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I Lancaster Intelligencer. FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 29,: 1868. FOR AUDITOR GENERAL: CHARLES K. BOYLE, of Fayette county. FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL: Gen.

WELLINGTON HI. ENT, of Columbia co A Financial Platform for the People. Hints to the Democratic National Convention: Pay the five-twenties in greenbacks. Make the greenbacks convertible into Government bonds payable in gold by instalments without interest. This will prevent redundancy and depreciation, bring us to a specie basis, and pay the debt.

Replace the National Bank circulation with greenbacks. Tax the ten forties and eighty-ones. Abolish the Freedmen's Bureau. Disband the standing army. But preserve the Military Academy, and keep the country supplied with the most approved arms and munitions of war.

Reduce the navy to the smallest footing required for the police of the seas. Retrench the civil expenses of government, beginning with the salaries of Congressmen. Adjust the tariff to a revenue standard, SO that it may yield the largest income. Repeal all taxes, except excises on liquors and tobacco. The Effect of the Fizzle.

The Express is much exercised over our report of the contemptible fizzle of what was intended to be "A Grand Grant Ratification Meeting," but was'nt. We are charged with Munchausen tendencies on account of having asserted that there were only about a couple of hundred persons present. We counted what seemed to be the fullest side of the house, and we are sure that there were less than one hundred and fifty persons in the seats. One hundred and forty some were all we could count, and a number of those were Democrats. The Express knows the meeting was the slimmest kind of a thing, and so it does not urge the point of numbers very strongly, but makes a loud flourish over our charge that Mr.

Hood attacked Old Thad. Here it apto imagine it can throw discredit pears upon our report by resorting to a temptible quibble. It is true Mr. Hood did not distinctly name Mr. Stevens by name, but the Express dare not deny that in his speech he pronounced every man to be a dishonest rascal who suggested or favored the idea of paying off the Five-Twenties in greenbacks.

Was not that an assault upon Old Thad? He has urged that very thing more boldly and strongly than any man in Lancaster. His letter to Samuel Shock took the identical ground occupied by Mr. Pendleton. Mr. Hood takes a different view, and he took occasion to denounce Old Thad most bitterly without naming him.

This forbearance on the part of Mr. Hood we attributed to the politeness of manner for which he is so noted, but that he meant Old Thad. one intelligent man in the audience could have doubted. The Express was forced to exaggerate so much to make up even a passable report of the grand fizzle that it finds it absolutely necessary to disparage the perfectly truthful account which appeared i in the INTELLIGENCER. Those who were present know which paper told the truth, and they can judge between us.

Confessing their Corruption. The Radical papers still persist in charging that F'essenden, Trumbull, Grimes and others were bribed to vote for the acquittal of the President. They do not seem to remember how they are damaging their party by such assertions. The people know these men to be the ablest and the most honest and conscientious in the Republican party. If they are purchasable, what sort of stuff is the balance of the party composed of? All this only goes to corroborate the belief, now becoming universal, that the Radical party is too corrupt to hold the reins of government any longer.

The people believe this, and they have resolved to effect a complete change. That accounts for the coolness with which the nominations of Grant and Colfax have been received throughout the country. A Squabble Over Arkansas. There has been a fierce squabble among the Radicals in the Senate over the admission of Arkansas. Drake, of Missouri, bitterly opposed it.

A delegation of Arkansas' Radicals say it will be dangerous to admit the State at Present. They assert that the Democrats will carry it at the coming Presidential election so surely as it is admitted. It looks as if it would be left out in the cold. Here we have a specimen of Radical reconstruction. If it is certain that the negro majority in a Southern State is sufficiently overwhelming to control it at the coming election, it may stand a chance of getting back into the Union after some sort of a fashion, but not otherwise.

Does any one pose the people of the North will sanetion such a course by electing Grant? We rather think not. GENERAL GRANT dare not deny that he 'stated in Washington, during the early days of impeachment, that unless President Johnson was impeached, or words to that effect, he would not and could not remain in Washington. Query When will Grant begin to keep good his word EIGHTY thousand dollars more of the people's money have been voted away to support carpet- reconstruction in Meade's district. One item is 396 Registrars at a cost of $2,379 per day. Decorating the Graves.

