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Friday 1t10rningr................April 20. 1H66.
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.
FOR GOVERNOR,
. Hon. HIESTER CLYMER.
OF BERKS COUNTY.
TO DELINQUENTS.
Of thirteen hundred subscribers to
this journal, not quite four hundred
have paid for the year of which nine
months have passed away. Now, is
this not really too bad? If the nine
hundred delinquents had paid up, as
they should have done, there would be
no necessity foranv more dunning. In
that case we would not now need a cent
of money ; but as it is, we need every
cent they owe us. We have paid out
our .own money to meet the expenses
of furnishing these nine hundred with
their weekly copy of our paper. It is
really a loan to them. Now, we appeal
to our delinquent friends to pay up.
You have already permitted yourselves
to lose the advantage of our advance
rates. If you neglect to make payment
for three months longer, you will have
to pay SJ.OO per year for your paper. —
We do not wish to exact this from you.
But we must enforce our rates, or quit
publishing a paper. Shall this be the
last dun? Delinquents will decide for
themselves.
THE REASON WHY.
The Pittsburg Gazette and some oth
er Disunion journals which ape the pe
culiarities of that paper, seem to be
troubled about the resolution in the
Democratic platform, which declares
that we "oweobedience to the Constitu
tion, including the amendment abol
ishing slavery." The reason why this
plank was put in the Democratic plat
form is simply this: Democrats always
stand by the Constitution as it is —the
w'iote Constitution—not a part of it.
The arnendmentabolishing slavery has
become a part of the Constitution, and
though Democrats opposed the adop
tion of this amendment, yet, as it has
been incorporated into the Constitution,
they feel it to be their duty, like good
citizens, to obey it a- they obey the
remaining parts of that instrument.
And herein Consists the difference be
tween the Disunionists and the Demo
crats. The former trample under foot
every provision of the Constitution, ex
cept the anti-slavery amendment, and
stretch even that to cover ground not
intended to be touched by it, whilst the
latter obey the Constitution in all its
parts, not excepting a provision whose
adoption they did not favor. But the
Democratic platform does not contain
one word as to the righteousness o'f the
anti-slavery amendment, nor approba
tory of the manner of its adoption. Jt
merely and simply acknowledges obe
dience to it, as apart of the fundamen
tal law of the land. Would it please
the Disunion journals to have us diso
bey the Constitution, in any of itsparts?
Would it delight them to have us de
nounce and set at defiance any portion
of the fundamental law? We presume
it would, for they have sat at the feet
of Garrison, Phillips and Stevens, to no
purpose, if they have not learned to ad
mire those who execrate and anathe
matize the Constitution. Ay, there's the
rub! They had hoped that like them
selves, the Union Democracy would re
pudiate the Constitution whenever it
did not entirely suit them. Nay, they
had charged the Democracy with an in
tention to restore slavery, despite the
anti-slavery amendment. But the
Democratic platform gives the lie o
this charge and effectually prevents the
Disunionists from making any capi
tal on this subject. That is what's the
matter.
GREED FOR ROWER.
Political organizations are not the
only aspirants for power in this conn
try. It seems that there are ecclesias
tical "rings'" forming which, as well as
political parties. hope to make thein
gro a stepping-stone to place and i on
sequence. A recent number of the
New York Christian Advocate, holds
forth as follows:
"The negro is the coming man. *
* * * * The coming man of to-day
will be the present man of to-morrow;
and since it is peculiarly the tendency
of the spirit of the Gospel operating a
mong our free institutions, fo lift up
the lowly, it may he assumed that the
church timt shall now secure to itself
the colored population of the country,
will in so doing make sure of a great
power for the future."
"A great power for the fqture!"
Think of the Church of Christ having
to stoop to " secure 9l any class of people
to "make sure of a great power for the
future !" Is it temporal power this Jes
uit wants? Is it that power which re
sults from mere numbers, that this ad
vocate for negro proselytes longs for ?
Jesus Christ taught his disciples, say
ing: My kingdom is not of this world;
but this would-be apostle of the meek
and lowly Jesus makes the evangelism
of the negroes through the agency of
a particular sect, the surety "of a great
power for the future." Such a kingdom
is neither of this world, nor of the
heavenly, hut verily of Beelzebub him
self. We cannot think that any con
siderable number of Methodists (whose
organ the Advocate is) approve this
proposition to set up in their churches
the ebony idol whose worship is to
"make sure of a great power in the fu
ture." If they betrue Christians, they
must read such appeals to their fleshly
lust, with grief and abhorrence. No
truly pious man, hut who on reflecting
upon such sentiments, will say, What
has the Church to do with obtaining
temporal power? for, verily, its future
shall only exist when translated to that
"house not made with hands, eternal
in the heavens."
THE NEW BREED OF DIMMONISTS.
