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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1872-06-05
OFT OF THE ASHES.

After an interregnum of three
weeks, we again present the HERALD
to its friends, in very similar attire to
that which was reduced to ashes in
the destructive fire of the 9th ult.
We had hoped to be on our legs
again q week earlier, but the delays
and uncertainty of railroad transpor-
tation from dozen different points,
the necessity of fitting up a place to
receive our machines, the demand for
labor where half the town was home
less, and the thousand and one aggra-
waiting delays and annoyances appre-
ciated by and only known to fellow
craftsmen who have attempted to
start a newspaper with limited
force, has delayed our reissue to the
present time Our friends who re-
member the snug quarters We former
ly occupied, would laugh heartily
over our present make-shift establish
ment. Our cngine-a Baxter-is To-
Gated in a coal-house; our large i'm
proved Cottrell and Babcock press
and a Gordon half-medium in an ad-
joining old wood-shed; our compost
tors, with their stands, are crowded
into bed-chamber, and the balance
of our material is scattered miscella-
neously over an acre lot, testing the
patience of our devil sorely, in his
constant search after mislaid or miss
ing articles. We have been fortunate,
however, in securing first-class mate
rial in all respects, and our brethren
of the press must admit that, consid-
ering all the disadvantages, the trou-
BILE of adjusting, and the stiffness in
the working of new machinery, that
we this week present a very credita-
ble journal from the ashes of the old
HERALD.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1872-06-05
HOW IA THIsf

The Cincinnati platform, on which
Mr.. Greeley stands, comedies all the
principles of the Republican party to
be correct and just, and demands
only an honest administration under
them, and the vital question of Pro-
lection it RENTS to the Congressional
districts Therefore, the Democrat
who votes for Mr.. GREELEY not only
abandons every principle for which
be has hitherto contended, but admits
them all to have been entirely wrong,
while the Free Trader, who, with
one breath, stigmatizes Protection"
as "systematized robbery" and with
the next demands an honest admin
istration," doubly stultifies himself
by agreeing to submit to the decision
of the ballot whether "systematized
robbery" shall be practieed by an ad-
ministration, whose election he de-
elares is necessary to honest govern
mont
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1872-06-05

PHILADELPHIA June 2, ls12-Ver,
few delegates have arrived. Georg'
Hawley, of Connecticut, Gov Noyes
lof Ohio, and Gen. Burnside ar,
among the arrivals TO day.
The opinion is general that Greeley
will be the Baltimore nominee, ant
among the Republicans the wish il
no less general. 1t is claimed by hii
friends that Pennsylvania will be fol
him in the Convention. The Demo
cratic leaders admit that while many
of the people are "going back on
Greeley, they cannot help themselves
and few expect anything else than a
split in the party.
Buckalew's nomination creates
much dissatisfaction here, and there
is prospect of a serious split The
Sunday Transcript, which is influen-
tiaI in the party, has taken decided
grounds against him.
Col. Forney, who has returned from
Washington to-day, is understood to
be reconciled to the Republican State
ticket, and will hereafter throw all his
influence for it.
The great Republican Wigwam
will be dedicated Tuesday evening,
when General Logan will speak.
Gov. Morton is also announced.
Reports from every quarter are
that the great business interests of the
country are wheeling in for Grant,
and view the possibility of change
with alarm. Commercial.
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what wendell Phillips says.e


