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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-08-24
THE STATE CONVENTION.

SFPoRT OF THE COMMITTEE on THE POWERS
Avn DUTIEs OF THE LEGISLAIJRE-DE-
RATF IN COMM ITTEE ON THE PAHDoNiNG
powrp REPoRT-AE AMENDMENT CREATING
A COURT OF PARDONS PROPOSED
NV TELEGRAPH TRIBUNE
ALBANY. Ausg 23-The Committee on the Powers
and Duties of the Legislature made their report The
Convention went into Committee of the Whole upon
the report of the Committee on the Pardonng Power
MIR. T. w Dwight presented a substitute for the sec
ton as reported by the Committee, by which Court
of Pardons is created to consist Of five exudges OF
oourts of record. The Governor is TO grant no
pardon except on the recommendation Of at least
three members of the Board The written reasons are
to accompany each grant denial inns Is
the plan proposed by Prof. Lieber. Mr.. could
offered amendments 10 the original section by Wmch
a Board of Inquiry is to be created to relieve the
Governor and all pardons must bear their reasons
Endorsed upon the face of the grant. An amendment
was offered by Mr. Greeley by which the surviving
ex-Governors were to be a Council of Pardon. IL
should be the duty of the Governor to grant all par
dons recommended by three-ffths of the Council
all proceedings TO be open to the public. ms
amendment was voted down. Without taking tur-
Their action. the Convention adjourned to Monday
evening at o'clock.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-08-24

The vote given last evening upon the substitute offered
by MI Rumsey Qep steuben) prohibiting the Legisla-
Te from passing any law authorizing any county to"n
erty lend It's credit to the and OF any private person
company corporation, except in tins CONSTITUTION
hereafter otherwise provided is important nasmuch M
this cuts off grants TO charities ana chltpe
Institutions 1t will be found extremely difficult TO modify
n hereafter Evidently some Of the Democracy were
caught mapping and liable 10 be called to strlcI nc
count bv their constituencies for the vote given. The
following the record Of Yeas and Nays upon this suDst
fnfs
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-08-24
THE INDI1N VAR.

THE SITUATION At FORT HAYS-TROUBLES IN
NEBRASKA.
ST. Louis, Aug. 23.-Wcstcm dispatches re-
port everything quiet at Fort Hays. but rumos were
afoat that the Kansas military cut OF from the
Fort Ivy Indians Major Lee of the 39th Cavalry LETT
Fort Harker yesterday Fort wallace with part of ms
command Gov Butler OF Nebraska, who has lust re
turned Omaha from the Big Blue country reports that
IL men have been killed there by the Indians, - horses
stolen and "a arn-hOuses deserted. a company OF
militia has been organized 10 protect the settlers. spot
ted Tail" with s band. has gone peace MISSION "a
well as on u buffalo hunt He will bring with him from
the path the repre- sentative chief Of the Sioux and
Chcycnnes 70 meet the Peace Commissioners at Fort
Laramie.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-08-24
THE SOUTHERN STATES.
sOUTU CAROLINA.

CHARI EsroN, S. c., Aug. 23.-FOur hundred
and ftysx persons were registered to-day, Of whom 29
were whites and 30 blacks.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-08-24
MARRIED

GRRIG-BATESOn THURSDAY Aug o. the residence Of the brides
parents by Dr. CALDWELL John Greg Of Brooklyn
y Mss Sarah Louise daug liter yanum j. Bates esq Poy
dence. l. l.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-08-24

The Hon c. r. johnson OF Brooklyn leotured TINS eve
ming in the Convention Chamber on The Philosophy Of
Government" He said The fate of nations is bound up
in politics inseperably connected it is with religion.
Politics cannot exist without religion. OF this
the French revolution and the history OF
religious persecution proofs either hand. Human
enactmcnts are not a safe guide for nations. Re
ligon aud politics are wonderfully combined IN the Ten
Commandments This was the system which our Pill
grmF athers established their framework OF Government
It was the forced antagOnsm OF these powers that
brought about the late rebellion. The sum Of Govern
eut is Justice 10 all To the people and thcrreprc
tives belongs carry out this principle. The lecture
was able and interesting and was well received.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-08-24

