M
AIII§TOIINCEMENTS.
Tho following 'Aimed persons offer themselves as
candidates for the tames named below, subject to the
decision of the Republican County Convention:
Fon Suraurr,
ALLEN PAGOETT.
AUGUSTUS ALBA, KITOSVII.LS..
C. .1 .lIMPUBBY
JEFVEUS, DEL.mAn.
VAIN MATIIEBS, INFLLSDOIIO.
JAMES E FISH, Wzi.utoono.
IL C. IMILVY, Tofu. -- •
STEPHEN BOWEN, Mounts 111JF.
Eon comrri Coxitisstonta.
1.. D. SEELY. BIx.m.I7ELD.
SF ELT .61001CriELD.
Aoitatoir.
NV EI, La 4 73 ORO . IC.Nasi
A. F. BARNES, EDITOR
TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1813
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CI 01 a ClPEcti la i New :York last Biitunlny at
116. .
The College Regatta al4Springfield, Mass.
last Thursday, resulted in a victory for Yale
The suspension of the Brooklyn Trust
Company was announced last Saturday, and
at the same time it was stated that Mr. Mills,
the President of the concern, being - a de-
faulter to a large amount, bad committed
suicide, '
Over a.thonsand watches of foreign man
ufacture, having fraudulent American trade
marks, were seized by the Ttealilury author
ities in New York last Saturday. This is
rather uncomfortable co,niplirnent to the, ex.
cellence of, American workmansl4,
lii the 141lc. town, of Sit, t; ncar
Evansville, Ind., there }.an been a regular
cholera panic dtuir,g the past o week. ( There
have been me
ty deaths, and more than half
the pwr' t
ation have left the place. An ap
n."
„at has been made for.physicians and nurs
es to attend to the sick. •
Spain is still in 3 ferment. There was
another Cabinet revolution on Saturday.
Don Carlos, with 10,000 men at his back;
is making things Uncomfortable for the Gov
ernment near the Bay of Biscay, and seve
ral Provinces have declared tl.temselves in•
dependent cantons. IL is-impossible to tell
what the end of all this turri - ioil will be.
Does anybody in this region know Mr.
Foran. We confess with contusion that we
don't; but We wish we did, for he is evident
ly one of those men who dives after the Un
fathomable and soars after the Infinite, and
"eats fog mit a spoon," as it were. Mr. Fo
ran op'ened the Industrial Congress at Cleve
land the othey day with a speech as was a
speech, and in it he said, "We are here as
the representatives of an idea." But lin
very well knew that nobody but Foran had
an idea what that idea was, and so he pro
ceeded to enlighten a benighted world : •
"This idea means diffusion—the just and
equitable diffusion of production, the just
and equitable diffusion of intellectualism,
the just and equitable diffusion of every
thing God has created for man's use and
benefit, both material and intellectual."
This is plain enough, if we only knew
what it meant. The first time you meet Fo.
ran, ask
jMineitiiiitilttie - Uth - of September next.
Of course this will prevent the submis
sion of the new ConstitUtion at the coming
October elceStion. But it is hoped that it
may be finished and submitted before the
end of the year, though it must be confessed
that the hope is not a very lively one. Judg
ing from the past, it is fair to presume that
', when the Convention meets again in Sep
tember all talking members will be found
fully recharged with gas and ready to blow
01l on every subject, as usual. If they only
felt how little the people really care about
their eloquence, we suspect they wouldn't
waste quite so much of it on the empty air.
(During their vacation they hope to create
some public interest in their sayings—it is
'hardly fair to write " doings" where so lit
tie has been done--by circulating three
thousand copies of those palls of the Con
stitution which have alrcnily passed a sec-
and rending! We susp ct the effort wi
fail, for busy people wo 11 be inclined t
waste much time in considering the terms
of a document which even its authors haven't
'yet agreed upon.
The annual report of the General Agent
of the Peabody fund, which was made pub
lic last week, is a document of great jute
rest and considerable importance:LH, sets
forth the condition of the public schools
. i .. ip
the Southern States, and although its gene
ralt tone is (Inc of encouragement, it reve is
in Koine of those' States a state of pub is
opinion which is truly deplorable. The
agent says there is one class of men whose
influence is to be dreaded—those who are
in favor of cheap schools, not considering,
and probably not caring, that in this ease
cheapness is fatal to success. The result of
this cheap policy is to break 4 tli private
schools by the removal of pupils, while, for
want of sufficient funds, no respectable or
efficient public schools have taken their
places. The two systems serve to weaken
and destroy each other, and the people, hav
ing paid their school taxes, are discouraged
and dissatisfied. The only remedy :44-•ems to
lie in the general awakening of the people
to the necessity for more generous appropri
ations tor public education. This awaken
ing musty in the very nature of things, be
gradual. The South is in this respect, as in
many others, still reaping the bitter fruits
of her barbarous social ' " institution" to
which she has so long clung.
The Crawford County-System
The Republican vote's of the c o m i ty ore
already aware that the question of the con
tinuance of •the present siystein of notninut•
ing candidates Is to be submitted their
decision by vote nt the (wells to be held on
Saturday, the 10th day of August. An ef
fort was made to abrogate that system at
the County Convention liebl past August;
but it way thought nt that time by many del
egates that they Convention hod no authority
tel make so sweeping lc change without a di.
rniet epcpresslon of the will of the party, ad,
it wa4 finally resolved to submit the matter
to a direct vote nt the next caucus. We
thoughtatt the time and still think that thin
resolution to abide thedeeision of the whole
party was a wise one. We were among
those who believed that the Convention Lad
no authority to decide that point; but even
admitting that it hvi, it •x?rt.; evidently high
ly ink:Ole:if/vs:tire*nt tercly Vittogy W4(04
by the Cimnly Ce.4lo"Attos iti l / 4 444 tetik'ffsli''
to make ae rorka 61 , 411 w .4 gniqy pyitt&
dare tthe4 tfiev4 e,tow illy 600444 w a
th e que,ifiri finV PA* Rtili= did c%ff
pasty- $9,0 kir f vo , is 0444 stittlkotr ttilicl9s:ltik
lar or,fakvi, wett t i‘kt= tW
Vratinn tae MiollVeV4l,6lWAM4*kitigieMdi
by a large uiajori of the , voters, and. that
its adoption by tt Convention- would hay . e
worked great haiin.
-I
As finally shaped bY the Convention and
submitted to the popular consideration, 'the
proposition - now is that the,,present mode of,
nominating candidates, commonly known
as " The Crawford County System," lie
abolished, .and that. the, party, return to the
old delegate system in practice heretofore,
so modified, however, that there be a, pro-
portionate.representation of delegateg, each
district to be entitled to one delegate for
fifty Repttl4 ican voters or part thereof, and
each addit 'nal fifty voters to be entitled to
an additional delegate. It is - evident that.
this plan is as equitable as any, that can - be
proposed under the delegate system, and it
is-certainty * much preferable to the old ar
rmigement which gave townships containing
f6w inhabitants and fewer Republican votertt
as much weight in the Conventions as large
and thickly populated Repnhlican districts.
But it is not so equitable as ibe present sys
tem, which 'gives each individual voter an
opportunity to expteEs his preference for his
favorite candidate for each office.
