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The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-28
MINORITY REPRESENTA- TTON.

AT the last election for Congressman in the
Fourth district of South Carolina, w. d.
Simpson, Democrat, received 1t,O9S votes,
and Alexander S. Wallace, Republican, 9So7.
According to the ordinary rules of arithmetic,
this result gave Simpson a majority of 1921,
quite enough of a margin, it might be sup
posed, to secure him undisturbed possession
of his seat. But Wallace contested his sue
cessful opponents claim to seat, and the
matter remained in abeyance until yesterday,
when it was finally determined by the House,
in accordance with the report of the Commit
tee on Elections, that Wallace, and not Simp-
son, was chosen by the people of the Fourth
district of South Carolina to represent them
in the popular branch of the National Legis-
ture. 1t seems that Simpson served as an
officer in the Confederate army, and
that, although he had applied
for the removal of the dis
abilities thereby incurred, Congress had not
seen. fit to extend him this favor. Since
Simpson was thus ineligible, the vicious prin-
ciple that the person receiving the next high
est number of votes was entitled to the seat
was applied by the committee, and the appl-
cation sustained by the House while but few
members were present, and before even the
majority of those were aware of the fact that
the case was under consideration at all. But
the fraud was not perpetrated without pro-
test on the part of at least one sensible Re-
publican member, Mr.. Dawes, with whom we
are not always able to agree, but who, in this
particular case, was certainly in the right.
The fair representation of minorities is
very desirable, and practicable method of
bringing it about is destined to engross
great deal of time and attention in the
future; but the manner in which the
Republican minority of the Fourth district
of South Carolina have secured full vote in
the House of Representatives is anything but
commendable or expedient. The single vote
cast by Mr. Wallace henceforth will weaken
rather than strengthen the party in whose
pretended interest it has been secured. 1t is
about time that the leaders of the party in
Congress, as we'll as out of it, were aware of
this fact. The Republicans of the Fourth
district of South Carolina would be better off
with Democratic representative infinitely
better off without any representative at all
than they will be with their defeated candi-
date sitting in the seat to which he was not
elected.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-28
THE END or TIE FENlAN RAID.

THE END or THE FENIAN RAID.
The great Fenian invasion of Canada has
fzzled out even sooner than was expected,
and the unhappy Kanucks can now rest in
their beds in peace, with the assurance that
they will not be troubled again during the
present season at least. The whole affair was
at once so ridiculous and so contemplate
that it is scarcely possible to treat it seriousy
and we're it not that a few miserable scamps,
like O'Neill and the other Fenian leaders, are
able to keep the people both of Canada and
the United States in a state of excitement
over their performances, and to put the Gov
ernment to thousands of dollars of expense,
we could afford to laugh at the mingled stu
pidity and knavery of their proceedings.
The conduct of the Canadians during the
Rebellion was not such as to entitle them to
any sympathy from the people of the United
States, but it is not consistent with the dig
nifty of great nation to take its revenge by
allowing bands of crazy Irishmen to make
annual raids into Canadian territory, on the
plea that they are endeavoring to liberate
Ireland. The Canadians have succeeded in
making one prisoner, in spite of the hurried
flight of the Fenians as soon as they met
with an armed resistance, and this indi-
vidual, who bears the good old
Irish name of Murphy, will probably be
hung to-day. We hope that the Canadians
will hang him, and that in case they take
any more prisoners the United States Gov
ernment will refuse to interfere in their be-
half. Indeed, our Government owes it to
itself to adopt severe measures towards
~.
leaders, at least, ought to be punished to the
full extent of the law. The leniency with
which the Fenians were treated on the occa-
sion of their former raid was direct encour-
agement for them to engage in the same
amusement again; and if few of them are
now punished without mercy, it is probable
that an effectual check will be placed upon
any attempts at outlawry in the future.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-28

