The Somerset Herald WEDNESDAY.. Jolf , 1S7 Covgbess has adjourned. Mate os truly grateful, good Lord ! Coffrotu died ia the "last ditch" wilh the Confederate Brigadiers. LoTely io their lics, in death they were not parted. We congratulate the Republicans vho voted for CofFrotb on the pluck of their Representative. lie "nerer surrendered." Tub DemocraU made their attempt to nullify the election laws, cost the country a million of dollars, but they did'nt eucceec' in the effort, thanks to President IUjes. Ir daring the late session of Con gress, the Democrats did'nt work to make Slate sovereignty supreme, and thereby establish the right of Btces feion, they talked a great deal of fool ishness, and by words gave the lie to their professions. ow for a carnival of crime. Con gress adjourned without making an appropriation for the pay of Marshals, and mail robbers, counterfeiters, il licit distillers and rogues of every degree have free swing, as the courts cannot execute their decrees without the aid of officers." How would jus tice be executed in this couoty with out a Sheriff? The extra session of Coogrees started out with the threat of starv ing the government to death unless the President gave the Confederates their own sweet wilL It ended with doing nothing, except giving the w bisky thieves and other ecoundrels a chance to cheat the government without fear of molestation by the Courts and their officers. As reformers the Democrats are a decided success. The extra bCB6ion they forced cost the country a million of dollars. They Toted their em ployees thirteen months pay for one year, and the Senate has commission ed twelre committees to junket over the country during recess at the ex pense of the people. The Confederate Msjabs and Cap tains who dipplaced the crippled Union soldiers as doorkeepers and messengers in the Senate were hun gry. Twelve months pay for six months work as'nt enough to satis fy them, so Hamburg Massacre But ler very considerately had an ad ditional month added to the year, and they were voted thirteen months There ia a law of the United States that provides that Deputy Marshals may be appointed to pro tect the ballot box and prevent fraud at the polls. The Democrats in Con gress have attempted to nullify this law by refusing to provide the means for its execution. It was for a sim ilar attempt at nullification that Andrew Jackson threatened to hang John C. Calhoun. Senator "Zacd Chandler's" ar raignment of the Confederate Dem. ocracy for their treasonable utter ances and designs daring the late ex tra session of Congress is most pcathing. No wonder that every little Democratic editor in the country is relieving his feelings, by making mouths at the old man. Democrats boast of the remarka ble economy exhibited by Congress in reducing appropriations, and cut ting down the salaries of government employees. Has any one observed that these economical Congressmen displayed the same economy in re gard to their own salaries ? Their economy is as remarkable as the magnanimity of Artemus Ward, who offered during the late war to scrifice all his wife's relations on the altar of his country The work of the late Congress can be readily summarized. It brought the Confederates to the fore with a solid front It gave public notice that all legislation securing the results of the war is to be repealed. It re Tired and defended the heresy of State rights, that led to the late war. It Erst attempted to repeal and then to nullify the election laws. And it has aroused the patriotic sentiment of the North as it has not been stirred since the rebellion. We observe that the Republicans who voted for Coffroth are not gush ing much over the record their "free and easy" "frank" "liberal" "jol ly" favorite, made during the extra session. He never once failed to answer to his name when one of the Confederate Brigadiers called the role of their henchmen. Xovr that Congress has adjourned without making provision for the pay of United States Marshals and their general deputies, the Democrat ic editors, who hare sense enough to see the position in which the courts are left without officers to execute their process, are very.'busy trying to prove that no harm has been done, and that Cougress wiil surely pay hereafter all proper fees if the Mar shals will only borrow the money and work on credit. This is a mere attempt to deceive the people. The law expressly forbids any department of the government expending any money in excess ot that appropriated by Congress for that year. The At torney General counsels Marshals to continue discharging their duties but tells them plainly that they have no chance for pay unless Congress pleases to vote it to them. Mean while from this until after Congress -meets again, rogues may safely vio late the law and defy the government unless these officers please to work without pay. To such a pass has the Democratic majority brought the country. The Democratic Convention of Cambria County brokeup in a row last weak. There were too many Mlnvca wanted to be nominated for Sheriff. It has come to this pass, that if the country is 6aved the disgrace of the failure of justice in the United States Courts, it will be solelv by the good will of the Marshals whom the Democratic majority in Congress singled out for specially bitter abuse, and refused to vote any pay. The rumor that Senator Chandler has offered to furnish $100,000 of the IC.00,000 which he Democrats re- fneod in Annronriate for tho par of " -' 1 1 i Marshals, is giving the brainless editors of that party much food for their wit. It will be remembered that in 18C1-C2 the patriots who gave their money to support the gov ernment and carry on the war were subjects of similar witticisms and sneers from Copperhead editors. The Washington liepublican re duces the Republican platform to bedrock, and finds: "The United States against the Conlederate States". In Nebraska is said to be the quaint and laconic epitaph over the grave of a citizen suddenly deceased : "He Twisted A Mule's Tail." It is understood that the Democratic party will adopt the same epitaph. The solid North will sit for the mule. The Boston Herald, sitting on the fence, cannot s.e why the Democrats in Congress would not have done better to see the point before the President made it in the veto mes sage, that "prohibit!'