BUTLER CITIZEN. JOHN H. T W. C. WESLEY. PBOP'BS. GKN. GRANT will be in Pittsburgh on Saturday, the 13th inst. Low ex cursion rates are expected on all the roads leading to the city. ROBERT WOODS, Esq., one of the oldest member of the Pittsburgh Bar, died at his residence near this city on Nor. 30th ult, in the 66th year of his •g«- , . MR. WILLIAM I. BURTON, formerly clerk in the Dnffy store of. this place, is now with Boggs & Buhl, of Alle gheny City, where he will be pleased to see bis old Butler county friends when they go to the city. Hoif. WILLIAM G. THOMPSON, of lowa, and member of Congress from that State, spent a portion of last week with his relatives and friends in this place. He left for Washington on Friday last, and we see has taken his seat We predict for Maj. Thomp son a creditable and useful career in Congress. President's Message. President Hayes' Message to Con gress is quite lengthy and dwells upon nearly every public question of inter est. We have not as yet bad the time to give it a careful reading and therefore can give no opinion as to its merits. It will be laid before our readers in our next issue, or at least such portions of it as are of more gen eral interest. First Lecture. Rev. Alfred Taylor, of New York, will deliver the first lecture before the Toung Men's Lecture Association of this place, on Tuesday evening next, December 9th. Subject, "Good Man ners and Bad." Mr. Taylor is said to be a first-class lecturer, and it is confidently announced that his lecture on the 9th will give entire satisfaction. Kind Remembrances. The good people of "Plains Church," Cranberry township, this county, im proved last Thanksgiving day by, among other things, presenting a log cabin quilt to Mrs. Criswell, the min ister's wife. On the evening of the same day the members of the M. E. Church, of this place, took possession of the parson age, and showered numerous timely and useful presents upon their new pastor, Rev. W. P. Turner. The oc casion was a very pleasant one. The New Telegraph. The fact that a new telegraph office is now in operation in this town is a matter of very general congratulation. The rates for dispatches sent from the office of the old company here were so high that competition was cordially welcomed, and now that a new com pany has brought this competition and a reduction of rates, it no doubt, will meet with general encouragement. Within the past ten days the wires were placed upon the poles along our streets and an office established in the Yogeley Hotel building, which is now in operation. The office is in part of the same rooms occupied by Messrs. Boyd and Tebay as Real Estate Agents. State Bribery Oases. Considerable of our space this week is given to an account of the trials commenced at Harrisburg last week for bribery and corrupt solicitations of and by members of the last Legislature, and the people will read with regret that, through mere technicalities, the trials will probably be postponed yet longer. Motions were made on part of the defendants to quash the bills of indictment, the principal ground laid being that one too many men, by some means or other, got into and served upon the Grand Jury finding the bills. This objection to proceeding with the trials has, so far, caused delay and will likely end in a continuance of the cases. To the credit of Mr. Rum berger, the member from Armstrong county under indictment, he announced that be was ready and willing to go to trial, not desiring to take advantage of the technical pleas raised by other of the defendants. His constituents and the people of the State generally will think his case strengthened by this action. Associate Judge. On Monday last a commission ar rived here from Gov. Hoyt, appointing William W. Dodds, Esq., of Prospect, an Associate Judge of the county in place of Hon. Samuel Marshall. Out side of the question that is raised, as to whether any vacancy exists in this office at the present time or not, we can freely say that Mr. Dodds is as competent and worthy a gentleman as could have been selected. But it is and has been questioned whether a vacancy really exists. Judge Mar shall, although in an asylum, has not resigned, nor have any legal steps been taken to declare him insane or incompetent to further hold the office, and until this was done it would seem to be a serious question as to a vacancy existing. He was placed in the asylum as a private patient by his relatives in the hopes of a recovery, and for what any one yet can know he may recover. On what ground the appointment has been made we are not informed. If valid, it will bold good from this to January 1, 1881, a year and a month, an election being held next year for a full term. Mr. Dodds, it is said, will not be a candidate for nomination. J Court. On Monday Court commenced, Judge Bredin presiding and Associate Judge Storey on the Bench. The Grand Jury was sworn and are in session acting upon bills. Some Surety of the Peace cases are being heard, as well as motions and petitions of various kinds. Fuller proceedings will be given next week. BRIBERY OASES. MOTION TO QUASH SALTER'S INDICT MENTS SUSTAINED—THE ILLEGAL JURY PLEA EFFECTIVE —SIMILAR AC TION PROBABLE IN ALL THE OTIIF.R CASES —SENATOR CARPENTER IS IN