The Waynesburg Republican. (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, June 24, 1868, Image 2

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    CMOS BBFiBUCiX TICHT
national.
for presides;
OE1T. ULY88E8 8. OBAltT,
OF ILLINOIS,
FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
HON. BCHUTLEB COLTAX,
OF INDIANA.
KTATK.
ton Acm-rou orrrtAL t
0. JOHN P. IIARTRANFT,
Of Utmtgomtri) Co""'.
rOR HCRVF-YOH OFUKRAf. !
Col. JACOB M. CAMPllhLL,
Of fimbria County.
DISTRICT.
for mnniirAs. .
CAPT. J. HKXTON DONLEY,
Of Urttne County,
ttst.'ert to the action of the Slth Dliirlet Con
ference. COVSTV.
FOR AUSKMBI.T.
CEO KG E O. MILLER. ESQ.,
Of Dvnkord Tomstrip.
tV COMMISSTOSriR.
THOMAS J. PENS. ESQ.,
Qa tyastiinylnn Township.
TR POOR HOfSE DIRF.rTOR,
THOMAS ROSS, ESQ.,
0 Morgan Townthip.
ronSjrmTnR,
HENRY W. TAYLOR, ESQ
Jsetfm Tovntkip.
rKEJHDEXTi.ii. fxectohs.
AT LA K IE.
fi. Mattv -oatm, of rhlhvMpnls.
Tnoj. M Makkuall, 'it lUtsbuifch.
f'fRTTlirT.
DisTPir-r
1. W. Tt. Rarrs.
I W. J.rollrrk,
. KlehaM Wild-,
C G.A.HUI,
a
. J U. Brininrt,
?. Frank t. Heaton
. ! K-kert,
f. Morris Hooper,
1". rvid M. hand,
11. Wm. Davis,
11 W. W.Kelcbum,
n. Samuel Snw,
H. B. F. Wsg.niseller,
'I V Chr1i H. Miller,
1. George V. F.Ue.
;I7. John Htewart,
l. A. u.oimttead,
1?. .Inmil Fell,
jn. li. r. Johnson,
21. J. K. Kwlng,
. Win. Frew,
21. A. W. Crawford,
:2I. J. 8. Ilutun.
IIOW IT ATA NO.
The proceeding of the Washington
county Republican Convention, liolil
on Monday, have not yet come to hand,
Lut that (jo. V. Iuwrence will ho
thoir choice for Congress is without
doubt. Lawrence county has put for
warl lion. William Wallace; B'aver,
Michael Weyaiul, Esq., nnd (ireeno
Capt. J. 13. Donley. Thesa nre tho
men ami now who shall he cIms.mi?
Lawrence county present a man
who wad oneo defeated foV tho oflieo
he aspires to, lie was defeated, Nor
"by slaughter in the house of hi
friends," but by his own apathy, hi
refusal to become acquainted with the
people. What chance is there that he
will uo Hotter H nominateil again :
The fight will bo severe and it want
an active man. That county with its
fifteen hundred or two thousand Re
publican majority has a representation
in the Stato Legislature favorable to
its interests and from that causo a
prosperity has been attained second to
none in tne uistnet. it nas railroads.
aianufactorics, a thickly settled and
wealthy populace. Could they not be
induced to yield tothe interests of their
co-laborers in National politics, who
are always fighting an enemy en
trenched behind a Democratic majori
ty of overpowering strength ? It would
be charity to give us a chance one time
even if we fail.
Beaver county well known as the
homo of State Treasurer Irwin, of Cul
bertson, of Sankey, of Robinson, and
of a host of others familiar as Govern
ment, State and District officers, with
a coolness refreshing in Juno, says she
is not yet tired of absorbing tho pa
tronage of the public. Ilcr wealth ami
improvements arc eminent witnesses to
the goodly share of spoil that has fal
len to her lot. If office-holding to
Beaver Republicans is the sweetest
boon vouchsafed to man, then arc they
the happiest of mortals. They should
now accept contentment.
