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We had been discussing a recent cause celebre in which, upon purely circumstantial evidence, a man had been convicted of an atrocious murder —although many of those most famil iar with the circumstances of the case entertained the gravest doubts about the justice of his conviction—and had been swung off into eternity protesting his absolute innocence with his latest breath and calling upon God to send his soul straight-way to hell if he was not telling the truth. As most of our party were lawyers, the conversation, naturally enough, drifted into a discussion of the dangers arising from convicting accused persons whose own mouths were closed, upon purely circumstantial evidence in the absence of any direct and positive proof of guilt, and case after case was cited in which, after conviction and execu tion, the entire innocence ot the sup posed culprits had been clearly demon strated. Most of the laymen present agreed with the distinguished lawyer whoso veiy positive expression of opin ion has been quoted, while a majority of the lawyers contended, with that earnestness for which lawyers are no ted when advocating their own side of any question, that justice could never miscarry when careful judges guard against the possibility of unsafe ver dicts by refusing to permit aconviction except when every link in the chain of circumstantial evidence has been estab lished beyond doubt and the whole chain made so perfect and complete as to leave no room for any consistent hy pothesis of innocence. 'The first murder case I ever tried,' said one of them, 'was stranger than fiction, as you will admit, and is quite as remarkable as any of the cases you have referred to where innocent men hare been wrongfully convicted upon circumstantial evidence. It ought to have been reported as an example of the unreliability of the direct and posi tive testimony of eye-witnesses who tell what they believe to be the truth.' lie then related the main points of what was certainly a most remarkable and dramatic trial, and which consti tutes a fair off-set to some of the mem orable cases to be found in every work on circumstantial evidence. Tte nar rative produced so strong an impres sion upon my own mind that subse quently, with his consent, I put it into the following shape, having first care fully compared it with bis notes uf tes timony taken upon the trial of the case. It can be relied upon as absolutely cor rect, with the exception that I have used fictitious names, for reasons which will readily be appreciated when it is known that most of the actors in the drama are still living. One winter evening about eight o'- clock, in the early days of the war, in the quiet little town of , while pa troling the streets to pick up stragglers from the camp on the outskirts of the town, Corporal Julius Fry was shot and killed by one of three men of bad character who were in company and upon terms of open enmity with the soldiers. The men were arrested, com mitted to prison and brought to trial at the next term of the court. Two of them were gamblers and desperadoes and supposed to have more than once had their hands stained with human blood. The third, whom I shall call Short, though bearing an unenviable reputation, was regarded as one unlike ly to slay a fellow man except under compulsion of circumstances. On ac count of the character of the men and the trouble they had already brought upon quiet, law-abiding citizens, the sentiment of the whole community was strongly against them. In order to clearly understand the force of the testimony given upon the trial and the subsequent result it is im portant to bear in mind the physical peculiarities, dress and general appear ance of each of the three prisoners. Short was a small man of not more than five feet six inches in height, slen der, weighing scarcely 130 pounds, with bright, fiery-red hair and side whiskers, and at the time of the mur der wore a white felt hat and an old light-blue army overcoat. Ryan was fully six feet in height, of robust frame, with black hair and mus tache, dressed in dark clothes, and wore a black Derby hat. Grey was a heavy, broad-shouldered man of medium height, weighing fully 200 pounds, with a full, black beard reaching nearly to his waist. But as the evidence subsequently showed that he had not fired the shot, it is unneces sary to describe his appearance more minutely. Certainly it is difficult to imagine two men more unlike than Short and Ryan or less likely to be mistaken for each other even by strangers, much less by their acquaintances. There was no possibility here for a case of mista ken identity. Short and Ryan were tried together with their consent—Grey having asked for and obtained a separate trial—and each was defended by separate counsel. After the preliminary proof relating to the post-mortem examination, the cause of death and the identification of the body of the deceased as the person named in the inpictment, the Common wealth called as its first witness a wo man, Mary Bowen. She bore a bad reputation for chastity, but