v-J Friday Morning June '2S. ISU7. Democratic State Ticket. FOR JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT, IION. GEORGE SHARSWOOI), OF PHILADELPHIA. Democratic County Ticket. FOB DISTRICT ATTORNEY, E. F. KERR, of Bedford Borough. FOR TREASURER, ISAAC MEN GEL, of Bedford Ror. FOR COMMISSIONER, P. M. BARTON, of E. Providence. FOR POOR DIRECTOR, JOHN I. NOBLE, 01 S. Woodberry. FOR AUDITOR, SAMUEL WHIP, of Cumb. Valley. ■ --i" H AVE WE A DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE? This question is prompted by the fact that, for the last three years, we have not seen or heard of anything emana ting from any such institution as that concerning whose existence the above inquiry is made. During those weary i years, the Democratic party has fought its battles through its State organiza tions, without a word of advice, or cheer, from its National head. It has j fought gallantly, nobly, and invinci bly ; but what army ever won a victory whose corps or division commanders were not directed by a chief to whom they were all subordinate and owed obedience? It is because the Demo-! cratic masses have not been concentra ted upon the vulnerable points in the line of the enemy's works, that we have failed to succeed. Thus far we have only skirmished with the pickets of the Radical forces, or, at best, have but made a reconnoissance in force. Shall thischild's play continue? Shall we fritter away our strength by meet ing our opponents upon side issues and local questions, only to permit them to use the power they retain to try their noxious and detestable governmental experiments? God forbid! Neverthe less, we are in a fair way to repeat the folly which every election teaches us to repeat. Our organization is hold to gether by the clear and palpable cor rectness of the principles which we pro fess, and, therefore, is deathless and indestructible; but, whilst its members cling to it even unto martyrdom, like the Christian Tiyari we are surrounded by political Mussulmans who believe it their duty to exterminate us and who scruple at nothing to effect their pur pose. To accomplish our destruction they have' Africanized one half of the Republic, disfranchised seven hundred thousand white men, and buried the Constitution amid the ruins of the for mer Union. What are we doing to re gain that which has thus lieen lost? Whilst pamphlet after pamphlet is scattered among the people, by the Radical leagues and committees, whilst speaker after speaker is sent out by the "Republican National Committee," whilst millions upon millions of dollars are raised by the financial managers of the Radical party, what is our Nation al Committee doing? Sleeping a Rip Van Winkle sleep unbroken even by the thunderous crash of the most sweep ing political revolution that ever de stroyed a governmental fabric! Sleep ing, whilst the rank and file are strug gling with the enemy! Sleeping, whilst our brethren are being murdered in Tennessee and enslaved in ten States of the Union! Sleeping, whilst thous ands upon thousands of white men in every Northern State, are being robbed of the privileges of citizenship! Sleep ing, whilst Fanaticism, Anarchy and Tyranny hold riotous carnival through out the land! Oh! shame, that the grand army of the Democracy is thus officered! Shame, that the men who, by their numbers, intelligence and wealth, possessthe power to resto ethe Republic, are defeated in their noble purpose, by the apathy, or inefficiency, of those appointed to lead them! Oh ! ye sluggards, how long will you sleep ? Victory is within our grasp; will you organize for the charge which must re sult in the capture of the enemy's cita del ? Will you lead us, or must we discard you and give your swords to men who will not sleep? Wake up, August Belmont! Finish your nap right now, for we "propose to move upon the enemy's works immediate ly !" THE Radical papers are already cir culating a number of falsehoods in re gard to the proceedings of the late Dem ocratic State Convention. Oneof these is, that a resolution endorsing Gen. Sheridan's course as satrap of Louisi ana, was declared out of order. We were present during the entire pro ceedings of the Convention, and know that no such resolution was oflered. Sheridan's name was not mentioned, at any time, during the sessions of the Convention, by any member of that body. The Radical newspapers must be hard up for objections to the course of the Convention, when such misera ble lies as that are invented by them. KLIiKO SUFFRAGE VS. THE TARIFF. The Africans of the South have been enfranchised by Congress, and thus the voting population of eleven Southern States (including Tennessee) has been doubled. Heretofore, but three-fifths of