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‘-"_"—-H—'.'P—‘—'-‘-N—-‘-———'—ﬂ—-ﬂ-—-——, e 4 -~ - ‘Resistance to Tyrants is Obediemce to God~ e N <- J,B.STOLL, EDITOR, WEDNESDAY, JULY 91, 1869, ] THE PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRACY. The Democratic State Convention of Pennsylvania met at Harrisburg on the 14th. | Ex-Senator Buckalew presided, and delivered a masterly speech. The Hon. Asa Packer, Gen. Geo. W. Cass, Gen. W. 8. Hancock, and Senator Wilson McCandless were proposed as cdndidates for Governor. The first ballot resulted as follows : ‘Packer 59, Cass 48, Hancock 21, McCandless 5. The latter's name was withdrawn, and the 2nd ballot resulted as follows: . Packer 68, Cass 47, Hancock 19. Onthe 8d ballot Judge Packer was nominated by 95 egainst 37 votes cast for ' Cass, and his nomination was subsequently made unanimous. Gen. Hancock would doubtless have been nominated had he permitted his name to/be used. The following letter written by him gives the reasons of his réfusal 5

SaINT PAun, May 21st, 1869. DeaAr Sir: I had the pleasure to receive your favor of May first last, just before leaying Washington for the west.— My occupation and duties prevented me from promptly replying to {gur communication,; a circumstance to be regretted, for I was as well prepared to express to you my.views then as now—and by having promptly written I would have avoidcd the appearance of hesitation. My views.on the: subject, concerning which you havqhaddnessed me, have never changed, and I have full¥ expressed them to all persons who have in any way communicated with me to thatend. lam adverse to intruding myself upon the public, and h’gve therefore ever avoided writing anything for publication, although I have authorized my correspondents to make any other p'rc;per use of my. sentiments. * ~* * T feel highly honored by the preference shown by my friends in old Northampton, expressed in thatletter. * % [ T must say, and without reservation, that under existing circumstances I cannot permit the use of my name in the convention shortly about to assemble. Were I in civil life no distinction would be greater to me than to be Governor of Pennsylvania. - I have followed the profession of arms since boyhood ; and now, having acquired considerable rank, do not wish to abandon the service. Beside I do not wish to enter upon a life in which 1 know I have had no experience or education. * #* * X There are those who could serve your interests better than myself, whom the people would be pleased to honor, and who would render more efficient service to the people of Pennsylvania ‘than myself. | I am truly your obedient servant, WiNrFIELD ScoTT HANCOCK.

In spite of this letter, a portion of the gallant General’s friends insisted upon casting their votes for him, and the mention of his name was every time received with vociferous applause. Hon. Cyrus L. Pershing, of Cambria county,, was nominated for Supreme Judge." ~ The resolutions, as reported and unani. mously adopted, declare against the exercise of doubtful Constitutionallpowers ; that Pennsylvania would never give rupr self-government, and that the ratification of the fifteenth smendment should go-be-fore the people; that the negro should not have the ballot; that the finances need reform; that labor should be encouraged; that the whole reconstruction policy

tends to 'destroy republican government and establish tyranny; that our soldiers should not be forgotten; that our sympathies should be given to nations struggling for liberty, and that our system of taxation’is burdensome and should be done away with., : The ticket and platform are strong and sound to the core. “Judge Packer is one of Pennsylvania’s purest, ablest and most patriotic statesmen, and is peronally very popular. Coming from the State of Connecticut at the age of 17, with only $lO as his worldly possession, he learned the carpenter’s trade in Susquehanna county,

and follgwed that occupation for several years, mﬁrrying in due season, and -buying a tract of wild land, which{ he proceeded to clear ‘and till. ©At length he pulled up stakes and struck 'for Mauch Chunk, the heatt of the Lehigh coal region, whence he ran a coal boat to Philadelphia, and ‘ then started a’ store, andsoon engaged extensively .in buying coal lands, building railroads, &c, whereby he. grew rapidly and enormously rich. AHe is now worth at least twenty ‘millions of dqllars, and what is still better, acquired his means by" honest efforts. ©He is a very liberal citizen, having but a few years ago founded & university at a cost of $500,000, besides contributing very largely to benevolent institutions. } With Mr. Pershing we have anginti-{ mate personal acquaintance, baving onee resided in the same town, and passing through an exciting campaign under his leadership. ~He represented < Cambria county in the Legislature 'for: four consecutive terms, and ‘was during all that time the trusted leader of the Democracy. Heis a very able lawyer, an affable gentleman, and a pure:hearted citizen, plernrgnd 4l vl ‘ The Ghost of Mrs. Stireatt, - The Gloshen Zimes desites information: why President Johnson did not pardonMrs, Surratt, upon the recommendation of & majority of the Military, commission’ which convicted that innocent woman.— We refer the Zimes to Joe Holt and. Ed. Stanton, who withheld these documents ‘frum the President long:after: the hang'man had done his work. Upon the souls of tnmugu;amm fedts thé' dam., ing guilt of Mys. Sirrattsmurder. 'We respectfilly domitiénd theso chivalrous deods £o the éatnest study of o cotemporar :" ek him tofurnish us with. eanlidof Mdmmgmﬁlw iotAg ey g b ks gy ] ( idtind for pardon from the President, aod (3d) ‘s pety office W Swtol Wilh i iocen isl i on | 5 " Btokes, of Tennessee, has been, in order i MNP P 5 I RL R of. Ao, posation o4R P Jooket, W%‘f‘*‘mﬁ’ﬁ d&wk i &jaw’— ; sel g et o L O 4 4#“:«««7&#&;" T ) %-, ¥ A’ o 00l doecny ‘s, 3t ;- st 0 R ! “’Eﬁffﬁ’*%&%

