FRIDAY, I 8. Our subscribers have been unusually slow in paying their subscription during the past year. Money is very scarce, and we know that many of our friends would pay their dues if they could, and we always take pleasure the giving them all the time possible. We, however, find ourselves considerable in arrears in the of hands, paper, ink. and -therefore, hope that all who can possibly make it suit, will remit the amount due us.
Such who are in arrears for five years and more, and cannot pay all, would do us a favor by sending us a part of the bill. Those who have so promptly aided us in the payment of their bills during the past summer wilkaccept our thanks. Communicated. The Tilt Between the Black Knight and the Stout One (Stoughton.) YORK. PA.
NOVEMBER 16, 1877. PAY UP! PAY UP! Judge Black's reply to the idiotic vituperation of stoughton, has in the estimation and judgment of all persons who are possessed of a spoon full of brains and upwards, settled two factsone of history and the other of biography-finally, First, that what is now familiarly known 88 the Electoral Fraud, was the most rascally piece of political villainy ever perpetrated against a free people, and, Second, that 88 compared with E. W. Thomas Pepper's reputation for veracity was unspotted. The Judge is thoroughly aroused and fearfully in earnest.
He undertakes his task apparently, with a determination to squelch this hired apoligist; and those who read his argument will see how fearful it. is to fall into the hands even of a sublunary Judge. Metaphorically speaking. he has han died Stoughton with as much euse as the Brobdingnags' did Gulliver, He sets up the legal points and positions of Stoughton and the eight Judases, as ten pins and knocks them all down with 3 single ball; With his vigorous and irresistible logic he breaks down the puny defences which this ministerially Inclined, and now ministerially rewarded apolgist tor fraud has attempted to erect around those great political arbitration tors. If anybody heretofore had any doubt as to the unrighteousness of their decision or the absurdity of the reasoning, if reasoning it may be, called, by which the Electoral Commission reached it, after reading Black's reply to Stoughton, it must forever be dispelled, and they must be convinced, unless they be of that class, who, "Convinced against their will Are of the same opinion still." Indeed, when we look back and see how infamous and gigantic has been the wrong perpetrated by that Commission, we are astonished that human nature can bear so much.
But for the sake of peace; for the sake of the pre servation of life, and treasure; for the sake of brotherhood and harmony, rather than eternal empity and the clash of arms, the American people, have suffered this thing so to be. But let the Republican party take notice, let thirty thousand officeholders who are enjoying the fruits of this "First Great let the whole world take notice, that never more while human nature remains unchanged shall a repetition of the offence be permitted, or go unpunished if attempted. As for Stoughton, we shall enter his name side by side with that of Ananias and Thomas Pepper, that he may be illustrious in the roll he has sought and filled so well. Hon. William M'Clelland, chair- mate of the Democratic State Committee, has returned to his home in.
Pittsburg and the committee rooms at Philadelphia, have been closed. Capt. M'Clelland performed a amount of labor during the campaiga and managed the canvass with consummate skul. With a less energetic chair man democratic success would not have been so complete. His fidelity, zeal and activity deserve the highest commenda, tion.
-Patriot. George Metzel, Chairman of the 'Democratic County Committee, deserves the thanks of the party for the fidelity with which conducted the late campaign. In consequence of the small tickat to be elected the aid necessary to carry on a successful campaign was not at command, but he has made good with but trifling variation, the majority for the ticket which he Gazette. After another long debate on Monday, the House Anally passed the Army Appropriation bill. Several important amendments have been made to the bill and it is in as good shape as could be exa pected considering the divergent elements at work.
The advocates for a large increase of the army, have signally failed notwitbstanding their strenuous exertions in behalf of the measure. The army is now fixed at twenty thousand men, which if properly handled is amply sufficient for all purposes The Repub licans voted solidly against fixing the number at twenty thousand. Several amendments were rejected, but they were of a minor character and not much of a fight was made on them. There is now no reason why the bill should not be promptly acted upon by the Senate, and finally disposed of. Other important bills await action and there is no time to lose.
The European War. Great activity now characterizes preparation before Plevna. The telegraph dispatches report, heavy fighting the past few days, favorable to the Turks, and appearances indicate that Russians have much to overcome before they march victoriously into Plevna. They bave much at stake inasmuch as they cannot winter in Bulgaria, and unless they capture Turkish strong-hold, will suffer a serious drawback in opening the campaign next spring. We may expect uninterrupted and sanguinary fighting either until one or the other army is entirely exhausted, or until the weather becomes as to make it imperative to suspend operations.
A Father Shoots Three of his Children NEW YORK, Nov. 12. -Henry Hans-. man, a porter, to night shot himself and three of his children at his home, No 19 Christy street. He sent his oldest boy for some beer and when the lad returned he met him at the door with a revolver and shot him in the left breast.
Hansman then shot his youngest child, aged 4, lying in the bed. He then shot his daughter, of 6, who was in her mother's arms. He then discharged two shots in his own breast and fell to the floor unconscious. The little instantly killed, the oldest boy dangerously wounded and the youngest supposed to be fatally wounded. Hansman's wounds are Our Correspondents We are permitted to publish the following extracts from letters written by Lieut.
J. E. Noell, U. S. Navy, to his parents.
Others will follow. FROM JAPAN. YOKOHAMA, JAPAN, July 15, 1877. Dear Ones I have An ished China, at least for the present, I propose giving you some additional accounts of what I have seen among the Japanese. like the Japs, better than I do the Johns.
They are more frank, honest and truthful, and much cleaner and more polite and friendly to foreigners than the Chinese are. The climate of Japan, at this time, the middle of July, is so warm that one can do nothing but perspire. Its insusular situation in a temperate zone, being between 300 and 400 north, subjects it to considerable variations of temper-. ature, making climate differ greatly, in heat and cold, from that of Europe and America in the same latitude. Nearly every breeze that sweeps its coast, or cresses its main land, is more or less ladened with moisture; and though there is not an extraordinary quantity of rain fall, still the climate is SO moist and damp, as to make our clothes and shoes mould in a short time, acd iron and steel quickly oxydize or rust.
The north equatorial current sweeps across the Pacific, from the east, to the Philippine Islands, and then turns and flows northeast, up, and off the east coast of Japan, forming the Kiro Siwo, or Japan current, similar to our Gulf stream. The moist atmosphere, that lifts off the Kiro Siwo, is driven by the monsoons of the tropics up to where it meets the cold winds that sweep down from Siberia, forming dense and heavy fogs, that sometimes bang like a pall of gloom over the southern portions of Ja pan. And this moisture ladened atmosphere, when the sun, in his north declination, pours down his fervent rays upon it, and on the low wet flats in many portions of the Islands of which Japan is composed, becomes a malarious, enveloping canopy of enervating maladies, exhausting fevers and delir 1ous deaths to unacclimated foreigners. But such conditions do not exist in all parts of Japan. In the northern part, where I now am, the air 18 quite salubrious and healthy.