To-morrow, under orders from what is known as the "Grand Army of the Republic," the citizens are called upon to march in procession to the different cemeteries for the purpose of decorating with flowers the graves such 1 Union Soldiers as lie buried there. To honor the names of those who died in battle for their country, to cherish their memories in our hearts, to erect monuments above their heroic bones, to decorate their graves with flowers, and to celebrate their deeds in fitting words of eulogy, ought to be the pleasure of every true lover of his country. This should be done in a generous spirit, and without the disturbing influence of party feeling. Wherever those who decorate the graves of dead soldiers shall go 1 orrow, the flowers which they bear, if impartially distributed, will fall alike upon the last resting places of Democrats and Republicans. We can scarcely think there is any intention to attempt to make political capital out of the ceremony which will take place; still it strikes us as singular that not a single one of the notices, which seem to have been published by authority in the Express, was offered to the Intelligencer.

If none but readers of the Express were expected to attend that was all right, but, if the design was to have the participation of all who haye friends reposing in soldiers' graves then the publication should have been general. We would willingly have published any notice of the matter without charge. Had those who have charge of this affair acted differently, the turn out to-morrow would unquestionably have been much larger. Good Advice to Grant. The New York Herald has had a warm side for Grant all along.

It was strongly for him until he put himself completely into the keeping of Washburne, Forney and a gang of the most desperate and corrupt political adventurers in the country. Then the Ilerald faltered slightly. It has, from time to time given him good advice, but we have never seen anything of the kind in its column which could be regarded as more sensible than the following: General Grant does not want to be President. He has been forced into his present position as a candidate by the Honorable Robespierre Butler, Grab-all Forney, Representative Washburne and other Radicals through their voracious greed for public plunder. Now is the time for Grant to rise to the moral dignity of Chief Justice Chase and decline the Radical nomination altogether.

He now holds a splendid position, the head of the army, position alike honorable, lucrative and permanent. That should be power and rank enough to satisfy the ambition of any man. It elected to the Presidency his power will depart in four years (if not shortened by the process of impeachment) and, perhaps, his well earned fame and glory be extinguished forever. Therefore, let General Grant, like an honorable, unselfish man, cut himself adrift from the piratical radical crew who are using him as a tool for their own plundering purposes, and decline the nomination for the Presidency." If General Grant has half as much sense as his admirers claim for him, he will take the advice of the Herald.Should he insist upon running as a candidate for President, he will certainly be beaten. No one could possibly get through with the load he is carrying.

How the Niggers Received the Nominations. A special correspondentof that enthusiastic Grant paper, the N. Y. Times; writes from Richmond as follows There has been no enthusiasm exhibited over the nominations of the Chicago Convention by the colored population. So far as I have been able to judge Gen: Grant is not very popular, with the blacks in the South, and Colfax is almost unknown to them.

Here is a nice look out to be The Radicals rely entirely upon the votes of the Southern negroes to elect Grant and Colfax. A large majority of the electoral votes of the Northern States are conceded to the Democratic candidates in advance. If there is no enthusiasm among the Southern negroes the jig is up with the Radicals. A New Life of Grant. Washburne has given one Deming permission to write a life of Grant.We hope it will prove more satisfactory to his political keepers than that written by his father.

Old Jesse knew too much about Ulysses to be allowed to proceed with his biography and so he had to be rudely cut short in his literary labors. Congressional. WASHINGTON, May 29. In the United States Senate, yesterday, conference was asked on the Army Appropriation bill. Mr.

Morgan, of New York, introduced a joint resolution, which was referred, providing for a reduction of the interest on the public debt. Mr. Edmunds, of Vermont, offered a resolution of thanks to Edwin M. Stanton, which was laid over, objection being made to its reception. Mr.

Ross, of Kansas, offered a resolution requesting the House furnish for the use of the Senate Investigating Committee all the testimony relating to corruption taken by the Impeachment Managers. Mr. Sumner objecting, the resolution was laid over. The Arkansas bill was considered, but not finally disposed of. In the House, Mr.

