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Friday Morning:.... July a?, 1866.
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.
FOR GOVERNOR,
Hun. HIESTER CLYMER,
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OF BERKS COUNTY.
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.
PROTHOXOTARV,
O. E. SHANNON, of Bedford Bor.
SHERIFF,
ROBT. STECKMAN, of Bloody Run.
ASSOCIATE JUDGE,
GEORGE W. GUMP, of Napier.
COMMISSIONER,
DAVID HO WSARE, of Southampton
POOR DIRECTOR,
MICHAEL DIEHL, of Colerain.
AUDITOR,
JOHN D. LUCAS, of Bloody Run.
THE CLIMBER.
A Campaign Paper.
The undersigned are publishing a
campaign paper entitled "The Climb
er," the first number of which was
issued on the 7th of July inst., and
which will be continued until the Gub
ernatorial election in October.
This publication is devoted to the
support of President Johnson's Resto
ration Policy and the election of such,
candidates as are openly in favor of sus
taining that policy. It contains six
teen columns of matter and is filled
with racy editorials and the spiciest !
articles of the campaign. No const i
vative politician should be without i ! .
It will be embellished with POR
TRAITS OF PRESIDENT JOHN
SON, Hon. HIESTER CLYMER and
other eminent patriots and statesmen,
and will contain a number of humorous
political illustrations.
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MEYERS A MEXGEL,
Bedford, JPa.
THE LATEST VETO.
We call particular attention to the
message of President Johnson, printed
in this issue, vetoing the bill to contin
ue the Freedmen's Bureau. This veto
is sustained by Seward, Welles, Me-
Culloch and Stanton, yet Congress, as
suming superior wisdom, passed the
bill over the veto and the people are
now called upon to decide whether
President Johnson and his cabinet, or
Thad. Stevens and company,are in the
right; nay, the so-called "Republican"
party is now required to say whether
it will endorse the judgment of its old
and trusted leaders, Seward, Welles and
their confreres, or whether it w.ll fol
low the ignis fatuus of the Lancaster
lunatic who imagines black white and
white black. Therefore, let people as
certain what this Negro Bureau is for,
whether it accomplishes as much good
as the evil it produces, and whether, in
short, Hie government should longer l>e
i
burdened with a subject which proper
ly belongs to the consideration of the
States concerned, in their individual
capacity. Generals Steedman and Ful
lerton, by direction of the President,
have fully investigated the operations
of the Bureau, and report them a com
plete failure, except in one respect, to
wit, the enriching of the Agents by
stealing from the government and for
cing negroes to work their saw-mills
and plantations for little or nothing.
Congress, in defiance of the President
and his cabinet, has forced this mon
strous Bureau upon the country for
three years longer. It will not cost less
than twenty millions of dollars per an
num, to keep it going, making an ad
dition to our debt (in three years) of
sixty million* of d*Mars! The only sal
vation for the people is to elect a Con
gress which will repeal this law and a-
bolish the grand government Negro
Poor House system. It is now one oi
the main planks in the "Republican"
platform to maintain this Negro Poor
House plan throughout the South.
Those who are in favor of doing so will
vote for GEARY and the candidates on
the Radical Disunion ticket. Those
who are opposed to it will vote for (T.v-
MER and the candidates on the conser
vative ticket. All w ask, is, that peo
ple will examine this matter for them
selves, and having done so, will not
permit their partisan feelings to inter
vene between their judgment and the
right.
THOSE hundred dollars in gold to be
paid to the chairman of the Disunion
Suite Committee, if we cannot show
that CLYMER voted, in the Senate, for
the Amendment to give the soldiers the
right to vote in the army—what "Re
publican" wantsthe" hiners?" Don't
be modest, eentlemenl
IT is feared itiai me "copperheads"
will eat up the "Thud-poles" in Octo
ber.
I>ISI>'IO\ RFPUESF.XT ATIVF. ATV D
NF.V iTOIH 11. l OVFEKEVI ES.
