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Friday Morning Aafafit 3. I*o6. ,
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET. 1
FOR GOVERNOR, |
Hon. HIESTER CLYMER,
OF BERKS COUSTY. (
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.
PROTHOSOTARY, 1
O. E. SHANNON, of Bedford Bor. j (
SHERIFF^
ROBT. STECK M AN, of Bloody Run. 1
ASSOCIATE JCDGE, (
GEORGE \V. GUMP, of Napier. t
COMMISSI'iSER, j |
DAVID HO WSARE, of Southampton
POOR DIRECTOR,
MICHAEL DIEIIL, of Colerain.
AFDITOR,
JOHN D. LUCAS, of Bloody Run. t
THE CLIMBER.
A Campaign Paper.'
The undersigned are publishing a
campaign paper entitled "The Climb- j
or," the first number of which was ■
issued on the 7th of July inst., and
which will be continued until the Gub- j >
ernatorial election in October. i •
This publicatii n 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 tilled
with racy editorials and the spiciest ;
articles of the campaign. No eonser- J
vative politician should be without P.
It will be embellished with I'OU
TRAITS OF PRESIDENT JOHN
SON, Hon. HIESTER CLYMER and ;
other eminent patriots and statesmen,
and will contain a number of humerous
political illustrations.
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and when we deviate from this rule, it
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We hope that there will be no necessi
ty for the repetition of this notice to
delinquents.
THE Rump Congress adjourned on
Saturday. Honest men, everywhere,
will draw a long breath of relief. The
country will thank God for a deliver
ance greater than that of the Jews from
bondage, or Egypt from vermin. The
policy of the ruling faction has been
fanatical,tyrannical and revolutionary.
Their legislation has been the most
reckless, extravagant and dangerous
ever known in the "nistoryof the coun
try. Millions were spent as flippantly
$s though money had no value. The
appropriations reached more than six
hundred millions, nearly as much as any
year during the war. Scarcely a bill
was passed without the negro in it:
and the sums spent to support the vast
national scheme of negro pauperism
were almost fabulous. They passed
the bill to pay liberal bounties to negro
volunteers by the usual party major
ity; but the bill for the equaliza
tion of bounties of white soldiers cami
up, the increased pay at first proposed
(§B3 per month) was reduced nearly on<
half, and even then it only passed by
a vote ol 51 to 50, every Democrat, ex
cept two, voting in its favor. As a fit
finale of their proliflgate career, they
increased their own pay front to
$5,000 per session, making the snu£
little sum of SIO,OOO to every metnlx r
of each < ongress besides mileage. Ex
cry citizen should read their proceed
ings carefully. No other proof is
needed that they will establish a een
tral despotism and bankrupt the conn
try if they are continued in power.
CONGRESSMEN have evidently MADE
tip their minds that they will not b
re-elected and are stealing all the icon
<y they c&a.
THE PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION.
The National Union Convention which
will meet in Philadelphia, on the 14th t
inst., promises to be a true representa- f
tion of the people of the entireßepub- -
lie. It will bethefirstcon\ T ention ?om- t
posed of representatives front all the -
States, that has assembled s
meeting of the Democratic National 1
Convention in 1800. In this respect, as t
well as in that of diversity in political
opinion, it will be truly national.
Whilst the "Republican" party will
be largely represented in its councils, :
Democrats from every section of the
country will sit by their side; whilst
the "war men" of the North will take
part in its deliberations, theljtephenses,
Johnsons and other prominent South
ern men w ill join hands with them in
furthering the long-hoped-for restora- j
tion of the Union. It is meet that such J
will be thecase. Were menofonepoliti-!
eal party alone to assemble in such aeon-.
vention, no good could possibly reesult, f
as there could be no opportunity of; i
harmonizing diverse interests in be-'
half of a common cause. Wegare wil
ling to regard any man as a political
brother, who will work with us for the
attainment of the grand purpose for
which all patriots should strive, the
maintenance, unbroken, of the Union of j
the S'ates. Hence, we are glad that in j
this National Union Convention, men
of various and widely different politic- j
a! antecedents, will meet and exchange :
opinions. The result of the delibera-!
tions of such an assemblage, will prove
like that of the Constitutional Con ven- j
tions of the fathers, who, though divi-!
ded on great public questions, so bar-!
monized their Conflicting views, as to!
erect a government under whose sway
the march of empire has been unlim- j
ited, and which, except during its tem
porary perversion by corrupt and am- j
bitious men, proved the unfailing safi -
guard of popular liberty for nearly a
century.
