The Democratic Watchman. BY r. GRAY MEEK Terme, $2 per Annum, In Advance BELLEFOI , TTE, PA Friday Morning, May 14, 1869 Effeot ef Ptoteetive Tariffs New men in the great West and gouth, who have not lived in the East, or spent considerable time in exami ning the condition of the people, polit ically and socially, can form n. really co ff ee nlea effer:',, which years +or protective thrifts hard had upon the laborer and capitalist. In fact, few men out of the immediate neighborhood of the greareotton, coal and iron man ufacturing districts, even in the East, who have not traveled much, have forme a correct idea of the wrongs which tariff's gen - e'rally have inflicted upon labor. The crfhas long been wrung that by protective tdrifTs the in terests of labor would be wondrously promoted. This was the old Whig clap-trap to win votes to its standard, and it has been left to the reflecting and thoughtful economist of this day, and under the rule of the successor of Whiggery, in the Antic or the bond holding' mid land grasping Jacobin part, to study its efTects. What are these? It would take volumes to du the subject jasticet and we can find room here for but a few brief but point ed illustrations. In the first place, after a long season of protective tariffs, we find the poor, ponreromil the rich, richer. From the ownership of naturally i rich but cheap coal and iron banks, n have advanc ed in wealth in Pennsylvania in the past two decades, notkonly to million aires, but owning millions by the ten. twenty and thirty. And what is die evirresponn I rig good which labor has derived? Let its illustrate here a sifr Kle case. There is a city in this State Called Pottsville. It may riot he known out of the State, nor perhaps to all parts of it, but it is a city nevertheless, so far as !ntnation goes. Potti.,%ille has a population. it is ackndedgen, of somewhere between twelve lhousa nd and twenty thousand sours. That, it will be admitted, is a pretty lair show tog for a place that is scarcely knciwn within the State, out of the town—min nut of the State, near about unknown. lionmer, is the lucatata it se% eral great iron companies, or, rath er, the irort vompitioes are the authors of Potts%lll e. There are immense iron works at Potts% ille -there are a num her of tine Pott,,,ille- -there IN considerable IotINIIICI6I &MC at Potts -blocks of line stolen pare the central of Potts% dle -hut - - arc all oviaol mu] run by IL great. iron coniparllee. For the great amount of husinerl done at Pottm‘ die. there N 110 MOIWV to be m•en. A tire dollar hill %%mild astonish the inhabitants, a large ainj,,r tty 4i h”Til are the emplo) (-a , j,if the great tr.. 11 CIIIIII4IIIIIY I r if'lw eau 161 N be? 4,11 nnk. 114 M ? to the EilM The bulk of the people in Poitt.‘ille oork for the great iron conipanier. The principal store 4 belong to the iron .... conipatue--grocery, do goodn, cloth ing. etc. The companies pay their 'rorkit t 110 money--greenbacke are of no lime. They give their laborerx at the end of each month, an order. Thin being the laborer'g'circulatitig medium, good Only, of course, at the companies' counters for its egtiivalent, he takes it Over to the company's block - of stores, and lays in his supplies or the coining month. es„When this Is done, lie has nothing left; and he toils on, year at ter year, like a man pumping down water to keep from drowning, no better off in ten years than when he became the white, the coal-blackened white slaie of the great iron corporations of Pottsville. And so it happens that a large bualuess may be done at Potts ille, and a dollar never pass hands.— Die companies have , simply to ship iron fur supplies with which to meet the mare of their white slaves, and the thing is complete. Wherein is labor benelittetil by this? What Ids the protective tariff done hot rob the poor man of his independ t vice, his future and his aspirations?— lt made princely the iron and coal corporations of Pennsylvania, but what has it done for the poor white man s ho toile for them? It has given him labor, you may say. to it has, but it is an employment to escape front which could be an achievement worthy of greater notoriety than any black slave ever received from hitt,eotition admi rers on the issue'of a succgseful trip on the underground railway, in times ante hd/um. Where is his little cot and his lands, where the school-houses for his children, growing up in soot and igno rance? Lands !