The Waynesburg Republican. (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, June 17, 1868, Image 2

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51 1 3rt ajjtiwburg gtfpubUcatt.
..isiox RircBuas ticket.
NATIONAL.
FOil PRKBIDENT,
OBIT. ULY8BB8 8. GRANT,
or iij.inois,
TOR VICE PRESIDENT,
HOW. SCHUYLEB COLFAX,
Or INDIANA.
STATE.
ron ArniTou nr.KERAr. !
Gtsi. JOHN K HARTHANFT,
Of Montgomery CWiry.
ron urnvRTon ofkhal:
Cot. JACOB M. CAMPBELL,
Of Cambria VoMtj.
DISTRICT.
ron cosoRraR,
CAPT. J BENTON DONLEY,
Of iwrtetif Comly,
eejeet to the action of the Hlh District Con
furenoe. IOUSITY.
' TAR AHHKMIU.Y,
OEOKGE G. MILU.il, ESQ.,
Of Dmkard Townthip.
TuOMAS
ro co:
1MMI5WTONP.R,
J. PENN, ESQ.,
Of tfatAiHjfon TovmMp,
ron pook JTornK dibwtok.
THOMAS ROMS, EHCJ,,
Of Morgm Toxmifiip.
FOR AnDITOR,
HENRY W.TAYLOR, ESQ
Of Jnekm 7Wni
rKUIDEXTIAL KLKCTORS.
AT LAROK.
O. MintHOK fOATioi, of PhHadclphlii.
Thoh, M. Maiihhall, of Pittsburgh.
DHH-nirr.
DISTRICT.
1. W. 11. Tlnr-ras,
. W.J. Pollock,
. Richard Wlldoy,
4. U. A. 11111,
'. J. H. Briimlmmt.
7, Prank C. Hnatou
H. Imuie Ecknrt,
, Morrill Hooper,
10. David M. lUind,
lU Wm. DnvlM,
IX W. W. Kot hum,
11. Hainucl Snow.
II. II. F. WnKonsollrr,
ii. linnet, II. Miner,
18. (Imrirn W. Kino.
17. John Ktpwart,
l. A. . Olmstcad,
II. Jaiuin Fell,
50. H.C. Johnson.
l. J. K. Kwlng,
23. Win. Frew,
a. a. w. urawioro,
21. J. H. Hutiin.
THE HCESTION STATED.
The project of taxing National Bonds
has been for several years persistently
agitated, mainly by Democratic dem
agogues, for want of better pabulum
on which to nourish popular discon
tent. The unconstitutionality of tax
ing thorn by State, city, or other local
authority has boon too plainly and
repeatedly deoided by the Supreme
Ceurt to make this mode of attack on
these securities feasible. We hope the
following plain exposition of the re
pudiatiug policy, of which the Opposi
tion have constituted themselves cham
pions, will bo cut out and kept
reference. Put it in the cars
lor
of
"Democrats" when thoy spout "down
with bondholders ! etc." Tho Tribune
remarks the whole effect is very plain
and ought to bo easily understood. If
the tax is authorized at the timo the
bond is issued, the creditor who makes
tho loan adds the tax to the rato of
interest, and it is paid not by the public
creditor, but by the ordinary tax payer.
If the bond is issued before the tax is
authorized, then it is an attempt by
the government to lessen tho rate of
interest they have agreed to pay by the
amount of the tax. In short, it is
repudiating to that extent thepaym&it
of the interest. A very small repudi
ation of interest is equal to a very
large repudiation of principal. Thus
an annual tax of one per cent, on our
bonds is a repudiation of one per cent,
of tho interest, which is equivalent to
repudiating ono-sixth or 16 J per cent,
of tho principal. This would lower
the value of our bonds and currency
from 72 in gold where they now
stand to 57 3-5, which would be
expressed by arise of gold to 185. A
tax of two per cent, would be equal to
a repudiation of two-sixths of the
principal, which would be expressed
by the fall of our bonds and currency
to 48 in gold, and the rise of gold to
208 J in currency. A tax of six per
, cent, which the Government would
have just as much right to impose as
one of less, would be a repudiation of
the entire principal. The effect of
imposing these taxes and reducing the
gold value of our debt and currency
would be that when we came to renew
our bonds, or to borrow again, it would
require a larger sum of debt to express
tho principal, and a larger rate of
interest to carry ,it. On the other
hand, as the national debt is a debt
due from the tax. payers to the
bondholders, whatever lessens the rate
of interest or amount of prinoipal
must of necessity benefit the tax payers
exactly in proportion to their liability
to pay taxes. As exempting Na
tional Bonds from taxation does lessen
the rato of interest and the amount of
principal exactly in proportion to the
pecuniary value of the exemption, it
follows that the benefits of the exemp
tion ore divided among the tax payers
precisely in proportion to their taxable
liability.. What can be fairer than
this? An attempt of a government
io derive a revenuo from its debts
would be on a par with the vagabond's
policy of living on the interest of what
he owes.