We have thus far abstained from com‘menting at length on the result of the Virginia election, from the fact that we: had no desire to magnify the extent of the conservative victory achieved there, nor of committing oufselves to an unqualified endorsement of the mén and measures that received so emphatic an endorsement at the ballot-box. Whilst we heartily fejoice over the defeat of the 'satrap Wells, and have every reason to place the utmost confidence in tae integrity of the Governor-elect, Col. Walker, we are not prepared to throw up our hat and assume an air of delight, warranted only in cases where well-defined principles and outspoken representatives form the subject matter of our congratnlations. We do not pretend to say that'the Virginia conservatives’ are unworthy of our sympathies in their struggles against radicalism and carpet baggery, but these considerations' cannot lead us to a tacit acquiescence in the position which—by force nf circumstance-—the conservatives were constrained to assume, It would be unfair to find fault with them for pursuing a line of policy that insured success, and without which they might perhaps have mot with defeat. Yet, the Virginia conservatives should understand . that they are under no obligations to the | Radicals, and that the power they now enjoy ought not to be applied to the consummation of radical centralization schemes, They are now in a position to act as their judgment may dictate, and are consequently enabled to save the nation from the disgrace of incorporating an ignorant, barbaric element—a curse s - severely felt in all the reconstructed States—into the body politic. Let them act manfully, yet judiciously, and the Democracy of the entire country—the party that must ere long obtain control, of the Government—will remove the shackles that have enabled carpet-bag-gers and adventurers from the North to place the Southern people under tHe despotic heel of an inferior race. That our readers may gain a cbrrect view of the situation in Virginia, we reproduce in our columns an able review of the election, from the pen of a special correspondent of the New York World, who writes as follows: -

. RicamoxnD, Va., July B.—As thg smoke of the conflict clears away and the excitement of election day begins to subside, we look around us to see what has been lost and what has been gained by the Conservative victory of the sixth of July; for it is'more than folly to affirm that the people of Virginia have nothing to regret about the result. The first thing to be noted is that the Underwood Constitution, in a modified form, but still very objectionable, has been adopted by a majority of not less than sixty thousand votes. True, the obnoxious instrument has been purged of its most proscriptive features, but even now: it has. characteristics that would damn it in any State that has not been broken on the wheel of reconstruction. In the first place we have had to shut our eyes, hold' our nose, and 'swallow the black dose of negro suffrage. There is no doubt about that, nor of the still more distasteful fact that we will never get | the drug out of our system, It only remuing for us to try to control the creatures whom we have given the right to vote, and to use every effort to make them keep in the path in which we would have them to go. This may not be so hard to do as one would imagine, for already we find that, overcome with a realizing sense of their late hopeless defeat, they are more decile than evet before since the war,and many are found denying through the press and other channels of communication with the public that they ever voted for Wells. Nevertheless they did, with only here and there a persecuted exception; and where any large negro vote was polled for Walker and against “disfranchisement, that vote was drawn out by anything else but princi- - ¥ The county organization clause also remains in the Constitution, and will remain until”'we can have another State Convention. Many petty offices haye been created by this provision, and‘in a county which has a negro majority, all of these offices may be filled by negroes.— In Nottoway County, for instance, the negroes outnnmber the whites two to one, and all the county and tcwnship officers are to be chosen by the recently en‘franchised race.* ‘Nor is Nottoway a rare example; for in one-half the counties in the State the blacks outnumber the _whites. Happily, however, with a Conservative Legislature these officessmay be made 80 unprofitable that it will not pay the negroes to accept them:. , The State was so gerrymandered by the Underwood Convention on the basis ~of the registration of 1867 that the ne.groes were given twenty-one majority in the Legislature, and five out of the eight members of Congress. This infamy has, however been upset by the recent legislation, and at the election just over the whites surprised even themselves: by returning thirty four of the forty-three senators; the% hayve a majority-of forty-sev-en in the House of Delegates, and probably six. out of the nine members of Cougress. Henrico, with a ne%lo majority of 600, was tacked on to Richmond to overcome the small white majority in ‘that city, but the attempt has proved abortive; for the tables have been so turned -that the county, by a majority ot neéarly 200, has saved the city from a rad- ' ical representation in the Legislature. = Besides negrosuffrage and the gerrymander, the new constitution of Virginia is burdened with an outnqlwn? retrospective homestead law, which provides for the exemption of lil.zm) worth of prop"erty from all liability ‘for past debts; by ‘another clause the negroes are practically !free of taxation, and the men of property are required to pay for .the jeducation of neﬂ'achildren; Such is now the organie law of the Gonumonwealg. of Virginia, 88, famed;bg,;hg Convention of 1867, and adopted by, the people on the 6th of AN Ty, . Tt e G