the African population of those States were counted in the apportionment of memljers of Congress. Hereafter all of that population will be counted in making such apportionment. An im portant result of this change, will ben large increase of the number of members of Congress to be elected bg those States. Under the next apportionment the South, owing to the enfranchisement of the Africans, will have a much larger representation in Congress than it had during the palmiest days of the institu tion of slavery. Now, the Southern people are, it is well known, unani mously opposed to all protective tariffs, and no matter whether their represen tatives in Congress be white, or black, whether elected by the ballots of the European, or the African, those repre sentatives will always be found arrayed in opposition to high protective duties. A great portion of the West, is also hostile to a tariff on iron and coal, whilst New England has a warm side for cheap fuel, and in the last Congress clearly evinced her decided partiality for Nova Scotia. Of course, the votes of the Southern States, of the West and of New England, will be combined in favor of a reduction of the duties on coal and iron, and the increased repre sentation of the South will enable such a combination to wield a majority of the votes in Congress. Thus has the Radical Congress hung a millstone a bout the neck of Pennsylvania. Fare well to that "protection to home indus try," of which we have heard so much ! Farewell to the furnaces and rolling mills of Pennsylvania! Negro Suffrage in the South will be the end of them, just as soon as it can make itself felt in the halls of Congress. The Radical party invites the iron and coal men of Pennsylvania to their own funeral. It asks them to endorse the Reconstruc tion Acts which doom their interests to destruction. It bids them sign their own death-warrant, by approving a policy which will give Free Trade an accession of at least twenty-five rotes in Congress. It remains to be seen wheth er party ties are strong enough to make people commit suicide. HON. GEORGE SlIARSWOOI). The nomination of Justice Shars- j wood for the office of Supreme Judge, j proves very popular, not only among Democrats, but also among "Republi cans." The Pittsburg Gazette , Phila delphia Bulletin, Erie Dispatch , and other Radical papers speak of it as the very best that could have been made. The fact is, the Radicals have 110 man who, as a jurist, will not suffer in com-1 parison with Judge Sharswood. Poli tics aside, they arc compelled to admit, that they cannot nominate any one so eminently fit to wear the judicial er mine as the nominee of the Democracy. We shall publish some of thecommen dutions of Judge Sharswood printed by the Radical papers, as soon as we can find room. PRAISE FROM THE ENEMY. 80 excellent are the nominations made by the late Democratic County Conven tion that the Bedford Inquirer , of last week, is constrained to pay them the following elaborate compliment: "The Copperhead County Convention assemDled in this placeoll last Tuesday and put in nomination a ticket to be supported by them at the coming elec tion. The nominees are for District Attorney, E. F. Kerr, of Bedford; Treasurer, Isaac Mengel, of Bedford; County Commissioner, Peter M. Bar ton, of East Providence; Poor Director, Join. I. Noble, of South Woodbery, and Auditor, Samuel Whip, of Cumberland Valley, is about the best ticket that has been put in nomination by that party for some years. All the men are sound practical men and will make good and reliable officers. It is evident that thecountry foroncegot the advan tage of the town, and the leaders here were foiled in their efforts to secure the usual creatures who are entitely sub servient to them. We claim some cred it for this deviation from the usual course of nominating men without bus iness qualideations for the offices of Commissioner, Poor Director and Aud itor. It will he a credit to the candi dates put in nomination by the Repub lican party to defeat or be defeated by such men." THE Bedford Inquirer takes to LONG STREET, the Disunion Rebel General, as naturally as fleas to a dog. This is not to be wondered at, inasmuch as Longstreet is a Southern Secessionist, whilst the editors of the Inquirer, are Northern Disunionists. Longstreet wanted to take the Southern States out of the Union, and failed because the Federal Army met him at Round Top, near Gettysburg. The editors of the Inquirer declare those States are out of the Union (in spite of Round Top) and that they shall stay out, or come in black end foremost. Is it any wonder that the Disunion Rebel General Long street likes the party that hies made Disunion a fact, or that the Disunion