Yancey, Rhett, and Davis submitted ;
their Disunionism to the arbitrament
of the sword. The wager of battle de
cided* against them, and Secession is
dead beyond hope of resuscitation. —
They attempted Disunion for the sake
of protecting property in the negro s
labor. They failed, and people rejoiced,
thinking that the colored gentleman
had at last lteen eliminated from the
political wood-pile. Rut, no sooner is
their hash settled, than there arises a
new breed of Disunionists, who declare
the Union dissolved in order to protect
0 prospective property in the neyeo >• rote.
Not one of the infernal Fifteen who at
present rule this country—not Sumner,
nor Wade, nor Stevens, nor any ol the
men whom the President and Mr. Sew
ard hold to be Disunionists—would hes
itate a moment to admit the eleven
Southern States into the Union, if uni
verse t suffrage (whites, mulattoes and
blacks all voters) would be made the
basis of their restoration. This they
have admitted in Congress. They want
the negro's vote to aid them in main
taining their political supremacy.—
What, then, is the difference between
the Disunionism of Yancey, Rhett and
Davis, and that of Sumner, Wade and
Stevens? Nothing. Not the shadow
of the slightest variation. The former
tried to take out of the tHi on, eleven
States, for the purpose of protecting
property in negro tahor. The latter
hove excluded from find are to-day keep
ing out of the Union, those same eleven
States, in order to protect property they
hope to obtain in negro rotes. These
men are, therefore, Disunionists and
Traitors, for they are laboring to over
turn the Govern nent and have already
dissolved the Union. Men cried "hav
-1 oe and let slip the dogs of war," when
Southern Disunionists strove to break
up the Union in order to protect prop
erty in the negro's labor; what will they
do now, when Northern Disunionists
have actually broken up the Union for
the purpose of protecting a prospective
property in negro votes ? The issue has
again narrowed itself down to Cat riot ism
and Treason. There can be no two par
tie- a> between The Union and Disun
ion ; there can be only Patriots on the
one hand and Traitors on the other.—
What! call that man a friend of the
Union, who says thai it is composed of
but twenty-fir* States? ('all that man a
patriot whomutilatestheflag by blotting
eleven stars from the Federal coustella-!
tion? Never! Never! He is a Disunion
Traitor and as such let his name go
down to posterity. He only is a Union*
man who stands up for the Union of
Thirty Six States , he only is a Patriot
whose flag bears upon its folds the thir
ty-six stars emblematic of alt the States
and the whole Union. Look around
you, reader, and "spot" the men who
belong to the new breed of Disunionists.
GREAT VICTORY FOR THE UICIIT IN
NEW JERSEY !
The nice little game of the Disunion
ists in the U. S. Senate, of which the
ousting of Senator Stockton was a part,
has been completely spoiled.* Mr. J.
M. Scovel, of Camden, President of the
New Jersey Senate, la "Republican")
I held in hi- hands the balance of power
between the two parties in that body.
He boldly denounced the ousting of
Senator Stockton as an outrage, and vo
ted with the Democrats against going
I into joint convention to elect a succes
sor to Stockton. Thaddeus Stevens ad
jured, remonstrated with and threaten
ed Scovel, b\* telegraph from Washing
ton; but all to no purpose. Scovel was
immovable, and the New Jersey Leg
islature had to adjourn sine <tie without
electing a Senator in place of Mr. Stock
ton. If the election goes over to next
year, its is expected, Stockton will be
returned by a large majority.
WHO are the Disunionists and trai
tors of the present day ? Ask President
Johnson, W. 11. Seward and the en
dorsers of the President's twenty see
j ond of February speech, and you will
get the answer, in the President's own
l words, "Thaddeus Stevens, of Pennsyl
vania, Mr. Sumner in the Senate and
| Wendell Phillips." As for the small
fry who, like Forney, swim in the wake
of these Disunion whales, they are only
Dead Thicks, upon which you needn't
waste your ammunition.
THE BOYS IX BEACH VS. THE BOYS
IS BLUE.
Gen. Geary, the Disunion candidate
for Governor, is now the leader of the
4 'cullud brigade." He has deserted the
"boys in blue," in order to take charge
of the boys in black! He is the candi
date of the Hump Congress which does
nothing but legislate for the negro and
which declares the Union to be com
posed of but twenty five, state*. Grant
and Sherman, Meade and Hancock stick
to first principles; they are for the Hag
with thirty six stars upon it and for the
Union with thirty six states included
within its limits. They, also, stick to
the boys in blue and disdain to layoff
their battle harness to clothe themselves
in black to serve the purposes of office
getting. Not so Geary. He is for the
Thud. Stevens Rump Union of twenty
five States, for the Sumner mutilated
flag of twenty five stars. lie luis laid
aside hisuniform of true blue, and donn
ed the black of the Freedmen's Bureau
and the saddle-color of the Civil
Rights Bill. While Grant and Sher
man, Meade and Hancock stand by An
drew Johnson, who is the Commander
in Chief of tiie Army and Navy of the
United States, Geary opposes him and
suffers himself to be used as a tool in :
the hands of the Disunionist, Thad.