The South-east coast of Japan, like that of China, is subject to destructive storms, called Typhoons, which are pre cisely similar to our West India hurricanes; and occur about the same season of the year. Being generated in the tropics, and sweeping coastwards, they curve up through the channel of Formo88, and hurl themselves upon the east coast of China, and the southeast of Japan, making terrible havock by driving large quantities of water into the mouths of harbors, and there piling and banking them up to the utter destrucof docks, Ships, The Typhoon is a fierce rotary storm, a regular cyclone, moving over the ocean, with fearful velocity, in cork-screw fashion, like a whirlwind on land. When such a storm rides in mad triumph over the seas, the sight is fearful. The sun is lurid, the sky is black, the clouds and the ocean are united, vivid streaks of fire, in lightning flashes, leap from ocean to heaven, and from heaven to ocean again, while the thunders roll, crash and tear, as if there were, every-moment, going to be a "wreck of matter, and a crush of worlds." And I tell you, my out dear on parents, at such a time, to beaway the ocean, tossed to and fro, in a small bit of a ship, and preserved by the band of God alone, from being swallowed by the wayes, or struck by the lightning, 19 the time to make a man know his own insignificance. When I first went to sea.
I wanted to see storms, and I assure you that my youthful desire has been fully gratified. A three year's cruise on the Pacitic, including the doubling of Cape Horn, a passage from the south to the north polar, and twice through the equatorial regions, and all along the coast of and Alaska, into Cook's Inlet, Bristol Bay, around Kodiac Island is very apt to give one a sight of the vicissitudes of a Life on the Ocean that may not always be quite as fanciful in reality, as we read of in books. I have seen Ocean sights that made me think Boreas, Pluvias, Knox and Jupiter had all united in battle against Neptune. Wind, cold, rain, darkness and lightning, rolled, froze, showered, obscured and blazed tumultuously together, as though the elements were let loose to riot in the excess of their freedom, through each other. At such times, when on deck, directing the men, OF steering the ship, though ensconced in gum coat, boots and sou (a gum hat) I have often had showers of mingled sleet, snow and rain to pour over me, some of which found its way down the back of my neck, and ran like of crushed icicles Down to my toes." And then, when relieved, I have gone below, under an unventilated, tightly battened hatch, full of damp men, that were moving about a floor covered with from two to three inches of water, in which shoes, boots and other small traps were each making an independent cruise.
And, sometimes, when I'd go to "turn in" and get myself into that interesting position of having one pant leg off, and pulling at the other, sock, would come a bump, followed by a roll, and away I went, with outstretched arms and legs, like a frog, into the water on the floor. About such times, if given to profanity, I doubt whether it would be nice to put ones thoughts on paper. Then, after gathering myself up and fixing a hole in my bunk to lie in, and staying each side with books, and pressing right and left with elbows and knees, to keep square on the back, and doing all in my power to woo, morpheous to doze me into peaceful sleep, would come a swinging lee lurch, and send me, mattrass, books and all, out into the middle of the floor, where I would find a couple more, of the mess, in the same predicament, in their night smocks, and bare feet, hopping about in a couple of inches of ice cold water. Ain't it nice a seaman's life especially under such circ*mstances Then, at meal times there is often lots of fun At dinner you have the your soup before you in a rack, put on table to keep the dishes from sliding away, then the ship lurches, andif you are to leeward, you hang on, and get your opposite mess-mate's soup and dish in your lap, or if to windward, he gets your's into his lap. A.t such time, you can use but oue hand in eating, as you must use the other, and both legs to hold on by.
The table is lashed to bolts in the deck, and the chairs lashed around it, so that, in getting to your chair, you must perform a series of gymnastic evolutions over its back Ouce we bad table, chairs, dishes, soup officers and all fetch away," and piled in a mass to leeward, but as no one was hurt, we took it all as a practical joke of Old Neptune's. One time. on the Porsmouth, we were at dinner; and the ship was rolling, but not, as we thought, heavy enough to make it. necessaFry to lash the chairs. The doctor sat on the portside, just opposite his room door, when all at once came a big lurch, and we saw a pair of boots twinkle in the air, and the doctor's place became suddenly vacant, including his chair, dishes, soup and all, he having performed the gymnastic feat of turning a back somersault into his room.
Fortunately. he was not hurt, and we all had good laugh over his acrobatic leap. Of all course, times. this is Such not the things way only ship life cecur is at intervals, during heavy storms, and bad weather. In the early part of my sea life, I liked such things, but their frequent repetitions, during twelve years service, has given me a surfeit, and taken the romance out of them.
But this a big tack, and has taken me quite out of my course, I don't sheer round, I will never get into the port I started for, which was de scription of the Japanese. Japan, from Okosaki to Tokio, is as lovely a country as there is on Earth In fact, to me it seems almost an Eden in the beauty of its landscape, as seen of its elevated mountains. Being of from there sea, or from the top of some volcanic origin, it of course has all the diversity of mountain and valley, hill and dale, terrace and plane. The foliage of its forest and fruit trees the herbage of its vallevs and gardens, are ever fresh in the a verdure of spring, and the livery of summer. It is said, in an old legend, that "When man, by disobedience, was driven from the Garden of Eden, God permitted the smile of infants, the mu sic of birds, and the beauty of flowers to follow him as blessings." If that was 80, then have the Japanese shown their appreciation of the last of these blessings, by their assiduous and tasty cultivation of flowers; for nowhere, is more attention paid to floriculture than in Japan.
Many families make it a business of keeping large and beautiful flower gardens, in which, not only indiginous, but exotic flowers of all lands, climes and countries are cultivated, improved and beautified. In their flower gardens are artificial mountains, lakes and rivers.The mountains are terraced, and each terrace is studded with different colored flowers, so arranged, that those of the one blend into those of another in such a way that you cannot, by sight, tell the beginning of one terrace, or the ending of the other. This goes on from bottom to top, and has a most charming effect upon the eye. By some contrivance, water is carried to the top of these arti ficial mountains, and then led by trickling channels around all the terraces, from top to bottom. The soil being rich, water abundant, the sun ever in a semi tropical position, and the hand of care, always busy dressing, pruning, trailing and cleaning, give to the ers a constant beauty, that the eye never wearies in gazing upon.
'T'he Mikado, at Tokio, or the city of the book of flowers, has a flower garden un. surpassed by any in the world, not excepting those of London and Paris.Flowers are grown, and shaped by the Japs into all manner of grotesque, and unique figures, as houses, palaces, elelions, Asbes, birds, men, women, in different costumes, and attitudes. -I have frequently had a "Hi Kin" (good look) at gardens thus adorned, near some of the cities. Flowers for transportation, and sale, are planted in boxes, with evergreens fancifully trained to look like boats, ships, miniature foresta, rocks and scenes. They must take great care, and trouble, to make them look so pretty and natural as they do.
These flower gardens aregenerally attended by pretty, and polite Japanese girls, who speak broken English in such a quaint way, that it makes them as charming, if not more so, to the heart of a young bachelor than their beautiful flowers are to his eyes. And this charm is heightened by the polite manner, in which they take the trouble to show you everything in their gardens and then give you a pleasant Saranari, or good-bye, when you leave, and don't seem to wish, that you should come in and buy, and then "get," as quickly as you can, like they do' in Europe and America. Well, I guess I will close for the present. Good-bye. JACOB.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, D. Nov. 12th, 1877. Mr.
