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VOL. 34.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COTOTY, PA., AUGUST 17, 1876.
NO. 11.
Published by Theodore Schoch.
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2nd door wot of Hicksitc Quaker Church. Oftiee
hours S to ! a. in., 1 to 'J p. m., 6 to I) p. ni.
May 'J", ISTti-tf.
DIl. S. 3IBI.I.B:ii,
I'liysician and Surgeon,
STROUDSBURG, Pa.
0:'Vc, formerly occupied hy Dr. Scip. Residence with
.1. It. Miller, one door below the Jelt'ersoniati Ollice.
( !liee hours, 7 to '.), 12 to . and t to !.
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.surzeou dentist.
office iti .T.is. Edinjjer's new building:, nearly opposite
tlicSiroudlurijj Hank. Gas uduiuistercd for cxtactinjr
v. li.-n dcired.
S; roud-.hu rtf, Pa. Jan. fJTtl-t f.
St. GCO. M'. JACKSOX
ITOICIAS", SUUGEOX AND aitoitiielr.
oince in Samuel Hood's new huildinjx, nearly np
ii.i.iio ilie p.i.t ollice. Residence on Sarah strert,
ui..ive Franklin.
Aunu.-t S,'7'J-tf
T.oiarv Eu?lic.
EAST STKOLTDSUl'liG PA.
A' ';ii'iw!.'d-irtint.s taken and all business ert:'.i:iin
to i !). oriice carcfutlv executed.
l'luiON .V THOMPSON,
Ileal Estate Insurance Aints.
OP-ce, Ki-'I -t's ti' v liuildins! near the Depot.
Ki.r s:roui.hi!r, i'a., Jan. "27, l.7ti.
i vraz s. lke,
XJ Attorney at Iaw,
One door above the "Stroiulsburg House,"
SLi;vid-'vinr, Pa.
Collections promptly made.
(VioUer 12, 1874.
WILLIAM S. RESS,
Surveyor, Conveyancer and
Real Estate Aarent.
Farms, Timber Lands and Town Lots
FOR SALE.
Office mcarly opposite American Houes
ami "J-l dr 1k-!ow the Corner Slore.
March lis IST-'Mf.
SURGEON & MECHANICAL DENTIST.
S:i!l ha his office on Main street, in the second story
of
J 'r. S. Walt. m'.s hrick buil liii,', nearly opj,osite the
rou.Nmir House, and he Haters hiiueii' that hy cii:h-
:i rears constant practice and the most carni'st and
t".
ca
refill attention t fill matters iierlainini; to his pro-
f
'.-iou, t 'l it he is fully aide to erform all oM-ratioiis
1 :i
.1. iital line in the most carclul ana sKiiilul niuu-
r.
;!.o- ia! attention ..riven to savins the Natural Teeth ;
. ., to the insertion of Arliti'ial Teeth on Rublier,
Id, Silver, or Continuous tfiiins, and jierfect uis in il
- insured.
Mo.t person know the preat folly and danger of en-
t :
n'!ii; their wore to t lie inexioriencei. or m iihw ii-
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af a distancf. April !!, 174. tf.
Opposition.toHumbuggsry!
The undersigned herchr announces that he has re-:..:i.-d
l.usiiiess at the oM" stand, next door to Kuster's
i..:'iin Store, Main street, Siroudsl.uru', I'a., and is
f;;"v J re'iarcd to acfoinni'idate ;sll in want of
BOOTS and SHOES,
ma.le in the latest styh- aud of "mhI material. Rejiair
i :m pr..;ni.t! v attcntl to. tiive inc. a rail.
i -.. :, i.s;.viy. c. i.ewis watt:ks.
AXOTIIUK TUOPIIV lVO.
11Y THE
ESTEY COTTAGE ORGANS!
These superior and Wautifully finished in
Ktnunouts bo far eclipsed their competitor in
vuluii.e, un ity, sweetness and tlelicacy of tone,
as to carry oh the lirst and only premium giv
en to exhibitors of reed Organs at the Monroe
County P'air, held September 2o, 1874.