nobody questioned her integrity or her purpose to tell—reluctantly, it is true—the whole truth. The prisoners were all her friends and were constant visitors to the drinking saloon of which she was the proprietress. She was a wo man of powerful physique, almost mas culine frame, great force of character and more than ordinary intelligence From her testimony it appeared that a colored woman with whom she had had some dispute had hit her on the head with a stone and ran, and the three prisoners, coming up at the mo mhnt, started with her up the street in pursuit of the fugitive. Although the | night was dark there was snow on the i ground, and a gas lamp near by gave sufficient light to enable one to recog nize a person with ease some feet away, i After running about one hundred yards the pursuers came to the corner of aD , alley and stopped under the gas lamp, ' being challenged by the deceased, who was in uniform and in company with I one of his squad. She swore that when the Corporal called 'halt,' Short, whom ; she had known intimately for years, re plied, 'Go to h—l,' and—while stand ing at her side, so that their elbows were touching, both being immediately under the gas-iight—he pulled out a pistol, pointed it at the deceased, who was four or five feet from him, and fi"- ed and then ran down the alley, the deceased pursuing him. She heard four or five more shots fired, and imme diately the deceased returned, wound ed, and Short had disappeared. While t'le shots were being fired she saw both Rvaa and Grey standing at the corner some feel away from he. 1 , add after that they separated and she went alley was bounded on either side by high fences difficult to climb, and led down to a stream of water about fifty feet wide and three or four feet deep. No traces of footsteps were found in the snow except those of one man lead ing down into this stream, and it was evident that the person who had fired bad not climbed either fence, but had waded through the stream and disap peared on the other side The next witness was the soldier who stood close by the deceased when the first shot was fired, and who, not knowing either of the prisoners, de scribed the person who had fired and ran down the alley as the man with red hair and side-whiskers, dressed in a light-blue army overcoat and white soft hat, and upon being directed to look at the three prisoners immediately identified Short as the man whom be had seen do the shooting. The testimony of these witnesses was in no wise shaken upon cross-ex amination. Then the sworn ante-mortem state ment of the deceased, taken by a mag istrate, was read to the jury. He said that he had known Short personally for some lime, but had never had any difficulty with him. He fully identified him as the man who had fired the first shot and then ran down the alley, fir ing one shot after another until he fired the last and fatal shot almost in the face of the deceased. He also fully de scribed the clothing worn by Short as it had been described by the other wit nesses. These were all the witnesses to the occurrence except the prisoners them selves, and of course they could not be heard. The case against Short seemed to be as conclusively made out as though a score of witnesses had sworn that they had seen him do the shoot ing. Neither the Judge, the jury nor the spectators entertained the slightest doubt of his guilt, and when the Com monwealth, at this point, closed its case it seemed as though the fatal rope was already around his neck and his escape was impossible. Ryan heaved a sigh of relief which was audible tnroughout the whole court room, for he was safe; there was not one word of testimony against him or any circumstance tending to show any previous arrangement or concert of action between him and Short. After a whispered consultation be tween the counsel for the defense, one ot them arose and moved the Court to direct the jury to forthwith return a verdict of "not guilty" as to Ryan, in order that he might be called as a wit ness for the other prisoner. This was resisted by the District Attorney ; and after lengthy and elaborate arguments the Court decided that it was bound to grant the motion, and accordingly Ry an was declared "not guilty," and the verdict was recorded Then came a sceDe as dramatic to those present as anything ever wit nessed on the stage. Without any opening speech by Short's counsel Ry an, in obedience to a nod from his at torney, stepped out of the prisoners' dock and into the witness box, looked around the court room, took up the Bi ble and was sworn to tell 'the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth ' Every head was bent forward, every ear was on the alert, every eye fixed on the winess—something start ling was expected. Would he attempt to show that Short had done the shoot ing in self-defense ? That seemed the only thing possible. But how could he be believed in the face of the posi tive testimony of three witnesses, two of them living and in the court room, one of them dead ?