Editor. -The Senatorial Republican caucus us held on Saturday night seemed to result only in an agreement not to agree as to the policy of the administration in making appointments.It is said on as good authority as any, that each Republican Senator will make objection to the confirmation of such appointees as he chooses, but that there was no agreement among Senators to support each other. From this it would seem that of them recognize the necessity for interfering with some of the notions of Mr. Hayes, but that a majority are either afraid to make an open While quarrel, this or wish uncertainty to postpone exists it. as confirming appointments, there is no less conrusion and wavering as to an features agreement of on Mr.
the Hayes' other course distinguished the Southern policy. There may not be an open rupture on either subject at present, as the caucus seems to have shown a disposition on the part of a majority of the Senators to give Hayes a chance to come back to his party allegiance.The irreconcilables are understood to have been very few. There is a clear majority of Senators in favor of the bill which passed the House remonetizing silver, but it is now evident that final action will be postponed until the regular session. This means until January at least, as the holiday adjournment will come early this year. Looking at the work Con gress came here in extra session to do, and at what progress it had made, one is inclined to doubt the policy of holding extra sessions.
What has been done in the last few days seems to indicate that no increase of the Army beyond 20,000 will be allowed, and that for the present the force will not be reduced below that number. When Pennsylvania recommended Simon Cameron for minister of England and Illinois "Bob" Ingersoll for minister of Germany, Secretary Evarts had a right to say that these acts showed the impropriety of letting the average politician select men for important offices. In the one case a choice was made that a prominence of forty years has demonstrated the great unfitness of. In the other a man was chosen who is new to the politics of the country and unknown to its people except through the noisy propagation of intidelity. A "reform" administration could hardly appoint either of these, even if he wished ever so much to concilate the machine politician.
Bat Secretary Evarts seems, in his unaided selection of another party for another foreign office, to have chosen a -Sanford-as conspicuously unfit as either Cameron or Ingersoll. It is to be hoped that Ingersoll and San ford, no matter what the political or other influence may be which has procured the mention of their names for bigh office, will be finally dropped as Cameron was. The conviction of Cardogo and Smalls, prominent Republican officials of South Carolina, would give more genuine satisfaction if it was believed that they and others equally guilty would suffer the legal punishment for their crimes. But no one here believes that they, or Patterson, or Parker, or Chamberlain, or any other politician of note in that State will get his desserts. The same spirit of compromise which has prevented full and fair investigation in Louisiana, is gaining control in South Carolina.
A few convictions if not followed by the legal punishment for offences, will not satisfy the people of the country. We have more Indians here -this time a civil enough delegation of those who have not been enemies of the whites. They come with small requests which will doubtless be granted. RENO. FROM ANDERSONTOWN.
AMDERSONTOWN Nov. 3rd, 1877. Mr. Editor. -We can brag of our littie town above all the towns and villages in our county.
We claim to be ahead. We have in our town one school house and some sixty scholars and a noble teacher, one blacksmith shop, where we can get all kinds of work done from a needle to a penknife, one store that has on hand everything that is needed, a veterinary surgeon that can do anything in his line of business, who keeps always on band a large and full stock of drugs, one church, one restaurant and one butcher. These are the business places, but the best of all is, there is only one Republican among us, the rest of our population are Democrats. We will show you what we can I do on Tues day next. Yours, A.
From the Washington Star. A Deficiency in the White House. Private Secretary Rodgers was before the House Committee on appropriations on Fridav, with a Deficiency bill fort the White House. The items included $2,000 for extra clerk hire, $900 for horses, $25 for repairing barness, and $100 for horseshoes. The committee ad vised Mr.
Rodgers- that the would have to be first presented to the House, and referred to the committee before they could take it up. When the committee adjourned a newspaper correspondent met Mr. Hewitt, when the following dialogue -What was Rodgers doing before your committee Mr. Hewitt -He came about a Defi Correspondent- Where is the Deficiency? Mr. Hewitt--In the White House.
Mr. Hewitt-Only since the of Correspondent it existed 4008 March last. Correspondent -Is it large Mr. Hewitt -Well, no, I should say about the size of Samuel J. Tilden.
Town and County. RAILROAD TIME TABLE. Departure of Passenger Trains from York, NORTHERN CENTRAL RAILWAY. On and after Monday, May 14, 1877, trains will leave York, as follows: NORTHWARD- HARRISBURG, Mall, 11.30 a. Daily except Sunday.
Fast. Line, 2.16 p. daily Harrisburg Express, 8.15 p. daily except Sunday Cincinnati Express, 11.37 p. daily.
Oyster Express, 9.34 p. daily except Sanday. SOUTHWARD Fast Line, 5.27 a.m., daily. Washington Express, 7.55a. daily except Sunday.
Mail, 8,36 p. dally except Sunday. Day Express, 6.27 p. daily. FREDERICK DIVISION P.
R. R. On and after Monday, Aug. 1877, trains will run as follows: WESTWARD-HANOVER, 8 05 A. for Frederick.
10 55 A. for Hanover. 3 38 P.M., for Frederiek. 6 10 A.M., 11 30 4 10 9 16 P. M.
The 6.10 A.m., 11.30 A. and 4.10 P. trains for Philadelohia On and after Monday, May 21, 1877, the trains on the Peach Bottom Railroad will run as follows: PEACH BOTTOM RAILWAY. Leave York, Freight aud Passenger 7 05 A. M.
and Mail 3 5C P. M. Leave Delta, Passenger and Mall-6 80 A. M. 66 Freight and Passenger 3 45 P.
M. A number of articles, among which, is a letter from Dover, were crowded out of this week's paper, in order to make room for a synopsis of Judge Black's reply to Mr. Stoughton's defence of the electoral fraud. It is the most compiete and crushing answer to the defenders of the crime which made Mr. Hayes President that has ever been written, and it deserves the close attention of every citizen and every honest man.
Work is soon to be resumed at the Dillsburg end of the York Springs Railroad. Col. W. Stewart is furnishing the survey. On Tuesday, a brick school house in Springfeld township, was destroyed by fire.
The building was occupied by a public school taught by Miss Noss. -At the election of the York and Chanceford Turnpike Road Company, the following officers were elected President. Z. K. Loucks; Managers, S.
RES Boyd, Jacob Loucks, N. Lehmayer, M. Spahr, F. S. Weiser; Treasurer, Jere Carl.
NORTH CODORUS H. K. Bentz, is erecting a two-story frame house, about one mile from Stoverstown. George Fissel, of Stoverstown, is erecting a one and a half-story frame house, one mile from Stoverstown. Mr.
George Seifert is erecting a twostory frame house. near New Salem. An error occurred in the returns for sheriff, in our last paper. The returns from Windsor were placed under the head of Wrightsville and those from Wrightsville under the head of Windsor. The transposition of these two districts, however, does not effect the result in the main.
The vote of the two districts are as follows Peeling. Fortenbaugh. Windsor 158 93 Wrightsville 116 158 CONCERT. -The G. Female Division of the Heidelberg Sunday Sehool, purpose giving an entertainment, consisting vocal and instrumental music, recitations and reading, for the benefit of the class, on Thursday, November 22nd.
The class will be assisted by the Sociable Quartette of this place, and the principal lady singers of the church. Miss Ella Sauerber, of Columbia, sister. of the pastor, will also be present and read several selections. The programme as arranged is very complete and promises a fine entertainment. RETURNEd HOME.
Midshipman York Noell, U. S. Navy, returned to his home on last Thursday, from a cruise up the Mediterranean Sea, on board the U.S., ship Alliance. During the cruise, he visited Alexandria in Egypt, Joppa, Tyre, Sidon, St. Jean, De Aero.
