brie dburber. THURSDAY. AUG. 3D, 1865. Synxii VIOrtJJOnt sr vas Pions Tx vine PAM OP AItZSIOPPI Le mar heilmrs. - OBSERVER FOR THE CAMPAIGN. Oidy Fifty Cutts t•r Three Ileathu The OBSIIIVIIIt will be furnished to sub adhere desiring to receive it during the campaign at the low rate. of Fifty Cents for three months. Th-se terms are considerably lower than our could rates, and can barely be afforded by us, but we are induced to offer them. is the hope of promoting the cause which all Democrats believe so earnestly to be that of their country and truth. Campaign subscribers can commence at any date the► see. proper (the earlier the better) and will receive Thirteen i rues of the paper. We want, if posrible, to obtain five hundred eampaign subscribers. It depends on our friends whether we shill eusoeel. 'Let each of oar present patrons procure a copy to be sent three months,to some neighbor or friend, and mush goli may follow. Who will be first to send us a olttb ? au3•tf 'Notice. In order to enlarge the Subscription list of the Osssavaa, we offer to send, hereafter, specimen copies, free of charge, to any ad— dress that may be furnished us. Viesent sub scribers, who have friends living in other swims, former residents of Erie city or county, will confer a favor by giving us their names, and assisting in securing them as patrons of the paper. As we are not acquaint ed with the responsibility of persons living outside of the county, we must adhere to our rule of asking new subscribers from abroad to pay in advance, and all papers sent to per sons in other States will be promptly discen• tinned at the expiration of the date to which they have paid. Wtta. NOT some of our Republican eo• temporaries, who are well Towed in affairs about Washington, have the kindness to inform the public of the nature of the complaint, which the telegraph tells us almost daily. obliges President Johnson to suspend the %goal duties of his office? The people, alwayi anxious about the health of their Chief Magistrate, have a right to know. We trust it is nothing re sembling that "little episode " on the 4th .f March. a WEISN AV amendment to the ensistitu tion, extending the right of suffrage to the soldiers, was brought before the Legis lature, its passage through that body was stoutly resi. , ed by the ablest and most prominent [Democratic memhers there ef."—Cratefird Journal of July 25. The Meadville Demurat knocks the above falsehood plumply in the bead by publishing the vote of the HOURS upon the subject, recorded on page 414 of the Legislative Record for 1864. The yeas on the proposition were 111 ; the nays only 2 ! Sarreyor-Grneral. The Lock Haven Dentaeraf, urgently supports D. CEq.,of that t e candidate of our party for Surveyor-General, in the ensuing cam paign. It says of Limy "What the publir nop , l 'Aa head of department who und'er •'moils h,)rnugY , the duties of the position. 2 men of stern integrity who would he e.hatried te• macket the salarir of an offi ,inl position which he gave little attention, a triithfril and efficient man.. A In'l qttitinintnne" with Mr. Ca: -'• .hleg us to gay that in all these particulars be would he exactly the m7n for the place and that the Democratic Convention c , uld no better nomination: ; We anneal to our Democratic 'riende to Tire him effective support." _ The endorse 4 lent of Mr. C. by our friend Diffenbach is the beit testimonial that could be furnished us of his merits and the roundrieg , of his principles. The Democratic party cannot affird any longer to risk its chances of success for the mere sake of pleasing indir . iduals. The time,. • in our opitgion, has emphatically arrived, when a different class of ollitinsl leadors and candidates must be selected—men of firmness, integrity, economical ideas, and unquestioned fitness for the places to which they aspire, fresh from the milks of the people, and possessing their corfi • deuce and esteem. Believing from the Dentoeraes repre , sontationg thlt Mr. C kaddon is a gentleman of thin Ow, we take pleasure in adding our influence in hie favor. A Contract, In the State of Tennessee, Emerson Etheridge. an old Whir, and a Union man always, whom a Republican majority in Congress four years ago elected clerk of that body, is a candidate for Congress in his old district. He took the liberty, a few weeks ago, to talk pretty plainly of some of those who are opposing his elec tion, showing that, at the - breaking oat of the rebellion, they were rank secession. ists. For this simple right, and his denunciations of some of the acts of the President and of Gov. Brownlow of Tennessee, he has been arrested,:_pluneed into a dungeon, and remains there subjeot to the tender mercies of Andrew John son and Parson Bmwolow. In a district of Kentucky, Gen. Rowan is the Administration favorite as i► candi date for Congress. He is net as ipopular among the 'people as his admirer, desire, and Tearing that he may not be success ful, a novel plan has been bit upon to as sist him in the canvass. Wherever be goes, a body-guard of fifty soldiers accom pany him. "He stops at any house he chooses, which is always Vie house of an opponent, and there quarters his men without asking leave." It is thought by this novel method that enough voters will be inducei to remain away from tne polls to give Rosman a chance of election. Who says we are not living in a free country ? l'he Nawburyport Herald understands that the leading Masons of Massachusetts are about to invite their most influential brethren of the South to visit them and partake of their hospitalities, that the memories of put strife may be blotted out and the Union commence where it should, in the individual hearts. The Tribune announces that the Presi. dent has directed that all rebel prisoners, gsnersl officers included, shall be released upon taking the oath of allegiance." Now or a howl from the camp of the blood thirsty ! Emma) kti wins. - - :7T-riven-Tr; • - • - To ssy'ro:3ing of th - n - titbit Avila brought tit the