Of Washington county, and the
claims of her candidate it is hardly ne
cessary to speak. Mr. Iiawrcncc has
represented her and tho District four
years in succession, and on nil ques
tions of polity acted and voted con
sistent with the views of his constitu
ents. Thus far his career has been
brilliant, winning for him the plaudit,
'wcll done good and faithful servant."
It is now hoped that ho will "enter
into tho joys" of his domestic rela
tions and thus escape the "privations
of public life." Washington should
throw its influence with those who
helped her in time of need, and be satis
fied with her offices and distinguished
position among the Western counties.
Really, she has no favors to ask.
Greene county, at desperate odds,
standing isolated and alone without
the circle that joins the sister counties
of the District, now hails them for ad
mittance. She is clamorous for recog
nition. With a spirit of magnanimity
unprecedented, her faithful few have
borne the brant of hard fought fields,
content that they were won and mur
muring not because she reaped no re
ward. They are strangers to the food
that Caesar fattens on. Abjectly ground
down by the iron heel of Democracy,
they have been left to their fate except
when called to do s master's bidding.
It is natural that tho yoke should gall.
When the District Conferees meet we
ask them to nominate Capt J. B. Don
ley for Congress, and if the rest of the
District do as well as in days gone ky
we will voUch for his election. We
ask this la the nan of ths Soldiers
of oar county of which he is fair and
distinguished representative; because
of his unflinching integrity as an ex
ponent of republican principles; be
cause of his ability and the energy snd
thoroughness with which he would
prosecute the canvass. We ask it for
the reason that our county expects and
is entitled to the honor, that she is de
sirous of lifting herself to a deserved
place beside her sister counties in re
gard to wealth and internal Improve
ments. It is not necessary to men
tion all the considerations that makes
it the duty of the Conferees to take
this action, but in conclusion let us
ask it for the promotion of harmo
ny and good feeling. We are jus
tified in predicting a bad state of affairs
if the decision should be against us,
and in the name of Heaven is thcro
any one that can accuse the Republi
cans of Greene of selfishness?
WON'T WOM.
Our "haudsome" neighbor last week
tried to pet un a "sensation" in his
favor among the "laboring men," by
representing himself as a martyr to the
Ureennack cause, lie pretenus some
of his Bonded friends have "gone back
on him" and that ho "don't care a
darn," that ho goes in for "equal
taxation," (which must not be con
strued to mean "equal right," for
that would include tho "nigger.") He
is especially denunciatory of tho "purse
proud hond-holders," and calls on all
such in his flock to leave "the sooner
tho quicker." IIo knows who he is
talking to, however, mid will not in
jure his patronage much if he should
read them out. Greene county IVm
ocrots don't hold many bonds. Tho
git of his whole article is contained
in this simple paragraph near the
clone, intended to catch the eyo of the
weak-kneed snd malcontent in the
Republican rank: "For every such
voter a we loso from our ranks
we will gain score from tho honest,
truo-hcirted men of tho opposition I"
There, ain't that nice? How respect
ful! 'Honest, true-hearted I"
"Wiin'l you walk lulu my jxtlir," l.
To lo sure a nun must be igno
rant to be caught by such a bait, but
the glittering promise at l "soft saw
der'1 goo a long way with some people.
If the honst, hardworking nun will
take thoiiiilit mid ak how it came
about that tho nation was plunged in
debt and drenched in blood, and how
! manv
different schemes have beeu
resorted to by such men as our neighbor
to deotrov tho credit and ruin tho
, 1 commercial interests of tho country,
how we are indebted to the Demo
cratic party for each and every national
calamity of the last twenty years, he
will certainly hesitate before he takes
the step. With the record of the Dem
ocratic and Republican party before
him, no patriot, no lover of right and
hater of wrong, no advocate of ad
advancement and despiser of fogyism,
can give the former tho prcedencO.