- And now what has béén gained ? * The people of the Btate have, for the first ‘#ime in“five ' years, been allowed to have & voice in their own government,’ and to “thoose! their own Governor., ~ By & major- | iy of forty. or fifty thonsand that choice has fallen u;l)on a gﬂg’nﬂeman whose intel- . ligence, wealth, refinement and sound po- ' Jitical principles’ are in"mnrked ' contrast ‘with the quelities of the low fellow who ‘by ‘military | appointment now occupies 'the gubernatorial chair; Colonel Walkset will.not ' take his seat, however, until the State ligs been %Qmitted by Congtess, _unless, mdeig,,lbg‘ ommanding General or hi ’a’ggx@r £ ot Wuhlzlfum sdes it £o ‘ﬁﬁl & pog&ln%vfﬁf d place him at. Y in office. ' I¢'iB| worth 'remembering that Gieéneral Stoneman, while in Virgin--18, did actually issue an. order removing ‘Wells and appointing Colonel Walker to moudﬂz 'ltgordar was, through the ,influence of Dr, Bharpe, the President’s rother EZI}W,OQ In é d',ed, and Wells remain ,tz;,cmé‘, e’ Virginia to ‘this' day,. [t 4t & pophha ssoestsgove Ly “waitin a 4 chim, }m‘gu&“ %E i L‘ E r‘r“.‘j"‘ ’h“ is's gain beyond "‘%*:a"?ﬁ":wfﬁ*éz?»‘ on, A ba | matoriticon 3‘"7& ARUIOt" Ws what the

-mgost sanguine Walkerites expected, and l now we find that the House of Delegates will stand thus: ; b Conservatives. .56.. oo g 0 91 Radiotles. ... 0. AL Uol ,iéonserv-a.tive mority. ... . s 4T - In the Senate the vote stands : Conservatives. .. .00 ... 00 . ..., 29 Radioals ... . .0 i . 12 Conservative maj0rity.............. 17 Three counties, clioosing four members of the House of Delegates, are still doubt-. ful, but of the four, two members will probably be Conservative. The majority on joint ballot.is, therefore, about sixtyfive, and it may' be noted, too, that the | Conservative strength is sufficient to override the Governor's veto should he ever “go back” upon the party that put him in power. ;

Alt The Fifteenth, Amendment. . The Radical papers publish strangely incorrect lists.of the States which bave ratified or assumed to ratify the Fifteenth Amendment. What object is to be gained by repeatedly asserting that lowa, Tennessee, Minnneota, and other States which have taken no action, bave fully accepted the Amendment, passes conjecture. The action taken thus far is ag follows: Alabama, said to have ratified. Arkansas, ratified March 15. : Connecticut, ratified May 13. Delaware, rejected. - Flérida, ratitied in June. - Georgia, rejected. : ' ~ Illinois, ratified March 5. , Indiana, assumed to ratity May 14:— No quorum present. . Kansas, agsumed to ratify February 27. The second section was imperfect. . Louisiana, ratified March 1. Maine, ratified March 9. =~ Massachusetts, ratified March 12. . ~ Michigan, ratified March 5. 5 Missouri, assumed to ratify March I.— Did not act upon the second section. . Nebraska, assumed to ratify. Certificate on file at- the State Department is informal and insufficient. . Nevada, ratified March 1. ¥ New Hampshire, ratified July 1. New York, ratified April 14. North Carolina, ratified March 5. - Pennsylvania, ratiffed March 26. - Rhode- Island, the Senate ratified May 27, The amendment will probably: be rejected; because the Rhode Island Radicals believe that under it they can no longer disfranchise their Irish Catholic laborers. : L South Carolina, ratified March 10. West Virginia,-ratified March 3. Wisconsig, ratified March 5. ' This makes only twenty-one States that can possibly be claimed for the amendment thus far; and of these, only seventeen have legally ratified it. The adsent of eleven more States will be necessary to force negro suffrage upon an' unwilling people.

. A Slash at the Grand Army, A late issue of the New York Zribune contains the following slash at the polit-ico-military organization known as the “Grand Army of the Republic:” - From this Grand Army of the Repub-! lic now parading through political conventions in the West, commanded by the captains of the caucus, the lobby and the bar-room, we appeal to the Grand Army of the Republic which: carried our banners over a hundred fields, under the eye of Grant, Shermian and Sheridan.— We denounce this new secret association as out of sympathy with the true Republican party, and as inimical to the Constitution and Union.. It will be asad day for our party when soldiers find no better work than to prowl over the battlefields of the past, and dig up the bodies of the slain. The country wants peace, and rest, and harmony, and justice.. Zhese men want a distracted country ‘that offices may be gained. We have no disposition to interfere in family quarrels, and, therefore, leave our harmonious friends to settle their’ differences in any wziy they may choose. But we should really like to inquire why the Tridbune did not discover the { sins of the Grand Army at an ecarlier day? It is not &' shade better or worse than six month sinice, when the Zribune and the Tribune’s party hailed this Grand Army as the very essence of loyality and the concentration of unselfish patriotism~- - Then its members were “the brave boys in blue,” new they are hyenas ready “to prowl over:the battle-fields: of the past, and dig up the graves of -the slain."— Buch a wonderful change in so shorta Etime[ is, to say the least, curious, and deserves. investigation. In the. mame .of justice and John Logan we demand an explanation. : : Rmm‘m ; The telegraph brings us the rews that & bloody revolution has broken out in Portoßico, and that the rich families are murdered and their dwellings burnt. Those who are able to escape are fleeing from the island. 3 :