e,osintry by Republican minnapage ent, the burden of taxation is likely to bring people to a sense of their real condition. Indulging in no conjec tures as corny leasable plan for reducing the vast aniount of our national indebted , ness, and speaking only of the sum which will be required, - annually, to - pay the intereit on. the public debt, it is painfully evident that every species of property, except Government bonds, every com fort, and even the necessaries of life, are to be subjected to a crushing weight of taxation. Leaving the principal to be paid by future generations, those now liv ing will find enough to do, to meet the constantly recurring demands for the interest on what we owe, and the greatly increased expenses of the Government. Add to this the indebtedness of the States, fearfully augmented by extravagant dis bursements ; and of the towns and coun ties, swollen, in many instafiees, to almoit frightful proportions, and we have an ag gregate which will tax the resources and industry of the people to the very extreme of human endurance. This, in the main owing to the unavoidable necessities of war, in a measure to the use of a greatly depreciated currency, and to no inconsid erable extent, to the employment of a host of provost marshals, asseqors, secret ogents, military commissions and detec tives,crenders inevitable the inauguration of a system of taxation, which will sorely oppreA, if it does not paralyze our nation. al industry and resources. But we will suppose—for it is agreeable to think so— that a loyal and patriotic people will gracefully yield to the necessities lard upon them, and manfully meet all just demands made upon them. But they will feel that they have a right t 9 require of their rulers, and of all political parties claiming their confidence and support. the most solemn assurances that they will latior, without delay, and unremittingly, now that the war is over, to reduce the public expenses to the lowest possible point. We submit to re ti.cting men, that there are still in the employ of the gov ernment, and pensioners upon an impov 'shed treasury, a horde of supernumaries who cannot be discharg \ ed a moment too 60013. Too True. The Journal of Comnferee, a highly con eervative paper, whiCh never makes a statement without good foundation, is o' the opinion that " we shall not recover in this country, for twenty-five years. from the evils brought ton us in the interests of despotism, by the Stantons, the bolts, and their radical allies. The V Orr time of freedom has been blunted in the popu lar mind, and the nation has forgotten what was once the birthright of an Ameri can citizen. Free erech, free discussion, in which once rested our liberties, have been wrested fr):n our people so long by an overbearinz insllence of office holder► and their suppirre, that they are scarce lc p-ized 54.4 Choy once were. The Tribunr lays th,st Si cret ry Stanton "seems in envn .'.ending that this cour any other far l•I• • • r ni".." No one doubt< •• • • - !ion; yet win:. effect ^ • the public mind ? EMI r• , ,IA • '•-se the very f.ct.l l Fiu^i inn be mid - << . the suspicion of it.: po•-•:!,.‘. truth; wou1•l h , v. •^used every ci•v and village in tlio I Public m• would It.] r e hr-71 hf at every cro , . roads. The indiglant heart of America, would have sent the b'n - 1 , 1 fo the cheeks of the vary boys in the streets, and a voice of a free nation wnnt.l lave been heard avert ing to the w•wl , i the power of its freedom Now, you li4ten—von admit—find you sit down quietly and wonder how long it will last " Tim Boston Pik( ridiculing the idea of giving the Southern negro the right of tofirsge, recalls to the minds of its Masse. cbusetts reader?, the strenuous effOrts made in that State, a few years ago, to make the capacity of being able to read and write a test of the qualifications of s voter. "At the time.we speak of," says the Pilot "a fisrce , political commotion wan stirred up. It was urged that our liberties were in danger, not en much from aliens who had been naturalized and he come voters, as from ignorant electors who did not know enough to read the ballot they carried or to write their name It was urged that this was a government built upon the Intelligence of the people. and that, therefore, none who could not read or write, were entitled to Share in it. According'y, article 20 of the atn ,, ndments to the Constitution was passed by two suc cessive legislatures, as follows : ART. XX. No person shall have the right to vote. or be eligible to office under the Constitution of this Commonwealth, who shall not he able to read the Consti. tution in the English language and write his name. The amendment was ratified by the peo ple, became part of the organic law of the State, and great was the rejoicing there upon. But behold ! the parchment upon which it was written has hardly yet begun to receive the stain of time—nay, we say. figuratively, the ink with which it was written has hardly had time to dry, be fore its fierce advocates turn their backs upon themselves, and ridicule the man as a fool who so much as thinks that read ing and writing is any test of the qualifi- cations of voters—in other States besides Massacbusetta !" A Woarur Succasson.—By the recent death of the bight Reverend Alonzo Pot ter, the discharge of the important and laborious duties of the diocese of Penn sylvania will devolve entirely upon the Right Reverend William Bacon Steveng, who was consecrated Assistant Bishop on the 21 of January. 