O'Neill, of from the Commerce Committee, reported a bill extending the boundaries of the collection districts of Philadelphia, which was passed. Mr. Eggleston, of Ohio, from the same committee, reported a bill regulating the appraisement and inspection of imports in certain cases, which was passed. The Indian Appropriation bill was considered. Mr.

Bingham, from the Corruption Investigating Committee, reported a resolution setting apart two rooms in the Capitol building as a guard room and an office of the Capitol police. He explained that this was to secure the stricter custody of Wooley. the After a long series of dilatory motions, resolution was adopted. The will the late Samuel Gorgas, of Philadelphia, gives an extensive farm at Roxborough, valued $50,000 in cash, to found an asylum for indigent women. The life use ton relative of $60,000, the principal to be added to the $50,000 above named after the usufruct terminates.

The Republican Party Dead -A Lively Funeral Discourse by Don Platt. Don Platt, a well known Western radical politician, writes as follows to the cinnati Commercial, under date Mac-aCheek, May I wish to make a few observations of a philosophical sort touching the late Republican party. I assisted some twelve or thirteen years since at the birth of the party just demised, having travelled from the Mac-a-Cheek valley to Buffalo, carrying a plank for the platform on which the newly born was to be cradled, and my affections have grown with growth to such an extent that its sudden death threw me into a state of profound grief, disturbed by indignation. 1 passed from lamentation to an indignation meeting, and from an indignation meeting to grief. with reflection came consolation.

Teame to the consoling thought that I was not the only sufferer, and handing out my surplus affliction my beloved country at large, I found my share could be carried without much inconvenience. The immediate cause of its death was dyspepsia, aggravated by whiskey. But the seeds of weakness and disease were planted in its birth. We began a party of reform, of agitation, aggression, and we took into our embraces" the old whig party, that was a party conservatism, aggravated by great dignity and timidity. The result has been internal dissensions.

ultra reform party could not digest the conservative lump, and we have been afflicted with cholic, that well nigh destroyed our Our actions, in consequence, have contradictory. While at one time we create a John Brown, glory in John Brown as our greatest and best beloved, organized huge armies, fought out big, wars and lib. erated a race, on other hand we have been busy smoothing our war's wrinkled front with the decayed plasters of past wrong doing. It is called compromisewhich means to give the devil your soul in a dignified, peaceful manner. The last internal convulsion exhibited with great clearness the different elements.

On the one side we had Butler, Stevens, Bingham, Logan, in calm Sumner and Drake; Fessenden on stood, repose, and Trumbull, while between floated another element, of the revolutionary times, that had its marketable value, and fluctuated as either party bid. Now, Iam prepared to admit that Messrs. Fessenden and Trumbull were actuated by the highest and the most honorable motives. 1 do not believe they could be bought with money or swayed by prejudice. They felt that they were jurors, under oath, answerable to their God for the verdict they rendered.

Nor do I blame them for responding as they did to the solemn question asked them by the Chief Justice. I believe that the thirty five voting But "guilty" were honorable, honest men, litical life a blunder is worse than a crime, and Messrs. Fessenden and Trumbull blundered in belonging to the republican organization at all. They should have gone over to the party Stanbery and Grocabeck, where the old whig dignity is preserved intact, and where conservatism is so intense that an ancient wrong is preferred to a new right, and where official position is so glorified that a thrown around an briated through mule, some than inscrutable an se reason, Providence, has set on end and made our President. When Impeachment was first broached the evidence was as well known as it was at the end of the trial.

At the beginning Messrs. Fessenden and Trumbull should have made their fight. Failing to defeat it they should have resigned their positions, as honorable men, and washed their dignified hands of the responsibility. But they chose to reserve themselves for a conflict when their triumph would be our death, and are somewhat astonished at the popular howl of wrath and indignation that comes up over their dignified, honest, honorable stupidity. We could have survived a blunder great as this is had it come alone, but it is the concluding act of a 'long series.

