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VOL. XIX -NO. 22.
PERRYSBURG, WOOD CO., OHIO, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1871.
1.50 IN ADVANCE.
The Loss of [...] Ladona.
Among ihe many v ssels that succumbed
to tha violea-' f 'hi gabs wiiicli pre
vailed on th-- Florid c al during the lnt
tor part of lust fu mh. tlie stciiiiship
Lodona. Tliis spien lid vessel, com
mand, d by Captain Hovey, Kaikd from
New York on the 12th of August, b unJ
for New Orleans, and nothing furth r ws
heard of her until August 2", wh.n an un
defined report ws received l'rntn New
Orleans, stating tht she had teen lost
The following dv intelligence was re
ceded confirming the previous alntratnt,
totether wi h the information that the
captain and twebtv men were lost
The steamship Asl.land, b-longing to
Mr James Hind, or this cily, and com
mended by Captaiu Moore, arrived at this
port late Oil Wednesday nuht, fiom t er
nindina, Fla. Among her passengers
was Mr. Francis Farrnr, the chief coo,
four teamen, one fireman, and thu cond
m-tte of the ili-fated Lodi-n. Mr. Fanr
made the f .bowing tta euaei.t yes.erdiiy,
wiiieh gives the fu.l pa,tieuUrs of the sad
catastrophe.
On the night of the 17th of Augnst a
perfect hurricane ca.ne up, at ab ut ten
o'clock, and increased In violence until six
o'clock the following morning, when, al
though the vessel carried steam all the
time, she became unmanageable, owing to
the fury of the gale, and soon after struck
on the beach on. the C- ast of Florida,
about seven miles north of Cane Carnival.
All on board had been called on deck at
13 o'clock the previous night, and, buns
made aware of the dangerous position in
which they were placed, Bad instructed in
their various duties by the Capiain, they
lmi'd Rverv exeniun to save the ship, but
without avail, as she could not be kept to
the wind. Captain Hovey remained gal
lantly on deck during the tempest When
the Lodona struck she turned on her
beam ends and commenced breaking up.
Captain Hovey, who was in the pilot'
inna waa carried overboard by the re
cerlini? waves of the sea, which boarded
the vessel in every direction. Such was
the furious character of the gale that
every movable article of the ship's furni
ture and Bttinsrs was sweat away, and U
wM onlv bv the cr atest physical exertion
that any of the crew could save themselves
from being wanhed away by hanging on to
vnri.ma nurtK fit the riirkdULr.
vnriona n irts (if the ritrgiug
Mr. Farrar was the lasc person who
ever spok to Captain Hovey, who said to
him : " Try and he p secure those hatches"
meaning the forward atd unjidohip
hatrhf wh fth hid started, rarrar, no
tieing that the wider was veiy mi.diy,
asktd the Captain " if he d d not n ar go
ing on th lie shore." Capt.in Hovey re
ni.R.i ' We must tr; and get her on th:
other tack," and told Farrar to a e f Mr.
Sievens. tin mate, was at the removing
tji kin. These were the last words th
gal. ant Captiin ever spoke. Immediately
niter the sh;D stru.k and the Caiitsin d s
appeared bene.td fearful wave, whicu
fmrlv en.ulfeJ the th.o. Ail tanls BOW
mustered on the muiu-honse. and clung
f.,r life to the riir.ri.g. Mr. Stevens, the
mntn aitpmnted .0 ta?c hlnelf and shin
mates in one of the ship's boa's, in which
he lashed himself, tut bcf. re he cou'd
1 ,m i-n ;uh lor his shipmates, the
h.:at filled with wat -r. and the mate, lash-
td flrm.v to it. ti8 liumedly dr.veu awa
fmm thH wrttk bv the furiouj waters.
Jonie fourteen of the cew, including the
Captain's sou, Mr. Morgan, the purser, Mr.
frrr ft a the second cook, succci di d in
acoiiding the uainniast, ucd despir-iru-.v
f.tii I.-1? .to the rising. la this
perilous to.-ition thev rtmaiued for two
hours, ben conettutlv washed by tte
waves, wiiieh were thrown to a gra'.
hiMff,.t hv the furv of the storm, wtcn, to
their horro-, the uia:t was unshipped, tnd
with i s living fre ght was cask in'ottie
ooean. All on the uiist perished itu tn .
excep'.ion of Mr. Firrnr, the cook, an l the
captiin's sou, who, ia a simi cmsciou-"
cond tlon, af er great suffering, finally
reached the sh re, which ws an uninh i'--ited
beach. II. re, to their joy, ih-y found
the chief eogiue r, mate nd s :cond mat
Atempor-ry cimp was made of trunks,
boards, and suci o'her articUs as i.ame
sshord from the wreck Alter cr-nsu ta
tiou on the following day, Mr. Farrar, the
cook, Chi f Eigi'.ier Si ofild, an I young
II ,v. y, ttarted for Cape Cimival LUhihouse,
which they rcaced alter a sev re
march, and were as-isted by the f ceper
with food, etc. ih.y then at empted to
riacha p iut twenty e'ight miles diotaut,
but failed, from txhaustnm. Tcey finally
reached Col nil Tit :s' lions j, twenty
miles from Fernandina, and wtio, through
the kinJneta of that gcLtl .iuan, tuabledto
reach Ft-mandi-'a ii siftty. Thtnco they
cauie to this oori on the steamer Ashland
Captain Iloviy's bi dy was not recoVerel,
altnoutrh Mr. Farrar exumiuel fourteen
bodies wbiih hal.bien wasr ed asuoie.
JVw York Timet, SepUntber 8.
The Loss of [...] Ladona. Wyoming-California-Maine.
Tna Democrats hold their own remark
ably well. They are being beaten worse
andf worse every year. They carried Wy
oming last vear so thoMUiihly that tbey
had the senate and Honsd unanimously,
and this ) ear the Republicans have achiev
ed a tie on ioint badot.
In California the bulletins of victory
crow better and iHJiter every day. The
Renublicaus are now certa'n cf the o ec
tiou of the Governor, who last year was
Democrat ; of the three Congressmen,
when two of thein were last term Uemo
crats ; aud of the L gisluttire, which choos
cs a Soua'or In the iilai.e of Colo. In tea
counties Booth is said to have gained four
thousand votes, even us compin d with
tho Presidential election ot lbbS, wten
Grant carried the State by 500 mujoi Ity.
