Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, December 04, 1868, Image 2

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    The Democratic Watchman.
BELLEFONTE, PA
fRIDAY MORNING. DEC. 4,. 13611.
The Time for Miriisters to Give Up
Political Preaching.
Now Ho the time for ministers of the
+Gospel to give up political preaehiew
We are sati4flou that a majority ,of those
pastors who hove mixed politic. with
their' theology in the proportions of
nine to one, for some years bock, have
done it rig tine. their better judgment.
"They have yielded to the fashion of the
times, to the example of powerful and
eueitseful preachers to the real (or sup
posed) irresistible current, of feeling of
their congregations. 11'e have alwaye'
held them, as a class, to be above the
sordid alms of politicians. They have
not preached politics for money, nor for
•ulgar applause; but because they had
not sufficient moral strength to resist
the tremendous pressure which was
brought to bear upon' them by church
convention• and assemblies, and by
active and influential occupants of pews.
In some instances the preapure from the
pew was not real, but imaginary. The
pastor, observing the tendencies in other
churches, eought to anti iipate it in his
own, with unnoetisary precipitation, put
himself at the head of his flock and led
into pouffes Still, as a leaeral rule,
the motive power, when it did not origi
nate outside of the church, came from
the pews and forced the pastor to write
political addresses under the name of
Sermons. and pray for the 9UCOOV3 of a
fatty more than for- the coining of
Curist's kingdom Their lltblo was
'Veit. text hook—their point of depar
ture, chiefly in the sense that they de
parted fetal it—but their body of theol
ogy was too often taken from newspaper
editorials or from the platforms of cx•
cited public...meetings held during the
previous week Many preachers re-
fleeted the verying shades of Radical
sentiment s i trwhfully that by stepping,
into their churches on Sunday a person
coull Itarit fhe condition of the politico'
atmoephere as fronaa barometer. Thera I
was a little granituro of religion in the
reading of the sci iptures (not always
selected wale reference to topics of the
'toy)to t.-did,rt prayer 1115101 y, and
in the f tonne ll.n, Vinyan I any
doubt, liti• the ie were merely triturnings
to the huge hot plot of 1 ure
at wive!' it preacher cat an I Cline szois
This po I-et! punching has been the
4 f VIA 07, f Cleric's Church.
It has been the pr Calls,' of toll
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curious, novelty, and pastors found their
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where they shoull 6e fereilt , ut in lead
lug the o dion in the light. of inintWaltle,
fundamental eliristlallprincip.oi tot eugli
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This iv the gratitude which the political
clergy receive front 'hove who have
sought to dictate their tit; 10. , nc preach.
lag fora number of years flow much
longer will ministers of the thspel sob
mit to these hnrdest oftusk twitters !
Y. Y. ./ournat of Commerce
—Over one hundred thouland ap
piicante for office under Grant have al
ready appeared, and, "We are coaling,
Ataaliain, three hundred then--
and roere "
What are Their Promises?
The Republican porky promises large
ly, hut the trouble ityttheie promises are
not to be depended on It seemsp bo
a point in the Modes of that party never
to tell a truth when its utterance Vt:ettild
militate against its interest. The pa
pers of the party are tilled, from day to
day, with the most groundless asser
tions, stories of Democratic) . ntrooities
without any foundation to rept upon,
and yet they have the audacity to call
themselves a moral party, when the
course they follcriPvielates every moral
principle, and is directly antagonistic
to every law that the Supwrie Ruler of
the Universe, or the Saviour of man
kind is believed to have given.
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„T i nt the case of the wointin caught in
the eat of adultery, when she was
brought befor4 Christ, and his judg
ment demanded, instead of replying, ho
stooped and wrote in the sand; and
whe9 they still insisted for judgment,
his reply was, "lie that is without sin
arpoug you, let him oust the first stone
at her.”
The rebuke was deserved, and, as we
learn from John, oh• 8, v. 9, was felt" by
all those who had brought before him
the woman for condemnation, as they
left the temple without casting a alone,
and the woman and the Saviour were
left in the temple together.