Through the unsettled condition of a country suffering from civil wars we have developed more rascality than any organization ever called into existence. We have filled the offices with thieves and their pockets with stealings. We have organized rings that in turn create officeholders and control the government. Men go in poor and come out millionaires. For one dollar paid to the government from hard earned taxes, hundreds stick to the dirty fingers of official scoundrels.

We have whiskey rings, Indian Bureau rings, manufacturers' rings, national bank rings, railroad rings, landjobbing rings and internal improvement rings. From the lowest officials up to Senators and Cabinet officers, the taint of corruption runs, until the people, dazed and confused, confound the right and listen with indifference to the threats of exposure. When charged with all this they have re sponded, Andy Johnson is corrupt and appointed scoundrels to office." Well, Messrs. Fessenden and Trumbull have, under oath, pronounced him not guilty, and let him go acquit. At the end of a fearful war the people had a right to expect that the expenses of the Government should be brought back at once to a peace footing.

They demanded a reduction of the army to what it was in 1860; that the useless monitors should be sold for old iron; that the hundred thousand thieves called office-holders should be dismissed, and the appropriations cut down to a reasonable expenditure. We have replied that Andrew Johnson, who came in through assassination, has organized assassination at the South, and an army of at least fifty thousand men is necessary to keep the peace, Messrs. Fessenden and Trumbull have voted not guilty, and let Andrew go acquit. The people have expected that in our hands reconstruction at the South would progress with reasonable speed, and that unhappy region restored to a state of quiet and prosperity. The expectation might not reasonable, for the blind bigotry that hurried us into a bloody war has developed in bate that, with stupid fury, casts all social and legal restraint.

But we answer that our wise acts of legislation have been rendered null and void by an Executive that plants itself squarely in opposition to the power. Now, Messrs. Fessenden and Trumbull vote "not and the accused goes acquit. We awaken to the unpleasant fact that not Andrew Johnson, but the Republican party, has been on trial, and the sentence is Y' sentence of death, rendered by our own Senators, who have rich and great through our organization. To have such a trial, with such a result (and Messrs.

Fessenden and Trumbull knew it as well at the beginning as they did at the end), is a great blunder--a blunder worse than a crime. It may be that the disgust felt by the country at large for the democratic peace party may call into existence a new organization; but the Republican party is dead, and we may as well gracefully admit the fact and accept the situation. Coole and Coburn Sentenced to an fm. prisonment of Forty Days. CINCINNATI, May and Coburn indicted by the Grand Jury of Dearborn county, at Lawrenceburg, this morning.

CINCINNATI, May and McCoole both pleaded guilty of violation of the laws of Indiana, and Judge Allen, in passing the' sentence of forty days' imprisonment, expressed his regret that the statutes of the State did not allow the infliction of a greater penalty. Both parties will have to serve forty in the Lawrenceburg jail. The Doylestown Democrat is thought that parties in New York and New Jersey, will take bold of the proposed railroad from New Hope to Norristown, with the view of making another through line west. A LETTER FOM THE WEST. ON BOARD KEOKUK, May 22d, 1868.

All right so far, and still pressing towards the Northwest, under a full head of Milwaukie has left so favorable an impres. sion upon my mind, that I cannot dismiss the subject before I have given it a little more attention. A healthier location can not possibly exist under the sun. A cleaner city cannot be found on this Continent. Every luxury is attainable, some at reasonable prices; others again, as a matter of course, not so reasonable, but they are attainable at least, and that is a comfort.

A word about our Teutonic beverage (beer.) None better! You are authorized to tell our jolly friends John, Billy and Charley, that they need not fear to come to Milwaukie on that account. They can be indulged with and can indulge in just as good an article as our own Lancaster product.Those fond of a heavy article can be especially gratified, as from some cause or other the malt liquors here have more body than the generality has with us. Not with a tear; for Milwaukie beer, but an inward regret on leaving the beautiful CREAM CITY. I take the cars for La Crosse, passing through the hop- growing regions of Wisconsin. As far as I am able to judge from appearances, the prospects for a good crop of indispensable article are very promising.

