ADVERTISING RATES.
3t. 1 on. 5 moe. 6 one. 1 vr.
1.60 1.73 3.50 6.00 • 10.70
3.10 3.50 5.00 14 07 16.00
4.511 5. 110 8.1 X) 15. 00 22 0:11
8.110 13. 10 CM/ 40. 07
10.10 21. al 35.00 60.00
15. 03 3)60 50.03 HI 00
23.121 00.e0 ROO 160.10
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e each aubseioeut insertion.
en linen agate constitute a square.
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A I.I.ENTO N, PA
Dry Goobs
A GREAT FAIR
la 2'ltli, Milk
to held at Allentown, an September 'Jab,
lid ()diher let. Many thonaanda of people will be ti m
ut and I.nudrrdo will hike thin opportunity of layln 10
heir fall clock of Dry floods.. We tenni yon to hop them
If us. Prat, bt4:mple thin will be to oar luteregt.
',arise this will he Jost as much to poor In 6 rrst. r We
• ro soiling many goods at about half limo prkes charged
p credit stores, who make cool, eueloinere pay for the
ones they sustain In wiling to credit customers.
KEEP CLEAT?. OF TUESE CREDIT ATORES.
e hey can't sell cheap even if they nun lit. Bay your
I coda at our ntore, for Ultra Is the cn ly exelnedeely 'nth
lore in fawn. We are crushing out high Priees fur DRY
I ODDS nod CARPETS. We sell goods herr ion an cheap
sln our two New-York City stores. Having ltern brought
up in the New-York market we ko ow rust how cud whet , '
to buy cheaply. The people ore Hocking to oar store from
far and near. Already we hove had customers CIIIIIO HUN/
/I (i./1 to trade with us, and telt)... but have found It to
pay then, lonely to do 8".
YOU VAN SA l'E FEW, TWO TO FOrE DOLLARS
OX BURRY TEN DO 0 LARS WORTH or
GOODS YOU 11( 1'
Toll
What yon save will pay year Uly hero, kollllls
may visit the fair without It costing yon nn Ythlog• It
will be best to come In early owl do roar shopping before
gulag to the fair grounds, leaving your bundles with ns
until you return. We will also revel ve and care for any
packages you luny leave with or rend to Its from other
store, We have bat one price for all, and so, whether
judges of goods or not, you can buy equally cheap. Our
Profits aro very small, so entail we could not live upon
them Hour business were not does iI'UF3Ve. We allow no
Misrepresentation of goods in air establialonent• 'lf tee
can' sell you abide by telling wolf the Woeo trhth
about them, then me won't sell Not ymls. We to not
advertise goods at ono price and then charge You another
whatLyun comm.l to buy them; We hope to 1,1 , 0 rout noon.
Our store Is upon the right hand Ode of the main street—
called Hamilton street—as you c , nuo up from it,. depots
of Om Lehigh Colley, East Venn and L• S H. Railroads,
and is opposite the only clotrell standing uptin this street.
Remember this nod remember the name and you will have
no trouble In finding Its.
14' OS T E S
NEW YORK CITY STORE,
19 EAST HAMILTON STREET,
=I
WHITE GOODS.
nia.ow REGULAR RATES
PLAIN, PLAID AND STRIPED NAINSOOKS.
PLAIN, PLAID AND STRIPED DUD AN DIES.
VICTORIA AND LAWNS,
PEKIN FORTES, New Style, and Choke for Dress,
PIQDES, In allndes,
SOFT AND HARD FINISHED CAMDRICS.
SHIRRED AIFSLINS. A Choi, Stock.
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FINE NEEDLE WORK EDGINGS and INSERTINOS at
)NE-II ALF VALVE.
/I AM DU DOH, In SW NS and CAM lIIIIC. A Fan swot.
RV MINUS 44101 kinds, as Al MIDI, EMPRESS, 11,.
MIZE
DEAL and I MIT ATION - C I , I PURE,
THREAD nut! VALENCIA.
BOBT NETS and WASH BLONDS.
I! DEN ADIN E 3 FOR VEILS, I'l New Colors.
LADIES', MISSES'. sud BOYS' CUFFS and COLLA DS
LEMAISTRE & 110tiS,
212 NORTH STREETi PIIILADA.
7-'6O
CHEAP PHHiADELPHIA STORE
•
moo are most respectfully Invited to cull nod erpttnluo
my stock of Cheap tioods, emiststluit or
RIIIRoNS, CORSETS, 11001 , sHinTs, RIO OIA,VES
HANDKERCHIEFS: ItHAI, .Al) IMITATION
LACES, LACE CoLLARS, FRINGES.
GLE & SATIN THIMSIII:iIS, FANCY
=9
GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS
Al 'b.) per rent. lean, than any aather Sture lu Alleutowo
GOODS DAILY RECEIVED
From New York And PlllllOOOOl/ AlletiOUN
THE CENTRAL PARK SHIRT,
%Odle. colored, rottld. p , teith.d mot other hole..
Coll null examine before I'tieehti4iNt ..lerwhere.
E01'01.1) 1.1:it;
pll3-1111 Ilatollten St., bet. Second anti Third, Firxt Ward
66 QUM/EN 4111.1NG1
Ira 1, LoWPRICES LAW, 1. - ENCE Y CT?
OLD. TIMES, AGAIN
IMMENSE REDUCTION IN PRICES I
THE OLD coRNER
STOCK OF SPRING GOODS,
I=l
STILE, VARIETY, AN() In WATER or PR(!•R
•
Fitt . Competition Ailed with any other Petal;nehmen(
outside f the larger eitiee...-2
SPACE WILL NIIT PERMIT OF NAMING such ati lin
1111'11, SiOlik or goods, but bit it -oilier to inty Iliac ois have
the 1110.6 t rwiPLETE of Good,
Dross Sill". Pouliot,
Shawls, Balmoral, note... Flll it
11is
lug Goods, Luillus' Cloaking Cloth Mou'n Winir in Cloth,
l:nxxlrurrrx hr., 01.1 everything tiara to Lunt Inn PI HST ,
CLASS Ultt 001/1/S STilliE in ...Iles!. variety. Ido not
"QUOTE PIiIEES" us some lions , . do, but will guaranis.,
ASTONISHING FIGI'IIES
The difference In price. 4111;0°11. to.dity, awl it month age,
ix rn,llYpultifill for thew %vb., have been caught with
large mock. MI hand al high prime., litti that i. wit the
eit.e with tne, I nhall heretofore make the 01.1)
NEI(
TILE ORtNT PLACE OF ENTEREsT
AN!) HEADQUARTERS
for tlto masses to got tt o goml+ tiw
LOWEST 'MARKET PRICES
I fully realize that no ermanent success eau boachleved
unless the promisee held,it by advertisements are round
to Ire fully suslimeil inn a visit to the shire. Nor ran it be
large interest , without serupalouslY reliable fair
dealing at all thorn and uniform courtesy to every custn•
flier, nod the endeavor to make every boy... mitisinot
dealer. All I ask is simply to doelde by actual trial
A whether or not it is to your advantage to 111'1,111P IL ell•itl•
Iti,pectfully
AI. J. KRANIEII,
"01,1) conNEit,"
OPPOSITE' THE EAGLE hHOT EI
april 14
210 . Tins Is BIRD'S. 210.
Thankful foe pool rayon., and hoping lor future pUtrn
ageove have 00 hand a great vorioty of sf , CK TARN
of nll droerlptlono. Moo.
