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A It..L S PA.
FRIDAY AIORNIND, JULY 30, 4869,
'Republieau State Tialret
coon GovEiNalt,
Gem 'JOHN- W-, GEARY.
JUDGE OS SCX!RETIE COURT,
Hon. li, .W, WILLIAMS.
Meethig of . RepuLlican Ntanding
*Co2ibmittee.
A meeting of the Republican Stand
ing Committee of Cumberland County
will be held in Carlisle, on Saturday,
fnly 81st, a 1 11 o'clock; A. M. A
full attendance is earnestly requested.
A. "R. RBEEM, Chairman.,
EVEFLV enlightened monarchy on
earth is yielding to the progress of re
publican principles, yet the Democrats
of Pennsylvania adhere to the dogmas
of the old Secessionists, even after the
ex-Confederates abandon them in. dis
gust.
glt is reported—with ,how much
truth we know not—that Col. John W.
Forney, the able editor of the Phila
delphia Press, stands a good chance of
being elected to the. United States Sen
atefrom North Carolina, where he has
beaome largely interested the_ real
estate business.
If 'the shrewd old leaders of the
Southern demo Macy had had tbe Mak
ing of the Democratic _pletform
Pennsylvania they Would have decluF
ed-for universal ( suffrage, and so out
bid the 13.epublican, at their own gaine.
—Democratic Exchange.
Our Bouibons had no such wisdom,
and their defeat is inevitable.
WHILE the Democrats of Maryland
and Kentucky are preparing to show
the freedmen that they have always
been their friends, in order to get their
votes, the Democrats of Pennsylvania
are preparing lo show the colored peo
ple of this State that they have always
been their enemies, and - intend to re
main so to the end. •
ESaturday the .7th proximo will
be the day upon which the Democracy
of this coimty are to bold their primary
election; This will also be- tho- . tlay-of
the great eclipse. A strange piaci
dencp ! Do the Democracy choose that
day because they have beep. so long
under an eclipse 1-or is it IfccaUse they
love to work in the dark 1
ni"Aga Packer eh - owed - his patriot
ism, when the war broke out, by doing
to Europe, and remaining there several
porkton of
Gov. Geary's family, able. to be in the
limy, was there fighting for the pre
servation of the Union. As to the
• Governor, everybody knows his envia
ble record.
Timm; is nothing seas to give our
Democratic brethren more trouble than
the appointment of Honest John .Co
vode to the Chairmanship of the 'Re
publican, State Central Committee. He
is a terror to evil. doers. He knows
the tricks of the Democracy and how
to baffle them. Hence, they naturally
enough dislike and denounce him. The
name of John Covode always inspires
our neighlairs of the rolunteer with
terror and alarm.
Er'The Volunteer talks of "
pack
ing the ballot-boxes with Democratic
votes," &c. If it had said "stuffing
the ballotiboxes," the expression would
have been more appropriate and nearer
the truth. In days gone by,Men of that
party earned an unenviable reputatiOn
as "ballot-box stuffers,"—a game they
played quite detensively. But, thank
God .the new Registry law will do
much in blocking that_game ! -
A Democratic State Convention has
actually construct - ad a plattorm with
mit mentioning the Fifteenth Amend
ment. This surprising exploit Fos
performed at Des Moines by the De
mocracy of lowa. They denounced
the Maine liquor law, h high pr,otoc
tive tariff, and so on, but laid a resolve
against the Amendment upon the table.
`,Phis is encouraging, and
. proves" the
utility of being beaten: A long sue
cession_of_severe_defeats has-chastiried
the Democracy of lowa inte:a degree
of
_good sense that, theta Imethren„in
some other :,§tates have yet to attain.
, TIIE nomination of Mr. Packer for
' -.. G r overnor inspire 4 no-etithusiasaa, even
in the Eleventh COndressional Dietrict,
in .which lie resides ; and which hei for
merly
,represented in Congress. In
deed, as yet the DeinOC,rate -of that
district have given no signs of life what
ever, the present season., Having over
wheliiing majorities in all of the five
counties, and no local'dissexiiljoini, ex
cept in one of the ,counties that: bete
' ken* Mils= on loegil.eaTiciates, there
nothing in'the'a4deti f the Canvass
to infuee,into . llMM"rio:Mileh . iie
£ heir
' ~tioeustomqd,T6(ll. atA4 enorgYN,;•
Ttir De,nlpert . ltie, pfippOAT? snateltliad
• eagerly atcrarnal of ,comfort, occasion-
t i
'ally drop edlit the malurans of the Re.
.publicate 'yeas. „Theltepablicane have
a-"go i ed . a e and, good eandidates; they
are eo-cortaidof.'yietory that they can
iniFord to be magnanimous, and,because
' they , do not find_ it necessarrto, de
ounee Tacker 'And Pershing as moral
o s trositlesi but freelyadreititat they
~ ,, 4MT4P04 1)P 3 geN o tipplel, as the vi f orid
-.gaep t !"i,he Democracy immediately p4sP'
wrings tipipi their shcitilderS
, ;thent-Angols ; forgetting in tbe child
, p 311,„ glee of ,the moment ; that eqeetud
leisi t itreo would hardly stoop to, tke
chase,of delegates tti genre their. moth 7,
ination eveirtb a( heavenly. hierarchy.
The Democratic .Platform.
The platform of principles (I) adopt
ed by the late DemocraticOonvention,.
was prepared by. Francis W. Hughes,
of Schuylkill • county, who 'was -well •
known throughtiut the war adilie bit-.
tercet of lifilaThaters ottlre — Union and
her " boys , ii blue," and one •of thO
very warinest of the, ardent symplithi,
zers Witht(eeeision and its rell hdde.
Hughes is p,let*,e4re:74 .. ,la:tsryer,but
it strikes us:that in the preparation of
itheie resolutions he' is 43i - irked ar.de
gree .of weakness Ond • blirdneie :that'
will cause his party to. deeply • curse
-him-after-their-ignominious , defeat
October next;
The first resolution 'would take away
Trona' the National Government the right
of self:defense,. arid surrender the,na
tam, tied hand and foot, to the first
ineurgent state - that would raise. the
standard of rebellion.; and the bun
comb Of the closing clatise of. this re
solutioic about . the °Democratic party
',never consenting to the.surrendef by
our State of her right of local self-goy.
ernment, is the merest and ; sheerest
clap-trap that.pen ever wrote or tongue
ever uttered. The whole thing is but
the old wail over-the exploded Demo
craiiC dogma of State rights. •
The second resolution is in itself se
silly that it deserves but a pahing no
tice. Either ignorant or forgetful .of
the fact that the Constitution of the
United States provides as one of two
ways for its own amendment,the adop
tion by Congress of the proposed
amendment, and' its sitbserinent sub
misOon to the States. for ratification,.
they declaim against the action of our
Legislature last winter in ratifying the
fifteenth amendment, and demand that
this .ratifaction should be promptly re
pealed. Surely Frank Hughes, when
he penned both this resolution and the
one succeeding knew that what
he wrote was the merest nonsense and
jargon. During the war for the pre
servation of the Union, in order that
his friends, the rebels, might succeed,
be was ever and over harping upon
the Constitution, and yet here we find
him writing stuff for a Democrittic plat
form, which had it either sense or truth
in it, would make the very provieifins
of , the Constitution itself illegal and
inoperative, for the third resolution,
like - the second, denies the right to
amend that instrument in one of the
manners provided in itself . for suck
amendment. „,
• The fourth resolution, With - brazen
impudence, calls for reform iu the Na
tional and State Administrations: Com
ing from a party who - se whole history
is made up of corruption, whose very
Convention in which this resolution
was passed was made up in great. Part
of pick-pockets, rowdies and thieves;
whose candidate was nominated be•
cause he had money enough to buy the
votes of a majority of the delegates,
this demand for reform is the veriest
piece of impudence that an orginnied
body of political serflike antivagabonds
ever_ uttered. -
And, then, in their fifth resolution?,
.with_pliarisaical-hypocrisy, they ex
press Sympathy with the movements
that are being made for the ameliora
tion of the condition of the. inhering
man, and afterwards 7expoSe how utter
ly meaningless and false this resolution
is by. nominating a matt who has wrung
out of the sweat of the poor man twen
ty millions of dollars, a small portion
of which was used, that very day, to'
purchase his nomination.