Porto Rico is one of the Spanish W. L Islands, lying ‘cast of Hayti. It is 90 miles long from east to west, and 36 miles broad. A range of motuntains covered with wood, runs through the island from east to west, averaging 1,500 feet in height, the loftiest peak being 38,678 feet high. The low lands are rich, and su-gar-cane, cotton and tobacco are raised.— Gold, copper, iron, lead and coal have been found on the island. Its exports amount to from five to' eight -millions of dollars annually, Slavery exists in the island, agn Cuba, there being 50,000 slaves, in a total population of half a million.— ‘Three hundred ad sixty years ago the Spaniards invaded Porto Rico from Hayti, and in & few years exterminated its na-’ tives, numbering 700,000. ~ . ~ ... - ‘The Political Situation. The Washington. Correspondent, of the Chicago ZT'mes, writes that a settled determination seems to have been inangurated, by prominent radicals, to defeat the .results of the Virginia -election, Sevigég:gl' leading ones' have :expregsed the helief that Congress will refuse to admit the ‘state, on the ground of fraudulent voting, and ire confident that Gen. Canby, by the course he has taken, will prevent & con_servative majority in the legislature, and thereby prevent the election of conserva-’ tives to the United States senate. .Prominent radicals alea fhink that cause exists for ;the, mest: careful watching -of the ‘movements :of the ‘president in - political ‘mattess during the fall campaign; The‘extremists do not hiesitate £o svow - their ‘belief shat the very palpable conservatism of two or thres ‘members of the cabinet il o i i s oerthe prs ident ga £ catse hitn £0 stbmit measares to:fhe pext session of fc@ﬁss;*@ich gan: zmmamgnwézomesmwmy.,,. This uneasiness 4s to keeping the presi: dent in their power will, it is said, inducs

_ THE STATE DEBT. s I"'The State debt has been reduced $l, 800,000 —Journat, -~ T .~ There isalittle error of eight. orte legacy of ten or twelve n:ihou of State debt has been reduced, by ﬁ e n% economy, until it is now only $l,BOO. and that will be’ extinguished in another year.— Terre Haute Express. @ @ = ~“That's -pretty good, comménts the In. dianapolis Sentinel. The Btate debt has been reduced, the Ezpress says, by Rejpublican_economy, until it is now only $1,800,000. The State debt has been re~duced, but not to the extent claimed, by Republican tuzation. Instead of being only $1,800,000, if what is termed the foreign debt has been reduced to that amount, the State is still in debt §5,454,900, nearly five and a half million dollars, on which she is paying interest. The last Auditor’s report shows that the domestic debt of the State, or what the State owes to the School Fund and the University bonds, amounts to $8,654,901. 15, to which: is to be added $1,800,000 of foreign debt. The largér portion of our State debt has been cancelled by what the Radical papers term repudiation. In 1845-6 onehalf of the State debt was wiped out by a compromise with her creditors. The State had repudiated its debt by failing to pay the interest for several years.— While in tLis condition the creditors came forward and took hew 'bonds for one-half the debt and a lien upon worthless property for the other half. Since 1861 the State has paid the interest upon her indebtedness, and she -has been liquidating tha principal‘of the debt, also, with depreciated currency. By a resolution of the Radical Congress it was declared that all the public debt of the United States, even the 5-20’s that were contracted to be paid in greenbacks, the same kind of money that was received for the bonds, is payable in gold—beénce its payment in depreciated currency would be equivalent to- repudiation, according to Radical declarations.. Our State bonds were contracted upon-a gold basis, and it'was understood that both principal and interest wereto be paid in gold. The State repudiates this contract aud compels her creditors to receive a currency worth from;thirty to fifty per cent. lesg than gold in payment of both principal and interdst. ' Is this not repudiation? Has not Indiana, in fact, repudiated the larger portion of her public indebtedness, and if it is right for a State to thus violate her contracts with her creditors, would it not be equally justifiable in the general Government'to cancel the larger portion of its indebtedness in the same equitable manner.’ *

JUSTLY APPRECIATED.: @ How very respectable the administration of Mr. .Andrew Johnson appears in the light shed back wupon it by the administration of Mr. Ulysses 8. Grant, has now become a trite observation. DBut there is something refreshing in knowing that Mr. Johneon himself has a just notion of his successor, and something extremely refreshing in reading the language in which Mr. Johnson, in a recent conversation, uttered his sentiments : I know Grant thoroughly. . T had am ple opportunity to study him when I was President, and I am convinced that he is the greatest farce that. was ever thrust upon a people. Why, the little fellow—excuse me for using the expression, ibut I can’t help pitying him—the little fellow has nothing im him. He hasn't a single idea. He has no policy, no conception of what the country re-. quires. -‘He don't understand the philosophy of asingle great question, and is completely lost in trying to understand his, situation. AHe is mendacious, cunning, and treacherous, He lied to me. flagrantly, by God, and‘l convicted him by my whole Cabinet; but that even woald have been tolerable were it the only instance, but it was not. He lied on many other occasions. . I tell youw, sir, Grant is nothing more than a bundle of petty spites, jealousies, and resentments. And yet they say Grant is a second Washington. Just look at the man sitting at a ‘Cabinet council. He hag no idea, no policy, no standard, no creed, no faith, How can he guide the people? How can he impress any great improvements or moral ideas upon'the nation ? He has no object to.look forward ito, no leading aim to draw the people towards any particular end. He sits there with his Cabinet. One meémber has bought him a house in Philadelphia, another has given him '565,000, another has given hima carriage, and 'so on. It is degrading to the office of President of the United Statés to have such a man there, 5