Beyrout and Lavdicea in Syria, also Tarsus (the birthplace of St. Paul,) Eperus and Smyrna in Asia Minor As as Constantinople, Salenica, Naples, Genoa and Marsailles along the south of Europe. The Midshipman had a very interesting trip, and brought home quite a number of curiosities, etc. Wm. Brown and Abram Zeigler, of Harrisburg, accosted Mr.
Martin Smyser, living near Dillsburg, on election day, and showed him a box, which he opened easily. They then bet him ten dollars that he could not open it again while they counted twenty. Of course, they won the bet and kept the money after asking him it was satisfied. He said he was, and rode on In the afternoon, however, suit was brought against the men before Squire Clark, who released them upon their refunding the money and paying costs. They were short of the requisite sum, eight dollars, which was raised by subscription for them.
The Harrisburg Patriot, referring to the occurrence, and speak. ing of the two "covy's," says: -The above pair are well known in this city as contidence men. Abe Zeigler is an expert dealer. They must be very considerate people in Dills burg to raise by subscription the sum of $8 to release a pair of swindling scoundrels did they have their just dues would be confined the balance of their within the walls of the penitentiary." CADET MICHAEL unfortunate youth, who has been lying in a precarious condition for a long time, from the effects of injuries received in the discharge of his duties on board the U. S.
Cruising Ship Mayflower, whilst lying in the port at Philadelphia, continues to suffer the most excruciating pain. His wasted limbs and sunken cheeks" tell the tale of his sorrowful suf fering. It is feared by his physicians and his parents that unless his youthful constitution rallies and augments his wasting strength, life must succumb. It is indeed sad to contemplate the death of so promising and talented lad, endowed with an intellect far 'beyond one of his years, -to whom the most difficult studies of naval academy were an easy task. parents are this lavish in their attentions to him, leaving nothing undone to ease his pains and make him comfortable, refusing, we fear to the detriment of their own health, the proffered assistance of many kind friends.
And may we not hope that the Creator in his mercy and wisdom will allow one possessed of such brilliant powers of intellect. the blessings of life, and that his parents may realize their fondest anticipations for the future life of their boy. DEATH JONATHAN GEESEY. -On Monday last, in Dallastown, after a painful illness some weeks, from the effects of a carbuncle, Jonathan Geesey departed this life, in the 67th year of his age. The Geesey family were among the pioneers of that staid old township, the deceased's ancestors having settled there as early as the year 1720, over a century and.a half ago.
They were descendants of Swiss stock, industrious, frugal and happy, and through their nergy and perseverance, amassed quite a respectable competence, in their day Jonathan Geesey inherited all the traditional characteristics of his forefathers, and at the time of his death, he had the confidence of the wbole community, in which he resided, and all appeared to be justly proud of him as a citizen. He connected himself with the Lutheran church, known as Blymier's, at a very early age. He was not a mere nominal office bearer, as are too many in the household of the church, but an active working, energetic, perseving christian, manifesting to the world that the love of Jesus was in his heart. Any church could be proud of having such a man upon its roll of membership, for in his lite and character be illustrated the highest type of good citizenship and christian consistency. He was the father of ten children, nine of which survive him--six sons and three daughters.
He was the grandfather of twenty eight children. The sweet remembrance of the just. Shall Hourish when he sleeps in dust. THE ELECTION. We held back our paper last week some six or seven hours beyond the usual time of going to press, in order to give our readers a full and complete return from all the election districts in the county, did not, however, have time to aggregate the vote and the majorities of each candidate, which deficiency we supply in this week' issue.
The total vote of the county, was, 11,228, against 17,230 last year, showing a falling off of 6,002. (The Democratic vote was 3,311. and the Republican 2,879, less than they polled in 1876, Auditor General, Schell over Passmore, 3144. State Treasurer, Noyes over Hart, 3165 Supreme Judge, Trunkey over Sterrett, 3141. Sheriff, Peeling over Fortenbaugh, 3482.
District Attorney, Heller over Trim ner. 2962. of- Wills. Hiestand over Register Kell, 8247. Commissioners' Clerk, Firestone over Eichar, 3079 County Surveyor, Williams over Adams, 3069.
Director of the Poor, Kohr over Van hyning, 3051. The total. scattering vote in York county, was, for Treasurer, Carnet 35 and Wright 48; for Supreme a Judge, Vinton 40 and Bentley 48. Motter.re™ ceived one vote for Sheriff. YORK CO.
ALMS HOUSE, November, 14, 1877. A special meeting was called by Messrs. J. B. Sayres and Mathias Reigart, for the purpose of organizing the board.
Adam Kohr. the newly elected director, presented his oath of office and was received member of said board, dafter which it was on motion unanimously agreed that Mathias Rei: gart act as President for the ensuing year. On motion adjourned to meet on Friday, 1 December 7th, 1877, at 9 o'clock, a. m. Attest M.
STUCK, Clerk. FOUR BROTHERS ATTACKED IN THEIR HOUSE BY ROBBERS IN HELLAM Friday night, about eight o'clock, three disguised desperadoes entered the residence of four brothers--all old bachelors--named Peter, David and Christopher Roth, residing about two northwest of Wrightsville. The robbers entered the house quietly and without any warning, 1m- mediately commenced a murderous onslaught on the inmates with knuckles and billies, no pistols or knives being used. Peter Roth who was sitting in the corner. behind the door, at the wood box, was evidently unobserved by the robbers, of which fact he took advantage by striking one of them over the head with a brail of reports, however, that the assailants, were experts in the art of that every blow aimed at them was dexteriously warded off.
Two women in the family, who are keeping house for the broth ers, quickly gave the alarm. They ran to the house of a fifth brother, who resides about 150 yards distant, and by their screams, aroused the whole neighborhobd. Things becoming too hot for the robbers, and fearing the woman's outcry would bring the neighbors, they left the premises, carrying with themes loaded rifle which happened to be in the room. The rifle was afterward found about 200 yards southeast from the house, in which direction they made their escape, crossing fields and fences in their haste. The four brothers were all more or less injured about head and face -no other part of the body showing any marks of violence, Peter was injured the most, though not fatally.
Dr J. A. Thompson, of Wrightsville, attended them professionaly. The robbers, were ferried oyer from Marietta, when they reached this side of the river, they told the ferryman to wait for them about an hour or so, as they intended to go back It is supposed that a party, who did not over'? with them, guided them from the river to the house of the Roth brothers--a distance of about or 2 miles; but they did not return the same way. That same night, soon after this affair had occurred, three.
men came to Wrightsville and crossed over the bridge--two passing on under one umbrella, while the other halted to pay the toll and, it is just probable, that they were the guilty parties. Gentlemen, who investigated the affair, say that there is not the least clue as to who the robbers were, but it is certain that they were not tramps, their footprints, which were examined, showing conclusively that they belonged to a different class.Persons who visited the scene of the conflict on Saturday morning, say that the room where the fight had occurred, had the appearance of a slaughter house rather than a private residence. The brothers who were so brutally attacked, are old men--their ages ranging from sixty to seyenty-five OF eighty years.Daily. Since the above was in type, At the Messrs. Roth offer a reward $300 tor: the arrest and conviction of the villains who assaulted them.
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CONUNDRUMS AND RIDDLES. Gathered for the Press by Observer. 1. Why is a field like a knife box 2. My little first bias all mankind its toes, And meets my second wheresoe'er at goes, My whole was formed on purpose to annoy My first whose life its aim is to destroy.