THE KAIH CAE REBELLION.
The letter of Henry J. Raymond,
'•Republican" ' member of Congress
from New York, exposing the scheme
of the Radicals to dtpose the President
and inaugurate a rebellion in the
North, has produced much alarm a
mong peace-loving and patriotic peo
ple. Mr. Raymond has been in the
caucuses of tlie Radicals, and knows
whereof he affirms. He declares that
they mean war; that they are. quietly
arming themselves with a x'iew ofj
forcing President Johnson from the j
Executive Chair. Their plan is toe-;
loot a majority of the Northern mem- j
bers of the next Congress, impeach the :
President, and attempt toturn him out .
of office. They calculate that the Press- ;
ident will recognize the members of?
Congress elect from the Southern States,
and the Conservative members from
the North, (provided these constitute a
majority of Congress) as the lawful
Congress; and they will then set them
s Ives up as an opposition Congress,!
and appeal to arms to sustain their au
thority. This, it is alleged, will occur, .
if they succeed in electing a majority j
of the Northern members. Now, then, !
the question arises, Shall the people, by j
voting for Radical candidates Joe Con
gress, run the risk of another wart There
can be no doubt as to the fact that the
Radical leaders have determined to in
volvethecountry in a revolution, rather
than permit the Southern States to be
restored to the Union without Negro
Suffrage. Let the people be warned.
Remember that a leading "Republi
can" memlierof Congress, charges the
Radicals with this scheme of a new re
bellion. It is no idle tale gotten up
fr the purpose of making political
capital. If Radicalism is successful at
the coining election, we fear for the
peace of the country. Again, we say,
ooware!
EX-PRESIDENT KUATI XX IN.
The venerable ex-president, James
Buchanan, is at present staying at Bed
ford Springs. On Saturday la-t he
•aid a visit to our town, stopping for a
-hort time at the Mengel House. Vlr.
Buchanan looks well and seems to bear
the weight of years without any visi
ble effect upon his constitution. Ilis
numerous friends in this section will
bedelighted to know that lie is again
in their midst, the same true friend ot
he masses, as when in earlier days he
ningled with them in the public af
fairs of the country.
THE New York Herald, of July 20,
•ontains a number of sharp things on
he "job" work done by the present
Jon gross. We take pleasure in trans
ferring these "hits" to our columns,
tnd desire our readers to give credit to
be Herald for every line in this issut
hat has the word "job" in it.
A VERY SERIOUS JOB.— With a rev
nueof over two hundred millions n
>ove what is demanded, Congress pile
in taxation by increasing the tariff and
nternal revenue tax thirty eight ihil
ions, and raises the compensation ol
nembers to five thousand dollars per
i session.
EQUALIZATION OF BOUNTIES.
The contest in Congress over the bill 1
to equalize the bounties, xvasprolonged
from the beginning to the end of the
session. The House passed the bill;
the Senate defeated it; the House in
si-ted upon its passage; the Senate per
sisted in its opposition; finally, on the
last day of the session, a committee of ;
conference of the two houses agreed to
hitch the bill to the Civil Appropria
tion list and to tack it to the tail of the
proposition to increase the pay of
Members and Senators to SS,O(H). 'lhis
plan pulled the bounty bill through by
a majority of one in the House, the j
x'oteStanding yeas 51, nays 50. The
Democrats voted for the bill, as they
had always done before, and had it not
been for their almost unanimous sup
port, it would have been lost. More
•Republicans' x-oted against than for '
it. Among those voting against it, ;
i
ar6 Messrs. Lawrence, lvoontz and ;
Wilson, of this # State. We have not;
seen the bill, as it passed, but it is re -
ported that the amount of bounty orig
inally proposed was considerably re
duced. The vote upon the bill was as \
follows, Democrats in Italics, Republi- j
cans in Roman:
Yeas. —Anderson, Banks, Barker, ;
Benjamin, Bergen, Clarke of-Kansas,
Cullom, Driggs, Eekley, Eidridge, j
Farnsvvorth, Farquhar, Ferry, Gloss
brenner, lligby, Hogan, Holmes,
Ilotchki-s, Hubbard. Ingersoll, Jencks, j
Johnson, Keiley, Kerr , Kuykendall, i
Latham, Le Blond, Left witch, Marstou, !