Aady knows the subject of his criticism thoroughly, and has a happy way of giving expression to his thoughts, ™ ‘The Canyass in Tennessee, . A dispatch from Nashville conveys the intelligence that Ex-President Johnson arrived in that city on the 15th, from East Tennessee.- He had several appointments to speak in Middle and. West Tennessee before the election. He is delighted at the. present situation in Tennessee, and althoughi-he says but liitle about his own aspirations, there is.little doubt he has a sharp lookout for the United States Senatorship. Should there be a Conservative majority “in ‘the Legislature, for which the’ prospects are most flattering, he will be likely to have Emerson Ethridge and Bailey Peyton as rivals for the plage; but there is little doubt that Andy will secure the prize, v - As showing how. Radical candidates -swarth in some of the counties, it may, be stated that in the county wherein Nashville is situated, there are mow thirteen - candidates for the House and seven for “the 'Senate. In otheér counties it is much ‘the samé,’so that it need not be wonder- | ‘ed at that the Copseifvratw{eg Have gener- | ally decided to trot oub é&hﬁi&;gtéé‘of~l Sk dwl " LR e ~ The gubernatorial canvass still goes on’ briskly, ‘Btokes’ strength waning every day. * 1t ‘may be set. down that Senter's majority will reach thirty five thousand orforty:thousand, - = - oo T Lawlessness of any kind is something. L e St e i 'ugyw :ﬁ!;:ﬁcmu, 53“?"»!11000?' o :}?ﬁqﬁx@lﬁ: e e et our sublunary sphere & blissful gamd radise, to which ﬁ:gégi : E it a side show, but we 'do wish to inform you that: Dr. Bagé's Cataryh Remedy has cured, thots: sanda of cases of Oatarrhin. R TS, ﬁ&efma m: hig: loathsome disease. that hecannot cure. I may be propured. by mail. for sixty pents, by addregsiag R. sale’ at! most - Drug Stores everywhere.

. STATE ITEMS. _ One of the Americans recently executed in Ouhc,ssr Speckman, was an Indianian, and 8 ciizen of Aurora. @ Patoka township, Gibson county, in which Princeton is situated, has voted '550,000 inaid of the New Albany and ‘Bt. Louis Railroad. In a jaunt through Shelby county last week we saw women plowing in the cornfield and men fishing in Blue river.— Shame on the men !—Franklin Press. The retort house of the'South’ Bend gas works fell to the ground on Monday of last week. It was only a week previous that the house was accepted by the company from the constructor, 7 In some counties the cost of haryest hands is fabulous. The Peru. Republican says that the tarmers of Miami county are compelled to pay $2,60 and $3,00 per day.

We hear numerous complaints thata great number of chickens are dying off with the chicken cholera.. . Some persons have lost a large number.—ZEvansville Journal. > ;

The Pierceton Independent states that an accident, on the P. Ft. W. & C.R. R, near Winslow station, smashed, 7 stock cars and killed and wounded about 600 hoge.| i i

The Indianapolis Journal says the days of the Democracy are numbered. We suppose -the Good Being has numbered them, just as He has numbered the sands of the sea shore, and the "leaves of the forest.—New Albany Ledger.

The Goshen Democrat relates a heartless and disgraceful affair; in Middlebury. . The boys decoyed a poor girl into an old tannery and kept her there a week, and then took her and ducked her in the creek until she wa s nearly drowned. Arrangements have been completed for establishing a blast furnace and ruliing mill in Terre Haute. The stock will be $125,000, of which Mr. Crawford takes half and gives the establishment his name, | |

Harvesting has commenced, and as a consequerce our streets have been nearly deserted ‘on the few pleasant days that have lately been vouchsafed us. Spite of the rueful season, the wheat crop is said to be excellent in this vicinity. We are greatly . rejoiced -thereat. Its failure would have sealed our doom.—ZElkhart Review, ;

An clection was held in Steuben county on the 10th instang, to determine the question of an appropiation of $50,000 to aid in the construction of the Fort Wayne; Jackson and Saginaw Railroad, which resulted in a majority of five hundred and fity “for appropriation.” This, with the amount already supscribed, secures the preparation of the road bed through the county. | o :

Dauring the high waters of last week, in a small branch of the Kankakee river, near the Illinois and Indiana State line, & man named Booth, while attempting to ford it with a team of mules and a wagon laden with sheep-shearing utensils, drove into/deep water, drowned the mules, and came very near reaching the same end himself. Hé was endeavoring to get over the stream for the purpose of shearing a lot| of sheep for a Mr. Walker, to whom the mules belonged.” -

The reports of the wheat harvest continue as favorable as the most sanguine could ask. In Montgomery county, says the Crawfordsville Journal, “the crop is the largest ever known.” ' In Tippecanoe county, according to the Lafayette Courier, farmers all through and the adjoining counties were busy all day Sunday—many of the women, even, assisting—in getting in the wheat, The dread of rain caused this unusual effort. The crop of this year, we think it ‘may be set down as settled, is the largest ever harvested in the State.

HABV':TT:—Farmers are generally busy in their'harvest fields this week, although the weamer “has been rather unsettled most of the time. The late spring has thrown the farmer’s work altogether this year, and it will make hurrying times until the harvest is off. Present appearances indicate that the yicld of wheat® will be larger. in the aggregate than that of any previous year ; and that the yield per acre will be nearly, if not quite, equal to that of our best, wheat years previous to the late failure.” The on]yfthix?g wanting now is |good - weather.— Waterloo City Press. ds e

The Winchester Journal of Thursday says: “A terrible accident happened at Lynn, this county, yesterday. Mr. Chas. Bascom, the praprietor of the saw mill at Lynn, was engaged in sawing lumber, when by some means the circular saw caught a piece of wood or board he was bolging in his hand, jerking him down and sawing him almost through the body. The saw struck him on the left shoulder, passing diagonally across his breast, and he was instantly Kkilled. Mr. Bascom Was a young man, not twenty-one years old, and had only been married six weeks. He was very highly respected’ by all who knew him. {oes Ayl