In their sixth resolution, they in
theirhabitual cant abMit Clon
gress legislating outside of the Consti
tution, in disiegard , of the will of the
people. We had thought that the peo
ple had so often' ender'sed the action of
Congress in the legislation to which
they refer, that common decency would
.liave..forever closed their mouths upon
this subject ; but it seems that Eke the
gre . at babbler, Andy Johnson, they
mnst • continue to raise their matt - Alin
voices against the inevitable. '
Their seventh, thoroughly hypocrit
ical as it is,, must, neie'itheless, baVe
been an exceedingly, bitter pill, fer, them
to swllow. It pretends to compliment
thO„,Eloldieis who carried the flag dine,
country to victory over the treason of
theft:own pdrty ; and as if to give o
subsequent repudiatiOn to it, they, die..
graced the only soldier candidates
whose names were brought before them,
by giving - McCandlOsp but 'six Totes,
and Hancock• but twenty,-two out 'of
their whole number, 'Thesb votes most
assuredly 'expressed the true senti
ments of the ,Convention, while their
resolution was nothing but a whelibule
fritlClTibich .they hope:,to palm , off
upon the ixten4hono the. dark days
ofthe ,war -they -Were-accustonipa
call " Lincoln's- , '
In. their eighth resolution . they, ask
for equal "righte and, preteetion for,
naturalized and vagiie-bona, citizens.
Under the fourteenth amendiderat to
the NatiOnal denatitution, Which, was
adopted and, became part: of that in ,
strument itself some considerable time
since, the 'negro ,
nagive;born el*
zen. NOvi:7fis this Ocipiirhead (
vention aware!: of thcp. fact'When . it
adopted this ;resolution; or did it really
mean to asl for equal : rights "or ' the
eektred people'Of the Uthrunonviettlth,l
IVe i Would"adVistic the .
• Vohniteg, , to, inquire iqpi)
,this patter;
fir if ;the Convention, meapt, that. ne
gross eqiiall.stights
thim, they' should 'Change 'the' tone' of
their paPer' on tins subject at Once.
Thonintli and inst .- resolution' tlr,iven,
away' blindly at our Internal; Revenue
systems,bf ' '
'course , wou 29-
j0i00: if tliern*ere helloed for. i tintitithl
taxation, but we-cannercr~et, , nor Can
they,'ibat it. was their, party .which
forced Upon. , the country ,its 7tecetisiv,
lie 'flare' it to'. bearifn•
stead ; of grumblin aiainße it' dud,
deavoring tnelude i t, the,telleuld,dulte .
With the Repuldicatt partyiu :an honest
effort te lighten luirdene hermit.
,tetptirensents,
ntiniudting under mliepxwlictin
iatration, and were the Democracy to
( get into,pOwer, judgint`thern by their
;past record, it; wool asrapidly in
`
• Dion
_the'subjent of' the State Debt )
,only-one whieblegitimately came
Within "the prOvince of their action,
they were onamiously
assured that -the whole people of the
Commonwealth are - too Well acquainted
with the manner in-:which Governor
,geigy,'e4dmini4ratiou has reduced it,
! ix) endure„any palaver on their part, or
'aesiie a change in its
,managemOnt.
Such is the'bUndld of, noneense:*nd
incongruities passed by t,lq3:laie Ocria
°untie Convention ait-Harrisburg,The
plitfOrm is a mere negative' one, and,
- hence, like the candidate plWced upon
it,-is a Weak one. • .
,
Friends of GEARY; WILLIAhI t S, and
the bold • and fearless enunciation of
humane - .and - prodressive principles
Made by the Phildelfibia 'Convention,
let us be up and doing. Victory is
assured, to us, but let us not be content
to' let it be an ordinary one.; it can and
must -be made ov&rwhelming.
The Volunteer , on the 'Rampage!'
In an unusually labored article, this
week's Volunteer endeavors to satisfy
its readers that Packer-did riot secure
his nomination by the free use of bis
money to
.buy delegates. Just listen
to the over-boiling indigpatiori of zthe
Senior Editor:
" If we belieyed,for a moment, that
he had sedured his notriinapdn by buy
ing delegates to his support] * ",. *
we would tear his nannkirom the head
of our columns and hold it up ttrpub,
lie execration. Those who know us
"need not be told that we feel a loath
ing andabborrenee for" the miscreant
who secures P.nomination. for any po
sition by bribery and corruption. The
aspirant for offiee' ll whose brazen vil
lainy would prompt him to buy dele
gates to his support,:w_h_o_liad been
elected to serve another aspirant, is a
scoundrel who should be hissed ar'l4''
all honest men.
.No Tarty obligations'
hold us to the support of such
a man."
Mr: Bratton, is this not a hit at Dia"
Haldeman, who bought out the dele
gates elected to support you as the
Democratic candidate for Congress, last
fall ? We know it is, and feel satis
fied that Gen. Cam feels just as strong
ly that he was bought out by the
moneyed nabob Packer, as you do that
you were- sold-out to the .Harrisburg.
carpet-bagger, Haldeman.
• relater's Political Aspirations
• Onlymne'year ago, .Asa Packer •as 7
pired to the Presidency, and after con
siderable exertion, managed to have his
name presented to the New York Con
vention, and his claims vigorously
pressed. His failure to secure the cov
eted nomination is well known ; and
now he has made up hie mind to aspire
" more lowly,!' and content himself
with the Chief Magistracy of thc Key
stone State. That his, bolos will be
realized, the gloomy telegrams on, the
night of the October election can only ,
dispel, Th "mltid =Of--course;—his
next breifiwill lad for thl,lhyoralty
of Mauch Chunk, in which sphere he
will be more likely to give satisfaction
to the people of the State. The Phil
adelphia Bulletin says that Mr. Packer
•is.in the position of the man who ap
plied to President Lincolnfor the mis
sion to the Court of St. James, but
being refused, successively signified
his willingness to accept a collector:
ship, or inspectorship, or a small
post office, the position of night-wateh
man, or a messengership. But failing
. to secure any of these, he said, iu de
spair : " Well, have you go any old
clothes ?"
Still — they cone I
On all bands we bear of honest Dem
ocrats who say they will not vote for
the Money-King, Asa Packer, but will
give their 'support to, the friend of the
soldier and the poor man, Gon. Johu
W. .Geary. Ctirlisle will .give our
present , worthy Chief Magistrate a
most flattering vote L ann we hope our
country friends„will emulate us in, this
matter. Let no personal feelings any
where contribute to mar the 'Magnifi
cence of the greet victory which awaits
us in Qctober next. 'Let .Geary; Wil
liams, and Victory by thirty thousand
majority be our Watchw,ord until the
polls close, and the, flag of the country
is again thrown to the breeze to re
joice over the triumph
,ot -loyalty add
humanity.
ririnn Demooracy have taken a
Oed deal of satisfaction in declaring
that the Republican party is growing
• •
smallerc7Tliia is the warthafit grows
smaller fl e• It p011ed1,341,812 votes in
1866; 4857,610 in 1860. 2,222,035.
in 1364; and 3;016,353 in 868. In
1866 it Wise' in a ,Pppular Minority of ,
1,336,490. • In 1868 it had an absidnte
poplar majority,of 209,722. We are
well content to have Ale party grow ,
small in this way. • ,
Democrats were very severe' n
bloated liend-holdeta" a year .ago.
