Slit gtilfonl ferttf. Frfdny Mornlnjr %upn*t 3. 1H66. DEMOCR ATIC STATE TICKET. FOR GOVERNOR, Hon. HIESTER CLYMER. OF BERKS COUNTY. DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET. PROTHOSOTABY, O. E. SHANNON, of Bedford Bor. SHERIFF. ROBT. STECKMAN, of Bloody Run. ASSOCIATE JCDGB, GEORGE W. GUMP, of Napier. commissimser, DAVID HOWSARE, of Southampton POOR DIRECTOR, MICHAEL DIEIIL, of Colerain. ACDITOR, JOHN I). LUCAS, of Bloody Run. THE CLiiVIBER. 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 hist., 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-j teen columns of matter and is tilled with racy editorials and the spiciest articles of the campaign. No conser vative politician should be without P. It will be embellished with POR TRAITS OF PRESIDENT JOHN SON, Hon. IHESTER CLYMEIt and other eminent patriots and statesmen, j and will contain a number of numerous political illustrations. TERMS: Ten cnpieetoone adlress, cash in advance, s■) 0 j Twenty " " " 8.00 j Lass than ten copies to one address. 60 cts per c py. Get up your clubs and send in your orders at once. No attention paid to any order unless accompanied by the cash. Persons getting up clubs should be particular to specify in their orders the name of the person to whom they wish the package addressed, as all the papers in the club will be sent to one person for distribution. Address, MEYERS & MENGEL, Bedford, Pa. NEW VOLUME. With this week begins thetenth year of our publication of the GAZETTE, and the second of the firm of Meyers A Mengel. We return thanks to the public for their patronage and hope to merita full share of the same in the fu ture. We renew our usual oTer to fur nish the GAZETTE at advance rales to all who will pay by the coming Sep tember Court. After that period we can't afford to do so. To those in ar rears we would address just one word of expostulation. You are required to pay your arrearages within three months from this date. After that time we will beeompelled to use the most stiingent measures to enforce collec tion. We have been dunning to no purpose long enough. There is also a large sum of money due us for estate printing , for which we have waited several years. We desire to remind Administrators, Executors, Ac., that our terms for such printing, are cash, and when we deviate from this rule, it i < only for theirspeeialaceommodatio: . We hope that there will be no necessi ty for the repetition of this notice to delinquents. THE Rump Congress adjourned or. 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 mos: reckless, extravagant and dangerou ever known in the historyof the coun try. Millions were spent as flippantly as though money had no value. The appropriations reached more than six hundred millions,nearlvas muchasany year during the war. Scarcely a bill was passed without the negro in it: and thesums 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 i ity; but Hhen the bill for the equaliza tion of bounties of white soldiers caint up, the increased pay at first proposed (SBJ per month ) was reduced nearly ont half, and even then it only passed by a vote of 51 to 50, every Democrat, ex cept two, voting in its favor. As a fit finale of their prolifigate career, they increased their own pay from $3,000 to $5,000 per session, making the snug little sum of SIO,OOO to every member of each ( ongress besides mileage. Ev ery citizen should read their proceed Ings carefully. No other proof is needed that they will establish a cen tral despotism and bankrupt the conn try if they are continued in power. CONGRESSMEN have evidently made Bp their minds that they will not b< re-elected and axe stealing all the mou cy they cao. THE PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION. i The National Union Convention which will meet in Philadelphia, on the 11th i ! inst., promises to be a true representa ! tion of the people of the entireßepub- < He. It will bethefirsteonvention i-om- ' posed of representatives from all the States, that has assembled since the - meeting of the Democratic National Convention in 1860. In this respect, as < 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, I j fc | Democrats from every section of the | } country will sit by their side; whilst : the "war men" of the North will take I part in its deliberations, \ Johnsons and other prominent South j ern men will join hands with them in furthering the long-hoped-for restora- j | tion of the Union. It is meet that such j will be theease. Were men ofone politi cal party alone to assemble in such a con- | vontion, no good could possibly result, j j as there could be no opportunity of j harmonizing diverse interests in be | half of a common cause. We. are 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, unbolcen, of the Union of the States. Hence, we are glad that in j this National Union Convention, men of various and widely different politic i a! antecedents, will meet and exchange ; opinions. The result of the delibera- 1 ! ' | tions of such an assemblage, will prove like that of the Constitutional Conven tions of the fathers, who, though riivi- 1 der the purpose of making political capital. If Radicalism is successful at ihe coming election, we fear for the peace of the country. Again, we say, neware! EX-PRESIDENT 1H CH AN IN. The venerable ex-president, James Buchanan, is at present staying at Bed ford Springs. On Saturday last he paid a visit to our town, stopping for a short time at the Mengel House. Mr. Buchanan looks well and seems to bear the weight of years without any vi-i --ble effect upon his constitution. His numerous friends in this section will bedelighted to know that he is again in their midst, the same true friend oi he masses, as when in earlier days he ninglcd with them in the public af fairs of the country. THE New York 1/erald, of July 26, •ontains a number of sharp things on the "job" work done by the present Jongress. We take pleasure in trans ferring these "hits" to our columns, ind desire our readers to give credit to tie lleratd for every line in tiiis issui hat has the word "job" in it. A VERY SERIOUS JOB.—With a rev nueof over two hundred millionsa *>ve what is demanded, Congress pile in taxation by increasing the tariff and eternal revenue tax thirty eight ihil ions, and raises the compensation o! nomhors to five thousand dollars per i session. EQUALIZATION OF BOUNTIES. The contest in Congress over the bill to equalize the bounties, was prolonged 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 1 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 $5,000. This plan pulled the bounty bill through by a majority of one in the House, the vote standing yeas 51, nays 56. The! Democrats voted for the bill, as they had always done before, and had it not j been for their almost unanimous sup- ; port, it would have been lost. More •Republicans' voted against than for ! it. Among those voting against it, ar6 Messrs. Lawrence, Koontz and Wilson, of 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 j follows, Democrats in Italics, Republi cans in Roman: Yeas. —Anderson, Banks, Barker, Benjamin, Bergen, Clarke of-Kansas, | Cuiiom, Driggs, Eckley, Jdidrtdye, Faxnswortii, Farquliar, Ferry, (/toss breamr, Higby, Hogan, Holmes, : ]lotchkiss, Ilubburd, Ingersoll, Jeneks, j Johnson, Kelley, Kerr, Kuykendall, i Latham, L< Blond, L>ftwitch, Marstou, j Maynard, McClurg, JfrCullough, Mil- j ler, MoorheaJ, Myers, Newell, Niblack. ; Nicholson, O'Neii, Patterson, Randall, of Pa., Rice of Mass., Rice of Me., j tsehenek, S rouse, Taylor of Tenn., ! it Ify lor of N. Y., Thornton, Van Horn of N. Y., Van Horn of Jlu., Whalley. Nays. —Allison, Ashley of Nevada, 1 Baker, Baxter, Bidwell, Bingham, j Boutwell, Broniwell, Cobb, Conkl'mg, Del'rees, Fggleston, Eliot, Finck, Gar tieid, Harding of Illinois, Hart, Hayes, : IL-bbell of Ohio, Kasson, Ketehum, ! Koontz, Lafiin, Lawrence of Pennsvl-; vania. Lawrence of Ohio, Lynch, Mer-j cer, Morrill, Morris, Orth, Paine, Per- ; ham, Phelps, Plants, Price, Bitter,-, Ross, Sawyer, Shanklin. Shellabarger, 1 Stokes, Taber, J. L. Thomas, Jr., 1 James Trimble, Van Aernam, Walk- ! er, Wilson of lowa, Wilson of Penusyl- j vania, Wright, —s6. THE Radical leaders here are 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." j Such Democrats as they imagine they can wheedleinto their views, are mark ed "Doubtful," and supplied plentiful- : ly with electioneering pamphlets filled with falsehoods of the basest character. , Among these is one entitled, "Is the , South ready for Restoration?" It is j I tilled with extracts from Sumner's i Scrap Book and Stevens' private let ' tors, with garbled extracts from news papers and speeches, which, if true, a m'ount to nothing, but most of which • have no existence except in the fanat- I ; ical fancy of the writer. Send out your i trash, gentlemen! Your movements j are watched and your labors will be j fruitless. THE Thadites ol this county who, a few years ago, engineered KnowNoth-! I ingism, and were ready to cut a for- i i eigner's throat, seem to have fallen ! ; wonderfully in love, Intelv, with the! .7 "sweet German accent, and the rich Irish brogue." How they love th" foreigners! They have even gone to thetroubieto preparea pamphlet which ! they say is intended to "capture the! Dutch," thus jeering the men they are 1 trying to cheat. We expect they will j next have a pamphlet which they will i 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 appointed O. 11. Brown ing, of Illinois, as his successor. One by one the radical- drop from the side of the President, and the; Cabinet will soon he a unit in favor of the Constitu tion and the Union. The resignation of Harlan will put an end to the ship ping of clerks from Washington for the purpose of making votes against the President. The appointments oi Mr. Randall, as Postmaster General, Mr. Stan berry, as Attorney General, and Mr. Browning as Secretary of the Interior, have all been confirmed by the Senate. THE hypocrisy of the Disunion lead ers was completely unmasked by tiieir action on the bill to equalize bounties. They have been tried and found want ing. All the Democrats except two supiMjriedthe measure in every stage ' of its progress; but a majority of the "Republicans" opposed it from fir-t to ' last. 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 dieir •coders, and openly avow their deter rfiination to be lexi no further on the i road to negro equality and national i bankruptcy. THE .VTI.AXTH' CABI.E! Europe aiul Amerira connected bj Tflc graph! The Great Eastern arrived at Heart's Content, at nine o'clock, A. M., Satur day, July 28, having paid out the en tire length of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable. Cyrus W. Field, the indefati gable manager of the great enterprise, at once sent the following despatch to New York: "HEART'S CONTENT, July 28.— We arrived here at f> o'clock this morning. All well. Thank God! The cable has been laid and is in perfect working or der." The following correspondence sdso took place between Mr. Field and the President: 11 EART'S CONTENT, July 28. To his Ejve/lertcy, President Johnson, U'ttshi nylon, D. < SIR: The Atlantic Cable was success fully completed this morning. I hope that it will prove a blessing to England . and the United States, and increase the intercourse between our own country 1 and the Eastern hemisphere. Yours, faithfully, (Signed) CYRUS W. FIELD. To Cyrus ll'. Field, Heart's Content* I heartily congratulate you and trust that your enterprise may prove as suc ; cevsful as your efforts have been perse vering. May the cable under the sea tend to promote harmony between the Republic of the West and the govern : ments of the Eastern hemisphere, i (Signed) ANDREW JOHJSSON. Several despatches were received from Europe, There seems to be no doubt of the successful working of the cable. Truly this isan era in the history of civilization. THE Williamsport Union Republican, \ edited by D. S. Dunham, and daunt ing at 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 Lnion Republi can is at present engaged in a contro versy with the West Branch Bulletin , a radical paper, and thus speaks of that journal, and its beau ideal of a states man, Thad tStevens: I Thaddeus Stevens says: "with my 1 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 I sentiments. ! Thad. Stevens says: "that eleven states are out of the union and must remain out." I The Bulletin repeats and endorses i Thad's sentiments. The Union Repvltlican says no state ' can legally secede from the union, con sequently all the states remain in the union. | Thad. Stevens is in favor of Congress I giving all negroes the right of suffrage, thereby increasing the representation 5 in Congress from the South, (if those | states should ever bo restored) and de j creasing it in the Nortn. j The BulMin cries amen to Thad's i proposition and endorses all that Thad savs on the subject. This paper