gig dell,* pail. TOL. 71. NO. 31 Republican State Ticket. POE A UDITOR G ENE L. COL. DAVID STANTON, of Beaver FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL, COL. ROBERT B. BEATS, of SchOylki REPUBLICAN COUNTY CONVEN TION - The Ropublicku voters of the Several wards, boroughs and townships of Cum berland county, are requested to assemble at their Usual places'of holding meetings • of this kind, on Saturday, August 12, 1871, for the, purpose of .electing two delegates, to reptiesent each district in the 'County Convention, which -will meet in IthaEm's Mall, Carlisle, on Monday, August 14, 1871. • -iThe Deleg Elections will be held in betweenCarlisle, the hours of 6 and 8 o'clock, p ! , In. In the different wards and boroughs orthe county, between the Horns_ of 7 and, 8. In the townships, between the hours of 4 and 7. The delegates elected will select the menthol* of-the County Committee, for the ensuing year, and it is desirable that they would come prepared to name ineP who will do the greatest amount of work in their respective places. By order of County Committee; J. M. WALLACE, Chnirmu. Tin: West Chester American Reputiz- MIL says : "The ALA' 00 11 a7l calls upon its Deinocratic friends to sacrifice" all false leaders, and support,. 'principles: not men.' General INl'Candless, the Democratic candidate for Auditor Gen era], supports and advocates the ` new departure' Mid, thereforerin the opinion of the Jiffersonian, should be sacrificed,4 will be. Take down his name, Mr. Jfpr- ROnitt 71 . Go the whole figure." EVERY man who maltes.his living at a forge, fire, a rolling mill, a furnace, or in any manufactory whatever, should not forget that the Democratic leaders and organs in Pennsylvania are the 'out of free trade, by wliich ad such workmen am to be brought to a level with the pauper labor of the Old World. Votes for Democratic candidates are voices in favor of the reduction of the wages of the American Mechanics. DEMOCRATIC EXTRAVAGANCE: 11 , there is any subject upon which Democratic politicians are particularly noisy, it is that of the extrayagance and dishonesty of Ibripublican officials. The enormous expenditures required for the suppression of a Democratic Rebellion, gave .them some color fot their charges, and they have made good use of it. As they have been out of power, both in State and National Governments, it is impossible to make the direct cobtrasl, and prove to a demonstration that their administration would be infinitely worse. Thee are sonic instances, however, where that party, has, for 60111'0 years, controlled 'sonic local governmenbi, and here we have some items that will startle even the most stolid, by the enormity of the extravagance and peculations of Democratic politicians. The most magnificent of their opera tions is, of :course, in the city of New York. Here they have an enormous ma jority, and can act out their sweet ;will unquestioned. In • order that these charge we make about theittlisluMetdy and extravagance may not he et msidered partizan, we take the substance of it from Pomeroy's Democrat : "There-is but one possible. reply to this startling, and terrible indictment against the Tammany thug, and weak as that reply is, we shall notice it. It h. that the vast tributes levied in tie name of municipal Government are but teMpo rary, and are mainly designed to improve the city for' the general - welfai'm Both these views are fallacious. rata sittswitig Otto total eq,`llllif lel.l. of tho t ity cttilttly t.i Nom k, 11,11 i ISO% It, I,7tt, Frttm Ihtt 0311111i11/iii•CN 1t1411.11, : I KIN IS7II Ca'ft any sane man look at these figures and say that the sum they leprestitt, or any material part thereof, has been ex pended to improve the city in the general welfare? What I three hundred and thirty,live millions expended on a few wooden pavements and in freshening op a dozen little ten-acre parks ? The idea is monstrous. • Then observe the grad ual increase of the figures from forty-one to ninety-one millions tryear, and say if such a regular march of ex penditmes looks like a mere temporary affair. No, no, fellow-eitizens, this is no expendi ture for the general welfare, tkz t t .. e.rile n di a reto` ten e, p efil the the R thy, and no temporary act of spoilation, a regular, well-established, thoroughly organized system of confiscation, attack ing and destroying, not only the.usnfruct of capital, but sapping the very founda tions of .property itself, and destined, if .not averted by vigorouti and speedy measures, to end either in bloody revolt, or the total subversion of free govern ment in New York"' -It intuit either re sult in a tyranny such as Venice in its blackekt days never dreanied of, or the rope's end and the nearest lamp post for every member of the Ring alive.'' The above figures ouglit to be very manfully considered. .We donbt if retch expenditures have ever been equalled, anywhere. In five years, in time' of 'profound peace, a city having less than a million of inhabitants expended more than THRICE HUNDRED AND TIMM' FIVE. MILLION of dollars.. With a Democratic adininistration of the Natiohal govern ment conducted on the same scale, no possible combination ,of figures would express the cost. Tarr•: New York THband thus invites the Deli:off:l4 of that city, to investi gate the charges ii o ule against thew for dishonesty : '•7t. is tolerably. well-known that the Tr:yin/to believes in libel snits. We re , tipoetfully suggest to Alessrit. Oahey I hall (01(11 - Vaud Comely that this Px a good thno fofoie. I\lewspapors are not licensed defame's, and the . inau who, being grossly and in tentionally libeled, on a matter of .4MIII - importance and in a qua l rter sufli cfnutly respectable, neglects to .punish the libeler in the. legal way, fails Of Ins' day. to .society, ,as well as tp himself. MOWS. Oalcoy Hell and 4ichard Connoly cannot honorably • 'neglect:. now to bring a litebsuit against the/V" , no,TorkTini,as.. It profecisca to have procured .