- - the use of the means to enforce a Uw still unre pealed, and which the Executive is bound by his oath to enforce, is not the wisest way to appeal to the people." But the Democrats are on record on this very point. Two of the Democrats that engin eered "the Mississippi plan" of car rying on elections in 1S75 have fallen out, and one of them, Dixon, has peached, squealed, or otherwiEe be trayed the conspiracy. He explains how the vote of Yazoo County was changed from 2,499 Republican to CCS Democrat in 1372, to 3 Repub lican 4,041 Democratic in 1875. He helped to stuff the ballot-boxes him self, but he indignantly denies hav ing appropriated the money found on the corpse of Patterson, tie Repub lican member of the Legislature, after they had killed him, and alleges that it was turned into the Democrat ic campaign fund, from which $3,000 were paid to Btuff the ballot-boxes. This is in accordance with the cur rent Democratic theory of "free elec tions." The surviving soldiers at Terre Haute having determined to brand as a falsehood the assertion of Senator VoorheeB that he did more for the soldiers than the late Senator Morton, the friends of Yoorhees are trying to prevent a true expression of Boldier feeling. The followin? incident of the meeting on Monday night is told by the Indianapolis Journal : "One speaker rose, and in a calm, deliber ate wav remarked that Mr. Yoor- hees was right in his assertion that he did more for the soldiers than Morton did. This pleased the Dem ocrats who had come to capture the meetine. and they applauded vocif erously. The speaker proceeded in this strain a few moments, and then suddenly wound up by saying that the soldiers befriended bv Yoorhees were rebel, not Union soldiers. This caused a reaction with gnashing of teeth among the Democrats." A Story That 1 Its. I'rum the Iiatlaud Ucrtld and Clobt (U"p.) The Democrats' ignominious flight from Congress, after doing all the damage possible to the best interests of the people, reminds one ot the dog that recklessly plunged tnrougn plate glass window. The proprietor gazed indignantly after the flying cur and philosophically said. "Well, the awkward brute has done some mis chief, but one thing is sure (looking at the hole) we've got the size of the dog." The Democracy have done some mischief in their flight, but the people have "got the size of the dog. Preparing for a Confederate Admlala- tloa. Frum the Dally Graphic. During the past week, according to u local coin and stamp .dealer in Xassau-st, large demands have come from abroad for Confederate notes, Nearly $1,000,000 in Confederate scrip, in denominations from $10 to $1.009,were shipped to England and France last week. The notes most ia demand are those issued bv the Mont gomery (Ala.) County Bank in 18C1 and the Richmond Bank Aote Com pany the same year. Quite a preni um is paid lor tnese notes. Abou. a month ago a bale of Confederate m - ney Jwaa sold here. Orders for it have come from England, Germany and France. A local dealer said to the reporter: "Some people across the water and I don't know whether they are fools or not want this money. They have an idea that a Democratic Congress and Democrat ic I resident will redeem this monev in time. RCCRETABY EVABTS VIEWS. What the Democrats Starteb Oit to Do, and What Thet Did. Secretary Evarts was in townyes terday, on his way to his Yermomt farm, where he intends to spend week. Over bis breakfast table at the Brevoort House while his tea and toast were getting cold, the Secretary was Degnued by tiis good nature into talking politics with a newspaper ac quainiance. fpeacmg ot tbe issue raised by the Democrats at (he ex tra session, he said : "If the people clearly understand that the Democrats set op the doc trine that the House of Representa tives may rightfully refuse oil appro priations for carrying on the govern ment in case a majority of its mem bers are not permitted t9 dictate leg. islation, there will be no question as to their verdict at the fall elections. The doctrine is revolutionary and can not be tolerated. I know Mr. Tbur man receded from it toward the close of tbe struggle he oozed ont as he has cbne before bus you will take notice that Mr. Frank llurd broadly reasserted it ia his speech ju?t before the session ended. He put the refu sal of appropriations on the ground of the right of the house to demand a redress of grievances: Hey, tne laws of the United Slates which the Democrats are unable to repeal." How does tLe parallel hold with the action of the House of Commons in times past, which the DemocraU so often make?" "Not at all. The grievances which the Commons sought to redress were not those of law but of the arbitrary ac tion of tho king. They asserted the right of the people against the divine right of the Fovereicrn. Here tho ex ecutive is as nuch a representative of the people a Congress, lie repre sents tbem for four year?, the House represents thCiM for fvo and the sen ators for six. No antagoui-iin be tween the different branches of our government is contemplated by the Constitution ; all are expected to act in harmony, leeause all represent the popular wiil. Besides, the House of Commons sought to briDg the king to terms, not by refusing appropria tions, but by refusing to levy taxe3. The money! if not collected, would remain in the pockct9 of tho people and benefit them. Here the Demo crats purposed to have all the taxes collected as usual, and then prohibit the President from spending tee money for carrying on the people's government "W hat a sorrv czzle tuey maae ot it, though." "as there ever anything mere ridiculous? Thej began by saying to the President, 'sign our political measures or we will withhold $4G, 000, 000, of the appropriations for running the Government.' 