3. Why is a proud woman like a music book 4. Why is an Island like the letter 5. Why is a baby like a sheaf of wheat 6. Why is 80 old maid like an un squeezed lemon 7.
What goes best when well tired? 8. Part of a tree if right transposed, An insect then will be disclosed, And makes painful vigils keep. Which robs THe precious sleep, 9. What is the only pain which eyery one makes light. 10.
Why is 0 the best letter in the alphabet? 11. What is that which though inv13ible is never out of sight? 12. What is the difference: between sauerkrout and potatoes? 13. When may scholar be like a postage stamp? 15. Why is the inside of everything mysterious? 16.
What is that which ties persons together but touches only one? 16. Why is a wedding ring like eternity? 17. What makes all women look alike? 18. Why are jokes like nuts? 19. What is taken from you before you have it? 20 Why does al cow lie down? 21.
Why easy to break into an old man's house? 22 first can my second, My third can carry them both, Still my second is called the greatest Of all things upon the earth, To teach mankind my whole 1s a. work but few have tried, But still we all should learn, Then we could safely take a ride. 23. Why is the greatest letter in the alphabet? 14. There was a thing 'twas three weeks old, When Adam was four score, This same thing was but four weeks old, When Adam was no more.
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Official Returns From all but Four Counties. Official majorities on the state ticket have been received from all the counties but Crawford, Monroe, Snyder and Susquebanna, and, with the latter estimated, Noyes's majority is 10,308 votes; Schell's, 9,498, and Trukey's 6,436. The official tigures from the remaining counties cannot vary the above figures more than 100. 'The labor a vote reaches about 55,000, and the total vote about 570,000. Noyes and Schell carry thirty six out of sixty six counties, and Trun key thirty-nine, he having majorities in the Republican counties of Mercer, Venango and Crawford, aggregating 1139.
In the same counties Hart has about 800 majority. The Philadelphia Times. great newspaper in every sense the phrase" is the judgment of journal. ists and the people upon the Philadelphia WEEKLY TIMES. Not yet a year old, this weekly paper has achieved a success in circulation as well as in influence that is without a parallel.
It embraces eight pages or fifty-six columns, full to overflowing with readable matter gleaned from every part of the wide fields' of Politics, Literature, Science and The editorial page abounds in crisp com ments on' the news of the day, embody. ing careful and independent judgment fearlessly expressed. The departments relating to Home and Society and the Farm and Garden make it welcome at every fireside, and offer from week to week temptations that are irresistible to the scissors of an editor. Fiction, poetry and tales of travel and adventure find a place in every number. But? the great distinctive feature of the Philadelphia WEEKLY TIMES is its current series of chapters on the UNWRITTEN HISTORY OF THE WAR.
Every one of these is from the pen of a prominent actor in the late conflict between the States, and describes some phase of the war that came within his own personal observation. No newspaper ever before presented such an array of contributors as appear in this department. Among them are such men as Lon. Carl Schurz, Hon. A.
G. Curtin, General Joseph E. Johnson, Gen eral Joseph Hooker, General James street, Hon. John W. Forney, General G.
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Briggs and Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont. The prospectus of the WEEKLY TIMES appears in another column. At this season when people are selecting their newspapers for the next no one should fail to send for and examine a specimen copy of this truly remarkably journal. Answering Mr.
Stoughton. Judge Black Comes After Him with a Par ticularly big Stick of Caustic. Lest he be Left "in the Delusion that his 'North American' Argument is Irresistible. Judge Jere Black has written to Mr. E.
W. Stoughton a letter which, in a neat pamphlet of thirty-six pages, is now to be had of the American News It is entitled "Reply to Stoughton's Defense (2) of the Great Fraud," and the first paragraph is an excellent index of its quality. Judge Black begins by saying: If I do not reply to your article in the last number of the North American Review you will remain under the delusion that your argument is irresistible. I will try to correct that mistake by showing that if there be a defense for the Great Frand you decidedly are not the person to make it. Doing this mainly for your own edification, I address you directly.
I separate your personal invective from your discussion of the case, though they are so mixed as to make separation difficult, and will consider your objections to my view of the subject as if they had been expressed in becoming and decent language. Mr. Stoughton and his political friends, Judge Black continues, think that their opponent ought to submit in ailence to the decision of. the Electoral Commission. "We have submitted," he says, and disavows any view of getting that decision reversed or moditied.
However iniquitous you may know it to be you can enjoy its fruits in perfect security, and we the people will on our part "perform the vows which we have vowed before the Lord," however much it may be "to our own hurt." But to acquiesce without a protest to confess tacitly that the wrong is right and the evil a good--that is out of the question. Judge Black says he will give some reasons for discussing the subject plainly, 7 and take the chances of making you comprehend them." In the first place, it concerns the reputations of the great men of the day, although "you and are too obscure to be noticed by history. There was a fraud on one side or the other. If Kellogg was elected in Louisiana and the Democratic which politicians last fabricated 8 false return for to the they tried to pass as a true one, "they were a combination of most redemptionless rogues," and have since added calumny to their crimes. If, on the other hand, the Tilden electors were chosen and the Republican leaders falsified the records and cheated the people of the State and of the Union out of their legally elected President, "then it is only anticipating history to say that all who aided, abetted and encouraged that offense ought to be among the worst malefactors of the Is it not worth while to fully examine such a question while the facts are yet fresh in the memory of meu we understand it," Judge Black adds, "you defeated the legally expressed will of the people and the States by means of false tokens and divers covinous" practices and you undoubtedly will repeat the fraud unless you are in some way deterred." That intolerable outrage is to be best prevented by free criticism and exposure of what has been done.
The Electoral Commission need not be tenderly treated as a judicial tribunal, because it was not one and did not behave like one. It was a political body organized for a special occasion, to determine a particular question "according to the best of its prejudices." and it performed the function assigned to it by disregarding the law of the case and shutting its eyes to the facts. The less confidence we have in such tribunals the better; indeed, 8 reasonable regard for the safety of our most important public rights requires that we should have none at all. After expressing his abhorrence of special tribunals of all countries as having apheld fraud, sanctified persecution and oppressed the innocent, Judge Black declines to give up the word "conspiracy" for Mr. Stoughton's euphemistic "taking a political advantage," and suggest's Ancient Pistol's "convey" 88 2 kindred euphemism.
"The impoliteness of the accusation," he admite, "has been uniformly heightened by the rough boldness with which it proved to be Perhaps the Democracy "ought not to have said anything to disturb the serenity of the knaves who did us the terrible injustice." But silence, Judge Black says, was impossible. The peon ple were impudently swindled of their own chosen way out of maladininistration and industrial distress. If they spoke too passionately, Mr. Stoughton ought to remember with Burke that "something must be pardoned to the spirit of liberty." Still admitting that this indignant language can be justified only their truth, and is otherwise "like some of yours, mere vituperation, disgraceful only to those who utter it." Judge Black accepts the onus probandi and addresses himself to his proofs. It is proved, he says, if human testsmony can prove.
anything, that Louisiana appointed Tilden and Hendricks electors: that the returns were falsified by people in and out of the State. A "conspiracy" is combination of several persone to accomplish an unlawful end by concerted action. "How can you get your friends outside of this defnition Perhaps Mr. Stoughton does not see the analogy between the Louisiana case and the false returns of the St. Louis Whiskey Ring, but it is there nevertheless -perfect, except in this: That one conspiracy was to steal money and the other the people's right of self-govern-1 ment.