GERMANTOWN, EUREKA AND GERM AN
ZEPI (YRS,
tilt
1 41;
CI A . I.l'
*l—Large nxnnrlumiul of
HOSIERY, SHIRTS AND DRAWERS,
regular made, rery rh,:my ,isl.‘s in no,
.2111 Poplar SI., alloy° 2.1, 1.61111.1 a.
CIMISE
Oita GOODS
EY HE. & LAND ELL
FOURTH AND ARCH' STREETS,
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CASH DEALERS IN THE BETTER
CLASS OF
DRY (1001)S
11001) BLACK SILKS. M ELOPEoN COVERS. EX PEN
SIVE SHAWLS. FINE PIANO COVERS. PIKE
DRESS GooDs, DoCIII.E. DAMASK CLOTHS,
PILLoW LINENs, FINE,T.IILA . CK MO
ILU It, FRUIT DoTLIES, coot) PLAIN
SILKS, Mol RE ANTIQUE NAMINS.
BLANKETS ,
p. B.—We keep u otock of (hoot Goods. adapted to the
daily ereuto ut , Noe S Gt
MM;GUI
_At reducedjorleee. novoParr, Powder Hort:m.oot Be
reall;:le . gr . rte.. I , Y o . F. 'WuUrns, at PA
t'eP 1547
VOL. XXIII
THE HAM-ERICAN RACE
By OIIPIIF.ITH C. KERB
'Twits by the wayside; near a Southern town,
I spied a sage beneath n tree reclining ;
Ills old straw hat was guiltless of a crown •
Ills pantaloons had tens of cloth than lining
Addrc - gpg hlm about the latest news,
I 0n1e,..‘, found him, by his salutatlon;
A man of boundless and erroneous views,
And vast and various misinformation.
"I reckon you're a Yankee, come," said be;
"Upon some sneaking mission or another,
•
To sec how being Equalized and Free
Agrees with him you call your colored brother
Extinction waits on him, with all his rights
So freely given by your laws confounded
keep attacking the defenceless whites,
Till all the colored race are killed or wounded.
"in New Orleans—behold the lesson taught !
When In convention certain blacks assembled,
A sound of peaceful throngs outside was caught,
And In the ball the blacks bloodthirsty trembled
Then through the whitlows, lobbies, out•n . gate,
• Its the armed Caucasian race surrounded,
The Freedmen sallied in their tnurderoue hate
And nineteen colored men were badly wounded
" In Central Georgia, several mouths ago,
The sons of Afrie held a Loyal meeting,
And divers White Men went to see the show
And give the speakers friendly Southern:greet
lug.
Ilnt lo! when speaking had gone on a spell,
And all the air with loyal words resounded,
Upon the hapless Whites the negroes fell,
And nineteen colored men were badly wounded
" In old Virginia, at a rural place,
Where ❑any Africans hail come for voting,
The merest handful of the Higher, Race
Were looking on and minor matters noting;
When, at a cry about some vote refused,
The Mocks infuriate on the handful bounded,
Their knives anti pistols mercilessly used,
And fourteen colored own were badly woundec
"So at the Capital of nil the States—
Your boasted Washington, the placid eity—
There were, In Journals of the proper dates,
Correct reports of what sliould move yom pity
The town election rallied countless blacks,
Who, armed and maddened and to riot. houndei
Made on the unresisting Whites attacks,
And fifteen colored men were badly wounded.
" Yet, furthermore: of late, In Tennessee,
Where Stokes was beaten at the polls by Settler
The savage negroes armed frotn head to knee,
Seemed on a light than on their votes it:tenter
To vent some petty diabolic spite,
Upon the plea of some vague charge unfounded
They turned in fury on a single White,
And sixteen colored men were badly woundet
" The rael. Hainserivan In dying out
The sage vonclinled with a dismal genture ;
And left mw victim of amazing doubt,
While he went onward id his ragged vesture.
If Southern Whites, unarmed, so deadly me
To Southern Colored men full armed and bande
How much more fatal would they he by far
If by the Reconstruction laws unhanded!
lIOW WE ASTONISHED TILE
HIVEHMOUTILIANS. •
t IROM THE STORY /OF A BAD 110 T
Among the few changes that have taken
place in Itivermouth t'itring the past twenty
years thOre Is one which I regret. I lament
the removal of all thosO yarnished iron cannon
which used to do duty 41s posts at the corners
of streets leading from the river. They were '
quaintly ornamental, each set upon end with
a solid shut soldered into its mouth, and gave
to that part of the town a picturesqueness very
poorly atoned for by the conventional wood
en stakes that have deposed them.
These guns (" old migers" the boys called
them) had their story, like everything else in
ltivernmath. When that everlasting last war
—the war of 1812, I mean—came to an end,
all the brigs, schooners, and barks fitted out at
this port as privateers were as eager to get rid
of their useless twelve-pounder and swivels as
thty had previously been to obtain them:
:Many of the pieces had_cost large sums, and
now they were little better than so much crude
iron,—not so good, in fact, for they were
clumsy things to break upend melt over. The
government didn't want them ; private citi
zens didn't want them ; they were a drug in
the Market.
lint there was one man, ridiculous beyond
his generation, who got it into his head that a
fortune was to be made out of these same guns.
To buy them all, to hold on to them until war
was declared again (as he had no doubt it
would lie in a few months), and then sell out
at fabulous prices,—this was the daring idea
that addled the pate of Silas Trefethen, "deal
er in E. & \V. I. Goods and Groceries," as
the faded sign over his shop-door informed the
put lie.
Silas went shrewdly to work, buying u
every old cannon he could lay hands 01
Ilia back-yard was soon crowded with brokei
down gun-carriages, and his barn with gnu
like an arsenel. When Silas's purpose g
wind it was astonishing how valuable th
thing became which just now was worth not
ins at all.
Ila, hn !" thought Sites; somebody else
is twin' to git control of the market. But 1
guess rye not the start of him."
So he wel.t on buying and buying; often
times paying dounle the original price of the
article. People in the neighboring towns col
lected all the worthless ordmince they could
flail, and sent it by cart-load to Rivermouth.
When his barn was full, Silas began piling
the rubbiSh in his cellar then in his parlor. lie
mortgaged the stock of his grocery - :store,,
ucrt•:aged Ins house, his barn, Ilk horse, and
would have mortgaged himself, if any one
would have taken him as security, in order to
carry on the grand speculation. lie was a
ruined man, Rha as happy as a lark.
Surely poor Silas was cracked, like the ma
jority of his own cannon. More'or less crazy
he must hove been always. Years before this
he pnrehased an elegant rosewood coffin, and
kept it ill one of the snare rooms in 'his resi
dence. lie even had his na n ny engraved on
tb:• silver-plate, leaving a blank after the word
Died."
The blank was tilled up in due time, and
well it was for Silas that he secured so stylish
a collin in his opiiknt days, for when lie died I
his worldly wealth, would not have bought
him a pine box, to say nothing of rosewood.
Ile never gave up expecting a war with Great
.11iltain. Hopeful and radiant to the last, his
dying.words were, England—war—few Joys
—great profits!
It was that sweet old lady, Dame Jocelyn,
who told me the story of Silas Trefethen ; for
these things happened long before my day.
Silas died in 1817.
At Trefethen's death his unique collection
came under thcanetioneer's hammer. Some
of the larger gluts were sold tithe town, and
planted at the corners of divers streets ; others
went elf to the iron-foundry ; the balance,
numbering twelve, were dumped down on a
deserted wharf at the foot of Anchor lane,
where smuttier after summer, they rested at
their use in the grass and fungi, pelted in au
tumn hy the ruin, .and annually buried by the
winter snow. It is with these twelve guns
that our story has to deal.