' ,: WoOLEY, the tool of the whiskey
ring who has proved himself either a
thief or the man who bribed votes for
Andrew Johnson on Impeachment,
has been released. The people may
thank Ram and "Democracy" for the
jiofliciion of another year of turmoil
ad disquiet. ,Let the cry bck "Grant,
Colfax tuul Peace T . .
KINCIFLM.
Last week the ''Democracy" held a
convention in Pittsburgh to enunciate
their doctrines and nominate local
ticket. They adjourned without doing
either. Having; no defined policy
they concluded to wait until after the
National "Democratio" Convention
should meet and declare a platform
whereon they should stand. This is
explanatory of the sbject humiliation
of the masses who compose the party
to their leaders. It would seem that
they dare not think for themselves.
Ask a "Democrat" what his politics
are and he says, "wait until after the
4th of July and I'll tell you I" How
very unlike the bold policy of the
Republican party, who are not con
trolled by expediency, or bad men,
but who having once adopted the pur
pose of making this a free government
and preserving it at all hazards, stead
ily move on in advance of their leaders
conquering and to conquer. Like the
7rioune we sympathize sincerely with
the "Democracy" in their troubles,
They have not decided whether to
nominate a Republican or a Democrat
for President ; whether they will stand
on the platform of gold or greenbacks;
whether their battle cry will be "Uui
vcrsal Suffrage" or "A White Man's
Government." Of course, Democratic
principles aro immutable when they
Iccide what they are.
HARD OX HIM.
One Albert G. Davis, a West Vir
ginia rebel, who had been captured and
imprisoned in Camp Chase for a time
during the war, made a speech to the
coDPer-Jolinsonists in '66. in which
he reviewed the administration of the
Government during the war from the
rebel standpoint. Coming to the mat
ter of finances, he exclaimed in thun
dering tones : "Who! Who! can tell
where the vast millions for which the
nation is now in debt, have been
expended? Into whose pockets have
they gono ? Can any one pretend to
tell ?" and pausing for a reply, a hard
fisted farmer, looked Davis in the face,
replied : "A part of it at least, was
spent in keeping you a prisoner at
Camp Chase. G d n you 1" Davis
collapsed.
A SLIGHT RHEEZE.
The ardor of our "handsome" neigh
bor who rants so furiously and yet so
sympathetically on the topic of
Greenbacks for Bonds," wo imagine
will be moasureably cooL-d by the
draught of air coming from Pittsburgh
last week. The Gazette, of that city,
says:
Tho naughty bondholders combi
nation with the Johnson wing of the
party, in the Democratio Lonveution
of this county, ou Wednesday, succeed
ed in "laying out" the Pendlctonians
as cold as a wedge. In vain were the
eloquent appeals that the delegates to
rvew loik be instructed tor fKNDLE-
ton and greenbacks. Bitter were the
taunts against "the lew who came here
with bon. Is in their pockets ana at
tempted to control our actions. I he
bond holders carried the day and the
Convention evaporated. leaving: no
sign except tho intense disgust which
filled tlio hearts ol houest couutry del
egates.
"Just wait until the Fourth of July!"
HOW I ft IT
Democrats promise a reduction in
the expenses of government, in case
they succeed in gaining its control
The people of Ohio have had an op
portunity of testing the good faith of
these promises, and the test has shown
that the expense of the present Legis
lat ive session of that State, has exceed
ed the expense of any previous session.
by over a million dollars.- The amount
necessary for Legislative sessions, has
heretofore been less than a million
This year it is two millions four hund
red dollars. "Wait until after the
4th of July 1"
OS SLIPPER r PLACER.