Stevens, in the interest of the conspir
acy of the Rump Congress against that
noble patriot. There is a direct is-ue, \
therefore, between Geary, the leader of
the boys in black, and the friends of the j
patriots who fought for a I'nion of thir
ty six States and under a flag of thirty
s>x stars, the soldier citizens, the boys in
For the Gazette.
I)lSlMO>' P.\BlU'3f.
The pup on tvhic-h Btnlforil county ItiMin
jonisis are '<■<!— Salmi for Secessionists
—Buttered brains of Dead llncks for
dessert—A Legislative Templar.
MR. EDITOR:—I have often wonder
ed why it was that men who profess to
he supporters of the Constitution and
who invariably declare that they art
opposed to placing negroes upon an e
quality with white men, should yet
vote a ticket representing opposition to
the Constitution and the practical e
quality of whites and blacks. lam 110
longer astonished since 1 have become
a readerof the Bedford Inquirer. That
sheet is tlie teacher of these things and
the so-called "Republicans" of Bedford
county are its pupils. A large majori
ty of them see no other paper and are
led to believe that all that appears in
its columns is gospel. It advocates e
qual rights for the negro, and its po
litical friends, without further inquiry,
swallow the dose it gives them. No
matter how much poison i- contained
in it, they gulp it down, not thinking
that in the end it may prove the death
of the body politic. It is 110 wonder,
therefore, that men learn to despise
the Constitution and imbibe a willing
ness to consent to the degradation of
their own race. Take that paper for
the last six months and what do you
find in it but advocacy of the right of
negroes to enjoy the privileges of the
while muni Scarcely a single issue is
without an article in this line. Such is
the pap upon which men who are yet
but babes and sucklings in the cradleof
Negro Equality , are .constantly fed.
Soon, however, the noxious stuff stim
ulates their system and they expand
into full grown advocates of that hor
rible doctrine, it can not be denied that
j this is true. A yeqr ago men who now
j glory over the passage of the Negro
Civil Rightsbill, would huveindignant-
I ly repelled the charge that they were
j in favor of making negroes citizens,
i What has changed their views in this
, respect? Disunion, Negro equality
newspapers, such the Bedford Inqui
rer.
But, it is not only what that paper
does publish, but what it purposely o
mits to publish, that misleads and de
bauches its readers. It has an advan
tage over the inembersof its party who
are its patrons, which it makes use of
in themost shameless manner. Few of
them take any other paper, and, there
fore, besides imposing false and malig
nant doctrines upon them, it expressly
with-holds from them facts and docu
ments of the most important charac
ter. For instance, if avoided publishing
the great speech of President Johnson,
made on the tast anniversary of Wash
ington''s birth-day. It has also failed to
publish the President's message vetoing
the Negro Civil Rights bill. Whoever
heard of such contemptible unfairness
as this? How cqp "Republicans"
make up their minds as to whether the
President is right or wrong, when they
are not permitted to see his side of the
case? Does this lop-sidedness not show,
of itself, that the Inquirer stands upon
slippery ground, that Negro equality is
not a tenable platform, that the Presi
dent is right and his assailants wrong?
If the people are to shoot in the dark,
isn't there great danger that they will
hit the wrong man? Nevertheless, the
editors of the Inquirer should remem
ber that shots in the dark, as well as
those in the light, sometimes rebound.
As long as blood was to IK* spilt and
money to be made out of the misery
of the people, the Inquirer was ram
pant in its out-cry tor the Union. But j
how is it now? it is a year since tin
terrible "rebels" laid down their arms
and got on their knees for pardon. Not
a single armed man in all the South to
day lifts his hand in opposition to the
government. Not a single remnant of
the rebellious .stars and Bars" flutters
in the wind, from Maryland to Texas.
The Southern people are in complete
and utter subjection to .the laws of the
Federal Government. At its bidding
they have abolished Negro Slavery, an
institution near and dear to them ; at
its beck they have ratified the amend-
ment to the Constitution prohibiting
that institution forever; at its com
mand they have repudiated their war
debt, to do which required them to sac
rifice their public honor. Yet, to-day
the Bedford Inquirer , in common with
almost every other Abolition paper in
the State, cries out against the restora
tion of those States to their places in
the Union; to-day the Bedford Inquirer
holds that those States are out of the
Union, that secession took them out of
the Union, that, therefore, the Union ar
my iron not successful in preventive/ them
from going out of the Union. To-day
the Bedford Inquirer regards the Union
as composed of but twenty-five States
and every man who believes its doc
trines, must also believe that Secrsion
was successful; for, if it was not, how
could e/eren of the thirty-six State.- now
be out of the Union? This is Disun
ionism, thorough-paced,* full-blooded
unadulterated Ihsuuionism. it is the
bursting-forth into new and more vig
orous life, of the old New England
plant, the germ of which sent forth
some of its shoots when Banks was
willing "to let the Union slide" and
Garrison published the Liberator with
the motto, the "Union is a-league with
Death and a Covenant with Hell." This
is thesalad forSeeession, andthe droop
ing creature of Calhoun and Yancey, of
Phillips, Parker and Garrison, will de
rive new strength from this nourish
ing succulent so assiduously cultivated
by the deluded followers of Mr.! 'harles
Sumner and Mr. Thaddeus Stevens.