says that Congress has no I constitutional right to make negro vo ters; that that right belongs to the in dividual states, and opposes the idea that negroes should he endowed with the right of franchise in Pennsylvania. That is very good, Mr. Union Re puhliean! But what business has John W. Geary's nanieat your mast-head, if you hold such sentiments? \EBO RIOT AT MAT ORLEANS. A terrible riot ;ias just occurred in S the city of New Orleans, growing out ■ | of a demonstration of the negroes in ; honor of the re-assembling of tliede i funet Banks State Convention of 18G4. A procession of negroes was passing a ; 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 ! soon assumed the proportions of a most ! fearful riot. The Mayor and police fi ! nally succeeded in restoring order, hut J not until a number of negroes and sev ■ eral whites were killed, and many of j both colors wounded. This is another i episode in the history of black and j white equality. Hucii are the workings jof the Civil Rights Bill, lliot, blood shed and anarchy are its legitimate re sults. Who would vote so as to en dorse it? THE ATSTKO-PRTSSIAS V. 4St. 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 Prussians had still 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 2;id 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 ( 'uilara riv er. A gunboat tight ha I occurred off I Js'sa, the Austrian* claiming the vic tory. A PERSONAL JOB. —Congress de mands retrenchment in the depart ments, and raises the compensation of members to five 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 PREC IOUS JOB. —Congress propo sed to give twenty millions' worth of ' valuable mineral lands to the New York and Montana Mining Company, a swin dle fortunately detected and smashed hv the President, and increases the pay i of members to five thousand dollars per session. ; Ax IMMENSE JOB. —Congress grants j millions of acres of public lands and binds itself in the sum of nearly sixty j millions of dollars to aid in thegigan ! tic job of building the Northern Pacif ! ic Railroad, and at the same time rais ] es the pay of members to five thousand dollars per session. A CRACKING JOB. —Congress raises thesalary of its members to five thou sand dollars per session, and compels i the government to pay the national banks thirty millions per annum in the shape of interest on government bonds I for the privilege of having Treasury ' notes and legal tenders superseded as j currency. A BAD JOB. —Congress raises the compensation of members to five thou ! sand dollars per session, and proposes | to lend Mexico thirty millions of dol | lars, the revenue of that country being j collected by French officers to satisfy j French claimants. 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 jen millions in one lump for another i great charity humbug called the Free d! men's Bureau. A HEAVY JOB. —Congress proposes to aid in constructing levees on the | Mississippi and Yazoo rivers at an ul- J timate cost of fifty millions, and rais j os the pay of membersto five thousand : dollars per annum. A SLY JOB. —Congress proposes to fund the national debt and sell | surplus gold, allowing a per cent ' 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, but increases its own salary, earned only by abusing the President. A ( 'OXTEMJ'TIBLE 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 : for protecting British commerce by 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. I CONGRESS vote-to increase its own 1 salary, but defeats the Bankrupt bill, | designed to relieve poor debtors. CONGRESS is going to pay itself a higher salary for keeping the Union j dissolved. ST. CLAIR TOWNSHIP, ) 7 Mo., 27th.day, 18fi(5. ) 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 lor the soldier, led us to tiiiuk he deserved some consideration; but this serves to show the differ-! ! once between practice and profession.—l I The Bedford Inquirer's appeal to the "boys in blue," is getting to be well unden-'ood. Like the mother's advice , 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, whiff'or black, but make roles /" 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 boat the d d Demo crats." 