SULTED AND RESENTS IT. HARRISBURO, Nov. 26. —As was fore shadowed yesterday the Court this af ternoon quashed the indictment against ex-Representative Slater, charged with having offered money to members of the Legislature for their votes for the $4,000,000 Riot claims bill, and with having afterward committed perjury by swearing before the Legislative Com mittee that he had corruptly approached nobody, , Although the prosecution had engaged such distinguished lawyers as Judge Black, of this State, and Senator Car penter, of Wisconsin, it was evident after the defense had shown that 24 persons participated in the findings that the Court would set aside the in dictments. The prosecution relied up on the record, which showed that only 23 grand jurors had been sworn, but the evidence showed that one more was on the jury, and that the one supposed to have been excused took part in the deliberations of the body. The Court overruled all the motions of the defense to quash the indictments except that relating to the defective grand jury, At the conclusion of the decision Judge Pearson says: "I am verv sorry to have come to this conclusion, because it is not trying the case on its merits, and these men escape their trial at this time escape on what might be called substantial technical ities." . The Judge also indicated that the in dictments against the eight others ac cused of corrupt solicitation of members of the Legislature, and two others ac cused of a similar offense and perjury, would fall with the decision. Judge Black quickly rose to his feet and challenged the attention of the Court by the announcement that when the next case was called the Common wealth would either contradict the tes timony offered by the defense relative to the numerical defect of the grand ju ry, or reject all testimony. This was a surprise to defendant's counsel, who had supposed that they could go to their homes, as the Judge had indicated that all indictments in the bribery cases had been quashed. Mr. Cassidy became very indignant, said Judge Black's proposition was a subterfuge, and asked the Court to enter judgment in all the cases. If, however, the Commonwealth was ready to pro ceed with the argument on the other bills the defense was prepared for the dis cussion. There was considerable confusion, lawyers congregating near the Judge and the audience moving toward the legal disputants. The defense firmly maintained that the distinct under standing was that the judgment in the Salter case would be the judgment in all the others, and the prosecution contending that they had differently understood the matter. Many sharp and some impertinent remarks passed between the lawyers, after which Mr. Armstrong moved that the indict ment against W. F. Rumberger be quashed for the same reasons on which the Salter indictment was quashed, and supported his motion with a short argument. Mr. Carpenter said the Common wealth was ready for trial in that case. Mr. Armstrong said if the case was called the defense would go over the same ground as in the Salter indict ment. Mr.Carpenter said the Common wealth were better prepared in the other cases and wanted to be heard. Mr. Cassidy moved that all the other indictments be quashed, on which Mr. Carpenter said tho Commonwealth wanted to be heard. Judge Black said if the Court was prepared to quash all these indictments without hearing witnesses for the Com monwealth, who would swear to a totally different state of facts from those presented by the defendant's witnesses, then the.counsel for the Commonwealth want it to appear on the record, so their skirts might be clear. After a few more remarks of the same tenor the District Attorney called up the case of the Commonwealth against Mr. Leisinring. Gen. Albright said his client was not present; but he could have him here iu a few hours. Mr. Herr characterized this proceed ing as trifling with the Court, and said the Commonwealth's conusel should put in writing what they could prove. During the discussion Judge Brew ster made some remarks, which Senator Carpenter took as an insult. He repli ed that his honesty of purpose had never been questioned in a court of justice, that Judge Brewster's treat ment might be courtesy in the month of a Philadelphia lawyer, but it would not pass current west of the Allegheny mountains. This very sensibly subdued Judge Brewster, and he apologized. The Court finally agreed to have a session on Friday afternoon beginning at 2 o'clock, to try the case of A lexandcr W. Leisinring, President of the First National Bank at Mauch Chunk, who is alleged to have offered to divide with two members of the Legislature from his county the expected profits from speculation in Pennsylvania Railroad stock, which would enhance in value on the passage of the Riot bill. In the event of the Court deciding all cases in favor of the defense, the Legislative Prosecuting Committee will have new hills drawn in the saveral cases, which will be submitted to the grand jury at the January term of court. JUDGE PEARSON'S DECISION OVERRULING THE MOTION TO QUASH THE VENIRE OF THE JURY. On the opening of Court Tuesday morning, Judge Pearson read an opin ion of some length overruling the mo tion made Monday by Mr. Lamberton