It is hard to imagine how anything can be
fairer titan the present system when honestly
carried out. But it is objected by some that
it is not honestly carried out. Is anybody
sanguine enough or silly enough to F.:impose
jhat men who cheat under that, *Lein will
,become pure and honest untkr the delegate
(system? 'lt - is said that Democratp have
been allowed to vote a+ the caucus. I Thisis
the very charge Welch we, have been heat
ing for years in regard to' the appointment
of delegates by districts. It is simply im :
possible for the wit of man to devise any
plan of selecting candidates which will ab
solutely preckule all chance of elleating.—:
Not, a year pas es without charges of fraud
and corruption , in the management of our
general electionit, which are regulated by
statute, and at which all the officers arc sub
ject to the pains and penalties of the law.—
it has been demonstrated that many of those
lellhrges are vague, unfounded, and false;
l and so, we believe, arc most of those 'in re
gard to fraud at the nominating caucuqrs.—
But . whether true or false, we know they rife I
not more frequently made than are the sane
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class of charges against nominating colA 1.11-
lions under the delegate system. We 'have
ourself witnessed the defeat of canitdates
in the neighboring county of Steubeu, where
Idle party majority was a large one, by the
charge that their nominations were secured
1 ; by the purchase of a few .delegates in the
1 County Convention. And in that county
the very plan which is now proposed for in ;
troduction here has been in operation for
years, white the party majority has decreas
ed and grown more and more unreliable.—
It must be admitted that this form of cor
ruption—and it is the most common form—
does not thrive under the Crawford County
System. Voters may be influenced by self
interest and by local co'nsiderations; but the
candidate who undertakeS to buy a nomina
tion under our present system will find him
self, at. the close of the caucus, not only de
-1 feated, but bankrupt in reputation.
It is urged that the present plan gives the
large towns too great weight in making nom
inations. But the system which it is pro
posed to substitute gives them the same pro
portionate influence. There is , to be one
delegate for each fifty voters; and this is
right. Nobody will seriously contend that
fifty voters in one town arc entitled, to the
same voice in making nominations, or enact
ing laws, or doing any other political work,
as three hundred in another town. One
benefit of the present system is that it gives
to each locality its exact proportionate influ
ence and no Wore, while the delegate sys
tem does not. Thus, under , the proposed
delegate iTiloni, ala W4l underl4
lican voicri . iii entitled to one delegate, while
that which has seventy-five is' entitled to but
one. In other words, three voters in one
locality are made to count no more than one
in another. Of Meuse, under any practical
delegate system this inequality is unavoida
ble in some degree; but under the Crawford
' County System it does not exist. Now each
Republican voter in the county, in Making
nominations, counts one—no more ard no
less, wheresoever he is.
The fact is, that the present system is the
most democratic in every detail that has yet
been put in operation anywhere, so far as
we know. We think it might be improved
in some minor particulars;, but as compared
with the proposed delegate system, we be
lieve it is infinitely to be preferred. It
brings the whole body of voters into the
party councils, and gives every man a direct
voice in deciding every party question. It
prevents the packing of conventions and
the purchase or other corrupt manipulation
of delegates, and avoids even the suspicion
of such practice. It takes the power of
naming candidates Mit of th 9 hands of the
party politicians and place it where it be
longs—in the hands of th deople. We be
lieve it is not ontir right b t highly expedi
ent that it should remain tl c - 0, and we trust
the voters will see to it on the 16th of next
month that this power is not foolishly sur
rendered. I
—We shall probably take occasion to speak
further of this question hereafter, and we
shall be happy to hear from Republicans in
any part of the county in relation to it. -
The writer once visited a place called the
" Bad Lands," on the headwaters of Che
yenne river, in Nebraska. Standing on the
Black Hills, a sfiur of the Rocky Moun:
tains, the traveler looks down into a valley
that may be said to constitute a world of its
Own. This valley is ninety miles . long and
thirty wide, descending suddenly from the
open prairie, while the surface is covered
with thousands of columnar masses of rock,
two hundred feet high, or more. So nume
rous are these natural towers that the tray
elet- threads his way through deep, laby
rinthine passages much like the Harrow
lanes of some quaint old European. town,
while the scorching rays of the sun, pour
ing down in a hundred defiles, are reflected
back from the ash-colored walls unnsitiga-_
fed by a breath of air or the shelter of a
solitary shrub. But the drooping spitits of
the scorched geologist are not permitted to
flag, for the fossil treasures of the way well
tepay its sultriness and fatigue. These con
sist of the remains of the rhinoceros, tapir,
'elephant, etc.
.
Later in the season I took chargeof a gov
ernment expedition under Lieut. Wheeler,
and whe about seventy miles west of Den
ver, another gentleman and myself, who
were in advance o 1 the others, discovered a
part3l of , Indians ( approaching from the
south on horseback. My friend concealed
himself in the tali prairie grass, while I
plunged into the South Platte and swam
about twenty-live rods down stream to
where the shore wawa lined with tail reeds.—
[[ere I stopped, with my body submerged
and my face barely above the water. The
red-skins soon found my .companion and
took him down to The river brink, where
they drove his body' full of pitch-pine sticks,
and when they had set them on fire com
menced dancing around him in a circle,
v. N'olth wild gestures and savage yells. You
i 4 , Art , itesftitte my feelings better than I can
I : &fill(0i7 l oy f.) 3 1016; Suffice it to say that I shall
11iiCk - qtkr f l oirgd AO, scene. ,
p iii:4 s4Yje-htf*6 - ' , Any (woe up in the af
ii t t oihiiSiiii l .= *At riiiWeiie 06 ), Y4Iiitm, etc., and
11114 ii - RW 4 .14 1 4 -, ,?k.4**fit# (6; th6tri.tilaff, a
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Out West.
brunch of the Colorado. . -This stream flows .
...
in_ a deep gorge, or Canon, one thousand feet
-below the general ;level of -the country. We
undeiteek, to cross it by following along on
a shelf of the rocks, but:. this path finally,
became soinarrosv that we darettgo.tio•far- -
ilier, and on attempting to turn ',about, one
of the mules, laden with a pack, backed over
the edge of the cliff and fell, down -ti sheer,.
descent - of three - hundred feet. All we heard
was a sidash - , followed by an echo. On, r&
4racing our steps we,proceeded southward,
and crane to a country covered with the ru
ins of an extinct civilization. These, arc
stone structures, which - had been tleserttal,
apparently, fOr - over a thetisand years. Far- ,
Cher on we came to three - towns .built upon,
the rocks, and inaccessible except by steps
madoby the natives. These tribes are called
11foyuia. They are nearly white, and live by
agriculture.. They have coal-black sheep,
from the wool of which
,they manufacture
very good cloth. Their corn and 'the meal
mitdefrom it are blue. ,
I
S. A.
Mecnsjield, Pa. i' .
Tho American., Iron Trade.
The approximation' of the English am
Atuelican iron quotations is now so close
'that the English export (if iron to this cowl
try, except of certain kinds which 'we do
_not produce, is suffering a stagnation that
attracts general attention.' - We doubt very
much if the stream is yet begun to set very
heavily from America to England, butit is
pretty evident that the flow in this direction
hashecome very sluggish. A statement is
going the rounds that in April, .IV3, En
gland es ported to this country only 12,142
tom of rails and 12,226 tons, of pig iron,
against 50,588 and 29,146 tons, respectively,
in April, 1872. There is some mistake about
these figures, probably., We find,' in the
last issue of the Statistical Bureau, that for
the month of February, the entire pi iron
iinpoitation was about 8,200 tons, or double
that of February, 1872, and for the eight
months ending March 1 there was an in
crease in pig iron. of from 322,233,000 to
342, 3 0 9 000 pounds, and in the value of
,
front $2,5-35,000 to $4,798,000. Thus,- al
though the increase in quantity was less
than seven per cent., the increase in money
paid was nearly 90 per cent. In iron rails,
on the other hand, there had been a great
falling off in the eight months, namely,
from 587,070,000 pounds to 364,690,000,
- though the falling off in the money paid
was only from $9,391,000 to $7,768,000.