--he might ae well think of buying a territory in the West ne n foot of land near his hut where he now hopelessly sleeps and feult. The iron company owns the soil, and it is too high for him ; beside, at the low price of labor in the coal anal iron mines and wait-shops and furnaces, and the high prices of the necessaries of life, his darlings from eight and upward mast, like him, toil; there is no time tbr school or recreation for the child of the white slave of Pennsylvania•! And how is it on the other side? The rich ;Ilan of a year or two ago,— the speculator of a few years ago,—is a millionaire to-day. He ;;ves in ft Magnificent mansion in Boston, Phila delphia, New York, London, Paris or Roinc7 die travels abroad and enjoys Himself like a Lord. agents at tend to his. affairs. There is no risk— they handle no money—they only keep books, on which are audited the debit and credit-account with labor and the railroad . and other purchasers of iron, erude , or manufactured. Beside being a Manufacturer, lie does business for a whole community of 20,041 or more, by orders, as a banker! Whew But, in describing affairs at Potts% Me, we diimeribe the effects of that mon strous robbery of the poor of Pennsyl vania to hundreds of other parts of the State How long will it he before the masses tllll realue the truth and exam ine lime queBtion of cause and effect in its true light, with the evidences RII about them of the practical operations of this most infamous scheme of tar iffs. 7 No wonder that the question of em pire and an emperor looms up in the distance. The inthrence of protectiie tariffs alone will transform this coun try from ennobling republicanism into 1111 empire. It is only a •piestion of time. When the wealth and lands are all absorbed hr a low monopolies 111 d or ergrrwn corporations arid indmdu als, the common-wealth Ni ill no longer exist! That acrd conies the exact meaning of a hat our fathers intended this State and country to be--rt com monwealth, and the whole, a e,unmmr reealth or eon, monirealths. Another Radical Victory ! A young girl, only thirteen yearn of age, Nnn liolated by one of the buck African pets 6rthe Murk 4trielblterko mongrels. at a point only four miles from the city of New Haven, Conn., the utherday.- The black fiend knock ed the child senseless, and then dreg Ting her hafttlead form into a at oodland best& the road Reel am [dished Inn truly "loll" cud and attn. Were these infer mil black beasts from pagan land only %%bite chruttlans, they a ould share a hard fate in America: but being black I • 4 010 r, 'arm erbial thei , es 1.3 prot r ei4 hlOll, beasts by nature, and dentin in carnate ur procure, they assume Freat importance in the CS e•-; of professing be lownips in the Black Pepublican church oi latter day saints, and at once loecome the key that opens the locked fount of Northern sympathies, lira , ere, and Lunn) offices. What a h. ing comment on the sure existence of bell, is the fact of the existence of Mach Re pi, I)! leans ! - ioi•asin snakes. in Smith Caro l:nit are full or fun. The chase our Inbly colored siutera there clear town, making the %sildest attempts to bite the colored sweetnesses of the Re publican party on their heels. A large number of snake, are found dead thee, • as a consequence, for as soon as one sticks his fangs into a nigger or carpet bagger, he keels over. It scares the Jankees, and it Is death to the snakes -hit; kl.lllUffing to notice bow rend ily old worn out politicians and Jacob, n aristocrats can trim raffle to the In eeie, and I eeQUIC all of a sudden wondrously plebeian. In the Senate the other day, Senator WILSON talked about the time when he worked at a "mechanical em ployment." lie must have been a botch workman, to ma much a botch "statei,man" an is. When his Icl low-workmen would tolerate him 1.0 more, lie doubtless turned loafer and politician. Rev P. Coombe delivered two sermons in this place on Sunday 'last, on the Evils and Sinfulness of the License Syntern, and a harangue on the beauties of thieving, drunken, hypocritical radi calism on Monday night in the Court llouae. In his lecture he 'showed 'much more sincerity in bolstering up the dirty ologmax, and disgraceful prasticen of rad icalism, than he did in his sermertio to prove the beauties of chrintinnity, or the evils of intemperance. If the tetnper ance people about this place want to do good, let them have sense enough to get lecturers who are possessed of a little more discretion, sense or honesty, than the political brawl ' s they generally bring here, of whom thin Combo, and a very poor Combs it is too, Is a good spec imen. . —lt takes a clarkey to get into the Freed ninn'H liiireatt. • ' 0, To