for the defense to quash the venire and challenge the array, as follows: The motion was made to quash the venire or summons of the grand jury at the August session, at which time JSwil**? : ISttfcl**:, flat., 33«£*mfe*K; 3, I8?9. the bill in the present case was found, I also to quash the array of the grand jurors. We have taken this whole subject into very careful consideration and examined it as far as we are able to in a short time, and come to the following conclusion: It is alleged here that the oath which was taken by the Sheriff was not in the proper form. We have examined the oath of office made by him on the same paper with the general oath, and which is re corded in the recorder's office, accord ing to law, and we think he substan tially swore to everything that is re quired of the Sheriff in regard to sum moning, etc., the grand jurors. It is alleged that he ought to take the oath to impartially draw and select grand jurors, but we say he has no power to select at all; therefore he took only the oath required. In the following January, before entering upon the duties of drawing jurors at all, he took the second oath, which is drawn up in a very formal way, and I see no defect in it whatever, except the same one suggested before, that he was not sworn to impartially select, which he could not do, and which certainly the Legislature never intended by this act that he should do. We conceive that the Sheriff who summoned the grand jury was regularly sworn, and there was no necessity for his taking the oath eight or ten times a year—every time he draws a jury ; that he is not required to take the oath except upon entering upon the duties of his office, and also before he draws any jurors at all, which, was done strictly accord ing to law. The next is that it is necessary for the Sheriff and Jury Commissioners to swear to their returns of the venire. That is not only uncommon, but I never heard of its being done. lam aware that the Court in Westmoreland county decided recently that it was necessary, but I cannot find that the act of 1834 or any subsequent act re quires it to be done. In the present case they signed the return. I doubt whether that even is necessary, but when they have done that it is all that is required. In regard to the venire it is certainly by no means in proper form. It is in the form which has been generally used in this Commonwealth, with the exception of one word, but at the same time it is a vicious form undoubtedly. The venire commands the Sheriff to draw from the wheel containing the persons selected according to law to be grand jurors, and then commands him to summon 24 persons to be grand jurors. The time to draw from the wheel is surplusage and entirely un necessary. There is no such wheel; there never has been such a wheel kept in Pennsylvania, except, perad venture, under the jury law in Phila delphia, but in no county in the State is there a separate wheel for grand jurors. They are always drawn ac cording to law; first 24 drawn from the wheel are grand jurors; the next traverse or petit jurors. The word "grand" has been interlined there where it ought not to have been. I treat it as a surplusage entirely and a matter of no consequence. If the motion had been made at the time when the grand jury came forward to be sworn, or when they came forward to act on particular bills, the grand jury would probably have been set aside on account of the irregularity in the venire ; but it is entirely too late to make the motion now. They can not quash the grand jury after it has been discharged for three months or more. It has gone—preformed its duty. If it was anything that could affect a party we might listen to it with more gravity and more care, but it can affect the interest of no one. There was the regular number of grand jurors summoned and 23 out of 24 are sworn. They were all there, served, found their bills, and if there was any desire on the part of any person who was going to be indicted to quash the array, they could have challenged either polls or array of the graud jury ; but if they did not do it, they cannot do it after the grand jury is discharged. The party is bound to be present by the terms of the recognizance, and therefore he is treated as actually pres ent. It is said that the case was con tinued at defendant's request, but that is a matter of little moment and not material. There was afterward an argument that this case shall be tried on the fourth Monday of November, instead of the third. I do not con ceive that after the grand jury has act ed, found their bills and been dis charged that a motion to quash the array could be sustained at all or to quash an indictment because it was drawn by an improper grand jury. Witnesses were called to prove that the Sheriff did not summon the grand jurors in person. That. I think, has never been required since the present mode of selecting grand jurors was adopted by law. There was a time when the Sheriff went out and selected persons to serve as grand and traverse jurors, which duty was judicial and could not be delegated, but that ceased from the time that the Sheriff and Commissioners were directed to se lect and draw the jury. If the jury came that was the only question and all the