The wharf where they repoed was shut off
from the street by a high fence,-11
dreamy old wharf, cevored with strange weeds
and mosses. On account of its seclusion and
good fishing it afforded, it was much frequent
ed by us boys.
There we mammy an afternoon to throw
out our lines, or play leap-frog among the
rusty cannon. They were humus fellows in,
our eyes. What a racket they had made in
the In:y lay of their, unchastened youth I What
stories they might tell now, if their puffy me
tallic lips could only speak ! Once they were
lively talkers enough ; but there the grins sea
dogs lay, silent and forlorn in spite of all tlielr
. formergrowlings.
They' always seemed to me liken lot of ven
erable disabled tars, stretched out on a lawn
in front of a hospital, gazing seaward, and
mutely lamenting their lost youth.
cannon over on its back and were busy scrap•
Vehlob
leg the green rust from the touch-hole. The
mould had spiked the gun so effectually, that
for a while we fancied Ike should have to giVe
up our attempt to resuscitate the old soger.
" Along gimlet would clear it out," said
Charley Marden, " if we only had one."
I looked ti. see if Sailor Ben's flag was flying
Nth cahin door, for he always took in the
colors when he went off fishing.
" When yen want to know if the Admiral's
abroad, jest cast an eye 1. , ) the huntin', my
hearties," says Sailor lien.
Sometimes in a jocose mood he called him
self the Admiral, and I inn sure he deserved
to be one. The Admiral's flag was flying,
and I soon procured a gimlet from his careful
-1 tool-chest.
B:tfor.t. long we had the gun in working or
der. A newspaper lashed to the end of a latli
served as a SW:th to dust out the bore. Jack
Harria blew threw the touch-hole and pro
nouneel all clear.
But once mare they were destined to lift up
their dolorous voices,—once more ere they
keeled over and lay speechless for all time.
And this is how it befell.
'Jack Barris, Charley Mardian, Harry Blake,
nod myself were fishing off the grass-grown
Nvharf afternoon., when a thought flashed
upon me like an inspiration.
"I say, boys!" I cried, hauling in my' line
hand over bitud, it I've got something !"
What does it pull like. youngster ?" asked
looking down at the twit line and ex
. peeling to sec, a big perch at last.
"0, nothing in tie link way," I returned,
lau:tbing ; " about the old guns."
" Whai about th u. ?"
I was thinking what jolly fun it would lie
to see one tx the old sogers on his. legs and .
serve him out a raticm of old gunpowder."
Up came the three lines in a An en
terprise better suited to the disposition of my
mot:paid:tits cult not have been proposed.
In a short time we had one of the smaller
rik-eing our nisi: accomplished so easily, we
turned one attention to the other guns, ‘.vhich
lay in all sorts of postures in the rank grass..
ll•trrowing a rope Irmo Sailor lien, we man
aged with inunitnse labor to drag the heavy
pieces into pm-ition and place a brick under
each muzzle to give it the proper elevation.
When We beheld (Item all in a row, like a
regular Inttleu, we simultaneously conceived
an idea the magnitude of which struck us dumb
for a moment.
Our first intention was to load and lire a
single gun. How feeble and insignificant was
such a plan compared to that which now sent
the light dancing into our eyes !
" What could we have been thinking of ?"
cried Jack Harris. " We'll give 'em a broad
side, to be sure, if we die for it I"
We turned to with a will, and before night
fall had nearly half the battery overhauled and
ready for service. To keep the artillery dry
we stiffed wads of loose hemp Into the muz
zles, and fitted \Vooden pegs to the touch
holes.
AA recess the next noon the Centipedes met
in a corner of the ,choolyard to talk over the
proposed lark. The original projectors,
though they would have liked to keep the
thing secret, were obliged to make n club
matter of it, inasmuch as funds were required
for ammunition. There had been no recent
drain on the treasury, and the society could
well afford to spend a few dollars in so nota
ble an undertaking.
It was unanimously agreed that the plan
should be carried out in the handsomest man
ner, and a subscription to that end was taken
on the spot. Several of the Centipedes hadn't
a cent excepting the one strung around their
necks; others, - however, were richer. I
chanced to have a dollar, and it went into the
pricker than lightning. When the chili,
of my munificence., voted to name the
ns Bailey's Battery- I was prouder titan I
Ave ever since been over anything.
The notney thus raised, added to, that al
ready in the treasury :unopened to nine dol
lars,—a fortune in those days ; but not more
than we had use for. This sum was divided
into twelve parts, for it would not dofor one
boy to buy all the powder, nor even for us all
to make our purchases at the same place.
That would excite suspicion at any time, par
ticularly at a period so remote fronythe Fourth
u. July.
There were only three stores in town licensed
to sell powth r; that gave each store four
customers. Not to run the slightest risk of
remark, one boy bought his pOwder on Mon
day, the next boy on Tiussilay, and so on un
til the requisite quantity was in our posSrs
sion. This we pot into a keg and• carefully
hid in a dry spot on the wharf.
(Mr next step was to finish cleaning the
guns, which occupied two afternoons, feii• sev
eral ;if the old sogers were is a very coitgest
e.': state indeed. Having complAt d the task,
we came upon a difficulty. To set Mr tlw bat
tery by daylight was out of the questi , m ; it
neat he done nt night ; it must be done with
fuses, for no doubt themeighbors would turn
out after•the first two or three shots, mid it
would not pay to be caught in the vicinity.
Who knew anything about fuses'? Wit"
could arrange it so the guns would go all' one
'ter the other, with an interval of a minute
ME
tr so between'.'
Theoretically we knew that a minute-fuse
lasted a minute ; double the quantity, twit
minutes; but practically we were at a stand
still. There was but one persfM who could
help us in this extremity—Sailor Ben. To
me was assigned the duty of oktahting what
information I could from the ex-guaner, it
being left to my discretion whether or not to
intrust him with our secret.
So one evening I dropped into the cabin and
artfully turned the conversation to fuses in
general, and then to particular fuses. but with
out getting much out of the old boy, who was
busy making a twine hammock. Finally, I
was forced to divulge the whOle plot.
The Admiral had a sailor's love Mr a Joke,
and entered at once and heartily into our
scheme. Ile volunteered to prepare the fuses
himself. and I left the labor in his bands, haw
ing bound hint by several extraordinary oaths
—such as " llope.l-may-die" and "Shiver
my-timbers"—not to betray us, come what
would.
This was Monday evening. Ott Wednesday
the fuses were ready. That night we were to
untnuzzle Bailey's 'Battery. Mr. Grimslutw
film that something was wrong somewhere,
for we were restless and absentmtinded in
the classes, and the best of us came to grief
before the morning sesOon.was.over. When
Mr. Gritushaw announced "Guy Fawkes' . as
the subject for our next composition, you
might have knocked down the Mystic Twelve
with a feather.
The coincidence wits certainly curious, but
when a man has committed, or is aliout to
commit, an offence, a hundred trifles, which
would pass unnoticed at another time, seem to
point at him with convicting lingers. No
doubt Guy Fawkes himself received many' a
start after he had got - his wicked kegs Of gun
, powder neatly piled upsonnder the House of
Lairds.
Wednesday, as have mentioned, was
half-holiday, and the Centipedes assembled in•
a barn to decide on the final arrangements.
