Belicfonte biotic Watchman _ DY P. GRAY MEEK Ink.Sllnge ---I Colas married' at,fameatown the other day. I,ye black conk, will be th e nex t thing we hear of from that neighbor hood. --The Y`Pence Society" of Boston is begglwzolority:' If it is used to buy lump to hitreei•es7 4pocritical wretch ~ Iw belongs to it s there should be plen ty raised. • Flu place of telling GRANT to go 10 h—l, Wouttor Ross might lidte ad vised Idol to `'go rest in Abraiun's b o som." It would have been the I= ----44PRAGUK is now called the Val. r ole of the American Senate; it is but short time since he was content with being a Tadpole in the puddle of radi. eglism. --If tTixsses I, accepted adliice as readily as ho does gifts—houses, purs es, hoots, purps and "rich" like— the devil would have , had 'him in lean than n minute and h half after Senator itos4 101 l him lc "go to 11-1." —ltttiot jacks/in h. a favorite dhoti in the Nandivieh latands —ll<rald If about rota fifth El Or the radickl part) could lie induced to emigrate "tlientewarr what a magnificent feast it etiiild make far the can ibica. ace the inauguration or the i;nlyna tanner-111.1 tisas I, a ntunbei• ,4 lane clerks have been dißeharged inns the - different departments about Wadnegton and negroea appointed in their place. 'Rah for the l'unutt I 'Hall for (iROIT ! 'Rah for the dark• ----The Governor and heads of de ortmentm in New York ure begging oldie Democracy to send its their sub. .eriptions to the World—about as sin pisilent a liking 119 it would be in than b. unk Democratic conventions to er. lir , rsita or BROWN LOW Some clatmchowder eater down ui Nastychusetts says SVIIINGR is the lather of the Senate.'' Unless the woman who left him a few yearn 'once, because he could not "perform the du ut tnarthootl,” lied awfully, it's Mout the only thing he's fatter of. —Thu Richmond hibuel Work• are being rebuilt by • Northern gen Unman of !nig° moans Virginia Sentinel Richmond must be much better off ui Mrs worlds goods, than is generally oupposed,if it will pay tp run there, the kind of •lea! works thews "Northam gentleman"—especially New England. eni—delight to operate. —Pennsylvania has reason to be proud. She has two ministers to for eign countries. One, a nigger by name of BASSETT of Philadelpfiia, sent to Hayti—the other ANDRIW 0. CURTIN —"our Andy"—sent to Russia. Glory enough for oils time. —The last two appoinnuents of the President's were of cousins—a pair of fludsons—one of whom he sent as !mutter to Guatemala, and the other he made marshall of California. If he had sent both to ll—Caren, their would has e been nothing lost. --klaater has a partiality for per 3ons, named Cox. lie has one in his cabinet, has many more about him ; over and under him ; but the hardest Cox of all was the one he appointed Counsel to Leghorn on n Satiirday , e‘e. uing, and was put into the Philadelphia jail on Monday for theft ! Go it, ye cripples ! —The printer who, when setting up into type the words : "The masses," put the apace in the wrong place, so that it read "Them asses," had a pretty fair and intelligent idea of the truth. When we reflect how "the masses" ars led by the nose. by low, ignorant., dis honest meals, to their own poverty and humiliation—to absolute slavery—that politicians may live Aid grow fat, we involuntarily agree with the printer— " Them asses I" tu .ki --Some unclean, but a bitious Homers in Illinois have started ew church, the principal rite of whi is feet washing. Before taking the ae rament, a brother washes the feet of the brothers and a sister the feet of the sisters. If, however, the creed of this church required its members to wash all over, it might do more *ood, in a sanitary, light, than any other church we know" of among the Black Repub beans and dirty Radicals ; but if it drowned its members outright, then we would urge ate whole kit of the loyal party to join it at once I • ---The ancient wind bag and blath ering blatherskite A, S. Foorg-of Tea time advises the people of that State to kick "A. J." overboard and place their confidence in Ut.vssas I. If there was mach kicking going on, that foot 'swill fit •he in the region of the muss. '& L ~. ttliff; L/1/ VOL. 14. The Great Uprising—The Signs of the Times A few In ago at Louisville, Ky., RH is daily occurring in other great cit ies of the Union, and of Europe it rousing mass meeting of the working people was held, to hear the address of one'of the missionary orators of the new political party which is so rapidly forming under the banner of "Land,. Labor and Money," and which, if not tempered by wise counsels and guided_ by steady hands may eventuate in a revolut ion not altogether bloodless, and 'is a success whose basis may be total levellln f. The chief doctrines of this new par. ty appear under four heads, namely : "Land, Labor, lloney," and the last which it wip do to terra "Rieli men to the Front Battle.