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11. J. STABLE, EDITOR ND PP.6pRIETOR
GETTYSBURG, PA
Yceday Morning. Sept. 21, 1887.
MICILIVE NOXINITIONIL
101 GVIIIMNOR,
WILLIAM. F. PACKER, of Lycoming.
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CANAL COtIfIISt►IOXIM
NtMROD STRICKLAND. nt' Chester,
Jr00L.. 4 OF THE iIVPRINME couar,
W_Llitda At STRONG. of I3erk-,
J -UM TIIO.IIPSON, of Erie.'
Tss COUNTY TICKET.
e Democratic County Convention,
tjay, nominated the following tint-
rate ticket
' A membly,
CHARLES WILL, Oxford tivp.
Sheriff, c -
ISAAC LIGIITNER, Mountjoy
.Prothonotary, •
- JACOB BUSHEY; Hamilton
Clerk of the Covrts,
HENRY G. WOLF, Gettyebnrg
Register and Recorder,
ZACHARIAII MYERS, Tyrone.
Ommimioner,
J,A.COB RAFFENSPERGER, Butler.
Treassrrer,
JOBL B. DINNER, Gettyebtuz.
Auditor,
ISAAC HERETER, Hamiltorhan.
Director of the Poor,
ANDREW WHITE, Freedom.
Coroner,
Dr. C. E. GOLDSBOROUGII,Straba.n.
Delegate to State . Convention—
Dr: E. F:SkIORB, Littlestowo.
sir. Democratic Meeting at
Jesse D. Newman's, in Mount
joy
ng apt. on Monday Even-
i next, 28th.
Gen. Packer at Kittanning.
Me find in the Pittsburg Union the
following notice pf the speech delivered
by Gen. Packer at Kittanning on
Wednesday evening week. The Union
says :-C.Ttsn. Packer was . greeted by a
largeand respectable meeting, and made
a masterly effort.—Disclairuing the pro
priety of introducing slavery into the
present State canvass, he proceeded to
answer the arguments of the Republi
can leader, in relation to the govern
ment, of the territories, in one of the
most logical and brilliant speeches that
We ever beartl.--G-Cneral Packer pos
sesies rare gifts as an orator. He is
perfectly at home on the political histo
ry, of the country. His comments on
the hostility of David Wilmot to the
settlement of the slavery agitation on
the basis of the Missouri Compromise
'ine, and his subsequent denunciation
of the repeal of the Compromise, and
thaltocision of the , Supreme Court, were
tr4lxful, forcible tind justly severe... He
showed that Wilmot was the opponent
ed'anY •recognition of the Missouri line
loaf before it was rendered a nullity
by the Compromise measures of 1850,
and by reference to his votes on the
subject, made the present position
of the authorOnho Proviso appear
exceedingly inconsistent and ridiculous.
Throughout the whole of General
Packer's addret , s he was listened, to
with the most profound attention. It
seemed to be conceded on all hands that
he had thrown into the shade the
°Setts of the Republican agitator, of the
day previous, and had established a
claim to the respect and confidence of
the people.
York Covey Fair.---The annual exhi
bftion of the Agricultaral Society will
be held at York, Penn'a., on Wednes
day, Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
the 7th, Bth, 9th and 10th days of Octo
ber. The society have made every
preparation for a creditable exhibition.
The premiums offered are quite liberal,
and inducements are held out to corn
petitors without regard to locality. All
articles for the Exhibition will be trans
ported by the several Railroad Compan
ies free of charge, and it is expected
that visitors to the Fair ri ill be fur
nished with tickets at redtieed rates.
77te Atlantic• i releiraPi.—A letter re
calved from London by the steamer
••Arago says that it' the Atlantic Tele
graph Company postpone their opera
tions till next summer, the preseht
cable will be sold, and a new one made
tve hundred miles longer, in season to
be laid next June.
lamas 'Poldir4.—The Democrats of
lienveniorth, Kansas, have nominated
Dr. Dyer, a free State Democrat, for
Mayor of that town. He is said to be
in favor of allowing all persons bolding
Agaves at the time of the adoption of
'tieintititation to retain them an tit death
it' them free bat to admit' no
l imps* '.-,after• the territory heeomes a
State.; I.t is said that many Southern
**MO approve of this plan.
„Amjr.Xr f Gaoaaa Zuaint4...i, of Com
bertand township, bag our thankai for a
jog,or capital new cider. Xie ithova
uow to make it.
Our Candidate for Governor.