Then JOOll5, lifting himself up from his
stooping posture, Inquired, "Whore are
those thine accusers Ifath no man con
demned thee , "
And when she had answered : "No man,
Lord," he replied, "Neither do I condemn
thee , go, and sin no more."
Here tea lessaz for that professedly
Intelligent, civilized and clitistiauixed ,
party, which holds tothis day the-whole.
South, except Kentucky, Maryland and
Delaware, iu military and Bureaucratic
subjection.
Here is a lesson for all men, of all
port tee.
The South sinned. Admit it. Is the
sin never to be forgiven! Or before it
is forgiven, are her people to be forced,
hy the bayonet, into the adoption of
principles and practices which their
consciences and judgments. alike con
, demn!
This seems to be the doctrine of the
Radical party, and a more a6rocious
doctrine could not well be c•mceived or
practice 1.
It is so clntrary to sound judg nent,
to elevated statesmanship, t humanity
an I christianity, that the mind and heart
revolt from it, and the inivins.tion tries
in vain to discover to single reason why
at sungpeople !Omni t a minute in power
a party Co Irrat ional, arbitrary and un
charitable
There is not„,a man among them who
can, c9ns-tentiou•dy, throw the first
stone et the South. and yet they refuse
to leave t;,e temple, and keep up a cruel
warfare against tier, from the lowest
and most detestable motives, and against
the dictates of reesen an I Justlce
Ilulty Ittdical rule our filvcrn Mani
ia;at Oita day, the moat arbitrary on
foe wf the civilaed and chriattan
:re I w 'rid, and we are r.rpplly rualting
1 , 1 10 t future which no man can foretell
We are rant tending toward evetita
Ow may not nnly convntate n tont Meet,
rut n world, and what the result will be
koolyn io thtt ninn , e'ent eye
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Revival of Know-Nothingism
While persistently urging the entran
ehi.renient 01 e Very Igo An 1 .leyrr,Vi
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eking win shown in tautly vri,)s
reeent eleerion+ Th-y iere the
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• or,. for universal negrr toilfrav,e,
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pondent if the ltiolitn3ii 1 Raiptirer arid
girtwiner, writing from Il,aton, tinder
date of the Pith ult., soya •
Now that Grant k elected, ali the
fesrs the North m•ty have entertained
shout the South vanish, and a purpose
will develop itself wholly friendly and
of an encouraging nature The .`forth
mains business South, by the in
or capital and emigration. The
West must, divide its claims to surplus
population of the Atlantic mice with
the South,
The signs of the times are favorable
to thelleutb. Now that theptrug,gle for
President is over, let by-ganes be by
gones. We believe that is a prominent
feeling here in New England. We shall
be disaitpointed very much if the GraM
administration sets otherwise then gen
erously towards the south We believe
that will be a strong" feature in it, and
are quite sure Ne raglan(' will back
ap that feeling with Notions correspond
ing thereto. -
Representation tf Minorities.
This question is asedhitng, by the re•
sults of the late election, an importance
which, before, was not extended to it.
It brought out all its glaring inequali
ties. New York .elerna a Democratic
State ticket by 27,000 majority, and yet
chooses eighteen Republican Congress
men to thirteen Democrats., If the State
wan properly represented; 'th e re would
be about seventeen Democrats to four
teen Republicans In Ohio the Demo
crats have but six members and Ilse Re
publicans thirteen Have the Republi
cans twice as ninny votes in this Stale
as the Democrats Everybody knows
they have not. Why, then, should they
be entitled to more than twice the num
ber of Representatives? We talk of
Otis being a popular government, and
the people being represented in it.s Yet
here are 25d,000 votors having six Rep
resentatives, while 267000 voters in the
lamas State have tlflrteen Representa
tives There was nothing Nom than
this in the so-called rotten bo'ough sys
tem of England before the passage of
the Reform 13111 in 1834.
If we are, as we pretend to.bo, a rep
resentative government, we should have
a system by which all the people, minor
ities as well as majorities, should have
a voice pr#portionato to their numbers.