- On the subject of "Land," the plat form provides: That the tiovernment holds the public domain in trust for the people, and must not and shall not rob the people of it, by turntng it over to monopolies, corporations and specula tions ; that tie land was given by flon to the people, and that the-people de mand its careful protection for them, for farms for the native and foreign born, by pre em pt ion of actual settlers. This subject they illustrate n ith effec tire arguments, which cannot but ap peal to the cupidity, it not the reason of the masses. Going back to the ear her days of husbandry, they find that the first title ever acquired to the sod, was granted by Wtid r t>t the I 'ontiner er to his retainera, when I l ls Norman hordes invaded the happy homes of the unpretending ancient Britons, and they assert that that title was a whole sale fraud, as it was granted by a rob ber, and taken by theft front a people who' held it in common , union right all men are intended by Provi deuce to be inherently entitled to soil in such quantity as to furnish them with the means of performing the duty of earning the food w Intraw it h • to feed theabiadvss sad tileirr offspring. • 1./a4ey illustrate the centralization of power by the centralization of wealth into the hands of the few, as in the case of the Earl of Derby who owns one or two counties in Ireland, and a Lord of Eng land who can travel u hundred miles in a straight line on his own rands: who Benda eight members to parliament from his own estate, the su lunges of an impoverished and rubbed petunia try. They refer to the ownership of Scotland, where Ca che men are the possessors of one half of that country, in each and every ease, robbed from the people ih violation of a natural and divine law, and held from them only through armies and power. Then on the question of "Labor," they say that full and complete ',rote,: Lion shall be extended; that - labor, which 000 designed to lie the normal and proper estate of all mankind, shall be made attractiie, that there may be fewer drones in society and a greater degree of happiness and peace; by a just protection ui Labor, they claim, and not without good grounds, that there will he less crime, fewer criminals, and jails and penitentiarieg to hold them; that there will be fewer judges and law officers and fewer. , taxes to collect. Then there is their battle cry of "Money." This is their strongest I' sition, and a philosophic ono, which seems to be a very practical solution of the financial question. The) hold that as the increase of productions per Un. num in this country is but Ayer cent , therefore legal interest should corres 'pond, and be 31 per coil. ; that gold and silver are not "monenk k „ but "bub lion ;" that anything is money on which the government sets its stamp; that the money should only be issued by the government, and that the Natibtial banks should bell: as dens of thieves are closed; t the circulation of "money" in elif;Vcou ry should be at lecut an much as in tiredt Britain and France per rapila--:MS for each inhabitant, or fourteen thousand mill ions; that the government should is sue certificates bearing only 31 per cent. interest, with the privilege of the holder, exchanging them for gieett backs bearing no interest (withdrawing all bonds), and thus ultimately wipe out the National debt without costing the p'eople it cent, either of taxation or principal. It i 4 claimed that at no time in the history of the country Ivas "STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION" BELLIWONTE, PA., FRIDAY APRIL 30, 1869 there gi'lltb enough for the 11,108 of trade, being at ikemeny only about $300,000,- MO, while the business of the country cannot be successfully conducted with less than 41,400,0011,(X10. They claim that the demands of trade would regu late the circulation, thus . I f with in terest at t per cent. motley could be more profitably used in manufactories and business, it would go into green backn, and so would regulate itself, and hence there could be no reduudaocy of currency. They take the novel, but nevertheless true ground, that at van-• ens stages everything has been "mon ey," from iron to hoop-poles from cop per to soap; from silver and gold to paper and wood, wampum, etc. (fence the new party is not a "hard money" party, but a "hard listed" party. Their next most important position is that t h e Poor shall no longer fight the battles of the rtch , --that if the gee crnme• ' l• -s the power to draft the poor man front his home, it also has the right, and intuit exercise it, in drafting not only the body of the lazy rich man, but his property. an well. They say (Ins will end all wars, and by the exis ting correlative movementa which are making in all quarters of Europe. they will noon be able to be the arbitorn of powerarid the holderq tut tli is (1001(lin fly (ion intended. The peculiar Charm ter Of the move ment, unlike any li n Inch lia‘e preceded it, on thb Labor platforms, is this. It adapts itself out alone to the necessities of those in the crowded but nimit gain strength with th farmers and all who toil, nil who pro duce, mentally orephysicall). Thin movement, as we have said, is one of the signs ol the times, and beto kens, in our opinion, anything but ease and enmfort to the party which has robbed the people of their soil for such swindles as the Pacific railroad, which has now been granted 180,000,000 acres, and which has bills before Con gress asking for 250,i Xto,ooo acres -ossuse-.