These were as simple as' could be. As the
fuses were connected, it needed but one person
to fire the train. liereupon arose a discussion
us to whti was the proper person. Some ar
gued that I ought tc apply the much, the kr.t
tery being christened after me, and the main
idea, Moreover, being mine. Others advocat
ed the claim of Phil Adams as the oldest boy.
.ALLENTOWN, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1869
At last we drew lots for the post of honor,
Twelve slips of folded paper, upon one of
which wits written "Thou art the mini,"
were placed in a quart measure, and thorough
ly Shaken ; then each member stepped up and
lifted mit his destiny. At a given signal we
opened oar billets. 'Trims; art the mall,"
saidnise slip of paper trembling in my fingers.
The sweets and anxieties of a leader were
mine the rest of the afternoon.
Directly after twilight set in Phil Adams
stole :lawn to the wharf and fixed the fuses to
the guns, layinv train of powder front the
principal fuse to the fence, through a chink of
which I was to drop the match at midnight.
At ten o'clock Rivermouth goes to bed.
At eleven o'clock Itivermouth is as quiet as
a country churchyard.
At twelve o'clock there:is nothing left with
which to compare the stillness that broods over
the little seaport.
In the midst of this stillness I arose and .
glided out of the house like a phantom bent on
an evil errand ; like a pliaStom I flitted
through the silent street, hardly drawing
breath until I knelt down beside the fence at
the appointed plate.
Pausing a moment for my - heart to stop
thumping, I lighted the match and shielded it
with both hands until it was well under way,
and then dropped the blazing splinter , on the
slender thread 'if gunpOwder.
A noiseless flash instantly followed, and all
Was Mirk again. I peeped through the crevice
in the fence, and saw the main fuse Spitting
out sparks like a conjurer. Assured that the
train had not' failed, I took to my heels, fearful
lest the fuse might burn more rapidly than We
calculated, and cause an explosion before I
could get home. This, luckily, did not hap
pen. There's a special Providence that
watches over idiots, drunken men and boys.
I dodged the ceremony of undressing by
plunging into bed, jacket, boots, and all. I
ant not sure I took off my' clip,; but I know
that I had hardly pulled the coverlet overate,
when " Boom !" sounded the first gun of Bai
ley's Battery.
I lay us still as 11 mouse. In less than two
minutes there was another burst of thunder,
and then another. The third gun was a tre
mendous fellow and fairly shook the house.
The town was waking up. 11 - indows were
thrown open here and there and people called
to each other across the streets asking what
that firing was for.
" B(1(.31 r went glut number four.
I sprung out of bed and tore off my jacket,
for I heard the Captain feeling his way along
the wall to my* chamber. I was half undress
ed by the time he faund the knob of tife door.
" I say, sir," I cried, "do you hear those
guns?"
"Not being deaf, I do," said the Captain; a
little tartly,—any reflection on his hearing al
ways nettled him ; " but what on earth they
arc fir I can't conceive. You had better get
up and dress yourself."
" I'm nearly dressed, sir."
" !loom ! Boost r —two of the guns had
ply MT together.
The door of Miss Abigail's bedroom opened
Mistily, and that pink of maidenly propriety
stepped out into the hall in her night-gown,—
the only indecorous thing I ever knew her to
do. She held a, lighted candle in her hand and
looked like a very aged Lady Macbeth.
"I) Ban'el, this is dreadful ! What do you
suppose it 11100 . 15 ?" •
" I really cant suppose," said the Captain,
intleding his car; "but I guess it's over now."
"BOOM I" said Bailey's Battery.
ltivermouth NN as wide awake now, and half
the mule population were in the streets, run
ning different ways, for the firing seemed to
proceed from opposite points of the town.
Everybody waylaid everybody else with ques
tions; but as . no one knew what was the occa
sion of the tumult, people Who were notnsually
nervous began to be oppressed by the toys:
t cry.
Some thought the town was being bombard
ed ; some thought the world was coming to an
end, us the pious and ingenious Mr. Miller Mid
predicted it would ; but those who couldn't
form auy theor . V . Whatever were the most per
plexed.
In the meanwhile Bailey's Battery bellowed
away at regular intervals. The greatest con
fusion reigned everywhere by this time. Peo
ple with lanterns rushed hither and thither.
The town-watch had turn d out to a man and
marched ffir, in admirable order, in the wrong
direction. Discovering their mistake, they
retraced their steps, and got down to the
wharf just as the last cannon belched forth its
lightning.
A .dense cloud of sulphurous smoke • floated
over Anchor Lane, obscuring the starlight.
Two or three huno.red people, in various stages
or excitement, crowded about the upper end of
the wharf, not liking t 6 advance farther until
they were satisfied . that the explosions were
over. A board was hen': and there blown
from the fence, and through the openings thus
afforded a few of the more daring spirits at
length ventured to crawl.
The cause of the racket soon transpired. A
suspicion that they had been sold gradually
dawned on the Ifivermouthians. Many were
I exceedingly indignant, and declared that no
penalty was severe enough for those concern
ed in such a pram:; others—and these were
the I,:ery pehple who had been terrified nt , arly
out of their wits—had the assurance to .laugh,
saying that they knew all along it was only a
trick.
The town-watch boldly took possession of
the ground, and the crowd began to disperse.
Knots of gossips lingered here and there near
the place, indulging in vain surmises as to who
the invisible gunners could lie.
There wits no more noise that night, but
Many a timid person lay awake expecting a
renewal Of the mysterious cannonading. The
Oldest Inhabitant refused to go to bed on any
terms, but persisted in sitting up in,a rocking
chair, with his hat and mittens on, until day-
break.
I thought I should never get to sle . ep. The
moment I drifted off in a doze I fell to laugh
ing and woke myself up. But towards morn
ins slumber overtook me, and I had a series of
disagreeable dreams, in one of which I was
waited upon by the ghost of Silas Trefethen
with an exorbitant bill for the use of his guns.
In another, I was dragged before a court-mar
tial and sentenced by Sailor Ben, in a frizzed
wig; and three•eornered cocked hat, to be shot
to death. by Bailey's Battery,--=a sentence
which Sailor Ben was about to execute with
his OMI hand; when I suddenly opened my
eyes and found the sunshine lying pleasantly
across my face. I tell you I was glad !
The unaccountable fascination which leads
the guilty to hover about the spot where his
; crime was committed drew tine' down to the
wharf as soon as I was dressed. Phil Adams,
lark Harris,: and others of the conspirators
were already there, examining with a mingled
feeling of curiosity and apprehension the havoc
accomplished by the battery.
The fence was badly shuttered 'and the
ground ploughed up for several yards round
the place where the guns formerly lay,--fornt
: erly lay, for now they were scattered every
1 way.
There was scarcely a gun that hadn't
bursted. Here was one ripped open from
muzzle to breech, and there was another with
Its mouth blown into the shape el a trumpet.
Three of the guns had disappeared bAily, but
•
on look ing over the edge of the wharf we saw
them standing on end in the title-mud: They
had popped overboard in their excitement.
" I tell you what, felloiva," whispered Phi
Adams, " It Is lucky We didn't try to toucl
'ern off \vial punk. They'd have blown Us all
'to fliodera "
The. destruction of Bailey's Battery •,ens not
ifortunately, the only catastrophe. A frog-
era of one of the cannons had carried away
the chimney of Sailor Ben's cabin. lie was
very mad at tirst,.but having prepared the fuse
himself he didn't dare complain openly.
" have taken a reef in the blessed stove
pipe," said the Admiral. gazing ruefully at the
smashed chimney, "if I had known as how
the Flagship was agoin' to be under tire."