(in sonic surreptitious way) topics of certain of the Controller'n accounts, which•should always have been accessible to the public,' but have hitherto bben keptrsccret ; and' on tbo strength , of those, hr an article .the substage of ovhich printed, it.eharges the Mayor' and Con troller with Variety of pecuniary tr4nS- netionic, 'ichantefidly* fraudulent on their anclnotably With these astonncling payments ‘.'for' keeping ten city-iimnoriefi in repair for nine mont.7lS,.'! A. J. Garvby, for• R i ustoring...sl97,B3o 24 John H. Keysor, for p1umbing..142,829. 71 J. IL:lngersoll, fgr chairs 170,729 60 G. S9liilar, for cadpenter w0rk.424,064 81 Total A large part of this enormously c is proportionate sum, his distifictly charged went into the pockets of the Mayor and Controller. Now-.these charges aro true or false. If true, thirtheivos who thus prostitute groat public trust should beprosceutcd so vigorously and promptly that within a twelve months' either Sing Sing should hold them or.tllis continent should not. If false, the journal that so .grossly libels the chief officers of its city should be \ , t , aught that slander so monstrous is a lt too costly to be indulged in mole than once in its life timd. Messrs. Hall and,Connolly,! The .17mcs seems to recognize this situation and accept it. lt,says it calls you thieves, because it can prove you so, hr the in vestigation, in' a court of law, to which it , invites you. You cannot afford to ignore that incitation. We have from time to time rhade weighty' charges against you, ourselves, but never with out believing We had ample prOofs. We have scrupulously refrained from the' intemperate. and indiscriminate style of attack which the Times has of late profusely indulged because Words thus used losb their force and .because we did not have proofs to warrant charges which, nevertheless, we have often be lieved to be true. Wo have noiv no copies, secretly obtained, of Mr. Con noly's hooks. lint the Times says it "has ; and, on their authority it'at last makes specific charge so damning that they ought to crush either you or it. We tell you, in all calmness and candor, that you cannot, without infamy, sit still under them. Dace you accept the challenge to a court of law?" WHAT 18 GRANT DOING/ Our Democratic cotcmporaries are very anxious to have their readers and their followers understand ..that the President of the fluted Shites is loiter- lug at fashionable watering-places, the object of such a knowledge being to create the belief that fl public business is suffering in the,riceantime. we deep) it fair to show what Grant's :Administration is doing, and as no better way of shOwing this is at hand than by giving the-people some idea of its finan cial policy, it is our desire to give the people a few facts relating to the national debt and taxation. They are subjects width ought to he investigated, and as the figures-we print show the result of the labors'of- the Administration in re ducing-v-44r burthens, welisk earnestly int they may be kept in remembrance I. The reduction of the public debt. Since the connnencement of General Grant's; administration the public debt has been reduced $28:1,4132,42.1 11—in consequence of whit% there is a saving of interest amounting : to $1 , 1,818,4111,14. 11. The reductiop of takation. The largest amount of internal revenue col lected in any one year was $809,226,813.- 12 in 1566. Daring the past year these collections will not amount to more than $112;000,000; and fur the next fiscal year it, is doubtful if they will be $lOO,OOO, 000. 111. 'l'lie saving already affected I,y the new lean. The Conversion of six persent bonds into a funded loan -at five Per cent, amounts at thepresent time to 67,000,001), by which interest annually saved to the extent of $670,4: These facts are peculiarly gratifying nail deserveattention. The relief they Heide is both felt and admitted. We may add further that after the present year, so Gusts tho national dal 4 is con cerned, it is .::tended - to pay only the interest, and accumulate a sinking fund of one per cent per nunn to . finally pay off the principal. 'll,e payments in_ the past have been mailo on behalf of my reedit as a nation, and . witle a view o fund Clio debt at a ibwer rate of hater .st. It is also a part of th6..policy of the Vdministration to strike out the ine,ome ax, and all internal taxes save un tobaLo, Cc., thus doing 'away, for lie most pail, with the sysle of in -0111:11 eVOIIIIO in older to collect the Vl.lllllO needed thron 1 ;11 the en,tum II Il i ' 44 , I 11 112 GENt.n.kr, Sithnm.ks INTER \ iEwEi).— The Sai al oga reporter ,)r the N. V. Cum mer.