- Dec Fader-Me -- ifaxfor tAe Post If—
In every pet of•the State which gee
Democratic eandldaie for Governor has
visited since tho opening of the carnl l
paign. his reception has been of the
most enthusiastic character. There is
exhitlted a degree of respect, are mlitt
almost say affeetion, for the man, very I
rarely displayed. Bit this is not sur
prising to those who know him most
intimately. The Pennsylvanian very
truthfully remarks that General Pack- 4
er's appearance, address and converse
tion would make a deep impression any
where. Ile would be regarded by I
those who saw him for the first timAi,
as a gentleman of cultivated manners
and perfect knowledge of tits weefd:
A nearer ilppr,oh would ahow•hies to
be a man.offrank, generous and meanly
character, with nothing to motel
either is his toe or his sentiments; but
those only who know hint best, know
to what extent ho is a mu of close
thought, whose opinions are made up
for himself from actual experience and
reflection, and with what spirit sod elo
411eMaii he is capable of defending every
conclusion which he has adopted. •
As a candidate for Governor, the
Democratic party have been peculiarly
fortunate in his selection. Tliero is,
perhaps not a man in the State better I
informed on every question which con-1
eerns her interests. Lila labors as an
editor and his services as Senator and 1
IlepresentatiVe, as Speaker of the!
Hotta°, as Auditor General, Canal Coen
missioner, Ate., have given him an
amount of information on every subject!
of public concern not to be obtain-1
ed from books, and not to be acquired
short of a reasonably long life. Ho
could, we would venture to say, give
from memory the history, cost, advan
tages, and disadvantages of every canal
and railroad improvement in Pennsyl
vania. In regulating our banks and
currency at different periods in the
Commnowealth's history, he has taken
a prominent and successful part. In ,
protecting her manufacturing interests
he has always been foremost, without ;
advocating any principle injurious to
the welfare of easter States. On the!
vexed question which his opponent has I
been discussing for ten Years, in nearly
the same speech, General Packer has
at all times hold the views entertained. ,
by the great Democratic party of the
Nation, now fast becoming the &end- ,
merits of all rational men. On the
qaestion of temperance, an effort was
made in the present campaign to create'
some excitement that might operate to i I
the disadvantage of the party, bat it 1
was found on investigation that al
though exceedingly temperate in his
life, Gen. Packer had simply said as a
Senator that ho was willing to abide by
any decision which the people by a vote
might render on the subject of tho sale
of liquors. No advocate of Democratic
principles could have required more.
In his intellectual accomplishments,
Gen. Packer has few superiors. He
possesses as a writer a facility and
readiness which can seldom be acquired
out of an editor's chair. While he
seems to form his opinions with cau
tion and with a regard to the severest
accuracy, his style of expressing them
is clear, natural and bold. Ass speak
er, he unites with a commanding preiff
once and a copious flow of language, a
quickness in bringing his resources to
an attack or reply, which render him a
most efficient advocate syld a Very for
midable adversary. During his term
in the Senate he took rank as one of
the ablest debateTs in that body. As
the speaker of a deliberative assembly
he was equally distinguished.. Said a
veteran politician sitting in the lobby
during a stormy debate in the House
over which Gen. Paeker was presiding,
That man never had,. his equal as
Speaker except in Henry play." As a
legislator, he had another quality which
in these times especially should not
past unnoticed, Every man knew, him
to be pure. .A breath of suspicion' nev
er fell upon his name. The thought
never arose in any human breast that
he had betrayed a trust or forfeited a
confidence reposed in him. Ho has yet
to exhibit these qualities in a higher
sphere, and to that he will be trans
ferred by the popular will on the sec
ond Tuesday of October.
IltirThe Black Republicans of Chicago
attempted to get up another excitement
on Sunday week by the report that a
man was carrying a fugitive slave into
slavery, and had him secreted in a
house in that city. A large mob collect
ed and demanded the negro, threaten
ing to tear down the house if be was
not given up to them. But the fugitive
turned out to be a free colored boy
whom his guardian was bringing from
Pennsylvania. After chasing the man
and boy about the city, and endanger
ing their lives with stones and missiles,
and exhibiting other phases of Republi
canism, the mob at length became paci
fied, and quiet was restored.
Wilmot Meetings.—We learn from the
papers, that Air. Wilmot is exoeediagly
unfortunate in drawing audiences.
They are almost in every instance
small, and entirely void of enthnshisra,
sibi,le hie speeches are but a mess rep
etition of histories! , abolition dootrizea.
SerY sifts has gone for the Ropub4.
osos sad Know Nothings, as nand, hat
tionsiiyersbly redured tosjority.
The money peaks in New York
to thought to be getting a little alder.
The Central Railroad Company
Already' at Workt- -
The Colt Val Railroad Company, lest
Is-inter, "bored" a bill through the Leg
islature, giving the Main Line of the
State's Works to that eorp()ration for
the less than half-price sum of nine mil
lions, and--eqUitly bad the tame
time releasing its millions upon millions
of property from Stars Tar, and its Ira
moose earnings from Tonnage Tas!—
The Supreme Court declared the tax
releasing clause unconstitutional, there
by saving hundreds of thousands of dol
lars to the State annually. But, do we
find the ' , mammoth" satisfied with the
decision of the Court ? Of course not.
