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t THIS DEMOCRAT. ' I.OWVIJ.l.K. JULY 01. ' 'rite Cunnl Fraud*. The disolouure of Homo of tlio robber- ei of which our Stnto officials have boon guilty, nnd which tlio lm*t Login- l&ttiro trii'd to withhold from thu peo- ple until after tlio election, hnvo boon drawn out from thu investigating com- mittee by the Convention'. From thin exposo it would seem that thu Cnnul Board nnd the Legislature hnvo been about nock and neck in the rush upon t, he treasury, The ennal revenues have offered tlio most accessible booty, nnd .they hnvo been robbed on every sido. With an Auditor like Benton, who pnys tho drafts of tlio ring in defiance of law, and with Canal 1 nnd Contracting Boards in \cahoot\ with tho ontsido ennui pirates, tho ©boson leaders of tho Re- publican party hnvo had a rich nnd opeliflcid of plunder. As tho stealing grow moro furious, the professions of\ loynlly \ nnd rcgnrd for tho \ emise of froodom \ wero min- glod with the deafening chorus of wliioh \ oopporhnd,\ rebel sympathisers,\ nnd *• traitors\ wero leading notes. In tho Republican ohureli, to loudly re- pent tho rndical creed, to vote the ticket, nnd to vigorously denounce Democrats and conservatives ns worthy of proHoripiion and the halter, were sure to soenro an indulgenco to commit every possible robbery or outrage. The moro deeply, these party lenders were thrusting their hands into tho spoils, tho more vociferous the pretences of patriotism, and tho more violent the outcry against \disloyalty.\ A cred- ulous people wero never worse duped by a viler crow of hypocrites nnd thieves than have been commissioned by the Republican party to Boizu the property and squander the money of the people, Among tho slanderers of the Demo- crntic parly none have been moro loud- mouthed than B. F. Bruce. His base misrepresentations of tho Democratic party, and his venal lip service for \ great moral ideas,\ have been heard ill this section. For these labors he has been kept in office by the Radicals nnd ho was finally mftde Canal Com- missioner. Honest and high minded Democrats lik« Skinner and Wright wero set aside or deposed to make way for this party hack. About his first performance in offieo was to rob tho State of nearly $50,000. ' Aside from the frauds mentioned iu tho aiticlo which we publish in another column, it is \notorious that at the last letting of repair contracts at Albany, the contractors got together and put up tho different sections at auction— tho one paying most to this ring bj'.ng allowed to obtain tho contract at his own price, the bids of all others being informal. In this way contracts worth hundred's of thousands were sold by the ring, aiid the transaction was ratified by the canal officials. For one section sixty thousand dollars were paid by one coti^racior to tho others for tho privilege of a clear field, and each indi- vidual of tho whole body received a dividend amounting in many cases to several thousand dollars. To get this plunder, tho State was victimized not less than a million dollars. And the Republican guardian of the State treas- ury acc«pto<] these bids thus framed for the robbery ot the State, knowing their character, and awarded contracts upon them. And yet the manner of making them was notorious, and to whom the dividend was made, and upon what banks the plunderers received their check.*, and for what. sums. The^dltara'ctor of tho contracts thus obtained limy be. estimated from that for dredging the Albany basin, under which S.'ino or &400 per day is received or what tho contractor executes at an expense of $50. Wo ask tho honest citizen of this county if corruptions like these were ever known under Democratic manage- ment of the canals ? Is it prudent, is it less than madness and folly, to leave theso interests in tho hands of the cor- rupt cabal that farm out and divide the canal revenues' among tho swindlers and sharpers that* control nominations n the Republican party ? Do they relish paying takes and mortgaging their farms to enrich these harpies who gobble up and exhaust tho canal reve- nues and compel a resort to taxation ? If they do, they have only to keep in power, these \ pharisees, hypocrites,\ who devour the substance of the poor, \and for a pretence make long prayer.