Many new fields have been planted this season, owing to the extraordinary prices paid last year, and this State bids fair to become the hop-growing State of the Union; rivaling even New York which has heretofore produced the great bulk of that article, but in which of -late years they have proved an utter failure, as regards quality. At La Crosse I take the steamer Keokuk and soon are on our way up the Mississippi. One great drawback to the pleasures of a traveller are uncourteous clerks, ticket agents and conductors. Of this kind of "cattle'? I an indefinite number on my way, and some of them have disturbed to a great degree the complacentness of my feelings, which otherwise might have been of the most agreeable kind, on parting from some interesting points. Some of them not only do not take time to answer a civil question civilly, but actually return some uncouth answer instead.

This was especially the case with a chap at the ticket office at Chicago. This man was not one with the sweet German accent, nor was he an Italian, nor even an Irish gentleman, for had he been either of the three, I am sure he would have given me the information I desired. As it was, however, I was misled into buying a way ticket instead of getting a through one, lower sum in proportion. At Milwaukie I met another specimen of the same breed, who had the polite faculty of doing everything in moncsyllable by a sort of grunt and grin, and thus his customers. dog must have his day, so I suppose these fellows will have theirs.

It is a great relief to find one man who is affable and kind in such a position, and we can appreciate it so much more after having come in contrast with so large a number who are the opposite. This is the case with the chief clerk of this boat; (Mr. Charles Hovey) never too much trouble to give information when asked for, always polite and affable, he makes himself agreeable to others and no doubt feels comfortable himself. This makes the trip up the river pleasant, and must leave a good impression upon every traveler's mind after leaving the boat. Now is it not just as little trouble to be polite as to be rude? Mr.

Hovey seems to reason that it is, and thus instead of making enemies, he will have hosts of friends whereever he may go. Success to Charley Hovey of the Keokuk! W. W. Hatcher, the 2d Clerk deserves the same notice from me, as I am indebted to him for much useful information during the trip. In fact, all the officers of the boat are gentlemen, and as far as I can see, worthy of the confidence of the traveling public, notwithstanding they are in the employ of the so: called White Collar Line" to which Brick Pomeroy pays his respects in such an emphatic manner occasionally.

The scenery along the river is grand, especially on the west side, where many beautiful bluffs rise in fantastic boldness to the view, until we reach the town of Winona, where Sugar Loaf Bluff finishes up the picture, with its white sandy sides. Winona is a thriving city, and great shipping place for grain and lumber, and has a population of about 6,000, consisting of an enterprising, industrious, driving From here opens the most interesting part of my trip, an interest constantly increasing as we proceed. We from the East, who only know Minnesota from what we have heard and read of it, find that with every stretch of fancy we have come very far short of what we realize when we behold the reality Nature clothed in her garb of green, appears in all her loveliness at this season wherever we go, but here the effect is doubly enhanced by the natural beauty of the country through which we pass. The line of the railroad follows a beautiful valley for a considerable distance, passing over a number of curved trussel bridges, over high embankments, through deep cuts, and finally emerges upon a high plateau of rolling prairie, where the effect upon the vision is truly of the most pleasing character. This extends for miles, presenting thousands upon thousands of acres of wheat stretched out on either side of the track.

Many pleasant villages are passed on the way, among which I shall name Eyota as being one of the most promising. This place from its natural location must become the centre of the agricultural riches of this district in time, owing to the position it occupies. This is evidenced by the number of buildings going up and in contemplation. Next comes Rochester, a city most eligibly situated on the Lumbo river and already presenting all the appearances of a thriving town. This of all others along the whole route would be my preference as a place of residence, should I conclude to leave the comforts and associations of the East.

