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The Democratic Watchman.
BELLEF•ONTJy, PA
FIUDAY MORNINO,, AUGUST 28 1868
Frightful Statistica.The Atrocitiei of
• the Radical Party.
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In this indictment we have thus far
dwelt only upon things fundamentaL---
the tearing of one-half the States by •i.
Menne from the rest, thus blotting one.
half of the Union from the map—the
destruction of civil liberty in these
states—the overthrow of the Constitu
tion—the insidious undermining- which,
if permuted to continue.mnst ultimnti in
the toppling over of the whole govern.
Mental fabric. Of the cost of all ibis—
of the,,aubstance wrung, from the sweat
Of men's brows to pay for it--we have
said nothing': Little. we trust, will an
ewer obr 'purpose. Much we hive not
space to say. Let these figures rattier
indicate than express the grinding bur
!bens of the people, put upon them by
keeping the Radical party ip power.
Tb.y have, by the manner iu which
they conducted the war, and prolonging
it for the benefit of the Raildeal part,
years after it ntigki and ettotati him hub
closed, and by the most unnedeseatty
reckless, 1i44 ruinous prodigality' of the
people's mon4y„ created a public ,debt
whose ascertained (official) amount is
about Iwo thousand five hundred millions
of dollars, 42,500,000,0001 and which
*ben ibe unasceriained is added to it,
wilLsegetiniated by Thaddeue Stevens,
who had charge of.the, subject of finance,
of ways and means and appropriations
for several year! in the House of Rep
resentaii•ee, including all the yelp of
the war and since, and who, itureTore,
had the very best means of information
on ibis subject, amount to the astound
ing eitntii _a usteind MINOAN Of dot
tere(/6,000,000.000 ) This estimate of
Mr. Stevens' probably includes the pri
vate claims for the destruction of prop
ertY North and Sdoth, debts arising
out of breech of contract by the govern
mew and spoliation,' at home and abroad
growing out of the prosecution of the
war, and probably, in his contemplation
also, the assumption by the general gov
ernment of the wa: debts of the several
slates, eountlets, to cop, &c. Others
again, have estimated the debt,Pll icings
included. as high six thousand mil
lions dollars, (6,000,000,000
They have not only lessened the stu
pendous debt, but have increased it, du
ring the last we months, over thirtee*
Millions of dollars, (I 3,000,000,) as
shown by Mr. McCulllh's official re
port.
First of to revenue :
They hare, from the 30th ,of June,
IM, to January 1, IS6B, colleoted from
the people a revenue amounting is all,
as set down in the e6e:al record, to sev
en billions, six hundred and eighty-sev
en millions, eight hundred and one
theneand `and al xty .four dollars, (7,687,-
801 064,) including the foe billions, six
hundred and twenty-s•ven milliore,four
hundred and sixty-two thousand, three
hundred and eight dollars ($5,627,462,
808,) from loans and Treakury notes.
A. going to make up them r.fea bil
lions. de , are put down, under the bead
of -direet twee•• (but aurae are only
from 110th June, 186:1,) t• ell 3 millions,
ens hundred and sixiy-oxe tbot.eard,
three bundrei and twenty-se•en ttellare,
($12,161,827.) having eolleeted In 1867
aloe., for direct :axes, four millions,
lwa htindred thousand. two bundrtd and
thirty-threa dollars, ($4,2.00,288 )
Under tb• heal or -tMsosilaceoup,"
two hundred ant thirty millions, one
hundred and fifty-one thousand, nine
hundred and fifty three d01iar5,(230,151,-
1153.) having eolleett 1 in the oce year of
181511—•nder the ‘l7o9cellaneoui" head,
t•ark you—sixty-seven millions, one
hundred and nineteen thousand, three
hundred and silty-nine dollars, ($67,-
119,197 )
'fluty wrung from the people in the
one7ear •f 1665, total revenue, the ap
paling sum •f one billion, eight hundred
sad five millions, nine hundred and
thirty nine thousand, three hundred and
forty-five dollars, (41,806,936,545.)
