THE DAivr KvENING TELEGRAfg FniLADELPIIIA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1368.' SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. EDITORIAL OPINIONS OP THB LBaDISd JOURNAL! CPOS CCKHENT TOPICS COMPILED RTBBT DAI FOB THB' kVK.NMGI TBLP.CJBAPH. . ttfnerol Grant nml Ills Slanderers. JTromthe N. Y. 2me. It ia Very evident that respectable Demo crats Are disgusted at the waj In whioh their partisan Journals have carried on the oanrasa agtsinst Ueiieral Grant. When it is remem bered hoar this distiDgaiehed General stood before the American public three years ago what a career of uueqnalled military bril liancy and success Lis had been; what faithfal aervlce he had done for the oonntry; what patienoe and ttnaolty he had manifested while all others were discouraged; what power of combination, of tactics, of strategy he had shown, placing him, In the view of all Euro pean military critlos, in the first rank of great historical soldiers, and how humbly and modestly he had borne himself under hla laurel; 4tow unanimous the journals of both parties were in bis praise at the olose of the war; bow all lauded his moderation in victory as equal to his energy in the campaign and bis genius in the battle-field when all thia is remembered, It is impossible to read the abase and calumny printed against him now In Democratio sheets without indignation and Amazement. - It is comparatively easy now to sit down and criticize and calumniate the heroio labors and grand services of such men as Oeneral Orant and his associates. But the party hounds who are trying to bnnt down noble game with their Scandals, cannot have yet forgotten the years of discouragement and defeat in the early part of the war, when General after General was tried and found wanting, and our bravest and best were laid in bloody graves. It is not so long ago, that they cannot remember the thrill of elation that passed through the free States when Fort Donelson was captured by the en ergy of Grant the first ray of victory, ezoept that from Fort Henry, after a long night of defeat; or the long waiting for Vioksburg so long that their present candidate ventured openly to sneer at the possibility of its oapture, and then the news of that bold stroke of ge nius by Grant, when he passed the fortress, left bis base and supplies, struck into the enemy's country, and separating two of the Rebel armies who together outnumbered him, beat them each in detail and fastened hia grasp on tbe key of the Mississippi, never to be relaxed. , Surely some of these petty detraotora who are groping around amid the refuse of gossip In society, to cast filch at a heroio name, might Lave the grace to recall the public gratitudt when we first heard that, through the genius of thia great soldier, the Mississippi was ours, and, whatever now happened, the Confederacy could never extend to the westward of that great river. Or they might recall the relief of the North, when they first heard that the army of Rosecrans was relieved from its state of siege in Chattanooga, and the Rebel forces were attacked in their heights "in the clouds" by such masterly combinations and Napo leonic taotioa originating solely from the brain f thia "butcher" and "cotton speculator," and so beaten that no head was afterwards made by the Rebel armiea in any region out Side of Virginia. Surely, too, these captious critlos oannot forget the shout of admiration whioh then rang from Demooratio mouths over this aotion the most brilliant battle (in taotlcs) in modern times; or that great campaign in Virginia great in the tenacity and energy displayed against vast obstacles, and to be considered aa only part of a vast plan, conceived and con trolled by thia able strategist; a campaign, it la true, sadly memorable for its losses (which, however, were no greater than had followed the unsuccessful campaigns of preceding Generals), but made forever illustrious by its valor and ita magnificent viotoriea and results j is this to be forgotten f The great army and chief of the Confederacy were here held in an iron grasp, while General Sherman gutted the South and onr whole forces finally closed about the Rebel armios. If the losses were great, so was the viotory; and in war, the moat thorough suooesa is the greatest humanity. In 1805 General Grant stood aa no one but General Washington has ever stood in our his torythe seoond savior of the country a soldier unstained by cruelty and a man never sullied by dishonor, and never involved in onr party strifes, and therefore entitled to a re spectful treatment by his political opponents. jj.uw ia no ueuieu, now wuen inree years nave passed away f The Democratio press can hardly find words to express their contempt for hia abilities or their condemnation for bia charaoter. lie ; is not General Grant, he ia "H. U. Grant," he is the "molasses thief," the "pony stealer," the "cotton speculator," the "drunkard," the "deaf and dumb." He is spoken of aa "Hiram on a spree," or, in more dignified abuse, as the "butcher," the "tyrant," the "military ignoramus," and as "holding a million bayoneta to the throat of This abusive slang reminds one of the low slanders at Washington when the Demooraoy began their career. It will surely end in the same manner. The Crimes or the Loyal North. From the if. T. Tribune. When the war ended the world was amazed at the magnanimity of the viotor to the van quished; none were more astonished than our enemies, who expected their punishment to be commensurate with their guilt. They re membered the stern order of the Confederate Government expelliDg all Northern men from the Southern States; the barbarous military orders refusing quarter to colored Union sol diers; the fiendish system of starvation estab lished in the Southern prisons; they knew the magnitude of the evils they had brought upon the country, and their just fears were increased by the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by an instrument of the Rebellion. They bad given ns no mercy; they expected little in return, and when Lte surrendered hia sword the whole South trembled at the feet of the Gov ernment. Many of its leaders fled to Mexico and Europe; Jefferson Davis, pursued by a few buudred wea, hid himself, disguised, in Alabama. A plea for meroy came from the entire South; it stood appalled at the great ness of its own orimes, and the terrors of its stupendous failure. Into almost every Northern family the war bmught death; Rebel bullets had laid the flower of the North low in nameless graves; the treanhery of the South had imposed upon the North a vast debt, whioh generations will bave to bear. The wrath of the loyal people had been wrought to exoesa by a struggle of unparalleled ferocity. Our foes had even in voked foreign Interference to aid in the de struction of the Union. What oould they expect but punishment confiscation, banish ment, or the gallows f Such penalties had been inilioted by all other civilized nations in dealing with a oonquered rebellion. Austria bad shot the Hungarian leaders, and England hud bung her Irish patriots, and had blown ber Sepoys to fragments at the cannon's mouth. If America had so understood human justice, if she bad but faintly imitated this Seveiity, all civilized precedents would bave justified her aotion. Bat Christianity had I made unknown progress in the North; its I spirit triumphed over all counsels of vengeanoe; and for tbe first time in the history of the world a great nation was found great enough to live up to the dootrine "forgive your ene mies, and do good to those that despitefully use you." We forgave them all. Our pardon was as free and general as the air. Four mur derers were hung; the miserable Win atoned upon the scaffold for orimes for which, per haps, he was not responsible; but all the great criminals of the South were unconditionally pardoned. Not an inch of Southern land was confiscated; Jefferson Davis was Imprisoned, it ia true, bnt not at Andersonville. All that we demanded was thia that the leaders of the Rebellion should not retain the control of the South, and that none but loyal men should take part in its reconstruction. At first the people of the Southern States were bewildered by the generosity they reoelved. For a time they were unable to understand that it would continue; but now how do they repay it f Let tbe New Orleans massacre, tbe reign of terror in Texas, the speeches of Wade Hampton and Howell Cobb, the threats of the Rebel press, the cruelties of the Ku-Klux Klan, answer for their gratitude. Under the guidance of a party controlled by professional politicians and office-hunters, the South now assumes the attitude of a wronged and outraged people. It has forgotten all that bas happened since 1800, and remembers only tbe golden age of Buohauan and Pierce, when none but Southerners were permitted to rale the conntry; when the North was regarded only as a mighty slave to do the work of its Southern masters. It has forgotten all that it did to destroy the Constitution, and claims to be the especial ohampion of that document which Davis trampled in the dust, and Lee riddled with bullets. It haa forgotten that to all crimes penalties are attached, and has trans ferred to tbe North the entire responsibility of the war and the miseries which the Rebellion caused. Democratio orators and conventions accuse the Government of the United States of military despotism; of overthrowing the free dom of speech and the press; of converting the National Capitol into a bastile, and of aiming to effect the subjugation of the people "amid the ruins of liberty and the shattered fragments of the Constitution." Rabel Generals meet in the North to nominate a President for the Republic, and to dictate the principles of reconstruction. A pirate and a guerrilla declare the General of the Union armies an enemy of the country he saved. From all parts of the Rebel States comes the cry that American magnanimity is worse than Russian tyranny, and it is the favorite theme of the Rebel Ciceros to represent the South aa a beautiful and bleeding Poland, tramplod upon by the brutal heels of Northern Huns, and tortured because of her virtues Mouths which are most eloquent iu curses represent the South aa drenched in her own tears, and men whose highest inspiration is hatred of the negro, whose dearest hope is to reduce him again to abjeot servitude, denounoe their meroiful conquerors as tra t rs and vandals. The North is arraigned as the Judas of the age, the e jemy of all good, and the authors of the Rebellion claim to be the sole possessors of what little patriotism is left on the American continent. . This picture of the relatious of the con quered Rebellion to the Union is but faintly drawn; the great change since the close of the war has been so gradually effected that it is not easily understood. Then the South crouched at our feet; now it towers above us. Then ita hands were clasped in supplioation; now they are uplifted in menace. No one could have believtd when Lee surrendered to Grant, beg ging generous teims for hie army, that in few years he would dare to arraign his mag nanimous conqueror as a tyrant and oppressor. This he has done, not directly, it is true, bat by tbe strongest implication, in that letter which holds up the Government whioh Grant represents as an unconstitutional despotism. It is unpardonable insolence that the military chief of the Rebellion should pretend that his rights under the Constitution are withheld; that be endures oppressive misrule, and that he can talk of self-government as his birth rightbe who eight years ago broke the oath he had taken to support the Constitution of his country, and who fought for years to destroy the republic be now claims an inalien able right to govern. Effrontery oould go no further than General Lee has oarried it when he says that if the aotion of the Southern people, In submitting to the Government when they could no longer resist, "had been met in a spirit of frankness and cordiality" by loyal men, our national troubles would have ended. lie and his comrades, and the corrupt leaders of the Democratio party, throw the whole blame of the war, and the debt, and the miseries which bave followed, upon tbe North. The men who saved liberty are aocused of plotting to destroy it, and the worst Rebels in the land announce themselves as the only true defenders of the republic. To this have we been brought by a generosity without ex ample. Do we regret it T No. The insolent ingratitude which repays the magnanimity of the American people makea it the greater virtue. We would still forgive the Rebellion, but we will not surrender the Union. The Meeting ol Co ngress What Is to be Done I From the N. Y. Herald. The Republican Waders have made a great mistake in calling for the attendance of a quo rum of the two houses of Congress to-day. They will commit a yet mere damaging blunder if they pay any heed to the uneasy radicals who are pressing for a resumption of general legislative business for the purpose of interfering with the action of the Georgia Legislature and farther tinkering up the un fortunate Reconstruction laws. The people are well aware that all legislation that may be attempted at this time will be designed to aid the dominant party in the approaching Presi dential eleotion, and they fail to disoover any necessity for extraordinary measures to in sure the election of General Grant to the Presidency. They are weary of the vlolenoe, passion, and excitement of these repeated ses sions, and are heartily, sick of the whole ques tion of reconstruction, which haa kept the country in a state of turmoil ever since the close of the war. The radioal leaders fail to comprehend the popular sentiment if they do not know that their policy of military rule and negro supremaoy at the South is offensive to the people of the loyal States. The great strength of General Grant lies first, in his well-known conservatism; and, next, la the Btupid blunders of tbe Demooraoy, and not in any hearty endorsement of the polioy of Con gress; hence the less that is seen or heard of the Washington agitators In the campaign the better. Senator Sherman In his speech at Cooper Institute, on Thursday night, an nounced that he waa on hla way to the national capital to watch Andrew Johnson. Thia of itself la a very small pieoe of busi ness; yet it will be better for Congress to sit still, with all eyes fixed on the Presi dent, than to attempt any agitating partisan legislation in the very midst of a notlv con tested eleotion. If the politicians oould be made to under stand tkat this oampalgn Is run by the people, and not by a few superannuated or selfish leaders, they would save themselves much nu neceteary tiouble and spare the country a great deal of annoyance. But on both sides tbe same error prevails. The Demooratio ma chine .managers supposed ' that they were strong enough to take the nomination iuto their own hands and to defy the popular will. Tbey now begin to see how fatal a tn'ataka they made. Borne Republican leader imagine they disoover a chance of one or two Son tbern States voting with the Demooraoy. and straightway they net on foot aa agi tation for more legislation to avert the con templated evil. Others persuade themselves that they have nosed out a design on the part of Andrew Johnson to help Seymour with tbe Federal patronage aa soon ai he gets rid of Congress, and they are restless and uneasy until they cau reach Washington and watch the President. This is all puerile aui nonsensical. The election of November next will be decided by the voice of the great North, and the Lincoln States, that made the Republican party and held it up daring the war, will vote with greater enthusiasm than ever for Grant, who fought the war out to a successful termination. A few Southern elec toral votes and a handful of paltry offices will sink into ntter inslgnlfioance In snob, a grand and magnificent viotory as the hero of the Appomattox apple tree will aokleve at the polls; and the radioals who suppose that any Congressional tinkering Is needed on one side, or who stand In mortal terror of President Johnson on the other side, are simply politioil noodles, who fail to appreciate tbe situation or to understand the true sentiments of the people. The next best thing Congress can do to not meeting at all la to adjourn immediately and go home. The Hiairs. Prom the N. Y. Nation. As the secret history of the late Demooratio Convention is more fully made known, that body more and more pats on the likeness of a creature ot the older and worse daya of our politics, the days when we used to call men statesmen because they quoted the Declara tion of Independence in the balcony, and went back into the oommlttee-room and gerry-man-dered a State. Very much of the business of the Convention was done, it appeara, by Mr. Montgomery Blair, who ia in all essential re spects an excellent specimen of the sort of statesmen we have mentioned. He ia the re presentative and the ablest member of a family which has always, on pretence of serving the publio, devoted itself to praotical politics practical politics aa distinguished from the service of tbe public. He really ia behind hia bi other, whom it is certain he would manage if the Vice-Presidency or the Presidenoy should come Into the family, Just as he has managed him in the matter ot th lirodhead letter, which, no doubt, was Intended to fire the Southern h-art. Unfortunately for the Blaira who are usually (harp enough to cut their own fingers, and who, since Jaokson's time, have been good int limners with bid luok as to their intrigues the Br dhead letter has fired the Northern heart as well. However, it helped to get Gen eral B a r the nomination for the Vice-Presi-denoy. But, as now appears, it waa not con sidered safe to trust to that alone; the record of other prominent candidates was examined into and was laid before the delegates from the South. General Hancock, Mr. Montgomery Blair took pains to inform them, oace issued an order urging the negroes of Maryland to aid tbe pursuers of Booth, who bad murdered Lincoln, the general said, because of his frleLdsbip for the negroes. General Robert Ewing alBO was made the subjeot of a commu nication from Mr. Blair to the Southern dele gates. Tbey were reminded that in Missouri, in 1803, he ordered oat of his lines all disloyal people resident within them. Thia, of coarse, killed" blm. The (Ireat Uugbear. From the 2T. Y. World. The chief topic of Republican invective, since the opening of the canvass, is the im puted intention of the Democratio party to disperse the carpet-bag governments by force after the inauguration of Seymour and, Blair Tbe Times, if we understand its rejoinder to the World on Friday, admits that this imputa tion cannot be sustained unless it ia a logical sequence of the Demoortaij platform. This puts the controversy on its true ground; and on that ground we proceed to show that the imputed intention is a baseless ohimera. The Times, arguing from the platform, rests its case on the declaration that the reconstruc tion aots are "usurpations unconstitutional, revolutionary, and void," and on the faot that this clause was inserted in the platform at the instance of General Wade Hampton. The faot that Wade Hampton suggested it signifies nothing, unless it can be shown that it ia a dootrine whioh the Democaatio party had not previously held. Now, it is notorious that this is a subject on which there haa never been any difference of opinion in the Democratio ranks. From the very inoeptlen of the Recon struction aots, the Democratio party has, to a man, consistently and indignantly denounced them as bigh-handed usurpations and flagrant violationa of the Constitution. Every speech made against them in Congress, by every Demooratio member, has proceeded upon that ground. All of President Johnson's numf rous veto messages, uniformly applauded by the Demooratio party, have held up the radical measures as revolutionary violationa of the Constitution. This dootrine did not oiginate with Wade Hampton; it did not originate with the South; it bas been, from the first, tbe spontaneous, settled, universal belief of the whole Democratio party. If it bad not appeared in the platform in the words suggested by Wade Hampton, it would have been introduced in some other words; for it has been the constant sentiment of the party on that subject Tbe only pertinent inquiry Is, whether the Timts inference is well drawn; whether, in other words, a declaration that the Recon struction aots are "unconstitutional, revolu tionary, and void," pledges the party to dis perse the new governments by force. It is an accepted principle of logio that an argument which proves too much proves nothing. If the reasoning of the Times proves that its editor is pledged to abet the overthrow of the radical policy by force, he will perhaps reooil from bia own conolusiona, and admit that his formidable inference ia ill drawn. Perhaps it may not have quite escaped hla recollection that there was once a famous political gathering called the Philadelphia Con vention. It is possible that he may also reool leot (now that he is reminded of it) that the Philadelphia Convention issaed au address, and that the respectable author of that address was reported in the published proceedings as bearing the name of Henry J. Raymond. It is true that the Philadelphia Convention was held before the Reconstruction aots were passed. But If the more moderate scheme against which that Convention protested waa unconstitutional and revolutionary, the harsher Reoonstruotlon aots are more so. The same arguments whioh were used against the one apply with tenfold force against the other. We propose to show by quotations what opinion was entertained of the radioal policy by tbe author of the Philadelphia address. "It seems to us," said the writer, "In the ex eroise of the calmest and most candid judg ment we can bring to tbe subject, that suoh a claim, so enforced, involves as fatal au over throw of the authority of the CoustUution and as compkte a destruction of the Qovdrnmout and Union as that which was soaght to be effected by the States and people in arinei In surrection against them both." ; A;io: "W need not stop to show that such action not only finds no warrant in tbe Constitution, but U at war with every principle of our Govern ui-ut, and with tbe very existence or free institutions." And Again : " Nor dti these extravagant and nnjast oUlius, on the part of Congress, to power and authority not conferred upon the Government by th Constitution, find any Justification lu the argu ments or exonses urged on their behlf." Aud still again: "Such au exeroise of power is simply a nsurpation; just as unwarrantable when exercised by Northern States as it would lie if exercised by Southern, and not to be for tified or palliated by anything In the pan his tory either of those by whom it is attempted or of those upon whose rights and liberties It is to take tffeot. It finds no warrant in the Constitution. It is at war with the funda mental principles of onr form of government. If tolerated in one instance it beoomea the pre cedent for future invasions of liberty and con stitutional right, dependent solely upon the will of the party in power." These quotations will perhaps eaffloe to Bhow the vigor with whioh Mr. Raymond de nounced the polioy of Congress as unconsti tutional and revolutionary.- We could mul tiply them to any extent. If the Demooratio Convention had recurred to that address they would have found a great deal more than suf ficed to make a platform satisfactory to Wade Hampton and the Southern States. We must be indulged in one more quotation the olosing passage of the address which deplots in strong language the mischievous and de plorable tendency ef the radical policy on the returning loyalty of the South: "And 11 thatcoufldenoe aud loyalty have been slDce Impaired; it tbe people of lUe Sixi n are to-ray less cordial In ttielr allegiance tUttn they werelrnmeulaiely upon the clone ot the war, we believe it is due to tbe changed toie of the legislative department of the general Govern ment towards mem; to tbe action by wblou Congress hug endeavored to supplant and de feat Ibe President's wise and beneficent policy of restoration; to their exclusion from all pur. ticlpatlon In our common Government; to tbe withdrawal from them of rlghis conferred aud guaranteed ny tue uousuiuiiou, and to tbe evi dent purpose of Congress, in tue exercise of a Uhnrpedand unlawful authority, to reduce tliem from tbe rank of free and equal memuerg uf a republic of States, with rlgbu and d gullies u a lmpalred, to the ooudltliiu of couquerei pro vinces aud a conquered people, lu all thin? subordinate and subject to the will of their con queror free only to obey laws In making wL'cb they are not allowed to Hi re. "No people bas ever yet existed wh'ise loyalty and faith such treatment long continued would not alienate and Impair. And the i en millions of Americans who live fn the South would be unworthy citizens of a free oouulry, degenerate se ns of au heroic anot stry, unfit ever to become guardians of tbe rlghUand liberties bequeathed 10 us by the fat tiers and lounuera of thin repub lic, If Ibty could accept, with uncomplaining BubmibSlveneB, the humiliations thus sought to b1 Imposed upon them." When the editor of the Times has given these passages a faithful perusal, we hope he will tell ns whether, on second thoughts, he still holds to his opinion of Friday, that a denunciation of tbe radioal policy as a revolu tionary usurpation, in flagrant violation of the Constitution, pkdges its anthors to redress the outrage by force. We hope he will fur ther tell ua what sort of a howl and hullabaloo the Times and other Republican papers would have raised if the vehement eloquence of the last paragraph above quoted had prooeeded from either of the Democratio candidates, or if a like strain of denunciation had ooourred in the Democratio platform. If he is not a muti nous "revolutionist," some people may fancy that it will be rather difficult for him to fasten that charge upon the Demooratio party. It will not do to draw opposite conclusions from tbe same premises. - We admit that this is a mere argtmentum ad hominem; but we suppose most readers will agree with us that it is a telling one. But we need no astistanoe from the Philadelphia address to confute the pretence that the Demo cratio party is pledged to destroy the new State Governments by foroe. There is not only nothing of the kind in the platform, but nothing which can bear that construction in the action of the Southern people. Wade Hampton himself is trying to carry hla own State for Seymour and Blair through the agency of the carpet-bag government. Every Republican paper has circulated that faot, and rung with denunciations of the methods he has advised for influencing the negro vote. Everybody knows what haa been done in Georgia. In all the reoonstruoted States they are attempting to effect a change by political action which recognizes the usurping governments de facto while de nying their validity dejure. The example of Georgia demonstrates that this psaoeful method will be successful if endorsed by the publio opinion of the country in the Presidential election. No force will be resorted to; none will be necessary. The same majority which suffices to get oontrol of the present State gov ernments will also suffice to alter the State constitutions. With a Democratio President and House of Representatives, Congress oannot Interfere to prevent the change, and immunity from such interference is all that the Southern people need expect or ask. Maine. From the N. Y, Nation. Two months ago the Democrats were going to carry Maine. One month ago they were going to reduce last year's Republican ma jority of eleven or twelve thousand. But this week, the expression of publio opinion at the polls being the very .fullest ever had iu the State, the Republicans carry it by a majority almost equal to the heaviest majorities that were given when we were all fall of the ex citement of tbe war. Probably there never was anywhere in the oountry so hot a politioal canvass. How high the feeling ran may be seen In the faot that political rioting a very rare thing in New England was not uncom mon in the last days before election, and on election day, when, to be sure, the Demoorats bad some excuse in their disappointment. Probably there are not five hundred able-bodied men in Maine who bave not attended several political meet ings sinoe the middle of August ; speeches have been made wherever a hundred men could be got together, and some of it has been extraordinarily good speaking; there was no end to the prooeBsionizing, button holing, and "work" generally. As the Boston Post remarked, the men of Maine "have lately beard tbe great political and financial issues of tbe day disoussed by able men of both par ties." Fesseuden, Wilson, and Pendleton put the finanoial issues as plainly before the people as it is possible to put them, and the political issue that stated by Blair was the theme of dozens of orators in every town. Tbe result shows, to borrow from tbe Fast again, that the people of Maine "are not blinded by prejudice or enslaved by party ties," and have had no difficulty in "deciding what is their present duty to themselves and the country at large." It waa a model American political oontest plenty of frank disoussion aud intelligent com prehension of the questions involved, at least a sufficiency of enthusiasm, and, at the end, a peaceable submission to the result. The eileot of this election will be great. We suppose it makes Pennsylvania safe for the Republicans in October; and though the loss of that State then would not injure Grunt, the oarrying it would make the November election a mere fuiuialily. S. FRONT ST. 218 & 220 S. FROM ST. $r CO OFFER TO TUB TRACK, " m LOTS, FINE RYE AM) BOURBON WHISKIES, LY B0M! Or 180C, 1800, 1807, and 1808. AlStt, riilE FINE l.YE ,AM) BOURBON WHISKIES, Of GREAT AGE, ranging from 18C4 to 184a. Liberal contract will be entered Into for lota, in bond at Distillery, of thia years' mauufotn4 RELIEF ASSOCIATION. OTIC E. OFFICE OF TUB MAM1ATTAN CO-OPK. B&T1VE BELIEF ASMOCIATIO X, Ne. 48J WALNOT STREET, PHILADELPHIA. Oiubct. 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In Class A all persona between the aga ol j6 aud itv years; in ulaas h, all persous between me sues of 20 and 25 years: lu ClASa t), all peisout be tween the ages of 2S and 80 years: la t! ans D, all per sons between the ages of DO aud x years: in Class K. ait pereous between the ages of M ana 4o years; In Ulasa V, all persons between the ages ol 4U and 45 years; In Class W, all pertons between tha ages of 4t and so j eats; lu Class H, all parsons between the ages of 60 and 65 years; In Class 1. all persous between the ages of 65 and w years; lu Ulass K, all persons between tue uses of M) and 66 years. Tha ilssaea Im wnnwn .r. the same as above. Kach class is limited to fiouo members. Kscb person pa. a six dollars upon be coming a member and one dollar and teu cents each lime a member dies belonging to the same clasi he or she la a member of. One dollar goes direct to tbe hlrs, ten cents to pay ror collecting. A member ofoue clss caunot be astesssd mis dollar If a mem ber of another class dies. Jacn class Is independent, having no connection with any other. To become a member it Is necessary To py rtlx Dollars Into the treasury at tbe time of making he application; to pay One Dollar and Ten (Jems into Ue treasury upon tbe death of each and any member of the clus to which he or she belongs, within thirty days alter date of notice of Buch death; to give your Kame. Towo.Ooutity, Htate.Ocouoailou, etc.: alto a medical certificate. Every minister la asked to act aa agent, and will be paid tegular rales ! CM)d. Cnculars win explain fully In regard to lunds and luvtatmenta. Circulars giving full expla nation and blank forms ol application will be snnt, on requestor upon a personal application at the oiUje of tbe Association. 1KUHTEES AND OFFICERS. E HcMDBDY, Pietldent. E. T. W1UUHT (President Star Metal Co.) Vice President. W. & CARMAN (President Btuyveaant Bank), Trea surer. LEWIS BANDERS, Secretary. D. K. ft AIsUAM (President National Trust Co,) 1). 8. DTJNUUMB, do. 8 Pine street. Tbe trust funds will be held In trust by tbe NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY. No. m Broadway, New York. Agents wanted for this city. , Address - WILLIAM LIPPINOOTT, Gnnrral Agent, Manhattan Co-operative Relief Association. B2'm No 432 WALNUT Btreet. Pnllaila. FLAGS, BANNERS, ETC." 1868. PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST. i'LAUS, DATOiERS, TRAJTSPAHEXCIES, Campaign Badges, Medals, and Fins, OF BOTH CANDIDATES. Ten different styles sent on receipt ot One Dollar and Fifty Cent. Ageuta wanted everywhere. Flags in Muslin, Bunting, and Silk, all sixes, whole sale and retail. Political ennba fitted out with everything they m require, CALL ON OK ADDRESS V. F. 8CHEIBLE, AO. 19 SOUTH THIRD STREET, 118 tfrp PHILADELPHIA. GOVERNMENT SALES. SALE OF CONDEMNED ORDNANCE AND ORDNANCE ttlOREti, and other articles, at Hi. Louis Arseual, bL Louis, Mo. Will be offered for bale, at publio auctloa, commencing at 10 o'clock A. M.. October 6, lwt, a large quantity of Condemned orduance Btores. and other articles, consisting of Iron cannon, artillery carriages, aud cannon balls, artillery Implements and equt, meuta. Carbines, mnsxeta. rilleu, pistols, shot guns, swords, and sabres. Iufamry and cavalry accontrements, Horse equipments, consisting ol saddles, bridles, baiters, etc. ' Arilhery harness and parts of harness. Leather, brass, copper, and Iron scrap. Cannon, mortar, musket, and rlflu ponder, and mls Cellaiieous artlulea. An opportunity will be offered by this sale for towns aud other associations, or Individuals, to pur chase guns and carriages which may be usedlor salute purposes. A catalogue of tbe articles to be sold will be fur nlelied upon application at this Arseual, or at the Orduante Otllve. Washlugtoo, I. G Terms cab; ten percent, on the day of the sale aud the remainder when tbe properly la delivered. 