aypoerltes! Nowhere in the history of any par ty, organization, or political leaders, in any age of the world, at any time or under any circumstances, lit) there a record of hypocrisy,—base, contenipti lile hyporrisy,—that will compare with: that of the lenders of the Radical par ty towards the soldiers or the late war. From the day that the first pro ate enrolled his name to battle, us lie was told, for the preservation of the Union, down to t:'re preseil! : 1 .7,', ',hi: condcct (.. , f tliat party toward them has I3enn 0 ; the most( ceptive, truckling, ungrate• ful and h Tocritical that has ever de based in or heaped obloquy and de feat upon partyt They were told by them that they were fighting c_w the perpetuation of the Union; ' Radicalism made them fight for the freedom of the negro. They were premised gold and glory for risking their lives ; Radicalism gave them almost worthless Srcenhaeka and negro equality. • • They were promised large bounties and a speedy termination of the war; Radicalism gave the bounties to the negroes, and left +he white soldiers Jo "tramp, tramp, tramp" idler the elle my for Nu - mills and years after the WM' 01011111 hale been closed. They were promised good fiaal and eathttnntuti elothmg; Radiealimn gave them rotten herring and spoiled ernck• ers to eat, and shoddy clothes to wear. thi their return home thcv were to receive nll the honors, KII the offices, all the ease and all the glory that could be heaped upon them; Radicalism has left them to grind orgrins'on street cor hers, peddle packages through the country, live on the charity of friends. or starve in the alms houses. When %otos are wanted, they are then, rr Radical estimation, the "dear soldiers," the "brace boys in blue," the "preservers of the Oovernment," the "defenders of the old flag," and the good Lord only knows what all else, hut, as soon ns the election is over, the crippled veterans are nobody—are fit for no ho -it ions—earl do nothing, and deserve no encouragement nor help Suldierti we ark you if these ace not face' We ask you to point to a single in atanee in nbiell`this party, that now claims your entire support, has ever made good one of its pledges? Can von 9 No! Instead of giving places to your womided comrades, it has turned out of office those who were in Major It H. FORSTER, as brave a soldier as ever drew a sword,—shot to pieties and lir() ken down in heat b from three years men ice in the army,—is dismissed from the RRPCRSOESII p of this (the 18th) du , tru•t, and one of these long-tongued loyalists, who staid at home, bra% mg about his love for the soldier, is ap isiinted in his place. douN WARD, another wounded sot wl A y lett a true wife and a family of little children to take care of them selves, while lie risked his life, as he believed, for the perpetuation of 'the government of our fathers—a brave man aho did his duty as a soldier, no bly, until the loss of a leg sent him home a cripple for life—is turned out of a little post office at lialfmoon, (which assisted him to some extent in providing his wife and children with food and clothing), in order to'give the }dare IC an able bodied young Radical, who is rich enough to own a store and is part owner of one of the most valua ble farms in that valley Smyrn, apother rnppled soldier, who will carry with him through life a coat sleeve without an arm in it, a lila, e boy, fearless in battle and faith ful in the office to which he was 'ap rmited shortly after returning home the ;sad office nt Fleming—bus been sent out to make a lif-ing as best he can with his one arm, and ilia position given to a brawling Radical who staid at Ironic to denounce IWimicrats and firge braver men than himself to go to to the army. And still, not satisfied with turning out these three crippled soldiers, herein our county, they are After the remain ing one, who acts as mail agent ou the Bald Eagle Valley road — .l PHU. ukt • • NEIL It is true, MR. PRVNER Was not wounded in the army, but lie seri ed his term anti returned home to have Ins leg crushed off while attempting to save the lives of a car load of fa filers : lie, too, will have to go. had icalism has some'pet, some poor, pitia ble, petty politician, who has been ac tive in cheating at the polls, is iii favor of negro suffrage and wants the posi tion; and he will get 'it. Wounded soldiers stand no chance in the tight for office with these gallant slay-at homes. It is not only in this county that the crippled veterans of the war are being put out of office; it is in esery section or the country, and in no place are they