No on. 1Sho has read tic politicaI
speeches Of Wendell Phillips, deliver
ed within the last year or two, will
charge him with being very warmly
attached to President Grant. There.
fore it will not be said that his opin-
ions are biasscd by any influence from
the White House. He has been in.
terviewed recently by a Representa-.
tive of the New York Herald, and in
the conversation which cnsued ex-
pressed himself as follows:
"You know that | am neither a
Republican nor Grant-man; whom
] shall vote for, or whether will vote
at all, do not know but certainly as
against Greeley am for Grant, We
have had one Andy Johnson will
not run the risk of getting another in,
and Horace Greeley is such. | want
n man with some decided principles.
Greeley never had any. Besides, /
consider Greeley a secession candi-
date. The plot to nominate him was
hatched by Southern white rebels
more than a year ago, and has been
mainly nursed by them. ! advise any
one who means to vote for him TO find
out first what agreements have been
made by Mr. Greeley's friends with
jeff Davis and his staff as to Office
and patronage. | am perfectly GER
tain that there is a distinct, mutual
understanding, if not positive con-
tract, between them. If Horace
Greeley enters the White House, jeff
Davis will be as truly a part of the
Administration as Seward was III
Lincoln's day. No negro can vote
for Greeley who values his life or pro-
perty or cares for his race. If bv a
frown of Providence he is elected, |
shall advise every Southern loyalist
to load the revolvers that Grants ar
rest of North Carolina Ku Klux mas
allowed to be laid oside. If he is
elected let the negroes live in squads
of fifty, whom no coward will dare
shoot down, and show no property af-
ter sunset. Lonely men will be shot,
and no black man will own mule
forty-eight hours if any rebel knows
the fact. For loyal administration
to protect the negro, awe the rebel,
and give the workingmen a chance,
Grants little finger is worth a bakers
dozen of Greeleys."
This opinion, very candidly ex-
pressed, shows that Wendell has
read Horace thoroughly. 1t exhibits
the Liberal" candidate as heis. The
picture is perfect.
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A DOUCHE.

Genl HAwLEY, the regular Ke-
publican caucus nominee to the L. ).
Senate from Connecticut, was de-
feated bv O. S. FERRY, present Scna-
tor. who was elected by combina-
ton of the entire Democratic vote
with seventeen boiling Republicans.
Thereupon, the n. Y. Tribune
went on iato an ecstaey of exultation
over this Liberal triumph" and all
the small frs" Greeley journals
shouted themselves hoarse, claiming
that the Presidential battle was al
ready as good as won. But their
glee has had sudden ending their
fond hopes bitter blight, by reason
Of letter written by the newly elect
ed Senator, who, after referring to
the question of administration, in
connection with the Presidency, says:
ITO intrust these great interests to
"an administration made up and
controlled by MIR. Greeley would be
"mere midsummer madness. 3
"* You and / will continue in
1.-THE old Republican track"
Since the appearance of this letter,
Senator FERRY is not one half so
proper a man in the eyes Of the Lib
erals; and they no longer feel that
there i triumph in the eir-n
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Jen Davis Declares for Horace
Greeley.

NASHVILLE, May 80. Andrew j
Kellar, editor Ct the Memphis ava
ianche, who arrived here to-day, states
that Jefferson Davis has written a
letter to Wade Hampton, declaring for
Horace Greeley. Mr.. Davis also adds
that the Democratic party would act
injudiciously to make a nomination at
Baltimore. As a man, Mr.. Davis
could not refuse to support Mr. Gree
ley for his kindness when under trying
circumstances. The opinion at Mem
phis to this extent sustained Davis,
but it is said that as Alexander II.
Stevens and Mr.. Davis have always
disagreed, it follows that as Stephens
opposes Mr. Greeley Mr.. Davis, there
fore, supports him. The old leaders
see the folly of opposing public opin-
ion. and must follow willingly or un-
willingly. +.
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WHAT WILL HE Do WITH IT."

Our genial Democratic friend, Hon.
WILLIAM =. ScHELL, of Bedford. Sc
cured and accepted, few weeks
since. the Labor Reform" nomina-
ton for Governor, doubtless with the
hope of superadding to it a similar
nomination at the hands of his party
at Reading. Having signally failed
in securing a recognition of his claims
in the Reading Convention, the ques'
ton now arises, what will he DO with
the barren honor bestowed by his
friends. the Labor Reformers w
VIII he remain in the field and bide
the brunt of battle, or will be mag
unanimously withdraw and return to
the bosom Of his ancient love-the
Democracy?
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Collision ON the Pittsburgh and Con.
ncllsyilIe Rail Road.