A terrible accident befell, near Lawfence, Kansas, yesterday, the excursion party part of whicix left this city on the _morning of 'the 7th. = The . train contain~ing the party fell through a bridge, kill‘ing insi_antly the conductor and %reman. A number of excursionists from this State, -among the rést, were injured, but fortu‘nately only slightly, as the telegraph in.forms us; Among these are Messrs. Noble; Edward King, Lucine Hills, J. Pérkins, J. D. Herkimeér, Bayless W. Hanna, and General Cruft. All of these are being properly cared for in Lawrence, ahd are doing well. The friends and rela‘tions of the party have cause for thankfulness that they have been spared the afflictions of more serious’ harm-to those dear | to them; as, from the nature of the accident, it is & mercy that many were not killed of seriously injured.—Zlndianapolis Journal, 14th inst. . ——— O P e .. 'The National Capital. The| Philadelphia Inguirer, in discussing the question of the removal of the national capital, well says: bt .With such'a great diversity of opinion among the wise men of the’ West, it is more than probable that the Presidﬂeint *will: reside, - ‘Congress ‘meet,” and ' office -seekers anxiously seek, for several gener ‘ation%to come, and the .city chosen by the Fathers of the Republic .on the banks of :the Potoma, . which, without jcomwinfg‘ics ‘atmosphere’ to that of the capital of other great countries, is dear to'the nation from its dssociations with the late’ war' and the minor ‘contest of -'1812T; and will be a ‘notable ‘historic city ~for years t 6 come, for ' within its boundaties were heard the voioes: of the intellectual giants of the Republio, ... =

. ' "Sage Comelusion. 2 ~ 'The Widrsiw Indianian has just made the startling discovery that the Democracy i responsible for the achievements of the. Know-Noething party, because, for--sooth, the latter succeeded in persuad.ing certain: individuals: to, forsake their .principles. and . he¢ome : traitars: fa the - Democratic: party.. With the ssme propriety, :tlier Indianian might undertake to prove that the Democraey is respon-: sible for every®act of the Republican party because their - ranks weére filled ‘with recruits from ‘our = organization,— Whrped, | indeed, 'must ‘be:'the mind .from which emanate these frigid flights: . The New York Sun, black ﬂ\‘l&h to. it g remonablo niggor, sara “Gsat is like "the yelloy dog in . nengene e fs too small for a Non, b’ dom't loak ke tger, snd nobody 'vanis o 60 &

e — LATEST NEWS ITEMS. ¥ § 3 ——— S o Three hundred Chinamea and a cargo of Polynesian Islanders arrived at San Francisco on Wednesday. * The French ministry has resigned and the 51:9; Legnht'if rg” been proroged. The latter isindignant. . = = Mrs. B. A. Omsbee, & widow, was shot dead by a burgler in broad daylight, one day last week, at her house west of Greenmount Cemetery, Springfield, O. Benjamin W. Foster, of Spri 1 Mn’il.,gvéu' on Tuesday of Mmhpmgéeﬁe% : and sentenced to the State Prison for life for committing a rape on'a girl eleven years of age. : Boats have been sent from Galveston to the rescue of the people in the Valley of the river :Colorado, many of whom mi'_e said to have taken refuge on the tops of trees. 3

The . President has named Tuesday, November 30th, as the day for voting on the new Constitution in Mississippi. A separate vote is to be taken on the disfranchising clause. = -

Genersl Carr telegraphs the successful result of an expedition against the Indians under Tar Bull. Fifty-two warriors were killed and seventeen' women and children captured. o ,

A d?cihion of the Secretary “of the Interior in regard to the Choctaw neutral lands in Kansas, gives‘the actual settlers the preference in their purchase attheir appraised value. : B An additional half million -of cigars have been seized by the Government officers at New Orleans.: It appears to be difficult for the Government to’ get its dues from the business men of that cify.

Mr. Seward and hii party have: left San Francisco for Sitka. The old %entleman is anxious to examine the quality of the soil’ purchased by him of the Northern gm ' ' Lo ey

A new express company, with a capital of eiéihiﬁ mil‘l)ion dollspr: h’;s been :'pgsnized at San Francisco. The Central Pacific Railroad Company have applied for & charter for an express company.’ On the 2nd day of November an election will be held in Florida, by proclamation of Governor Reed of that State, to take the sensd of the people of West Florida on the question of annexing that portion the of State to Alabama.

The match between Allen and Gallagher fon a prize fight was closed Tuesday afternoon at St. Louis. The battle is to take p‘}oace on the 17th of August, within fifty miles of St. Louis, for $5OO a side, open to an increase to $l,OOO and excursion /money. e ;

'J. Sanford, the oldest passenger conductor of the Erie & Pittsburg Railroad, while looking from the platform of a car at Grepnville one day last week, was struck on the head by a switch-target and knocked from the train, breaking his skull and his right leg. His injuries are probably fatal.. : Income returns in New Orleans recently made to the Collector, were found to be suspiciously small, and the Supervisor of that District, immediately orderel a ‘Te- ment. His action” has been approved by the Revenue department, and a new income list must be ‘made in that city. | ; : Another murder was committed in Bond County, Illinois, on Tuesday. Two cousins, named Blackberry, got into an 'alterca}‘tion in the harvest-field, and one stabbeﬁ the other, killing him instantly. Both parties were the sons of wealthy farmers, | The murderer was ‘arrested and lodged in Hillsboro jail. Tmi}New York Herald's correspondent says “Grant has promised to do all he can for-hig party in Pennsylvania. =An interesting%sgectacle for-the country—a “President of the whole people,” using the publi¢ resources to aid a party, or a faction of a party, who are scrambling for offices. “Let us have peace.” o Joseph J. Bates, convicted in the United States District Court in Boston, of manufacturing stills without paying the required tax, has been sentenced to one gmr’s imprisonment and a fine of $l,OOO. ates mmde and sold stills for illicit distilling; and then informed on the distiller, making money both ways. ¢

Theé excavation of the Indian mounds in Cornplanter township, Venango County, Pa., has resulted in some startling developments, the mummified body of an Indian princess has been discovered, and was on exhibition in Titusville on Thursday. - The remains are in an excellent state of petrification, and werthy of scien tific inspection. : %

_An | adjourned meeting Saturday, in Boston, of the American Tract Society of Boston, after a lengthy discussion of the proposition to dissolve the Society, divide the assets among the three denominations interested, to re-unite with the New York branch, or to sustain its fu ent independent position, finally tabled all the propositions, and adjourned.