-i.t/ interviewed General Sherman, ie , ently, u t it question, and reports that interview as rolloNN s : lloporter--" 1)4) you think it policy to civet. Grant, luell.Sherman--" e.mrse I do. Why not , lie knoWs the ropes now—he has hocome acquainted oil,lt Cul duties—ac quainted with the thousands of public men, end ten thousand goorl.tor-nothing White House bummers who would do nothing but hal ass a new President for the first - yotr. Ile has just gut where he can tell a, good Man at sit/171. • Humbug men always get the best credentials ; every congressman signs their recom mendation :it sight., lunl many of them deceive a new President. These party frauds afifnow pretty much played out, and 'Grant is enabled to deal squarely with true Yen. Experience aml ac quaintance is the stock in trade of a good President," "Who will win in '72 ?" " Tlitire in Ito question in my said the General, enthusiastically. " 'bet on Grant against the, lick—two to one." "Who wlll run against, Min?" "Thera nnybodyla n; - but, not being a (politician, I can't gum for a inonitult who will bu nominated," THE FARM . the PENN- SYL 'A N/A it, has become so much a habit to eon- - 'shier the grand commonwealth ofyetm sylvania as a "coal," " iron" and "petro leum" State, that it is -worth while to look at her now 'and then in her other capacities. Taking some•of,tlw returns of the ,recent, census' showing the agri cultural .nroductions of Pennsylvania in 1870; and the valtie of hier, farms, farm - steelc, farmrniplenients, we have— set them rtidc , by side with tho returns for ..the same articles. arid subjects • :Ls, found in the census ret,nrils for the years' 1880 and 18:10 respectively, , Rroin 411* our readers,Calr judge how , greatly the ' agricultural wealth of our State has in. - creased, anti hOW much more important. the agricultural, interest, is, than any and all tither interests,. vast And inflitentinl as of the others aye, Beginning. With. the cash value of the farms of the State, our table Owns that in 1810,' the tiggi•egatc . value wa5,;54.07,870,069—tear yea 4 later, in,18.00, it way U 02,050,707, and in 1870 it was returned, at the flag. ; Ritleent figure of $1,013,04582,...., Thiti is au increase of value in twenty • years, of, one hundred and , fifty per cant, and inrhai Kit ten, years of nearly : eiftlit pet cent. The value of ',the fitrins of, BLitt°, increasecl froin.lB6o-to 1870, 'gore than twice an fast an Alio nopulation in crefmd. in ntnuhere. Thu. meat con , spicuous augniontation of ,yaluable agri cultural' property. is seen.ip,the-inereased value of farm implements and machinery. www• this in wan 1 4 14 72;-, 541 ; In 1800, the sum Wes 522,442,842, nu increase of about•flity,Per cent ;'and in 1870 the 'aggregate Was $36;058,106, 'an ixereaSe ‘ of about sixti„pei , cent, or nearly threolimeErns fast as the Increase Of population. Wo come' next .to .the value of. the live stock on the farnis,.yi horned cattle, horses, sheep, swine, Lfr,c., The total wipe of them in 1850 was $41,500,053 ; in 1860 the total was $60,- 672,72 k and in 1870, notwithstanding the.great demands for slaughter 'auri ng the four years of the War, the aggregate was $11.5,647,075, showing an increase Of sixty-six per cent, during ten years of extraordinary vicissitude among cattle. These are most unexpectedly prosperous exhibits, telling a most welpome story of the great progress in the agricultural wealth of the Btrite. $941,453 88 Going briefly into the detftils of the live stock act- • - •it of our farmers, we ttrcd that holses have increased in numbers about twenty-three thousand, presenting an array .for any. future caValyy_use (:which we trust may never come in any but peaceful_ parades,) of 460,080 animals. .Mulch cows have also increased about . thirty-lim) 'thousand. Sheep show an increase of about ono hundred and sixty thousand more than in 1860, though the gross number is, about twenty-eight thousand lc,ss than in 1850. Political economists and an inspection of the fliictuations in the wool trade, may explain why sheep culture does not advance With our other 'great agricultural staples; although the State has such abundant grazing grounds 1 1 admirably adapted to the Purpose. Swine are steadily - decreasing in inimbers,.there being a very marked decrease since 1800. But whilst sheep .show no continuous progressin numbers, and the swine are diminishing, the value of animals slaughtered for food purposes and sent' Lo market, shows ~an astonishing in crease. Tile value of this class of the agricpltu'ral productions of Pennsylvania in 1b,." '" was $8,219,848 ; in 1860 it was $13,300,378 ; and in 1870 the value had increased to $28,412,003. A compai ison of the prices of beef, mutton, pork, veal, &c., in iB.lO and 1860,,with 'the current market rates, will explain in part why this increase line reached the great ratio •of 1110r0 than one hundred pdr cent. The - expanding proportions of the corn, wheat, and oat crops are very gratifying. Chin shows an aggregate of :11,70,4106 bushels in 1870 against 28,196,821 bushels in 180, and 19,8:1.1,- 211 bushels in 1800. Wheat shows a total of 11),(172,967 bushels in 1870 against 13,0432311 in 1800, an increase of some what over fifty per cent, though it should be noted , that the .wheat, crop was less by two and a quarter millions ' in 1890 than it was in 1800. The oat, crop is increasing steadily and largely, that of 1870 being 36,478,585 bushels, or more than nine millions of bushels, six millions greater that in 1800. Rye 'continues to