1862. In the bereave ment suffered by the Episcopal Church in the demise of the lamented senior Bishop, the Philadelphia Aqe sass, it is it source of consolation to know that his mantle will fall upon a worthy successor. Bishop Stevens is universally beloved in the diocese. He Is distinguished fdr his great ability, his personal dignity, and his varied attainments, as well as for - his emi nent piety and religious fervor. Wherever he goes in the discharge of his solemn duties, the influence of his character is felt by all who are brought in contact with him. His life is a lesson that. cannot be too closely studied, and the diocese may well be proud of having . at its head imerwhitis kiiimati as an iccorw plished scholar, a dignified gentleman, and a true Christian prelate. The Il t .istou daily Aduyriiser thinks Na poleon 111. a very "sensitive monarch," because he has suppressed the oirculltion (not very immense, we imegine,) of the New York tows in his dominions, on ac count of some offensive strictures upon his government. One would . hqtrdly sup pose from the naivete of the Advertiser in commenting upon this incident, that newspapers were ever suppressed on this side of the Atlantic. An-lowa correspondent of the Chicago Tribune says that among Republicans in the West lie finda,but one sentiment on the negro suffrage question, and that is entire unanimity in its behalf. fy rom the N. Y. Tribon• of July 23.] An Expensive Luxury. We trust our readers will read very par titularly this Paragraph from a Philadel phia paper: Tna DOUBLEDLT COURT-MARTIAL.—The Court reassembled yesterday, and hoard evidence as to the character of William Neal, who has been on trial before that tri bunal for erns time. Dr. W Ilion Jewell, Henry Blom, W. B. N. Coszens, and others, testified at to the very excellent charac ter of the defendant. The - latter gentleman also testfhid that Mr. Neal brd been very exact with him in measuring the tents he furnished, reject ing a great many of them, and eanlempt unusly denied that be ever .rewarded bim pecuniarily. A large north er of highly respectable citizens, who'have for years known Mr. Neal as an honorable citizen, were in attendance, ready to testify to his excellent character. They •expressed ohemselves as being conscious of his honora ble acquittal., The'" Doubleday Court-Martial " is one of those ornamental relics of the w tr, with which we are very familiar, and eems to do duty in Philadelphia as the unvarying *item for a forlorn local report er's pen. For the la,t, six months, it has been busy trying two civilians—one Gi'lz• zone, a coltractor, for the alleged cheating of the government in the quality of cer tain tents, and one Neal,.an inspyctnr at the Philadelphia Arsenal, for permit.ing. it is said, the contractor to cheat the Goy- eminent. C `2401311 received about five months' attention from the "Court." He had two lawyers to defend him, witnesses without number ermined, argtiment after argument recited, until finally the members agreed. The decision was sent to Washington. and Cozz'ns was arrested by " order of the Secretary of the War" .40 soon as this was done. the two lawyers who had been speaking for months before a " Court " nasals'. quietly went before Judge Thompson of the Supreme Court P. nnsylvania, and sued out a writ of habeas corpus. Th' Provost Marshal re 'used to obey the writ, "by order of the secretary of War ;" but as the people of Tennsylvanis seemed to be of the same thought as Judge Thompson. and there was a general feeling that in Pennsylva• cia the habeas corpus, in 'civil CUPP, Mould not bs violated with impunity, Cozzens was released and set free by the Judge. The six months' palaver of Jan yers and of e.ers and Judge•Advoottes vent far uothiag, and Cozzens is a free mut. In ordinary cases we abould think that A lesson of this kin•? would not he lost. Clio " Daub ) (Aar C.,urt-mgrtial " became is helpless either to condorno or praise, 'rotect or punish, as any boys' debating soctety which Prav , d+ hone in (li,cu•sing he fate of JPtf...r.on D ,1133. Common "Icise would liave sug:ested ill. assign ment of the eminent soldier who presides aid his gallant colleagues' to some more important duty, and the abandonment of military coty•te ro ttir as the bailiwick of t- Ju rice Tr.- rnr ;. concerned be contrary, we find the same •' Cnurt " now busy " trying " a man named Neal, formerly holding a email place in the ar• .Whst the " Csiurt " win do with Neal we do not know. According to the epurter, a number of wit nestles expressed themselves " conscious of an honorable acquittal." Btt what difference does it make? The lawyers may talk for months;' :he whole poll list of Philadelphia may wear, and the " Court" AVIV hear and determine ; but every sensible person knows that if the Court dare to put a fin ger on the said Neal, with intent to im priso-3 or punish, these talking lawyers will have a writ of habeas corpus from Judge Thompson in two hours. and Neal will be set at liberty. As if to deepen the rare humor of this proceeding, we find the same Commis who was " tried " for five months, and relensed not many weeks since in spite of the order of the Secretary •,f War, swearing as a witness and "con temptuously" denying all sorts of charges. We should like to know just how much it costs the Government to keep up this expensive luxury of a court-marti in the peaceful. Imr.governed city of PAladel phia. Wh do we pay for salaries, fnr commutation of quarters, for witness fees, for transporeation, for the hundred other little bdla that Government officers know •o well bow to charg.el The Republic has better work for men so brave as Om Double'lay than to sit and hear law.yera talking and weavers smearing about the shrinking qualivinA of duck canvass, or the amount rf• money pilfered by some needy subordinate in an arsenal. What are .Thclg.e Grier and Judge Cadwallader, and Marshal nilward, and District-Attor ney Gilpin for, with Grand Jury, and deputies, and a train of civil subordinates, all paid by the nation, if not this very work? Is the machinery of United Sates justice so untrustworthy in Philadelphia that it esnnot punish petty frauds? Are Judge Cadwallader and a jury incompe tent to decide the shrinking qualities of duck canvass and the character of Wil liam Neal? If this is the case. let Cad wallader be removed and Doubleday put in his pl me. But, as it is otherwise, let the gallant Major General be sent to Texas along with Sheridan, and his col