—murdered ! Ryan stood for a moment looking down, and then slowly lifting his eyes to the bench in a silence in which the falling of a feather might have been heard, he said: 'May I ask the Court a question ?' The venerable Judge, evidently sur prised at being interrogated, looked at him and said : 'Certainly, sir.' 'I understand that I am acquitted,' said Ryan, pausing for a moment and then continuing, 'I want to know from the Court whether anything I may say I now can ever be used against me in any way.' What did he mean ? What need for that question? Everyone looked at his neighbor inquiringlv. The flushed face of the Judge show ed that he, at least, understood what it meant—an attempt to swear his i guilty companion out of the hangman's I grasp Then, in a tone of unmistaka | ble indignation, came the answer: 'I am sorry to say, sir, that nothing | you may say now can be used against j you; that is, on a trial for murder. | You have been acquitted.' Ryan's face grew pale and then red, and he said, slowly and distinctly: 'lt was I who fired all the shots— I not Short.' M<ist of the faces in the court room wore looks of incredulity, some of in dignation at the hardened wickedness i of the man who had just been declared innocent, and who, by his own state ment, was guilty of murder if he was | not guilty ot perjury. But, quietly and calmly, without a I tremor, as coolly as though he was de- BUTLER, PA., WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 24,1881 i scribing some trivial occurrence which he had casually witnessed, Ryan went on, step by step, detailing all that had occurred; and when he had finished his story there was probably not a per son present who was not fully con vinced not only that Ryan had told the simple truth but also that he bad him self fired the fatal shot in self-defense, or at least under such circumstances of danger as would have led any jury to acquit him. lie detailed how he had fired the first shot from a small single-barreled pistol in the air without any purpose except to give his challenger a scare, and then ran down the alley, and upon being closely pursued by the deceased with saber drawn and raised to strike, he wa3 compelled to pull out a revolver and fire several shots toward his pur suer, who was rapidly gaining on him, to keep him back ; and that when he had but one shot left he stumbled over a large stone and fell on his knees, and at this moment the deceased struck at him with the saber, cutting him slight ly in the cheek ; and being thus press ed, be aimed and fired the las't shot, which subsequently proved tatal. He farther told how, upon recovering his feet, he ran, waded through the stream, and finding that he had lost his hat when he fell, retraced his steps, recrossed the stream, found the hat, and then went to a hotel, where he was seen by several witnesses to dry his wet clothing. His manner, his bearing and his story itself convinced his hearers that he was telling the truth. But—so that nothing might be want ing if anv doubt remained in the minds of the Judge and jury—witnesses uf undoubted veracity were called who corroborated him as to the condition of his clothing and the cut on his cheek within fifteen minutes after the occur rence. Besides, it was shown that al though the man who had fired had waded through the stream, Short's clothiGg was perfectly dry. It is unnecessary to say that Short was promptly acquitted and warmly congratulated on one of the narrowest escapes ever made by any man in a court room. Nothing could have saved him had the Court refused to direct tne acquittal of Ryan and allow him to testify. The deceased Corporal, the soldier and Mary were— mistaken. That was all there was about it. So much for the occasional unrelia bility of the direct testimony of honest eye-witnesses. And so .much, also, for giving the accused an opportunity to be heard on the witeess-stand, the denial of which by the law is one of the relics of bar barism which still disgrace its admin istration in some States at this late day. THEY KNEW HIS WORTH. A clergyman relates the experience of a faithful clerk who was tempted, but followed his better promptings. It shows that dishonest men and value honesty—in every one else but them selves. A young man came to a gen tleman one day with a case of consci ence. He was corresponding clerk in flourishing house of business. His em ployers had begun to direct him to write letters to customers containing statements which he knew to be false. He had objected and they said : 'We are responsible for these state ments; it is nothing to you whether they are true or false.' 'I said to him, 'did they sign the let ters, or ask you to write them in your own name V As soon as the question left my lips I saw that there were a difference, both would be wrong, and I hastened to tell him so. He said, 'I have to sign them with my name, pro Messrs. Blank.' I said, 'Your case is clear; you must decline to do it' He said, 'Then I shall be dismissed;' and after a pause, 'I have a wife and family.' I replied, 'My dear friend, this is a trial of faith and principle; you must do right, and trust to God to take care of you aad your family.' 