The falling off in quantity was about 40 per
cent , the falling elf in the cost of the whole
only 20 per cent. In the third great item of
•steel rails there was an increase from 6,267,-
000 pounds in February; 1872, to 13,533,0(i0
in February, 1873; and from 132,576,000 in
the first eight months to 180,372,000 in .the
second, the prices being paid respectively,
$3,228,000 and $.1323,000.
The 'figures show on the whole no dimi
nution in the importations up to March.—
Probably much of, this iron had been con
tracted for six months previous, before the
rise in prices had begun to be so seriously
felt. The Birmingham and Wolverhamp
ton iron organs are represented in our cable
dispatches as in considerable alarm for their
bAmerican trade, and probably the figures
y to the present moment, if we had them,
would show quite a decrease in the Ameri
can receipts. American and British iron
manufacturer's have been settling to a com
mon level by the assistance of many causes.
In England there has been a great emigra
tion. of laborers and a great uprising of
thoSe who have staid at _home, a great in
crease in the cost of coal and of all the ele
ments entering into mining, and a great di
mend for iron from other countries busy
with the activity of national development—
all tending to raise prices. In America
there has been a great increase of miners
by immigration, and among the iron labor-,
ern general satisfaction and a good under
standing with,employers. Wages have been
falling rather than rising, the crops have
been abundant, and living easy. Forges
have multiplied greatly, and at the , Same mo
ment railroad construction slackens. All
these causes, with the never-ceasing activity
of the American inventive andlabor-saving
faculty, tend to cheapen our iron produc
tion. It used to be a proud and most hon
orable boast 'of Onkes Ames that he could
import iron and steel from England, make
them into shovels, and then undersell the
British shovel-makers in the Birmingham
market.
Although our iron' tariff is the work of
our iron men, it is doubtful if it is construct
1-ne mingusuing - trtur mien nut, come corn
petition largely with American' pig iron, but
in most products is a necessary component.
It is something which to a certain extent
we must have at any price to work up with
American pig. Now that we have reached
that point where it, cannot compete with
American iron, it is' manifestly for the inte
rest of our iron manufacturers to buy it as
cheaply as possible.—Springfield RepuLlieun.
Vice on a Pedestal.
MEN AND MANNER.. IN MODERN FRANCE
Worreziomdence of the Pall Mall Gazette.]
Some months ago a silly young gentleman
in this city tried to kill himself for a wo
man who was certainly not worth the knife
he bought for- his self-destruCtion. The
event made a-noise; the person in question
was interviewed by representatives of the
press, among others by the correspondent
of one of your London cotemporaries, and
M. Leon Renault, our Prefect of Police, ex
iled her as a public nuisance,,which was
the best thing he could do. Recently de
cent people have had a sort of revanche on
the demi-monde by on of the Most promi
nent members of that mcly committing sui
cide; the difference b .l,ween her case and
young M. Duval's being that the latter fail
ed in his object, whereas she Succeeded.—
The affair was as dramatic as any hunter of
scandalous horrors could desire. After
flaunting her diamonds, horses, and painted
features in the face of gaping Paris for a
dozen years or so, the woman, who was a
Spaniard, fell in love with a nobleman and
endeavored to break off a marriage which
his family had arranged for him. Rallied
in this attempt, she swore to destroy her
self, and after a:stormy scene in a cab which
had driven the happy couple from a restau
rant, she rushed up to her rooms Wand flung
herself off the balcony on to the
below while her truant lover was engaged
in paying the coachman. It was thought at
first that she bad lost her balance by acci
dent, but the fact has been incontrovertibly
proved since that she perished by fele de se.
The occurrence has been a great boon to
sight-seers, who have gone in crowds ever
since to stare at the identical spot on the
pavement where the catastrophe occurred;
and all the journals in Paris which plume
themselves on being well informed have
been treating us to the minutest biographi
cal details concerning her, whom it now ap
pears the fashion - to call r'-' Cette pauvre Pc
pita Sanchez." But thlstis not all, for yes
terday and to-day the sale rooms of t i the Ho
tel Drouot have been choked to overflowing
with eager ladies,of all ages, who have ben
pushing, straining, and gasping with all the
mania of morbid Curiosity to see the dead
woman's wardrobe, jewelry, and furniture.
And meanwhile the graver newspapers are
talking - about the regeneration of public
morals.
I must apologize for intruding this matter
on you, but France must be judged from
her social as well as her political aspects;
and I can as4tire •ybu that it was impossible
to see the treble lines of barouches and
broughams which have been flocking up all
the avenues to the Rue Drouot these two
days without wondering whether Paris has
not become a plague-spot which nothing can
ever cure. Passing Rue Rossini, yesterday
toward four, 1 thought there must be a con
cert at the opera, so great was the crush;
but a French acquaintance came pelting
along, who assured me ought to go and
see what " tout Paris" would b .chatting
about for the next nine days; soI, nt'and
returned instructed if not improved ymy
visit. 'Of the 400 or 500 ladies I may have
seen lathe course of a two hours inspec
tion—and many of .these ladies were wives
of Deputies and of former Ministers—l
heard not one utter a word tliat.could be
construed into disgust or, censure. Wistful
envy seemed to be the predominant feeling.
The visitors looked with yearning eyes at
the laces and trinkets, the furs, plate, china,
books, and pictures; and the dresses (of -
which it seems there were 107) excited more
murmurs of admiration than I have ever
seen bestowed on historical relics. Novel
ists, statesmen, artists and officers, journal
ists and stock-brokers were flitting about
the crowd, and it was a standing joke, much
relished, for men to ask each other how'
much they had respectively contributed to
the treasures heaped around. The object I
that fascinated me most, h9vvever,, was a I
white,silk flag with a red cross, which had
hutig from 'Mlle.
pepita's window: during the siege as a proof that she was keeping an
ambulance, for this reealled.to me a disctiss
ion' I 'had with some Frenchmen three years
ago; while the Prussians were - mareldog on
'Paris' Subsctiptions were thenon feet ev
eryvitiere for the relief of the wounded, and
,everyhody who could afford *t'was -opening
- an ambulance. One day a rietichman told
_tnewith 'genuine emotion- that a subset*:
lion had been organized antiing the fr ,ttent
era of "Idahille and the Cassino, .and -.that'
dozen of -the richest heroipes of the demi-
monde Dad converted theii apartments into
11101'1am:es; and tneantici act as nurses.- - - - -
He thought it,sublimc; was more , pained
for himself and country than I liked to-ex-
press, and IcOuld not help saying; "'You
are s_urelynnt going to let your officers and
soldiers be !elided with the - money of these
woineni" He could see 'no impropriety -in
the• thing, and appeared to consider my
question quite a strange one;-but I 'do not
wonder at it after hearing rnen dwell enthu
siastically en the unlimited jellies and chant-
Pagne with which Mlle. Pepita hastened the
convalescence of the offic.iers who were con
fided to her. - One would have thought this
trait redeemed the - woman's whole life in
stead of casting an odious ,Slor on the au
thorities who allowed brave men to be quar
tered cio a
_person whose 'earnings could
tooth no honest man's hands 'without Boil
ing theM; and I thinly no completer picture
or the moral 'degeneracy- of France 'could
have bectiOffered than this sale-room, where
so-called 'virtuous- women joined with dis
tinguished men in worshiping the wealth of
a being whoSe trade - has no name in any
speakable langnage; For this is degenera
cy; not the eoutinnation of a state of
things that has,always existed. Frenchmen
were ever frivolous, : but they formerly pm
iessed a delicaey :which drew" a clearly
marked line between the things which men
and women of honor could and could not
do.- The Duke 'de Richelieu, being at the
Theatet Francais one night, was smiled at
by one of his mistresses, who had somehow
got access to a stage box; he made no. an
swer to the smile, but sent a servant to order
the woman out of the house, with the sig
nificant injunction that" she had best mind
her behaviot for the future.