The endorsers of Congress in the
"Republican" party, as against the
policy of President Johnson, held their
conference to nominate candidates for
Representatives in the Legislature, in
this place, on Friday and Saturday
last. The candidates before the con
ference were Mes.-rs. Weller, ofSomer
set, Stuckey, of Bedford, and Richards
of Fulton. After protracted balloting,
Messrs. Weller and Richards were
nominated. Somerset voted for Rich
ards, in order to "kill" Duffield for
Senator, so that the chances for Stutz-
man, Somerset's candidate for Senator,
might be improved. This was a nice
little game on the part of our Somerset
friends and was beautifully played.—
What cared they for a one-legged sol
dier when he stood between them and
the point they were trying to make?—
Not a whit! The "machine" was run
right over him, crutches and all, with
the whole weight of Richards' burly
body on the vehicle. Meanwhile, the
Senatorial conference was in session,
balloting and adjourning, by turns, a
waiting the action of the Representa
tive Conference, the candidates voted
for being Messrs. Stutzman, of Somer
set, Householder, of Bedford, and Duf
fleld of Fulton. Finally the trump
card in Stutzman's hand was played;
Stuckev was "thrown" and Duffield
laid on the shelf by the nomination of
Richards and Wei'er for Representa
tives. This happened on Saturday.—
The Householder men then began to
make demonstrations upon the confer
ence by threatening that Bedford
County would give "800 or !)00 Copper
head majority," if Somerset got the
candidate. It was also reported that
Stutzman would vote for Cowan, if
elected, but Stutzman characterized
this as an invention of the "cooper
heads." At noon, on Saturday, Berg
ner, of the Harrisburg Tek<jraph, Cam
eron's general of the Hessian brigade,
made his appearance on the battle
ground, with despatches from the Win
nebago head-quarters at the Springs.
It was then all neatly arranged that
Stutzman should vote for Cameron for
the U. S. Senate, M. Edgar King,
conferee from Fulton County should
be properly taken care of, and after a
sham-i>attle in the way of balloting,
the Conference adjourned until Mon
day at one o'clock, p. in. Ad interim
the Householder men were struggling,
against great odds, to make an impres
sion upon the Fulton conferees. They
proved, however, that they were "sold
to the Dutch," and when the confer
ence re-assembled, Stutzman was nom
inated "in a jifi'y," Fulton going for
him solid. Thus, after a three days'
-truggle, Bedford County came out
minus , all representation on the legis
lative ticket being denied her. We
shall see whether the Democratic con
ferences cannot do better for "the old
mother." If not, her daughters had
better select her County tickets for her,
likewise, and make a clean job of it
from Congressman to Auditor.
THE GERMAN WAR.
No great battle has been fought m
Germany since that near Skaiiez, call
ed Sadowa, in which the Prussians
gained an overwhelming advantage
over the Austrians. Prague had been
abandoned by the latter, the Austrian
army of the North being in full re
treat, closely pursued by the Prussians.
The Austrian army of the North still
numbered about two hundred thou
sand men. Field Marshal Benedek
had been relieved from the command
and was succeeded by Prince Albreclil.
The Italians had again been defeated
by the Austrian army of the South,
but Cialdini, the Italian general, was
again advancing with an army of one
hundred thousand men, forcing the
Austrians to abandon the line of tiie
Adige. Italy refuses to acknowledge
Yenetia as French territory,hut Prince
Napoleon was to take possession of it
in the name of the French empire, and
a French iron-clad fleet had sailed fur
Venice to aid the Prince in this busi
ness. The armistice proposed to Prus
sia and Ilaiy by Napoleon, is likely to
prove a failure, and the emperor of
France has, it is said, determined on
"armed mediation." It is now thought
that a general European war is immi
nent.
OREGON.
The Democracy of Oregon have giv
en their Disunion opponents so close a
race that they haven't breath enough
left to teli us how the State really has
gone. About a month has elapsed
since the election, and it is not yet cer
tainly known which party has carried
the S ate. At last accounts, however,
the Democracy were slightly ahead.
The Oregon Jltyortur savs that "Kelly,
the Democratic candidate for Gover
nor, is probably elected, in spite of the
frauds practised in many counties, and
that if all the illegal votes are thrown
out, thoentire Democratic ticket is e
lcctod.*'
>0 MORE O THAT, HU!
The "Soldiers' Friends!" Ha! ha!
The "Soldiers' Friends" have been
playing the old Diabolus with the cal
culations of the "boys in blue." The
"Soldiers' Friends" have stolen a march
upon, out-flanked and completely sur
rounded the soldiers. It only remains
to be seen whether they will succeed
in capturing them, or whether they
(thesoldier.-.) will "cut their way out."