giving positions Io even wounded sol diem of Radical proclivities. If they are, will some one who believes in this hypocrisy tell us 'where it is? To you, soldiers, we point these in stances of Radical hypocrisy right here in our midst, and ask if this i what was promised yout if this is the treatMent your/comrades deserve? If yon think it right; if you are wil ling to be tickled with windy profee alone and false promises ; to be satislics with deception and be made tools o designing politicians, go ahead will Radicalism and the nigger. But if not, if you want to be inde pendent men,•—tOjite men,—apurn the wreteVes who have lied to yon—cheat ed you—dee;ived you—robbed yot4, and 410 W attempt to degrade you by making you vote along aide of the negro. Negro Suttrage the Issue It iii really arousing to sec the vigor with which Radicalism, through its different leaders and v:16(11111 chancels, is trying to get up issues for the corn ing campaign, in order to avoid the final settlement of the negro suffrage que stion, tine set are clamoring loud ly that a prohibitory liquor law must , be the main question; another that a protective tariff must he thu-aiLieunLiug.4 issue; and still another set think they can hide the nigger under the old howl of"copperhead," "rebel, - "traitor," &e Now, when the prohibitory lignin law and an increase of tariffs be come the questions of the day, the lie inocraey will be ready to condemn ur approve, just as they think right anti the good of society and the country de mhnd; but until negro suffrage is set. tied, until the people have a chance to say whether they shall be degraded, by giying negroes the balance of power at our elections, TM other questions can fir consido ed. Radicalism tan't cover up the %Molly heads or stay the stench of their Afril can proteges, under the horrors oh a whisky barrel. It can't stick the ballot into the hands of its black barbarians, while it howls about the necessity of protecting "home industry." • `• It can't evade the negro suffrage question longer or lie out of it again, for it is upon us in all lie ll!a,'l(rrece and debauchery and disgrace. 'rho queetion next October will be the election of members or the Legis lature piedyrd to rescind the infamous resolution mitik tug negroes rote; a in this Stale without the consent of the people. Tliui question can't be dodged , u can't be drowned in whisky or coverepip by tura, and Radicalism may as well make up Ws mind to this now an at nor liter tone We, the Ifeinoerpey, do not intend to he driven, coaxed or tooled into any other issue until this one is settled We believe negro suffrage to be wrong, debasing, villainous and suicidal. We behete the licorice—bile white voters of PClllisylvania—mbould have a ()ice in determining whether negroes shall vote in this Commonwealth, and we intend, by the help of (Sod, the support of white inen, uniVtlites righteousness of our cause, to (fleet a Legislature which till rescind the resolution binding this State to negro suffrage., arid put the question for decision where it properly belongs—in the Musk of the honest white men of the State. Governor earpet-bagger Bullock, the white, black hearted nigger-boss man of (":eorgia, has. it is reitorted, fled from "rebeldont,' having ahsquatulat edwitlt all the fends of that "rerun structed" State %Mit an honext loy abut won't steal, there's sontethtag wrong. Show um (Inv n Int hasn't- tan let t when the opportunity otrered It is a good magi' for the effect Li' the "Labor Movement - throughout the land, alien bloated ramealii at Wamh ington "einufl the battle afar off, - and set thenuiclvem properly before the country an " NVorkingmen.' ,. : They are now toiled in the toils of party, where as formerly they tined to toil for a living. Thp upheaval, hold-slide more ' ment of the "Land, I.alx)r and Money" men is bringing a note of terror to po liticians. We now begin to see how it came about tIIOC a certain manufactur ing Yankee in the Seniqc smelt some thing afar ott. Sprague is putting his house in order I lie is not ormlie ly alittle smarter than some of his fel low'. Judge JAMES C. TAYLOR.. inde pendent Radical candidate for Attor• ney-General of Virginia, is a discreet and cautious politician• When asked to define his position, he rep lieli "I am a supporter of the present atffinis tration, of the National Government— s° far as 1 am able to undersland-il !" That's ivhat's bothering most of the Jakeys, hut• they don't all Nem 1.. "understand it t ' Progress Southward of Northern Bar barism. 