editors of the Inquirer admire Long street who tried, but failed, to accom plish the same thing? THE .STATE CAPITA!. PEFMIERED ! Astonishing Developments! We refer the reader to the accounts of the robbery of the State Capitol, by officials of the late Legislature, which we print elsewhere. Tons of books and documents and even U. S. Mail bags have been stolen and converted to their own use, by these Radical thieves. Talk about "reform" and "honesty," in a party that puts and keeps such rob bers in office"! As well might Lucifer be trusted to reform the infernal pit! WE clip the following from the Bed ford Inquirer of June 21st: AT a Republican meeting in Trenton, N. J., last week. Ware, a Philadel phia negro, pithily said: "Radicalism is this: if you don't give it what it asks, it will take more." As the Inquirer evidently endorses the definition, we agree with it for once, but, will not the definition an swer equally well for highway robbery? THE President has gone to Rostoh, upon an invitation of the authorites of that city. He was enthusiastically re ceived along the route, except in Phila delphia. That city is bound to commit hari kari. The Copperhead Convention at Har risburg dodged the Free Railroad ques tion.—Radical Paper. The Radical Legislature didn't "dodge" that question ; they defeated the proposed Free Railroad Law. SHORTS—POLITICAL AM) PERSONAL. HON. L. D. CAMPBELL has resigned his position as Minister to Mexico and returned to the United States. This second attempt to introduce the camel into Mexico has proved as unsuccessful as the first. PENNSY f.vAXi A is to go for the Dem ocrats at the next election. So said Thaddeus Stevens, the "great Com moner," when he was mad over Cam eron's success. THAI). STEVENS talks about a "mild confiscation." Said an Irishman, hold ing his hand before the muzzle ofagun about to be fired, "pull it off aisy." THE first line of a Radical song be gins thus: "We'll hang Horace Gree- Iy on that sour apple tree, because he helped to set Jeff. Davis free." THE .South is offered admission to Congress if it will send members wil ling to brush Sumner's shoes. That is the amount of the reconstruction bill. FORNEY says, Thad. Stevens is im proving, and the Boston Post says there is great room for it. THE Earl of Brownlow died lately in England. The infamy attached of late years to the name, struck in and killed him. THE Philadelphia Press is out in fa vor of the election of Africans to Con gress. Forney wants a boot-black. POTT of the Fulton Republican , says, he has been •'■stirred by the announce ment"—that Jeff. Davis is "out on bail." R. B. HAYES has been nominated for Governor, by the Radical Conven tion of < )hio. Owing to Negro Suffrage and White Disfranchisement being the issues in Ohio, the political atmosphere in that State, doesn't look so very Hayes-y. THE Democracy of Belleville, 111., routed the Radicals badly, the other day. They polled a majority of 150—a gain of 700 since last fall. So it goes everywhere. JOHN NEAT, has written to the Port land Press a letter opposing the prohibi tory liquor law. He says its effects in Maine have been demoralizing; and it has increased the sale of liquor clan destinely. THEODORE TILTON, a teacher of "grand moral ideas," advocates the licensing of houses of prostitution. "Do something," said Artemus, "do something. If you can't get to be clerk to a manure wagon, why write for the Ledger /" "Local-on-the-(blow) fly" follows this advice as nearly as he can, by scribbling for the Bedford In quirer. SENATOR JAMES GUTHRIE, of Ken tucky, who has been ill a long time, is recovering. HON. ISAAC NEWTON, Commissioner of Agriculture at Washington, died on the 19th inst., of Typhoid Fever.— Mr. Newton was a Philadelphian. COEFAX is working "Across the Con tinent and towards the Presidency" in the interior of Illinois. —So says the World. AN election was recently held in the second grand division of Illinois, for Judge, which resulted in the election of a Democrat by a majority of 1,230 In November, last year, the Radicals carried the same district by a majority of 3,044. Thus it will be seen that the reaction in Connecticut has extended to the West. A change as decided in other Stales will give Democratic ma jorities in nearly all the States. THE Chicago Times suggests that the best way to get the foul water out of Chicago River, is to engage Horace Greely to bail it out! THE Democratic State Convention of California, has nominated H. 11. Haight for Governor, William Holden for Lieu tenant Governor, 11. L. Nicholas for Secretary of State, Robert Watson for Comptroller, Antonia F. Coronell for Treasurer and John W. Dost for Sur-. veyor General. GALENA, Ills., the home of