IT is REPORTED that the Union League con-
templates the purchase of Wenderoths fine
picture of "The Battle of Gettysburg" now
on exhibition at the gallery of B. Scott, Jr.
We hope that this is true, as the League will
secure a work of art of real merit, and an ex-
ceedingly interesting record of the greatest
battle of the age will be retained permanently
in this city. Mr.. Wenderoth's picture is
almost Photographic in its accuracy, and it is
not only valuable for the number of portraits
that it contains, but as one of the best repre-
sentations of an actual battlefield ever
painted We say this well knowing that
many spirited works of this class have been
executed by European artists of eminence,
but whatever comparisons may be made in
other respects, this picture will compare
favorably with the best of them as a vivid
delineation of battle, as battles are fought
in modern times. For this reason, if for no
other, the picture should be kept in Philadel-
phia, and there is no more appropriate place
for it than the gallery of the Union League
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-28
RAILROAD LINES:
q A M . EN- AND A M 3 OY
PHILADELPHIA AND TRENTON RAIL
ROADS.
NEW ARRANGED EMENT,

On and after MONDAY, May 80, 1870, trains will
leave West Philadelphia for New York at 100 and
9Se A. NJ, 20, 245, 6'45 and 1900 P. NJ
Leave New York for West Philadelphia at s 80 and
$50 A. NJ. 1890, 500, 90 and 1900 p M.
The train now leaving New York for West Phla-
delphia at p. M. will leave at 7 I'M.
The trains leaving West Philadelphia at 1lOO A.
NJ. for New York, and New York for West Philadel-
phia at IL 90 A. M and 900 p M, will be diseon-
tinued after Saturday, May 2s
b2s2t W. H. GATZMER, Agent.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-28

COLDIERS, OR THEIR HEIRS, WHO WERE
- actually discharged for wounds, injuries, rup-
tures and who denied bounty their discharges
read "SuTgeon's Certificate of Disability" have
muster as to show them discharged for wounds ete
letter TO R s; LEAGUE co, No, I35 s. SEVENTH
Street, Philadelphia.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-28

IT SEEMS that the Richmond conservatives
began to crow before they were fairly out of
the woods. In fact, they were not destined
to get clear of the jungle at all. Chahoon,
the radical candidate, has been elected Mayor
by some three hundred majority, and Ellyson
is at liberty to resume his editorial quill.
But the closeness of the vote should teach
the Republican leaders in Virginia the neces-
sity of utterly abandoning. the unwise system
of tactics to which they have been addicted.
If Mayor Chahoon had quietly given way to
Ellyson when the latter was appointed to sue
ceed him, under the State enabling act, the
unseemly farce which followed this appoint
ment would have been avoided, the BILE
disaster which preceded the settlement of the
case would have been averted, and what is
still more to the point in political way, the
Republican majority on Thursday would have
been much larger than it was.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-28

RkSs- ANNIVERSARY OF THE CHILDREN'S
AMERICAN CHURCH MISSIONARY so JIETY
of the Prote slant Episcopal Church. at the OPS
CHURCH, SPRING GARDEN Street, below Broad,
To morrow Afternoon, at o'clock Friends of the
invited Addresses may be expected from Rev. K.
OWEN SIMPSON Rev j. b. FAULKNER, and othe ers.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-28

r6y~ CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH,
N. In. E. corner FRANKLIN and THOMPSON
Streets Rev JAMES Y. MITCHELL, Pastor.-Services
by Commissioners to the General Assembly At108 A. M
Rev. DAVID TULLY, ID. D., of Bevidere, N. j. At 8
p M. Rev WIN. o. wISNFR, ID. ID OF Lockport N Y
Sabbath School at 90 p M
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-28

my REV. s. j. NICCOLIS, d. D., OF ST.
Louis, will preach in tha SEVENTH PRESBY.
TERRAIN UHURUH, BROAD Street, above Chestnut,
Tomorrow, at p. NJ. The public and members of the
General Assembly cordially invited Service usual
at I03 A. M
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-28

THE Washington correspondent of New
York paper announces that a canvass of the
Senate has been made by prominent Re-
publican member of that body and, as the
result, it is found that not more than half
dozen Republican Senators would vote for
general amnesty bill. 1t is to be hoped that
such will not prove to be the case, but neither
branch OF Congress appears to be in the mood
just now to wind up the war by wiping out
all the old scores run up during its progress.
Universal suffrage and universal amnesty
should have gone hand in hand, but it is not
always that we find such things managed in
accordance with the dictates of sound states
manship and true expediency.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-28

ssSsn ALEXANDER PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH, NINETEENTH and GREEN Streets,
Rev. GEORGE +. GAIN, Pastor-Preachng Tomorrow
at 10H O'Clock A. NJ by Rev DR. LYON. of Erie. Pa and
at o'clock p. NJ by Rev. GEORGE PATTON, of
Seneca, N. Y.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-28
RELIGIOUS NOTICES.