It takes moot* out of the pockets of the
Company--aad kenos we see them al
ready at . work so arranging matters
that they may CO'N'tROL THE NEXT
LEGISLATURE, and secure, us they
did in the last, such legislation as may
accomplish their mercenary ends 1 The
hand of the Company is already seen
in the counties along the line of the
road, and it appears that the "union"
Convention of Lancaster county was
entirely under their thumb. Beside se
curing the nomination of candidates
to suit the wishes of the Company, the
Convention "smothered" a direct resolu
tion on the Reed from the
Iddligeßcer of Laminator:
To show still more pointedly and conclu
sively that the "Union" COunty Convention
was net only under the control of the Penn
sylvanis Railroad Company. bat that it was
aloe in fever of granting an appropriation to
thdi Sunbury and Erie Railroad. we extract
the following paragraph from the Expreis'
report of Thursday's proceedings:
• The President read a resolution (offered
by a delegate) instructing the candidates for
Senate and Assembly to oppose any appro
priation to the Banbury and Erie 'Railroad
an 4 the repeal of the Tonnage Tax. which
wait referred to the Committee un Resolu
tions."
Here, then, was an opp)rtunity afforded for
a direct vote upon the question—hut it was
not done. The resolution, for the purpose of
getting rid of it, was referred to the Commit
tee on Resolutions, try whom it was smother
ed—thus virtually endorsing not only the
repeal of the Tonnage Tax, ($300,000 year,)
but also sanctioning the appropriation uf $3,-
000,000 to the Sunbury and Erie Railroad ;
thus squandering
. the hard earnings of the
people and rnereastng the public debt to that
amount, for the purpose of building up anoth
er monopoly end putting money in the pock
ets of a new bitch of Railroad aristocrats
who riot upon their ill-gotten gains.
Will the honest farmers. merhanku and
tax-payers of Lancaster county, of every par
ty, consider this matter, and act as freemen
when they go to the ballot-box
Let Kansas Alone !
The Know Nothing and Black Re
publican presses, outside of Kansas,
persist in the effort to keep up a row in
that Territory. Even in times of the
most profound peace, they are croaking
out predictions of war, and tr. - cry occur
rence there is tortured into such a shape
as to lend color to their ruling idea.—
They pridict war at the October elec
tion,—w'ar most lamentable and bloody,
—but a man with half an eye open can
not fail lio see in all this that "the wish
i n
is lathe to the thought."
Why - nnot the people of KansAs be
left alon by the opposition editors and
letter-writers? The Kansas "Herald o f
Freedom," a Republican paper, in its
issue of the Stli of August, answers in the
following significant paragraph. Pon
der it well, ye who have allowed your
selves to be Kansas-humbugged :
"Hoe to Restore Peace to liamas.—Let the
people alune I It is this continuous effort of
a foreign power to govern them that makes
all the disturbance. Gov. Walker's reply to
the ruffians who applied to him for troops to
enforce the bogus laws when be first name,
was sensible and to the point. Said he : •If
the people made the laws, theg must enforce
them themselves; if •they did not, they are
not it to be tinforocL' This rematk, which
was repeated throughom the ternibry, ren
dered him somewhat puptilu until he came
to Lawrence with the troops. Touch Law
rence and you, touch all Kansas. Governor
Walker hat not attacked Lawrence, and does
110i intend M. He is too much of an American
fur that ; het the lig bee' that he made at so
sasaliguni - as the Lawresioe charter, rather
Warmed those at a distance., But the people
here never, have hot a day's work nor an
boat's sleep on his account. The troops are
noir gobe, Without musing the excitement of
a travelling caravan."
Those two first lines, from the oppo
sition side, contain a world of truth.—
Let the people of Kansas alone! It is
this continuous sent of an outside pow
er to'govern them that makes ALL the
disturbance; not half the disturbance,
pot three-quarters of it, but THE
WHOLE of it. The dear people of
Kansas don't know a tithe of the enor
mity of the injustice that is practised
upon them, until it is pointed nut, 'ar
gued out, and demonstrated to them by
the "foreign. power" of Black Bepubli
canism outside of Kansas. Will the
sbriekers for freedom have the kindness
to lot Kansas alone ? : certainly
not They want, and mean to hare Kan
sas to use in the Presidential struggle of
1860.
Boaton papers confirm the
intelligence received - by telegraph of the
resignation of fudge Curtis, of the
United States Supreme Court. The
Boston Courier says " he has been led to
take this step from reasons growing
out of his private affairs. The particu
lar considerations which have moved
him belong to that portion of a man's
life into which the public does not
usually enter. He has not acted in so
important a measure without tine do
liberation aad reflection ; and those who
best know the elements of the case will
be the most. ready to acquiesce in the
decision to which he has come."