'That does not frighten me,' replied the President ; '1 6hall go ahead aud do my duty just the same.' " ery well,' said the Democrats, 'if that is your intention we will keep back $20,000,000.' Finding the President still unmoved, they cried out, 'If you don't back down we will refuse you $10,000,009.' As this threat had no effect, they fin ally held back $000,000 and ran away, it was a remarkably well-developed case of a small end ot the horn." X. Y. Tribune. The Lat Veto. The President sends a parting shot after the Confederate Brigadiers, as ihep vainly struggled to fly from the Capitol, and it must be admitted tnat bis final statement is as effective as it is brief. He wastes no words in argument, having fouud that reason has little to do with the actions of the majority. But the curt rectial of the facts, with men of ordinary reason and patriotism, will have wore weight than many convincing arguments. The President docs not stoop to re peat his reasons for refusing Lis sig nature to a bill designed to nuiniy the Election law. Congress sent the bill to him having full knowledge that it would certainly be vetoed, for the President's convictions of duty on that subject had been plainly stated in more than one formal message. That he ha3 sworn to "take care that "the laws be faithfully execated," and therefore cannot, without violation of his oath, sign a bill intended to nullify a law and prevent its enforce ment, Congress knew when its last bill was framed and passed. Hence it must be understood that Congress expected its bill to be vetoed, and in cluded therein only Buch appropria tions as it desired to defeat, and to take all the responsibility of defeat ing. The President therefore points out the nature of those eppropria- tions, and the functions cf tne Gov ernment which Congress thus at tempts to arrest. The entire respon sibility for the stoppage of these functions, for the offer of immunity to those who commit the many crimes enumerated, for the withdrawal of "the only police force of the United "States," the President places upon the maioritv in Con?ress, where it belongs. The "moonshiners" will be delight ed. They hae been engaged' foi years in a conspiracy to trample upon the laws, have assassinated officials in the discharge of their dutj, and are criminals for whom no patriotic citizen would have sympathy; and yet the Democratic majority of Con gress has made it tne especial aim and the richest and ripest fruit of its extra session to shield these crimi nala from interference. But there are other lawbreakers, as the President shows, who have especial occasion to thank the party of lawbreakmg and revolution. Forgers and counterfeit ers may rejoice, for a Democratic Congress has provided that the mon ey ot the people, contributed for tbe prevention ot Eucn crimes and pun ishment of such criminals, shall be kept back from the officials to whom by law it belongs. Letter thieves, dishonest clerks and carriers, specu lating postmasters and all other crim iuals who violate the postal laws, may rejoice that a Democratic Con' gress has refused to appropriate mon. ey for their arrest and punishment. Knaves of the Indian ring, plunder ers of the high seas, timber tbiaves, smugglers, all may offer thanks to the first Congress since tbe Govern ment was organized that has seen fit to cripple tbe arm of the law lifted up against them. True, the majority ot Congress aid not primarily seek to give immunity to all these crimes ; its main object was to assert the right of freedom in fraudulent nat uralization and ballot-box stuffing, and to shield from interference tbe moonshiners. But the effect of this latest attempt to coerce the Presi dentan effect which every member who voted for the bill must have fully anticipated and weighed is to offer immunity to all manner of crim inals against whom United States laws can be enforced only br tbe agency of marshals. To these mar shals Congress refuses the money to which the laws entitle them for their support. The claim that the President ought to baye permitted the election laws to be defied and nullified in order to prevent nullification ot other laws of the tnited States, will be submitted to the people or their judgment. He states the case plainly in the closing sentence of his nesrage. A great effort has been made to cover with ridicule the declaration tkat the pas sage of bills intended to coerce the President into a surrender of bis ve to power is nncocetitutional and rev olutionary. Nevertheless the Demo crats know that the charge is perfect ly true and just, and they have winc ed under it, week after week ; recoil ed before it from one point to anoth er; and backed down so often that there is left scarcely the pretence cf respect for tbe position of the party, j vtn among its supporters. They) know thai the plain people of this I country appreciate tho justness of the ! President's statement that Eu,?h leg-! islation would "make a radical, dan-i "gerous and unconstitutional change "in the character of our institutions."