And now A'ui ie eiiiphaa .es thu victory
snlondi ilv. Oa tlw very eve ot ihe e eo-
tlon (8eotem,er 4) thu Chairman, of
l)i mo rut ic Central Committee sent a
cret circular ov.r the ft. to, imploring
Democrats to make a rally on elcctiou
dav. ud caoture the R pub ic in works.
asaunng Ihrin that "v.ctory iscerUlnly
w ithin our re uh t it will astuie us a glo
rim victory iu lSI'i." The p ot was
troyed, and thu Repub leans rallied
a aim and carried the Bute by some
ll.tr Oinxlor.ty a ga n of moie than 2,0
kit ce last ettr. The Legislature is Repub
1 CiU to about five to one. W hat is
next point ol attack yC'Aicy I't,
The Recent Railroad Accident near
East St. Louis, III.
The Missouri IbpiiMifin of the 11th
elves the following particulars of the nocl-
drnt near East Ht. Louis on the 10th,
which resulted in the immediate killing of
three men and the injurying of nine or
ten persons, some of them very ieriously :
Tiie party which were the victims of the
catastrophe was composed of a mini
lier of persons who had been Inyit
ed to go on a picnic by one or two of the
employes of 11. AW. Mitchell, furniture
dealers of this city. Edward Flood, who
had Interested himself in getting tip the
party, hail been emnloyed by that firm fir
14 years as an upholsterer. Thos. Mehan,
another of the party, was the driver at
that establishment, and had obtained the
long furniture wagon of th J firm to use for
that day.
The party numbered in aH about lfl, ol
whom only tho names of the following
were obtainable! Edward Flood, wife,
and three daughters, Mary, Catharine, and
Gertrude; William Oilinore, wife, daugh
ter, and son ; Thos. M- han, John Brennan,
Henry Murphy, and Emma Kenner.
The destination of the party was Long
Laki', about four miles north of East St.
Louis, where the party anticipated spend
ing a very pleasant day. An abundant sup
ply of nick-nacks and other edibles had
bi en provided, and a keg of beer had been
obtained to make the trip more enjoyable.
The younger mcmlicrs of the party were
in hih glee at the prospective pleasure,
and all started with f elings of the utmo-t
satisfaction at the arrangements which
had been made, little thinking that it
would be to some of them the last Journey
which they would make in this world, and
to others a day which they would have
ritiee to remember all tho days of their
lives.
The party crossed over by the ferry-boat
to East St. Louis a little before 8 o'clock,
and after making a few calls, and delaying
a short time, the persons proceeded on
their way, taking the Collinsville plank
mad. Ihey renched the point where tnis
is crossed by the track of the Ohio & Mis
sissippi Railway about t. minutes past 8
o'clock. The Lebanon accommodation
train was then approaching. The wagon
was stopped to watt until that train had
passed. As soon as the cars were out of
the way the horns were whipped up until
they had crossed the track ot that road
and had descended the embankment on the
north siile of the track. To fully under
stand the position of the wagon aud
the cars at the t me of tho cwinpte, it is
necessa'y to give a more particular descrip
tion cf the locality. The Coll neviile
plank-road crosses both tha tracks of the
bt. .Louis, v andaua s tei re uaute ana
the Ohio & Mi'sl?sippi, at a place known
ai Albright's Crossing, liere the tracks oi
the two roads are 17"i feet apart, thu of
i he Ohio & Mississippi be ng about five
feet higher tlau the road bed of the Van
dilia. The piics-ioad crosses at a con
siderable anvle, to that on the line of that
road the distance between the two tracks
is awut 3j0 feet. The p;auk-rr.p.d here is
f need in, and where tne railroa's cress
there are stock breaks on uthersideof
both the railroad traces. The plank-r.iad
' down-gr de go.n from toward Est S'.
Lo .iis t the track cf tne Vanddli Rail
rohd.
The excursion train to Highland, con
sisting of an enirine, two passenger cars,
and one bazarai-'e car. was due at the cross
ing thirty eight minutes alter euhto clock.
and the Lebanon trin hal already passed,
ou tne Ohio cc Mississippi road. the
wagon had waited for it to pass, and was
now approaching the track of the Vanda
lia. When the team had crossed and the
wagon was alout half way over, the latter
was struck by the engine of the Highland
excursion train.
The train was going at the rate of about
twenty miles an hour, and the wsgon was
struck just forward of the hindmost
wheels, and in an instant the work ot de
struction was completed.
The wagon was torn into fragments ; the
wheels even were broken. One horse,
was killed, and the engine was covered
with the debr s. A basket of provisions
and a keg of beer were left on the loco
motive. Three men iay dead upon the
ground, and mangltd women and children
were thrown about. One of the women,
it is i-tated, was wounded beyond the hope
of recovery.
The following ia the list of the killed
and wounded as correctly as could bo as
certained ;
KllLd Chss Sanders, 20, single ; Thos.
Mtban, married, leaves a wife and four
children; John llrenner, 23, single.
Wounded Willnm (i lmore, msn-ied j
cut on the back of the head, injured on
the right side, right t lbow, and large toe
crurhed. Mrs. William Uilmore, three
lingers injured. Cora Gilra'Te, Cur y.ars
old, badly cut en temple, neck, and esr.
John Gi moie, a child not a year and a
had' old, bruised ubout the face uud
breast.
Edward Flood, 43; married; back
broken; rover doubtful.
Mrs. Philomeua Flood, wifo of Robert
FK.od ; skull badly fractured on tho left
ide ot the head, and supposed to De in
ured internally; not expected to recover.
ainry t iood, it, daughter oi tne aoove;
back badly injured.
Catharine f lood, 1U; slightly Druised.
Emma Kenner; 18; dauchter of Mrs.
Keuucr, board big-house keeper, No. 310
ireen street: cut on the head; leu shoul
der badly bruised or dislocated, and sup
posed to be internally injured.
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TriE N. Y. Timet tells the poorer class
of tax payers In that Tammany cursed city
where the money tney nave psia into tne
Treisury has gone :
Jji t the p urer ciass oi tax-payers,
especially the Democrats, think of the
wonderful transformations which have
tukeu place in the condition of cur rulers
during ihe last few years. Woodward, ten
yeais ago, entered the SuixsrvUor's otllce
at a s..Ury of $800 per annum. Now
owns a magninccut country-Beat, vamame
horses, and other luxuries, uarvey, tne
lucky plasterer, was glad, six years ago,
do plain Jobbing at lair rates. Now he
worm nearly a million, ana owns an euurd
Island lor his summer residence. Twelve
years ago Tweed failed in business, and
for a time was content to act as foreman
over a gang of street cleaners, at $3 per
day. Now he owns real estate in every
part ot the city, runs several hunks, ana
chief proprietor of a printing office,
lithographic establishment, and a station
ery warehouse, his property being esti
mated ut about twenty miliums, sweeny
has al-io suddenly leaptu Into wealth.
Tom Fields could not pay a few pultry
debts three years ago; now he is wealthy.