Courts required. The motion is therefore overruled. THR PROSECUTION MAKES ANOTHER AT TEMPT TO SUSTAIN THE INDICTMENTS. IIARRISBURQ, NOV. 28. —The Com monwealth appeared to much better advantage in the Legislative Bribery cases to-day than it did on the first three days of the argument, and the opinion is confidently expressed by the counsel representing it that the remaining indictments against the per sons accused of corrupt solicitation and perjury will not be quashed. Cer tain it is, if they had presented an equally strong case during the previ ous argument Salter would now be an swering the crimes of which he is charged before a Dauphin county jury. The most intense interest has been manifested since the defeat of the pros ecution on Wednesday in the next movement of the Commonwealth. There were rumors that a general in vestigation into the grand jury ir regularities would be instituted, in the expectation that it would result in the discovery of the means by which the twenty-fourth man came to be on the. jury. In fact, the arguments after the Salter case had been decided indicated that additional witnesses would be put on the stand for that purpose ; but as the only effect of such a proceeding could in any event have been to show crookedness iu connection with the grand jury, with a certainty that it would end in the quashing of all the indictments, the prosecution wisely adopted a more sensible method to i promote their cause. I The Court convened at two p. m., at which time the roor- was about half filled. Soon after all the lawyers engaged in the case were in their seats, Judge Black and Senator Carpenter having chairs adjoining each other. Presently F B. Gowen, President of the Philadelphia and Reading Rail road Company, through whose agency principally the Mollie Maguire order in the coal regions was broken up, ap peared and ranged himself on the side of the Commonwealth. Brewster, Mann, Albright, Armstrong, Cassidy, Herr, Lamberton and Weiss, for the befense, were early in their seats. About 2:20 p. m. the case against A. W. Leisinring was called up by the District Attorney. General Albright moved to quash the indictment on the same grounds on which that in the Salter case was set aside by the Court. After a brief debate the defense proposed to offer the same evidence submitted on Mon day to show the illegality of the in dictment. The Commonwealth agreed that it should be submitted for the purpose of argument as taken down by the phonographer, subject to exceptions. Mr. Simonton objected to the re ception of testimony for the following reasons: That it is not competent to introduce any evidence extrinsic to the record; that a grand juror's testimony cannot be admitted to contradict the record. Mr. Simonton cited a number of authorities to show that it is error to quash an indictment for a matter that is not in the body, extrinsic mat ters depending on trial by juries. Judge Black then proposed to offer a paper for the consideration of the Court. Cassidy objected to it being read until counsel for the defense had an opportunity of reading it, but the Court decided against him, and the venerable Judge read it with unusual distinctness, emphasizing the principal points. The following is a copy : JUDGE BLACK'S PAPER. And now, to-wit, November 28, 1879, the District Attorney of the Commonwealth and other counsel specially appearing with bim in this case, being in Court, and heariug the above motion of the defendant to quash the indictment, ask that the said motion be refused, and object to all affidavits, depositions or other proofs to sustain it, and this opposition to the said motion is on the following grounds, to-wit: First—The facts asserted by the de fendant as reasons for quashing the indictment are all of them extrinsic to the record ; it is a well settled rule of the common law, adopted in Pennsyl vania by the highest judicial authori ties of the State, that facts not appa rent in the body of the indictment or the caption thereof cannot be produced in any form of proof to sustain such a motion as this. Second—This indictment and all previous proceedings which lead to it are conclusively proved by the record to have been perfectly free from any defect in form or subtance, for it was found by a grand jury of twenty three persons, regularly impaneled and sworn, duly presented to the Court, and made part of the record in per petua m rei memoriam. The absence of any averment to the contrary in the objections which the defendant and his associates have made is itself an ad mission that it is regular. Third—Such a record is sacred, and cannot be falsified or contradicted by any extrinsic proof to the Court which made it up. What allegation of misbe havior or negligence committed by the judge, clerks or grand jurors might be shown to sustain a plea in abatement is not now a question before this Court, and on that subject we affinn or deny nothing. Fourth—To allow the verity of the record or the effect and force of the in dictment to be called in question by mere affidavits, not given upon any issue made up between the parties, would be a total denial of justice to the Common wealth, for great criminals can at all times have their spies and agents prow ling about the