! If both Houses may thus arrest the ; operations of the Government unless the President surrenders hia consti tutional trust, either House may ia like manner eoercs the other House and the President also. The attempt to do this thing ia strictly revolution ary ; no more, and no less. Fitly, it is made by men who cannot yet for get that for years they wore the uni form of rebels. Rightly the people will remember what these men were, when it sees what they are doing now. They tried to destroy the Gov ernment and failed. Now they are trying to revolutionize, disorder and disorganize it ; to strip it of power, to leave it helpless before criminals, and to emasculate and cripple it The country will judge the men and their acts. A7. Y. Tribune. Aaotner Blafct from Ckaadler. tue democratic tarty aruai.voed. On Monday Senator Zach. Chand ler, of Michigan, gave the confeder ate democracy a parting salutation in one of bis brief blunt, plain spoken speeches, The Democratic Senators having announced'their settled de termination not to pass tno apnropn- ation for support of U. S. Marshals, Mr. Chandler rose and made the fol lowing pointed speech: Whether the adjournment resolu tion passed by the House is acted up on to-day or not, is immaterial. We have now been three months and a half in this Capitol, not without cer tain results. We have shown to the people of tnis Nation just what the Democratic party mean3. The peo ple have been informed as to your party's n3s and aims. By fraud and violence, by shot-guns ana tissue-ballots, you bld tho present majority in both Houses of Congress, and you have taken an early opportunity to show what you intend to do with that majority thus obtained. You are within Bight of the promised land, but like Moses of old, we propose to seed ycu up into the mountain to die. (Great laughter.) Mr. President, we are approaching the end of this extra session, tyid its record will soon become historv. The acts of the Democratic party, as manifested in tbis Congress, justify me in arrang ing it belore the loyal people of the United States on the political issues which it has presented as the enemy of the Nation and as the author and sbettorof the rebellion. I arraign the Democratic party as follows: First: For having resort ed to revolutionary measures to car ry out their partisan projects by at tempting to coerce tbe Executive by withholding supplies, and thus ac complishing by starvation the de struction of tho Government which thev have failed to overthrow by arms. Second F'or having injured the business interests of the country by forcing the present extra session, af ter liberal compromises were tendered to them prior to the close of the last session. TJtird For having attempted to throw away the results of the pres ent war by again elevating State over National sovereignty. We sac rificed more than three hundred thousand lives, and expended five thousand millions of dollars to put down this heresy, and to perpetuate the nationalise. Tbey surrendered this at Appomattox, but now they attempt to renew this pretension. Fourth For having attempted (there are honorable exceptions and long may they be remembered) to damage the business interests of the country by forcing silver coin into circulation of less value than it rep resents, thus swindling the laboring man and the producer by compelling him to accept So cents for a dollar, and thus enriching the bullion own ers at the expense of the laborer. Twelve hundred million dollars is paid yearly to labor alone in this country, and by forcing an 85 cent dollar on the workingmen, you swin dle them out of one hundred and eighty millions yearly. Fifth For having removed with out cause experienced officers and employes of this body, some of whom served and were wounded in the Union Army, and with appointing men who bad in the rebel army at tempted to destroy the Government Sixth For having instituted a secret and illegitimate tribunal, the edicts of which have been made the supreme governing power of Con gress, in defiance of the fundamental principles of the Constitution. The decrees of this junta are known, al though its motives are hidden. Seventh For having held up for public admiration that arch-rebel, Jefferson Davis (great laughter on the Democratic side), declaring that he was inspired by motives as sacred and as noble as animated Washing ton, and as having rendered services in attempting to destroy tbe Union which would equal in history Grecian fame and Roman glory. (Laughter.) You may laugh ; th9 people of the North will make you laugh from the other side of your faces. (Renew ed laughter.) Ei'jhlh For having undertaken to blot from the statute book of the Na tion wise laws rendered necessary by the war and its reeults, and insuring "life liberty and the pursuit of hap piness" to tbe emancipated freedmen, who are now so bulldozed and ku kloxed that they are seeking peace and exile, although urged to remain by shot-guns. Xinlh For having attempted to repeal the wise legislation which ex cludes those who served under the rebel flag from holding commissions in the Army and Navy of the United States. Tenth For having introduced a large amount of legislation for the exclusive benefit of the States recent ly in rebellion which, if enacted, would bankrupt the National Treas ury. Eleventh For having conspired to destroy all that the Republican party has accomplished, many of them breaking their oaths of allegi ance to the United States and pledg ing their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honors, to overthrow this Government. They failed, and thus lost all tbey pledged. Call a haltl Tbe days of vaporing are over. Tbe loyal North is aroused, and tbeir doom is sealed. I accept tbe issne on these arraignments distinctly and specifi cally before the citizens ot this great Republic. 