1 give thee their precise lan guage. Such is the desperation of thy opponents. Thee must buckle on thy armor and fight against this corrupt j scheme of Negro Suffrage. It is the I key to all our troubles. The opposi- j tion must not be allowed to bide it as ; they did before. The "Freednien's j Bureau" bill, costing us millions a year to pay agents who are too lazy to work, freedmon who are too lazy to keep themselves and speculators who get the contracts to supply provisions, is another thing tliec should expose. — We tax-payers are getting tired and becoming restless. Patience may cease to become a virtue, but we desire relief from our burdens, peaceably, through the ballot-box. Greedy politicians aud speculators have been making enough off the people. Thy opposition neigh bors here are beginning to see these things in theirtrue light, and i can as sure thee that some improtaut changes are going on. ifany thing of importance turns lip 1 may drop thee a note. THY FRIEND. loIesli' lothc National I'nloii Conven tion. The Executive Committee of the State Central Committee of the Demo cratic party of this State have suggest ed the following list of delegates to the National Union Convention. DEMOCRATIC STATE COMMITTEE ROOMS, J 828 WALNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA, July 21, 186(5. J A call for a National Convention to be held in Philadelphia on the 14th day of August, 1800, having been is sued, an invitation was extended, un der dateof July 10, 1860, to the Demo cratic organization, as such, to unite in that Convention, in order to "devise a plan of political action calculated to restore national unity, fraternity and harmony." The time being too brief to call a j State Convention, or to refer the sub ject to the districts for action, and it appearing to be the wish of the party, as expressed at Reading and through the press, that we should be represent ed therein, the Democratic Executive Committee of Pennsylvania, acting un der tin-authority of the State Central Committee, specially reserving control of the organization, have designated ' and invited the following gentlemen , to act as delegates to that Convention : DELEGATES AT LARGE. Ex-Governor David It. Porter, Ex-Governor William Bigler, Ex-Governor William F. Packer, Chief Justice George W. Woodward. CONOR ESS IO NA L DELEGATES. Districts. Ist—Hon. James Campbell, George M. Wharton, Esq. 2d—Colonel W. C. Patterson, Hon. Richard Vaux. :ki—Hon. Daniel M. Fox, Hon. John Robbins. 4th—Hon. Ellis Lewis, Hon. Charles Brown, sth—Gen. W. W. H. Davis, John G. Brenner, Esq. (sth—Hon. John 1). Stiles, Col. Owen Jones. 7tJi —Hon. George G. Leiper, Hon. John A. Morrison. Bth—Hon. Warren J. Woodward, Charles Kessler, Esq. 9th—Hon. Isaac E. Hiester, H. M. North, Esq. Kith—lion. F. W. Hughes, Dr. C. I). Gloninger. 11th—Hon. Asa Packer, Col. W. H. 11 utter. 12th— General E. L. Dana, John Blanding, Esq. 13th—Colonel W. 11. Ent, Hon. C. L. Ward. 14th —EdmundS. Doty, Esq., Hamilton Alricfc-q Esq. 15th —Hon. JeremiahS. Black, Hon. Samuel Hepburn. 16th—William McClellan, Esq., Hon. W. P. Schell. 17th—Gen. William 11. Irwin, Hon. C. L. Pershing. 18th—Col. Phalon Jarrett, Hon. James Gamble. 19th—Hon. Win. A. Galbraith, Hon. James T. Leonard. 20th—Gen. Alfred B. McCahnont, Hon. Gaylord Church. 21st—Hon. lienrv D. Foster, H. W. Wier, Esq. 22(1—General J. B. Sweitzer, George P. Hamilton, Esq. 23d—Hon. George W. Cass, Col. William Sirweii. 24th—Hon. Jesse Lazear. Hon. William Hopkins. By order of the Democratic State Exeeu ti ve Co in m 11tee. WM. A. WALLACE, Chairmai.. JACOB ZKIGI.ER, Secretary. V JACK HAMILTON'S CONTENTION. We have already noticed a call for a soidisant Southern Radical Conven tion, to offset the National Union Con- j vention, of men of all parties, from all sections of the Union. The New York News thus gives the lives and history of -ome of the signer- to Jack Hamil ton's call: "Three of them profess to be citizens of Texas. Not one of them is a resident of that state. '(Jovernor' Hamilton left i it Mmicdinnmgo, declaring that lie nev er expected to reside there again, and | he is now in Washington. George W. j Paseiiall, whose suspected treason to : the Confederacy was magnanimously j over-looked by*its government during j all the war, is now living in Washing- j ton and practicing law there. Lorenzo ; Siierwood resides in the city of Brook- ; ivn, and has a law-office in this city. \ These are the