-four iwadiediuul LlAsty millwni of acres robbed from unborn husband ;nen, the children ot,,the toilers of America. No wonder that the people arc rising with a roil. The wonder is, they do not hang the plunderers an they run out from their holes in the National ('a pithl In the meantime, al though we are no 'paper inuneyist," we cannot resist the desire to bid the, ranee of Labor lion speed against capital, corporations, hankers, drones, and robbers. —There is n sect of religionists in thiorgut, which observes litteralls the prophecy, "Unless ye be burn agnin,'' etc.,,, living they play, like children, with dolls arul rocking horses, tops and hoops, and "inch. - Stupid as such a course appears to ns hard-shell follow ers, theirconduct in this matter in not far different from the whole people of this country, who, after the manner they have been robbed and cheated, nre very eiteellent inuivrial from which to draw tlrosel ten to the Baby Players. They are all nothing more nor less than "suckers !" -- The DEMO , It ITio W %T , JIM t% would here challenge those who elected (ten a Tto the Chief Magistracy of this Republic, tobrin forward one sen tence enter uttered bl Cameral GRA•T in which he haul favored "repuldi ean form of government," or that be ilimappro%em of the monarellieal form of government. That he iS not a Demo crat, the Democratic party knowa, all too well, and that he is not n..lolollibti enli in any sense, the Republican par ty is surel's• beginning IT) understand. FRANK 131. AIR may }et be hailed as a prophet I —Miss NETTIE MARSIIALI, the beautiful and talented daughter of litturnarr Mlll5lll 41,f, of Kentucky, has lately published a novel' entitled "Ax by Fire." The subject is a warm one, and the book is all the more in teresting of that, like some of our vali ant heroes of Snickersville in the late war, she kills one of her characters the second time, forgettingthat the job Ikad been done once before. There is, how. ever, a slight difference only in this— her hero had and was a ehartzeter, while the tinickereville chaps never lend and never will have characters to be killed I This is the traveller'. rent, Thin In the wanderer's home, Here they romp from the enntmel the went, And here they emne to roam. All 'round fat many a mile, Sinner and 'mint come here ; The hypocrite comes %rah n smirk lnit amllo Atui tho Infidel cornea with a sneer. Borne like lovoril come Flaying, "Oh grave thou a rt fair; Rome like a footsore ox, and name old Death drags In by the hair Lot um go in antigen 'Three home , . where the dead are laid They aro tenant. for all eternity ,terl the rent In advance le paid. lime the white marble tower", And here the white recline Anti here are graven that are decked with flower", Anti grammea green, and the vine I to a hard cold pile Built over a sort warm heart, And a man that was never known to stnlle Flaw got a rose for Ma part. This sunken grave we have passed Ilohin a man that reached for the aides Poor fool, he hart found Ha level at lout And low enough now he Hee. Here lien an old gray heed Haggard with ears end wild, And the head of a mother dear and deed And the sunny head of And here pale cheeks repose, And the•ilpa that kissed them are here Ind here are men who were always foes, Sleeping without a tone Look at thlo grave no fair I The marble la whim no 'mom, lie grewn Ir nmooth and tended with eam— Let no go do`vrn below. Alt here Inn roof that leglc Ind here in a roll wet had, T. thiellte ehamber that beauty Peeks IViten ahe r hilts the home of the dead? Lot um go hark again Let ttm not meek to explore 'Meet, mytneries veiled front Uteayssof men fly the gravestanopening door. Over them all God thrown A mereltlll mantle of green, And It In not well that man ahould diode. The night that la boat unseen Moen Anor, Pt., April 15, 'GO. A work was issued Home years ago by an English divine entitled the "Great Tribulation," in which the author in• misted that the Lord was pouring opt upon the earth his seventh vial of wrath ; that there was to he political commotion, revolutions, armageddone, an earth on tire, etc. Strange to say that at the appointed time it about all happened, in the election of• LINCOLN & Co. The next item on the bill, is— "the whole to conclude with•' a big tire and a free barbecue ! --Senator 0 ORTON, of Indiana, has used his utmost endeavors to have the Senate pay all the carpet-baggers in Congress several mouths of back pay, including a time before these scalawags had gone South to be elected by niggers to office. Mr. MORTON is a nice man, it his back is a little weak ; he is a thoughtful rascal, fur one without spine enough to