1 met him some days after. 'Well, Mr. ,' I said, 'how are you get ting on ?' He replied, 'I am still in my situa tion ; I had an interview with the part ners and told them I eould not write letters I knew to be untrue. They were very angrv, and I expected to re ceive notice of dismissal, but I have not received it yet.' Months passed and he remained in his position. After a while he called upon me, and I saw by his face that something had happened. 'Well, Mr. ,' I said, 'have you had your dismissal ?' •No,' he said, 'I have not,' and smil ed. 'What then ?' 'A very confidential post in their ser vice with a higher salary, has fallen va cant, and they have put me into it!' On second thought these unprinci pled men had come to the conclusion that a clerk who would not deceive a customer would not deceive them, and was too valuable to be lost. [Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette.] The Rt. Rev. Bishop Gilmour, Cleveland, Ohio ; —Chas. S. Strickland, Esq., 9 Boyton, the world Renowned Swimmer; — Prof. C. O. Duplessis, Manager Chicago Gymnasium, Chi cago, 111.; —Wm. H. Wareing, Esq., Asst, General superintendent, New York Post office—Hon Thoraa3 L. James, Postmaste, New York; — Stacey Hill, Esq., Mt. Aubern Inclin ed Plane Rrailrod, Cincinati Ohio, are among the myriads who have experi enced the beneficial effects of the mo3t remarable remedy, St. Jacobs Oil, and who has testified to its efficacy in un qualified terms. The nearest infallible remedy is Pe runa. Ohio has a stringent law for the pre vention of fraud in the manufacture and sale of commercial fertilizers. The penalties for violation of the act are not less than S2OO for the first i offence, and not less than SSOO for ! every snbsequent offience. j For nervous debility take Peruna. DANGERS OF THE REPUBLIC [From Ex Chief Justice Agnew's address be j fore the Literary Societies of Roanoke (Va.) College.] "The combinations to accomplish selfish purposes are not always under stood by the bi dy of the people, and hence their freaueot success. They aexuire by use, skill, and system, the force of complete organization. No military system is more effective from the Generalissimo to the Corporal. Each grade performs its office in the plan, running down from the State through the counties, cities, townships and boroughs. The smallest has its file leader to keep it in line, and face, or about, at the word ot command. Feudual in its character, fealty is the great bond; and rewards are parceled out by the superior lord, to suit the ex igency of his own needs. "Perhaps the combination may be likened to an oligarchy of the fewest number—chief leaders securing to themselves the highest offices, and dis tributing the lower to their retainers. The organization consists of State and County committees, or executive juntos, city and borough leaders, and expectants. These operate through State aud county conventions, and town meetings—which are supposed to express the voice of the people—but in reality are moulded by the oligarchs to record their own will. Their suc cess depends much on the ability of the ligarchs to plan and lead, and the money thev can control. Alone they could not always command success, for this depends on hoodwinking the peo ple. But unfortunately they too often find their ablest organs in the press. It is the great lever that moves the world, and the oligarchy, Archimedes like, contrives to make itself the ful crum on which the lever rests. I mean no disrespect to the press when I say it is used. Some are misled by professions of principles and policy, which they maintain, and honestly up hold—others are not corrupt, but are governed by a desire to extend their influence and circulation—some are set up and controlled by the oligarchs, and a few act from mercenary motives. Be the cause and mode what they may, the oligarchy succeeds chiefly through the partisan press, which it uses by professions of patriotic purposes, in the line of party. "The oligarchy is shrewd, and rarely proposes in the line of its operations as coming direcely from itself, but in geniously initiates its movements by unseen ,r unconnected means. For. example, it selects a newspaper, or a correspondent least likely to be sus pected of entertaining the biddea pur pose. Thus, if a tool is desired to fill a certain place, a correspondent or a newspaper at a distance suggests his name and popularity, and how useful to his party or his country he might be, if he would only consent to be a candidate The local paper then copies and dilates on the compliment. Just so a western newspaper made a Con gressman in the middle of the State at the last election. So if a weak man is to be bolstered up, a convenient cor respondent at a distance, or newspaper apparently disinterested, writesa grand iloquent description of his character, powers, and influence. The thunder echoes throughout all the minor organs, and ends in a grand burst of harmony ; which is to make him a Senator, Gov ernor, or something else. Thus the oligarchs would, for the sake of patron age and power, to be distributed as re wards, elect a