Again, in 1793, the Marquis d'A.urillae;
-being hunted for his life, took refuge in a
strange house,' and was disguised in if suit
of common clothes by a woman who was
unknown to him. 'When his pursuers had
tracked him and were pounding at, the door,
the woman said, " I'll pets you off as my
brother; they won't recognize you." "But,'
the Marquis said, " tell me first who you
are." And when the woman hung her bead,
he thanked her civilly for her offer, but gave
himself up. It would be curious to hear
what - MM. de Richelieu and d'Aurillae
would say if they came back to life and
heard a modern Frenchman's views on so•
'vial ethics. It. is probable they would think
theincountrymen had lost that one virtue—
chivalry—which once made them conspicu
ous among nations. What is the moral that
a respectable woman can draw from exhibi
tions like that at the Rue Drouot? There
Wan a time when all the property left by
er9atures in Mlle. Sanchez's position was
seized by the police and sold ,to defray the
expenses of keeping less . fortunate fallen
women in prison or in hospital; but now-a
days this property 'is not 'only shown pub
licly to encourage virtue living in a garret,
but it seems there are people who wrangle.
over this heritage which is being dispersed
by the hammer; and, if rumor speaks truly,
Mlle. Sanchez has left substantial bequests
to one or two gentlemen occupying line po
sitions in the world's esteem. •I do not think
it necessary to prolong these remarks, which
will suggest reflections enough to those who
may picture France as drawing useful and
refining lessons from her (Usti-stem. It is
sufficient to say that the sight which "tout
Paris" has been flocking to see is more dis
creditable to the national honor than many
series of • defeats.
le- -
Minority Representation.
The Coliiinbus correspondent of the Cin
cinnati Chronicle says that the advocates of
cumulative voting and minority: epresenta
tion have so,befogged the committee of the
Ohio 'Constitutional Convention, having that
matter in charge, with their figiares and ab
stractions, that its members have come to
the conclusion that the more they study the
,subject the less they know about it. He
adds, however, that the committee will re
port against all the projects proposed.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean well says thatthe
idea of minority represe - ntation is no new
thing. It was tried in New York city many
years ago in the election of Supervisors.—
The minority were permitted to elect half
the Board, and all parties became so dis
guSted with it that. it was abolished with
unanimous consent. Last year the Legisla
ture of that Stke incornoratcd Ale samn
um coy, ernor normal]; in vetoing
it, justified his veto on the ground that the
former experiment had "resulted, as all ad=
mit now, in a disastrous failure, and was
abandoned with general consent."
The Inter-Ocean is published in the State
in which .Joseph Medill claims that'Minority
repress ntathin has been tried successfully,
and the testimony of that paper on that sub
ject confirms completely our own views as
to the utter valuelessness of Medill's state
ments. We . quote its testimony as' a con
vincing proof of the truth of what \velum
said on that subject:
" Minority representation was foisted into
the Constitution of Illinois by sharp prac
tice On the part of Joseph Medill. The
measure was scarcely discussed at all except
by Mr. Mean and its submission to the
people was a piece of trickery utterly un
worthy the enlightened spirit of true states.
manship, and against the instincts of fair
dealing. No tickets were printed 'against'
the minority representation clause. If the
voter cut off the line he did not vote against
it, but lost his vote; if he scratched out the
word ' for' and put in against,' he did not
vote against the proposition." The only pos
sible way to vote against the minority repro-'
sentation clause was to scratch out the line)
And even with trickery, tho. majority for
the proposition was only 28,942, while the
Constitution was adopted by about 100,000
majority. Under a fair submission, there
Is scarcely a doubt that the proposition
would have been overwhelmingly defeated.
" The arguments in favor of the new ex
periment arc generally utterly false, and
easily proven so. For instance: It is claim
ed that the power of the caucus is destroyed
by the adoption of minority representation,
whereas directly the contrary is the fact.—
The caucus is made supreme. The contest
is tranferred from the polls to the nominat
ing conventions. How? In every district
where one party has a respectable majority
of the voters the stronger will nominate
two candidates and the weaker one; and all
three are sure of election, because the mi
nority plumps on one and the majority di
vides its vote equally between the two. The
election is therefore settled when the re
spective party caucuses adjourn. The re
sult, is, if money is spent, it is all concen
trated in the caucus. There is no necessity
to nominate the best men on the one or the
other side, because the Constitution has de
termined that three candidates—two of one
party and one of the other—will surely be
elected.
"The ' caucus' argument of Mr. Medill
is as good as any of the utterly sophistical
reasoning by which ti is system has been
Toisted upon Illinois; i proves too much for
the system, and quite e ough for its over
throw."
Sensible Western Talk.
The Pittsburgh Commercial says there has
been, perhaps, too ready an inclination on
the part of men who take a superficial view
of new political movements to conclude
that the Farmers' Granges of the West were
composed of men of one idea, who were
unable to see beyond the immediate effects
upon themselves of the wrongs they com
plain about. No conclusion could be more
fallacious than this. In many, if not in
most, of the cases in which the farmers have
expressed their opinions on all the issues in
volved in their movement, they have shown
great breadth and clearness of judgment.—
We have before us the La Crosse Republican,
which affords us an instance in point. The
farmers of the La Crosse (Wisconsin) valley
met on the 4th of July, in great numbers, at
West Salem, and unanimously adopted as
their platform an address prepared by Chas.
Seymour, of La Crosse. From that address
we extract the following paragraphs, which
seem to us to reach to the very core of the
whole subject:
"Some wretched imps of the devil have
long been trying to-fool the people of the
West into the idea that 'they should con
fine themselves strictly to agriculture,' and
'that they should deem it the highest possi
ble privilege to sell their products in the
dearest and buy their merchandise in the
cheapest markets,'and the' monopolists en
gaged in eight or ten thousand miles of
transportation, the warehouse men and mid
dle men of New York, Liverpool, and other
points of transfer and transhipment have
shouted lustily, 'that's so ; ' but now the de
lusion has come to an end, and the people
begin to comprehend thb necessity- of a di-,
versified industry, ' and the importance of
building up near and strong home , markets,
regardless of the silly twaddle of the mud
dle-pated asses who have been trying to pre-
Veiii Sensible:o.ooe from gettini tbe:4eork-:
.
sl A eps-andjarnalnto eloper pro,
It after making-the desired- nod -defog
mita iinipreienients in water and hind trans,
portiition; there la, 'any money left, irc,the
State or the Treasnry, thera'be
a liberal, appropriation for an insane-hospi
tul',.in'eVhiclt_ahittlbe confined those incura
ble maniac:li who persist in the advoCany of
the 'monopolists: theory -of keeping the farm
era in the Western Slates - of America and
the mechanics' in Eastern, and Central Ett
roDei" - •
The Record.