Maynard, McClurg, AUCuUough, Mil
ler, Moorhead, Myers, Newell, Niblack, ;
Nicholson, O'Neil, Patterson, Randall,
of Pa., Rice of Mass., Rice of Me., j
fcchenck, S rouse, Taylor ot Teun.,
lily lor if N. Y., Thornton, Van Horn
of N. Y., Van Horn of Mo., Wualley.
—sl.
Nays. —Allison, Ashley of Nevada, I
Baker, Baxter, Bidwelt, Bingham, j
Boutwell. Bromwell, Cobb, Conkling, j
Defrees, Eggleston, Eliot, Finck, Gar- i
field, tlarding of Illinois, Ilart, Hayes,
Il ibbell of Ohio, Kasson, Ketchum, ;
Koontz, Laflin, Lawrence of Pennsyl- i
vania, Lawrence of Ohio, Lvneh, Mer-|
cer, Morrill, Morris, Orth, Paine, Per- j
ham, Phelps, Plants, Price, Ritter, ,
Ross, Sawyer, Slumklin, Shellabarger, '
Stokes, Taber, J. L. Thomas, Jr., i
James Trimble, Van Aernam, Walk-!
er, Wilson of lowa, Wilson of Pennsyl- j
! vania, Wright,— so.
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THE Radical leaders hereare sending ;
j out documents by the bushel. They !
have a complete registry of the voters
of the county, each being marked-"Re
publican," "Democrat,"or "Doubtful."
Such Democrats as they imagine they
can wheedleinto their views, are mark
ed "Doubtful," and supplied plentiful- i
ly with electioneering pamphlets filled
j with falsehoods of the basest character.
Among these is one entitled, "Is the
South ready for Restoration?" It is
j tilled with extracts from Sumner's
Scrap Book and Stevens' private let
j ters, with garbled extracts from news
; papers and speeches, which, if true, a
! mount to nothing, but most of which
have no existence except in the fanat
ical fancy of the writer. Send outyour
trash, gentlemen! Your movements
are watched and your labors will be
fruitless.
_____—_____
THE Thadites of this county who, a
few years ago, engineered Know Noth
i ingism, and were ready to cut a for
i eigner's throat, seem to have fallen
! wonderfully in lox'e, lately, with the
"sweet German accent, and the rich
Irish brogue." How they lox'e th°
foreigners! They have even gone to
thetroubleto preparea pamphlet which
they say is intended to "capture the
Dutch," thus jeering the men they are
trying to cheat. We expect they will
next have a pamphlet which they will
boast is to "capture the Welsh" and
distribute it among the honest miners
of the coal region.
HARLAN has resigned the port folio
of the Interior Department, and the
President has apjiointed <). JI. Brown
ing, of Illinois, as his sucee.--or. One
by one the radicals drop from the side
of the President, and the Cabinet will
soon be a unit in favor of the Constitu
tion and the Union. The resignation
of Harlan will put an end to the ship
i ping of clerks from Washington for
the purpose of making votes against
the President. The appointments oi
Mr. Randall, as Postmaster General,
Mr. Stanberry, a.s Attorney General,
and Mr. Browning as Secretary of the
Interior, have all been confirmed by
the Senate.
THE hypocrisy of the Disunion lead
er- was completely unmasked by their
action on the bill to equalize bounties.
They have been tried and found want
ing. All the Democrats except two
supported the measure in every stage
of its progress; but a majority of the
"Republicans" opposed it from first to
iast.
FROM every quarter we have cheer
ing news of the coming contest in this
county. Many who have heretofore
voted the "Republican" ticket are at
>ast disgusted with the extravagance
md miscegenation proclivities of their
.eaders, and openly avow their deter
mination to be led no further on the
road to negro equality and national
bankruptcy.
THE ATI. ANTIC CAIH.E!
Europe nnd Amrrirs eouqected by Tflo
j;r|)li!
The Great Eastern arrived at Heart's
Content, at nine o'clock, A. M., Satur
day, July 2s, having paid out the en- j
tire length of the Atlantic Telegraph j
Cable. Cyrus \V. Field, the indefati
gahle manager of the great enterprise, !
at once sent the following despatch to ■
New York:
"HEART'S CONTENT, July 28.—We J
arrived here at !> o'clock this morning. !
All well. Thank Cod! The cable has
been laid and is in perfect working or- !
dor."