leagues allowei to joie their regiments or be mustered out of service, that they may go on a farm and earn a living by some serviceable labor. Just now, we submit, when the Secretary of the Treasury is so short of money that he issues certificates of indebtedness to pay claims upon the Government. the sooner we abolish these expenilve luxuries the better. Tha whaling bark Milo has arrived at San Francisco, from the Arctic, with the crews of several whalers destroyed by the pirate Shenandoah, last month. The whalers Edward Casey. Hector, Abigail, Euphrates, William Thompson, Sophia Thornton, Jireh Swift, and the Susan and Abigeel, were captured, and most of them were burned. The Milo was bonded for the purpose of taking off the crews. The Shenandoah w4s continuing bpi whole ask destruction of whalers, and would probably soon destroy another fleet num bering sixty v.ssela. Her commander was informed of L'e's surrender and of the collapse of the rebellion, but did not be lieve it. He believed in Lincoln's assas sination, for he expected it. The She nandoah coaled last it Melbourne. She was manned by English and Irish sailors. Some of the captured whalemen joined her. Omit Mittlex or Msl4.—itt the Yale College commencement dinner, General Ullman said he was authorized by the Secretary of War, a few days sgo, to say thit there had been recently dicbanded or were now in process of disbandment, 782 542 soldiers, and that we had a million of men in the field when Lee surrenderei GENERAL NitWE3. The Richmond nig. whiCh wag sup , pressed by order of Oen. Terry about ten days since, hal been allowed permission to resume publication. The only prisoner remaining at Fort Warren, Boston berbor,.are Alexander H Stephens and Mr. Rearm, formerly Post. waster General of the Southern Confed eracy. TH2 TRIAL Or GRlff Lex.—lt is now un derstood that the P resident . has given di rections for the entrance of a none prosepri. when the indictments against Oen. Lee and others now pending in Tudge Under wood's court in Norfolk, Va , shall be called up in October next. While a seeming good natured scuffle was going on between two sailors, in a saloon on Market street, Chicago, on Monday afternoon, one stabbed the other in three difiArent places in the region of the heart, and then fled. The chances are that the victim will die from his wounds. On Saturday afternoon a soldier of the 10‘h Tennessee, named Marvin, wag Rio ) . bed at Nashville, probably fatally, by his brother-in-law. Charles Mitchell, also soldier of the same regiment The trouble grew out of Marvin's causing Mitchell's arrest, while in the army. Last Saturday. a colored soldier who had been on picket at Memphis was going into camp, when a man named Cleveland came quietly out of a house and, without provocation, shit him. Cleveland was arrested, and is now in Irving block. A fight recurred at St. Loris on Satur day, on board the steamer Hanamou, be tween a white and black deck band. dur ing which the former seirql a knife and. stabbed the latter. killing him almost in stantly. The murderer is named Pat Morgan. The black man ,was named Reese. Returns of • the elections in Virginia represent that in other portions of the State, as well as Richmond. the regular secession candidates love been generally/ successful. Eoc-turaged by thesis results, it is said that the guerrilla chief, Mosby. designs being a candidate for Congress. . The Trerlegar Iron Works, at Rich mond, have been lensed by the United States to tho owners, Joseph R. Anderson and his partners, who have commenced business again as iron manufacturers, these works being held by Government agents as confiscable property. A million dollars, purchase money for ships, has been paid into the Nary De. partment since the close of the war. The list of income returns, published in Chicago, sheers that there are in that city forty-seven persons whose incomes exceed $5O 000 and two hlindrad whose incomes exceed the sum of $20,000. The prinein‘l forte enmpriaing the fnrti• fieasinny of Washingtnn have been dia. mantled. Their arrnsment has s been de. pnaiied in the arßenal. and their harrsekot sold. and their old gtrrifions mustered out of Rervien. The Memphis Argqs learns that a hitter animosity exists h-ta , een the people un the Arksnaaa. Frequent. altercations occur between those who served in the rebel army and others from the Union army, who regard each other with mall cirrus hatred. Some (lava since, at Spades. a party of discharged Uninn soldiers met a number of paroled rebels. and. after an angry discussion, a fight ensued in which fire-arms were freely used, resulting in killing four men. Preliminary measures are in prospect for the trial of Cipt. Wirtz,' formerly in charge of the Andersonville prison. A large number of witnesses have alreadybeen summoned, and letters are constantly reneived from those who pia. seas knowledge of the cruelties practiced on Union prisoners by this: rebel com mander. Scenes of violence and at are becoming quite common at indi•inapolis. Ind. Saturday night, an Irishman, named Bernard Logan. shot a returned 'soldier, named Hines. killing him instantly. Hines stabbed Logan the al.me • night. Fred. Richard, a printer itt the Journal office. fearfully cut and slashed a man named Koehler, an officer in a Missnuri colored regiment. Robberies. girrreings and wanks are of nightly occurrence. The Raleigh Prowyst sayer:: The native element, inctrylinT the aristocracy, are growing more defiant every day, and now openly threaten to hang Union men and negroes as soon as the troens are with drawn. Trnnris must , he retained and every consideration of justice and safely require• their presence in North Carolina as well as in the other rebellious States. GRRAT INDIAN WAR Begsrtivo.