By the way there i> a siugular peeu- I
liarity in the selectnere with which
these "Soldiers' Friends" choose the
object upon which to lavish their
friendship. They are very shy of sol
diers who suffered imprisonment in
rebel jails and they have a positive a
version to men who have lost a leg in
the service of their country. For in
stance, they defrauded Col. Filler out
of the nomination for Representative,
in their county convention —positive-
ly counted him out after a majority of
the delegates had voted for him. In
order to defeat Col. Filler, they had to
use the name of Capt. Stuckey, and
having succeeded in their purpose, j
they found Capt. Stuckey upon their
hands, whose sacrifice was also neces
sary to secure their own seliish ends. — J
So they proceeded to immolate him in
the most summary manner, giving his
place on the ticket to a burly, "thick,
fat, round, oily man of"—Fulton conn- j
ty—a glorious old home-guard who
never in his life handled a weapon j
more formidable than the corn-stalk i
of an old-time militia training!
"Soldiers' Friends!" No more o'
that Hal, an' thou lovest me! Ha! ha! j
ha !, "Soldiers' Friends !" It is enough |
to kill one with laughter to hear a !
"Republican" talk about "Soldiers'
Friends!" Stutzuian, Welter, Rich-:
ards! What a noble set of veteran.- !
Lo! the crutches upon which they
limp, the honorable scars upon their!
bodies, the record of their imprison
ment in Southern dungeons, their j
deeds of valor under Sheridan, their j
charge over the ramparts of Fort Wag
ner! Do YOU sav you can't see them? !
Oh! well, they are reflected from the
military career of Col. Filler and Capt. j
Stuckey, which makes it all the same, i
Still it i* funny, very funny, isn't it? j
UHAT !>!! THE SOI.OIERS Kllilll'
FOIt ?
What did the soldiers of the Union
army fight for? A Republican news
paper asks that question. We will try
to answer it in a few plain words.
Says the Lancaster fnte.ltk/eneer,
when the flag, the symbol of the U
nion as formed by our fathers under
the Constitution, was fired upon at
Sumter, thousands of brave men rt: -h
--to arms. .For what? Was it to free
the negroes? Let the Radical l>isu
nioniststell the returned veterans that,
if they dare.
When President Lincoln issued his
proclamation freeing the slaves, what
was the ground on which be professed
to stand? Was not the act justified
because it was believed soldiers fought
for the restoration of the Union under
the Constitution. That was t.:e one
great, grand, holy object which they
kept singly in view. They did not
fight to conquer equal rights for the
negro, and in the coming electh nsthey
will show their scorn of that political
party which would delay the restora
tion of the Union until the odious con
ditions of negro suffrage and negro e
quaiity are forced upon an unwilling
people. The soldiers read and think
for themselves now, and they cannot
fail to see that the party which nomi
nated Geary is unequivocally commit
ted to all the hifamous schemes of the
Radicals in Congress. Whatever the
soldiers may think of Geary's military
record they cannot-endorse his political
position. They cannot and will not
vote with any party which makes the
Union for which they fought subordi
nate to negro equality. The soldiers
fought for tin 1 Union, not for the negro;
and they will vote as they shot.
A. W. RANDALL, First A-distant
Postmaster General, has been appoint
ed Postmaster General, rice W. 1) uni
son resigned. Mr. Randall Is the Pres
ident of the National Johnson Club of
Washington city, and was formerly
< iovernor of Wisconsin. The President
has also appointed Henry J. .Tanber
ry, of Ohio, Attorney Genera., instead
of James Speed resigned. Thus two
conservatives are added to the Cabinet,
whilst two Radicals have been driven
from its councils. The good work has
at last commenced; may it go on until
the President's advisers area unit in fa
vor of the Constitution and Restora
tion.
HOKN TOOKK gives some singular
derivation of words, but a friend who
heard Judge Kimmell address a jury,
not long since, derives the Judge's
name ns follows: Give-ern-hell. whence
Gimuiell, whence Kimmell!
FA HEW ELL, G EA BV ! A not her Sn iek -
ersvilie awaits you! Run! run! or
you'll be captured!
HOW THEY LOVE THE SOLDIER.