Buy only the bat. For price list address
Oct 1-tf.l J. Y. SIGAFUS,
PAPER HANGER,
GLAZIER AND PAINTER,
MONROE STREET,
Nearly opposite Kautz's Blacksmith Shop,
Stroudsburo, Pa.
The undersigned would respectfully in
form the citizens of Stroudsburg and vicinity
that lie is now fully prepared to do all kinds
of Paper Hanging, G'lazing and Painting,
promptly and at thort notice, and that he
will keep constantly on hand a fine s-tock of
Paper Hanging of all descripi ions and at
low prices. The patronage of the public
is earnestly solicted. May 16, 1872.
Dwelling House for Sale.
A very desirable two story Dwelling House, contain
V T, in seven rooms, oue of which is suitable
';yA for a Store J:ooin, situate on Main street,
11 r tL in HoroiiKh of Mroiidsbiirj?. '1 he
1:12a iiiiiMing is ncarlv new, and every part
JiL-'X.'tf it in i;ood condition, l'or terms Ac.,
j!I sit tin., .
(Dec. 9, 1875-tf.
"VO.T you Knoiv lliat J. H
J McCatty k Sous are the only Under
takers in Stroudsslmrg who understands their
lu.siue&s ? If not. attend a Funeral managed
hy any other Undertaker in towu, aud you
will see the proof of the fact.
June lV74-tf
Hayes and Wlicelcr.
TxrsEJIold the Fort.
See Centennial banners waving,
Proudly in the sky,
A hundred years assures the Nations,
Freedom shall not die.
CHORUS.
Shout the anthem "God is with us,"
Shout for Liberty.
Sing Centennial songs of gladness
Bless God we are free.
Set the bell of freedom ringing,
Independence Cell ;
Broken once but now cemented,
Liberty to peal.
CHORUS.
Old Republicans take courage,
Glorious is your cause ; '
Nothing daunted by opposers,
Save your country's laws.
chorus. 1
Honest men are Haves and Wheeler,
They are sure to win,
For the people know their record,
One that 's pure and clean.
CHORUS.
-Free our Schools and free our Bibles,
Free for all mankind.
Free all homes from vile oppression,
Slavery none fhall bind.
chorus.
Now three cheers for Hayes and Wheeler,
Make them good and strong
And off your coats and do good service,
Roll the ball along.
ciioin s.
THE WEST.
Tiltlcn Ilcim3iaUM5 by an Ohio
Speech of Hon. Geo. W. Houk, a Lii'e-
long Democrat, at Dayton, Ohio.
REASONS WHY THE WESTEUX DEMOCRATS
A HE SOT A UNIT FOH TIED EN THE
1'LATFOHM "AX IXSINCEKE THICK AND
SHAM"' THE "TETTV AHTs" AND "DIS
HEl'LTAliLE .MEANS-' BV WHICH THE
STENC1E-ULATE CANDIDATE OBTAINED
A NOMINATION liOUK SLTPOKTS HAYES
AND W1IEELEH.
From the Dayton Ohio) Journal, July 12.
Mr. Chairman and Fellow-citizens:
Although presented myself on this occasion,
in compliance with an invitation largely
signed by gentlemen with whom I have
never been politically associated, it is
scarcely necessary for me to say that I ap
pear before you to-night as a Democrat.
I have been, as j'ou all know, identified
all my life, joliticully, with that party at
tached to its principles as conducive in my
belief to the public welfare, and a sup
porter of its organization. I can say, that
from the time I first cast a Presidential
vote, in 1S48, for General Lewis Cass,
whose election to the Presidency was de
feated by the defection of Xew York under
the lead of Martin Van IJuren, who was
actively supported by Samuel J. Tilden, I
have cordially supported every nomination
ot Democratic National Conventions made
since that time up to the present, as well
as every State ticket put in nomination by
the Democracy of Ohio. Whilst I may re
gret that I cannot act with my life-long
party associates in supporting Mr. Tilden's
nomination, I can only say that in determin
ing my course upon such a question as this,
I know of no other rule of action than the
dictates of my own judgment and conscience.