Four State Democratio Conventions
wero held on tho 10th. Tennessee
instructed for Johnson, and sends For
rest, the Fort Pillow butcher, as one
of the delegates. Failing Johnson
they are to vote for Pendleton and
greenbacks. New Jersey, Connecticut
and New Hampshire do not instruct
their delegates, but their resolutions
are anti-repudiation, and squint to'
ward Chase and his State-rights-negro-
suffrage doctrine. .
BOW TREE!
"Our enormous and oppressive na
tional debt," says The World, "would
never have been created by the Dem
ocratio party." ,' The national debt
was incurred in conquering the rebel
lion and saving the national life. We
know very well, observes the Tribune,
that the Democratio party opposed the
spending of money for any such pur
poses..' ' '
TBI "Democratio papers, as was
expected, find considerable fault with
the Republican. National platform.
Well, it was not made to saitthem.
h l&agnceburg Republican, c&ne&ay 2unc H .868.
WSIT
Our "handsome" neighbor last week
devotes a column and a half of labored
argument in an attempt to prove that
resident Johnson is but carrying out
the policy of the murdered Lincoln in
his vagaries on reconstruction. He
weaves a subtle web of sophistry, but
his work is not strong. The intelli
gent reader will at once rend the
whole thing in pieces by asking him,
If you believe what you say, that
Johnson follows Lincoln's policy, why
did you rail at the 'buffoon and his
acts of tyranny' when alive, and after
wards applaud Johnson for doing the
same? You either prove yourself ig
norant or unreasonable."
Soon we shall hear no more of the
nigger," it will be "negro" or noth
ing, unase presents a formidable iront
in the "Democratic" National conven
tion. As an indication of the won
derful change in party sentiment, we
record the fact of hearing a promi
nent Democrat say, "no honed Demo
crat would refuse to vote for him
Chase). He is our man !" Oh I the
bi'tcrdoee! catuip! castor-oil! pills I
nigger! -
As a sequel to the fizzle of a Conser-
vativeSoldier's Convention in Waynes-
burg, a vet more miserable failure
transpired in Pittsburgh last week.
heir State Convention was a dead
affair, the delegates from this county,
(and there were but a few counties rep
resented) returned with lengthened
visages. They looked as if they had
been attending the funeral obsequies
of a dear departed friend. The car
cass stiuksand should be buried out of
sight.
ROTE LETS.
A UNION camp-meeting, embracing
all denominations of christians, isfo
be held at Manheim, Lancaster county,
a., from July 14th to July 24th.
An exohango says that it bids fair to
be the greatest gathering of christians
known on the continent, sites for over
100 tents having already been selected.
The estate of J as. Buchanan is esti
mated at three hundred thousand
dollars. He gave seven thousand to
his house-keeper. For all his gold he
died abeggar a miserablesuppliant for
sympathy from the American people.
On the 12th Reverdy Johnson was
nominated and confirmed Minister to
the English Court.
Com. Rollins has had his resigna
tion returned to hiin by the President
fer "unjust and disrespectful state
ments. Andy is the last man that
onght to talk of justice and respect,
Rollins calls on him to show cause for
his assertion.
Gen. Grant remarked, in reference
to the nomination of Mr. Colfax
"Well, Colfax is the most popular
man in the country, and the only thing
the Democrats can accuse him of is
that he is a Republican."
The New York Tribune predicts
that Grant and Colfax will receive
more votes than were ever given before
to a Presidential ticket, and a larger
majority than Lincoln received over
McClellan, in 1864.
A mono the visitors to Genera!
Grant on a late occasion, was a crip
pled soldier, who extended his only
hand saying: "I have one hand left
to shake, with and vote for General
Grant."
In Gen. Grant's protest against the
removal of Stanton and Sheridan, sent
to President Johnson, occurs this noble
sentiment: "This is a Rmubiic.
where the will of th people is the law
of the land."
The Czar of Russia has issued a
ukase setting free all persons of foreign
birth now exiled to Siberia, and all
natives of Russian-Poland sentenced
to less than twenty years exile.
Hector O. Ttndale has been
nominated by the Republicans of
Philadelphia for the Mayoralty.
They have also put forward a local
ticket which "Democrats" can't hope to
overcome.