The latter is the worse- crime of the greatest magnitude, and one which requires a cheek of solid brass to defend it without The whole proceeding was full of false pretenses, forgery, perjury and subornation of perjury. "Do you expect the cheated people of the nation to say, like the eight Commissioners, that this is as good a way 28 any to elect a President Judge Black charges Mr. Stoughton with Inaccurately representing him to have said that the conspiracy was in the formation of the commission, tand Judge Bradley, taking your word for it, has made himself interesting by a public complaint of the injury to This charge Judge Black denies, describing it as "one of your characteristic inaccuracies like that which charges Dante with the indecencies of the T'he conspiracy was in the fabrication and return of "these bogus The commission refused to verify the vote. Whether this was mere error, or something worse, is not for que or you to determine, but the general judgment will no doubt adopt the charitable view which I have given, and say that the faculties of the to see majority the were facts too or much understand benumbed the law. by party passion The "political advantage," which Mr.
Stoughton his party got by the certificate of the Returning Board, Judge Black likens to the "advantage" a debtor has when he can produce in court a forged receipt. What is a "decisive advantage" if the Court is willing to accept the false paper, bur it scarcely determines the right of the case, legally or morally. Judge Black next addresses himself to Mr. Stoughton's technical argument, "almost your only attempt at reasoning," and in which "your conclusions would be fair it your premises were sound." He dissents from the premise that the people have no right to elect their own Chief Magistrate, and that the framers of the Constitution were careful to exclude them from that right, as a total misconception. Of course, in the People of Louisiana, as Mr.
Stoughton affirms, have not the power to appoiut Presidential electors, the election at which Tilden was elected was an abortion. To falsify or forge its void and invalid records was no harm or crime, prejudicing no right. Mr. Stoughton says the people have not the power to appoint the electors, because the Constitution vests that power in the States, "to be exercised in such manner as the Legislatures thereof may direct." Now the Legislatures of the two States (Louisiana and Florida) have directed that the power shall be exercised by the people. No argument is necessary to make this intelligible to a man of ordinary sense.
There is the Constitution and there are the States; "he that runs may read," though under the circ*mstances I suppose I must not allow myself to that "a fool cannot err therein." say The Returning Board's function, Judge Black continues, is merely to collate the votes and ascertain the will of the people; and not to elect, while the people merely send up names to be chosen or rejected at I will not by trouble you with judicial decisions pleasure the Returning, Board. He says: on this point, or with arguments derived from the established canons of construction, for they would' make no impression on your mind. But I think I can stagger you by citing the authority of these mighty jurists and statesmen, who, until recently, ran the government or Louisiana so much to your admiration. All of them, without exception and "without distinction of race, color or former condition of servitude," conceded the exclusive right, and the unqualified power of the people to appoint electors for their State. When Kellogg and his associates wanted the appointment of electors they asked the people for it.
The Returning Board themselves never denied the power of the people to choose and appoint. It is a pity that in your long, frequent and affectionate intercourse with the negroes and carpet-baggers at New Orleans you did not pick up a little knowledge of constitutional law. Your demurrer is a preposterous sham, and you must answer over. Was the true vote of Louisiana counted or not All parties agreed that the majority for the Tilden ber, this was act -not done in a corner, but electore nearly, eight thousand. Now, rememtransacted in the face of the world; and the uncontradicted report of it carried perfect conviction along with it.
Upon evidence of this kind the most 1m- portant fact in the history of the accepted as true in all parts of the earth immediately after it happened, and for more than eighteen centuries the most powerful minds in Christendom have staked upon it their highest interests in this world and their salvation in the next. But there was other evidence. Committees of Congress reported the true result of the election to be ,659 majority for Tilden. The original records were produced before Congress and before the Electoral Commission. These were conclusive proofs; they were submitted to your inspection, and if you do not know from them that a large majority of the people at that election voted for Tilden electors and the Democratic State officers, you are wholly unit for your without business.
But you do know it, and cannot deny it totally destroying your character for veracity. Forced by the irresistible strength of the proofs, the you admit, for or (to the use Tilden your own words) assume, that majority electors was 7,659. So, therefore, that is settled. Moreover, the majority, Judge Black continues, was made up of legal votes. The House Committee could tom-House find no one -not ever a carpet-bagger or a Cusofficer--to deny that.
The election was free and peaceable, AB the policeman, marshals and soldiers who manned the polls in the interest of the carpet-baggers testify. The people, having, then, the power to elect, did regularly, duly and legally appoint the Tilden electors. "It followed, as the day follows the night, that the count of the eight electoral votes from Louisiana for Hayes was a false count." Judge Black next argues that any pretendeti power of the Returning Board to annul the vote and disfranchise citizens is not constitutional. Yet "such a law. you declare to be constitutional and valid.
There is not a half grown boy in the country of average understanding that does not know better. I cannot help but beliete that a little reflection would have saved even you from the shame and folly of making an assertion so destitute of all sense and reason." The constitutionality of this State law was never affirmed by the Supreme Court of Louisiana. There is a curious history just here. Mr. Stauley Matthews declared in November last that there was such a decision of the Supreme Court.
He was immediately picked up by nine Louisiana lawyers, who in a pamphlet said there was not, and asked him to correct his error. He was silent, but the visiting committee in its report substantially reaffirmed the same thing. Again it was met with loud and emphatic Nevertheless, Mr. Sherman in the Senate afterwards affirmed it and had the temerity to hold up 8 book of Louisiana reports in which he said the decision would be found. Those who for want of time or interest in the subject did not examine the report, were in some sort compelled to believe what was affirmed about it by a Senator who professed to have carefully read it, and in consequence the reputation of the Louisiana Court suttered severely for a while.
Bna the misrepresentation soon became known for what it really was and it was again thoroughly exposed, as you very well know. Now, after all this, here are you at the saine work again, parading anew the citation proved to be false half a dozen times. The patient pertinacy of Pope's spider, reconstructiug its web as often as it was swept away, in the figure: that fits your case. will not quote the words lost they offend you by their coarseness The case being examined Bonner ve. Lynch, p.
268, 25th annual, shows that no such point was raised by the record or discussed by counsel or adjudicated by the Court The sole question was whether the Court had authority to reverse the proceeding of the Returning Board and correct its ertors. Four judges concurred in the opinion that inasmuch as no statue expressly gave them that power, they could take no cognizance of the subject for want of jurisdiction, ratione materic. You might just as well cite the case to prove the constitutionality of the Reconstruction law. And here it ought to be noted that where you profess to set forth the provision of the Legislative act which makes the certificate of the board evidence, you garble it shamefully and alter it to make it fit your angertion that it is conclusive by cutting out the words which declare it to be only prims facie. I am not sure that you have made these misstatements with malice But wrong is wrought by want of thought As well as want of heart.
anatoliless skill at blundering. An expert divers to the bottom fall, Sooner than those who cannot swim at all, So, by this art of writing without thinking, You have a strange alacrity in sinkin g. whatever comes uppermost if it seems to purpose, without stopping to consider right or wrong. Added to this, you dangerous gift of talking on a subject you about just as well as if you understood combination of mental qualities gives you a You utter serve your whether it is have the know nothing it. This Besides this the obliquity of your moral vision prevents you from seeing either facts or principals as they are seen by others.