The following correspondence also
took place between Mr. Field and the
President:
11 KART'S CONTEXT, July 28.
To his Excellency, President Johnson,
Washington, I). C.
Siu: The Atlantic Cable was success
fully completed this morning. 1 hope j
i that it will prove a blessing to England !
; and the United Suites, and increase the .
intercourse between our own country]
i and the Eastern hemisphere.
Yours, faithfully,
(Signed) CYUUH \\ . 1- IKLD.
To Ci/ms IF. FieU, Heart's Contents
I heartily congratulate you and trust !
i that your enterprise may prove as sue- :
i ce.- sful as vour efforts have been perse- |
i vering. May the cable under the sea ;
! tend to promoteharmony between the j
Republic of the West and the govern
ments of the Eastern hemisphere.
! (signed ) ANDREW JOHNSON.
j Several despatches were received from !
Europe, There seems to be no doubt of j
the successful working of the cable. J
1 Truly this is ail era in the history of
1 civilization.
' '
THE William-port in ion Republican,
edited by I). S. Dunham, and flaunt- j
ingat its mast-head, the name of John :
W. Geary for Governor, declares that ]
Thad Stevens is a Disunionist and in
favor of Congress giving the negroes
the right to vote. The Union Republi
can is at present engaged in a contro- ]
versv with the West Branch Bulletin , a :
* * ]
' radical paper, and thus speaks of that .
I journal,and its beau ideal ofastates
i man, Thad Stevens:
I Thaddeus Stevens says: "with my
! consent the union never shall he re
| stored."
The West Branch Bulletin supports .
• Thad. in all his acts and sayings. This
i paper denounces all such traitorous
| sentiments.
Thad. Stevens says: "that eleven j
states are out of the union and must
remain out."
! The Bulletin repeats and endorses
Thau's sentiments.
The Fnion Republican says no state
! can legally secede from the union, con
j sequentlyall the states remain in the
! union.
] Thad. Stevens is in favor of Congress
| giving all negroes the right of suffrage,
thereby increasing the representation
in Congress from the South, (if those
! states should ever be restored) and de
creasing it in the Xortn.
The Bulletin cries amen to Thud's
proposition and endorses all that Thad
savs on the subject.
This pa per says that Congress has no
constitutional right to make negro vo
ters; that that right belongs to the in
dividual states, and opposes the idea
that negroes should be endowed with
the right of franchise in Pennsylvania.
That is very go< d, (Mr. Union Re
publican! But what business has John
j W. Geary's nanieat your mast-head, if
you hold such sentiments?
NEGRO RIOT AT NEW ORLEANS.
A terrible riot las just occurred in
the city of New Orleans, growing out
of a demonstration of the negroes in
. honor of the re-assembling of thede
: funct Banks .State Convention of 1864.
A procession of negroes was passing a
i long one of the streets, when a white
man was tripped by a negro, and a po
liceman undertaking to arrest the lat
ter he was at once fired upon by the
i negroes, whereupon a row ensued which
i soon assumed the proportions of a most
J fearful riot. Tiie Mayor and police fi
nally succeeded in restoring order, but
not until a number of negroes and sev
eral whites were killed, and many of
both colors wounded. This is another
episode in the history of black and
j white equality. Such are the workings
]of the Civil .Rights Bill. Riot, blood
] shed and anarchy are its legitimate re
i suits. Who would vote so as to en
dorse it?
TJIE AlSritO PBISSIAX WAR.
The latest news from Europe is to
the effect that a treaty of peace has
been signed by Austria and Prussia.—
What is the nature of this treaty, we
are not informed. The news was re
ceived by the Atlantic Telegraph. The
Prussianshad -till continued their vic
torious march and had entered Darm
stadt. The main Prussian army was
within fifty miles of Vienna. A five
days armistice, commencing on the
28d ult., was agreed upon between the
two powers. The Italians had taken
the "Borgo Fort." The Austrian
commander ip the Tyrol claims to have
driven the Italians across Caffora riv
er. A gunboat tight ha I occurred off
Dissa, the Austrians claiming the vic
tory.
A PERSONAL JOB. —Congress de
mands retrenchment in tiie depart
ments, and raises the compensation of
membersto live thousand dollars per
session.
CONGRESS votes to pay itself more
money for remaining in session to leg
islate against the people and in favorof
Radical officeholders.
j A PRECIOUS JOB.—Congress propo
sed to give twenty millions' worth of
' valuable mineral lands to the New York
1
and Montana Mining Company, aswin-j
die fortunately detected and smashed
j by the President, and increases the pay
; of members to Ave thousand dollars per
j session.