The Philadelphia Press says the
resolutions in our National platform
"rise above party, aod plead for the
nation s honor and the country s peace
in future.
The one-horse Democratio papers of
Pennsylvania are trying to raise an
undercurrent in favor of Judge Packer
as the Democratio nominee for Presi
dent. , .
A brass band was arrested in Sa
vannah, by order oi the mayor, a few
nights since, for breach of the peace in
serenading the Republican newspaper.
The New York Herald matt
the Chicago Convention "exerted
reassuring effect" upon oar national
securities. . ,
, The Erie (Pa.) Dispatch, abandon
ing its independent position, eomes out
for Grant and Colfax.
Tai stubbornest faaU that the
Copperheaps have aver sacsjaatsrsJ
art Grant and Ostya, , , . ,
T TUB BULLET ARB) TBI SSWir
In 1840 the Whip party elected
Wm. H. Harrison President. He was
inaugurated in 1841, March 4th. One
month afterward he died, and his office
fell to John Tyler. How "Tyler too"
carried out the principles under which
he was chosen, the world too well re
members. He added a new and dis
graceful verb to the language to Ty-
enie bas ever since been synonymous
whh partisan and treachery. In 184 1,
through the efforts of the Birney Abo
litionists, Henry Clay was defeated
Polk elected, with Dallas for his Vice ;
Texas was annexed, the area of slavery
was extended by nearly 300,000 square
miles, and all was lovely. In 1848,
Zacharv Tavlnr. a moderate Whip-.
and Miilard Filmore, not much of
anything, were chosen President and
Vice. Taylor did not suit the south
ern drivers; he had a stupid way of
acting honestly and straightlorward
and so, within a brief, period, he fell
under the malarious vapors of ash
ington, and died. Fillmore succeeded,
and duly Tylerizcd. Next we had
Ihe Herald: "poor fierce, who has
not to this day ceased from expressing
his boundless servility to the slave
whips ofTiis Southern masters. He
was "sound" and served out his term
. . aw
in peace the water was good, in
1856, Mr. Buchanau fully as sound
as Pierce, was raised to the Executive
chair, and under his administration
as in that of his predecessor W Isli
ngton was free from malaria that is,
for Democrats : but when the new Re
publican party begun to gain strength,
and it was iiossibTe that they might
become the ruling power in Congress,
the water of Washington suddenly
grew dangerous, tho hotels, (particu
larly the Autiouiu) become pest houses,
and dozens of heretics from the Dem
ocratic faith grew sick almost unto
death. This singular phenomenon
re-appeared from time to time until
the great outbreak after the election f
Lincoln. 1 hen the wells and springs
of the Capital came into the care of
I tl .! . .
iovbi soldiers, ami me wauT persist-
ly remained healthy. 1 discontinued,
in spite of the prayers of the faithful,
for four years ; there was not a "sick"
Congressman after Davis and his fol
lowers left. But when the great
struggle of 1864 was over, an I the
water of the Capital still flowed clearly,
there came a change in the tActics of
of the poisoners; a single bullet suffi
ced to restore their hopes. Abraham
Lincoln passed away ; Andrew Johnson
supervened, and like every other
Vice President elevated to tjio main
office, from Aaron Burr to himself
he, too, Tylerized, swallowed himself
with the t'exteritv of an East Indian
juggler, and came out from his contor
tions the branded property ol llo well
Cobb and his crowd of iinregenerate
Rebels. Urged by the sentiment of a
betrayed people, tho House of Repre
sentatives recently put the recreant
Executive on 'trial. The trial was
over, the hour for voting approached,
when we had a return of that bad
water, and two or three Senators
Republicans, mind you are prostrated
with sudden illness. hat does it
mean? Why does it happen that
whenevsr the current sets against the
Master Demon of Slavery (and never
at any other time) we find the air, and
the water, and the whisky of Wash
ington full of poison? Why docs it
happen that when some great deed for
freedom is on the point ot accomplish
ment (and never on any other occavion,)
we find l'residente, previously in ru
ged health, instantaneously sent to
their graves, and trattort atxeayt on
hand to take their places? Why i it
now, just as we should have the vote
upon the great question of impeach
ment, and when up to the latest
moment it had been universally be
licved that Johnson would be convict
ed, why, we ask, do we hear at this
critical moraeut of the dangerous illness
of some of the most firm and con
spicuous advocate of impeachment?
