The Democratic Watchman, BE;ON'J;L,PEN N' A P. ORLY MERE.. Ebrtuß d PROPILISTOR. 0 HN P. MITCHELL, A SIoCIATE EDITOR _ _ - FRIDAY MORNING, JAN. 31. 1888. TSB1),18.-12 per year when paid ad - intim), 2,50 whed not Paid in advance, and $B,OO when not paid before the eiptratien of tho' year Democratic State Convention RU, PA., Jan. 8, I sßs. The Democratic State Committee of I'enn sylvania have t1x6 , 1 WEDNESDaY, FOURTH (4th) DAY OF MARCO, 1868, at. 12 O'clock. N., en tho time, and the H e n of the House of ltepresentatrves, at Harrie t:out, as the place for holding the annual Convention of the prrty. It is ordered that this Convention ho cotd: posed of one member' tor each Senator and Representative, who shell be elected in the usual manner and they will meet at the time mad plaolijferedal.l, for the purpose of nom tenting candidates for the (Aloes of Auditor General and Surveyof (loners!, aud of no looting Delegated to the National Conven tion for the- nomination of candidates for President and Vi a President. The members and committees of the or ganisation and, all conservative CiLIZCIII w h o 'Clut unlth with us In the support of consti— tutional principles are requested to proceed to the election of delegates in their reaper tire dirtricts. • By order of the Democratic State Central Committee. WILLIAM A. WALLACE. Chairman C. 0. loripa.Sney. Meeting of the Democratic National Committee. IllisTn4, Dee. 24, I Ytii A meeting "1 , 110 National hewurratn• Committee will ho held at Washington, C., on Satartlay. February 22. Itma, at 12 o'clock. sr; for timing the time anti !dace of holding the nett Nutlmai Democtiitic Con rent ion, antlykr the transaction of such other buainette no will properljscome before the Committee. FREDERICK' 0 1.11NCE,.,. Siwkwmalliamocratte Cetnintnee. 1 C )onty Convention Dor. eteetetl to repretient the dveerdl h Iroo 111.1 townehior of Centre z'unty, In the • a Item leritti n e o prounty Con . cotton will o ,tin F e b rom y I, I It,L k t roe repredentatit u Delegate to the nc Con v en nun, end eldo to app tint cont . . ree• to inert otherd from the revered enuntren coutoo4ing the 2ldt Pensions! Diet riet, to elan t two Democratic Delegate, to the State Convention. By order the C,,tinri• Committee JoliN 11. OR It', Chairman. O. 1. Knees, Ser'y. Mongrel Extravagance ene ' nli, ' 1 grieve, 1 griete Fur the good old dap, of Adam and E‘e." If the fellow who perpetrated this doggerel ninny years since, had lived in the present days of official moray aganw—au4---norpoption, shoddy and sham, his longings for a return of pri mati‘e simplicity would have been mole intense It is enough to sicken the-heart of every one except govern nowt thieves and confirmed % olupt ua cies. to examine the appropriation hills of the so called Congress, and ...line of the State Legislatures tinder Mongrel control. and , 1-e the prodi gahty with which the people•s nion. is squandered. while /Joy arc groan ing mle? the most oppre,ive taxa tion, rendered more onerous by do , general stagnation of bu , iness.--; brought about by pernicious lege•la Lion to fortify and t nforce the policy cf this ruling party. Ali I then the courtly stile 1/fleetest in official sta tion, introduced since the war opened the sluice:. of the treasury- to whole ale plunder. the awkward aping of I fbrcign asistocratie etiquette and _tress. not °Of by those who lune, sine pretentious to education and good breeding but by, all (lasses who were fortunate enough, through theii / - loyalty" tq plunge their dirty fingers deeply into the public money bags. We have all read &set ptieins of ether- I tainments and balls, gisen at the! White House WIWI' madam Ll,Nciru,N. O w jw now ilfkrlng to exhibit her oast off court finery at. 25 cents ad mission). led the tun. What a trash ing of .Jewelry and diamonds trap then. what Lich diesser, what costly laces en%cloped all but the busts,of the !hit` gut- is, some of them early ing on thcir tons from twenty to thirty' thou: anal dollars %%orth of trite ..kets and stuff. Ev% n madam LIN- • 111,%, dumpy awl cOarq fi. W,164, IVet , 7l l• : ;1111 vitt! ll' .;Lviy and fl,l-11 ink Wri-t-ovith Atonos and (.11aiu , glitit And 1h 1.. were wally eil tfu liiii he for gallants or l'oilKr,• si l tlit ' Hog) of the bettedich4 of 'lie 'mule illustriou I the rlik of the atiowertit thiev,'te;' and re mpeerAde ~a toldels, and. added to was crop of the "..iliod• i l ) ' (.1,1111 had stolen enough to v