If I could believe the true interests of
the Democratic party, or the welfare of
the country would be promoted by Mr.
Tildeu's election, I' would support his
nomination.
CHARACTER OF THE DEMOCRACY.
The Democratic party of the United
States is no temporary organization, with
varying principles, maintained only to
secure and enjoy the honors and emolu
ments of office. Its great original and con
tinuing mission is to preserve in all its de
partments our present form of constitu
tional government all the guarantees of
individual, social and political liberty which
belong to that system, and to protect the
interests of the laboring and producing
people of the country from the exactions of
those who seek by legislative intrigue to
appropriate the fruits of their enterprise
and toil.
If, in a frantic pursuit for power,
THOSE WHO USURP ITS ORGANIZATION,
forget or ignore these great purposes of its
existence, their defeat is rather to be desired
than their success.
The party can survive a Presidential
defeat, as it has already survived three
since , 1SG4, inaugurated under the same
auspices and leadership as the present ; but
it cannot suruive the sacrifice of the great
principle of fidelity to the rights of the
people, which it was organized to maintain.
TILDEN NOMINATED HY INTRIGUE.
The nomination of Mr. Tilden is, as I
shall attempt at least to show, the result of
a pohtiaal intrigue, conceived m the interest
of those who sect power ior us own
advantages, and not for the public welfare :
and carried out by precipitating jn the
most insulting and offensive manner a lalse
issue unon the Democracy of the West.
The New York regency, which has
managed to control the Democratic organize
tion since 1SG-1, fearing a State success for
the Democracy of Ohio in 1875 would
interfere with their head in the Presidential
campaign in 1870, at once, under the direc
tion of Samuel J. Tilden, then an aspirant
for the Presidency, flooded the State up to
the hour of the election, with issues from
the Xew York press, heaping insult in the
most offensive form upon the Democracy of
Ohio.
Democrats of Ohio, men of the "West,
are you Teady to say to this gentleman :
"Fair sir, you spit on me on Wednesday last :
You spurned me such a day auother time
You called ine dog and for these courtesies,"
We will help you to the Presidency.
But let us look at this matter from
another point of view. Wc of the "West
had accepted the leadership of New Y'ork
in three unsuccessful campaigns. In 1SG1,
yielding to much such a clamor as this of
1S7G, we had accepted General McClellan
as our Presidential candidate. "With a
double dealing willingness to sacrifice
priuciplc at any time to expediency and
success, which characterized alike the con
duct of New York in the nomination of
Pendleton for Vice President in 18G4, and
Hendricks for the same office in 187G, the
West is again sought to be conciliated by
the proffer of the empty honor of the Vice
Presidency.
The manhood of the Indian delegation
turned in disgust from this soothing syrup,
held to its lip by the friends of the great
New York Advertiser of nostrum certifi
cates of his fitness for the hicrh office of
President of the United States !
Although Indiana with becoming dignity
recoiled from this sycophantic offer, and al
though New York could have placed cither
Henry I. Payne, of Ohio, or Morrison, of
Illinois, who were both in accord with the
platform and the nominee on the ticket
with him, she still persisted in forcing the
Democratic party into the same inconsistent
and absurd position before the country that
it occupied when McClellan ran as a war
cadidate on the same ticket with George
II. Pendleton, the distinguished rcprcscn
taitive of the peace men.
TIED EN'S TACTICS.
Now, gentlemen, much has been said iu
the newspapers in commendation of the
boldness of that sj-stcm of tactics ascribed
to Mr. Tilden and his friends, which decid
ed at once upon the sacrifice of the
'October States'' to achieve success iu New
York and the East, on what Mr. Dorsheimer
defiantly announced as a square issue be
tween hard and soft money.
The conduct of Mr. Tildeu's friends in
the St. Louis Convention, however, in
forcing the Vice Presidential nomination
on Thomas A. Hendricks, against his
expressed wishes, strips them of all credit
for boldness in their system of tactics, but
affixes upon it the stigma of sycophancy,
cowardice and duplicity.