• ....,
Occa a
sionally Democratic organ shows a
disposition to gra up it patty issue on the
hack pay unehtiou; but a glance at the Con-.
gretzsional iccord would f-cein to Make:4lmA
'work of any such attempt. Taking the
yeas and nays on thelialary bill,•ustcrordul
in both houses of Congress, they sum up Its
follows: •
Itopublicats for tho inert *fie . ..
vultitvaos agaihq tho ihrtea-e
Republican majority aitatmt
Lk recerato for the increase....
Peweernis agnieet the itsettoq.
Deiuocratic iniljGrity
This record speaks for itself. It is no
honor to Congress in any point of view, but
as between the two great. partiesits decision
is unmistakable. - A minority of the Repub
licans voted ogainNt the salary swindle—a
majority, quite a large majority, of Demo
crats voted in flaw,' of it. This tells the
whole story Its to the partisan responsibility
for the erfactment of the measure. Afl to
the course of the members under it, the po
litical .indieation is equally decided. • Ac-_
cording to the list we have• kept, arrest. Re
publican Senators (inchnling three Libetal
Republicans) have retttroed their back pay,
and but three Democratic Senators. Of the
Representatives, needy mle Republicans have
done the right thing, and hut, keen Demo
crats, according to our list, though sumo of
our eotemporaries figure up eight. Making
the most liberal allowance; then, more than .
three times as many Republican members
as Demorratie, both actually and in propor•
tion to the whole moldier, have refused to
pocket the unjust inerease.—Bilston Journal.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
'United States Commissioner William C.
Storrs committed suicide:lt Rochester New
•
York lost week.
'Reports from Arkansas, Texas, and Lou
isiana show a decided improvement in the
condition of the crops.
General Ames Pillsbury, for many years
Superintendent of the AlbanS , PClllieni hay,
died last week, aged OS.
Mr. C. B. Cotter, formerly a Pennsylva
nia editor and a politician, died on the sth
instant akSaginaw, Mich.
John M'Curdy, Esq., the present Super
intendent of Public Printing, has been re
appointed by the Governor. •
The Lynchburg delegates to the Virginia
Republican State Convention are, instructed
to vote for Col. Hughes for Governor. •
There are twentythree colored men in
the present Legislature of Georgia—six in
the Senate and seventeen in the House.
An Indiana, girl who was made dumb by
an attack of measles recovered her speech
suddenly on being frightened while swing
ing.
An obituary notice in a New England pa
per concludes with the information that the
deceased. !' leaves two inf nt daughters,
both girls."
Congressman Comingo's
,onstituents pro
nounce his name with the accent verystrong
on the last. syllable since he pocketed his
back pay.
A Michigan company has turned out for
a Maine- manufactory a grindstone seven
feet two inches in diameter, 'and weighing
0,500 pounds. _
A. building in course of demolition at~ln
fell last ! Thursday, injuring a'
dozen workmen More or less 'seriously, but
it is believed none fatally.
- Governor Grover, of Oregon, is reported
.to he making earnest efforts to discover the
murderers of the,Modoe prisoners, that they
may be brought to justice.
Hood's Texas brigade ,proposes to spend
$lO,OOO in purchasing the picture of "'Lee
in the Wilderness," that it may be placed in
the State Capitol at Austin.
• It is said of an lowa Congressman that he
has been in limited circumstances hereto
fore, but lie has now put a part of his back
pay into a thousand dollar piano.
4,.......L.....-171,4-4:•ewr a• rya 1 . y4,1 r — are
men who have made it their business for
twelve years past to hold alt, the offices.
The decision of. the Court of Inquiry into
the cause of the disaster to the steamship
City of Washington has been rendered.—
Capt. Phillips is suspended for one year.
Reports have reached London that seve
ral eases of, cholera have occurred at Vien
na. It is said that the authorities of that
city are endeavoring to suppress the partic
ulars.
The Managers of the Chicago and Altcin
Railroad Company have decided to abolish
the pass system altogether, refusing to give
return-trip passes to cattle shippers over
their line.
Mrs. Eliza Ayers, who a few years ago
gave properly valued at $50,000, in Jack
sonville, Illinois, for an orphan asylum, has
recently broUght suit to have the convey
ance of the estate set aside.
It is said that Robert Gibson, who Was
killed in the rubber factory at New Haven,
was the only employee who understood the
secret process of welding rubber, and his
death is a serious loss to the company.
The Bloomington Progress, writing of the
recent rain storms in Benton township,
Monroe county, 111., said the soil literally
slid off sonic of the hill farms to the great
advantage c those having land in the yal
leys.
Rumors 11 ving been circulated that Thur l
low Weed as seriously ill, announcement
has 'been made that although he had suffer
ed recently from chronic difficulties,
his
general health has remained as good as
usual.
A St. Louis man advertises in that city's
papers that his wife has left him without
any provocation whatever, after a two
weeks' marriage, and that he shall " con
sider himself parted should the same not re
turn within three days."
Thelliclunond (Va.) Enquirer is cruel en
oifgli to remark that Hon. Jefferson Davis
will represent his Buena Vista record and
regiment at the Mexican Veteran Conven
tion in Washington, and demonstrate his
problem of a triangular square.
Of the 35,170,294 passengers carried over
the railroads in Pennsylvania last year, only
thirty-three were killed—less than one in n
million. The chances of death by railroad
traveling are, therefore, less than one to
million in this State.
:The Catholic clergy of Brazil'are forbid
den by - the Council of State to publish the
bulls of the Pope until the Government has
accorded its permission, • and the same au
thority deny any civil effect to sentences of
excommunication.
The number Of visitors to the Vienna Ex
position is daily increasing. It is said that
France carries off the palm in many things
in which England has hitherto swept the
field. It is also said that the Muted States
will stand first in the awards in several of
the departments.
It is an ill wind that bloWs nobody' ood.
The late tempests out West have damaged
the crops, it is true, but they have played
havoc also with the cholera. The mortuary
reports from the river cities since the storms
indicate a decided improvement in their san
itary condition.
Mrs. Waiworth and her youngest . son
have taken up their residence in Sing Sing
village, and attend Catholic service in the
prison chapel by special request. No visit
ors will be allowed to see Frank, who com
menced
_work in the• private office of the
clerk of the'shoe department.
As an evidence of the force and effect of
the great storm at Fond du Lac, Wis,, and
vicinity on the 4th, it is 'stated that in one
county 250 barns were demolished. Pros
trated orchards, wrecked buildings, and
badly-damaged fields mark the track of the
humbane through several counties. 1 -
The growth of the savings bank bustness
in New York has been extraordinary. In
twenty years the amount of deposits has in
ciekSed from $76,538,183 to $285,286,021.--
Nearly twenty per cent., or one-fifth of the
people, have deposits, and theaverage de.
posit of each individual is $346 3.
The Democratic papers compi in that so
much clerical force was wasted i the burial
of the President's father, Jesse R. Grant,
no lesS than thirteen clergymen having been
present on that occasion. As the poor old
man held a trilling office worth fifty . dollars
a mouth, did nut drink whisky, and belong
ed to the Methodist Church, they have no
sympathy with such a criminal, and would,
if they could, have condemned him to death
without benefit of clergy.
