IESTINEL & REPUBLICAN " MIFFLIXTOWN. We4aedar, JalT 13, 1S81. B. F. SCn WE IE R, BDITOB A FKOrBIKTOB. The Lesson of the Assassination. If tbe murderous assault upon Presi dent Garfield fails to impress the minds of tbe people of the Republic with the lesson that it naturally teaches, then indeed has the President been a victim and a martyr without good result. The assassin, of coarse, did not de sire to teach tbroagh bts murderous assault that tbe grade of ffioe seekers, of which be is to a certain degree a representative man, must be obanged or raised if tbe Republic is to lire. The shooting of tbe President has opened the eyes of all tbe people so (bat they see tbe quality of men that are in office, and are being pressed for official appointment. Tbe lowest grade of men are being appointed to office. Men that have been elected to Con gress, and other offices npon little other qualification than animal cunning, hare allowed themselves to be pressed by the most ticious classes of politicians, and under tbe impulses of a fellow- feeling, or under tbe belief that tbe vicious men can belp them in political trickery and deviltry, have filled np the list of their appointments from tbe bad class of men. In tbat way the publio service of the country has become filled with vicious people, tbat levy black mail, and rua the list of despicable things to such a degree tbat it is scarce- lv safe to oppose their demands. So muob have tbey been encouraged, and so many are in places of appointment, ! became the medium through which tbat when their demands arj not agreed j ue withdrew. Her presence pro trf, they plot for revenge in the most j Jaced a scandal that drove the aspi- villainous manner. 1 During campaign times candidates , for elective office make promises, di- reotly or indirectly, to the vicious ele j went of society. rroiniees sbould never be made to sncb people, for when tLey are not fulfilled, or cannot be ful filled, such people become reveogeful, and gratify tbe impulses of depravity. If reports be correct, Guiteau, tbe tbe assassin of President Garfield, has been living on promises ever since the election last November. Who tbe peo ple are tbat promised him office, time will reveal Certainly, to the victorious party at the polls belongs tbe distribution of tbe offices tbat the election oonfers. Such bas always been tbe case, and so it will continue to be to the end of government, in church, in state, in business, in every department of life where office or de grees are elected or conferred. In a free elective form of govern ment it is particularly so that the vic torious candidate will give the offices of appointment to bis party friends, bat there is no obligation whatever, to give tbe appointments to tbe vicious and bad men of tbe party or society ; and yet such bas been tbe case too often so often, indeed, tbat tbe vicious men are tbe majotity power in tbe offi ces now held. It is ths placing in office of such men tbat bas brought a great deal of disrepute upon the Re publican party, and a continuation of such appointments will cause it to be voted out of power. It is the bestowal of offioe npon tbe bad men of tbe party tbat encourages such people as Guiteau to ocme to tbe front insolently and de mand office. Tbey have no influence at borne where they are known, but their impudence, audacity and deprar ity leads them to make any and all kinds of representation, and without proper inquiry as to their standing and representations they are appointed or promised appointment to effice. Almost every county iu this Com monwealth, and almost every county of other States in the nation, have men in office tbat are a disgrace to the pri vate and public interests of tbe Repub lic. They represent nothing but trick ery, fraud, deoeit and lies ; tbat is their whole power, and when tbey receive appointment tbey are being paid for work in trickery, fraud, deception, and lies, or tbey have tricked, defrauded, deceived, or lied to the men tbat sa cured tbem appointment. There are tbonsands oi men now in office by appointment tbat should be removed. They represent not a single thing in sooiety, or politics, but that which is foul and objectionable to the forces tbat keep up free church and state. In tbe respective couimunities in which they reside their oonduot i. pernicious, their language is foul, and their manner is offensive. Guiteau was a representative of tbat class. He was a trickster, a man tbat made false rep resentations. He lived by false repre sentation ; be was a Iraud, a great stickler for the fulfillment 'of a promise made to bim, but one that cared noth ing for bis own promises or obligations whenever confi-red. Tbe assassination of President Garfield brings all these facts out clearly before the onuntry. The people are shocked, but not dis mayed. Their verdict is that trick ery, fraud, murder, and assassina tion have no rights that the people of tbe Republic, acting in tbeir integrity, bave a right to respect. Suoh is the Lesson of the Assassination. It is quite an important matter for a people that claim to be able to gov ern themselves, to know how a prop er sense of right and wrong is to be imparted to the minds of the people, ana now it may be maintained, it a correct sense of right and wrong is born in people, then those that act properly have had the sense of right lv birth ; ana if tuey act improperly, they have had the sense of wrong born in them. People will bo slow to accept that theory. If the sense of right and wrong are matters of education, then it is higu time that tho correct theory and practice of education be put into practice. It is a demonstrable fact that intellectual education that is, textbook learn usg does not make men better. No tably, for example-, the assassin that took the life of Abraham Lincoln, and the murdorer that assaulted Pres ident Garfield were both men of in tellectual