Let the Inquirer deny, if it dares, that
it holds that, there are but twenty-fire
States in the Union. Is this not so,
gentlemen? if so, your flag can have
but twenty-flee stars upon if and you are
Disunionists self-confessed and self-con
demned.
Again, the Inquirer continually pre
sumes it> readers to bo ignorant. It in
sults them weekly with impostures of
the most shameless character. It tries
to blindfold them by setting up a hur
rah over imaginary political victories.
For instance, in its last issue, it has a
double-leaded article on the Connecti
cut election, which winds up with a
"huzza for Connecticut!" Why didn't
it tell its readers thatthe "Republican"
majority in Connecticut is only about
500, whilst la>t year it was 11,035, and
Lincoln in had about 2,500? Also
that the "Republicans" this year lost
S Senators and 35 Representatives?
Ah ! this would not have suited its pur
pose. It wight hare discouraged .tome
of it .v partizanr, to left the truth. It has
also a similar glorification over Rhode
Island, but it forgets to say thatthe
"Republicans" of that State made no
platform, and that the Democrats did
not nominateacandidateagainst Burn
side. Further on it elaimsthat themu
nieipal elections in Michigan, "show
considerable Republican gains," when
the contrary is true, as the Democrats
and Johnson men made a clean sweep
iii that State. The same is also the
ease in regard to its claim of the elec
tion in Leavenworth, Kansas, as a "Re
publican" triumph, when Carney, the
Mayor elect, was supported by the Dem
ocrats and Johnson men as against the
Pomeroy Radicals. Why couldn't it
te 1 its readers about St. Louis, that for
mer Radical stronghold, where the
Sumner and Stevens party has just been
beaten 3,000 votes; or, about Evans
ville, Indianapolis and Torre Haute,
Jnd., (the latter the home of Hon. I>.
W. Yoorhees) all of them last year
strongly " Republican,"andall of them
them this year overwhelmingly Demo
cratic? The inquirer must imagine
that when it caters thus for its readers,
it is buttering the brains of "dead
ducks."
But, then, in order to sugar-coat its
doses, there is a delicious icing of mo-
rality spread over them, for instance,
articles on temperance, one of the edi
tors belonging to the order of Good
Templars, he being a candidate for the
"Republican" nomination for the Leg
islature. In the last issue, however,
these articles were not to be seen, inas
much as the editor's rival for the legis
lative honors, has also joined the Tem
plars.
"The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be,
The devil got well, the devil a monk was he."
liut, I find no fault with the Inquirer's
advocacy of temperance. On the other
hand, Ibid it God-speed. Only, I don't
think so excellent a cloak should be
put upon so vile a body as that which
wears it in the columns of that paper
—to wit, Political Trickery. Do you,
reader? OLD SALT,
POLITICAL VKVVtI. ,
—A mass meeting of the friends of
President Johnson, was held at Wash
ington, at which Green Clay Smith (a
Kentucky Republican)said: "Andrew
Johnson is the Gibraltar of America,
and every man who das h$ his head*a
against 'that rock,' will get his brains
knocked out."
—The New Jersey Legislature has ad
journed without electing a successor to
Senator Stockton. The speaker of the
Senate, Mr. Scovel, of Camden, voted
with the Democrats, against going into
joint convention for the purpose of e
lecting a Senator. This defeated the
scheme of the Disunion iste to have one
of their own stripe returned in place of
Stockton.
—Toledo, Ohio, has elected the Dem
ocratic ticket by .'125 majority. Last
fall the Republican" majority was
529—Democratic gain 854! Prince,
Dem., has l>een elected Mayor of St.
Paul, Minn., by 1,327 majority. A
large Democratic gain.—Ft. Wayne,
Ind„ has elected the Democratic ticket
by 7(H) majority, the largest ever given.
—Each of the Senators who voted for
the Negro Civil Rights Bill, has been
presented with a boquet by a delega
tion jof negro wenches. This highly
scented affair is the burden of an As
sociated Press dispatch.
—The elections in Tennessee, for mem
bers of the Legislature, have gone Con
servative by large majorities.
—Rahway, X. J., has gone Demo
cratic. Last fall, the Repub. maj. was
68.—Linden, same State, formerly "Re
publican," elects the Democratic tick
et.— Elizabeth City, N. J., gives 490
Dem. maj. Springfield, Clark, West
field and Union, same State, all Demo
cratic, with large gains.
—The Democratic victories in the
Western States have been completely
overwhelming. They don't do things
by halves in the West. The "Repub
licans" ran a negro for Mayor in Madi- j
son, Wisconsin. He received some3oo
votes, but was defeated.
—The Disunionists of Maine will hold
their State Convention, at Bangor, on
the 30th of June.. This State is one of
the main stays of the Disunion ship.