BROAD and OXFORD Streets Rev. FRANCIS
I. ROBBINS, Pastor.
Rev. p. IL. FOWLER, D. D.. of Utica, Tomorrow, at
l0k M. Rev; II ]. UUYLER, ID. D., Of Brooklyn, aud
SAMUEL j. THOMPSON, of Cincinnati, will speak at
33 p NJ. the of the Sabbath School Ami.
versary No evening service
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-07-07
Trouble for the Democracy.

The New York Democrat explains
what the trouble is that menaces its
party. Here is its terse statement of the
situation:
'It is now proposed toTaise in the
East fund of millions-to send one of
the most prominent New York politi-
clans and managers into the Southern
States to talk sweet to the people there
- to assure them ofahappy termination
to all their reconstruction trials, and
secure, by fair means or foul, enough in
fiuence to insure the Southern delega-
ton in the next Presidential convention
fora man from the East, pledged in
writing, to keep faith only with the
bondholders and protected aristocracy
of the country and its despotic endeav-
ors.
The next Democratic convention is to
be bought and paid for.
American and foreign capitalists are
to furnish the money.
The State of New York is to furnish
the Presidential candidate, and the
Chairman of the National Democratic
Committee, as now, for another term.
New England is to vote solid in the
National Convention with New York.
The railroad interests of Pennsylva-
mia are to control that State, and throw
it with New York.
New Jersey is to be forced 10 terms be-
tween the two.
The entire South is to he bought and
paid for, no matter what the price.
And, using the exact language of one
of the plot-"the great West may sUait or
90 to heH!"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-07-07
wom,ns Rights I'm HonoIuIu.

"A Sandwich Island journal reports, as
q street scene in Honolulu, a wife driv-
ing a SHINING husband home. She was
evidently berating the man, in severe
terms and without stint ofvoice, for hav-
ing left her bed and beard, and stayed
away all night. He, with hang-dog
look, walked quietly along, and answer
ed never a word to his wtfe's TRADE OF
abuse. This silence she apparently con-
strued into giving consent to the truth
of her accusations, and it in consequence
added fuel to the flame. So, from words
she came to blows. Picking up here and
there on the street astone as big as sne's
fist, she followed up her recreant spouse,
and with accurate aim, at point blank
range, hit him some tremendous thuds
between the shoulders. At these ne
merely WINGED, and kept meekly on his
way, while the woman scorned" shout
ed her execrations louder than ever. At
sass q constable ventured to expostulate
but was told by the woman to mind his
own business. ''It was her own husband,
to whom she was lawfully married, and
she had a right to do what she liked
with him for neglecting his martial
duties" The policeman subsidized before
this strongminded Hawaiian female;
and the last we saw of the pair, the
stronger vessel-in this case the female
was beginning apparently to relent,
and having ceased her loud talk ana
throwing of stones, was crying bitterly,
still following in the wake OF her nus
band towards her home.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-07-07
2uiitifal.
PLANK ROAD, O., June %, 1870.

Mr.. Editor:-I opened pictorial
paper recently, which contained an IL
lustrstion of Loves Labour Lost" A
blind man was exhibited grinding an
organ before a house marked ITO Let" ;"
Mr. Bingham has recently given US
another illustration by sending PUB.
DOCS. to men long since dead, and to
others that have left the district or State.
He appears to have obtained list OF his
constituents, some Is or Is years ago, and
as he expected to retire at the end OF
each term he neglected to revise the list.
We are moisture whether he intends those
speecbes of his as a farewell offering to
his friends, or as a bid for zone more
term" but we incline to the opinion
that they are intended to say: "Good bye
friends, due respect for my word de-
mands that now retire and give place
to other men: equally competent to fill
the post of honor" Ifhe had been bid
ding for "Just one more term" he GER
tainly would have sent to farmers some
thing that they would place some
estimate Oman Agricultural Report or q
a small package of new and rare seeds.
A little forethought would be sufficient
to convince man that a farmer has no
time to read congressional speeches in
harvest; andjust let me say privately to
you, Mr.. Editor, when you get to be our
Representative in Congress, do not en-
cumber the mails or poster your farmer
constituents by sending out speeches,
when we have not time tn read them.
believe the people in this community
are fully resolved on placing Mr.. Bing-
ham on the retired list. We give him
due credit for the good he has. done, but
we want a new man, and one with
spunk enough to thrash Butler or self
respect enough to restrain him from
quarrelling with him.
.r.s.t A FARMER.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-07-07
TheCurrency Question.