*iirThe Hartford (Conn.) Times says:
—" The President's letter to Profesuor
841inun and the "forty clergymen" of
Now Haven proves to be a sore sub
ject to the blegiding Kansas presaee.—
dome of them scarcely know how to
treat it, thd fled fault with the Presi
dia ha having written it at all. It
wAlß•bablfbe a long time before the
Sharp's-rifle brigade will again open
their tire upon Ihri—Bnehanen. Their
shot hound back with damaging effect
upon the itiseirse"
Glorying in their Shanks. Basel! Read !
Inibirßaltittinvvrtlpper, of ratisttuy Here's what Black Republicanism has
hen, will be found asofficml:repurtoreome to ire Ohio—.and what it would
the proceedings of the "Convention of oomu to in PENNSYLVANIA, if the
American Clubs," which assembled at " union" party, Oin ow Nutiffli i .:
the " Swan Club Room" in that eitx on Black Republican,) whose candidate for
the previona evening. We Blip from" Governor is the notorious Wilmot,should
that report the following paragraph, be succegsfal at the approaching election !
containing the euphonious names under Said Chase , the Black Republicar.
whisk the ,so-calleid '"AMerkin" party Candidate for Governor of Ohio, in a
of Baltimore are r . all7ing for the cam- speech at Columbus :
paign :
"rpon calling the names of Delegates, the
following clubs were found Lobe reirrerented:
Tiger*. Black Snakes, Stay Lutes, Plug Ug
lier, Rough Skins, Hard Times, Little Fel.
lows, Blood Tubs, Dips, Ranters, and Rip
Raps."
Shotild not every trae.bealted Amer
can blush to acknowledge that any porn
tion of his countrynieu glory in such
barbaric and degrading normal And
yet they are indicative of the true
character of proncriptive and corrupt
bastard"Americenism," or Know Noth-
ingiam, let it exist wheresoever it will
—here, in Pennsylvania, or in blood
ruled Baltimore. But give the "Clubs"
or "Councils" power in Adams county,
and they would be found glorying in
many a shameful thing which policy—
policy to get the votes of the unsuspect
ing, andsthus secure office—now forbids.
Let no such lying 'and politically de
graded party be trusted !—no matter
whether it calls itself "American," "Re
publican," or "union."
Freedom of the Prea.
The Baltimore San of the 9th inst.,
in chronicling the instaneeeof outlawry
in Baltimore on the preceding day and
night, says:
" About five o'clock yesterday a ft ernoon a
crowd of some six err eighonade an attack jai
the office of the ItepublicAn newspaper, but
did no other damage than the tearing of of
the counter and breaking of the frames of
two or three pictures which hung against the
wall. One of them threw the fall of the
counter at Frank Richardion, a son of one of
the proprietors, but fortunately missed his
mark. They then ran around - the corner of
Gay street and disappeared."
The Republican of the same date,
gives a detailed account of the outrage,
giving the name of the leader of the
gang—" one Joe Lentz, a fellow just
released from Jail by (Know Nothing)
Judge Lee, and now awaiting his trial
for another infamous and unprovoked
outrage." Thus for exposing the re
peateci outrages of the ruffians, the Ed
itorsof the Republican are first "threat
ened by alsonynalus communications,"
and then in broad day-light, while four
hundred uniformed pollee are loafing
about the streets, the office of the Re
publican is invaded by the desperate
confederates of Know Nothing officials,
its furniture destrol-ed and an assault
made upon the person of the son of
one of the Editors—a mere youth; and
no arrests are made. Where were the
police—the conserrators of the peace
and order of the city
But let a Democrat, an Irishman or a
German but lift his hand in defence of
hip person or his life when assailed by
tSese delectable intensified Americans, and
not one can, escape the vigilant eyes of
these police officials. ' If these things
are to last, we shall soon be thrown
back into a state of barbarism, for eve
ry man will be obliged to act upon the
principle that, there is no other law
than the law of selfproteetion. Govern
ment will be revolutionized, society
will be dissolved into chaos, and each
man will defend his life and property as
best he may.
How the despots of Europe rejoice
at these scenes of outlawry ? How they
gloat over the proof of' manifest conni
vance on the part of Republican officials,
at the misdeeds of those who defy the
law and publicly trample upon the rights
of person, and of property, and invade
the freedom of the press. Who, let u
ask, are playing into the hands of Euro
pean despots and undermining the
ations of Republican institutions—the
"paupers" ofEarope, sent here for that
purpose ss is falsely alleged by EnOW
Nothing demagogues—or the hired out
law in the pay of .i.uow Nothing offi
cials - in Baltimore and other cities of
the Republic 1 - Are•these clubs or thesis
who hire anti pay thorn for their work
imitating the examples of virtue and
patriotism eharacteristie of the earlier
days of the Republic? No ! no I no !
Citizen.
lerMr. 'W. IL Webster went from
his home in Otso on an excursion
west, the other day, and fell in with
Miss Eineline C. Beach, of Ohio, on the
ears. A courtship instantly set in,
which at the end of foar hours culminat
ed in a proposal f and straightway a
minister who was on the train made the
twain one flesh. They were married
in the rate of about thirty-two mil'4B
per hour, by the Conductor's watch.