On yesterday morning between sew
en- and eight O'Clock passenger train,
engine No. 730, and a construction
train, engine No. l64, collided on the
Pittsburgh and Connellsville Rail-
road. at point near Bidwell, about
seventy miles from Cumberland, and
Mr.. Hugh f. McMichael, engineer of
engine l64, was almost instantly
killed, and some eight or ten persons
injured, two it is thought fatally
The particulars, as near as we can
learn, are as follows; The construc-
ton train had that morning been or
dered (by the agent at Connellsville,
it is said) to proceed easteriy to
certain point by certain time, but by
some misunderstanding, or blunder,
the construction train was running on
the main track at the time the express
train going west was due, and when
rounding a curve near Bidwell both
engines, Were running at full speed,
came together with an awful crash.
The engines were driven one partly
upon the other, and majority of the
cars in both trains were piled up
against each other and broken. Mr..
McMichael was hurled from his en-
CINE and thrown upon the ground
about twenty feet distant, and was so
badly Injured that he died in few
moments thereafter -Four men, la
borers on the construction train, were
slightly hurt. Upon the passenger
train the two brakesman, Henry Blom
and p. .Jeflries, had their legs broken
and were otherwise injured. Both
locomotives are badly damaged, and
also one baggage and one passen-
ger car.
Immediately after the accident was
known at Connellsville, surgeons were
sent to the scene of disaster and ev-
cry possible attention given to the
wounded. The passengers were de-
tanned at the place of the accident for
about three hours. Those west
bound were transferred to the train
cas., which had arrived in the mean
time at the place, and were sent to
their destination, and the east bound
passengers were transferred to a pas
senger car left uninjured by the acci-
dent. and were sent on to Cumberland,
arriving here at 1880 p m.
1t is a remarkable coincidence that
this accident occurred upon the re,y
spot where the collision happened
when mail route agent Collins was
burned to death some months since
-Cumberland DAILY Ne,cs
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1872-06-05
THE PUBLIC DEBT.

THE Public debt statement issued
by the Secretary of the Treasury on
the lst inst. shows that during the
month of Nav the debt was reduced
Four million Two hundred and Twen-
ty-six Thousand and Sixty-one dollars,
(4,226, ,06l00). The reduction is less
than that Of last month, owing TO ad-
vanced payment on account of inter-
est The entire reduction during
Grants administration amounts to
1891, ,945, ,926.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1872-06-05
The Crops In the West.

CHICAGO, May 31-The morning
papers publish reports from large
number of points in Illinois and Iowa
in regard to the present prospects OF
the crops, from which it appears the
crops are generally backward, partieu-
larly corn, on account of the GOODNESS
of the Spring, but larger area being
planted and with the weather hence
forward the prospect for at least the
average yield is good. Wheat, par
ticularly Fall, is looking badly in ma
ny localities, and in some counties
they are plowing up the wheat fields
and planting them in corn. This,
however. occurs in some of the north
ern counties of Illinois every season
Oats and other small grains are gener-
ally looking well, the former cereal
promising an abundant yield.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1872-06-05
Fire mt Ta.naqna, Pa.

TAMAoUA, May 3l.-At two
O'Clock A. NJ. Almost destructive fire
broke out in Deans carriage factory
here. Tha flames spread rapidly and
before six O'Clock the whole block was
destroyed, including Deans factory
chair factory, hardware store, two
saddlery shops, several grocery stores
in all about twenty buildings. The
total loss could not be ascertained.
The property was partially insured.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1872-06-05
THE DEMoCRATrC CoNvENrIoN.