attainments. The people ia this country" must find out what is needed to correct the tendency to over-reach each other, bv fair or foul means. Intellectual training will not do it. A remedy must be found, or tho niuch-taiked-oi theory of mans capability of self-government will ex plode by the weight of its own vanity. It is a subject for every man to think about, for every individual is inter ested in tho niettiT of solf government All-powerpull is woman. Woman hag a! wars exercised a controling in fluence among men. To-day her in fluence is, if possible, more power ful than at any other period of past time. On the higher and better plain of society it is so ; there she is the golden halo that mellows and refines, and influences all around her, and strong, self willed men are oftunes influenced to a line of action in social life, in church, and in mat ters of state, and business, when the influence of astute men have utterly failed to influence others into favorable action. So uncon sciously insinuating and winning is the influence of a virtuous woman that her power is almost re sistless. In the church her request unites men in almost any movement within the limit of church govern ment ; so it is in society, and history is full of record how legislators ana jurists have yielded to the smiles and courteous requests of women, where the influence of men fuiled to pro duce a favorable result It is partic ularly bo to-day in the Protestant and Christian world Bat while woman execises a powerful influence in the higher phases of human society, her influence is no less powerful in the lower phases of society. Une nn- chaste woman in a community will spoil a dozen men ; and here, as in a purer social atmosphere, and in church circles, Ehe oftimes becomes the medium through which greatly desired ends are reached. For ex am; ile, it was the longing desire of many meniDers oi uie -ew ioth leg islature to got rid of Mr. Pliitt as a candidate for United States Senator, but all efforts of his enemies to do so failed. As a List resort a woman rant from the Senatorial track. Jir, piatt was seen to enter the room of a Ktran"e woman at the hotel at which he was stopping at Albany, N. Y., late one night Perhaps she had been put up to cull 3Ir. Piatt on busi ness at a late hour of night ; but, no matter, it was just the sort of scan did his enemies were looking for. A number of men posted themselves in the corridors of the hotel, and wueu Piatt came out of the woman's room they spoke to him, and laughed, and had evidence sumeient to ns tne scandal The next day an account of it appeared in the papers, and so po tential was the report, that it drove Piatt from the track as a candidate. How it comes that the gentleman al lowed himself to be so entrapped is another question. All powerful is woman m every phase of life. It seems stranjre that so much in sanity should develope itself at Wash ington immediately after the shoot ing of the President. One man was hunting Secretary Blaine for the pur pose of shooting him. Another "went into the office of Adjutant General Drums and slapping him on the back exclaimed, "I am commissioned by revelation to assassinate Arthur." Another man walked up to the door keeper of the White House and said : "lam directed by the Lord to apply the salve to the wounds of the Presi dent, which will then be instantly cured." A public whipping at a post erected undur legal enactment, or confinement in some house set apart for such self-constituted insanity would rid society quite soon ol such pests. The country takes no stock in the insanity dodge of Guiteau, or Gitto, and other men that are skulk injj about Washington. Sexatok Ixgolls, of Kansas, deliv ered the Adelphi address at Williams College, Massachusetts, and, if cor rectly reported, expressed the belief tlrat compulsory education will prove a remedy for such outbreaks of men like Guiteau. The trouble with Gui teau was not want of intellectual text-book training or schooling. In tellectually considered the assassin is an educated man, and when the Senator made the application he was as wide of his mark as if he had di rected it at the moon. A gkeat slip of earth took place in Switzerland a few days ago. Land and houCes slipped down toward Lake Thun. Thirteen hundred sheep with their shepherds were overwhelmed bv the avalanche. The net great questions that will enter politics are the questions of woman suffrage, and corporations. rtsssvLVAXiA is falling behind as a wheat growing State, but is advanc ing as a tobacco growing State. Coi.osEL M. S. Quay, Secretary of the Commonwealth, has sent his two 6ons to Germany to school. The right of women to hold office is now the great feature in the can vass in Vermont. msett-seves arrests were made in Philadelphia for filing squibs on the 4th of July. STATE ITEMS. ACatbolio Church to cost $10,000 is to be erected at Milton. John Shuff, of Martic township, Lan caster eoonty, died on Tbusdsy from the effect of sunstroke. David Moyer, a prominent citizen ef Cplay, Lehigh county was thrown from bis carriigc oa Friday and killed. Peter T. Phillippi, maobinist of Reading claims to have birllet in bis liver which be received at Spottsylvania Court House in 1863. An unknown man was found wander ing about Altoona on Thursday with a double-barrelled shotgun. He said bs wa looking for General Grant. Of tbe ten eases of sunstroke in Pittsburg on Tbursdy tbe following have proved fatal: John Dillon, Mrs. Albert Lee and William Miller. Wil liam Wallace was killsd tho same day by lightning. William Varner, of Johnstown, in sulted Elizabeth Roger, of that place, wncrennon sne went lor nnn wun a handspike and nearly killed him. A shopkeeper in Mahanoy City, who was reported to have made some remarks approving of the assassina tion of President Garfield, was waited on by a large deputation of excited citizens on the 4ih of July with the intention of administering summary punishment When the crowd ap peared, he denied having used any expression of the kind, and through the persuasion of a number of the citizens, he was not molested. PRESIDENT GARFIELD SHOT BT AN ASSASSIN. The President's Concern for His Wife. HIS FORTITUDE. The Fortitude of His Mother. The President's Condition Up to July 12th. The Arrest of the Assassin Who He Is His Business. WHAT HIS FATHER SAYS. The Cause of the Crime. PROMISES TO THE ASSASSIN. President Garfield had mapped out a tour for the New England States, on which he expected to enter on Saturdav. the 2nd day of July, 1881 Th trm was not made. The hand of a murderer, an assassin, was inter posed, and the President was shot . 