J Ax IMMENSE Jon.—Congress grants
] millions of acres of public lands and
! hinds itself in the sum of nearly sixty
] millions of dollars to aid in thegigan
! tic job of building the Northern Pacif
i ic Railroad, and at the same time rais
| es the pay of members to five thousand
dollars per session.
A CRACKING JOB.—Congress raises
the salary of its members to five thou*
! sand dollars per session, and compels
the government to pay the national
I banks thirty millions per annum in the
shape of interest on government bonds
| for the privilege of having Treasury
; notes and legal tenders superseded as
)currency.
| A BAD J OR. —Congress raises the
\ compensation of members tofive thou
! sand dollars per session, and proposes
j to lend (Mexico thirty millions of dol
; lars, the revenue of that country being
j collected by French officers to satisfy
: French claimants.
I A DOWN EAST PEDAGOGUE JOB. —
Congress proposes to establish a Bureau
of Education, at a cost of five mill
ions per annum, and increases the pay
; of members to five thousand dollars per
I session.
A CHARITY JOB. —Congress raises
! the salary of its members to five thou
sand dollars per session, and gives sev
en millions in one lump for another
great charity humbug called theFreed
men's Bureau.
A HEAVY JOB.—Congress proposes
to aid in constructing levees on the
Mis-issippi and Yazoo rivers at an ul
timate cost of fifty millions, and rais
es the pay of ineinbersto five thousand
dollars per annum.
A SLY JOB.—Congress proposes
to fund the national debt and sell
I .surplus gold, allowing a per eent
! age for the business to outsiders, and
! raises the pay of members to five thou
sand dollars.
CONGRESS meanly cuts off the salary
of Minister Harvey, because he wrote
a private letter in defence of the Pres
ident, hut increases its own salary,
earned only by abusing the President.
A CONTEMPTIBLE JOB.—Congress
cuts down the bounty to poor soldiers,
raises the salary of members to five
thousand dollars per annum, and squan
ders over two hundred and fifty mil
lions uselessly.
CONGRESS votes to increase its pay
1 for protecting British commerce by
j preventing our vessels sold during the
• rebellion from coming back under our
flag.
CONGRESS, having robbed the public
treasury in every other way, now makes
a direct grab at the greenbacks by an
increase of salaries.
CONGRESS votes to increase its own
salary, but defeats the Bankrupt bill,
] designed to relieve poor debtors.
CONGRESS is going to pay itself a
higher -alary for keeping the Union
dissolved.
ST. CLAIR TOWNSHIP, )
7 Mo., 27th.day, 18(5(5. j
FRIEND BENJAMIN: —Thy neigh
bors here of,the opposition, were a
good deal shocked at cutting the head
off of the soldier who had his leg cut off
. during the war. So many professions
being made for the soldier, led us to
tiiink he deserved some consideration;
1 but this serves to show the differ
, | ence between practice and profession.—
I The Bedford Inquirer's appeal to the
"boys in blue," is getting to he well
j under- ood. Like the mother's advice
j to her son, who afterwards went to jail,
for stealing: "Make money my son,
honestly if you can, but make money!"
the opposition say: "Make votes,
white or black, but make rotes !" Two
of our neighbors whom you know very
well, had a talk, the other day, and
being brothers, it was in good earnest;
when George said to William: "They
(the negroes) must have their vote—
anything to beat the d d Demo
crats." I give thee their precise lan
guage. Such is the desperation of thy
opponents. Thee must buckle on thy
armor and fight against this corrupt
scheme of Negro Suffrage. It is the
key to all our troubles. The opposi
tion must not be allowed to hide it as
they did before. The "Freedmen's
Bureau" bill, costing us millions a year
to pay agents who are too lazy to work,
freedmen who are too lazy to keep
themselves and speculators who get
the contracts to supply provisions, is
another thing thee should expose.—
We tax-payers are getting tired and
becoming restless. Patience may cease
to become a virtue, hut we desire relict
from our burdens, peaceably, through
the ballot-box. Greedy politicians and
speculators have been making enough ;
off' the people. Thy opposition neigh
bors here are beginning to see these
things in their true light, and i can as
sure thee that some improtant changes
are going on.
Ifany thing of importance turns up I
may drop thee a note.
TIIY FRIEND.
Urlrgatcs to tin- National I'tIon Conven
tion.