'Elie latest !tens from Cuba La to the etreet that the Spanish loyal don, who commands the CastiliNti artny in Ole Eastern division"Of use e lsland, has is sued a proclamation requiring...that all persons above the age of fifteen, under pain of death by summary execution, tt all remain at home. If any man, withtait the best of reasotis, shall be found absent from bitolottlieile, lie is to be shot 'lowly and the question of the value of the reason or ex4rise for absence in the majority of rases, is, of course, left to the derision of the squad commander who Ethan nt4tke the dis rovery of absence. The Spaniard hears an unenviable reputation for treachery and barbarity, but the ear-marks of this, die chiefest of his modern barbarisms, are purely American, and entirely Yankee. They resemble the ear-marks of numerous similar barbarisms and outrages which made the late "cmpleasantness" con spicions on the `noes of the world's hircory, as the ino4l hearth stly ‘andal, the modern s world Ind beeteeompelled to ,record against poor, cowardly.tim matt nature. A parallel to this Gene ral's order, we find in the bloody rule or the notorious, blood dyed and dam nable Ittraliatnok, of Ken tucky, and the two are so near alike that we spine they are peas from the same elicit. In ISn.S, we think 11 1%a., that this monster Pit iiisktiitir. inaugurated that reign medieval barbarity I%llll'll made n rye Bence in Kentucky undesm• able to cannibals much less so to chris thins. lie it wa9 who issued an order that no guerrillas should he taken prig inners is the State of Kentucky—dint eves y nuw found upon the highways who could give. 110 satisfactory oceount of hinaseli should he shot down on the =I And there were hundreds of the heat men who litr e tired in Kentucky for the past decade. attar consequence, fell by that order into the hands of the blood-dyed villians who had charge of small roaming Federal squads, and were butchered upon the highwas.tir shot down through the doors find niti dows of their homes, and their hearth' blood poured out in the presence of their agonized and heart and soul stricken lamilies. iiiery ftergeant and corporal, or thieving scoundrel, who could get charge of a mond of men on der Ri Raam,E, wreaked a terrible, 1111111Ierous and cowardly ‘engea. upon his personal enemy, or those whom for any reason he disliked. An consequence, for every actual guerrilla ever taken and shot-don n, half a dozen peaceable and 'moire:Ming citizens paid the Kline pel!alty Then the guerillas, so called, retaliated, ❑rnl a ieign of hell uitensitied'Lr the partielpatiou w it of real devil", to the manner burn, e•us the I e ull All this uas the iiticessar) result id the introduction of a barbarous spirit of butchery by cowardly fiends raked up from the pas of moral depravity in the ge lorious North, and het the loal party, alto are limning this country , iIOW as then, pretend to 1- y Illpatillic with the rebels of Cuba against a cause much like their own, and men to exe cute its interests much like those aholll it employed to cuter ate the rebels of the South ! 0. .onsistency ! thou art a jewel indeed ! hen the part of barbarism in the late %vat- aho exer ted its mightiest efforts tb establish strung brutal gii‘ernment in this Mtn lry, Kitten heart lu enteitum the otravglmi reel, II I. Ilnie t.. I“ , d, WOMICIn - We have hot seen n punted riTy oi the order referred to by the news trout Cuba, but when it is published, we shall expect to find that it is but a copy twig/fink et lileralins of the one published by the crimson-souled vrl Iron BURURIDGE. a few years ago. If not, then we are sure it is a pretty fair copy of some other infamous Yankee proclamation issued during the late war between the States. It is palpa matter what may be said of the Spanish character and qualitication, a copy of something furnished by the Yankees in the lateswar. :They went to the bottom depths of infamy. No Spaniard has over livcd who could gct lower than a real sneaking, stinking, theiving Black Republican Yankee. EXTENSIVE ART - OALLERI.—Next. to the Bible, no book is more useful than Webster's Dictiouary. The Uaabridg• ed is an eitensive art gallery, contain s kg over three thousand engravings, representing almost every animal, in sect, reptile, implement, plant, etc„ which we know anything about. It is a vast library, giving information on almost every mentionable subject. It indeed has been well remarked that it is the most remarkable compendium of humnu bynntedur in our language.