decline, though the Rye whiskey business is still active. This is an anomaly for the explanation of which wo can furnish no clue. And there is another anomaly, for whilst the number of sheep as already noted is but slightly greater than in 1800, and not so great as in 1830, the 'wool clip of those three years stand thus : 9,591,722 pounds, in 1870; 4,762,52:3 pounds in 1800, and 4,181,070 in 18,10. We do not, believe that even the circulars of the wool trade will explain how this comes about. The tobacco S increased 38 per cent, and the value the products of our orelihßls 160 per cent in the last ten years. - Among the great products of Penn sylvania set forth 111 the table 'and pot noted in the allure renmiks are bay, po tatoes and butler, the returns of which for 1870 were, hay,' 2,818,21 D tons; potatoes, 12,8,50, r. 87 bushels, and buttM . , pounds. At this point we leave tl e further consideration of these interesting statistics I() the readers of the /,e,l3er, admothishing the precho statistician that when lie compares ;dues he must make allowance for the diiierence between the currency of 1870 and the coin of 1800.—Philmlelphi11 1.(17.pw. UI.:NEI.A I. R. I.I.ENDEB.SON DEA I: tint:—Knowing that you do jut want the nomination for President Imt having pet feet conlidence in your" integi ity and capacity for that position, and feeling that 'our nomina tion and ele•tion will give eminent sati.s factiuu Wl! ask permigniOn_to your name heroin Like approaching Republi ca]] Ctlll NW, in connection ith that; Tiu,ting that you will, 'accede to our reque.t, We are Very Respectfully, W. , S. Nouns. W. C. 131,auk, John Greiderjr., Peter Ritmer, J. B. Lackey, J. A. Davidson, Henry Bear, (leo, lteikes, Samuel Greasun, Sain l l Diller, ui., Robert Greasou, Simon Mayberry, John 0. Paul, It. C. nlward, David Paul, I'. li. Woodwind, S. M. Woo Is, C. A. Noble Alex. W. Sterrett, E. 13eatty, John Morrison. Johnston - Moore, Is. W. Weakley, Samuel Wetzel, sr., G. D. Craighead, .1. Worthington. J. W. Craighead, Chas. Ogillty, John S. Munro, Jito 13. Landis, W. M.,Ogilby, Williama Parker Samuel. Witmer, James D. Bell, _,Thoti. U. Chambers Abraham Witmer, July 31, 1871. ENNEEI, HENDERSON, CARLISLE, PA. DJ AU Sin :—the undersigned citizens of Mechanicsburg, concur in the inquest niade 'above, and earnestly insist that you will accept the nomination fur the .ollice of President Judge, by the ap proaching Republican Convention. fy L. Kfiulfinan, B. C. Painter r •-. Jon. A*Su•artz, Jacob MVO, . 1).13 L. W. Weaver, DAL Kimmel, • B. 1. IL Palmer, . Goo. A. Zacharias. July 31, 1871. • CAILLISTA Aug. 1,-Irl G ElVre :—ln replY'to your coninmui cations of 'the•thiyty.first itltlino, I Can= not fait to :c..iipress 'my strait 'ilitoCeion to contesting before a pelitiCei thin the claims of any gontienniii for tile' ,honors'j uncial'; of 'this ThO calico shoisld be above and beyond the' . f3ut fully the honorable position 'in 'YOu winlld piadc, inc,'nnd;'dcofily sensible Icindn'e : ss and .§lndoriii,: which pilimptdd' ycnir cannot do tiltin 4Cecio YOurs, ' AIL 111 ivnt unos. To w's. 064. .t: And,'ailfdrs: , are antlioriked to 'milk:Rine% tifat . i 41., Lonitiol. TOtld, will be a 'candidatO f •rnninatiolCfoi Judir,C of IliinJudicial'A,iatrict; in Clic ainircioldne lionnblican ClOnSCation. " •..,. • . 'l'itKinnir depot for the .Bnltimere , and• and, , Plttsbni•gly and Con: uellsvilleTtoad, 'Crintberlnnil, is being 5. That the scheme has the hearty good-will of a-large veCtion of the Demo cratic party in all those States, and the acquiescence of nearly the entire Party. 6. That, the direct and chief purpose of the organization, as sworn by all the victims, as the assertion uniformly made to them by these midnight assassins, and corroborated by the universal testimony of-the repentant and divulging members of the Order, is this.: The putting down of the Republican and the Putting op of the Democratic Pasty. ~ 7. That while the Democratic and Ku- Klux witnesses on their direct exain tion usnally deny the pnlitiral purpose of the Order, asserting that the, Ku-Klux are a social necessity growing out of the abolition of the old Patrol ; that they 'have to ride the country to "keep the Niggers in their place ;"' that under the influence of Radical Legislation ands. Methodist Preaching the Niggers are liable to become saucy," and Without an occasional Ku. Klux visit would "begin to think them - SelVes as good as white folks ;" and that these fl.equent Alog gings, and an occasional murder, are' nceessary,to maintain such:.a state of morals among tae Blacks as will permit the vice-hating Whites to live in their neigh but hood ; yet, on the cross examina theSe Witnesses also very generally, as well as very reluctantly, confess that life in:/,,f /dation of Repahlie,nNn'6o is a prominent an.l not tfllie regretted result. 8. That to secure this purpose, the putting down of the Republican and the putting up of the Democratic. Party. Is tintidatioli is - the grand measufe-- , -the in timidation of Reptiblican voters, black and white, but especially the humble and defenceless, by Midnight Raids; by burning houses and ,stores, and the Ale truction of crops by Whippings of such extreme cruelty as'often to end in Death ; by most indecent and painful Maiming ; by Assassination and Murder in such cowardly manlier and wit h such hellish device as may strike terror into whole connties, and-bring-flown the:Republican vote from two to three thousand to •less than a single dozen. 