Monument to Gen. Steuben.—The Ger
man citizens of Richmond, Vs., held a
festival on Monday to raise means ,to
aid in erecting a national monument in
honor of Gen. Steuben, of revolutionary
fame.
lfii-The *arkets in York are hereaf
ter to be held in .the afternoon, and not
"'fbre daybreak in the morning." A
desirable change--would advise it here!
air The Opposition in Massachusetts
appear to be all cut up into pieces.—
There are.t*o wings of the lispablicaut
and two to the K.. N. party, sad essh
seems disposed to have a candidate for
Governor.
rLidies,pvepeze fat the, -
Paris oirraspondent says the ladies sate
owning oat without boom betties, wad
ding, or any tAing
"I know Negroes here in At city of Colum
bui, black as lie ace of spades—but that's not
so Mack—WHO ARk THIS DAY BETTER
QUALIFIED TO VOTE THAN NINE
TENTHS OF THE WHITE CITIZENS."
A Cincinnati Black Republican and
Know Nothing paper Says :
"We boilers a save is a human—he has a
seal—he has an latelleet—and as far as the
right of &pop or cog *Oar rigki of au
imishiP is comenseci, As should be placed on as
equality with the rest of sidaskincl."
Giddings, one of the leading lights of
the party, gave vent to this expression
at the State Convention :
"The micro is * heavenl institution , and
isit God-lite in men to e levate him wan
equality with the white man."
In a speech at Cincinnati, a year or
two since, Chase declared :
"I regard, therefore the exclusion of the
p
eolored eo as nle a body, m the ELECTIVE
FRANCHISE as incompatible with our Dem
ocratic principles."
He said further :
"We feel. therefore, thst all legal distinc
tions between individuals of the some com
munity, fgesnded on any such circumstances
as color, origin and the like, are hostile to
the genius of our institutions, and inoompati.
He with the true theory of American liberty."
The Black Republican party has been
successful in Ohio--(there has long beep
a strong abolition element in tat State)
—and hence they have made more
"progress" in the course toward NEGRO
EQUALITY, than has been done here in
Pennsylvania, where the people, as a
body, are without fanaticism, and lovers
of our blessed Union. But give the
opposition in this State power, and
they will soon be found following close
after Chase and Giddings, uttering and
attempting to carry out the same beau
tiful sentiments. "Effect must follow
cause:" Let the people prevent both
"cause" and "effect" by giving Wilmot
and the smaller fry " union" candidates
a found dt4bbing. Democrats, citizens
of Adams you, too, have a hand in this
matter. Sze TO IT THAT TOUR PART OP
?H GLORIOUS WORK IS WELL AND THOR-
OUOHLY DioNE
The Mormons.
A late 'number of the Deseret, Netts,
the special organ of Brigham Young,
reveals the fact, that the report of Uni
ted States troops being on the march
for that territory, has created quite an
exeitemeut among the Saints. The
loaders. of Mornsondom are evidently
alarmed at this hostile demonstration,
which they interpret into an intention
of the General Government to extermi
nate them. Still Brigham talks as fe
tocions as ever, and in his own language
does not ask odds of the United States
nor the World. This is all talk, how
ever, and will produce uo fruits. Nei
ther the Prophet nor his people will
risk a battle with the regulars.. If
they will but conform to the laws of
the United States, treat its officers with
proper respect, 'and cease to preach
treason and rebellion, there will be no
collision between the inhabitants of
that territory and the General Govern
ment.
But that must' be done. The inhabi
tants of Utah. like those of any other
Territory , of the United States, must
submit to the officers appointed to exe
cute the laws until the people arrive at
that point where they can act for them
selves. This principle has been estab
lished ia•.the case of the Territories of
Kansas and Nebraska, and it will not
be departed from in the present instance.
'l'here has been no attempt to interfere
with the religions' views of the Mormon
people. All the difficulties that have
arisen have beeri occasioned - by the de
termination of the inhabitants of Utah
not to obey the laws of the United
States. This open attack on the au
thority of the General Government call
ed for the interference of the President,
who is swum to see the laws of the
United States efficiently administered,
and that officer very proporAy &spa tch es
a sufficient force to the Territory for
the protectien of such of its inhabi
tants es are still loyal and true.
Matters have now arrived at that
point in Utah when the people must
choose between obedience to the laws
of the• United States, peace, order,
and security, and allegiance to Brigham
Young in his mad and suicidal attempts
to array the inhabitants of that
territory in open resistance to the
Federal authority. We imagine the
people of Utah have too much sense
to follow the prophet to such a consum
mation. At all events the President is
determined to maintain the supremacy
of law over wild fanaticism, and those
who oppose this movement - must take
the consequences of their folly.—Penn
sylranian.
