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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.
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and when we deviate from this rule, it
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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
de<l on great public questions, so bar- '
i
i monized their Conflicting views, as to:
i
i erect a government under whose sway
the march of empire has been unlim- j
! ited, and which, except during its tern
j porary perversion by corrupt and am-!
| bitious men, proved the unfailing safe
guard of popular liberty for nearly a j
i century.
THE KADMAL KEBEEEION.
The letter of Henry J. Raymond,
'•Republican" 'member of Congress
i from New York, exposing the scheme
| of the Radicals to depose the President
| and inaugurate a rebellion in the
j North, has produced much alarm a
; mong peace-loving and patriotic peo
ple. Mr. Raymond has been in the
caucuses of the Radicals, and knows
whereof he affirms. He declares that
they mean war; that they are.quietly
arming themselves with a view of
forcing President Johnson from the
Executive Chair. Their plan is to e-i
I act a majority of the Northern mem- I
hers of the next Congress, impeach the .
President, and attempt toturn him out j
of office. They calculate that the Pros- j
ident will recognize the member- of
°
Congress elect from the Southern States, ;
and the Conservative members from :
the North, (provided these constitute a i
majority of Congress) as the lawful
Congress; and they will then sot them
s.'lves up as an opposition Congress,
and appeal to arms to sustain their au
thoritv. This, it is alleged, will occur,
if they succeed in electing a majority
of the Northern members. Now, then, j
the question arises, Shad the people, by •
voting for Radical candidates for Con
gress, run the risk of another war.' There
can be no doubt as to the fact that the
Radical leaders have determined to in
volvethecountry ina 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 "Itepubli- !
ran" member of (.'ongress, charges the j
Radicals with this scheme of a new re
bellion. It is no idle tale gotten up
f>r 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.