Is there any thing ot chances that can
explain these remarkable Ku Klux
coincidences? A. r. inbun.
Tnaae Democracy,
The Tennessee delegates to the Dom
ocrntic Convention are instructed for
Andrew Johnson. The financial idea
of Pendleton wero indorsed. The
rebel General Forrest, of Fort Pillow
memory, is one of the delegates. The
n tme ot Mr, Bates was first reported,
when a motion was made to substitute
Forrest's. A long and fierce debate
ensued, in which Forrest participated.
The vote was in his favor. 1 he an
nouncement of the result was received
with prolonged yells, proclaiming that
the reliel "lemeut had triumphed ; that
the last pretences ot Unionism were
cast aside, and that the hero of the
Fort Pillow massacre, the darling of
the guerrillas and Ku Klux, was pre
sented to the world as a thoroughly
appropriate representative of the Dem
ocracy ot lennessec.
Retrench)! ENTand Economy, pro
claimed at Chicago as a National duty,
are uudcrstoorl in Congress to mean
something more than mere words.
The appropriation bills, based upon
the regular reommendations from the
executive deptrtments, are cut down
on all sides, with a view to meet
total reduction of at least one hundred
f.f yand mil'iois of dollars in the next
years expemuures. jue latest ap
plications oi tus pruning knile was
on Wednesday' last, when the House
was recommenled to reduce the appro
priations lor the repair or certain
public works from $6,150,500 down
to f 1,837,000, nd the reoommenda
tion is likely ttjbe adopUd.
- The PUtsbuf h Gazette remarks that
the New York World says that negro
suffrage will bea settled question after
the next elsctW The Pittsburgh
jestsavs it wil not be. , We are ver
mdoh embarrsiscd to know vhinh
the higher Detsoeratio authority.
avvARvrLva.
The Old Guard for April presents
the following choice sugar-plums for
Democratio babes t
"A Northern Democrat" warns the
people of the South that they "must
not believe for one moment that the
sentiments proclaimed by The New
York Dan Book, or The l& Vrotse
Democrat, are the sentiments of the
united Democratic party of the North."
The two papers here named equal in
circulation nearly all the other Demo
cratic papers in tho United States.
A nd it is, furthermore, within bounds
to sav that eeven-tentht of the l)emo
emtio papert of the North abjure uch
Ikmocracu as u tent Jorin by a lew
tuck papert at the New York World.
e have no doubt that I ne jiummhd-
pian't correspondent was in Lincoln's
war, either as a contractor or an oiucer.
He has upon him the stains of the
blood of men who fought for liberty,
and he wants to see the Democratio
party planted upon the basis of the
Abolition war; but that he will never
see. J he rank ana hie of the old
Democratic party hate that war at they
do the devil, and no Democratio victory
shall ever be won on a platform recog
nizing the justice of cither tho piinci
plca or the results of such a war.
Die Democratio party is paralyzed and
demoralized by its long cringing be
fore usurpation and despotism. The
back volumes of The Old Guard will
attest that we foretold that such would
be the effect of the inglorious submis
sion to the Lincoln usurpations. A
hnndreil men of the pluck and patriot'
ism o f Wilket Booth at the ttart of these
terrible despotisms, would have taved our
country from ail U hat tuffered ami it
now tuffering would, indeed, have
preserved constitutional lilicrty, and
saved the Government from destruc
tion. But, alas! even now the Dem
ocratic press seems stupefied by the
dm ol barbarous revolution. Instead
ot blowing tho loud bugle-blast of
resistance, of quick and fierce misaice
to tyranny I they seem to be studying
how they shall most gracefully shrink
away from the manly struggle to pre
serve our liberty. I hev proclaim.
loud enough, that our liberties are per
ishing I but, with the next breath, they
winsiier that wo must take care that
nothing rash or violent is done ! that is,
the rashness and violence which is
destroying liberty must be met with
nothing stronger than whispers and
inglorious submission. If they were
asses, they could not bow their necks
to the yoke of their master with more
admirable docility. A people who
will submit to despotism lor a day
nay, for a minute have given up the
principlo of freedom. The moment
anu man beaint to vlau the desnaL he
i Kf I ij I I
forfeits his right to life. This has been
a sacred maxim among all free people.
it the Democratio press were hired
by the Mongrel Rump to counsel the
people to keep still, and let the work
of usurpation and ruin go peacefully
on, it could not more faithfully serve
tho purposes ot the Mongrel party.