\ The Republican press inquire if all Democrats, are honest. No such pre- tence is made. But we insist that the Democratic policy, State and National, •has always been more frugal, more economical, less devoted to special in- terests and less addicted to use the public money to enrich favored classes, or political favorites. The responsibility for the frauds now unearthed is upon tho Republican lead- ers. That individual Democrats may / nave availed themselves of tho rotten- . ness of the Republican officials to make oortiVfrt gain, does not shift the rospon* Bibfti*y f*»ci the Republican party. See <><whV constituted these boards that have I- « opened tho treasury to peculators and thieves: 9KS5 Canql J)ourd--l,\m\, Gov. Wood- lord, Sue. State Barlow, Comp. Hill- house, Treasurer Howland, Cnnnl Com. missions™ Alborger, Dorn uud Bruce, Suite Kng. Goodsoll, Attorney Geuornl Mart indnlo—till Republicans. Contracting Jioard~-HlnU< Engineer Goodsell, Auditor Bunion, Cnunl Cum inissioiiers Alberger, Dorn and Bruce — Republicans. Tho most Corrupt management of the ennuis, tho largest Stato debt, nnd the worst condition of tho publics works over known, are tho results of this \ unanimous \ Republican control of our Slate canals. BHOWNLOWIHM — TrciiiioniKM.—Two serious riots have occurred recently in Tennessee, in which Brownlow's mis- uroanU wero tlio aggressors. That old maniac nnd Constitution-breaker U de- termined to put down all opposition to his ro election, and is attempting to •'rive his political opponents off the field by military force, At a meeting in Knoxvillo on the 25th, Gen. Frank P. Blair, while speaking, was frequent- ly interrupted by tho old sinner's ruf- fians, and a fight ensued in which sev- eral Conservative men were killed. On tho 23d, at Rogursville, while Emerson Kthridgo, tho Conservative candidate for Governor, was speaking to a large crowd of Tennessee Unionists, ho was shot at by some of Brownlow's negro friends, when a fight followed, and a whito man and one negro were killed. A correspondent of the Nashville Union & Dispatch says that the \Grand Army of tho Republic\ and the \Union Leagues \ are organized under Brownlow's banner, and are drilling in organized companies, with arms ; that their avowed object is to drive away from tho polls at the coining elec- tion all who vofus\ to vote for Brown- low. How sensible, law-abiding men can worship that foul mouthed, scur- rilous, crack-brained, pugilistic old vil- lain, and claim him fit to hold the office of Governor of Tennessee, is one of the seven wonders. However, he is only carrying out a part of the programme of the notorious Radical \ Military Re construction \ policy. The thirteenth article 'of tho Bill of Rights of Massachusetts is as follows: In tho Government of this Common- wealth, the legislative department shall ni>v»v exercise tho executive and judi- cial powers, or either of them; the ex- ecutive shall never exercise the legisla- tive or judicial powers, or either of them j the judicial shall never exercise legislative or executive powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a government of law and not of men. This Massachusetts ordains for her- self; but lor her SIBILM UiaLua of iliu South, says the Louisville Journal, she ordains or assists in ordaining that the legislative department, not of their own governments, but of the general gov- ernment, shall exercise all tho legisla- tive, executive, nnd judicial powers, to the end that tho governments of those States may be governments of men and not of laws, and governments not of the men of those Slates themselves, but of the men of other States'. What is sauce for the Massachusetts is very far from being sauce for the Georgia gander or any ot his flock. There is certainly a very extraordi- nary quantity of human nnturoin Massa- chusetts. Tins AUGUST ELECTIONS.-—Tho elec- tions in Tennessee tor Congressmen and State officers will take place to morrow, August 1st. The election in Kentucky for State officers will take place next Monday, August 5th. Some four or five other southern States used to hold elections early in August, but these are now postponed to enable the radical politicians to form a negro party tor the purpose of carry- ing the next Presidential election. RADICAL TAXATION'-—In the oou-se of a speech recently delivered by Hon. George II. Potidletion, at St. Paul, that gentleman mentioned certain facts, with referenco to the subject of taxation, which arc impressive. The United States has property real and personal, as a taxable basis,\ amounting to $10,- 000,000.000. Great Britain has pro- perty, veal and personal, amounting to $36,000,000,000. The taxes collected by the United States government, last year were $580,000,000, while those collected by England amounted to $480,- 000,000, and those collected by France to $390,000,000—showing an excess for the United States of 100,000,000, over England, and $190,000,000 over France. This notwithstanding the great difference in the basis of taxation. The contrast becomes still stronger when it is considered that the national taxation in Great