4s a Senator of tbe jUm tcd States, and as a citizen, 1 appeal to the poopla. ft id for these citizjas to Bay who U right end who ja wrong. I go before that tribunal onderil that tho Republican party is rj'gbt and the Democratic party is wrong. They Gave make these issues, not we, and by tbem tbev must stand or fall. This is the platform which j tbey have constructed not only for j 16 y, out lor isso. Ttey cannot change it, for we will hold them to it. They have made their bed and we will sit that they lie thereon. Wm. Lloyd Garrison's will, gives $300 to each grandchild. OIB WASUISUTOX LETTCB. (Frum enr Regular Comnpondent.) Washington. July, 4 1879. Congress has adjourned. What a relief to us at the capnal.and the pub lic at large. The Louisville Courier Journal has no doubt precipitated the adjourment of Coosre the fol lowing pathetic apical t,.. the rebel Brigadiers : "Come home, you suckers; you chuekleheads. Come home you knock-kneed, bandy-shanked, bow- legged, web-footed, red-haired var mints. C o m e H o m e!!" There was no wonder at the dilem ma tbe brigadiers got tbe country in to that all sensible men desired tbem to corao home. The northern dough faces got bo terribly reprimanded from their constituents that they were actually afraid to go home and the people who they toully misrepre sent by their effort to starve the gov ernment and nullify tbe laws of the land. The closing scene was a very weak affair, and the Democrats slunk off from the floor of the House and Senate like some one that bad l stolen something. The closing scenes in tne Senate were without any ex citement whatever. When tbe exec utive session closed and the doors were opened it was five minutea of the hour fixed for adjournment Captain Bassett with a broom-stick in his hand glided upto the clock and turned the hands back five minutes while Mr. Thurman looked in anoth er direction. Tbe Senate was wait ing for an enrolled bill irom tbe House repealing the duty cn qui nine. While waiting no order was obsorved and several men strolled around with hats on, under the im pression that the adjournment had taken place. The clock had stele along meanwnile toward nve, and as it neared that figure Captain Bassett manpulated his broom-stick once more and put back the tide of time six minutes. Tbis was the last backward turn that was necessary. Clerk Adams made his appearanco with the bill which was duly signed by Mr. Thurman and rushed into the adjoining room where President Hayes signed it, and in two minutes thereafter the special session closed sine die. The rushing of the qui nine bill through in the last hours of tho session caused a great deal of merriment among tbe Republicans as they agreed not to oppose the bill as the bourbons certainly would need stimulants and tonics in the next cam paign. I left the scene in disgust as 1 expected to see the Cborpenning claim revived as usual in the closing hours a3 the lobbyists were out in full force, and from the gallery I pushed my way out and made a bee-line for tho Scheulzen Park where I felt my line of thought be mere in sympathy with my stomach. Tbe Germans and their families know how to enjoy themselves in pleasant way. On Monday the bchuetzen corps with invited guests from Baltimore and other cities, pa raded the streets in their gaudy uni form and such was the excitement that we almost forgot the menagerie on Capitol Hill for a time. The line of the procession was headed by a platoon of police, which was followed by the Marine Baud. Tbe stand ard of the Yerien flanked by Ameri can and German colors was there, borne alter wbicn came carriages with the Scheutzen officers and on foot Germans to the number cf thous ands. In the precession wa3 a car riage bearing ybung girls, represent ing Germany aind Liberty, with a number of smaller girls prettily ar ranged. ! At the President's house the Presi dent reviewed the line amid great cheering. The park is located out the Sev enth street road just on tho suburbs of the town near the Soldiers' Home. Here I found everything in full blast Tbe weather was all that could be desired for the fest, and as a conse quence from early morn until the hour named for suspension, the am bitious members crowded the shoot ins gallery and made the air merry with the sharp crack ef the rifles as they drove the bullets toward the far distant targets By sundown the families began to arrive and by dusk the spacious grounds were crowded with groups, which included two and in many instances three genera tions, all bent on extracting just as much pleasure from tbe occasion as possible. The throngs sipped tbeir beer, ate pretzels and German sausages, risked a dime or so on "spinning jenny," danced, promonaded. watched the performers or amusel themselves in a hundred other ways peculiar to the Scheutzen Fest As it gets dark the crowd augments and tne pars is transformed into a fairy land. Thous ands of meu crowd the well-lighted pavilion, or promenade through the graveled walks by the soft light shed by tbe myriads of Chinese lanterns. The brass throated instruments of the bands Save forth their measured sounds which rose above the hum of voices and anon tbe sharp crack of the loud mouthed cannon adds its quota to the general uproar h bich envelopes the pleasure grounds. It would be useless to attempt a de scription of the assemblage. They were all there, with their sisters and their cousins and their aunts, peers and vassals in the abstract but in the concrete they were all equals, for the servant jostled the Senator with as much sang froid as a Louisiana witness testifies, and paid as little at tention to results. This is how the park