AS A MEM HER OF TI10 OHIO DELEGATION,
I would have felt some gratification in con
tributing to a solid vote of the State for
Henry 15. Payne, whose eminent abilities
and high character, with his political views,
would have made him a fit aud consistent
condidatc at least for the Vice Presidency
under the circumstances. Dut no such
ideas of consistency found place in the
minds of the men who had effected by
clamor the nomination of their favorite for
the Presidency. Thomas A. Hendricks,
the most pronounced and honored represen
tative, whose name had been formally
presented to the Convention, of the
antagonism to Tildeuism, was unhesitat
ingly embraced with a Judas kiss, that will
prove the antecedent of his political be
trayal aud crucifixion.
I have said that New York had seized
the leadership of the Democratic party in
three unsuccessful Presidential campaigns
before this that of General McClellan in
18G1, of Mr. Seymour iu 1SGS, and of
Horace Greeley in 1S72.
It is, therefore, I have said, that the
clamor raised against us in Ohio, by the
Tilden men and the New York press, as
inflationists and rag money men, is a
perversion, a trick, aud a fraud ; made to
cover the approach of the sappers and
miners of an army of mercenary office
seekers, who seek to capture the old Demo
cratic fortress, that they may betray it into
the possession of those who would raze it
to its foundations, and erect upon its ruins
the fortified scat of a moneyed oligar chy.
"the reform pledge."
To cover this design it was neeessary to
have a "cry ;" a watchword to captivatie
the people something to iuduce unthink
ing people to act upon impulse instead of
reflection. That stale shibboleth of "lte
form," which has in all times, in all
political contests, been adopted by hungry
aspirants for power and patronage, was
ready at hand, unfortunately too fit for
use.
Had there been a true sympathy with the
suffering masses of this country there
would have been something about relief as
well as about reform relief to the labor-
in;
and
strutrulinu:
poor, relief to the
despondent debtor, relief to the mechanic
witout employment, the manufacturers
without orders, the merchant without cus
tomers, the willing and industrious without
employment, the hungry without bread !
There is nothing of this but it is reform,
a cry for power, an empty, hollow, heartless
promise, an appeal for place and patronage
GIVE US rOWER AND WE WILL BLESS YOU.
It is the evident design of the draftsman
of the St. Louis platform to subordinate
every other idea in it to this one of "lie-
form. There is no single distinct and
terse enunciation of a Democratic principle
in the whole concern. Nothing that de
clares the rights of productive labor, the
duties, responsibilities and true functions
of capital. Nothing that attempts to
constitutional limits ot iederal legislation,
the scope of the right of local self-govern
mcnt or the principles of souud finance
all these vital matters arc either altogether
ignored, or slurred over and under a ver
biage, as meretricions as its purpose is Ma
chiavelian, the changes are rung in every
paragraph upon the one word "Reform,"
with the manifest design so to magnify one
virtue as to make the adoption of the plat
form an antecedent to his necessary nomina
tion. It Is perhaps the first instance in
the history of the Democratic Party, of the
construction of a Presidential platform of
the candidate, for the candidate, and by
the candidate ; for it was generally given
out at St. Louis that Samuel J. Tilden
himself, with the assistance of Mr. Mantou
Marble, late of the New York World, was
responsible for its production.
TILDEN'S OWN PLATFORM.
That platform, gentlemen, bears the evi
dence of its authorship by an astute lawyer,
a good special pleader, or rather one who
is skilful in giving undue prominence to a
single point upon which he expects to win
his case ; but I connot say I can see in it
any traces of the work of so accomplished
a master of English composition as Mantou
Marble. It has nothing of the sound or
substance of the old-time utterances of the
national conventions of the Democratic
party. It is, as 1 will presently show, a
cover and a sham, gotten up in view of the
single purpose of Mr. Tildeu's nomination,
by himself.
Yet all the qualities of distinguished
men (like Seymour, Allen, Thurman,
Hendricks and IJayard) are subordinated,
slurred over, ignored and held for naught,
to magnify into the sole qualification for
leadership of the American Democracy in
this Presidential contest the success of a
man whose shrewdness and pertinacity as
lawyer enabled him to thwart a set of
plunderers of the State Treasury of New
1 ork ; a man who
OWES ALL HIS NOTORIETY TO THE ADVER
TISING AGENCY.
of the New York metropolitan press, and
who has proven himself only a successful
manipulator of political conventions.