Wis.'; was :stirpriSed 4:•te
'eetit tnorrthigte:FAX-legipns of hogs doMo
out.of thelutOro4Start off, lit,a northisset
erly:direction:,.-ItceOrdiOg to- one ;o'beerrer
there werelop* ttitbo:Aoroi,c told es, they,
covered "all the itroutitikinr the 'iiielnityiabe
.await estimates the number at several mill
.
Hymen is marriage
vacation.in Nova
Scotia: All licenses in that prov
ince must receive the signature of the Gov
erner' before Abe ceremony can legally be
performed; and as Governor Howe is dead
and his stlecesaer," Judge Johnston, is still
in 'Europe, the lovers in Nova Scotia •must
wait for his return.
corresppndent of thq Cineinnati , Engui!
ro insists
C ampbell is
the proper 'man to' head' the Democratic
ticket in - Ohio, by reason of his particularly
well knoWn sympathy for the agricultural
COillalUitiky, Lialogular how !mow friends
of the farmer, are' making• themselVes con
'spieuous in the country.
Fourteen years',ago a ming marl residing
in Lewiston, 31e.; sustained spinal injuries
which resulted in an inability to walk, move
his bodY,.or down. Ever since' then-he
has set in a chair, unable to move without
excruiatlng pain, and a mirror before him
affords his only glimpses of affairs beyond
the limits of his home. .
A religious sect at Laconia, N. 11.,, has
revived the praefieq :of publicly' washing
each :other'S feet_ If 'these people find 9t
necessary to associate together and. estab
lish a sect for the purpose of accomplishing
the very commendable object Of pedal clean
liness, it is all right, but it seems like a
waste of organizing talent.
The Titusville Herald reports the discov
ery of a recent organization of nitro-glyce
rine thieves in the oil regions, countenanced
and encouraged by several proadnent opera
tors. It says that .the members, ,four of
whom have been arrested,- have secret pass•
words and mystic symbols, and are bound
by oaths to secrecy and mutual protection.
A. number of life insurance agents and
examining physicians left Baltimore last
Thursday for Jenncrsvillo, Chester emihty,
Pa., to identify, if possible, the reduthis of
the man murdered by Udderzook, suppOse3l
to be W. E. Goss, the heavily-ini3ured_man,
whose pretended widow has been endeavor
ig to force the - payment of policies on his
ife in the courts.
The Post Office Department is very confi
dent that the abolition of the franking priv-
ilege will result in such an increase of the
postal revenue that that Department will be
entirely self-sustaining. The receipts from
sales of stamps for the two weeks since the
abolition of the privilege greatly exceed in
amount the receipts for any similar period
in the history of the Government.
enator Carpenter, indulging his propen
sity for high moralizing, said in a recent
speech that "the laxity of life is restrained
by the supervision! of a wife." That de
pends a good deal o the character of the
wife who does the supervision. Over in
Chicago, for example, it is sometimes neces
sary to employ a policeman to supervise the
supervision of the qupervisor.—Louis. ;roar.
Mexico is not one of the ungrateful Re
publics. She has Voted $50,000 for a mon
ument to the late, , President Juarez. The
national flag is to be run up every time his 4
birthday cornea , around, and each of his
daughters has been voted a pension of $3,- 3 ,
000 while single, and. $1,500 after marriage. ;
The best biographer of Juarez will be re
warded with $2,000.
France is steadily feeling her way back to
the Empire—that is if there is any change
in the early future from the present anoma
lous position. It will depend, however, up
on the army and the control that _President
3F - cMab on may have over it But wlien
the change conies it will not be without
struggle, and the nature of this struggle
may be well imagined if Napoleonic prece
dents shall be followed,
There is a general tendency in some pa
-pens to represent the public rne.ti. of seventy
and — oliediundred years slate as being
angel
ically pure, and - theinen of the presentday
as being devilish antrimpure. Yet when
Parton and others unearth the records of
the _past, and show that T.Vashingtor. and
Jefferson and the public trien of their day
were very much the same as the public men
of our day, these same papers cry out in
distress, and demand that the past shall not
be explored in this ruthless way!
. By its subjugation of the independent
Khanates of 'Turkestan, of which Khiva
was the last to yield, Russia, despite En
glish opposition, has carried its territorial
aggressions in Asia np to the boundaries of
roaneotibectionSetTliongh 13 - aku, on the Cas
pian, to Teheran, in Persia. In this way
Russia hopes to tap the East Indian trade
which, now goes by Water along the danger
ous roite skirting the shores of the Arabian
Gulf, j nd passes up the Red Sea, through
the 'ii ez Canal, into the Mediterranean.—
The pl in has redoubled English appreheii
sions the design of Russia, and is con ,
sideret by the London _Noes as a formidable
attempt to paralyze British commerce in the
East.
' The Tribune says that Vice President Wil
son has had a well-defined,- though rather
slight, attack of paralysis. The stroke de
prived him of control of the muscles of one
side of his face, and has considerably dis
figured him. It has as a consequence some
what affected his speech. He - has had the
services and advice of several of the most
distinguished physicians who have given
special attention to the treatment of paral
ysis, and they hold out strong hopes of per
manent recovery in case he will wholly ab
stain from brain-work for the present. It
is regarded as extremely doubtful whether
the physicians will consent to his presiding
in the Senate at the opening of the next ses
sion.
Doylestown, Pa., is all excitement over
the confession of a colored man who states
that be, on the 27th of May last, murdered
one Dr. 0. T. Alfred,* Eldorado, Ky.,
who had been his master during slavery
times.' The colored man, giving his name
as James B. Belford, has been working in a
brickyard at Doylestown about three weeks.
He had received several letters, evidently
from the wife of the murdered man, Who
apparently knows something about the mur
der. She and Belford, according to' the
correspondence, are admirers of each other,
and Belford had been ordered by the Doe
tor to Nave his house, which provoked the
murder. Afterward Belford was compelled
to escape for his life, and has turned, up at
Doylestown. He is now under arrest. -The
investigation is going on, and in a few days
there will probably be more light thrown'
upon the attain
Joseph G. Wilson, member of the Forty
third Congress, from Oregon, died July Ist,
at Marietta, Ohio, where he had gone to de
liver an address at a college commencemdm
in that town. Ile was born in New Hump
-shire, in 1830, but at an early age removed
to Ohio. After graduating at :Marietta Uni
versity he studied law, and. in 1852 removed
to Oregon. He was Reporter of the Ore
gon Supreme Court for many years, and or.
*the admission of that Territory to, the 1.111-
ion as a State he was made Associate Jus
tice of the Supreme Court and Circuit Judge.
He held these positions for eight years, mild
in 1870 was nominated for Congress by the
Republicans, and reduced the Democratic
majority to such an'extent that in 1872 he
-was-elected to Congres. He leaves a wife
and-four children residing at Georgetown,,
District of Columbia.