vaucle Al lOaGfl5 Provisions steady and unchanged
Whisky at ~ "a Receipts 200 bbls Flour l2o sacks
Wheat 40 sacks 500 sacks Oats 5B9 sacks rye 49,
OswRGo AUG 23-Four Is ia good demand sales Of 800 bba al
80 No Spring sl for Red Winter w ~ or Double
Brtra Wheat quiet. sales O00 bush New Red inter nae AZ
81 III Corn quiet Of 600 bush Illinois al I'll &c Va
and nominal Corn Meal 81 p 100 b. Mteed N goo1
demand Shorts sI3 Shpsuas +25d $40 a Canal feghs
dul Corn &c Newlork, Lumber, - 70 TO We ~
Railroad Preigh-Plour Boston, 70c; % Albany pc p,
i0rk by rail and river Lake mp0us-28S0 busn "noS
% 500 hush Com 10000 feet Lumber Canal BIpors-o Ous
Com, 9l1 90 feet Lumber. =, 3,
CNCSNAr Aug 23Fol steady Wheat dull and lover 70 -,
Red 10 No White ~ 25 Cora firm but scarce Al eIc lot
No Mixed sales Of White at &c. Ia bulk Oats dn a.
offering Rye With light supply sales at ~ ~
Barley asa 81 30 Cotton dull and nnchhg
midng Bacon 6mer but the sales small Mess ois IN M
demand 5hed S24 Bulk Meats held bmy al lltGS
Bacon hm ~ 2 Tor Shoulders and l6c for Clear Sides ln
held AZ BE small l22c there anxiety ~ sell butter
bm aud ll124 Lnseed OIL hr al 81 Is FaIeedi I'll IT,
Gold ltOl
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-08-24


SAN Francisco 2The following todays quotations OF
Mining and other Socks: Gould Curry $500 Savage, S4+4o
PoOH Ai25 Ophr 100: Hale EOrcToss $4,000 Grown Point
3 28O Yellow Jacket S925 Belche 800 Alpha s4Ooi inP
rial (pe shared sl3j California Navigate Co. q cent
California State Telegraph Co. 81 per cent
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-08-24

Fire Departments
MANUFACTURERS
PATENT COMBINATION HOSE beIrs pressure Of over 300 pounds
square without bursting sweating durable The
only Hose suitable Tor Steam Fire Rngines
PATENT COMBlNATION BBLNG superior 20 Leather or Rubber
BENEDICT TORREY TWOMBLI.
No. o Parkpace, New-lOrk,
Nextd1 to Broadway Bank
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1867-07-18
RumaniSn.

s Our, town and neighborhood, unless
matters mend little, will soon build up
name for rufianism, which, even Scran
ton, in all its glory of that kind, might
envy. On Tuesday afternoon as Mr..
William Cress, of Stroud township, was
returning to his home from his harvest
field, with two of his hands, he was set
upon by couple of rufians and most
barbarously and shamefully beaten. One
Of them, - Metler, hit him on the mouth
with a stone, cutting his mouth badly
and knocking out one of his teeth, and
again on the head. While this was going
on his accomplice, named Ruff, slipped
up and hit Crcss on the head with billy
inficting an ugly and dangerous wound
The men who were with Mr. Cress agree
in the testimony that not word passed
between the parties previous to the as
sault. Previous to the assault upon Mr.
Cress the culprits had chased a couple
of women along the road, and had stoned
couple of men who happened to pass by
We learn that warrants are out for the
arrest of the culprits.
On Tuesday evening while Oliver Stone
and Robert Boys were sitting in front o
the store Of the latter, a colored man, o
some notoriety i'll these parts, named Lo
renzo Haines, came up and commenceC
abusing the former, and, after some words
made an assault upon him. In the en-
deavor to defend himself Mr.. Stones foo
caught under the doorstep, dislocatin;
his ankle, and placing him completed.
hors du combat. While in this predica
ment Haines pitched on to him, and woul
probably have beaten him to death bu
for the opportune interference of by
stander. Haines then took after the gen
tleman who had interfered, when MI
Stone was taken into Mr.. Boys's store
and afterwards to his home, where hi
ankle was properly dressed by DIR. Bio
lack Haines afterwards returned to tn
front of the store, where he soon afte
made an assault upon Mr.. John Kalabacl
who was quietly passing by, and bit h
cheek badly. After considerable troubl
, Haines was arrested and lodged in jai
The assault upon Mr.. Stone grew out {
| an old grudge. of some twelve years stant
ing, enlivened, probably, by too free il
diligence in liquor.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1867-07-18
Congress.