The Executive Committee of the
State Central Committee of the Demo
| eratic party of this State have suggest
ed the following Hat of delegates to the
j National Union Convention.
DEMOCRATIC STATE COMSUTTBE ROOMS. ,
828 WALVUT STHEBT, PHILADELPHIA,
Jul>' 21, 186#. |
A call for a National Convention to
i be held in Philadelphia on the 14th
I day of August, 180G, having been is
i sued, an invitation was extended, un
j der dateof July 10, 1860, to the Deino
| eratic organization, as such, to unite in
| that Convention, in order to "devise a
j plan of political action calculated to
! restore national unity, fraternity and
j harmony."
The time being too brief to call a
State Convention, or to refer the sub
ject to the districts for action, and it '
appearing to be the wish of the uarty,
as expressed at Reading and through
the press, that we should be represent
ed therein, the Democratic Executive
Committee of Pennsylvania, acting un
der the authority of the State Central
Committee, specially reserving control
; of the organization, have designated
ami invited the following gentlemen
to act as delegates to that Convention :
DEI.KG ATES AT LARGE.
Ex-Governor David It. Porter,
Ex-Governor William Bigler,
Ex-Governor William F. Packer,
Chief Justice George W. Woodward.
CONGa ESS ION AXI DEL EG A T ES.
I Districts.
Ist—Hon. James Campbell,
George M. Wharton, Esq.
2d—Colonel W. C. Patterson,
Hon. Richard Vaux.
;kl—Hon. Daniel M. Fox,
Hon. John Rohhins.
4th—Hon. Ellis Lewis,
Hon. Charles Brown,
5th —Gen. W. W. H. Davis,
John G. Brenner, Esq.
(Ith—lion. John 1). Stiles,
Col. Owen Jones.
7th —Hon. George G. Leiper,
Hon. John A. Morrison.
Bth—Hon. Warren J. Woodward,
Charles Kessler, Esq.
9th—Hon. Isaac E. lli< ster,
11. M. North, Esq.
loth—Hon. F. W. Hughes,
Dr. C. 1). Gloninger.
11th—Hon. Asa Packer,
Col. W. 11. Flutter.
12tli—General E. L. Dana,
John Blanding, Esq.
13th —Colonel W. 11. Ent,
Hon. C. L. Ward.
11th —EdmundS. Doty, Esq.,
Hamilton Alrieks, Esq.
loth—Hon. JeremiahS. Black,
Hon. Samuel Hepburn,
lfith—William McClellan, Esq.,
Hon. W. P. Schell.
17th—Gen. William 11. Irwin,
Hon. C. L. Pershing,
l-stli —Col. Phalon Jarrett,
Hon, James Gamble.
19th—Hon. Wm. A. Galbraith,
Hon. James T. Leonard.
20th—Gen. Alfred B. McCalmont,
Hon. Gavlord Church.
21st—Hon. lienrv I>. Foster,
H. W. Wier, Esq.
22d—General J. B. Sweitzer,
George P. Hamilton, Esq.
23d—Hon.George W. Cass,
Col. William Sirwell.
24th—lion. Jesse Lazear.
Hon. William Hopkins.
By order of the Democratic State
E x ecut ive Coi nnl 11 tee.
WM. A. WALLACE, Chairman.
JACOB ZEIGLER, Secretary.
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JACK BJAMII.TOX'S CONVENTION.
We have already noticed a call for
a soidisant Southern Radical Conven
tion, to offset the National Union Con
vention, of men of all parties, from all
sections of the Union. The New York
Xeirs thus gives the Jives and history
of some of the signers to Jack Hamil
ton's call:
"Three of them profess to be citizens
of Texas. Not one of them is a resident
' ofthatstate. 'Governor' Hamilton left
. it some time ago, declaring that he nev
| er expicted to reside there again, and
lie is now in Washington. George W.
Paschal 1, whose suspected treason to
' the Confederacy was magnanimously
. over-looked by its government during
all the war, is now living in Washing
-1 ton and practicing law there. Lorenzo
Sherwood resides in the city of Brook
lyn, and has a law-office in this city.
These are tiie Texans.
1 Two Georgians sign the call G. W.
, A.-hburn and Henry C. Coie. Neither
of them is known to a hundred men
outside of his county. They are both
Northern men by birth and education,
i ()ne of them is a correspondent of a Bos
j ton paper, and as such isthe malignant
slandererof the people among whom he
lives.