The "boys in blue!" the "boys in
blue!" Oh! how sweetly sung the
syrens of the Disunion Abolition par
ty, as they gently drew the returned
soldier into their loving embrace. It
was Col. This, and Maj. That and C'apt.
T'other, and nice little ovations were
given to these gallant officers, and the
"Republican" politicians hob-nobbed
with them over their wine, speaking
fiercely, and glaring savagely as they
spoke of "copperheads" and "buttev
nats" and "Knightsof the Golden Cir
cle," and with finger on side of nose
they whispered to the returned heroes,
"Go with its and we will fake tare of you.
You shad have the offices." And the
soldiers doffed their uniforms and don
ned their citizen's garb and went cam
paigning for the "Republican" party.
They fought the battles of "Republic
anism" and returned to their homes a
mid the plaudits of the gentlemen
whom they helped to elect to of
fice. But finally "pay-day" came. Of
course the "boys i n blue" expected to
find their names on the roll, and that
they would be called out in due time to
take their places in official station.
But what was their astonishment when
they found that the names of but few
of them were upon the roll, and that
for theirs were substituted the names
of the very politicians who had made
them such large promises. They dis
covered then, that they had been sold
by the very same men who got the
greater portion of their bounty when
they entered theservice. And it came
to pass, that, the "boys in blue" waxed
wroth and said, "Ys'cll, the Democrats,
whom we have opposed, never made
us any lying promises, anyhow, and
we sec now that one political party
doesn't care more for the soldier than
another. We'll voteas we please here-
HOW THE TISE IS Ut S.VI\.
Since the so-called "Republican"
j party have assumed a position of open
hostility to the restoration of the U
| nion, thepopulartide has set in against
! them, and now the waves of public o
pinion roll mountain-high against the
i course of the piratical craft in which
they are embarked. The late elections
i in Connecticut, Oregon and Nebraska
show howoverwhelming are the break
ers that are bursting over and threaten
; to make ship-wreck of the Radical
crew. In Connecticut the Democratic
I gain averaged about i2O votes to every
: thousand votes polled. A higher av
i erage than this was shown in the gains
in Oregon and Nebraska. There can
I be no doubt that Pennsylvania will show
; thesarne average Democratic gain at
thecominggubernatorial election. Now
! taking the Connecticut average of 12b
to every thousand votes polled, and cal
culating that Pennsylvania will poll at
i least 500,000, the aggregate gain over
j last year would he (50,000, leaving the
State Democratic by 40,000 majority.
! This is a reasonable estimate, made
from data that are indisputable.
Hence, we predict the election of HON.
IIIESTERCLYMER, as 1 he next Gov
! emor of Pennsylvania, by an over-
I whelming vote,and call upon all good
Democrats and Conservatives to fall in
to line and march forward to vic-
I tory.
SKCKKTAHY ISKWAKD has .JUST writ
ten a letter to Senator Dooliftle, Vx
j pressing his appruval of thecallforthe
Philadelphia < bnvention. It is a pa-
I triotic document and goes far to redeem
| its author from the stigma which his
; former sectionalism had fixed upon him.
| Secretary WELLES has also written a
very strong letter in endorsement of
i the PiiiladelphiaConvention. He says
the exclusion of the South by Congress
I is almost as bad as Secession. Gen. J.
A. Dix adds hi.-, name to the list of
prominent uien who advocate the hoid
: ing of the Philadelphia Convention.
lie -ays lie will do all he can to make
jit a success. Should not the fact that
| men like Seward, Welles and Dix are
! taking steps for the defeat of the Itad
| icals, set the people to thinking. These
! letters all appear in this week's issue.
Read them.
WHO fought to bring the South back
into the Union? The "boys in blue."
Who are now lighting to keep it but?
; The friends of the "boys in black."
| GOVEKXOK CURTIS will not call an
; extrases don of the Legislature to rati
fy the Constitutional Amendment,
unless the ILarrisburg Telegraph calls
him a "traitor" for refusing to do so.
LET every returned soldier keep his
i
discharge. The "Republicans' are
trying to di-franchise all soldiers who
cannot produce honorable discharges.
WHO killed the Tariff? There is a
! two-thirds "Republican" majority in
both houses of Congo ss. Who killed
the Tariff?
COULHX'T Judge King resign, just
to let the Somerset "Republicans"
have the only remaining district nom
nation that could be made?