But, this is all for nought, our oppo
nents are welcome to the comfort they
derive from accessions to their party
in this locality from our ranks. They
wouldn't bait a bear trap. Whereas,
the sturdy War Democracy, fond of i
their party name and its memories in the
.lays of Jackson and Jefferson, will
flock to the standard as they did in '61,
and aid us by voting for Grant, to
wine out the traitorous clement that
misrepresents the namo of Democ
racy. '
"took it bach.
Tho House on last Tuesday week
passed a resolution voting 20 per cent,
additional to salaried official's of a cer
tain grade employed at the Capitol,
by a vote of 71 to 58. A sura ex
ceeding two millions would thus have
been added to the public expenses,
Our leading papers appealed to the
Republican members to vote it down;
Democratic papers said not a word, but
aU but two of their members voted for
the refiohtiion in direct opposition to
their boasted determination of reduc
ing the 'public burden. Tho whole
thing could then have been laid at
doors of the"d d Radicals!" D'ye
see ! Fortunately the vote was recon
sidered later in the week and defeated
by 68 to 64. One more opportunity
lost to the Copperheads of appealing
to the tax-payers and another item
added to the record of "what Demo
crats would do if they got control of
the Government Eighteen Demo
crats fob to two against oi'rng
awnv fwnmillinnanPika iuu.nl. nia.
ncy I Is that "retrenchment and re
form?" Would the thing have been
reversed If Democrats bad a majority ?
Tax-payers should watch these little
matters.
Western Demooratio editors in
tins State nave decided in a recent
convention held at Pittsburgh to stick
to Pendleton and Greenbacks, and yon
can't find a man. who is on paper for
any amount, in this whole country.
but what sees a "eood thinn in the
probability of making a discount of
nity per cent, in paying nis debts.
Jast mark how common if is.
aynbur0 Republican, lgftnegbag, 25ung 34, 1868.
CVftMSWriVC MLMSSM (?)
We call the attention of oar con
servative soldiers, who talk of sending
delegates to the Democratic Conven
tion at New York, to the proceedings
of the Democratic Convention in Al
abama. The Alabama Democrats
elected delegates to New York Con
vention, and then"OnJrt!( the thank of
the Southern people to Jeff. Davit for
the unflinching courage andunturpuiied
ability with which he acquitted hinuelf
of hit official oath to defend tht Comti-
tution, and paying to him the retpect of
the Convention at a patriot and incor
ruptible man." The Franklin llepot-
itory truthfully remarks, these men
are conservative Demooratio soldiers,
and represent the National Democracy.
They will meet the delegates from
Pennsylvania to nominate a candidate
for the Presidency ; and as Jeff Davis'
manner of savinir the country and
defending the Constitution suits them
they will strive to nominate a man of
his views. If they do tho Pennsylva
nia Democracy who "respect Jeff
Davis as a patriot and incorruptible
man," but who were too cowardly to
fight for his patriotism, will be found
working with the Alabama Democrats
for the success of a ticket for which
they did fight, until they had well
nigh drowned the laud in sorrow and
in blood. How do you like the com
pany gentlemen ? and you 'conserva
tive soldiers, now . you can make
amend for tho sin of lighting against
eff Davis and his patriots. Don t
t the opMrtunity escnie.
For the Hrn)Bl.lCA!.
I'ltOU TIIK wi:mt.
Lafavktik, Ind., 1
Juim loth, 1868.
r.i. Rf.I'I iu.ican: Hmco I met
you ut tho great convocation of the
Republican Party nt Chicago, and
witnessed the iinaiiiitious and enthusi
astic nomination of wrant nml the
oiiutillv enthusiastic endorsement of
Colfax, 1 have seen no cause to doubt
tho success of our ticket in tho coming
ciiniuigii. i on nro aware, perhaps,
that Indiana is considered a doubtful
State; but tho fact that our forces are
awake to the danger, and are preparing
for a vigorous contest, will serve to
assure vou that we mean to bo victo
rious.