1 A A. down lust as ne was aooui w biari noon the tour from Washington City, the Dolitical citv of the nation. He hnA mme down from the White House to the depot of the Baltimore and Potomac railroad at 9:17 o'clock in the forenoon, and three minutes later, 9:20 o'clock, he received two slir.ta from behind him as he was walking bv the side of his Secretary of State, James G. Blaine, through the ladies' waiting room at the depot Cossteesatios. Consternation seized upon the peo ple present in the depot, most of whom were ladies, secretary xiame turned in the direction from whence the retoi ts of the shots caitie, and ran, shouting for help, in the direc tion of the murderer that had fired the shots, and who was then doin his utmost to cet out of the room. Mi s. White, tho lady in charge of the ladies' room, was collected enough amidst the general consternation that prevailed to run to the help of the President, and as he sank to the floor lifted his head to her lap and bathed his face with water. Mem bers of the Cabinet that intended to accompany the President hail already taken seats in the cars, but when the assassination was reported, which was as if by the speed of the wind, they all came rushing into the presence of the prostrate President Doctors were hastily summoned and a mat tress was secured and the President put upon it and carrried to an upper room in the building. Where Shot. Cowards, assassins, never propose that their victims shall look npon their face, nor have a chance of secu ring a weapon to defend themselves with ; hence they invariably approach from behind. Booth delivered his shot from behind into the head of Abraham Lincoln, and so the present assassin, following in the instinctive track or course of assassins, ap proached President Garfield from be hind and shot him in the right arm, indicting a flesh wound by the first shot, and by the second shot inflict ing a dangerous wound, the ball en tering the back on the right side of the spinal column, above the hip, cracking two ribs in its passage tow ard the liver, through the lower lobe of which it perhaps passed and en tered the abdominal cavitv, where it was lost to all hopes of recovery by probing. The President did not for a moment Lose Consciousness. He was collocted and conscious of all that was going on, and even gave di rections as to what should be done. He felt deep concern for Mrs. Gar field, his wife, and before he was re moved from the depot he dictated the following dispatch : Mas. GAariELD, Elberon, ST. J. The President wishes me to saj to you from bim t',.t he has teen seriously bnrt bow sen ouslv ba cannot vet say. He is himself, nil hnma ran will COUIO to bim SOOU. lie sends bis love to you. A. r. BocawEU Removed to the White House. At 10:30 "A. XL the President was carried down stairs, out of the depot on the mattress, and quietly placed in an ambulance and removed to the White House. What a change ! One hour and thirteen minutes previous he had walked into the station house a man in perfect health, with the prospects of a most successful ad ministration before him. The Fortitude of the President did not for a mo ment forsake him. He requested Secretarv Blaine to refrain from shed 1 ding tears, saying, " I don't want a scene like this." He inquired as to the supposed motive of the assassin in shooting him, and supposed him self that the fellow did it for glory. To his weeping son, James, he 6poke words of comfort by assuring him that he should recover. When he was told by the doctor, " Mr. Presi dent you have one chance," he quick ly responded, " Doctor, Til take that chance. But conceal nothing from me ; remember that I am not afraid to die. God's will be done, doctor. I am ready to go if my time has come." The President patiently awaited the coming of his wife, Mrs. Gar field, from Long Branch, N. J. She arrived at the depot at 6:35 in the evening, and was driven with great speed to tho White House. Her hus band, hearing the approach of the rapidly running carriage, he said, That my wife." Fears were ex pressed that she could not bear tip under the sight of her prostrate hus band, which was quickly answered by the President saying, u She Has Fortitude." Mrs. Garfield bad the fortitude that was becoming to the wife of ths great large-spirited- man- that was stricken down because he had not ap pointed a worthless citizen to an of lice. She looked excited when she stepped from the carriage. Cabinet officers and military officers were in waiting, but she was attended to the .r ix rt-" room ol her nusoana oj uer sou James, a youth of about 14 years. The President pat his left arm around . ; . . , t i i her as she stooped to kiss mm. ah friends and attendants left the room, and no one Was present to witness the silent and impressive meeting oi about 15 minutes of father, mother and son. DUBDJO THE AtTERKOOS that preceded the above sad family meeting, that part of the United States connected by telegraph was informed of the fiendish act or at tempt to kill the President Tbe assassin had been arrested and lodged in iaiL Troops were called out to OTiarrl the rtrison. so that the mur- o : . . i j Wor niicrht not te laKen