Kept steadily at work on the Reconstruc
tion Bill until Saturday last, when the
bill, having been modified by committee
of conference to suit the views of both
branches, was passed by each, and sent tC
she President, for his approval or rejec
tion as the case might be. 1t is now
said that the President is at work on the
veto, and that it will be sent to Cong gress
to-day or to morrow. 1t is sure that the
veto will be met by counter veto on the
part of Congress, and that that body vii
then adjourn. We will publish the Re
construction Bill in our-next.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1867-07-18
Three Buildings Struck by lightning at
SlatingtOn.

A frightful thunder storm passed over
the borough of Slatington on the even.
ing of the 4th. The heavens were fre.
quently one vast sheet of fame, and the
thunder is said to have been deafen
ing. Three dwellings were struck by
lightning, two of them however being
but slightly injured. The third, occu-
pied by Mr.. Edleman and his family
was protected by lightning rod but the
conductor being disconnected the fluid
passed into the building tearing down the
plastering, overturning the chairs, tables
and stoves, and SO iujuriug Mr.. Edlemau
who, with his wife occupied bed in one
of the rooms through which the lightning
passed, that his recovery is despaired of
Strange as it may seem Mrs. Edleman
sustained no serious injuries.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1867-07-18
American Manufactures The American
Watch Company of Waltham, Mass.

American Manufactures.-The American
Watch Company of Waltham, Mass.
Our readers know that the best me-
chanism of the best manufactures OF this
country is unsurpassed anywhere in the
world. The genius of American inven-
tors and mechanics produced tie cotton
gii, the mechanical reaper and mower,
the sewing machine, the best telegraphic
instruments, and last, but not least, the
wonderful machinery of the American
Watch Company of Waltham, Mass, a
mechanism that takes hold Of the raw
materal-the brass and steel, and gold,
aud precious stones, and under competent
direction turns out that daily wonder and
necessity-a perfect time-keeper.
Beginning in 1850 in very moderate
way, but with the determination to make
none but thoroughly good watches, the
Company have continued to enlarge their
works from year to year, Gas they were
unable to supply the demand until now
they manufacture about one-half Of al
the watches sold in the United States
Their factory covers over three acres oi
ground, and as an illustration Of its ex
tent, we may mention that it is supplied
with over sixty miles ofirOn pipes. Thes'
watches have proved SO reliable that sew
eral of the railways of the country nov
furnish them as part of their equip
ment; and while recommending othe
lines to adopt the same precaution agains
accidents, the editor of the Boston Rail
ray Times remarks: "We have carrier
one of these watches for the past fou
years, and although it has had submit t
rough usage in camp life, horseback rid
ing, &C., we do not hesitate to say that
is the best time keeper and less expensiv
to keep in order than any watch we eve
carried" The Companys success ha
stimulated the manufacture and imports
ton of many worthless counterfeits, s
that buyers should be careful to see tha
they obtain the genuine American watc
made at Waltham.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1867-07-18
IIEOrtant.

Tax payers would do well to read the
advertisement headed "Notice to Tax
payers" in another column. Taxes paid
on the days therein named will be met
with an abatement of five per cent, while
those not paid viii, with FIVE per cent.
added, be placed in the hands of con
stable for prompt collection, 1t will be
the interest of Taxpayers to remember
this. Those residing in Stroudsbure
should pay their taxes on or before the
9th instant
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1867-07-18
The Murdered Man.

Coroner Storm, in note to the editor
of the Democrat, makes the following
corrections in the report of the jury who
sat upon the body Of the unknown man
found dead in Paradise township last week
a notice of which appeared in this paper
He says:-
After / got home, the next day after
being at your Office, [ did not like the
manner In which the murdered man was
buried [ took three of the jurors with
Inc, aud had the remains Of the man taken
up and brought to the Paradise Valley
graveyard, and buried him there On
close examination we found that the ju
rors were mistaken as to the clothing the
man had on. His coat is small figuret
cashmere, or tweed, and his vest, think
is silk velvet His boots are fine kip in
stead of calfskin. You will please make
these corrections in your next issue.
1t was late in the day when L go
word that the body of the man was dis
covered, and by the time that | got the
jury together and ready to proceed will
the inquest it was dark, which will ac
count for the errors"
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1867-07-18
s@- President johnson, in reply to