Texans. Two Georgians sign the call G. W. j Ashburn and Henry C. Cole. Neither \ of them is known to a hundred men j outside of his county. They are both: Northern men by birth and education, j ' hieofthem is a correspondent of a Bos- J ton pajier, and as such isthe malignant | slandererof the people among whom he j lives. Eight sign as citizens of virginsa. | Except Underwood, whose infamy has • made him notorious, these men are all | utterly insignificant and unknown.One | of theVn, Lewis McKeuzie, is a rather I respectable person. Another, the Rev. \ J. W. Ilunnieutt is a erackbrained, ad-! dlepated sort of a fellow, whom every j one laughs at, a South Carolinian by birth. The remaining dxareall natives of the North. The signers from Alabama are with the exception of Mr. George Reese, so obscure and unknown, that-we venture tosay that they have never been heard ot ton miles from their homes. We are somewhat suprised that Mr. lies se ap pended bis name to the call, if, indeed, it was placed there by bis authority. The four Missourians who sign the pa per are a part of the scum that was thrown to tin- surface of the filthy po li ticat 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 Carolin ians whose names grace the call, we shall be obliged to him for the infor mation. These are the men who have called a Convention of' the Loyal Unionists the South' to meet at Philadelphia on the first Monday in September." THERE is a paper in Mobile called the XationatLit, owned and edited by blacks. It has a colored correspondent at New Orleans, who expresses his ap preciation of the Bureau in the follow ing language, lie says: "A thousand times better would it be for the colored men were it abolish ed, for,-instead of being a safeguard and protection for the freed men, 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." MR. GKEELY DEFINES HIS POSI TION.—In answer to a letter addressed to him from Waukegan, Mr. Greely has written the following letter. Yes Sir:—l 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 j be arraigned and tried, or let go. Yours truly. HORACE GREEEY. Mr. J. W IT,SON, Jr., Waukegan. I FEDERAL JCSTICK.-' The Age HAS culled the following from tin? volumi nous testimony taken before the mis called Reconstruction Committee of Congress. It is part of the testimony of Judyc Underwood, before whom .Jef ferson Davis will be tried next fall. The reader would not fail to see, if lieshoiild ever read any considerable amount of the "testimony" taken by this com mittee, that it has ahout as much to do with the price of com as it has with i the subject of reconstruction : Q. What is the standing at present in Virginia of Jelferson Davis in point of popularity ? A. He is not as popular as General Lee by any means. He is however, re garded as their representative man. but 1 I know that he is not really as highly I esteemed as many others. Q. What are some of the principal defects in his administrative career? A. J think they have complained of his want of firmness, as they called it, : and his (eniency to prisoners. He iscer | tainly not as popular as General Lee. But now comes the most remarkable • part of all, as to which, reading in the | nineteenth century, we rub our ey< > i and wander if it can be feality: Q. Could either Jelferson Davis or ; Robert E. Lee be convicted of treason ! in Virginia ? A. <) no! unless you had a packed ;jury. Q. Could you manage to pack ajury \ there. A. 1 think it would be very difficult, i butUcouyl be done. I could pack ajun to cone let hi in. This is the creature that Abraham •; Lincoln appointed a judge in Virginia, and this is lie who now administers justice. We have nothing more tosay. A JOKI: OX GEARY, THE 11 ERODE .SNICKEKVII.EE.— At Cape May, the j other evening, lieller the world re j nowned wizardgavoauentertainment, ! which was largely attended by the so i journers at the Cape. Somebody asked I Heller if by second sight, or any other of his wonderful powers, he could foretell who would he next Governor j of Pennsylvania? He answered, "That | while ay was a swift runner, his ri i val had the best chance of elevation, • bei; a IJ.'rsfer as well a.- Cfymer. This : !•••.ugh; riie house down with three i he .. ;y i rers for Hiester Ciynier, the <•: .re an lience rising to their feet, •'joined in the hurrah. Three groans u-.a-e proposed for the hero of Snicker's (Jap. Such groan- would have scared j Geary worse than he ever was scared before.