That's right
"Bare Me from My Priendr."—The
Know Nothings are adducing the polyg
amy and debaucheries of the Mormons
in proof of what " foreigners do in this
country." Joe Smith was a native
Yankee; Brigham Young is a native,
and the Elders of the libidinous crew
are all "to the manor burn."—The
missionaries abroad, who seduce for
eigners into their pestiferous fold, mak
ing golden and chimerical promises,
are generally Northern Natives. The
unkindness of the "cut" is more ap
parent, when it is recollected that
Brigham Young is }► regularly' initiated
Know Nothing t It is credibly stated
that his aaintship is a member of St.
Louis (Mo.) Lodge No. B.—Bowling
Green Standard.
vir It is stated a by authority " that
a new fashion is *boat to be introduced
by the 'es of Bnffala—no lees in fact
that a immense eetash, which is to be
at to the waists of the dear cres
t, • • to be nisei:Wud lowered at'pleas
aro, Eke the top of a buggy. Buffalo
Men ilentieally ask «what next ?"
ilfr•Toteoare room in a ore wd—carry
a paint pot in each hand.
Terrible Diaaster.
Leas of Steamer Central Americo.—
Some sit hundred lives supposed to be lost.
--Cnantr.s.roN, Sept. 17.—The steam
.hip Thomas Swann, from "New York,
anived licr, chi, cvenno: •vith
ancholy intelligence of the loss of the
steamship Central America from Cali
fornia.
The Thomas Swann spoke on the 15th
inst., about 15 miles north of Cape Hat
teras, .the Nbrwegian barque Eloise,
which had on board .10 of the passen-
Tersef the steamship Central America.
he passengers stated that the Ainerica
foundered on the 12th inst., with-,500
passengers, of whom only sixty were
saved: Thi.ro was uuthing said of th 3
crew or of the specie.
Later.—The Central America left
Havana Sept. Bth, with fine weather.
In the afternoon a fresh breeze sprung
up, aad next day it commenced blowing
very strong. On Thursday, the 10th,
the wind increased to a perfect hurri
cane, and through Friday the storm
raged with unabating fury, when the
boat sprung aleak and made water
fast, which soon put out the fires and
stopped the engines. Vigorous bailing
and pumping was resorted to, and con
tinued until the evening of Saturday,
the 12th. Daring that day, the brig
Maria hove in sight and took off the
women and children. At seven o'clock
in the evening, all hope of keeping the
steamer afloat fled, and lifepreservora
were distributed to all. Shortly after
a tremendous sea swept over her, and
in a moment the fated vessel trent down !
Probably six hundred persomkperish
ed by the disaster, and among them all
the officers except the second mate,
named Frazer. The engineer, named
Ashby, took the boat and deserted the
ship ibliour before she wont down. He
has not since been heard of. 82,000,000
in gold is lost with the vessel, one half
insured in England and the balance in
this country. The saved number nine
ty-five persons'out of seven hundred,—
passengers, officers and crew.
Arrest of a Prominent Citizen
for a Dreadful Crime.
One of our hitherto esteemed and in
fluential citizens was this day arrested
upon a charge of a dreadful—a diaboli
cal crime; and from what we gather
from official and authentic sources, we
believe the testimony b 4 very strong, if
not conclusive, as to the guilt of the
accused.
The person to whom we allude, is
John B. Robertson, cashier of Eagle
Bank. He was arrtesed by Chief Police
Oviatt, on a warrant issued by Police
Justice Baedwell, on the application of
Dist rict Attorney Huson. The warrant
charges Mr. Robertson with attempting
to produce the death of his wife by ad
ministering certain medicines, drugs,
or compounds, procured by him for
that purpose.
Some few days since, Mr. Robertson
applied to Dr. Joseph Beigler, his fami
ly physician, to administer to Mrs. Rob
ertson, some medicine' which would
tend to hasten her death by increasing
the liability to certain diseases with
which she was afflicted. We under
stand that, the diseases to which she
was deemed liable and strongly- predis
posed, are apoplexy and disease of the
heart. Renee, medicines which would
increase the circulation, it is supposed,
would produce one or other of these
diseases.
Dr. Beigler was suprised that such a
proposition haul l. u latide to him, and
at once consuited certain citizens whom
he regarded as friendly to him, and they
went to the District Attorney. Under
the direction of that officer, steps were
tal:en to confirm the statement of Dr.
8., and the District Attorney states
that they were fully confirmed in every
particular. Dr. B. gave Mr. Robertson
certain compounds, from time to time,
which he, Robertson, supposed well d -
signed to produce the effect, and itAs
believed that these compounds wore ad
ministered.
The arrest was made while 31. r. R.
was at his place behind the counter of
the Eagle Bank,. and must have over
whelmed him, whothe/t \ filty or bine
cent. Mr. Robertson t a gentleman
who has stood high in the city, where
he has resided a dozen ybars or more.