9, That " School Teachers," and "Preachers of the Methodist, church North," seem to be the • especial abhor rence4of these. Democratic Assassins; 'and hundreds of School houses and Methlidrst churches hayi„,been given to the dames ;- and Christendom will stand aghast when it is made known the scores of School teachers and Methodist Preach ers, who, by. this . Democratic agimoY, within - these three years, have been Whipped ! Shot ! Hung I and, in some instances, it is belieyed, Burned at the Stake ! 10. That in nearly one-half the States of this Union , this work of, hell is .now going on, night. by nightevery month extending the -range - of its bloody opera tions, and fearfully multi Plying the num ber of its victims ! 11. That it is solely and immediately in the service of the Democratic Party —a largo portion - of .the party South heartily , approving—large numbers - . of 'the party North attempting its palliation by excuse. and its. shelter from scorn ' by covering up or denying its crimes, .as if cowardly ASSassination could bo palli ated, and brutal Murder excused—and the Deniocratio Party throughout the land rejoicing in its-promise of 'So,- either by opals and aoknoWledged notion, or , by the no less criminal and the more cowardly participation of oxtenuating and shielding the grime, the Party,• South and NOrth, liecome before the people and before God equal sharers in the responsi bility, • • Oltioftho mouths of more than two, hundred yitnesSes is eyory syllable 'of this estitiblished t and Imre than ,, ten thousand of the shrondloss , Dead, from hiddemplaces .wayside, in swamp and. mountain, and from the sleepless ashes Of fired homes, shout their ghastly Alunx 1 Aisinglo instance of -these 'thousand Ontrag,es pefretrated updn an American citizen on'foreign , sbil, wintld le thought amplo'eario for War ; and (*entire' Navy- twOuld hastui_tcr , °dove° the' Na- tion's indignation. • And 'such 10)1186 as is daily '-ineted - - out to 'these ' hninido Methodist Preachers;- -if' 'offered one 'of oui 'Missionaries ' , air' heathen - drottinl, would arouse the' NiliolelAnieriean einirch' nail e'ei•y Mind was laden - with demi:Oda for, 40 ProtebtioiL";' ' 'rho thailks \of lilt- Oitizon wile) loVe' Right :ad hate Rapine aro duo the faith fel, incin. of this Committee, Who; forget, ting thoirown'ease, havoSolnilustrienisly d l eitotod'thoso' hotincinths t f tho' ling of thiti lv • IZZI IL 1171d.UY The CongOssional Committee investi gating the Itn-Klux villainy—a 'SO-com mittee in Washington, •and another sp., cOmmittce in South Carolina—haveiiow ;been in daily session more than two Mouths, and have had before theM:many scores of witnessed from all sections of the late Insurrectionary States—Men - of both high and humble statioff—Pres4l-. ing'.Elderd% Pre:Milers, ex-meMbers of :the Federal - Congress and ex-Members of the Confederate Congress, ox-Generals of both Armies, Governors and ex-Gov ernors, 'judges; Solicitors, '.Shot ffs, - Revenne Officers, Officers of the Army; Postmasters,' School Teachers, Repent• .ant and Non-repentant members or .Kn- Klux-Rl:ins, and dozens of their naimed and suffering victims, black and white. Ain vhat has this patient and thorough in , stigation established—and estab lished beyond all future cavil and ques tion? These atrociow: Facts : I. That in all the late Insurrectionary States, and generally difflfWel_though not found in every county, is an oath bound SecrZFOrganlzatiiin,..working only at night, and its Members always are dis guised, with Offfecrs, Signs, Signals, Pass-words, Grips, and all the necessary paraphernalia, with time Pledged and Sworn puiposes of putting down the Re publican and putting vy the Democratic Part; known in different localities among the initiated by different names, lint everywhere recognized by the gen eral cognomen " Ku-KLux." 2. That. the organizatioi came into be: ing a few months prmiions to the last Prehidential 'election; during which can vase it was in its most vigorous condi tion, but is now through all ttib — SOntli, -- With moil) efficient discipline and effee rive direction than ever, reviving, ih pre paration nr the next Presidential cam paigh, when, as they told . one of their victims in•Ten_nessee a few weeks since, " no d—d Radical votin! is tcrbe al- lowed in any 87)111;11am State, by black or white." t., That this Ku-Klux organization is the premeditated and deterthined scheme for carrying the South at the ,next elec tion of President, and so, by securing the entire electoral vote of that section, make sure the election of the Democratic nominee 4. That the officers and establishers of these " Dens" (as they appropriately call their separate bands are the leading and active Democratic politicians of the South. Christian men of our country 1 Hu mane mon I " All deeent Mon,• we appeal to you! Is a .Party:worthy, of life in this land which seeks supremacy through such hell-born ,meariures?. , _ , [For tIphcARLIBIa! nitreALD ... .NNTIAc, 111., July 27, 1871. EiMmon.