Eight sign as citizens of virginsa.
Except Underwood, whose infamy has
j made him notorious, these men are all
• i utterly insignificant and unknown.One
, iof them, Lewis McKenzie, is a rather
i j respectable person. Another, the Rev.
j J. W. Iluuuicutt is a crack brained, ad
' dlepated sort of a fellow, whom every
' one laughs at, a South Carolinian by
>! birth. The remaining dxareall natives
, | of the North.
The signers from Alabama are with
"j the exception of Mr. George Reese, so
obscure and unknown, that we venture
| to say that they have never been heard ol
I ten mites from their homes. We are
somewhat suprised that Mr. Ilei se ap
i pended his name to the call, if, indeed,
II it was placed there by his authority.
, | The four Missourians who sign thepa
'! per are a part of the scum that was
| thrown to the surface of the filthy po
'! iitical pool of that State by the terrible
agitations of the war. if there is a
| man in all the land who can tell us any
thing about the two North Caroiin
| ians whose names grace the call, we
; shall be obliged to him for the infor
j mation.
j These are the men who have called
j a Convention of' the Loyal Unionists
! the South' to meet at Philadelphia on
j the first Monday in September."
THERE is a paper in Mobile called
j the Xotiono/ist, owned and edited by
1 blacks. It has a colored correspondent
; at New Orleans, who expresses his ap
! preeiation of the Bureau in the follow
' ing language. He says:
"A thousand times better would it
1 be for the colored men were it übolish
■ ed, for,- instead of being a safeguard and
| protection for the freodmen, it is only
a place in which freed men's rights are
bartered away; it serves only to engen
der bitterness and hatred in the hearts
of the very people with whom we ex
pect to live, die, and be buried."
MK. GKEELY DEFINES HIS POSI
TION. —In answer to a letter addressed
to him from Waukegan, Mr. Greely
has written the following letter.
Yes Sir: —1 would bail Davis,oryou,
or any other culprit that the govern
ment* would shamefully keep in jail
more than a year, resisting and deny
ing his just and legal demand that he
be arraigned and tried, or let go. \ 7 ours
truly. HORACE (J HE LEY.
Mr. J. WILSON, Jr., Waukegan.
FEDERAL JUSTICE.—The Age has
culled the following from the volumi
nous testimony taken before the mis
railed Reconstruction Committee of
Congress. It is part of the testimony
of Judge Underwood, before whom Jef
ferson Davis will be tried next fall. The
reader would not fail to see, if he should
ever read any considerable amount of
the "testimony" taken by thi- com
mittee, that it lias about as much to do
with the price of corn as it has with
the subject of reconstruction:
(j. What is the standing at present
in Virginia of Jefferson Davis in point
of popularity ?
A. He is not as popular as General
Lee by any means. Ile is however, re
garded as their representative man, but
I know that he is not really as highly
esteemed as many others.
Q. What are some of the principal
defects in his administrative career?
A. I think they have complained of
his want of firmness, as they called it,
and his leniency to prisoners. He iseer
; tiiinly not as popular as General Lee.
But now comes tiie most remarkable •
! part of all, as to which, reading in the
nineteenth century, we rub our eyes
I and wander if it can be i eaiity:
Q. Could either Jefferson Davis or
i Robert E. Lee be convicted of treason
! in Virginia ?
A.() no! unless you had a packed
i jury.
Q. Could you manage to pack a jury
i there.
A. I think it would be very difficult,
j hut it coiqd he done. / could packajury
j to convict him.
This is the creature that Abraham
| Lincoln appointed a judge in Virginia,
and this is he who now administers
justice. We have nothing more to say.
A JOKE ox GEARY, THE HERO OK
SNICKEKVILLE.— At Cape May, the
| other evening, Heller the world re-
I nowned wizard gavean entertainment,
! which was largely attended by the -o
ijournersat the Cape. Somebody asked
i Heller if by second sight, or any other
; of his wonderful powers, lie could
| foretell who would he next Governor
of Pennsylvania? He answered, "That
while Geary was a swift runner , his ri
val hud the best chance of elevation,
being a 11 ster as well a- Ctymer. This
br :gii; the house down with three
- h . :y iln ers for Hiester Clymer, the
e . re ao lienee rising to their feet,
'joined in the hurrah. Three groans
were j roposed for the hero of Snicker's
j Gap. Such groans would have scared
I Geary worse than he ever was scared
before. — Patriot & Union.