It is the "Garden Spot" of Minnesota, as Lancaster is the "Garden Spot" of Pennsylvania, and must in the progress of things occupy a prominent position among the cities of the Northwest. Our road now passes uninterruptedly for many miles over this rich soil until we reach Owatonna, distant 90 miles from Winona, where for the first time we strike upon a primeval forest of timber land, in which the bur or red oak prevails, and which extends for many miles in unbroken wildness, laforest in, which bu a few short years ago the wild-man bad his undisturbed hunting grounds, but which by that annibilator of distance, as well as of uncivilized life, (the locomotive) has fled the scene, and where once the wild war-whoop resounded, now re-echoes the shriil whistle of that mighty engine of civilization and progress. On! on! we fly; over verdant fields and enchanting valleys, until we reach "Fort Snelling." Here is a picture of grandeur in natural scenery, such as is seldom found in this country. Elevated about 1,000 feet above the level of the Minnesota river, which flows at the base of the bluff upon which the fort, like some feudal castle on the classic Rhine, is situated, we can behold by a bird's eye view the grandest panorama of nature upon which the eye of man can rest; and passing down the sides of the mountain by a serpentine tract, describing more than of a circle, we cross three the river, and in thirty minutes are at Minneapolis and the Falls of St. Anthony.

This is one of the most thriving towns of the Northwest, and derives its importance from the many saw and grist mills located here. One of these mills turns out 800 barrels of flour every 25 hours. The saw mills run day and night. The water-power is taken from the Mississippi above the falls, where a dam has been constructed for that purpose. The falls are a natural curiosity, of which I do not feel myself competent to give a description.

From a platform extending out over part of the falls a fine view is obtained of this great wonder. See how it pours and rolls, and surges and tears down over its rugged, rocky, bed. Rushing, gushing, foaming, dashing, thundering, crashing and lashing, wildly pouring; loudly roaring, down, down it rolls with resistless force, sending up its spray and carrying along its dancing ripples, until lost to view. It is a wild fantastic dance! It is St. Anthony's dance! And this is the "father of waters." who and whore's the mother? is a question not yet settled.I leave Minneapolis and its sixty mills.

No fino buildings, and its enterprising people and am on my way to the fails of Minnehaha and St. Paul. More as we proceed, from yours, TRAVELER ON TILE WING. News Items. Eight thousand candles are consumed weekly in excavating the Hoosac tunnel.

The daily receipts of the street cars, omnibuses and ferry boats in New York aggregate $50,000. Crop prospects for stone fruit and the grape in France are good. Grain also looks well. A number of thieves have been arrested in Boston for stealing the silver plates from the coffins in the Putnam family's tomb. A box of bright leaf tobacco sold at Lynchburg, last week for $145 per hundred.

Six hundred miles of the Union Pacific Railroad have been finished west of Omaha, sixty miles haying been built this spring. A. witty Democrat says that the eleventh article was taken up first on scriptural grounds, as the impeachers hoped that a little 'leven would leaven the whole lump. A gang of masked robbers, in United States army overcoats are committing outrages in Bollinger county, Mo. Probably some of Logan's G.

A. General Stone, who was confined so long during the war, runs a colliery near Richmond, Va. The Missouri Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows' met recently at St. Louis. The number of new Lodges organized for the past year is 24; additional membership, 1200; whole number of working Lodges in the State, 135, A chap named John M.

Palmer, by vote of the Rump Senate, is to be allowed an extra price on a contract for 40,000 coffins furnished for the army in Tennessee. O. J. Dunn, the Radical lieutenant governor" of Louisiana, negro, and is said to be a first-rate representative of the mongrel party--possessing, in an eminent degree, ignorance, cupidity and malignity. Udolpho Wolf's income is $33,905, and Helmbold's is $22,010.

These are the sweets of this life that they receive in compensation for their bitters. The Cincinnati Commercial says that the Mississippi delegation to the Grant-Colfax convention sold out to New York for $25,000. It is also said that the other Southern delegations were bought up at from twenty to twenty-five thousand. Local Sutelligence. Pennsyivania Railroad Time Table.

Change of time, on and after Sunday, May 10. EASTWARD, Phil'a Express, Day Express, 1:50 P. M. Fast Line, 6:35 Harrisb' 6:15 Lancaster Train, 9:07 Cincinnati 1Cx 10:47 WESTWARD, Phil'a Express, 1:48 A.M. Columbia 2:45 P.