Britain and France includes everything—whereas we have, in addition, here,our Slate, county, and municipal taxes; and these are very onerous—in fact, in the normal condi tion of affairs, the largest part of our taxation. TJie Atlantic Monthly for August contains: The Guardian Angel jllos- pital Memories; Dirge for a Sailor; Up the Edisto; Poor Richard ; A Week's Riding; The Little Land of Appenzell ; The Lost Genius; Cincinnati; A Lili- pnt Province ; and the usual number of reviews and literary notices. Tieknor & Fields, publishers,. Boston, Mass. Price $4 per annum. —The women suffrage proposition has been rejected by the Convention by a vote 125 to 19. Helpless women I Till) CANAL FIlAUDf. Corruption and M&lftdminl*tra. tion Exposed. How the State has been Swindled- Special GoiTUBrioiiriY'tiee of tlio Troy dully Times, [IU-|Hll>lk'Hl!.] AI.IIANV. July 2 a, 1807.—Lnst week, ns you are aware, the Senate oommitiec on investigation of enunl nmiiiigenieni, submitted to tho Constitutional Con- vention a report of the evidence, etc, taken by them, and this important mai- ler is in the hands ol the printer, nnd will »ooii be made public. Muniiilnie, I inn eii'tbled to furnish you the follow- ing detail* of the evidence, which em- braces only \specimen bricks\ of-tho whole. It is, indeed, u Ktartllnfl rovo- laiion, and will stir tho public mind to the highest pitch of excitement and In- dignation. In view of this terrible ex- posure, may wo not all realize that the Stale is in danger; thnt its government interests arc in peril, and the strong power of public opinion, backed by an lncbrniplnblu press, must, bo brought to bear to crush out tho corrupt ionists. and reform nnd purify the public, ser- vice. A field of duty is here suggested to tho ('(institutional Convention, nnd it is to be Imped that body will lake hold of the work and do it thoroughly. But to iho evidence: A l'UAl.'Dl.l'.NT CLAIM AND II0W IT WAS PAID. In 18(15, iu the Spring, Charles J. Do (Jraw, Charles E. Case and John A. Riibinson had a <piaut.ity of timber ly. ing in the liver near Corning. A flood occurred, by which a portion of the timber was carried off down ihe river, and some of it Was lost. As the en mil was not opened that year at tho time advertised, owing t«> this sum A* flood, tho omission was deemed good ground to apply to the Legislature and get pay fur thu timber as a ju«t, claim against the State. At the session of the legislature in 1800, DeGrnw made application to tho Semite for relief, and his petition was referred to the commit- tee on claims, by which the case was examined, and Mr. Gibson, the chair- man of that, committee, reported against the claim ; but. the Senate, after considerable discussion, recommitted tho case, and a majority ot the commit- tee (llio chairman dissenting) reported in favor of thu bill, and it became a law finally, and tho milter was referred to the Canal Board for hearing. The Board subsequently heard the case, ami on the Cth day of December, 1800, awarded $24,000 to the claimant. The Investigation Committee, being informed that this claim was fraudulent, examined a largo number of witnesses, during the session, and becoming satis- lied of tho fraud, caused the amount awarded to be stricken out of the ap- propriation bill, and supposed that pay meiitoftho claim from thw Treasury had thus been prevented. It, now appears that Jiune .1. Boldeu, of Syracuse, had, prim* to the session, madu a contract with DeGrnw \ to fur- nish the evidence\ and make tho neces- sary disbiii'»emeul8 to gut this bill pass- ed, and was to receive as his share of the plunder *8,OUD. A n cviilence, How- ever, was furnished by Behlen, but on the contrary this was done by DoGraw, Behlen making the necessary payments. The character of thu disbiiiscincnls, is shown by one item, being $1,500 paid for arguing the case. The plunderers, fearing they would not gel their booty, knowing that the item had been strick- en out of the appropriation bill in the Semite, and that the investigation cmi mittee had ascertained the fraud, ap- plied to tho Auditor lor payment, mid on bis draft, it was paid. The evidence shows that when the Auditor did this ho knew that this claim was being investigated as fraudulent, and that thu item had been stricken from the appropriation bill in the Sen- ate. It now appears that the draft for its payment was drawn without author- ity of law. Thus the State has been defrauded in una transaction to the amount of $24,000. Ami this fraud was finally effected by the aid of a pub lie officer as a volunteer, who, when he acted, did so with full knowledge ot the fraud charged, thu pending investi- gation thereon, and that there was no authority of