"But we are going to vote them down !"
uuiiohLU, dolt! in one halt of your
country no voting can be done, except
at tho command of the military acting
as a tool of the Rump, and in the
other half it must bo done under the
pressure of bribery, intimidation and
fraud? Freemen do not call this tomi7.
In one half tho Union no man can
vote except as the Rump permits. That
insult to the sacred principle of liberty
and self government should be instant
ly wiped out, if need be, in the blood of
the tyrants. Those who talk a softer
language than this have to thank
either their cowardice or their shallow
ness.
Rvfccl Outrage la Alabama.
Tuscumdia, Ala.. May 18. 1868.
On Friday night last a colored man
named Jvlward Shegogg was taken
out of his bed about midnight, by
tnree men, who broke in the door ot
tho house in which Shegogg and two
other colored men were sleeping. .They
carried Shegogg about five hundred
yards from the house, tied his hands
and feet, and gave him fifty lashes on
the bare back, after tearing his shirt
off. The three perpetrators of this
outrage had masks over their faces,
high conical caps on their heads, and
long white gowns over their clothing.
This outrage took place in Franklin
county, Ala., about twelve and half
miles from Courtlnnd, on the farm of
one tlennegan. I he perpetrators said
they were the noble ku-Klux, sent by
the Great Grand Cyclops to punish
shogoi" for exprexrinq Radical politi
cal tentimenfp. Memphis Post, of May
oo. .-.
General Halleck never liked
Gen. Grant, but in the official report
he said, concerning the Vicksburg
camiaigu : .
"We cannot but admire the skill and
a ja . a
daring ot the rommander. INo more
brilliant exploit can be found in mili
tary history. ' " It is hardly
necessary to remark that Gen. Grant
never disobeyed an order or instruction,
but always carried out to the best of
his ability every wish or suggestion
made to him by the Government.
On July 13, 1863, President Lin
coin wrote to Gen. Grant from the
While House:' "I write this now ss a
grateful acknowledgment of the a!
most inestimable service you have done
your country."
Hear what the Now York ' World
saysof Grant: "Of thesturdinessand
staunchness of Gen. Grant's patriotism
or tho uprightness and solidity of his
character, no man in the country
doubts or affects to doubt."
. The Republican journals in Cali
fornia that bolted during the late
State campaign have all placed the
names of Grant and Colfax at the head
of their columns. ,
CaaaaUaatoaMV Slalllaa Latto a Reals-
HUM,
Washington, D. C, June 8. Sir:
I have the honor herewith to transmit
through you to the President the res
ignation of my office, to take effect
upon the qualification of my successor,
nominated by him and confirmed by
the Senate. Justice to myself and
respect for you require that I should
give you briefly my measures for so
dohiflr. Immediately after the Phila-
delDhia Convention, in 1860, there
were numerous removals ot Assessors
and Collectors throughout the country.
Thpv were induced bv political con
siderations, and produced a sad blow
to the reputation and elnmency ot the
revenue service. Tbey were made du
ring a recess of Congress, hud in all
cases regardless of my wishes as Com
missioner. I should have resigned my
offico long ago had I not yielded to
tbeiudgment of my friends who be
lieved thepublio good would bo pro
moted by my remaining in it. During
the session of Congress next after the
Convention referred to, many nomina
tions of revenue officers were mado to
the Senate bv the President, as there
since have been, all of them without
reference to any opinion I had of their
fitness, while my numerous recommen
dations for removals of Assei'snrs and
Collectors, even for the gnscst mis
conduct, have lieen almost universally
disregarded. In accordance with the
long continued practice of the Depart
ment the appointment bv the Secrota
ry of tho Ireasury of Assistant Asses
sorsInspectors and other subordinate
officers, in the several districts, are
made upon the nomination of the As
sessors and Collectors. This practice
is pist to those officers when faithful
insures harmony and cooperation, and
locates responsibility for success of the
Revenue laws. I do not object to the
practice, and refer to it only to illus
trato the importance of the offices of
Assessor an I Collector, nnd my ina
hi I it v under existing circumstances, to
elevate and control Ihe serviceot which
I have the ostensible charge. The
Revenue laws aro enforced in the
courts through the agency of the Uni'
ted States District Attorneys an I Mar
shals. Of these, numerous changes of
the character referred to in whut I have
said of revenue nffiers, have been made,
and in many localities with like re
sults over their appointment nnd con
tinuance in otlice. It is needless to say
that I have no control whatever, and
have no assurance that the services
they will render in tho future will be
more thorough and effective than tliey
havo been in tho past. In brief, Mr.