There is in Paris, saz s the London Echo,
an aged woman who has for the last fifty
years supported herself by an industry of
which we believe sl.te enjoys a complete mo
nopoly. She suvplies the garden of Accli
matization in Pt , 'els with food for the phea
sants, which frod r consists entirely of ants'
eggs. These ebb collects in the woods around
Paris, and receives about twelve francs for
the quantity which she brings back from
each of her foraging expeditions. These
-generally last three or four days, during
which she sleeps on the field of action, .in
order to watch the insects at dawn and to
- find her way to their treasures. She is al
most devoured by the ants, an inconveni
ence of which she takes little notice; but at
the end of her 'harvest-time, which lasts
front the month of June till the end of Sep
tember, her whole body is in a truly pitiable
condition. Her services are, of course,
highly valued, for, as there is at present no
competition in this line of industry, it would
be difficult to supply her place. _
A religious newspap'er notes the following
recent accessions to the ministry of the
Protestant Episcopal Church. "Mr. Frank
lin W. Adams, late a Congregational minis
ter in Lathrop, Mo., and Mr. - Carl Treptow,
late an Evangelical Lutheran minister in
Kansas, have applied to become candidates
for holy orders in the diocese of Missouri.
In St. Judo's church, Monroe City, Mo., on
Sunday, April 27 t lb° Bishop of the diocese
i
of Missouri received , Rev. John teindle„
late Roman Catholic'priest, into th • minis
try. of this Church, he having mad the re
quisite declaration of conformit . Rev_
George Sheldon, graduate of Prince on Col
lege and Seminary, and for the last s x years.
Professor of Hebrew in the Union Theologi-
4 &min aryiArrcSbytetirM;) Kew York city,
f*Fiatotigrine4, oil, Sunday, tbelst4 of June,
4trid.hai.mtule,applientimi :for admission to
prdpra.-• - liff.".Bholdon a -mars of ability
andl,ooiiirt--001,0•410sItion, indeed, for
:6110 s6-Young."
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INS. CO. OF NORTH AMERICA, of Phira.
PENNSYLVANIA, of Philadelphia.
NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE,Edinburo
PHENIX, of Brooklyn, PUY. - •
LYCOMING IMS. CO.. Money. Pa.
TRAVELERS LIFE & ACCIDENT, Hartford.
Policies written In any of tho abo've leading com
vnlce at standard sates. Loma promptly paid at
my office, No. S Bowen's Bloat: HUGH YOUNG.
Nov. 19. /812. I . .
Notice to Otxpayers.
rill= Board of School Directors foie Wellsborci 'School
District will meet ht the °Mee of Elliott & Bosard
on Thursday, tho Mat day of 'My, at 7 o'clock, p.m.,
to nicely° applications for correction or abatemontlof
school taxes. After the above date no such application
will be considered. J. 4. 4Q3A.RD.
Welioboro, Jniyß, 1873.-14. Secretary.
Welisboro sehool Dist.
ii*pcavt,
PM TEE YEAR ENDING JUNE 1, Isn3,
Number of schools
Average number months taught
Number male trawler'''. . • • • ......
.4 fernale,b-Atehers,
,male impita
' 44 -
No. mills on dollarlevieil for school purposes..
06 40 0,0 S. SS building purppaea,
Amonnt leiyled for scbool purposeo..
••• bullding purpones
Total amount.. .
. Treasurer's Account.
-•••xlPcrsrxn
Balance on nand at ink report,
From Collector.
Stat 6 appropriation,.... ...
...
tpthcr sources. (This is the amount of cash
Inceired from thulabor° Acl%den.y.3...
1221!
=I
Reps Ira on Ouildinge,..
Teacher's wages
Fuel and cunungeucies,
Receiver's fees
Ots,cr ex . peuses
cash on hand,
Total,
RESOD/tel.*
Cash on band,
Amount duo dietrict trou all sources,
T0ta1,...
LIABILATIYAS.
0
&niount due on uuseiAltd lALs and orders, •
outstanding, ..*2,1;:6
Resources in excess of lfabillurv, .... . 3.415 52
Total,
The amount reported a.. duo distil. t from all soar.
ces la made up of inn 1] balauesa due from old colter.
or what of which is tincollecUble, and from The
amount of tax hauled against tax payers residing Mille
part of the district known as the addition in Aim,
which is now iu courac of litigation.
J H. DosAßn,
fircrttary.
Wellaboro, July 22,11173-3 t
ASTRAY TANEN UP.—Ctinie into the enc i„ ure
of
~ L4' the sillaseriber on the 28th of Juno last, ow. Ni b ,
die and white steer, one red roan steer and one rc
heifer; all two-year oh . Tile owner will I , leaaaprove
property, pay charges, tid hike them
Wolishoro, Ya., July 5,1873-2 t. OMITS BLAIR.
Exectit rs' _Notice.
, .
.LIITEFIS Testame tarp on the estate of Aaron
Spencer, late o' C attin' towushin, Tema cow,.
deceased, having been granted to the make
signed by the Register of nowt county, ati persons
indebted to said eshnte are requested to make p.n.
meat, and those having claitat, against said t-Olitt will
present the same to the.undersigned in Chatham, Pa
US W. AVERY,
AI.YEN SPENuEft,
Cha ham, Pa , Jbly 1.5, 1.87 C 3--G YR t. Executors.,
Diwlution.
NOTICE is hereby given that the firm of Truman t
Co.. wasdinaolved by mutual emisout on the In
of July, 1873, W. P. Bigotry retiring from the same_
All accounts are' to be settled by the new firm of Tn.
man z Co. L. P. TRUMAN,
July 15. 1873.-31 J. W. VAN VALKENRIFtG. •
G%tardian's Sale. 1
BY virtue of an order of the Orphan's court of
Tioga county bearing date of flay 2n, k 73. the
undersigned, guardian of Diana Clemons. ;rid Ruth
Clemons, minor childrenCkAtiorn cieintinta. dons.
ed, will expose-to public sale op the premises in Coi.
ingtou township Jul said county, on Saturday, the 2,1
day of August next, at 2 o'clock, p. m., and sell tote
highest and best bidder, the Interest of saia minors
in the following described read estate, late the, estate
of said Colbuni Clemons, deceased, viz: beginning st
a post the north-west corner hereof and the sot&
east corner of a lot conveyed by Won. Clemons to Col.
, burn Clemons, thence south. 89 degrees east, tit
perches to a post in the Williamson road; thence
along said road south, degrees west, 23.5 perches,
southl7% degrees west, 26 perches; south, 4 degrees
west, "12 perches; south, 914 degrees east, 20 perches;
south, 18% degrees east, 40.4 parches; south, 11 deg.
east, 14 perches; south, 8% degrees east:2sl, perches,
south, 19 degrees east, 17 perches; south, 25 derives
east, 22 perches; south, 47 degrees east, 22 perches;
south, 25 degrees east, 24 perches; south, 7 deem
exult, 13 perches; thence by other lands of mod
burn Clemons, deceased, north, 82% degrees west II
perches to a post; thence by lands of Wm. Cis;
north, 811 degrees west, 252 perches to the, place of
beginning; containing 11.2 acres.
ALSO, the following described lot, situate in end
township, to wit: beginning titian old fallen hemlock.
thence by warrants No's. 5918 and 5927 in the name of
mann. & Griffith, south, % degreewest, 18t5perchts
co a lynn; south, 80 degrees east, 245.8 iterettee to
post; thence by land formeily of Aaron Bless, north.
d,sgr'eo east, 72 perches to a post; thence by lands
formerly' of Mathias Slough, south, 1;4 degrees west:
137.6 perches to a post; north, 14% egrees west, 79.1
perches to a post; thence north, 5
.% degrees weft
115 pen s omo to the place of hegira, .g; containing 111
acres 144 perches and allowance. ormii of sale mad
known at time and place or sale. .S. MARVIN,
Covington, Pa., July 8,1873.-3 t. Guardian.
, Special Court.