The next day he rigged out an iron funnel,
which, being in sections, could 1w detached
and taken in at a moment's notice. On the
whole, I think he inwardly gloated over the
demolition of his brick chimney. The stove
pipe was it great deal more ship-shape.
The town was not so easily appeased. The
setaamen determined to make an example of
the guilty parties, and o trered a reward for
their arrest, holding out it promise of Pardon
to any one of the offenders who would furnish
information against the rest. But there were
no faint hearts among the Centipedes. Suspi
cion rested tin - a while on several persmy,—
On the soldiers at, the fort ; on a crazy fellow
lillOWllllb6llt town as " Bottle-Nose"
at last on Sailor lieu
''Shiver my timbcps I' ' crier , that deeply in
red individual. ‘• Do you amm:a.. sir, as
have lived to sixty year, an' ain't got no more
sense than to go t*or to blaze away at My own
upper rlggin'?. It doesn't stand to reason."
It certainly did not seem probable that Mr.
Watson would maliciously knock over his 0)511
chimney, and Lawyer Scratch, who had the
case in hand, bowed himself out of the Admi
ral's cabin convinced that the right man lm tl
not been discovered.
People living by the seh are always more or
ess stsperstitions. Storiesofsp;rolre,shipsen
nysterious beacons, thin hire vessels out
Li:lr course mid wreck them on unknown reel'.
were among the stock legends of itivermonth;
and not a few people in the town were ready
to attribute the dring or those guns to some
supernatural agency. 'rite Oldest Inhabitant
remembered that wlll.ll I%e was a I.'y a din
looking sort of schooner hove to in the ollin
one foggy afternoon, tired olf a single gunilu
didn't make any report, and lion crumbled t
nothing, spar, utast, and hulk, like a piece
burnt paper.
The authorities, however, were of the opit
ion that human hands had something to d
with the explosions, and they resorted to deep
laid strategems to get hold of the said hands
One of their traps came very near catching its
They artfully caused an old brass-piece to be
left on a wharf near the scene of our late
operations. Nothing in the world but the lack
of money to buy powder saved us from falling
into the clutches of the two watchmen who In
secreted for a week in a neighboring sail-loft.
It was many a day belbre the midnight
bombardment ceased to be the town-talk.
The trick was so audacious and on so grand a
scale that nobody thought for an instant or
connecting us lads with it. Suspicion at
length grew weary of lighting on the wrong
person, and 118 conjecture—like the physician's
in the epitaph—was in vain, the Itivermout
isms gave up the idea of finding out who had
.astonished them.
They never did find out, and never will,
unless they read this veracious history. If
the selectmen are still disposed to punish the
malefactors, I can supply Lawyer Scratch with
evidence enough to convict Pepper Whitcomb,
Phil Adams, Charley Mardcn, and the other
Ivmornblc members of the Ccntlprue Club.
But really I don't think it would pay now.—
From Our Young Folks.
THE I'HOFESSOU_IN FIX
Some students in line of our colleges tieing
frequently annoyed by the nocturnal. and in
quisitorial visits of a professor, who suspected
them or playing cards, one evening prepared
a kettle of mush,' otherwise called hasty pud
ding, and by the time it WaS boiled, had seat
ed themselves around the table in lee attitude
vl'c:trd•playing, waiting patiently for the well
kelOWll Still of th, professor, It aras uo smoi
er heard than a large outside pocket of one of
theta was forthwith tilled with Moistly pudding,
and all were seated as before. As soon as:the
professor had opened the door, the student
NVIIO l o aded with the 11111Sil Meth' 11.
den sweep aver 1111 table Nrith his hand, as it'
to gather up the cards. and with anothor mo
tion apparently put them into the pocket con
' Mining the mush. These movements could
not help being noticed, as they were intended
to be,•by the professor, who, considering them
as a pretty strong evidence of guilt, broke out
with the following: Well, young gentle
men, I've caught you at it at last, have I ?"
" Why, yes, it, we are all here."
" So I see you are, and you have been play
ing cards, too."
"No, sir, it is not so."
".It isn't, ha ! What have you got in your
pocket, young man ?"
." lila hasty pudding, sir."
"I ha hasty 'wading, ha! hasty pudding,
have you? hasty pudding you,'' said the
professor, at tlmsame time thrusting his hand
half-way to the elbow into the hot hasty pad-
The dolorous looks, the shaking of lingers,
le groaning and capers of the professor, lie
ing to the sphere of imagination, tun &scrip.
.SPl , ..sl:lNoor the physi o logical action of tea
And colfee, Baron Lichlg says : We must
"presuppose that if these stimulants did not
"satisfy some powerful want of our organiza
" lion, men would hardly take the trouble to
" seek them ; find that instinct should,. in so
'• wonderful amanner, among a countless num
" her of plants, choose Just each as produce
" substances inducing•the sathe Okra, shows
".that one and the same gap exists in the nu
" trition of man in all countries and zones."
Granting that the gap exists, and also many
others, amen; Which that for whiskey is not
the least capacious, \\I:AIM)* still reasonably
doubt that instinct has any such power as the
great chemist ascribes to it. Young ladies
may have an instinctive fondness for candy,
but they would reimire a long apprentie,ship
before they could learn to love bitter aloes.
If instinct is so wonderfully acute, why can
not it detect that three-fourths of what is sold
n's tea is but miserable rubbish, and that coffee
is largely cc:ill:used of chicory, extract of dan
delion, and logwood ?-7Ttibtrar.
BENEFIT OF THE . Bool.—Some minstrels
recently started out on a "lower," and ad
vertised in a town to give a performiince for
"Ow benefit oe the poor. 'l'iekrts reduci.d to
sixpence." The hall was crammed, and next
morning n commilLTfor the poor called upon
the trea,mrer of the . concern for the amount
the said benefit had netted. The treasurer
expressed astonishment at the demand. "I
thought," said the . chairman of the committee,
"you advertised this concert for the benefit of
the poor ?"—" Well," replied the treasurer,
"didn't we reduce the tickets to sixpence so
that the Poor could all ceme ?"
LOOK out for a big ' crow' I from the Demo
cratic roosters ! They have carried two c o up =
ties in the State of Maine instead oi's.r.ly one,
as was the case last year. They are indebted
to their allies—the Temperance men—for their
good luck. •
A DAY AT NIAGARA
Et=
Niagara Falls is one or the finest structures
the known world. I have been visiting
tis favorite watering place recently, for the
rst tune, and was well pleased. A gentle-
o win; with III( said it was customary
appointed in the Falls, but that sub
vitits were sure to set, that all right.
an xeh
he ilk
sequent
lle tiald it WIN so with him. Ile said that the
first time he w:mt the hack fares were so much
higher than the Falls that the Falls appeared
tnigniticant. But that is all regulated now.
The haelcinen tiave been tamed, anti number-
ed, and placarded and blackgnarded and
brought into stiltjt:tetion to tlw law, and dosed
with ,Moral Principle till they are as meek as
They are divided into two clans
now. the 'Regulars and the Privateers, and
they employ their kite tim,t in warning the
public against each other. 'l•he Regulars are
tinder the hotal banners, and do the legiti•
linty at two dollars an hour, and the Priv:l
eer; prowl ,larltly on nenti . al ground and
nelt off s,tragglers at Italc price. But there
are no more outrages and extortions. That
sort orthing cured itself. It made ll•.• Falls
unpopular by getting into the newspapers,
and whenever a public evil achi e ves that sort
of a snecessor itself, its days are numbered.