law to make the payment. This last appears more clear from the fact that the Auditor drew the appro piiation act, containing the item in question, which item was stricken out in tho Senate, and never became a part of the law. Htnm.E DIVISION. Soon after the election of Gen. Bruce by the Legislature, as Canal Commis- sioner, he declared or caused to be de- clared abandoned, the contract of one Root to keep in repair one section of his division at $8,000 per year, and imme- diately, and without any public, notice, entered into aconuacl with James J. Behlen, for repair wink, which the con- tractor *hou1d have done, and for doing which Behlen was paid on the drafts of Bruce, over $54,000 ! This work oceu pieil six weeks, and required the labor of about one, hundred men. In onler to have earned that amount, of money, as wages then stood, it would have re- quired the employment, for six weeks of at least twelve hundred men. HOW AN KXl'OSURU WAS ritEVB.NTKD. At the Fall election subsequent to the above transaction, General Bruce, was a candidate for an election as Canal Commissioner on the Republican ticket, and William W. Wright on the Demo- cratic. Wright's friends had prepared an articlo containing a full statement ol tho facts connected with the matter, and the same was about to be published in a Democratic paper at Syracuse. The editor of thai paper, testified that he was offered ono thousand dollars \not to publish that article in his paper, and accepted tho money, and did not pub- lish it! FRAUD AND BIIEACH Off TUB SABBATH. There was a letting of contracts for repairs at Buffalo, and George D.. Lord had in a proposal, and ono Dunn had one. also, in the name of one Kingsley. Dunn's offer was lower than Lord's for the five, years, about 120,000. The pro- •HHH contract was adjourned to Albany on the succeeding Monday, Lord immedi- ately oftcrud Dunn iJu'.OOO if ho would consent to have his ITid made informal. Dunn intimated that could not bo done, but Lord Niiid ho could get it done through tho Chirk of thu Contract rug Board, but it would cost, him $1,000 to got it done, It wns finally agreed by Dunn thnt ho would take the $0,000 and lot. his bhl bo umdu inlormsl, Lord then immediately started lor Schcticc tinly, nnd reached there on Sunday morning, the day before thu bids were to bo noted upon, and hold nn interview with David P. Forrest, thu Clerk of tho Contracting Board, who consented to go to the Canal Commissioners' office nt Albany and let Lord see his own bid and thai of Dunn, They went to Al bnny together, on Sunday, nnd entered the office nloue, nnd tho Clurk opened the safe where the papers wore, and took out the bids, and kord examined thu two nbovo specified. On Monday, when the Board met, Dunn's bid was J'owul to be informal, the name of the Supervisor of his town having diaap pnavml \viim the bond to which it was affixed when deposited with tho Con- tracting Board, Dunn, however, being uneasy iu his mind, nt Lord's going off on Sunday, and thinking ho would probably client him in soino wny, sent Hugh Severance to Albany to prevent Loid from getting the work under his bid, and Severance took such steps that the Contracting Board did not award tho contract to Lord, but declared Dunn's bid informal, and Lord's exces- sive, and ordered the work to bo relet, Ilnd Lord lived up to his agreement with Dunn, and paid him the $0,000, he would probably have pocketed #13,- 000 himself, and the State would have been defrauded out of $20,000. But the canal rats defrauded and cheated each other, and tho treasury was saved from this loss, HOW AN BN'iil.NKKU ISOUKOWED FOUR THOUSAND IKiLI.Aim OV A (JONTKAOTOB. In 1800, at the December letlings at Albany, Willard Johnson, wdio was al- ready a contractor for repairs for two sections on thu Cliamplain canal, was awarded the contract on the remaining sections, giving him tho repair contract on tin' whole line of that canal. Mr. Jeuiie was the Divission Engineer hav- ing that canal in charge. Johnson, while holding the two contracts, loaned to Jciiue$4,000 on his proinmissory note, and which, though it had no endorsers or surety, was one of the best secured loans that was ever made, and at the highest rate of interest thnt, was ever paid, if we aro to judge by the ordina- ry results flowing from similar transac- tions. The borrower is always the slave of thu lender, and doubtless this case was no exception to the general rule. The manner in which Johnson subsequently conducted the pretended performance of his contracts on the Champlniu Canal, and the official action and non action of Jenne, furnish am- ple reason for thu belief that this loan \ was a lion in the way\ of any com- pulsion by the engineer over the eon- tractor. So plain was this that when Jenne was nsked by thu committee ii-liy ini 1,-ul not eertiiiiil to tho Con- tracting Boird, as required by law, that the contractor had not porl'oi tried his contract, hufcicplicd \ I do not know.