Gen. Grant, has just elected the Democratic ticket by 230 majority. The Third Ward went Democratic for the first time in the history of the city. PERIODICALS. THE NURSERY, for July, has been received. It is the delight of the little ones. With the July number com mences a new volume. In every fam ily, where there are children, from five to twelve years old, this excellent little monthly should be found. Now is the time to subscribe for it. Subscription price $1.30 per annum. Address John L. Shorey, Boston, Mass. PETERSON'S MAGAZINE, for the cur rent month, is before us. This is the cheapest, as well as one of the best, of the ladies' magazines. Mrs. Ann S. Stephens, C. J. Peterson, Esq., Ella Rodman, and other popular writers are contributors to this work. Peterson's fashions are always the very latest, and its illustrations of the beau mo/ide are unexcelled. The July number is a cap ital one. GODEY'S LADY BOOK. —The July number of this oldest of the ladies' magazines is on our table. Marion Harland's story, "For Better, For Worse," is continued; "Circumstantial Evidence," by Mrs. Victor, "The Le gend of a Diamond Ring," by Octave E. Hill, and "A Summer Tour," by A. M. Dana, are full of interest and of high literary merit. The frontis-piece, "Old Letters," is a beautiful engrav ing, and the fashion-plates and other illustrations are of the highest order of excellence. "Godey" is always reada ble and entertaining. THE OLD GUARD.— The July num ber of the Old Guard is before us. This is truly an excellent publication, sound politically, morally and literarily. The present number containsa continuation of W. Gilmore Simm's new novel, "Joscelyn," "The Battle of Fredericks burg," by John Esten Cooke, "Alver ley," by A New Contributor, "The Right of Suffrage and the Condition of the South," "Who and What are the Negroes?" "Catechism of the Consti tution," "Democrats and Conserva tives," "Sixty Years of Democracy," and a number of fine poems and an "Epigram on Ben Butler." Published by Van Evrie, Horton & Co., 102 Nas sau st., New York. MERRY AND WISE.— A Comical Monthly Paper for Boys and Girls, con sisting of eight pages, 24 columns, beautifully illustrated by handsome en gravings. Subscription price only 50 oonta a year, payable In auvatioo. A beautiful little Puzzle sent free as a premium to every subscriber. In the First Number of Vol. 111. is commen ced a new Serial, by the celebrated Capt. Mayne Iteid. 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Address Deacon & Peterson, 310 Walnut Street, Philadel phia. ASTOFHDINO DE V EI.O P >IEXTS ! liOJ'nl Plundering; at If arri*biirg;! Arrest of Department Messengers—They are With Stcaliiis Hooks and Papers—Three Watfon l.oads of the Property Iteeovered. Special Dispatch to the Philadelphia Inquirer. 11 AURISUU itti, June 21.—Quite a sen sation was created here this morning | by the unexpected arrest of a number i of messengers and other subordinate attaches of the various State Depart ments. It seems that for some time past, several heads of departments, in cluding the State Librarian, had missed a number of valuable books, and other documents belonging to the State.— The attention of the Chief of Police was called to the matter, and having reason to suspect a man named Aaron Rapp, doing business on South street, Mr. Campbell, the Chief of Police, procured a search warrant and visited Rapp's premises this morning, where he found a number of the missing articles stowed away. Rapp became terribly alarmed and implicated some seven or eight messengers and other employees at the Capitol Building, who were at once arrested. The Storekeeper was held in one thousand dollars bail, to answer at court. Two of the messengers were held in eight hundred dollars hail; the balance will have a hearing to-morrow morning. Three wagon loads of State property were brought from Rapp's store and piled up in the Mayor's office. Among the captured property are some two hundred copies of the Adjutant-General's recent Report, of over twelve hundred pages. From all these Reports the cloth binding had been torn and the books sold as waste paper. There were also two hundred copies of the United States Statutes at Large, passed at the last session of Congress, inclosed in pack ages, addressed to the Governor. The-e were sold for waste paper, unopened. Large quantities of recent numbers of the legislative Record , together with the index, were also captured, together with seven United States mail hags, belonging to the Post Office, which had been sent up to the Capitol for docu ments and stamped envelopes furnished the heads of Department. It is sup posed that this species of imposition upon the State has been carried on for several years, and it has only now been discovered by reason of the boldness of the recent operations. LATER. HARRISBUKG, June 23.