Connolly was notoriously in numble cir
cumstances umit he gained possession
lie public Tieasury ; now he is builolng
oleudid housus aud is rolling iu wealth.
Hail owns a spleu lid re fid nee iu New
Jersey, lildce 1, all these people have
In property in other States. Keys.r
and Iugei'aoll have hkewuu spruug
Urge tutu mom; aud there ale hundred
who were quite poor a tew ytars ago who
now sport the co. tlust diamonds, uud pos
sums valuable propeity of ull kinds.
question is, outfit these men to be allowed
to retain tho property they have thus
acquired r"
A Dkthoit merchant nci ivel a check
for $11,000 lioiu a pouiiei.t defaubcr.
amount due belli it only $8,000, ihe
chant gratefully uadechai go with acheck
for the bilunee. Ho indulged iu
profane sw aiiug ou tin ring the next
llwl Villi IWtjO tlioek was worihlucs.
General News Summary.
THE OLD WORLD.
Hon. William II. Seward arrived at Ber
lin on the 7th.
A cable dispa'ch of the 11th slates that
tLo betrothal of the Princess Mary Eliza
beth, of Trussia, to the Grand Duke
Alexis, of Russia, would ere long be offi
cially announced. The Frlncess is the
eldest daughter of Trince Frederick
Charles.
A London telegram of the 11th says
Queen Victoria had entirely recovered.
The Prussian official Kreua-Zeitung an
nounces the result of the negotiations at
Salzburg as follows : "Austria and Ger
many, repudiating all aggressive ideas, wil
unite c'osely to repel aggretslon."
A Loudon dispatch of the 12th saysi
" It is denied that the cholera is abating in
Russia. It is stated that there is still ah
average of 10 deaths per day in Kiel.
Tho American ship Loretta, from Ham
burg, has arrived at Cardiff with four of
her crew dead from cholera. The vessel
has been detained at quarantine."
Owing t i a strike among the workmen,
the machine shops in Brussels wercclosed
on tho l'Jth, and the strikers were parad
ing the streets.
A Salzburg disp tch of the 13th s iys it
had been decided by Bismark, Count on
Reust, and oti.er diplomats who rem iined
there after the departure of the Empi rors
William and Francis Joseph, to suppress
the Iuternational Society, and tcttlo liually
the Schleswig q -'.ration.
The French Assembly, on the 13th,
passed a bill providing for prorogation of
the session from September 17 to Decern
ber 4, 1871. The main feature of the bill
is the appointment cf a committee of
twenty-live to control the government
during recess.
A dispatch from Paly on the 13th an
nounces that the Mont, Ceuis Tunnel had
been successfully opened, and that trains
were passing through it wi bout delay.
The ex-Empress Eugenie arrived at
Lisbon on the 14th. She was vUited by
the King and Que!a of Portugal, and soon
afterward left by ril for Mt.lrid.
A Versailles dispatch of the 14th states
that the disarmament of the Natimal
Guards was announced. There was no
resistance to the enforcement of tho do
cree of the Assembly. Tranquility pre
vailed everywhere.
Dispatches received in London on the
14th, from Russia, show that the Asiatic
cholera still fcourged dreadfully the cen
tral and southern portions of ihe empire.
Hon. Wm. II. Seward uud pary arrived
at London on t e 15 h.
The French Assembly on the 15th
elected the Committee of Control created
by the bill of prorogation to hupervise the
government during the recess. It is com
posed of eleven members of the right
wing, eight of the left, and six moder
ates.
A submarine cable has been successfully
laid between Nagasaki, Japan, and Ros
siette, the new naval station of Russia on
the Sea of Japan- This gives two distinct
telegraph line between London and Japan
one by submarine cables, by way of
Gibraltar, Malta, the Red Sea, Iud a, Sin
gapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai, the
other by submarine cable to Prussia, and
land lines through Russia in Europe, Si
beria, and a submarine cable from Rossi
ette to Japan.
Minister Delong recently compelled the
British Chanje 'd Jffuire at Yokohama,
to apologize for insulting remarks concern
ing Americana in geueral and himself in
particular. He aUo compelled the English
editor of the Japan Mail to publish an ab
ject apology for publishing a Bcurrilous
document purporting to have been issued
from the American Consulate.
There were 93 new cases of cholera at
Konigsberg on the 12th, and 63 deaths. On
the 13th there were C8 new cates, and 4
deaths. The dis ase had disappeared from
Dantzig, and nearly from Spardio and
Stettin.
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Gold clobed in New York on the 15t!i
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A dispatch from the City of Mexico,
dated August 2Uth, says it was reported on
eood authority that Lerdo had loinod
Juarez, in which case tho re election of
the lutter as President was certain.
The National Division of the Sons
Temperance, recently in session at Bos
ton, adopted a preamble and resolution,
by a vote of 81 to 3D, declaring that "wo
know no distinction on account of race,
color, or former condition, but all are alike
equal before the Uw," and that " we do not
deem it expedient to organize separate
bodies in tho same territory ou account
any of tho above-named distinctions."
The Coroner's jury on the recent rail
road disaster at Revere, B!a:s., have re
turned a verdict finding that the collision
was caused by tho negligence of John
Nowland, conductor of the Bovcrly train,
upon which said persons were, and Ash
bel S. Brown, engineer of the colliding
Pullman train ; that Samuel O. Luut,
pot-master at Boston, was remiss in duty
in not transmitting the order ot the super
intendent to the engineer of the Pullman
train to look out for trains uuead;
"that tho President and Directors of
Eastern Railroad corporation are, to
great extent, responsible for the loss
life aforesaid."
The owner of the trotting-horse " Gold
smith Maid," which is said to have made
2:17 on the Cold Spring Course, at Mil
waukee, has accepted an otiVr from New
York to trot for from 1 10,000 to f 5,000,
in the latter city.
A Washington dispatch of the 9th says
"The Attorney-General's opinion on
powers of the Civil-Service Commission
will, It is thought, virtually put an end
that body. It takes away allthe power
that the Commission was supposed to
sess, aud, it is sidd, most of the members
will resign"
Newton Booth's (Republican) mJriit)
for Govcruci uf CuWuiulu was elated
the 0th to be about u,t00. His majority
San Francisco ia 2,500. A congratulatory
dispatch from his old friends at
Haute, Iud., where his parents reside,
sent to Mr. Booth ou the Uth.
In the trial for a peimauent it-junction
against the Tammany Ring, in New
'ihe city, on the 11th, Judge Barnard Informed
tha iMiinw-1 that If anv information
held back by the defendants it would
tken as a clrcumstauce against them.
ikon Uiiuuiod Mr. O'Uuruiun, counsel
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the defendants, to produce, on the 14th, a
complete statement of the liabilities of the
city and county up to the issuing of the
injunction.