OUl auu hansred bv the infuriated people. Troops were also placed around the Presidential mansion, for no one knew what the shooting of the Presi dent might indicate. Mrs. Eiiaa Gar field, The Mother of the President, was telegraphed to, at Solon, Ohio, and she sent a dis patch in return, that is characteristic of the heroism and virtue of the Spartan mother that told her son that she preferred to have his body borne home dead upon his shield to having him return home with the bran.! of a coward attending him. She sent the following dispatch : Tell James that I hear be is cheerful, and that I am clad of it. Tell him to keep in good spirits, and accept the love and sym pathy of a mother, sister and friend." Sbcretahv Blake, who was overwhelmed with grief, did not for a moment forget his duty as the first and nearest officer to the President : he at once caused a dis patch to be sent to American lega tions across the sea, and to Vice President C A. Arthur in New York, and to other officials close up to the Administration, which were all re sponded to in the most sympathetic despatches. J'hb PresIpest's Coxditiox was one that awakened the most se rious apprehension in the minds of Dr. Bliss and other attending doc tors, and Cabinet officers and private friends at Washington. Dispatches that indicated the speedy demise of the President were sent out over the wires of the country at short inter vals from the time of the shooting of the President till at 4 o'clock on Sunday Mousing, Jcxt 3, when the glorious discovery was made that the President had just awaken ed from a short sleep greatly re freshed. The favorable manifesta tion brought forth from most of the persons around him the hearty ejacu lation, " Thank God !" and when the news was dispatched over the wires throughout the land on that bright Sabbath morning, the people that heard it uttered the same ejaculation and smiled amidst their sorrow. Dr. Agnew, of Philadelphia, and other prominent Burgeons and doctors held a consultation, and the view of the ) case in the main was favorable ; etill the conditions were not so favorable as to warrant a declaration that the President could live on the Fourth of July. Many took it that as Thomas Jef ferson and John Adams, both repre sentative men and both Presidents, had died on the 4 th of July, that the condition of Garfield certainly must needs terminate fatally on the natal day. The work of the murderer wrought on the minds of the public so powerfully that the festivity and hilarity that is now common in large towns and cities on the 4 th oi juiy was almost entirely suspended, and such celebration as was indulged in was of the most subdued quality. The country felt like the President not killed but shocked. The day wore away and the President's condi tion was no worse, but slightly im proved. At an hour to midnight the following dispatch was issued : Eiecitivi Mansios, Washingtox, July 411 P. M. To tub Psess: On behalf of the Presi dent and Mrs. Garfield I desire to make public acknowledgment of the very numer ous rcessages of condolence and affection which have been received since Saturday morning. From almost every 6 Ute in the Union, from the South as bountifully as from the North, and from countries beyond tbe sea, have come messages of anxious in quiry and tender words of sympathy ia such numbers that it bas been fouDd impossible to answer them in detail. I therefore ask the newspapers to express for the President and Mrs. Garfield the deep gratitude which thev feel for the devotion of their fellow. Countrymen and friends abroad in this hour of heavy affliction. James O. Blaixc, Secretary of State. Os the Fifth of Jclt the pulse of the Chief Executive came down to 114 ; it had previously been up to 15(5. His condition was reported as still favorable, with in creasing chances for recovery. One of the Washington incidents of the day relative to the case may be men tioned. Every day since the mur derous attempt to take the life of the President meeting had been held twice a day for prayer in the Chris tian Church which Garfield attended, but the pastor withheld an account of his first meeting with the Presi dent after the shooting till to-day, when he said : " I was passing down Pennsylvania avenue at the time of the shooting, when I was called and told the news. I ran to the depot and was permitted to speak with the Pres ident who had then been removed to the upper room. Kneeling by his side, I said: Mr. President you are the servant of God, yon are In His hands, you have long trusted Him, and I say to you the heart of this whole people will go out to God in prayer that you may be spared.' The President calmly replied : I know it doctor. I believe in God, and trust myself in his hands.' These meetings will be continued twice daily during the President's critical condition." Ox the Sixth or July tfiere was a marked change for the better in the condition, of the Presi dent ; his pulse was reduced in fre quency to 100. Ha expressed a de sire for a piece of beef-6teak, which his doctors would not consent that he should eat Instead of the beef steak the President ate an egg, and then proposed to hold a Cabinet meeting. The doctors would not consent to that Thursday, Jcxt 7. Tbe pulse of the President fluctu ated between 94 and 104 A quarter of a grain of morphia- was given. H --t- partook of chicken bmtn, scraped beef r . , - - . i mnA milk. tenaeriom, cmiuiw 6' Janndioe or yellowness of skin appear ed, which ia looked upon by the doc tor! as certain evidence of derange ment of the liver caused by tbe wound. Friday, July 8. The President suffers from paio in legs and ankles. This is looked upon ts a critical day. The pulse bas gone up to 108, which is said to be caused by tbe prooeseof suppuration the pro cess of forming pus id the wound. Saturday, July 9. Tbe President's pulse was reduced to 100. His diet bas beeo