It is now believed that if the Dem
ocrats nominate nn eastern man for
President, Senator Hendricks will bo
put on the ticket with him for Vice
President. In that case, as Hendricks
is now the JJcmocratia camluiute lor
Governor of this State, that party will
make a new nomination. The indi
cations point to Joe. McDonald as the
most, if not tho only, avnilnble man ;
the same individual, you will remem
ber, who was so ignoiniiiously slaugh
tered by Governor Morton. If this
occurs it will be to the ndvantage of
the Democracy, ns McDonald, despite
his former fuilures, is a more formida
ble opponent than Hendricks. In
cither case, however, tho Republicans
of Indiana arc determined to do their
duty, ns they have heretofore done,
and defeat their opposition.
J he party in this State is intensely
radical, and this is one of tho most
radical conitressional districts ; now
represented by I Ion. G. S. Orth, am
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I
will be again the coming Congress.
Mr. Orth is one of those rare public
men, against whose integrity, both as
a man and a politician, no suspicion
can be raised. Every speech he has
uttered and every voto he has cast
have been in the interest of his country.
He has been a thorough, consistent,
unflinching radical, faithfully repre
senting his constituency and holding a
nigiiiy Honorable and creditable posi
tion among his fellow-mcnbcrs. While
ho was at his post of duty, during the
boisterous time of impeachment, a
movement nt homo was organized
against him similar to that which he
so signally defeated at his last election.
After a brief and sharp campaign he
has come out the victor more signally
than before, and is now our candidate
for the next Congress. Standing as he
docs, on his radical record this his
fourth successive nomination will serve
to give you some slight idea of the
political complexion of this district
lou can hardly know how highly
we regard ioitax, and what an mllu
encc ins namo win nave in carrying
the great North West He is one of
Indiana s idols, and it is no small
honor to be ranked with such men as
Morton, Lane and other great lights
of our party. He is a politician of
ine new scnooi tnat is to be in "the
good times coming," a christain cen
tlcman and a representative of the
true "Young American" element The
thunders, of enthusiasm that arose in
Chicago will roll increasingly over the
prairies of the West in honor of the
patriotic and victorious General at the
head of our ticket and m honor of that
other man thereon, Schuyler Colfax.
whose reputation for virtue, honor and
probity has kept equal pace with
Lis great and growing fame as a states
man. As at the convention Pennsylvania
decided the nomination in favor of
Colfax we now look to her to decide
the success of our ticket Every eye
will be turned on the Keystone State,
and through close scrutiny great will
be her honors for well doing.
The faint hold that the repudiation
idea obtained in the minds or our peo
ple has declined, and they bare con-
eluded to leae that piece of dishonesty
ana meanness to the Democrats, wno
are better qualified for its advocacy
ty education, association and a Jong
line of similar examples within their
own ranks.
The crops are looking finely and
promise "veil. The weather, though
intensely hot, is favorable and we much
need a great abundance ill that line.
U.
A I'alltHl Stum Marsh! Awasaiuated
bjr Kentucky Hebels.
Rl'bsemtili.e. Ky.. June 16. Ma
jor Iiawrenee, U. S. Marshal of this
District, was assassinated in this place
this morniiiu bv a returned Rebel
soldier. He is the filth Union man
that has been murdered here within
the past few months. During the war
he was Major of the 17th (Ky.) Caval
ry, and proved to bo a very gallant
officer. Ho has a brother residinir in
Bufl'alo, New York.
Bowi.mci Green, Ky., June 17.
I ho assassination of Major Inwrence,
at Russellville, yesterday, was the re
sult of a deliliernto determination on
the part of the Reliels to kill or drive
out every Union Man in their midst.
IIo had liecn repeatedly threatened bv
the Ku Klux Kluii. A week ago he
received notice that he was to be killed
in less than ten (lavs. He imid no at
tentiou to the warning, and as he was
going out of town yesterday afternoon
to servo a summons, tho assassiu stole
upon In in aii'l literally butchered him
in broad day light, 'dipt McClery
of the army, who went down to inves
tigate the ease, pronounced it cool, pre
meditated murder. Union citizens arc
arming, and tho utmost excitement
prevails. A detachment of tho 2d
Regulars reached there last night.
Mr. I'haw'a Pint form.