CAPTAIN PIIII,IP R. FORNEY, son of
John \Y. Forney, has been disgraced <
and dismissed tho service for conduct
unbecoming a soldier and a gentle- j
man.
SHALL Bedford County have a voice ;
in the next Legislature? That's the
question.
GOOIMIY K, "Repubs!" Your coun
ty ticket will be beaten out of sight, j
and you know it!
PRENTICE says the Dead Duck pre- j
seats a broad bill as Secretary of the
Senate.
L-Uor l'pm Ihc (lon. GLleon ll'ellis. See
ri-lnry (il'tho Xavy. in i'avor of tho Na
tional I'itioit Con volition.
The lion. Secretary of the Navy lias ;
addressed the following letter to Sena-:
tor Doolittle:
WASHINGTON, D. C., I
July 11, j
SIR: Your note of the 10th inst. was ;
received yesterday. 1 cordially ap- j
prove the movement which has been
instituted to "sustain the Administra
tion in maintaining unbroken the Un-;
ion of the States," and I recognize in
the call which you have sent me the j
principles and views by which the Ad
ministration has been governed.
The attempt made to destroy the na
tional integrity by secession, or the
voluntary withdrawal of a State from j
theFnion, has been defeated. War has j
forever extinguished the heresy of se- j
cession. On the suppression of the re- j
hellion measures were promptly com
menced to re-establish those fraternal j
relations which for four years had been I
interrupted.
The policy initiated by President
Lincoln to restore national unity was
adopted and carried forward by Presi
dent Johnson; the States which had
been in rebellion were, under this be
nign policy, resuming their legitimate ;
f Mictions; the people had laid down j
their arms, and those who had been in ;
insurrection were returning to their al-!
iegianee; the Constitution had been j
vindicated and the Union wassupposed j
to be restored, when a check was put j
upon the progress to national harmony ;
ami prosperity thus dawning upon the j
country. On the assembling of Con
gress ail efforts toward Union and na- {
tionality became suddenly paralyzed ;
the measuies of reconciliation which
the President had, from the time he |
ntered upon bis duties, pursued with I
eminent success, were assailed, and j
their beneficent purpose, to a great ex
tent, defeated ; attempts were made to i
imposeconditions precedent upon States
before permitting them to exercised heir
constitutional rights; loyal Senators;
and Representatives from the States;
which had been in rebellion were refu- .
sed admittance into Congress—the pen- j
pie were denied rightful constitutional ;
representat ion—and eleven States were 1
and are excluded from all participation
in the Government. These proceedings ;
which conflict with the fundamental j
principles on which our whole govern- j
mental system isiounded, are genera
ting and consolidating sectional ani- j
mosity, and if long persisted in, must;
evemuate in permanent alienation. 1 j
rejoice, therefore, in a movement which j
has for its object the union in one bond
of love of the people of our common!
country, and which invites to council |
and to political action the citizens of
every State and Territory, from the At- j
luntie tot-he Pacific, and from tiie Lakes
to the Gulf. The centralizing theory I
that the loyal andqualiiiedSenatorsand
Jtepresentatives from eleven States
shall be excluded from Congress, and
that those States and the people of those
States shall not participate in the Gov
ernment, is scarcely less repugnant
than that of secession Itself.
Propositions to change the Constitu
tion and unsettle some <*f the founda
tion principles of our organic law—to j
change our judicial system in such a
manner as to destroy the independence j
of theStatesby insidiously transferring !
to the Federal tribunals all questions
relating to the "life, liberty and prop
erty of the citizen"—to change the ba-,
sis of repre-< ntation, which was one of j
the difficult and delicate compromises !
of the convention of 1757, when no
States were excluded from representa- ;
tion— to change the existing and wise-;
ly adjusted distribution of powers he- j
t'weeii the different departments of the ;
Government by transferring the par-'
doning power ineertain cases from the j
Executive, where it properly belongs, j
to Congress or the legislative branch of j
the Government, to which it does not i
legitimately pertain—to incorporate in
to our Constitution, which is to stand
through all time, a proscription of citi
zens who have erred, and who are lia
ble to penalties under existing enact
ments, by disqualifications, partaking
of the nature of CJC post /ado laws and
hillsof attainder —these propositions or ]
changes, aggregated as one, and called i
an amendment to the Constitution, j
designed to operate on the people and j
States which are denied all representa- i
tion or voice iu tin* Congress which o-I
riginates them, are of a radical, if not
•revolutionary, character.