\ MOW AN KN'iMNKICIt WAS PUNISHED KOIl ItKINU TOO llONICST. On the Middle Division, ono Nichols ,vas an engineer whose duty it was, among oilier things to measure the work actually performed by the con- tractor, and make thu estimate by which ho would draw his pay. The engineer could not bo forced or per- suaded to measure or estimate any more than the actual quantities done, and the Canal Commissioner one day gave him notice that his services were no longer required on that Division, nor have they boon required at any time since. IIUNKFIT RKSUI.TINU FROM THE INVESTI- GATION. We have given above a few items, taken at random from the evidence tak- en by the committee, and regret that time and space prevent further extracts at present. The Convention for this evidence will have nn opportunity to see the practi- cal working of the system of managing the canals, and provide the proper rem- edy for the great evils attending that system. The evidence, wc trust, will also ena- ble tin-people to examine the subject, and place tho responsibility upon Un- guilty or negligent officials without dis- tinction ol party. -—The population of New York city in 1806 was 900,000; her indebtedness, $41,701,177; population of Brooklyn, 300,000; population of Philadelphia, 022,082. —The Paris papers want to know why President Johnson was not invitod to attend the Exposition. The reason is evident. Between the five monarchs in the South, Stevens, Wade, and Chan tiler, Napoleon was naturally puzzled to know which was the head. —Mr. J. Owing, a farmer residing at Ascutnoyville, Vt., and his wile, were murdered Monday night by a French- man, a former employee of Mr. Owing, who beat their brains out, with an ax. The murder was committed will) the hope of finding money, for which the house was thoroughly :-earched,but how much was obtained is not known. It is said the murderer has been arrested. —Two boys about fourteen years ol age, in tho village of Mexico, Oswego County, were dreadfully injured, one fatally, last, week, by a powder explo- sion. They filled the pockets of their pants with powder, wont to a by place, and commenced trying experiments, to see if it would lift ouestonu from another by being exploded between. The conse- quence was that one was badly burned in tho face and had his clothes set on firo. Tho other, coming to the rescue, got his clohes ignited, which fired the powder in his pockets,making a terrible explosion, and completely disembowi 1 ing him. He lingered in great agony HOCUl jQUHtttVff* | mediate vicinity wbe* the paper is —• pilhlihllfd. This is oulv true so far lis tjf\Our TOBIUM thi'OUBlioul tin'eoiuily ure .' , „„,.„„ n e n „ n ,»!iu Mm nilil<>i> iuvltmt to furulih u* any Itanu. of lutereit for It is » raBttel of \t'OOllMty tlio editor thU column. [not yciicrully \w\w\f A ubiquitous hull- ~TA7X Gu7ss.-¥ormnn lb'mi.7~of, vMnul, but has knowledge of slid, in.U- Ilnrrisburgh, left In our office on Mm.. U'™ being ncquircd, like thnt ol oilier day, n spear of ff rass which measure* '•»\\. imrtiiilly from information from 6 feet 0 inches iu length. DISNTTSTUV.—Dr.. House visit* the south part of this county next week, IIo will bo at Mrs. Perry's, Turin, on Monday, Tuesdny nnd Wednesday, and at Mrs, Jn»on Hnleomb's, PortLoyden, Thursday nnd Friday, BASK BAM,.—On Saturday afternoon last, tho Rough and Rondy B. B. Club of Turin nnd tho Young America Club of Lowvillo played a matched game, on the grounds of tho lalttr, which result. ed in tho defeat of Young/ America. Tho following nre the innings : 1 '2 8 * 5 6 7 S 9—Total Hough & Roiidy 7 8 1 4 0 5 10 6 11-00 Young Amurloii 0 0 1 fl 8 I 13 0—14 LAW CARD.—It will be seen by our advertising columns that Judge Smith nnd John I). Collins, Esq., have formed n copartnership for the praotioo of law at. Uiica. Judge Smith is well known to the people of this county as nn able nnd experienced lawyer, Mr. Collins, formerly of this county, la also well known ns a lawyer of high attainments in his profession. Our citizens wanting legal assistance in Ution will do well to call upon this firm. BEU.KVII.I.E ACADICMV.—Wo rofes our renders to nn advertisement else- where of tho Belleville Academy, nn in- stitution which is gaining a wide-spread reputation for its superior educational facilities. The school possesses multitu- dinous advantages over less patronized institutions and is ntndning a remarka- ble growth under its present manage- ment. Parents sending their children from tho county abroad will easily learn the groat merits of tho In-til ution ni Belleville in a trial of one term. others. Let those who are Interested In reading local new* send in such fuels in llielr poshcssion as will bo likely to interest others. Tiiu FIRST SISWINU MACIIINK AND .