—Both Houses of the lowa Legisla
ture have adopted a proposition to a
mend the Constitution of that State,
by striking therefrom the word'white.'
AT Honors MIRUER IS IMIII.AII:I.-
III I A.
On Wednesday afternoon April 11,
between 2 and 3 o'clock, the City of
Philadelphia was startled by the intel
ligence that an entre family had been
slaughtered by a < lerman laborer en
gaged in the service of the murdered
man. The news spread rapidly, and
the detectives were soon upon the
ground. The following are the details
of the horrible massacre as ascertained
and reported by The Evening Telegraph
of vesterday:
Mr. Christopher Deering resided a
bout one-half mile from the old Point
House road, and within five hundred
yards of the site of the well remember
ed Point House, about three miles be
low the Navv Yard, on what is termed
the "Neck."'
Thedwelling house, a two story frame,
is located on Jones' lane, the barn and
stable being a short distance off. Mr.
1 leering was a cattle dealer, and a quiet,
unostentatious man. I f eatttended.-trict
ly to his own business, and thus won
the esteem of all who knew him. He
occupied the farm for live or six years,
having rented it from the owner, .Mr.
James Mitchell. Beside his own fam
ily, he had a hired man living with
him, a German, whose name none of
the residents thereabouts could give;
also a lad, called Cornelius, seventeen
years old, who was bound to Mr..Deer
"ing, and had been with him seven or
eight years.
On Wednesday afternoon the fearful
discovery was made thattheentire fam
ily, with the exception of the eldest
child, a boy named William, ten years
of age, who happened to be paying
a.visittoa relative, named Duffy, in
West Philadelphia (and possibly the
boy Cornelius), were brutally murder
ed, and their bodies thrown together
in the barn, a short distance from the
dwelling house. In each instance the
heads were knocked in and the throats
cut, in some (.rases to such an extent that
they were nearly decapitated. There
they lay, a mangled inass of humanity,
piled one on top of the other. The Eith
er of the family and Mrs. Dolun were
found lying side by side in the barn,
terribly disfigured, and covered with
hay, and in an adjoining sort of corn
crib was found the body of Mrs. Peer
ing, surrounded by four of her children,
all so terribly mutilated that identifica
tion was almost impossible; the ages of
the children ranging from eight years
to an innocent of fourteen months. The
names of the persons murdered are as
follows:
.Mr. Christopher Deering age 37 years.
Mi's. Julia Deering, aged 44 years.
John Deering, aged 8 years.
Thomas Deering, aged (! years.
Annie Deering, aged 4years.
Kmma Deering, aged 14 months.
Mrs. Elizabeth Dolan, aged 41 years.
The last seen of any member of the
family was last Friday morning, when
some of the neighbors observed two of
the children going over the meadow
near the house, apparently chasing up
some ducks.
Mr. Deering was, however, seen as
late as last Saturday morning, when he
called upon Mr. Mitchell, No. 1.6:20 Arch
street, who owns the estate on which
Mr. Deering resides. lie transacted
some business with Mr. Mitchell and
then left, saying that he had to go to the
steamboat landing, in order to meet his
niece Mrs. Dolan), who, it appears, has
gone to Trenton to attend a funeral. —
From that time nothing was seen oris
known of him until found as described,
in his barn, yesterday afternoon.
Later.— -Ait k est ok oxe ok the
Mirderers.— P/tila.,, April 13.—A
man was arrested at the corner of Twen
ty-third and .Market streets this morn
ing, who confesses to having murdered
the Deering family. He states that he
was assisted by a companion, whom he
lias described minutely to the authori
ties. Search is being made for his ac
complice. The prisoner is now at the
Center Police Station.
SECOND DESPATCH.
Mrs. Dolan, the grandmother of the
Deering children, fully identities the
prisoner as the man employed on the
farm, and also thearticlesof clothing he
had on when arrested as belonging to
Mr. Deering.
The prisoner confesses the murder of
the boy Cornelius Carey, but says that
his accomplice, Jacob Youder, commit
ted the rest of the butchery.
He describes Youder as follows:
"Thirty-eight to thirty-nine years
old; broad shoulders ; heavy black mus
tache; dark brown hair; wore mili
tary pants; had boil on the left side of
his neck; weight about one hundred
and sixty pounds; carried off a black
leather bag."
The prisoner lost his thumb in the
cavalry service.
THIRD DISPATCH.
The man arrested is named Antoine
Ganter. He formerly belonged to the
Fifth Pennsvlvania Cavalry.
Tin* prisoner static that on Saturday,
about 12 o'clock, lie killed the hoy, Cor
nelius Carey, while he was on the hay
stack, hut that another man by the name
of Jacob Yonder, formerly of the Elev
enth Pennsylvania Cavalry, killed the
I rest of the family.
The announcement of the arrest of
AntoineCanter created the most intense
j excitement throughout the city.
Extra editions of The Bulletin and
| Telegraph were issued, giving the par
ticulars of the arrest.