These and other proceedings, and the
political crisis which they have tended
to produce, justify and demand a con
vocation of the people by delegates
front till the States and from the whole
country.
The President has labored with de
voted assiduity awl fidelity to promote
union, harmony, prosperity and happi
ness among the States and people, hut
lias met with resistance, misrepresenta
tion and calumny where he had a right
to exnect co-operation and friendly sup
port. That thegreat body of ourcoun
t ryinen a re earnest ly and cordially with
him in his efforts to promote the na
tional welfare 1 have never doubted,
notwithstanding the hostility of ma
levolent partisans, stimulated by per
verted party organizations; tynl 1 re
joice that a convention which shall rep
resent all true Union men of our whole
country has been called to sustain him.
Verv res \ >ectfu 11 y,
GiDKGN WELLES.
LETTEU EHOM GEX. DIX. —The fol
lowing is General Dix's letter indors
ing the Philadelphia Convention:
New York July 13.
MY DF.AU SIE: 1 have received the
call signed by yourself and others for a
National Union Convention in Philadel
phia on the 14th of August. I concur
in its propositions, its reasonings, and
its objects, and will do all in my power
to carry them out. I long si nee expres
sed the opinion that the Southern States
were entitled to. their representation in
Congress;that their exclusion was a vi
olation of good faith and of the obliga
tions of the Constitution, and tiiat a
persistence in such a policy must lead
to consequences most disastrous to the
peace and prosperity of the country.
These and other consideration's connec
ted with the present unsatisfactory re
lations of the States to the federal gov
ernment and to each other render most
timely and proper such a meeting as
you have recommended to the patriotic
and reflect ing men of the union, to con
sult together for the general welfare.
lam truly yours, JOHN A. Dix.
Hon. James It. lioolittle.
Secretary Seward and ttie Philadelphia
Convention.
Secretary Seward is reported to have
written the following letter expressing
; his views with regard to the Philadel
phia Convention :
1 )K!'AHTM KXT OF STATE, I
WASHINGTON, July 11, IS6G. )
"SIR: Excuse me for expressing
surprise that you ask me whether 1 ap
prove of the call of a proposed Union
National Convention at Philadelphia.
: Alter more than live years of disloca
tion hv civil war, I regard a restoration
of the unity of the country its most ini-
S mediate as well as its most vital inter- i
i est. That restoration will be complete j
when loyal men are admitted as rep re-;
sentatives of the loyal people fit the j
! eleven States so long* unrepresented in
Congress. Nothing but this can com
plete it. Nothing more remains to be j
done, and nothing more is necessary.
I Every day's delay is attended i>y rnul-j
tiplying and increasing inconvenien
! ces, embarrassments and dangers, at:
| home and abroad. Congress possesses j
the power exclusively. Congress*, after j
J a session of seven months, stil' refuses;
to exercise that power. What can bei
done to induce Congress to act? This j
|is the question of the day. Whatever!
is done must be done in accordance
! with the Constitution and laws. It is;
! in perfect accordance with the Consti- j
| tution and laws that the jieople of the !
United States shall assemble by dele- j
I gates m convention, and that when so I
j assembled they shall address Congress i
!by respectful petition and remon-i
strance, and that the people in their
i several States, districts and territories .
shall approve, sanction and unite in 1
such respectful representations to Con- i
I gress.
"No one party could d<> tins eflec-1
tually, or even seems willing to do it, j
alone. No local or popular organiza- ;
tion could do it effectually. It is the;
! interest of all parties alike, of all the J
! States, and of ail sections—a national j
; interest—the interest of the whole peo- j
pie. The Convention, indeed, may j
i not succeed in inducing Congress to j
I act, but if they fail, the attempt can
I make matters no worse, it \> ill be a
i lawful and patriotic attempt made in
I the right direction —an effort to be rc
! membered with pride and satisfaction
i whether it succeed or fail. The origi-
I na! Union of the States was brought a
j bout by movements of the same cliar
'! acter. The citizen who ojeets to the
convention is bound to propose a better j
' plan of proceeding to effect the desired j
j end. No other one is offered, or even!
thought of. Those who should oppose ;
it would seem to me to manifest at best
| unconcern, if not opposition, to all re
construction, reorganization or recon
ciliation between the alienated masses
of the American people. Ttfltidmit that
i the Convention will fail would be to
admit that the people of tlie United
! States are deficient in either wisdom or !
