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opposite the Mengel House,
BEDFORD, PA
The proprietor takes pleasure in offering to the
public the following articles belonging to the
Book Business, at CITY RETAIL PHiCE.S :
MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS.
N O V E L S.
BIBLES, HYMN BOOKS, AC.:
Large Family Bibles,
Small Bibles,
Medium Bibles,
Lutheran Hymn Books.
Methodist Hymn Books,
Smith's Dictionary of the Bible.
History of the Books of the Bible,
Pilgrim's Progress, Ac., Ac., Ae.
Episcopal Prayer Books.
Presbyterian Ilymn Books,
SCHOOL BOOKS.
TOY BOOKS.
.STATIONERY,
Congress, Legal,
Record. Foolscap,
Letter, Congress Letter.
Sermon. Commercial Note,
Ladies' Gilt, Ladies' Octavo,
Mourning, .French Ne'e.
Bath Post, .Damask Laid Note,
Cream Laid Note, Envelopes, Ac.
WALL PAPER.
Several Hundred Different Figures, tho Largest
lot ever brought to Bedford county, for
sale at priees CHEAPER THAN
EVER SOLD in Bedford.
BLANK BOOKS.
Day Books, Ledgers,
Account Books, Cash Books.
Pocket Ledgers. Time Books,
Tuck Memorandums, Pass Books,
Money Books, Pocket Books,
Blank Judgment Notes, drafts, receipts, Ae
INKS AND INKSTANDS.
Barometer Inkstands,
Gutta Pereha,
Coeoa, and
Morocco Spring Pocket Inkstands, •
Glass and Ordinary Stands for Schools',
Flat Glass Ink Wells and Rack,
Arnold's Writing Fluids,
Hover's Inks,
Carmine Inks. Purple Inks,
Charlton's Inks,
Eukolon for pasting, -Ae.
PENS AND PENCILS.
Giilot's, Cohen's,
Hollowbush A Carey's, Payson,
Duntoa. and Scribner's Pens,
Cia.'k's ludellible, Faber'sTablet,
Cohen's Eagle,
Office, Faber's
Guttknecht'g, Carpenter's Pencils.
PERIODICALS.
Atlantic Monthly,
Harper's Magazine.
Madame Demo rest's Mirror of Fashions.
Electic Magazine.
Godey's Lady's Book,
Galaxy.
Lady's Friend,
Ladies' Repository,
Our Young Folks,
Nick Nax,
Yankee Notions,
Budget of Fun,
Jolly Joker.
Phunny Phellow,
Lippincott's Magazine,
Riverside Magazine,
Waverly Magazine.
Bailou's Magazine,
Gardner's Monthly.
Harpers Weekly,
rank Leslie's Illustrated,
Chimney Corner,
* New York Leiger.
New York Weekly,
Harper's Bazar,
Every Saturday,
Living Age,
Putnam's Monthly Magazine,
Arthur's Home .Magazine.
Oliver Optic's Boys and Girl's Magazine Ac.
Constantly on hand to accomodate those who want
to purchase living reading inattter.
Only a part of the vast number of articles per
taining to the Book and Stationery business,
which we are prepared to sell cheaper than the
cheapest, are above enumerated. Give in a call
Wc buy and sell for CASH, and by th.is arrange
ment we expect to sell as cheap goo. Is of tnis
class are sold anywhere
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t? l e c t it i 6
J TELEGRAPH IN CHINA.
THE EAST INDIA TELEGRAPH COMPANY'S
OFFICE,
Nos. 23 A 2"> Nassau Street,
NEW YORK.
Organized under special charter from the State
of New York.
CAPITAL $5,000,000
50,000 SHARES, $lOO EACH.
DIRE CT O R S.
Ho*. ANDREW O. CURTIN, Philadelphia
PAIiL S. FORBES, of Rus?ell A Co., China.
FRED. BUTTERFIELD, of F. Bu tterfield A C
New York.
ISAAC LIVERMOUE, Treasurer Michigan Cen
tral Railroad. Boston.
ALEXANDER HOLLAND, Treasurer American
Express Company, New York.
Hon. JAMES NOXON, Syracuse, N. Y.
O. 11. PALMER, Treasurer Western Union Tele
graph Company, New York.
FLETCHER WESTRAY, of Westray, Gibbs A
Hardcastle, New York.
NICHOLAS MICKLES, New York.
