NTIXEL & REPUBLICAN
MIFFLINTOWN.
nWaewtfay, Decern b'r 20, 18T6.
B.; F. SOU WEIEK,
: imtob anb racr-arrroa.
Their Constituents Should Call
Them Home, to Eesign-That
- will Stop the War Talk.
' Tbe re is a prominent Philadelphia
: Democrat named Randall, and a promi
neot New York Democrat Lamed Wood,
id Congress. .
These man, with a few others of the
iiuie inflammable material, have been
ventilating themselves lately in a nio3t
warlike manner.
Viewed from their standpoint, there
it no remedy fur a squabble among men
who are in office, and men who are out
of office and wish t get into office, but
to get np fight about it, and involve
the whole country in ruinous and dead
1 strife.
The American doctrine is that there
is a peaceable remedy for all wrongs.
So'-netimes the wrongs must be endured
a long time, but a proper presentation
of tbeni time after time to the people
will bring about a sure and certain
peaceable remedy.
The noisy Randall and blustering
Wood never knew that, or if tbey know
it they disregard that fact entirely.
It was the disregard of just that doc
trine by Southern men in 1SS1 that
brought all the ills on them that tbey
sow complain of.
Randall and Woods have bo right to
talk of civil war as a remedy for the
contest of men for office ; they bare
cot been sent to Congress for that pur
pose. It is an outrage on their con
Blihieccy to bo violate the plainest of
American doctrines, the very founda
tion principles of the Republic.
Their constituents should petition
them to resign and corns borne. Their
places there could be filled by election,
by men who insist that the troubles
for office be settled in a peaceable way
In sccordncewitb -the spirit cf the
country.
The people can soon settle the blather
of these advocates of revolution and
war by calling them borne.
The people are the masters, and tbey
will not Lave revolution an J war to
satisfy tbe office seekers and office
holders.
If yea have a Congressman, be be a
Republican or Demicrat, who declares
for revolution anJ war as the only
remedy, just get up a petition aking
bim to come home, that you can elect
another man who uuderstands tbe spiiit
of the American Government better.
If frauds have been committed they
must be reached by civil means, aud if
these means fail once, twice, thrice, or
oftener, they must still be persisted in
until the reform has been accomplished.
When force is employed there is an
end of peaceable government.
The people do not believe that the
end of peaceable government has come,
they know better.
Tbe people are not afraid to fight for
their rights whenever it is necessary to
da so, and tbey do not now propose to
have their rights violated by allowing
men whom they have sent to Congress
to act and speak in such a way as if
the whole system of GovernmerJ is a
farce, and that all trouble of whatso
ever kind cannot be settled by peace
able processes.
They are tbe cilice holders and office
seekers who are talking in that way.
Let all such be petitioned to resign and
come home. That will stop the war
talk.
A Fourfold Object. Apparently.
Last week certain Democratic pa
pers published a 6tory that Governor
Chamberlain, of South Carolina, nn
' der the advice of Republicans at
Washington, Lad given Silas Patter
eon, son of Senator John J. ratter
eon, the sura of $2,70D. for each of
the Judges cf the Supreme Court of
South Carolina, and that Silas, in
Etead of giving the rnonej to the
Judges, had put it into his pocket
The object of the story is fourfold.
First It was intended to impress
the public mind with the belief that
G ovexnor Chamberlain an d his friends
are corrupt enough to bribe any one
who con be bribed.
Second It was intended to im
press the public mind with the belief,
indirectly, that the Court is a virtu
ous Court, and that the agent so be
lieved it to be, and put the money
into his own pocket without even an
effort to bribe it
Third It was intended to draw
public attention from the usurpation
of the Court in its efforts to give life
to a second or donblo State Govern
ment in South Carolina.
Pourth It was an effort to impress
the public mind with a belief of the
utter unwortlaness of Chamberlain
and his friends, so that the Supreme
Court and their leading friends both
North and South can the better suc
ceed in their efforts to Mexicanize the
Government, and divide it
Sach are the objects of the story,
apparently, as they impress impartial
minds.
Wants Congress to Say.
The Congressional Committee in
New Orleans demanded the political
despatches tiiat had been sent over
the Western Union lines. The Pres
ident of the company refused to give
them, on the ground that they are
private despatches. He wants Con
gress to say what he 6hall do.
7. B. Arner. Republican will conteat the
nit at S. H. Haslet in the next Hons of
J:rjveuUurM Irons Forest county.
Hail Changes in the Juniata.
Valley. -
Within the pMt few days the mail agents
hare been taken off the way passenger rail
road trains,' and all concentrated on fait
through mail trains. To get the mail -on (
tee fast Una, ton cnaoge requires tne !
ruau bags to be nuns? on a stana uear
the track on which lira fast trains pass. An
iron rod is thrust out of the mail car te
catch the big. and in a majority of cases
when a mail is pant tha usual weight the
rod fails to bold it, and it is not taken on
thit train, but drops to the around, and
must be taken back to the Post Office,
to await the next train that carries
the mail. The late arrangements seem
to nave been marie entirely in ura in
terest of throogh mails, for cities. The
country, local people, can endure a great
deal, but tbey do not like to be ignored en
tirely. The ocean may be a large body of
water, but what would the ocean be without
the streams that feed it t Can the Post
Office Department take a b int T
. ' ' Misrepresentatives. .
The Congressmen who are talking
about inaugurating .civil war are
black legs. They all expect to make
something out of the ruin that would
follow a state of war. . They are, all
of them, uisreprosentatives, and
wherever a district is cursed with
such a black-!eg, he should be peti
tioned by alL regardless of party, to
resign and come home. No man has
the right to so misrepresent the peo
ple who, in their mistaken kindness,
sent him to Congress.