looked to me at 8 o'clock, at which time the lady singers were warbling, the athletes were doing the trapeze performance, a tight-rope performer was skipping in his narrow path, and the red and blue lights, the rockets and wheels of the pyro technic display were adding brillian cy to the scene. The confusion was a confusion. Beer, beer, zwei beer, zwei beer, who says beer,never, well, hardly ever. This" is the kind of con versation behind me, when I became disgusted and left for the banquet hall, where Simon Wolf, president, was going through the ceremony cf transferring the Scheutzen King's crown from Mr. Ruppert to Mr. Ab ner, who had been elected during the day King for the ensuing year. The hall was brilliantly illuminated and handsomely decorated with flags. At tbe central table sat President Wolf, and to bis right, General Gar field, of Ohio, and to the left. Secre tary fcherman, and farther down, Don Cameron. Our "Alec ' was not there, neither was President Hayes After the edibles had been discussed Mr. Wolf announced tbe toasts as follows; "The King of tne feast royal edicts never lead to revolt tion." In responding, Mr. Abaer made brief ddrPB in fWmn .Inrtn , course of which tSat H during h,a reign tbe members attempt-! ea to aa anytning not warranted bv the la ws he would promptly interpose his veto. Tbe second toast; "The Washing ton Scheutzen Yerien takes no s ep backward ; financially sound ; it is as ever the centre of social life !u mod eration." To which President Wolf responded. Referring to the necessi ty for a sound financial basis for ev er j thing ; be complimented the mem bers aud Secretary Sbermaa alike upon the fact that tbe Gverameut and Scheu.zju bonds were both at and above par. "The United States and u adopt ed citizens : The ono protects, the other upholds; together they are in vincible." Secretary Sbermau re sponded in a glowing address. "Tbe ladies, we never fail to love them." "What, never ?" "Well, hard ly ever." To this General Garfield responded in his usual eloquent sule, paying in tbe course of his remarks a rare tribute to women, saying that all over tbe world the trinity, mother, wife and daughter, were respected and venerated and that no man is fit to call himself such until be has loy ally and royally allied himself to the love of one true woman, and when he has done that he is'a King indeed. V olunteer toasts were tben in or der and at u o ciock tno company arose and tbe banquet was ended. Captain George W. Harrison, form erly Quartermaster at Cumberland, Md., during tho war, and brother of Charley Harrison, of Somerset, has received, through Senator Davis, of West Ya., an appointment as clerk to one of tbe Committees io Congress. Gen. Coffroth, before the House adjourned, presented a bill ia Con gress to place the name cf John Hammer, of Ilooversville, on the Pension rolls cf the Government. Samuel Gisel's claim for pension is nearly compleie and is only waiting bis record from tbe Y ar Department. Mrs. George Ackerman, claiming pension on account of tbe death cf ompanyofthe 54th Per.ni. Yols, has been granted her pension. Agitate, boys of tbe late war ; you will never get such another chance to have your cases passed. Rules of evidence are no doubt sometimes waived when the Chairman of the Pension Committee wants to get a case through, and assures tbe com missions that he personally knows that the claim is just, although every little point can t be covered by affida vit of persons, as the strict construc tion ot the law requires. Cambria county veterans are pushing their claims en masxe. A clerk told me tbe other day that from the applica tions received from Cambria county, he thought tbe whole -jounty must bo disabled. It is amusing to see our "Alec" go ut to Comr. Bentley to press a claim. Meditating I can hear him say, It is a damn shame to keep this poor woman out of her money so long. I am going to put tbis claim through or have a fight, Mr. Com missioner. We'd, my dear Chairman, you fellows make the laws and now you want me to break them. The case is suspended for the want of the necsssary evidence to complete the case. "What is wanting?" "The affidavit of the Captain." "Damn it, the Captain is dead. He was kill ed sixteen years ago." "Alec" gets mad, mulish, dashes out of the pen sion office in a fury and rushes down to the House, tells Downey to see by bis list of constituents if this woman ia a Democrat, and if so, to draw up a special bill in bcr case at once. In a few minutes he is seen in the House at the Spsaker's desk begging Ran dall to recognize him before he cools off. Randall agrees, of course, with the scientific politician, and in a meek and olive tone of voice the bill is pre sented and referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. If you want to be sure in getting your case through, get Alec mad. Picket. PARI LETTER. ( From oar Kegnlar Correspondent.) Paris, June 27, 1879. As all the world is now talking of Sarah Bernhardt, who has long teen one of the wonders of Paris, a short sketch of the great actress' profession al career will doubtless be perused with interest by your readers. Sar ah Bernhardt is of Jewish extraction; her father was an advocate at Havre, her mother wa3 Dutch, bhe entered tne conservation in jsiH and was a pupil of the actor Beau vallet. Mdlle Bernhardt pursued her studies with such success that she gained tbe first prize for tragedy, and was in conse quence entitled to a debut at the The atre Francais. The debut, however was a failure ; and her next attempt this time at the Gymnase proved a complete fiasco ; so complete in deed, that, after the second represen tation, tue discomnted actress fled from Paris, and, in a fareweU letter to the author