OFFICE ItS.
A. G. CURTIN, President.
N. MIOKLES, Vice President.
GEORGE ELLIS {Cashier National Bank Com
monwealth,) Treasurer.
HON. A. K. McCLURE, Philadelphia, Solicitor.
The Chinese Government having (through the
Hon. Anson Burlingame) conceded to this Com
pany the privilege of ccnnecting the great sea
ports of the Empire by submarine electric tele
graph cable, we propose commencing operations
in China, and laying dcwn a line of nine hundred
miles at onee, between the following ports, viz :
Population.
Canton 1,000,000
Macoa 00,000
Hong-K0ng..... 250,000
Swatow 200,000
Amoy 250,000
Foo-Chow. 1,250,000
Wan-Chu 300,000
Ningpo 400,000
Hang Chcan 1,200,000
Shanghai 1,000,000
Total 5,910,000
These ports have a foreign commerce of $900,-
000,000, and an enormous domestic trade, besides
which we have the immense internal commerce of
the Empire, radiating from these points, through
its canals and navigable rivers.
The cable being laid, this company proposes
erecting land lines, and establishing a speedy and
trust worthy means of communication, which must
command there, as everywhere else, the commu
nications of the Government, of business, and of
social life especially in China She has no postal
system, and her only means nowofcommuuicating
information is by couriers on land, and by steam
ers on water.
The Western World knows that China is a very
large country, in the main densely peopled; but
few yet realize tbat she contains more than a third
of the human race. The latest returns made to
her central authorities for taxing purposes by the
local magistrate make her population Four hun
dred and Fourteen millions, and this is more
likely to be under than over the actuni aggregate.
Nearly all of these, who are over ten years old,
not only can but do read and write. Her civili
zation is peculiar, but her literature is as exten
sive as that of Eurepe. China i 3 a land of teach
ers and traders; and the latter are exceedingly
quick to avail themselves of every proflered facili
ty for procuring early information. It is observed
in California that the Chinese make great use of
the telegraph, though it there transmits messages
in English alone. To-day great numbers of fleet
steamers are owned by Chinese merchants, and
used by them exclusively for the transmission of
early intelligence. If the telegraph we propose
connecting all their great seaports, were now in
existence, it is believed that its business would
pay the oo3t within the first two years of its suc
cessful-operation, and would steadily increase
thereafter
No enterprise commends itself as in a greater
degree renuinerative to capitalists, and to our
whole people. It is of vast national importance
commercially, politically and evangelically.
stock of this Company has been un
qualifiedly recommended to capitalists and busi
ness men. as a desirable investment by editorial
articles in the New York Herald, Tribune,
World, Times, Tost, Express, Independent, and
in the Philadelphia North American, Press,
Ledger, Inquirer, Age, Bulletin and Telegraph.
Shares of this company, to a limited number,
may be obtained at $5O each, $lO payable down,
$l5 on the Ist of November, and $25, payable in
monthly instalments of $2.50 each, Commencing
December 1, 1553, on application to
DRKXEL & CO.,
34 South Third Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
Shares can be obtained in Bedford by applica
tion to Reed A Schell, Bankers, who are author
ized to receive subscriptions, and can give all ne
cessary information on the subject. sept2syl
combine style with neatness of fit.
And moderate, prices with the best workmanship
JONES' ONE PRICE CLOTHING HOUSE
i
604 MARKET STREET,
GEO W. NIEMANN. PHILADELPHIA.
fsepll,'6S.yl |
rpilE BEST PLACE TO BUY
1 choice brands of chewing Tobaccos and Ci
gars, at wholesale or retail, is at lister's. Good
natural leaf Tobaccos at 7a cents. Try our 6 cent
Yara and Havanna cigars—they cant be beat,
unelSmS.
BEDFORD, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 30, 1869.
Jfrtf-ftootlSq &f.
TVTEW GOODS JUST RECEIVED
iN AT J. M. SHOEMAKERS BARGAIN
STORE.
NEW GOODS just Received at J.
M. Shoemaker's Bargain Store.
NEW GOODS just Received at J.
M Shoemaker's Bargain Store.
NEW GOODS just Received at J.
M. Shoemaker's Bargain Store.
NEW GOODS just Received at J.
M. Shoemaker's Bargain Store.
♦
NEW GOODS just Received at J.
M. Shoemaker's Bargain Store.
BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries,
Clothing, Hats, Boots and Shoes, Qucensware,
Fish, Notions. Leather, Tobacco, Ae , at J. M.
Shoemaker's Bargain Store.
BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries,
Clothing, Hate, Boots and Shoes Queensware,
Leather, Fish. Notions, Tobacco, Ac., at J. M.
Shoemaker's Bargain Store
BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries,
Clothing, Hats, Boots" and Shoes Queen-ware,
Notions. Leather, Tobacco, Fish, Ac., at J. M.
Shoemaker's Bargain Store.
BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries,
Clothing, Hats, Boots and Shoes, Queensware,
Notione. Leather. Tobacco, Fish, .to., at J M.
Shoemaker's Bargain Store
BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries,
Clothing. Hats, Boots and Shoes, Qucensware,
Notions. Leather, Tobacco, Fish, Ac, at J M.
Shoemaker's Bargain Store.
BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries,
Clothing, Hats, Boots and Shoes, Queensware.
Notions, Leather. Tobacco. Fish. Ac., at J. M.
Shoemaker's Bargain Store.
Bedford, Fa., June 11. IS6SL
/I R. OSTER A CO.
READ AND SPEAK OF IT!
COME SEE AND BE CONVINCED '
We are now receiving our usual extensive and
well assorted STOCK OF NEW AND
CHEAP SU M ME It G OOi) S,
And are now prepared to offer SMASHING BIG
BARGAINS TO
CASH I! U Y E R S ,
In Staple and. Fancy Pry Goods, Nutmns, Car
pets, Oil Cloths, Cotton Varus, Carpet
Chants, Hats, Boots, Shoes,
Clothing, Brooms, Haslets,
Wall and Window
Papers, Groceries, Queen s
ware, Tobaccos, Cigars, Fish Salt e.
ne in vile i veryhody to rati and see for them
selves. NO TRUBLE TO SUO W GODDS.
TERM S C ASII.
BRINO ALONG votiß CASH and we will guarantee
to SELL you Goods as CHEAP as the same styles
and qualities can be sold in Central Pennsylva
nia.
Be assured that CASH in hand is a wonderfully
winning argument, and that those who !i;r and
SELL for CASH are always masters of the situ it ion.
junelBm3 GR OSTER A OO
1A M. FISHER AND BABIES,
Next Door to the Bedford Hotel.
GO O D NE W S A T LAS T.
The Cheapest Goods ever brought to Bedford.
We will sell Goons CHEAPER, by 15 to 25 per
cent, than ever sold in Bedford county.
The best COFFEE at 25 cents, hut the less
wc sell the better we are off.
The LADIES' HOSE, at 10 cents we will not
have this time, but come at us for 15, 20 and 25
cents, and we will make you howl.
You will all be waited on by ELI and the ISA
BIES, as the OLD ELI cannot do anything
himself A great variety of Parasols, Sunumbrel
las, Pocket-hooks Ac. Linen Handkfs (Ladies
and Gents) from 5 cents to 25 cents. CALICOES,
from 10, 12 and a few pieces at 15 cents. MUS
LINS. from 10 to 25 cents \„u all know that we
sell NOTIONS 100 per cent, cheaper than anybody
else All Wool Cassimeres, from 60 cents tosl.oo.
All Wool Dress Goods, from 15 to 25 cents. Tick
ing, from 20 to 40 cents. Paper Collars, 10cents;
best. 25 cents per box 4 pair Men's Half Hose,
for 25 cents. Clear Glass Tumblers, 60 cents a
dozen, or 5 cents a peace. A great lot of Boots
and Shoes, to be sold cheap. Gueens ani Glass
ware, very low. Syrup, SO cents and $1 00.
$1 30 for best as clear as honey, and thick as tar.
Bakers' Molasses, 50 cents per gallon, or 15 cents
a quart. These Goods will " positively " not be
sold unless for Cash or Produce. Couie and sco
us, it will not coast anything to see tho Goods and
Babies. N. B. All these Goods ware bought at
slaughtered prices in Now York
E M. FISHER A BABIES.
These Goods we sell so low, that wo cannot af
ford to sing (Auld Lang Syne.)
All accounts must be settled by the middle of
July next, by cash or note, or they will be left in
the hands of E. M. ALSIP, Esq., for collection.
junlSm3
NOTIOE. —I hereby give notice to
all persons not to barber or trust my wife,
SAHAII, on my account, as I will not be respon
sible for any debts she may contract—she having
left my bed and board without just cause or pro
vocation. ANDREW POTS.
Union tp. Aug72w3*
®Jw gtltoi oV,urttr.
ADI >KESS
OF THE
UOKM RATK STATE AEXTRAE COM
MITTEE OF PESSSTJLVAJIIA.
ROOMS OP THE DEMOCRATIC STATE
COMMITTEE, 901 Arch Street? Philadel
phia.—The Democratic State Central
Committee, <luiy the
importance of the approaching election,
and desirous of discharging the duties
imposed upon 4 hem in all suitable
ways, proposed to address to you a
few sincere, earnest words.
We desire by the election of Mr.
Pershing to the bench of the Supreme
Court, to secure a judge of ability and
high character, who will be impartial
in his great office, and will make the
Constitution and laws the rule of his
judgment and action.
The election of Asa Packer to the
office of Governor is recommended by
many considerations of high moment,
to some of which we propose to call
your attention.
Reform is needed in the State gov
ernment, and he is a tit man to intro
duce and uphold it. For he will come
to the performance of public duty,
armed with integrity as with a gar
ment, with a knowledge of the busi
noas interests of our people, and with
an earnest purpose to do good and re
sist evil.
What has been amiss in legislation
and in Executive action at Harrisburg
imrecent years, will be rebuked by his
election. For he has had no concern
and no sympathy with the misman
agement of the State finances and
with the enactment of odious or im
provident laws; he has been engaged
in honorable enterprises of groat pub
lic utility, and has given his sympa
thies always to honorable men. This
is an indispensable qualification for
the office of Governor, or of President.
Without it, executive service must be
badly performed or neglected.
Asa Packer represents well one prac
tical effect of our free institutions. A
penniless youth, and a man of humble
politico in the earlier years of his man
hood, he has achieved a prominent
position among the business men of
the country, and distinction as a polit
ical man. He now appears before you,
not unsolicited, as a candidate for the
highest office in the State government,
anil holds as such the respect and con
fidence of his fellow citizens, more
truly and firmly than could a man of
high rank and proud lineage in a
country of despotic or aristocratical in
stitutions. In his case, popular con
fidence is based entirely upon the solid
foundation of real merit; tried
throughout an eventful career and
manifested in honorable, useful and
magnanimous action.
Asa Packer, in the Gubernatorial
chair, will give to us what we greatly
need ; a strong point of defence and se
curity against violent, unjust, ill-con
sidered, selfish and partisan laws. He
is above all baseness, independent of
all cliques and "rings" (so called), and
as incapable of conscious injustice to
political opponents as of unworthy
subserviency to political friends. He
will be just, firm, faithful and toler
ant in his great office, if he shall be
charged with its duties, and will pur
sue therein no selfish object, whether
of ambition or of private gain.
Asa Packer is a true representative
of the industrial interests of the State
and of our great public improvements.
His relations with both are extensive,
and his views regarding them enlight
ened and liberal. He will favor and
aid the development of the former and
all possible extensions of the letter, so
that our people shall be prosperous
and he enabled the better to bear the
great burden of their public debt.
The present canvass has not been
one of excitement or of noisy effort.
But we believe that earnest thought
has been directed by oar people to the
issues involved in it, and to the respec
tive claims of the candidates before
them. There is a disposition in the
public mind (and a proper and a time
ly one) to pass from sectional and ad
ventitious questions connected with
the recent war, and bestow attention
upon financial, monetary and industri
al ones, which come home to our peo
ple in their everyday pursuits and av
ocations. Money is scarce for many
legitimate and useful investments ; our
taxation is in many re-pects unequal,
and upon some objects oppressive; the
rates of interest upon public loaus are
improvident, the expenses of the Gov
ernment (both State and Federal) are
excessive, if not profligate, and the re
lations between capital and labor are
uneasy and disturbed ; and then there
is unqestionably a general lowering of
the moral tone of public life below the
level of former times.
For remedy for these manifest evils
(which none can deny and all good
men must lament), the people must
act with energy and wisdoiy. They
must call better men than they now
have to places of public trust, and they
must breakup the monopoly of power by
the republican parly. The election of
Asa Packer will point to reform and
improvement in our affairs, and will
go a great way toward securing them.
For it will mean integrity and capac
ity, high honor, spotless character,
business ability, experience in public
affairs, and a charitable, tolerant and
magnanimous spirit are appreciated
by the people, and that men possessing
them will be secured whenever possi
ble for publicservice; and it will mean,
also that a party in possession of un
checked power for many years, whose
performances in the administration of
government are unsatisfactory, will be
called upon to surrender its power, or
to divide that power with another par
ty more faithful or more competent.
The llarrisburg convention claimed
for our State the right and privilege of
determining for herself the rule of
popular suffrage within her limits.
This right, which was recognized iu the
republican platform of 1868, is one of
vital importance and should never be
surrendered or waived. For if the
right to determine whether Africans,
Asiasticsor Indians shall be electors of
a State or not, be taken away from the
states—no matter in what way—their
character as sovereign freestates isclear
ly gone from them. We are not so dir
ectly interested in theadjustrnent of suf
frage in the Southern States under the
reconstruction laws of Congress, as in
the geneneral Question of State power
over the subject of suffrage. Though
we may acquiesce in the former as an
accomplished fact— as an exceptional
exercise of federal power over sece
ded States which is beyond recall—we
must claim for the latter an enduring
interest and vitality. Our brethren of
California have declared at the recent
election that they will not agree that
Congress shall have power to create
Japanese and Chinese voters for that
State. They claim for themselves en
tire jurisdiction over the subject of suf
frage within their State, and will not
surrender it. Nor will they surren
der our similar right, if we shall be
wisely instructed by history and by
reason, and shall be regardful of our in
terests and our honor.
The country desires not only peace,
but all the fruits of peace- restored
concord,restored prosperity,and a com
plete restoration of constitutional rule
in all the States. We seek for this;
we desire this with all our hearts. So
far then as national policy is concern
ed, our cause is the cause of peace
and of good will among men, of
pure and of just government con
formed to fundamental law and in
spired by a humane and ehristain spir
it, and it is opposed only to misman
agement and wrong—to the rude rule
of the military in time of peace and to
the plunder of the people.
By order of the Democratic State
Committee. WM. MUTCIILER,
Chairman.
WAR AMONG THE RADI
CALS!
Greek Fire Thrown Into the Ex
ecutive Chamber.
THE P1IIEAIEEIIIIA EVEXI.NO TEEE
OKA Til EXI'KOItES A TAX OF
XITRO-GE Y Kit! A E I Xni l:
THE EXECUTIVE
CIIAIII.
Great Consternation Anions tlie Tru
ly Eoil.
|Special to the Morning Patriot.]
PLIIGADEEPHIA, Sept. 21.
Quite an excitement has been pro
duced in this city by tbeappearance of
an article in the Evening Telegraph of
this evening, assailing Governor Geary
for his abuse of the pardoning power.
Great consternation prevails among
the radical politicians on account of it.
This attack, coming from so respecta
ble and reliable a republican journal
as the lelegraph, has seriously damag
ed Geary's chances for re-election, and
there is serious talk among the more
far-sighted leaders of his party of com
pelling his withdrawal with a view of
nominating a new man. General T.
L. Kane is mentioned in connection
with the nomination, if Geary should
withdraw. The article of the Tele
graph which has produced so much
trouble, is as follows :
THE PARDONING POWER.
A few days ago, in discussing the re
markable sueces; ion of murders, sui
cides and murderous assaults that have
shocked this community during the
present month, we gave as one reason
for this lawlessness the abuse of the
pardoning power, and remarked in that
connection that Gov. Geary's use of the
pardoning power had not given satis
faction. For this we have been taken
to task by the Evening Bulletin , and in
refutation of our charge it makes con
siderable parade of the fact that Geary
has pardoned fewer criminals than any
of his predecessors, and further, that
"every exercise of the power made
during bis administration has been
for good and sufficient reasons." The
Bulletin then goes on to say that
"The mere publication of this list,
without a word of comment—without
any attempt to explain the character of
the few pardons granted by Governor
Geary, is a sufficient answer to the cal
umnies of his enemies." But it can be
demonstrated from official documents,
the authenticity of the statements of
which it is impossible to question, that
these pardons were clearly entitled to
them—who were included in the class
for the relief of which this enormous
power was placed in the hands of the
Executive."
Our contemporary is entirely correct
in its figures; it is entirely correct when
it says that these pardons were granted
for "good and sufficient reasons"—to
Governor Geary, of course, although
we may lie permitted to doubt whether
the honest law-abiding portion of the
community would be exactly of the
same way of thinking, if they knew
all the circumstances connected with the
granting of some of these nardons. The
article objected to by the Bulletin con
tained no political allusions whatever,
it was a plain statement of a state of
affairs which ought to receive the can
did attention of every patriotic citi
zen. We endeavored to lay a portion
of the blame where we believe that it
justly belongs. In spite of the Bulle
tin's figures, we still remain of the
same opinion as before, and our opin
ion is based upon exactly the same of
ficial record that our contemporary
quotes so confidently. The question is
not whether Governor Geary has par
doned a lessor greater number of crim
inals than his predecessors, but wheth
er he has used it for the good of the com
munity and not from set fish motives and
to gratify certain intriguing politicians;
whether his use of the pardoning
power has not been such as to demand
that it shall be taken from the hands
of the executive in the future and en
trusted to a properly organized court.
We believe that this is a matter of vi
tal importance lo the people of this
city and State, and we know of no
good reason why we should refraiu
from alluding to it now or at any other
time. To substantiate our position,
we will quote a few cases from the par
don report for the edification of the
Bulletin and all others interested:—
[llere follow quotations from Gov.
Geary's Pardon Report.]
We have here quoted but a
small number of the pardons granted,
but they will be sufficient to show the
frivilous character of the reasons assign
ed, and the class of men upon whose
application the Governor was induced
to interfere. Throughout the whole par
don list we find the names of well-known
local and State politicians, each one of
whom has his little axe to grind, each
one of whom expects to obtain influence
at primary elections, conventions, and
the polls by using his influence in matters
of this kind, and the Governor is ready
to oblige them because they may do him
a good or evil turn, as he wins (heir fa
vor or enmity. We have here laid bare
one of the secret wires by which the
politics of the State are regulated; and
the spectacle.is edifying, if not alto
gather agreeable.
We know that the loyalty of our ami
able contemporary is of a very severe
and antique type, which we can scarcely
expect to emulate, and as election day
approaches it invariably mounts a
very high and patriotic horse, that we
find it difficult to keep pace with. Our
opinion of Governor Geary is tolerably
well known ; we do not think any bet
ter of him since his renomination than
we did before, but if the republicans of
this State choose to vote for him a
gain, that is their business and not
ours. We venture, however, upon a
piece of disinterested advice to the
Bulletin— that is, if it really wishes to
see Geary re-elected, the best thing it
can do is to discuss him as little as
possible.
We believe that our opinions on the
leading moral, political and social top
ics are sufficiently pronounced and suf
ficiently liberal to satisfy the most ad
vaned reformers of the day, if we ex
cept the Wendell Phillips and Susan
B. Anthony class, and we have given
a.-> sturdy a support to the republican
party as has our contemporary.—
We belive, however, that if the
republican party is. to retain the confi
dence of the country it must be con
ducted on pure principles, by pure
men. We hold firmly to republican
principles, because we believe that the
safety, honor and welfare of the coun
try depend upon their,miantcnance;
but we will not support the corrupt
men who may manage to get upon the
republican ticket for the sake of advan
cing their own selfish ends and for the
purpose of plundering the public. The
time has now-come when it is necessa
ry for the patriotic men of the State
and country to make a decided stand
against corrupt practices like those of
the late State legislature, which bring
the party into disgrace and contempt.
If the party supports such men it
ought to fail, for, whatever its preten
ded principles may be, it has in reali
ity fallen to the democratic level, and
party fealty represents a mere scram
ble lor the loaves and fishes. We
have taken our position on this sub
ject, and we do not intend to be frigh
tened or silenced by the noise of the
big war drums that are being sounded
as the day of election approaches. We
have ample assurance that our course
meets with approbation of the good
men of the republican party, the men
who have given and do give it all its
real influence, and our only opponents
are those who make a trade of politics,
who have no principles whatever ex
cept to obtain office at all buzzards,
and a few timorous, so-called republi
cans, who have no opinions of their
own, who follow blindly the professed
parly leaders, and who echo at every
election, the old democratic war cry of
"Vote the straight ticket." Tnere are
Bourbons, who learn nothing and who
forget nothing, in the republican as
well as the democratic party, and it is
the republican Bourbons that give
the most aid and comfort to the cue-
VOL. 65.—-WHOLE No. 5,510.
The most critical examination we
can gve to the pardon record of Gov
ernor Geary only eonflrms our convic
tion that the pardoning power ought
to be taken out of the hands of the Ex
ecutive. The majority of his pardons
were (/ranted for the most frivolous rea
sons, and at the instance of a class of
men who had their own ends to serve %
recommending criminals to his clemency
—men who, from the frequency with
which they appear upon the recorrd,
might not unjustly be entitled professiona I
pardon brokers , and the reward of
more than one engaged in this disrepu
table business may be seen in objec
tionable nominations made upon the
republican ticket, and which we have
yet to see denounced by the Bulletin.
Perhaps our contemporary will give
us its opinion on the black sheep after
the election. We prefer to denounce
them before.
THE REGISTRY LAW.
What Must be Done in Order to
Vote.
KEAU, EX I'I..VIM AND CIRCULATE!
Ste thai Your Munich are on the I.int.
To the Democratic Voters of Western
Pennsylvania.
Your attention is directed to the
following explanation of the Registry
Law. Read it carefully, in order to
ascertain what is your duty in the
premises, ami then see that your names
are placed upon the assessor's list.
NATURALIZED CITIZENS
will see that the republican legislature
has imposed additional duties upon
them. Let them comply fully with the
requirements of the law, in order that
they may vote for the party which has
always stood by them.
EXAMINE THE ASSESSOR'S LIST,
one of which is posted on the house
where the election is to be held, and
the other is in the assessor's hands.
You have a right to examine them
free of charge.
These lists should contain your name,
and the names of all other qualified
voters in the district ; they should
state if you are a housekeeper, the
number of your house, the street it
fronts on; your occupation; if you
board,where and with whom you board;
if you work for another,your employer's
name; and opposite your name should
be written the word "voter."
If you have been naturalized, thero
will also appear the letter "N." If
you have merely declared your inten
tion to become a citizen, the letters "D.
I."
If you are between twenty-one and
twenty-two years old, the word "age."
If you have removed into the district
since the last election, the letter "R."
will appear opposite your name.
Make it your personal duty to see that
your name is upon the list.
Do not trust this matter to any one
else.
HOW TO GET REGISTERED.
If you find your name is not on the
list, go yourself to the assessor, and
make your claim to be put on. He is
bound to add your name. He cannot
question your right. You need not
discuss the matter with him, your
"claim" is enough. Give him also
your precise residence, occupation, &e.
He will mark "C. V." opposite your
name.
ATTEND TO THIS AT ONCE.
If you delay until within ten days of
the election, you may lose your vote.
NATURALIZED CITIZENS.
You must show your "papers" to
the assessor, in order to get your
names registered.
If you intend to take out your "last
papers" before the election, you must
show your "first papers" to the asses
sor.
See that your names are on the list.
Those of you who do not need to
have "first papers," and intend to lie
naturalized liefore the election, should
get naturalized first, immediately , and
go to the assessor with your "papers."
AU naturalized citizens must take their
"papers" with them to the polls , unless
they have been voting for ten years in
the same district.
You must take your "papers" with you
when you go to vote, even if your name is
on the list.
Uo not forget this or your enemies
will deprive you of your vote.
TAXES.
The law in relation to the payment
of taxes is unchanged. If you have
paid neither a state nor county tax,
assessed within two years, do it without
delay.
Take your lad tax receipt with you to
the polls.
I)o not delay registering or paying
your taxes; attend to this matter now,
for fear something may prevent here
after.
JAMES H. HOPKINS,
Representing the State Com. lor VV.Pa.
A couple of fellows, who were pret
ty thoroughly soaked with bad whis
ky, got into the gutter. After floun
dering about for a few minutes, one of
them said, "Jim let's go to another
house; this hotel leaks."
Organize ! Organize! .Register! Reg
ister ! SATURDAY, Oct. 2, is the last
day on which persons can be legally
registered or assessed. Attend to this
matter in time everywhere.
DEMOCRATS be sure that you are reg
istered. Remember that Radical as
sessors will not hunt you up to regis
ter you. Attend to this important mat
ter % at once !
TUE new Registry Law requires the
Polls to be opened between 6 and 7 o'-
clock A. M., and closed at 7 o'clock P.
M. Election on Tuesday, October
12th.
The New York Sim, Republican,
calls General Grant "The Great Amer
ican Traveller." '