They haVe now a " bloated bond-hold
er" .as a candidate for . Governor; one
of the worst sort. Asa Packer is the
richest man • itt the State: . He -was
nominated ' through Money, and his
friends eVen;m'ake it their boast that
can.burup,enoughvotes to insure
his electioh. Are the tpeolile: willing
that"this beast 'shall be made'good
The nomination of Dlr.iPershing fOr
Snpreine - jiidge of 'the. State 'does not'
etriketh'e, Deinecrate of the !Stele favor,
ably: ~ The fact ie he p almost,wholly
un6iown. While in his immediate•
neighborhood he iB knOwn to possess an'
eicthPlArr charaeter , end fair profes:
etaixdifig.ite' 'county kramition
. .
or, the pimple of the,State, and even the
; lawyers 4hereof, aro, not familiar with,
his name." l i turi ocirvea some years .
Siate'SOnate, fpr a full term'
and - faithfally, . - ermagb, - but not wits a \
degretiof remanent
impression apt,'" the'lpepplqr recollee
tioni ig.llikelyito fall somel
'Mitt ifehind' Vieller's"ag'gioiato vote.
' l4 LO Us . Alone 1"
To the NortherdDemOcracy belongs
the infamons distinCtion of having in
duced; that 'Southern. brethren to . go
into rebellion aiaiest tho laws. and con •
,
stitntion of:the.Uniou. They promised
them subsffintialtissistatice, but wound
up .y giving hem :nothing but cheat
and unsuhstantial . sympathy. Of ,all
tbe, Southern people none felt this
breach of faith mOte,keenly ihaitfibese,
,of Virginia ; ~and,• y et, after the war„
Was ended in a glorious triumph forth&
Union arms', :these' SSMOpeople for two`
or 'three yeays lii3tened to the adviceof
tlioir Copperhead friends, and stub.,
bornly refueed'tohe reconstructed.
last, however, they found that the 'ad
vice of Nertherri Democrats was quite
as injurious in times of peace as in days
of war, and they concluded to listen to
the demands of . theliarty 'which saved
the country againit theirlitason; . and
so voted and acted as to entitle them
to a favorable consideration at the hands
of the Government. Herenpon our
Northern DemoCracy, through the 'me
diuni of joutnals and speakers; have
been busily. en aged in attempting to
apologizcapf the_actionOf their Vir
ginia.k.4l4344i. But it • seems that re
constructed Virginia does not. thank
them for their officious action: The
Richmond _.Tirhig, a true and trusted
Representative of Southern feeling,
speaks thus plainly : "We beg the
New York World, and all other over
zealous Democratic journals, to let us
alone. What we have done has been'
done without their did, and in, spite . of
their oppOeition.• We are more indebt
ed to President Grant than to 'Oll the
Northern Democrats put together for
our deliverance. Let us alone."
Poor Northern Democracy I Des
pised and contemned at home, it is
spewed out of the Camp of its frithids
in the South. Every decent man in
the South indorses the National Ad
ministration and'scoffs, at iWitubecile
opposition. •
" Two Mites of Slow-blatelt to
one Fire-CiachesSe •
Jim - following firAtveltnienotice of-the
Deniecrac'VdneY-King candidate is
taken from the-Hartfoid. Post, a pure
and genuine Demobratie sheet. We
advise our Democratic friends in thin
region -to read it- and ponder
.it well..
Connecticut is the only New England
State in which they have a ghost of a
chance, and a fieseription of their can
didate 'from "the le'ading Democratic
paper of that State ought to prove most
interesting to' them. Read it :
A little more than a year ago, in the
sweltering beat of 'purgatorial Tam
many; we first heard of. Asa Packer.
The full voiced Perrin was calling the
roll of States. Mr. Eaton, on behalf
of " the sterling and gallant Democ
racy of my little ClummonwealtlW i 'had
named the Hon. James :E. English as'
a candidate' for the - Presideri4 ; Maine
had nominated Gen. Hancock ; • Ohio
had named Pendletori; the serene Til
den had .broached the best butt of th 9
season in Sanford -E. Church ;
,New
Jersey had set up Joel Parker; and
ce
there rose .up damp vision of that
auditory, - a human torni with both
hands full of manuscript. It was not
the ancient mariner,' nor did he' fix'
anybody with his glittering eye!' It
was Judge Woodward, of Pennsylva
nia ; and he ' - fixed' the whole crowd
with one of the most. dismal obituaries
that ever followed a politician home.
Judge Woddward read the whole heap
of manuscript.. He described his man
before he named' him. Twenty min
utes description—think of it—in man
uscript—read slowly and -deliberately
—intoned at that—to an audience of
seven or eight thousand—every man a .
riWitet of perspiration—all - Impatient
for a ballot—in an atmosphere blue
with blasphemy and reeking with rum
—just think of that man standirtg on a
bench in Tammany Hall, amid such
surroundings, drenehed in his own
sweat, reeling .off a' couple of columns
of biographical stuff, and tying on the
end of it all ' the pamenf An; Packer,
of Pennsylvania'? It was two miles
of sfow match to one fire-cracker--a
poor fire-cracker at that, When he
concluded, there did ,not arise •
—" Po wild &yell
As all the Benda frnm Heaven that 'fell
lied raised the banner cry orli,cll,"
No, there did not. It was too vvarrn .
to Yell—:for Asa Packer ; so nobody
yelled. !A few smiled—some in their
seats— others at_ neighboring, bars. It
pains us to say, that in the buzz that
went rdund all, the teporters' tables,
when 'the gifted-'Woodward sat down,
the only clear distinguishable sentence
was,thOconundrutn that leaped with u
very large H, from desk to desk, "Who
m•EI-41 lir Asa Packer 1" . •
116NTUCKY AND TIM .NEGRO.—Tho
Louiepilledoiirnal.is beginning tO dis
.
cover that Kentucky, as things have
been and aro going, cannot afford any
longer to stick to the Constitution as it
Was under, Bubhantiii, when " a negro
had no rights which a. white, man was
bound to respect," Tlie Kentuakians
irb,told, that hey might ai,Well .con
code at once the negro's right,to testify
in the courts, because next year, under`
the fifteenth amendteent, he will, even
In Kentucky', be 41940 with the
right of suffrage, ankthat.then all the
politithans will be: proclaiming them-,
selves to. Flambee as'•his• hest friends.
Thiele plans' talk; but' it brhigs Ken
tucky to a front itiew r gimib . o,'firid .
do' well to take him .as she
finds' Ifitif and "turn a geed' Ile:
A - GRIM Perna ityllunA.-'- , Clholera
and vomitd , have ‘ appeared in Cuba' in
the „dread form of allied independent
fordes' ' ravaging thdranks df both con
testante in:the field, , the. Spaniardti,•be
ing uriacelimittized,' suffering More; se
..verely; ' The • mortality , is: ' represented
'ds "frightful,"' ixteon: per cent. of the
rnen'in arMs bbtD side's bong Iswept .
=away ti Monthly , ' ratio.' The yoluni.
teers do •-not;- hciwnver; despair of the.
'eau's°, 'and Spahilltreatens reinforce...
nients when the' tkioather becomes more
faVorabler ' It is war and . pestilenee.
Will latnifio 'follow? - A; quootiou for_
our' humitnitariana; ' .c 1 .(;; .
Deiiiocratic Demorattxation..
Never havethe Republicans of Penn
sylvania had a fairer,chance for a great
victory than the pr4ent struggle.
The Demociii4 arehaOlesslYAemor•
HeritoforeihiTielt thai
had at leciet eqUal ' fer , caK
strong reserve utterly fails them. The
maintenance of the constitutionality.
Of tife!Regiatrrlmv bythe.'Suirrerrie
Court cheeks lliehrnyiteriiatie fritfidci,
while their local ticket
distaeteful to honest men'among them )
but.kas been repudiitted*a number
of the Democratic, Ward organization s. lrthey lose tae-eity, as they roust, how ,
can they carry: the coUn'tiee of the bi
terior 3 , They have also loat their na
tiorialitY entirely. Up6ii no one . fekte
can they make a stand. Beaten' Upon'
every-point' by the Repuhlicans, they.
cannot • rally, against- the I-sth, amend
rant with the'great body ot the- Sonth
ern Dernacracy in its favor, and rush- ,
ing ,hodily into the -Republican ranks.