V hy should the Democratic party turn
from its trusted and tried leaders, and com
mit its destinies to such hands? Why
"Upon this fair mountaiu leave to feed
To batten on this moor?''
Cut gentlemen, I have yet to come to
THE TURK INWARDNESS
of this platform, and the covert purpose
that threatens danger to the Democratic
party and diaster to the couutry.
I have said that under the clamor of a
false issue the "reform" cry was pushed by
the management of the Tilden men to effect
his nomination.
It was necessary to their purpose that
this false issue should be prominently pre
sented, and urged to prevent the union of
the Ohio delegation upon Judge rhurmau,
which was the sole, imminent and real dan
ger iu the way of Tildeu's nomination.
The minority report was siirued by Gen
eral Ewing, of Ohio ; D. W. Voorhees, of
Indiana ; John C. Drown, of Tennessee ;
Malcolm Hav, of Pennsylvania; II. II.
Trimble, of Iowa; John J. Davis, of West
Virginia ; T. L. Davis, of Kansas ; and C.
II. Hardin, of Missouri, representing more
. T "V . .1
than a million democratic voters m those
States ?
The voices of the representatives of these
million Democratic voters were stifled in
that Convention by the claquers of Samuel
J. Tilden but the voices of those voters
CANNOT BE STIFLED AT THE POLLS
next November !
With the high sounding, bad rhetoric
of this platform, on the subject of Reform,
no Democrat who is not fastidious about
his English, will be disposed to fiud much
fault.
Unfortunately for the country, there is
an universally admitted need in the direc
tion that need has arisen, however, not
because there' is any congenital moral dif
ference between Democrats and Republi
cans, but only because the corrupt men of
that party (and there are plenty such in
all) have
HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO STEAL,
which has hitherto for sixteen years, at
least in the federal administration, been
denied to ours.
It is always proper that corruption in
high places should be rebuked but it is a
cheap sort of virtue that contents itself
with crying reform, whilst it leaves in full
operation those evil causes, which by pro
moting extravagance, luxury and idleness,
supplies a constant temptation to vice.
The Republican party is sis loud iu its
professions of reform as the Democratic,
and in this virtuous paroxysm of promises,
it may be only too difficult for a patient
and long suffering people to decide, which
is the real Dr. Jacob or perhaps, after the
electiou is over, may only be in the lamen
table condition of the fox in the fable, that
drove the gorged swarm from his sides,
only to be tormented with a new one more
voracious than their predecessors.
MANIFEST INSINCERITY.
This Resumption law then repeals all
laws limiting the aggregate amount ot ia
tional Bank circulation, and all laws re
strictincr the number of these banks. It
authorizes the establishment of any number
of National Ranks that may be necessary
to supply the amount of greenback circula
tion it proposes to retire, and this process
of retiring is now going under that law. It
provides, in short, for the entire ultimate
extinguishment of the greenbacK currency
its redemption in coin after January 1st
187!). and the substitution therefore
throughout the United States of a Nationa
Bank currency, issued, managed and con
trolled by from three to five thousand hank
ing corporations, distributed throughout
the country 1 And these are the men who
style themselves hard-money mcu. It is to
this sort of a financial system that resolu
tion commits the Pemocratic party. These
mea assert that in the judgment of the
Democratic part' resumption ot specie pay
ment by the government of its greenback
circulation should have been forced by le
gislation long ago. No difference how much
this would have oppressed the debtor clas
ses, no difference how much it would have
paralyzed trade, manufactures and com
merce, still the Republicans were '-imbecile
and immoral," because they have made
no advance towards resumption ! Now
what man of intelligence in the United
States docs not know that this is political
clap-trap ? that the Republican party at no
time since the war could have forced specie
payments, if at all, without produciug a
widespread distress that would have con
vulsed the country from one end to the
other. We cf the West would be the
especial and heaviest sufferers under such
a policy. It would have increased our in
debtedness vastly beyond w hat it was when
tt was contracted, and would have bank
rupted thousands of our best and most en
terprising business men. A policy of forced
resumption would have been so utterly
heartless and unjustifiable, so vicious in its
consequences as to have almost justified the
violence which m many localities it un
doubtedly would have occasioned. Yet
this policy the Democratic party is commit
ted to by the St. Louis platform.