He was for some years Receiver for the
Central Railroad Company at the Ro
chester Station • subsequently he was
at the Bochester Savings Bank,
and for the last two years his been
Cashier of the Eagle Bank. Be is a
gentleman of wealth, we believe, and up
to this time hia character has been fair.
Mrs. Robertson is a lady of excellent
standiag, and esteemed highly, we be
liqve, by her acquaintamme.—Rodisider
Union.
Cheap Corn.—Soath of Springfield,
111., on tho railroads, some of the farm
ers, it is said, are offering their corn at
15 cents per bushel In the field ; 'others
at $5 per 4cro. The indications are,
unless the frost sets in early, that the
corn crop will be enormously large.
Cholera in Penneylraxio . —The Doyles
town Democrat says that the real Asia
tic cholera has made its appearance in
the lower sections of Bucks county. In
the vicinity of Falls, Morris - ville and
Bristol townships. several persons have
already died of the disease.
bird private letter from Keokuk,
lowa, states that a fire occurred there
on the evening of tbo 11th inst., which
destroyed over 1100,000 worth of pro
perty.
Important from Kansas.--Sr. Loins,
Sept. 15.—The constitutional conven
tion of Kansas is permanently organis
ed. Surveyor General Calhoun is eleet
ed president. His speech indicates that
he is in favor of submitting the consti
tution to the people.
los_lnWebster,Mass., a likelyyoung
man named Moore, worth slo,ooo,hav
ing been jilted by a young lady, bad
become engaged to another, when the
first one tried to get him back again,
and he escaped from his troubles by
committing suicide on Wednesday.
A Challenge.—The editor of the
Charleston Courier having ridiculed cer
tain statements which have been made
regarding the Cbineee Sugar Cane, a
Mr. Kroh, of Wabash county, 111., of
fers to bet the editor $5OO that he will
manufacture from one
,sere "planted
with the Chinese weed," 500 gallons of
molasses, a superior article toady man
ufactured in the •South, or sold by the
merchants in Coles county, 8. C.in
1867, for 76 mots per gallourf and!far
ther, that he willmanufacture
tose-of 10 cents per gallon.
The Progreu of a Greet IP**
.
All OPPention Vasignished.Pfunge a demo
into the middle of a lake and from the paint
where it falls ripples will *reed in Mr
vi.letiing rings until they reach at last every
vrtion .4' it. Inargia. So it is with a great
discovery ur invention; wherever it way be
ushered to the light, its fame is certain in
the end to fill the world. This bee been
strikingly illustrated in the progress of Pro
fessor Holloway's invaluable remedies._
Twenty years ago they were first announced
in London; now they are the standard medi
cines of both hemispheres. Such is the re
sistless, fitr•cirding sweep of a grand utilita
rian discovery, when applied to the highest
philanthropic purposes, and aided by the
motive power of the Press. What we the
greatest military achievements sonspared
with those of Thomas Holloway' W it be
true that the man who causes two blades of
grass to grow where but one previously
what shall be said of him who cures ten stole
persons where but one was cured before.
Holloway, if the accumulated testimony of all
nations is to he believed, has doovnuch more
than this. Diseases which, prior to the in
troduction of his Pills and Ointment, had
baffled science, are now relieved with an ex
pedition and certainty which are literally. as
tounding, There is no getting round or oter
the fact, fur it is avouched by the voluntary
declaration of convalescent multitudes. Prey
fessional jealousy and prejudice, the most
formidable antagonists that Truth encounters,.
have been vanquished by the successof these
preparations. and time-honored medical insti
tutions of Conti ental Europe have been con
strained to &kind their ralue and sanction theft
employment.
In this country where the people are always
ready . to test whatever is new, and equally
sagacious in discriminating between the
chaff and the wheat of the great mass of nor
eities submitted to them. the rapidity with
which Holloway's Pills and Ointment have
obtained universal confidence has, perbspa,
no parallel in the history, of science. Their
fame has radiated from the kical point in New
York to the remotest section of the Union.
Usually we improve upon all torsign hi.
wen tion*: but even Yankee
. acumen mutant
enhance the value of these remedies. W.
take them as tile are, end are not only eat
istied but gratefOL—Boston Doily Jeer/eel.
roluabie Thartimony in fluor g
Ozygenated Bitters.—WelliflNOTON, IL C..
June 10.-llavinz mnde use of the Omenated.
Bitter* prepared by Dr. George B. Omen, of
Winds Or. Vt., and from knowledge obtained
of their efficacy in other wed, we cheerfully
recommend - them tathe public. believing they
will fully sustain the recommendation of the,
proprietor. We hope that this valuable reme
dy may he aocebsible to all the afflicted.
SA le l. S. Pll ELM, U. $ sena f raw vervit.
WM. UPHAM,
JAMILS F. SIMMONS. Ir. S. SCR. front R. LAW.
J. T. 3lossussv. U. S. SestutOr, awl formerly
Gurernor of Kentucky.