— Chief of Po lice Campbell has just returned from Carlisle, and reports that he found at a paper null, near that place, nearly a ton of the books and documents stolen from the Capitol, including about eight hundred 'ind fifty volumes of the Adju tant General's last report. A number of U. S. Mail bags were recovered. Four of the parties arrested upon the charge of stealing the property, have been bound over to appear at August sessions. Great excitement and indig nation exist here in regard to the mat ter. MAYS ITEMS. —A "pronunciamento," declaring Santa Anna General-in-Chief of the Mexican armies and President of the Mexican Republic, has been published in Tampico. —The Republican State Convention of Louisiana has passed a resolution asking Congress to appropriate $50,000,- 000, for the purchase of Cuba, or to take it by force of arms. It is reported that Max imilian was condemned by court-martial on the night of the 3d instant, and sentenced to be shot. Miratnon and Mejia were similarly sentenced. —Col. Robert A. McCoy, formerly of Ebensburg, has been appointed Chief Clerk in the Land Office, Harrisburg, instead of Maj. Theodore K. Babcock, deceased. —The spring fashions for '67 are very attractive —particularly the elections. The Radical party is like the female bonnet -"growing small by degrees and beautifully less." —A Cincinnati photographer caused a slight sensation the other day by bolstering up a corpse on a balcony on one of the principal streets, for the pur pose of taking a post mortem portrait. —The much talked of prize fight be tween Barney Aaron and Sam Collyer, for $2,500 a side, came off at Aquia Creek, Virginia, on the 13th inst. Six ty-eight rounds were fought, when the "sponge was thrown up" in favor of Aaron. —The ex-rebel General James Long street was pardoned by the President. The application for his pardon was en dorsed by General Grant and a number of Congressmen. —President Johnson issued his proc lamation officially declaring the ratifi cation of the treaty with Russia for the cession of her North American terri tory to the United States. —Arkansas wants three things—a hundred thousand Irishmen to build railroads, a hundred thousand Germans to raise corn, and a hundred thousand freedmen to raise cotton. To these might be added twenty thousand Yan kees to direct the work and steal the proceeds! —James H. Parker, one of the federal party that captured Mr. Davis, writes to a Portland paper the five hundredth refutation of the silly story that Mr. Davis wore woman's clothes, or skulk ed, or in any other wise misdemeaned himself. —lts own merchants refuse the sov ereign State of Nevada credit for one hundred pounds of flour. —Maine papers complain that there is an increasing list of applications for divorce in the courts of that State, and that nearly all of them are granted. —Aconvict in a Michigan prison who with a knife has kept every body away from his cell, went sixteen days with out eating, and finally had to be smoked out of his room. —Barnum has sold his place at Bridgeport, Conn., "Lindencroft," for $72,000, and left the State, which had become quite too distasteful to him since the election. —At Zancsville, Ohio, Sarah Turner has just received $lO,OOO from J. W. Si dle, in a breach of promise suit. Sidle was proven to be the father of an ille gitimate child. —Theodore Clay, son of Henry Clay has for over thirty years been an in mate of the lunatic asylum, at Lexing ton, Ky. He became insane from disap pointed affection. —The Chicago city government yiel ded to the eight-hour demand for its la borers, but reduced the pay according ly, and now the workmen are persua ded to go back to ten hours. Gen. Le Gender, United States consul at Amoy, China, has sentenced an A merican citizen to a year's imprison ment and $l,OOO fine for being in the coolie shipping business. The Louisiana Republican State Con vention has recommended a July ses- S on of Congress as needful for the prop er reconstruction of the South. REVIEW OF THE MARKETS. PHILADELPHIA, June 24. FLOUR.—The quotationsare— Northwest superfine, $7.50@8.00 Northwest extra, 8.50(8.ol), Penna. and West'n extra, 9.00(:9.50 Penna. and West'n family, 11.<><>( 12.0(1 Penna. and West'n fancy, Rye flour, 6.75@6.90 j GRAIN.—We quote- Pennsylvania ml, per bus., £2.00("2.30 Southern " California, " White, " Rye, " 0.00(nJ.45 Corn, for yel., (new) " Oatfc " 75( 70c POVISIONS.—We quote— Mess Pork, per bbl., $23.50@24.00 Bacon Hants, per lb., 15(17c Salt Shoulders, " 9(9icj Prime Lard, '• 13c; SEEDS. —We quote Cloverseed, per bus., at £12.00(<- 13.00 ; Timothy, " 3.50(