| Tue DtilioCfdCN vi t1iS ctdtc 40
sembled in convention, at Reading,
on Thursday last, and nominated
Hon. CHARLES II. BUcKALEw for
Governor, the present Chief JUS,
tice, THOMPSON, for Judge and VIII
LIAM HARTLY, Esq, Of Bedford, for
Auditor General. An electoral ticket.
three Congressman at large, and del
egates to the Constitutional Conven-
ton were also selected-among the
latter of whom is Wa. J. BAER, ESQ,
of this place. As far as we can
gather from telegraphic reports of the
proceedings, the resolutions are Of the
Bourbon school, affirming the Jeffcr-
sonian creed of the by-gone Democ-
racy, lodging all present issues, and
vigorously silent on the approaching
national struggle. Every attempt to
indicate a Presidential choice, or to
make an issue on the Cincinnati tick
ct or platform was summarily squelch-
ed in the Convention.
OF the nominee for Governor
BUCKALEw-we have not high
opinion. He is man of ability-not
by any means of the superior order
claimed by his admirers-self-poised
and cold as an arctic winter, without
any of the elements Of personal pop
ularity or personal magnetism about
him. That he is honest, individually,
we do not doubt, but that he is pol
itical trickster, dishonest politician,
and bigoted partisan We think there
is abundant evidence. As U. S. Sen
ator from this State, he was a traffic
er in and dispenser Of the patronage
of the monstrously corrupt admins
tration of ANDREW JOHNSON, and as
a member of the State Senate, he has
proved himself an INSCRIPTIONS par
tisan, utterly reckless of consistency
and law. As a member of the Com
mittee on the Deohert contested cleo
tion-session of l87I-he contended
stoutly against striking out whole
precincts where fraudulent votes had
been cast, as a wholesale and il
legal disfranchisement of voters, and
an utter violation of their rights,
while, last session, in the Mcclure
case he took precisely opposite ground
and as the only means of unseating
Col Gray, insisted upon striking out
ten entire divisions from the count,
and thus placed Mcclure in the Sen
ate against the decided vote of the
Fourth district Having thus proved
himself capable of resorting to dis
honest and illegal means to secure
power to his party in the Senate, and
of descending to commit an outrage
upon the elective franchise for the
sake of securing a partisan advantage,
we feel sure that all the high sound
ing eulogiums of his friends, and their
loud-mouthed proclamation of his ex-
alted purity and extreme honesty, will
not win for him single Republican,
vote. In accepting the domination,
Mr.. BucKALEw has has accepted defeat
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Our former townsman Hon. Jer,

Our former townsman Hon. Jere
miah s. Black, dSes'nt take much
stock in Greeley and the Cincinnati
cure-all movement. In a late letter
to the York Gazette he SAYS:
while l am about it may as well say
another word The aggressive and violent
temper of the Cincinnati movement j:
breaking the Democracy TO pieces. There
are many thousands of men in the party
who will refuse 10 be dragooned or bullied
into the support of that ticket The Gree
lev men had better suspend their plan o
operations immediately. The longer they
continue il the less likely they are TO sue
ceed, either in July or November. we
the people the rank and file, the yeoman,
~ of the country, cannot be driven TO the
polls as negroes are driven in the South by
the carpet baggers and scalawags."
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Murdcrcrs Discovered After Years
search.

CHICAGO, June IA Jacksonville
ILL.,, special says after years inces-
SAINT search and investigation by
schrewd detectives for the murderer
Of Hon. Sharon Tynsdall, ExSecre-
tary ofState, disbelieved that the men
who committed the crime have been
discovered and evidence found to con-
Wet them. Charles Burning and
James Kennedy, who were convicted
in the Morgan county Circuit Court
for swindling an old man in this city
out of comfortable sum of money by
a confidence game in 1871 and sent to
the penitcntiary where they are now
serving their terms are the persons
implicated in TyndalPs murder, .ac-
cording to evidence collected by the
detectives.
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The Apache Indians.

WASHINGTON, May 3l.-General
Howard was recently sent out to pac-
ify the hostile Apache Indians of Ari-
'zona. On his -as1.al there he request
ed Cook to tAnkpraxily suspend hos
tile operations against these Indians
until he had an opportunity to test the
efficacy of moral persuasion. He
failed to enter into any amicable ar
rangement with the hostile portions of
the Apaches, and in a letter to Gen.
eral Cook withdrew his previous re-
quest for a suspension of the cam
paign, and advises him to take vigor-
Gus measures at once to punish hostile
Apaches, whom he designates as rob-
bers and murderers who will not be
conciliated.
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Wife Murderer Lynched.