Swrctary, the revenuo laws,' even in
the most important localities, nre bad
ly administered by officers, either dis
honest or incompetent, appointed with
out my approval, and whose removal
I see no hope of securing. While I
continue in office, I am sought to be
responsible for their failures; although
I am absolutely powerless to prevent
thorn. For these reasons, ns well as
to seek tho rest which my health de
mands, and my efforts to discharge my
public duties have hitherto deuiei me
I am constrained to retire from t lit
Bureau in which I have labored since
near the date of this organization
With a full appreciation of the kind
ness which you have extended to me
iu all your personal and official rela
tions.
I am, Sir, very respectfully
Your obedient servant,
E. A. Rollins, Commissioner,
To the Hon. H. McCullouoii, Sec
rotary of the 1 reasury.
A Democratic minister, who has
Democratio measles badly, has ar
ranccp a new version ot the Lord s
Prayer, which he thinks a great mi
provement. It is as follows :
"Uur white rather, who art in a
white heaven ; hallowed be thy white
name, lhy white kingdom come
Thy whito will be done ; give us this
day our white daily bread and forgive
our white brethren who diner from us
and carry out Thy curse on the colored
population. Lead us into white
temptation to oppress the blacks and
deliver us from Republican and negro
evils: for Ihine is a white kingdom
Thine is white power; Thine is white
glory, for ever and ever, Amea.
fayette Neealnatloaa.
The Republicans of Fayette county
held their nominating convention at
Uniontown on Monday of last week,
For Congress, Joseph M. Thorn iwon
of Favctte, received 31 votes, and
Hon. John Covode 22 votes. Subse
quently the friends of Mr. Thompson,
at his suggestion, withdrew his na no,
and John Covode was unanimously
nominated.
Mr. Covode received the nomination
in Indiana ronnty, which secures for
him tho District.
The House his been pushinr rapid
ly through the Tax bills, and has now
arrived at the clauses relating to special
taxes. , The work upon these sections
goes slowly, as every , proposition in
volved in them is contested by the
advocates of , the interests aSecte I.
Gen. Butler yesterday gave notice ot
his intention to move the postponement
of the bill till next session. If the
House persevere, however, the end of
next week will see the bill complete.
The Dayton Ledger, Vallandig-
ham's organ, says of that branch of
the Democratio party which it repre
sents: "If a 'War Democrat' of the
Marble-Halpine 'flaunting lie' school
is chosen standard bearer ot tho party,
his defeat is inevitable, because the
wing known as tho Peace Democrats
will not support him ; if at all, at
least with no degree of zeal and they
are a power in the land."
NkarLy two thousand immigrants
arrived at New York on Friday and
Saturday.
There can be no e-rair L.vL.
ness than an indulgence in a talk of a
war of races, and no greater sham
than the balderdash shoot negro rule.
The whites will always rule to this
country, as tliey have in all other
countries, and a war of races can only
dishonor that race which is so superior
in strength in its resources thst any
such war must result from its own
criminality and folly. State Guard.
DMLNlSrHATORS BALK
tyn order of lh Court of OrMmaOoanlr the
denilulieil Admlnl.lMli. nr .1 -
Tboiniu Allfm, iWd., will oferror ule, a oil
, mwuii, urene eo., ra, aa
8ATUTDA V, TH E MTU DAT Of iVtt,
Mle,thetwo-thtrdiof the MIowIdi daiorlbel
about 6 or acne, oa which are arreted one larte
TWO 8TOHY FRAME DWELLING,
One Ware house, one eaw mill frame eoml
muncnt foundation, and well motor, with a
mxl chimney muck. The law mill u fame and
new, and well calculated for both Haw aod
l'lanlng 41111. There will alto be offered one
ENGINE AND BOILER.