1 blrty days will be allowed for tue removal ot havy ordnance. All other stores will be re quired to be removed within ten days from close oi hale. Packing bexes to be paid for at tbe stated prloe.to be determined by the commanding officer, The ollictr making thesale reserves the right to bid In aud suspend the sale whenever tbe bidding does not come op to tbe limit that may be fixed by proper authority on some of tbe articles, or whenever the Interests or Ibe United Slates, lu his opinion, may be subserved by so doing. F. D CALLENDER. . Brevet Brigadler-Qeueral C. 8. A . Llenf.'Col. of Ordnance, commanding Arsenal. Et. Louis Arsenal, too., Ang. gtt. Itm t2lt PUBLIC BALE OF CONDEMNED OBD nauce and Ordnance Store. A large amount of condemned Ordnance and Ord nance utoies will be ottered for sale, at Public Auc tion, at Ibe Rock Island Arseual, Illinois, on WED NESDAY, the 14th day of October. lt,at 10 o'clock, A. M. Tbe lollowlug list comprises some of the principal artlclea to be sold viz ; 26 Iron guns, various callbiea. 8-Iihi pounaa shot, shell, eto 820 held carriages. 2'6 lota of artl'lery harness. f8 carblner, various models. tin muskets aud rifles, various models. 'lib revolvers, various models. 4t',oeo ots or Infantry accoutrements. 2oo McC'lellan saddle, sooucuro bridles. 6(.uo watering bridles. Persons wishing complete lists of the stores to be sold can obtain them by application to the Chief of Ordnance, at Wasbii'gton, L. C , of Brevet Colonel Crispin. United mates Army Purchasing OUloer, cor Df r 1 1 Houston and Oreeu s-rewts, Nsw York oily, or by direct application to this Arsenal. RODMANi Lieutenant-Colonel Orduauue, aud Brevet Brlgadler-Ueoeral U. H. A. Commanding Reck Island Arsenal. Wept. 4. l6tt 6W WINES, ETC. QEORCE PLOWMAN. CARPENTER AND BUlLDRf. REMOVED To Ko. 131 DOCK Street, PHILADELPHIA. JAMES CARSTAII18. JR.. Kos. 120 WALKUT and 21 GRANITE St?., IMPORTER OF Brandies, Wines, Uln, Olive Oil, Etc Etc, AND COMMISSION MERCHANT J JOR THB BALE OF rURE OLD RYE, WHEAT, AJND DOUR DON WHISKIES. 4 fll LUMBER. F. H. W I L L I A M 8, SEVENTEENTH AKu fcPHIWG GARDEN? OITEBI FOB SAI.B PATTERN LUMBER OF ALL KINDS. EXTRA SEASONED TANFL PLANK. BUILDING LUMBER OF EVERT DESCRIp. TION. CAROLINA 4-4 and 14 FLOORING. HEMLOCK JOIBTS. AXL SIZES. CEDAB BHINGLE8, CTPREbS BUNCH SHIN GLES, PLASTERING LATH, POSTS, ALSO, A FULL LINE OF WALNUT AKD OTHER HARD WOODS. LUMBER WORKED TO ORDER AT SHORT N-J 7mwlta i86a SPRUCE JOIST. bPRUOE JOIaf. JiH-iMLOCJC. HJkAUiOCK. 1868. 18ba 8SMtffg? 1868. SPANISH CHAf&Wk, 1868. ftMfSS: 186R . SSt ASSESS DELAWARE FLOOiUNUJ awh plookinc. waljnot .flooring. &1l8pk 1868. fcas-j 186a WALNUT AKU PfNH. I R( ft SEASONED POPLAR. LOUO. SEASONED CHJCHRy. WHITE OAK PLANK AND BOARTm. HICKORYT 4W8B i86a 18H8. fiAR.?S MAKERS' SPANISH CED ffoiV100 FOR BALK law AJWa lftftfi CAROLINA BOANTLIlJa! inrtn XOOO. CAROLINA H. T. SILrS 1 Rfi 1868. hi NORWAY BQATLLNhT CEDAR SHINGLES. tonn Oi PRESS 8H1NOLES. lofiR 2LAULE. K(1tSim "iyV No. 2600 SOUTH btraU- "JJNITED BTATJtS BUILDERS' MILL," Nos. 24, 2C, and 28 S. FIFTEENTH St., PHILADELPHIA. ESLER & BROTHER. umurtotvuia or WOCD MOULDINGS, BRACKETS, STAIB BALUS TERS, NEWELL POSTS, GENERAL TORN. INO AND SCROLL WORK, ETC, The largest assortment ol WOOD MOULDINGS la this city constantly on hand. , t jm GROCERIES, ETC. EXTRA FINE NEW MESS MAOKKBEL IN KITTd. ALBCBT C. ROBERTS, Dealer In Fin Groceries, 117rp ELEVENTH and VISE Streets. DRUGS, PAINTS, ETC. ROBERT SHOEMAKER & CO., N.E. Corner or FOURTU and RACE Sts., PHILADELPHIA, WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS. IMPORTERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF White Lead and Colored Taints, Puttj, n, Varnishes, Etc AQENTd FOR THE CELEBRATED FRENCH ZLC PAINTS DEALERS AND CONSUMERS SUPPLIED AT LOWEST PRICES FOR CASH. tM GAS FIXTURES. G loj. altering, and rwpalrlui M-p.pe. A FIXTUBH a WlttKKT, MERRILL k THACK.ARA, mannraoiarer. of Gas Fixture, htuuim. elo., to,, would call th attention of tha public to tiielr Ui ue au4 elegant aanoruneut oi tiaa Ctiudelir, pemianuu KraUkatji. AltfV TramW I l.l.jiiiM asanln.. 1-77 aweUluga and publio buildings, and attend to axUmAi IrsaV Sal trlnar and a,..tl- ..nk.ca. as. .U JOHN CRUMP. CARPENTER AND BUILDER, . HOPfJi MO. BIS LODVR NT BEET, AH o. 178S CIILMNVT aTBEET, IZ PHILADELPHIA. gTITLERa WEAVER & CO., MANUFACTURERS OP MANILLA AND TARRED CQRDA8R, CORDS TWINE3, ETC., WO. ra North WATER Street, anal Wo. U North DELAWARE Arenas. trBIIaDKLPHlA. Xowut H, Tit i. kb, Michaw. Wsuvam. VOMUAU V, OLOTHII1K. t li
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