Ba- President johnson, in reply to a
resolution of the Senate, calling for the
official correspondence between the Heads
Of the Department and the Military Off
GERS assigned to the several Military De.
partments of the South, and for his opin
ion as the sufficiency of the appropria
tons for carrying out of the Reconstruc
ton Act, sent a message to that body on
Monday last. The message was evidently
written with view to the soaring of Con
gress from the plan of Reconstruction sc
righteously adopted by it. He with mar
velous wisdom enters into an argument ol
the question, as to whether the doing
away with the existing rebel governments
does not put upon the United States the
burden of the debts of all the Southern
States contracted previous 20 the war =
The attempt is genuine Johnsonism
and it was met, as it deserved to be, by
the derision and scorn of every member
Of the Senate, including even the Demo.
Gratis with Buckalew at their head, who
employed every devise to get the mes
sage out of Senatorial consideration as
soon as possible. The effort was wholly
stiIborn in effect--no one was scared and
no one hurt, save Andrew johnson. The
President labors hard in behalf of his
rebel friends, but the fiat has gone forth
BY their treason they rendered themselves
nonentities in the government, and there
is no help for them.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1867-07-18
A Neutrars Opinion of Judge Sharswood

The Germantown Telegraph fairly
states the question atissue between Shars-
wood and Williams, as rival candidates
for Judge of the Supreme Bench, in the
following paragraph:
Though the Telegraph is not parti-
san journal, we are free to say that we
cannot recommend any one to vote for a
judge with any probability of his siding
on the Supreme Bench acth the men there
acho ruled against the constitutfonaljfy
ofhc legal tender and conscription acts
during the period Of the Nations peril
Judge Sharswood might not do so, but
we believe he would, as we know him to
be a thorough paced Democratic at all
points. We take occasion to say this
much in advance when the canvass is op-
Iy beginning, that our readers may un-
derstand US as being under no election ex-
citement, and writing solely from our de-
votion to National principles.
The above expresses the true idea.
Any man acho: during period Of great
peril to the national LIFE, could or 'oou5d
not sacrifice mere opinion for ats safety
IS NOT FIT TO DE TRUSTED. Judge
Sharswood did what he could to embarrass
the national credit at time when it was
essential to the national safety that the
confidence Of fnanciers should be strong
in its favor For thus acting, he is aot
fit to be trusted.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1867-07-18

THE DELAWARE WATER GAP: Its Seen
cry, its Legends, and its Early His
tory.
We are indebted to our friend the au-
thor, L. w. Brodhead, Esq, for several
hours of most interesting reading, con-
tained in work bearing the above title
The work is neatly bound, elegantly prin
ted, splendidly illustrated by Photographs
and cannot but prove neat and welcome
companion to all in the hour of leisure
The historical and descriptive portions OF
the work are tersely written; and, where
point is intended, piquaucy flows in as
fippantly as rush the waters over the
rapids described. The tale Of " Winona,
or the Lovers Leap" aud the Legendary
Contributions, from the pens of Mrs. DR..
Joseph Swift, and the late \. L. Brown
Esq, of Easton, and the poetic descrip
tion of the ' Passage of the Blue Ridge
at the Delaware Water Cap" by DR.
William b. Dey, are gems which can be
read, re read and re read again, without
in the least tiring the searcher after the
interesting and the beautiful. We have
always known Mr. Brodhead as the fin
shed gentleman, but we had no idea thai
he had the spirit Of authorship SO largely
developed in him. Every one who desire
to possess good thing indeed, should Sc
cure copy of the book. The appearance
of larger work on the same subject il
insinuated in the preface of the presen
volume The work before US Furnishes
abundant testimony that there is no on,
better able to undertake and complete 4
than Mr.. Brodhead himself.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1867-07-18

The DQylcsto'cn Democrat, which
knows nothing at all about Judge Viii
liams, of Pittsburg, makes this gentle
manly reference to his position and char
acter:
"Judge Williams, the Radical nominee
for Supreme Judge, is at present an As
sociate Judge of Allegheny county. He
is Connecticut Yankee, like Thad Ste
vens, an adveuturer in politics and not to
be trusted
The PittsJurg Post-the principal Dem
ocratic journal of Western Pennsylvania
which knows all about Judge Williams
refers to him as follows:
1.-The nomination of Hon. Henry W
Williams as q candidate for Judge of the
Supreme Court is a good one. He was
the best man named among the candi-
dates before the Republican Convention,
and possesses legal aud moral qualifica-
tions for the responsible position to which
he has been nominated
Our readers can decide for themselves
which of the above paragraphs is most
likely to be true Bucks Go. MteHigencer
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1867-07-18
Power of the Republican Party.