—All the accounts from the Plains are to the effect that be'ore the corning on of winter we shell have on hand the grriatest Indian war we hive ever fought. Since the mas• macre of the Chevennea by Col. Olivine ton, the Indians Wive been breaking out into constant hostilities, and not. a day has passed for mix weeks past that the overland teletirmh wires have not been cut. rysternatically - at points usually ten or fifteen miles apart. This is a new fea ture. and indicates a cenersl concert of action on the part of the Indian tribes. A dispatch from Cairn Frit , I hnt Mitn morns is to be occupied by 35.000 Imperial troops as an army of observation to watch the movements of our forces on this side of the Rin Grande. The last of the rebel piratev—the She nandoah—is repnrted as engaged in c toting our whalers in the Arctic - ocean. Eight have already ,been taken and burn• Pd, and it was exnected that many more would fall her easy prey. One man was killed and three mortally wounded on Sunday morning •on the Union Pacific railroad, by the colliding of an engine with a hand car, eight miles below Lawrence, II insaa. A man giving his name es Edward Deaden. endeavored to commit suicide on Thursday morning, by stabbing himself nine times, in Washington Park. Brook lyn. Be lies in st'very precarious condi tion. Extreme deatitutiion was the cause of the act. • Wallace M. Whittleaey, recently em ployed as a clerk in the Loan Office of the Treasury Department at Washington. was arrested in New York a few days ago,' on a charge of stealing one hundred bonds. of. th• denomination of one thousand dol lars each, nearly prepared for issue The bonds were not signed or sealed. Attach ed to the bonds were coupons amounting to one hundred and eight thousand dol lars, sealed and complete, and payable to bearer on the Ist of January and July, in each year: The coupons could, however, be sold at any time. Demonstrations of a serious riot were made at Concord, N. H., on the night of June 27th, by some two hundred retnrned soldiers, which commenced ny, their threats to " clean out" the clothing store under the Eagle Hire!, the proprietor of which charged a soldier with attempting to steal a suit of clothes. After breaking snipe windows, the soldiers proceeds(' to the jail and demanded the release of two of their number who had been arrested. and threatening to demolish the jail.. At this time two companies of veteran re serves were ordered out, and the riotous soldiers scattered in different directions. There is much sympathy felt for the sol diers who, it is alleged, are unnecessarily kept out of their pay and discharge papers. Many Northern railroad capitalists have united in an application to several rail road companies of the Southern States, for the lesae of their stook and property for a term of years. They propose to put nearly every railroad in the South id good running order, and use them to their own advantage as well as to the pecuniary bertfi.. of the original Stock. holders. Simon Cameron is lead to be one of the leading men in the scheme. IVOral,expenew Qr TresidArit-14- 61n have never been paid for. 3lechar• tea, and other bu.ineps men, complain .adly about the nonpayment of the bilk At the time of the solemn ceremonies, the Secretary of the Interior give order.. to spare no expense , . in getting up the funeral. * Robert E. L.e, late 144,j1r General in, the rebel' army, tl-e Tribune sap. is so j-§urning at the Clifton gouse, Niagara Falls. R. F. Dill, proprietor of the Memphis Areal, during the war a traveling insti tution. following the inisfortUnes of the Confederate army, was last' week pardon ed by the President. Vent -Col. Wni: E. Mulford. of the rebel army, and formerly of Indiana, is nermitted by the President to leave the United States never to return. An insane , man' named Stocking shot and instantly . killed n citizen of Syracuse named 8. Roberts. and wounded a aellier in the arm on the steamer Annie John• son. while on ber way from La Crosse to St. Paul, on Thursday. An attempt was made on Monday at 31uscatine. lowa. to thrown train of crirs from the track by fastening a stick of wood to the track. The train was filled with returned soldiers. The obstruction was discovered in time to avoid the im pending danger. A riot occurred in Cummingsville, 0 , on Sunday in which three'men were shot anti a large amount of property destroyed. The damage to furniture. cte , in the Executive Mansion at Washington, f r om Saturday's storm is estimated at $3 000. A man named John Rill, in custody of the Sheriff of Banton County, Ho „for be ing concerned with 25 others. in the mur• der of several Union men, was forcibly taken from the Sheriff's hands. July 10, carried across the Osage River, and shot dead without ceremony. In Smthern Kansas the people are get- tiny terribly in PRrnest, in putting down thierina. Not long sines SAX thieves were hanged in Franklin County without the leant benefit of cleigy. James Simmons, a seaman, who ex presged satisfaction at the asatissination of Mr Lincoln, w4scourt-mertialed end has been sentenced by Secretary Wellea to two yearn' imprisonment, to forfeiture of all pay and allowances, to be diahonorably di6che-ged from the nAvv, and neyeragain to he enlisted•or partnitted to nerve under he G wernmen - t of the United States Ahnut 2)0 pnrrions to Southernera were granted twit week. There are still more than 2,000 applieationq on file, snit the petitions come in at the rate of about 208 per day. A young man named Frod. lioilkamp was murdered at roledo. O'lio, and rob bed of a small amount of money and a gold watch, early Sunday morning. No arresU were made. A party of thirty Indians attacked an emigrant train forty miles went of Jules burg Ca.. on S,turday. killed two men and captured one wagon. On the same day a largo party of Inikna surprised a camp of i*venty sik voldiPra a few miles myth of 17.11ev Station. captured their stock and drove the men to the station. Pluline. the youngest daughter of 7tfr. P T Barnum. the show•nrm, wax seriously injured in Fairfield. on Saturday, by being thrown from her horse. Bit lit tle hope is entertained of her recovery.' There was a great flood at Leavenworth, Kansas, on Sunday night, About twesatv