The news spread like wildfire, and
vengeance against the prisoner was ut
tered on every side.
An immense crowd collected around
the police station at the State House,
and threatened to lynch the prisoner!
A cousin of the murdered family wan
ted to take summary vengeance upon
them.
The prisoner was finally removed in
safety to the Moyaraensing Prison.
WANTED. —The ropes used by the
Republicans to hang "traitors" who re
fused to support the "Government,"
//YM the Administration. We have a
few traitors in town refusing to support
the present "Government," who need
a small application.— Pennsylvania Ar
gux,
TMEHOnF.KMKT AH
A Whtte Woman F.lopew with a Negro! '
John Brmrri's Soul Marching On ! |
We find, in the Somerset Democrat, '
of April 11, the following account of
and remarks upon the recent elopement
of a white woman with a negro man,
in that county:
On Monday night, the 2d inst., a
daughter of Mr. Win. Griffith of Jenner
township, this county, aged about 17
j years, eloped with a full blooded Nig-
I ger, black as Erebus. Sometime after j
! night Miss Griffith slipped out from her
! father's house, met the nigger on the j
j road according to previous arrangement
; and the same night walked to John- j
I stown, IS miles distant, with a view of
taking the morning train for Harris
: burg, where they were to be married.
Mr. Griffith discovering the absence of
the parties and suspecting their inten
; tions, proceeded forthwith toStdystown,
the nearest telegraph office, and there
telegraphed to the police of Johnstown
| to arrest them on their arrival, which
' was accordingly done. Miss Griffith
! was taken to her father's house and the
i nigger was on the 4th inst., committed i
i to the jail of this county to await his j
i trial at next court, which will amount
! simply to nothing as it is no legal of-
I fence, but purely a matter of TASTE and
j SMELL. This nigger has been in the
employ of Mr. Griffith for some time.
During the last winter he frequently
| took this daughter and Mrs. Griffith
and other female members of the l'ami
|lv sleigh-riding. He was on a perfect
I equality with the family—ate at the
j same table, slept under the same root
i and enjoyed all the rights and privileges
that Mr. Griffith's children did.
Mr. Griffith is one of the original Ab
olitionists of the county, has voted that
ticket for the last 22 years to our cer
! tain knowledge, and has advocated the
cause of negro equality in a zealous
manner. He often said before hisfam
-1 iiy that a "negro was plenty good e
nough for a poor white girl "with simi
' lar expressions, showing the bias of his
mind. The daughter, having confidence
in her father, imbibed his teachingsand
concluded to act upon them. She was
perfectly innocent and no blame should
: attach to her. She supposed she was
, 1 doing right inasmuch as her father—
, her dearest friend—had taught her that
a negro was as good as a white man,
and had in his own house set an exam
ple of social equality between black
and white people. We understand, she
says that she loves him and is bound
to have him. Mr. Griffith is one of the
best citizens of this county and we can
not believe that he ever had the remot
est idea as to the tendency of his teach
ings or he would surely have spared his
! own family. This sad example should
be a warning to the people of this coun
ty never to be forgotten.
In a majority of families of this coun
ty this doctrine of negro equality, so
cially and politically, is being taught,
because it is the doctrine of the Repub
lican party, and they may not see its
I revolting features until they find out
that some member of the family—some
one who confided in their teachings is
: about to carry their teachings into prac
tice. And if they do not want their
on n children to follow their teachings,
how as christians, hound by the golden
rale, can they desire others to practice
1 what they wont practice themselves. —
The case in hano is a fair example of
the result of such teachings. Similar
cases a re of frequent < xru r renee th rough
' ! out the North. Parents, it is dangerous
teaching. God Almighty for some in
scrutable purjx)secreated the blacks and
the whites different and placed before
you the evidence of that difference, and
when you attempt to reverse his decrees
you can't expect to fare better than
did our first parents when they thought
themselves wiser than God. We adjure
the people to think of this matter.—
; God never intended the negroes and the
, j whites to be equals and when you come
j to make a personal application of the
doctrine of equality, you shrink from
it with horror as did Mr. Griffith, when
; his daughter was about to throw her
-1 ; self into the embraces of a negro. A
bandon, renounce, and abjure at once
; and forever this horrible, Heaven-defy
ing—God-insulting doctrine, before
your families may be disgraced and
|ruined.
run s I:M A vs.
Latest troni Lnstporl—<>rc>i: Excitement.
EAST POUT, April 12.—There is great
excitement at Camp Beiio Island, to
day. Fainilies are moving over here,
taking shelter in barns and out-houses.
A great Fenian meeting was held last
night, at which speeches were made by
Gillian and Major Sin not.
Latest front the Borders.