Mr, Isasc N. Morris, late Government Director of the Union Pacific Railroad, whose report caused so much comment, is out/in & long letter in reply to Hamilton G. Fant, in which’ he reiterates his former statements concerning the road, and is rather severe on Senator Conkling and ex-Senator Wade for the telegrams in praise of its construction and management. £

. William Busby, & carriage trimmer, who has been working for Mr. William Johnson, in Cambridge, Ohio, for some time %ast, committed suicide, Friday night, by cutting -his throat in a most horrible manner, the cut extending almost all around the neck. *He also cut ome arm about hslf off, besides a small cut in the wrist, and one quite large one in one of his legs. He was discovered lying in the trimming room, about'five o'clock Saturday morning, by one of his fellowworkmen. He was still conscious and asked for water several times, but made no allusion to what he had done.. He died about 10 oclock, .. .. .

The Boston Advertiser comes to the rescue of Governor Claflin, whom the Loring Radicals pretend to ignor as a candidate for renomination for Governor. The Advertiser thinks that Claflin has made a good Governor, and is just asmuch entitled to renomination as any of his prede_cessors, . Things are very much mixed in Massachusetts.. Butler is working like a beaver for ‘Wilson’s place in the Senate and Dr. Loring, Speaker Jewell, and half a dozen others, are struggling for the Governorship. In the meantime Jobn Quincy Adams, is to be nominated by the Demoorats, supportéd by the Knights of Bt. Crispin, 50,000 strong, abd the anti. ‘prokibitory liquor law ‘sentiment, and be jelected Governor of the reg:nmbed com--monwealth of Massachuse bty ' A'remarkable case has ‘been tried in Delaware. Thirtysix: years ago a man in Neweastle county purchased a slave ‘woman, ‘who, with her g!n%hber, continued inseryice as slaves until September last, when, for the first time, they heard that slavery had been abolished, They -were employed as farm hands. They ‘breught suit against. their former master, “Thomas Jefferson Clarke, for one hundred -and: forty-two weeks' ,xge& Senator ‘Bﬂy&du%peamdforthc ence. When the daughter's evidence was offered in ' support of the mother’s Ql&i_m,he objected, but the Court admitted the testimony—nt having determined ' that question. Aftera lo i tria), the jury rendered s Mmmw It i prtable Row. ;mb. oo . W {»"l : S "g“%: $e

RULE IN THE NATIONAL CAPITOL. Darkfes on the Rampago--Negroes . patch (July 7 tothe N, Y, Herald). . Quite & scene occurred late this afternoon what is/ called Theatre Row.— Two lwart .darkies, somewhat the ‘worse for liquor, entered a dﬁnki-nﬁ‘:-, loon a few doors from the National Theatre, and in an insulting manner demanded to be served with “whisky straights,” The keear .informed them that they could not be accommodated, whereupon they commenced to curse and damn, not only the proprietor, the barkeeper and the blishment, but the entire white. race. “You won't serve colored men with' drink, won't you? We'll show you whether yon will or' not. We've got this town now, Mayor, Aldermen, jury, and everything else, and-by jiminy we'll make [you treat usright,” said the darkies, using all the while the vilest oaths and c&r:es. The proprietors of the ‘saloon behaved with great moderation under qxe circumstances, refraining from: either| molesting or replying to the darkies, who withdrew to the strect and there renewed their denunciations of the white race. In the meantime quite a crowd had gathered about the darkies; but no one attempted to touch them. Af: ter venting their rage in words for some time tgle pair proceeded to another barroom ¢lose by.. One of them entered in a blustering way, while the other remained at the| door. Some five or six white men followed the darky into the bar-room $o wit, the scene. The darky went up to :ﬁf bar and insolently demanded a drink, which was refused by the barkeeper. - Thereupon the darkey gave free ven%?&o his mgﬁ’l‘ husing t{xg most dgsgmi::ing langua e result was. that he wgs ‘Jngcukg down, but whether by the bar-keeper or somebody else is not known. He wmenhspinning out of the bar-room, and, dc mFanied by his companion,went in nethech of some policcmen. .In a short time he returned with three ' policemen, out as he could not identify the person wh'bgtmc‘ k and knocked him down, the police assistance availed nothing.. 'The darkies threatened to return with colored reinforcements and clean out the drinking shops all along the row. '