That would obviate mans of the great
est evils under which the country now
labors. The House of Representatives,
divided according to the numerical
strength of the parties, would now stand
one hundred Republicans to eighty
Democrats Under our present corrupt
awl false system of election, it in fact
stands one hundred and forty Republi
l_ans to forty Democrats; thus enablingl
the
majority to have every thing their
own way
There is an easy and proper remedy,
which we have several times suggest for
this state of things. Dy way of illus
tration, take our own State of Ohio. It
has nineteen members' of the• House.—
Let the members be chosen by general
ticket, the sauras wo do electors, run
ning all over the Slate Each anti every
party, whether there arc two or more,
will nominate nineteen candidates —I
When the total vote is ascertained there
should be %elected front each ticket ti
number of men e.iii.ll to the prolyriton
of votes ctst for it in comparison % ith!
tire hole number 1111.111, /f there were
5(1,0,t io'vo;es given in all, ' - tll,O tit voles
e eh ticket, there would be nine
Con amen selected from each organi
,zatton, rid the party having the largest
fractional number would have the odd
member The members taken from each
ticket Would, of course, he those having
the highest number. of votes. In that
way an exact numerical representation
of all the people would be secured
This is a reform which underlies all
other. It is one for which the Democra
cy nbutld pronounce in all their conven
',mi. It 1.11,11 e which the IterlllllC3llB
Clll not op/pose without being guilty of
an intentional fraud upon the people
Let the watchword, therefore, be reform
in Congressional representation, and let
in. miler+ of Congress be selected upoo a
insthemat leaf rule —Cincinnati Enquirer
Hard Times and the Remedy
Bernre the elect ion,soys the M
us we declared the purposes of the
Itt utoerte), by way of avertatg that tl
tunes,' 10 be .
:a, tho Lrenntn Iu pit go verrl . l,Ml
to enNtern bankers and equalise tho p tree,.
To ray off three or lite hundred intEnir
of the n ttionnl debt In greenhado, lar9
the rote rent.
To repeal the prote , ttve tariff and reduce
noes un eastern Importation,
T turn out thirty the 'ratty
th , ,u.and omen 'holders and slop their Sal
To re estattlt-h Rolf- go‘erwent to the
S.tutto tot !qntev 1111.1 r. , mpel theta to a ‘ll.1 , U 1
their „."n aegt,
TO end tow Itnglnna
In nub.lure+ tii pity their ohitre , 111th, tatw ..
And red i.e t lie army an.lthe expentl
(if the government to a peace It ottt
Three inewitiren arc just as nec....-utry
to the prosperity of tire cuu wry 11011
they 11.'1, before the presidential elec
tion, and the result of that election time
nit: in the leuet dianiii.med the I...nett
or Owed Hitt e , inee . tineticel of ra.dtcal
ini.wiverntwoo.
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Before lb.: filet:lion, the orgenn of rail
1191 no avower to make to the
rt,•mm,l.. of th , lieniorraicy for Oita radi
cal change in the pol , cy of the go,aern•
tricot to I hero ntatterJ, and they are
pr .iiitily not iricip.tile of ration:Ll
ob . p.ci rimy to thriie il intin , la now But
the I.lf the : party who
von I L nt bllnd prejtrlice or igiii,rance
1 , 1 nll.,ttlll/ radlCllll^llllC3llllot fail in doe
rtrte to h, ivec sat their iniatake nip!