CALAIS, Maine, April 12. —There was
much excitement yesterday and last
, j night at St. Stephens, New Brunswick,
opposite the city. Fears of a Fenian
raid somewhere on the frontier have
. been strengthening for several days,
' but the precise point of attack is not
! yet known. Reports from East port
yesterday indicated that the Fenians
, I wereleaving there in squads, supposed
, for Calais, but, up to this hour, they
, i have not shown themselves here. From
two to three hundred men were under
arms at St. Stephens all last night, and
• i all the approaches to the city are strong
ily guarded. Every preparation has
been made to receive the Fenians. An
attack was expected last night, but ev
erything passedmff quietly. The force
at St. Stephens i.- to be increased to-day
to five hundred men. Barge numbers
! of Fenians are supposed to be moving
• | East, but no definite information cun
j be gathered,
Tlic IV-nian Invasion of Cnnadn.
WASiiiX<•'TOX, April 11.—Sir Fred-
I crick Bruce professes to have received
i information that leaves no doubt of the !
intention of the Fenians to attack some
| point in the British Provinces.
I It appears certain that large nuni- i
| hers of men arc guthty ing on the fron
tier, and it is alleged that their object j
1 is to concentrate and capture some place
which will be hastily entrenched and
defended.
j In that ease it is expected that rein
forcements and aid from the Fnited
j States and British Provinces will fiow
I in, to enable them to accomplish their
j ulterior objects.
The situation is deemed sufficiently !
alarming to call forth a proclamation
| from the President against' any iuva- ;
j sion of the neutrality laws,.and it will
! shortly appear.
I Serious remonstrances have been re-I
! reived from the Canadian authorities.
It is understood that the Fnited States j
i Marshals on the border towns, have re- j
reived orders to prevent any invasion, j
Ax Hox EST CONFESSION.—The In
quirer of yesterday contains a special j
dispatch from Washington in the fol- j
lowing words:
The decision of the Supreme Court j
to-day that the military commissions!
to try civilians are not legal tribunals j ,
in time of peace has created quitea sen- j
sation here, as it is supposed to secure i
the freedom of Jeff. Davis and Clay,
who can ontybe convicted of any crime
by trying them be/orea military commit- !
sion for conspiracy in the assassination i
f Presiderd Lincoln. It is not itnprob
bie that an attempt will be made to rc
*ase them on a writ of habeas eo rpvs
This is frank, not to say shameless.!,
t is an explicit admission that the on
y way to get the lives of the prisoner:
t Fortress Monroe, is to subject thern
0 a kind of trial which the highest tri
bunal in the land has pronounced to be
s lawless as the Court of .Judge Lynch
Age.
THE HARRISBURG POST
fen. Knipe was nominated to the Sen
ite by the President as Postmaster a \
Harrisburg;, in place of George Ber<!
ier, removed, on the 9th inst. We u!
lorstand that George F. Miller, the
Representative from this district, 1,-,,
requested that the nomination shall iie
iver for the present, but it is believed
it cannot be defeated. We learn, fur
ther, that when the Post Office G, ni .
niittee'met, on the 12th, the nomiiut
tion had not readied it from /
clerks , thus causing a week's delay ";tt
all events, in the action of the Commit
tee.
Brother Bergner dies hard, but hp
must give way to one of the "hoy- in
blue;" to which we say—Amen\~.]>L
(riot & Union.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
A LL< <ICK'S POROUS PLASTERS.— CURE
Lumbago, Pain? of the Side, Varicose Veins, ?
Chest. Ac. An Electrician, who has great experi
ence for their effects in local rheumatism, tic dolo.
reux, and deep seated nervous and other pains, and
in affections of fhe kidneys, etc., etc., attribute
aii their sedative, stimulative, and pain-relievij,
effects to their electric qualities. He assyts thee
restore the healthy electric condition (equilibrium
of the part, and that being resroreck pain and m •-
bid action cease.
LAME BACK.
Brandreth House, X. Y-, Nov 22,
T. ALIXOCK Co.—Gentlemen : I lately suffer
ed severely from a weakness in my back. Hariri*
heard your Plasters mueh recommended inensesof
this kind I procured one. and the result was all
that I could desire. A single plaster cured me in
a week. Yours, respectfully. J. G. BRIGGS
General Agency. Brandreth House. New York
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prejudice and misapprehension, and carryiug a i
before it CRISTADORO'S HAIR DYE pursuesitsmarch
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ment. it cannot injure the hair or blemish the skic.
Manufactured by J. CRISTADORO. NO. 6 Astor
House, New York. Sold by Druggists. Applied
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DR. TOBIAS' VENETIAN LINIMENT.
—Died of Croup—what a pretty and interesting
child I saw last week! But now, alas! it is no
more. Such was the conversation of two gentle
men riding down town in the ears. Died of croup
how strange! when Dr. Tobias' Venetian Liniment
is a certain cure, if taken in time. Now mother
we appeal to you. 11 is not for the paltry gain and
profit we make, but for the sake of your infant
child that now lies playing at your feet. Croupi
a dangerous disease : but use Dr. Tobias' Venetian
Liniment in lime, and it is robbed of its terror'
Aiways keep it in the house ; you may not wanti;
to-night, or to-morrow, no teljing when—but arm
ed with this liniment you are prepared, lei it come
when it will. Price only 40 cents a bottle. Office
56 Cortlandt Street, New York. Sold by ill drug
gists. March 30, '66-1 in
A LECTURE TO YOUNG MEN— Just
published in a sealed envelope. Price six cents.