SPARTA, KY, May 3O.-John Bran
ham, who murdered his wife yester
day by splitting her head open with
an axe, was hung last night by par.
ty ofa hundred men, who collected ir
front of the Jail about one O'Clock and
demanded the keys from the jailor
which were reluctantly given up
They then took Branham from the
Jail, carried him half mile from town
and hung him to tree. His wife
was buried to-day. No cause fol
killing his wife is known.
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Fatal Array.

We have been informed that a mos
serious ARRAY occurred at Point o.
Rocks, Nd, on Friday last On that
day two men residing in that vicinity
named Heater Appold brothers-in-law
quarrelcd about some live stock, which
led to fight between the two mem in
which both used knives, and each
stabbed the other. Sc serious were
the injuries received that one died on
Friday, and the other on Saturday,
Daiiy Neius.
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south CarOlfna's Influence for
Greeley,

CHARLESTON, May 3O.-The Charles
ton County Democratic Convention
held here to-day, adopted resolutions
indorsing the Cincinnati platform and
candidates, and instructed their dele
gates to the State Convention to use
all efforts so to shape its actions that
the whole influence OF South Carolina
at Baltimore shall be directed to pre-
vent any nomination other than that
of Gereeley and Brown.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1872-06-05
CHANGE OF BASE.

A few weeks since, the n. Y. Tri
JWne gave formal notice that hence
forth-an1 -fere,-a- -hersrle---.-s-- y :
-.a. a. sssu IOItNcr s5O.editer IL nat
ceased to be party organ; and with
in a few days past, Mr.. GREELEY has
notified all the world and the rest o.
mankind, that, until further notice, he
has withdrawn absolutely from tn,
conduct of the Tribune. That Jour.
nal has become the personal organ O.
HORACE GREELEY.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1872-06-05
ALL RON GRANT.

Since our last issue the Republican
State Conventions of New Jersey,
Illinois and West Virginia have de-
clared for the denomination of Presi-
dent Grant. His nomination at Phil
adelphia this week will therefore, be
but matter of form, the masses of
the party having previously deter
mined that question.
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Results OF the Freshet.

ST LOUIS, May 30.-Mail accounts
of the freshet in Southwestern Mis-
souri, say that whole farms in the val
ley of Spring river, Centre creek and
other streams were completely washed
away, leaving nothing but rock and
graval. Large numbers Of live stock
were drowned, and hundreds of yards
of the Atlantic and Pacific railroad
tracks were swept from its bed into
the adjacent fields.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1872-06-05

CHAMBERsBURG, May 5l.-The ex-
tensive brewery recently built and
owned by Messrs. Kurtz & Wertz was
destroyed by fire last night. The
loss will be about $40, 600, with an in
surance of $4,000. The cause of the
fire has not yet been discovered.
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ASIGNIFICANT SIGN.

There are some one hundred and
sixty Republican papers published in
this State, all of which, save three,
advocate the reelection of GRANT
As papers generally represent the
sentiment of the community in which
they are published, it may. therefore
be safely inferred that the Cincinnati
nominees have not much strength in
the Republican ranks in PENNSYLVANIA.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1872-06-05

1t appears to be conceded that
Hon. b. +. Meyers will be renomina.
ted for Congress by the Democracy
Of this district. The Bedford county
committee instructed for him unani-
mously.
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COLUMBUS, o., May 2S.-The DEM
ocratic Central Committee met here
to-day. and decided upon holding the
State Convention in Cleveland, Au-
gust 7th. A general willingness was
expressed to support Greeley in case
he is indorsed by the Baltimore Con-
ventiOn.
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when come again, l will repay thee.
Which now of these three, was
ncighbor unto him that fell among the
thieves ? And he said, He that
Showed mercy on him. Then said
Jesus go thou and do likewise"
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ONE MORE REREPREsENTATryE,

The Senate has passed the House
supplementary apportionment bill,-
which gives Pennsylvania an sd-
ditional member, making her Con-
gressnen 81. The bill has been
signed by the President and becomes
a law
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WASHINGTON, June 1.-The de-
crease of the public debt for May is
about four anda quarter millions.