Not a single Congressman of all
the gambling host who talk of war
could have been elected if they had
so declared themselves before the
election.
A Back Salary Grabber.
A few years ag4Iie Democracy of
this State claimed! be quite virtu
ous when it refused to allow Mr. Mil
ton Speer, of Hrntingdon, to act as
President of a State Convention, be
cause he was a back salary grabber.
Their virtue was all pretension, a real
sham, as is evidenced by the fact that
Mr. Samuel Randall, also a Back
Salary Grabber, has been made
Speaker of the Lower House of Con
gress. Mr. Itandall is at the head of
that part of the Democratic party
th?.t talks of seceding from Congress
and inaugurating a war, if Tilden is
not declared elected.
Silver Coin as a Legal Tender.
At a former 6ossion of Congress
silver coin was legislated upon in
such a way that it w.s no longer a
legal tender co;n, thereby leaving
gold as the ny legal lender coin of
the country.
Oil the 13 A inst, as tlie reader
may learn by consulting Congres
sional proceedings as published else
where in these columns, the Lower
House of the present Congress re
instated silver coin as a legal tender
coin. The country generally will be
pleased. Iso cne wJl be dissatiafiod
but gold gamblers.
Convicted.
Frank A. Beamish, Sergeant-at-Arms
to the House of Representative at
llarrisburg, bas been convicted of for
gery at. W ilkesbarre. Tbe crime was
committed when be was Secretary of
the School Board at Scraoton several
years ago. Beamish wanted to co to
tbe State Senate from Luzerne county
while the ludictmeut was banging over
his bead, but the people of that dist rict
repudiated his claims. He is a fair
specimen of tee average Democratic
politician in that region. j'ortk .timer
ican.
Who Will Fight ?
A city paper aks tbe above, and an
swers it quite wisely, as follows :
Pray, who is going to fight. Sup
pose Mr. Hayes is declared properly
elected by tbe Congressional committees,
are the Northern Democratic leaders
going to shoulder their muskets aud go
to war ? If tbey do, they will do much
mere than they did in 1861, when they
left the South in the larch to fight out
the batlR-8 to which they bad urged
and pereuaded them. Do these North
ern Democratic leaders imagine South
ern men have forgotten that turn Let
them ask any Southern man who fought
against the Uoion in tbe late war, and
they will get a very disagreeable an
swer. Tbe Southern men are net going
to fight. They have been" through all
that, and have learned that war is not a
pleasant or useful way to settle politi
cat disappointments or wrongs.
Or suppose Mr. Tilden is declared
elected by the committees, who is going
to fight ! Shalt we hear of Republican
leaders shouldering their swords to re
eut ! Not they ; for they know per
fectly well that if Mr. Tilden is elected
they will have to submit, because tbe
American people of both pal ties will
make tbem submit.
Who will fight ? We can tell the
politicians of both parties whom both
can equally count on.' Not tbe decent,
industrious men who earn t ie bread
and support their families. No ; tbeii
arn-V will consist of the Five Po.uis
thieve.', the burglars, tbe robbers, the
noble cor;s of tramps, the assemblage
of tbe undetected of the rag tag aud
bobtail who happen to be out of jail.
Tnese would answer to their summons,
and marching at the head of such a
FalMaffs brigade, what reception do
these vaporers imagine they would get
from the respectable part of the com
munity ! An army whose business will
be to rob, to steal, to set on fire private
dwellings, to empty shops, which will
see an enemy in every bale of dry
goods, and whose greatest triumph
would be an act of arson which would
end it, rank and file, to State Prison
that is tbe kind of army on which
fighting Rrpubr.ca.- on one side, and
a set of unfledged Democratic generals.
equally innocent of war, on the other,
may count, and we with them joy in
' advance of their impatient recruits.
. Congress, the Past Week.
Monday, Decanter 11.
; SESATT. ,.. . -
Concurred iu House bill for'2(,C00
to defray expense! of Southern intesti-
gating Committee.
Presentation of the report of the
Democratic National Committee that
was South to see tbe vote canvassed,
that it might be printed. Decided in
favor of printing.
.Introduction of a bill to provide for
the redemption) of Greenback.'
Inquiry as to the number of deputy
marshals thooghout the country on elec
tion day, November 7, 1S76. Laid
over. , i '
A petition of General Joseph E.
Johnston, asking the removal of bis
political disabilities. Referred. .
Tbe unfinished consideration of tbe
joint resolution proposing an amend
ment to the Constitution to have tbe
electoral vote fox. President and Vice
President counted by tbe Supreme
Court cane up and was discussed.
Notice of an amendineut that Su
preme Judges shall be ineligible to any
United States office, until four years
after be shall have ceased to be a judg6.
Ordered to be printed.
Resolution to pay Senate witnesses
four dollars per day and fifty ceuts per
mile each way. Referred.
Adjourned.
BOCSB.
Mr. Clymer appoiuted on the com
mute on appropriation, in the place of
Mr Randall, who was elected Speaker.
Bill to provide for remedies for over
charges of duties on tonnage and im
ports. Jjtli to reduce letter postage to two
cents. Bill to regulate compensation
of letter carriers.
Bi'.l for the proteetion of States
against domestio violence. The bill
embodies the idea of tbe United States
Constituticn on that point. ,
Bill to impose an additional duty of
5 per cent, on sugar that bas been pro
duced by slave labor.
Unanimous consent was asked to offer
a resolution that tbe War Department
furnish General Sheridan's reason for
tbe removal of J. Madison Wells from
tbe Governoiship of Louisiana in 1SG7.