The Richmond Whig of Saturday de-
fends the action of the recent meeting at
Charlottesville, in an article of which the
following is an extract:
What is the Republican party :? 1t re-
presents and wields the whole power of
the Government. 1t is, to all intents and
purposes, the Government TO oppose it
is to oppose the Government. There is
no other party deserving the name in the
United States. There is feeble faction
called the Democratic party, that cares
for itself and nothing else. This moment
! it would rejoice to see the South still
| further crushed aud lacergted, if thereby
it could prevail against the Republican
party. There are still persons who tall
about It's fidelity to the South, when every
one who knows anything knows that
has rendered to the South no other ser
vice than hypocritical lip service /
incited us tc war under the promise 0
assistance, and then gave its money ant
/ fighting force to the armies OF invasion
Its boast has been and now is that with
out its aid the South could not have beel
subiugated. These arc our friends TO
whom we are to sacrifice everything, an
to couciliate whose good opinion We ar
to hurl ourselves against the Repubilcai
party, the Government, the Union. No
so, say we. We have nothing either t
hope or to fear from the Democracy of tn
North. On the contrary, we have every
thing to fear from continued war upo
' ''the party of the Union, and our onl
hope is in its faver 1t dominates ove
the whole North, it rules every depar
ment of the Government, it has the arm
and navy, and marked by every trait thi
defines supremacy. How itat the.Soutf
It has all the colored population, all til
original Union men, aud is hourly gainin
accretion from the Confederate ranks
The instinct Of self preservation is impe
ling the Southern masses to that 'co- oper
t ton" which our neigh6or SO detests. II
e fact is that the people have at last b
r come convinced that they will be utter
ruined without reconstruction, and hay
resolved to do everything that is nece
! sary to that end They want peace an
0 repose /; they want clear ield for indu
t try and enterprise; they want the prote
b ton of their Government, and, as necc
sary thereto, participation in it.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1867-07-18
Correspondence of the Jeffersonian.
WHITE HAVEN, July 10, 1867.


Large robberries have been committed at
this place within-the last two weeks. On
the night of the 2ud inst. the office of the
Lehigh Valley r. r. Co. was entered, the
safe broken open. and fifteen thousand dol
lars (Sl5,000) in greenhacks stolen No
clue to the money or robbers have been found.
Last night, the 9th inst, the office of the
Lehigh r. r. g. Navigation Co., at this
place, was entered and robbed of fifty thou
sand dollars (S50, ,000)-money intended to
pay to their hands, next day, Tor a months
work. The money was deposited in safe
placed in vault. The outside door, the
door OF the vault, was opened by means OF a
key, and then the safe was unlocked, the
money taken out and the several doors clos
ed and locked as they were before. The
little pay-car sto~d all ready at the depot for
MIR. Crellen, the paymaster, aad clerk, to
start up the road to pay off the hands for the
month of June; and all hands along the line
were looking out for the pay-car, anxious to
get their months wages. The paymaster,
hurrying from his breakfast, entered the
vault, unlocked the safe, and found the mo-
ney was gone. Some fifty or more men were
sent out in every direction, but no trace of
the robbers or money has yet been found
Having no suspicion of any particular per-
sons no description can be given, but many
rumors are afloat. a. J. ID
1t is rumored here that two men were ar
rested in Scranton, on Saturday, on suspi-
cion of being concerned in these robberries,
We have not heard their names. Ed
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1867-07-18
Struck by Lightning.

A distressing casualty occurred al
Uniondale, Susquehanna Co., near the
Wayne county line, during the second
thunder storm on the 4th inst. A pie
nc was being held by the congregation
of the Presbyterian Church Of that place
and the party were in grove when the
storm came on. The lightning struck 0
tree under which number had taken
shelter, killing one man-Mr. Burdick-
instantly, and wounding ten or eleven
others,--three of them seriously Wayne
Co. Herald
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1867-07-18
ssg- The Accident Insurance business

ss5~ The Accident Insurance business,
in this section of country, under the
Agency of James Carr, jr., Esq, is grow
ing quite rapidly, but not so fast as it
should, in view of It's importance to evory
man, woman and child among us. Quite
number of our citizens have thrown this
parative safeguard around them; but
how few Of the many, whose suffering
from accident we have recently announc-
ed. are of the number. Those most liza
BILE to accident are least of all able to
stand the loss of time and charges Incl
dent thereto, and should Of all Others be
most prompt to avail themselves of the
benefit ofinsurance. A few moments spent
with Mr.. Carr, who is perfectly reliable,
and dollar or two invested, would save
much OF the suffering attendant upon an
accident, and render its pecuniary burden
altogether easy to be borne.