M. Emig't Train, 3:03 Harrisb'g 5.53 Mail Train, 11:15 4 Lancaster Train 7:29 Fast Line, 2:40 P. Cincinnati Exp. 10:38 WEST PITILADELPHIA TO NEW YORK--At 9 M. and 1.30 0 and 6.30 P.

M. Lancaster and Reading Railroad. Trains leave Depot, head of Prince as follows: Morning Train, 8:001 Afternoon Train, 3:00 ARRIVE. Morning Train, 9:20 Afternoon Train, 8:3) READING TO NEW YORK--At 4.49, 6.36 and $10.30 A M. and 4.20 and 11.15 P.

M. Northern Central Railway. Trains leave Wrightsville for Baltimore at 8.15 A M. and 1.20 P. for York at 6.45 P.

M. Leave York for Wrightsville at 6.45 and 11.45 A.M.,and 3.50 P. Leave Harrisburg for Williamsport and Elmira at 3.20 A.M.; for Elmira at 1.20 P. for Williamsport at 4.20 P. M.

NEW following new advertisements appear in to-day's Intelligencer Absecom Oysters, Kautz McDonald's, The Easy Opener at Miller Hartman's. Sharpley Cotton at Fulton Notice to Ee-shah-ko-nee Tribe. Re-opening of Palace Varieties. Empire Hook and Ladder Co. Turtle Soup at Hildebrand's.

Notice to Metamora Tribe. Grand Cotillion Party. House for rent. Public Sale. Estray Cow.

For further. particulars consult the new advertisements. -The Democratic City Executive Committee will meet on SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 30th, at 71 o'clock, P. at the usual place. GEORGE NAUMAN, Chairman.

Wm. B. Strine, Sec'y. CONVERSION OF -The Treasury Department after the first of next month, June, will be prepared to exchange five-twenty bonds dated either July 1, 1867, or July 1, 1868 as parties may wish, for the seven thirty bonds which are due June 15 and July 15, 1868. The interest on the seven-thirties will be allowed up to July 1, and the fiye-twenties given in exchange will bear interest from that date.

the request of the Trustees the Mayor will send, on to-morrow (Saturday) afternoon, a number of constables to Lancaster Cemetery to preserve order. No boys will be admitted into the Cometery. THE NATIONAL CAMP camp meeting inaugurated at Vineland; New Jersey, last year, and to be held this year at Manheim, this county, is represented by our exchanges as being designed as a union meeting, embracing Christians of all denominations and specially to pro mote the work of holiness the committee is making extensiye arrangements to render this meeting a memorable one in spiritual results; the fact that so many persons were converted at Vineland last year, has rendered the projectors of this meeting sanguine in their expectations of its being the means of advancing and promoting the great cause of christianity. The camp ground is represented as being near the village, and "is amply capacious, well shaded and abundantly supplied with most excellent water." The meeting will commence on Tuesday, July 14th, and close on Friday, July 24th. The ground is now being laid out and will lse ready for holding the meeting by the 1st of July, so that any parties can, after that time, "come and pitch their tents and enjoy a pleasant and healthful season of rest prior to the meeting." The different Railroad Companies are disposed to make liberal terms, and afford ample facilities to those who desire to be present at the meeting.

Parties are already securing sites for their tents, and everything indicates that the meeting will be one of the largest ever known in this country. IMPORTANT BOUNTY CIRCULAR is stated that the Secretary of the Treasury has issued circular instructions establishing regulations for the issuing and paying of duplicate bounty checks. The owner of a soldier's bounty check, which may be lost, must at once notify the Assistant Treasurer upon whom it is drawn to stop payment. Ho must send affidavits to the Paymaster General or the Paymaster who issued the check, setting forth the circumstances of the loss, and that it was not endorsed in blank or to bearer. He must also file a bond, a form of which is furnished by the Paymasters who issue checks.