ante-rooms or corridors to watch for some irregularity or the omis sion of some form, and affidavits can be got in all cases. If this law, which sol emnly declares that a regular indictment cannot be defeated in that way, is now to be held for naught, these defendants, whether guilty or not, must go unwhipt of justice, since there is not even a re mote probability that any future indict ment can stand against the objections which their affidavit-makers may find against it. Fifth—We make no allegation that this motion is prompted by motives not creditable to the counsel by which it is urged. We speak without personal application to the defendants them selves when we say that the success of this movement upon the Court would make a precedent fatal to public justice. The integrity of the defendants in mak ing it is not impugned, directly or in ferentially. We accuse them of noth ing worse than the perjury, bribery and corrupt solicitation wherewith they stand charged in the indictments, and we only desire to give them a fair and honest trial, upon which they will lie triumphantly acquited if we do not prove their guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. ELIAS HOLLINGER, Dist. Atty. J. S. BLACK, MATT H. CARPENTER, J. C. MCALARNEY, GEO. 11. IRWIN, FRANKLIN B. GOWEN. THE ARGUMENT. In the argument the Commonwealth was represented by Messrs. Simmon ton, Gowen and Carpenter, and the de fense by Gen. Albright and Messrs. Cassidy, Mann, Herr, Armstrong and Brewster. Col. Gowen asserted that no indict ment had been quashed in the State by evidence contradictory of the record. There must be some defect in the body of the indictment to warrant such a pro cedure. It would be monstrous to al low the record to be contradicted, lead ing to complications dangerous to the administration of public justice. Such a precedent established, the records of the Court would be overturned at will. The only proper way for the defense to reach their point is to plead for abate ment. Judge Pearson agreed that the pro per way to reach the facts was on a plea in abatement, but he thought the Commonwealth were not expediting the trial of the cases by this movement. Senator Carpenter made the closing argument, which commanded not only the careful attention of Court, bnt all others in the room, lie started out with the statement that he bad come here under a misapprehension. A i Grand Holiday IMMENSE STOCK OF "ULSSXMCY GOODS, ' A.T Ritter & Ralston's. DRESS SILKS at 75c., sl, 1.25, 1.50, 1.75, 2.00 and 2.50 per yard. ALL-WOOL CASHMERES at 45c., 50c., 5Cc, 60c., 65c., 70c., 75c , 80c., 85c., 90c., Si, 1.10, 1.15 and 1 2oper yard. LADIES' CLOAKS at $2.50, 3.50, 4.50, 5.00, 5.50, 6.50, 7.50, 8.00, 9.00, 10.00, 12.50, 13.50, 15.00, 17.00, 18.00, 20.00, 22.50, 25.00, 30,00 and 35.00. CHILDREN'S CLOAKS, all styles and prices. DOLMANS! DOLMANS! DOLMANS! DOLMANS! LADIES', Misses' and Children's Felt Hats, at 15 cents, LADIES' FURS, Misses' Furs, Children's Furs. CARPETS, all Styles and Prices. Very Heavy Stock, and No Advance. Now is the Time to Buy. At 6i cents, good dark Calicoes, unbleached Canton Flannel, Bourette Dress Goods, At 10 cents, Columbian Cheviots, heavy dark Dress Goods in all the new shades. At 20 cents, double-fold Alpacas ; at 25 cents, double-fold Cashmeres, all colors. At 35 cents, yard-wide Cashmeres, black and colore. rf~W e have now the largest and best assortment of Goods we have ever shown, and we invite you to call early ana secure bargains Although Goods have advanced thirty to fifty per cent,, we are still SELLING AT OLD PRICEb. RITTER & RALSTON. number of men had been indicted for a heinous crime, and he had supposed that their counsel would be anxious to try the cases on their merits. Instead, the Commonwealth was confronted with technical objections to a trial, and he and his colleagues, not having known anything of the grand jury ir regularity, had not made the necessary preparation, and consequently per mitted some things to go on which tL~y should have prevented. Since Judge Pearson's decision, counsel for the Commonwealth had examined a number of authorities, and were now able to show by the decisions of the best Courts that evidence contradict ing the record cannot be allowed. He quoted one of the decisions of Chief Justice Gibson on the point, which he claimed fully sustained his position, lie thought the counsel for the Com monwealth was responsible for Judge's decision in Salter's case, because of their want of preparation, and indulged the hope that they had now presented a case which would be sustained by the Court. Judge Pearson announced a session for Monday, December Bth, when he would deliver the opinion of the Court on the admissibility of the evidence proposed to be submitted. At that time the date for a hearing .will also be fixed. In any event the cases will not be tried until the third week in January. There will be a session of the Court to morrow for the purpose of giving the several accused an opportunity to renew their bail. WABBIIfICT. WALKER—M AIZLAN D—Nov. 27th 1879, bv Rev. James T. Patt'rson. Mr. Jas. Walker ami Miss Harriet Maizlana, both of-Clinton township, this county. HEATHM. ~ SHIRA—Nov. 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