The Maine State election occurred on
the 11th. The news received at Portland
at midnight of that date Indicated a Re
publican nvjotity in the State of betwem
10,010, and 11,000. "In the House, the Re
publicans have gained nine in three cities
Portland, Lewiston and Bangor-and
have lost five in Cumberland County, one
in Rockland, one in Belfast, and probably
several others"
A Washington dispatch of the 10th says :
"A detachment of the Seventh Cavalry
has been ordered to Florida to assist the
revenue officers to make collections. It is
said two companies of infantry and one of
cavalry will remain at Raleigh, N. C,
during the Ku-Klux trials, which will
commence this week."
Mrs. Finley, the woman who murdered
her three children at Wabash, Ind., cut
her throat in jail on tho 9th with a piece
of lamp which she had broken. When
found she had cut off a portion of the
windpipe, and could not survive her in
juries long.
An entire diock oi Duuaings in uioom-
ington, 111., was burned on the night of
the 9tU, aud damage caused to the extent
of 200,000. The destroyed property was
insured for $70 000.
William Alvord, tax payers' candidate,
is elected Mayor of Ban Francisco by
2,000 mhjority.
Near East St. Louis 111., on the morn
ing of the 10th, a party from St. Louis,
Mo., composed of sixteen grown persons
and seveial children, who were taking a
pleasure trip to the country in a large fur
niture wagon, were in the set of crossing
the track of the St, Louis & Vandalia
Railroad, when they were struck by an
excursion train going to H'ghlnnd. Three
persons wcro killed outright, two mortally
and four or five severely wounded. The
names of the killed are Chas. Sanders,
Jno. Brennau, and Thos. Mthan ; the mor
tally wounded, Mrs. Philomena Flood,
Emma Kenner ; severely wounded, RobU
Flood, Gertie Flood, Mary Flood, Cora
Gilmore, and a man, name unknown. Sev
eral others were slightly injured. In fact,
only three of the entire party escaped un
hurt. According to previous not'ee, Bishop
Whitehouse, on the morning of the 10th,
viai ted Christ Church in Chicago for the
purpose of performing the rites of con
firiuation. The wardens of the church
insisted upon Dr. Cheney's presence In the
chancel durin? the services ;" to this the
Bishop objected, and, after reading a pro-te-t,
finally withdrew without performing
the rite of confirmation.
Over 13,000,000 of the State debt of
Virginia had been funded to a recent date,
being one-third of the whole debt
Jacob Harper, who lived rear Midway,
Ky., was, on the morning of the 11th,
found lying 4n bed and dead, with his
head smashed into a jelly. His sister,
Miss Betsey Harper, was found in an ad
joining room, unconscious, and in a dying
londition, with her skull fractured lnthree
or four places. An old axe, which had
been used to do the bl ?dy dead, was left
lying near the door. Several negroes liv
ing in Harper's place were arrested on
suspicion, one of them having some spots
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which he could not expliin satisfactorily
to the Caroner's jury. It was generally
believed that he is guilty. The object of
the murder was unknown.
Much excitement was caused in New
York city on the 11th by the discovery of
an a'lcged theft of vouchers in the Comp
troller's office. A dippatch of the 12th
says many of Comp' roller Connolly's
friends claimed that the vouchers had been
abstracted by r enemy of the Comp
troller, merely f r the purpose of creating
an erroneous Impression that he was privy
to their abstraction, while it is insinuated,
on the other hand, that the Comptroller
was privy to the burglary for the purpose
of rendering an expose of the Ring s al
leged frauduleut transactions le?s easy.
Mayor 1111, on the 12ih, requested
Connolly to resign, but the latter re
fused to do so. It was said that
Connolly had formed an alliance
with Tweed, to combat the other two
menibi rs of the board. It is said that
duplicates of the stolen vouchers remain
in the Comptroller's omce, and that the
originals are recorded full In the books,
which are safe.
The New York Timet of the 12th says:
" It ia now stated on authority that Hon.
Robert B. Roosevelt, Democratic member
of Congress from the Fourth District of
th's city, says that the debt of New York
is not less than $200,000,000, or more than
18 per cent, of the assessed valuation of
its property, and 20 per cent, of the as
sessed valuation of real estate, which
the only part that can be counted on to
pay the debt."
District Attorney Morris, of Brooklyn,
says that if the President and officers
Staten Island Ferry Company are not
brought to trial for the Westfleld disaster
by the New York. authorities, he will have
them indicted and tried In Brooklyn with
in tha next two months.
It is said that the alleged defaulting
Pennsylvania State Agent, Evans, is so af
fected by the charges against him that
hair and beard have turned white as snow,
and his nervous tremor shakes him like
palsy.
At Mlnden, Louisiana, cn the night
the 10th, two blocks of the business part
of the town were destroyed by fire. Loss,
$ 300,000 i insurance, $25,000.
The Maryland Republican State Con
vention, in session at Baltimore ou
12th, nominated, by acclamation, Hon.
cob Tome.jof Cecil, for Governor. Hon.
Alexander Randall, of Annapolis,
nominated for Attoruey-Geucral, aud Law
rence J. Brengleo, of Frederick, lor Stute
Comptroller.
A large procession of woikingnicn
demonstration of a resolution to insist
the eight-hour rule, took place in New
York city on the 13th. There were
eighteen societies represented, and, not
withstanding it was a ra'ny day, no
than 1 i,0U0 were in line. A srnad cannon,
drawn by eight men, attired in white,
bore tho inscription t " Eight hours
Peaceably if we can i forcibly if we must."
The State Democratic Convention
New Jersey met at Trenton on the 13
and nominated Joel Parker, of Mouuiou'h,
at candidate for Governor, '
The citizen's Committee of Seventy In
New York city, on the 13th, adopted a re
port recommending the institution both of
civil and criminal suits against the persons
implicated, the appointment of commit
tees on election and legislation, and, also,
of a committee to wait upon the Governor
of the State and request his aid, in con
junction with the Attorney General aud
District Attorney, to begin proceedings
for the relief of the city.
The Sub committee of the Ku-Klux
Investigating Committee met in Washing
ton on the l ith to examine and digest the
mass of test'mony furnished by the officers
of South Carolina, concerning their finan
ces, taxation, etc., and found that sev
eral Governors had failed to furnish the
information requested by the chairman of
the full committee, and a report upon the
matter Indicated would be incomplete un
less such information is communicated
withont further delay.
According to a Washington dispatch of
the 13th, Major John Leydard Hodge, ap
pointed in Janury,1867, Deputy Paymas
ter in the United States army, and sta
tioned in that city, had been found to be
defaulter to the government to a very large
amount-at least f 400,000 or $00,000.