It became apparent that'Either the Falls had to
he discontinued or the haelmien had to sub
sid,_•. They could not dam the Falls, so they
Elmuned the haelimen. One can he eomforta
hlt mid happy there now. •
MI
I=
I drank up nue.4 ol• the American Fall be
fore I I_:u•ned that the waters were not con
ididered medicinal. Why are people 14t in
ignorance in Ibis 'say'? I might have gone
on 'tad ruined a properly merely for the
want of a little trilli:t• - information. And yet
sources of information at Niagara Falislare
not meagre I You are sometimes left in
(MIN there about what you ought to do, but
yott are seldom in doubt about what yon must
h,,t do. No—the signs keep you posted. If
an infant can read, that infant is measurably
safe at Niagara Falls. In your room at the
hotel you will find your course marked out for
you in the most convenient way by means cif
placard.; on Um wall, like these:
" Pull the bell rope gently, but don't jerk."
Holt your door."
" Don't serape matches on the wall."
" Turn off your gas when you retire."
"Tie the dog."
" It' you place your hoots outside your door
they 1%111 be blacked—but the house will not
be responsible fire their return." [This is a
confusing tanglesome proposition—because it
moves you to deliberate long and painfully us
to whether it will really be any object to you
to have your boots blacked unless they are
returned.]
"Give your key to the connibus driver if
you forget and aim• it oIT with you."
Ont,ble the hotel,' wherever you wander,
you are intelligently assisted by the signs,
You cannot ran( to 'grief as long as you urn
in your tight mind. lint the difficulty is to
Way in your right mind with so much instruc
tion to keep track or. For in,tance :
. " Keep the grass.”
Don't climb the trees."
" Hands of the vegetables."
" not hitch your horse to the shrubbery."
" Visit the Cat :.• oi*the Winds."
"hive your portrait taken in your curl-
age."
• P.,rl ypu ult... ,44,1,1 "II p...
nuts or other Indian curiosities purehaital it
l'autula."
"Photographs of the Palk taken here."
" Visitors kill please notify the soperinten
drat or any neglect 00 the part or the etnploy
,s to charge for• conimotlities or services
[ No inattention ut this 1011(1' observed. ]
" Don't throw stones down—they may lii
people
" •I'lu• pmprietors kill nut ill' rovonsibl
for persons \hojuml• over the Falls." Obit .
shirking 01' responsibility—it appears to be th.
prevailing thing here.]
I always Inn, a high regard for the Signers
or the Declaration of Intlependiatee, but now
they do not really seem to amount to innelt
14Ingsi . .le the "sign:Ttt Of Niagara Falls. To
lithe plum truth, the multitude Of signs all
oyed inv. It was because I noticed at last
hal they always happened to prohibit exactly
lae very thing I was just wanting to do.
eArea to roll on the gr,,ss ; the sign proltil,it
(l it. 1 NVlSitett to Ciilllll ❑ I ITV ; the t+igli pro
'liked it. 1 longed to smoke; tt,igll habittle
it. And I wasgointt tr throw a•stone over to
n,toni9ll and pulverize such parties as might
be picnieims below, when it sign I have just
mentioned f.0.b....1e that. Even that poor sat
isfaviion teas denied nn , , (and 1 11 friendless
orphan.) There recourse now, but to
seek consolation hi tht. tlowing howl. I drew
nay flask from my 'pocket, but it was all it
vain. .t sign coaronted Inv which said :
" No drinking all o wed uu thesc premises."
int that spot I might have periAted of thirst
but for the saving words of tun holtorcd maxin
that flitted through my memory at the. critic
moment, ‘• All signs tail in dry time." Coin
nuon law takes precedence r the statutes.
was •aved.
TUE NUBIA-. ItED MAN.
I . llu noble re•l 1111111 lii s always been n d
ling of min,. 1 10,, to read ahnut hint in tale
nod legends and rntnnneec. I love to rend t
his inspired sagacity, and his love of the wild
free life of mown ail, and ror,st ; and ids
grand truthfulness, his hatred cif treachery,
and his general nobility a ,thametur ; and his
stately metaphorical manner of speech ; and
chivalrous love ,for the dusky maiden; and
tliv,picuiresgoe pomp of his aress rued aCCIIII
- \\'lu•n 1 found the shop.; at Niagara
Falls full Of dainty liidinn lend work, 101(1
stunning nmeassins, and equally stunning toy
figures representing Mutton beings \c ho carried
their xvenpons in- holes bored through their
arms and bodies, and bad feet shaped like
pit., Iu us tilled with emotion. 11 0 101%' that
itow at laA, I was going to coon• face to face
with the 'Noble lied Man. A holy clerk in tlt:•
Khoo told ute, indeed, that all her grand urt•ay
tyrre made by the Indians, and
that there were plenty about the Falls, and
that they were t'riendly and it would not be
dangerints to speak to them. And sure
(along'', as 1 :gipro:h•hed the bridge—leading
over tit Luna !glum!, I (!qllll . 1111011 a noble oh
Son of the F4)rest sitting tinder a tree, dill
gently at Ivor]; on a bead reticule. IL• wort
a slouch, hat aid brogults, and had a shor
blael: pipe in his month. Thu.; 4101,, the hale
till contact with o n t•
lute the pieturesque•pomp which so natural
to the Indian when tier removed ri om us in
his native haunts. t addressed the relic as
10110 N% .,
Is the Wawhoo-Wang-wang of the Week
a-Whael: happy ? Does the great Speckled
Thunder sigh for the war path, or is his heart
contented will , tiro:it-big of his dusky maiden
the Pride of the Forest ? Duos the mighty
saebent yearn io drink the blood of his ene
tties, or ;s satisfied to make bend reticules
for the impulses of the pale face ? Speak, sub
lime relic pi' bygone grandeur—venerable ruin
speak i" •
The relic.said
An' is it Plunisilooligan, that, ye'd
Le takin* for a bloody lnjln, ye drawlln', lan
tern-jawed, spider-legged devil I By the pi
per that played before .hoses, I'll ate ye !"
I' went away from there..
By-and-by, in the neighborhood of Terra
pin, I came upon a gentle daughter of the
aboriginees, in fringed and beaded buckskin
mocasslys and leggins, seated on a bench with
her pretty wares about her. She had just
carved out a wooden chief that had a strong
family resemblance 14, a clothes pin, and WIN
now boring n hole through his McMillen to put
his bow through. I hesitated a few moments
mid then addressed her:
" Is the heart or the forest maiden heavy ?
Is the Laughing Tadpole lonely ? Does she
mourn over the extinguished council fires of
her race and the vanished glory of her ances
tors ? tir does her sad spirit wander afar
towards the hunting grounds whither her
brave Gobbler of the Lightning is gone ?
Why is my daughter silent ? lbw she aught
against the pale face stranger?',
The maiden said :
•
"Fuis, an' is it Biddy Malone ye dare to in
callin . names! Lave this or VII shy your
lean carcass over the catharart, yi
Wag-yard I .
I adjourned from there, also. " Conround
these Indians," I said, they told me they
were lamebut, if oppeantoo,, should go for
any thing, I should say they were all on ;:m•
Wily ',Tani."
I mad: , one more attempt to fraternize with
them, and only one. I came upon a camp of
them gathered In the shade of a great tree,
making wampum and mocassius, :viol address
ed them in the language or trien !ship.