A Left are 07i the Nature, Tieatment mtd Radical
cure of Spermatorrhoea or Seminal Weakness, In
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iments to Marriage generally. Nervousness. Con
sumption. Epilepsy and Fits: Mental and Physi
cal Incapacity, resulting from Self-Abuse, Ac. By
ROBERT J. CULVER WELL, M. D., Author of the
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The world renowned author, in this admirable
Lecture clearly proves from his own experience
that the awful consequences of Self-Abuse utjr be
effectually removed without medicine, and witbou'
dangerous surgical operations, bougies inure
ments, rings, or cordials, pointing out a mode 1 '
cure at once, certain and effectual, by which every
sufferer, no matter what his condition may be. may
eure himself cheaply, privately and radically.
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AND THOUSANDS.
Sent under seal, to any address, in a plain, seal
ed envelop, on the receipt of six cents, or two post
age stamps, bv addressing
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Feb 16, '66—ly
To CONSUMPTIVES. —The advertiser,
having been restored to health in a few weeks by
a very simple remedy, after having suffered for
several years with a severe lung affection, and that
dread disease. Consumption—is anxious to make
known to his fellow-sufferers the means of cure
To all who desire it, he will send a copy of the
prescription used (free of charge), with the direc
tions for preparing and using the same, whieh
they will find a sure CURE for CONSUMPTION.
ASTHMA. BRONCHITIS, COUGHS COLDS, and !!
Throat and Lung Affections. The only object <t
the advertiser in sending the Prescription is <■'
benefit the afflicted, and spread information winch
be conceives to be invaluable, and be hopes every
sufferer will try his remedy, as it will cost them
nothing, and may prove a blessing.
Parties wishing the prescription, FREE, by re
turn mail, will please address
REV. EDWARD A. WILSON.
Wiltiamsburgh, Kings Co.. New York
Jan. 5, '66—ly.
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fleers. Chilblains, and all Eruptions of the skin.
Price 50 cents. For all Druggists.
By sending 60 cents to W EEKS A POTTER, Sole
Agents, 170 Washington street, Boston, Mas-" i'
will be forwarded by mail, free of postage, tone)'
part of the l'n;ted States Sept 23- —6m
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something very much*' their advantage by re
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dersigned. Those having fears of being humbug
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will please address their obedient servant,
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SSI Broadway, New York.
Jan 5, '66—ly.
ERRORS OK YOUTH. —A Gentleman
who suffered for years from Nervous Debility. Pre
mature Decay, and all the effects of youthful it>
dissretion, will, for the sake of suffering human)
ty, send free to all who need it, the recipe aid di
rections for making the simple remedy by which
be was cured. Sufferers wishing to profit by the
advertisers experience, can do so by addressm?
JOHN B. Oot'lA
No. 13 Chambers St., New" York
Jan. a, 66^1y.
CATARACT, 40 YEARS.— Mrs. Ashen" 1
from Bedford. Pa., stopping with her
Williams, near the corner of Baldwin and P'" : '
Streets, has had Cataract on both eyes over for')
years causing total blindness for the last 9
Lately Dr. Sterrett removed the cataract f' !e
now—sees to read without the aid of glasses
Jan 12-3 m
'p> THE SCHOOL DlKi:<"l'Dlit 1
1 OF BEDFORD COUNTY :— Gentlemen -
lii pursuance of the forty-third section ef the ''•
uf Bth ot May, 1851, you are hereby notified to
meet in convention, at tho court house, in bed
ford. on the first Tuesday in May, A. D., 1660. be
ing the Ist day of the month, at t o'clock in t.w
afternoon, and select, viva voce, hv a majority 01
ihe whole number of directors present, one person
>f literary and scientific acquirements, and 0
'kill and experience in the art of teaching 8 '
■ounty Superintendent, for the three succeeding
fears; determine the amount of compensate'
'or the stttue ; and certify the result to the Mat
superintendent, at Harrisburg, as required nytto
hirty-ninth and fortieth sections of said act.
The time was changed from the Ist Monday
st Tuesday in May. during the present session
he legislature. J. VV.DXCKERSON,
api. 13-.'its. County Sup't of Bedford count)
I AUKSON HOTEL,
lie it road Street,
HUNTINGDON, Pa.
C. SNELL.
apr.13,'66. _ Proprietor- -
g|T ANTED 40 hands to make crass-
V y ties. Liberal prices will be paid and con
ant employment given* HOMKR XEICE,
Bloody Run. April 13—4t. Agent-
IMIE Local circulation of the BED
FORD GAZETTE is larger than that of any OTHER
tper in this section ol country, and therefore of
■s the greatest inducements to business men te
yeriise in its columns.