makelmoile t repitir It 10 illo extent of
I their power. ,it tv impo4ailile th believn
that they volontitttly uud tutule Itgemly
voted ttit•llillelye. , the poeitivii nn I
talpablu cella compl tined uf, or that
11:4t will voluntarily and intelligently
l an; port congreas perpetrating the
hero &tier— Er •
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1 . 111; ‘VAY TITLY Wood. —The Rad i
eralra of tile in calor aounlierl of New
York. wen I.tet tnentira of getting rill of
Dentocry la role, !aurorae a diripion of
the Stnte, pelt tug ulf•New York oily and
county, lira;,•, Qiteenn, Suffolk nnJ
Ittclitnund yountlem ell giving Demo
cratic in kjurti 'era, •uto n new Stole. to be
ctiled Jlanbnuan
That is tlio way, all over the' United
States, that the party in power propose
to git rid of Democracy. When we have
the Mayor of a city to this State tin
elsewhere, !VIII they have the legislature,
they forthwith eripp'e him with what
they call a Metropolitan pollee. When,
for political purposes, it is necesmry
for thew to hive a, new State, they do it
by act,,of Congress, "outside tho Con
stitution," whether the people 4want tt
or net They do any and all thing , ' to
• clam powar, no difference how "uncon
stitutional oho inean.i.
And yet th ey kudtctl parly, guilty o
all theee base actions, cull theinaelves
the only:,..loyul" party of the country.
LOST MONEY Os ELECTION —Me Rad
icals in New York notninated Griswold,
as their friends in New -Jersey notni.
Wed Blair, for Utiverni r, because they
"hated a rich man to bleed. Griswold
it is said IMP spent over $250,000 nud
Blair over $300,000 in the race for
gubernatorial honors, and all to no pur
pose. the money and men were
handsomely beaten by the Democracy.
—.9,1(1%171,1in.
General Grant and the Burning of His
Letters
The telegraph leas already stated—
and in this instance we presume cor
rectly—that General Grant has given
orders to his Chief of Staff, Major Raw
lins, to open all the 'letters which are
addressed to him, to select those of an
office-seeking character and burn them,
at-t regular intervals, without showing
them to or making any reference to him
(Grant). The Republican press affect
to ho delighted with this disposition by
their chief of these :titters. Some con
sider it another proof of his indepenient
individuality of character; another'
section consider it a pleasant display
of his eccentricity. There is nothing
tike being In power, if the object is the
reception of praise. The same parties
who now extol General Grant for the
burning of the letters civineeted with
the administration would pralte, him
still more greatly for his patience had
he read them all, giving to each its due
and proper attention There is no man
so easily to please as the one who is de
termined to be pleased stall events.
There Is no doubt that the course pur
sued by General Grant, of burning
thousands of letters from his personal
and political friends, will not conduce
to his popularity. We will sof further
that there is no doubt that many of these
so-called °Me seekers letters were of a
nature to justly claim attention at the
hands of the President elect. We fear
that in this malice he has been governed
rather by a constitutional laziness, and
a disposition to avoid Governmental
responsibility, than any thing else. To
us it is a bad sign. It indicates it reign
of a Cabinet of seven persons, each of
whom will be the President in- big own
sphere, with hardly any check by the
Chief ne.gistrate.
The office of NI 'ideal is one of great
labor, as well as responsibility, to those
who properly perform its duties. Gen
eral Grant makes a poor commencement
when ho endeavor's to shirk, in this man
ner, the duties of his position. It may
be unpleasant for him to meet them, but'
assume them he must. • His silence,
which has boon the besie'of his political
fortune, will 'no longer subserve
Ile must speak rut—must declare his
views on all the great questions of the
diy Ile must be as free in the expree.
stun of his opinions as he has hitherto
been reserved. In the (tufo de fr which
he has already made of the literary con
tribut ione of eo many of his friends he
has intensified sorr.3w, he hes aggravat
ed.jealousy, he hes destroyed hope, and
he has added to the realms o , despair In
thousands and tens of thousands of
hearts. Ile little knows the anguish
which his conflagration hes created in
many loosoms, Who looked to him as the
prophet that was to cocduct them
through the wilderness in safely.