•num. •—•wg^ww—| have remained in Ignoranoo of it until his arrival in town. Wore wo permitted let (jlvo our opin- ion concerning hi in we should »gy, lit was n moKt ttupendous hitmbtiff ; but a* we nro not permitted to exprom* our opinion wo shall sny nothing about him. While he was singing a bmutiful, sentimental piece which set forth tlvt miraculous power* of his wondorfirlfno* to be surpassed J'Jlectrlo Oil, tho strains ol martial (?) music nnnounoti the arrival of the procuvgion. Now those who had coins \to w» NKW Muaic,—Tho celebrated musio publishing house of Oliver Ditson & Co., 277 Washington St., .Boston, has our thanks for tho following pieces of sheet music: \ Kiss mo when I'm wea- ry love,\ ballad, price 30cents; \The Moss grown Well,\ ballad, 30 cents; Launch the Life Boat,\ song, 30 cents ; \ Parisian Wnlt7.es ,\ for piano, 30 cts.; \ Mugby Junction,\ gallop, 40 cents ; \ Let me told thee close, Mavoureen,\ song, 30 cents. This firm are publish- ing some of the finest music now brought, out, and musicians and dealers will do well to palronizethem. AUCTION.—Goods are now being sold in largo quantities at the \ Boston Auction Store,\ <>o Dnynn wti'oet The stock is a varied assortment of fancy dry goods, staple dry goods, silver- ware, cutlery, yankee notions, etc., all of which renders it a desirable stock to make selections from—and then, at such bargains too— nti/oirr own price*. Ladies arc invited to call at the after- noon sales and inspect the goods. A special sale of silver ware will lake place on Thursday and Friday after- noons. A full notice will bo found in advertising columns. SILVKR MINKS.—In our exchanges, published in adjoining counties, we notice long and windy notices of a silver mine up in the woods, east of Black river. If people have money to invest, tho safer way is to conveit it into town bonds, to aid in building a railroad, instead of investing in (moon-) shiny silver stocks. After the opera- tions of tho several lead mining com- panies in this county (by which thou- sands of dollars have been made by the treasurers, by sale of stocks) have come to light, our people should turn a deaf ear to these mining canards, and not be convinced (like fools) that Cali- ifornia and Nevada are located so near at hand. PERSONAL.—II. R. Lnhe, for many years connected with the printing busi ness in this county,—now in the Gov- ernment printing office at Washington, —is spending a few days with his friends in this neighborhood. \Hod.\ thinks the nin in the Black rivei valley rather moro bracing nnd healthy than the atmosphere at the National Capital after the late session of the Rump. —O. F. Maxon, of Danville, III., for- merly Teller in the Bank of Lowville, is on a short visit to his friends in Lew- is county. —Prof. Johnson Johnson, of Yale College, is also visiting his friends in this village. —John Tuita, who was employed on the lock and dam works in Watson, on Monday last fell from a bank and struck on a log, breaking three ribs, and puiic tilling one of his lungs so that tho air came, pulling the skin on his body in a shocking manner. it w.ftR plain that Dunn was the lowest bidder, but tho final awarding of the posals had been opened at Buffalo,-and'until the, next, morning, when death came to his relief, IIo w,as tho son of Dr. Raulston. LOCAL ITEMS.—The following from the Seneca Falls Courier, suits our case exactly: \ Much of interest might be added to our local columns if our friends in the various towns of the county would lake the trouble to send as brief accounts ot events transpiring in their neighborhoods that aro ot public inter- est. It is an error to suppose thnt the local department of a newspaper is essentially confined to the chronicling of events happening in\ die town, or isu- rrs INVKNTOB.