Demme. mostly colored. were drowned. The loss of property is not great, as it was confined mostly to am tit tenena , mt houses Wheat is ranldly a tvannin•2; at In . lian spoil's. The price for old gr'ain is $1 61 per bushel . The erno in Southern Indi ana is almost a failure, but the bins are full of the last two yea"' grain. Tae Cr.tvii.men POST Omen —The editor of the Cleveland. Leader has been removed from the Post Office, and the editor of the Cleveland gerald appointed to the office. There is much political significance in the re moval and appointment.. Both papers and both editors are Republicans. When the plat form of, the Ohio Republican Convention, which does not embrace' the radical opposi tion plank of negro suffrage, was announced the Postmasler through his paper. the Leader, denounced it in these terms: " The platform is chiefly remarkable far what it omits to say, than for what it says. It weakly and timidly ignore.; the only vi'at icicle of Vie day—the great question of negro suffrage. Besides this there is no other live issue. on which par. ties are divided. In dodging Otis tho Con. ventinn has proved itself two years behind the times, and .has inflicted a bitter disap— pointment upon all earnest .and thinking Unionists." The action of the President sh , we that he does not propose to keep in office men who npnose the policy he has inaugurated. How he will treat .postmasters who sit astride the fence remains to be seen. • The Syracuse Jourrial slyEi " there is but. one Union, (Vint ia, Week Repuhlican,) jour nal in the entire lilt of our exchange a which is not en earnest and outspoken advocate of universal suffrage. That j'urnal is the New York Tmes." The Journal overleoks the &drab Camrizercial, which is not more than half in favor of negro suffrage, and, half the time, opposes it. Spirit of the Timos. MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE—THREE CHU, naex DROWNED —We are called upon to re cord a melancholy occurrence, which took place on We inestlay evening of last week, about two miles from Pettotewn, thy which three interestio; little children of Mr. Joorph' Wentnet, o f Pottsgreve township, were drown, cd. The facts of the cane are about as fol. towsl During the' absence of Mr. Wentzel, who was ample, ed in this bornuzli, his wife locked up the home, and taking her children, five in number, with her, went on a visit to her father, Mr. Jacob Maurer, who owns a ff ill on Sprogla'a Creek. and who lives prn. bably a mile distant from Mr. Wentzell+. In the evening. when Mrs. Wentzel wished to return home.. the very heavy rain which paosed over this vicinity, came up. and Spiv aee's Creek, from a small, quiet stream, over 'flow& its banks suddenly, and became • roaring torrent. After this shower was over, Mr. Henry Manger. a brother of Mrs Went eel, undertook to take her and her children home in a carriage. and in doing so. attempt ed to 'cross th' creek. near Mr Monger's. When the horse bad got fairly into the stream, which was deep and rapid. be fell down, np• setting the carriage end throwing its occu pants out into the creak. Mr Manger man aged to get out, and Mrs. Wentzel was also rescued, after being carried under two or three times. One of the children clung to the wagon and was t 'len out safely, and another wos reseued. when nearly dead, about three hundred yards down the stream, by its grandfather, Mr. -Manger. The o her three children were carried rapidly away and per ished in the raging waters. One of them was found the same evening, hut the bodies of the other two were not recovered until next lemming, when the flood had s• b Wed. The 'names of the drowned children were_ Hannah, aged nearly ten years ; Mary. aged, five, and Charlea, a little baby boy of only eight months. The horse which was attached to the wagOn ' 'after falling down, became en. tangled in the gears, and was also drowned. Tide case Is one of the most distressing that has ever occurred in our midst, and the afiltoted family have the most heartfelt sym pathies of our people in their great bereave ment. The funeral of the children took place on Saturday morning last, and was attended by a large concourse of relatives, neighbors and friends, The eertnarton the omosion was preached-by Rev. J. H. Dubbs, pastor of the Gorman Reformel Church of this borough.— Montgomery Ledger. • TIAQIDY 1W AN INBANIII fearful tragedy occurred last Friday. At about ten o'4p6k itie night preyious,stOriOimaejarge,„. stout and desperately crazy,' crawled up the ventilator in hie room in on of the rear two story buildings. and reached the roof. where he established himself, and bade defiance to th . c world. lie was soon discovered, and every effort that the ingenuity of the supertn• tendent and his associates could invent, waa made to induce him to clime down. but with out, avail. A hole was oat in the rtof, but with pieces of elate, which he tore from the roof, the madman beat back all who attempted to approach him. The roof is quite steer, but the crazy man would run a'l over even along the eaves. without fear anti with per fect impunity. No sane person could' accom plish what he did. lie declared he would ~nev,r come down alive, and would Lill coy one who should come upon the roof. It wal therefore tin impossibtlity to get kilm s tfcly. and it would he eertatn death tor any one to go upon the roof and grapp'e with him' Ile woc_perfot .•• master of the sauation " A watch was k(pt upon him during the night and the next forenoon.. It was thought that Father Sullivan, the Catholic priest who had previonaly •,si•ed him and seemed t have considerable influence over him, might induce him to c km, down, and he wss sent for at Ifolyo.ke, but bein sick he could not afterd, and seat one of - his assigtenfs, but before he arrived the madman at ab iut • 11 o'clock was aeiz.