Startling —General Hindman's Murder
Planned by Radicals.
if the preset I lmits• tr it lc Loc•
The country hes not yet recovcre 1 , islat tire mum had r.uti-el to 41 SW 'tit:
hum the thrill of horror emitted by - tll, iteol•le ttt volt; :or I'leeideot, IA
announcement of the murder in Helena Ih i t in I ,r4da, had rho•est tie I 't•eittr ,
Arkaneste, of Gen 'l' l: Hindman, who, il i en,..tivem' Hiels lei w a, I b ib ye
while in the Ibid.t of his family, was led to I lett) e rettsfulit,a :.moo: or:
shut down by some unknown nemattein ropolatt,n
Gas Hindman hail been prominent in L Cu tl
the rankr of the opponents of Itadicalivin by , , si , nt Ilse p ire ,
to Arkansas, nub bid terrildo bitiwe Won , I .I'l.l IS worthy
for hint alit., the admiration of hid n -I 441 Itl try ti °lunch t..ed tt,ntis
pectaGle fellow ()Aliens, and the eternal t
- -t1 I,: and T, t,a I t n I t , 'el, 1 .14
enmity of the Radicals Rhin he fell a, “r I able", toran ee
by tae a fu's hood, IL was evideut see,Nlies..om ,II the 0, l ld ter Erase.,
that tie died a martyr to the eamtm tit Itulen the Itt , a,r of the tt,tyottot amt
which he NO Carpi:loly and pbwerfully lat t tlu't .ty
bored But In order to lull euspicton,' Th,. re it', ';.:1;4 ihtl ml, p it:l t'. ottt
the Radicals became foremost among; i„ 10 ,,t 11 r n, o nut I, urged
those who denounced his death In pot t•r Is 11,1. 4111. Icaperrtmn t the
public meetings sod Catif uewhyapil oil l iii h taetip 114173414411, hit , t
Hwy fiercely called for the puniihint n' 4 ..r -
of lie tuurd.erer The preteurie vie it
bare, anti no one was deceived by it
The part few days have produced rev
elations which firmly ti: sus crime ttt
} l,lsis horrid murder upon 'LA to tudn I I
nal member of the Radical party to r
kauese, but the Isadore of that foul or
gantration themselves The efforts of
Idetectives have developed, beyond po , —
sibillty of a doubt, that the aSSIOIRIIII
- Hindman wag planned In Little
...Rock by leading Rat tole, !And executed
Iby their ordure The was it
I white oleo, who was paid lisUO for Ilse
II 411,10.1012 lit left Little Rook stealt
Ily, approached Helena, and was token
charge of there by Radicals in the plod,
who furoiehed all needed inforinatittli
'about (}:u Hindman, the most practical
method of committing the murder, etc
!ty HOOK] aS the deed was t• 0171111111.011, the
I esssassiu returned to Little Rock, 111141
Illetlee Wept. to Melriett, via felon
Itiovernor t'lnylotto reward for this tour
' ; direr did not oppe•tr until sufficient. time
Iliad elapsed for the Itotomtin to get be
yond the teach of inetiee
attrnrhe, ,\'or, !1
What mykhave Gained
•
One of our ozehry aptly re
marks. We frequently Co In e across this
queMion? . in papers, "Bhllll all
tOiaj has been gamed by tho war be
lout "" Now what has been gained that
the people did Cot possess before the
war'
Sllvery for the negro has been blotted
out, but double the number of *bite
slaves have been edam]. That is a gain
in Ike number of eleven.
We had I hit ty-foor ales in lie
Unicn before the war, no have twenty
seven now.
We had nu army of 10.000 theu, we
1 1 41 , 4 GU,OOO now.
Wo bad no !unitary despotilnt then,
we lave five now.
WI had but few Heldlers' widows and
uphll° thee, we have thousands now
Wi had but a few millioutt of national
ilebtthen, wo bovo billions now.
W 4 had light lazes then, "we are
weittled down by them now.
Wehatl gold for all then, we have
only lough for the bondholders now
Th uegroes of the South earned their
own 1 ing then, the laboring men of
the N th provide for them rum.
We id He yen t y-fivo million• of tailors
yearl o carry ou the government Olen,
it cos five hundred millions of dollars
now
I.
Wit 11 this train of evils upon us,
the ate thing the war was prosecuted
for, u hare not, namely 'a reetoreil
Onion . *
MO n people content with, Ihere re
sults? to they wi.th them continued?
Do the van, no change? It would seem
so, jutl ig iron, the reeulte of the laie
elev.tor /
The Forty Fifth Congress
Though General Grant is to he the
President of the United, States after
March .1111, ISti9, he will not have such
an overwhelming majority in the next
House of Repre , entatives as has cursed
the nation for the last four years. The
Fortieth Congress, including, iho South
ern carpet baggerg, was thus politically
devidecl:
Radieqh. .
DenwerM.
Radical majority
Two-tli int a•
Aceonlink lo the latest relurhent hand,
the N Y Worbievlimoles that the poli
tical complexion of the next Howie of
RepresentatiVee will be as follows .
Radicals
Democrats
T 1 adlen.l majority
T wo- T birth,
In thin calculation it is assumed that
the Rattioals"will elect three Congress
men in New Hampshire next 11lisrch and
two of the four to be Chosen in Con
nec,ticut in April, though in the latter
State theyl b mny not secure more than
one, as was the ease nt the Congress
ional election in 147. Thus it will be
seen that the Radicals will not hare a
two third vote in the Forty-first as they
have in the present Congress Not only
will the Democrats have nn effective
working minority, but among them will
he men who will make their mark on
the Iluoi
The country will be the gainer by the
increase of Democratic Ilepresentatives
and Democratic brains in the nest Con
gress. The experience of the two last
thongresaca has shown hew disttet-rotie -a
thing it is for one party to have an over
whelming majority in the national leg
islature : and though the Democrats in
the F'erty-first Congress will be too few
to check all Radical legislation, they
will still lie strong enough in number
and brain to prevent a repetition of
much of the ill-advised nail hasty action
which has well nigh •nude the mere !
name of Congress a by-word and a re.
preach in the opinion of all honest men
Democrat, Niiillintown, l'a
The Florida Outrage
Fearful that thcr would be beaton in
Florida, even over the bayonet and ever
the negro vote, the Radical inttnagera at
Wabhington c•to.e.l the negto
pet hag Leirodat flee 10 WIRY iv)no: vesting.
lrt themeelvev the choice of I're4tdontial
Electore, and t , 11.1n4 a away flout the
people nitogi•ther ' true of .the electors
lei a negro There iv no language in
which ouch an act of r.t-eality can be
PliffiClCntly condemned only the ino4t
rat) tauul.l et.tet!a:l each
all idc.& r,.r a ama,a,_. It tv n r , :oltt•ry
n( the teal! , 'f their 1.1.;',...;1 col Val'
f•itright 4 o IYII3, w
I„, II 11,1 .I 1 I p 11}1.1.'y L. S, .t L'Et.tt
Ltak ittg lu, wile,: it
t M, ill! I I, {VO•
uu , •u it,tota:.ay' ta?i , t a ro•-
,
,al . l ,, artry , het by
ing the ',meet tl11: r.tll in that liedy,
I we fliqKta tewitr
the full wLicli le : yet I.) Curl! ,
Jet, r tills a,r ni nih,r , I,11:1 110t*
I,egialature will spiel lieineeriti
ISetialern et Frelinglieytt•i Ite
a ublic.,, RAH,
- Ei g hth Dt4tric 'fig.: 1:a 114...11 r 1 I..grt
fir C.tlifern: II 71.1 e, la aa. I
'11131 , 1a! IV a •Ille •:fla lierneei 1. , II
wigs g i WI :it to I ILNJ yeuLl • hoe cc
we !lily tnirly expeei to hate IL I) to t
Lratie iirijoi it:, nt Um tilnu,e, p ti , ir
'y if lite Jowntint (MI (5 du 11 • n . o'll , r
!hail they hity • Bonn for t ret vents
yin( They may, 111 filet, lhol. If Cll' iy at
the victory they Itoveiivo wi , ll Ifuhey
ga l to the they ly
the Moro iihdliel , ,ll , ,nch nl r.oir• • N . ,
end there In where iii reurie houk to
nee their will eintoolied in I•••,...inlatt le,
which in practical, tortn't \
the lte•O thilig tot the eullll
- alwnym The have lath tly
tilfecte.l contempt for the
which Is the true reamon wny the poople
nintuhl 1111LkIlhithle to mlr,wgi heti It 1,15
they are doing
--The Macon Totryrapia Kum the
vote of Georgia at, the late election
bllOl4 that the radmal party has lost its
influence with the negioes In the
"Black Bolt," a scope of country con
taining two-thirds ut all the negroes in
the State, Grant and Colfax failed to
carry"tive or six of the counties. The
regi-teted negro inajaiities in soma of
these counties is 2, 1) 1'11 They have a
preponderame 4 ill itlinobt every county
in Southern and South-western tleorgia,
and yet the tactical ticket run behind
in every county bet two. Says the
the Tthgraph: At the election for Coy.
erne' . last April, the demomais were'de/
feated by heavy majentit4 everywhere
between Macon and Baal° and Colum
bus. The returns now show the scales
completely turned, and that a large ma
jority of the negroes have abandoned the
radical and joined the democratic party.
--If the public' treasury had two
million and a half of teals, there would
be a - fridicat (fig to suck each ono, and
thousands of little ;wheals running
around squealiug because. there is no
more for. thorn.
The editor of a Western, Demo
cratic paper Boys: "To the :natty to
ive friends who.lwant to know how
tar it e ate going up Salt River, we
make this eenerill reply, "Yuba Dam."
OUR SHOT GUN
—The majority against negro eV
trap in Missouri is 23,4:15.
—Radicalism would strip us.of nll
rights except therright to pay taxes and
the right to starve.
--iieyenty-two persona hive already
been announced 118 "sure" of appoint
ments in President firant'e Cabinet
—Some fellOw by the name of Clay
ton has dechteed martial law in eleven
countkes in Arkttneas.
--'rongress will meet on next Mon
day, to continue legislation in the inter
est of the negro.
while carrot-bagger in Ten
nessee discovered a negro woman who
had a little money, married her qui,
made off with the cash
REM
—ln the late etidt?ott the4Radieals
found that "money is powet." The
Democrats acknoWledge that It wee the
power that defeated them.
---Prontioe says that if Butler is the
head of the Republitran party, and For
ney is the tail, he would advise the par
ty to shake ita head and switch its tail.
---Leonard Myers has notified Dr.
Moffett, congressman elect from the third
district. that ho will contest his right to
a seat.
--Tho Donioaritts of Yszol City,
Miss , have established s schootfor the
children of colored men wh) voted the
Democratic Mist.
---There will be more than twenty
contested election cases in the next
'louse of Itemsentatives, and including
those from the South, possibly doule
that number.
—Portion flrownlow, says he - wonfl
rather go to hell with s loyal negro, than
to go to heaven with copperheads "
The scoundrel's wish will, we hare no
doubt, be reepectel by the almighty.
--The 11.1dies1 papers are ttisposed
to make mirth of the fact that lien Frank
Blair has bought a lot in Kickapoo
Don't Kickapoo o man when he ty
down.
--Now, farmers, laborers, median
ics, hooray for Grant, Colfax, seven per
cent in gold for money, decline in the
price of grain, curtailmentof wager, an
a financial panic! "'bora,' !
--There is said to be a back townie
Texas which allows nothing but gol I or
~ Ilrer coin for currency It ought tot,
suppressed by act of Congrqtre, and C:
its white inhabitants disfranchised.
l'nor man, you may now expect lion
times—the wanted men are itglun•t
low at their feet and pay their taxes
Cut thi• out keep it four years, 11111 tee
if wb are not right ttl say rug so.