Thu mash on the subject of money
ealleetel. Now a few figures al to money
paid out--expenetse of carrying onthe
government
The/ base expended from June 30,
1861, I. January I, 1888, total, seven
talons, five hundred and fifty-•even
million•, seven hundred and forty-one
thousand, two hundred and ninety-five
dollars, (7,687,74i,:196 hartnb spent
in 186.5 alone, one billion, eight hundred
and ninety- million•, six hundred
and ey-four thourtnti, two hundred
and tweet,-fouy dollars, 41,897,874,-
1240
As going is malte up this sum they
expended for the Mar Department three
billions, one hundred aid eighty millions
three hundred and sixty•eight thousand
four hundred'and six dollars ($B,lBO,
868,104 ;) haring paid out in one year
-0865—one billion, thirty-one millions,
three hettdrod and twenty-thus thous
and, three hundred and ivy, ($1,081,-
828,880.)
For the Hely Department, four hund
red and fourteen millions, eighty-three
thousand two hundred and eigly-five
[5414,088,286]; haviej spent for the
year 1866 One hundred and twenty-two
tellliru five hundred sad sixty.
thousand, hundred and seventy
six dollars [5122,667,776.1
tor "ordinary expettiditures" three
billion', nine hundred and fortylve
millions, two hundred and ninety-one
thous a nd, one hundred and ilfty•dve,dol
lars, [113,946,291,166 ;.] having spent
under this head of "ordinary expenetn,"
for the one year of 1886, one billion,
two hundred and twelve millions, nine
hundred and eleven thollsand, two hut
dred and ty dollars, L51,214,011,-
270.]
For miscellaneous espenditures, to
June 80, 1868, one bundled and. fifty-,
eight millions, sixty.ons thousand, roar
hundred and fifty-tee dollars, L5168,-
081,467,]
Bentewbore swellowell up in these
smaning sums of mosey qrbieb slogger
the Mind In the effort to ~alike 6 / 1 4111•
the imeiet squandered on the irtrooll
men's liwween !rebid reach pedbably ditty
undone. At leant for the pear esling
January I, 1887. as estimstodity Goner
al Howard, Commissioner of As Borten,
tutu!) , testy* millions was regairod.
At this rate, for the three years the
Bureau has been in' existence, it has
consumed thirty-six milliontr; and we
know that a vastly greater' amount--at
least, fifty, millitett—have bees spent
upon it, all to keep' the Radiosl party in
power
The miteli r ewhich ire are going to riv
in—the qtoundins sums of money
drawn by Om tax-gr.firer from the
hard labor .of the people, Mid apent—
can be better understood when we say
that during the seventy-three years pre
needing the war, as estiLatted recently,
the, ' whole expentlitu, e of the Gore' n
met,t amouMtul., to lees than fourteen
huhdred mllliobs of dollars, while the
Radical party in the one year of 1875
spent nearly nineteen hundred millions
as above stated.
Such an/ ephibit ete this may well
strike the people With dismay, and
°twee them, a they do, to cry aloud for
relief from Co intolerate r burden.—..
Na (tonal Inidlligracer
Another Republican Paper Out for
Seymour
The Nyaak Ci ly and Country, the only
Republican paper published In Rockland
county, New York, comes out for Bey•
moult. It says :
"The emergencies which exist in our
National and Stale affairs, brought about
mainly,
as we firmly believe. through
the incompetency and,in some instances,
the dishonesty of those placed in power
by the Republican party ; the reckless
extravagance which marks the legisla
tion of that party wherever they are in
the ascendant, the enormous taxation
imposed upon the whole people ; but
bearing with airman arnshing r effect upon
the laboring and producing classes, im
posed, continued, and with every pros
pent of increase, too palpably with a
view to keep that party in power, with- 1
out regard caller to the absolute wants l i
of the country, or with any apparent in
tention of ultimate liquidation .of our
enormous iniebiedness the Atleratiort
of a class of people to the elective ?ran-
Wee, too ignorant and degraded to un
derstand or Intelligently exercise the
the high pthilege, leaving them a prey
to designing, dishonest end corrupt pol l
it/clans, stud disfranchising a large por- '
tion of that clays of persons best quali
fied, by lotig titbit, education, and more
recent political affliction, to ,properly
shape the machinery of government;
the keeping and maintaining an sour
mours and expensive military establish
ment in a time of profound peace ;
the erecting and maintaining a vast I
charaity machine for the support of idle
negroes, and still mere idle politisians
called the Freedman's Bureau, not only
at a heavy tax upon the country, but by
its very inetitntion emigration, making
dangerous inroads upon the civil admin•
istration of law and a pretext for min
istry rule; the inocubpeteuey
mani
fested in understanding or grasp
jog questions of filmic@ and, finally,
the fearful and rapid strides towards
centralization, thus seeking to absorb
in the General Government, and, in the
same measure deprire States and munl
oipalities of that just distribution of
governmental power whleb; it's repubo
Ito where that power is Aftrtillt i ll derived
from the people, and expel enee has
has demonstrated as fatal to republican
life and liberty
This is a true bill of Indictment
against Radicalism, which furnishes
ground for other Republicans to change
their coarse. Nuw is the time. Thous
ands upon thoulands will do so in No.