You have no doubt that Wells, Ander son and two mulattoes, when they corruptly altered and falsified the election returns, "exercised a wise discretion." The manifest sincerity with which make your confession of this singular faith marks you out for the fittest man that could have been found to serve the Great Fraud by blaspheming the constitution of a free State, mutilating her statutes and imputing to her judges absurd decisions which they never made. But had the Returning Board been a constitutional body, vested with all these powers claimed for it, fraud would vitiate its action, Its false record is nothing more than forgery. "Nobody has yet dared to deny this principle. No Republican counselor met it in argument when the Democratic counsel set it forth; none of the Eight responded when all the Seven presented it." Even you, with all your "strange alacrity in sinking," cannot get down low enough to contradict it. The Electoral Commission was constituted with anthority clearly defined to determine a certain controverted matter of fact, to wit: Whether Kellogg and his seven associates had been duly appointed electors by the people of Louisiana or not.
To maintain the affirmative side of that issue the certificate of the Returning Board was alone relied upon. The eight Commissioners, against the solemn protest of their seven brethren, accepted that certificate and held it to be good, nay, conclusive, proof of the fact averred, although it was, and they knew it to be. not only tainted, but saturated through, and through with the most atrocions fraud, and therefore as corrupt in morals and as void in law as the nakedest forgery that ever was made. Thus it came to pass that this great cause, involving the title to the highest office in the republic, was determined upon evidence which no justice of the peace would receive in a suit for the price of two sheep. Of course, the wickedness of all this depends upon the scienter.
But the corrupt character of this certificate was known to all the world There is, therefore, nothing for it, but to leave their (the Commissioners') reputation for judicial integrity, as Bacon left his: "To foreign countries, to future ages, and to men's charitable Congress has power, Judge Black argues, not to revise errors of the State authorities, bat to ascertain it a paper purporting to be a return is fraudulent. It delegated this verifying power to the The majority did decline to exercise it, but took it and abused it, not to verify it, but to falsify the vote. As to Mr. Stoughton's claim that Chief Justice Church, of New York, is on his side, Judge Black says: it that distinguished, upright and learned gentleman is indeed on your side of the controversy, Ladmit that the Great Fraud has a most powerful friend. But your claim he favors your doctrine is prima facie evidence that he is against you, for in citing authorities you are nothing it not deceptive.
You give us a single sentence which you say is his, but you do not tell us whether it is from a judicial opinion, 8 published letter or the report of an oral conversation. Knowing "the sin that doth so easily beset you," I venture to say that this quotation is in some way false. Either you have made it out of whole cloth or torn it from its context, or else made an application which its author never intended. Ask Judge Church to say for your comfort and A8818- tance that Congress or any other tribunal may lawfully receive and treat as true, 8 false paper known to have been concocted in willfull frand. Instead of gratifying your wish, he will make the tenderest vein in your heart ache with contempt.
persons." Judge Black says, "are of opinion that you did not write the article to which your name is appended." Nobody but a carpet-bagger, for instance, could now defend the carpet-baggers since the Administration has deserted them. "It was a sin and a shame to make you express admirstion and respect for these unmitigated scamps, and, facile as you are, I wonder that yon submitted to it. As to the charge that Judge Black admitted and justified the alleged murder and outrages in Louisiana, he says that he simply said what he has always held, that the "4,000 murdered" were sheer fabrication. The man who wrote this part of the article which passes as yours in a base impostor. Every opinion, thought and sentiment expressed by me is precisely the reverse of what he imputes to me.
The direct, straightforward mendacity of this effort to defame me is literally wonderful. speak soberly and without passion, when I say there is nothing like it on record. The passages which the writer pretends to copy from me are all fraudulently, changed and altered. Disconnected sentences are picked out from different places, mutilated, transposed and then joined together, as if I had written them continnously in that order, whereby the whole sense and meaning of my words is perverted. I am made out to be an apologist for murder and mob violence, just as you might prove from the Bible that there is no God.
This is not au indictable forgery, but many a man has served out his term at Sing Sing who would scorn an attempt to ruin his neighbor by the fraudulent making or alteration of a paperwriting to the prejudice of his character. I am told, and I incline to believe, that you did not write this part of the article -which passes for yours. Some smart carpet-bagger put it together and gave it to you to try how much he could make you disgrace yourself for his amusem*nt or his mahce, and you put your name to it without knowing whether it was right of wrong. This relieves you from the imputation of deliberate falsehood. But why, ohit why were you silly enough to become the cat's paw of such a migchievous monkey Judge Black says of the Florida case that Mr.
Stoughton, "as might have been expected, makes a bungle of it," so that "If the Commissioners were not ashamed of their errors before, they must have blushed when they saw them supported by such twaddle as yours," As to Mr. Sherman's visiting committee, Judge Black says he is willing to admit he used too strong an expression when he said, "They aided and abetted by every means in their power the perpetration of the Great Fraud." They have hurt themselves by declaring insincerely and uatruly that at great expense and trouble they, went to Louisiana only 88 spectators of the count. They "meant business of some kind good or evil, and evil is always suspected of that which covers itself under a sham." They could have crushed the fraud with a word; merely by saying that an honest count must be made. Their refusal to do this when pressed by the Democratic committee needs some better excuse than that -that they were unwilling to offend the returning officers. They encouraged the fraud, intentionally or unintentionally, by telling the conspirators that the board might constitutionally exercise the disfranchising power, and that so long 88 they put the fraud into "forms of law" it could never be questioned.
And they pronounced the frandulent alteration of the vote, after it was done; a righteous thing. A member of the committee is now Secretary of the Treasury, Wells is Surveyor of the Port of New Orleans and Anderson Deputy Collector. These are but moral circ*mstances. The public is not yet in the possession committee of direct evidence which shows that any of actually participated in concocting perjured affidavits, bargained for falsified records or services. made Charges special of prom- wilises of rewards for corrupt ful dishonesty against such men need overwhelming proof or must be rejected as incredible.
Some, perhaps were tied to the tail of the committee who had not knowledge enough of the subject to make them know what they said or did. You yourself are in no danger if you get proper credit for your mental imbecility; at least I think it can be easily shown that great allowance ought to be made for you on that score. Judge Black next defends the administration of Buchanan from Mr. Stoughton's "abuse as difficult to analyze as the scolding of made a fish-woman," their and after answering charges rebukes maker. Apart from the palpable falsehoods of these accusations, your attempt to criticise a man like Mr.
Buchanan is unpardonably presumptuous. Your judgment upon his character or conduct, even if nonesuy expressed, is not worth a straw. Doubtless he had his share of imperfections; but how could you tell his faults from his virtues You believe that the fraudulent alteration of election returns is" the exorcise of al wise discretion," you believe the Louisiana Returning law to be just and constitutional; you believe it right to quote a judicial decision for a principle which the case does not contain. Nobody expects the scuryy politician who busies himself with fixing up false election returns to understand the thoughts, motives or acts of the incorruptible magistrate whose walk is on the mountain rauges of the law. Judge Black further suggests that Mr.
Stoughton considered it. "a wise discretion" to garble Buchanan'8 message to make it a secession document. The trick to be sure, is perfectly transparent, but your think mental calibre is just small enough to let you that even a detected falsehood 18 better than none. Nor would I advise you to cease your vituperation of the dead President. Hie memory is intensely hated by many powerful persons to whom his diguifled and virtuous life was a constant reproach.