If they talk about ;in office,
' they-Will be pointed to megroes'eleeted
,b3r, their o sva Mendel' If they demand
economy in the Public serrice;'the're
cord of teary and. Gant, who have
already paid off millions of the national'
debt and of the:lebt_ p f Pennsylvania,
will be spread before them. 'lf they
attempt to prove theinselves friends Of
the protection of home industry, the
free-trade platforms of the Democrats
of Ohio and NeW Hampshire will be
quoted against them. Thus they are
at oncedecuoralized ,and sectionalized.
They . hiiiib lost their prestige by defeat
on all the leading doctrines of their
faith, and they have "iPst the -right
wing of their party, the4)ernocrats of
the South. •
What, then, is the duty of the Re
publicans ? It is to close their ranks
and follOw the flag baime by General
John W. Geary. No true patriot will
be found idle or' indifferent in Such a
contest. Personal griefs, like personal
preferences, should all be - Ma - de to give
way. F,very'Republican.is bound by
the decision of his,partp , and especially
So when that party haerproved itself
so devoted a champion of the fights of
the ivhole people and of theionor of
the country. When the campaign is
fliirly opened, the faithful stewardship
of the great — Republican party will
present a brilliant contrast to the re
bellion, inconsistency, and .utter ab
sence of all real - statesmanship orthe
false Democracy.7—Ph.tla..Press.
The Grd,in , Vropt-v
The New York Tribune; alivays well
posted up in agricultural, as Well its in
commercial and financial matters, jials'
the following timely. and. interesting
article in relation tOlfie crops of 1869 :
Reports upon the coining cropa nre
cheerful reading this Summer. Papers
froth East, West, 'North, and South,
letters from twenty different regions,
special reports from observing trivia
ere, grave estimates from the_ Bureau
of Agriculture, all send up loud notes,
of joy. • ,California papers predict an
average-of not less than - 30 bushels of
wheat to the acre, the berry plump,
bright, clear, and uncommonly heavy
to the meagM4a-trusbet---In-eno-county
the yield ikestimated at a million of
bushels. In Georgia, the growing corn
was never-so good since 1860. Kan
sas declares that the old story of drouth
in their State is a . dusty tradition, that
the moist constellation of the Kids has
been over them for three months. The
valley cif the - Upper Mississippi has
suffered a little from excessive ruins,
but the corn, though)ate, is of a deep
color, and now growing wonderfully.
lowa has had too much moisture, but
is now rapidly recovering
,from that
embarrassment. Indiana thinks she'
will cut twenty bushels of wheat to the
acre;
,her corn is a little backward, but
good. .1 . :1 Ohio, old wheat, for which
$2 was refused, is now offered at a - 10,
and the hay crop is -very large. Ar
kansas Says ber soil is giving ii most
beautiful yield of all kinds ; wheat
and barley on - the green and Marcellus °
shales- of Western New York show a
vigorous and even growth. If there
is anything to fear,' it is. that moist air
and - cloudy skies may develop more
straw than head ; but we bevel seen
wheat a little west of Syracuse that
'will not fall much short of forty bush
els to . , the acre, apd barley that will
yield full fifty. In New England the
hay crop is very large. Many fields
cut as early as the 25th of June yielded
two tune and a half to the acre: Oorn
rivad4 little obeli by the Jest of June,
but ttlis'month the blades have broMl
enedMnd taken on a . deeper emerald,
the, ,etalks grown thick, the taesals
sprouted at the bottom - of green cups,
and in some fields a suggestion 01 silk
appears. Ono joyful writer 'at the
West; in view of such wide-spread 'gen
erositY on thn.part of old Mother boun
tiful, thifike that one grand thankegiv-•
itig jubilee - ought.to' be' sung all over
the land.
' Were the agricultural relations of
the eame,tbat existed in
JaCkson_ and.anti-Jackeou times, :these
heavy barvesta mould , to Am, a
plethora _of bread§tuffs, 'and make very
..______
low pric - S. , Will - the - grain Attetatioit
goeo.lbw. as to rob the farmer,of a just
.reward for his Will. If the , foreign
crop !were aefull as. urs, this danger
would be imminent; . ut, all over the
North of Europe ,the have had a.re
markably.late, cool Summer., In Eng-.
lantlfireswere lighted nearly every day!
in June: .:The. weather. was rough:and
wet, and retained an4ungenial cliarsc
ter till thei26thovhen, Summer broke
out,l and overcoats, ; at ,last, wont, into
;closets: ~,,Suoh' weather, can but
England a, harvestlate andlight, and
correspondents ,of'. The Mark Lane ,
Gazette are advising, all who have re.?
served their :wheat to, hol&their own, 4 ,
a.' d: have. the; pleastire of putting.,intof
their pockets. ton: shillings or; twelVe.
dhillings per .quurter mote than; ,they
had . expected,:; ,Borne,.. accepts •.frodt-
Southern. RusSia,, Hungary and Franco
look. the other way, but the harvest in
these ;countries ' willc,probably, mot be
enough to affect parkets.much.,' ~,.'oho
conclusion is now safe that the,Euro
peen, graitt.yield will ho: quite.belowi
an;average, as much So.as the Ameri ,
can is above the aVerage., , , : .
Oarlieta in Spain have been
roliulsed in their eitinPaign'," They col=
looted, quite, p„little; array, took •
rona r find? fought ran inAeoisivo battle ;
but toiled in theientielnp to gyriatt the,
'City, of Painpeluna, It the revolution.'
•iatd•canno6•43orkqiier amall.place, they,-
Lre certainly in a .poor monclitioq . . to •aa.
nail , the government. , And ;thie:ia Un
doubtedly true-for-.the instant,--what:
'evek reeulttv may be ;embed•hereliftd.,
- I KNOWN BY HIS COMPANY.—Frank
7. Hughes, the Avowed and.notorioul3
sympatbizer,during the "wsr,. Was
The of ,the ..resolutions of, the
'Conventari whiChy.nomingted Judge
Picker , Ai Wallace . , of coffee,
groundroaturAlilation fame; was the
_chief_engineer tif- thn Toriven= l
tion; Alderman McMullen', the ruler
of the Fourth Ward of Philadelphia,
cap give more.Demcieratie.votes
than it him irdiabitarits, was the ehDir
itiatiattherectritnittecronOrganization;
and'Briek ponieroy, - of ) the e'
La Cross
Democrat, the eulogist of John Wilkes
Booth', Wife' the ontsidi3 • . engineer- for
Packer; and the' only} 'speaker at the
meeting held, to ,Talify his nomination.
Patriots and soldiers, and honest and
decent men, iinoli.a:rnthe • leaderi . who
have furnished you .with a.'eandidate,
and ask you to join them . in' securing
his election:
PACKER' A CARPET BAGGER.—Says
a cotemporary, the only atzumeiat the
Democrats itave . been able to urge
against Judge `Williams as a candidate
for the Subreine Bench; has - been that
he was carpet-bagger, imported from
Connecticut, and it'Would be unsafe to
place in such a, positiou ene not a na
tive of this State. :.What have they to
say about Asa Packer r He; too, is a
carpet-bagger front the Nutmeg State.
Will it be wise to entrust hini with so
much power, especially when it is well
known that his whole interest consists
in crushing out` the 'great internal im
proements of his adopted State and
advancing those of New York ? It is
rutnored7that the eapitalists Of New
York city calculate to control the en
tire railroad constructions of Pennsyl
vania if Mr. Packer is elected.
.N:EW YORE LETTER.
. Nzw•Yonii:, July 16, 1869
eDefir HERALD : The Array of the Po
tomac.having adjourned and the l'gelori
ous Fourth" having gone'off in,a blaze of
fireworks and glory, New York 'has re
turned to its summer condition of dull
ness. Sheridan's election as President of
the above named gallant army was some
filing of anumprine and created-quite a.lit
tle wave of excitement, for scarcely any
one supposed the candidates, would hold
ken from the corps commanders.
