate noymeut, and those having claims against the sime to present tbem without delay for settlement. IBAAVi I'.ll 1 Administrator. Sunbury, Sep.'. 2!Hh, l87r. TO ORGAN STUDENTS. IMPROVED SGE00L fa FOR THE kP The only work In which xplanatlon are given of the nature and compass of the different Stops, and of the manner of combining them. HUGH A." CLARKE, FeorEssoa or Music ajtd Habmoht m tub TJirt- VHSITY OS FEKHITI.VA5IA. Author iff u Clark? t Hew Jtcttod fir tht Pumo-TMt.n Just Issued. Sent try mail, pries $2.50. Lee & Walker, SES5r Sept. 3, lST.V mw, sia JtafctxiiMBttsla. ELECTION PRdtXAjnflO I, SAMUEL H. ROTHERMEL, High SheriiT of N'orthuinberlaud county, Common wealth of Pennsylvania, do hereby make known and give notice to the elfctobs of the coqd't aforesaid, that an election will be held in the auid county ot Northumberland, on Tuesday, the 2d day or Xov., 1875, for the purpose of electing the several person hereinafter named, viz: One person for the office of Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. One person for the office or Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. One person for the office of Iligh Sheriff ct Ittorinumoerianu county. One person for the office of Prothonotarv. Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace and Court of Oyer and Terminer and Gen- eral Jail Delivery of Northumberland eonnty. one person lortneomceoi .t reasurer or North umberland county. Three persons for County Commissioner of Northumberland eouniy. One person for the office of Coroner of North umberland county. ihree persons for County Auditor of Northum berland countv. I also hereby make known and cive notice that the place of holding the aforesaid election in the several wards, boroughs, districts and townships wiinm tne county 01 ortaumoerland, are as follows, to wit : Sunburr, West Ward, at the Court nonsa. Sunbnry, Pa.; East Ward, at the public house of E. T. Drumheller. Upper Augusta township, at the public house of Henry Conrad. Lower Augusta township, at the public house of Peter Dunkleberger. Northumberland borough, at the public house of T.J. Stamra. Point District, at the house of Mrs. Johnson. in the borough of Northumberland. Milton, South Ward, at the bouse of C. W. Sticker ; Norta Ward, at the public house of J. 11. iiutt. Turbut township, at tho house of Abraham Kissinger. Delaware townsuip, at the honso of Jacob nuntzinger. Chilllsfiuaqne, at the house of Charles Ilart- man. Watsoutown, at the public house of J. B. Gil bert. Lewis township, at the house of D. II. Dreis bach, in Turbatville borough. Shamokin township, at the house of T. II. Nesbit. Upper Mahanoy township, at the house of Era'l Gelst. Little Mahanoy township, at the house of Conrad Raker. Lower Mahanoy. at the house of A. Boad armel. Rush township, at Liberty Pole school honse. Jackson township, at the bouse of John Albert, Herndon, Pa. Coal township, at the house of Job Donneys. Shamokin borough, East Ward, at the house of Wm. M. Weaver; West Ward, at the house of Patrick Kairns. Zerbe township, at the house of Thomas Foulds.jr. Camerou township, at the boose of Jared Hen . inger, Gowen City. Jordan township, at the house of Jacob Masscr. Mt. Carmel borough, at the Mount C.irmel Honse. Washington township, at the house of H. C. Fisher. McEwcnsville, at the house of Henry Reeder. Turbatville, at the house of H. . Wetzel. Mt. Carmel township, at the bouse of Michael Graham. Riverside borough, at the public school house of said borough. Snydertowu borough, at the public honse of William Farrow. At all elections hereafter held under tba laws of this Commonwealth, the polls shall be opened at seven o'clock a. in., and closed at seven o'clock p. m. Every person excepting Justices of the Peace and Aldermen, Notaries Public and Persons in the militia service of the State, who shall bold or shall within two months have held any office or appointment of profit or trnst under the United States, or of this State, and city or cor porated district, whether a commissioned officer or otherwise, a subordinate officer or agent who is or shall be employed under t le Legislature, Executive or Judiciary Department of this State, or of any city or of any incorporated district, and also, that every member of Congress and of the fctate Legislature, and of the select or com mon council of "J. city, or commissioners of nnv incorporated