Not agreed to.
A resolution for the appointment of
a committee of five to proceed to the
cities of New York, Philadelphia,
Brooklyn and Jersey City to examine
into any fraudulent registration and
fraudulent voting at the late election.
Adopted without a division.
Resolution about the legality of the
order of the Attorney General to United
States Marshals as to their duties at
tbe election of November 7, 1S7C, be
inquired into. AdopteJ without a di
vision. A motion to suspend the rules to pass
a resolution to inquire what amount of
intimidation had been practiced on the
Government employees to get them to
cjDtribute to an election fund, was lost.
Tuesday, Dectmlxr 12.
SENATE.
Tbe resolution of the previous day,
in inquiry as to the cumber of United
States marshals employed on election
day was agreed to.
Resolution providing for an investi
gation of the Oregon electoral vote
outrage discussed, and pending the dis
cussion a demand was made for the reg
ular order, which was the joint resolu
tion to so amend the Constitution that
the electoral vote shall be counted by
the Supreme Court. Before that ques
tion was reached the Secate agreed to a
joint resolution to inquire into the prac
ticability of reducing the army till Jan
nary 28, 1877. After considerable dis
cussion on tbe question of the Supreme
Court counting tha electoral vote the
Senate adjourned.
HOCSE.
Introduction of a constitutional
amendment forbidding the manufacture
and sale of distilled liquors as a bever
age after the year 1900. Referred.
Lengthy discussion on joint rules,
which was only brought to a close by
tbe Speaker ruling that the House pro
ceed to the unfinished business of the
last morning hour of last seasiusv, which
was a bill to utilixe tbe product of gold
and silver mines. Tbe bill went over
on tbe proposition to devote to it two
hours in each of the two coming days
Post office appropriation bill of $32,-
953,125 reported, which was made
special order for consideration nest day
after the morning hour.
Resignation of Representative Smith
Ely, Jr., of New York, handed in
Laid on the table.
The Speaker appointed as the com
miltee to inquire as to whether frauds
have been practiced in tbe election in
New Yoik, Brooklyn, Jersey City and
Philadelphia, Messrs. Cox (N.Y ), Eice
(Ohio), VVaddell (N. C.), McDougall
(Ky .) aod Wells 'Miss )
Wednesday, December 13.
Bt.NATE.
Tbe proposal to print 10,000 addi
tional copies of tbe President's report
of the Louisiana committee was laid
over till the next day.
Tbe count of tha United States elec
toral vote by tbe Supreme Court agaiu
discussed and rejocted by a vote ot SI
nays to 14 yeas.
HOUSE.
Bill to organize the Territory of
Okalahauia, made the special for the
third Tuesday in January.
Bili to authority the citizens of Col
orado to cut and remove timber on the
public domain for building, agricultural,
aod mining and domestic purposes. Ob
jections to its introduction, and tbe
morning bour having expired it was fir
tbat time ruled out.
Debate on tbe bill to utilize the pro
ducts of tbe gold and "silver mine.
Passtdona vote of 167 yeas "to 53
nays'. Tbe bill as passed reads :
' ''A bill authorizing the 'coining of tha
Stanitrd silver dollar, and rentoring ita l-pal-tender
character. That there sha'l be
from time to time coined at the mints of
tbe United S tates silver dollars of the weight
of 412 J graius sUioiarti silver to the doiUr,
as provided for 'n the act of January 18,
1837, and that aid dollar shall be a legal
tender for all debts. ubl!c and private, ex
cept where payment of gold ooin is requir
ed bylaw." . .
, The bill to make the Burlington and
Missouri River liailroad a - branch of
the Union Pacific" Railroad as recommitted.-:'
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Thurtday, Dtcembtr 14.
SENATE. : '
The proposal to print the President's
message with accompanying documents
relative to the eleetion in Louisiana
was taken up and agreed to.
The Attorney General sent and bad
read a communication as to tbe employ
ment of marshals throughout tbe United
States on election day. He bas not the
full information as required now, but
will have it all for the Senate at an
early day.
Answer of tbe Secretary of tie In
terior as to Indian affairs and negotia
tions now pending to remove tbe In
dians from the Black Hills. Ordered
to be printed and lie on the title.
The CLair laid before tbe Senate a
message front tbe President in answer
to tbe resolution of the Senate of tbe
6tb inst. in rgard to troops being sU
tiuue J at Petersburg, Ya., cn election
day. . Ordered to be printed and lie on
tbe table. The message reads : .
To the Stnatt of the United States :
In auswer to the resolution of tbe Sen
ate of the Gtb instant, requesting " in
formation as to "whether troops ot tbe
United States were stationed in tbe city
of Petersburg in tbe State of Virginia,
on tbe 7th of November, 137G, and if
so, under what authority and for what
purpose, 1 submit tbe enclosed letter
Iroui tbe Secretary of War, to wbomjhe
resolution was referred, together with
tbe report ot the General of tbe Army
and accompanying papers. These en
closures will give all the information
called for by tbe resolution and I con
fidently believe will justify tbe action
taken. It is well uuderstood that the)
presence of United States troops at
polling places never prevented tbe full
exercise of the franchise by any citizen
of whatever politioal faith. If then
tbey have had any effect whatever upon
the ballot cast it has been to iusuxe
protection to the citizen casting it, "to
giving it to the candidate of his unbiased
choice without fear, and- thus securing
tbe very essence of liberty. It iuav be
the presence of twenty-four United
States soldiers, under the command of a
captain and lieutenant, quartered inthe
Custom House at leter.-burg Virgiuia,
on tbe 7th of November, at a consider
able distance 'roni any polling place,
without any interference on their part
whatever, and without going rear the
polls during the election, m y have se
cured a different result from tehat wulJ
tare been obtained if they had not been
there j to maintain the poco iu ( . f
riotj, on Hit jac oj we return, uut u
such u the case, it is only proof tbat in
this one Congressional district in tbe
State of Yirginia, the legal and eocs;i
tutional voters bav been able to return
as elected candidate of their choice.