Mr. Garfield speech on the currency
question, delivered in the House on the
18th ult., is an able exposition of the
whole question. In the course of the
speech some interesting statistics are
given, from which the public may CLEAN
some highly interesting historical facts.
The circulation of currency in the legal
States in November, 1862, was one hun
dred and sixty-seven million dollars,
while the States securities amounted to
forty million dollars, leaving over one
hundred and twenty million dollars to
support itself as best it could. Only
nine of the State required adequate
security. In Illinois eighty 'nlne banks
failed from lS5l.to 1862. Some of their
paper was reduced to thirty-eight cents
on the dollar; and out of twelve millions
of currency the people lost between two
and three million. Ten broken banks
in Minnesota couldn't pay thirty cents
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-07-07
Short Proverbs.

Every fox praises his own tail.
Go after two wolves and you will not
even catch one.
A good beginning is half Of the work.
Trust in God, but do not stumble your
self.
With God, even across the sea; with
out Him, not even to the threshold.
The deeper you hide anything tn
sooner you find it.
. A debt is adorned by payment.
Roguery is the last of trades.
Never take crooked path while you
can see strait one.
Fear not the threats of the great, but
rather the tears of the poor.
Ask pig to dinner and he will put
his feet on the table.
Disease comes in by hundred weights
and goes out by ounces.
Every little frog is great in his own
bog.
An old friend is worth two new ones.
Be praised not for your ancestors, but
for your virtues.
When fish are rare, even q crab is q
fish.
A fathers blessing cannot be drowned
in water nor consumed by fire.
A mothers prayer will draw up from
the depths of the sea.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-07-07
L1nuOr Laws

The call for Prohibition Convention
asks for laws to protect person and
property from The evils of fintemperance.
Perhaps these persons do not know
just what measures have been taken
for this purpose. They ought to know
that if the laws already on the statute
book were enforced, the retail sale of
intoxicating drinks would be done
away. The laws forbid selling liquors
on Sunday and election days, their sale
to minors or persons who are habitual-
ly intoxicated, or their sale in any
quantity to be drank in or about the
premises, or within four miles of a
camp or other religious meeting. Tip
pling houses may be declared nuisances
and closed up. Persons may be fined
five dollars for intoxication, and fami-
lies deprived of support by the sale of
intoxicating liquors to the husband,
may recover damages of the seller, and
compel him to pay for the service need
ed to take care of the person SO intoXi-
Gated. dead letters Tit is said. But
why dead? 1t is not the fault of the
law makers, or the laws they made, but
because there is lack of public disposi-
ton to enforce them.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-07-07
Gempe1nfe.
THE FATAL CUP.

The cup of wine is red and bright
But never touch it while youlive;
For 1T will bring despair and blight,
And not one holy impulse give.
Long years ago stood by my side
A lovely maiden, Annie Lee;
She who had pledged to be my bride,
Hand journey through the world with me.
The lamp-light fell upon her hair,
A golden head of beauty rare;
Her velvet eyes were dear and bright,
With all of loves i'm passioned light.
One hand was fondly clasped in mine,
The other held a glass of wine.
Drink, ,;she said, lust once for me-"
And tremblingly she held it there;
While all the rest stood roundto see,
Notone heart throbbing with prayer.
Why should they pray? twas only wine,
Sweet, sparkling. ruby wine;
It would never bring me woe.
Aud SO drank, and drank again,
Through every pulse felt it glow
Till it was wh1-ling in my brain.
And now there is not one so low,
So abject, wholly lost, as /;
Life's drea-y moments come and go,
And leave no hope when posing by.
OH dash the Jdtdl cup away,
Though given by woman's lovely hand;
1t made me what am to-day
An outcast in my native land.
4 ACcUnce
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-07-07
New Series--Vol. 10, NO "a