It was apparent however as soon ns the
canvassing commenced, that while Mc-
Ciellun was greatly beloved by his. old.
comrades and had perhaps . more and
stronger personal friends than any other,
his election, it was feared, would appear to'
have a political significance which would
work disadvantageously to the interests of
the Society, and many too„- wore influenced
to vote against him because °Phis inexpe
rience in conducting public meetings find
of his 'manifested inability to control the
turbulent crowd' before him while Presi
dent of the ProVisional Society. ,
•
All eyes have been turned toward Sara
toga,'and all faces on the broad grin at
the proceedings of the Woman Suffrage
Convention which has just,--adjourned.
Miss. Susitri Bonaparte Anthony (ne re
lationoT the hero of St. Helena) mustered
her forces and issued a general . order for
each Congressional district to send dele
gates to the Convention. There was a
lively flourish of trumpets, mid the drumb
beat loudly to arms. Tho day came,
Hawthorho Hall was: on hand, so was Su
san ; but the expected crowd didn't comb.
Some belonged to -- the infantry or. rather
..the infantry belonged , to them, and
could not march so far. Others had bus . -
bands •an 4 'couldn'tgo ; others did not.
havehusbands but 'wished they had, and
didn't go ' • and to. all had like or .other
excuses. Susan Bonaparte mustered, but a
corporal's guard of choice spirits who are
always on hand when there is a chance of
getting their voices heard am; theirnames
.in_am.papem s : Bettplrlej_SLisan r mean)
was called to the chair and confeWinh-itt—
though twenty years in the business, ebo
couldn't got a
.crowd,togethor, asked all
the curiosity bunters in the Hall to come
forward and "give in the exercises." Mill
iard Fillmore is reported as having been
among tho spectators, but true to his an
tecedents appears to have' remained a
Know-Noihtng as well as a Say-Nothing
on this occasion. Miss' •Stisifn then' in
dulged in the usuual arguments, laying
particular stress on the fact that as black
men had the vote, white women, in her
opinion being quite
,ffs. good as black men,
ought to'have the vote also. And many
of the auditors said (in their !leans)
Mm. 'Martin of Albany, then made is
speech in touch the sonic vein, after which
t?,"
an adjeurnmea t wee had until - afternoon.
In announcing in adjournment Miss An
thony appealed - o all present to attend
the adjourned .meeting. "Women" - she
said, did not like to be treated like a doll
(Susan it safe from that) or made the sub
ject only for small talk. Shl . liked to be
treated as a sensible, reasoning being ;"
which sentiments were received with vo
ciferous cheering.. An irreverent male bi
ped bore 'interrupted her with the ques
tion "what is to bo done with St. Paul's
saying that "women should ' bo subject to
their husbands ?" Susan promptly replied
to the utter 6 discomfiture of the • biped.
"The same as inen did to others of 14is any
logs—pass them by."
..In the afternoon,
Mrs Gage of Onondaga was made porma
bent President, and the rest of the pro
ceeding were of n rather uninteresting
character, including the adopting a Barks
of Resolutions demanding the ballot 'and
do amendment to the Constitution to that
effect.
.. ..
• 'Well everybody laughs not at the ob
ject of the Convention but at tho way
those agitators seok•to 'accomplish the ob
ject: Thc,right kind of:people are not in
the 'work, and indeed many who quito
ogres with thorn in';their sentiments are
not •willingly to join with them and bo
•classed as common scolds.
Universal suffrage is very fine in theo
ry, but I am not rowdy to believe that such
an experiment would i be successful. We
have taken a tremendous stop in granting
suffrage to foreignorsafter , a five years
residence and to: the, freedmen. 'ln this
City, the best citizens ,Iyonld extend the
'term 'of . 'Mitt rallzation'and make' intelli
gence. 'or 'odueation,a basis of suffrage.
.Ours is the'averst • governed of allaitios,
becalm° the-feteign- eloment i in,tint hands
of had p3qu fields, i the balance of power.
'We
.ean itilfOrd'te,wait until we see the .of
feet of tills last Intension' of 'iulfrage. It
may ,,
tie after all -that:impartial . euffrage
ma
bp, found most eondueive.lo those
our
ty of our institutions, and.that suffrage
sha I be' restricted at least to.. those who
are able to ' read': and write. I do' hot
Malta ' you responsible for, 'those senti
'mentsi for they are the expressions sump;
ply of yodi corresnonden t. ,• , ~. • •
A fere)gn,paper announces that - rk Gor
man surgeon had recently separated d pair
tif 'children Who' Were - united like the St
anley), twins, 'andthdt the operation: teas
•verysucceasful.. It is addnd thatrone of
died-hi;r,samo
&pod,:aecidont, • br?tight into the casualty
,v,144,! , said gi.'i.4r,kek'llopkins; "Man
'fiatea Cane fonzpair of stiiirte Wi ride* ;,
verrfalicase, iricieed.". l .Do you
meani that i Abel! patient is in a fair way. to
rocumerri inquired Mr. Tick wickv
roOied , gopKiris , carelessly. I ,‘No,
should' riitberv; sAy bo ' wotild'nt. 'Tfioro'
opeiittion; theeitlif to- .
merroW- , ,reagnifiCent•! sight' lif Blusher
doesit.", tr ,1.111
~; i CHINESE ,1-4130114119!YOti witieMoumninin'
co,ntrapt has - beed made in',
:thiscity for the tiupply 'et2o,ooo Chinese,
laborers .to 'be eronloyed 'its
'' plantation
hands in the State otTenneaseo., The.very.
,faithful.and intelligank,manner,,the Cht;.,
dose laborer.performed their work eimisteneilhg the CaniVal
';has
attradted 'attention to this inishrpiumed
Blass of:'rough; laberere.; , i under- .
.stood-teht,ithe
. passege,.,otthasnlaborpra
.
01 1 , 1, ,pa id nod they
via„bp
paid $2O "per month. Another
force of 2G i OOO Is - being Contrinited,lettee_
prOo`qad to the” Statett-Miaaissippt Pre.tty
aeon if this 'demand 'goes on,' California
ejoredofiall the Chinedo laborers,.
.1%,,P1‘.0(01014
For thoJinsap.
FEMALE SEMINARIES. V,
More than usual, attention has of ,late
been directed, to. Female .Fiducationi
character, extent, arid plan 6t7?eebb.lnSti ,
tution, -has varied with -the views of its
.founders and the extent of itiendOwinent.
A. young lady 'who has obtained some
knowledge of the elementary brunettes has
sold omnusteAnan_tfiree_or_fouy_eara_to,
complete. her course ; and the question
(irises, hew and ip what studies, can this
time be best employed ? The Vaiso Fe
male aollege at'Poughkeepsio, undertakes
to catty the scholar through all. the stud
ies usually taughtyoung gentlemen In our
Polleges._ Time will show whether this is
feasible - with fnu Ili ifiTe; Obeli ' kiniiii
ally,greto'our ; Seialnarleet_lN:hat is taught
euperficially, experience shows, is,.cif little'
veins), for it is seon _forgot, and seldom
I called in requisliforr; while Studies learned,
therensdaY :en& wall biderstand, , iire!not'
easily effaced, and - will always be useful.
Some branches of instruction in the
schools, may not appear to have any prim
tical.application in the future ,life of the
young female; yet if-they discipline and'
expand the mind, they ought not to be no
'gloated; still it seems to me that the ex
tent of the 'classical and niatheinetical
course set forth in the programme of the
Tri
- Vassar stitution, dematids'inOre — tinie
then young ladies can - usually spare. The
Greek ofAschylus, and the Analytical
Calculus,of Loomis,, with corresponding
studios, mast require Sears, beyond 'what
is generally devoted to the education of
girls; and, after all -will such attain
ments compensate for the loss or the bloom
of youth, and the time when they would
be most likely to settle well in life?
The Presbyterian Seminary projected at
Chambersburg; will, if sufficiently en
. dowed,"lollow the .track of the , Vassar fn
extent of studies, and other details.