PORTRAIT OF TILDEN.
Samuel J. Tilden is precisely the man
fitted by nature, associations and pursuits
to carry out their purposes.
He has spent the mature years of his
life in a money-getting professional strug-
le. His occupation has brought him in
contact chiefly with rapacious corporations
or unscrupulous money-making capitalists.
Lxtonng lrom their desperate fortunes
gigantic fees, which have swelled his
private fortune to many millions. He
has used that fortune with a lavish
hand to promote his political aspira
tions. He is the first aspirant for Presi
dential honors in the history of the coun
try who has utilized the provincial press by
advertising his qualifications as extensively
and as successfully as Ilelmbold advertised
his Buchu. Such a man, fellow-citizens,
who relies upon such instrumentalities, and
who seeks by indirection to compass his
personal advancement, is not the man to
lead the Democratic party to victory in this
Ceutennial year ot the Republic.
RECAPITULATION.
I have thus stated, then, substantially
the principal reasons that have impelled
me to oppose the election ot Mr. lilden to
the Presidency.
lirst Because he interfered, without
justifiable cause, to bring defeat upon the
Democracy of Ohio last rail, that he might
further his own aspirations for the Presi
dency.
fcecond Because the Hemocratie party
had been defeated in three successive pres
idential campaigns, under the leadership
of New York, and she had no right again
to demand of us to take as a leader a man,
who has a large and influential opposition
in his own delegation aud an opposition
comprising men of the very highest per
sonal and official character throughout the
State.
Third Because the action of his friends
in effecting his nomination by the Conven
tion, was in violation of parliamentary
usage, unfair and unjust to all opposing
candidates.
Fourth Because the platform adopted
by the Convention does not declare the
true principles of the Democratic party. It
commits the party to the national banking
system as our permanent system ot cur
rency and finance. It discredits the green
back currency, seek its entire destruction,
aud proposes the forced and immediate re
sumption of specie payment. Because the
Convention, at the iustauce of 31 r. Tildeu's
supporters, and in the interest of the New
York gold ring, repudiated the resolution
offered by Mr. Doolittle to restore the law
providing for the coinage of the Bilvcr dol
lar.
Fifth Because the forced nomination of
Thomas A. Hendricks, a man of pro
nounced views, in preference for a green
back currency, and in opposition to the re
sumption laws, on the same ticket with
Mr. Tilden, and on the platform adopted
by the Convention, is an inconsistency so
glaring as to amount to an insult to the in
telligcnce of the people of the country.
Sixth Because Mr. Tilden is not in
character or qualifications what he and his
friends claim him to be. He lias resorted
to means to promote his own aspirations to
the Presidency that arc unprecedented m
this country as they are disreputable. His
record as a reformer has been seriously im
peached, by some of his most ardent sup
porters two 3-ears ago. His connection with
railroad corporations aud the Credit Mo
Liher swindlers, as counsellor aud adviser
is not such as to reflect upon his character
as a lawyer, much less as a reformer and
as a hard money man, the Lssue of some
four millions of individual currency, in
violation of law, subjecting him to heavy
penalties, proves him to be a sham, am
will require much explanation. He is not
in brief, such a man as even New York
should have offered, much less such a man
as the country should accept dor the high
office of President of the United States.
ELOQUENT TRIBUTE TO GOVERNOR HAYES
In comparison of antecedents ami charac
ter he suffers much when placed beside the
"p'ure, straightforward aud excellent man
the Republican party had the good sense
to nominate for the Presidency General
laves. Loud and prolonged applause.
Rut let gentlemen heed the lesson of his--
tory.
TILDEN DESERVES DEFEAT.