-d with a fir to which he was subject, while sit'ing behind a chimney. and curling up. rolled eff, striking on the solid hardpan below, breaking one arm and ifjuring himself internally en that he lived only about an hour: In his disabled cuLdition even he fought desperately, and it w.is with difficulty that he was secured. The ve. tilator throuzli which he eso .ped is oval shaped, about eight by twelve Inches, and estentled from neir the top of the will, hori aoutally about fen inches 'and then up to the roof. This hole he enlarged by knocking out the brick. Ile entered the venfilitt r by turt tog his bedmp against the wall.—Northamp ton (Mass.) Gazelle. FRUALE RIOT IN GREENFIELD. OHIO.—Ton much rum was "pill down" the throats of the young men of Greenfield. Ohio, so the ladies thought, and therefore a few days since they resolved to put down all the rum there was in town, " at one fell swoop," as Macduff amid of his chickens. They held a meeting, on Monday—washing day—and passed reso. lotions denouncing dutemperance ; and in the sf ernoon of the tame day they sallied forth, some dozens strong, armed with hatchet., axes and hright eyes, and c died at Newheck's saloon. Newbeck was a valorous man, for di-cretion is the better nen of valor,: he had shut up his saloon : hut. the ladies opened it. in short artier. They'emashed in N. win low ; then one of (hem gat in, in the most graceful manner, and uttbAted the do .rs, when the I,dies made a de-cent - on the kegs and bottle., and the way ii I mother Earth drank beer and "forty rod " was enough to make her stagger if any thing world. rhea the ladies smashed in the doors of Linn's thus store, near by, and spilt all his rquor. The Mayor elate on the scene at this juncture, and made quite a pretty figure in the performance— (frontal 'cony considered—by re .tling the riot act ; after which he went home and the ladies went on with their hdth old bust." After haying "busted" all the rest of the liquor in town, they retired on their laure'e. The wholevillage Las smelt of whiskey ever Fillet. Shortly after, snits for damages were com menced again.t the ladies by the despoi'ed, awl forty seven of the dear creAtite , .., were accordingly tier tignetl and held to trial in XlOO sums of front WO SIOJ to answer in the Common ['teas in October. Dian pp Joy.—A woman, the wife of a re turned soldier, resoling at No. 43 North Moore street, received him on his ramie 41 from the South the other day with tho most violent demonetrotions of joy and affection : and was en completely hat pa , at misting her lieic lord that the first night of their reunion `she went to the North river and drowned herself. The sequel proved that she was deeply enam ored of another man, ob.] had been his mis tress for two years ; and knowing she must separate trim hint after the return of her lawful spou.e she concluded it she could no longer sleep on her lover's bosom, to sleep under the waters of the Hudson.- r Y. Y. Paper. Special Notices. There is nothing more certa'n to prevent Pulale irregularities than Dr. Velptu's Fe- male Pills. They will in all ems.; cause a re turn- of monihly bickneßs. without which no tinmlrriel 11.1 y can enjoy perfect hecklth. Sold -by all Drugzi-t;. - au3 lm " Be affih!e and e ,, tirleoug in youth, that you m•tiv he h inor'il in Ref' Uqe Dr. It. If. Seelye's Liquid Catarrh Rem.ily tor Catarrh d'tliculties, Coil in the field. and fir cleangi. , g the nose and he that your drys ally he lung in which to be honored. Our pains are real things, and all Our pleasures but Vintit.t icil ; lli , icases of their awn sc,lard, But cures come difficult and hard " Yet all ‘1. 1 .0 have ever tried it, say Dr. b. Ti. sceiye's Liirtid Catarrh Remedy never fills to uerminefitly Te11)017 , . alt p 41.19, nchei and troubl s arising from Catarrhal difficul— ties. Try it.. Mati.fteld's Dist eusatory says that most of the Sarsaparilla of the shops is inert and worthless Dr. Ayer iu his writings on this drug states that Oct only is it. inert as found in the shops, but so also are most of the pre par aim from it, or hearing its name. He s h o w.: however, that this fact arises from the u.es of worthless varieties, or unskillful pre psrationv by incompetent men ; th•at the true Medicinal Sarsaparilla (Suss Smilax eff ) of the' tropics, when freshly gathered in the bud, is one of the most effec 'lst alteratives we posse's Combined with ether substances of great alterative power, like lodine, Stilitn gin. Dock, &c., it makes Ayer's Comp. Ext. ut Sers, which we have reason to believe is one of the most effectual remedies for humors. skin diseases and for purifying the blood which has ever yet been found by anybody. —Bangor (Mc.) Mercury. " nr.e advances, ails ana Reties attend Bank - huilded broadest burdensomely bend ; Cuttingly cruel comes consuming care, De-ding delusions, drivelry, despair." Thus. with alliterative accuracy, does Or pheus C. Kerr tell the sad st try of the "aches and ails "of advancing age. But a way has been discovered by which old age e-c wee Its pona , ties, and youth mar be made more Fril limit. Plantation bitters—the, trie of Life and Love "—is the nre;indrd et iris's halm It cures Dyspepsia, Headache. Dull— ness, Vertigo Gout, Liver Complaint, Sillow• netts, Feverish Lips, and every symptom of an` unpleasant or alarming character Let all who would et joy He and its blessings:use Plittation Bitters, and they will retain their fre4hness, bloom and beauty from youth to old age. The Newburyport Herald concludes an ie. teresiing history of the various substitutes for the larre anti costly pipe organ with the following well deserved notice or the Cabinet Organ : " MI these inventions were, however, but a little more than a series of experiments, a striving after-an ideal, which sh ouldcoot• bine alt excellences and reject all imperteo tions, which, accoiding to ifin universal Ineny of Lae great-st musici ins throughout the world, has at last been attainbil in - the .C.tbinet Organ' or Nlasan liamlin Those who have hid their ears pained by the - thin, brassy sound of the old-fashioned seraphine, in which the wind was forced instead of drawn through, or who have tried to he thankful fur the improved melodeon, but wishing there was more of it, can hardly real ize that an instrument of the same class should he capable of such power, richness of tone, and surprising effects as the Cabinet Organs. It is fortunate, too, that their ex pease is so low as to place them within the mewls of almost every family in the land ; and their influence will, we doubt not, be un bounded in musical, aesthetic), and social'cul ture." MARRIED. VAIITASCRL-MILLtn-At Girard, July 30th, by Geary Bail, Esq., Mr. Geo. W. "%remiss sel to Misi Minnie Miller, all of this city. DIED. Drtaws—On the 30th nit.. in this city, Miss Libhie Brown. in the lif volt't of her age. Alitilt+lE KIIIV 4 ALrFt ItXoilANlii.. drut rate It atm or Te Irk 1i,.