—The mixed character of the population of a Western. -village lire sents an Interesting Ileld'of studitu - hint who • thinks that: the proper study of mankind is man. Here, in a population ,of 2,000 souls, you will find the Orangemen and' the ,ilibbonmen ; John Bull with his neigh hors, the Scotcbman and Welshman; the inevitable Yankee, and the native Sucker ; the polished Eastern gentleman and the traveling rough, each and nil in a pernicious scramblb for the alifAglity dollar. So eager is the pursuit (5T gain, that,men walk, talk and eat hastily, and give but little time to social culture—yet your Western man gives freely for the purpose Of erecting school buildings and churches. Pontiac, the county, eat _of _Livingston county,..ntifritinta -. leis s than two thousand inhabitants, and contains live church. edifice's, costing from six to twenty-five' thousand dollars each, and a public school building costing twenty two thousand dollars.• _ The professional or business man who is not fully up to the times in the older States, and thinks -. he can better his con dition by coming West,.makes a fatal mistake if ho acts upon that idea. No =pity is - shown , for - a;slow — coach; and as the sharpest men in all trades and pro fessions are hero for the purpose of mak ing money, the inferior intellect is as sure to go the -bottom as he alitempts to sail his boat on the wave of Western bu- MEE • . . We dom.itd the host preachers and teacherS, 'be auso it pays, and tends to build up a.to , dis an induement to emigrants to lad o—not but what we intve - aarWrChin men wt us, Ns , to devote their whole time and talent to their work ; :but I am referring to the main spi' - 't that animates Western community. The facilities for acquiring a.„.practical education in this State are not surpassed by ally State in the Union. Air institu tion, called the State Normal, is main tained at the expense of the State, for 'the purpose of educating those who in= tend making teaching their profession. This institution turns out about one hun dred teachers per annum ; who have taken a four years' course in the com mon branches of an English education 'and the art of teaching. Thesh teachers command the highest prices, and aro rapidly superseding the non-profession als. They are required to teach three years in the State after they graduate, to - pay for their tai lion-;-...after which they arEliermitted to seek other fields of labor, and it is a matter of self-congratu lation to the institution, that many of her graduates are called to fill positions ill New England, the land of, school 0. F. PEARCE. teachers NEWS OF THE WEEK. Another Leap For Liberty liJoseph K. Turner, the Tans law yer, who was convicted a few days ago in the United'States Court, at Erie, of attempting to defraud the .Government ,out of a large amount of liensiOn money, ;Wednesday performed an act .which en titles yini to take immediate rank among the most daring criminals that the age has yrlinced. On -Tuesday evening .Tudgb MI 'Canc . !less sentenced the prisoner to five as' imprisonment in the PiSDI, tentia . .11d a fine of $l,OOO, for forging the sidLtures to thii pension paperil, also to a like penalty for forging the signa. tures to vouchers, and to four years' im prisonment and $l,OOO fine for opening and detaining letters, The prisoner heard the sentence with some emotion. He was taken hack to prison whey* he _remained until Wednesday mornind At ten o'clock on that morning, the officials of the court started for this city,. Turner acconmanyingthem in the cus tody of Deputy Marshals Campbell and Hall. ' THE PRISONER WAS HANDCOPPED in the most secure manner, and seemed to be perfectly easy in his hearing. The Deputy Ilarihatnitayetl, h him until about two o'clock in the afternoon, v n Hall walked into the smoking-car and loft Campbell in charge of Turner. The prisoner soon afterwards asked perm is= sion to walk up and down the aisle of the car. As he had been sitting down four consecutive hours; the request Seemed natural, and, Turner wearing gyves of the strongest make, it was not for a mo ment supposed ,that ho would try to escape. After a little walking the pris oner walked into the water closet, Camp- . bell following him to the door. Some toil or' twelve minutes elapsing and Turner not reappearing, Campbell opened the door, of the closet, but no Turner was there. Ho had JI73IPED THROUOIT T TIE WINDOW, handcuffed and all as lie was Tho train was Stopped as soon as pos sible, and both the Deputy Marshals alighted !to look for their 'man. The police at Greenville, Mercer county, the nearest station, were tolographod ta to lookout for him, but District' Attorney 'Swoop° who arrived home at six o'clock last evening, has not yet bcien advised of his re-capture. One of the paiisongers on the train stated. that they saw >i Man With his hands tied,)gethering himself up' ftom the track. This is the only in- Stance of a sight of Turner having been obtained after he entered the closet. The .officers wore, of course, considerably an noyed by his'Oscapoi. but as they have hitherbe been.esteemod among the most 'efficient employees of the Government; it is not likely that the affair will seriously - damage their reputation.