stand erect; but like begets like. if Ise has no spine he sold it for greenbacks and bor* and he natu rally enough sympathises with the scalawags—if they have no character, us loyal men they ought to have plenty of money, and if he can steal it front the people for them, all the better. We observe that Senator AN THoNI is opposed to the U. S. govern ment If mger supporting pioae misera ble, crazy, fungus growths from scala way energies, called Radical newspa pers in the South. They area disgrace to the litograplim art and an insult to the people among whom circulated, and even ANTHONY, mean as he is, is' ashamed of them. If a newspaper can not live upon its merits it is mud; that there is any merit in it, and there us surely no merit in a dirty, dingy, 7 X 9 sheet edited by white niggers with whom black niggers wouldn't associ ate. POORMaN is Oho of this kind. - 1 --The Government of TJtvsszs 1., including his FISHY State secretary and BOWE, "Knotty" boss, is trying its level beat to - vet up a war with somebody.— It was very prompt with Spain the ot)ler day u bccause that poor, effete, and ,dilapidateti old natioii is in a state of family war s and cannot help herself, ULYSSES I. isn't so saucy with England. Why? Because he might whip poor old Spain, hut England might, whip him, and thus destroy his chances for an Imperial coronation. - 5 11 4 i li 1 . frif ,' • . .i , ' ''t ••• . • i ' 1 . 5, /-::‘‘'i ~! 1 , 0,r 01,1 VITCIIMAN THE GRAVEYARD. Arnsi9edikm-0 K. 11 NO The Poor Man's Ms Tri bute filch' The people of the t Ihited though descendants 1)-om all otliet of men, nevertheless differ r 0 411 others in one partierilar, and thtitlit, subserviency of the t l)oor man .tli4lt rich man—in the willingness mitlktilk nanimity :of the tribute paid 4,41 ti former to the latter4in the littubiel and humility with which we ,t4t . ceaselessly to aggrsndize the lcirlilof the domain, to enr4h the banker, C ra tikil: tctor and speculatbr, and to imixiv,tltl .1;1811 himself. 4 It is well known 'to political ecot , mists, that in eo of ter country, of i4e globe, not excep ing the allasoltite monarchies of the Id world, are tl i tti' industrial classes-411e producing iyad consuming elements—gm heavily laded with tythes and trib utes for the sup port of 114 aried racy, as in these States. Between t4xes laid upon ode, r) thing %%Inch theoor man is suppos• ed to put on or inside himself---upon his food, his clothes, his medicines—. and the tribute which he pays the bondlord, the land robber, and the spec ulator in the shape of enhanced prices to sustain a high protective tariff, he is about the most abject of the creatures which bask in the smiles of wealth, or hide in the rags of poverty. The Dig ger Indian, disgustingly low and degra ded as he is shown to be, is yet too proud to hear the load of the rich man. Ile may blinker fur a feast ofgranshop. pars and dig in the ground for roots, but he pays tribute from his scanty earnings to support no idle lord of the domain. The British operative in the cotton mill may earn a scanty meal from the labors of the day, but he known that when he enters his domi cile, no tax-gatherer armed with a monstrous blank form, will cross his threshold, to lay tribute upon luatoil for the support of the lazy, gouty,ragabond in his easy chair. The rich men of Great Britain pay for the support of their sovereign and 'her government. So it is in all lands, except this one, where the poor are ground to the earth, and the rich are made richer. Workingman, look into your shabby home, a n d errant the enjoyments and comforts that are foregone that the rich may become richer, and the poor piiorer. Your c arpet is thread bare, if you have one : but you cannot renew it, for carpetiug, is very high now. Why 7 Because then is &tariff laid upon the foreign article, which exclud es it altogether or enhances its value two fold or more. The price is now, say $l. 25 cents per yard for two ply, and flimsy at that. The old rag on your floor will last as long as a new one from this price, and it cost you oiloty about GO cents per yard—perhaps not so much. The difference in the price and quality, between these two prices of carpet, is the exact sum which you pay tribute to the govern. ment for the bondholder, or more di rectly to the tariff proteeted manufac ture of New England ! So let him examine each article about him home, the clothes upon hie brick, and the food in his cupboard. In each and every article lie pays trite site to the bond-lord, land-robber, and tariff-thieving manufacturer. And vet, there are those nho un blushing') proclaim that paupers do not pay taxe4. By "paupers" the Re publican "loll . ' aristocrats mean you, workingman. You are the pauper, and from the sweat of your brow these lazy rascals live in luxuriant And they will lay`tribute upon your toil just as long as you will bear it-- no longer. How long shali it be. GRICAT islilsssAcnuurrrs.—Maasachu. setts is at last "the governing power" of the United States. She runs the ma chine under ULYSSES. 