— /Anyfehoid Aokoratc. Late Publications "811EINE ANT) iris MEN." e post, interesting books wlist i late war line given rise to is that lel ing to the exploits of tinshilv, tlio federate gderrilla, inllissouri, ith has been published, end is for hale the Miatni Printing Coln pally, at einnnti, Ohio. Smni was the MARION of the Sou or the liultTEß of the war of 1861, adventures, at the head of a small In of partisans, truthfully remarks Cineinn'ati Enquirer, will form the sic, for agesto come, of poetry and mance, There were few, if any, tics of Intelligente that he did not sees, and, in consequence, he ens of the most successful of all the r federate leaders. al' and MOnn IN being upon larger theitter, perhaps attracted, in greater degree, the attention 01 t country ; hut, in brilliancy of—schi e tnents,dite Missouri Confederate Al certainly not inferior to either it rivals, The hook, which records the to-ftlarge Maga of the people {t ilt entirely new, for during the tzar (uir fortnatitin of Conlederate t alor and plaits ttas exceedingly small and perti•et When, in after yearn, the hinitti; the civil war of 18i11 to 186. - 1 is anti these memorials of SDI. I or a I!! I/0 1 feTtly invaluable, as throwing light it sonic of 118 1110e4 important ado( merits. Those who desire to reittl of the mast interesting hooks nit period—a In :71c) full of ad; of curious incident in ttn narrah; will buy Shelby and His ..14.n. \V not hesitate to predict for it a great deserved popularity ; n popularity exceeding most of the T,dogricfbillt. the war period. LIEF. OF irEI'IERSON Il ll'l4, NII Secret History of the Southern Con erncy, gathered "behind the seene Richmond." tiontaining curious extraordinary information of the p cipal Southern characters IT the War. in connection with l'resident via, and in relation to the various trigues of his Administration. , ISv WARE, A. Pot.l.Attn, Atithoor Lost Cause, - A:c , We have-heel] favored Iry thr tional Publishing Company with a of the advanee c aLects of this a o rb, to be issued. Thai it will be of it est --deep interest 16 MC Wall) aril buy it, there can he no doubt • that it will he an impartial work, enmity between the writer and the jest, precludes even the porisibilit Mr. POLLARD has had Rd% wimp gather facts about the late cooled, arid its President, that no other n perhaps, could hope or. Ile has nLihty to put than iu shape to in n exceed. nglv intere.ting and 'Tad Look ; hut the coloring he wrll Jilt u it, time prejudices that will he thr into if, and the little peisonal ences that lune grown tolre great sound hatreds between him and President Davis, Ica& 118 to lid that the book will not be tar I nrpnr collation of lasts, Ble4 It %%orb hont a Southern gentleman n imp:ll6a! hulorian should be. near he uuewhcn 10 our surmise, hope we are. Hut however may be, it will detract none from interest or actual worth of the win That it will meet with a ready side, flattering noticea it has already rec ed from the newspaper preit,t of country, guarantees, and the fail t it cornea from one of the most Southern men in the entire min giving the "secret•' hist nry ut the emifedernev --- a ‘lew "behind rwetien - of 1h0..c ‘‘ ho in:fed It lo 11;4 part in the great vkar lor the non cotttoiciit, ‘t ill cittnic for 11, it Ii Hi uneurpiused in thcluMtory of liook linking Little Matters for the Ladies gauss veils aro coming into in' —A New York groom (ultimates the ex! of a 11111 t-class wedding at s'2,boo —Mil , Storer, the daughter of ex Pr 0.41 John on, wee ifiarrlett at rireenville, Tenn ' theih, to William Itromn, a merchant o town. —Mrs. (nit. Morhdre, elio nor iguird husband's ship, during his Illness, Iron (init.!' to New York, has boon pronented $l,OOO by the tinder% riters —lt In stated by acientille men that I ring strike,, morn women than men, year. Thin is in complimentary tact, for I pilot that women are more • r attractlve •' —A late Parisian fashion is a garland lips worn upon the head, so arranged that ,Ingat of the room causes the tulips gradual unfold, displaying diamonds, rubles, Ac —A lady agiqualntanee has had five child ail of whom had rod heads. As both ho and husband am similarly palicted, she wieely concluded that it le redheaditary (h , (Wary) In thp family. —There is a practical advance towan "woman's rights' coveted by the Dlcki people, in the fact that a lady of Dee ?do has gone to learn the tlnner's trade. Ano not less suggestive case Is that of a young at the PortAeld mill, near Thilottte Pent rants, packs night thiPwan II i • ei.I.IIK.I•H dnY, c ind eafine one dollar .•aell as Moot male h‘bOreo She l o ts kept thi for the past two Months, a n d says henceforth peek ten. EMI