Binkley's Express states that it is contemplated to rebuild Binkley's bridge as soon as the proper bonds are furnished by the Supervisors of Manheim and East Lampeter townships. One third of the cost of rebuilding the bridge will be borne by the county, one third by the New Holland Turnpike Company, and the other third by the townships of Manheim and East Lampeter. ANNUAL MEETING OF CLASSIS. -The lowing report of the meeting of the Classis of the Reformed church is taken from the Manheim Sentinel: The annual meeting of Classis of the Reformed Church, comprising Lancaster county and a part of Dauphin, commenced on Friday evening last in the Reformed Church in this Borough. It was opened with a sermon by the Rev.

J. W. Nevin, D. from Ephesians iv. 8--12.

The service was peculiarly adapted in view of the ascension Saviour, which was com memorated on the day previous in this branch of the Protestant Church represented, and because of the convention of that class of persons, and their offices and stations peculiarly set apart and endowed by the Lord himself, as the head of His Church, and to whom all gifts were committed tor the sake of His people. The Doctor dwelt especially upon the descent of the Saviour, and that His humiliation was such as to be commensurate with the effects of the Fall. The preacher also made especial reference of the redemption which our Saviour wrought whole order of His life, beginning in the Incarnation and completing itself in His sitting at the right hand of God dispensing gifts to men. The service was one of great interest. Classis then opened regularly by the election of the Rev.

W. H. H. Snyder, of Harrisburg, President; W. Aug.

Gring, stated Clerk; and Rev. A. H. Kremer, Treasurer. The business claiming attention was such as usually attends the conduct of the charges in their ecclesiastical operations.

From the pastoral reports it was evident that more of an enterprising spirit possessed the people, and that more has been accomplished this year than formerly. There is an increasing interest in the church, greater reverence for the order of redeeming grace here, which is apparent from the peculiar observance of the Sacraments and the respect shown for the instruction and nurture of the young, that as they grow up they may also grow in the knowledge and love of God. The statistical report represents Baptisms 279, Confirmations 190, received by certificate, 35 benevolent contributions, $2,121.82. Classis has assumed for the present year the support of two young men in pursuit of a becoming preparation for the ministry; also the assistance of Columbia and Manheim charges, as well as the more efficient support of the Board of Home Missions. Religious services were held on Saturday evening, when the Rev.

D. W. Gerhard preached. On Sunday morning Rev. W.

T. Gerhard preached in German, and Rev. S. Kuhn in English. On afternoon Messrs.

Stahr and Hoffmeier addressed the school; and in the evening the Rev. J. V. Eckert preached in English. On Monday evening the Rev.

A. H. Kremer preached on Christian Beneficence. Many items of business of peculiar interest claimed the attention of Classis, one of which was the reception of the Rev. Edwin M.

Nevin into the Reformed Church, and a committee appointed to install him as pastor of St. Paul's Reformed Church, Lancaster. Rev. Mr. Nevin was formerly a member of the Mendon Association of the Congregational Church, Massachusetts, but was dismissed from that association ten years ago.

Not standing in any ecclesiastical connection since that time, he had therefore no credentials upon which he could be constitutionally received, and he only be regarded as an independent minister of good moral character. Classis accordingly instituted an examination of the Rev. Mr. Nevin in regard to his theological views.The examination being regarded as satisfactory, he was received into the Reformed Church, and into membership with the Lancaster Classis by subs ribing to the usual formula. Committee appointed to install Rev.

Mr. Nevin consists of Rev. Dr. J. W.

Nevin, Rev. J. V. Eckert, and Rev. L.

D. Steckel. The report on the appeal case of the First Reformed Church, Lancaster, was after considerable discussion adopted by a vote of 15 yeas to 10 nays. The session of Classis closed last Monday evening after the congregational by the reading of reports on morals, religion, and the meeting so ended as to leave upon the minds of all the most salutary impressions. A vote of thanks was cordially extended to the families whose hospitality the members of Classis enjoyed during their stay.

hymn was then sung, prayer offered, and benediction pronounced. Classis separated to meet on the third Friday in May, 1869, at New Holland; this county. THE Society will meet to-morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock, in the Atheneum Rooms. TiE Lancaster City and County Horticultural Society will meet in the orphans Court Room, on Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock..