tub fl vgssac^ Friday Horninjr, July 26. 1567. ■— T. Democratic State Ticket. FOR JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT, HON. GEORGE SHARSWOOD, OF PHILADELPHIA. Democratic County Ticket. FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY, E. F. KERR, of Bedford Borough. FOR TREASCRER, ISAAC MENGEL", of Bedford Bor. FOR COMMISSIONER. P. M. BARTON, of E. Providence. FOR POOR DIRECTOR,^ JOHN I. NOBLE, oi 8. Woodberry. FOR AUDITOR. SAMUEL WHIP, of Cumb. Valley. THE CAINE OF TEMPERANCE. No man will deny that the intemper ate use of intoxicating liquors, is hurt ful as well to the community as to the individual. Drunkenness has long been a besetting vice among mankind, and, we think, is not more extensively practiced now than formerly. Never theless, it is a subject which properly attracts the attention .of every man who would be a benefactor to the hu man race. It is a moral disease which philanthropists have long since tried to cure, but which has thus far baffled their good intentions. Societies have been established for this purpose, pledges have been administered, lec turers have harangued the people upon their short-comings in this regard, but all have proved comparative failures. The last cure proposed is prohibitory legislation. This has been tried in a number of States, but, we are sorry to say, the statistics on the subject, show that there is more drunkenness, now, in those States, than there was before prohibitory laws made it a temptation to engage in clandestine drinking and contraband liquor selling. Prohibitory laws in regard to articles of diet and drink, have always been defied by man. Even the Divine edict, "Thou shall not eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil," was disobeyed. As God's own command failed to restrain man before the fall, how shall human laws restrain him, in his fallen estate? All experience teach es us that sumptuary laws fail to reach their purpose. But there is one cure for Intemperance. It is the same that must be applied to the healing of every other sin. It is the proper moral and religious education of the people. Pa rents, guardians and religious teachers are responsible, in a great measure, for the prevalence of drunkenness. As aids to the education of which we speak, t<. mperance societies are, doubt less, of great use. So long as these con fine themselves to the implanting of true moral principle in the minds and hearts people, they ean do much good. Tor the principle itself must be rooted in the understanding and affection* of man, before his life will be in conformi ty with such principle. But when such societies des. rt their legitimate mission and seek to force upon the people, by positive law, what they should incul cate in the mind and plant in the af fections, by the efficacy of moral teach ing, they not only fail in their purpose, but cause the people to add to. the sin of drunkenness, corruption, evasion and secret breaking of the law, and even the heinous crime of perjury. Hence, we are sorry to see indications that the present temperance movement, of which we had hoped so much, is about to end its career in a struggle for polit ical power. It is with unbounded re gret that we feeJ constrained to write these words, but we feel it our duty to warn the true friends of temperance against the fatal mistake which ambi tious and unprincipled men are leading them to commit, and only hope that our warning will be as kindly received as it is honestly intended. YATERLAXD! TheGermansarecoming! CarlHein zer, editor of the Boston Pioneer , the most ultra Radical paper in the country, has cut loose from the so-called "Repub lican" party. The Pittsburg Volks blatt, an influential Radical daily, says that the German "Republicans" must form an alliance with the Democracy. The lowa German Republican papers take similar grounds and Carl Schurz himself, recommends, in the St. Louis Westliche Post, that the German Radi cals vote for the Democratic candidates for legislative and municipal offices. The Germans left their Vaterland to seek a land of liberty, and they will never assist in establishing a worse than Austrian tyranny in America. A HAPPY FAMILY. Senator Fessenden, of Maine, and drunken Zach. Chandler, Senator from Michigan, had a sparring-match in the Senate, just prior to the adjournment. The lie was given by Fessenden to Chan dler, but the great blood-letter didn't attempt to open Fessenden's veins. A happy family, those Radicals, to be sure! TM AD. ACKNOWLEDGES THE CORN! A correspondent of the X. Y. Herald, who visitedThad. Stevens,at Lancaster, a short time ago, gives an account of his conversation with the Radical lead er, in which Stevens is represented to have been very severe upon Butler, Forney and other prominent men in his own party, and to have acknowledg ed that Pensylvania would be lost to the Radicals at the appioaehing elec tions. Stevens took notice of this let ter, in his place in Congres'i, a few days ago, and whilst he disclaimed any in tention to censure Butler A Co., he did not deny the authenticity (if the state ments of the Herald's correspondent and failed entirely to contradict that portion of those statements in which he is reported to have admitted the prospective defeat of the Radicals in Pennsylvania. We, therefore, give the following extracts from the Herald's article, with entire confidence in their truthfulness. "Question —Is the Republican party well united in Pennsylvania? "Stevens—T fear that we shall lose Pennsylvania this next election. Ido not think we have earnestness enough in the State to uniteand draw out the Re publican strength, while the Republi can portion of our Legislature has been so openly, notoriously and shamefully corrupt that all the honest Republicans in the State are disheartened and dis gusted. "Question —You do not suppose that you can beat New York in corruption, ilo you ? "Mr. Stevens—l think we could.— Cameron had his men with their hand fulls of greenbacks working in the Leg islature. Ho had not fourteen votes in his favor at the close of the election, but soon after he had forty. One man now claims $50,000 for services,and they re fuse to pay him. This corruption will certainly beat us here next election un less we can draw out the Republican strength by getting up a furore and ex citement on impeachment. Geary, too, hurts us very much. Heisan unhappy failure, and his nomination was an un fortunate thing for the party." Take courage, Democrats! The file leader wavers! AYe shall capture the enemy, "horse, foot, dragoons" and Charles Sumner! Steady,' boys, and charge them in the centre! ANOTHER GLORIOUS VETO. The President has vetoed the recon structed supplemental supplementary Reconstruction bill, and Congress has again shut its eyes, in wilful blindness, and passed the bill over his veto. The veto message is an able document and makes the President's position impreg nable. We shall lay it beJoreour read ers in our next issue. SHOUTS—POLITICAL AND PERSONAL. RECONSTRUCTION has been recon structed and yie ten excluded States have been turned over to the tender mercies of the late uegro # slaves. Sam bo and C'uflee tvill soon run fur Con gress and the Rads. can count on ten states (if not States, ten somethings ) for any Negro they may nominate. Al ready the colored brethren sing: "Who dat lives in de White House yonder? Jang mailing go lay ! De white trash musn't rule no longer, Jang malang go lay !" THE Rads. are so hard up for some thing to say in praiseof their candidate for Supreme Judge, that they boast that he once ruled in accordance with a well settled principle of law laid down in the reports of Supreme Court decisions. Such conduct in a Radical Judge is cer tainly no recommendation with his party. THE Democratic State Committee met at the Merchants Hotel, iu Phila delphia, on Wednesday, 16th inst, and organized with Hon. AY\ A. Wallace as Chairman and Pearson Church and W. Strickland, Jr., as Secretaries. J. O. Kimmell, Esq., of Somerset, is the member of the Committee for this Sen atorial District. THE Boston Post thus tells the whole story of the Radical opposition to a res toration of the Union: "Why don't they reconstruct the Southern States, Who stand repentant, knocking at our gates ? "It seems to me," says Simple, "tis a sin, Now they've repented, not to let them in." "It would not do," says Wade; "for past a doubt, If they come in our party will go out." Six thousand voters have been reg istered in Nashville Tenn., of which number only 1600 are whites. About 400whitesaredisfranchised. Brimstone Brownlow ought to be able to win, un der such circumstances. JOHN L. GODDARD, Esq., Grand Master of the Masonic Order in this State, died, at his residence in West Philadelphia, on the 16th inst. He was widely known and highly esteemed. THE Treasury Department estimates the cost of maintaining the troops used by the Five Monarchs in the "recon struction" of the South.at forty millions of dollars , for the next year. Go in tax-payers ! THE Valley Spirit , the organ of the Democracy of Franklin county, has been sold by Messrs. Hamsher and Keyser, late proprietors,to Messrs. John M. Cooper, W.S. Stenger and Augustus Duncan. The new firm will be one of the strongest newspaper teams in the State. We send greeting to them and tender our congratulations to the retiring publishers on their release from the yoke editoiial. PERIODICALS. THE LADY'S FRIEND, FOR AUGUST, 1867.—The August number of this charming magazine opens with a piqu ant Steel Engraving of a rustic maiden holding eggs up to the light to see if they are fresh. The Steel Fashion Plate for this month is beautifully de signed and colored. Then we have numerous Engravings devoted to the Fashions, Ac. The Literary contents are interesting and instructive. An illustrated article shows what pretty things in the way of Vases, Ac., can be made of common egg-shells. Among the Editorials, we call special attention to the leading article on "Bread —the staff of Life," with its receipts for mak ing unfermented rye biscuits, rye and Indian cakes, rye puffs, flappers of rye and Indian, Ac. A beautiful Steel En graving will be sent gratis to every single ($2.50) subscriber, and to every person sending a club. Specimen num bers of the magazine will be sent for twenty cents. Price (with one engraving) $2.50 a year; Four copies (with one engraving) $6.00. 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One, entitled "The South and Her Faltering Men," by the editor, will attract general attention. "The Basis of American Civilization," by Dr. Van Evrie, is one of the best from his pen. There is a good selection of other articles, which, with Editor's and Book Tables, makes up a very good number. Subscribers to THE OLD GUARD for the rest of the year, get a steel plate portrait of Jack son or Lee. It is for sale by all News Agents, price 25 cents. By mail, $3 per year. Van Evrie, Horton A Co., Pub lishers. OLIVER OPTIC'S MAGAZINE: "OUR BOYS AND GIRLS."— This beautiful work for youth has been enlarged to nearly double its former size, and now contains more reading and more illus trations than any other juvenile maga zine published in America. The cele brated "Oliver Optic" writes eAcfusivc ly for its pages. Lee and Shepard, publishers, Boston, Mass. Price $2.50 a year, $1.25 for six months. Published weekly. PETERSON'S MAGAZlNE.— 'Peterson' for August, is on our table. It is an excellent number. The ladies are al ways in the look out for "Peterson", no wonder, for it contains the latest ana prettiest fashions, as well as the best and most interesting stories to be found in periodicals of its kind. .SUA 1.1. THE NEXT P RES in EXT BE E LECTED BY XEGBOES? Negro suffrage having been forced upon teu States of the Union against the wishes of the lawful governing people and in violation of their inal ienable rights, no negro vote that may be cast in the South for a presiden tial candidate in IS6B can lawfully be counted. The Conservative, people of the North should therefore take early action to checkmate the Radical con spirators iu the infamons design which they are perfecting to elect a Radical President with negro ballots. Let ar rangements be made immediately, un der the old State laws, to take the law ful white vote of those ten States, in November, 1868, and if by that vote, added to the Conservative vote of the North, a Conservative candidate shall be in majority, let that man be made President at whatever cost or sacrifices. This Government was formed by white men for white men and their posterity forever. It is not for a mere handful of grasping and ambitious demagogues to say to the great white masses —"You shall take the negroes into partnership with you. and permit thera to dictate to you who shall be your President, your Senators and your Representatives." And this, in sub stance, is just what the Radical leaders are now saying to the laboring masses of the country. The People will be drones and cravens, indeed, to bare their necks to such an ignoble yoke without a struggle—a death struggle, even, to retain and perpetuate their right to self-government. Let their watchword henceforth be—This Gov ernment was made for white men, and itsAaftbe ruled by white men only! —Patriot and Union. THE a sistant commissioner of the Negro Bureau at Nashville, Gen. \V. P. Carlin, has issued a circular for cir culation among negroes, in which they are informed that in case they lose em ployment on account of politics they will be provided for by the Bureau un til they can find work, and that all ex penses so incurred will be paid out of the "special relief fund" appropriated by Congress. Here is a most excellent opportunity for lazy darkies. No doubt hundreds and thousands of them will a vail themselves of the opportunity to to get fixed in the Bureau as political martyrs, until they can get work. But how 'will this sort of business suit our Northern hard-working tax-payers, out of whose pockets is taken this 'Spe cial relief fund" appiopriated by Con gress ?— Pat. & Union. THE DESPOT MET. "PASSED" OVER THE VETO. WASHINGTON, July 19.—The Presi dent's veto message was received in the House at 2p. m. The President says he has the same objections to this bill as to the previous one, and the bill was passed over the veto promptly. There is no foundation for the report that the President intends to call an ex tra session of the Senate to consider the foreign treaties, which were only sub mitted at this session as*a matter of fa vor and it was expected that they would be immediately acted upon. The President's message, vetoing the reconstruction bill, besides taking up the bill xer'uitim, which it is intended to disprove, embraces an argument to show that the resuit of the bill, if it shall become a law, must be the repu diation of the debts of the Southern Spates existing prior to the rebellion. This argument is based, not upon the hypothesis that the States are to be treated as conquered territory, but up on the theory of the reconstruction act, that there are no legal State Govern ments existing in the ten Southern States. The President maintains that ifthese State governments are destroyed by act of Congress, the legal and logical consequence must be the repudiation of the debt- of these States, since the gov ernment which incurred the liabilities is wiped out. The veto message on the reconstruc tion bill was approved by all the Cabi net except Secretary Stanton. THE LOST PLANK. —We are told that some of our Repubican brethren, upon reading the platform promulgated by the Williamsport Republican Conven tion, and finding 110 plank upon the subject of "Manhood Suffrage," inquir ed of the delegation from this county why it was, and received for reply: "You see, we found that plank con siderably shattered and broken by the manifestations of the people at the elections,and we feared to give it place lest it would break the entire platform .down. , That plank has cast rather a dark shadow over us in Pennsylvania, and it was thought best after considera ble and warm controversy to keep it in the shade for the present. We managed to keep the debate in committee, but some how it has leaked through some fool that they had a thundering hot time of it." This is the only account we have heard of the missing plank. It may turn up in some of the more rabid county conventions, where its advo cates have no gag on them. It is evi dent that tne Republicans are frighten ed at the dark shadow.— Sunbury Dem ocrat. WHERE FHI? MONEY GOES.—Nig gers throughout Poland in America, are paid $3 per head for registering and voting the Mongrel ticket. The Mon grels do not raise this money out of their own party, but satraps command ing the different districts pay it out o* the appropriated hy nprrp