Wells, Fargo & Co.'s Express Office at
Ellis, Kansas, was entered by burglars on
the night of the 12th and robbed of $22,000.
Georee Vanderpool's third trial has
ended in his acquittal. He was once
found guilty of Herbert Field's murder,
and sentenced to State Prison for life.
Being tried in Manistee County, Mich.,
a new trial was obtained for him, and the
venue changed to Kalamazoo County.
There the jury disagreed, and the venue
was changed to Barry County. The
third trial lasted over five weeks, and on
the 17th the jury, after being out six hours,
returned a verdict of not guilty, and Van
dcrpool was discharged.
The Democratic State Convention of
Minnesota met at St Paul on the 13ch
and nominated tho following ticket : For
Governor, Winchip Young, of St. An
thony ; Lieuteuant-Governw, JL Buell, of
Houston ; Secretary of State, E. Falk, of
Rice ; Treasurer, B. Vosberg, of Stearns ;
Attorney-General, J. L. McDonald, of
Sbackopee ; Justices of Supreme Court,
Wm. Mitchell, of Winona, and M K.
Burk, of Mankato.
A Denver, Col, dispatch of the 13th
says the election in New Mexico on the
11th resulted in the election of the Repub
lican candidate for Delegate to Congress,
and that the Republicans will have a ma
jority in the Territorial Legislature.
Superintendent Norton, Superintendent
of the Money Order Department of the
New York Post-Offlce, is a defaulter to
the amount of $115,000, and he and his
wife have voluntarily surrendered all their
property at Plainfleld, N. J., consisting of
a farm, several valuable horsesetc., esti
mated in all to be worth $175,000. It is
said the government will not sutler by this
defalcation.
An explosion occurred at the Union
Torpedo Works in New York city, on the
14th, by which two persons, Henry Brown,
and Burke, driver of a truck, were in
stantly killed, and Michael Goldschmidt,
proprietor of the establishment; Henry
Righart, employe, and Mary Jane Burr,
residing opposite the scene of the explo
sion, were so badly injured that they
would probably die. A Beekman street
car was passing at the time, and two horses
drawing it were almost blown to pieces.
Much damage was done to adjacent buildings.
An Augusta, Me., dispatch of the 14th
says : " We have official returns of tho
vote for Governor from 330 cities and
towns and plantations. In these places
Perbam has 49,002 ; Kimball, 39,784. Ma
iontv for Perham, 9,813. There are about
200 towns to hear from, which will bring
the total vote up to a little more than 100,
000, and give, Perhaiu a majority of 11,
000." Governor Hoffman delivered the address
at the Fair of the Westchester County Ag
ricultural and Horticultural Society, on
September 14.
At the recent session, at Troy, N. Y.,
the National Association of Spiriatulists,
Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhull wai elected
President for the coming year.
The ticket nominated by the recent
Massachusetts Democratic Slate Conven
tion is as follows : Governor, John Quin'-y
Adams, of Quincy; Lieutenant-Governor,
8. O. Lamb, of Greenfield; Secetary
State, Luther Stevenson, Jr., of Effingham
Treasurer, Levi Heywood, of Gardiner
Auditor, Phineas Allen, of PittstloM;
fJ - - O X
i insolvent National Bank for moneys
Attorney-General WUliaui W. Warren,
Brighton
The Attorney-General has decided that
, ... - - ,,
the government has no right of priority
of payment as against private creditors
is
of
a
of
the
was
iu
on
less
of
h,
which the bink holds to tho credit of
United States. He has also decided,
connection with this question, that
Comptroller of tho Currency has
authority, under the law, to declare a divi
dend to private creditors of a National
Bank before the claims of the United
States, of all kinds, are first satisfied.
Paymaster Hodge has written a letter
General Brice confessing his defalcation
the amount of $45J,000.
Horace Greeley delivered an address
the Northwestern Agricultural Asso
ciation, at Minneapolis, on September
A San Francisco dispatch ot tho
says the latest returns indicate that
Democrats have two majority In the
Senate, and the Republicans a
majority on joint ballot
A telegram from Raleigh, N. 0., on
13th says that sixty persons arrived
thft day, aud were handed over to
United States authorities, to be tried
the Ku Klux act
A fire at Saratoga Springs on the morn
ing of the 14th destroyed nearly an
block of buildings, involving a loss
about $200,000.
A survey in ir parly of seven persons
in the flames of burning woo-s
Colllngwood, Canada, recently.
The smallest working steam engine
the World was entered at the Buffalo
Fair on the 15.h. It will
coyer a space larger than a three
piece.
The Grand Jury In New York
brought In a true bill, indicting
the abortionist, for manslaughter.
President Orant and party arrived
Pittsburgh cn the 15th, from tie oil
remained half an hour, and
proceeded, to Washington, Pa., whew
would be the sruest of the non. Wm,
Kenna for a few days.
A very heavy frost occurred at Lewis
ton, Me., on September 14. The vines
were generally killed.
New York business circles were agitated
on the 15th by reports of a giganilc con
spiracy entered into by a ring of financial
sharpers to lock up millions of dollars of
gold, and thus seriously tmbarrass the
business operations, in order to push up
prici s. Judge Bedford charged the Grand
Jury, in the event of evidence being
brought before it to this effect, to "act at
once, promptly and fearlessly."
The trial of the Tammany ir Junction
suit terminated on the 15th, and Judge
Barnard decided in favor of a permanent
injunction. In rendering his decision the
Judge said :
I am not Jimt.lued, nnrter the ctrcnmtanci, In
ayinu that Uia payment of these
bills by the
Comptroller, ami the ralflnif of bonila by tne
Board of Apportionment, authorize me to say they
are entitled to the confidence of the court, a to
permit Ihcm to go on and spend more money,
llavlnif tailed, in consequence of omuwlon, If not
of commlNdou, It In my duty, and piiluful duty,
not to allow another dollar to he pnld from Ihe
Treaenry, or mother bond to be Imued nnlll Biich
time as there shall be some alteration in that
board .
It may be said that In coneqnonce of granting
this order the city and county governments will
he disorganized. I have nothing to do with that.
1 have a plain duty to perform not a pleasant
one, hut one which I cannot avoid. Whenever
proper case is pruseuUsd ior an iiyunclkm, it is my
duty to grant it.
U Is said there Is a remedy for the pnrprow
trying charges aguiut the Comptroller. 1 know
of no such leijal remedy, and where there is no
remedy auiust the robbery of the oommnnity It
t .e duty of the bench to invent a remedy; and
none existed the court would be JusllUod In re
sorting to any means In Its power to prevent the
couttunauce of a slate of things discreditable
the cily. We all have tho credit of the city
heart, whether aged men wish ng to give their off
spring u lnherli mice, or middle-aged men will
ing to provide for their children, or the little In
fant in the cradle, we are all Interested In it, aud
In looking for relief to prevent contUcaiion
their property.