slignuy re but not materially changed. He was given brotb and milk, with a little dash of rum. He did not relish tbe stimulant particularly, and asked if tbey were not ' rummiDg bim too muob. Three teaspoonfuls of healthy pus were taken from the wound. Sunday, July 10. The President's diet oonsists princi pally of milk. He appears to relish it He eoinnlaios of soreness of the do olds. The President desired to see the report of bis case as telegraphed to the country. It was shown to him. He and thoueht that it is not necessary to telegraph bis name every few hours over tbe country. Pulse, 103. Monday, July 11. The President's condition is favora ble, lie bas a relish for bis milk diet of a pint to a pint and a half a day. A quarter of a grain of morphia a day is taken. His mind is cheerful, and his bodily strength is uoabated. Tuesday, July 12. The President's condition remains without any marked change. Pulse, 106. The Assassin at the Depot. The assassin reached the depot in a closed carriage about three minutes before the President arrived, which is evidenced by a citizen of Washing ton. Tho citizen said : "I was com ing down Pennsylvania avenue when I saw a carriage coming down "he avenue, the horses running so fast that I thought they were running away. Just as the carriage arrived in front of me a man put his head out of the window and said, 'Faster, faster, faster 1 Damn it !' After hear ing this remark I thought there was something wf ong and ran after the carriage. When it reached the depot a man jumped out He was soon in conversation with Another man. I took them to be pickpockets. I thought they planned to do some thing to sonie one to arrive. When the President came the man that had come in the carriage entered the ladies' room. Where the other man went I do not know. By my watch only three minutes elapsed between the coming of the two carriages. The President, after passing through the door to the ladies' room, was just turning the corner of a seat when the assassin, who was standing on the left of the door, fired. The ball struck the President in the back. The President fell forward. J ran into the depot and just then the man fired again, while the President was fallinc. The moment the President fell a policeman, who had been stand ing at tho depot door, keeping the vav clear for the President and his party, grabbed tho assassin by the neck, and as he pulled him out of the depot another policeman came to his assistance. The Police hurried the murderer down Pennsyl vania avenuo to the District jail at the eastern extremity of the city, and lodged bim at 10:30 o'clock A. 1L, just one hour and ten minutes after the assassination. Policeman Kearney said that he had heard the prisoner arrange at the depot with a hackman to drive him in a hurry from the de pot if required, and for that reason he had pnt a sort of a - half watch upon him, and when he heard the re port of the pistol he somehow or other connected him with it immedi ately. He was close to the Presi dent at the time, with his back to the direction from whence the report came. He further said, " I quickly turned and saw that man that I had been watching previously, standing about ten feet away in the shadow of the main entrance to the waiting room, leveling his pistol across his arm. He fired a second shot before I could speak to him, and darted be tween mvself and the President and Secretary Blaine into the street The President reeled and fell just in front of me. As he fell he said something that I could not exactly understand. and Secretary Blaine, with a terrified look. Pushed towards him, exclaim ing, 4 My God, he has been murder ed !' I did not stop longer, but ran out after the assassin, and arrested him just as he started across B street towards Sixth. What the Assassin Said. The pohceman shouted, wheuuiBr re6teu tne assassin, in uoa s ne, man, what did you shoot the Presi dent for V and his answer was, " I am a Stalwart, and want Arthur for President" The Assassin's Papers. The assassin had three papers on his person. The first was a package addressed to a newspaper man in Chicago, which the murderer said will reveal alL He desired the news paper man to have tbe statement published in tbe newspapers. The au thority of tbe Distriot of Columbia bave that package and refuse to reveal its contents. The newspaper man says that he bas never bad acquaintance with tbe assassin. Tbe second paper reads : . . " Jiiv 2. 1H81 At the White House The freaKltfiii's tragic death was a sad ue eessity, but it k.u imiltj tlx, Kepubiican party and iti Kefubiic. Lile is a tiinis; dream, ai. I it matters little ohen one goes. A huiiwu life is ol small value. Du ring the war thousands of brave boys went down without a tear. I presume the Presi dent wa a Christian, and tbat he will be happier in Paradise than here. "It will be no worse for lira. Garfield, dear son), to part with her hut-band this way than by natural death. He is liable to go at any time any way. I bad no ill-will towards the Presideut. His death was a political necessity. I am a lawyer, a theo logian, and a politician. I am a Stalwart of tbe Stalwarts. I was with General Grant and the rest of our men in New York during tbe canvass. I bave some papers tor the press, whiah I shall leave wi'b Byron An drews and his co-Journalists, at Ho. 1420 New York avenue, where all the reporters can see them. I am going to the jail. (Signed) -CHABt.se UurrsAC." The third paper reads : - .1.1 ' i. T g 1 Please deliver at once to General Sher- man (or hi Brst assistant io charge ot the n To eenerai ounu.- -brveshottheent. I-J. ceceJT ljnisUw,.theologu, -rr; wiGen Grant and SKS onr men u. New York during the canvass. I am going j-'- - - . oX"n??our t4 1 and Uke potion of the jail at once. Very reapec ttully. -(Signed) ''Chasms Gcitiao. General Sherman's Disposrnos or the Letter. On receiving tbe above General Sher man cave it tbe following endorsement: HADO.CABria or th Aav, w"asb- woron, July 2, 1881 U-85 A. Th" letter was handed me this minute by Major William J. Twining, United States Engineers, Commissioners ol the District ol Columbia, and Major William G. Brock, Chief of Police. 