"-Noble Red 1L n, Brr.vc, Grand Fack..ms,
War Chiefs, Squaws and Ilighyou-Muek-a-
Mucks, the pale face From the hold or the set
ting Am greets you! You Beneficent Polecat
—you, I) , ..vourer of Mountains—you, Roaring
Thundergust —you, Bully boy with a glass
Eye:dht• pale face from beyond the great
-waters greets you all !, \Var aml pestilence
destroyed your once proud nation. Poker
and seven up, and a . vain modern expense rot .
soap unknown to your glorious ancestors,
have depleted your purses. Appropriating in
your simplicity the property of others, has
gotten you into trouldo. Misrepresenting facts
ie your sinless innocence, has damaged your
reputation with the soulles usurper. 'Fr:tiling
for forty-rod ~hisk,y to enable you to get
drunk and happy aml tomaltaw it your families
has played the everlaming mischief with the
picturesque pump of your dress. and here you
are, in the broad light gir the nineteenth cen
tury, gotten up like the rag tag mutt bobtail of
the purlieus of New York i For shame !
Remember your ancestors ! Recall their
flighty deeds ! Remember Cocas' ! and Red
,ticket!—and llolerindlte-Day ! and Ilorace
Greeley ! Enmlate their achievements ! Un
furl yourselves under my banner, noble sav
ages, illustrious gutter-snipes--"
" Down wid him I"
"Scoop the blagyard r•
"llang him!"
" Born him!" . .
. "])brown hint !"
It wits the quickest operation that ever was,
I simply sow a sudden dash in the air acluhs,
brickbats, lists, brtuul baskets, and iitoccasins—
a single Hash. and they nil appeared to hit nte
at once, and no two (Willem in the same place.
In the next instant the whole tribe was upon
me. They tore all the clothes 1 . 1%1111 me, they
broke toy arms and ; they grove me a
thump that dented the top of toy head till it
would hold r-offt, like a saucer; an.l to crown
their disgraceful proceedings told add insult to
Injury, they threw me ovel. the Horseshoe
Fall and 1 got wet,
About ninety or it hundred feet front the.
top, the remains of my vest caught on a pro
jectims rock and 1 Was almost drowned before
I could gel loose. I finally fell, and brought
up in a world of White foam at the Mid nf the
Fall, - whose celled and bubbly masses towered
up several inches above my head. Of course
I gut into the eddy. 1 sailed round ;nut round
it forty dMir times--chasing an 1 gaining
upon it—each round trip a halfmile—,-reaching
for the same bush on the bank forty-Miff times
AIM just exaelly nib sing L by a hir's lw.adth
every time. At last 11 Mall walked 11:111 . 11 oil
sat down close to that bush. tumid lit a match,
and followed we with one eye and itept the
other on the match white he sheltered ii in his:
hand from the wind. Pr,sently n putVor wind
1 lacw it out. The next time I sc;1111 'wound he
" tha a match ?"
Yes--in my other NCest. lirlp tor 1110
REII
" for .Luc,"
IV !It'll I Cala. Arilllllll llg:111; I Sail
Excuse the ewitwiwjly imp•rlin,nt
11115=M==1
is singular conduct of ?
`• \\lib picasurt.. I ate Wr coroner.
)011't hurry on my account. .Itut 1 will.
1:10. fl 11latell."
I :zaid : " Take nl}• pincc and .11
MICE
lit. declined. This lack of conli lenc ,
lijs part created a coolness between 14.:001
lion that time lio•wurd I al•c,ided him. It was
my idea, in case anything happened to me, to
so time the occurrence as to tlu•ow my eustosa
into the hands or tlll• oppositiOn coroner 01 . 1.1'
on the .Antericass . side. At last a policeman
came :111,114 snit' arrested ray for ,11..astrIsing the
peace by yelling at people on shore Mr help.
rna•judp• tined no, but I had Ilo• advantage
of hint. My money wits with ity pantahions
which were with the Indians. •
'rims I escaped. I ant lIONV lying ill a very
critical condition. A.t. least, lam lying, erili-
cal or no critical.
I Inn hurt all over, but I cannot tel thel)11 1
extent yet, because the thwtor is not done L•il:..
ing the inventory. lie will 11111 k, ont
Lny
manifest to-night, However, thus far 11, ,
think,. only six of m vumuls nee 1 . 111:11. 1
(IMO( 1111:Ill the others.
Upon regaining my right mind, I said:
"Itix un awful savage tribe lwlinnsthot
t
do the 1/111.1 moccasin. Mr Niagu ru
Fulls, doctor. Where Are they front i°•
"Limerick, my son."
1 Anvil nit he able to 17niAn my re‘mnrk, a b o ut,
Niagara Fall until J 4u4
Tilt: Serantop 11eini6d lea n says : " It is 111/W
setiled matter that tile (i1..1111:111S
Will VOW almost entirety . for the Republican
county ticket, and in the majority of instances
for the Republican State ticket. We have
been . positively fissured by suite of the leaders
of the German nmventent that they will not .
sale the Democratic ticket or ally part of it
for any n.ason that may be brottgliS to ber,
and that they are inclined to be fasofably
im
preseed than otherwise with the recent a:Aloft
of the County Committee in 'refusing to la calf
their ticket, as they feel that they can put'
more reliance in the pariy iu conseAmenet.,
and will vote the whole Republican ticket to
iflufw their feeling, Mal 'Marto slaiw the trad
ers in the lhanocratic ranks here that they
cannot be batnhoozled any lion, and will leo
longer he controlled hy the Irish schemers,
through their leeches 11111(1- seeker(, who
'Weill , ' all the lilt places; and it', after this,
the Republicans see lit to give_ them a fair
place upon the ticket, they will be mitislied,
and support the ticket honestly and fairly."
SoNut or the Democratic journals of the in
terior have been contrasting the $2,:100 which
Asa Packer gave to the sufferers by the Avon
dale disaster with the 000 given by Governor
Geary. They could not have invited a com
parison more damaging to their candidate.
Asa Packer, worth twenty millions, gives
about one-half of one day's income. John
. Geary, a poor man, gives one-seventh of
his Income for an cadre year.
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NO. 3
THE CeITTIZ'L'
'file following is from the Gorniantolvn
l'elegra ph, a neutral paper of great influence: ,
It is beginning to he very evident that the
utterly preposterous pretensiinis lII' (..yrits L.
Pershing to the bench of the Supreme Court
of Pennsylvania are not going to be pa , ctl
over by the people and press of the Common
wealth iir without a sttvere volt
tlennuttion or the practice of notn,Mating for
positions of such great dignity :aril responsi
bility men of such small calibre and miserahly
partizan narrotv-ntintledness. We have done
what \re could to expose hint, and it now rests
with the voters to say at the ballot-box whether
they want on the bench a mere paid attorney
or the pennsylv:Lniii Ilailrond Company, a
man \vitt. sat in Cie lower house of the State
Itt . gittlatort for tiv. , terms as such, receiving
his sultry as soli, itcr during the time, and he.
j u l e p:gent hnd honest !
NVe ahvtly•. .1 (rot, of the, "jaelt-littv
yers- in . 1). ih in sof Ilw I.egislature, and
they are alway 4 litiown as such to every
body at 1 Irrvishrrg. \Vt. are limy asltetl to
elect one n I them to the !tench of the tittpreme
Court in tl,eitltt Cott WI( sl ion=
Si it lit i,/11:11 l ao:,'11 many of wlticil the l'enn
,ylraiti::ll.lilr...i.l is directly ; ;wrested. 'that
emiipmiy nerd ,f=usel) a paid represen
larve r:. objects at fair ant! trust.
\rm.( Ily. .1110 4 , ..; \Villialm. is a tail, honor...l;le,
\vitu does jtistie , to all.