U. S. Gbast,
Executive Maxsios, Doc. 14, lbTo.
HOCSK.
Appointedja committee of seven to
act with a like nuttber of Senators in
devising a way to count the electoral
vote. Also another ooimuitteo of tbe
same number to report what are the
privileges, powers and duties of tbe
House in counting the electoral vote.
Report of $20)0(My the committee
on appropriation for tbe payment of
electoral messenger, from the Capitals
of the respective States to tbe National
Capita!. Passed.
Resolution calling on the Secretary
of V ar as to the number of U. S.
troops at Fort Sill, and other facts in
the Indian Territory.
Rulings by the Speaker on questions
of no geueraljnttrest.
Reports from committees, none of
which were of general interest.
Message from the President relative
to the removal of the Sioux Indians to
tbe Indian Territory. Referred.
Friday, December 15.
SENATE.
Tbe third Tuesday of January was
set apart as tbe day to consider amend
ments to acts of July 1, 18G2, and
July 2, 18G4, to aid in the construc
tion of a railroad and telegraph line
from the Missouri river to the Pacifio
Ocean.
Report of House bill to pay for the
electoral messengers. Passed.
Notice tbat on Monday tbe $25,000
salary bill that President Grant vetoed
will be called np.
Resolution for compensation of wit-
( uese called np and amended to
give $d per day and 5 and 7 cents per
mile each way for traveling expenses.
Agreed to.
Keconsideration of the appointment
of the Oregon elector, which brought
out a lengthy discussion. Pendihg the
discussion a bill was called np appro
priating funds for special committees.
Message from the House was called
np, providirg for a joint eonjruttee to
devise some method of counting tbe
electoral vote. Laid over till Monday,
after which tbe Senate went into exec
utive session, and upon the re-opening
of the doors, adjourned nntil Monday.
house. .
Acknowledgment of compliment paid
by tbe Kepublio of Pretoria in Sontb
Africa, on the occasion of the Centen
nial, also similar acknowledgments to
tbe Argentine Kepublie.
Appropriations for Southern Con
gressional committees, including other
election examination committees, raised
from $20,000 to $30,000 each.
.Discussion on post office route appro
priation!. Adjourned to Satuiday.
Democratio Congratulation Ee-
publican Eeply.
Ever since the evening of the day of
eleetion," and before a poll of; votes
anywhere bad been counted, the Dem
ocratic brethren have teen shaking
hands "and congratulating each 'other
and tbe country geuerally on the elec
tion of Governor Tilden. Their paper
of congratulation was issued by Mr.
Hewitt, Chairman of their National
Committee. " It reads : "
Rooms or fad Natjosas Dcaocnatic
Committee, WniNntox. Pec. 13, 1876
To fte Ttofte ef ;he Vwittt Statet ?"Trie
National Democratic Committee announce
as the result of Ihn Frcsiduutial election
held on the 7th of November, the election
of Samuel J. TilJeu.of New York, as Pres
ident, and Thoinaa A. Uundricks, ot Indi
an, as Vice President of Ibr United States.
We congratulate yon on this victory for
reform. Il now only remains lor the two
houses of Congress, in the. performance of
their duty, o the second Wednesday ol
February next, to give effect to tho will ol
the people thus expressed in the eonatltn
tionaljroode by a mnjority of the Electoral
votes'and confirmed bv a majority tit all
the P tales, as well as by aa verwheluiiug
majority of all the pcopie of tbe t'uited
States. By order ol the Executive Commit
tee. Assam S. Hcwitt, Chairman.
F. O. Paisci, Secretary.
THE REPUBLICAN REPLY. .
as ADoassa ar uox. a-ca aidlkm ran win
or tus ritorn to bk ciaaiKo otr.
Washi.iotos, Dec. 18. The Chairman of
the National Republican CotumilUo has
issued tne following :
An address haa to night been iavied by
the Democratic committee. It is the last
desperate attempt to pr?p a failing rause.
Go . Hayes but buen fairly elected by a
clear majority of the bloctoral vole. ' There
IS ao indication that any right-miuded citi
sen bas a doubt as to the result. The ad
dress of the Democratic comniitt-e is an
impudent and audacious attempt to preju
dice and pervert public jiKla-mrot. iiayes
and Wheeleratre elected, and itts will ol the
American people will be carried out and
maintained.
Z. ("HAKDLEa,
Chairman of Republican National Committee.
Permanent rxhibition.
The Permanent Exhibition in the
fain Building is assuiuiug shape. Al
ready the applications to the Mauager
are in excess of the room, nearly three
tbousend persons having applied for
pace in tbe building. Our Centennial
visitors of the summer and fall will
readily recognize the magnitudo of tbe
new exhibition when they remember the
grandeur of the old in tbe same uiagnifi
cent structure. Yesterday the. Man-
acer began to'allot space'to applicants, !
ft r - ' i
many of tbe departments occupied by
exhibitors Having Deen vacated, ana!j$beb
from this time forward the building will
be a lively scene of activity in the pre
parations for the -opening in April.