We have had several Female Semina
ries started in Carlisle. Two of them
have done well, attracting scholars from
Kentucky and Missisippi ; .but they have
passed away With, the - resignation or de,
cease-of the ladies that conducted them. Wo
have gill an Episcopal Ferrule Seminary,
which the Rev. W. Cr. - Eno organized a
number of years ago, and which has since
sustained iyseif by, the energy of its talent
ed Principal, notwithstanding the difficul
ties , that were encountered in competing
With endowed .Institution;,, when there
wee nothing but tuition rekoipts to meet
all expenses, The Seininr.ry at Cham
bersburg has already received about Forty
Thousand.dollars to provide it, with the
necessary buildings, ! j.c., and this stim is
considered, inadequate to commence oper
ations. The Seminary in Carlisle to be
placed on a firm basis ought to be provi
ded by the Episcopal community with
buildings for boarders, school-rooms, and
the necessary apparatus for ihstructiori.
The school has sent forth annually a grad
uating class of very -well trained and ac
complished girls; and bee this advantage
over some other Institutions for it is surely
no unimportant part of the education of a
young that-bee-character—should-be
formed while at,school, fur correct habits
and morals,- and also with a refinement of
manners and pleasing address. Can this
be attained where there aro hundreds of
girls in our schools who are mostly left to
young tutors, (girls like themselves) 'as'
well as whore the boarders aro limited to a
moderate number, constantly with and un
der the eye'oi an accomplished lady, who
has °you opportunity_ of impressing on
them what we have just been considering
as of great importance to their complete
education.'
THE INDIAN WAR. '
Full Details of the, Capture of a
-- _Clieyeie Camp by th 9 -
Fifth Cavalry.
,From tho £ll. Louis Domocrat, July, 21,
few.days ago we had 'by telegraph a
brief account of the capture of a Choy
enfie-camp by the 6th cavalry, under Gem
Carr. An officer in the regiment furnish
es a friend in this city, some very, inter
esting details of the affair, which we are
perfnitted to publish as, follows '
" Near Fort Sedgwicki Nob. - July 24th,
1859.—We lefi•Foft, MCPberson on the 9th
of June,• travelling south and east until
wo reached' the Republican river s which
vve followed until we reached a point op
posite Beaver creek, arriving on the 15th.
Up to this time our passage through the,
country resembled a pic-nic excursion.
The weather was pleasant, and the foli
age luxuriant, and the grass thick and
soft end the day's march over we lolled
at our ease on the banks of some' shady lit
tle stream, free-from all cure and trouble.
here our work begATfor on this af
ternoon, as our herds were in the river,
they were attacked by a email band of In
dians, who endeavored to stampede them.
In this however they were foiled, add 'so
they hurried off. In a few moments three
companies were after them ; but it soon be
coming dark, and there being no moon,
'they were obliged to give -up the- chase.
Early the next Morning,' however, the .
command being duly ,rationed, left the
wagon train and stetted on the trail. We
followed until we
_reached the Solomon
river, where wo were overtaken by it very
severe thunder storm, which on account
of having left all of our baggage buhind,
were drenched through and -through, but
what was far worse- the loss of the trail.
We followed down the Solomon for some
distance, but finding nothing to encour
age us, turned our faces to theMorth a
gain, meeting in the evening our Ivagon
train, which was on the road to join us.
Arriving at Pieria Dog creek we travelled
westerly, scouting first the country be
tween the stream and Beaver, and then 'the
country between the.. Beaver and. the
Republican, until we arrived at a point
on the latter stream, nearly, 'south of Mc-
Pherson, and where we expected to - meet
a train with provisions. The train Sr--
ved the next day, and with the loss of 24
hours wo continued our westward route.
" The day before wo reached this place
a trail was,discovered running northwest.
The party making it was evidently a •o--
ry largo ono, and Col.„.Royall with thine
companies was sent tkfoilow it up. The
Col. was tosuccossfur catching'tifem,
but he came across a band of thirteen,—
whom ho has since learned had boon sent
out to docoy'tho troops, from the pursuit •,
and -in this they succeeded the cost of
° throe men killed, and eight P . :mks taken.
Alter this' the Col., retraced his steps :and
joined the main command.
4! Attached to our regiment was about
150 Pawneo Indians, some 20 of whom ac
companied Col. Royall. It is thecustom
of the Indiani; after making a successful'
raid, to enter their own camp singing and
shouting at tho top of their voices, they al
so flre . oLf guns and pistols at quite a rapid
rate, and so when they: cameinto our on:
cardpnientin this manner, our sentlies
did not know-what to make of it, add the
wholocominand alarmed at the cry of the
Indians'sprang to arms, and no little ex--
citement prevailed. Tho Pawnees lucki ;
ly were recognized in time to prevent any,
roischjoi nod our little scare ended Jn re—
joicing.'These 80 Indians.after parading
- through - our camp; proceeded - to their own
and they inagurated a scalp d4llbo, much
to' the disgust of-the - remaining 120 .who;
not been engaged in the action,
could not. participate in the dance. ^ •
While Co!. Royall,was, thus'. employed, •
Oen. Carr, with the rest of the command,
continued westwardmarch, and
.by the
tints Col. Royelihadloinod us:had scouted,
all thittportion of 'country, in Which :the
north fork of. the RepUbljetin river takes
'lldried. The country, to us didnot'seern
"iinticing enough for an Indian ;at any'rate
Indian or Indian signs Were not found,
and tho command tools. up 'the dine of
march for the big trail: For the fitit - daY
'and • night. -nothing occurred, but about
11:80 thesecond night the Pawnee' camp.
-Was, fired into by about 15 or 20 hostile In
diens, who having fired their-volley, do— .
campod 'without awaiting:a' return,'. thef
'inflictedmcedamago hOwever, and , the fol-•
lowing'-day we-:pursued out. march: as if
nothidg'had:happened.' . • The; next even
ing nrought us to the scene of :Col.• Roy-.
• Ws encounter, with the thirteen., The next
.day showed us several caMps,' .each, ode', of
which seemed frobbor, than th6.otberr , and
raised our.lipes'considerabld..,... ,
' ,!! Finally , on the 10th of. July, ffe reach'
ed the camp-they bad left, that
and bore, we•too rested: , =,:"Wernot?,treal4
iced tho.size ofthq party, We had' *dealt
with, and anticipated a.grand captu,4l)„ for
the evident leisure with which, oey).,trAV'
'oiled plainly indicated their
.ignerance of ,
'our whereabouts. •• The morning df the •
11til again saw the wagon train left' . be--'
itind i , and the whole oorerriand!oxotinting
such men whose horses-were - nut itt for'
vory bard marching, 'on the road a little
before daylight: , Out -of-150 'Pawnees,
fiO'actiottiptifiled us, : the rest , having
used up their;podlos. , ."•':'?••• .. •
Our march :this day foi the first 27' 6i'
c 2k.4-niles:was..westvvard, and_thito. brOught,
,usmoar the - J:11) . 11th Platte, ~At Ibis point
all, the indicationsiobking yerY•froslf, .wo.'
-took_up..thernoroi at. a gallop,A.ip
down Wiptigh liand which 9ovgrod.
borses'Jetiocks, and we kept:it:tip - for a-.
bout, tonimiles. At this , peint the Paw
neep;'. Who :were in the load, 'iuddently
litilted,ranitthe majority oftho officers ad-
Vanced to the •top of the 11111, which Wo
had been ascending, could plainly see tho
oridainpment bstwoon - three and four miles
foiiminutea rest again for the her
ses,.and off wo went again, this time at a
.ftill-gal'op. It wanted horoithOut
_Otos to 9. tn_the,ofternoaa, end
sawus in full possession' of . the Indian '
camp, and the Indian's with.nothing out a
portion of their herds fleeing across the
pills for their lives.
" Never before was a ; surprise so cpm
plate, t brisk wind 'bloviing keit the south
-prevented them from bearing the noise
wO made;" and - the flrSriddleation 'they
had of us wint when they_saw . ns,.only a
'few hundred yards' ' Our mert.bidaived
nobly, and on they went , right into them,
nor stopped while .ono remained to meet
the charge.