1., as follows : Two members of the Csbinet are fl•om Massachusetts; the Minister to Eng. land is from Massachusetts; both chairman of the two committdes on Foreign Relations in Congress are from Massachusetts ; one fourth of the tax collectors and aapessors in the several States are from Massachusetts; nearly all the carpet-bag and scalawag mem. ben of the Senate and House trem the South, were originally escaped rascals from Massachusettst. It is it matter of remark that the most imbecile State in the Union has the ruling power. This is the word Columns may be written and nmd weekly orators may give out their warning wotds ; statesman may inveigh against tyranny and the peril's sur 'rounding us upon every hand; but without a spirited and powerful orga nization, we are still at the mercy of the invader I—the invader of the liber. ties and rights of the people and• threatening the very existence of re publican government. These argil not times of peace. doming mighty events are looking through the mists of the future upon the present, Our liberties—your liber es—men of Pennsylvania, are threat ened I The whole danger lies, not eo" Much in the audacity and treachery of tlhe enemy, as: in your wonderful leth argy and apathy. This is the danger. With the people, properly.aroused to any danger On possibly menace us from the work. trigs of internal enemies or external in. tittences, there is little to be apprehend i.(l2 ME M ;But the people are asleep—fatally, wickedly indifferent to the progress f h ade to overthow their list hold upon ' wer—to subvert, etep by step, every riciplo of popular government set ikti these shores by our republican : , refath crs. l , ': The overthrow of republican govern. ittimt land the peaceable substitution of litrl iFiperial government, disbelieve it iT:atiming will, is even, now more than ' jeteco,mpliehed I And yet the people act as if, with their knowledge of what jacobinisru and unscrupulous power dare do, they must first behold a .new play and an advancing army to realize the fact. - This is, alas our republican misfor• tune. The people seem incredulous of the `pfbgress of .events until they are fully before them. They seem to look for a shadow of the spectre which is even now in their-midst—to anticipate, corresponding effects for every promit ed or menaced horror, great or small. Remember that the voice which comes to you, from the shadow of the Hermitage, ie a warning that patriots the world ove? will never again pro claim, who have slept, upon their poste vigilance u the price of lib erty." Have you been—are you now vigilant? if ever there was a time when the people should be vigilant, that timo now, and by a live, vigorous, strong, and defiant organization only can the spirit of our old and almost dead re publi6mism be kept alive and the in_ vading principle of a strong, concentml• ized, imperial government be success fully combatted. Do not look for the "empire" to come -upon you with an army and banners, but "hke a thief in the night," stealing away all that is worth a struggle. "The empire", is rfpon you even now ! Behold it, in the loss of respect which many express for all those cherished landmarks of the past. Behold it in the irreverence expressed for the great dead,--the authors of ocr republican in. 'auctions. Behold it in the blind ac ceptance of any and everything, by a party which would sink , the govern ment of our fathers for their pecuniary and temporary gain. Behold it in the general and wide-spread demoralization on every hand. Behold it in the her culean debt and vast profligacy of the government. Behold it in the unpar alleled anti-rephblican monopolies that have been set up. Behold it in the sys tem of taxation which enriches the rich and impoverishes the poor. Be hold it in the changed and changing sentiments of many thouaands on all subjects, including the moat fundamen tal principles of free government. Be hold it in each and every act and movement on the part of those in nu• titority. • It in everywhere! 0, people of Pennkylvanie, sleep on in trust Do longer! Fly to arms! to arms! to arms I Bo prepared I be ready I be united Build up anew the smouldering tires of liberty on the eternal hills or this re. public, and let their blazing light it Itintinnte the valleys round about, that the good, blind, overtrusting masses may see their path back to liberty, re. generation, and peace I Therelore— Organize I—that is the word. There is no longer need to run up the banner of party only. Let it be the party of the Republic against the Empire- : —of the Robbed People against Stolen Pow. er—of the Toilers against Aristocracy And in this cause, we pray the Wes& ing of Almighty God upon the people, as our fathers prayed to Him for strength against power and wrong, less than a century ago 1 —Do you want a live paper—a fear less paper—a trtithffil paper—a cheap paper--send us two dollars and get the WATCHMAN for a year. ' ... Organize
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