Labiscbe wrote, "Ayez piiie d'une pauvre petite toquee." (Have pity on a poor little actress.) Returning after a short interval to the capital Mdlle Bernhardt perfor med at the Theatre of the Porte Saint Martin ; but here again she failed to please. Undaunted by misfortune, Sarah Bernhardt paid a visit to one of the directors of the Odeon, and asked him to receive her. This was M. Duquesnel, and to him she said, "I have , been turned away every where, but try me. I assure you there is something here," pointing, not to her head, but her heart, and tbey soon found at tbe Odeon that there was "something there." Sarah Bernnardt made her debut at this theatre in tbe role of Sylvia in the "Jeu de 1' Amour et du Uasard." In this character she did not shine; but wnen Alexander Dumas entrusted to her the leading female part in his "Kean," her success was assured ; and although the play was ill received. tbe house rewarded her with a perfect storm or applaus. During tbe war. proving that she bad a heart for ster ner realities than those of tbe stage, Mdlle Bernhardt assisted witb the ambulances, tending her wounded countrymen witb untiring care and devotion. Then came the peace and on Feb. 2. 1872, tbe enrtain rose on "Rny Bias," with Sarah Bernhardt as Queen of Spain. Her triumph was immense, and M. Yictor Huno declared that she realized the type of which he bad dreampt for Dona Maria. The Theatre Francaise took Mdlle. Bernhardt almost by force from the Odeon; but at first her success was comparatively slight ho was not fortunate in the parts allotted to ber; and even now, al though all Paris rings with her va ried fame, she bas had fewer original characters to create than have fallen to the lot of far inferior actresses, j But Mdlle. Bernhardt proved, in sev eral or Kaciues tragedies, that she ttfOne of French artistes ia capable of wearing with grace that, mantle that i slipped more than twenty years ago' from thn fihriiMurj nf ti ""JTl lr ?, I"' "r"V:. d lad who llttoZ iXfatX been feeling her way upon the st.ef biE Z ,IMS t.6' ?J 01 tne i-rancais, tound a congenial character la which the charm of her) voice, the bright intelligence of her diction, and her statuesque grace had full opportunity if display. Her suc cess was immense acd it sealed the future of 3 author who had waited evea longer than tbe interpreter for public recognition. No one can have watched Mdlle. Bernhardt, as "La Fille de Roland" winds her arms around tbe venerable form of Char lemaoge, without thinking what an exquisite Cordelia she would make, and without regretting that Shakes peare is practically banished from the French stage. Her next tragic crea tion was that of tbe blind Post u mi a in ''Rome Yaincue ;" and here again it was ber remarkable impersonation that redeemed the dulocss of a heavy tragedy. Her part in the "Etrangere, although inferior in interest, and even in importance, to that cf the Duchet-se de Septmonts, was a dis. distinctly individual creation, and ma ny will have an opportunity of ob serving to-night in London where she is now playing, bow completely tbis gifted actress contrive to merge her own individuality in that of tbe character she interprets. Even in ber accen. us Mrs. Clarkcson there is joHt i.o faintest possible indication ot ber foreign origin. Into tbe de tails of Mdlle. Bernhardt private life It would not be right to eater, were it not that all her multifarious occu pations are as much public property as are the doings of an American Pres ident. loose admitted to the pnvel ege of ber acquaintance have reason to laugh at tbe stories of ber employ iog others to do the work, in sculp ture, painting and literature, which goes forth to the world in her name. For all her work ia done more or less in public. Her studio is generally filled with friends, and it is in their presence, and in tbe midst of bright conversation, that she paints her pic- tores aud moulds tbe clay into shapes that will live. If she wears a cricket ing costume, it is only when she is employed on some colossal statue, such as that which bas been set np at Monaco; but when she is working on a bust she receives her visitors in ordinary attire, and in the superb studio, which is all that an artist caa dream. Mdlle. Bernhardt has the fancy of having her ceffia always near her, but tbis constant compan ionship with the idea of debt1) dots U cast a shadow over her gaiety, and many will agree with ber in thinking that familiarity with the inevitable is preferable to a craven fear of tbe future. The skeleton which ia in ev ery household occupies a post of hon or in that of Mdlle. Bernhardt. For his bony arms embrace the cheval glass in her bed room; and when she studies a new part, she makes this dumb prompter bold the manu script of her part in his fleshlcss hand. 1 bis ia one of tbe eccenincues of ge nius, and by way of proof that I am not using tbe word loosely I may ttite that M. de Girardin, no mean judge in such matters declares his conviction that Mdlle Bernhardt is a3 a tragedian fully equal to Rachel. On this point there can be no doubt, that the actress of to-day has all the winning tenderness in which her fa mous predecessor was conspicuously deficient. That Terrible Western Cyeloae. St. Louis. July 3. Sergeant Fin ney, of tbe Signal Service Corps, who left Washington about tbe 1st of June to investigate the terribly de structive cyclone wbicb occurred in Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri, on the 29th and 30th of May last, arriv. ed here to-day on his retnrn. Dur iotr bis trip be visited over thirty cities and towns in the States named. He surveved tbe entire ground over which the storm passed, and states that there was a general storm area in Northern