To slander him is the surest way to curry favor with them, and they can assist you to get a foreign mission or some other office for which you are equally unfit. Lose no opportunity, then, of being superserviceable. every occasion to load up as much dirt as your little cart can carry, and however far it takes you out of your way, drive around and dump it on the grave of Buchanan. It will not disturb his repose, and 10 doubt it will increase your chances of promotion very much. Judge Black charges Mr.
Stoughton with wilfu lly breaking the ninth commandment in accusing him of adopting the views of the secessionists; with searching for evidence, and, having found none, with making it; falaifying the record, and taking his (Judge Black's opinion of November 20, 1860, suppress ng what wat there written and manufacturing "sentiments which I never entertained or uttered." You pretend to transcribe a paragraph, but your transcript is basely fraudulent. (Att'y Gen. Opinions, vol. 9, p. 523.) In law this la not a forgery.
But among men of average hon sty the frandulent alteretion of a paper to injure another'g character passes for about as shameful and base a thing as can be done. Let me illustrate by cases which, I need not say, are merely hypothetical, Suppose yourself appointed to the mission you have sought so earnestly. You wish to ruin some man or woman by trumping up a false accusation against him or her, and you try to do it by diplomatically misre resenting the contents of a written document which you have in your possession, and from which you make false quotations; you are detected and exposed, what would be done with you? All further Intercourse with you would be declined; your recall would be immediately demanded; you would be kicked out of the country as ignominiously as the rules of international law would permit. Imagine yourself in court as a counseller with a paper in your hand whose contents it is necessary for you to make known; you misstate the whole tenor and purpose of it; you pretend to read a part of it, but read it so falsely that the true sense of it is altogether obscured. If you are caught in the trick you are certain to be expelled from the profession.
Of course you have never done either of these supposed acta. I put the cases merely to bring the principle down to a level with your understanding, and to show you how dangerous is the practice you indulge in of falsifying documents and misstating their contents. When you see how it would work if calried out into other departments of business you will comprehend the iniquity of trying to fasten the highest crimes upon innocent persons dead and alive, by such methods as you have adopted. Judge Black in conclusion takes Mr. Stoughton's abuse of Mr.
Tilden and "nonstrous falsehoods" about him- seing the large, loose and lavish mendacity of your charges against myself" as strong proof that Mr. Tilden is upright and honorable. But if I ain called upon to show the grounds of his title to general respect and admiration I not describe the irreproachable walk of his private lite or is high public career -his brilliant eloquence or 1 8 solid judgment- his tireless struggle against corraytion in the city of New York or his beneficent administration of the State government; it is enough that 1 simply show your attempt to defame him; for that itself is a decoration of his character. Messrs. Field and Carpenter "belong to a class of men who act habitually upon motives which must always be a mystery to you, for you cannot comprehend them." You chuckle over the fact that there logic and eloquence were unsuccesstul.
That is proper enough.The decision of the Commisioners gave to stupidity and fraud a great triumph over the honesty and ability of Mesars. Field and Carpenter, and in this triumph you have an unquestioned right to rejoice.You add that "their, joint effort before the commission was a not inefficient aid in preparing thie minds of their auditors for the judicial result which followed." This seems to mean that either from lack of faithfulness or want of capacity they injured their cause by pleading it. But you would scarcely presume to pronounce such a judgment on meu whose superiority over yourself de eo marked and so well known. The other constructio of your words is possible. The Commissioners were the auditors, and their minds were prepared to decide in favor of the fraud by the mere fact that Messrs.
Field and Carpenter, Republican lawyers, appeared in opposition to if. Did the Commissioners indulge in a feeling so unworthy Did they prostitute their judicial functions to satisfy it Certainly no reasonable man can ever believe that with out authority much better thau yours. But most probably you had no meaning at all. It is mere drivel, and only furnishes another proof that when your masters at Washington intrusted you with the defense of the Great Fraud they put the bustness into most incompetent hands. Teachers' Institute.
PLEABANT HILL, Nov. 8nd, 1877, In accordance to a call of the Directors of Newberry towuship, Institute met at the usual biour, and opened by the election of officers. The following persons were elected. President, J. A.
Millard; VicePreeident, I. Prowell; Secretary, Dora Pierson.Music Ring the Bells of Heaven," Miles Lula Groome presiding at the organ. On motion an Executive committee consisting of Miss Foster, Mr. Crone and Mr. I.
Prowell, was appointed to prepare a follows; programme for the afternoon Institute. session, Query Box. which read Practi- as Music by cal Object Teachings, by Mr. Burnett. Select Reading by all.
Music The Gates Ajar." Institute then adjourned to meet at 2 o'clock. Afternoon Session. -Institute called to order by President Millard, who read the programme for the afternoon. Music "Greeting Song." Mr. Barnett, then gave a short, but interesting address on (Practical Object Teachings." Music "America." On motion all persons present were selected members of the Institute.
The query box was then opened and most of the queries answered satisfactorily. Music "Star Spangled Banner." Mr. Barnet then read a selection entitled On motion the teachers of Lewisbury were invited to take part with us at our meetings during the coming winter. While waiting for the report of the Executive committee, we were favored with a piece of instrumental music by Mr. Barnett.
Committee then reported the following pregramme for the next Institute. Class drill on Reading, by Miss Lula Groome. Class drill on Algebra, by Mr. Barnett. Essay by Miss Eliza J.
Foster. Class drill on Orthography, by J. Hays. Query Box.Music. Adjourned to meet at Smoketown, December 8th, 1877.
J. B. MILLARD, Pres. DORA PIERSON, See. BUSINESS LOCALS.
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Such an article has peen discovered, and like many other wonderful discoveries it is found to consist of elements almost in their natural state. Petroleum oil is the article which is made to work such extraordinary resulus; but it is after the best refined article has been chemically treated, and completely deodorized, that it is in proper condition for the toilet. It was in far-off Russia that the effects of petroleum upon the hair were tirstobserved; a Government officer having noticed that a partially baldheaded servant of his, when trimming the lamps, had a habit of wiping his oilbesmeared hands in his scanty locks, and the result was, in a few months, a much finer head of black, glossy hair, than he ever had before. The oil was tried on horses and cattle that had lost their hair from the cattle plague, and the results were a8 rapid as they were marvelous, The manes and even the tails of horses, which had fallen out, were completely restored in a few weeks. These experi-: ments were heralded to the world, but the knowledge was practically useless to the prematurely bald and gray, AS no one in the civilized society could tolerate the use of refined petroleum as a dressing for the hair.
But the skill of one of our chemists has overcome the difficulty, and by a process known only to himself he has, after very elaborate and costly experiments, sueceded in deodorizing refined petroleum, which renders it susceptible of being handled as daintily as the famous eau de cologne. The experiments with the deodorized liquid, on the human hair, were attended with the most astonishing results. A few applications, where the hair was thin and falling, gave remarkable tone and vigor to the scalp and the hair, and the natural color began to appear almost from the first application. Every particle of dandruff disappears on the first or second dressing, and the liquid, so searching in its nature, seems to penetrate to the roots at once, and set up a radical change from the start. It is well known that the most beautiful colors are made from petroleum, and by some mysterious operation of nature the use of this article gradually imparts a beautiful light brown color to the hair, which, by continued use, deepens to a black.
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