The Chief Justice's private secrcta
nsserts that Mr. Chaso will accept
tii
o nomination ot the IVew loru
Convention on a platform to tho. fol
lowing effect: Economy in public af
fairs; reduction in taxation; mainte
nance of tho rights of foreign born
citizens; condemnation of military tri
bunals for trial of persons not in the
army; speedy withdrawal ot military
government from the South; recogni
tion of reserved rights ot the otates;
universal amnesty nnd immediate res
toration to the ifnion of the Into rebel
States with constitutions acceptable to
the numerical majority of each State;
suffrage to be entirely under the con
trol of the several States with a rec
ommendation that it shall bo impar
tial. Tho private Secretary has re
duced this statement to writing, and
tho document has been circulating for
the last two days among leading Dem
ocrats ot Coiifci-ess. 1 hey say they are
given to understand that it may be
taken as a correct representation of the
Chief Justices position. Ihe plat.
form is reported to bo silent on the
finantial question.
"HnmlliiK In Ihclr Chip r
That brilliant nnd very ultra Demo
cratic journal, the New York Citizen,
takes n very sensiblo view in tho fol
lowing luniniatie :
"Grant and Colfax make a ticket
hard to beat. The wonderful military
success of the one, and the great polit
ical ability of tho other, cannot be
written down or belittled by newspaper
editors ; and tin attempt to do so is a
folly only worthy of the late manage
ment of the Democratic party. The
hero of Donelson, Corinth, and most
wonderful of all, Vieksburg, and fmal-
lyof Richmond, is not a third rate ucn.
aud no literary scribe can make him
one. Ihe gentleman who hns worked
his way to the Speakership of the
Ilouseof Representatives is no bad poli
tician, nnd those who buy him for one
will not make a prolitablc bargain.
Probably there are not two leading
names stronger, individually or collec
tively, than tho two winch have been
put forward.
CHOICE" MTF.HATl'IIE.
"It devolves iiiwn our Democratic
journals and speakers to warn the pco
pic against tne batanic white nigger
mobs known as Christian associations,
aid societies, mission club, etc. Dciii
ocrats avoid them as you 'would the
plague. Jjtcronse Democrat
The Franklin Ifrpntitoru claims that
this man's style is not so chaste as that
of Addison, nor so concise and forcible
as that of Swift, but it has all the
attributes of Democratic gospel, and
we would urge every Democratic voter
to take his paper. Especially if he
has a rehned nnd intelligent wife, and
bright and promising children grow
ing up around his hearth-stone, whom
he loves as the apple of his eye, should
he introduce among them this paper,
"whose editor believes in the religion
of Jesus Christ, in the Bible and in a
Heaven." Why don't Democratic
journals give it notoriety?
The World the other day complete
ly upset the daran-the-negro idea in
an article in the course of which it
said:
"There is every reason to expect
that the Southern negroes will vote in
the Presidential election, and if we
permit all those Statu to be carried by
the Republicans we may at veil hang
our harpt on the wUlowt." "It
would be tuicidal to put into the plat
form any declaration which Radical
orators could use to turn the
vote against us."
negro
It is so customary to resort to "rosy
statements" to induce immigration,
that the Superintendent ot the Union
Pacific Railroad deserves a good mark
for candor. He says: "Young men
from the East with good recommenda
tions that come here, must not be
afraid of their scalps, must be content
with rude fare, be willing to sleep on
the prairie and work hard,"
DBSOCRATIO FBACDS.
Tn older to show how Pennsylvania
, I ! 1 1 I . 1- V
was carried inst nil Dy me nuiuair
Catholics and Copperheads combined
we publish the testimony ot two wit
nesses in tne contested eiecuon cusu vi
John K. Robinson, (Republican) ?s.
Samuel T. Shugart, (Copperhead.)
From the testimony taken from tne
Legislative Record, Session of 1868,
it appears that a railroad sixteen miles
Ion" was being built during tho sum
mer' and fall of 1807, in Clearfield
and Center counties, that but a few
rods only of this road was in Center
county ; about tour hundred irisnmen
. .. t ii .ii
were employed on the road ami uonnicu
in shanties along tho line. A State
Senator was to bo elected in the Center
District, but none in the Clearfield.