.Xorth .Imtriein; Dee W
The Congressional Committee in
New Orleans Democratic Tes
timony. The Concfressional House Com
mittee of Investigation on Southern
Affairs beaa its work in Near. Or
leans last FriiLiy. TLe first witnes
ses were largely iu the interest of the
Dermx'tticy. They nnwt !e air ou
ruficuiu evt uf icujlc U. u there, if
the testimony is to lie believe!. .11
the testimony of both ptirtiex is to
be believutl, they are iu a tUite bor
dering oa bttrbarisiii. If the one bide
is true and tho other i.s not, it is over
whelming evidence of almost limit
less corruption, as no community ciin
be a good community . that has so
much counter bweiirin in it. The
people there teem to be cursed by
their own corruption, nud if the
country allows itself to be dragged
into serious trouble by 6neh a cor
rupt set of people, who either have
coiamiUed the outrages tsworn to, or
have sworn to lies for political cfioct,
it will le cursed as deeply as the
scoundrels w hose respective sides are
espoused. Iiut to the first instal
ment of despatches :
Henry Carroll, colored, esified that
he lives in Orleans parish, on fh'erighf
bank, five miles below fhe' ciy was
foruiely a Republican ; joined the Lib-
end pary and voted for McEnery in
I6i3; vofea 'no Ue-uocrano rickef luis!
year, for which bis life was ure&'ened
and afenips were made tuuroer
him. A uiun was shnf and killed No
vember 10, being mUfaken for wines.
William Ward, colored, of (J ran par
ish, esified in 1874 he was shof tJ
and knocked in the bead by the Re
publicans, because be wanfed lo run
for the Ju-gislauro; was then a Itepub-
lican; bad to leave the t?fafe because be
new oo mucu; uewee ana jiiniews
fold bim if be did no leave be would
be killed ; be remained out of tbe
Sthle six monhs : took bis seal in he
Legislnure in 1874. bongb he was
fairly beaen a the polls.
A paper wriii by th wioess en
tiled "History of Ouragcs on lied
river" banded him. - Ward said be
wro'e it and believed it rue a be tine
because be bad been So informed by
wbtes. Now be knew better. . The
t'ommifee requosed Ward to make
sncb correcions as he detred, and re
urn be paper to- day. Ward is now
a Pemocra. O. It. Morgan esified
ha be lives in New Orleans ; alked
wifh Supervisor Anderson and Gov.
Kellogs before the elecion ; Anderson
did no fhiuk il safe o reurn to Ea
Feliciana, bii Governor Kellogg in
tfured bim to reurn and arrange our
negroes to voe a wo or three places
and elec members of he LcgiHlaure ;
alked wih Anderson afer the 'elecion;
Anderson old him the lemoeras bad
carried the parish, one Republican
voe having been polled ; on meeing
day some men : came to Anderson's
office and said he ough to be bung,
but they did no of tier wise mole bim.
Morgan claims to be a Republican ;
was clerk in the Custom-House ; was
discharged on tha 10th of November
but frequented custom bouse afterward
and saw a number of persons there
making out affidavits ; knew in gome
iostauces they were not in accordance
with the testimony given in regard to
intimidation, &e ; the witnesses were
mostly negroes, brought here by deputy
marshals from the country ; talked
with Supervisor Clovet, of East Raton
Rouge ; he said it was peaceable there
on the day 'of the election, but Clover
did not consider it safe to remain there
after the election ; Clover told Mi rgan
after tbe election ha he bad brown
out some boxes and eleced three Re
publicans to the Legislaure ; converse J
wih Supervisor Leday, of Lafourche,
before and afer he elecion ; Leday
ld wiuess the parish wis Ueiuocraic,
but it would go all right ; be was u.
iiere tor any foolihne ; be would
hrow out enough polls o elec Repnp
licans ; wiues was advised no to go
before Congressional Com mifee, as be
would not ge his place back it. the
Cutout bouso if he e.-ii&ed.
John Petty, colored, iued ha be
resides in Algiers ; voed he Democra
io ficke ai he Iaa elecion ; aiinps
were aferward made on bis life; be
be was ehot and beaen by eolored men
because he. vi ed beDemoetaicickc;
negroes bad been hreaened wih all
ora of puninbroen if bey voed he
Democratic fieke; hey were old ha
General Sheridan was coming and every
Democraio negro would bo sho ; hey
were warned also ha bey and heir
children would be pu back mo slavery
if hey got Democras in power ; ha
hey would no longer have any schools
some of he negroes did no desire to
voe, saying it was no ue, it did hem
no good ; they were old ha if they
did no voo lioir names would be ak
en, and hey would see wba came of
i ; he had made n speeches during
be sampaiirn one tJ Tuniborg and
he other a Mr. Sjnon's planaion ,
while making he speech a Tunisburg
he negroes bad frequently inerruped
him wib hrens of his life, saying
ba every Deinncraie negro would
have bis hroa cut and bis hear cat
oat. The Senae Commiee was ex
peced to arrive la nigh.
A Confidence Woman in Phila-
delphia.
Opens the Trunk of a Centennial Vis
ttorPayt the BUI of the Woman
AAe Ko$S hscapes HUtl Ueleclion
1t Loot " ,1m Uuilty !
Before Magistrate K. R. Smith yes
terday Mary Miller, alias Mrs. Taylor,
alias Airs Robert ifowland, alias Mrs.
Bidwell,was charged witb tbe tbeft of a
trunk and valise, the contents of wbicb
are valued at $2.CC0, from tbe Con.
tineutal, on the 0th of November last
The stolen baggage was the proporty of
Mrs. Adele.1. Young, of Baltimore,
who was at tbe time a visitor of the ho
tel. Tbe luanuer iu which tbe theft
was effected was so novel and ingenious
and the tbeif of aunh note as to render
the history of tbe affair of unusual in
ttrest.