•amber.
Who Pars the Taxes /=. l lFew Words
for the Mechanic and Laborer.
The Radicals cannot understand why
the Democrats make such an •utery
about he taxes. They tell us w• are
most] poor people, wh• have little
property, and who pay no taxes, beeline'
they do not find our names in the as
/assess hits. The great mannfao , urers
may think they pay the titles on menu.
factored goods ; but do they ! What
ever tax they pay they charge to the
wholesale purebaser, and recover it. back
from him with interest. The wholesale
dealer adds the lax, with still more in
terest, to the retail storekeeper The
storekeeper puts his own tax and all the
accumulated taxes the ethers bare
charged to him upon the piece of the ar
ticle when be sells it over the counter
to the workingman. This is whet makes
things so dear. The laborer btaping
goods in the store, bas to pay not only
the wipes{ value of the thin .but all
the' tax colt that has been p ast ',nob
stage by manufacturer, wholesale deal
er and store keeper. Each of these in
turn recover from the next man the
amount of tax they have paid ; but the
lasi man, the laborer, the contutner, the
ultimate owner of the article, who does
not sell it to anybody elms, but keeps It,
uses it, and wears it out—wh• pays him
the accumulated taxation which all
these richer men have, one after the alb.
er piled upon the goods, to enable them
to meet the demands of the taxgatbererl
The tax is shifted from manufaeturer to
wholesale dealer, and from him to the
storekeepar,and from him to the working.
man. Bet on whom shall the working
man shift the tax 1 He must pay it all,
and get none of .it back front anybody
else. As long as the goods are brig
sold and transferred from hand to hand,
so long the tax is keyt shifting from one
man's back to another ; but when the
arlielebettees to be turned over in trade,
end becomes applied to the use it was
designed, then the tax can be no further
shifted. The maw who wears the shirt
pays the tax of Me storekeeper who
sold it., of the wholesale dealer ho sup. ,
plied ttle•tliti kW , . and ° ter man
that has handfed it, back to". wee cotton'
factory millionaire in wholkitillltit was
awween. As ,lellerson tion
is like a ball relling,down *ins ; it
beware ea oath step, hat! " r nailests on
ate ]sweet." It the orling marls
who pay the lazes ; it is them who have
therdeepert hitereet in honest co momioal
alsalem of the governmert.. it
is their money that pays the Freed
men's Iterese, and supports lazy n:,:roes
in idlenessiamd mean carpet-baggeti
is playing Fluke before High Heaven
in dm ampaidly of bogus legislators of
the Staten, of Use /tenth. The men in
dais cennkry whet work with their hands
for daily bread" are the ones who yy
A. fear beedrd tifillben dollars, a year
wash teelliadiesho sestrive to dissipate
in carrying ea the Govern* vert.—Brook
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EXPENSES OF'OUR STATE GOV-
ERNItIENT.
There Increase Under Radical Pule
Ja
Compaiathe Expenahree 'et tie last
-Demooratie and the last Itadioal Legis
latures
the:Economy'of Blanker the Democrat
vs. the Extravagance of Hartrenft,
the Radloah l ee Auditor (*mat.
LOOK ELT 'ME rsavams
We have compiled, frem,the Executive
Documents of the State, tge following ta
ble, to which we ask the close attention
'of the reader:
Expenses of the Legislature pe• annum du
ri.ig the nine years preceding the accession
of the Republicitos to power.
Year Amount
1852* ..,...$103, 334 05
1053 '97,954 15
1864 125,599 61
1855 124,821 67
1856 147,492 67
1867... ....... ....... ...... .......... 19 081 88
1868 17*52 15
1859 175,698 2/
1,231,274 40
Expenses of the Legislature per odium du
ring the nine years of Republican swan
dents, :
Year Amoco:.