; the virtue necessary to continue the •
j existence of the republic. I believe no j
; such thing. A gieat political writer
says that government is a secular re
j ligion, and that the people of every
country are divided into two classes,
each maintaining a distinct political
j faith. The one class always fearing
; the very worst that can possibly hap
i pen, and the other hopes, under every
circumstance, the very best that can
in any event happen. Without accept
j ing this theory as absulutely true, 1
think that all men do generally act
from a motive to guard against public
i danger, or else from a positive desire
jto do good. Both classes may, there
lore, favor the present attempt to re
store the unity of the nation, iam
; ! sir, vour obedient servant,
WM. H. SEWARI).
I "The Hon. J. R. DOOEITTLK, Chair
man Executive Committee, etc."
SOIJIIKRS OF ISI2.
In the defeat of the resolution which
\ came up before the United States House
of Representatives on Friday fast, the
| Radicals have fully proved their lack
! of love and devotion for the "old de
fenders" of our country.
The bill was offered by Hon. A. H.
, Co .Troth, from this State, for the pur
pose of allowing pensions to the sol
diers of IKlp. 11 was defeated or rather
postponed indefinitely by a stria par
' ty vote, the Democrats voting for and
! the Radicals against the Resolution.
Hen of IS 12! Hark these pretended
; patriots of the present Congress. You
can see who are votir real friends. By
voting for the Republican ticket, you
support men who are opposed to giv
ing you a small pittance for your dis
tinguished services in driving the Brit
ish soldiery from our soil, in their at
tempt to destroy our institutions.
You who inarched on foot from Cum
berland county to Fort Erie, and en
dured all the privations incident to
those early days, know full well, how
much the "people of this country are in
debted to you for your services in
bravely lirhting our country's battles
"in the days that tried men's souls."—
If' Hr. Cotfrotli's resolution would have
been to give every negro in the coun
try a pension, the Radicals would haw
voted solid for it, but because the old
ir/iifi veterans of IM2, ask this small
favor for their support in their declin
ing years, they are to be deprived of it
because they are so unfortunate as to
tie "w;/?<7c." Knowing the motives o)
these political intrigues, and that their
candidate for Coventor, John W . Di a
ry, endorses all their acts in and out of
Congress, acquit yourselves like men,
by giving your support to the men and
parly which defended you during the
campaign of and have continued
your friends ever since. The same par
ty which denounced the war at that
time, withhold their support from the
few remaining patriots of to-day.
Although your numbers are few, you
have an influence which can be wield
ed to great effect in advancing the
principles of the party which has ever
defended the interests of the soldier
and the poor.
In the coming campaign let your
feeble voices he heard in giving coun
sel and advice to the supporters of the
great Democratic party, and by elect
ing men of talent and honesty to ail
positions ofresposibility,aud by chang
ing the political aspect of our Congress,
vein will he rewarded for your services.
Keep the present party in. power and
you who are in necessitous circumstan
ces will be obliged to go down to your
graves in poverty, while the negro
basks it the sunshine of prosperity and
lives in the mansion of the rich. — <\ir-
Ihsle Voiinikrr.
For the weekending last Saturday
the total mortality in New York city
reached the high unusual figure of 827,
being an incroace of •'!•'! ! deaths over the
previous week Ihe total number OJ
ca<os of sunstroke in the city last week
was 110, many of which proved fatal:
The first four days of week just closing
witnessed a still greater degree of mor
tality. 320 deaths occuring on Wed
nesday alon*.
Thirty years ago a widow, named
Patty Polk wasniuidered in Ceeil coun
ty, Md. The perpetrator was first dis
covered last week, by his own confes
sion on a sick bed. Much to his. con
sternation he is getting well. .