—L..Pielsburri Di'sjutteh. ' • FATAL ACCIDENT. A Circus Man's Last Tumble ' .A..somenthat singular and fatal heel.: dont oceuired hero on Saturday, during the exhibition of Gladys circus. Senor 'Leonardo Tomes, ono of the most ac: coMplitihed gymnasts and performers upon the trapeie, and who I 'suppose to have imve originatea the daring feat :of as. cowling into tlMaloods at' tho' foot of a balloon, and performing during the as cent upon the trapeze, wont up on Satin.; day ovening,from the .cireini grounds in this city. The aseont and lierfOrmaneeS of the daring aeronaut *ore very grand,' the ascent being so great that ho could not be discerned. Wl.ieri'ithdut a mile. below the city; and directly oyer tho only: water'in tild . carat'or r.tho ;neighbOr-' hood ivliorti'a nine could possibly' drOwn irable to make an effort t 6 the': hallOori - teas Obsofved' to 'descend and when,' as 'scirno 'accounts: haveit,, within forty Of 'the wat'o - r, Lei° • poi:Ail-liter:. lot ge+WhOther :by no.; or'ileclgo; Cannot'. lie .braby evidence within reach human lion. 'lnstead of falling into water,: 110 - foll tiat Upon the surface Where; .there is a deptli'of ittldasi tivolVo fdet: was no ononear. to bvlp him; and-before. 'assistance arrived lie was drowned. Ho was buried from the, Zeilley ilouse, in this city, on Sunday evening, in presence of a larger number of people than have everassembled in thiS city on any sinii lar occasion: Senor Torres was a native of Madrid,: in Spain;.and.was.buriei s l ac- Cording to the ritual of ~,the iteman Catholic church, the Itev. Father Varlet being the officiating priest. The, de mised left a brother and sister-in-law, members of the company. The entire company, including the horses, attended the funerid, wearing badges of mourn ing. Notwithstanding the accident, the company performed according, to their bills on Saturday night. , —igineinnatt Gazette. PENNSYLVANIA Attempt to Poison a Whole Family PITTSBURG, July 28.--.lntelligence has just been received here of an attempt to poison a whole family named Fait, con sisting of four persons—a widow lady, two children and sister—at Penn Station on the Pennsylvania railroad, by arsenic placed in food: Tho two children have been pronounad out of clanger ; Mrs. Fait being scarcely expected to recover, 'while her sister is still in a very precari ous condition. Suspicion points to one of the members of the household. Killed by Lightning -Charles .Miller, a young German, was killed last evening, at Dixmont, by light , ning. During athunder storm decoasdd sought shelter under a large tree, which being struck by the fluid was greatly shattered and-he was-instantly-killed. Found browned PrtrtADEtxmA, July 28.—this morn ing the body of a woman, apparently about fortylivo years of age, was found floating in the Schuylkill, at Vine street wharf, . President Grant paid this city a flying visit on yesterday .for the purpose of seeing his son off to the West - to - enter on 1 is duties_ of civiL engineei.`of the Pacific railroad. The Lightning. - . ~.. During the heavy stofin last night, the electric fluid, followed by a terrific crash, struck the house of William- Con- rad, on the river road, Tacony, and tore oil' a portion of the gable. The Scaffold RICHMOND, July 28.—William Henry Johnson and Richard Green, the - two ne,groes found guiltymf the murder of a prominent and highly-respected citizen of Peterstnicg, named Charles Friend, in March last, were to-day hung in Prince George county, in the presence of 1,100 to 2,000 Spectators, black and white. Both criminals made short and finbible speeches on the gallows, protesting their entire innocence ; even after the black caps and halter were adjusted they were loud in their protestations that they were not guilty. The execution took place at 12.40, and was- unattended by any ac 'cident or mishap. . The St. Louie Robbery. Sr. Louis,. July 27.—The Icansii - s Pa cific Railway bonds stolen from the United States Express Company, on Tuesday, -sro numbered from 250 to 280, and to to 300 inclusive, for $5OO each ; 301 to 401, and 451 to 500 inclusive, for $250 each. They are land grant bonds, and Rad the July coupons attached. 13oth the driver and messenger have been released, there being no positive evidenee of their complicity in the -rub bery. A Maddened Mother Murders her Three Children and Commits Suicide. WASHINGTON, July 27.—A four-fold tragedy occurred in Effingham county, Georgia, not far from Savannah, early on last Monday morning. Mrs. Ash,,, highly respectable lady, administered strychnine to herself and her three chil dren, during it lit of mental aberration The time was too short from the dis covery of the deed to procure any aid, although a physician was immediately soot for. He, however, arrived in time to save the father, who, it) his efforts to discover what the drug was, swallowed enotigh_to render his condition danger ous. Mrs. Ash and he• children sullbred most •horrible agony... Mr. Ash was forced to look on powerless to ronder.tlic least assistance. - . A Child Murdered at Large The following outrageous affair or_ curved about five wiles from the villa;;. of Bourbon, Indiana : 41ftle orphan girl, about 12 3 eal old, the adopted child of a well-to-410 farmer, displeased his wile, and she is said to have whipped, pounded, and kicked the little thing so terribly th.it in :fbout an hour she was found in the barn dead, fearfully braira and marked from her head to her hip:, the neigl.bm say. The coroner was notified to in vestigate the case, but on some pretext refused to do anything, but ordered some one else to attend to his sworn duties ; and so no investigation was had, and the poor murdered child was buried. in a pauper's Collin, that hides from the eyes of tlui woidd a fiendish deed of cruelty that, if wily half fold is true, should have caused its foul perpetrator to find a home in a convict's cell, if a • halter was not awarded her acts ofsavage violouce upon annprotected .and innocent orphan child. Firemen's Tournament FINDLAY, 0., July 28.