aIe .ILA ui I I 111 ( t,iLle , the whole eixcelling in gorgeoumieris, nod almost equating in morality and effect a first class eourtusan'.4 fandango. Such was the precious example sot by the "first lady or the land," under Irmigrel regitiu, followed still it' official circles Mid upper-ten dinu, abd gradually sinking downward. infocting'ittid de• nioraliaing the leas wealthy and more worthy classes:, an admoniticio'not to he disregarded thaf, - -under the malign ptliienee of Mongrel morality and rule, miciety and government ore trav eling At a vet) .rapid rate on the road to ruin. ' • Except in sections of the remote from cities •and largo towns, we see but little of the siwplicity,the prain Democratic nuntherti of the ear lier years of the Republic, when a thousand dollars waseonsitierect a fol. tune, and the manners and customs of the people were in keeping with the character of the government. It isf o tipt many years since the Gov ernors of Pennsylvania were co - Meta to reside -in a two-Storyhouse, fOrnished ; and indeed, until the accession of hi present majesty, there ins nothing udy about' the execu tive mansio , although PArKKR and tutcrm tad been advanced to dwell in a three-story brick. - His present. majesty being a man of larger dimen sions and greater weight, beitideti be ing the " hero of Snicker's Gap, and some sixty other sanguinary battles," (bond hinitelftoo big for the premises, land a liberal Mongrel legislature,— willing-to give him room and style, appropriated hOlllO thirty [thousand dollars of the people's money to en large the executive mansion and fur ; rash it in the gorgeous style of Mad ame Pompadours (a king's mistress) and Louis the Xll'. Many of the tax ',dyers from whom this amount of money is wrung, are willing to live in, plain houses, with plain furniture -- many are compelled to live in houses that scarcely keep 'ut the bit ter, biting frosts of winter,without car pets, arid with few if any conrforts.-- It takes all they earn to 'keep their families, and pay the taxes which arc expended to Attiltd - ttfatnifiecni Tr;l - and furnish them, not only lukuriously but in a style comparing with European aristocracy, for their public senoras. THIRTY TlWl's,& Nis not.i.tkus 11ir furniture for our Gov error. This is a sample of Mongrel economy at tome. It is a sub ject 11)r the people to me , iitate upon. 11 Lilo he states of Greece retained their siutple warners and Customs, they were , but degenera wig wider the influence of Persian geld and lam) introduced by the ar mies (it XerAs, were subsequently conquered and brought under the Moitledonian sceptre by the corrupt ing power'of Philip's purse rather than by the power of his :nudes.— Are greenbacks to nolrrs of vim Re pultlicNhat gold did or Gree, ? Are the nta.sses to toil and be taxed to build fine house., and pay the expen se,, of vo rI otertainments, given by shoddy in wee to shoddy out of 1)( ‘s r A Stern Teacher spoil p, ceiscly the wore i-stre- that the liberties and prosperity of the pi ',We of the South depend. ileilend al-o the liberties and pecuniary in ti rest- of the 11[1 4 1i. I"nion This fact only beginninu to ht 1 . ..111 . \ , I, by radical men ‘il ti.e couriti3, when the breath iit die fierce totnailo of financial r trio is upon them The results of the l''g nation of fanatics arid fool~ during the last eight years are better under stood and aprreciated by those who suffer by them than the principles which led to thew. The eyk of all are turning in die light direction,-- and all arc disposed to make the only parts which has had power to do either good or t vil, responsible the e vils which art already upon us, and Go (hose which Threaten as in ti:e near rotate As I,lNeor.sr once_ Varitly said. th!.y. %Intuit escape the recur of the Mongrels enough to ilaninil;ny party, as soon as the scril9 tire f u ly yernoved — trona the cycN of those who have foolishly sustained thew. The terrible condi tion in which we now are, and the still a orse one into whit:l'4e seem to be going, will do more to recall the people to their senses than all that, has been or can be said on the nub jeut The businiou linen Me having a serene lesson from a stern teacher, Lilt a is.one not likely to be $Ollll gotleu. Iltuti.att .us been challenged by a Radical member of the Virginia State Convention, named Colonel Whyte The challenge deinanda top aration I. the mitering of WHIM out of llrri.P3t's department during the tsar. AM the Ileneral in the chal lenged pitrty he will h ave the ohuire weapon:, and ground, and wtjt most likely ehoose4 e_poone,. and the affair to take _place in a '.`,bottle titthtly corked." -- Now liampithire will hold the first election or this year ; and there j 8 now, every prospect or a Democrat- IC OIUCCOCS . . Our only Remedy, Avery. day is flatted over the wires &dui Washington some fresh mum. ges of the so-called Congress.. Their open, flagrant violation, of the Consti tution to subservc mere party inter ests; the disgraceful and oppressive laws, which in some sections of the country they arbitritrily enforce at the point of the bayonet ; theiViifforts tg divert the whole machinery of gov ernment from its legitimate purpose and concentrate all power in their own hands; th - Cir infamous negro legisla tion, designed to degrade the white race to it social and political level with tt , . horde of black semi -barbarians, their abridgement of the appointing power of the President, because he attempted to thwart their traitor ous efforts to subvert the government,aml their hundreds of other acts of trea son, outrage and oppression which form the black catalogue of their crimes—all, these the people have hitherto borne with a degree of pa tience more remarkable than cone tnendahle, offering no other resistance their such as could be made through the press and the ballot. But now, what now t ' Another flash over the wires and (you may hear it without astonishment, but you cannot hear it without alarm) We learn that another '' Reconstruction act, has, or is to be passed in defiance and contempt of the Constitution,— depriving the President of his power uslicommander-in chief of dui - army, forming one vast military district of the ten excluded States, and confer ing on Useless Slaughter GRANT, su preme civil and military authority met. thes:tine. The constitution ex pr,.-sly declares that the President of the I 'rliced Srates shall be I 'outman (by- in-1 /kir./ of-the - army firvt fitiv; and yet this act, already passed by one house, takes the authority conf.r re 1 by this office Ilion the President and rests it in an infei Mr officer, -- making it unlawful for the President to oppose any resistance to the en filreement of its provisions under a penalty' or thousand dollars lend imprisonment not exceeding • trio .y ears. Thi, i% the bold plan adopted by the :%longrel, to hurry up their ie runqtrttetion'or the Southern in order, to secure the election of their Preideuttal candidate next fall. But this move of the mongrel trai tor+ to paralyze the executli, e artu and force their negro policy down the throats of the people at the point of the bayonet. is not all, nor even the worst they have attempted to do with in the past two weeks. There is a case now pending in the tiupreme Court,,,,in which the question of the most itutionalityof their whole scheme of "reconstruction . ' will be up for determination , and having ascertain ed that a majority of the Court will decide all their act, on tint subject to be in flagrant violation of the (lon titution they have made a mo,t do tes mined elloit to roll through both loore-, a law ronniting ho, th-irds of 'le Coati. iii,toatl u.Yt majority, It •retofore to ietider , I. , •1^1011 on the Having, thus fettered. the two co ordinate branches of government, the hatch of traitors calling thcmselvea f,!origremq becomes omnipotent. The character of the government being thus changed, not virtually only. hut substantially, if no nntieria/ rettndonee ghtinhl he mode to their hAltrihttielts of putetr, holding the reigns of govern— ment in their own Owls, they may drive the Pountry at their own option either hastily or JohnZon like to the devil. Well, then, what ale ve -the 1,. °plc going t0.44w4-^ Shall we wink at them! open acts of treason as we have been doing, and, shrugging our shoulders cry, alas ! what next? or shall we rather act for ns'' a WHIN Mid nohlr part MEET REVQII,UTION BY 8EV61,1; TioN,and swear once for all, as JAck sot,/ swore."By the Eternal - we have endured too long and *ill endure no longer. IF Wl' WOULD SAVE OUR GOVER4ENT WE MUST PREPARE TO DO IT WITH BALLS AND BAYONETA, AND THE SOONER WE BEGIN cm: BETTER. " BFLLY" FOR TIII JACKINONIAN. —The last number of the Pontiac (Mich. }./acksonium, came to us en larged to an eight column paper and printed film, entirely new type. We ar glad to , notice this evidence of prosperity on the part of our Michi gan coupon porary. If ariy p-per. de eervem rt , it t does. NOT MOCM,-A copy of the Balti• more Post, a little eight by ten eon. cern, published in Baltimore for the benefit of "loll" thieves, niggemand SALMON P. CHASM, has reached our sanctum. It is very aortali any way you take it. Judge Vloodward'tSpdsch. The speech.- of Hon. ° Githhhig W. Wootmtah, , which we publish in ro-days paper, io one of the ablest we lrave'ever read, and we would advisir all our readers to give it a careful perusal, he great questions, uhieh ars just now of such vital Interest to the people of this country, are hon died 'with the skill of a master, and it will well repay any one to read carefully ttnything about which Judge Wonnwit,ap considered it worth his while to think. lie is one of the ablest of Pennsylvania - O . ' great law yers, and is mufiestionably far rthead of any one else now in thee Federal House of Representative'. While sonic growls were beard during and after: tliC delivery of the speech, not one of the curd he so ably castigates dared make an.open attack upon him. The batteries of thcsiimpadent and shallow upstarts who represent the Mongrels of New' England and the West, were for once f rirly si'eneed, and the littleness of.fanatieal section allow stood confessed befiwe the array of facts and figures, and the master ly logic of n truly great lawyer. Those whoge schemes of finance and recon struction he pulled to pieces were. writhing in his presence while hr posed them, yet none of them dared to attetnpt,anything like a ply. They felt theurselves utterly routed, and knew that the people would un derstand and appreciate the position. Last week, one of the writers of the dirty little editorials of the View, of this place, undertook to crittcize this great speech, and even compared Mr. WoonwAan with BINGHAM, a HMI who gained notoriety by perse cuting an innocent woman to death before a Count which was itself`ol - f ord' gigOritiFe - riiiterrratttrigrto try civilians at all. The idea of getting such a speech comprehended by the little. mind', which corn the '• big things" for the Press, about attArpting to put the waters of l o ake Erie into a gourd Thee Tway, though minds, take in %hut thgy can holm and %hen they obseri'e how touch there is which tlreir little ness cannot comprelieud, they crvout " there has been a great rebellion.'' In order that our readers may see themselves horw a ,great man, a jurist and riate,tuan, deals with the thieves and traitors who have held possession of the machinery of this Government until it is almost destroy ed,we publksh to day the great speech above alluded to. We ask all to read it and judge between truth and Moll. grelism Dirty Work We see by the Record that the Mongrel Legislature of this State,— spent the better part of four days the second week of the session, upon a dirtier piece of work than ever be fouled the hands of night-soil or mew yr mcavangers. They picked up STAN ToN --nican\ miserable, dirty, con-' tealtainle, ea4tlrdly, sneaking STAN-. Tip.; add stinking from the filth in which he I-t , bl ," long wallowing, and rcto;cit,' nacre offensite and disgte duvitn of a gangrened Scuatc, which had added the stench of their rotten,' ne , , to h's own They picked up this dirty and dimhota red renegade, steeped to the 'Wry eye-brows in .• high crimes and misdoneanors veminitted against the people , this black hearted tyrant and persecutor of innocent men and women, this fhul mouthed tool of Mongroli.m. `chit perjured uQii ial, who m a jell ' WU t may be cowardly Executive, after long for hearance was, at length compelled to eject front office: they took up the case of this human abortion, and to prove their " loyalty' . to a corrupt, treasonable, and revolutionary party, dishonwed themselves and degraded they state by ratifying his re install meet into a position which he had dis graced by acts of cruelty, perfidy and trtathery, which none but the most cold blooded ruffian and godless ren egade could be guilty of Aind this act of' shameless political prostitution was performed by Mongrelism, to the nog legit of other business and at an ex pense to the tax-payers of the state of sonic twelve thmaaud dollars Baugh ! the omee is rank-- • linavois Eltop6 the nose et it th i s moon winks, The bawdy wind, that kisses II it meets, Is hushed within the silet Iff,ickb ‘if earth And tetil nal hear it." Wherever local election), are held. throughout the entire North,— the most amtonishing gains over those ()I' last year are recorded in favor of' the Democracy. The people nre roused to the dangers which threaten them from the continued triumph of mongrelise', and if we have a fair election; the Northern Stateit alone will give a majority of their electo• ral votes for the Democratic candidate for President this year. THIINATNNID WAR IN RUROPyt v - The political ['orison of the old world is black with portents of the most awful war which ever shook the globd. All of the groat powers are jealously watehling e ettch other, and in all countries of Eirropo there are up wards of seven millions' 61 men ' der arms. What it may all result in none can toll. his to be hoped that peaceable solutions of all difficulties may be found, for the imagination of man cannot even picture the hor rors whiCh must ensue from a war of tto magnitude of that' which is threatened. Whether fie,acefully or otherwise, it is evident to,all thinking men who have watched European affairs, that there is much dissatis faction among ,the powerkin regard to . the territory claimed arid held ny each of thorn, and that there will be no pprmanent settlement until many radical changes are made in the shape of the map c f Europe. The political earthquake which sho6k the thrones of the old ixorld during the ' career of the groat NAPOLEON, may be outdoor. ;n the history of nor own times; : and. we shall anxiously 'itatels the news from Europe until the storm breaks or "blows oven': liErriONd I. N NI NO. - -- The en of the sectionalism which in duced•the Middle States at' 1 the w es t t o go to war nit!' thur natural friLiol—the South --has miv• er been ex, . f New England Is so situated that sire must lice from the produetidtni of u more favored clime. to) her children have mostly been brought up to believe that those pro ductions must be had, at any cost of all that is honorable and ttir among ince, She grew immensely wealthy during_ _ auti.auly _bt4cDinu impatient now that her share or the taxes are demanded from her Hut there is a limit beyond which the men of New England prejudices dare not go, with all their cunning. Let the people be once fully aroused to a realization of the filet that their 'Host precious institutions of govern ; went are being overturned by .A..4e knavish l'unkees; l and they will soon be taught that " the brains of a Mx dre of little service when ymt play with the paw of a lion General GitAttr stock has greatly depreciated of late, and the Radicals who got him.liko the man who bought the elephant, would be glad to get rid of him. Mr. WASIIIII7aNF. of Hi nes, a tut:tuber of the Federal Ibm,e 'Of 'Representatives, has been the keeper of the (leteral e%or since ht , first appeared in public. RAcently, when the Vote was taken in Congress on the new ‘• reconstruction" bill, Washburn sat in his, seat and rcruied to vote. This w considered by the Radicals as an iOndlible indication that ()rant is opposed to the revolu tionary schemes of (congress, and he has Wen greatly in their estimation since that tune. There is little doubt that they will get rid of him a, -oori UN thee cart. JtvIIN P. llALE,gthe3 a finrou, lead er in the Mongrel !evolution, his ten dered his resignation—we suppome by request' of the President—as Min ister at the Court of Madrid A new appointment will be made shortly.-- As Mr. is is favor of ainalga !nation ar mongrelisin, he, awl all who believe with him, ought to lII' kept always in a Country like Sprain--- highly favored of Iletti,tm nod curbed by mongrelism until waree thy a place on the map of Enrol, RIMITLY NAM —tinny' rw liar named Useless tilaughter Grant the "national cigar." At one timo that name was quite y1.1.01,6+10. 1t pebent it i ourrTlifitce, as this pi t mongrelism in twenty hours, out of twenty fonr too drunk to stoolo• Ile has thrown away the — weed and guile in Oil rot-gut and red eye. 47(irreN r med4,444 nt. Washington state that th , t.e.treely mday, that he is not d out of the gutter in a beastly •mte of intorication A splendid candidate for the-" God and morality party." PazTrl thane.— Of the three prim., cipal witnesses had tn'testify in the 817117ERT--YA•ITERHUS election case, one of them, a dozen of men fr this pluee will swes r they would not believe on his oath under any eirounnitances,anuther was kept out of the-Western Penitentiary fbr for ger), by his father swearing. 'that he was crazy, and the other was SAVO I imprisonment for embezzling nioitiy belonging to the Ptiousylvlitlia H. R. Company, by u Democrat paying up his defalcations, and trusting him for the 'amount. —There is not a leading piper in Penusylvsuitt that supports the claims of OURTLN fur the Vine Pres. itifney Naysa Paoutsisp.—lt is a favorite saying of the 'Radicals that the faith of the Government is pleged to the redemption of the bonds of-the Uni ted States with gold. • Now; we have never attempted to keep posted on the question ; but we have examined, it to ' aim) extent, and ohallenge any ono who holds the opinion • tkat the United• States ever held out any such idea, to produce a Single line. to that effect from any one who spoke by au thority of the Government. The (act is, nothing of the ,kind was ever intimated by any one of competent authority, and such an idea is only advocated by those who either hold bonds or 6onteinplate buying some Poor men, who are uteble to bit) k hem, will adhere' to the 'party which is in favor of paying them in the sonic currency which lie receive: for his hard labor. • NEED NO artigit. —Of all the -ma chines ever invented by the MA priest OF hell, for the propagation of un aaritablemess, ungodliness, treason, theft,' rapine. murder, cruelty, dis sehsion, demoralization, and all itch kindred vices that, degrade and damn alike governments, anti individuals, the thriceacetersettelau calling itself Congress, over which WADE presides in one house and CotsAx in the other, *is the master-piece Of his hen di-work. Hell needs no other agent} on earth. MAY HAVY. A _CITANCE.-If Joit!S lIICKMAN 81100h1 s ucceed i In getting through thy Peimsylvinia Leginla Lure, his proposed amendment to the • State Constitution, (Air people will have an opportunity of voting on the question of negro suffrage. For the sake of compelling weak-kneed Mon &lg .- ft) 'OM** iTi ell'Tr." — vie as wish he may succeed. --The cars for contentions which we publish at the head of our Mitt) rial column", show that the Detnoe racy calculate upon doing some work this year. Lot um he at it early, and work with might and main until the last moment, for we have neyer labor cd io achieve success .when it wit mere important to the country than I= -- We see a daily exemplification of the truth of the adage, "the devil is gond to his own," in the " aid and comfort" he extends ti.) his pets, the Mongrel trait( rs 'bout Washington Finn wines. fancy women, and seem ing success, is meted out to them - try "old duty," who has a claim upon their souls that Ilea% eti itself tICC(I not A people who have borne as long and palimitly the oppression and ex. actions of usurped authority as the people of this Republic have, nust ior should, at leust) become in the regular order of transmigration of soul., beast- of burden to "fetch and early" for their le.et enduring and mon spirited tutee-sure'. CUAN(IFI) ITH (hr .fiortle r, formerly. published ut. Niles, Michigan, is now iPsued at Loui:.%itle, Kentucky While itr base of operations has been chatigetli4 its pi ineiples are the paino—pur• Pentoertitie. There iti no milk and irate) about. the Sf Illilift on 1/hr BM. N 1 ) 11F.4, - f fur staunch Dentin craw; It tend. Pr E. L ACKER ot Nurritnown, Pu , hnd (+leased him pa tier, the Re f it's!,,. in an entire lICIA Nult,utl a iti IRAV une of neatust well a. one or the ablest, and lan ge,,t Cr.tint in the `tate The Rovixter 1. nne td 'he --ttutty,emt ',tate-tight, paper. to the Nurth.• -- Otte of thy platikei of tle Dew oetatic platform three—fitiartet, of a century ago pledged u to the securing or 'equal and exact justice to all limn, of whatuvor slab or perluumion," and ttiu regard that as good Itemocraey at the premmt time. —Sutra', MicAtix, had b.t:el% reached the head-quartero - of his Sat rapy when he isthued an order 4111141)0W the ()OM nor and Treasurer of U orgia, substituting a Brevet Brig adter Genaral and it Brevet; Caprair iu their plao:o. Tito offoltoe refusal to puy•the Itrr dieut of the roombort, of the negro State Conven (LOU out of rho tondo otherwim. pledged. Its 31v.thit dot, r wish LI) explode prematurely, wo advise him to keep hisimlfeurged u little tighter • GRoituk Tttais„, who im after notoriety, has niattattod to get himself arrested by the British. We trust they will lipid au to hiui, or gag him if 64 allow him to return tour shores, --Tile AOC Railroad bill will pass thts . Legialattira by a majority of tbs.) fourtlo.