- —The Money market at pre.tent lo ka
fearfully mud' like the approach .I a
great trnatioial- amid% i if there:rash mutt,
eqm.s, it will argue well fur Republican
a co;toto) any good time. ,
--it said that the wtrthqualev arc
wetking m)rthwar4 frim the trnple• -
Could nut one of them he induced to make
a earl at Wai'llgton about the tieconJ
creek of Decent her
--- It it reeor le I that the I:u.stal
g iveri to !It hue:: :n , 1111 nosing
lin w I 11:i.),1, heresy !Mt fhe \ ".ert
ea. F art lumen , 1.1 !no) m htlll , l ,
nn old fa , tt toned
H reported tiirkt rout
f•dm.•4 Luc in c.,tnr , rin) won Ice
t •(.9 I ‘n,130, 'ugh 1111 , 1 \„'
Ow men w}, o
i7 l - t it I ted to Pre.l.ff.nt
e negr, •
e Nll••.wri )4 . 1
00, Ily s , 1 , 4 u . 4 '
1,1,1v1,1g uutity 1 I ,r 1,1
etc., 1ig331)..1 ll
__The Ih•nm:rsly 1 ,11.. I n• NI 14,1
ch.l. , ttts ,lily 1.1 I vo'P. X'
.'1,111,111.1 ••pnn I 1 , 1,1 Sin , ' I
n•-pe , l4ldo R. 1 ,1 4(rtoi pßrly in `ln-41
11114 not 0 , 011!y
riuno 1, ) tuc cloinvirrvityarly Ili, re
—"rho %,,tv m 010 0'
(nil, 3,1 Pr.. 1111 r
Ta•••••til • . 1.•1., a- r ni•lre.l wt: I. •
.Itow. x 11.fisioer.the • rtim
a,.r I,IV itl/Wlll T'lt In'llt
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- - .1 in V..11(1 , V4.1(11
rontl) 1 I
I Lri ntintnwt n ee:inui 11.1 r I I w ilrr
that ILr , chol -I ;1 , 11 il , ll 1 1 14
well Teelun .1 nt 311 , u I,
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-- —A :Zepl:l,llt, Lyi t Lt
l'tt:l•l4.,ou' , l 1. reel.!, t[ti. t t. pt . t, I
jt•Lteql Ha 1104 lot tltw ,, ,t by p itollttr
np,jr•rit) of 271,119./ \rr 111-7 nurt• 11,r.'
taw) , 01.11 t want. L.iy ,re
1 tvhife 111111, 151.10 w 1.9 reit. , I'l
liconbe to marry a negro vi , .f. ul t'Y
coltnty c. rk to Virgnwa, 1,,,0ut, very
irviirnant an , l ptwore thm the tlvhiv
the peoplo shotibi be enfotee I by tiol
utOttary w minto of the I.tws
eboltorol N,Oo
ern Slatel togelher wOll tiroe d
York, New .ler4ey nml Ore,,:•n, roll!
hove 0 1 011 1 Seymour Preiblent lie itde
prlvel of the eouthera voto by nlicur
usurplt tvti.
---Tlielbln say
Grant will select his Cabinet in n way
'•to rielease flow con he nrk -
leneo'himmelf before the lease the M
grels hold him by, fur four years, 1. ,
tip ?
—John Stuart Mill Has been writ
ten to, to answer whether ho ii an alb ,
is!. But ho rerd4es to avower The
question whetbcr John :i‘uast dill I 7 ,t
booby would perhope'be 121011) easily all
owered.
—Tho'Philadeliihia Rads, are al
ready at'work maturing a plan to sew ,.
the passage of metropolitan police. +4l,
so ns to take out of Mayor Fox's hand
the power to appoint poltuomen Htnall
busittettXL-hut it Just slats that family or
poiaterienu
—Forney says that "Gqn.
rick will not put himself on a level with
Gen. Forrest." We should decidedly
say not. No more than the awe will Pt"
hi well on the level with the horse, or
the buzzard put itself ou a level with the
eagle.
--Sonic of the red hot Radicals in
Detroit voted the following ticket at the
late election: "No President at all.
Abolition of that monarchical Akio by
-evisision of the Constitution. , Govern'
meat of the people through their re
.iipoit.lble agents in Congress."