*,.rme.1 acid tied, 7 3e,re old for pal.; or will be exchauked for a good lemil• or burly born. Eagatto at this odic*. - GREAT-BALL Watches and .JeNk ) 1,000000 WORTH 'lO BE D I A el at OtHPhar 'Who to La raid 'or until you izt.ow •I, k ; ~ .tt fly A. H. Rayon ft Co , t f. t L.., No a 6 ttteattaa attest, be. Yurt. or Rotel the followlng hat nt Art t'et t ONE DuLLAR 100 Gobi hunting case wateheg, 100 Gold watches, various to i t ., 200 Ladies' gold watches, 600 :giver wa•cbes, 6,000 Late style vest &ne . ck 6.500 Gouts' Cal. diamond pin., 4 000 Cal. diamond ear tiro' s, 3 000 Miniature revolving pin., 2,001) Cal dinneond and gents' scarf pins, new st. , 2.000 Masonic & emblem pins, 2 500 Goid bind bracelets, 3 000 Jet and mosiac brewelle., 2,000 Cameo troociies, • 3,000 Coral ear drops, ' 2,000 L•ediea' watch chains, 6,000 dents' Pius, splet.'l , ll4...re I, 1 000 Solitaire sleeve button s , 3 000 Sets studs & sleeve hut's.-, 6 000 Sleeve buttons, plain S en,;., 10,000 Plain & engraved rings, b,OOO Lockets, tidily engra%e.l, 15,000 Sets ladies' jewelry, new „ latest styles, 5 000 Handibnie seal rings, , 01)0 Sets bosom studs, 1.000 Gold pens &, gold holder, 2,600 Sets jet & gold pins & ear drops, latest styles, 2,000 Gold thimbles, pencils, &c., 10 000 Gold pens, & silver casts, 10 000 Geld 1 ens, ebony holds rut, Thi■ entire list of beautiful and volash, 6'll for one troller esch. Cert , ll,at.• articles will he placed in eorriors and cove ores are sent by enail, as ord.rel, e, t • tholes. On the reit% tof the eecti.c.E.. what no are to have. and then tt is at , seud the duller and lake the erne • or G' ,. }lre certificates can be old..red for $1 : thirty for $6 ; slaty nee for $lO ; rlfiu on , $.6. We will send a stogie pa tents Agent, wi•.led, to whom wet fLr e I cad 25 cents La one certincate and our r terms. A. fl. R it F, 33 Beekman sits• ;. P 0. Pot, 21 . 0. w• Ring's Vegetaole Amts A GREAT HAIR RESTORA'.: Thi'PtiF.PARATIoN 1. Wr.:L.L. K. 3104 2, region as HONOLULU VEGETABLE and has tits new narna cos a. e o lsoLot T.. Corer being c.usoltdate I with it by ac„ the yr sorootora 01 the ten preparat. , In itum , n e tale, f.r the follow Sot. It restores Gray H4ir to its ur, Ud. it irop.r,s a be..kolLa..l. fa *.d hair. It cures all FForrthrs snd a ...a r das• It VI AO e ento r at., Lth. It is a r.chir perfum-t: hair . La •leS I no you itesdro to ..! art nct,l Front t ieces t the ; I neotore your Gray 1.1011 to , trt.ses of y oath. Grutl-men 1 p.: your beads olv, or L1...dm...at Thertuoo LOOM which are' causing your hale t, It is not a dye I It toes G at 111 Cl 2 It 11, not comp. Frd chledy of bum 111.1 Hest...tatter. Try i• and lr C.L , POP E. 11 Tonna k , :0., er..priet •ro, N. I. Hum., loon iris, htrrto, . Northwestern •tuck% Ate te— • arls, Co , I itusvale ; E. IS. Slieper, . Wood, t:ot'ry. ERIE AGENC 7-30 U. S . Bade in tunonnts of $5O, $lOO, $5OO On hand for Immediate Delivery THE SUBSCRIBEIc Daly Authorized Sub-cri JAY• COOKE 4: m1111'054 BANK NOTICE! Keystone National Bank of CAPITAL, SISO,(XC DIRECTORS: SELT)EN J•.ll\ R. 7, BLSTER TO 0. NOBLE. ORANGE NOBLE, Prest,:era. JOLLY J. TOWS, Caahier. =I The &bore back will b+ opened for the tr.- b.muesa on Monday, Dec. sth, in Hughes Vk eat side of State St.. beteeen Seventh t Satisfactory paper Cipconoted. -Money recelreU o Dep-sit Coltectlons inade and proceeds lICCC7.: promptness Waite, Specie and Bank votes bnur.h: A share of Public rattnnag3 » resp,7 ' Aiew Music Stogy F;.+e;s:t /r .v____ 277 1 .1, PIANO FORTES AM) 11W I tom the tollorkm; l• MANUFACTUI, L. Stall:May Solllo6llaf York Win Kola» A. Bnlumore, L oadeomo tic SoLIA, New eat:. Wm B. Braulbury, hew John ti.Duolasm,.f..eat Y. s. Grureateen & Co .1‘ her York. Geo. A. & Co ,Bu", 1. o Carhart. Needham &. Co .rev Prices at a Large Div.ount be • factarer's PI:CeSi PIANOS Fit Also, !nap - within books All pinions wishing a first rate " on, are inriteo to sail and exantic." fore p reuwng elsewhere lteeiS' hhich• • • , atate street, near.• Oflice. rir P.S.—Flesh Instzuntent Reeves' Amb FOR THE HAIR. THIS EXCELLE>.;"I Eieitt • 'and wonderful Flair EPptoratnr precedents in faahlonable elides Lad IR '- °the oreosi (.11:1b', in this . Lampe and ',...outh America. Th(l.lr. annually used In the Court dicks ut Peter burg and kladtid aud the pi lo la • moue. P.6EVEs'ASIIIROt.IA t e , trpet 'tom het bv (I wont erful t it tu. , ted with a variety - 411 minis to per:, t • prevents the haft I.lling oat, et.d Idly, tbb h and lorg. a makes the t'• It • glossy anearanee. 'o toll, t r, tt. Price 76 eeuts per large b, :told by demeglava and dealers to `v• put* of the VIVI teed wot.d. al ingest& in every city, and at _ ii.C..t.Ste AM/MOST A F'ENCIT, RICH tRDS k Co, PE Ageota (or I'lptiowilsacia. STRA Y Sutocribor on or Rbo t th• zoth ' • Mlll . OB, 0310 With & Whlte Mtir Bland Et • The owner as requa prove propert,, ray ebto gem and la. all man s were talin up .rd pu• o by Wm Me este, or ta ab d , t• „or con tit P U. S ratiabaa, Uuneord, r j 4 7.1. f NB%V FUILNITURE sToitE We havejast opened s n,w. fl IN PARR t LT, lICTILDIS6, And in'evi in (Itipnee or our goOJ. 0 LIP. Please rive a ear, a I I suit ea. illtr;aN s. a 1727•.1% j72//63-3i J UM AND UPWARDS, MEI AGENTS CLAP , 9. : t ;7-C.