man without education beyond the most ordinary standard, to the grandest boy on the globe, in character, functions, and influence; where questions of the highest import are to be discussed and decided, con cerning National and Constitutional law, foreign and inter-state relations, external and internal commerce, trea ties, codes of polity, conflicts of laws, institutions and rights. Poor fellow 1 his fate is often that of the frog who swelled beside the ox. But what care the oligarchs if patronage and power be secured. Herein lies a danger. "Take another illustration—the dele gates of a county or city are to be captured for the benefit of the oligarchs. The convenient newspaper of the place suggests how the people may compli ment a favorite citizen, by permitting him to nominate his own delegates. The bait is swallowed, leviathan is hooked, and the convenient friends of the oligarchs are named and execute their decrees. The oligarchy is not confined to a few modes It under stands how to play off candidates, aud local interests or prejudices against each other. "Sometimes the oligarchs choose a chief, whose weaUh or oLher attributes may be used for the benefit of the sys tem. And when the Pibroch sounds— 'lnstaut through copse and heath arose, Bonnets aud spears and bended bows, And every tuft of broom gives life, To plaided warrior, amea for strife.' "The power and mode of action of this organization is often seen in its control of National affairs. Through the oligarchy a State Convention is called in hot haste before the p3ople can act in a primary capacity. This thing is often prepared a year before hand, and delegates not chosen by a sub-organization, are sent, wearing the bonnet and kilt of the chieftain, whose whistle heard 'The signal garrisons the glen, At oace with full five hundred men,' "Perhaps, to stifle local or indepen dent opinion, they resolved that the delegates shall vote as a unit, and the chieftain casts it—'solid for Mulbooly.' "Thus, too, ardent unionists and de fenders of nationality, they suddenly are transformed into loud defenders of State rights, and sing peans to the power and dignity of a solid State— that is, solid for the oligarchy. These modes are sometimes carried into the affairs of the nation itself. It is not enough to control factions ; such leaders must control the Government. This they effect not only by caucus, but by engrossing the powers of the President. To do this a new reading is given to the Constitution. The Constitution gives to the President the sole Dower of nomination ; but the chieftain, car ried into the Senate by feudal power, turns upon the Executive with inimita ble assurance and demands that he be consulted before a nomination shall be made. Not content with his own pow er to confirm or reject, he must be the channel of nomination also. And if, perchance, a nomination be made with out permission, the President must withdraw it or be held guilty of tran gressing the privilege of tie Senate. A common understanding would consider tb's an invasion of the power of nomi nation. No so with the chieftain ; his swollen importance sees no change of the Constitution in his demand; be would rather resign and destroy the power of his party than lose his own. 'And what is the purpose of all these shifts Y It is to force the will of the oligarchy upon the nation. This is the danger—how is it to be avoided ? The people must think and act for them selves. They must not suffer their affairs to be handled by the tools of the organism. Refuse to elect them as delegates ; refuse to permit county committees to supercede affairs which demand their own attention. Prevent the forestalling ot appointments and the making of factitious opinion. "Of all the sources of vicious influ ence probably the free pass system is the greatest. A single individual will command them in scores. Some carry blanks needing only their countersign to give them effect. It is needless to say that the influence is incalculable. The members of the legislature and judiciary are not overlooked. True it is only complimentary, and often so reads. Call it that, yet the philosophy of compliment is not unknown, and its delicacy is a skillful art. Ido not ob ject to State officials riding free. It is a proper return for the great privileges granted by the State, but then it should be demandable as a right. Let the law require and direct the issue, and then the free rider recognizes no compliment, and feels no obligations, wh'le for an abuse, the constituency can hold the representative responsible for the legislation. To the free ticket system must be added the compliment of special cars tendered to officials, in deed sometimes sought after. "The free ticket system has a special and unfavorable influence on legislation. Such is the ramification of the railroad syetem in Pennsylvania, it reaches the home of nearly every member of the Assembly. Hence no business of any magnitude is done on Friday, Satur day, and Monday ; a morning adjourn ment on Friday, and an evening meet ing on Monday sufficing to keep the record straight. The effect