1 don't know the writer, h..nt nf sr saw him to my knowl edge, and hereby return it to the keeping of the above-nam ra panics, a case. (Signed) "W. T. SBKaM a, General." Who the Assassin Is. The first reports from Washington stated that the assassin is a i renob man named Charles Guiteau or Gitto, and people breathed easier under the belief that the un-American crime had been committed by a foreigner ; but, alas ! for even tbat small comfort was swept away by succeeding information that Charles J. Gitto or Guiteau is an American-born citizen oi considerable pretension. He is a native of Illinois, aped about 4G years. His height is about 5 feet 5 inches, has a sandy com- clexion. and weiirbs about 125 pounds. His expression, as reported from Wash ington jail, "is certainiy not i-ai oi an insane man nor vet tbat of an intelli gent man. His face is unshaven, the bearl perhaps being tnree mcnes long and thinly scattered. Ihe eyes are large and apparently grey. His hair ia cut rather close. He wore a seat necktie carefully arranged, a round, dark cutaway three.buttoned coat, but toned up to the neck, pantaloons ot a dark pattern tbe same as tbe coat, some what bagged at tbe knees, and a black slouch hat." His Business. lie iias stated tbat bis" business is that of a lawyer, a theologian or preach er, and a politician, in all of which pro fessions be bas done more or less wors. His father gave him an academic edu cation. About tbe first thing be did after leaving school was to join a colo ny of Communists. It is reported tbat be liked their freedom as extended to him, but wbeu the same freedom was required of bim in return he fled tbe community. After that be read law, and practiced that is, be collected bills for people that trusted him, and put tbe money in bis pocket, being des titute of integrity. Meanwhile be got religion and became a sealous worker and promoter of religion. He joined tbe Young Men's Christian Association and sang, prayed, preached and lectur ed, and wrote extensively on the "Sec ond Comioe of Christ." lie met a yonn lady from Philadelphia in Chica go, where she was engaged as a tele graph operator. He was then playing tbe part of a good man in cburob, in Sabbath-school, ard in tbe Association just mentioned. She thought that she bad captivated a first-rate man be would refoimeeoii occasionally ; during the time of his acquaintance with ber be kept np the appearance of good and whea be proposed she accepted bim ; but she soon foacd out that ba was not paying bis bills, but would shift about so as to avoid too many debts at one place. He thus dragged ber about from ulace to place. Sometimes she would have to go out and earn ber own living They were finally divorced Mrs. Guiteau was re-narried to Theo dore Dunsmore in 1878 She lives with ber bnsband in Leadvilla. A di; from Denver, CoL, on Saturday reports ber as saying of Guiteau, ber former husband : "He was very cruel to me from tbe time of onr marriage. When he was a member of Henry U ard Beech er s church he would lead '0 prayer, and so soon as tbe meeticg was dis missed would tell me of some of bis swindling schemes, that when given note to collect for a client he would turn over one-half of the collection and report it impossible to collect the re mainder." Her friends urged ber to ret a divorce, which she did. A de cree of divorce was granted on the ground of adultery. She was after wards a clerk in the Treasury Depart ment at Washington. Guiteau bad ambition for business that be bad no capacity lor, and sucn things as be bad capacity for, and at which be might have earned a good and honor able living be would not engage in. He was a politician, an office-seeker, a so- called Republican, a Greeley Republi can. At Chicago be was with tbe Blaine people. He sought to be put on tbe stump as a speaker in tbe bar field campaign, but wherever be deliv ered a speech it was of each a charac ter tbat it did more ham than good After tbe election he was one of the first to put in a claim to Pretident Gar- " i for an office soon after tbe Ho- ;v..n,ber election, vhil? the President was at Mentor, Ohio, be received from tbe then unknown Charles Guiteau the following letter, dated New York city, and written npon beaded paper of the Fifth Avenue Hotel : Diab Gesibai : I, Charles Gnitean, hereby make application tor tbe Austrian mission. Being about to marry a wealthy and accomplished heiresa of this city we think tbat together we might represent this Nation with dignity and grace. On tbe principle of flrst comes, first served, I have faith that yon will give this application fa vorable consideration. (Signed) Cbables GrmtAC. from tbat time on, till witbio a re eent period or date, bis business has been tbe seeking of an office at the bands of the Garfield Administration He bad, however, relinquished tbe claim to a foreign ministry, and would bave been content to take almost BBy once. An Axn CoxKLrss Max7. He was at no time connected with the Grant or Conkiing people, bat be made no disguisement of his dislike to Conk ling and bis friends. He even went so far as to presume tbat a statement of his disapproval of Conkiing would carry tavor witb barneid and secure bim place. To make bis position plain to tbe rreeident wrote : in bis last appeal he " I regret the trouble you are having with senator lanitiing. ion are right, and should maintain your position. You have my support and that of all i-atriotic citizens I would like an audience ol a few momenta." He would give the names of Presi dent Garfield and Secretarv Blaine reference to secure quarters in board iog bouses. About three weeks ago