Center county is a Republican county,
but in order to elect a Copperhead
mid defeat the will of the people,
Senator Wallace Chairman of tho
Democratic State Central Committee,
mid the leaders of the party in Center
county, combined with a Roman Cath
olic Priest, had these four hundred
Irish Catholics transferred from their
shanties in Clearfield into Center
county a few days before the election
procured fraudulent naturalization pa
pers and voted them against the Re-
publican caniiiuaio ium nuiuiuui mm.
Father Tracy, tho Catholio Priest,
when it was discovered that the fraud
was going to ho investigated, gave
O'Mearu, a principal witness, $500 to
to leave tho State tho money said to
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have been received from Wallace.
rho Connerhead palters harp on 1 ro-
testant Ministers meddling in polities,
but can any of these ribalders of
protestant ministers and religion men
tion an instance wherein n protestant
minister was ever implicated in a de
liberate fraud upon tho ballot box.
The bloody handol the Koimsli Uiurcn
is hidden in her dark and damnable
deeds. It is only over tho low and
ignorant she sways her sceptre, and
Democratic politicians, are always
ready, unxioiis and willing to sell
their country into tho hands of Rome,
if they can but obtain a paltry office.
We would like to publish all ot tne
testimony in this case, but our space
is limited, and thereloro will give tho
testimony of but two O'Meara nnd
John Casey this witness, on his re
turn to Clearfield county, was waylaid
and murdered, but the murderers were
ucver apprehended.
In the Senato of tho Stato of Pennsyl
vania, John K. Robinson vs Samuel
T. Shugart XXIst Senatorial Dis
trict, Legislative Record: Session
1868, pages 1,106-7.
January 22, 1863, Committee met,
all the members present.
M. O'Meara, sworn I was work
ing for Mr. Collins, railroad contrac
tor, on tho railroad; I was pit boss;
had from ten to twenty men under me
attunes; Patrick Gorman was walking
boss; I was working lour miles lrom
Clearfield, east, twelve miles from the
line, when James Collins and Patrick
Gorman came to mo and said they
wanted to go to Centre county for ten
days, saying their object was to carry
the election; they said it was a Repub
lican hole, and they intended running
in enough votes to carry it; I took the
men to Centre county; Lol. bkclly s
gang also went, all that were at work
then; in and around Phillipsburg
there were about ono hundred men the
day of election; they were quartered
at Mr. Keplar's, Mr. Gray's, Mr.
Harris's, and Mr. Ponohue's; I was in
Phillipsburg all day, most of the time
at the polls; the polls nro in tho same
building. I gave two men Democrat
ic tickets; Sheriff Perks and Mr.
Lcdo distributed tickets; Lcde was a
walking boss on tho road,' I saw them
giving tho men tickets; Sheriff Perks
borrowed a sheet of ticket from 1112 to
have others printed; the tickets were
all Democratic; about all that were on
tho ground voted; all had naturaliza
tion papers; obtained them, as wc said
in Luzerne county; this 0110 on the
table is similar to those used; they
wcro colored; tho men said they ob
tained or nrranged for the papers two
miles out of Clearfield, on Saturday
evening before the election, in a shan
ty kept by Mrs. Lynch; they said two
lawyers came from Philadelphia, nnd
after they were sworn, Lede took pos
session of the papers, and that lie col
ored them with colfee; the day of
election they were handed tho papers;
Mr. Lcdc at the same time furnished
the tax receipt a receipt shown wit
ness, and identified as similar to those
used; I did nothing while in Phil
lipsburg; I did not vote; I saw oil
voto that I named; I had no Repub
lican tickets.
Cross-examination I never agreed
to vote my men on tho Republican
side ; never said for $100 I would do
so ; I received money the day before
and day after, of Mr. Crisman $25, of
Mr. Johnson, dny after, fcOO, ot sher
iff Perks 912 ; I received of Rev.