It was reported in New York city
the 15th that Tweed and Sweeny were
war, and that an alliance had been formed
between Tweed, Connolly anal O'Brien,
AU the city laborers, whose pay became
due on the 1 Uh, bad received their puy,
and In a few days all those who had similar
claims would be paid.
cf the 15th
A Washington dispatch
says: "The Secretary of War has sent
the Judge Advocate General a communi
cation, from General Brice, In regard
the Hodges defalcation, and charges are
be preferred against nodges. The appli
cation of Hodges to be released from con
finement has been refused. Brice asks
the fullest investigation into his conduct
in the affair."
A dispatch from Grand Rapids, Mich.,
says that Vanderpool is going into business
at Kalamazoo, some of his friends furnish
ing the money.
It is estimated that there were between
80 00 J and 35,000 persons present on
15th at the Iowa State Fair from 5,000
10,000 more than have ever before been
at auy State Fair in Iowa.
Mrs. Finley , the child-murderer, who
her throat in the Wabash (Ind.) jil
other day, was not dead on the 15th, but con
tinued Very weak. She has comessed
murdering four persons Resides her chil
dren, but ner statement is regarded as
of a maniac.
The death sentence of the Indian chiefs
Santata and Big Tree has been commuted
to imprisonment for lifo.
One of the principal street car compa
nies in Baltimore has agreed to make
distinction in the future in regard to colored
passengers, and it was thought other com
uauies would soon follow its example
Heretofore, every sixth or seventh car
designated as one to which negroes wou.d
be admitted.
mPle'
Fashions for 1901.
of
of
;
;
A Saratoga correspondent of the
York Commercial Advertier, pretending
to be writing thirty years hence, gives
fashions for 1901. As it may possibly
useful to the daughters and granddaugh
ters of our present lady readers, we repro
duce the description :
l'he high heels are gone. There are
more rouud shoulders, but the Goddess
fashion has not been idle. Her ways
almost as ridiculous as they were in
wheu they used to stuff out with news
papers, and due gle their hands and
right-angled wrists in front. Now
have the front soles of their shoes made
inch thick, while the he-els are taken
and every young lady stands beni, as
over back, as she used to stand bent
thirty years ago. Sometimes
eyes are painted black underneath,
they used to be. They said the cretonne
suits were worn for two years, then
lauies got, uj wearing ureases iu.iuo ui
i .e , ..i.,.
coch. s leamers. a nouueu hid nio
the dresses to-day at the Uhited
were very high-the same as you see
..,-ir ir.,.nJ
twenty -four buttons, and extend to
shoulder. Tho dresses are cut low
very low: but tho neck and shoulders
are covered with white kid to match
I DgaiUi . UO U1U MNU1UU V o
face to take away tho gloss and glow
irloves. These necks tit so nicely that
of think you are looking at the
shoulders. Shoddy young ladies
w arms and necks a "V
tectum. Young ladies have resorted
, , hi ,lf ,,
of again. The old fashion of powdering
tho
in
the
no
health, has been discontinued. Gentle-
m., ,.,. i.,... iur,m t ti.u in.,
and tight at the bottom. They also
eaxruiL's. a fashion which used to be
served thirty years ago by ladies
Gentlemen's hats are generally the
cfuijKau de brigand, turned up at tho
with rooster's leathers.
A Miner's Experience.
to
be
fore 14.
14th
tho
Cali
fornia clear
the
there
the
un
der entire
of
per
ished near
In
In
dustrial not
cent
have
Rosen
zwolg, at
re
gions, then
he
An old miner who has experienced
thus describt s them: "As
as the explosion occurs it drives
whilwind aud with loicd enough to
anv weight before it in
the nearest vent. In goinj it sweeps
the ceiling, tearing aay props, brattices,
and everything else, even the pillars
coal. The unfortunate miner who may
within its influence, instinctively
himself flit upon the ground. Before
can rise the gas has encountered the
of air moving in an opposite direction.
They come together with an elastic
sufficient to change the direction of
gaseous tornado, and back it comes
rubh, lifting tho miner and flinging
probably a distance of fifty feet
tho ragged cod, Behind again there
shock of ;ure air an I foul, and again
gas whirls back with uudiiuiulsued
lilt.ng tho miner onco more and
him back whence he originally
agaiu auu again tnis wm m 8uu,a
can
i 1.. . .1 XT.. 1 1.1,,,.
1 if ,1.,1 .I,-
after Jump accumulates with mrprlslug
raDiuiiv. Tins is eunposeu oi me
damp whLh hangs from the roof and
white damp wnieh gathers along the
It joins the gas at every rush, aud
poe?and volume to itsfury. The
less miner stiules with superhuman
strength to resist the butleiiugs
mine-Vnd,butow the damp begins
seize upon his semes Tha sensation
not ujipleasant, He feels slight
he beXeTweak and sleepy? be
his knees lo all Uilr power,
uj. num.. lom, au wu
CURRENT ITEMS.
a
of
is
if
to
at
of
on
at
Is thk natural inference true that Dr,
Mandrake is a quack T
Did the paragraph which " caught his
eye" ever ut it gor
Witat part of the rifle is like an as
sault? Tne breech of the piece.
It is asserted ii favor of a new lamp
that nitro-elvcerlne itself wouldn't ex
plode it.
A bov, five years old, is described on
the Jersey City police docket as "an
habitual drunkard."
By the payment of annual dividends the
Mutual Lille, or Chicago, supplies insur
ance at cost. Insure there.
It is said that experience this season has
demonstrated that the rear car is the most
dangerous part of a train.
Makr friends with life insurance, that
when you are old it may comfort you. Re
member the Washington Life.
A Dbtroit boy, who found a pocket
book full of money, was too proud to take
a reward of two cents, and declined it.
A cLEnovM an was asked whether the
members of his church were united. He
replied that they were perfectly united
frozen togetlier.
J. L. Smith was recently arrested In
New Orleans for a murder he had com
mitted in Carrollton, Ga,, fifteen years
ago.
to
to
for
the
to
cut
the
to
that
no
was
A modern thinker says many people
will be astonished when they get to heaven
to find the anifels laying no schemes to be
made archaagels.
Ninety thoupad four hundred and six
teen persons emigrated from England, and
112,095 from Scotland and Ireland, during
the year 180.
A Scb-limr TnouQHT. Odd Fellows
and Masons, like Mas;.ns and Hod b el
lows ascending a ladder, get up by degrees,
Comntereuil BxOXeVin.