T ' tonC4cing causes have been certified to Special
Term of Court on the 4th Monday of Septenibtr,
187:3:
John W. Onrnsey vs Collins W. Soper, et al., 26
139. Gov. 'lean, DIGS.
JOhn,Vicber and Job n,liandall Ts Wm. E. Dtslge, ban-
James and James gt.;..kes. No. 484, Nay Term,lSlS.
Abram Westbrook vs W. R. R. Co, No: 14, Jan.
Terra 1870.
,Jazneg Storms vs L R. R. Co., No. 17, Inn 1810,
W. Calsms Ts •• " " No. 18, " "
Dean Dutton cs " " No. 19, " "
6. W. IlszlQtt•Ta ", No. 2Q, " "
K. J . Ineho vs " No. 24, "
Tern Spalding vs " " N 0.767,
?iiwardß.Ni,rovll . " n*,
Eliza DePiti, elal., vs •' " No. 18. " "
Sally Dutton vs " " "
John ve-Farrington Parcalovr, No. t'A.Ki,
Term 1672. B. C. COX,
July 8,1873.-3 t. Yrothouotiry.
NELSON
Cabinet Warerooms,
over Campbell Bros. Store, in Nixon, Pa
FURNITURE
conshintly cat hand. A c hoiee and eaterisive stock or
Pa - dor anC h amber
'1 -
just received. Now is yin chance toady, t from a large
Create stock of a arioty stYles and at ivic, 11S Cheap
99 the cheapest. Spectsi attention pant to I:AliEr.•
TAJUNU.
Caskets and Coffinst
of ever) size, style stluid, - ;•ription consfanl;so l'n^l
GIVE US A ()ALL•
July 15, 1873--ly
Marnbrino Pilot, Jr.
fl NNE St J. e. STI:ANG having re.ently
purehased of Jarm R
olb eit, of the is
3lalinno
htoL:k Farm, near Philadelphia, Pa , the tibmc
Lhgb
bred and fast S - otuitt trotting Stallion, otter his sq..
vices to bleeders tut flue horces ablhu en' low rue
of VS for a colt. ands9stor the gram'. luenti.nce
money due Um tirst of February cuci ceding 111 e use
of the hork. Season motley doe the first <•1 ectalsr,
each year: Iforne at Wensboro, Toga comity, I I.—
pasturage furnished for mares from 3/ (Mamie., (iced
care taken of them but accidents at tiu.k of enacts.
Mambrino Pilot, Junior,
is a brosd, with black points, fiealded in ISO, in 16
hands MO, weighs eieven hundred and fitly pounds,
with finely developed bone and Muscle, anelloolde eke
thoroUgh-bird. i Ile is a spirited and sty likli inner,
with a quiet and gentle disposition. He Lae very tine
natural trotting action, and if Dallied %mild be very
fast. Was bred by Oen. Robinson, of Rennie:l;y, and
, aired by the ielebratied horse lil.embrino Peliet, nos
owned by Jances D. heft at Norristown, near Phila
delphia, Pa.
ALS .118/UNO PILOT was sired by alanibrinoChlet,
he by Mainbinio P.,yroanter, he by Alembrino by
Imp. Messenger. his emu Juliet by Pilot, Jr., he by
old Pacer Pilot. 'lie' shun of Pilot, Jr., :Nancy Pope,
by Davdc,, by Sir Charles, by Sir Archey, by Imp.
Diomede. 'Malehrille Pilot was bred
,by Herr, of
Ky., and K ohl by him to II Lyelia, of lowa for
$lO,OOO, arid repurchased for (itu. Holdieson, of hy.,
hod by huh sold to C. P. Reit for $38,000. Ile is tall
brother in blood to Lady Thorn, with a record of 2 : ;
Bay Chien ,that trotted a half mile at 4 years old iu
minute and 8 seconds; Erriccson, at 4 years old, trot
' to l a full lAtle to mutton in 2131 1 3 it Woodford litanderp
no, neth a record of 2:224,;; Ashland. sire or Highland
Ash and 4fighland Queen, winners of "Spirit of the
Timesl , Stakes for In6B and 1871; Idol, Sire ol the
noted Idol 541r1. Clark Chief. Iteuebou Chi. f, Mood
Chief. Mambrino, Whalebone. and many others, all
.noted Stallions and fast trotters. And yet Manibriute
Pilot is confessedly the most distinguished son of
Mainbrino Chief. See "Every Horse Owner's C . ) cle•
podia," page 484. Ile inherits tho blood of Mennen
gee through three channels, and of Imp. Diomede
through two, with a cross of Pilot through big dant.-
He trotted at 6 years old, with short preparation after
a season in the stud, in 2127. He is the sire of more
trotters than any other stallion of his age; and be
and Ityadiek's liambletonion are said to be the beet
two trotting foal-getters in the world. "Every Horse
Owner's Cyclopedia," page 476 Among his get are
-the following: Gift, that at 4 yews: old received file
forfeits. and challenged any colt of same Age to trot
for NOAO, without being acceieted; Dell hinge i, 'bat
trot[ a in 2;40 here re he was 4 years old, Cranston,
at 3 ytcare 01/I, in 2:4o\i; Vesharg, at 3 years. in 2:40,
and challenged any horse in the worth to trot, ul I
years of age, without being accepted.; Charles bola's
filly, that trotted in ti minutes at 2 yews old; of
Mambrlied Pilot, Jr., (formerly Agitator); Mackerel°
Messenger; telsclicel ; Detective, all of white ate nest,
and fitly others recorded in "Wallace's Aueeiicsn
Trotting Registe.r.'"The dam of stanihrino tact,
Is by Carnd.'el he by Shark, by Atitett:'au I , clelePre
(himself the sire of many fast and game trotters), by
Duroc, by 'nip. Diomede, Duroc out of Miller's
Damsel-the brat daughter of Imp. Ilitaseivr. -
Thus Mambrino Pilot Jr., inherits from his sire,
Messenger, blood through three channels, and Dia
mode through two, and through his date another
strain of each, giving him four Messenger crosses,
three of Diomede, and a cross of Pilot through
Jr.„-the best son of Old Pacer Pilot, and the sire of
such noted horses as John Morgan-the "closest
competiteiof Flora Temple in her palmy drys"-Jun
Hockey, Tackey, Tattler, with a record et 3:26 at . 5
years old,-Pilot Temple, Dixie, and many more,
The .oldest colts sired by idanibritui Pilot, Jr., are
hut two years old, and have, thereto e. rimer beta,
speeded. They are uniformly bays an browns, large '
'and stylish, with very Ante natural trotting action,
and want only age , and ,driving to prove Meowing
trotters. An examluatfeu of the above pedigree will
disclose a profusion of the best trotting attains, being
rich in the blood of Messenger, Diomede and tide
Pilots, and with the natural trotting action of Mani:
brill° Pilot, dr., can hardly fail to produce troller" ,
while with his find sire And great auleatance, his coit B
that are not fast will make fine target:ardor burs", -
or better atilt, will be able to work.
BEJnirrA 5111 , 0 13 .
lie D,-In order to stimnlatti the. owners of ova
bred to our horse to take better care of their Nits
than is too often done, We make the following offer:-
We will present the owner of the fastest colt by out
horse a silver tea set valued at a hundred dollars...-.
The trials to be made during the Fair of the Tlogs
County ,Agricultural Society the fall after the colts
are three yitamold, BENNET ai STEAltei
WalltinrOs h., April St% 1873.-Bna.
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All knots of
E. T. CONODON