This man, who has commended himself
to the highest official position in the world
in this most illustrious of all the years of
our national existence, by the arts of a com
mon advertiser of his own qualifications,
who has been puffed into notoriety, through
the use of his money, and who touched the
telegraphic keys at Albany, that prompted
the insolent and overbearing conduct of his
supporters at St. Louis, as he directed front
New York the operations in Ohio that re-
ulted in our defeat here last rail, has yet
to submit his qualifications, his conduct,
aud his principles to the scrutiny and judg
ment of the American people. The cry of
leform a cheap device ot those who are
always ready "to keep the word of promise
to the car, to break it to the hope will not
prevent the discussion of the principles of
that platform and the purposes of the man
who drafted it.
We can afford to be defeated. "Truth
crushed to earth will rise again," but we
can not afford to have the vital principles
of the party betrayed, and its organization
delivered iuto the hands of a moneyed oil-
garchy.
If it shall be my good fortune to live to
witness the restoration of the Democratic
party to power in the Councils of this coun
try, I wish to see it assume that responsi
bility with clean hands, and an open, hon-
est front, uuder the lead of men who scorn
the petty arts by which self-seeking aspir
ants advance themselves ; men who are
worthy of its glorious past, who have beeu
the fearless defenders of its organization,
or the faithful expounders of its principles
and who are imbued thoroughly by nature,
education and association with a sincere de
votiou to the rights of the laboring, wealth
producing and taxlmrdencd people of this
country. No, gentlemen, the ascendancy
of such men, with such principles and pur
poses, will not give a suffering people the
relief they expect ; and to which they are
entitled.
Let us, therefore, bide our time. Let
us keep the faith. The children of Israel
were forty years in the wilderness before
the day of their filial deliverance came.
But in all the vicissitudes of their fortunes,
amidst the reverses to which they were sub1
jeeted, they preserved the Ark of the Cove
nant, containing the ten commandments
which was the rule of their faith, with
sleepless vigilance and unconquerable de
votion, and although at the eud of their
lomr wanderings there were but two survi
vors of that mighty host which the hand
of Almighty God had delivered out of
Egyptian bondage, the decalogue was pre
served unimpaired, to come down to us with
the antiquity of the Pyramids, as the im
perishable foundation for the host moral
and religious system of mankind.
Let us imitate such a fidelity to our
political principles.
hen the Emperor Constantino assemb
led the hosts of the Roman Empire for the
overthrow of Paganism, it is said there
was displayed to his astonished and deligh
ted vision a blazing cross in the clear Wcs
tern sky, with this legend about it :
"In this sign shalt thou conquer."
Let us wait until we can march under
a banner inscribed with no such indefinite,
hollow word of promise as "Reform,' but
with the time-honored principles of the
Democratic party ;
Constitutional liberty.
Equal rights.
Equal taxation.
Equal laws.
Justice to the poor as Well as to the rich :
to the humble as well as to the mighty.
Under such a sign, aud uuder such only,
should the American Democracy ever de
sire, or will it ever deserve, to conquer.
(Long continued applause).
New York pays her Mayor 812,000 a
year.
Sportsmen say that rabbits will be plenty
this fall.
A Tennessee fair offers $25 premium for
the fastest team of pigs.
The Turkish army now equipped and iu
the field numbers 300,000.
Throw charcoal into the hog pen ; it
will act as a good disinfectant.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has. a work
ing force of six thousand meuou their main
line.
A train of 110 cars, in eleven sections,
containing 5000 people, lately arrived iu
Philadelphia.
The Tribune thinks that the Democratic
tendency to repudiation will defeat Tilden
and Hendricks.
Last month there arrived at the port of
New York ,071 immigrants, uf whom
5,7G were females.
Asia, the country of the Orient, can af
ford to lose a few people by war. She ha
a population of 7HD,000,000.
It is estimated that it will cost Schuyl
kill county nearly fifty thousand dollars tt
convict the Mollies of that section.
The next general meeting of the Ameri
can Social Science Association will be held
at Saratoga from the 5th to the 8th of
September,
Over a thousand men, disappointed in
obtaining gold in the Black Hills, are about
to leave for Eastern Montana on a pros
pecting tour.