On tbe 2d f November last the
prisoner registered at the Continental
ilotel under tbe naite of Mrs. .Robert
liowland. Auburn, N. Y.
On tbe 5tli of. November Mrs Adele
J. Young, of Baltimore stopped at the
Continental, and was assigned to room
V .Mill ... .L. II L I
Sa. iTJU, oa the Boor below tbat on
wliiri tlt rnmn nf Mr 1 1 nor I . ml mm
iue brought wilb ber a Saratogo trunk
if uuusual size!' and a large valisiv
fctie wait accompanied by friends and
the ot.ject of their visit was to sea the
C'enteunial Exhibition. Tbe reception
room of the hotel is a common assem
bly room ot tbe lady guests, and bare
Mrs.' Ilowlaud aud Mr. Young met
eoeUMoaalij, but without forming anv
acquaintance. It wa the design of the
former to make Mrs. Young's acquain
tance for reasons which the sequel will
explain, he therefore inquired of Nich
olas Kitlerbacher. the parlor servant,
as to who Mrs. Young was, and being
told her name, said tc, him that she bad
known her in New Orleans and vould
renew the acquaintance, (in tbe morn
irg of November 9 Mrs. Ilowland came
down stairs about 8 o'clock and told
the servant that she wished to see Mrs.
Young. In half an hour nftrr Mrs.
Young came down d.esed to go out
and gave the key of her room to the
doorkeeper as usual, who sent it to the
office of the hotel.
A FltlF.xn FRf M me SOUTn.
She theu ut:l Mrs. lowland, who in
troduced herself as an acquaintance of
Mrs. Youug at New Orleans. A con
versation ul some minutes in length
theu took place, resulting in Mrs. Young
telling Mrs. Ilowlaud that she was
mistaken, tor tbe very conclusive rea
son she (Mrs. Young) was never in
New Orleans. Itegrtt was expressed,
but the ground was now clear tor the
operations of Mrs. Howland. She bad
the day before impressed the chamber
maid on thefl'Hir ou which Mrs. Young's
room was situated with ber intimacy
with tha- ladv. bv tellinz her earlv in
the morning to have her Irieod s (Mrs,
Y'oung's) room cleaned up early as she
would be back sooner than usual, which
proved to be the fact, and now goiug
ti Mrs. Y'oung's room, which was
locked, she got the chambermaid to open
it with her pass key, as she said ber
friend bad business that would occupy
bur during tho morLing, and
Ul UU
1, L-.1
promised to attend to tbe packing f
j her trunk. Sorely complaiuing that she
i bad lost tbe key which she said Mrs.
Youcg bad giveu to her, she ruug for a
bell-boy, who was dispatched to a neigh
boring locksmith with the request to
send a man to fit a key. A locksmith
came, and after some trouble a key was
furnished and paid for. Tbe truuk was
then opened, the furs belonging to Mrs.
Younir taken Iroui a wardrobe and put
into it, a grid watch and chain slyly
abstracted and the trunk relocked. Mrs.
Howland then left the room, and, going
to her own, dressed herself and left the
hotel, goiug to the pawn shop of Moses
DAocoua,on South street, near Eighth,
where she pawned the watch and chain
and other jewelry, not, however, be
longing to Mrs. Young. She then re
turned lo the hotel and to Mrs. Y'oung's
room, sent from there to the office for
that 'ady's bill, paid it and then, send
iug for a hack, had the trunk aud valise
carried don stairs and put upon it,
was driven to West Philadelphia, took
the 1.45 P. M. train for New York and
was for a time seen no more.
A SURPRISE.
On the eveuing of the same day Mrs.
Young returned from the Centennial,
aud ou going to her room was surprised
to fiud it occupied ' by gentlemen en
gaged in smoking. Imagine the scene !
be was informed tbat she had paid
her bill and with ber baggage left foi
New Yurk. Mrs. Young was indignant,
Kiugsley & Co. confounded, and cham
bermaids, bell boys and servants of all
degrees in utter bewilderment. A
thorough investigation was at once made,
a Central Station detective sent for and
the matter placed in bis hands. As
Kingsley & Co. were responsible for tbe
loss, tbey ultimately placed the matter
io charge of Pmkerton's Philadelphia
agency. - Superintendent Benjamin
Franklin, of this city, it once caused
12,000 circulars to be printed, contain
ing a description of the thief, tbe miss
ing property and tbe manner of its long.
These were sent on tbe 23d of Novem
ber to every hotel in the United States
,od Canada. Satuiday iUr. rranauu
received a telegram from the proprie
tor of the Clinton House, Ithaca, ew,
York, slating tbat a woman answenug
the description in tbe circular waj stop
ping with him Mr. II- E Thayer, of
the Pinierton AgeDey, was at one sent
on, accompanied by the doorkeeper
mentioned above. On reaching the
Clinton House Kitlebacber was con
fronted with Mm. Howland.and identi
fying her, she confessed that she was
tbe thief, and gave such information as
led to the recovery of the stolen prop
erty. She was brought to this city yes
terdav morning, and given a hearing be
fore Magistrate Smith at 'clock
tbe afternoon. ,. . 4
TUB CONFIDENCE PBINCIS.
She is a short, thick-set woman, about
40 years of age, of rather respectable
appearance, it it wer not for watery
eyes and an uncommonly red nose sug
gesting the suspicion of tippling. She
took the matter quite onconeernedly,
simply replying, when asked whether
she desired to question a witness, MI
am guilty." At the conclusion of the
beanng she was packed off in a back to
Moyamensing, and her plunder in tbe
identical truuk and valise in wb'cb it
was when stolen, returned to Mrs.