L. A. Assn's), formerly Gocernorefil. Mud.
W r. WOODBRIDCM, late Queernoc ol o r t Miehisnou
Its success in severe ewer' Ilepepein,
Asthma. tool General Debility Of the System.
places it among tb e most wonderful discoveries
in medical science, and has given it a repute.
don far beyond any remedy known fur these
complaints. in all their venous forms.
Sera W. Fowt.g & Co., 13A Washington
street. Boston. Proprietors. &Id by their
agents everywhere. Sept. 21. 2w
lerThere are plenty of young gentlemen
as well as plenty of old ones, whose _ beards
are turning gray, which gives the former a
great deal of uneasiness. and exposes the ate
of the latter. To avoid these little perplexi
tien we advise such of oar readers to use
Prof. flair Restorative, which will.
in the courhe of a few weeka, change the hair
to its natural tailor. It does not dye the hair
like the most of the hair restoratives. but
produces a gradusl change of color from the
roots of the hair to the final end. and gi i v4i t t i
a fine and gluey appearance. We hat
many persons who bare used it successfully,
and pron.,unced it the only intention which
hap come up to their idea of a "cure for pay
heads:' We commenced using it about two
months since, end if we are any judge doge
and beauty, it has made as at Won ten years
younger in fart we are beginning to hook
quite young, and feel very much like getting
a young wife. The change.is miraculous,
and it would he as Idifficult to finds gray hair
now as it would be to find out idea in the head
of the Duke of Buckingham. We know sev
eral old maids and some young widows, whose
locks are just beginning to assume a silvery
hue, and who have been talking• seriously
about resorting to this remedy, and we advise
them not to delay any longer. It never Wis.
—SI. Louis Her44l.
SOLD BY ALL Di 1:661/111. Sept. 21. 2w
lltrThere is nothing in the whole list of
medicine nesting such a stir a-nong invalids
as Dr. Sanford's Invigorator or Liver Remedy.
It gives such quick relief an to convince the
patient of receiving benefit almost as soon as
the medicine is taken. We do not know cis
single instance where it has been taken with•
out benefit, and in nearly all cases a complete
cure is effected by its use. It has acquirml
its wide popularity simply because it dues
what it I/I recommended to do. It is con=
steady enlarging its circle of friends, cam
lag healieg on ita ,wings, and joy to the
hearts of those suffering from Liver Complaint,
Jaundice, Dyspepsia or general debility.
111111 - A.. D. Buehler, Agent for Gettysburg;
Wen. Berlin. !lawyer ; and Charles R. Hen
ry. Abbuttatown. Sept. 21. Du
Ifir The Big Saje,messuring 54 hot hies, by
41 feet wide, and weighing 4,360 pdtinds, hue
been attracting much attention at she ulue of
the FAMIZIL'EVID *WHAM SAVING . 0 INETI
- in S. W. corner of the public square.
Everybody nearly in town has been to see it.
Our friends from the country have been and
are still dropping in, to see this, tie ksrpossi
Safe ever brought into the county.
This Safe furnishes another ground for
confidence to deepositors. The security for
the dep sits th - ey make is of the same char
acter, and ss extensi%e as those afforded by a
bank to its depositors. the stockholders. in ,the
one and the other being in the sense manner
liable. The safe keeping of the monies and the
security to depositors thus afford a deal*
safeguard to those thinking o f d epos i t i ng
their monies where, instead of rz e idk, Lief
will produce. interest—in tole a huh.
/talon.
mar Rats. Roaches, Bed-bugs, &sada,
"Coetar's" Rat, Roach, he., Estenninat ;se
"Costar's" Bed-buggsterminator; "Costar's"
Electric Powder, for Ants, Insects, ho. (The
only infallible remedies known.) ''Costar"
sends by mail, pre-paid, a sample box of the
Rat, Roach, etc. Ex. to say address is the
U. S., on the receipt of $l, or the ItLvetrie
Powder for fiSc. (The Bed-bug Es., being
liquid, cannot be sent by mail.)
"Costar" will furnish Dr t*, Dealers
and Store-keepers, a $lO cam* package of
his various preparations (assorted) with cir
culars, bills, posters, he. on receipt of S 5,
(leaving bal. of $5 due when in order
that they may test their merits.
al 1 4
gar See advertisement. Tor Clreotare k wv.,
address "COSTAR," No. 348 ItreadskSl,
New York. • %Aug. 31. ISO
Dated Back.—The Pithier of Westfield
Argus, who has just Ont , marsh‘
flounces the flictby saying, Alliit' 44 fie
has earned the right to carry si-inifsd
box, a bundle, and even a ealfir• Is
regard to the latter, all ire-hava to say
is, that he has found his "sight"
quick, or he will have tet get As=
o.rt
cate dated back several motithi to NV*
appearances.
air Wives remember •tbst
*Aches sad bed eoakieg M.
many a halberd kom O O/
combs" and happiness some ~ eta.