TITETHREE MONTHS EXTRA PAY.—
Congress lately parsed an act giving
three months extra pay to utt officers in
service at the close of the rebellion.—
We'd like to know why the privates
| were left off the list. The amount the
: officers get amounts to over a million
! dollars, and is distributed as follows:
Infantry, nett tax off— Colonels, 827"
75; lieutenant colonels, $228 00; Majors,
i $199 50; captains, adjutants, reg.ment
! al quartermasters, sl7l 50; Ist lieuten
ants, $142,50; 2d lieutenants, $l2B 25.
Cavalry —Colonels, $313 50: lieuten
ant colonels, $270 75; majors and sur
geon:-, $228 00; captains, a.a. generals,
I com. of subsistence and assistant quar-
I termasters, $l9O 50; regimental qnar
| termasters, SIBO 50; lieutenants and as
: sistant surgeons. $152 00.
| CHASING THE GREENBACKS.— The
New York Herald and the Ledger pub
lished a statement that the Department
of the Treasury under Chase was minus
thirty millions of greenbacks. \\ by did
not the Black Republican Committee
ion the Conduct of the war investigate
| this statement? Why did not some
! "loyal" Senator ex press surprise at this
i statement? Did the Senate agree to
| adjourn so soon in order to pi event in
| vestigation? Is this statement, like
that in regard to " cotton frauds ," to be
j hush d up underthe Radical cry of the
! negro is better than the white man, and
I ought to vote? Is the negro to elect
i Congressmen who will not investigate
into*the corruption of the "loyal" ad
i ministration ? It suems so. This is
I the best way to pay the national
: debt! — Age.
THE GREAT QUESTION??—' The great
| question with the negroites is, how
j shall we manage so that t.he MINO
! RITY can RULE the majority ? I low
; shall we, the disunion minority, man
| age to KEEP our hands IN the na
-1 tional TREASURY ?
j These are the two great questions in
| one! The minority MUST RULE be
| cause WE are the minority! The ne
; gro must vote, because he will vote
i with "WE" the minority ! The Un-
I ion must he divided, and usurpation
I be resorted to, or else WE, the mino
j rity will be out voted! — Xorthumber
| land Democrat.
—Gen. Francis P. Blair, Jr., has
| brought a suit for damages against the
! Missouri Democrat, a. Republican •i
--1 per, published at St. Louis, for cliarg
! ing that lie apprnpi iaiecl china and sit
: vcr ware to his own. use whilst with
I the Federal army in South Carolina,
i i le has also instituted suit against .las.
| Limlsey, of Iron county, Missouri, for
i publishing a letter chaining him with
j cotton stealing whilst in the army.
One hundred thousand dollars dama
i ges are claimed in each case.
—When Portland was burne<i by the
British in 1775, an infant but a few
weeks old was removed from a houseon
Fore street, and taken out of town for
saiety. The house was burned down.
1 luring theconilagration on the Fourth,
that same infant was removed from a
house erected on the spot where stood
the one burned by Mowatt, from which
ninety years ago, she had been remov
ed, and'.-he was once more taken to a
place of safety. It was the venerable
Miss Hannah Thorn.
—The great Fires which have taken
place in every direction since the be
ginning of the present year must have
suprised every one. Thus far they have
far exceeded in the amount of lossevory
previous year. The reported losses lor
Ist it; amount to S4O/1(10,(WO, while those
of the entire year I*os were $43.13 M" 1 -
Many of the most destruotiveflreshave
been'tiie acts of incendiaries. Crimes
liKe tm- seem to be under the direct
agency of the devil.
—A hand of outlaws lately went to
a farm-house in Overton County, Teim.,
and forcibly took the farmer, named
Guutcr, to the woods, stripped h:m,
and were whipping him, when his
daughter heard his screams, and seiz
ing a hatchet, she ran to the rescue and
kille two of the ruffians and wounded
others, and liberated her father.
—A colored fellow assaulted a woman
at St. Louis, recently, but finding ner
too strong for him struck her with an
axe. She still resisted him, when he
shot at her four times from a revolver.
The woman now pitched in, knocked
him down, took his revolver, and was
about shooting wliert the w retell got up
and escaped, she kept hi- weapon ler
another emergency.
—There are 7,419 Odd Fellows in Cal
ifornia. liieyown uuiay nans, d
at $300,000, and other property valu* d
at $500,009.