on the dollar, and OF thirty six in Wis
consin, six only could pay as much as
eighty cents. In 1860, in eighteen
States, 462 banks out ofl ,231 were bro
ken, closed, or worthless.
The notes of five-sixths of the ifaeen
hundred banks existing in 1SC2, lad
been in some way altered or initiated.
The United States Treasury frequently
suffered severe losses from this source.
In 1873 there were twenty-five million
uncurrent funds in the Treasury, and
the Secretary was obliged to borrow
halfa million in order to pay a foreign
debt. In 1871 the Secretary of the
Treasury reported that in the preced-
ing half-century three hundred and
ninsty-five banks had become insolvent
by which the people had lost S255, ,451,-
467, and in the ten years preceding, the
banks had cost the people two hunered
and eighty-two million dollars.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-07-07
RATES OF ADVERTISING,
AlI Surts.
All great men are, in some degree, in

All great men are, in some degree, in
spired.
A sentence well ceuched takes both
The sense and the understanding.
Fools makes feasts and wise men eat
sthem. Who daintIes love shall beggers
prove.
Queen Elizabeth once cried out, sin
trust have found reason" Look ont
who you trust.
None bnt a fool is always right. He
must be thorough fool who can learn
nothing from his folly.
Whitfield, when fiattered said, 'sTake
care of the fire cary powder about me-"
The higher the order of intellect with
which one is brought in contact, the less
one has to fear; true goodness is all
charity, and true genius is the least pre-
sumtuous.
Advice that is given arrogantly or
sharply, can scarcely be expected to be
received with humility or gratitude.
He that enjoys the intimacy of the
great, and neither disgusts them by
familiarity, nor disgraces himself by
perservility, ,proes that he is as perfect
gentleman by nature as his companion
is by rank.
As the smallest birds of the earth are
not taken without the will of our hea-
venly Father, so nothing good or evil
happens to Gods children without his
provident will.
There is no grace in benefit that
sticks TO the fingers.
A travelling insurance agent had been
explaining to Western pioneer the ad-
vantages of an insurance policy. Path
finder unused moment in grave silence,
and then said: "See here, mister, have
lived out in this country now twenty
five years, and have bucked agin most
all the games the've started, but darn
me if 1 want to play game where you
have die to beat the bank"
The Chicago Journal says the simple
organization of the White Stocking
Base Ball Club proves Chicago ahead Of
the world in base ball as in everything
else.
A "three year old" colt in Buchanan
county, Mo-, is having a growth of deer's
horns. There is mystery asto how his
young ideas were taught to shoot.
A brace of female suffer-ages-ists out
West go regularly to the barber's for
shave. Isn't this the nearest approach
to freedom at the polls their sex have yet
had?
An Illinois minister isaccused not only
of social and Christian improperly, but
of disrespect for the simplest rules Of or
biography" which is severe on the
preacher.
The Cherokees have paper printed
In the Indian tongue, and one of its ex-
changes is uncivil enough to call 1t pick
led tongue.
A Western journal considering present
indications predicts an unusual number
of accidents from fireworks this season.
The fence of graveyard in Pennsyl-
vania bears an inscription in large white
letters, "Use Jones' bottled ale if you
would keep out of here"
The Rev. Mr.. Murray has returned to
the Adirondacks in order to convince
tourists that he found something more
than imagination there last summer.
The new, extensive car shops of the
Reading, Pa, Railroad Company were
burned yesterday fore noon. Loss, S11O,-
600; insured for S25, 900.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-07-07

ENOUGH FOR BorH.-A little spar
row lighted upon q trough where q
horse was taking feed.
"Horse,n said the little sparrow
timidly, ''let me pick little, only
grain or two; and ysu will still have
enough"
"Help yourself" said the horse to
the sparrow, "help yourself, their is
enough for both you and me-"
And so they ate together and neither
one or the other suffered from hunger;
and when the warm sunshine came,
and swarms of flies began buzzing
round. the sparrow killed them by the
hundreds, and so the horse was well
paid.