In him an. l tlis ntilroaj company
-111 ' 1 1 . 111,11 11 " ' 11 ';;;;S , I'”r he lotows, beattr
ittall stall :1 st...ttl pomto as Persliim;e ,tll,l,
va-1 importance ~r both. !hit the
tvollltl 1111 v,. a resolute aml impartial tlefentler
M . their r 1,2,1 t an.l inter, sts, run. i{, , l
tic-I, ( , 11.•i., its for Governor ft native-burn
Pennsylvapian ~ 1 gr; II envy \' of elmracti r,
anti not Judge ;111:111VC 4,:Nete-Englan 1, Atli
has resided must of hi+ sn'apllo4 , l-lift . in Penn
sylvania. I)einouraiitt tinkci
. MVers
na
natty for dither Mlles , . Paul:el is a native of
Ctoinectieui, all . Sets-Yorlt.
Cannot o great a emintionwvaltlt as ours
afford hut give it least ow: 011ie': to ;me of her
ott n sons? Is 1;1(.1.1., flit metil• among
native-born Pennsylvanians sullicient to tot-
Colt. a limn to be the isttvorite !a twit It candi
date as this'
Pershing has been siad:wit or, Nvith partizan
trielowy, as ulge l'ershing," as though he
held aju licial +Once. lle has never heel'
The Iwo .r le• has risen to
has Lieu that or a In: tuber it the later house
of the Slane I .rv. i,htturc,n WI the only reason
NYlly Lc tens
hr Nviis the l'etinsylvtinia
I tailrowl, n ltivh pas, s Ihrou 6 Its county :1111 . 1
WilS 111 Clod 111111. ILI Itnd Wit merit
enough for the company to get hint into the
Senate and he never tens there, nor.itt
greys, nor nn the Mulch of the „mitiy court.
Judge lllcrerwc. is 'imPlY (. 3 11 ' s
ithont the not a
judge. he never tens a jii , l:2;e, an I lit• never n ill
lie. Ni,.. Mdeed, i. the matt by the
character M' hi , mind bi he tinythitt:.: Ih,
kind. Ile ha, In, r un t nod
phil
n„,,phi, at analytical in q uiry and ma
tins, judge ',tumid I,e a dig.-
pa.:,ional.• man.
dully in spirit, •-•11.1Ve
iu
manner , , :mtl prudent of speech. Ile should
not li' ready to play the partizan oil till Wra
.l.lls. Yet is the re% erce oI all this.
Lt all prureediti , in which lie hits port
he hies lii,li excited. heated declaimer.
In the midst of the civil war, with the rehol
armies Ilitimlering in the 011111)ml:1nd Valley,
this nma stick out for the titternioA
copperhead demands, just as though 'limiting
tvere Om matter. Ile had no soul for his
country. It was all wrapped in Ids luirty.
Ile (la.. to lor;:;el that he nas an American.
honed to "hand 11 . 1; hi: colon' 3 011.0 lie
mcittlier , l tid Ito wit-. a partizan
( s r ' ear. or hi- 1):trly
The enemy tlal , not 111111 111111 , 111 4 1 , 111 .
11'.‘113. 11111 in 1110 Capiltil al Ilar
l'1,11I'a: a , a ..1t.10''..1 . 11i .
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anvil), the o.ar. e, n hiehillei• or the Leg 1,111.-
lure. 111111 van 1 I. ceo,trtte,l hit. more 1111111
urrr etni.ly irulgogitery. Nu 111111 no
racily 111 lilt . OEI,I , ill AVlliell
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Full thnl 1111111 be . snyeil, 11111 hie
Harty, :111,1 1 , 7 ~1 =acins it by
party ..n
du:. in ,u-ial.Cot:; tfta :wall'"
tin F11111 ( l4. Ind .111111.1,111 g scar 1111 . a5ni . ..7 , at
I•VL•ry in 1110111, in SVCI:.•
In 101 . illg int. :till in
or Oho win) NVel't.
the tear.
\Vis tire glad to ror this the
malt
tit is id \\e me isr
any hut \it. 1:1!..
I.ri la in s.) against a ha! une. :mil tilt
14,41)1 L. alit 'Milli. rel',11111:; ie .111
N,ll Thai NVolliti 11 , 1
di sq ualify judgilualt it. ill. %V(l*.(
11..aorahle and qualified 11),u),
ittili)rtituniely, 111-
Ni ay to tualwr iu l'eunsylvania, and I.ls iutl,
dMing it was by liecoulitLg out. oil
jaulizans in the Stata, Nvithout
1111 Y l'eg l . l *( l 111..1111(1)."Is MC the nalion it) a
crisis 111.1)1aaa -4 enteil danger. - ty
, It t,, 3,12 Inou
(1111111 Lave Le) it lu might 1.,) a 5i10... , "
Ltd concittsi).n. \\'‘. 410 ;WIImIiiVI it N.VIISOV..Ihi- ,~'rclntinit .
or &sire 11 , ,11 11 '11(. 111 . 1 1 "'•
lie aimed. liLe ".. 111).11y sillier partizan Aetna
guigties. iliprive 11u. Union turn of Ilia OM
ill Order the lhaituerats might tals).
Ilicir Hai,-
,I1,1:1111,11 iLc Ih.tuueralie
11111111,11161 H 1 - 4 I Sii.i matte nil. that. very hasis,,,y
tin , l .tit ilea Irc ,, rd .11V tutu'
,1 for the Ituntitt:,
ttr the Supreme l't.ttrt. Iko till questimm affect-1..
ing the i`.1112 , 111 the Wei . his , Accisions would
be hist. !lime of .\\*.toil \yard,
Si.errOVllvol, \\Melia O lmrlicic Of their ability. .
Ile go :is fiir tit,.\ have gone, and
farther if necessary, but lie \lOlll , l give liar- .
row-minded and 111,1111 . 1011 V reasmis therefor.
This i
lull Mere asmittiptiozi. .\ 11 11111lahored
spreelte; in the Legislature tiro of that riturne
ter. N.•I • Qt.. them thelevei ()i•
the tie is I, mere county
court triel: , ter- m . pinior emite,i4.- a gentleman
einploy..l to slate it!•:e.t. at the begin
, fling of a ir the grave responsibilities
of s enior counsel he is totally igittmutt, for ll'
he had ever hail experience in tlntt line the
very' exigencies of dowt. 0.,111,1 iiiiv,..coni
-111.11(.1,1 title to be less liiSroNell to conduct hle
ell , N eittwiti, care for Ills. oppiments. Ile
011111 leiVi .l / 1 •1'11 (Adige , ' t he more eimrteintH'
and rind lu pay more attention to
lair•p .ilits owl to the Mree 0f logical reasoning
mid analy,i,.
1 , , oh , ettre retreat of : 9 1 Ohio
cottatry taN ern. .ele ,, tites the new candidate
the Detwa.re . .% tints heartily : "George 11.
: the I,le:hilt's hope. Ills pulilliae
1 (
)Y !ot t i t ft .( 4. ' l ‘ r i it r" s l ( l i e lj l e ll : in in g •
principle , . are near like thine that he 00111 a.
that sat.
lit the Ihlnnerae—
cit their tirtivir unit alt their
110 %V /MI NA voto t .
,uaw.
Not long ago We undertook to InterpreOtt ,
,
the Ps i'or It Idyl, the Deumeratty clamor, s t 3 , ,l:f•
Pershing and Plundert;‘',
we have another version, which, in the lig
of recent developments, seems to us to bo
atilifopriate — Part-inioniotts Packer's 1
rrATAIIIH,
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