A pomD of turnip seed contains 301,-
2fW. You csn easily leet the accuracy of
thi-t by gettiQg a pound and counting tne
steus.
A nxitN near Dubuoue, Iowa, was de
1 hv firn tho other dy. The barn
was very near the owner's dwelling, and,
water hinir nr.arre. the nouse was stveu
by the application of great quantities of
mi.k!
The young men at the Wheeling water-
incr places have discarded while vests-
The young ladies use so much oil on their
hair that a vest is only good ior one even
ing on the piazza.
PiTTSFiEtD, Mass., has developed an-
other economical citizen. A young roan
r.lld at a store and inquired for boot
boxes, but could not find one large enough,
and it came out in conversation that he
wanted it for a coffin for his father,
ThbFaoEndof a QcabreIi. Stern
parent: "Leave oil that noise airecuy.
Jack, you naughty boy ! It's all over now
and Bertha's left off crying these ten miu
utes." Jack : " B B Bertha began cry-
intr before I did ! Boo hoo !
On the 23d of May the cigar seller of
Quai de l'Ecole printed with a pen,
"Closed on account of death," on a sheet
of foolscap, in order to preserve his shop
from pillage audjlre. As soon as the ink
was dry he took a paste-brush and posted
it on hia door. He was ubout to re-enter
the shop when a ball killed him.
Mr. Child, of Exeter Collejre, Oxford,
a reuasnt writer on physiological experi
mpnt rnntenda that the degree of sensi
bility to pain in mankind varies directly
with the increase of civilization ; so that
the more highly civilized a man is, the
more he will suffer irom a given ciuae
productive of pam.
A yotjng lady was entertaining some
friends the other evening, when one said :
"Tenia vnnr braid is c. minir cff.'
Sl She clapped her hands to her head and
fVMinit nnt.hinir iinslipped. The eeuileman
New
tho
be
no
of
are
1871,
their
they
ail
off,
far
for
ward, the
as
the
yea- .- , --- . v
f I .,t;,, anflWnt heat to induce combus-
--t-i"r . w
States tion without the application of W
in think that not a ew ot the nume r. us
i...vu firca. " supposed to be the work of an in-
the cendiary' are caused by, perl aps, a rag
neck which kis been used with benzine by the
frugal housewife to clean a coat, or by the
the
found nothinrr unslinped. The gentleman
quietly pointed to the braid of her dress,
ahn.it. hulf a vard of which had been torn
off, anl was lying on the floor. Thtre
was an audible smile.
The fruit-growers of Dorchester Coun
ty, Maryland, complain that they have
scarcely realixed txpenses this season,
the chief cause being that many varieties
of peaches which usually ripen from one
week to ten days apart, ripened at the
same time this year. Other fruits, as well
as berries, have, however, teJized good
prices'.
An interesting case was tried before an
Evansvilie, Ind., Justice a few days ago.
A man named Dugan had teen killed by
a runaway horse. A subscription was
taken up ior the benefit of the widow and
children. John Dugan, brother of the
deceased, collectodthe subscriptions aud
kept the money, claiming that his brother
was indented to him at th time of his
death. On the trial the widow obtained
judgment, aud the charitable John had to
disgorge.
tnni sppmti well established that cer
tain artioles, such as old wearing apparel.
well dried wood, etc., are capauie oi geu-
heat which is known to be generated from
nrlilna nf aillr cotton, etc.. closed Up in
close room. Excluinge.
Mrs. Van Hannon revived in Montars,
the other day, the memories of our Revo
lutionary dames. Left alone In her cabin,
she was startled by the approach of three
il had barely time to bolt the
- I vj " , . i
of door when the Indians flung memseivis
you
naked
now
'
to
hair
the
against it Sending her cunuren into ;u
I i.i.iiur t h a Vinroic vounit woman seized
wear revolver and guu, and confronted the in-
ou
dians at the open window. The red skins
were finally driven ou, aitcr uimg mo
a'new thieving dodqe is practised
females who enter cars, and, finding a gen
tleman sitting alone, ask if the otuer seat
is occupied. The gentleman at once mo
tions her to be seated, when she politely
asks him If he won't allow her to sit
tho window. Of coursa this request
hIiui trranUid. and she becomes seated.
Prtou lv she finds that there is not
rises to do so, and as he leans over her
picks his pocket or removes his watch,
which passes to a male confederate In
next seat behind her.
Accidknt has had considerable to
with the moBt important scientific discov
rie.a. A gentleman in Bingham, Utah,
who ia tiuking a shaft with the expecta
tion of finding gold in a canon, some
ago nailed a piece of sheet-in. n up to keep
o,! wii.r fnmi dripping on the men
work Aft r it had thus served to
off the wat-T for s una three weeks,
took it down, and fomd, to his astoniah
,a,,T t.tiut. it was covered more than
inch thick with gmu, si ve-r aim vupi",
with a little lion, which had been in
water iu solution, a-id becaino precipuaieu
alone.
mode
sides
ex
plosions soon
like a
carry
along
of
be
throws
he
body
shock,
tho
with a
him
against
is a
the
fury,
dishing
came.
"-V". , rimljlC. wiih the sheet
rtsiei uj wwr - 1
nrnilu An 11 II llHIin V TCbld, U 0 Of BllffalO,
has been long tormented by an cfl endive
uiiu; uuur nuu u . -0
the the Ue dth Officer had actually commenced
floor, a suU for maintaining a nuisinee, has
adus discovered that it is caused by a flow
help- natural gas In ha cellar. The fl.wi -of
cellar i. the natural rock, and to drain
ot the buiore a sewer a w.uu ,
to drilled through tho rock .
ii feet, wheu sn inters ice or cavity was
dizzioe.s into which the water passed. On apply-
suggers, ing a lighted candle to the
and be ll.u.e instantly appeared, reiching
to Uw wLiujj, auu Ilia mystery was solved.
iron. The ullver wm over $.100 to the ton
and tho gold oyer $3J0, besides the cop
per. un tne authority or two persons or ve
racity, a correspondent of the Albany
Jonrnnl tells this: "They saw a wasp
riding on a green worm one and a half
Inches long. How far he had ridden they
did not know: but after they saw him,
they watched him tld ho bad ridden all of
twenty five feet. Occasionally the worm
would stop, lie motionless as though he
was dead, when the wasp, after a little,
would spur him up, and then the worm
would go on. The wasp would keep the
worm in as direct a course as he could.
After a while the worm stopped, and the
wasp dismounted and quickly ran and
moved a little stone, or piece of ground,
about two inches from where the worm
lay, and then seizing the worm by the
head drew It into the hole. Presently
the wasp came out. put on the gravel over
the hole, covered the stone over, and
seemed to be getting ready to fly, when
they killed bim, and then dug down about
two inches and dug out the worm, which
was dead."