he I was forbidden to again enter tbe aote- room-upstairs ia the President's house room in which people tbat bate business with the Preaioeni iu reg to office sit till iney are aam.c present their claims. Tbat we assas sin is a man tbat is totally depraved, and riven to good ana oaa spe., .. suits his purpose, ia best told by wbet His Father Sats in a letter written eight years ago to another aoo then io Bostoa, Mass. : , . I have been ready to believe him capa ble M almost any roily, Stnpldlty or rascal ity. The one possible excuse I canrender for bim is tbat be ia Insane. In. , was called aa a witness npon a- inclined to think I should testify that he s absolutely Insane, and is hardly responsible for hi acta. My own iroprea,.on w that unless something .hall stop him in bu fol y and mad career ho will become hopelessly insane and a flt subject for tho lunatic asy lum. Before 1 finally gave him np I bad exhausted all rov powers of reason and par .n..in wu'a4 other resources i en deavoring tocootrol bia actions and thoughts but without avail. I tound be was deceit ful and could not be depended npon us any ti.i.. .inhliim. willful, conceited, and at all tioles outrageously wicked, apparently nr th devil. I saw him once or twice when it seemed to me be was willing to do almost anything wicked he should hauuen to Uke fancy to. Tou will remem ber, perhaps, at tbe last conversation we had about bim 1 told you to keep clear of bim and not have anything to do with bim. shnnM anrhndv aak about him now 1 stiouid be compelled to eay to them that I thought be was insane, or at least a monomaniac, .nH .hnuld there leave it and aav no more hnt him. Hia inaanitv ia of auch a char acter that he is as likely to become a sly, eunninr desoerado as anything. Could I see him I m irht nossiblv make another and vig orous efTort to change the whole channel of hi thoughts and teclines. If I could not do this I sbould have no hope whatever of being able te do him any good. I made up mj mind long ago never to give bim an other dollar in money nnlil I should be con vinced he wss thoroughly humbled and rad ically changed. I am sometimes afraid he would steal, rob or do anything before hia Pentium and self-conceit shall be knocked out of him, and perhaps even all tbat will not do it. So. yon see, I regard nis case as bopeless or nearly so. I know no other way but to dismiss bim entirely from my mind, and leave him entirely in tbe hands of bis Maker, with a very faint hope that he can be :hanged either in tbia world or the neat" The Assassin s Pistol, used in tbe murderous work against tbe President was a five-chambered revol ver, shooting a 44 ealiber ball, that is, a ballet about seven sixteenth of an inch in diameter. Thb Cbtme. The shooting of Abraham Lincoln was a great crime, but in point of enormity it is not to be compared to tne crime ol snooting rresiaeni uw field. The shooting or assassination of Lincoln was an act that under the then existing circumstances might have taken place any hour. He was the head of a system of government that was engaged m crashing out a military rebellion that was intended to perpetuate a slave system of gov ernment. It was indeed a war of two different systems of civilization for the mastery. Washington was full of spies in the interest of the slave power ; meu that were in the pay of the secret service of the reb el government were spying every movement of the President, and the conspirators that took bis life had tleir headquarters at the nouse of Mrs. Surratt. one of the "under ground posts' that the Confederates had north of Mason ana Uixon s .Lane. But now the present Administration is not engaged in a war with a hos tile system of civilization. The man Ouiteau does not belong to the class of men that organized rebellion ; he was indeed among those that were against the Sooth, whk-h only proves that there were men in the Kcrth vehemently against the South, that were worse enemies of liberty than the rebels, for they made a manly, vikoroiw stand for wliat was antago nistic to freedom, while the Guiteau tribe professed to be freemen, while in truth they were the worst of des pot?, ready to murder one of the al 'lest and most consistent champions of Northern free government. The work of Booth and his confederates was assassination, but they were the avowed enemies of everything gov ernmental that President Lincoln and his Northern friends were struggling for. Stich was not the esse of the assassin that shot President Garfield ; he cl iiined to be in sympathy not only witli tiie system of government that President Garfield represents, but he claimed to be still closer in sympathy, by being an advocate of the peculiar system of party organi zation that President Garfield, bee retary Blaine and other friends of the Administration advocated He was at Chicago as a hanger on, and there he professed to be in full ac cord with the anti-unit rule, and acted with the Blame people throughout all of their movements, till General Garfield was nominated for Presi dent. When the President was in- augurateil he came to Washington and demanded office. He claimed deep friendship from the days of the meeting ol tne llncago Govenuon to the inauguration days ; and his pa pers sent to men in prominent place at ashington went so far as to ex press hostility to such men as were not in accord with the Administra tion in its views as to who it should appoint. Guiteau claimed to be in close sympathy with the Garfield Ad ministration, and acted with the Iie pnblicans in sustaining it Booth always claimed to hold the Lincoln Administration in contempt, and his friends were in military arms against it The assassination of Abraham Lincoln is only to be thought of with deep horror, but how infinitely deep er is the feeling or thought that at tends the contemplation of the crime of Guiteau. The Cause ot the Crime was not in the