—It is not generally the elephant\ were to be gratified with known to our renders that Walter HIP t, brother of Henry Hunt of Lowville, nnd himself formerly a resident of this place, was tho inventor and builder of the first sowing machine ever inado. But HIICII is the ence ; nnd whijo tho nabobs who now mnnnfaettiro nnd sell these useful machine*—tho fruits of his genius— have grown to bo millionaires, Hunt died iu poor circumstanced. It was between tho years 1832 and 1834 thot Walter Hunt, in his own workshop in New York city, invented, built, nnd put in full nnd effect!vo ope. ration a machine for sewing, stitching nnd warning cloth. This machine eon mined the invention (also his) of the curved needle with the eye near tho point, nnd he originated 'lie famous in lorlocked stitch with two threads, Ono Elias Howe, a noted sewing machine mnunfnc.iurer, who lias gained immense wealth by the sale thereof, in September, 1840, »btnined a patent for the same machine, but it is well known that he purloined Bunt's inventions— n fact established by evidence in the various suits springing up from tho machine controversy n Cow years since, In 1854 Hunt applied for n patent, but tho Commissioner of 1'atents claimed that 'he was debarred by the act of 1830, he having sold his invention to George Arrowsmith, and allowed more than 4cn years to elapse after such sale before applying for a patent. From an article recently published in the Galax;/, we copy the following, speaking of other inventions by Mr. Hunt: The records of the Patent Office from 1830 to the date of his death, give, evi- donee of Walter Hunt's brilliant nnd exhatiMloss inventive powers, his prac- tical skill, his incessant labor, his many and useful contrivances which give him enduring claim to the gratitude of his countrymen. To these well known in ventions we need not refer ; but he invented more things which he did not secure by letters patent than those which wero patented. Ho invented, for instance, the \Globe Stove;\ he invented the machinery^used for com- bining steel rivets with leather in the soles of hoots and shoes; be invented a composition whereby all tho frag- ments and chopping* of marbe and stone yards could be converted into building materials of any desired regu- lar form, as indestructible as granite ; he invented a composition and m.ichin- cry for making paper boxes of nil sizes and deseiiplions, and of such strength thai, as he used to say, ''a pill box made in that way would bear his weight without being crushed \'—and there is a fortune in that idea yet ; he invented tho first paper collars of the kind so generally used now, and obtained one or more patents therefor. It was W'al tor Hunt who both invented and made the apparatus with which Sands, the famous gymnast, walked on the ceiling. This contrivance exhibited nphilosophi- cal principle, the head of a gymnast be- ing downward, and his feet being made to adhere at each step to a perfectly smooth and oiled plank, by force of atmospheric pressure alone. The mo chaniSm by which the feet could bo successively disengaged from the plat- form or cejling to perform tho art of waiking, was very ingenius. and requir- ed most dexterous accuracy in the fab- rication. CIRCUS DAY jy LOWVILLE.—\ Are yon going to the circus 5\' This is the question which saluted you as yon pass- ed up or down Main street on Mouday morning last. Circus days are great days for country villages—harvest days for the merchants and hotel pro- prietors. By 0 o'clock A. it. our village was t ironged by i'U eager crowd, which came out to see the procession enter town. The rural districts wero cspec billy well represented. About an hour before the procession arrived three stiange looking gentle- men entered town. Two of them were venders of Oil.— The other sold soaps which could re- move the oil it you weicso unfortunate as to have your garments soiled by it, —a sort of copartnership arrangement. These specimens of the genus homo seemed to vie with each other in the amount of noise they could make, and in the amount ot tho vendibles they could sell. . A stm burnt, sallow-complexioned, tall man of about forty years of age. seemed to be the mo*t 8ncee«sfnl in at tractiig the crowd and ib disposing ol his wonderful \ Eleetiic. Oil,\ which he as-uied the credidous crowd would cure all diseases to which humanity i» •mbji'Ct, and in proof of his statement oft'-n il to eurc.yVce of charge, any who might be suffering from any of the ills of life. • We had groat confidence in his ver- acity. Alter telling the crowd _who his father was, his own name, wherein had prnciiced medicine, and the won derful effects of his «• E'ectric Oil,\ h sh uti-d \You don't, know who I am.'' Either the first statement, respecting bis parentage was false, or else he wa- guiliy of falsehood in bis last statement There evidently was a falsehood some where. It seems very strange to ns if his wonderful Electric Oil has il'n I owerof making the lame to walk, the denfto hear, and blind to see, that wc all should a sight of rhe living specimen. \ You don't know who I am n wa§ quiet while while the prooeanionpsiwd —but no sooner bad it gone to tli§ ciP' cus ground, than his tongue again di»- coursed concerning the powers of hit wonderful medicine. Some would he poet, with whom w« do not agree, once said in idle gingl*, \ Natnre In her wine designs, ore»t«d m»» Mt« strongest, In order than to make amends, mtdo woOMli'f tongue tho lonuest.