WE FIND, says the Lancaster Tntellli-t
gencer, the following in one of our Re
publican exchanges, the Pittsburg Com
merce/. The "distinguished soldier
and diplomatic representative" alluded
to, as we learn from other sources, is
fieri. Kilpatrick, who denounced the
Democrats so fiercely in the last cam
paign in New Jersey. Jake one of the
Radical candidates for United States
Senator in Pennsylvania, he is great on
public virtue and private vice—hates
copi>erheads hut consorts with strump
ets :
SKIUOCS CHARGE AGAINST A UNI
TED STATES DIFEOMATIST.— 'The New
York Citizen , edited by Charles (. Hal
pine, is out against adistinguished -<> -
- diplomatic representative or
the United States to one of the South
American Republics, directly charging
him with gro.-s immorality, as th<-
companion in guilt of an abandoned
character, whom he has had the effron
tery to introduce into respectable soci
ety here and who now shares with him
the honors of his important civil po
sition on the Pacific coast. The ( ili
loudly condemns the minister in ques
tion,* and demands that his recent
"stumping" services in a neighboring
State shall not be thus rewarded, in a
way that affords him a chance of bring
ing* disgrace upon the Federal Govern
ment, and it suggests to Secretary Se
ward that the facts warrant his imme
diate recall from the place he fills.
A REITBLICAN COMDEIMKXT TO
MR. Clymer.—At the recent session
of the Supreme Court at Wilkesbarre,
a banquet was given by the memhei
of the bar to the Judges and others of
the legal fraternity present. Among
those who sat down to the least w ere
all the Judge.-) of the court, Hon. Rob
ert J. Walker, Hon. Win. M. Mere
dith, Hon. i Hester Clymer and oilier
distinguished gentlemen. A large num
ber of speeches were made; among oth
ers one' by Mr. CJymer. Read what
the Record the Republican ficorg paper
says of it:
"Mr. Justice Thompson followed and
was succeeded by Mr Hiester Clymer,
who made the most eloquent speech of
the evening."
Surely. "Truth crushed to earth shall
rise again."
—The New York Commercial Adrcr
.-tales that cholera is raging in cer
tain fans of New York city, it also
i't- that the facts relative to the
number of eases on Hart's Island are
deemed so appalling that pu licity is
denied. .Surgeon Calhoun of that post
has died of the cholera, and a number
of physicians have been sent to Hart's
and Governor's Islands.
—A man in Philadelphia has been
sentenced to four years imprisonment
and payment ofsloo fine for biting of
a policeman's nose. Ile will have a long
time in which to chew his bite.
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tions for pr-paring and using the same, which
they will find a sure CURB for CONSUMPTION.
ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS. COUGHS COLDS, and all
Throat and Lung Affections. The only obj <r <-f
the advertiser in sending the Prescription s 'o
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Parties wishing the prescription, FREE, by re
turn mail, will please address
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Jan. 5, "Gti—ly.
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Weeks,l Potter, sole agents. 170 Washington street
Boston, it w ill be forwarded by mail, free of post
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funS,"6o.-ly.
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lady tind gentleman in the United States can hear
something very much to their advantage by re
turn mail (free of charge.) by addressing the un
dersigned. Those having fears of being humbug
ged will oblige by not noticing this card. Others
will please address their obedient servant.
THOS. F. CHAPMAN.
831 Broadway, New York
Jan. 5, "fifi—ly.
SPIKE THE JGRUXS! of humbug. I m
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dyes, dangerous to health and utterly destructive
to the hair. Do not submit to have your head
Baptized iiith Liquid fire!
when that cooling vegetable preparation,
V/iristadoro's Hair Dye,
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fibres, shaming the skni. or poisoning the sys'em
through the pores. Bewaro of the deleterious
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julyl3—lm.
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be pure the body which is formed from and by the
blood cannot be diseased. But if there be in any
part of. the body any affection, such as a boil or
ulcer, even a bruise, the blood circulating through
that part takes up impure matters fro a the local
affection and carries it into the general system
This is the cause often of sudden death to persons
of full habit afflicted with boils and ulcers, and
who use no medicine, the matter gets into the cir
culating system ai.d chokes up the fine blood ves
sels which rupply the brain with vitality, and life
ceases as if
Bereft by Lightning.
Now this enn be remedied.
Braiidref/rs Pitt*
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save the general health, soon curing local affvc
tions also. Brandreth's Pills protect from tedious
times of sickness and often save life. 801 l by all
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julyl3.—lm
THE GREATEST DISCOVERY OF THE
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julyl3—liu.
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