interest of a different ' system of civilization that is, if the expressions of the murderer are to1 be taken as a standard to judge from, j It is true that in his day he has keen ; a Communist and his Communistic or Nihilistic proclivities may have prompted him to commit the act It is probable that his desire for office and utter disregard of integrity have been the cause of the crime. A Cosmos, Defective, Educatiox. He seems to have received a com mon, defective, education, as to what he should do in the pursuit of a living. His text-book, or school, or intellectual training seems to have been abundantly good. His father ; provided, it is said, good and eom-1 petent teachers, but he, like the ma jority of people now, was taught to look to office for a living. His father was an office holder ; be held the of fice cf cashier in a bank, and was a sort of a preacher. Hia educati was not common in mteUectuslb mjj um wiiru-ju learning, but was of the common and most defer, tive kind as regards the every. lifA . ThA 1THH tAllcrhr. th.A r.mT . ' cation to look for office. The yomj. of the land are taught to look la office all the time for office in church, in the school, in the gtaj. and in the country. Guiteau grew m, under the common defective edur tion that was destined to operate out. side of the routine of private Lf& He was not taught the uncommon education that the best people, tai the best of everything in this coaa. try is found in the private evory life of the people. His mind i poisoned by a imae ambition that j tiling this country vrith just sacfc miserable wretches 83 he is. If j,, ever had a spark of honesty his q. ordinate desire Id Edld a promin place ia society entirely destroyed it, and out of revenue for broken prom, iscs, or half promises made to him h tecsme a murderer. Who PaoiiiatD Him t Aa to the quertion, of who prom ised Lira an offi-.-e? there is a great desire io know more. If he wu promised an office, it is probable that the names of the people that gaq him such promise cannot long be kept from the public. While he w not considered among the Gran! peo ple, he had no doubt heard of ti Mentor promises, in which it is saij Garfield had promised to do so acl so for Grant and Conkiing, but when story General Grant has long ago pronounced to be untrue. Grant says there were no promises made by Garfield whJo he was at Mentor. Guiteau was not one of the Grant people, and if he received promises he must have received them from peo ple nearer to the Administration than Grant Conkiing or Arthur. If he is correctly reported he did not consid er them as the people that could help him to an office under the Adminis tration. If he received promises he must have received them outside of the circle of the people just spoken of ; he must have received them from men that were dispensing Adminis tration offices. The story of the vio lation of the Mentor promise remindsd bins of tbe promise tbat bad bean made to bim and not fulfilled. He aaw hoe miuy of tbe Grant people and the Ad ministration did not agree, and tbl cause he attributed to be disappoint ment at tbe failure to control appoint ments to office. That was pretty near ly bis grievance. He wanted office for himself, and because be did not get an office be became a stalwart opponent of the President, and determined to kill bim. Such are among tbe thoughts that suggest themselves when the ques tion of "who promised bim ?" is asked. STORM XOTES. A midnight storm at Lewlstown, Mifflin county, frightened the peopla It blew off part of the roof and chimney of the depot carried a bag gage truck fifty yards and dashed it to pieces, and damaged a number of trees ia the town slightly. There was a heavy fall of rain, but no haiL A few days ago, at Alexandria, Iowa, during a terrible storm, a fire, sup posed to have been caused by light ning, destroyed a row of the best business houses iu the town. The loss will amount to $32,001). A terrific tornado, accompanied by lightning and thunder and rain, visit ed Pittsburg some days ago. Houses, stables and trees were blown down. No lives were lost A butcher, r-hcr was driving a wagon, was struck by lightning and nearly killed. A tornado visited Delaware countv. Pa., since our last issue. Hou were unroofed, trees were blows down, aud the standing grain was blown down and ruined. Its pstfc vr as about a half mile wide. In New Hampshire a storm strut! the village of Franklin some days ago. Mail stones, many ol them more than an inch in diameter, fell in great numbers and spread rrriu every where. Half the bouses in the place had their windows shattered, mulu tudes of chimneys were swept down, trees uprooted and gardens every where ruined. The damage was con fined chiefly to the town and and the valley for a mile or two on each side. The path of the tornado was about two miles wide. In West Rockingham county. Ta, during a storm, recently, hail fell to the depth of six inches, the stones being of urrusoal size and remaining on the ground for twenty-four hours. In the region of Port Republic the circuit of the tornado was a mile and a half wide and five miles long, over turning houses in its track, and liter ally destroying whole fields of wheat and corn. A Smooth Complexion can be had by every lady who will use Parker's Ginger Tonic. Regulating the inter nal organs and purifying the blood it quickly removes pimples and giws a healthy bloom to the cheek. Se notice. litew Msl:ll ,A M aa a aw, awal aa eawja A a t IHbliKhAI UUKt RHEUMATISM a it fc aw an SiaMaaa of b KIDNEYS, LIVER AMD BOWELS. It alaanaaa tha ayatam ef th acrid polam that lamn tha diadlU aulbnaa wax oaly thaTinUma ot Bhanmatiam aa w1 THOUSANDS OF CASES of th wont Ibraai of this tantbla diaaaM ban bass quicker nlicrad, in a aim f PERFECTLY CURED. sal inarary part of thm Country. dradaofo ithaaanrwlwharaall ha CU!d. 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