860 • $172,184 6
861 208,600 3
865 . 260,689 26
866 ..... 272,977 25
88 9
firatimated- _
Runts' of Radical expenses-1,120,16V 74
Thus, it will be seen, the flgaree chow
that during the nine years of Radical
rule, the mal:ing of our Stale laws, has
cost the people up_rruas of one mill on
one hundred and twenty thousand dollar:
more than it did during the nine re
preceding the accession of Radicalism to
power, or at an aveisge of about one
hondrxd and twenty five thousand dollars
per annum more than under Demotientie
role The expenses of the fast Leg sta
ture also shows that the tendency is to
thereon@ instead of diminish. Conspire
the cost of the last Radical Legislature
with that of the last one in watch tits
Democrats had a majority in both Rous
es, and we have following exhibit:
18i8(R) $350,000 Of
1858 (D) 172,463, 15
The reader must not commit the error
of supposing that the above tablets 1111• W
the sums of all the appropriations far
each year. Thetis figures cover only the
cost per head of the members, oltrke and at
taches of each Legislature. Ths eppro
priations mad* by Ahem fer ether pur-
poses, amount to many millions, and et .
not hate taken into the aotiouat at all
la order to make the matter 'tearer, le
the abort, sums be divided by 133, the
whole number of Senators and Repre
sentatives, 'and the east of each member,
to ihr State,.. will be ascertained. Thus,
a member of the Demooratio Legislature
of 1858,,5i11b his proportion of the lasi
dential expenses adds* to his salary,
cost ffie State $1,296, whilst‘ member
of the Radical Legislature of 1868, with
his proportion of the incidental espen•
ses added to his salary, soft 42,581!
With the difference between g6lB and
greenbacks added to the out of the
Democrat, it would bring it up to only
$1,625, or $BO6 less than that of. the
Radical showing that 188 membirs of
the Radical Legislature cost $107,198
more per annum than 188 members of
the Democratic Legislature, even. epos
an violin:6lton of the currency of 1888
with that of 1858.
Bo much for the expense of the Leiria
ture. Now, let um take ♦ peep into the
acoouots of the Auditor Qeaeral'■ offse.
Wefind the expel:sweet conducting that
departtaelat as follows:
Amount.
--.,—.112,303' 01
Year
1863.
$42,864 02
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During lbws three years, Isaac Blank
er, Democrat, was Auditor 6 I,
and whilst he was in office, more labor
was required in the department than
ever before, or since, swing to the pres
sure of business growing out of military
affairs. Now look et the expenses of
the next three years years :
t •
Gen. J P. pastrami was elected Audi
tor General in 1886, and during his ad
ministration of that office the expenses
thereof _have ino ***** d $18,327.26, or
$6,10906 per annum. He is now the
Radical candidate for re-election
Tee public now have the figures se
proof of the extravagance of Radical
legislators and officials. We shall ex
pose the reckless appro4iostions of the
Legislature, add thecabusee in other de
partments of the State government, in
due time. Let the above suffice to show
the cost of the services of our legislators
and Auditor General.—Morning Patriot
Moos Kurrientem.—A oolored man
native of Virginia, wee brought to Hu , -
eon City and lodged is jell, for having
violated the person of a child only elev
en yeaq of age. She le the diughter
of a respectable man named John
Kilpatrick, and was on an errand 'to a
neighbor, whew site was met at 8 p.
at Seattle, alonely place, by the negro,
who took her in is arras, Carried her
through some bashes and throated to
take her life is she made any noise. He
there violated her person and then left.
He had not been long gone when shoran
to the heave of seine neighbors and as,
qualsted the inmates of the feat. They
came up to the radian near Hackensack
byidge, aid were about to drown him
from the bridge, but , be pleaded' so herd
for life that they thoughethe best coarse
to adopt was to have him brought bo.
fore &jostles, and dealt with according
tolew. He was aceordlogly brought
before Judge - Aldrich of Hudson City,
but the little girl bud Vicomte so ill it
was necessary to adjourn the ease, and
the prisoner wea posisolited ,ustil fur
further craminatiost. He admitted to
the Chief of Police the part he had taken
in the traasastion.-I'renten True Aar
taw.
Greenboiks or NOthhiug.
G.ll. Samuel. P. Cary, of Cincinnati,
recently elected member of Congress,
addressed the istrilingmen of this oily,
at Lafaiette on. Saturday evening.
We make the follbelrig extract from hie
!reel" In relation, to the bond and
greenback question:
Let any candid man take up I six per
cent gre twenty bqnd anda Beeper cent
ten-forty bond, examine them, and any
if he can tell whethei the pFinoipal of
both le to be paid in the same manner.