Father Tracy ?500.
The $500 was given me two weeks
ago last Tuesday to prevent my being
a witness. The priest canio and
told me that my evidence would be
hard against the Democratic party;
and that he had $200 he would give
me if I would leave
I told the priest that I would take my
family and go lor $2,000 ; Father Tra
cy told mo Tie would let me know in a
few days, and when we next met the
priest told mo that ho had written for
advice, and that Wallaco thought that
$100 per month was enough ; I sup
posed that it was Wallace, the Clear
field lawyer; I told the priest I would
take $500. The men vo
ted in borough and township ; Michael
Fallon and ono other were in the
country but a short time; tho men
told me that Lede took the lawyers to
Tyrone; the men went back to Clear
field county, after the election, where
they lived in shanties : but fifty pr
sixty rods of the road is in Center
county ; all the voters were challenged
at tne pons.
John Casey sworn -I -was" working
on the railroad for Mr. Collins at the
(1867) election ; was boarding in Phil
lipsburgh, when I voted with the other
men. Mr. Iedo took me to -vote and
gave me naturalization papers, and put
it in ; cannot read ; am as ignorant as a
baste ; I put the paper iu my pocket,
cannot tell what became of it, I was
never naturalized, never was in a court
before this; Lede told mo to vote; I
was working near Mr. Collin's store;
came tho day that O'Meara did to
l'hillipsburgh ; voted Democratic.
The Union Pacific Railroad
js being built more rapidly this year
than ever. Tho word is, "To Salt
Lake by Christmas." Six hundred
and forty miles are now iu running
order, nnd a hundred miles nioro are
nearly ready for the track. Brigham
Young has five thousand men ntwork
in Utah, and says he is uot afraid of
the Gentiles, ft is probable that the
loeomotivo will go through to the
Pacific iu 1869 instead of 1870, and
will carry along with it an immense
train of passengers and freight, now
awaiting that happy event. Contrary
to the usual experience of railroad
companies, the Union Pacific has an
abundance of ready money, and pays
cash for everything. Its First Mort
gage Six per Cent. Gold Bonds are
eagerly taken throughout the country
bv parties ot sound hnaneiai judgment.
The sales have already amounted to
seventeen million dollars.
IIevry Clay Dean, tho Iowa
apostle of Democracy, made his np
nearauco 111 Uttumwa last week. J he
Conner has this to say of his visit:
"II. C. Dean is in the city; was hero
last night, and in lront ot one ot the
saloons near a corner on Main street,
was spouting treason to a knot of his
proselytes the faithful 'Democracy.'
He was overheard to say that 'these
one-armed soldiers who are thrust un
der our noses as objects of charity are
fit carcttmes for (he gallows'"
Thk Now York Leader having said,
"If Colfax has ever been a printer,
he'll know what it is to have a form
pied next November," the Providence
Journal adds the following diamond
foot-uotc: "Exactly so. Ihe Dem
ocratic ' form is already so badly
Dptabblcd and off it feet that the
strongest eha-e in tho country can't
hold it together, and there are clear
indications' that it will be in h 1, the
rceeptablo for broken forms, very early
iu November."
Information Wanted.
My widowed daughtc Eliza Ray,
was sent North by Gen. Sherman in
his raid through Georgia, from lTor
home in Marietta, with her five chil
dren. Information of her wherea
bouts will be thankfully received.
Address Rev. Elijah Roberts, Somer-
.ville, Ala. Papers will please copy
tho above for the benefit ot, a Worthy
poor man, who would pay their bills
if he could.
The Washington Chronicle says:
"Tho Chairman of the Democratic
State Central Committee of Pennsyl
vania informed a friend in Pittsburgh,
a few evenings ago, that it would bo a
hard job to carry Pennsylvania against
Grant and Colliix ; nnd to prove it he
demonstrated that last Fall the Dem
ocratic Judge was elected by less than
1,000, with tho Democrats polling !4
per cent, of their whole vote, and the
Republicans 75 percent, less of theirs."