Young, who rejoiced thereat with ex
ceeding g'eat joy.
The trunk acd valise were recovered
at the UMeman House in New York,
where tbe prisoner, under tbe name of
Mary Taj lor, left them for board prior
to her visit to Ithaca. The furs and
a fair of opera glasses were recovered
iu New York, where they b'ad been sold
to a Broadway dealer. The watch and
chaiu were recovered at D'Ancona's, on
Soutb street, where, undc the name of
liidwell. the prisoner pawned with them,
Hi
"V ,K. A,. nf th rohberv. m snlendiJ
"Tirol J biaeelef. an amethyst and a cameo
ring, and under the same name, in the
early summer, a seven-stone diamond
cluster ring, all of which await owners
at the Piskerton Agency.
The true name of the prisoner is
Mary Miller, and she is one of the most
expert hotel thieves in the country.
In 1370 she was convicted iu New York
of the theft of $12,000 worth of dia
monds from the Westminster Hotel.
Philadelphia Times, Dec. 11.
News Items.
The coming maa is Santa Clans.
Charles Neyhard, of Columbia county,
committed suicide last week by hanging.
There are fory-eight prioners in the
Camden county j.iil, twelve ol whom are
tram.
J. P. Perkms was fatally poisoned at
Fair Haven, Vt., on Saturday, br a drug
civrk giving hint hellebore in mistake tor
valerian.
One hunderd ani eigbty-fiva guns were
tired in Aubu-n, New York, on Satnrdny,
honor of :he election ot licyes and Whee
Ur. '
They feed the prisoners in Easton, Pa.,
jail on saurr-kraut.
It costs Pike connty, Ga., tn cents er
pound to raise cotton.
Ninety boiler- makers are employed attae
Harrisburg foundry and machine works iu
making iron oil tanks. The Work wiil lust
lliree or four months.
By tho homing of a barn at Jerseyvi-1,
111., ou Friday night James Morton and
William Finnesy, who were seeping iu the
buildir-, were burned to death.
t'ol.mel John W . Fairfax, of Virginia,
and Mr. Bchell, of Indiana, ex-Assistant
Doorkeeper of the House of K'prewnta-1
tives had a rencontre with knives in the
hall ot the Kljbitt Iltuse, YTasIiingfon, on
Friday night, and both were badly cut
about the throat a:i.l shoulders.
The Chicago Times gives notice tbat war
like politicians will End rnudy-maie armies
at the toy shops.
Some of ihe schools in Tork county have
been cl ed on account of the prevalence of
diphtheria in an epidemic lorni.
Jacob Koehl, of Lebanon connty, SO yars
of age, ul ten walks from til teen to twenty
miles per dav on gunning excursions.
A member ot a recent grand jury in
BloonuLurg, Columbia county, was dis
charged on account of intoxicatioo, and
tha Court instructed tiie Prothonotory not
lo allow him either per diem or mileage.
Tbe Chinese are tbe most silent of
all the races of mankind, and account
for this taciturnity on the grouud that
they never mind anybody's business
but their own.
Five men charged with murder were
liberated from jail at Bardstiwn, Ky.,
at two o'clock on Friday morning.
Advices to Louisville detectives say
ten masked men opened the cells after
gaining admission into the jail on the
. r - - . .
V'""' ues.r.ng io incarcerate apris
oner just arrested.
On Tuesday morning of week before
last, Jacob ,C. Knnkle, of Ilarrisburg,
engaged in unloading telegraph poles,
near Carlisle, while carrying one, his
foot slipped and be fell, one side of bis
head striking the iron rail and the pole
falling on top, crashed tbe other side,
which caused almost instant death.
Edward S. Kivertoo was shot aod
fatally wounded at Beaverdale, Pa., on
Saturday night, by Jacob Simmet wbile
engaged in an attempt to burglarize the
residence of the latter.
Turkey is vigorously pressing war
like preparations. There is great ac
tivity at tbe arsenals and troops are
marching to tbe Danubian and Asiatic
frouiers.
Tbe run of shad bas begun a Sav
annaha few weeks earlier ban usual.
The gambler is childlike in his ways,
and waiis come one to play wih him.
The ground in Jeanesville, Lehigh
county, recently gve way and four
blocks of bouses sank a distance of ten
feet, and several others toppled over.
The track of the Lehigh Valley Rail
road went down for a distance of several
yards. Fortunately no one waa butt as
the people of tbe town were warned
by rumbling noises tbat the ground
was about to give way.
A dog, owned by Peter Scions,, at
Franklin Furnace, New York, became
rabid Ian week and bit Mis. Soions,
their four children and two lady visit
ors. A doctor was called, who cut
pieces of flesh from the victims where
tbe bites were made, and it is believed
tbey will recover.
Boss Tweed proposes to settle with
iue city ot .-sew York for the sum of
eigni Hundred thousand dollars.
News Items,
Tbe exports of. butter to Er0B,
un usual!) large this season.
A Mr. Hoover shot a deer Be,.
roco with a revolver. . 7-TJ-
A wild eat weighing 30 lbs. Wi. '
in Perry eounty recently. 71
There are now 73 national eem .
ies, maintaining which, coat fn, 7
current year $147,000. U
Although there were 10,000,000 is.
missions to tbe Centennial, ther
not a single arrest for iatoxieatoj
tbe grounds.