In the five per cent. it is dsolared pay
able in gold, and in the six per cent, in
lawful money. Turning then to the law
authorizing the rune of legal tenders—
sod the foot is published on. the Auk of
every one of Them — we find that they
are receivable for all debts public and
private, exempt interest on the public
debt ; that in to soy on all debt, public
se well as private, eioept; that which
Congress had declared eneeifioally
etould be in gold, and no such declara
tion baNbeen made ou any debt, except
the interest on Ibis bonded debt and the
principal of the ten•forty.
Again, when the ten-forties were fat'
sale, it was published by authority that
they were the beet investment for capi
tsl, as they were the only government
Securities the principal and interest of
which was payable in gold. The opin
ions expressed by Secretaries of the
Treasury that the bonded debt would be
MEI
163,b6e IN
paid in coin are no better than other
men's opinions, as all must be governed
by the law of the land The humblest
citizen has just as good a right se the
bopdholder or Secretary of the Treasury
toirltrin big opinions, and is much betted
situated to pass a pntriolie, judgment.
291,815 I
lEEE
350,000 00
2,251,744 14
1,231, 7 74 41'
In our canvass in the listened Distract of
Ohio we maintained that the National
Bank currency should be called in and
cancelled, and *greenback!' substlined in
it• place That with these greenbacks
tba Seor,,etary of the Treasury should
air off an eguar a mount of the lannitos.B
- aim able in 1807.
That instead of the policy or cool rho-
lion, lbe cireulatlen Would be gradually
enlarged until it had reached at least the
maximum point attained before the con
traction policy was inaugurated ; and
:bat neitber the grenbaok nor the gold
'cumulation beyond the immediate wants
of the government should be allowed,
but list all such accumulations eh ould
be immediatjly applied to the redemp
tion of Bye-twenty bond■
By the substitution of the legal ten
der, for the national bank curreney we
would be able in reduce to list extent
outs interest-bearing debt, and by the
inere tee in their isque nod by the receipts
frpm 'customs and excleee're could ra" , -
irly reduce the debt, Itesping tLs
larlon full in •olum• and fixed in arouot.
What we require is a bad and stable
currency , , not small le-day and 'Arm
to-morrow. As Well °beige the length
of the yard stick (the measure of lv , gt h.)
or the pound (the of ritnntoy,)
as Oa apirepey tke - meftsure'rof Trine.
The value orourrenoy should not be di 2
miniebed until the debt was a!! paid or
funded in bands at a low rate of tato...est.
But we are told that legal tenders are
not money, but only promisee I• pay
money, while the boads are paysble io
money, and we should sot in poor faith
by requiring the government 'indite',
to receive mere promises to pay.
To this we reply that we give you the
same currency (only great:y appreciated
in vable,) which they paid for their
bonds, That soldiers and their widow.,
sad all laborereland besinees men are
required to receive greenbacks as money
sad that what is money for three mubc
be the same to the rich bondholder.
Forecast of the Dawn
It is for no political effect. apart from
a sincere opinion ; from ■o particle of
excitement to disturb a sober judgment,
that we say all that is wanting tb secure
an overwhelming Demooratis triumph
nest fell, is stead,, hones! work
Prom every quarter of the country we
hear i the tones of confidense is regard le
bow the battle Is going on there. Tbc
reaction Is prodigious. In the far West
it was so intense that Gen Grant found
what died been intended as cnrtou for
hies, turned into expressions of contempt
so rough that we could wish Goy had
been spared.
Let it not be lost sight of, for a mom
ent, that the issues to be decided are
two 1 One is the restoration of all the
States to their anhient free and harmon
ious 'position in the Union, with their
rights as States unimpaired, This is
against Grant's "Let us hare mace."
which is to keep the afflicted people of
the South from rebuilding what Tecum
seh Attila burned and destroyed—and to
I call that desolation peace !
The other issue le to adjust the finan
cial trouble, by ridding honest labor of
a large part of the taxes now unjustly
imposed.
-.-.. 14,449 02
__... 14,001 99
A..... 520,0119 se
10,692 13
..-... 21,000 00
Pl. IVI 33
The Remouratio platform was intended,
this time, to be explicit, not ambiguous
It means putting an god to the oppres
lye National Banks.' It means adding to
the •'Legal lender" Greenback currency
about flee hundred millions It metes,
thus, diminishing taxation to the arstount
of sixty or meaty millions a yea
without raising the pries of gold much
beyond its present mark.
Let Democrats be emphatic, every
where, in 'wanting on fads of these is
sues. The first coneerns not only the
restored prosperity of the whole coun
try, but the very. p tion of our
liberties, at the North as well is at the
South. A population of political abject.
at the South, hanging on the will of the
General of the Armies, Wild bag lied
and used that position to ma'st himsol.
Prevalent also, is r ineompatible with tho
preservation of liberty in any pert of the
North,
And, again, the horrible debt, which
Is distressing tbli !Oiling People of the
country—who seam to be palling great
wages, hut can save none of it, because
it is eaten 4p by taxis—this jlebt, we
say,' Must be gotten rid of. Moen it is
cleared off then labor may hope to have
some rest, or to make ttavings.--
X. Prestemse journal • '
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—Aram ' 'Briooklurld g c JA lo living
very quietly it Niagara, a little Jews
about twelve miles away at the staters
terminus of Thomson's railroad. He
d o es pat come to the Falls very often
He ergs at the Clifton Hotel a short time
sloe*, with General Early, as the guest
of Mr. CLeibourne r of 84. Loci'. 2.1,
President Fill Store is also at Niagara.
the Reign of Terror In the South
The following extract, frotd a letter
written by a lady in Elizabeth City
Va., dated JulyAlll4, - labown the
result of Radical scrernmem. In the
South':
You never sal« 811011 a frightened eel
as we Were ight night and eve's now it
makei me shudder to think of it. Last
night we all retired as usual, and hid
been asleep I suppose about two hours,
when we were suddenly aroused by the
furious barking of a dog, and four or
five successive reports of fire arms. In
stoutly all were wide awake and on the
alert, confideitt in the thought tna
bad been awakened, and gone 'out to
leant the cause of such en uproot', as be
had often done before; butpreeently, in
a ',mice, puff tone, Which we knew pro
ceeded not from po, .we heard, "Stitmt
him ! hit blin again I' Ohl you can
not imogide, nor I.,describeJny feelings.
made sure that pa bed gone out and
been ()aught by the ruffiane,from whom
proceeded these unfeeling remark«.
— *Judge If you can our surprise and re
lief when we found that he kind not 'gotta
put, but was preparing •to do en. We'
succeeded in dissuading him • from this
would-be tried act„ as the doors were
all guarded, and the gang outside iambi
furnish enough men to overpower. and
murder him without missing them from
the main body, so numerona were they
« * * * * *
Just think, here we are, and have
been for the last two years, Working as
bard as our health would permit, to ob
tain en honest and common lxvelihood,
en I for what To hrve a parcel of
worthless, Impudent, and lazy negroge
stool it ; and what is worse, be preven
led by their superior forces from de
.ending o it property.
When we arose this morning we found
nearly all of the back part the smoke
house torn down, four hogs missing, and
the bravest of the dogs shot through the
heed Ilmskem my. blood bail. to think
of it ; but while I am Indulging
in such feeling. I am truly thankful
it is no worse. and that we are all olive
* * * But we dread a repetition
4 *. * You liasy think that in my en
citementi have colored the facts rather
too highly. but I have related them as
they actually occurred. ,
How Ku KLUX STORM Alta MAN U7AO
- following paragraph from
the Trenton [Tenn ] ()crette of the let
inst., tills its awn story :
"We underetaad that the Tax Collect
or for this county, Mr Parker. a few
days since visited ItutherforJ Station.
for the purpose of collecting the taxes
of that distriet, and seeing a young man
wearing a pair of red pante (the uniform
of the membeis of the base ball slub.) at
oceelionofa3eA thit be was a Ku 'Ktlx,
gni tb•t his pre eeeee was intended as an
Intimidation. left it, piece, declaring
•hat he could not °sheet the Isles with
out the sailit!a. And it is belineed that
he has gone to Neslivilie on that mission
Th:s is the way in which most of the
ridiculime stories about Ku Klux °rigl
nate, and such are the limey pretexts
upou which the Lcg'elature is called to
gether to diseues (Le arming and calling
out of the miliba."
AD OLD DODOL—Tbe Radical. have
at last reached the of imoudence.
It is impossible for Om to climb soy
higher In that di , evion. They now
pretend to b 3 highly scandalixesl at the
alleged conneetioo of Genera', Rlatr with
army contracts, and are wanufticturiog
nay quitil.tl of f.ileeboods in reference
to the Democratic earditlate for Vioe-
Presilont. During the war they liteu
upon public plunger Bowe •f the same
men now whtaing about General
grew rich b -swindling tb• government,
add stooped at nothing to fill their pock
ets with the reople's mosey Many of
their own friends ate now in the f.DUl
teatia,ry ; and Mr Dawes puplicklv toll
them, on the doer of th• House, that the
fiepti'llioan party hod stolen more in
one -ear, than the whole expense, of
Mr. Buchanan's administration &moue
tad to in foe-. In order to dive's pUblia
attention from their own rogue ' s, ,bey
are now clamoring against • nest men,
and thus hr• to hide th own crimi
nality from ob ietvind punishment.
The ostrich, whto per - tenet; by the hun
ter, sticks its het.: in 'the sand, and,
leaving Ate hody exposed, thinks Itself
safe. Bo dellie Rslicals, but tb• trick
won't tomer. The r•harie••• must first
tete IJI beam out of their own eyees, be.
foys they attempt to realm the mote
Itoes their
JOYS RANDOLPH'S BLACK COLONY
The fairest experiment on any scale of
magnitude that has bean made Jo , this
country to test the livability of a negro
sommunity to maintain itself, was the
notable sae made b• lbs eslebratx.:
John' Randolph, of Roan/Ito, who, by
his will, ensanoipated a ooneitterable
number of his slaves, who ws:e subse
quently settled on gooJ lani io tbp free
State of Ohio. The latest mention of
these negroes Ws find ha the Cineinwa..i
Engwritr, and it come. from a gentleman
who resided for lime time near John
Randolph' of Weeks. The state
meat i at the original settlers were
antra intelligent usgross • that they
wine e en farm. , h aving good
houccs and fence., and well stocked with
domentio snimali ind implements and
requirement' ; that their eondition was
'better than that of the small. even mod
erato farmers of the neighborhood, but
DOW what remain" 04 1 them An 4 their
sew 'minds are 'deb ate a state Ober.
barism, shunned by their adighbors, en.
ospt the Quakers, rha still extead
charity to aid ocurnsuaioate w'th them ;
that their lionaes are dilapidated, their
fences totted down, their field' grown
up in briars, aid their animals and im
plements long sino• gone.
AI ADIRSONVILLI PI,QTOBI.-TIM)
ROWS onight to gerout anotbdi ed:
don of ebb miserable daub of • eiticar
tore ',blob they oireulated is this State
two pears ago. 'bat rep resented sur
prisoner. earring ib Andereonville
pris
on, Another le_ needed now with Joe
Brown, the former landlord of the place
-sines a delegate in Obtomo and • Bail-
Cal candidate for U. S. Senator, In lbe
•foreground. lieshonld be pictured he
the sot of reading Grant's order to stop
the esohange of prisoners, It would be
• truthful and effective eimpaign - :too.
ument. Won't they please to lot ushers
Org,4lzo.
The necessity for IMtnediste •
thorough organization cannot be too fre,
quently or too earnetitly urged upon th e
Democrats and Conaervativee, the op
ponent, of Radical revolutionism through
out the country. There is no time to be
loot now. The Radio:Aß are completely
organized, Their forota sre well end
constantly drill d, They are . 1- zorkin g
like beavers, under instructions frome e .
live, energetic, and tincroupulous lead
ere, to whom the defeet of ''.l) Radical
peer will be utter and _aretriereble
ruin, politically and soolelly. Thsy Ar e
openly and unblushinvly Levying corpri,
butionik.ont the va t t a. my ofolho• held
et s which a too gel roue admini , riiion
has permitted o prosy two-thirds Am,
places of !lust and profit, even IffetT it
was known dist they were 9141. 1' 41 y
abusing these officers for the bineth,Of
the faction that is making war 'upon the
Constitutiod, the Uoionottid the pew,.
All the m .chinery of Congress,,lts
priri
le7,ee Ansi powers, nro prostituted to 14
uses of their partisan committees. Ilee•
tng seised upon every depat talent of th e
Oorern-nent, they are nowoonoedtr.ti ng
their efforts fo^ the perpetration of 101 l
mare grossly oulr • eous fronds upon
the people in the oornier election.