— Patriot Union. — TIIETIF REE. MONTHS EXTRA PAY.— Congress lately passed an act giving three months extra pay to all officer," in service at the close of the rebellion.— We'd like to know why the privates i were left off the list. The amount the | olticers get amounts to over a million dollars, and is distributed as follows: Infantry, nett lax off— Colonels, $270 1 To; lieutenant colonels, s22s 00; Majors, | $199 do; captains, adjutants, reg.mcnt ! al quartermasters, sl7l 50; Ist lieuten ants, $142,50; 2d lieutenants, sl2s 25. Cavalry —Colonels, $313 50: lieuten ant colonels, $270 75; majors and sur geons, $228 00; captains, a.a. generals, com. of subsistence and assistant quar i termasters, $l9O 50; regimental quar | termasters, SIBO 50; lieutenants and as sistant surgeons, $152 00. CHASING THE GREENBACKS.—' The I New York Herald and the Ledger |>ub j lished a statement that the Department | of the Treasury under Chase was minus j thirty millions of greenbacks. Why did i not the Black Republican Committee j on the Conduct of the war investigate | this statement ? Why did not some i "loyal" Senator ex press surprise at this i statement ? Did the Senate agree to ! adjourn so soon in order to prevent in ; vestigation? Js this statement, like i that in regard to " cotton frauds," to be i bush d up underthe Radical erv of the ! negro is better than the white man, and ought to vote? Is the negro to eleOt i Congressmen who will not invesLgate into the corruption of the "loyal" ad | ministration ? It soems so. This is the best way to pay the national ! debt! — Age. THE GREAT QUESTION?? —-Thegreat 1 question with the negroites is, how | shall we manage so that the M1NO ; RITY can RULE the majority ? How shall we. the disunion minority, man age to KEEP our hands IN the na tional TREASURY? i These are the two great questions in one! The minority MUST RULE be ! cause WE are t lie minority! The ne j gro must vote, because he will vote \ with "WE" the minority ! The Un ion must be divided, and usurpation be resorted to, or else WE, the mino rity will be out voted !—Xorthutnber land Democrat. —(Jen. Francis P. Blair, Jr., has brought a suit for damages against tlie Missouri Democrat, a.Republican •i --! per, published at St. Louis, for charg ing that he appropriated china and sii | ver ware to iiis own. use whilst with the Federal army in South Carolina. He has also instituted suit against .las. Lindsey, of Iron county, Missouri, for publishing a letter charging him with cotton stealing whilst in the army. One hundred thousand dollars dama ges are claimed in each ease. —When Portland was burned by the British in 1775, an infant but a few weeks old was removed from a houseou Fore street, and taken out of town for saiety. The house was burned down, i >uring theeoniiagration on the Fourth, that same infant was removed from a house erected on the spot where stood the OIK burned by Mowatt, from which ninety years ago, she had been remov ed, and she was once more taken to a place of safety. It was the venerable .Miss Hannah Thoro. —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 loss every previous year. The reported losses h>r IS(K> amount to $40,000,000, while those of the entireyenr 1 s(i.j were $43.13 1 ' Ml. Many of the most destruetivefireshave been the acts of incendiaries. Crimes like tins seem to be under the direct agency of the devil. —A band of outlaws lately went to a farm-hotisein Overton County,Tetin., and forcibly took the farmer, named Guuter, to the woods, stripped him, and were whipping him, when his daugh er heard his screams, and seiz ing a halchct. she ran to the rescue and kille two of the ruffians and wounded others, and liberated her father. —A colored fellow assaulted a woman I at St. Louis, recently, hut linding m r too strong for him struck her with an axe. She still resisted him, when he shot at Iter four times from a revolver. The woman now pitched in, knocked him down, took his revolver, and was about shooting when the wretch got up and escaped, she kept weapon lor another emergency. —There are 7,449 Odd Fellows in Cal ifornia. iney own turny nans, vo" d at $300,000, and other property value d at $300,000.