is a loss of probably one-third of the time which should be devoted to legislation, and of thousands of dollars, drawn from the taxes of the people.' DR. D. HA YES AO NEW ON THE WOUND. A Reply to Certain Recent Perversions of Facts and Misstatements. From Dr. Agnew's Letter in the Times. It is very easy, even for a medical man, in reporting an informal conver sation on a professional subject to omit technical exactitudes, especially where anatomical questions are concerned, and thus materially change the true thought of the informant. That such has been the case in the article which called forth my card will appear from the following statements, which shall be made as brief as possible : First. It is stated that the wound had been explored to the depth of about seven inches. This statement would lead the reader to infer that the explo ration had been made from the point of entrance of the ball and that the track of the missile had been traced seven inches, whereas, as was stated, the exploration was made through the counter-opening, or abscess, the depth of which, to the point where the ball passed the rib, was two inches and a half, which would leave for the track of the ball a distance of only four and a half inches. Second. I am made to say that the precise location of the ball is either in the quadratus lumborum or the psoas magnus muscle. The precise location of the ball I have never professed to know. I did say that in my judgment the missile passed along the an tenor face of the quadratus muscle, behind the kidney, and probably was lodged in the anterior part of the iliac fossa. The two statements of an exploration extending seven inches and of a ball lodged in the quadratus lumborum muscle are wholly irreconcilable on an atomical grounds, as the entire length of the muscle named does not exceed three and & half or four inches, and it is not probable that, having spent the most of my life in the human body, I should make a mistake on this point. * Third. A cut is introduced showing the point where the ball entered the body, and another point at the crest of the ilium 'precisely' indicating its loca tion and which will be seen to be con siderably posterior to a perpeudicular dropped from the wound of entrance. This diagram, as I understand it, was introduced to explain the location of the ball, as implied by my statements. Now, in no sense can it be made to in terpret or explain any statement ever made bv me in reference to this sub ject. The text of the article distinctly locates the ball at the crest of the ilium and at its posterior part, whereas I have always suspected and many times have said to members of my profession, that there were strong reasons for be lieving that the missile was in the iliac fossa and anteriorly. If, moreover, the ball occupies the place indicated on the diagram it could readily be felt by the finger. Fourth. I am represented as saying that the liver may have been bruised, but not lacerated, whereas, I have in variably stated that after studying the case I was disposed to believe that the liver had been lacerated, and not per forated ; the laceration being produced by the rib at the time the latter was struck by the ball—a supposition which, if trne, would account for a lim ited hemorrhage, answering to an area of percussion dullness present after the injury, and which has been slowly clearing up since. I therefore reaffirm that in no particular of several details mentioned in regard to the President's wouud have I been correctly reported, at the same time again disclaiming any intention of charging either a profes sional brother or the Times of inten tionally misrepresenting my views. I may say further that the criticism to which the President's medical aud surgical attendants bare been subjected does not disturb their equanimity in the least. They have a responsible duty to perform Nothing will be omitted, nothing knowingly committed which in their judgment will endanger this valuable life, and when the proper time arrives they will submit the med ical and surgical history of this remark able injury to the profession, the only tribunal competent to pass on the con duct of the case. EPHEMERA. I met him on the cars. He was as cordial &s a beech-and maple fire in a winter's night. He grasped me with both hands, as if I were the staff of an American flag in a windy day. He asked after my health, my friends and my friends' friends. It was somebody I ought to know, but to indentify the somebody was a puzzle. Now, noth ing takes the conceit out of a man sooner, plays the douche —pronounced doosh—with bis egotism more drench ingly than, having rushed up to anoth er with extended hand and open coun tenance, to be eyed by him in a specu lative, lack-lustreless way, and be told, 'You have the advantage of me?' I knew it, and like a merciful creature set out to pick up a clew without awakeniug his suspicion and wounding his vanity, which is as tender to the touch as a Dahomey shin. And so I said, 'Where did we meet last?' and he replied. 