It is time that the real eovereigni of
the country,the iteeptelhemselves,whoto
deereet and most sewed rights and priv
ilegeeare thus openly menaced, tho-'d
be aroused to a proper apprecialon
of the exigencies of the moment They
ust ammo's's, -as a body, work out
their own salvation, and combine to
gether, ere It shall be too late, to throw
ail the incubus of Radical misrule and
Congressional tyranny that' has [main
e.}-indrostry err & commerce, IMposed to
tolerabio burthens of taxation / upon the
millions for the exclusive benefit of a
pampered few; and is striving to con
vert a nation of white freemen into mere
-hewers of wood and drawers of water,"
for a petty filiation of desperate adven
turer, sustained by en army of seui•
clvtlkwed ' -
This is no time for the people to rely
solid/ upon their leaders, however trust.
worldly and patriotic. They Roust gird
up their lions for the great work of
political regeneration and social Wave
+ ion that)s before them. They must,
if they could be sacteesrftil, organue
themselves in every nommunity',bowstet
large or small, and. prepare to sat to
concert. In union there is strength. by
complete organization alone in erry rot.
log preoinot can proper informatl6n bedie
setninsted, the m convinced of their
great danger, and taught how to avoid
nand the *bole popular 'strength brought
to bear in a contest where the life of the
nation Is at stake. Let them not wait
for the tardy movements of national or
State executive- eommittees„: but let to
work with a will emseg themselves, tad
organ* Immediately in every separate
prolific!, -In every eritioty anti Btate,tbeir
own campaign clubs of active, industri
ous, and ea-neat workers for the pause
—Net:tonal Insolligencer.
LARON IXO SSSSS OF TUX NATlellit.
Diu ULT.—The offieial state:Beet of
the public debt has juer been puh;illi-
It •howa as Ina ***** olurtss the [Booth
of July, of thirteen ensilion, two hotbed
and fifty eight thousand, 'foe kuwirod awl
ninety three dollars and ninety am ante
Whit boo besom• of all the looney
railed by tonstion
How ham it been mquander•d
To what purposes halo it boon appli
ed!
The debt bee tly . f aa d for
months,
le thiit to seal blue t
Are the people to be Lazed eie duly
dew are for all the time to mime , sod
oe•cr to ass the debt redtteed or paid
elf!
When will we see, nienemy praeueed
by the Governmyt
When will minim wise Mutt:o4l system
be adupttd?
How igsvg are we te endure the role of
the set4if thieves and public, plunderers.
who are expemding all the money true(
from the toil sad ewes, of the
mod eonstam.ly i log the debt?
The porde are ask.ng themselves
theme questions.
There oan be but one answer to them
Not until the Nediesle are turned out
of power will there be a 'huge.
Let the tax-ridden to remeial ,
that woes they go to tote—Lana het
The NegrcTeinientlon altaitimore
The negro Con•entiom at Baltimore
continued it. essetat .hroue Wednes
day —ltesomtions instructing the oe
groes of the South to vote for Graot sod
Colfax, anti dement ling universalsuff
rage awl the right of blacks to held of
fice everywhere war., adopted. There
was muel. disclaims:on as t• the proper
time for Folding a National Negro Coo
'cation, Bowe era toed it to meet, before
the Prc tidential election, and a resolu
tion-to that effect wan adopted, but'ebne
darkey named Dr. Brown got the floor
and opposed the at.tlon whioh had been
taken. He said, the colored people had
been told by leading Republicans to
wait until after the election, sad then
the should have their political rights.
In bemoember they could say, "We bare
now welted until Grant in elected and
Cofai is in the Senate; now we !tot
the tiniverval suffrage bill paired"
The: , wood hare Senators at that to°
to visa their bony.
nilonoind they °mild
tell them that "we have abided yon!,
time, now give um our rights.
After some furthir discussion, 10
Which confidence was ekp d that
the next Congress would agree to their
unsaid* for the passage of a law giv
ing them right of suffrase in ail the bor
der and Sentient - Blares, the second
Wednesday of Jimmy was fixed as the
day for the essei.ibling of the National
Negro Convention In the illy of Wash
ington.
The expression of • belief that they
would unquestionslily be given the right
to vote and hold Ale* in all the States,
by Ceugreu, if Grant wee elected: was
Out I; and f it wea stated by some of
the speakers, that they had the pumas.
of leading Republica* Congreliamen to
that sheet.—Ex
---Tha Grant family bare been an
fortunnts, Hinaß loot his name a an
eirly age, Ilia father Jesse,hiled In s
oottoa /speculation. His brother Orville
sunk twenty thousand dollars inlealb T er.
The family record will be Q902100 0 ' 1 la
Nitember next,angs iha Brooklyn Bagle,
by Ulysses suffering ..a -tai opilapee.'