—Thirty-ilye fire connpanies, have entered to compete for the various prizes at the firemou's tour naniont, which will take place bore on the second of August. The affair will he the grandest of the kind over hold.in the west. WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE, July 28.—McMahon's elevator at Jefferson; Wisconsin, was burned 'yesterday; with the adjoining buildings. Loss, $25,0,00. MISSOURI Sr. Louts, July 28. —Seven storos worn destroyed by. fit;c, on Main street, in' Kansas City, Missouri, yesterday.' LosS, $70,000; insurance, $ . 0,000., The Ilra is'suppesed to haVe been the work of an incendiary. Two Mon'Carriod Over- Niagara' Falls. BUFFALO, July 20.—Alexander Love let, n French Canadian, ,residing with his family on Navy island, and Edward., Bogardus, of Chippewa, in tt., - tompting to oi•oss to i sTavy island at twpla o'clock on WedUasday night, wore carried ovor Niagara loalls.-tOn Friday the rointiants of 'their - boat :mere found beloiv the falls. The ' bodies have , ' not' yet, howl' foinid. Loyola leavos a wife and Bid° children. '- ' • —Trg United - Brethren . churchin,Bon , top county, •liliann, *expelled ilive,of ifs minnbers,:inst week, because they wore Masons. . ' - • IT in Said ttatt-ini Aniorinan • firm -has 0010 'to' take as' many' of tho 'Paria insurgents as tho goverainoat of Franco . , likee , tottintio inter thein; intending to ccintlifoftlian—pon;Wthrionand children . ..„ --fo'icnno , tvaot of lanct iii drogon; where 'Ohalt' would roceivo• a' oortain nuinbor of norba and be omployocl in; oldafing foiiosts,, but'iriliiirs Thus do olinoiritho odor. , • - • •'. ' PLAORSTIIit: MARRIAGI3.—ThO act in relation — to — clandestine — marriages,- 2+ passed by the late tegislaturo,, was. signed by the Governor on the Second br June, and is, therefore, a law. -- The act `provides.: That o ( ..1 jus , *ce.-of the peace, clergy man, -mil isto or other perStm who shall take upon • nself to perform - the mar riage ceremony, shall "be liable for the penalty forjOining in marriage persons under the age of twenty-one years, as provided in the second section of an act, entitled "An act- to prevent clandestine marriages," approved February 14, Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and twenty-nine, upress,such justice of the -peace, -clergyman, minister, or other person performing the marriage cere mony shall, at the, time of joining them in marriage, knowingly, or wilfully per form such marriage ceremony in disre gard of the provisions of the first section, of the It'd aforesaid. Under the original act of lin, the per tion performing the marriage ceremony iLthes.ase_of.. minors _was..liablo _to the penaltsi whether ho did "it knowingly or wilfully'' or otherwise, but in case of prosecution under the new law it will he necessary Tor the plaintiff to show that the ceremony was knOwingly or wilfully performed, otherwise the defendant is not Estill) to the penalty. NEWS ITEMS BLANKETS and tires were comfortable in-Richmond, Va., -last Monday wools. .CIItEEN tea is being successfully culti vated in Bedford county, Va, Ix Pensacola, Florida, they close the store doors as a funeral cortege passes. • A LINE, of schooners ,is to bo estab lished between Savannah, Ga., and Nas- San. Tot: Massachusetts State. Labor lie= formers hold i their convention at Lowell, abottt-thc liistmf - Sermimber. • BP:run:is to the assessors show that there are four hundred and six retail liquor shops in Hartford, and nineteen wholesale. A imsTimm AN of Cambridge, Mass., is the owner of a one week old colt, that neasnres only twenty-tln•co inches in height, and weighs but twenty-seven pounds. THE Hudson ricer trains from New York are infused , with gamblers. On \lopday last a party of them tried first Poughkeepsie lawyer, _then a nonde script strange•, then two Ohioans; but being repulsed at all points, left the train at the first stopping, place after their final defeat. ' THE executive committee of the New England Agricultural Society, haVe just made their special premium list for the best running, trotting and pacing horses, to be exhibited at the great fair, which hi 'to be held at • Lowell, beginning on TueSday, September :i. There are eleven purses, and the premiums amount to about $2,300, for matches open to all horses in New England. CARI111:It pigfons, like a navy, are not to be created suddenly. They Base to be trained in a very particular nier, and accustomed by degrees to Ily back to their homes from a distance of ten or twenty Miles, then iVinn a groeater dis tance of to dOr twenty miles, then from a greater distance, and so on, till at last they find their wax, safely overoh space Of one hundred and two hundred miles. THE people of Washington have been long troubled with t u b e tioi-,y din of cry big newspapers in that, city on :Sunday mottling. 'rid , : led to the introduction of a bill in their Lori ore to suppres..; it—nod, hoiveyor, to prevent the quiet sale of the papers to those who want them—but tic bill was ilofented in the council, lacking ono vote to jiits, it. THE d.... , •ent into the label to nnex plored 1,1 in the Mammoth Cave, Ken tncl