" I append. the iastilte of the charge : 62
Indians killed, `460 head of stock captured,
7,000 or B,ooo;Purids of jdried hoof chi--
streyed, 060 buffalo robes destroyed ;
this add all their-booking utensils, 86 wig
wams, all their jewelry and finery of all
kinds, many guwi, pistols, bows and arrows
14 captive woiti4.l and children, and you
have some idea of their loss. Not one of
our men were wounded.
" They had two white, women with
them, captured at Salina, last May, one of
these was killed, and the. other ' _although
wounded, willin_alLlikulthood recover,
At any rate we have her, and the sUrgeon
is doing: What he can tq save her for her
friends. . . ,
"About $7OO to 800 intgreenbacks 'and
$100; in gold forms' an intoreitiud item'
in the list of captured 1 roparty, for it is
all being collected and is to be donated to
the:rescutd woman."
The .Col. Romatr. who figures as com
mander of the above expedition, is COL
W. B: RGYALLi late , corntaandant at Car
lisle Barracks
[Spacial Correspondence o lino CARLISLE. lizasinj
Ur Washington Letter.
W•anINOTON, July, 26, 1869... --
A - prominent member of, the Itadidal
wing of the Republican party in Virginia'
which ran the Wells ticket, told me, in the
_
course of a letigthy'conversation, on Sat
_
urdav that -he felt conlldnet that the cause
of Republicanism had gained; for, both the
present and the future, by the election of
the Walker ticket, This tallies with ex—
pressions made to me by other gentlemen
in the same boat; and I am led .to regard
it as a prevailing opiniOniimong all who
had'and havd no personal 'passions..and in
terest concerned in the result.. Wells is
extensively charged with thrusting him
self on to the ticket, in an intensity of
selfishness that preferred to jeopardize the
cause, -rather than relinquish the-place of
chief , benefieiary, in case of success, to any
onb else in th& State ; and's° cause the di
vision and the second 'ticket, At that
time, too - , it was expected that the' natives
would take courage at the split and put
candidates of their own into the field and
in view of our divided forces, no foretelling
what was th, , result. •
Secretary Boutwell has written 'a letter,
it is sa4l, to StOlt es, the Radial candidate
for Governor of Tennessee, expressing an
earnest wish for his election, on patriotic
grounds. My impression-is that-this-con
test is pretty much a second edition•of the
Virginia affair, In this,`iCat the iozistence
there of two Republican tickets, is at bot
tom More a personal than aPldrietic mat
tor. ". .
The famous-z—some would say infamous
Canterbury Hall,. was 'burned on
—FfriaayTast. . _
the first, in Washington, about 1820, ran
for pearly 25 years as the Aneeiiean The
atre," and then sUbsided unddr the compe
tition of a new candidate, intd Washing
ton Assembly Rooms, for balls dec., down
to the, rebellion, when it broke out • with
negro Minstrelsy, can-ean, &c.., to Catch
the sordiers, and-the name , was dbanged to
Canterbury Rall. It-isrsimposed to have
been set on fire to rid the neighborhood of.
that broad class of perforiminces. J. M.
Young the (meet'. of the building, and a
stock of carriages in it, is reported loser
of $40,000 less $5,000 insurance. NO oth
er, heavy looser.
Ward° Gains, the colored woman, ac
quited here, on the grounds of-Insanity, of
the murder of the white man Ingle, has
been admitted into the-United States -In
sane Asylum, upon the order of Secretary
Cox, 'of the Interior Department.
Judo Fisher charged in this-case that
thiiptisoiler should be given the benefit of
any reasonable doubt the jury had of her
sanity, the same as of guilt in any criminal
case. Evidently 11 modified view is being
taken' of insanity, by tLe leadingintelligence
of the world, The judicial meaning is
approaching nearer to the literal meaning,
which is simply unsoundness of- mind,.
whether for a year, day, 'tor instant. It
seems to-be paying more regard, also, to
the sharp of the ,responsibility properly
resting on the society for the condition
of its individual -members. Hence there
is apparent a reluctance, in all doubtful
cases, 'to decide that the unsoundness,
however transient, did not .pass , the
prisonef beyond the, pale of persbnal
responsibility ; and more. disposition
to save, if possible, as a sacred trust,
hitherto badly kept, "than to inflict
vindicitive punishments.
Miscellaneous Items
If friends don't stick to you in 'this
weather, one's shirt certattily will. •tr
A Massachusetts Church advertises "no
pew rents and no colleCtions."
To every Russian in Alaska there aro
ten aborigines. The latter ,ovo whisky.
A man,saved from drowning a night or
two'since, in Boston, abushd the mam who
rescued him because he did not save his
hat
A man in Illinois bas been'llned fifty
dollars and costs by a *Men of 'the peace
"foi' attempting to steal a, kiss from a
Mrs Slippery. • .
The Boston Advertiser says a druggist
on Boylston street has a stuffed duck in
his window, which a visitor from the ru
ral' disteicts•thinks is rather suggestive of
gnack medicine. , •
Illinois - bae two hundred and,nineteen
woolen mills, with a capital of $3,600,000,
employing. three thousand four hundred
and fifty operators - and using 4,000,Q00
pounds ot Wool per day. , ,
One of the best mechanics in the rake
factory -at Mount • Holly, !Vermont, is a
blind man named. Warren. He can ad
just the most, complicated machinery and
perform - any kipdlabor required in
,th ,
ostablishment,,; , . . .
The following old'peeple recently died
in Upson county Georgia Mr. John
Shuttles, agedloB,,yeara, died 16th:of May
last; Mrs. Barliary Sh attic's; wife . , of Mr:*
John_l3h aft] esie , died on tho' lath .bf-Juno,
-1809, aged 107 years.
ThAiest;ort Post shis: 4aineq
telegraphed-back, the words, "lion possu
tnous," when Patti sent,on her terms for
an engagement of 100 nights. !l i hesclivr,qro
$200;000Jngold; oho half in adVancb,.tho
yostyt daily instalments,, '
;An 290ish clorgynian , tiocontly tried.to
,porailado,ope,of tho black ,Aheop et. his flock
to conic to church, on Pio plea. that he had
teen his wife there on the previous
Sha
day. "I hops, yoU9I try-to - , coino pow,
Jarnes.P “Well, Sir,. I think try, for
our Mary says you're - a hell of -- a preach=
• The editor of • 'ilieNVieconsiii, 'Banner
says: .oWednesday'small brought to , us a
letter'addiessed 'Rev,' another the, 'Hon,'
`iitiother 4001, , one ' 4 ]!.. , .tri and thrill/at ag.'
'On' the,way to dinner', we ; aCcidentally
stepped' on a woman's , trail %and she , ad
dressed us thus t ,
The Retiding - 'Dispatch, says • - ::1!The De
mi:ferny,. otßerks never looked so crest-,
fallen over 'a nomination as theydid ot , er'
the tot' Thfit sea, nought. but; dii.
feat, a disgraceful rout, ,staring them in
,theJace.".. Thesalne is emphatie a lly.true
of,tha LeOcistor Denio6rattV. .
reeentik attended : oo, Altera) of
a friend in•raris, and was going away
tot the,Aeremonies in church, Were ovev
when some one naked, .Do, you not
company us to the cemetry 1". "No ",wds
the reply, "I , go . *.further than this for
oilier peoples funerals; it will be 'Aline
'enough !foe tho .chOrehyarrlml,my i .own
account."
Tho Boy. Dr. ,Hamilton, of Oakland,
V! iiiitilqw4 - tilitee 7 die
missed from blean'eO hq;
taught' that a man could.; rop_ntlind'
• foiglynn after death, bite an - iader)endent
.Presbyterian hintich tii,oyorpolitig
with thihi , who ngroo With hiwin • autiti.fi,
; I "'''' •
Tbe-Yorgantown, West V:i!glnia, , ,Post,'
aays!.itial qinpl3ittint/ diseovery lies
Made in pat town, viz ; that when,* car
taiu , house was built, forty years ago, a,,
quart of whiskey
,which was,built up in.,
the jamb of the chimney. It is understood':
the owner of tho house is afraid to icav,e
home for fear of.zi:iald2.on dhlinneY.....i,
• • •. „
It is no less4U r eer. ,than trua., ,
• That---ttio
Steel i•nitsAyon nnr principaLriOvaysTro"
less successful than was - expected.:l Tho
road-bediyrkiit'
The Hartford and, -Now,Haven!diaiiroad .