\ But it any living, human being, baa n longer tongue than this \oilman\ we prefer, to be delivered from being within a dozen miles of him,- But wo will proceed with our de- scription of the eiruna and menagerie.— By way of npology, we hope the othor pedlar* who' wero in town that day, will not feel slighted or injured snelng we have shown so much partiality to i he \ Electric Oil man,\ for wo have no doubt they are at much deserving of notice as he. The performance of the gymnastic ami equesirian troupe within the tent was excellent, and was well patronised both in the evening nnd afternoon. The proprietor is evidently it genninar Yankee. He combined ibe circus and menagerie, so that those who might wish to attend the circus, t>nt whose social position would not permit, might diu»o under cover of attendingt he men- agerie. As is usual, the clown displayed Mat wit by indulging in some low billing!- gat!' slang, which we fear was enjoyed by some of the audience. At tho close of the circus, there wat a performance which they called •'Negro Minstrels.\ 1 his, we are sorry to»»ay, was very low and very poor. Good negro min«trel>y hns its rcdeoming features, but we failed to see anything in the performance of this so called negro minstrel troupe worthy of commenda- tion. \There is no«Museownting for tastes,\ Had we not already lengthened out this article beyond the limits of epis- tolary propriety, we would any a few words concerning the effect a of thii \ mond exhibition\ upon the public in general. That people need amusement, we think,4s evident, but whether circus going is a commendable kind of nmuse- ment for nn intelligent, refined people, we are not prepared to say. One thing is very evident, that many poor people who cannot procure tho necessaries of life, are induced to givo to these traneling benefactor* (?) ol mankind, the very lirciid for which their starving children at homo .aro crying * —The summing up in tho Surratt case will occupy t he whole of thin week. —Rrigham Young's tithes amount to $500,000 annually. Aow much do hi» ties amount to '< —The Natioual Bank at tTnndillo luw smashed. Liabilities estimated at two hundred : and fifty thousand. —Henry II. Baxter, of Vermont, has been elected President of the Central Railroad Company, in place of Henry Keep, resigned. —Thompson's Reporter snya that; when frosts come,—when money will be in great demand for fall business,— the financial almanac will read, \ look out for squalls.\ —The President, under the new re- construction net, has the power of re- moval of District Comma'ndera ; but the Washington correspondent of the New York IHbune thinks ho will not exercise the authority, except perhaps in the case ot General Sheridan, —The bill to establish equal rights in the District of Columbia—or in other words to give negroes the rigbt to hold illice—has failed to become a law. It was not delivered to the President un- til.an hour before the adjournment of Congress, and he did not sign it. The Radicals will not wear crape on the left arm for thirty days in consequence. The immigration to Minnesota this . year is immense. Three hundred and fifty wagons have passed through St. Paid since April, with two thousand persons. Thousands went by rail and steamer. It is estimated that. 10,000 porsonx have settled this spring, and still they come. —-ItaPan customs nnd American aro* din' rent. Count Pallavinci, the Italian general who received Garibaldi's sword at Aspremnnte, came home suddenly and caught his wife \nflagrante delicto with a gay deceiver. The Count, stung to fury, drew his sword and killed his wife, lotting her paramour egeape. In this country he would have killed the man and kissed the woman. A CLERGYMAN writing to a friend says, \My voyage to Europe is inde- finitely postponed, I have discovered tho \fountain of health\ on this side of the Atlantic. Threo bottles of the Pernvain Syrup have rescued me from the fangs of the fijnd Dyspepsia.\ Dyspepsia should drink from this foun- tain. THE STATUE OP VICTORY.—A bril- liant fourth of July celebration,in Lowell Mass., was made memorable by tho de- dication, in Monument Sqnare,_ of an allegorical bronze statue of Victory, recently pie-ented )o the city by its distinguished resident, Dr. J. C. Ayer, the chemist. The figure is that of a draped female, borne ou the wings of triumph, holding in her right hand the laurel wreath of victory, and in her loft the harvest sheaf of plenty. It stands upon a granite pedestal, is of colossal size, being seventeen Hot high, and i»» majestic work of art. 't