Tbe winter grain of Lehigh t.
looks remarkably well for this tbj
year. "
There are two yenng Indians tud
iog at Audalusia Hall, in Berij .
ty . Oue of them, Charles Smm,
entered io September, 187 J
other, William Thomas Selwyn eat
el at the opening of the fail
the year 1&74. "
John Co)le was the firtt ) .
cross the Susquebanna river at Col!
bia on tbe ice this winter.
Laborers are hued in Carbos eoajf,
at bve dollars per month sad botrl
"Tha City 1 oruet Band, of Ailtj.
town, bas disbanded.
'No seat, no tare," is tberuleoslj,
diana railroads.
A three year old child of
B&itolett, of Chester eounty nn,4
from home and tbe next morning ia
found on the roadside dead, the re$sa
of exposure.
Tbe two Misses Campbell, Jjw
t 'hoat and James Gregory werdtov
ed in a miIlpoud;ten miles from 0.t
stead, Ky., on Friday night. To,,
wre with a party of fifteen on the wy
to dance, ten of whom were in toother
and when about twenty-five yards free!
the shore the canoe of the lartr? ptr
sauk, six of its occupants, five Dea Kj
one woman, swimming ashore, and ftw
being drowned.
A milk dealer of Comru towxst;
Lancaster cou ity, this State, has bett
indicted four times for diluting
with water.
A farmer at Genrsee recently ett
seventeen corda four-font sJ
a tree wbicb grew oa bis land. It M
a "swamp oak," and wa one Wdrel
and twerty eet long and five fm
diameter attre-fcut. It grew to tU
height of twenty five feet kefors it
branched out and at tbat point it m
three feet three inches in thickness.
Since the Government begaa Is '
ue silver ia tbe place of currencies,
witbiu a few months, $'-4,456 it eoit
have been paid out by the Ubliss
Slates Treasury.
A panther recently attacked aeosa
Wayne county, driven by Wtikia
Loveland. Assistance arriving ti
beast was scared from bis prey.
Abraham Meyer, of Lancaster count;,
was iustantly killed recently by thtav
cidcntal discharge of oue barrel of fci
gun while loading the other.
Citizens of Say brook, 111., arabbedi
man who intended to open a drtitcj
saloon.
Cne word more about Baron de Pra
He weighed when alive oue hiudrai
and seventy pounds, aod his ashes, after
cremation, weighed five pounds aU I
(j laiter.
ieorgc Jack, of C tester coant;,liit
a C ck of 730 turksys.
Americans drink niorecoffue tcaa all
the world beside.
Col. Oicott says we can be ernatted
for dollar and sixty cents each-
Iu Lucky Star, m play enacted is
Chicago, a stag hunt is repsesK
with real deer, horses, and dogs. 0u
nf the deer jumped from tbt sus
among tbe musicians, sticking a Uf
through a drum, and smashing aft jit
That scared the horses, and two riders
were thrown. The people were wtila
tertained. Some hunters found on the 22i tf
November ia Newaygo county, Mull
igan, the remains of a body wbicb
believed to have been that of Dooa'i
g n, the lo?t aeroniut. Th remiim
were f.iund in tbe direction from Ot-
c-igo iu wbicn U maldson s balloon arm
ed away when it ascended.
A ladv in Reading has made apatca
work quilt containing 6,727 pieces.
Mr. Chaffee and Mr. Teller, the see CV
orado Senators, are both natives of if
York. Mr ChalTee has grown very
in Colorado, and holds much the saate por
tion there as Mr. Jones does ia eu-
He is a large mine owner, a rich auia;
thrifty and sagacious, lie is a good
and talks in a plain, earnest, practical
of a way. He has been for twenty jean a
widower, and bas a beautiful younf awp
ter.
Eighteen converts were baptised ia tBs
Chicopee river, at Chicopee, MwaacaiiKt!
during the intense cold of last Sanif
week, a hole having been cut in uw to6
tbe purpose.
A stnrdv eountrvman named
Dunning lived with his family ik
in the wilderness in Madison ecnttj.
N. Y. One day not long sines b
a bear nasainir his house aod set w
pursuit with a rifle and a huatingb
1 .u .:. .i Y,l,t -ame 0S"
uu 1 1 li ii i a ui'. '
l,. .r. i ..... Tha fillowinz UJ
-
parsed and yet he did not return.
wife, becoming alarmed at bis &;
ife, becoming alarmed at b:s aw"
ent to a neighboring settlement aw
tinted tbe assistance of a eonp.
wen
enlii
men, who plunged in the wilJern
discover the missing man. "r .
most fatiguing search, lasting i
boors, they came upon the aiangi t.
mains of Dunning and his dg,
near bim lay three dead panther 1
of them bore marks of havmr
.u.. .u .ko mt her ,J
snot, wunr iuo uiuiun - - , ,
fighting Dunning, who bad pluog. J
bunting kcife into ber Oocy.
Two eoal dealers of PhmxT,lte, Cj
eonntv, have been sent t ,or
coal from th- cars of the Reading
compiny at tnat place.
A Patterson (X. J.) man recent"'
ed about ten cents in a carpenters'
uit wa: bronglit, ana no j
after a cost to himlf of " 2o
opporent of ii. How precious sr.
sights ! . . w a
A Jewrman put his heJ too efo
cage in which a wounded soipe
fined, and the bird thrust its wu
eye, destroying bis sight.
American meat is liked ia
markets, and it brings from twelw
seventeen eents a pound
During a cold night recently
named Milton Moyer took refngt"1
I.. ... ; th. Pioneer firnef
Pottsville, when afresh load wut
upon him and be was so baslj
tnai nis me is m "s ,
It is reported that the wido
late General Custer will oe rr
postmaster at Monroe. Micbig-