By the explosion of a steam fire
engine, at New York, on " Thursday
evening, five young men, all under
twenty-fivo years of age, were killed.
Ono of these was blown from tho side
walk into the door of the Bowery thea
tre, some twenty feet. The concussion
also nearly overturned a passing horse
car, which, was crowded with pcojilc.
The wounded number nearly forty,
hut many are hurt only slightly.
"True Lights" is the name of the
Grant and Colfiix Campaign Club re
cently organized at Freeport, III. It
is officered by a Captain, First andSecr
ond Lieutenants and Sergeant. Their
uniform consists of oilcloth navy caps
oilcloth capes, and torches, similar to
those of the "Hide Awakes" ot low
Thev mean work, and that is what
all Republicans ought to prepare for
immediately.
The boat race between Haramill
and Coulter, of Pittsburgh, came off
on the Schuylkill on Ihursday last,
After two races, the first resulting in
an upset, and the last in a broken oar
tor Coulter, tne race was ueuiueu ior
Hammill. There are various opinions
upon the result, the popular one being
that it was a shameless piece of jockey
ing. t r ;
The Government has abandoned
itn r-har're of treason against John H.
Surratt, on tho ground that under the
Constitution it requires two witnesses
of tho overt act, or a confession of tho
accused in open court, to make a case.
Surratt hass however, been indicted
under the net of July 17. 1862, for
giving aid and comfort tho to eucmy.
A Vela.
The President vetoed the Arkansas
bill Saturday, on the ground that it
would if approved negative his previ
ous policy and justify that of Congress.
It is onlv a ouibble to postpone the
work of reconstruction, and give Cop
perheads capital for electioneering
purposes.
A Democratic paper says"one rea-
rm whr Grant and Colfax won't run
,ii in thA nut. is keause thev are both
from States Indiana and Illinois
Kent of the Mwimpp river J" That's
all right.
eMIra.
The Commercial says, the mass
meeting of "conservative soldiers and
sailors," held at the St Charles Hotel,
on Saturday evening, must hare been
a feru conservative gathering indeed.
Reporters wcro not admitted, and the
proceedings will be furnished, "cut
anil iffim!" frkin VtH YiMailBrtl fknna,
who take the conservative papers, W
understand that delegates were chosen
to the State Convention of "White
Boys in Blue," to be held in Philadel
phia on the 2d of July. The Leader
disposes of the mass convention thus 1
Three or four "conservative" sol
diers and sailors held a mass meeting
last night at the St. Charles Hotel.
They were so ashamed of the meagre
attendance that they adjourned to an
eight by ten room up stairs, and after
carefully excluding the reporters pass
ed a long string of resolutions, and got
up a list of delegates which will ap
pear in the "conservative" papers
hereafter. Industrious inquiries tail
ed to secure the names of any known
soldier present, and we are inclined to
think the meeting a myth ; but for all
that the proceedings will appear duly
"cooked up."
LAKE.BIMAnTER.
Hteamrr Morning Ntar and RarqneCort.
Innil ('nlliitr llmh ths VmarU sank
Nome Tweutjr Pernonn Miming.
Cleveland, Juno 21. The steam
er Morning Star, hence from Detroit,
collided with the barque Cortland,
thirty miles from here, lost night at
eleven o'clock. Both were sunk. Tho
totnl passenger list of the steamer was
forty, crew thirty; crew of the barque
thirteen. Of these about twenty are
missing, tho remninder having been
picked up by the steamer li. N. luce.
TiiE(SV. Louis Democrat says that
"Brick" Pomcroy's recent speech in
that city madu tirant 200 vote, ai d
Wants "Brick" to coino again.
NEW CirAHT
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN t
IH NOW ItEAKY,
Olvlni thn lcst of Mkmirsi of
GRANT AND COLFAX,
BkntrliF nl tlidr lives, the Platform, Letter
of nrreptimco, I'ortnillfl of nil thn Presidents
and murli kIhHhIIivi! Mutter relating to previ
ous Presidential KlretlonN.
4e-A iiood nuent wanted In thin connty.
AddreHH II
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