How Farmers ark Swindled. Some
time since we called attention to a swindle
of a rather ingenious nature, by which re
spectable farmers were duped into becom
ing pretended agents for the sale of a bo
gus seeding machine, and the contract be
tween tho parties was so drawn that when
a part of it was torn off there remained a
promissory note, regularly drawn and
signed, which tho swindler disposed of for
cash and departed. Two of these cases
are now being tried before the New York
Supreme Court Suit has been brought on
the notes, which were purchased by the
third parties innocent of any knowledge
of the nature of the transaction, and the
probability is that the swindled farmers
will nave to pay the amounts. This ought
to be a lesson to farmers to avoid peddlers,
patent-right men, and traveling agents,
as they call themselves, and have nothing
to do with them in any manner whatever.
There is a small army of these men al
ways traveling through the country, who
live by preying on farmers who are not
sufficiently posted to know their character,
and so become easy victims. Jlewrih and
llome.
In the summer days, when hydrophobia
is supposed to be more common than at
other seatons, it will comfort many people
t ) know that the best medical authorities
now hold that It is no more common in
summer than in winter, and that it is of
very rare occurrence anyhow; so rare
that in the 28,000 admissions to the Penn
sylvania Hospital in toe last ninety years
there was but one case of hydrophobia.
And that there is no such peculiar danger
from the bite of a dog as some suppose, is
shown by the fact that while the police
and dog catchers of Philadelphia have .
been bitten thousands of times, hydropho
bia has in their case never resulted.
There is no doubt that many cases of
lockjaw mani,i a pdu, and other diseases
have been attributed to dog bites received
months or years before, when they might
just as well have been attributed to flea
bites. The moral of all which is should
a dog bi'e you, do not let your nervous
fears make you crazy. The chances are
ninety nino out of a hundred that you will
never be the worse for It. bxchangt.
hiTTiNO on the hotel piazza the other
morning, says a Newport letter, watching
a group of young ladies, I overheard a
curly headed little maiden who was friz
zled and paniered and puffed in the height
of the style exclaim, " O, I like the Inde
pendent best I" A moment before I could
have sworn that U petite never looked at a
newspaper, and somewhat surprised I took
the liberty of listening further. "The
TribuTU suits me," sa d her black-eyed
companion. " I take the Evening Pott,"
chimed in a stylish, saucy-looking girl
who was pelting somebod over the rail
ing with pond lillies a beautiful bunch,
by the way, which, live minutes before," I
had seen a gentleman caretuuy selecting
for her from a little urchin's basket. And
when, I wondered, do you girls get time
to read tha newspapers? "Fold them
four double, ot course," was the next sen
tence I caught, and, more puzzled than be
fore, I very impolitely walked near the
group, wheu every thing was made clear
to me by the blonde littld one saying, " I
had rather have a newspaper any day than
the best panier that was ever made in
Paris."
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As the developments of the downfall of
the Tammany Ball party in New York
progresses ; as the thieves prepare to drop
such portions of their plunder as they
cannot safely keep ; as Hall attempts to
draw the knife across the throat of Con
nolly, and Sweeney openly avows his in
tention of destroying Tweed to save him
selfthe Republic of the United 8 ates is
made witness to a spectacle not online the
foulest corruption of the disgraced French
Empire a spectacle never presented to the
honest people of these United States, ex
cept by the Democratic party, and one
that in all human probability, judging the
future bv the past, will never be witness
ed agMn, save where and when the Demo
crauc party succeed in getting the supreme
power into its own nanus, in an tne rec-
rd of the pagan republics ot Greece and
Rome, more shameful robbery was never
commitied than that verified day after day
by the Democratic exposures in New
Yiork, ana actually auunueu, even wmie
the thieves are on the tve of criminal
prosecution, by the voluntary conduct of
Hall and Connolly. Even the maddened
Keds of the Commune declared the inviola
bility of private rights and the sacrodness
of the people's property ; and fearful as
was their conduct oiherwise, the Commune
loaders did not rob Paris to enrich them
selves. Every man of this Democratic
quartettie is on tho conservative tide of
morals andpolit cs, and found no denuncia
tion great enough to measure his wrath at
tha s-icrilt'glous levtlors of church-cant
:md Napokonism. If these four men
now escapo penitentiary toils for their
years of official villainy, whose depths
eicli Is so willing to show for the damna
tion of the other, it will only be because
the Democratic party in Now York city
has brcome so help emly sunk in the vice
engendered by their conduct that neither
Democrats nor ltepuuiiCMUS believe it is
poss ble to putdsii a D-:moera'ic criminal.
Thut the power ot the Ring ia broken
there is no longer re ison to doubt. The
promptly telegraphed denial or Mrs uon
nolly's transfer of $50f),OOD of bonds to
her s n in-law, to save them from a
Sheriff's writ, was exposed with equal
pr mp'ness, aud the official record of the
transier of tho United Slates Treasury
books is at once proof thai tho bondB were
first stolen from the people oi JN e-w ork :
and now that the thief has atti mpted to
hide his booty, when thoio was danger of
Us being recovered. Hall's brazen demand
tor Connolly s resignation indicates tne
desperate strait in which that literary
mountcuink uiscovtrs niuiBcu, wane Con
nolly's connivance at the burglaiy of his
owu office will, lotus hepe, increase his
penitentiary term without accomplishing
tho concealment of lacs or papers clcu
ia eJ to confirm his guilt The peculiar
position which Sweeney assumed some
months ago, and which he h-.s maintained
with curious reticence amid the excite
ment, turmoil, aud disgrace that have fol
lowed one another in quick tuccession,
ind catcs that if ho did not deliberaMy
plan the betrayal of his confreres, be fore
saw their ultimate defeat, aud put himself
In such relations with ihe more dic.nt
men of New York as would subject him
to the least share ot thu shame, and no
part of Its punishment
Tho lesson of Tammany's fall is not a
local one tor New York. These four men,
now sulf-coiivicled for the most monstrous
proslitu iou of political office tor private
gain, do not represent four kinds of Indi
vidual villlany. They were chosen year
after year by Democratic votes. Year
after year they spuko from tho highest
Democratic rout rums, aud yer after year
tho Democratic party of that city and
6mU upplauded their sentiments, followtd
their advice, and gave them their suffrages.
They represented Iho Democratic party of
the couutrv luat as well us oi New York.
In their administration of muncipal af
fairs, they confirmed Democratic practices
wherever Democrats have bien In p.wer;
and a Democralio National Administra
tion, elec'ed in 1872, will follow in the
footsteps cf these plundering thieves as
surely as the people commit the tody of
elect ng them. Let not the lessen of
Tammany bo thrown away ,Chwuo Font