The above mentioned nmnertw will ha aj
In lota or aa a whole, ai ruaj aerm beet for the
eeiate, on lar of enle. It li slluateoa the Moa
ongahela river, about twelve mike above .
Brownavllla. 1'ernoua wishing good town prop
erty or a good location for a Haw Mill or Planing
Mill, or both, would do well to call and exam
me, we tnina way win prououuee thli oaeof
f he bast fraiuea en the river,
TERMS OF HALE
One-half on confirmation of aale. eaa.half tm
tliriv months thereafter, with Interest from eoa
flrniatlon, when lieed will be made.
-The remaining one-third la for sale, and
may be offered on the aanie day by the owner.
I. . t.AHT,
L0U1MA ALLFRRE.
June 17-U Administrators.
JAUNTY 8TATEMEN T.
James W. Kelly In account with Jefferson
Township, Duplicate Na i.
To amount levied feflTl
To amount received on subscription Hot SB
Cr. by vouchers produced 724 W
In col a tor's hands 448 11
UI.'PLIL'ATE NO. S.
Toamount levied teMT to
uy vouchers proouceu o437 so
township. Duplicate No. 4.
To amount levied MM gg
To uiuouul of WuyoofTs subscription low OS
nhnson Waveoff In account with JerTeraoa
By vouchers produced Uli is
In collector's hands Ml tt
Wo the iiiiilnrslKiird Auditors certify Ihe
above to be rorrect according to the paper and
Vouchers produced.
S'XMM AS
WM. I . HIT) IT, 1
WM. K. KF.YKOI.P", V Auditors.
ISAAC F. KA.NDOLt-il.l
TTENTION MECUANIC8 1
Healed proposals will be received for three
weeks from date, for the building of a Htoro
nooiu ano dwelling nouse, on nsinnt., Waynes
burg. For dimensions and stylenf bulldlna en.
no i re at the olllce of rjiqulre Wahb.
u .. .(-... r .mil n piiuu nuMi-.
Clothing.
A
HOY! ALOFTI
STAND BY, ALU
TO BUR TUB ORAND OPENING) OF
SPUING & SUMMER CLOTHING
jtrsT received sr
A. J. SOWER8
DRESS 8C1T3 AND BUSINESS SUITS,
Beautiful assortment ef Cloths,
OTXEMENEN'3 FURNI3MNQ GOODS,
SHIRTS READY-MADE,
New Styles for Oent's Neck Press Hearts, Fine
French Figured Percale Shirts, Collars A Cutb.
THE DECLINE IN PRICES enables blm to
sell at fabulous low rates. Foil snlts of excel
lent texture, can bo had at one half former
cost. Come and get the best while It Is going.
WON'T BE UNDERSOLD IK WAYNEBBCRO
ROOM IN ALLISON'S BTJILDINO, OPPOS1TS
TUK COURT HOUSK. .
aplS,'6H-3m.
pAINTINQ AND GLAZ1NU. p ,( ,
J. W. 8MALLXY,
HOUSE PAINTER,
QRALNER,
GLAZIER AND
UaNGER,
PAPER
Shop, on Mechanics' Row, opposite the M. B.
Church, Waynenburg, Pa. ,
MATERIAL FURNISHED, If reoolred.M
Pittsburgh Price. . .
ap 1, 'SMm,
J. W. 8MALLET.'
DLvSTIO SLATE ROOFING I, . :
The firm of ODBERT.A JONES will Jantah tte
PROPERTY HOLDERS!
of Green oonaty, with th .
) If
0
PLASTIC SLATE ROOFING!
, . . t
Introdneed last Xnmmer, and o highly
meded by thoa wbo have tried IL
-All orders left with U W. Jonea, Waynes
burg. Pa., wUl raealva prompt attention. - ,
.. ODfiERTeVJONER
ft.U-em ' Of Washington County, r.
I EGAL NOTICE , ....... : , .
Letter testamentary having been granted t
the undersigned on th estate of William, B. Por
ter lata of Rlchhlll township, (Ireene eonaty,
deee.d., noUea la hereby glvea ta all person
Indebted to said estate to make I aimed late
payment and thoa having elaima aaalna the
am to presoat them duly authenticated lr
settlement, KrELINA0ri3,
Ky'.T-t ..... Esa-ntrtK.