Is' taking' Up' tkie;steel railb', andreAlacing
theui,by , .1
A ilierilbran'aiim &find' u , pOn'tlib'perSore
who was surgeon of Haj„ab. Broolte, 'Of Bar
saelliVatik93,
Contains the
bOnds';' 'S'ord.o aChievO‘:vagattonde#o; at], d.
others, fuiCo, ,
Ikrust . 4Y
characterise Myself' 'as ono ;of ;the,. last'
class."
At the,recent (indication,' of Ttev.rifob
00113:•.ee,s • arlii4l4ll,ll,,ChUreh:in ,
edge; the contributions in,.nioney.and,,stib
scriptions amounted to the grand aggre
gate of setipaly 11194scrqd, 49//arB,, the larg‘,
ieseehurch collection' of the,' 'kind,' j,}s .
'ClainitdTTlVlirillitthriirtifertrathirSt4o9.
A few days since says.tbe Lebanon (If.l
Cduriot , ; man, , , hpplireiitlY in:goo
healthinformed those with
at'
at work that ha would 'die at four; e'cleak
on the following day, - The statement was
repeated _the mud-morning: • In'the'after,
noon - it wes verified., -The -man fell dead
at precisely 'four o'clock.' 91? AP
,01'edict
ed a tremendous hail storm .On'the 7th of
August.
,At Van Wert, Ohio, lhoother day, says
the New York Commercial, 'a person thqt
was not willing that bygones should be by
gones, delivnrefl* bitter copperhead ha
rangue to a crowd ' • saying, "I' hurrahid
for Jeff. Dilvis during the war, and'sinee
the war," and, lifting his hat , asked, "If I
want I will - hurrah for him now." A
"veteran," ,w,ho, was ' silently ...listening,
.stepped forward, and, placing his, fist
cloielo the speaker's' nose, Said
do I will. whip you."' .Davirwas• not
cheered.
. The poorest •rich men are to bo found in
New York.; _the . richest poor men 'are in
Philadelphia. ' ,
g - ,1)111)1 and Olouptil, lati i.
. RELIGIoUS.—REV. 'WILLIAM How
ARE Day, of the African Methodist ];pia.
copal Church, will preach in flie • lst E.
Church next Sunday aftornuort', at at
o'clock.
Mr: Day is laboring in the interests of
'the Freedman's Schools, and is Cegaided as
one of the eloquent men of the times 7 a
collection mill - hodri — tliis occasion
for the beneilt ofsitid sehoble. , The sermon
is designed_to .ho Union in its, character,
and all are invited.
ECM
The citizens of Maree l rebiiri feel
confident of being able to raise the bal•
ance ofs2o,oooto btlild theirytilroed. Wo
hope they may -do so, and-will-theb con
clude that Chambersburg will have the
terminus. they do this, our people will
subscribe as their — means permit them:—
Franklin, Reporilory, J uly 8.
. . 11 11g-:-T-T-J11,411.K8V 7 ,-It-app6avit
clear from our metchantilo exchanges that
price of breaditu'ffi aio to'high, and there
must bastill anetherqhclino, ,A Chicago
paper says that the receipts of the lakes for
the week ending July 3rd were 1,153,538_
bushels in 1860, 4.45,770 in 1868'; and 231
- 372 in 1807 r k'or the- weelc ending- Juty,
10th, the receiilts,,nt Chicago alone were,
435,038 bushels in 1869,'against 141,018 in
1868, This shows an hiciease in supplies
during this brief inter Val of, '2,14,74,050
bushels, and the increase in this
ceipts at Chicago will be sufficient to swell
the..brand to 300,1)00 bushels, ' . lvithout:-iiii•
lowing anything for the iilei.erise in there.
ceipts at Milwaukee, Toledo, -Cleveland,
and Detroit.
IMEZI
TELE COMING EOLRSE.—On the
seventh will occur one of those interesting
phenomena which silently but elegantly
communicate to mankind
. some very in
structive ideas as well , as facts. It is
nothing less than a total eclipse 9f tlienon,
commencing about half-past five o'clock in
the afternoon, and continuinginen‘rly two
hours. Shonid. the weather be clear, it
will be visible over thegreitter part of
North America.'
Everywhere thougbout the, United
States, the lovers of science are making
preparations for the occurrence. The
th.vernmentjhas taken - measures-to secure
accurate observation of the eclipse.- Many
close observers will bo on *ld at various
points on our continent. There will bb .
delegations from abroad, as well as numer
ous private inaividUals at home, watching
the astronomical transaction. The naked
eye, the smolmd glass, the opera glass, and
the telescope, will 'be employed on 'the in
teresting occasion:''
I=l
THE MASKELL TH.OUPE,—This cold.
brand Troupe fleft here this morning for
Nowvillo and Shippensburg, after n,.vory
successful season. Our 'neighbor, of the
York Democrat, gives ilio . Troupeihnjelr
lowing, fluttering nobeci:'
Yesterday morning the Nellie
Opera Tronpo: . left . Mir Borough, :inuch:to
.the regret of tlio late' number. .of friends
they had made here andtho public at lar4o
who crowded WaShingtoti;liall toWitneis
their inimitable perfortnances. This trqupo
is made up . of. Ladies , and Gentlemen
who , well deserve the name, as their ac- .
quaintancols as much courted and sought
after in private circles as it is on the
boards. Of their' perfOriniineeS eve kayo
'airendy spoken and.ncod inly add, that if
the good people, :whose towns they chance
to visit, desire a rare, rieb, ; . ohasto and,
at 66' same ,time, a side-splitting, enter
inrinpnt,
,thoy,rmist,
„not witness
their performances. Such' en opiortdni
!o+ m aynotafrofipiolfngalmin,a•lifotirtio:"
-- "Oixs i EztittionniNllßY.*.Of nll . lho
cereals Which tho;rnest; prdliildaf 'Seasons
hoe lirodnetid,',ther'd
yield of all : fornsor !yOurs , scems halm
boon so greatly sittptitted tho Oats
crop. :Within the, past ,t.orthight ,qur, good
friends . frOM,AII CoUrity, hart!,
, sent to'utt specimens 'of I Opts,. which for
bight, of stalk, length, and of. head
oicortini' - We ha•Vo over sbon`bl 4tfltl
belt's" communication Ansili ' ,;,at
, iii[efei When dw than
".Meriti m i s e } than
wool."
About many of thoseaccounts of Mg oats'
Onf irie" , nd Mr. 'flies on
thd St4TIGART, in North
Middleton, forever siforices 4' OLD ]?ex,"
I, l v ProdeOillg VW: PPltaPb°ricallY
styles t,a.fot . ,wethor livered with. wool,"
in tho shorpe oefiVo honds:Of r d4bNi>illain
ing from 169 to 166 grnins oach, ,lEfe al
so brings,astopli'monpuring 6 foot ipches."
'1111;' ). 1s 1 ' ‘4&.iYt.;y l knojAll'ilti, l barley
oats', .arid iintato Went:lazed
at by .tt Old Dan;" or nay hody
-JOIICILBAVY who
'rdsido in , bbothlilddlettin t i , n , silbrt.diatitneo ,
west' oftlarlislq.Planted imoigraina Of.tior
way oats in'their garden ! •'l l l.lO product
is frdmi Ono %rain, 70,:attc1. [ th . o l 94Opr '4O
heads ptheso heads ifontain • frqm, 166 45 t0
270 pod. Mach, while Many of the pdda.con _
tireliboutl Of an
inch thick eitnhii4g; 4•§" -
'Vorostorms.;.. Tbi!! 01111 objostisii is, that It
is somewhatlntim than .tito;:i;ititriarkliarle - ,
`ties=-:thiS.WO Yo'#p° i
b'oat '
.• •