'Chicago.' That city is a poor place for clew-bunting. Dead failure. Then I said, 'Let me see; how do you write your full name ?' and he answered, 'why, J— John, of course.' I had counted on the habit a man has of givin/ bis whole name in voluntarily when he gets started oa it, but I was foiled. He stopped abruptly enough to have thrown a rider over his head had be been a saddle-horse. At last, after a few copper coins of com mon talk had been exchanged, I said, 'How do you spell your family name ?' 'Why,' said be, with a jerk, 'S-m-i-t-h John Smith. You didn't know me,' and the secret was out, and the owner of the illustrious patronymic, which is not a name, but a word of one syllable, went into the smoking-car, and I saw him no more. MANNE&S. There is a region in the State of New York where a person introducing a stranger to you says, 'Shake hands with Mr. Brown.' At first, you fancy it an individual off-hand -peculiarity, but when everybody bids every other body 'shake hands with Mr. Brown,' and they all obey, then you discover it is the manner of the community. Not an hundred miles from the shaking territory, the formula is, 'Know Mr. Brown,' and you know him. Of all forms of introduction, the sputtering is the most flippant: 'Mr. Brown Mr. Robinson, Mr. Robinson Mr. Brown, Brown Robinson, Robinson Brown, B. R., R. B.' That illustrates about the way of it. Very few people know how to intro duce you to an audience neatly and properly, not a word too much. When you are favored with an introduction it helps you wonderfully to be somebody, while an awkward, limping, verbose presentation takes the frill out of you, and makes you feel like a withered let tuce leaf. Whatever man is left to be a lecturer, undergoes some rare intro ductions, and encounters some formida ble committees. As a rule, the smal ler the town, the bigger the committee. Last winter, in a certain thriving town, I was raided by a delegation of ten men. My room at the hotel had four chairs, a wood-box, a bed and a trunk. The landlord flung wide the door with a flourish, and the ten men, all in black, like a flock of crows, filed in, and were introduced by the foreman of the coroner's jury as 'Mr. A., a merchant of our town, Mr. 8., one of our lawyers, Mr. C., a manufacturer,' and so on to the tenth. Then they all 'lighted ;' four chairs, four, bed, three, woodbox, one, trunk, one, window-sill, one. Then they got the poor lecturer in the focus of twenty eyes, and bored him through and through, and talked at him. He was a perforated hub with ten spokes, for they all spoke at once. He could not, for his life, remember the name of one of thetn, that he might say, 'Polyphemus Polloi, stand up and be sentenced to death or a deaf-mute asylum.' Then, the flock arose and filed out, and the inquest was over. How much better, had the foreman said, 'Lecturer, these are the gentlemen of the committee.' How much best, had he come alone, and left the nine— just as many as the Muses!—to main tain the law, commerce, health and morals 'of our town.' How ridiculous it all was! A sort of seance without a ghost. AN INTRODUCTION BY PRAYER. I may be wrong, but to tell the Lord who the speaker is, his qualities, mental and moral, for the purpose of introducing him to the congregation, seems to me a clear case of indirection. It is not parliamentary. To petition the Lord to help the speaker, and bless the audience with great power ot en durance, if it is likely to need them, is eminently proper, but keep the intro duction out of the petition. Don't jumble. But about the meanest thing a man can do, is to find out what a fellow is going to speak about—perhsps hear it read sentence by sentence, beforehand, and then marshal what he knows and what he don't know on that identical subject, pack his preliminary prayer with it, and leave his victim to follow on with the bones. It is petit larceny, to make the least of it. The writer, on a certain occasion, was to give a lecture upon an astronomical subject, and the clergyman in whose church it was to be given wanted to hear it, that he might make an appropriate prayer ; that is, be wanted to make a prayer to fit, and he did, for he gave the poor lecture Jits. Dr. Dick, about as good authority where accuracy is essential as a camel would be on a question of swimming, was consulted, an encyclo paedia was drawn upon, and the lecture ADVERTISING RATES, One square, on* insertion, #1; each mbM qucnt insertion, 50 cents. 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The lecturer would have cared nothing about it if the audience had not been preseut, for as the author has found out, there were many things io that lecture that nobody knew, not even the Lord, because they were not true. Then came the lecture, a sort of earthly echo of the heavenly dissertation. It was a state of melancholy collapse. Years have gone, and in the ashes of the writer's extinguished indignation there now blossom grotesque pansy faces laughing in a quaint way over the predicament be was in, his guns all discharged in prayer-time, and not another shot in the locker! There are things as sadly misplaced in men's petitions as an astronomical lecture, but wasn't it absurd to a degree ? 