Kansas, Southeastern Xebrasla and Northwestern Missou ri, and that he discovered traces of eleven distinct tornadoes, two cf which prevailed on tbe 29th and nine on the 30th of May, all orignating in that one storm area. Mr. Finney will make a fall report to the oignal Service Bureau. Aroaad tbe World la 71 Dttyu. Washington, July 2. Thos. W. Knox writes from the Lotos Club, New York, to Postmaster General Key that he bas received back two letters mailed by him on the 12th of March to go around the world in op posite directions. The eastward let ter made the cirouit in 89 days, inclu ding a four days' detention at Yoko hama, and the other circumnaviga ted the globe in 110 days, J3 of which were consumed by a detention at Yo kohama, whioh would have been avoi ded by an arrival at that port two days sooner. Tbe time made by tbe more rapidly transported of these two letters, or by any other yet re ported to the Poatoffice Department, baa been very greatly surpassed re cently by a letter mailed by a young clerk in tbe office of superintendent Blackfan, which accomplished the circuit of tbe world, westerly, in 71 days. t'baafflag a Railroad Gana-e. St. Louia, Mo., June 2G The preparations for changing the gauge of the St. Louis, Iron Moontain and Southern Railway, which had been in progress for the past two months, culminated on Friday night and at day-break on Saturday over 3,000 men commenced the work of shifting the rails, and long before nigbt the entire line, extending from St Louis to Texarcana nearly 700 miles had been changed from five feet to the standard gange of four feet eight and one half inches. The locomo tives and cars had also been altered to correspond, and traffic under tbe new order of things will proceed with out break or hindrance. The road will also be connected witb the Union Depot in this city to-day, and there after all passenger trains on this line for Southern points on both sides of tbe Mississippi river will start from that centre. Twa Ladles Jaoip Keeklesaly fratn a Traia. Newbcrgh, N. Y., July 3. Mrs. Henry Laroe, wife of the ticket agent at Neeleytowo, on the Montgomery and Erie Railroad, together witb ber sister, Lizzie Clark, aged seventeen years, of turners, jumped from an Erie train at the latter place this morning. Mrs. Laroe, aged twenty- two years, a bride of five week, was instantly killed, and Miss Clark seri ously injured. The yooog ladies had forgotten' to leave the cars at Turners, and did Lot realize the speed of tbe train wheo tbey jumped off after passing the station. ' Tramp puied Beard i at; a rrcia, ' Traia. w . -- . ABTI.NSBl Rll, W . a , J Uly 3 killed. From papers found on his person his name is supposed to be Yalentioe, from Cincinnati, Ohio XW 4DVERT1SEMEX7S, s TRAWBRIDGE Now Invlle cjkxII attention to the "DIRIESS a-OOZDS STOClc Ai reinntln Foreign and Domestic Fabrics, Neror before thown In PhilruleltiMa. 300" riW'13 SITTINGS AT ISc, Comprising MUUAIKS, DIAGONALS, CASHMERES, NOVELTIES, BEIGES, ETC. W BAYS OTU 500: PIECES SUITINGS AT Comprising AKMCKES, BEIGES. MUHA1RS. BUt'R ETTES, STRIFES. PLAIDS, ETC. Wl BATE OTCB J OQO PIECES SUITINGS AT 25. Comprising MOM IE CLOTHS, CASHMERES. SILK MIX ED SUITINGS, ALL-WOOL CHECKS, PIKE MOH1IKS, SOFT-WOOL BEIGES. CAMEL'S HA IK, STRIPES, PLAIDS, ETC,, ETC. Wl HAVK OVE8 303 ALL-WiXH. BKli JS AT BOTH TWILLED AND PLAIN. "we also BLACK HEENANIES & GRENADINES, At prices from 20 cent i $2,50 per yard, aud io assortment of styles quite extr. Please NuTE: Weemplov no agents. Send direct to pies of whatever j . u may need, and STBAfBB IDGE N. W. COR. EIGHTEMMARKET STS. PHILADELPHIA Apr 30 AT C. IST. Maxxuth Blocs, Tan CARBOLINE. HOP BITTERS, COH LIVEK OIL. Al GI ST FLOWER HI LL'SCOCGH SYRUP, ST. J ACOB S OIL. HAMHCKGhR TEA. GA KGLING OIL, HALLS HAIR KENEWER, AVER'S HAIR VIGOR, BASE BALLS. OARDKNSKKDS. FINE STATU ERY, CLOTH HKI'SHES, FISHING TACKLE, POCKET BOOKS. PENS a PENHOLDERS, TOOTH HKI'SU:s. SACK ET LUNKBORG S PERFUMERY, FINE CIGARS. PHYSICIANS PRESCRIPTIONS AND HOME RECEIPTS A. SPECIALTY. ICE COLD SODA WATER. C. N. BOYD, SUCCESSOR TO G. W. SPEEES 3IniiuiiotIi ISIoek May 14, T THE CHEAPEST -WKST ALLEGHENY BY ERS & (SUCCESSORS TO JOHN F. B'.Y-YER.l SOMERSET, PA. We take pleasure in announcing to the public that we have JUST irECEI VEI a ware, wmcn we lntena to sell at PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES ! Our stock is complete in all respects, ami comprises even article usually kept in Hardware Stores. Blacksmiths' tools and supplies, such as Iron. Norway Xail rod Iron, Vulcan Horse-nails, Sleigh-shoes and Cast Steel. Carriage and Tire Bolts, and BUILDERS' comprising a full line of Him H rought Butts, acorned and always on hand, also a full assortment of Glass. CARPENTERS' TOOLS. We have always on hand a complete stock cf Saws both Hand and Cross-cut, Axes, Hatchets, Hammers Steel ami Try Squares, Compasses, Bench and Fancy Planes etc., etc. We always keep a full line Powder-flasks, Shot-pouches, Shot-gun Powder, also a full -:0: We have a complete line of A full line of Saddlery Hardware, comprising Saddle-trees Buckles, Kings, Harness-pads, Ornaments, etc., etc. In the Agricultural Department we have a full stock of Forks, Shovels, Kope, Chains, brushes, etc., etc. :0: We make a specialty ofPockct and Table Cutlery. Ako Silver Plated Table Ware, Plated and Britannia Spoons. We also make a specialty of also Painters' Tools, etc. We keep constantly on Pump, (porcelain lined) and a lined, this Tump has taken introduced. All goods warranted to be are Fair Dealing, Quipk Sales, and Small Profit? We challenge competition. ' Cajl and examine goods, anil & certain prices before purchasing elsewhere. 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