ANOTHER HORRIBLE OUTRAGE FRUS- : e e TR, ; o Instances of attempted outrages by negroes upon white girls are becoming quite| common in this vicinity. On the sth of July, while a_negro picnic was in full blast near the Virginia end of the Long Bridge, a stout negro, who had wandered [from the picnic grounds, siezed a reas)ectable white girl, who was accompanied by a younger sister, and attempted to outrage her. A -white man, who happened to be near, was attracted by tl}‘e girls'! cries, and arrived in time to frighten the negro off before he had accomplished his purpose. The negro ran towards the picnic party and could not be identified. : : ) Terrible Railroad Accident. The little iown of Mast Hope, a station on the Erie Railroad, 117 miles west of New York, was the scene about. midnight on Wednesday night, 14th inst., of a frightful disaster, resulting trom the collision of the westward ‘bound passenger train with a freight ‘train also bound west, which had been ‘run upon. & siding but not sufficiently far to clear the track upon which the passenger train was running. In consequence of this neglect the engine of the freight train presented an obstruction against which the express train ran plunging headlong at a rapid rate, throﬁving the engine, the tenser,' the baggage car, express car, smoking-car, ‘one passenger-car, and a sleepingcoach from the track, and almost demolishing them. The splinters and .debris of the broken cars caught fire fronl the live coals of the locomotive. and the flames thus kindled spread to the wreck, and had attained considerable headway before they could be extinquished. The engine was almost entirely destroyed by the fire, and all but the three last coaches of the train were burned: In the smoking-car .were a large number of passengers, and those who were disabled by the shock and unable to escape from-the wreek were burned, some of them to death, A e : _ There were some emigrants in the. smoking car, five or gix of whom were killed, and " their bodies burned. Rev. B. B. Hallock, of New York, was in the car, and was burned to death. So far as known, Bix or seven were killed. St ) The coroners jury rendered the following verdiet: - - - An inquisition at Lackawaxen, in the Qounty of ' Pike, and State of Pennsylvania, before me, Chas. G. Qampbell, of the county aforesaid upon the view of the remains of Rev. B. B. Hallock, Daniel Baer, and six others, names unkix}?wn to the l'l]u(;{& being passengers on the train called No 5, ::Eigﬁefthew ork at 6:30 P. M. on the Erie Railway, on July 14, 1869, and arrived at Mast Hope, Pike county, at 11:50 P. M., at which place it came in collision with the engine of extra freight train No. 39, which was calT]g:d by the recklessness—as the jury believe—of James Griffin, the en-. gineer of the freight train extra No, 39, by drawing bis train_out of the switch before the train N 0.3 had passed, causing the death ot the above-men-. tioned persons, m@e-‘idb’ hereby exongnte Judson D.Brown, conductor of extra No. 39, and all other persons mgn ang blame whatever, except the

The nomination ,of Gen. Rosecrans for Governor - of Ohio,. by the democrats of that State, has thrown.the radicals into’' spasms. Somerof them already give up the fight in the Buckeye State. Tﬁe N. Y. Sun says that at this distance from the election, it looks as though' Rosecrans will be elected. “Old Rosey” is a splendid °°E’P%iBﬂ°¥ and will pour hot shot into the ranks of his political epponents. Ohio will return to, the democratic fold a 8 certain as the sun will rise and set gq‘ the second Tuesday of next Octo-

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i nevn;uu me;;: - The recent election in Virginia, resulting in the triumph of Col. Walker, | the conservative candidate for Governor, and in the defeat ‘in a large meas- ' ureof the radical carpet-bag elenient | throughout the State, must be a source |of genuine gratification to all who desire the restoration of a just government to that oppressed commonwealth, and the early pacification of the troubles which have been caused by unscru‘pulons and audacious political adven- | turers. The infamous constitution, be- | stowing . the elective franchise upon negroes of all grades, making them eligible to office, and to sit on juries,was carried by 150,000 majority,— This was adopted to appease the ad- - ‘ministration at - Washington, and not . because it is what the people wanted. .. The victory over the extreme rad- | ieals in this .election, will be fully ap.preciated when it is known that the influence of the administration was used against the conservatives, and Gen. Grant had personally endorsed Mr. Wells, the radical candidate. However much dissatisfied the adminstration may be with the people in Virginia‘ in reference to their choice of of- . icers, yet it cannot avoid recognizing ‘the election as valid and held in pursu--ance of such orders as were thence pro- | mulgated. . : : , - The-radical politicians of the North do mnot -appear to relish the result of the election, and such villainous haters of the South as Forney, are loud inmenaces that if the newly-elected officers in Virginia do; not support the radical party, “there is an ultimate remedy”’ in Obngress to compel them, Forney designates the party to which Col. Walker owes his election as “therebel democrats,”’ and warns all candidates seeking votes as-a “conservative,”’ that he cannot claim to be a republican, or look for recognition from a republican administration or a republican congress.— Huntington Democrat. Gt g The Coming Eclipse. - The following in reference to the eclipse of the sun, we take from the New York World : le

_The total eclipse of the sun, which will occur on the 7th of August next, is the only one since 1834, which could be observed in any considerable portion of our country; and no other total ‘eclipse will be visible in America during the present century. Asa partial eclipse it will be visible all over the northern parts of this continent, while the path of the umbra, in which the eclipse will be total, is abont 140 miles in breadth, and, passing across this continent to the Atlantic ocean, includes within its limits portions of Alaska, British America, Montana, ‘Dakota, Nebraska, lowa, Missouri, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina.. An imaginary line drawn lengthwise through the middle of this umbra 'would indicate the path of the Central eclipse, designating upon the earth the various places where the center of the moon’s shadow will seem to coincide with the center of the sun. - In St. Lonis, Omaha, Cairo and Knoxville, it will but for a moment be seen, as a total eclipse; at Fort Clark, Fort Union, Sioux City, Louisville, Frankfort and Des Moines and Fort Conolly, it will be central, or very nearly so. : | - "A-total obscuration of the sun/lis 80, rare an event, and gives so favosable i an opportunity to promote geogt;i_phrﬁ ical, astronomical and other physical’ science, that it should not be allowed | to pass: without 'accurate and careful observations. B

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