'Let us unite in prayer,' said the preacher and away he went, measuring heights and distances like a Government Surveyor, whisking the congregation —and some of them were seventy years old if they were a minute— around the rings of Saturn as if they were circus-riders, darting in and out among the constellations, stirring up the bears, Major and Minor, and caper ing around the zodiac like Capricornus, when 'the star of Bethlehem' was about all the astronomy he had any business with in his petition. 'And all the people said'—not 'Amen,' but •why need we pay a man from foreign parts to preach science to us, when the Elder here at home can pray it all io twenty minutes, and no extra charge?' TIPPING THE HAT. We bad a call the other day from a —monkey. His face was smutty and bis coat was red. He came at one end of a long string, and stood upon the d >or-stone. Tbe other end of the string was in tbe hand of a miller-who was grinding out 'Bonaparte Crossing tbe Rhine' from a very wheezy organ. People are generally ashamed of them selves when they see these jokes on the human race, that make such a man as Darwin possible. WelL the monkey got the dime he came for, and then tipped his little bat forward with a quick monkey motion, and went his way. Tbe lifting of that bat startled me, it was so like the salutation of a certain strain of high-toned young men about town. Did the men get the fashion from the monkeys, or the monkeys from the men ? However this may be, it is but a pert and monkey-like mimicry of courtesy. There is no more politeness in it than there is in the snapping of a snuff-box lid. The hat is lifted up with a tilt to tbe front, and then shut quickly down again, as if tbe castor worked on a binge at the forehead, and there were something effervescent to escape, says ideas, but there never is anything ex cept a faint suspicion of bay-rum or pomatum. Watch the gun lock pro cess tbe next time y u have a chance, as if when they tip it up something bit, and when tbev lot it down some thing was getting away. State Fair an<l Exposition at Pittsburgh. On Monday, September sth, the Pennsylvania State Agricultural socie ty will hold its 28th Annual Fair, in connection with the Exposition Socie ty's Fifth Annual Exhibition, on the grounds and in the buildings of the lat ter Society. There have been erected additions to Machinery Hall, and a large number of stalls for live stock of all kinds, filling not only all of the available space outside of the race track, but necessitating tbe erection of over 400 stalls inside of the course. Tbe State Fair and Live Stock Exhi bition will close September 17. The Mechanical and Industrial Exhibition, together with Trials of Speed will con tinue until October Bth. From present indications this exhi bition will be tbe largest, grandest and most varied that has ever been held by any society. Tbe Premium List amounts to the large sum of $41,500* It is the most complete and thorough that has ever been presented by any similar organi zation, and offers for competition, in ihe live stock class alone, the hand some sum of $21,500. For dairy, Fruits, Vegetables, Seeds and Floral Departments, a further snm of about $6,000 is added. Tbe display will include s large number of Imported Thoroughbred, Fine-bred and Draught Horses; herds of Short-horned, Devon, Holstein, Jersey and Guernsey Cattle; tbe choicest breeds of Sheep, Swine, Poul try, etc., together with a Mechanical, Vegetable and Manufacturing collection seldom, if ever, brought together in any commucity. The Machinery, Dairy, Fruit, Floral and Domestic departments are all provided unde cover, and undoubtedly prove attract ive and instructive features of the Fair. A space has also been assigned for the exercise and displayed of all entries in the live stock class. Green food will be supplied all milch cows on exhibi tion, and hay and straw furnished all entries gratis. Excursion tickets will be furnished by all the railroads centering at Pitts burgh, and all articles entered for exhi bition carried on liberal terms. Entry books n6w open will close August 30th- The vines of the sweet-potato should not be cut suo/t, as this will check the growth of the tuber; but they should not be allowed to root outside the hill —This is known as the "silly sea son" in journalism, and one ought not to be surprised at any nonsense one reads in the daily papers. Yet how can one help surprise at seeing in the editorial columns of so many newspa pers that strikingly fresh and original remark that "The devil never takes • vacation"—the implication being that Christian people in general, and Chris tian ministers ought never to take one. We do not profess to have that intimate personal knowledge of the devil and his ways which the confident language of our friends of the daily press implies, and cannot therefore positively affirm either that he does or that he does not ever take a vacation. But since whea have the devil's acts become a prece dent that Christian people ought to IOIIOW ?
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