district, is by law incapable of holding or exercising at the same time the office or appointment of Judge, Inspector or Clerk of any election of this Commonwealth, and that no iLspector, Judge or other officer of such election shall be eligible to be then voted for. The Inspectors and J udge of the elections shall meet at the respective places appointed for hold ing the election in the district to which they re spectively belong, before seven o'clock in the morning, and each of those inspectors shall ap point one clerk, who shall he a qualified voter of such district. The qualified voters cf said county ara re quired to vote by tickets printed or written or partly printed or partly written, severally classi fied as follows : one ticket shall embrace the names of all State officers voted for and labelled "State ;" one ticket shall embrace the names of all county officers voted for and be labelled "County," and each class shall be deposited in seperate ba'.lot boxes. S. II. ROTHERMEL, Sheriff. Sheriff's office, Sunbnry, Oct. 1, 1875. oiPiErsrasTGr 1 1 ALL THE NEW SHADES. Seal, Brown, Plnrn, Navy Blue, Steel, Dark, Green, tc. In Silks, Merinos, Cashmers, Cam els Hair, Glaci, Serge and Diagonals. itlCII DARK PLAIDS, HAND WO VEX BLACK SILKS A Specialty. Imported direct, and warranted to give satis faction. Mourning Goods of Every Description, Housekeepers Goods, Blankets Flannels', Qtjtlt3, Towels, Sheetings, Table Linens, Sapklns, Ac. F. 91. ROGERS fc CO Old Stand Eyre & Landell, 8. W. Cor. Fourth and Arch Street, PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 17, 1875. 2 mos. Adjourned Co art. WHEREAS the Honorable W. M. Fwockefel ler, President Judge, and his Associates, for this District, have issued their mandate for an adjourned Court for Northumberland county, to be held on the 4th and ISth of October, A. D. 1875, being the 1st and '-id Mondays of said month, in the borough of Sunbury. I therefore give notice, that all persons interested, to be and appear at the place aforesaid at 10 o'cloek a. m.. of said days. SAMUEL H. ROTHERMEL, Sheriff. Sheriff's Office, Sunbury, Sept. 24, 1875. Administrator's Xotlce. "VyOTICE is hereby given that letters of ad- -ministrator de bonns non cum testaraento annexo, have been granted to the undersigned on the estate of Mrs. Catharine Brosions, late of Lower Mohonay township, Northumberland connty, Pa., deceased. All persons indebted are requested to make payment, and those having claims to present them foi settlement. i. 4. BOTDORF, Adrn'r. Lower Mohonay l ... Sept. 24, 1875. Cu For Sheriff. To tht I'ottr of SorthumberUutJ County. At the earnest solicitation of many friends,, whose opinions and judgment I could not do otherwise than respect, i have consented to be an independent candidate for the office of She riff. If chosen in the coming contest where the people vote directly for the man, and are not thwarted in their choice by rings and corrupt combinations, I can only promise to consistently do my whole duty so fur as I am able. dav:d waldrox- Milton, Sept. 33, '75 te- Administrator's otire. (Estate of Andrew Ditty. Deceased.) LETTERS of Administration on the estate of Andrew Ditty, late of Lower Mahanoy town ship, Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, de ceased, have granted tp John Ditty, Milton Ditty and Adam Lenker, residing at Georgetown, iit said county, to whom all persons indebted to said estate are requested to make payment, and those having claims or demands, will make kuown tho same without delay. JOHN DITTY, MILTON DITTY, ADAM LENKER. Administrators. Georgetowu, September 17, 1875. CHASTITY ; Or, OCR SECRET SIXS. Dr. Dio Lewis's new and great work. Inva uable to all, whether married or single. Pt iell $'3.00. Sold only by agents. In iu tablr 0r contents are : Reason verttt Passion Knrlj MAr riages,Marital Excesses, Unjust Suspicion . preJ venting Conception, Woman's Raliug P assion" Foeticide, Hereditary Influences, Mastr .rbat'on Obscene Literature. Celibacy, Advrco n Yolinc- iiiucii im iwuun iLcu inc KMal Kvi Nocturnal Emissions, Cure for Sexnri Lonrw Practical Suggestion, He. 3 R ' AGENTS WBNTED everywhere. For fnii description. Table of Contents, extracw, strong testimonials, and librral terms, address the Dnb- i : . l . . ..'. . v . n r iisiicni uuiiu ucare&k jou UtUKGE JI C LEAN & CO., Philadelphia. Cincinnati, nr PhT. - sept. 10, lm.